Surprisingly, the NY Times is smart enough to actually avoid the mention of globull warming/climate change
For all the attention on epic flooding in the Mississippi Valley, a quiet threat has been growing here in the West where winter snows have piled up on mountain ranges throughout the region.
Thanks to a blizzard-filled winter and an unusually cold and wet spring, more than 90 measuring sites from Montana to New Mexico and California to Colorado have record snowpack totals on the ground for late May, according to a federal report released last week.
No matter what happens, the snows of 2011, especially their persistence into late spring, have already made the record books.
Obviously, it is mankind’s fault for living a modern lifestyle, releasing greenhouse gases that make it really cold and snowy.
Oh, BTW, since you asked, yes, the Mississippi floods are being blamed on “climate change.” Because floods never ever happened before 1980 (or whatever year the alarmists want to use)
