Climate alarmists are cheering on the drought
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Summary
Since March, Alberta has received more than triple the amount of rain it typically receives in a single month. Is this just a fluke? Or is this the beginning of what could be years of heavy droughts to come?
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So let's talk. Alberta, it's been in a drought for a couple of years, and it's been bad.
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I mean, last fall, the normally smooth-flowing creek that bounds my property out by Prittis,
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it's been reduced to a trickle. I've never seen anything like it. The reservoirs around the
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province, they were getting low, and last winter was relatively dry. And if things remain dry,
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you know, the province could be facing another rough year for agricultural producers and with
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the forest fires. But things appear to be turning around. According to data, actually, from Environment
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and Natural Resources Canada, Alberta's precipitation has been above average since March.
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Let's look at the numbers. Cumulatively, from March 1st until the end of May in 2023,
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Alberta had 55.6 millimeters of precipitation over those three months, so that's not very much for
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spring. Now, this year, from March 1st until May 20th was when I took the last update from it,
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Alberta's had 145 millimeters of precipitation, and there were still 11 days left to go,
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and they're raining right now. So, precipitation's on track to have tripled in the last three months
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versus last year. Now, when we were even talking about it back then, when the snow and rains began
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in March, the doomsayers were quick to warn us it's just a one-off, you know. But when the precipitation
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continued into April, the climate hysterics point out this needs to be sustained, though, to moisturize
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the ground. It's not fixing anything. Well, as the rains kept falling into May, they're now howling,
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the reservoirs are still below average capacity. Is it ever enough? Will the climate alarmists ever
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be able to bring themselves to celebrate good weather? No, actually, they can't, because climate
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alarmists are cultists. They've wrapped their world around the perception that they're always living in
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a state of emergency, and they enjoy it. It makes them feel that they're special, and they're living
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in singular times. It's no coincidence that climate alarmists tend to be the same ones who never wanted
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the COVID-19 state of emergency to end. I mean, you can still see them today. They're walking around
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with their masks. They're driving alone with them, if they have a car. Politicians, they're on a
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different part, but they still love using the climate alarmism to impose restrictive policies.
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Calgary Mayor Yodi Gondek declared a climate emergency as soon as she took office. She then proposed an
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insane $87 billion plan to deal with it for a city. Strangely, the cure for climate change is always
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some form of high-spending socialism. It's almost as if socialists are trying to use the perception
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of emergencies as a means to impose their ideology, since the democratic efforts to impose it aren't
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working fast enough. Now, last weekend, I had to make a quick trip out to the mountains to
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take care of some business, and I couldn't help but notice how high the streams and rivers are right
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now. I was also happy to see there's still a lot of heavy snowpack remaining on top of the mountains.
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This means the melt that's going to be coming in June is going to continue to fill
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Alberta's reservoirs with the runoff all the way out to Saskatchewan. And I posted a picture of
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those mountains on X, and I celebrated what appeared to be weather patterns shifting away
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from a drought. It was just a positive and happy posting. Well, the response I got was swift and
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visceral. Climate alarmists were furious that I dared to question the state of emergency with
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mere anecdotal evidence. When I posted the data proving my assertions were based on more than just
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my observations on a drive, they howled that I'm not an expert or a scientist. Should be noted that
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the experts and scientists were predicting a hot, dry spring in Alberta, so they missed that mark
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rather dramatically. In reality, weather forecasters can't predict the weather very accurately beyond a
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couple of weeks. They can make broad, long-term speculations, but as we can see this year, those tend
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not to be much more accurate than what you would get from shaking a magic eight ball or asking a
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groundhog on February 2nd. Canada might be in for years of drought, years of flooding, or years of
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moderate weather. I don't know, and I'll tell you what, the experts don't bloody well know either.
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And thanks to the massive size of the country, alarmists can cherry-pick the regions to try and
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make their case while ignoring weather predictions that were inaccurate in other areas.
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Alberta isn't poised to be needing severe water use restrictions, even though we were warned
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dramatically constantly of this for the last couple of months. And the spring wildfire season,
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it appears to have already come to an end. Soil's hydrated, and farmers could be in for some
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excellent crops this year. We should always plan for the worst, but we can't live in constant fear
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of it. So dismiss those morose, miserable climate zealots who want to bring us all down with their
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dire predictions. They're never going to be content. When we get good weather, we should enjoy it and
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celebrate it. I know I will, at least until I got to mow that ever-growing lawn I've got that's just