Already in drought and it's not yet summer
Photo credit: John Roca | A view from Grumman Airport during the early stages of the Suffolk fires. (April 9, 2012)
Firefighters still on the scene in Ridge
Suffolk fires put out
Massive blaze in Suffolk
Hot weather hits LI and NY
Long Island wildfire
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How's that drought coming? Step under my umbrella. We can discuss it here.
It's always tempting -- isn't it? -- to sneer at dire warnings when the evidence points the opposite way. Ask Al Gore, whose global-warming lectures are inevitably scheduled on the mornings of major snowstorms. He may have the science on his side. But all those parkas in the auditorium set a deeply skeptical tone.
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