Climate Change or Bad Weather?

``Gov. Michael Rounds, with typical understatement, said, “We just happened to have a run of bad weather.”''

NYT

Maybe longer than a run.

``“But this year it’s been storm after storm after storm after storm,” she continued. “It just hasn’t let up, and it’s wearing on people.”''

``In the town of Davis, sandbags remain piled in front of some houses and the water-logged fields still hold shallow pools of water and several unapproachable islands of unharvested corn where the ground is too wet to allow access. Several farmers here said that the area had been getting wetter for decades but that this year was the worst they had seen. Land that was once too dry for corn is now getting too wet.''

``Down the road, Gary Knock, 60, works the same section of land that once belonged to his great-grandfather. He said that he does not believe in global warming but that there is no missing the changes that have occurred here. He blames natural weather cycles for the milder winters, cooler summers and all the water.''

If you want to know more about this poor State read:

Wikipedia