> ... get onto something useful, like whether to fight or embrace global warming.
Regardless if "embraced" or "fought", we have to deal with the ground already lost.
NOAA has steadily adjusted "normal" to be much warmer and (in the East) wetter at each reassessment.
The series of colored US maps help to visualized the trends, each showing a 30-year swath of data.
https://www.noaa.gov/news/new-us-climate-normals-are-here-what-do-they-tell-us-about-climate-changehttps://tinyurl.com/jcmnshkb
The implications for beekeeping are clear in a "drier, hotter west".
A hotter, wetter east is far less of a problem for beekeeping.
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