Web, your post seems to start half way through a sentence. Now I'm burning with curiosity over what is missing!
There's one thing I don't understand about those who dislike the drought posited in Howling Wilderness and citing it as a major reason for not wanting to use HW in their campaigns. If you don't like the drought, have it end in 2002. HW only covers 2001. There's nothing set in stone to suggest that the drought is a permanent feature. Where I live we have periodic droughts. Some are short, some are long, but they all end eventually.
The climate change suggested in HW is most likely due to all the particulate matter thrown up into the atmosphere during the war. As the years go by it seems pretty obvious to me that the climate will continue to change. It may go back to much like it was before the war. That's up to each GM to decide, surely?
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