Part 4: Reports of glaciers shrinking repeatedly appeared in print, over a century ago.

 Let us proceed to the Swiss glaciers of TODAY.

The Swiss glaciers were recently reported to be uniformly shrinking at a disastrous rate ... as of the past two years.  At the least, it is true that the Year 2022 was as hot as was the Year 1922, and 1922 was the year when newspapers and magazines reported the greatest loss of Arctic ice in newspaper history.  Yet, the World did not come to a disastrous end shortly after 1922 ... or even during the Dust Bowl Years of the 1930s.  Far more people died in the 1940s, thanks to Hitler & Tojo.

Now, to discern and identify any land's climate is NOT a mere two year journey.  Discerning Climate is a 30 year process.  Climate is the Trend of Weather.  Climate is Average Weather of the Past Thirty Years or so.  So, let's take a look at the amount of Swiss glacial melt that has occurred between 1973 and 2016, when using eight major glaciers as a sample ... and when judging by length.

Now, there are about 42 or so major glaciers in the Swiss region that have been officially measured.  Eight sample glaciers are below.  You can see the difference in their lengths between 1973 and 2016, in that "table" which people call a "chart."

Now, 2016 was ten years after the Al Gore propaganda movie which claimed that, from the Year 2006 onward, ice melting would accelerate, while hurricanes will intensify.  Thus, the 2016 glacial length readings below should have shown alarming rates of Swiss Ice Melt.  How much of a difference in length are those eight glaciers, between a 43 year period?   Look for yourself.

ANS:  For those who are reading a copy-and-paste version of this discourse ... and who can't see the chart which is actually a statistical table ... there was NOT very much ice loss at all.  It's an insult to the common sensed citizen's intelligence.  

This particular Swiss glacier ice melt survey, for the time span queried, should be filed under "You've-got-to-be-kidding."  Perhaps a person reading this can realize that all that your teachers, politicians, news reporters, and nearby climate activists have been doing nothing more than performing the Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress.  In the spirit of Michael Schellenberg, it compels one to say,  =====>   What Climate Crisis?   

No weather event or meteorological condition of the past five years is new.  It has all happened before, and at a more intense degree, as well.  The photocopies of historic newspaper clips below tell the true story.  John Kerry does not.  Kerry needs to be filed in the You've-got-to-be-kidding dept, also.  He's supposed to be smart.  But, I don't see it.       

At present, there are glaciers that have been growing very successfully around Planet Earth.  Yet, with a population of eight billion humans, we need more green fields of every sort than we need glaciers of any kind.  No crop ever grew on a glacier.  Crops do not grow on ice.  

Keep in mind that the Swiss glaciers were reported in early 20th Century newspapers to have been severely retreating during the early 20th Century, also.  Thus, climate conditions come in cycles.  

So remember, the Climate Crisis hype of today is a sales pitch for more Congressional Funding & NGO Funding.  NGO stands for Non-Governmental Organization.  This Climate Activism has been nothing more than a bunch of money-grabbers standing up in a crowded theater called Planet Earth and screaming "fire!!!" as loudly as they could.

The irony in Volcanic Eruptions

Volcanoes emit large quantities of CO2.  Therefore, there should be global warming after every volcanic eruption.  However, throughout history the opposite occurred.  Volcanoes brough tremendously painful cooling.  This is because volcanoes also emit Sulfur Dioxide in large quantities, while also emitting CO2 in large quantities

The great irony here is that sulfur dioxide acts as tiny mirrors, deflecting sunlight back into outer space, causing cooling.  In fact, volcanoes have resulted in notable temperature declines on Planet Earth, such as in 1816, due to Mount Tambora's eruption in the previous calendar year.  The prime component responsible for time spans of temperature decline was the large amount of sulfur dioxide which spewed out of the volcanoes at the time.  This was especially the case for the disaster year, known as 536.  

By 541, there was the dreaded Justinian Plague.  That era was known as the Late Antique Little Ice Age which endured until 660 CE.  It was followed by yet more cold bouts, even into the Year 822.  

Some time in the 9th Century came the Medieval Warm Period.  This was followed by the Little Ice Age which existed from 1284 (the start of the Wolf Minimum) to 1840 (When the Phytophthora Infestans infested potatoes in Europe).

Above: Measuring c14 within proxy evidence indicates the volume of sunspot activity.  Beryllium-10 in proxy samples can indicate the level of cosmic rays that made their ways through the Earth's protective magnetic field.  Thus, the more sunspot activity the higher the ambient temperature of wherever you are.   

By the way, BP stands for Before Present ... years before the present time.  Thus, on the graph above 300 Years Before Present  = circa 1720.  And of course, the depths of the Little Ice Age ... when sunspot activity was at its lowest ... was between 1645 and 1710.  In addition, the Oort Minimum was a small span of time within the Medieval Warm Period when things got cold.  It was equivalent to the cold spell of 1940 to 1979.  Weather patterns fluctuate and then repeat themselves.

Now remember, there exists something called conflict of interest.  Today's conflict of interest for the scientist is Congressional Funding, and ridiculously large amounts of it.  Climate funding gets appropriated in the form of [1] Climate Research (which has been the smaller fraction of funding) and [2] Climate "Adaptation," (which has been a much larger chunk of rattling coinage from the congressional "holders of the purse.")  

The outrageously large amount of Congressional Funding is why you cannot instantly take an American scientist for his word.  There is also the conflict of interest known as NGO funding, as well.  People throughout history have been known to tell lies for money.  It's called Theft by Deception.  Concerning this, if a scientist says that there is no climate crisis, then he gets no funding.  So, the claim that there is an end-of-the-world climate crisis outside is a sales pitch.

 Instances of severe weather all happening previously, and even more intensely

In decades and centuries past, the adverse weather events were a modest-to-significant.  This concerns floods, droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves, cold-snaps, and any other type of atmospheric turbulence that is recorded and kept for historical purposes.  For example, in December of 1287, one "storm tide" rearranged the coastline of the Netherlands, while killing 50,000 to 80,000 humans.  

Then came a heavy extratropical cyclone's storm surge on November 18th, 1421.  It also came upon the Netherlands, killing 2,000 to 10,000.  The Grote Waard was destroyed.  Parts of the Netherlands near Holland remained underwater for decades.  

MOREOVER, there is the matter of the Blue Holes in the Bahamas.  Core samples of the sediment can detect hurricane activity of centuries past.  It was reported ... by the mainstream Smithsonian Institute ... that hurricane activity was very rampant during specific time phases in the past.  Yet, CO2 levels were NOT high.  They were much lower than today, thereby abolishing the Al Gore Theory of Climate.  CO2 was NOT causing the rise in hurricane activity between the 1720s and 1820s, as well as during the first half of the 16th Century.

As far as goes today, there are more SHORT DURATION CYCLONES and more LOW GRADE CYCLONES ... inferior to a Category 1 hurricane ... CALLED TROPICAL STORMS.  Gore was completely wrong in having stated that the rise in CO2 was going to cause more intense and more frequent (and even longer-duration) hurricanes.

Attribution here goes to the Smithsonian Institute which "considers megadata to be in the public domain," anyway.  Refer to the following link, for the article attached to this graph.  In as much, cyclone activity, at specific time spans, was eight times more than it was in 2020 or so.  In other specific time spans, the activity was twice and thrice as much as it was in 2020 or so.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/blue-holes-show-hurricane-activity-in-the-bahamas-is-at-a-centuries-long-low-180980235/

Other reports from other scientific entities reported that hurricane activity was really intense in the North Atlantic 2,300 to 2,700 year ago.  These time spans were when the co2 count was much lower than it is today.  Thus, severe weather ... even weather a modest amount of percentage points worse than today ...   happened previously; decades previously, hundreds of years previously, and thousands of years previously.  

This all means that Climate Conditions are cyclical and that CO2 does NOT drive the climate.  The Sun does.  NASA stated that the Sun drives the climate years ago.  Concerning Greenhouse Gases, water vapor is 90% of all greenhouse gases, by volume.    

Perhaps you have seen videos where David Attenborough or Michael Mann say that the world's weather was peaceful for a thousand years, without any natural disasters or pronounced cyclones, until the 1700s.  Well, the Smithsonian Institute disagrees.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/bahamas-and-caribbean-have-withstood-hurricanes-centuries-180973157/

Then come the claim of the UN & the Biden Administration Climate People, where it was stated that there was no Medieval Warm Period beyond an occasional local warming in Europe.  There are many 

instances of proxy evidence and recorded historic evidence that it was a global warming period.

The writing linked below was written in prose for the typical novice.  It's very informative, as it gives instances as to why the Medieval Warm Period certainly was a global phenomenon.

https://www.sabhlokcity.com/2019/07/the-medieval-warming-900-1300-ad/#239_Grove__J__M__1988__The_Littl

There is much to convey about the findings of the probable cause of hurricane intensity or lack thereof in specific time spans.  It deals with the Latitudinal Forcing ... involving currents ... instead of climate fluctuations which involves temperature.  This is because the northeastern US landfall hurricanes weren't in tune with the Gulf/Bahama Area cyclones, in detailed research.  Actually, it's all based on Pressure Gradient Forcing, and this scientific behavior of climate has already been explained at the Blue Marble Album.  Such a thing involves Baroclinic Stability and Instability.  BTW, "baro" means pressure, as in air pressure.

Now, a hurricane's intrinsic bio-markers are beyond the scope of this discourse.  The bottom line is that there were many weather events ... including hurricanes ... that were worse decades and centuries ago, when the CO2 count was lower than it is today.  This means that it is a complete lie to claim that the rise in atmospheric CO2 results in more natural disasters, at more intense levels.  Read the writing linked two paragraphs above this one.  It's detailed with enlightenment.   

The other lesson is that, when the world does come to the point where it's coming to an end, you are not going to need Greta to tell you.  You will know, by instinct.  In your personal life today, how bad have things been, when compared to the 1927 Mississippi River Flooding and the 1931 Yangtze River Flood, as well as numerous droughts throughout the centuries?  

And then came western American wildfires so intense that it created the need to publish the Smokey the Bear Fire Prevention Campaign.  Those fires went unchecked for miles at a time, in the 1930s, because there was neither the population nor the technology to curtail them.  In fact, 1934 was declared a few years ago ... by NASA, etc ... to have been the worst drought  year  in the past 1,000 years.  That intense amount of dryness will cause a massive acreage of trees to ignite.

And when it comes to Al Gore's prediction that hurricanes will increase in intensity and number, the truth is that, since 1851 only FOUR of the hurricanes that made landfall upon the Continental United States were Cat 5 hurricanes.   A hurricane or two or three or four or five has turned Cat 5 in an Atlantic Hurricane season, in remote ocean water.  As such hurricanes approached land, their intensities decreased.

The Great Deceit from Congressional-dollar minded scientists today

The great deceit of today is that Category 3 hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean are now called Super Typhoons.  This was done to scare the People into believing that the weather is getting worse and that only those scientists can save the world.  The scientists are committing theft by deception.  Super typhoons are nothing more than average hurricanes and hurricanes have been a part of Atlantic & Pacific History, since the beginning of maritime history.

The early 1960s had the true Super Typhoons in the Pacific, and the world survived quite well afterward.  Only conventional war and a certain African drought made life imperiled on Planet Earth, along with the threat of Nuclear War between the Good Ole USA and the Soviet Union.  A devastating heat wave would come to Europe, in 1976.  Blizzards would hit America.  Weather fluctuates, and it does so because the Earth rotates at a 23.5 degree tilt.  That's called obliquity; a fancy word for tilt.  All in all, Al Gore turned out to be a false prophet who made a ridiculously large amount of money on his "theatrics."

And where it concerns heatwaves, places such as Athens are actually "Rain Shadow Terrains" where it has gotten up to 117F decades ago, when the co2 count was much lower than it is today.  Go and scour through the newspapers and journals of decades and centuries past.  And then learn about "Leeward mountain side adiabatic heating & Chinook Winds."  

Incidentally, Chinook Winds are the same as Foehn Winds and Santa Ana Winds, and such things involve compressed mountain top air which translates into "mountain slope heating" and which involves very dry air.  Such a heat has nothing to do with CO2.  Even when it comes to weather history, history repeats itself, even concerning Santa Ana Winds.   

There are 60+ climate discourses here, at the Blue Marble Album, which can definitely set you free of the terror that Greta endured, at the hands of activists who were emotionally abusing her.  How embarrassing for her, especially in light of the fact that the World did not come to an end, in 2023, after all!  Greta said that a certain scientist said that the world was going to come to an end, unless we hand over all of our freedom to Al Gore-approved scientists.

The #1 proof that the Al Gore, Jim Hansen, & Michael Mann Climate Disaster Predictions were completely false exists in the fact that the Maldives did NOT go underwater by the predicted year of 2018.  The Maldives is a tourist attraction with airfields and hotels.

Roll Call of the Growing Glaciers

Now, for every glacier or set of glaciers found to have been growing, there is always negative press accompanying it, so as to reinforce the belief that the CO2 which inhabits only 0.043% of the sky and which has a radiative forcing of no more than 3.7 watts per meter squared is causing a climate crisis.  There is even one case where a growing glacier was said to have been caused by none other than ... "global warming."  However, it's not a warm glacier.

A major Greenland glacier started to regrow in 2016 or 2017, and the report of its growth was followed by a prediction that the glacier will start shrinking again.  Well, in order for these heavily paid press releasers to be believable, there needs to be numerical empirical evidence of one sort or another.  None the less, it's the Jakobshavn Glacier that was reported.  After its third consecutive year of growing, it fell off the media's proverbial radar.  None the less, it was growing recently enough to merit recognition.

https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/water-energy-cycle/cryosphere/jakobshavn-glacier-grows-for-third-straight-year/

Moreover, glaciers in a California mountain range were found to have been growing, while glaciers in an Oregon range were reported as having disastrously shrunk within the same general time span.  More specifically the Hotlum & Wintun Glaciers of Shasta Mountain were found to have doubled in size between 1951 to 2002.  Meanwhile, a few Klamath mountain range glaciers were said to have significantly shrunk, between 1888 and 2013.  Well, if CO2 were the driver of climate, then both glacier sets would have responded in the same way.  Either all would have grown or all would have shrunk.

None the less, the growing glaciers are NOT located in the same general location.  They are all over the world, as in Argentina, Alaska, California, Antarctica, Washington State, Greenland, Pakistan, etc.  They prove that glaciers do NOT respond uniformly to the atmospheric CO2 level, thereby proving that CO2 is not driving the climate.   If CO2 were the driver of climate, then all glaciers would be either growing or shrinking in unison. 

Crater Glacier, aka the Tulutson Glacier.  It's the youngest in the world.  It formed inside the remaining structure of the Mount Saint Helen Volcano which is still active and which is expected to blow within 65 to 260 years.  A volcanic dome started growing there, in 2004.  Two lava domes are there now, along with the horseshoe glacier. 

The glacier within was discovered by aerial photography in 1996.  The glacier was officially reported to have been GROWING in ice volume at a rate of 135 feet per year, in length, and 50 feet per year in thickness, until 2004, when the volcanic dome started growing.  Crater Glacier was said to be 1.71 miles long & 656 feet thick.  It's shaped like a horseshoe.

 See the following, even if you're not a kid anymore:   https://kids.kiddle.co/Crater_Glacier

Hotlum Glacier and Wintun Glacier, both on Mt. Shasta, California.  Both were found to have doubled in size between 1951 and 2002.  There are seven glaciers in all, on Mount Shasta.  All were found to be growing at some time in the 21st Century.  This includes the Whitney Glacier which is larger today than it was in 1890.

Perito Moreno, in the Argentine Patagonia.  It has been advancing at a pace of 7 feet per day.  None the less, journalists reported that the land of the Patagonia is rising at some kind of record pace, due to the lessening of the weight of ice on it.  The media stated that Patagonia is "rapidly rising up."  Well, the rapid rise has been 1.6 inches per year.   That's one point six inches ... less than two inches.  Do you see how the media and journalists lie to humanity with false light presentations and hyper-exaggerations?

Do you know how tall the three highest peaks of the Patagonia are?  ANS: 10,250 feet (Cerro Torre),  11,000 feet (Mt Fitz Roy),  9,186 feet (Torres del Plaine).  In inches, they are 123,000 inches high,  132,000 inches high, and 110,232 inches high.  Now compare them to 1.6 inches per year.

Plus, the glacier is 19 miles in length.  And this is supposed to make us believe that we are nearing the End of World?   None the less, remember that, when ice departs through melting or sublimation, the land rises.  But, it is not a very high rise of land in any one year or in any one decade.

Incidentally, sublimation is when ice turns into vapor, without first becoming liquid.  The opposite is called, deposition, as in "deposit."

21st Century photo of Saint Augustine Florida.  Show me where this Climate Crisis is here.

Sea Level

Take note that, for the time period of 19,000 years ago to 12,900 years ago, sea level rose about 280 feet or 3,360 inches.  Then, after the Younger Dryas Glacial Era (which ended 11,700 years ago) until 3,000 years ago, the sea level rose another 150 feet or 1,800 inches.  That amounts to 430 feet or 5,160 inches of a sea level rise since the end of the Great Ice Age.  

From 1880 or so until today, the sea level rose 8 to 9 inches.  The scientists claim that 4 of those inches came in the past 31 years.  But, of course, they could be lying, being that they have been caught lying previously.  

None the less, this possibly means that today's scientists claim that our "Climate Crisis Weather" will cause the oceans to rise 12.9 inches every 100 years with all this "Climate Crisis Carbon Footprint" insertion into the atmosphere, even though the atmosphere is already 99.9% carbon free.  That's one foot and one inch per century of sea level rise.  Now compare it to 430 feet.

Now, does this sound very much like the End of the World to you?  Does this sound like we all have to give our freedom to Al Gore and/or Michael Mann and/or Jim Hansen and/or Barack "Sequester" Obama and/or to Who Ever Else?  You have to tell a scarier campfire story than that one.

Hubbard Glacier, Alaska.  It's 76 miles long and 6 miles wide.  Without further ado, being that I really don't have time for these climate con artists, know that the glacier is growing.  

For more on Hubbard, see:  https://www.online-field-guide.com/hubbard-glacier-facts/

Bruggen Glacier, aka the Pio XI Glacier:  This one has been growing the most aggressively, except for Crater Glacier, I think.  Well, it has been a very health growth, if you call ice healthy.  It's in the southern part of the Argentine Patagonia, and it's 41 miles long.

https://www.revistaterraaustralis.cl/index.php/rgch/article/view/18

The Karakoram Mountain Glaciers, in Pakistan, India, and China.

These are the glaciers that are getting the most propaganda hurled at them, in the attempt to dispel them as anomalies that should have never happened.  For example, one article tried to explain away the Karakoram Glacier growth, by first mentioning that an Icelandic glacier recently melted away, as if glaciers everywhere were dying all at once.

The truth is that, on Iceland's Tröllaskagi Peninsula, alone, there are 170 glaciers.  Concerning officially "named" glaciers, there are 269 of them throughout Iceland, and the average thickness of each one is 1,246 feet ... 380 meters.    Moreover, the square mileage of area that all of these named glaciers cover is 1,550 square miles of land ... 4,015 km2.  Iceland, itself, is 39,817 square miles in size.  So, directing the readers' attention to one mere glacier, while the other ones cover 1,550 square miles of terrain is the act of a low-brow, low-life piece of human waste.  Such a writer is trying to deceive you into thinking that we will all soon be drowning under ocean water.  It was nothing but a deceiver's lying propaganda.

There are numerous glaciers on Planet Earth, proving that we are still in an Ice Age.  Some of those glaciers already melted away, especially during warm periods, including the Minoan, the Roman, and the Medieval Warm Periods, as well as the Modern Warm Period which actually started in 1840.

True Climate Change

The last time when there was true climate change, a jungle the size of the United States was turned into the Sahara Desert ... due to the development of the 30th Parallel Convection Cell which is now called the Hadley Cell.  This was 6,000 years ago, and both hemispheres got a Convection Cell banded across their 30th Parallel.  

This 30th Parallel phenomenon is beyond the scope of this discourse.  In fact, those convection cell features are beyond the scope of most career politicians' minds.  You need to understand that you have been voting for self-seeking & mean-spirited idiots, all along, when voting for a career politician.  It also shows that humans are Creatures of Habit, not inclined to welcome change.  So, they keep voting for the same politician.

BTW, Michael Mann was NEVER nominated as "co-winner" of any type of Nobel Prize, and therefore, he NEVER was co-awarded (or exclusively awarded) any Nobel Prize in anything.  Democracy Now lied on air.  Michael Mann's lawyer lied on paper, and Michael Mann repeatedly lied, period.  In fact, Michael Mann simply lies, per se.  In as much, the weather and/or climate was NOT mild throughout the 1,000 years preceding the Industrial Age, as Michael Mann falsely claimed.  

If the atmospheric co2 level gets cut in half, as Michael Mann said it should be, then the co2 level will be very near the level where photosynthesis stops occurring.  

Plus, Mann did NOT submit to Dr. Tim Ball the data set for Mann's ridiculous hockey-stick temperature graph, as Mann promised a Canadian court he would do.   And Mann did hide the 1960s & '70s temperature decline of Briffa's much more honest temperature graph.   And all that Tim Ball wanted was for Mann to show his methodology, in arriving at the hockey-stick graph which omitted the existence of the Medieval Warm Period and Renaissance-era & Baroque-era Little Ice Age. 

One more thing: Michael Mann is not going to get China to cease its extensive coal plant construction projects.  And concerning India, in the Years 2021 & 2022, it commissioned EIGHT coal plants with 4.49 GW (gigawatt) capacity.  Plus, 39 coal plants are already under construction there --- in India.  What is Michael Mann and John Kerry and Bill Nye and Al Gore doing about it?  

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/coal/060322-india-expected-to-commission-10-thermal-coal-power-plants-in-2022-23-add-7010-mw 

Mann's purported "expert witnesses" were declared invalid by a DC court judge, incidentally.  They were officially declared NOT experts in the lawsuit which has been dragging-on for years.  The reason is that they did NOT show the methodology that resulted in their conclusions.  And of course, they claim that the Little Ice Age & Medieval Warm Period were only local events, and not worldwide.  They showed zero methodology for their conclusions which are contrary to chronicles, ledgers, journals, and strontium isotope analysis.

https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/27/judge-strikes-all-of-michael-manns-expert-witnesses-from-libel-suit/

Go through newspaper archives, and you will see that Mann, Al Gore, PBS, & taxpayer-money-grabbing scientists have been lying to you, in a "false light," sleight-of-hand fashion.  They have been omitting lots of facts.

Concerning the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere, an electrical engineering major who never studied atmosphere ... because he had enough to study as it was ... said to me, "Oh, CO2 is at ten percentage (up in the sky)."  For the record, if any human is in an airspace of 10% or more of CO2, that person will die instantly; within the 15 minutes of time it takes to suffocate.  

In addition, if a human is in an airspace which comprises 8.4% of CO2, then that person will die within one hour or so.  So, compare 8.4% to 0.043%.  That's 84,000 ppm vs 429 ppm.  Big difference.

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The Ghost of Glaciers Past & the Ghost of Glaciers Present

Part 1 is found here:   https://www.bluemarblealbum.com/2025/04/glaciers-past-and-present-1.html

The cause of Leeward mountain-side deserts, such as are in California

New Mexico mountain top, 2012.  The clouds did stay on one side of the mountain range.

Before all else, American and Mexican deserts that are not immediately east of a mountain range became deserts, due to the "North Pacific High."  This happens to be a semi-permanent, subtropical, high pressure air mass that rotates clockwise.  Its altitude reaches up to the middle of the Troposphere only.  It's latitude is equal to that of Northern California and Oregon.  Yet, it's a large rotating air mass. 

Also needed to be mentioned is that the 30th Parallel, in the northern and southern hemispheres each have a convection cell which features dry, relatively-heavy, & sinking air.  This is why major deserts are on or near the 30th Latitude.  Incidentally, sinking air is called "subsiding' in meteorology.  

Then comes deserts featured by "Santa Ana Winds," aka "Chinook Winds," aka "Foehn Winds."  All three winds are the exact same thing.  Let us proceed.

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a} That which is called the result of "global warming" is actually the result of Adiabatic Heating which occurs on the the Leeward Side of mountain ranges; mostly the east side.

This is because, as clouds rise upon the Western side (aka the Windward Side) of a mountain range, they release moisture during the ascent.  This is known as the process of Orographic Lifting.  

This lifting of a cloud mass accompanies the release of rain as the clouds' ascent continues.  By the time the same air mass reaches the top, all that is left is a cold & dry parcel of air which descends the mountain range, thereby creating deserts.   There is the matter of heating which occurs during the air parcel's descent.  The heating is due to descending air becoming compressed.

b} The dry air parcels which descend mountain tops are called :::  ~Foehn Winds,  ~Chinook Winds,  ~Santa Ana Winds,  &  ~Down-sloping Winds.   As a dry air parcel descends a mountain top, it encounters higher & heavier pressured air which easily exists at the surface of the Earth.  As a result, the down-sloping air compresses and shrinks in size.  This causes the molecules within it to collide and vibrate more aggressively, resulting in a sudden rise in temperature. 

c1a} Proof that this dryness is the result of Adiabatic Warming, and NOT co2, exists in the fact that, when you are out West, you notice that the clouds in the sky never cross over the mountain tops.  The clouds stay on one side.  

 c1b} Incidentally, I'm the son of a native Wyoming gal.  In fact, I have literally been at the southernmost tip of the Rocky Mountains, in New Mexico.  I witnessed it.  I was there.   

Yes, this was the city of the Project Y laboratory; part of the Manhattan Project.

New Mexico, as scene through my cell phone; from a road to Los Alamos.

Also New Mexico from my cell phone.  Notice that the clouds remain on one side.

This authentic mushroom cloud was photographed on an August 6, near Los Alamos.

At this point it would suffice to state that the vast majority of Climate Change activists need to do something called, "go outside," and not merely to the park.  People who worked in the outdoors hour after hour and year after year have a more clear understanding of weather behavior, simply by means of decades of experience.   Back to the matter hand:

c2} Examples of deserts created by Adiabatic Heating  :::  The Red Desert of Wyoming is in the center south of the State.   Plus, the center of Oregon has a desert located east of the Cascades and south of the Blue Mountains.  The Leeward Side of California is desert land extraordinaire, and it was that condition long before 21st Century co2 levels increased.  Etc go the examples.  

c3} Plus, the super large deserts of the Earth are all on the 30th parallel (north & south) wherever the desert was not the result of Leeward Adiabatic Warming.  30th Parallel deserts were caused by very large "convection cells."

Example  ===>  The Sahara Desert is the size of the USA, and 6,000 years ago the Sahara was a lush forest/jungle, with cave wall drawings that looked like the ones in France.   This time span is known as the African Humid Period.  There were no gasoline engines to turn the Sahara into a desert.  It was a major convection cell at the 30th Parallel that caused it.  The super large convection cell still exists.  It's presently called the Hadley Cell of the Northern Hemisphere.

When viewing Globes or spherical maps of the Earth, do not forget the 23.5 degree tilt (aka obliquity) of Planet Earth.

Take note:  In older textbooks, "Mid-Latitude Cells" were called "Ferrel Cells."

 

The Great Rio Grande River Lie of 2022 ... told by a very dishonest media

 Another Blatant Lie of the Media

Let's confirm yet another example of the commercial media's lies, in its hyping-up of weather events that were never worse than any weather event or weather trend in the past thousand years.  This includes ==>"the nine flood-rich periods" of Europe, ==>the ice-jam-floods of the Little Ice Age, ==>wind storms, ==>cyclones, ==>the droughts throughout Asia, Europe, & America  ==>crop failure, ==>ice stacking during the Little Ice Age, ==>brutal cold snaps, ==>heat waves.

On July 25, 2022, it was reported that a five mile stretch of the Rio Grande River in Albuquerque New Mexico went dry, due to the burning of fossil fuels.  This sounded like long-term, parched territory that couldn't possibility be replenished in three or six years.  Well ...

Firstly, the long Rio Grande River has places where water diversion & bypass occurs, for irrigation purposes. Water was being deliberately bypassed into diversionary ditches, at that point of the river.

One thing to point out is that there is no way that any river moves with the regular flow of water and then suddenly dries-out at one point, only to have flowing water suddenly reappear in it, five miles later.  The actual truth is that . . .

. . .  the Albuquerque River water "gage height" was 1.62 ft on July 25, 2022.  Three days later, the gage height then elevated to 2.3 ft.  Three days after that, on July 31, the gage height rose even higher, to 3.39 ft.  Then, within three more days, on August 3, the gage height rose to 4.09 ft.  That's a very quick rise of water level that negates the assertion of "drought."

Conclusion:  On July 19, 2022, in England ... and on July 25, 2022, in America ... we were told that we have an irreversible "climate crisis" drought, due to the burning of fossil fuels.  Yet, within NINE days, the gage height of the Albuquerque segment of the Rio Grande River rose 250%!  As of May 15, 2023, the gage height of the same river was 6.65 ft, while the "maximum operating limit" there is 7.50 ft.  In fact, the "minor flood stage" there starts at 8.00 ft.  

The Rio Grande, in Albuquerque, rose 410% in 10 month's time ... in 294 days.  Without doubt, the July 25, 2022 commercial media report was & is a blatant fraud that frightens schoolchildren.   Look for yourself at the significant change for the better that the media did NOT reveal.  The media kept the lie going.

 

Schoolchildren of America, you do not have to fear that which Albert Gore predicted 16 years ago.  These predictions NEVER materialized even slightly, other than an occasional heat wave in a world which has had multiple heat waves throughout its recorded history, along with droughts, famines, and floods.  And of course, this is the atmospheric equivalent to Lions and Tigers and Bears.  On my!  

If it were true, you would always be exhaling smog.

 

Let's do some very basic math that might be liberating to you, in light of the endless nagging about the atmosphere's "carbon footprint," "carbon footprint," caaaaarbon fooooootprint.

Newsflash:  The atmosphere today, as it was 4,000 years ago, is 99.93% carbon-free.  Observe:

78% carbon-free NITROGEN, 21% carbon-free OXYGEN, 0.93% carbon-free ARGON =

                                                                        99.93%

Moreover, 90% of all greenhouse gases, by volume, is carbon-free WATER VAPOR.  This is only logical, because the surface of Planet Earth is 71% carbon-free WATER.  Plus, extremely small amounts of the following carbon-free substances are also in the atmosphere: Neon (19ppm), Krypton (1.15ppm), Helium (5.35ppm), Hydrogen (0.53 ppm), Ozone (0.07 ppm), Xenon (0.09 ppm), and a few other things at low concentrations ... even trace concentrations.  So, where's all the carbon, you climate crisis activists?

For the record, if you want to mathematically include water vapor into the equation, you subtract small portions of Nitrogen, Oxygen, & Argon as follows.  Now remember, water vapor is in differing concentration in different skies of the Earth.  It exists from 0.1% (deserts) to 4% (the Tropics).  So, you adjust the math as follows:  PS:  That chart came from the United States government.  NOAA.

Preliminary note with irony attached to it:  In having been in construction as far back as 1992, (with respiratory allergy sabbaticals taken in-between --- along with one steel-beam-crush injury sabbatical)  I have already met all forms of humanity.  And on occasion, the subject of "Climate Change" did emerge instantaneously.  The only ones who believed in the claim of fast-approaching Doomsday Climate Change were {1} recently graduated high school students who have very few years of life experience, and {2} people in local government who don't even know the percentage of CO2 in the outdoor air.  

Everyone else said either "The whole thing is bull crap" or "It's not as bad as 'they' make it out to be."   These people have had the experience of living in Earth's atmosphere decades longer than a newly graduated high school student.  They speak from much longer experience.  And of course, as far as goes small time politicians, they're just like big time politicians, in being mynah birds, video recorders, and/or robots, rattling off bumper sticker slogans and predictable clichés.

The reflex action to dispel Climate Doomsday Rhetoric is especially the case for geologists who do not receive taxpayer-funded paychecks.  The same goes for any tradesman who worked outdoors for the past 20 to 25 to 30 years.  

Now, this concerns the claim that today's trace amount of atmospheric CO2 is causing the End of the World.  The typical geologist mentions the tremendous amount of CO2 which rockets out of the typical erupting volcano, followed by no Global Warming heatwave resulting from the sudden unleashing of CO2.  Meanwhile, the typical 25-year tradesman simply says that "climate is cyclical."  Therefore, the common citizen, and therefore the reasonable human, thinks that the alarm of a fast-approaching climate change extinction-event is senseless buffoonery.   

In addition, the pertinent charts & graphs of the 1990s (which outline the temperature, sea level, and frequency of weather events of the prior 100 years, 500 years, and 1,000 years) have been decisively altered and do NOT sing in harmony with newspaper reports & chronicles of the same years, same decades, and same centuries represented in those graphs.  This is known as Data Tampering, and the newspaper reports of old constitute the numerous pieces of evidence which prove the "newer" charts & graphs to be fraudulent.   

Example:  A "newer" NOAA graph claimed that 1920, 1921, and 1922 were among the coldest years of the 20th Century.  Go and look through the newspaper archives for those years, and see for yourself.  Those were heatwave years, marked my notable ice melt  around the Arctic Circle regions ... those years were as heated as the 1930s, and they were the opposite of the basically frigid 1960s and 1970s.  Look for yourself, so that you'll see that something does NOT match, concerning news reports of old and today's "new and improved" weather event charts and temperature graphs.

2nd Example:  Today's wildfire frequency chart only begins at 1983, the year of the lowest amount of forest fires & wildfires.  The REAL data goes back to 1916.  There were motor vehicles that could track and measure burnt forest land very effectively.  The Years 1926 to 1943 were the years of massive forest fire frequency.  Today does NOT come close, in burnt acreage.

Now, that which is more interesting goes as follows:

Concerning the key players in the man-made-co2 "Climate Change" hysteria, everyone knows who Al Gore is.  And everyone definitely knows who Bill Nye is.  Well, NOBODY knows who Michael Mann is.  Now, he's the one whose horn gets tooted the most by the most "liberal"of  media members. Yet, nobody amongst the common folk in America knows who he is.  That is a major crash-and-burn for a self-centered narcissist such as Michael Mann.  This also shows that the commercial media, the public TV media, and the various Bill-Gates-funded entities failed at their own propaganda ploy.  

This is the carbon footprint of CO2.  CO2 happens to activate photosynthesis.

Let us begin:

The first indication that the CO2 Doomsday Narrative has been a lie from Day 1 consists in the fact that, if CO2 were the pollutant Al Gore said it was, then you would constantly be exhaling a very visible form of carbonized soot --- something equal to cigarette smoke or coal dust.  Your breath would be a color ranging from gray to brown to black.   You and everyone else would need to clean the soot off your shirt/blouse every evening.  After all, pollution  is ====>  unburnt fuel.  This is not to be confused with particulates which are produced during the unavoidable abrasion of machine parts ... or engine parts.

Moreover, all those photos of active smokestacks shown on-screen, while being presented as CO2 polluting the Earth, were false-light misrepresentations.  The visible part of those smokestack emissions were gaseous compounds other than CO2.  CO2 is odorless and colorless.  It's also harmless when under 2,000 ppm.  It's not deadly unless you're exposed to 84,000 ppm for an hour.  So compare:  416 ppm outdoors today vs 84,000 ppm in laboratory conditions.

Your breath is proof that CO2 is colorless.  Look into a mirror.  Are you a fire-breathing dragon?  Are you a coal-dust-exhaling dragon?  Well, the average human exhales 1.6 to 2.3 lbs of CO2 per day.  Yet, each one's breath looks clear.  That's enough of an indication that you've been conned by Al Gore & Michael "hockey sticks" Mann.  

There are a number of observations in front of your face ... in historical logs ... in monastery ledgers ... in almanacs ... in newspaper articles dating back to the 1600s ... in maritime charts & reports ... and in "proxy evidence" ... which show that this Chicken Little Hysteria is a complete con game.  You need to look around and test the "end-of-the-world" assertions for cracks.  You will find many cracks.  

Example #2:  London Area fires decreased significantly since the 1980s & 1990s, even though co2 levels consistently increased.

This example concerns the very false claim that elevated co2 levels set London on Fire in 2022.  The London Fire Brigade reported enthusiastically in 2014 that yearly fires throughout the 610 square mile region of the London vicinity had been reduced to approximately half of the number of yearly fires of the 1980s & 1990s.   In fact, the Year 2021 was the record low year in London Area fires.  

From the 1970s to 2003, yearly London area fires were over 40,000.  In the mid-2010s, the yearly fire number went below 18,000.  In 2021, the number went below 15,000, even though co2 levels had been rising with relative significance since the 1980s & 1990s.  So, in 2022, you were told a lot of lies.  

Dry heat from Africa caused the two days of a major British heat anomaly, in 2022.  Not CO2.  After all, the same co2 level caused the least number of fires in London's statistical history, the year prior.  Look at the London Fire Brigade's own chart, to see that you were the recipient of multiple lies in 2022.  Incidentally, London Statistical History began in 1966.  That was the year when the London Fire Brigade started keeping score on its fires.

Example #3:  The Rigged Media:  

                         See:   The Gates Foundation's $174 MILLION Donations to Media Entities.                                                        

Droughts during the middle of the Little Ice Age

Keep in mind that the Decline Hider, Michael Mann, as well as the Truth Hider, David Attenborough, publicly stated, in different venues, that the climate was stable for one thousand years, until the inception of the Industrial Age.  Now, it was already illustrated how frequent and intense were sea storms, as well as floods that rewrote the coastline of the Netherlands.  It was illustrated that multiple disasters, including American mega-droughts, occurred in centuries past.  Those disasters occurred when the atmospheric co2 level was very low, proving that the Al Gore Theory of Climate is a fraudulent misrepresentation.  Now for your enlightenment.  There were multiple droughts even during the Renaissance era.

Below is a graph that serves as a supplement to the Old World Drought Atlas.  That map covers the late Medieval Era.  That era is actually the Renaissance.  The graph below shows that there was a severe drought transpiring in Central Europe when Augustinian friar, Father Martin Luther, submitted his 95 Theses for public discourse.  

In addition, there was an European drought of note in 1506-07, as well as in the 1470s & 1480s.  In fact, 1616 & 1741 were historic drought years for Europe, as were the years 1893 & 1921.  History has droughts all over the place, from time to time, taking turns with floods, pestilence, major land storms, humid heat waves, dry heat waves, ice stacking, cold spells, snow storms, sea storms, and even algae blooms in what is modern Florida.  

Tornadoes are a bit different, being that the first one ever reported in England was in 1091, and that is relatively late.  Yet, ancient Greece has writings on the occasional presence of tornadoes in the Mediterranean.  All in all, David Attenborough and Michael Mann lied when they said on different occasions that the weather of the past 1,000 years was stable & mild until the invention of the gasoline engine.  Turbulence is an integral part of weather history, even 200, 400, 600 and 800 years before the invention of the diesel engine, the lawn mower engine, and the rocket engine.

Now, PDSI means Palmer Drought Severity Index.  The JJA means June-July-August.

This mostly refers to Hungary, Slovenia, etc.  It is simply a small puzzle piece showing the larger picture.  The larger picture is that the weather was NOT mild & stable for a thousand years, until the Industrial Revolution.  Michael Mann & David Attenborough are liars.

As far as goes forest fires, research scientists concluded that the Little Ice Age didn't have epic fires, but the Medieval Warm did.  Involved were American Rocky Mountain forest fires as tremendous as the ones in the 1930s, as well as the California fires of recent years.  See:  the world renown publication, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Medieval warming initiated exceptionally large wildfire outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains |:| Edited by Monica G. Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, and approved September 1, 2015 (received for review January 13, 2015.)

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1500796112

See also:  Live Science,  March 18, 2010.  Giant Redwood Trees Endured Frequent Fires Centuries Ago

https://www.livescience.com/8108-giant-redwood-trees-endured-frequent-fires-centuries.html

And also:  Univ of  Arizona News, March 17, 2010, Giant Sequoias Yield Longest Fire History from Tree Rings

https://news.arizona.edu/story/giant-sequoias-yield-longest-fire-history-from-tree-rings

Would be nice to have a government that doesn't constantly lie to its People

Certain individuals are calling Jim Hansen a prophet, even though 100% of his climate predictions failed. This included the Maldives going underwater by 2018, as well as lower Manhattan being perpetually submerged by water, at least up to ankle height, or car tire height, or similar.  

"They" did this praising of Hansen, so that they could cash in on a lot of Congressional funding.  They lied to get lots of taxpayer dollars.  In fact, almost everything predicted by the climate doomsters since the late 1960s failed to come true. After all, the number of 95F+ days significantly decreased.  Crop yields have been mostly healthy, with exceptions of course.  Deaths due to natural disasters declined tremendously.  The wildfire count is much lower than in the first-half of the 20th Century.  The Arctic has not come close to being ice free.   Etc.  Etc.  Etc.

In re:  The above chart. The most amount of Arctic Ice volume was in 1979.  Needless to say, the present powers-that-be in the United States use 1979 at the starting point in their Arctic Ice Volume graph.  This deceives the common layman into assuming that 1979 was an ordinary year, and that co2 caused Arctic Ice to get trapped in a one-way runaway ice melt.  That's a falsehood.

Concerning Jim Hansen, all that ever-so-coincidentally happened was that government charts & graphs of the 1990s and turn of the Millenium were altered.  An excuse was given.  That topic would take up the space of two posts.  None the less, in the first week of November 2023, I was speaking in person to a Northern Indian native of the Himalayan region.  After I said, "I guess that the glaciers there are shrinking."  His answer literally was "Getting bigger."  

I remained low-key composed after learning, once again, that our government & media lies and lies and lies again and again to Americans.  In my emotional silence, I thought to myself, "It figures."  After all, in all my studies, the media & government has been caught lying about every topic I've researched thus far.  The Himalayan glaciers will apparently follow suit.  

I regarded the Himalayan glaciers as the final frontier in climate studies, in as far as concerns verifying or debunking all the things claimed by Gore, Mann, Hansen, and the fairytale story teller, David Attenborough.  BTW, Attenborough is advanced in years.  After all, he was born in 1926.  So, leave him alone.  Don't confront him, etc.   All that is necessary is that you know he was quite the lying con artist, in his day.  You then move-on.    

               Below:  The pertinence here is that, exactly after the heat of 1958 subsided, "the decline" that Michael Mann hid ... with his math trick ... began.  The 1960s and 1970s were filled with very cold and chilly weather.  Yet, a few heated years still existed within that time frame, such as 1976 which was a tragic year for Paris.  In fact, in the following year, Athens reached 117F.  But, for the most part, the Arctic Ice Extent numbers increased, and the stereotypical cold winter weather prevailed for a couple or so decades after the news article below stated that the weather was getting warmer.  Plus, it was seen as a Good Thing, in 1954, due to the outrageous cold historic events which occurred during WWII.

In review, the Atlantic would soon cool down thereafter, and sea ice would increase and then decrease and then increase the most in 1979.  But, the Biden Administration kept the Truth away from humanity.  The Biden Presidency was a presidency of lies.

As a reinforcement of learning, here is a chart that concurs with the reality that there were low-volume (low-cover) Arctic ice years before the high volume ice year of 1979.  Thus, it has NOT been a one-way decrease of ice into nothingness, as the Al Gore people would want you to believe.  Climate is cyclical, like a roller coaster:

The pink-shaded part is the part that the Biden Administration no longer showed the People.  None the less, Arctic Ice cover was low (at times) even before the "Global Warming" Scare began.  Showing this chart to the public would negate the entire hysteria of it all. 

The Biden Administrators couldn't bring themselves to let the People of America be at Peace.  "They" had to keep the People in a state of fear, so that "they" would not lose power.   This is why Michael Crichton wrote, A State of Fear. 

The irony is that 77.3 million Americans couldn't tolerate the Lies of the Biden Shadow Presidency.  Politicians who thought that they would remain in power through lies lost power because their lies.

Let's also address the altered Forest Fire Chart of the less-than-honest Biden People.  Today, that chart begins with the year of the least number of forest fires ... 1983.  Thus, the Biden People make it look as if 1983 were an average year, and all the other years to follow had doom-ridden increases of fire ... presumably caused by increased atmospheric CO2.  However, CO2 was far less in the atmosphere, when burnt fire acreage exceeded 40 million acres per year.  In as much, I would like to introduce you to the true United States forest fire acreage chart which has NO CORRELATION to any level of CO2 and which came long before the very dishonest Biden Shadow Presidency.

Speaking of liars, there is also the matter of Michael Mann claiming to be the co-winner of the Nobel Prize.  Concerning this, it was NOT the Nobel Prize in Science that he claimed to have co-won.  He claimed to be the co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

None the less, the following link will take you to the video which will show you that the Nobel Foundation does NOT recognize Michael Mann as the winner or co-winner of any kind of Nobel Prize.  This illustrates that Michael Mann is nothing more than a lying con artist who has no problem absorbing American taxpayer dollars ... like a vacuum cleaner ... on steroids.  You are living in the Age of Climate Racketeering.

See & Hear:  A representative of the Nobel Foundation emphatically stating that Michael Mann NEVER won or co-won any type of Nobel Prize

The Next Total Falsehood from the Climate Nazi Klan:  London Fires. 

The following chart comes from the London Fire Brigade.  It shows that the number of yearly fires in the 610 square mile range of Greater London has decreased significantly.  The significant DECREASE occurred, while atmospheric CO2 levels consistently increased.  In fact, it was the Year 2014 when the London Fire Brigade officially announced that present London Area fires have dwindled in number to almost half of the number of fires in the 1980s & 1990s, per year.  

However, in 2022, a few liar journalists claimed that rising CO2 levels caused an untold number of fires to ignite London.  Very False.  The number of London Area fires SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASED throughout the exact same time span when co2 levels were incrementally rising.  The London Area fires also DECREASED, while the London Area population increased by 1.3 million people, since the Year 2000.

Keep in mind that this chart was officially released by and through the London Fire Brigade.

This shows that there is NO CORRELATION between co2 levels and British fires, as well as population increase and British fires.   Liar journalists should be fired and sued for the intentional infliction of emotional distress.  Scaring schoolchildren endlessly is a form of child abuse.  It's the molestation of a schoolchild's mind.

In order to put things into perspective, know that Oxygen, Nitrogen, & Argon comprise 99.93% of the atmosphere ... minus the percentage of water vapor in the air.  NOT much room left for much of anything else.  

I repeatedly asked people, as a poll, what percentage of the atmosphere is co2.  The majority said "30%."  Only one person got the question almost correct.  He was in Chicago, where I experienced the coldest temperatures in my life ... and I worked during -30F wind chills in Pennsylvania, and I endured brutal cold in Massachusetts. 

Well, everything that needed to be said was spoken in the facial expressions of the people who realized that they have been severely deceived by an orchestrated con game.  They instantly saw things differently as soon as they learned that CO2 is only 416 parts per million ... 42 parts per 100,000 ...  4.2 parts per 10,000 ...  1 part per 2,403.   

Meanwhile, nitrogen exists at 1,874 parts per 2,403.  Oxygen exists at 504 parts per 2,403.  Argon exists at 22 parts per 2,403 ... vs 1 part per 2,403 for carbon dioxide.

Think further:   If CO2 were a group of sports fans at Rose Bowl Stadium, CO2 would only occupy 42 seats.  Nitrogen would occupy 78,000 of the seats.  Oxygen would occupy 21,000 of the seats, and Argon would occupy 930 of the seats.  In addition, Methane would only occupy one seat every FIVE Rose Bowl games.  Methane presently exists at 1.909 parts per million; basically 2 parts per million ... 1/500,000.   Once again, remember:  You are living in the Age of Climate Racketeering.

 

We return to Arctic Sea Ice.  As was previously mentioned, the year of the MOST arctic sea ice was 1979.  Needless to say, this is the year of the starting date for the Biden People.  That's where the altered charts and graphs begin.   HOWEVER, Arctic sea ice was very low in the 1930s and in some of the years of the 1970s.  Plus, 1954 was a low-ice year.  And let us not forget the extreme Arctic Ice loss reported in 1922, exactly one hundred years ago.  There is much more Arctic Ice today than there was in 1922.

All in all, starting the sea ice chart at the year of the most accumulated ice accomplishes a predictable deception.  It made it appear that the recent decline of sea ice were a never-before seen phenomenon.  Yet,  that depth of decline already occurred in the 1930s & 1970s (after man landed on the moon with technology advanced enough to detect Arctic sea ice volume.)  Those two decades are not too far off in time.

The great mystery is how long will the politicians and their accomplices think that they can deceive all of mankind?  The evidence proving them liars is blatant.  The only trick is to hide the evidence from the People.  It didn't universally work.  Some people made copies of the evidence.

At this point, remember how confident everyone was on the "Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction."  It was ALL an illusion ... a costly illusion ... a deadly illusion. 

Climate IS cyclical, like a roller coaster.