"They" are now claiming that Autumn leaf colors will weaken, due to co2.

From the Climate Whistleblower Corner of the Anti-Brainwashing Unit.  Autumn 2023.

Look at the leaves on the ground, there.  They are very red, and this is an Autumn 2023 photo.  It looks like the PBS  people aren't the masters of knowledge that they make themselves out to be.  Incidentally, there are a dozen  natural setting photos below, along with two city photos ... to prove a point.

 Recently, PBS claimed that the increase in atmospheric co2 will be causing autumn leaves to be dull & lackluster in color, from henceforth.  Well, the first asininity of the PBS editors is that co2 is the reason why generations of trees came into existence, in the first place.  Do you actually think that a co-factor in the creation of trees is the simultaneous killer of trees, in sending them off, into a slow undoing?  Life on Earth is a matter of cycles.  Tree leaves follow a cycle.  Meanwhile, climate on Earth is a cycle.

November 2023.  Leaf colors haven't faded in the rain ... or in the co2 which only comprises 0.042% of Earth's atmosphere.

The second asininity of today's PBS editors is this:  Autumn leaf color will only be weaker than it was decades prior if and only if the Summertime leaf colors of the exact same year are also weak.  However, if you do want to find out if PBS is telling the truth, then simply go outside next autumn and look at all the trees yourself.  You do not need a heavily funded scientist to tell you what you are seeing.

In the early 2020s, in the entire 2010s, and in the years surrounding the turn of the Millenium, satellites and humans ... as well as wildlife ... saw very green leaves throughout Planet Earth.  In fact, NASA officially reported that the rise in co2 made the Earth greener.  Very green summertime leaves result in very colorful autumn leaves.  All that PBS can do is brainwash you into thinking that the new autumn leaves you will be seeing just aren't as colorful as they were when you were a kid.  It's all a brainwashing technique.  Been there.  Done that.  Nothing new about this approach.

One more very important point:  The more the co2 that is in the atmosphere, the less the water that is needed by the vegetation on Earth.  See:  Stoma or Stomatae --- Photorespiration --- C3 Plants such as rice, soybean, spinach, tomatos --- C4 Plants such as sorghum, maize, sugar cane, yams.

In addition, undoctored photos of recent Autumns can prove or disprove the most recent climate assertion made by the mainstream media.  So, what happens when the undoctored Autumn photos of 2024, 2025, and 2026 show vivid Autumn landscapes?   If that occurs, then PBS will have to find a new way to drain the life out of all the schoolchildren of America and make them relentlessly feel dread.

Autumn & its non-faded colors, 7 years after the Al Gore movie told us that co2-driven climate doom had arrived.  If I'm still on Earth, and if that building is still there, I can photograph it next autumn, to see if there has been much change since 2013.

The media apparently does not realize how annoying this type of report is to the common working man.  In fact, the media doesn't realize how annoying their obsession with climate indoctrination is.  Every year is declared the hottest year ever.  The vast majority of temperature reports come from heavily asphalted venues where jet engines, in all their heated glory, rule.  Why don't the radio stations report the temperature of nearby grasslands or woods?  After all, asphalt is the Number 1 retainer of solar heat.  Therefore, at present, radio stations are only reporting on the Urban Heat Island Effect.

The extremely high amount of forest fires in the late 1920s, entire '30s, and early '40s were deleted from the fire frequency graph, during the Biden Administration years, while youths --- whose only reality is the cell phone --- deny that massive acreage burned during the Roaring Twenties, the Dust Bowl Days, and at the start of WWII.    The new graph starts at 1983.  That is the year of the least forest fires in American record-keeping history.  Thus, the Bidens wanted to deceive us all into thinking that 1983 was an average year ... and that all of the following years had a trend of rising wildfire frequency, due to the burning of fossil fuels.

Certain collegiate youth, in their school-board-certified delusions, were bolsterous enough to claim ... even in writing ... that the high number of yearly fires of the first half of the 20th Century never existed.  Well, these youth are the true deniers of reality & textbook material.  Needless to say, these climate deniers were too foolish to realize that the newspapers, magazines, logs, coroner registries, county building administrators, and almanacs of the Forest Fire Era all reported on the vast amount of American acreage that was burning.  That knowledge was NOT hidden from humanity.  So, you cannot deny such a truth as widespread as the one which reminds humanity that there were significantly more wildfires of the United States in the first half of the 20th Century.  

Add proxy evidence to the forest fire equation.  This includes the forests that were newly formed in the late '20s, the entire '30s, and the early '40s.  As a note, keep in mind that the end of one forest, due to fire, is instantly the beginning of another forest.

Enlightening video:  Why certain naturally occurring wildfires are necessary --- TED-Ed

As an example of the many droughts & famines that did occur during the centuries when the outdoor co2 count was much lower than today, the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society published the following paper: 

The abstract of a peer reviewed paper:  Climate and the Global Famine of 1876-78

Now for Antarctica

Then came the  Winter of 2023 and the claim that Antarctica was experiencing an "extreme melting" event that hasn't happened in the past seven million years.  Apparently, the people who published this claim didn't realize that this was during the time of the year when there is no sun in the Antarctic sky, to melt anything.   This has been the most asinine and buffoonish lie told thus far by the climate hysterical society.

Winter in Antarctica is the long-term time of darkness, when the sun is never seen above the horizon.  In fact, some of the 2023 Antarctic Doom news articles were accompanied  by daylight photos of partially melted ice in a body of water.  Well, those were not photos of Antarctica in the Winter of 2023 or during any other Antarctic Winter.  This is because there is no daylight in Antarctica, during its winter months.  Antarctic winter photos are photos of darkening twilight and extended nighttime.  Con artists aren't very smart; especially the young ones brainwashed by Al Gore, Michael Mann, and the American Public School System.

That which made this the most sick joke thus far is the fact that, in 2021, two years prior to the doomsday report, Antarctica had its coldest winter in recorded history.  In order to understand why it gets so cold at the Poles, look-up Circumpolar Vortex.  If you learn at least the basics of atmospheric science, you won't go through life with a sense of dread.  You'll see that the Climate Hysteria people hyper-exaggerate, in their changed charts and graphs, as they erased any statistic that destroyed the co2-global-warming narrative --- that disproved Al Gore's theory of total planetary control by a molecular compound that amounts to 0.042% of the Earth's atmosphere.

Florida was the destination for another climate con game

The climate hysteria people then reported the temperature of Florida Everglade water that spills into the ocean near the Hwy 1 Bridge to Key Largo.  They never mentioned that the true ocean water was literally 15 degrees Fahrenheit COLDER than was the Florida Everglade water.  

Then comes long-term adulterer Charles III who long-ago predicted the End of Mankind in a "96 month" countdown and who was completely wrong in his prediction.  He now has a new countdown clock, as if he were the prophetic expert of the ages.  And keep in mind that this is a con artist who took wedding vows in front television cameras, while have no intention on being faithful to his wife.

The endless End-of-the-World climate countdowns are extremely annoying to those of us who worked outdoors throughout the past two or three decades and who saw all types of weather.  Those people are --- we are --- the people who know what has been occurring in nature for the past 10, 20, and 30 years.  Such working-class people have much more experience with the climate than do comfy computer modelers and the stereotypical geektoid, dweeb-ridden nerds whose reality has been the cell phone and the texting app.  

Centuries of Witch Hysteria & Witch Trials Prove that Weather Disasters were the Trend

Of course, Michael "hockey sticks" Mann & David "I am the Walrus" Attenborough assured humanity that the climate was calm and mild for a thousand consecutive years before the Industrial Revolution.  Well, there were numerous weather disasters throughout the time said to be calm by Mann & Attenborough.  The chronicles, almanacs, captain's logs, and newspapers of old reported on numerous disasters during that specific time span.  Then comes proxy evidence.

MORE IMPORTANTLY, during the Little Ice Age, women in Northern Europe and in the Alp region of Europe were either torched or hung or fatally submerged in the tens of thousands, for "Making Weather."  Drastic weather events were occurring repeatedly, when the co2 count was extremely low.  Someone or something needed to be blamed.  So, alleged witches were blamed.  

Incidentally, the co2 count at the time was 276 ppm to 283 ppm.  Today the co2 count is 420 ppm.  Thus, the era of the Witch Trials occurred when atmospheric co2 was 144 to 137 ppm LOWER than today.  This proves that co2 does NOT cause major weather disasters & atmospheric turbulence.  It proves that Al Gore, Michael Mann, David Attenborough, and Charles the Adulterer are invalid in their climate declarations.  And you must admit that there has got to be a measure of psychopathic tendencies in grown men who think nothing of frightening schoolchildren with Climate Doomsday talking points.  

https://www.science.smith.edu/climatelit/witch-trials/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2015/11/30/how-climate-change-triggered-literal-witch-hunts-through-the-ages/?sh=18c062473d7c

https://historycollection.com/how-climate-change-spurred-witch-hunts-in-medieval-europe-before-the-age-of-enlightenment/

The outdoor working-class people know that the obsessively endless End-of-the-World "climate doomsday" reports are a collective swindle --- mostly done for American taxpayer dollars.  In fact, there is a movie called, "The Great Global Warming Swindle."  It explains how Margaret Thatcher tried to use the co2 Scare to defeat the coal miner labor unions.  It also illustrates that a rise in atmospheric temperature usually precedes the rise in co2.  And quite frankly, the time intervals of co2 quantity change in the past millenia has been insignificantly petty -- small -- inconsequential -- nothing apocalyptic -- no big deal.

     See:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY-gRFSaP7o

It will help you understand the concept of weather disasters by understanding that such things are all a matter of ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE.  This involves the textbook-defined law of Pressure Gradient Forcing.  I already explained this in other posts.  Others have explained this quite well in their  internet posts.  Involved is "baroclinic instability/stability" and "barotropic instability/stability."  Understanding 'vorticity' and the Coriolis Effect is needed, as well.  Plus, "Eckman Transport" (an ocean motion phenomenon) is entirely based on the Coriolis Effect.

Understanding the three "vibrational modes" of co2 is also needed, especially in understanding that co2 is incapable of capturing infrared heat while its stretching motion is "symmetric."  It furthermore helps you to understand that cirrus clouds have significant infrared heat-retaining capacity.  So, what is King Charles going to do about it?  Ban clouds?  This has been explained in previous posts at this particular site and elsewhere on the internet by very competent people.  

There are some really good websites & video channels in this world, involving true climate science, history, language learning, math & geometry, athletics, physical conditioning, nature & herbal studies, forestry, chess, agriculture, carpentry, music, archeology, aerodynamics, satellite technology, and more.  The real threat to Planet Earth's survival are nuclear weapons.  The true environmental emergency today is the glut of synthetic chemicals in societies and anything that emits unfiltered out of a coal power plant.  

Filtration science does exist.  So, you don't have to panic as Al Gore, David Attenborough, and Michael Mann would love to see you do.  Actually, they merely want you to surrender and submit to them, as their puppets.  However, you only need to ignore them and live.  In fact, live and let live.  Where there is life there is always hope.

I could explain the science of Autumn leaf color change later.  It's elementary, Watson, and it includes the science of chlorophyll.  I can even use a Smithsonian Institute writing on Autumn leaf color change.  I'll categorize this post as a "to be continued one," unless I find it too petty to address.  

One point to make here:  As far as goes autumn leaf colors, it depends on the species of the tree in focus.  Leaf color change is NOT arbitrary.  It's not a Las Vegas dice toss.  Leaf color change is also dependent upon latitude, altitude, and moisture content.

1960 = World Population of 3 billion.  2023 = World Population of 8 billion

Being that there are many more people on Earth today, much higher crop yields are needed.  Thus, longer growing seasons are needed throughout Planet Earth.  PBS mentioned that autumn leaf color change has been coming later than in previous decades.  If true, then that is a relief.  That's encouraging.  

Planet Earth needs longer growing seasons and NOT another Hitler exterminating the inconvenient people and the much much hated Jews.  Yes, genocide is not the cure to any population problem.  Concerning this, would you have ever expected to see in the United States the return of Hitler's Jew Hating Brown Shirts?  America turned Nazi Germany into the craters of the moon.  Yet, under Biden came organized Jew Hating in the good ole US of A.  Why is this happening?  Is it because the Israeli politicians didn't pay Joe Biden enough bribery money?  And of course, I state this pursuant to NY Times v. Sullivan.

Glaciers not Conducive to Record Crop Production

Keep in mind that no crop ever grew on a glacier.  Even concerning the claim of glacier meltdowns, I previously illustrated that Glacier National Park goes through a long time span of snow plowing every year, meaning that it's not Miami weather up there yet.  

This and the entire American West is for another post, due to the writing space needed to address the climate fraud being done in the name of the American West.  For now, it suffices to state that it is a false light hyper-exaggeration to claim that alternating drought conditions amongst subsections of the same one landmass constitute a long-term drought of the entire landmass.  It only constitutes a temporary & separate drought condition for each individual subsection of that landmass.  

Very simply, the Climate Doomsayers hyper-exaggerate everything to the point of constituting deceit.  Perhaps you noticed that every weather event reported in the past two years was reported as a never-before-happening End-of-the-World event.  An example is the claim of Forth Lauderdale having a once-in-a-thousand year rainstorm.  There was a far worse rainstorm in Florida in 1950, and in a few other years, there were comparable Florida rainstorms.  There were several worse rainstorms in America in the past one hundred years than in Fort Lauderdal in 2023.  There most certainly was NOT a once-in-a-thousand year storm in Florida, in 2023 ... or anywhere else in America.  

Concerning glaciers, in early November 2023, I spoke in person with a northern Indian Himalayan native.  When I said, "And I guess that the glaciers in the Himalayas are melting," his response was, "Getting bigger."  He was personally there.

Michael Mann has repeatedly been proven to be a teller of false tales, along with David Attenborough.  This is especially the case concerning the claim that the climate of Planet Earth was mild for a thousand consecutive years, until the start of the Industrial Revolution.  Mann should have been dismissed from his employment posts.  However, it's apparent that Mann was given his posts, in order to solidify and reinforce the Climate Doomsayers' lies.  So, it blatantly seems as such . . . ALLEGEDLY ... "in my opinion."  (So stated as such, pursuant to NY Times v. Sullivan, 376 US 254, 1964.)

BTW, a private citizen in the US may give his opinion of a public figure without being censured, censored, deleted, sued, fired, expelled, etc.  My opinion of Michael Mann is that he is a heartless con artist; heartless for what he did to Tim Ball.  

Also BTW, the last time Dr Tim Ball wrote to me, he stated that he intended to go on a tour and tell audiences what torment Michael Mann made him endure.  Unfortunately, Tim became too ill to do so.  He died shortly thereafter.  

Mann sued Tim, because Tim said that "Michael Mann is teaching at Penn State, when he should be in the State Penn."  Well, Mann does deserve to be brought to justice.  The available means today is in the False Claims Act.  This is an act for whistleblowers which was enacted during the American Civil War of the 1860s.  Incidentally, the entire American Civil War was fought during a drought, when atmospheric co2 levels were quite low.

Smithsonian and Federal Funding

If I do post a Smithsonian Institute writing on Autumn foilage, the reason why is this:  Concerning the Smithsonian Institute articles, know that the Smithsonian is heavily funded by United States taxpayer dollars.  When you perform a function with a public effect that advances "a compelling government interest," while being funded by American taxpayers, you are "acting under the color of law" --- no pun intended with the mention of color.  The point is that it's not a copyright violation to copy something that came into being by means of your tax dollars.  There does exist the concept of Public Domain in American law.

Climate Con Artists

"Annoying" is the best way to describe the Climate Indoctrination People.  They pick at every little thing, in the hope of terrifying you into begging your senators to throw billions of dollars more toward the climate change campaigners --- toward the climate hysteria profiteers.  Meanwhile, the true environmental nightmare, namely the irresponsible glut of synthetic chemicals throughout society, goes ignored by the Climate Indoctrination People.

Below, all photos are either mine or were given to me by close friends in Australia and Massachusetts.  You can look at them, to see if there is any sign of a ruptured climate ... or a climate swindle.

For now, take a look at real encounters with the outdoors.  To base one's scientific stance on computer models, while never looking out the window, is the act of being at variance with reality . . . being disassociated with reality ... being not ratified by experience ... being unproven.  

And of course, the Climate Hysteria movement bases its horror stories on  [1] computer models and [2] the claim of irreversible "feedback mechanisms" that will increase something that will cause runaway Global Warming.  However, most feedbacks in nature result in negative effects . . . not the overproduction of an event such as a Category 6 hurricane.  For the record, Al Gore's prediction of the Category 6 hurricane being common never came true.  There is no such thing as a Category 6 hurricane, unless you want to recategorize the legendary hurricanes such as 1969's Hurricane Camille.  

Incidentally, you youths out there need to study Hurricane Camille.  It was epic.  It occurred when the atmospheric co2 count was 95 ppm LESS THAN what it is today.  In as much, 1969 = 325 ppm.  2023 = 420 ppm.  This translates into 1969 co2 being approx 77% of what it is in the atmosphere today.  This also translates into atmospheric co2 in 1969 being 22.6% LESS THAN what it is today.  

The point to make is that major weather catastrophes occurred century after century, when the co2 level was very very low.  To claim that the rise in co2 causes more natural disasters is a major lie.  The rise in co2 will cause you to have to pull out more weeds and to rake more leaves.  However, it will cause more hemlock and atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade) to grow.  So, you better ban all co2 and make Al Gore king.

Eastern Australia, October 2023 (Australian Springtime.)  As El Nino proceeds, grasses in Australia will be getting drier ... not because of co2 ... but because the Trade Winds are presently not travelling East to West.  Indonesia experiences dry weather during El Nino, too.

Massachusetts, October 2023.  What?  This isn't colorful enough for PBS?

They lied and lied and lied again and again to Greta.  That was a form of child abuse.

Ten years prior, in Western Pennsylvania.  Is this not colorful enough for PBS?

The following year, at Cuyahoga National Park, in Ohio.  Is this not autumny enough for PBS?

Western Massachusetts, in the Summer of 2023.  This doesn't look very much like the Enod of the World to me.  How about you?  After all, where's the weakened & faded green foilage?  Where's the parched & whithering foliage?  This is a place where you can appropriately sing the opening song of the Sound of Music in front of a film and/or video crew.

Near Chicago, the Summer of 2018.  Where's the faded foilage there?

Even butterflies remain colorful today, from my personal experience.

Back to Cuyahoga National Park.  This is the definition of going green, compliments of CO2.

So, is this not colorful enough for PBS?  

Back to Massachusetts in 2023.  That is a carpet of leaves that are red on one side and whitish on the other.  Or are they not red & white enough for PBS?

The Univ of Pittsburgh campus in the mid-2010s.  It looks a lot like the Autumns of the 1960s & 1970s.  All in all, PBS should conduct a class called "How to Transmit Bull Crap 101." 

BTW, Pittsburgh is where public broadcasting was founded.    This photo is located a few blocks from the world's first public broadcasting TV station.  Technically, it was regarded as the first community-sponsored educational television station in America, back in 1954.  PBS pioneer, Fred Rogers, lived in Pittsburgh and did his shows for WQED, Pittsburgh.  The idea of PBS reporting anything with straight-foward honesty, minus any propagandist's slant, is a nostalgic idea.

Late 19th & Early 20th Century heatwaves did exist and were documented

 

 If you have a fear of the Truth, then this is not the place for you.  If you want to continue to molest the psychological constitutions of schoolchildren, by telling them that the crop nutrient & forest elixir, CO2, is going to make the world come to an end within the next ten years, then you're in the wrongest spot. 

If you are a mindless follower who hates to think for yourself and who has zero creativity within you, then you're a fish out of water here.  Likewise, if you refuse to be objective and receptive, then you're nothing more than a rock off of which water endlessly bounces, never seeping inward.

In sequence, if you despise the original climate record  ---  defined as the one comprising many written news accounts of life-changing & life-ending weather events ---  then you're a balloon landing on a bed of nails.   

And of course, if you make lots of money getting people to believe that we are in a co2-induced climate crisis that only you can solve:

[1] when the fact is that weather disasters were far more tragic 80, 100, 120, and 150 years ago (when co2 was much lower),

[2] then you're the member of a slithering political faction who creates false crises, 

[3] for the sake of taxpayer money getting directed into your pockets.  

Such a thing is known as Theft by Deception, as well as Grand Larceny ... or Unjust Enrichment.

Below is a 1931 news article published by a newspaper publication that issued its first edition in 1851.  The article is an outline of well-chronicled weather events of the 1800s and early 1900s.  For followers of truth, it's required reading.  For followers of lies, it's required avoiding, with the added mission of hiding historic fact from the public.  Become enlightened:

The Poles and Greenland

Schoolchildren of America, you do not have to fear that which Albert Gore predicted 16 years ago and which 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!   

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.  The drought was pronounced east of Austria, however.

In addition, there was a 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, etc.  

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, and 600 years before the invention of the diesel engine, the lawn mower engine, the rocket engine, etc.

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.

Plus, you do NOT need to fear the doom-ridden 1988 predictions of the former director of NASA's NYC branch, Jim Hansen, in his 35 year old predictions which never came true, at all.  After all, the Maldives did NOT go underwater, lower Manhattan did not go underwater, and the Arctic's closest event to an ice-free August was in 2012, when 1.32 MILLION square miles of ice remained on top of the Arctic Ocean during the hottest time of the year.  

Covering the perimeter of that distance of ice was equivalent to flying 1,148 east to west and then 1,148 miles north to south.  That's close to flying from Boston to Milwaukee, and then from Milwaukee to Houston, followed by flying from Houston to Miami, and then going from Miami back up to Boston again.  That sheet of Arctic ice was 6 times LARGER than the size of France, and it was the lowest amount of Summertime Arctic ice in modern history.  Yet, it was a lot of remaining ice.

BTW, if the Arctic Ocean ever becomes ice-free, there will be no rise in sea level.  It will be the same effect as the ice cubes in your glass of cola melting on a Summer day.  Cola does NOT flow over the top of your glass, after the ice in it melts.  

Actually, there will be a slight decrease in sea level, if the Arctic Ocean entirely melts.  This is the same phenomenon as was seen by those of us who worked on ranches, in rain-water-supplied complexes, and on farms.  When it snows, the troughs' water & snow levels increase in height.  Then, when the snow melts, the water level of the troughs and containers drops significantly.  There will be no flooding from the Arctic Ocean part of the Arctic Region, if the Arctic Ocean entirely becomes ice-free.  

In 1907, morning heat was much like that of the Summer of 2023.  Yet, the co2 count was very low in 1907.  None the less, in the Arctic Circl, at 8 am, it was 70 degrees FAHRENHEIT.  This is one of numerous proofs that the co2 count does NOT effect outdoor, atmospheric temps on such a grand scale.  It also shows that co2 does NOT drive the climate.  NASA has long since said that "the SUN drives the climate."

BTW, the Arctic is the second largest desert range on Earth, meaning very little rain and/or snow.  Atacoma in Chile is the second driest desert on Earth, with the McMurdo Valley of Antarctica being the driest.    Greenland is a part of the second largest desert on Earth.  Plus, it has 35 mountain tops higher than 5,000 feet, and two higher than 10,000.  That  amounts to 10C & 20C colder than ground level.Plus, the are coastlines there that have no ice sheet.  This translates into no ice melting and instantly draining into the Arctic Ocean.

Plus, there is a large canyon with v-shaped walls in the center of Greenland.  This means its walls were shaped by water and not ice.  This additionally means that Greenland was once ice-free.  

Now, global warming and global cooling are uniform throughout the circumference of the Earth, especially in the middle of the Troposphere.  The difference in temperature occurs at the elevation phase, from sea level to the Tropopause, with temps decreasing with elevation.  

CO2 levels are uniform throughout the atmosphere.  In as much, if Greenland is warming faster that it has in the past 1,000 years, 2,000 years, 11,000 years, or even 130,000 years, then every place on Earth would be experiencing the exact same rate of temperature increase, concerning elevation above sea level.  It's obvious that this is not happening, especially with intervals of record cold that occasionally appear.  And as far as goes heat waves, this site repeatedly showed those era.  

In quick review, heat wave years ... while co2 levels were still quite low ... included 1871, 1878, 1895 & 96, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1910 & 11, 1913, 1921 & 22, 1934, 1936, and 1958.  The csme the decline that Michael Mann hid from his ridiculously fraudulent hockey stick graph, by means of a "math trick."  This was mentioned in the 2009 Climategate Emails.

The temperature decline did occur from 1940 to 1979.  After all, a few of the most historic WWII battles occurred in torturously cold weather.  I can testify from personal experience that the 1960s were brutally cold during winter, also.  The middle 1970s to 1979 were just plain cold ... cooler than desired ... throughout the time span.  Sometimes it was all too cold.  I was there.  I felt it.  You activist youth ... You Generation Y, Millenials ... who act like you know everything, when you hardly know anything, were NOT there to know what it felt like.  Case Closed.  

BTW, you Gen Y's do come off as idiots.  But, it's not  because you don't have the correct facts.  It's because you refuse to search for the answer and to first weigh the facts.  You arrogantly act as if you know everything and that debate is forbidden.  

However, it's the great minds who question.  It's the great minds who allow questions, along with Point & Counterpoint debates.  You and your generation were taught to be censoring Nazi Gestapo agents & propaganda peddlars.  You were taught to be Pompous Little Twits, with very little minds ... and even littler tolerance.  

There is nothing liberal about you.  You are self-seeking misers, dedicated to instant gratification ... and dominance over others.  The concept of teamwork doesn't exist with you, until it comes time to do physical violence to others ... or to statues ... or to churches, etc.

SURFACE MASS BALANCE

That which matters is surface mass balance.  There were recent occasions of notable increase.  But, the trend over the years was a decrease of surface mass balance.  HOWEVER, the notable thing about this is that, while the Arctic was losing ice mass, Antarctica was gaining it.  This is called "an inverse relationship."  What mechanism was causing this?  

None the less, if the Arctic Ocean were to completely melt instantly, the result would be a "0" inch rise in sea level.  I've already addressed Greenland, in several climate discourses.  There's a search box to the righthand corner of this website.

Antarctica was gaining while the Arctic was losing . . . ice.  Yet, Antarctica is arrayed with volcanoes which are very effective ice-melting-machines.  The bottom line is that reducing all consideration of climate & weather to live-giving-co2 ... while accusing the photosynthesis activator the angel of death ... is the act of being an easily deceived & asinine buffoon.  I thought that you were better than that, dear average American.

Review of Springtime 2023: The American West's Water Levels

New Mexico, during one of my long distance road trips.

Note:  The current Spring 2023 lake level tables for California, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, & Texas appear at very end of this post.  If you are short on time ... or if you have trouble reading (which is understandable) ... then skip down to the tables, aka charts, so that you can sigh with some measure of relief.

Hello there, boys & gargoyles.  Welcome to Pat the Wonder Rat's School for Figuring Stuff Real Good ... or Really Well ... as in "Let's make this real."  Let's find out the truth, once and for all, about the topic at hand:  

It's another one of those Chicken Little topics.  This topic involves the claim that the American West is presently undergoing its worse drought in the past 1,200 years.  In fact, it's attached to the claim that, in 2022, a five mile stretch of the Rio Grande River dried-up.  

At the outset, this allegation is contradicted by the fact that NASA had already declared the Year 1934 as having been the worst drought year in the past 1,000 years.  And that Rio Grande River report was easily proven to have been a complete lie, and evidence showing the Big Rio Lie is here, at this site.

https://www.bluemarblealbum.com/2023/06/the-great-rio-grande-%20river-lie.html

Preview:  It's very elementary, Watson.  If there were a 20 year drought in the American West, the entire West would have become an array of ghost towns by now, with little more than tumbleweeds remaining.  Liars have a way of failing to match observed reality while telling their lies.  After all, during the time span when the former Wild Wild West was supposed to be having its worst drought in the past 1,200 years,  [1] Texas' population grew 20.68% and  [2] Nevada's population grew by 19.45%.   Meanwhile, [3] Utah lead the nation in population growth, to the tune of 23.88%.  This pertains to the US Census Years of 2009 to 2019.  

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/fastest-growing-states

A  memento of my time out West ... in the former Wild Wild West.

Funny how the End of the World keeps getting postponed, decade after decade

It was the Year 2006 when Al Gore made his bold hurricane prediction, along with his sea level rise prediction.  (A) Since then, a grand total of one and only one Category 5 hurricane made landfall upon the continental United States.  It was Hurricane Michael, in 2018; twelve years after Gore made his Category 6 hurricane prediction.   (B) Since 2006, eight Category 5 hurricanes developed in the Atlantic Basin, and that's an average of one Cat 5 hurricane every two years.  (C) As far as goes Category 5 hurricanes making landfall upon the continental United States in the past 100 years, the number is ONLY FOUR --- (i) The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, (ii) Hurricane Camille in 1969, (iii) Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and (iv) Hurricane Michael in 2018.  

(D) As far as goes all Category 5 hurricanes that developed in the Atlantic Basin in the past 100 years, the number is 39.  This amounts to one Cat 5 hurricane every two-and-a-half years.  

These are NOT end-of-the-world numbers, especially when making comparisons to the past seven centuries.  Florida's history of approximately or exactly 180 cyclones since 1523 will be the example for you to gloss-over, skim-through, or even peruse like Sherlock Holmes, if you desire.

                  See: https://detailedpedia.com/wiki-List_of_Florida_hurricanes_(pre-1900)

          Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_hurricanes_(pre-1900)

These are the tracks of each Florida Cyclone, from 1851 to 1899 ... and only from 185 to 1899.  In that time span, atmospheric co2 was 285 ppm to 295 ppm.  That amounts to 125 ppm to 135 ppm of co2 LOWER than today's atmospheric amount.  According to Al Gore & Michael Mann, those cyclones and cyclones dating back to 1523 should not have occurred so frequently.   

And for the record, the most recent stat on sea level rise is that it rose 9.96 inches, from the Year 1890 to the Year 2021.  That amounts to one inch every 13 years.   

From 1970 to 2021, sea level rose 8.8 mm -- 3.46 inches.  However, a non-government entity who will remain nameless out of politeness claims that the sea level rise was much higher.  The claim was that sea level rose 3.6 inches since 1993, instead of 3.5 inches since 1970.  

During the "Biden Years," it is now being claimed that, all of a sudden, sea level rise will occur at a rate of one inch every 6 1/2 years.  Being that this is not intended to be a political post, nothing more will be stated here.   However, the following may enlighten you.  It deals with the fact that Joe Biden had TWO brain surgeries due to aneurysms, in 1988.  No further comment on this will be made.

See: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-14-mn-42679-story.html

Also: https://apnews.com/article/e35733e8b2c96e0f46608c4773700292

None the less . . .

This brings us to a question:  Whom are we to believe about conflicting sea level reports and predictions?  ANS:  The ones who have been living on the coastlines for the past 20 and 30 years.  They'll tell you if there is an encroaching sea level rise that will wreck civilization or not.

(E) And of course, the continental United States went 12 consecutive years without being visited by any major hurricane.  This occurred between Hurricane Wilma and Hurricane Harvey.  The years spanned from 2005 to 2017.  The irony is that the longest absence of major hurricanes in the history of  America began the very year Al Gore predicted that an onslaught of Category 6 hurricanes would smash into American regions such as  . . . all of Florida.   

BTW, in 2022, Hurricane Ian arrived as a Cat 4 hurricane ... and not as a Cat 5.  

(F) In sequence, neither the Maldives nor Lower Manhattan went underwater, as was predicted to US senators in June of 1988.  All in all, the disasters predicted by Al Gore .. and Jim Hansen ... did NOT materialize.  Gore basically got the Nobel Prize for being a False Prophet, all the while making himself outrageously rich.

As a quick observation, if these predicted  calamities are finally going to come true now, then the hundreds of billions of US taxpayer dollars paid to scientists (to prevent climate disaster) was a complete waste of money, hundreds of billions of times over.  All of the UN climate conferences have been a waste of time and money, also.  This is because co2 rose from 360 ppm (in 1995) to 421 ppm (in early 2023).  

A 61 ppm rise in a full 22 years proves the climate conferences to be worthless as to their stated goals.  And the fact that there were far more turbulent weather events decades prior and centuries prior proves blatantly false the Al Gore Theory of Climate & Surface Temperatures.  A rise in CO2 does not accompany more turbulent and more frequent weather disasters, especially during the 12 years between Hurricane Wilma and Hurricane Harvey.

During the days when this type of ship ruled the seas, there were many weather disasters.  This meant that the winds & pressure systems on the high seas ruled the ships, instead.

Nothing New Today & Nothing More Severe than in Former Centuries

The great falsehood of the climate doomsayers is the claim that severe weather events only began with the invention of the internal combustion engine.  For example, both David Attenborough & Michael Mann claimed that the climate and all weather conditions were stable and calm for one thousand years prior to the 20th Century.  Disgraced NY Governor Cuomo said similar.  The truth is that weather events were more turbulent in centuries past, due to one scientific mechanism which appears in textbooks under the title, Pressure Gradient Force.

And of course, Sigourney Weaver became Hillary Clinton's surrogate liar in 2016, by claiming on national TV that, "This we have never seen before" ... concerning severe weather.  No Sigourney.  You were wrong.  It has ALL been done before.  

The truth is that history is filled with multiple weather disasters, even when the atmospheric co2 count was only 65% (two-thirds)  of what it is today (in 1610)   And for the record, the co2 count during caveman days was 61% of what it is today. 

There has not been any adverse climate trend or severe weather event today that was any worse than any weather event or climate trend of the 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s.  Throughout those centuries, there were horrendous weather disasters & life-changing weather trends which were far more turbulent than the vast majority of today's events.  In fact, there were life-destroying trends back then.  This included the December 1287 flood which killed 50,000 to 80,000 people and altered the coast of the Netherlands.  

The weather of the past 700 years included heat waves, droughts, crop failures, severe winds, cold snaps, blizzards, ice stacking, glacier growth, glacier melt, severe floods, epic Rocky Mountain forest fires, and sea storms that annihilated a couple military fleets, as well as numerous individual ships separated from their fleets ... along with ships that launched & traveled alone.  

Even if you go back a thousand years, you will find disasters such as the Great Coastal Flood of 1099 which killed approximately 100,000 Europeans in the British Isles & in the Netherlands.  The weather disasters included the 1315-1322 Great Famine of Central Europe which killed over 7 million people.  

The weather disasters of the past 700 years also included the 11 month-long Tudor Drought of 1540, along with the Great Storm of 1674 near St Augustine Florida, the oldest established city in the United States.  Then came the July 1743 China Heat Wave that reached 112F and killed approximately 11,400 people.  The disasters also included the ultra-devastating Yellow River Flood of 1887 which killed 930,000 people.  All in all, the weather events that today's climate doomsayers amplify are chump change in comparison to what came before us, throughout past centuries, with exceptions such as 1969's Hurricane Camille.

The pre-modern weather disasters included the Newfoundland Grand Banks Hurricane of 1775 which took 4,000+ lives.  Also in line was the 1776 Pointe-a-Pitre Hurricane which sunk 60% of the French and Dutch ships caught in its winds, as well as killing 22,000 people.  Six thousand of those fatalities were on Guadeloupe when the hurricane arrived.  

The Great Hurricane of 1780 followed suit, taking also 22,000 lives in the Caribbean.   In the Pacific was the JULY TYPHOON OF 1780 which was estimated to have killed 100,000, in the Philippines.  Typhoons would also hit the Philippines in 1782, 1783, 1792, 1793, 1795, 1797, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1809, 1810, 1812, 1819, 1820, 1824, and 1825.  Also in 1780 came New England's Dark Day, recorded by George Washington and others as having been on May 19.  

 There was the Miramichi Fires of October 1825, in New Brunswick, incinerating 2.5 to 5 million acres of forest, while killing approximately 200 to 300 humans.  This was when the co2 count was 284 ppm and during a month when things were supposed to be cool and moist.  If this happened today, the Bill-Gates-funded media would have blared it through trumpets, claiming it to be the sign of the End of the World.  Well, the world didn't end in 1825.

Later came the two most encompassing fires of them all, namely the Peshtigo Fire of 1871 (in Wisconsin) and the Great Michigan Fire, also in 1871.  The two fires charred 4 MILLION acres of Midwestern America.  Then came the Year 1881 which brought a true Yellow Day fire in Michigan, and it was followed by the Big Burn of 1910, effecting Idaho and Western Montana. 

Pre-modern weather events included the 1886 Great Fire of Calgary, in ALBERTA CANADA ... and the 1886 Great Vancouver Fire, also in CANADA ... along with the relatively nearby Great Fire of Spokane and the Great Fire of Seattle, as well as the Great Ellensburg Fire (also in Washington State), all occurring in 1889.  This was followed by the Great Fire of 1919, also in ALBERTA CANADA, as well as in Saskatchewan.  That fire incinerated 5 million acres of forestland.

Moreover, this all occurred when the co2 level was 295 to 303 ppm; 117 to 125 ppm LOWER than today.  Therefore, there is nothing new or apocalyptic about the 2023 Alberta Fires, other than it served as a reminder that neglected, "downed," and lifeless timber dries out, thereby becoming effective kindling.  Those were all tragic fires, throughout the centuries.  Today's fires are not more superior than fires of centuries past.  In fact, when comparing the aforecited fires to the historic Great Chicago Fire, the Great Chicago Fire doesn't even compare slightly.

Ice Jam Floods of the Renaissance & Elizabethan Era

And of course, there was the matter of "ice jam floods," during the Little Ice Age.  These consisted in wedges & blocks of ice lodged in waterways, causing water to backup.  These consisted in natural dams made out of ice ... and NOT caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

Incidentally, the Little Ice Age began with the arrival of the Wolf Minimum in 1284, and it ended with the arrival of the warm rain which incubated the very mobile water mold, Phytophthora infestans, in 1845.  The Year 1845 was the start of the Great Potato Famine  ... in Belgium & the Netherlands.  The water mold quickly spread to elsewhere, including Ireland.   None the less, in 1284, the atmospheric co2 count was 282, and in 1845, the co2 count was 284.  Yet, tremendously damaging natural disasters occurred during that time and long before it.  

The weather disasters during the Little Ice Age were many, and a few of them even included birds falling out of the sky, during sudden weather changes.  The raining of birds is not at all suspiciously non-believable, being that, in the 20th and 21st Centuries, it has rained small silvery fish, small frogs, and crayfish.  As a specific example, in 1873, it rained frogs in Kansas City.

In scouring through the chronicles, almanacs, captains' logs, and newspapers, you can add to the weather equation the wind-swept decimation of Kublai Khan's first invasion fleet of 1274 and the massive splintering of his second invasion fleet, in 1281.  Also add the Spanish Armada disaster of 1588.  This all happened when co2 levels were 120 to 160 ppm LOWER than today.  PPM stands for parts per million, incidentally.

As you can see, mankind survived very turbulent centuries, as well as having survived the horrendous 6th Century, with the Year 536 being the most traumatic of them all.  All in all, the most devastating of weather disasters did NOT come about by the burning of fossil fuels, especially when such burning was accompanied by modern filtration systems and catalytic converters.  The most disastrous climate disasters were the result of ===> volcanic activity which resulted in disastrous cooling trends.  

The disastrous result was due to sulfur dioxide blasting out of a volcano, into the atmosphere, causing sunlight to be reflected back into outer-space.  This is known as "albedo."  This is also known as the "aerosol effect."  And of course, no crop grows on glaciers or on frost or during frozen temperature intervals.  

What actually does cause deadly "turbulent weather?"

The reason why a mini ice age will result in more turbulent weather than a warming period is because of Pressure Gradient Force.  Very simply, the closer the temperature that exists between the Poles and the Equator, the more stable the atmosphere.  The greater the temperature difference between the Equator and the Poles, the more turbulent will be the atmosphere.  

During global warming phases, the temperatures between the Poles and the Equator become closer to each other.  After all, it's during Wintertime when the Polar Jet Stream meanders; not during Summertime.  In fact, in order for any tornado to form, a cold front literally has to "drop in."  Tornadoes are the opposite of global warming events.

All in all, remember the introductory law of Pressure Gradient Force, and even look-up "baroclinic instability," as well as "barotropic instability."  Add Eckman Transport to the reading list.  Eckman Transport addresses the oceans' angular staircase motion throughout layers of ocean water.  You need to learn these specific elements of atmospheric science & oceanography, in order to avoid being the useful idiot of Al Gore, Michael Mann, David Attenborough, the Third World Reps of the UN, and other individuals who have set their income goals upon American taxpayer grants and donation money from people who know nothing about atmospheric science. 

Australia Today.  Okay then, show me the Michael Mann Climate Crisis here.  Looks like he has been lying all along, and living without a conscience.

In direct contrast to the various End of the World Reports that never resulted in the End of the World, the following has recently occurred:

[1a] the Great Barrier Reef of Australia recently enjoyed replenishment.  [1b] Australia received its inland rains & ski lodge snow, as well.   [2]  The dams of the American West predominately enjoyed all of the ingredients that successfully replenish water levels there. 

[3a] Antarctica had its coldest recorded Winter in 2021, [3b] as well as having had its largest sea ice extent in 2015.  

[3c] In fact, it was found that, between 2009 and 2019, sixteen of the 34 ice shelves of Antarctica were growing enough to produce a net ice mass balance gain of positive 661 Gigatons.  It was found that East Antarctica's ice shelves let Antarctica grow another 5,305 square kilometers in ice, despite the 18 ice shelves in the West of Antarctica and on its peninsula which were retreating.  This translates into aggregate ice shelf growth of 2,048 square miles.   Basically, the climate doomsayers were lying to the world about Antarctica, hiding the fact that it was gaining ice mass, all along.

See: (European Geosciences Union, Volume 17 / issue 5 / TC, 17, 2059-2072, 2023 / May 16, 2023.) 

[Andreasen, J. R., Hogg, A. E., and Selley, H. L.: Change in Antarctic ice shelf area from 2009 to 2019, The Cryosphere, 17, 2059–2072, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2059-2023, 2023.]

Important   ====>   https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/2059/2023/?mc_cid=7a3485fd02

BTW, Antarctica's peninsula is outside of the Antarctic Circle.  In fact, it's closer to Argentina than it is to the South Pole.  This is understandable when you take into account the reality that Antarctica is 5.5 MILLION square miles wide.  It's the exact same size as the Arctic Ocean, on the other side of Planet Earth.  This brings the rationally minded person to a question:  Why is the South Pole all ice-covered terrain, while the North Pole is all ice-covered water the exact same size as Antarctica?

[4] Concerning the other side of Planet Earth, even in Western Greenland, the Jacobshavn Glacier was found to be regrowing, in 2017, 2018, and 2019, at last count.  [5] Also up north is England whose landmass experienced record low temperatures in 2023, despite the July 2022 claim that England was now going to be experiencing only dry record heat and fires all over the place.  

[6] Meanwhile, a multiplicity of nations enjoyed record crop yields recently.   [7] And you now have a new weather occurrence, as of 2023, and it is completely opposite of that which was predicted by Michael Mann, Jim Hansen, Al Gore, John Kerry, Bill Gates, David Attenborough, and a number of others who recently came into lots of American taxpayer dollars, ever so coincidentally =====>

421% of the normal for May.  319% & 327%, as well, thereby summing the equation up to a plentiful water supply ... and NOT a 20 year-long drought.  This summarily invalidates all of the climate doomsayer assertions, especially those from the ever so arrogant mouth of the present governor of California who blamed co2 on his absence of foresight.

Okay now.  We've been told that the American West has been enduring its worst drought in 1,200 years.  Well, the truth is that the worst drought there transpired between 1276 and 1299 C.E.  (Common Era.)  In fact, between 1903 to 1918 (when atmospheric co2 was very low) Arica Chile did NOT receive a drop of rain.  And NASA officially stated that the worse drought year in the past one thousand years was 1934.  This and other related topics were already addressed at the Blue Marble Album.

We have also been told that there is a Western American drought that has been ongoing for 20+ consecutive years, despite the Monsoon seasons that regularly visited the American West and which actually came from the Gulf of Mexico ... and NOT from the Pacific Ocean, during any La Nina weather system.  

In as much, wherever there are monsoons, there are NO droughts.  And what is a monsoon?  It's a sea breeze on a continental scale ... on a massive scale.  Even England has a Monsoon season.  It's called, the Return of the Westerlies. This explains the British male stereotype.  It was that of a man wearing a black derby hat, while carrying an umbrella with him everywhere he goes in England.

In re: The present dishonesty of the climate doomsayers, despite 35 years of failed doomsday predictions by which they should have admitted being in error long ago: 

Let's continue with the issue of the climate "experts" stating that the American West is trapped in a long-term drought.  Directly below is another official State of California conveyance, as of May 2023.  Ladies & Gentlemen ... Boys & Gargoyles ... this is the OPPOSITE of a long-term drought or a long-term "climate crisis."  This is the state of the State of California less than one calendar year after it was proclaimed that Planet Earth was in a catastrophic heat, drought, and city fire mode, as well as a forest fire mode.

You need to understand that politicians seek to deceive, while activists seek to intimidate.  Below is an official government illustration, aka chart, aka supplement to an official government report that certain politicians and activists do not want you to view.  The map up top focuses on specific locales.  This one covers all of California.

This is one of the many pieces of evidence ... spanning a 35 year period ... which shows that Michael Mann & Al Gore, as well as Jim Hansen, are NON-factual in their doomsday prophecies.

 

Despite the contrary reality, the hyper-theatrics of the climate doom scientists were megaphoned by the commercial media, Democracy Today, the U.N., and the state-funded National Public Radio.  Such propaganda would rationalize the $370 BILLION U.S. taxpayer outlay for the climate doomsayers.  There was also an outlay of $424 BILLION, during the final two years of the Obama administration.  So, I'll go look at the pertinent official statistics ... yet again ... and assess this doomsday drought assertion of the Michael Mann Hockey Sticklers, the John Kerry Frequent Fliers, & the Al Gore Carbon Taxers.  

If those doomsday assertions are correct, then the water levels of all the dams and tributary lakes (also reservoirs) in the American West will be near their "dead pool" levels.  And if this is the case, we have to immediately move tens of millions of people out of California, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas, as well as the Red Desert of Wyoming.  

For those unaware, "dead pool" is the water level at which a reservoir or basin or tributary lake can no longer flow downstream.  It's technically known as Minimum Power Pool Elevation.  In addition, when it comes to a water level enabling turbine power generating, "INACTIVE POOL," becomes a serious concern.  Inactive Pool is the minimum water level elevation for generating electrical power.

As an added educational note: When you see the phrase, "tributary lake" or "tributary river," think of a moving body of water "contributing its water" to another river or lake.

I shall return in a few hours, after checking out Western lake & dam water levels.   Tic/tic ... tic/tic ... tic/tic/tic.  Tic again. Tic some more.  Ticarooski. 

Okay, I'm all back and everything from doing all of that fact checking stuff, to see if there really is a drought in the American West by which the World needs to be saved by that muscular model of manliness, Michael hockey-sticks Mann, and that electricity-sparing wise budgeteer, Al carbon-credit Gore.  The conclusion is  ====>

Someone needs to grow up.  Or someone else needs to file a number of False Claims Act lawsuits, where "treble damages" are exacted upon the fraudulent receiver of federal dollars.  Treble damages mean "three times the liability price tag, exacted upon the wrong-doer."  A wrong-doer is known as a tort-feasor, in American law.   

All in all, you do NOT need to fear the doom-ridden 1988 predictions of the former director of NASA's NYC branch, Jim Hansen, in his 35 year old predictions which never came true.  After all, the Maldives did NOT go underwater, lower Manhattan did not go underwater, and the Arctic's closest event to an ice-free August was in 2012, when 1.32 MILLION square miles of ice remained on top of the Arctic Ocean during the hottest time of the year.  That is the size of India plus another 0.8 million square miles.  (India is 1.24 million sq mi.)

Covering the perimeter of that distance of ice was equivalent to flying 1,148 miles east to west and then 1,148 miles north to south.  That's close to flying from Boston to Milwaukee, and then from Milwaukee to Houston, followed by flying from Houston to Miami, and then from Miami back up to Boston again.  That sheet of Arctic ice was 6 times LARGER than the size of France, and it was the lowest amount of Summertime Arctic ice in modern history.  Yet, it was a lot of remaining ice.

Moreover, the UN recently lied when stating that worldwide fatalities due to weather disasters are on the rise.  The opposite is true.  Observe:

Looks like a Choir of Liars were singing to Greta T., deceiving her into believing opposite of the facts.

In the sample graph below ... of 2019 ... take note that the least frequent cause of death were "natural disasters."  IF and ONLY IF the climate doomsayer claims were true, the number of deaths caused by natural disasters would have had skyrocketed decades prior.  However, that type of cause of death is still at the bottom of the statistical list.  

This is yet another piece of evidence proving that the hysterics presented by Al Gore, Michael Mann, the third-world-country reps at the UN, Jim Hansen, Bill Nye, and several others are outright fraudulent.  Deaths by cause of Natural Disasters have ridiculously low numbers compared to all of the other causes of death.  Heart disease is the #1 cause, as in 18,560,000 vs 6,076 natural disaster deaths.  Look for yourself.  In like fashion, cancer surpassed "natural disasters" to the tune of 10,080,000 to 6,076.

 

It was very falsely reported that 5 million people die each year die from heat.  The reality is not even close, no matter which data set you use.  Example: In the chart above, the statistical claim is that 48,000 people died from heat and cold exposure, in the Year 2019 ... not 5 million.  According to USA TODAY, two million people died from "extreme temperatures" since 1970.  This averages-out to 40,000 deaths a year in a 50+ year period, where heat deaths and cold deaths were counted together.  However ...

There was another statistical presentation which claimed that, in 2019 alone, there were 356,000 heat-related deaths.  However, the same paper stated a statistic which lessened the impact of the 356,000 heat-related deaths.  There was the statistical allegation that 1,300,000 deaths of the same year were due to freezing.  This is not believable.  The allegation that 356,000 people died from heat, in 2019, is also not believable.  So, which data set are we to believe?

The Reason why "Global Warming" was changed to "Climate Change"

An undeniable scientific fact ... as undeniable as Medieval Viking artifacts being found in formerly warm Southern Greenland ... is that there was NO GLOBAL WARMING FROM 1999 TO 2016.  Thus, in order to retain the psychological terrorism on the under-educated human population of teenagers and pre-teen schoolchildren, the climate activists needed to delete the phrase, "global warming," and replace with something that sounded frightening.  As is proven in the very revealing Climategate Emails, the replacement phrase of "climate change" was conjured.  

This is a foolishly selected phrase, because climate can also change for the better.  That phrase was actually replaced by "Extreme Weather Events."  And, when one scours through the history sources such as chronicles, nothing is more extreme today than in centuries past, when it comes to weather events.

The important point in mentioning the aforementioned paragraph is that you can instantly detect a fraudulent academic paper, IF and ONLY IF the claim is that there was "global warming" for the first 15 years of the 21st Century.  For example, one very worthless paper claimed that mankind endured global warming from the Year 2000 to the Year 2018, and it resulted in 5 million heat-related deaths per year.

Once again, science officially identified the Years 1999 to 2016 to be years of NO GLOBAL WARMING.  And more importantly, there is nowhere in worldwide statistics & in the record-keeping world that a number exists even close to five million people dying of heat per year.  The highest statistical number was 356,000, and the lowest statistical number was 40,000.

You need to understand that climate doomsayers outright lie about the facts.  And of course, the number 1 piece of evidence proving these doomsayers to be liars are the newspaper editions of the 1870s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s, when it comes to heat ... and the editions of the 1940s, 1960s, and 1970s concerning the temperature decline which was correctly reported in the Briffa temperature graph, but which was fraudulently omitted from Michael Mann's blatantly fraudulent hockey stick graph.  Then comes almanacs, chronicles, captains' logs, and even monastery receipts.  Those receipts proved that grapes were being successful grown in Northern England and Denmark, during the Medieval centuries.

Briffa Included the Temperature Decline of the 1960s and 1970s

Mention of the Briffa graph was already addressed at the Blue Marble Album, and there is a search box at the top right-hand corner of the Blue Marble website.

The doomsayers' claim of a Western US drought worse than anything in the past 1,200 years

The West has been known to get yearly Monsoons as recently as last year (2022).  If there presently is the worst drought in 1,200 years, then Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, California, and Utah would have become ghost town states, by now.  Texas would be the land of the great climate exodus, with Texas "climate refugees" endlessly rolling into Louisiana.  Yet, the population of Texas has grown, along with those of Nevada and Utah.

Such a drought would have been front page news, with graphic photography that can fill a museum.  We've had no such iconic American drought photos since 1936, except for some California fire photos & videos which reminded us that neglected fallen-trees become dried kindling that does a much better job than do blue-tip matches, when it comes to starting and perpetuating a massive fire.

The government employees, grantees, and contractors who make these "alarming climate calamity" predictions get LOTS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS, if and only if they claim that things are terrible and that the world's going to end soon without the American taxpayer shelling-out billions more (to the exact same scientists who failed to decrease co2 in the past 22 years), to save the planet.

Conversely, those same people get no taxpayer money at all, if they say that the climate is under control ... and that there is no climate crisis today any worse than there was in the 1500s or in the 1700s or in the 1900s.  So, they cry out the most profitable phrase of them all, namely "Climate Wolf!"  

In the alternate, they cry-out, "The sky is falling, from all that co2 up there" --- all one-half of one percent of it in the Troposphere (0.042%)... and much less than 0.042% in the Stratosphere.  As a result, an entire generation of useful idiots joined the political movement of the enriched doomsayer scientists and the heavily enriched non-scientist activists.  

That generation will be expected to pay-off the overwhelming American national debt of $32,000,000,000,000 ... thanks to the 108th U.S. Congress all the way to the 117th U.S. Congress, and all of the long-term politicians who inhabited the U.S. Congress from 2003 to 2022.  The youth of today will have to pay the bill for all of the unjust enrichment that scientists and activists enjoyed, under the claim that we are in a climate crisis.

Australia & America:  A climate world apart, due to the Coriolis Effect

Concerning Michael Mann's audacity in stating that both the American West and Australia are going to very soon create mass sums of climate refugees, let's review:   Firstly, he and Hansen and even Gore stated similar things years prior, and this has not happened.

Secondly, due to the existence of  ENSO (already mentioned multiple times at the Blue Marble Album and elsewhere), the weather of Australia and Western America has "an inverse relationship."  So too is this the case with Indonesia and America.  That is to say, the opposite happens in Australia to that which happens in the American West.  Indonesia, too.  Those two general geographic territories are not on the same page.  After all, look at a globe or a world map.  The only way in which these two different and very distant parts of Planet Earth can have the same weather is if and only if Planet Earth suddenly becomes flat.

The reality is that, from 1895 to the Year 2010, an average of 14% of America endured a D2 drought (severe) and/or a D3 drought (extreme), constantly.  Of course, co2 levels were quite low from the 1890s to the 1920s to the wartime 40s and even during the Vietnam-era 1960s.  In fact, even in 1965, when the Beatles made world  history, the co2 count was 100 parts-per-million LOWER than it is today.  Even when the co2 count was below 300 ppm, the American West hosted long-term droughts, in the plural, long before the arrival of the European explorers. 

This indicates that somewhere in the continent of America there are always drought conditions.  This includes today.  As for the Spring of 2023, where would the drought be, if not in the former Wild Wild West?  ANS:  For mid to late May 2023, try Kansas and Oklahoma, as well as the Tampa Bay area, ironically enough.  Florida was supposed to have gotten a thousand year storm in April.  Yet, the West Coast of that State is in need of rainfall in May ... of the same year.  True thousand year storms aren't so narrow in scope.

USA, May 2023.  Look at the "Bread Basket of America" and remember the 14% observation.

Okay then, back to the claim that the American West has been under a dreadful drought for decades.  Well, if this is the case, then the water levels of all the dams and/or tributary lakes and/or reservoirs in the West will be drained down to their dead pool levels.  The reality is that no such thing is even closely occurring out West, despite the increase in a water-consuming population there, dating back to the opening of Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam.  Look for yourself.  BTW, there is an article (discourse or post or writing) on Lake Mead at the Blue Marble Album.  This is why it isn't mentioned in this post.  And of course, the Blue Marble Album still has a search box at its top right-hand side.

State by State Analysis

Firstly, New Mexico was mentioned by name as being a sovereign state severely afflicted by drought. Well, its four major dams are almost topped-off.  Where's the drought there?

Note:  The Navajo Dam is on the San Juan RIVER.  That river is a tributary river to the famous Colorado River.  Plus, the Ute Dam is on the Canadian River, in Logan, N.M. That river is a major tributary river to the Arkansas River.  The Ute Dam was constructed in 1963.

 

Let's see the sovereign state of California which is said to be in the death-throes of drought. It looks like you have a greater chance of drowning in California than dying of dehydration there.

 

Utah was also reported as being severely water-deprived more than usual.  False report.

Arizona was said to be in really really desperate conditions:

And next, Oregon. Drought?  What drought?

Texas was said to be one big dried-out desert.  Well, if there were no water there, there wouldn't be people there, either.  It appears that there's a lot of water in dry dry Texas.  Let's see for ourselves:

Colorado was mentioned too, in all of the doomsday reporting.  Let's see how doomsdayish Colorado looks in the Springtime of 2023. 

Do you get the message, yet?  Or have you been so severely brainwashed by commercial TV, the American Public School System, Michael Mann, Jim Hansen, John Kerry, & Al Gore that you are incapable of thinking your own free thoughts?   Do you miss your own personal opinion, or do you bind yourself to whatever your fifth grade teacher told you to do for the rest of your life, in the name of  your carbon blueprint, for the sake of an atmosphere which is already 99.9734% carbon-free?

  

Also for the record, the most recent End of the World prediction ...

 

... before the 2030 end-of-the-world prediction ... before the 2020 Glacier National Park failed prediction ... before the failed Maldives-sinking-in-the-ocean prediction for 2018 ... before the failed Ice-free Arctic prediction assigned for the Year 2014 ... 

 

... there was a doomsday prediction for the Year 2000, and it came from the U.N. in 1989.  Observe:  "... official says entire nations could be wiped off the Face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the Year 2000."  That prediction was yet another FALSE PROPHECY.  And the false prophesying continues. 

The world is always coming to an end, when it comes to money-grabbing activists and unemployed scientists.   The truth is that you have more of a chance of dying during a Nuclear Winter than during a phrase of Global Warming.  Such phases have come in cycles, mostly due to multi-decadal ocean oscillations and perhaps due to sunspot activity.  The opposite thereof was the case between the Years 1645 and 1710, when sunspot activity was often on vacation, and when ice festivals on the Thames River were an easily accommodated Winter tradition.

This trend of climate doomsayer theft-by-deception has been ongoing for over THIRTY-FIVE YEARS.  Some of us are old enough to have remembered the original bull crap.  Others are not old enough to have remembered, and they ended up making worldwide jackasses out of themselves on national & international TV.

 

Well, at least the CO2 police assigned the predicted doom-events to be even-numbered years ending in zero.  This includes the Next End of the World (having been assigned the Year 2030) and the Former End of "Entire Nations" (having been assigned to the Year 2000), as well as the Extinction of Glacier National Park's several glaciers (predicted to be gone by 2020.)  By the way, are those pesky things still up there?