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Elon Musk has is pushing climate geo-engineering, joining the company of George Soros and Bill Gates.

(4) Elon Musk on X: “But we do need to act much faster than that if people still want to live where the beach is today. We have about 50 years or so to take action, which should be more than enough time for the space satellites to solve any heating problems. https://t.co/xhrVQALwQw” / X

The massive Ross Fire west of Fort Worth, Texas is devouring the Barton Chapel Wind Plant and the Pinnington Solar Farm, as well as an oil field.

Ross Fire Map | Palo Pinto, Texas | WildFire Explorer

We took our first hike in a long time yesterday. Eight months of heat and drought have left the creek dry, the Aspen tress dying, almost no flowers, no birds, no livestock and no wildlife. It was almost unrecognizable.

President Trump shows a picture of grass at the Washington Monument as evidence of vandalism at the Reflecting Pool.

Truth Details | Truth Social

This is what that grass looks like now, after being destroyed by the July 4th celebration.

MonumentCam — Trust for the National Mall

July 31, 1976, thousands of visitors gathered in Colorado’s Front Range to celebrate the state’s centennial weekend. Campers, vacationers, and locals filled cabins, motels, and campsites along Highway 34 in the Big Thompson Canyon.

By midnight, it turned into the site of one of the deadliest flash floods in US history.

AUG 1 1976; Big Thompson River Canyon (1976 Flood); (Photo By Dave Buresh/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

A slow-moving thunderstorm stalled directly over the upper watershed of the Big Thompson River, anchored by light easterly winds pushing moist air up against the steep mountainside. In less than four hours, the storm dropped 12 to 14 inches of rain near Drake and Estes Park—nearly an entire year’s worth of precipitation for the region.

The steep, narrow granite walls of the canyon offered no outlet for the torrent. The dry soil could not absorb the volume, sending a massive wall of water rushing downstream toward Loveland.

Around 9:00 PM, a wall of water estimated between 19 and 20 feet high tore through the canyon at speeds exceeding 20 miles per hour. The torrent carried heavy debris, full-grown trees, boulders, automobiles, and entire homes along with it.

The disaster struck with minimal warning:

• Casualties: 144 people lost their lives, and 5 victims were never found.
• Destruction: More than 400 homes and cabins were destroyed, alongside 250 commercial structures.
• Infrastructure: Over 23 miles of U.S. Highway 34 were completely washed away, trapping survivors on isolated rock ledges overnight.

The Rio Grande has been dry in Albuquerque for most of the past two months.

Rio Grande NR Alameda, NM – USGS Water Data for the Nation

Further south, water has been steadily released from Elephant Butte Reservoir into the Rio Grande for the past few months, but the reservoir is down to 1% of capacity and they stopped releasing water today.  The Reservoir is located at Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

https://data.usbr.gov/rise/#/item/329

Rio Grande Below Elephant Butte Dam, NM – USGS Water Data for the Nation

“Elephant Butte and Caballo reservoirs to supply nearly 178,000 acres of irrigated farmland across the Hatch, Mesilla, and El Paso valleys.”

US trends since 1930, taken from Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/

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March snow cover in the mountains between Tres Piedras and Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico has declined sharply over the past fifty years, and on March 28 this year there was no snow on the ground.

Hopewell (532) – Site Information and Reports

March snow cover at the Los Alamos Ski Area, where I learned to ski, has largely disappeared.

Quemazon (708) – Site Information and Reports

There was still lots of snow there on May 5, 2019.

People building mega-data centers in the desert seem to imagine they can defy the laws of thermodynamics.

Blaming cattle for bad weather is the latest in a long line of climate superstitions. During the 16th century they blamed bad weather on witches.