“I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help”

“the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help”

– Ronald Reagan

Toxic mine water accidentally released by EPA in Colorado river flows south | Colorado | The Guardian

Cerro Grande Fire – Wikipedia

US Forest Service burn started wildfire that nearly reached Los Alamos, New Mexico, agency says | AP News

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Latest Research In Climate Science

“Climate change is not just a problem of physics but a crisis of justice”

Climate change is not just a problem of physics but a crisis of justice | Friederike Otto | The Guardian

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UK Sucking Carbon

“A ground-breaking project to suck carbon out of the sea has started operating on England’s south coast.

The small pilot scheme, known as SeaCURE, is funded by the UK government as part of its search for technologies that fight climate change.

There’s broad consensus among climate scientists that the overwhelming priority is to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the chief cause of global warming.”

Could taking carbon out of the sea cool down the planet?

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Price-Free Tesla

Our top government scientists and politicians predicted an ice-free Arctic by 2014.

Wayback Machine

Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014

I applied the same robust approach to calculate that Tesla stock price will drop to zero this summer.

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Four Years Past The Deadline

During 2011 Obama/Biden science advisor John Kerry said the Arctic would be ice free by 2013, and that we only had until the year 2021 to save the planet.

“Scientists tell us we have a 10-year window — if even that — before catastrophic climate change becomes inevitable and irreversible. The threat is real, and time is not on our side.

Facts, as John Adams said, are stubborn things. Here are a few you need to know: Atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels have risen 38% in the industrial era, from 280 to 385 parts per million (ppm). Scientists have warned that anything above 450 ppm — a warming of 2 degrees Celsius — will result in an unacceptable risk of catastrophic climate change.

The truth is that the threat we face is not an abstract concern for the future. It is already upon us and its effects are being felt worldwide, right now. Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013. Not in 2050, but four years from now.”

We Can’t Ignore the Security Threat from Climate Change | HuffPost Impact

ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p2/nh/osisaf_nh_sie_daily.txt

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Cooling Minnesota

On April 21, 1980 it was 100F (38C) at Ada, Minnesota. Over the last 50 years, April temperatures there have plummeted at a rate of nineteen degrees per century. The last time Ada reached 90F during April was 1992.

April temperatures at Ada were stable from 1920 to 1971. Then they rose sharply into the mid 1980’s, and have since plummeted about ten degrees.

ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/USC00210018.dly

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UK Net Zero

The UK could drop off the map and have no impact on atmospheric CO2 levels.  Their Net Zero plans have a benefit/cost ratio of zero.

Annual CO? emissions

“Reaching net zero to cost £3 trillion, says National Grid ESO”

Reaching net zero to cost £3 trillion, says National Grid ESO – Current News

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Erasing 1921

In 1989, NOAA said most global warming occurred before 1919 and declined from 1921 to 1979.

“Analysis of the warming since 1881 shows most of the increase in global temperature happened before 1919 — before the more recent sharp rise in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, said Thomas Karl, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
While global climate warmed overall since 1881, it actually cooled from 1921 to 1979, Karl said.”

Dec 07, 1989, page 44 – The Tyler Courier-Times at Newspapers.com

Since then they have reversed both of those trends and erased the record heat of 1921.

Global Temperature | Vital Signs – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

04 Sep 1921, 61 – New York Herald at Newspapers.com

16 Oct 1921, 104 – The San Francisco Examiner at Newspapers.com

TimesMachine: October 3, 1921 – NYTimes.com

#448 – The Graphic : an illustrated weekly newspaper. … v.104 (Jul.-Dec.1921). – Full View | HathiTrust Digital Library

“Monthly Weather Review – November, 1922 (Page 589)

The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers who sail the seas about Spitzbergen and the eastern Arctic, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth’s surface.

In connection with Dr. Hoel’s report, it is of interest to note the unusually warm summer in Arctic Norway and the observations of Capt. Martin Ingebrigtsen, who has sailed the eastern Arctic for 54 years past. He says that he first noted warmer conditions in 1918, that since that time it has steadily gotten warmer, and that to-day the Arctic of that region is not recognizable as the same region of 1868 to 1917.
Many old landmarks are so changed as to be unrecognizable.

Where formerly great masses of ice were found, there are now often moraines, accumulations of earth and stones. At many points where glaciers formerly extended far into the sea they have entirely disappeared.

There were few seal in Spitzbergen waters this year, the catch being far under the average. This, however, did not surprise the captain. He pointed out that formerly the waters about Spitzbergen held an even summer temperature of about 3° Celsius; this year recorded temperatures up to 15°, and last winter the ocean did not freeze over even on the north coast of Spitzbergen.”

THE CHANGING ARCTIC in: Monthly Weather Review Volume 50 Issue 11 (1922)

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“the world’s most eminent climate scientists”

Google Gemini heaps praise on the “world’s most eminent climate scientists.”

In the 1990 IPCC Report they showed Arctic sea ice increasing from 1973 to 1990.

“satellite observations have been used to map sea ice extent routinely since the early 1970s.

in 1972-1975 sea ice extent was significantly less.”

ipcc_far_wg_I_chapter_07.pdf

In the 2001 IPCC Report they showed sea ice declining during that same time period, and mislabeled the graph in the 6th dimension (10² x km6) 

Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis

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Warming Toledo

Afternoon temperatures at Toledo, Iowa have been declining since the 19th century at a rate of 2F per century. They used to get days over 105F fairly often, but it hasn’t happened since 1940. Their hottest day was 109F on July 24, 1901

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/USC00138296.dly

Toledo is a well sited rural station located in Central Iowa.

In their GHCN database, NOAA alters the temperature trend at Toledo (USC00138296) to change it from cooling into warming

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v4/ghcnm.tavg.latest.qcu.tar.gz

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v4/ghcnm.tavg.latest.qcf.tar.gz

In order to create their imaginary warming trend, NOAA cools past temperatures by as much as 3.7F and warms recent temperatures 1.15F.

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