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“This morning, between half past 3 and half past 4 o’clock, there was a war of shooting stars in the northwest, For an hour meteor succeeded meteor in such rapid succession, that it was impossible to count them; at times-the sky seemed full of them, and the earth was illuminated as with a morning light.”

19 Nov 1833, 3 – Richmond Enquirer at Newspapers.com

“the phenomenon was visible as far North as Portsmouth and Concord in N. Hampshire. —The Portsmouth Journal states, that the shooting stars continued to fall from 3 o’clock sill day-break. “Hundreds were seen at the same moment descending to the earth in every direction”

26 Nov 1833, 4 – Richmond Enquirer at Newspapers.com

“you are probably looking at ice-fee summers by 2030. I’d call that a death sprital.”

Mark Serreze June 6, 2009

New NSIDC director on “death spiral” Arctic ice | Grist

“This week, after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.”

December 12, 2007

Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?

“We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes,” Hansen told the AP before the luncheon. “The Arctic is the first tipping point and it’s occurring exactly the way we said it would,”

Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer,

Longtime global warming skeptic Sen, James Inhofe, R-Okla , citing a recent poll, said in a statement, “Hansen, (former Vice President) Gore and the media have been trumpeting man-made climate doom since the 1980s, But Americans are not buying it.”

But Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., committee chairman, said, “Dr. Hansen was right. ‘Twenty years later, we recognize him as a climate prophet.”

June 24, 2008

The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

There has been no trend in Arctic sea ice minimum, maximum or mean extent over the past 16 years.

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

Three decades of what participants call a “climate agreement” have had no impact on the growth rate of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Global Monitoring Laboratory – Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases

“Santa Cruz Sentinel 07 Dec 1989, Thu -Page 14

Hansen spurred controversy when he told a U.S. Senate committee during the hot, dry summer of 1988 that he was almost certain greenhouse warming already was under way. Other scientists said if that’s true, they can’t detect such warming since it is so small compared with temperature variations caused by changes in solar heat output and other natural factors.”

07 Dec 1989, Page 14 – Santa Cruz Sentinel at Newspapers.com

Twenty years ago the United Nations predicted doom for Kitzbuhel and Oberstdorf in 30-50 years.

“Low-lying slopes such as Kitzbuhel in Austria and Oberstdorf in Germany may receive so little snow over the next 30 to 50 years that skiing, snowboarding and tobogganing cease to be viable winter industries. The warning comes in a study by the University of Zurich for the United Nations Environment Programme.”

Global warming ‘could close half of Alpine ski resorts by 2050’

Those ski areas seem to be doing OK.

Webcam

Oberstdorf webcams with a view of the Allgäu Alps

Heavy snow at St. Moritz forces cancellation of Mikaela Shiffrin’s super-G race in women’s World Cup – The Washington Post

In 2004, The Guardian said The Hague would be abandoned by 2007.

“These are some of the key findings of the 2004 report commissioned by Pentagon defence adviser Andrew Marshall.

· Future wars will be fought over the issue of survival rather than religion, ideology or national honour.

· By 2007 violent storms smash coastal barriers rendering large parts of the Netherlands uninhabitable. Cities like The Hague are abandoned. In California the delta island levees in the Sacramento river area are breached, disrupting the aqueduct system transporting water from north to south.

· Between 2010 and 2020 Europe is hardest hit by climatic change with an average annual temperature drop of 6F. Climate in Britain becomes colder and drier as weather patterns begin to resemble Siberia.

· Deaths from war and famine run into the millions until the planet’s population is reduced by such an extent the Earth can cope.

· Riots and internal conflict tear apart India, South Africa and Indonesia.”

Key findings of the Pentagon | Environment | The Guardian

It appears that the Hague is still there.

?LIVE? Live Cam The Hague – Scheveningen Boulevard | SkylineWebcams

In 2011, NASA’s James Hansen predicted “multi-meter sea level rise this century.”

20110118_MilankovicPaper.pdf

Five years ago the Colorado governor said the state would be 100% renewable energy by 2040.

They are up to 7%.

10:00 AM · May 3, 2018

U.S. Energy Information Administration – EIA – Independent Statistics and Analysis

“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”

• President Eisenhower  January 17, 1961

Academics who know nothing about delivering energy want to control energy policy.

“We need power to prescribe climate policy, IPCC scientists say”

We need power to prescribe climate policy, IPCC scientists say | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | The Guardian

“NEW YORK CITY’S HEAT ISLAND. Surface air temperatures elevated by at least 1°C have been observed in New York City for more than a century (Rosenthal et al. 2003; Gaffin et al. 2008), and the heat island signal, measured as the difference between the urban core and the surrounding rural surface air temperature readings taken at National Weather Service (NWS) stations, averages ~4°C on summer nights (Kirkpatrick and Shulman 1987; Gedzelman et al. 2003; Gaffin et al. 2008). The greatest temperature differences typically are sustained between midnight and 0500 Eastern Standard Time (EST; Gaffin et al.
2008).
Surface air temperature data from weather stations both in and around New York City were mapped to show the heat island at 0600 EST 14 August 2002, the early morning of what would become one of the
hottest heat-wave days that summer (Fig. 1). Within the city, the three NWS stations are located in Central Park, and at LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports. To improve coverage of New York City, data were
obtained from the WeatherBug network of automated private stations (AWS; online at www.aws. com/aws_2005/default.asp).4 Surface air temperature readings from these stations show that the city was several degrees warmer than the suburbs, and up to 8°C warmer than rural areas within 100 km of the city, with conditions that had been sustained
throughout the previous night.”

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