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A real wake up call from 70 years ago! The Arctic was warming catastrophically, and was going to melt and drown us all.

31 May 1947 – ARCTIC CLIMATE’S ALARMING CHANGE

Perhaps after scientists recycle this story for the 100th time, someone will pay attention.

97% of experts predicted that Madrid would bring home a championship trophy.

The other 3% predicted that global warming would disrupt the match.

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President Barack Obama says he doesn’t have time to debate flat-earthers like Freeman Dyson, but the president does believe that global warming is making it cold in Chicago.

Spring runoff hasn’t even started yet from the high country, and the Poudre River is already approaching record depths for the date.

USGS Current Conditions for USGS 06752260 CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER AT FORT COLLINS, CO

Climate experts say that Colorado is experiencing a permanent drought.

Flash flooding in Larimer County, May 23, 2014

During his 2007 Nobel prize acceptance speech, Al Gore predicted an ice-free Arctic in 2014. Earth only has ice for 100 more days.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

But first he needs to melt the ice off the Great Lakes, on Memorial Day weekend.

Live Ship Canal Webcam – Duluth MN | Solglimt

In 2007, the world’s leading experts told us that the Arctic was going to melt very quickly

sites.fas.harvard.edu/~scia30/2008/SOURCEBOOK/2007_Maslanik_GRL.pdf

The green circle below shows the date when they made their brilliant forecast.

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In 2008, Obama promised to make the VA “the leader in national health care reform”  Now he says he knows nothing about what goes on with VA health care, and blames other people for the VA health care problems.

Veterans | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team

May 23, 2014 at 6:29 pm

Sea Ice News Volume 5 #2 – NOAA forecasts above normal Arctic ice extent for summer 2014 | Watts Up With That?

Perhaps my comment was rejected because it included a link to that notorious denier site.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/14/nsidcs-dr-walt-meier-part-2/

The heat and drought in the US during 1934 blew away all records, but it wasn’t just in the US – it was all over the world. Antarctica had their record warmest winter temperatures too.

TimesMachine: June 6, 1934 – NYTimes.com

TimesMachine: May 29, 1934 – NYTimes.com

LONDON, June 2, 1934
WORLD DROUGHT
Farmers’ Ruinous Losses
Almost Universal Disaster
Europe Revives Pagan Rites

A survey of the threat of a world drought reveals ruinous losses by farmers in many parts of the world. There is an actual shortage of food, with young crops blasted in the ground by the scorching sunshine and thousands of cattle without pasture. The disaster is felt from the Mississippi in the United States, to the Volga, in Russia, from the Yugoslavian valleys to the Western Canadian prairies.

04 Jun 1934 – WORLD DROUGHT Farmers’ Ruinous Losses Almost Uni…

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Almost the entire US was over 100 degrees during June, 1934

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/062/mwr-062-06-0212.pdf

02 Feb 1935 – DISASTERS OF 1934 REVIEWEL Millions Were Rendere…

Illinois was a little cooler than  Wisconsin 80 years ago. It was only 107 degrees on Memorial Day weekend, 1934 – compared to 109F in Wisconsin.