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Estes Park had their annual Scottish-Irish festival last weekend. Good thing, because this weekend they are cut off from from the Front Range corridor because the roads connecting them have washed away.

My gym has the same Spanish language program on all of its televisions this evening.

NCDC needs to hide the decline in US temperatures since the 1930s. So they cool the past and warm the present. But to make the cheating even worse, they are accelerating the adjustments. Note the upwards curvature of a third order polynomial fit.

Three days ago I wrote this :

My guess is that Putin will make an offer to have Syria give up their chemical weapons, in exchange for the White House ending their financial and military support of the terrorists who are prosecuting the war in Syria.

My Syria Forecast

And today :

Assad tells Obama to stop arming rebels, or no deal

President Obama must promise not to arm rebel forces or Syrian dictator Bashar Assad will not hand over his chemical weapons, the embattled leader told a Russian state media outlet today while demanding that Israel also surrender its nuclear arsenal

Assad tells Obama to stop arming rebels, or no deal | WashingtonExaminer.com

Obama stepped right into Putin’s trap, by taking credit for the “deal.” Now his flank is exposed and the conversation will turn to US support of freedom fighters who are killing people and waging war in Syria.

Look for Putin to release an intelligence report detailing who the “freedom fighters” really are, which will send shock waves around the world.

Putin is a chess master, while Obama is a reactive political hack.

At the peak of the Obama scandals dominating the news, al Qaeda suddenly started chattering very loudly about blowing up an embassy – and dominated the news cycle for a couple of weeks. Then came Syria 24×7, and al Qaeda quit chattering and even forgot to make any threats for the Benghazi and 9/11 anniversaries.

President Obama must be very grateful to have such cooperative and helpful terrorists.

Dust Storm Marks Beginning of Southwest’s “Permanent Drought” | The Energy Collective

New study: Arctic ice is rotten

November 27, 2009

New study: Arctic ice is rotten | Alaska Dispatch

Every year the experts tell us that the ice is rotten and almost gone, and will be completely gone in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 ….

Yet for some reason we have the most ice in seven years.

The Big Thompson River southwest of Fort Collins was the scene of one of America’s worst flood tragedies in 1976, when 150 people died during a summer flash flood.

Relentless rains are causing the river to rise again, prompting evacuations.

Larimer sheriff paints dire picture of flooding as Big Thompson rises

Roads are crumbling. Dams are failing. And the Big Thompson River just keeps rising.  Mother Nature is painting a dire picture on Colorado’s rain-soaked canvas during a day when flash flooding killed at least three people across Colorado and overwhelmed roads in mountainous western Larimer County.

Larimer sheriff paints dire picture of flooding as Big Thompson rises | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com

There is no end in sight for the rain, which is forecast to continue for at least three more days.

 09/12/2013

Boulder has set a record for its wettest 24-hour period. Ever.

Prior to Wednesday, the single wettest day on record was July 31, 1919, when 4.80 inches of rain were recorded, according to Bob Henson, a science writer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Henson said that the latest official readings for Boulder show that from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 9:15 a.m. today, 7.21 inches of rain have fallen in Boulder, with amounts likely varying from a bit lower in northeast areas of the city to higher than that to the southwest.

Additionally, the last three days of rain are more than Boulder has experienced in any month on record.

Since the rain kicked in late Monday afternoon, Boulder has recorded 9.61 inches of rain, topping the 9.59 inches recorded in the entire month of May 1995.

Boulder registers wettest 24-hour period, and month, on record – Boulder Daily Camera

Earlier this year, global warming and the permanent drought brought Boulder record cold and its snowiest month on record.

April 29, 2013

April has been a freakishly cold month across much of the northern USA, bringing misery to millions of sun-starved and winter-weary residents from the Rockies to the Midwest.

Record cold and snow has been reported in dozens of cities, with the worst of the chill in the Rockies, upper Midwest and northern Plains. Several baseball games have been snowed out in both Denver and Minneapolis.

Cities such as Rapid City, S.D.; Duluth, Minn.; and Boulder, Colo., have all endured their snowiest month ever recorded. (In all three locations, weather records go back more than 100 years.) In fact, more than 1,100 snowfall records and 3,400 cold records have been set across the nation so far in April, according to the National Climatic Data Center.

Awful April: Spring hard to find across northern USA

The Colorado government says we are having a severe drought!

Colorado’s Drought Response and Mitigation Planning

This would be the same Colorado state government who thought that infringing on the Bill of Rights was a good idea.

The good news is that the gate is closed on the bike trail, to keep cyclists from trying to ride under the bridge.