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10:53 AM · Oct 25, 2022

The US had much worse droughts in the past, so Al Gore pretended record keeping began in the year 2000.

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Ten years ago Al Gore said more than half of the US was in drought for the first time.

“For the first time since their record-keeping began 12 years ago, the US Drought Monitor reports that more than half of the lower 48 states are in drought:”

Al’s Journal : Over Half the US is in Drought

More than half of the US is in drought quite often, including most of the 1950s.

Wayback Machine

In 1988, NASA’s James Hansen said droughts were rare in the 1950s.

Dr. James E. Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who presented recent data compiled from computer models, said that predicted regional effects of global warming show that the chances of summer drought in the low and middle latitudes would be 1 in 3 by the year 2030, as against 1 in 20 in the 1950’s.

• James Hansen 1988

FEROCIOUS STORMS AND DROUGHT SEEN – The New York Times

The Guardian says Florida is about to be wiped off the map.

Rising seas: ‘Florida is about to be wiped off the map’ | Environment | The Guardian

Google shows the beach at Fort Lauderdale the same as 40 years ago.

Timelapse – Google Earth Engine

The beach at Fort Lauderdale hasn’t changed over the past 60 years.

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2021

Five years after announcing the demise of Australia skiing, the Australian press is worried by all the snow.

Australia’s bumper snow season conceals a worrying trend – ABC News

Why is Australia so cold right now despite global heating? | Michael Grose for the Conversation | The Guardian

10-Day Temperature Outlook

Snowy retreat: Climate change puts Australia’s ski industry on a downhill slope

Vail Resorts to Acquire Falls Creek and Hotham Ski Resorts in Victoria, Australia | Vail Resorts Corporate

The end of snow – Australian Geographic

“Senior US government officials are to be briefed at the White House this week on the danger of an ice-free Arctic in the summer within two years. The meeting, hosted by the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President at the White House, is being organised by the Joint Office for Science Support (JOSS) of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) on behalf of the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC). The IARPC, charged with coordinating federal research on the Arctic Ocean, is chaired by the National Science Foundation, and includes among its members Nasa, the US Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon.”

White House warned on imminent Arctic ice death spiral | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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The author says rising sea levels threaten Florida’s Turkey Point nuclear power plant.

Rising Sea Levels Spell Disaster For America’s Coastal Nuclear Plants | OilPrice.com

The coastline there looks almost exactly the same as it did in 1994.

Coral reefs ‘will be overwhelmed by rising oceans’
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Study finds fragile marine ecosystems cannot grow fast enough to keep pace with sea levels”

Coral reefs ‘will be overwhelmed by rising oceans’ | Coral | The Guardian

“Hundreds of Pacific Islands are getting bigger despite global warming”

Hundreds of Pacific Islands are getting bigger despite global warming – ABC News

Sea level is rising much more slowly now than 10,000 years ago.

File:Post-Glacial Sea Level.png – Wikimedia Commons

The Guardian won’t publish the opinions of anyone who disputes their non-stop stream of misinformation about climate.

Climate change is real. We must not offer credibility to those who deny it | Letters | The Guardian

8:18 AM · Oct 24, 2022