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Yellowstone, other national parks come face to face with climate change – Washington Post

There is no indication in any trend in either precipitation or heavy precipitation at Lake Yellowstone, Wyoming since 1904.

All precipitation events.

Precipitation events over one inch.

In 1988, there were large fires and the Washington Post said Yellowstone was doomed by global warming.

11 Sep 1988, 11 – The Daily Sentinel at Newspapers.com

By Jeremy Rifkin The Washington Post

The year is 2035. In New York, palm trees line the Hudson River from 125th Street to the Midtown  exit.

Phoenix is in its third week of temperatures over 130 degrees, and the project to cover the city  with air-conditioned domes is still unfinished.

Holland is under water. Bangladesh has ceased to exist. Torrential rains and rising seas there have killed several mil- lion people and forced the remaining population into makeshift refugee camps on higher ground in Pakistan and India.”

“Writing in Science, Richard A. Kerr points out that ‘‘each one-degree centi- grade of warming pushes climatic zones 100 to 150 kilometers northward,”” Within 60 years, the present climate structure of Yellowstone National Park, for example, will have shifted well into Canada. Trees are not capable of migrating at such speeds.”

04 Sep 1988, 9 – The Olympian at Newspapers.com

Lake Yellowstone had their warmest day in 1913, and there is no trend in temperatures over 80F.

Yellowstone is doing just fine.

Yellowstone Rebounded from an Epic 1988 Fire—That May Be Harder in Future – Scientific American

Lodgepole Pines depend on hot fires to reproduce.

Up In Smoke: Why Lodgepole Pines Love A Good Forest Fire – Here By Design

The BBC relentlessly promotes the multi-trillion dollar climate scam, and has brought forth a new conspiracy theory that thirty years ago some people spent half a million dollars to undermine it.

The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change – BBC News

Democrats installed a person in the Oval Office who has been in Washington DC for 50 years, and now they say they want term limits for Supreme Court justices.

Democrats also begged Ruth Bader Ginsburg not to resign after 27 years on the Supreme Court.

The UK government says they will be running “Jet Zero Aviation” by the year 2050. I’m not sure what this will accomplish since AOC and Joe Biden say the world will end around the year 2030, Al Gore put the deadline at 2016 and the UN said we only had until the year 2000.

“The year is 2035. In New York, palm trees line the Hudson River from 125th Street to the Midtown exit.”

– Washington Post September 4, 1988

In January green Germany shut down half of their nuclear power plants with the intention of replacing them with inherently unreliable and frequently unavailable wind and solar power.

Germany shuts down half of its 6 remaining nuclear plants – ABC News

Six months later they appear to be planning to reopen the nuclear power plants.

Nuclear power: TÜV boss sees decommissioned nuclear power plants “in excellent condition” | TIME ONLINE

Germany to fire up coal plants as Russia cuts gas supply

Germany plans winter ‘warm-up spaces’ in case of gas shortage — Analysis – Mass News

London’s Heathrow Airport is the busiest airport in the world, and by the year 2050 planes which take off and land there will apparently not use fuel.

“Jet Zero Strategy Delivering net zero aviation by 2050”

Jet Zero Strategy: delivering net zero aviation by 2050

“MILLIONS of households could be asked to turn down their thermostats and switch off their lights to avoid blackouts later this year.”

Households could be told to cut back on energy to avoid blackouts this winter | The Sun

This article from 2018 in the New Mexico Political report prophesized a dry Rio Grande and said the Jemez Mountains in New Mexico were now too dry to grow confiers.

“Before the Dome Fire and then Las Conchas, which burned here in the Jemez Mountains seven years ago, this was a dense conifer forest. Today, the climate is too warm for those trees to return.”

A dry Rio Grande in springtime isn’t normal. But it will be. | The NM Political Report

Streamflow in the Rio Grande south of Albuquerque is close to normal. During the winter and early spring they retain water in the reservoirs so streamflow is low.

RIO GRANDE BELOW ELEPHANT BUTTE DAM, NM – USGS Water Data for the Nation

Very heavy rain is forecast in the headwaters of the Rio Grande over the next ten days.

Ventusky – Wind, Rain and Temperature Maps

Wolf Creek Ski Area in Southwest Colorado is at the headwaters of the Rio Grande.  They have had above normal snowfall for three of the last four years.

Wolf Creek Ski Area Snow History | OnTheSnow

This is what the Las Conchas burn area looked like during summer 2019.

This is what the Las Conchas burn area looked like in Autumn 2021.

This is an unburned area adjacent to the Las Conchas fire during July 2019.

Fire succession in Northern New Mexico brings in Aspen, Oak and Locust first – followed by conifers much later.  Fires in 1890 burned up both sides of the Rio Grande and are now filled in with the tallest Aspen trees in the world.

21 Jun 1890, Page 6 – San Francisco Chronicle at Newspapers.com

Spokane Falls Daily Chronicle – Google News Archive Search

The year 1890 was also a very bad years for fires in the upper Midwest.

08 May 1890, 6 – Minneapolis Messenger at Newspapers.com