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On July 16, 1901 Oklahoma and Nebraska were over 110F, twenty-three states were over 100F and forty-five states were over 90F.  Crops were ruined by the heat and drought and Canada and England were also having deadly heat waves.

OK 113, NE 110

AZ 109, KS 109, MO 107, AR 106, IA 106, TX 106, WI 106, IL 105, CO 104, LA 103, MS 103, KY 102, SD 102, UT 102, AL 101, ME 101, MN 101, TN 101, IN 100, NM 100, OH 100

NJ 98, CA 97, FL 97, GA 97, MI 97, NH 97, OR 97, SC 97, ID 96, MT 96, VT 96, WY 96, NV 95, NY 95, WV 94, MA 93, MD 92, PA 92, VA 91, WA 91, DE 90, NC 90

“LA CROSSE, Wis., July 15,—The temperature today reached 100. Two prostrations were reported. Crops in Western Wisconsin are suffering great damage from the drought.

BARABOO, Wis., July 18.—Today was the hottest day on record in this section, At noon the thermometer registered 103 in the shade, The drought still continues and many farmers are selling off their stock for want of feed. The oats crop is a total failure,

SPRINGFIPLD, M1, July 15.—Advices from all over the central and southern parts of the state are to the effect that the continued heat and drought are burning the corn crop badly, and that if heavy rains do not occur soon the crop will be almost an entire failure. Potatoes, apples, berries and almost all vegetation are suffering greatly from drought.

LAFAYETTE, Ind., July i5.—Intense heat the past two weeks still continues. The temperature eat noon today was 99 to 101, according to the locality. Pastures re burning up and corn is badly shriveled. The loss In this county on corn is fully 20 per cent.”

16 Jul 1901, Page 1 – The Saint Paul Globe at Newspapers.com

16 Jul 1901, 1 – The Victoria Daily Times at Newspapers.com

16 Jul 1901, 2 – Manchester Evening News at Newspapers.com

“We must be going in for records in 1936; record blizzards, record dust storms, record floods, record drouth, record heat wave. If it keeps up Americans will need to show record endurance.”

Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, lowa) – 16 Jul 1936

16 Jul 1936, 6 – Sioux City Journal at Newspapers.com

On July 15, 1936 thirteen states were over 110F, thirty states were over 100F and forty-three states were over 90F.

MO 118, CA 117, AZ 116, IA 114, OK 114, IL 113, IN 113, KS 113, SD 113, AR 111, KY 111, MN 111, NE 111

ND 109, TX 109, WI 109, OH 107, WV 107, MT 106, PA 106, UT 106, CO 105, NV 105, WY 105, VA 104, MI 103, ID 102, NC 102, TN 102, AL 100

NM 99, SC 99, GA 98, MS 98, OR 98, FL 95, NJ 95, LA 94, MD 94, DE 93, WA 91, NH 90, NY 90

Fact Check: Joe Biden’s events

Most Democrats believe Joe Biden received 80 Million votes, and that he controls the climate.

Why do most Republicans believe the big lie? – No More Trump

Americans Divided Over Direction of Biden’s Climate Change Policies | Pew Research Center

“Analysis of Hunter Biden’s hard drive shows he, his firm took in about $11 million from 2013 to 2018, spent it fast. The hard drive and documents from Senate Republicans indicate few of Biden’s deals ever came to fruition and shed light on how fast he was spending his money.”

– NBC News

The same people who talk endlessly about an imaginary climate crisis are leading the world towards nuclear war.

“During his first 18 months as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney spent considerable time hammering out a sweeping climate change plan to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.

As staff briefed him on possible measures and environmentalists pressed him to act, Romney frequently repeated a central thought, people at those meetings said: That climate change is occurring, that the United States has the resources to handle its vast impact but that low-lying poor countries like Bangladesh would suffer greatly.”

Mitt Romney worked to combat climate change as governor – Los Angeles Times

His policies must have worked.  Bangladesh is still there.

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“Oslo A remarkable thinning out of the polar ice cap in the Antarctic is reported by a Norwegian expedition which found bare stretches of earth on an island thickly covered with ice only 20 years ago.

Holgersen said observations on Peter I island showed that many glaciers had been considerably reduced since 1929. Many places which were covered with snow and ice at that time are now bare. “

20 May 1948, Page 16 – The Bend Bulletin at Newspapers.com

“Queenslander Thursday 21 July 1932, page 42

A Warmer World.

SOME great world change is taking place on the Antarctic Continent. Its glaciers are shrinking. Commander L.A. Bernacchi, who visited the South Polar land 30 years ago, says that the Great Ice Barrier which fronts the continent with a wall of ice for 250 miles has receded at least 30 miles since it was first seen and surveyed.

Sir James Ross, who went out on the earliest Antarctic expedition of the nineteenth century, and those who followed him, left clear descriptions of this tremendous ice frontage and its position. It was a cliff 150ft. high and 1000ft. thick. But now it appears to be continuing its century-long process of shrinking; and that process may have been going on for centuries. It might imply, unless it is offset by some increase of ice in another less explored part of the Antarctic, that the climate of the South Pole is changing and becoming warmer.

The shrinkage of the Alpine glaciers of Europe is a well-known and carefully measured fact. Professor Buchanan, of Edinburgh, drew attention to it twenty years ago, and showed from old and accurate drawings of the Lower Orindelwald, the Rhone, and the Morteratcch glaciers that they were retreating rapidly. ”

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.”
— Richard Feynman

Building back better in France.

“French President Emmanuel Macron listens to explanations as he visits the STMicroelectronics (STM) company in Crolles, southeastern France, Tuesday July 12, 2022.”

Macron urges French to turn off lights and brace for Russian gas cut

Not quite as convincing as Michael Dukakis in 1988.

In 1998 I managed a project for ST Microelectronics and visited their Meylan site, a few km away from Crolles. Grenoble is famous for pizza and Jaune Claude Killy winning all three Olympic skiing events in 1968.

During the winters of 1988-1996, winds blew a lot of thick ice out of the Arctic Basin

Wayback Machine

“OTTAWA | Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:01pm EDT

(Reuters) – The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished, a startling development that will make it easier to open up polar} shipping routes, an Arctic expert said on Thursday.

Vast sheets of impenetrable multiyear ice, which can reach up to 80 meters (260 feet) thick, have for centuries blocked the path of ships seeking a quick short cut through the fabled Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific.”

Multiyear Arctic ice is effectively gone: expert | Reuters

New York Times 1958

“Some scientists estimate that the polar ice pack is 40 per cent thinner and 12 per cent less in area than it was a half-century ago, and that even within the lifetime of our children the Arctic Ocean may open, enabling ships to sail over the North Pole, as the submarines ‘Nautilus and Skate recently sailed under it. A ship bound from New York to Tokyo would save 2,500 miles by turning left outside the Nar- rows and sailing past Greenland in- stead of through the Panama Canal.

Although the idea that a solid ice sheet covers the central Arctic has lingered stubbornly in the popular fancy, the northern cap of ice worn by our planet is actually a thin crust— on the whole, only about seven feet thick—over an ocean two miles deep in places.”

The Changing Face of the Arctic; The Changing Face of the Arctic – The New York Times

Springtime in the Arctic | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

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