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“The Rio Grande, which flows out of the Rockies and later forms the U.S.-Mexico border, has long been impacted by withdrawals for agriculture and other uses. Now, rising temperatures and an unprecedented drought pose a grave and growing peril to the river and its ecosystems.

Experts predict the Rio Grande will dry up completely all the way to Albuquerque this summer for the first time since the 1980s.”

June 2, 2022

The Vanishing Rio Grande: Warming Takes a Toll on a Legendary River – Yale E360

July 3, 2022 – Streamflow on the Rio Grande is normal from one end of New Mexico to the other.

USGS | National Water Dashboard

Experts say New Mexico is having the worst drought in 1,200 years.  Streamflow is at a record high on Rio Nambe, the Santa Fe River and Rio Mora.  The Pecos River is much above normal as it has been for the past week.

USGS | National Water Dashboard

USGS | National Water Dashboard

03 Jul 1911, 1 – The Independent-Record at Newspapers.com

MO 113 IA 110

KS 109 AZ 108 OK 108 CA 107 NE 107 IL 106 OH 106 SD 106 IN 105 MD 105 MI 105 TN 105 WI 105 NH 104 NJ 104 NY 104 TX 104 VA 104 AR 103 MS 103 DE 102 KY 102 LA 102
MA 102 PA 102 WV 102 AL 101 ME 101 VT 101

CT 99 MN 99 NM 99 SC 99 CO 98 NC 98 UT 98 GA 97 ND 97 MT 96 FL 94 WY 94 ID 93 NV 93 OR 92 WA 91 RI 90

Compare with July 3, 2021

CA 113
AZ 107 ID 107 UT 106 MT 105 SD 104 ND 103 NV 101 OR 100
CO 99 NM 98 WA 98 WY 98 NE 97 TX 96 NC 94 FL 92 KS 92 MN 92 LA 91 AL 90 IA 90

And from July 3, 1901

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The New York Times

HEAT BRINGS DEATH TO OVER 200 PERSONS.

Several Hundred Others Collapse in Stifling Atmosphere.

STORES AND OFFICES CLOSE

Foundries and Factories Shut Down, Building Operations Cease.

Street Car Service Hampered by Exhaustion of Employees — Fierce Squalls Afford Some Relief to the Suffering City.

Over 200 deaths in all the boroughs and over 300 cases of prostration in Manhattan alone, two heat records smashed to smithereens, and two furious black squalls which brought some relief was the result of yesterday’s meteorological record.

The maximum temperature came at 2:15 o’clock in the afternoon, when the mercury reached the 99- degree mark—within one degree of the highest record in the history of 1e Weather Bureau, and equal to the high- previous July record, and 5 degrees higher than the previous July 2 record om
the books of the bureau.

“The heat was so0 intense that the entire city was as If paralyzed. Many big companies and wholesale houses closed their doors as early as noon, in order to give their stenographers and clerks 2 chance to flee the city. Almost all of the insurance companies closed their doors. The Metropolitan Street Railway Company was unable to run its cars on strict schedule time for want of men to take the place of those who gave out. All work on the tunnel as well as on buildings and construction work throughout the city was suspended, and even the hospitals were affected.

TimesMachine: July 3, 1901 – NYTimes.com

“I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.”

 

Mark Twain March 31, 1873

The US Forest Service shows that burn acreage in the US was much higher prior to 1960.

2010-sustainability-report.pdf

The data was kept in great detail, as reported by the New York Times in 1938.

TimesMachine: October 9, 1938 – NYTimes.com

As of January 29, 2021 the National Interagency Fire Center showed the same data through 2019.

It came with this disclaimer, which apparently was referring to a discrepancy in the way the number of fires was counted prior to 1983.

National Interagency Fire Center

But by February 27, 2021 the page had disappeared.

Page not found | National Interagency Fire Center

Now if you go to that website it redirects to another page which hides the data prior to 1983.

Wildfires and Acres | National Interagency Fire Center

This graph shows the complete data set updated through 2021.

On November 1, 2020 this twenty year old document was on the National Interagency Fire Center website. That was right before the pretend election.

“Historically, fire has been a frequent and major ecological factor in North America. In the conterminous United States during the preindustrial period (1500- 1800), an average of 145 million acres burned annually. Today only 14 million acres (federal and non-federal) are burned annually by wildland fire from all ignition sources.”

Wayback Machine

The next time it was captured by the Internet Archive was April 25, 2021 and looked like this :

Page not found | National Interagency Fire Center

Now it looks like this :

“The National Interagency Fire Center is committed to making its information and communication technologies accessible to individuals with disabilities”

Page not found | National Interagency Fire Center

The press has been working hard to create the perception of a link between fossil fuels, heatwaves and extreme weather. This superstition is not based on historical evidence or science – and has been spread through decades of propaganda, misinformation and censorship.

USGS | National Water Dashboard

“Researchers say”

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