Real Climate Science

If you view climate journalism and policy as a dark comedy, it is actually pretty funny.

“Even before summer began, there were extreme heat waves and new heat records throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and the forecast calls for a hotter-than-normal summer in much of the U.S. Scientists say climate change is accelerating and intensifying these kinds of heat waves. It’s taken a while for some TV weather men and women to make these connections

India and Pakistan endured blistering conditions this spring, leading to a loss of life. And the forecast calls for a hotter-than-normal summer in much of the U.S.”

Weather forecasters increasingly address climate change | PBS NewsHour

The US is having one of the coolest years on record.

The three hottest springs in the US were 1934, 1911 and 1962.

The 1911 heatwaves began in January

02 Feb 1911, Page 1 – Fort Scott Daily Tribune and Fort Scott Daily Monitor at Newspapers.com

23 May 1911, 9 – Fall River Daily Evening News at Newspapers.com

04 Jul 1911, Page 1 – The Scranton Republican

The hottest July 4 occurred in 1911

05 Jul 1911, 1 – The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com

The 1911 Heat Wave Was So Deadly It Drove People Insane – New England Historical Society

En 1911, Paris suffoquait déjà sous la canicule – Le Parisien

India is always hottest in spring before the monsoon season starts

“When a person is accustomed to 138 in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable….In India, “cold weather” is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.”

– Mark Twain

08 Jun 1935 – HEAT WAVE – Trove

23 May 1972 – INDIA Heatwave kills 300 – Trove

08 Jun 1935 – HEAT WAVE IN INDIA – Trove

27 May 1935 – TRAGIC HEAT WAVE. – Trove

20 Jul 1934 – THE HOTTEST PLACE. – Trove

02 Jun 1934 – Deaths From Heat – Trove

15 Jun 1966 – INDIA Hundreds die in heat wave – Trove

16 Jun 1932 – 22 PERSONS DIE – Trove

01 Jun 1972 – Fatal heat – Trove

12 Jul 1878 – INDIA. – Trove

The areal coverage and intensity of US heatwaves are near record lows.

These people moved to Cheyenne from Tennessee last summer. They haven’t changed their license plates to Wyoming and they don’t take care of their yard, but they do have a Biden blue “Cheney for Wyoming” sign in front of their house.

Here is a better sign.

“their top priorities are: Killing babies
Sexually mutilating the survivors.
Pointless wars
Convincing themselves that paying more for gas and groceries advances global democracy.”

11:34 PM · Jul 1, 2022

“Coal and wood will disappear from the earth. Coal already is dwindling alarmingly, and the most  ambitious efforts of the foresters will not forestall he final obliteration of the forests. Electricity is manifestly the sole dependence of the future.

“In the Northwest several years ago the cold was so intense and the fuel famine so prolonged that the farmers there kept themselves alive by burning their boundary fences and their outhouses. The winds were frightful in their temperature and destructive force. Why should they not have been  utilized to keep those homes comfortable.

By means of a simple windmill, power could be produced which would keep the homes of the far  Northwest at a uniform temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit, even in the deadliest cold weather.”

New York Times    January 1, 1911

TimesMachine: January 1, 1911 – NYTimes.com

“ELECTRIC CARS

Edison’s New Storage Battery is Cause of Revolution.

SHORT LIFE CELLS THING OF PAST

Removes Last Objection to Electric Car Used by Advocates of Gas.

In the perfection of his new storage battery, Thomas A, Edison has inaugurated a new era in electric locomotion. The successful efforts of the electrical wizard will revolutionize the commercial adaption of vehicles propelled by their own power. The new batteries supply a long felt want In the electrical world and remove all objections to the electric automobile.”

09 May 1910, 4 – Des Moines Tribune at Newspapers.com

Climate protesters in London vandalize a Van Gogh painting, because they believe doing that will prevent bad weather in the future.

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

“Air pollution is no longer confined to isolated places. This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Entire regional airsheds, crop plant environments, and river basins are heavy with noxious materials. Motor vehicles and home heating plants, municipal dumps and factories continually hurl pollutants into the air we breathe. Each day almost 50,000 tons of unpleasant, and sometimes poisonous, sulfur dioxide are added to the atmosphere, and our automobiles produce almost 300,000 tons of other pollutants.”

– Lyndon Baines Johnson February 8, 1965

LBJ Presidential Library | Research

The US was suffering severe air pollution problems, and Lyndon Johnson called CO2 a pollutant.

“06 Aug 1965

While the water supply situation in the Midwest is spottedly acute, the drought conditions in the northeastern part of the country is “the most intense in the history of that area. according to a recent Presidential report on water resources. Conditions in the Delaware Basin are “particularly critical.” Yet the governors of that area attending the National Governors’ Conference recently in Minneapolis failed to reach a decision on asking President Johnson to designate the affected states as composing a drought disaster area.”

06 Aug 1965, Page 4 – Anderson Herald at Newspapers.com

During the 1960s there was unanimous consensus earth was cooling.

TimesMachine: January 30, 1961 – NYTimes.com

“Canberra Times Thursday 18 July 1963, page 44
Glaciers Grow In Norway

OSLO (A.A.P.-Reuter). — Norway’s glaciers are in the process of becoming thicker again after a period of 200 years of gradually melting down, according to glaciologist, Mr. Olav Liestol.

Last year nearly all glaciers increased by more than one metre — approximately four feet.

Mr. Liestol does not fore-see another ice age, but says that if Norway gets a series of years with a cold mean temperature, people must expect the glaciers gradually to creep further down into the valleys again.”

18 Jul 1963 – Glaciers Grow In Norway – Trove

Kirye made this necklace yesterday from Ethiopian Honeycomb Opal. The colors are stunning.