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“We’re toast if we don’t get on a very different path,” Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences who is sometimes called the godfather of global warming science, told The Associated Press. “This is the last chance.”

– JUNE 24, 2008

NASA Climate Scientist Says “We’re Toast” – CBS News

“We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes,” Hansen told the AP before the luncheon. “The Arctic is the first tipping point and it’s occurring exactly the way we said it would.” Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer.

The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

There has been no trend in Arctic sea ice since Hansen made that forecast.

ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p1/nh/osisaf_nh_sie_daily.txt

Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate – The New York Times

we called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer. Well, it was June 6 or June 9 or whatever it was, so we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo: It was the hottest day on record in Washington, or close to it. It was stiflingly hot that summer. [At] the same time you had this drought all across the country, so the linkage between the Hansen hearing and the drought became very intense.

… What we did it was went in the night before and opened all the windows, I will admit, right? So that the air conditioning wasn’t working inside the room and so when the, when the hearing occurred there was not only bliss, which is television cameras in double figures, but it was really hot. …  So Hansen’s giving this testimony, you’ve got these television cameras back there heating up the room, and the air conditioning in the room didn’t appear to work. So it was sort of a perfect collection of events that happened that day, with the wonderful Jim Hansen, who was wiping his brow at the witness table and giving this remarkable testimony.

Interviews – Timothy Wirth | Hot Politics | FRONTLINE | PBS

This week in 1988 was an outlier which went against the trend.

Lawrence Journal-World – Google News Archive Search

Stormy weather – Global warming – Salon.com

Manhattan is still there.

(94) Live NYC Lower Manhattan & New York Harbor Cam – YouTube

24 Jun 1988, 4 – The Miami News at Newspapers.com

There has been no change in Great Lakes water levels over the past century.

Great Lakes Dashboard – HTML5

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1979

This article was written during the record heatwave and drought of July, 1901 which was the second hottest July since 1895 in the US.

“FERVENT PRAYERS FOR RAIN ARE OFFERED IN MISSOURI.

Third Time in State’s History That Such Appeals Have Been Made— Churches of All Denominations Observe the Governor’s Proclamation, and Those Who Pray Believe That Their Petitions Will Be Answered.

Prayers for rain ascended from the altars of most places of worship in St. Louis at Sunday services. In this manner the proclamation of Governor Dockery, calling on the’ people of the Commonwealth to observe yesterday as a time of petition for relief from the drought was generally observed.

It was the third time in the history of Missouri that divine intervention had been sought to avert distress. The great drought of 1540 made the Indian tribes of the Mississippi Valley call on De Soto, the explorer, to intercede with his God that they might not perish from starvation,

History relates that rain descended in- torrents the night after the Spanish adventurer reared his cross ‘on the banks of the Father of Waters and prayed for the end of the drought.

Again, in 1874, Missouri was visited by devastating heat on this occasion. ‘Governor Hardin was besought to issue a proclamation calling the people to prayer. History repeated itself once more. Rain fell a few days after the petition to the Infinite, and the crops were saved.

Ministers of the gospel of the modern day who. have followed the example of the explorer are confident that history will repeat itself. They unite in asserting the efficacy of prayer. Rain that extinguished the fierce heat of 1540 is expected hourly to drench the parched pastures.

22 Jul 1901, Page 1 – The St Louis Republic at Newspapers.com

Same story in Europe during 1540.

“For eleven months there was almost no rain, the temperature was five to seven degrees above the normal values ??of the 20th century, the temperature must have climbed above 40 degrees in midsummer. Countless forest areas in Europe went up in flames, acrid smoke obscured the sunlight, and not a single thunderstorm was recorded for the entire summer of 1540. As early as May, water was running out, wells and springs dried up, mills stood still, people starved, cattle were slaughtered. An estimated one million people died in Europe that year, mostly from dysentery.

It all started in northern Italy, with a winter that felt like July. Not a drop fell from October 1539 to early April 1540. Then drought spread to the north. A cold snap brought a sunny but probably hypothermic late winter here on land – similar to this year. A source reports cold winds and ice in the morning. But it must have been very warm during the day. The spring was then sunny and completely dry, between February and 29 September it didn’t rain a day or a night, according to the Zurich reformer Heinrich Bullinger.

At the beginning of June it got so unbearably hot that even stone carvers in Besancon got the day off. But that was just the beginning. July brought such a terrible scorching heat that the churches sent out prayers of supplication while the Rhine, Elbe and Seine could be waded through without getting wet. Where water still flowed, the warm broth turned green, and fish floated in it keel up. The level of Lake Constance dropped to a record level, and Lindau was even connected to the mainland. The surface water soon evaporated completely, the floors burst open, some drying cracks were so large that a foot could fit in them.

And the groundwater dropped too: in the Swiss canton of Lucerne, desperate people tried to dig for water in a river bed, but found not a single drop even at a depth of one and a half meters. Christian Pfister therefore estimates that only a quarter to a maximum of a third of the usual amount of rain came from the sky that year. It is fitting that chroniclers from western Russia reported flash floods, high water and cold that year. Summer just fell out there.

The harvest began unusually early for this. The first grapes were already ripe on August 12th, in Alsace the fruit trees were soon in bloom again, in Lindau there was even enough time for a second cherry harvest. Wine was eventually cheaper than water on Lake Constance and in Bayreuth, and in Limoges winegrowers harvested roasted grapes from which they made sherry-like wine that got drunk very quickly. In Würzburg, the winegrowers had an idea: they pressed the half-dried grapes and invented the late harvest. This millennium wine has been stored from 1540 to the present day in the Bürgerspital zum Heiligen Geist.”

Climate History: Europe’s Devastating Millennium Drought – Spectrum of Science

“Reconstructions based on documentary data indicate that the summers of 1531–1540 constitute the driest summer decade in central Europe for the past five centuries, between 1501 and 2010 CE.”

cp-2020-92.pdf

“we investigated the severity of the 1540 drought by putting forward the argument of the known soil desiccation-temperature feedback. Based on more than 300 first-hand documentary weather report sources originating from an area of 2 to 3 million km², we show that Europe was affected by an unprecedented 11-month-long Megadrought. The estimated number of precipitation days and precipitation amount for Central and Western Europe in 1540 is significantly lower than the 100-year minima of the instrumental measurement period for spring, summer and autumn. This result is supported by independent documentary evidence about extremely low river flows and Europe-wide wild-, forest- and settlement fires. We found that an event of this severity cannot be simulated by state-of-the-art climate models.”

The year-long unprecedented European heat and drought of 1540 – a worst case | SpringerLink

The Greenland Ice Sheet has a very short melt season, which normally begins in early June. This year the ice surface is continuing to gain mass on the summer solstice and is above average accumulation for the fourth year of the past six. Temperatures at the North Pole remain below freezing and continue to be record cold for June.

Surface Conditions: Polar Portal

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming will partially reopen this week after historic flooding.

Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado has closures due to flooding.

Flooding from snowmelt leads to Rocky Mountain National Park closures, tubing restrictions in St. Vrain River | Colorado Public Radio

New Mexico is racing against flooding.

Los Alamos, NM 10-Day Weather Forecast | Weather Underground

The World Economic Forum says the west is having an historic megadrought caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

The Western US megadrought and its link to climate change | World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum also says they want the peasants impoverished and locked up in their homes while the elites jet set around the world.

Emissions fell during lockdown. Let’s keep it that way | World Economic Forum

A thousand private jets whisk the world’s elite to Davos forum | News | The Times

Now is the time for a ‘great reset’ of capitalism | World Economic Forum

Addressing climate change through carbon taxes | World Economic Forum

“Germany has to cut natural gas consumption and increase the burning of coal as the country moves away from its dependence on Russia for its energy supplies, Economy Minister Robert Habeck announced Sunday.”

Germany to fire up coal plants as Russia cuts gas supply

Six months ago :

“Germany signs pledge to end foreign fossil fuel funding by 2022, hailed as “game changer”

Day 9 at COP26: Germany signs pledge to end foreign fossil fuel funding by 2022, hailed as “game changer” | Clean Energy Wire

Fifty years ago this week was the Watergate break in. The New York Times, Washington Post and Democrats in general were outraged and ran President Nixon out of office. They said the problem wasn’t so much the break-in, but rather the cover-up.

Now these same groups ignore and cover-up vastly worse crimes committed by Obama, Hillary, Biden, the FBI and the intelligence community against the American people.

20 Jun 1972, 2 – The La Crosse Tribune at Newspapers.com