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Biden depleting the US oil reserve after shutting down production capacity, is equivalent to using bloodletting as a treatment after slashing the patient’s wrists.

The US Is Depleting Its Strategic Petroleum Reserve Faster Than It Looks – The Washington Post

“California continues to lead the nation in green technology and has the lowest greenhouse gas emissions per capita, even with a growing economy and population.”

Why is California closing Diablo Canyon nuclear plant?

Wind turbines at Altamont Pass kill an estimated 880 to 1,300 birds of prey each year, including up to 116 golden eagles, 300 red-tailed hawks, 380 burrowing owls, and additional hundreds of other raptors including kestrels, falcons, vultures, and other owl species.

Microsoft Word – Altamont fact sheet 3.doc

Green is defined by lowest CO2 emissions, which are what is making earth greener.

“From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.”

Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds | NASA

What California is actually doing is moving their electricity production to coal fired power plants in Wyoming.  In doing this they can claim low CO2 emissions, while actually raising them through power loses in long transmission lines.

Closing Diablo Canyon spurs fears over replacement power – Capitol Weekly | Capitol Weekly | Capitol Weekly: The Newspaper of California State Government and Politics.

With the FBI in possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop, CNN made the case that it was “Russian disinformation” – citing lies by Joe Biden and the intelligence community.

“Biden accused Trump of spreading Russian disinformation after the President brought up recent articles in the New York Post about Biden’s son, Hunter, and his business dealings with Ukraine. Trump specifically cited a “laptop” that contained emails allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden.

“There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plant,” Biden said. “… Five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except his good friend Rudy Giuliani.”

CNN fact check – Did Trump spread Russian disinformation during the debate?

This was the same intelligence community which spent the last six years trying to cancel Donald Trump with one fabricated story after another.

Sounds familiar ….

Ukrainian parliament bans Russian music — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

Three days ago the press reported that New Mexico is having an unprecedented megadrought. Today New Mexico is flooding.

Three days ago.

“How New Mexico is learning to live with the megadrought”

“The American West hasn’t seen a drought like the one its experiencing now in more than 1,200 years.”

How New Mexico is learning to live with the megadrought | On Point

Today.

” flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible”

Los Alamos, NM Severe Weather Alert | Weather Underground

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

This is the same weather New Mexico has always had, alternating between very dry and wet periods.

OliverHarleyMaxwell19-April30-2500Yrs-HydroClimateVar-NewMexico

The Anasazi were wiped out by a seventy year long drought during the 13th century.

Graphic: California’s droughts in the past 1,200 years – The Mercury News

Ancient Trees Reflect Century-Long Droughts : Environment: Analysis of stumps’ rings shows that dry spells can last far longer than the state has estimated, expert says. – latimes

16 Jun 1994, 3 – The Fresno Bee at Newspapers.com

Thirty years ago, the New York Times knew that the 20th century was unusually wet in California, and that the Medieval Warm Period was global.

“Lisa J. Graumlich, who examines the ring patterns of foxtail pine trees and western junipers in the Sierra Nevada, has compiled a detailed record of the year-to-year variation in temperature and precipitation over the last thousand years.

She has seen in the North American trees the feathery but unmistakable signatures of the Medieval Warm Period, a era from 1100 to 1375 A.D. when, according to European writers of the time and other sources, the climate was so balmy that wine grapes flourished in Britain and the Vikings farmed the now-frozen expanse of Greenland; and the Little Ice Age, a stretch of abnormally frigid weather lasting roughly from 1450 to 1850. A Crucial Question

“We can now see that these were global climate phenomena, not regional temperature variations,” she said. “The question is, how did we get those warmer temperatures during pre-industrial times, and what can we learn from those conditions about what is going on today?”

Western landscapes in presettlement era were very smoky places.

Warming? Tree Rings Say Not Yet – The New York Times

Severe Ancient Droughts: A Warning to California – The New York Times

Upala and Toki grow increasingly concerned about the climate emergency.

“Another Ice Age?    Monday, Jun 24, 1974

Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest. Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.

Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa’s drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms—the Midwest’s recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example.”

TIME Magazine Archive Article — Another Ice Age? — Jun. 24, 1974