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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

Michael Mann says we have less than a decade to save the planet from global warming.

“We have less than a decade now to bring carbon emissions down globally by 50% if we are to remain on a path that keeps warming below that, sort of, catastrophic one-and-a-half degree Celsius, three degree Fahrenheit warming of the planet where the things that we’re starting to see now become much worse and we get extremes that we haven’t seen before”

In 2006, Al Gore said we had a decade to save the planet from global warming.

“unless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse gases are taken within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return, Gore said.”

2006: Al Gore Does Sundance – CBS News

In 1989, the United Nations said we had a decade to save the planet from global warming.

“UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ?eco- refugees,? ? threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP. He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control. As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.”

U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked

The Maldives seem to be doing just fine.

?LIVE? Webcam Kuredu Island Resort | SkylineWebcams

Joe Biden has been in Washington DC for fifty years and in the White House for ten years. Globally the use of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions have greatly grown during that time.

Global Monitoring Laboratory – Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases

Global Monitoring Laboratory – Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases

Global primary energy consumption by source

There is no indication that outside of former British Colonies and a few western European countries anyone has any interest in this scam.

Wayback Machine

Wayback Machine

And cutting spending on “green energy.”

China has slashed clean energy funding by 39%, leading a global decline | MIT Technology Review

This is about shutting down the US energy supply.

How millions of lives can be saved if the US acts now on climate | Climate crisis | The Guardian

John Kerry: ‘Great Reset’ Will Happen At Greater Speed, Intensity Than People Might Imagine | Harbingers Daily

John Kerry: ‘Great Reset’ Will Happen At Greater Speed, Intensity Than People Might Imagine | Harbingers Daily

Two weeks old today

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.  Therefore by their fruits you will know them.”

– Matthew 7:15-20

Barack Obama recently purchased a home worth $19 million on the beach in Martha’s Vineyard, and he is installing a huge propane tank. He also owns a mansion on the beach in Hawaii.  There are several things which can be concluded from this.

1. He isn’t worried about sea level rise
2. He is relying on fossil fuels rather than wind and solar.
3. He is concerned that the energy infrastructure isn’t stable.

“The select board approved a request for a 2,500-gallon commercial propane tank for 79 Turkeyland Cove Road in Katama — owned by former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. “We’ve never had a private propane tank come to us,” said select board member Arthur Smadbeck, with select board member Michael Donaroma noting a private-residence propane tank is typically a fraction of the quantity being requested. “

Memorial Wharf construction still not completed  – The Martha’s Vineyard Times

Recently Sold Homes – 862 Transactions | Zillow

President Obama’s Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failures

1. Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*
2. SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
3. Solyndra ($535 million)*
4. Beacon Power ($43 million)*
5. Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
6. SunPower ($1.2 billion)
7. First Solar ($1.46 billion)
8. Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
9. EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
10. Amonix ($5.9 million)
11. Fisker Automotive ($529 million)
12. Abound Solar ($400 million)*
13. A123 Systems ($279 million)*
14. Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981)*
15. Johnson Controls ($299 million)
16. Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
17. ECOtality ($126.2 million)
18. Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
19. Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
20. Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
21. Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
22. Range Fuels ($80 million)*
23. Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)*
24. Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
25. Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*
26. GreenVolts ($500,000)
27. Vestas ($50 million)
28. LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)
29. Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
30. Navistar ($39 million)
31. Satcon ($3 million)*
32. Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)*
33. Mascoma Corp. ($100 million)

This is what she actually looks like in the place where she actually lives.

“HISTORIC STORMS.

No Greater Tendency to Destructive Storms at Present Than in Former Periods.

The rapid succession and destructive results of the severe storms that have visited the United States this year have provoked popular comment and created serious alarm. It is claimed by many, who could not have studied the subject attentively, that in the present generation there is an increased tendency to these violent atmospheric disturbances. To dissipate this idea is the purpose of this paper.”

June 18, 1882

“Surat, in the East Indies, had several thousand of its inhabitants killed in a terrible cyclone on the 22d of April, 1782.

Dienpole, in Monravia, was totally destroyed in a cyclone on the 30th of May of the same year.

On the 17th of June, the same season, immense damage was done all over America, particularly on the New England coast.”

18 Jun 1882, Page 2 – The Topeka Daily Capital at Newspapers.com

On June 17, 1882 much of the Midwest was devastated by tornadoes, including one which killed dozens of people in Iowa and largely destroyed Grinnell and Ripley, Iowa.

19 Jun 1882, 1 – Evening Herald at Newspapers.com

18 Jun 1882, Page 1 – The Sun at Newspapers.com

18 Jun 1882, Page 1 – The Philadelphia Times at Newspapers.com