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“RECEDING GLACIERS.

Except over a small area, it is generally understood, the glaciers of the world are retreating to the mountains. The glacier on Mount Sermiento in South America, which descended to the sea when Darwin found it in 1836, is now separated from the shore by a vigorous growth of timber. The Jacobshaven glacier in Greenland has retreated four miles since 1850, and the East glacier in Spitzbergen is more than a milk away from its original terminal moraine. In Scandinavia the snow-line is further up the mountains, and the glaciers have withdrawn 3,000ft. from the lowlands in a century. The Arapahoe glacier in the Rocky Mountains, with characteristic American enterprise, has been melting at a rapid rate for several years. In the Eastern Alps and one or two other small districts the glaciers are growing. In view of these facts we should not be too sceptical when old men assure us that winters nowadays are not to be compared with the winters of their boyhood.”

– May 26, 1922

26 May 1922 – RECEDING GLACIERS. – Trove

“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

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This came eight years after the previous last chance.

“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.”

– June 29, 1989

U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked

This is what the Maldives looks like today.

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In 2016, the Washington Post made up a  story that Russia was hacking the US electrical grid.

Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, U.S. officials say – The Washington Post

This story wasn’t true.

‘Fake News’ And How The Washington Post Rewrote Its Story On Russian Hacking Of The Power Grid

The Russian government is not shutting down US energy – it is the US government doing that.

Meanwhile the US is hacking the Russian electrical grid.

U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid – The New York Times

During May 2015, NOAA’s Chris Landsea posted this photo of himself with Dr. Bill Gray.

Bill was not only the best tropical meteorologist, he was also the top climate realist and a man of unmatched integrity.

Bill grew up in Washington DC with Warren Buffet and consistently out-earned Buffet as the Washington Post’s top paper deliverer.

His dream was to play baseball for the Washington Senators, but a knee injury forced him into meteorology.  I had lunch with Bill a few weeks before he passed away on April 16, 2016.

Americans Over 60 Should Get Second Booster, Official Says – The New York Times

“Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 – 1942), Thursday 18 May 1911, page 4

GRAVE NEWS ABOUT GLACIERS.

Glaciers are part of the romance of mountains; the very name gives the thrill of the lonely and high and awful even to those who are not quite sure what a glacier may be. There is grave news about glaciers; they are disappearing, it would seem. Swiss peasants who are not yet quite all modernised enough to think toy railways in harmony with the eternal hills, declare that the tourists who go to see the glaciers are the cause of the ruin. Wherever the mountain cars run the glaciers flee. A Kandersteg correspondent of the “Morning Post” gives some dreary particulars. For many years past exact observations have been taken of the movements of glaciers in the Alps. The results of last year’s records have just been published, and show that all the glaciers in the Rhone district of Switzerland are in retreat, some of them to an extent which may almost be described as alarming. For example, the Arolla glacier has receded 85ft. in the past 12 months; the Aletsch, the longest in the Alps, 65 feet; the Gorner glacier, 58 feet; the Zinal, 51 feet; while the Turtmann glacier, in the Zermatt range, and the Zanfleuren or Sanetsch glacier have retreated nearly 46 feet each. Within the last ten years the Zigiornuovo glacier has shrunk by as much as 904 feet, the Zanfleuren by 718 feet, the Aletsch by 459 feet, the Zinal by 378 feet, and the Gorner by 190 feet. Others all showed more or less shrinkage. In the short space of four years, moreover, the small Mont Bonvin glacier, in the Wildstrubel range, Bernese Oberland, has entirely disappeared from sight. Another glacier, the Plaine Morte, in the same region of the Alps, has revented a little lake in the course of its receding. It is clear that if any Australian hasn’t seen a glacier yet, he had better take the next boat.”

18 May 1911 – GRAVE NEWS ABOUT GLACIERS. – Trove

“Is the Arctic climate becoming more temperate? Remarkable new information, given by the famous Swedish authority, Professor H. Wilson Ahlmann, in a lecture to the Swedish Geographical Society, suggests that this may be the case.

Professor Ahlmann was speaking on the collated results of his expedition last summer to north-east Greenland, where he has been making glaciological studies on Clavering Island, in connection with his earlier researches in the most northerly parts of the Atlantic. The address was given before a brilliant assembly of scientists, and was illustrated by an array of magnificent colour photographs.

Professor Ahlmann stated that the glaciers of northeast Greenland show clear signs of a change towards a warmer climate. As has been observed in other parts of the Arctic, especially in Spitzbergen, the melting has increased rapidly. All, or at any rate by far the largest number of local glaciers in northeast Greenland have receded very greatly during recent decades, and it would not be exaggerating to say that these glaciers are nearing a catastrophe.”

01 Feb 1940 – GREENLAND GLACIERS MELTING – Trove

“Biden is a decent man …. he is being punished for not being a huckster.”

– New York Times    April 17, 2022

Opinion | A Biden Blood Bath? – The New York Times

The day before President Trump took office, the New York Times was working to undermine his efforts to make America energy independent.

“Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016, trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014. It is the first time in the modern era of global warming data that temperatures have blown past the previous record three years in a row. The findings come two days before the inauguration of an American president who has called global warming a Chinese plot and vowed to roll back his predecessor’s efforts to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases. In reality, the Earth is heating up, a point long beyond serious scientific dispute, but one becoming more evident as the records keep falling. Temperatures are heading toward levels that many experts believe will pose a profound threat to both the natural world and to human civilization.”

https://www.nytimes.com/images/2017/01/19/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf

Global temperatures are right at the 1979-2000 average.

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