Real Climate Science

6:20 PM · Jan 5, 2022

Opinion | Imagine Virginia’s traffic jam but with only electric vehicles – The Washington Post

There are three times as many “active cases” in the US now as there was when the mass injections were started.

United States COVID – Coronavirus Statistics – Worldometer

“Two great blizzards hit western Kansas the first week of January 1886.  The first blizzard began on the 1st around noon at Dodge City and continued until the early morning hours of the 3rd.  During this time, seven and a half inches of snow fell (Although it could be argued that much more than that fell based on “melted snow” observations that were taken.  See meteorological discussion below) and wind speeds averaged 20 to 30 mph from the north to northwest.  The lowest temperature was 12 °F on the 3rd.  A second, more severe blizzard followed on the 6th and 7th and was accompanied by Arctic air that sent temperatures plummeting to well below zero.  Even though only two inches of snow fell, the wind combined with the brutally cold air made this one of the coldest periods on record.  The temperature did not rise above 10°F at Dodge City until the 11th.  The coldest temperature was 16°F below zero on the 8th.

There was no advance warning for the cold wave and 2nd blizzard that hit on the night of the 6th.    The Chief Signal Office sent a notification for a cold wave.  However, because of the conditions, the telegraph office in Dodge City did not receive it until the storm came to an end.  It is not clear how many more cattle were lost across Kansas during this time.  It was estimated that  75-80 percent of cattle had been killed in some counties.  What is known is that this was the worst natural disaster for the entire stateof Kansas.  There was a livestock fence north of the Union Pacific railroad tracks in northern Kansas.  Cattle would drift south with the storms and eventually wound up dying of starvation and exhaustion along the fence.  It was said that a man could walk along the fence over bones all the way to eastern Colorado.  South of the railroad, cattle would march south until they ended up falling into ravines or small canyons.  Other cattle would follow and eventually would wind up on top of the cattle in the ravine.  The cattle would die by smothering, starvation or freezing.”

The first week in January marked the 130th Anniversary of two great blizzards that hit western Kansas

Arctic sea ice extent is the highest 18 years, about the same as 1991 and greater than 1922

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

January 4, 1991                                                    January 4, 2022

During May 1921 there was a massive solar storm which was associated with a worldwide heatwave and drought.

23 May 1921, 5 – News-Record at Newspapers.com

TimesMachine: May 15, 1921 – NYTimes.com

TimesMachine: May 16, 1921 – NYTimes.com

TimesMachine: May 16, 1921 – NYTimes.com

TimesMachine: May 16, 1921 – NYTimes.com

15 May 1921, 55 – The San Francisco Examiner at Newspapers.com

The Great Storm of May 1921: An Exemplar of a Dangerous Space Weather Event – Hapgood – 2019 – Space Weather – Wiley Online Library

Intensity and Impact of the New York Railroad Superstorm of May 1921 – Love – 2019 – Space Weather – Wiley Online Library

Pueblo, Colorado was largely wiped out by a flood during June, 1921.  Much of Kansas suffered damage, and there was flooding on the Pecos River in New Mexico and Texas.

06 Jun 1921, 1 – The Arkansas City Daily News at Newspapers.com

It is estimated that 1,500 people in Pueblo, Colorado died during that flood.

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The average maximum temperature in the US during 1921 was second highest on record after 1934.

04 Sep 1921, 61 – New York Herald at Newspapers.com

Switzerland’s Lake Morat dried up.

04 Sep 1921, 61 – New York Herald at Newspapers.com

This is what Lake Morat looks like now.

11 Oct 1921 – Heat Wave – Trove

11 Oct 1921 – PHENOMENAL WEATHER. – Trove

The heat was blamed on sunspots

#448 – The Graphic : an illustrated weekly newspaper. … v.104 (Jul.-Dec.1921)

One hundred years ago the LA Times reported on unheard-of-warmth in the Arctic.

03 Dec 1922, 20 – The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com

This came from a US Weather Bureau article.

The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers who sail the seas about Spitsbergen and the eastern Arctic, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto un-heard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth’s surface.

He says that he first noted warmer conditions in 1918, that since that time it has steadily gotten warmer, and that to-day the Arctic of that region is not recognizable as the same region of 1868 to 1917. Many old landmarks are so changed as to be unrecognizable. Where formerly great masses of ice were found, there are now often moraines, accumulations of earth and stones. At many points where glaciers formerly extended far into the sea they have entirely disappeared.

so little ice has never before been noted. The expedition all but established a record, sailing as far north as 81° 29? in ice-free water. This is the farthest north ever reached with modern oceanographic apparatus.

formerly the waters about Spitzbergen held an even summer temperature of about 3 Celsius this year recorded temperatures up to 15°, and last winter the ocean did not freeze over even on the north coast of Spitzbergen

ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/mwr/064/mwr-064-02-c1.pdf

03 Dec 1922, Page 63 – The Washington Times at Newspapers.com

Earlier in 1922, explorer Stefansson reported the ice between the North Pole and Alaska was young, thin, rotten, moving ice.

29 Jan 1922, Page 35 – The St. Louis Star and Times at Newspapers.com

The University of Alaska sea ice atlas shows there is about as much ice now as there was 100 years ago in the western Arctic.

Historical Sea Ice Atlas

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Libya reached 136 degrees in 1922 – which was the official world’s record until recently when the Ministry of Truth erased it.

07 May 1927, 10 – The Daily Record at Newspapers.com

29 Dec 1923, Page 5 – at Newspapers.com

12 Apr 1924, 7 – Spokane Chronicle at Newspapers.com

On September 2, 2021 the CDC removed the words “immunity” and “protects you from a specific disease” from the definition of vaccine. The government lied and people died.

Under the Virginia Clean Economy Act the intent is to eliminate fossil fuel powered vehicles.

https://www.nescaum.org/documents/mhdv-zev-mou_12-14-2021.pdf/

If this rule was in place, it is likely many people would be freezing to death right now on I-95, including Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine.

How Cold Weather Affects Electric Cars | GreenCars

The Virginia legislature has mandated elimination of coal and natural gas fired electricity

Virginia passes bill to achieve 100% carbon-free power by 2045 | Reuters

LIS > Bill Tracking > HB1526 > 2020 session

Winds are dead calm and solar panels are covered with snow. Without fossil fuels, millions of people would be freezing in their homes. The VCEA is reckless and dangerous.

Ventusky – Wind, Rain and Temperature Maps

The Bill is also pointless – it won’t have any impact on the climate. Sea level rise rates in Virginia have not changed over the past century and are below NOAA’s lowest scenario.

Sea Level Trends – NOAA Tides & Currents

Heatwaves have declined in Virginia.

Lincoln VA is the closest USHCN station to Washington DC in Virginia, they have seen a decrease in heatwaves and no change in snowfall.

Virginia has seen a decline in drought and an increase in precipitation since the 19th century.

Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Things weren’t always this good however. The Jamestown Colonists were almost wiped out by the worst drought in 800 years.

The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts | Science

Researchers Find Evidence Of 16th Century Epic Drought Over North America — ScienceDaily

Virginia emits about 100 million metric tons of CO2 every year.

Total Carbon Dioxide Emissions From All Sectors, All Fuels for Virginia (EMISSCO2TOTVTTTOVAA) | FRED | St. Louis Fed

That is less than 0.3% of the world’s total emissions. Asian countries are greatly increasing their CO2 emissions. Virginia could drop off the map and it would have no impact on CO2 or temperature.

Annual CO? emissions from fossil fuels, by world region

Report: China emissions exceed all developed nations combined – BBC News

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The wind farms angering renewable energy fans – ABC News

Global Monitoring Laboratory – Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases

January 4 Arctic sea ice extent was the highest in eighteen years.

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

Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

Antarctica just had their coldest six months on record.

This came after their coldest January in over 40 years.

Antarctica set to coldest January since 1978, Southern Hemisphere hasn´t been so cold almost 10 years – mkweather

Experts predicted peak warming in Antarctica.

Manila Standard – Google News Archive Search

In 1984, NASA’s James Hansen predicted 4C global warming and 5-8C warming in Antarctica, which was going to be the fastest warming place on earth.

Wayback Machine

Three weeks ago the US government claimed that earth was experiencing dramatic sea ice loss and Greenland was rapidly melting.

Rising temperatures are causing an unprecedented transformation in the Arctic – The Verge

Greenland’s surface has gained about two trillion tons of ice over the past five years, which is about 500 billion tons above normal.

Surface Conditions: Polar Portal

The New Jersey State Climatologist says heavy snows there were caused by global warming – “It is a physical principle.”

This is the exact opposite of what IPCC and New Jersey government predicted.

IPCC Third Assessment Report – Climate Change 2001 – Complete online versions | GRID-Arendal – Publications – Other

NJDEP Environmental Trends Report- Climate Change

Ski areas always get more snow at higher elevations, because the air is colder.

Mountain Dashboard

We have a winter storm warning today with heavy snow and very cold temperatures.

Cheyenne, WY Severe Weather Alert | Weather Underground

New Jersey has a long history of severe snowstorms.

The Great Blizzard of 1888 May Have Been The Worst Snowstorm Ever In New Jersey

29 Jan 1897, 1 – The News-Journal at Newspapers.com

08 Mar 1899, Page 1 – The Leavenworth Times at Newspapers.com

02 Mar 1941, Page 27 – The Minneapolis Star at Newspapers.com

I spent March 2018 in Philadelphia – it was the coldest and snowiest on record.

The number of above freezing winter days is about the same as 70 years ago.

The number of heavy snowfalls is the same as 120 years ago.

New Jersey winter snowfall varies inversely with temperature.

The warmest winter was 1932, when the Lake Placid, NY Olympics almost had to be cancelled due to a lack of snow.

16 Jan 1932, Page 1 – The Los Angeles Times 

Addison, New York was 74 degrees on January 14, 1932.

Spreadsheet

Climate alarmists have been predicting the end of winter for decades. When their predictions failed, they reversed them and said they predicted it all along.

With Warmer Weather, Different Decisions to Make – The New York Times

The Washington Post predicted seven years ago that cherry blossoms would start blooming in January.

Could cherry blossoms one day be blooming in winter? – The Washington Post

The New Jersey climatologist is a political hack.  Real climatologists like David Legates who was Delaware State Climatologist get run out of their jobs.

War on NOAA? A Climate Denier’s Arrival Raises Fears the Agency’s Climate Mission Is Under Attack | InsideClimate News

Arctic sea ice extent is the highest in 18 years.

Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

The summer of 2020 was just about average.