“Over the next several decades, the Western United States and the semi-arid region from North Dakota to Texas will develop semi-permanent drought”
James Hansen 2012
Opinion | Game Over for the Climate – The New York Times
There is no indication drought is increasing in those states.
Palmer Drought Severity Index (Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas)
ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cirs/climdiv/climdiv-pdsidv-v1.0.0-20231206
“I do not wish to seem overdramatic, but 1 can only conclude from the information that is available to me as Secretary General, that the Members of the United Nations have perhaps ten years left in which to subordinate their ancient quarrels and launch a global partnership to curb the arms race, to improve the human environment, to defuse the population explosion, and to supply the required momentum to development efforts. If such a global partnership is not forged within the next decade, then I very much fear that the problems I have mentioned will have reached such staggering proportions that they will be beyond our capacity to control.”
U THANT, 1969
The Limits to Growth. A report for the Club of Rome’s project on the predicament of mankind.
“The Common Enemy or Humanity Is Man
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and in their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which demands the solidarity of all peoples. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap about which we have already warned, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”
Club of Rome 1991
“Exhaled human breath can contain small, elevated concentrations of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), both of which contribute to global warming. “
The geophysical profession exists largely to find and produce oil.
Geophysicist salary in United States
The American Geophysical Union has been feeding the anti-fossil fuel agenda for a long time, and now the crocodile has come back to eat them.
Position Statement on Climate Change | AGU
There is no indication that any of the things these people are protesting have suffered ill effects from the use of fossil fuels.
Crop Yields – Our World in Data
Crop Yields – Our World in Data
Catherine McKenna (Former Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Canada) explains how to market global warming to the public.
“Anyone who’s responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America,” Biden said in the opening remarks of the showdown that comes just 12 days before the election.”
Biden: Anyone Responsible For So Many Covid Deaths ‘Should Not’ Be President | Barron’s
“Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday said China will “overachieve” in its pledge to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060”
Gore believes China will ‘overachieve’ on emissions goal | The Hill
Gore is concerned about Australia however.
The same weather California has always had is now “The erratic reality of climate change”
The Extreme Weather of 2023, Visualized | by Foursquare | Foursquare | Nov, 2023 | Medium
“EXCEPTIONAL YEARS.
A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FLOODS AND DROUGHT.BY J. M. GUINN. March 4, 1889
If there is one characteristic of his State, of which the true Californian is prouder than another, it is its climate. With his tables of mean temperature and records of cloudless days and gentle sunshine, he is prepared to prove that California has the most glorious climate in the world, Should the rains descend and the floods prevail, or should the heavens become as brass, and neither the former nor the latter rains fall, these climatic extremes, he excuses on the plea of exceptional years, It is with the record that these exceptional years have made that I propose to deal in this paper. Equable conditions, whether climatic or social, have nothing of the tragic in them, and history delights in the tragic. While Central and Southern California have been about equally affected by floods and droughts, my record of their effects applies principally to Southern California.
EXCEPTIONAL YEARS: A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FLOODS AND DROUGHT
In 2008, Seth Borenstein quoted academics as saying we are toast and this is our last chance. Fifteen years later he is still quoting academics saying the same thing
“We’re toast if we don’t get on a very different path,” Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences
To cut emissions, Hansen said coal-fired power plants that don’t capture carbon dioxide emissions shouldn’t be used in the United States after 2025, and should be eliminated in the rest of the world by 2030.
“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.
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., committee chairman, said, “Dr. Hansen was right. Twenty years later, we recognize him as a climate prophet.”
NASA climate expert warns planet facing its last chance
“if we don’t quickly cut back on how we are stressing the Earth, we’re toast,”
September 13, 2023
