Today, the Guardian announced that there is no cancel culture.
Bobcat Goldthwait: ‘There is no cancel culture’ | Movies | The Guardian
This came a few hours after The Age cartoonist Michael Leunig got cancelled.
The Age cartoonist Michael Leunig falls victim to ‘cancel crowd’ | Sky News Australia
The UN says we have until, the year 2050 to stop global warming, which is fifty years past their original deadline.
Another year, another boondoggle.
One hundred years ago this week, Science Magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science endorsed eugenics, which later became the “scientific basis” of the Holocaust.
“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
— John Steinbeck, “East of Eden”
Three days ago, the New York Times announced the permanent drought in California. Now they are flooded.
What to Know About the Drought in California and Western Half of U.S. – The New York Times
After Fires and Droughts, California Prepares for Heavy Rain – The New York Times
Five years ago, the New York Times announced the permanent drought, which was followed by their wettest winter on record.
California Braces for Unending Drought – The New York Times
NWS: Northern California now on pace for ‘wettest water year on record’ – SFGate
In 1977, the New York Times announced the California permanent drought, which was followed by flooding.
Brown Warns of Drought Disaster; Says ‘Hard Choices’ Face California – The New York Times
09 Jun 1977, Page 1 – The Daily Inter Lake at Newspapers.com
TimesMachine: August 16, 1977 – NYTimes.com
TimesMachine: March 5, 1978 – NYTimes.com
In 1963, drought was followed by flooding
TimesMachine: January 21, 1963
TimesMachine: February 2, 1963 – NYTimes.com
(PDF) Fifty-two years of “pineapple-express” storms across the West Coast of North America
There has been no trend in California precipitation over the last 125 years.
Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
25 Jan 1862, Page 3 – Daily Ohio Statesman
Central Valley, California, 1861-62 – Top 10 Historic U.S. Floods – TIME
The West Without Water – Google Books
EXCEPTIONAL YEARS: A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FLOODS AND DROUGHT
11 Oct 1859, 3 – Daily National Democrat at Newspapers.com
It was 110F in October 1859 – the same year when Santa Barbara reach 133F on June 17 and the largest recorded solar storm occurred in early August.
13 Jun 1877, Page 2 – San Francisco Chronicle at Newspapers.com
13 Aug 1859, 2 – Pointe Coupee Democrat at Newspapers.com
29 Jun 1859, 4 – The Sacramento Bee at Newspapers.com
31 Aug 1859, Page 2 – Detroit Free Press at Newspapers.com
14 Sep 1859, Page 1 – The Louisville Daily Courier at Newspapers.com
31 Aug 1859, 1 – The Cadiz Sentinel at Newspapers.com
06 Sep 1859, Page 2 – Brooklyn Evening Star at Newspapers.com
There was a tremendous flood on the Mississippi the week before the record heat in Santa Barbara
09 Jun 1859, 2 – Chicago Tribune at Newspapers.com
14 May 1859, 1 – The Courier-Journal at Newspapers.com
30 Apr 1859, Page 1 – The Times-Picayune at Newspapers.com
29 Oct 1859, 3 – Sheffield and Rotherham Independent at Newspapers.com
01 Nov 1859, 4 – The Leeds Mercury at Newspapers.com
“BEGINNING about 1,100 years ago, what is now California baked in two droughts, the first lasting 220 years and the second 140 years. Each was much more intense than the mere six-year dry spells that afflict modern California from time to time, new studies of past climates show. The findings suggest, in fact, that relatively wet periods like the 20th century have been the exception rather than the rule in California for at least the last 3,500 years, and that mega-droughts are likely to recur.”
Severe Ancient Droughts: A Warning to California – The New York Times
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.”
12 Sep 1939, Page 20 – The Sheboygan Press at Newspapers.com
The US Forest Service collected fire data from at least 1916 to 2008, which showed that burn acreage is down 80% since the 1930s.
2010-sustainability-report.pdf
This 1938 New York Times article confirmed the data in Forest Service graph.
TimesMachine: October 9, 1938 – NYTimes.com
National Interagency Fire Center
National Interagency Fire Center
Burn acreage in the US is down 95% since the preindustrial era.
Climate alarmism depends on an ignorance of history. If more people were aware of the past, they wouldn’t be susceptible to climate fearmongering.
Politifact has erased America’s fire history saying the historical data is unreliable and many fires in the past were man-made.
PolitiFact | No, wildfires weren’t bigger in the 1920s and ‘30s than today
The historical data shows more than fifty million acres burned, not forty million.
National Report on Sustainable Forests — 2010
The reason for the high burn acreage during the 1930s was the record heat and drought.
Temperature Changes in the United States – Climate Science Special Report
20 Jan 1931 – STARVATION IN U.S.A. – Trove
20 Feb 1931, Page 13 – Dunkirk Evening Observer at Newspapers.com
National Interagency Fire Center
National Fire News | National Interagency Fire Center
Politifact claims that the data from the 1930s was unreliable because much of it was man-made – which is exactly the same story as now.
Wildfire Causes and Evaluations (U.S. National Park Service)
The correct way to handle perceived errors in data is to put error bars on it – not erase or alter it like government agencies do now.
Fifty years ago today, the LA Times announced the new ice age. NASA said it would come in 50-60 years.
24 Oct 1971, 37 – The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com
h/t/ Don Penim
In the UK, vaccinated adults are far more likely to get infected than unvaccinated adults. Vaccine passports should be given to the unvaccinated, as they are much less of a threat to others.
COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report – week 42
Meanwhile, pharmaceutical companies are testing their vaccines on a virus which they say doesn’t exist yet.
They also say their vaccines are 100% effective.
