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Mountain Goats Are Shrinking—A Lot—Because of Global Warming

Climate change means smaller strawberries, higher costs for farmers – ABC News

This is how “Scientific American” reports on glacial melting now.

Alarming Sonar Results Show Glaciers May Be Melting Faster Than We Expected – Scientific American

There is no indication that sea level rise has accelerated.

680-140 Sydney, Fort Denison 1 & 2, Australia

This is how they reported on glacial melting in 1904.

Observations of the Alpine glaciers during a series of years have supplied proof that these great ice streams have long been in process of recession.

The information given on the map indicates that in the past fifty-three years the face of the glacier has retreated about eight miles. Not only is it shorter than it formerly was, but its mass has otherwise been reduced to a very considerable extent. The surface of the glacier now lies from 20 to 30 feet below its former level and the precipitous walls of rock that hem it in bear the record of this change of level. It is found also that the other glaciers in that neighbor; hood are in process of retreat, and the evidence collected by Dr. Engell shows that this process has been going on for a long series of years. This evidence would seem to show that for the past half century the summer heat has been greater than it was for at least a considerable period before that time

• Scientific American  August 13, `1904

Scientific American – Google Books

And according to NASA, 1904 was the second coldest year on record.

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Weather Underground says global warming is making India’s monsoons more chaotic.

India’s Monsoon Becoming Wetter, More Chaotic Because of Climate Change

India’s Monsoon Becoming Wetter, More Chaotic Because of Climate Change

Realty is that warmer temperatures make India’s monsoons more stable and reduce droughts and famines.

In India, for example, before the global warming trend of1890-1940. severe drought struck about once every four years. With the warming, however, and more abundant monsoon rains, drought came only once every 18 years or so, greatly increasing India’s grain production. Some *climatologists think that if the current cooling trend continues, drought will occur more frequently in India

ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/journals/noaa/QC851U461974oct.pdf

Five years ago I called out the New York Times for claiming that 10.1 million acres burned in the US was a record.

New York Times Climate Fraud – Called Out By The New York Times | Real Climate Science

I used this New York Times article to show that burn acreage in 2015 was only half of 1937.

October 9, 1938 – NYTimes

Sometime since, they silently rewrote the text (without errata) and now ignore all the years before 1960.

They are creating a fraudulent and rewritten version of history to push climate fraud.

2010-sustainability-report.pdf

Warming? Tree Rings Say Not Yet – The New York Times

Next big lie is “climate change.”

PART 1: CNN Director ADMITS Network Engaged in ‘Propaganda’ to Remove Trump from Presidency … ‘Our Focus Was to Get Trump Out of Office’ … ‘I Came to CNN Because I Wanted to Be a Part of That’ | Project Veritas

The number of days over 100F at DFW reported by the National Weather Service has been increasing and peaked in 2011.

DFW – 100° Day Data

But at Weatherford, which is a reasonably well sited rural station west of Fort Worth, 100 degree days peaked in 1980 and have been declining long term.

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/USC00419532.dly

Government scientists know for certain what the climate will be like in 100 years, but have a lot of trouble predicting two weeks in future or admitting they don’t know what they are talking about.

Biden 2012, running for re-election.

8:05 PM · Oct 11, 2012

Nine years later …

10:09 AM · Apr 13, 2021

Ten years ago today, the BBC said droughts and floods in Australia were evidence of global warming.

“Floods in Queensland and drought in Western Australia have raised fears that Australia is already suffering the effects of global warming.”

BBC News – Hardtalk – Is global warming already happening in Australia?

Australia has been suffering droughts and floods almost continuously since at least 1780.

04 Jan 1876 – DRY WEATHER. – Trove

NOAA says they know what the climate will be like in 100 years, but can’t predict it two weeks into the future.

They predicted a warm February, and it was the coldest in more than 30 years.

Climate Prediction Center – OFFICIAL 30-Day Forecasts

U.S. had its coldest February in more than 30 years | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

February 2021 was the coldest February on record since 1989 – CNN

After their forecast failed, they blamed it on a disrupted polar vortex caused by global warming.

Understanding the Arctic polar vortex | NOAA Climate.gov

They used the same diagram which Science News in 1975 used to explain global cooling.

March 1, 1975 | Science News

Two weeks ago they predicted a warm April, and got that forecast backwards.

Climate Prediction Center – Revised OFFICIAL 30-Day Forecasts

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

This is what is currently showing on NOAA’s main page :

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | U.S. Department of Commerce

Despite pandemic shutdowns, carbon dioxide and methane surged in 2020 – Welcome to NOAA Research

First they acknowledge that government doesn’t control greenhouse gases, then they say government has to control greenhouse gases.

Global Monitoring Laboratory – Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases

US CO2 emissions have been declining for fifteen years, as China’s have skyrocketed.

Annual CO? emissions

Annual share of global CO? emissions

Annual total CO? emissions, by world region

Wayback Machine

China coal power building boom sparks climate warning – BBC News

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

John Kerry admits that the US doesn’t control atmospheric CO2 and says that he is hopeful China will collaborate.

Kerry: Zero emissions won’t make difference in climate change

The last time Biden was in the White House, they pulled the same scam.

U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change | whitehouse.gov

NOAA predicts 78 feet of sea level rise, and forests growing in what is now tundra due to increased levels of CO2.

Despite pandemic shutdowns, carbon dioxide and methane surged in 2020 – Welcome to NOAA Research

The Arctic was ice-free and trees grew all the way to the edge of the Arctic Ocean from 4,000 to 9,000 years ago, when CO2 levels were much lower.

Less Ice In Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 Years Ago — ScienceDaily

Holocene Treeline History and Climate Change Across Northern Eurasia – ScienceDirect

The sea level story is the same as 30 years ago, when globalists said we would drown unless we submitted to global governance.

“GOVERNMENTS must yield national sovereignty to multilateral authorities able to enforce laws “across environmentally invisible frontiers” if the green-house effect, which threatens the future of whole nations, is to be overcome, the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Sir Shridath Ramphal, said on Tuesday.”

“A Commonwealth Expert Group set up to look at climate change estimated there was a 90 per cent certainty that sea levels would rise by between one and four metres by the year 2030.”

26 Jan 1989 – Call for anti-greenhouse action – Trove

26 Sep 1988 – Threat to islands – Trove

Stormy weather – Global warming – Salon.com

Mercury News: Search Results

And NOAA is fearmongering about methane “over a 100 year time frame”

Despite pandemic shutdowns, carbon dioxide and methane surged in 2020 – Welcome to NOAA Research

If NOAA scientists bothered to read NOAA research, they would know that the residence time of methane in the atmosphere is only nine years.

CTA_the_methane_cycle.pdf

There are lots of other reasons why the methane story is bogus.  The graph below was generated using the RRTM-LW model from AER, with their standard mid-latitude summer atmosphere parameters as input.  This is the model used by the National Center for Atmospheric Research in their weather and climate models. The Y-axis shows the amount of downwelling longwave radiation (i.e. greenhouse effect) produced by different levels of greenhouse gases in the mid-latitude summer lower troposphere (952 mb.)  The X-axis is logarithmic, with four values plotted for each gas.

1. 0% of current levels
2. 10% of current levels
3. 100% of current levels
4. 1000% of current levels

Each of the three curves assumes constant (current) values for the other two gases.

Water vapor (H2O) is far and away the dominant greenhouse gas.  With no water vapor, the amount of DLWR would be less than one third of its current value.

CO2 is significant, but much smaller than H2O.  CH4 (methane) is nearly inconsequential. If you reduce methane by 10X or increase it by 10X, the change in DLWR (downwelling longwave radiation) is small. Claims that CH4 is 28X stronger than H2O are complete nonsense and have no basis in science.

It is easy to see why methane is inconsequential in the spectral diagram below. Methane only has three small peaks, compared with the much larger and broader peaks of H2O and CO2.  A good way to estimate greenhouse gas potential is to measure the area under the curve for each gas.  The area under the methane curve is quite small compared to the areas under the H2O and CO2 curves.

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But methane has another problem, its peaks line up with H2O peaks, so those spectral bands are nearly saturated.

It is also impossible to build up large amounts of methane in an atmosphere which contains oxygen, because it quickly oxidizes in the presence of oxygen into H2O and CO2. That is why we use it for a fuel. The concentration of methane during mid-latitude summer is a tiny 1.7 PPM, but planets (including Earth) emit a lot of methane.  Saturn’s moon Titan has methane seas. The reason Titan is able to hold its methane is because it has almost no oxygen.

Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan | NASA

Earth is nothing like Titan, because we have oxygen. The global warming potential of methane on Earth is thus very small, and is nearly inconsequential compared to water vapor.