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I spent the day documenting how the climate crisis is affecting wildlife.

On June 26, 1963 President Kennedy went to Berlin and spoke about a wall erected to keep East Berliners from escaping.  That wall has now come to the UK.

Holidays abroad will be made illegal from Monday – 5,000 fines for people trying to flee | Travel News | Travel | Express.co.uk

Last year mas shootings declined to a fifteen year low.

AP: Mass shootings plummet in 2020

But this year they have soared to a record high.

12:23 PM · Mar 24, 2021

The price of energy has skyrocketed since the election.

Gas Station Price Charts – Local & National Historical Average Trends – GasBuddy.com

Children are being locked in cages at a record rate by the Kamala Harris Administration.

Record number of unaccompanied migrant children held in border patrol custody

Infectious disease experts announced yesterday in Kenya that global warming is fueling the spread of infectious diseases in East Africa.

Climate change fuels infectious diseases in E. Africa: experts

Over the past 30 years, death rates from infectious diseases in East Africa are down 50-80%

Infectious disease death rates, 1990 to 2016

Thirteen years ago, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology announced the permanent drought in Australia.

This drought may never break

Two years later it rained so much in Australia that sea level lowered.

Australian floods of 2010 and 2011 caused global sea level to drop | Environment | The Guardian

The same pattern of  drought and fire followed by flooding has occurred, and Michael Mann says it is because of “carbon emissions”

It’s not too late for Australia to forestall a dystopian future that alternates between Mad Max and Waterworld | Climate change | The Guardian

This is the same climate Australia has always had.

“The theory of alternate long period or prevailing wet or dry seasons may be confirmed in the mind of any one who will observe the numerous small swamps in which there is a growth of gum trees, which must have required a period of at least fifteen years, during which there was no standing water on the ground, and after they had attained their present growth, a succession of hot seasons has left sufficient water on the ground to kill them.”

13 Oct 1868 – THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA

“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!”

– Dorothy Mackellar: “My Country” 1908

One hundred fifty years ago, this author lamented the prevalent superstition that the Australian climate was changing.

10 Jan 1871 – IMAGINARY CHANGES OF CLIMATE

The perceived changes have always been blamed on white men.

11 Mar 1846 – ON THE CHANGE OF CLIMATE

1974 started with historic flooding in Brisbane.

28 Jan 1974, Page 12 – The Cincinnati Enquirer at Newspapers.com

Then came record fires.

Australian bushfires: Why 2019 fire season is different from others

And 1974 finished with Cyclone Tracy destroying Darwin.

The press said these were indications of global cooling.

TIME Magazine Archive Article — Another Ice Age? — Jun. 24, 1974

29 Jan 1974, 5 – The Guardian at Newspapers.com

17 Jan 1857 – BLACK THURSDAY. – Trove

On January 14, 1939 it was 114F (46C) at Sydney, NSW. Massive fires burned most of the forest from Melbourne to Canberra, and decimated the Koala population. Residents were traumatized for years by the sounds of the Koalas screaming in the forest.

19 Aug 1940 – KOALAS FACE EXTINCTION – Trove

Inferno on Black Friday 1939: 71 deaths, 3,700 buildings, too much fuel and “lit by the hand of man” « JoNova

11 Jan 1939 – HOTTEST DAY ON RECORD IN THREE CAPITALS Seven Deaths: Many People Collapse – Trove

p1 – 14 Jan 1939 – The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 – 1954) – Trove

13 Jan 1939 – HUNDREDS FLEE FROM SWEEPING BUSHFIRE PERIL – Trove

19 Jan 1939 – The Bushfire Peril. – Trove

After telling us for decades that global warming was going to dry up our rivers, experts say that global warming is going to put too much water in our rivers.

One degree of global warming causes a 50% increase in population displacement risk

Last week, the Guardian announced the worst drought in 2,000 years.

Climate crisis: recent European droughts ‘worst in 2,000 years’ | Climate change | The Guardian

This week in 1913 brought some of the worst flooding and tornadoes on record.

Easter Sunday brought tornadoes from coast to coast.

23 Mar 1913, Page 9 – The Daily Deadwood Pioneer-Times at Newspapers.com

25 Mar 1913, 6 – The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com

The true story of our national calamity of flood, fire and tornado … – Logan Marshall – Google Books

The worst flooding in Ohio history also occurred in 1913.

09 Dec 1913, 3 – The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com

28 Mar 1913, 6 – The Baltimore Sun at Newspapers.com

27 Mar 1913, Page 1 – The Washington Post at Newspapers.com

27 Mar 1913, Page 1 – Harrisburg Telegraph at Newspapers.com

24 Mar 1913, 1 – Evening Times-Republican at Newspapers.com

25 Mar 1913, Page 5 – Reading Times at Newspapers.com

The world’s record temperature of 134F was set in California on July 10, 1913.

mwr-050-01-0010.pdf

From August 1 to September 7, 1913 Nebraska was over 100 degrees every day but one.

This picture was taken near where I bought my first house – in Richmond, Texas. The flood crest was 56 feet on December 11, 1913.

1913 was a turbulent year of weather in the British Isles. A gale in southern England on March 22 partially destroyed Worthing pier. On May 9, rain fell continuously for 36 hours at Crathes, during which time over 4 inches was recorded. On September 15, an ‘extraordinary hailstorm’ lasting about 20 minutes visited Oundle. Stones lay 9 inches deep. On the same day a waterspout was seen on the Towy River. Three waterspouts were seen at Claypole during a heavy rainstorm on October 5. On May 9, a tornado did considerable damage to trees near Crosshaven, County Cork, Ireland. “Like the tornadoes of the United States it was preceded by remarkable noises, the affected area consisting of a narrow path a few miles long.”

A Tornado in Wales

And this week in 1936, about one fourth of the US was flooded.

24 Mar 1936 – UNITED STATES FLOODS – Trove

20 Mar 1936 – ALL EASTERN AMERICA UNDER FLOOD WATERS 

Twenty-one years after experts announced the end of snow, we are having our coldest February/March in Cheyenne since 1965.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

The graph above makes it appear that there may have been station or equipment changes in 1966. The number of warm days and the number of cold nights both changed sharply in 1966.

Katharine Hayhoe was lead author of “Our Changing Climate” in the last National Climate Assessment.

Our Changing Climate | Fourth National Climate Assessment

“a finding confirmed by 3000-year long reconstructions of southwestern fire history …. Between 1970 and 2003, warmer and drier conditions increased burned area in western U.S. mid-elevation conifer forests by 650%”

Southwest | National Climate Assessment

So out of a 3,000 year study, why did they choose to only talk about the years 1970 to 2003?

National Report on Sustainable Forests — 2010

They hid all of the critical information prior to 1970 which wrecked their story.

The document below was just deleted by the Biden Administration.

Wayback Machine

1970 was near the end of a thirty year cooling trend.

21 Jul 1974, 13 – The Des Moines Register at Newspapers.com

March 1, 1975 | Science News

U.S. and Soviet Press Studies of a Colder Arctic – The New York Times

29 Jan 1974, 5 – The Guardian at Newspapers.com

International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30?Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere – The New York Times

“MARTIANS BUILD TWO IMMENSE CANALS IN TWO YEARS”

“Vast Engineering Works Accomplished in an Incredibly Short Time by Our Planetary Neighbors -Wonders of the September Sky.”

TimesMachine: August 27, 1911 – NYTimes.com

NY Times 1911 Martians Build Canals

Ten years ago today Moonbat said the Fukushima disaster made him love nuclear power.

Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power | Environment | The Guardian