In December Australian Broadcasting Corporation determined that a drought in Africa is the worst in century, and they knew this because a guy in his 30s who sells tourist handicrafts told them so.
Meanwhile, the area was having its third wettest season record.
Victoria Falls thunders again after stark dry season photos | AccuWeather
Here is the same story from 1950.
No, this is not from The Onion.
Scientists Are Stuck on an Ice-Locked Ship in the Arctic Due to Coronavirus – VICE
“If the present refuses to get warmer, then the past must become cooler”
NOAA has just replaced their non-scary blue SST anomaly maps with a scarier yellow and red version.
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2020/anomnight.4.13.2020.gif
The new version just heated the oceans way up, and they are now keeping an eye on the Greenland coral reefs. The water off Greenland was quite cold last week, but now it hot! Amazing how this happened after one of their coldest winters on record.
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According to NOAA, a change in resolution made the oceans hot.
notice – Office of Satellite and Product Operations
New and creative ways to heat up the planet.
Andy Weiss was one of the authors of Washington Weather, and contributed huge amounts of information which I used over the past twelve years. He posted comments regularly on my blog under the name AndyDC, the last one being April 27, 2019.
Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
I’ve been trying to locate Andy ever since, and Kevin Ambrose (one of his co-authors) has too. Kevin found out today that Andy passed away on May 11 last year, shortly after he quit commenting on the blog. Today is Andy’s birthday.
Andy was an avid golfer, and used to play golf at the current location of Columbia, Maryland (where I used to live.) He hated Columbia, because the creation of the city in the 1960s wrecked his favorite golf course. He bought me lunch in Gaithersburg, Maryland in 2016, and was not in good health.
Andy is fortunate to have missed the current state of Maryland. RIP Andy.
Alexandria Cortez believes that low cost oil combined with a wrecked economy, is good for expensive, unreliable green energy. She “absolutely loves” the current conditions in the US, which was the whole point of the Green New Deal.
