“Thanks El Nino, But California’s Drought Is Probably Forever”
Thanks El Niño, But California’s Drought Is Probably Forever | WIRED
“As climate change makes storms warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up.”
California’s Atmospheric Rivers Are Getting Worse | WIRED
h/t Chris Martz
China has been experiencing record cold for the past two months. They are building 674 new coal fired power plants to keep up with demand.
China’s Xinjiang battles harshest cold spell in over six decades | Reuters
Tracker Map – Global Energy Monitor
Satellite temperatures begin 1979, which was the coldest year on record in the Eastern Arctic
Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (v2)
By starting the graph in 1979, there appears to be a correlation between temperature and CO2.
That relationship disappears with a longer view.
The real correlation with Iceland temperatures is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) – not CO2.
“Wanted: Scientific Errors. Cash Reward.
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
“Scientific-misconduct accusations are leading to retractions of high-profile papers, forcing reckonings within fields and ending professorships, even presidencies. But there’s no telling how widespread errors are in research: As it is, they’re largely brought to light by unpaid volunteers.
A program launching this month is hoping to shake up that incentive structure. Backed by 250,000 Swiss francs, or roughly $285,000, in funding from the University of Bern, in Switzerland, it will pay reviewers to root out mistakes in influential papers, beginning with a handful in psychology. The more errors found, and the more severe they are, the more the sleuths stand to make.”
Wanted: Scientific Errors. Cash Reward. By Stephanie M. Lee FEBRUARY 21, 2024
“EARTH’S NEW CYCLE OF WARM WEATHER.——THE CONCLUSION OF SOVIET METEOROLOGISTS.
03 Mar 1939, Fri ·Page 3
More than eighteen years of observing the fluctuations of Arctic weather conditions in the fifty-eight Soviet scientific stations in the Far North lead Russian meteorologists to a forecast of warmer winters and hotter summers for the North and South Poles.
They believe that the earth is entering a new cycle of warmer weather.
A series of curious discoveries has been announced in support of this the ory. It has been noted that year by year, for the past two decades, the fringe of the Polar ice-pack has been creeping northward in the Barents Sea. As compared with the year 19M, the total ice surface of this body of water has decreased by 20 per cent.
Various expeditions have discovered that warmth-loving species of fish have migrated in great shoals to waters farther north than they have ever been seen before. Recession of the Barents Sea icefields has been verified in recent years by numerous.
vessels of the Soviet mercantile marine plying between Murmansk and Spitzbergen,| These phenomena had at one time been attributed to a supposed swerve in the course of the Gulf stream which has brought an increased volume of warm waters to the Polar Basin. Rus‘sian scientists are now inclined to correlate the changes to the general -warming-up of the planet.The Gulf Stream theory does not explain the rising temperatures of the waters of Baffin Bay and the Bering ‘Straits, according to Soviet experts. ‘It does not seem to account for the fact that the rivers of Northern Siberia freeze over later and thaw earlier than they did two decades ago. ‘Nor does it explain the fact that the zone of Arctic subsoil, which has been ‘rigidly frozen since the Glacial Age, is receding northward in Siberia, so ‘that at the city of Mezina it is now 40 miles farther north than it was in 1839.
There is also the unexplained phenomenon of the rise in air temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere at Bombay, Valparaiso, Buenos Aires and
Capetown.
“Our generation is living in a period when remarkable changes are taking Place almost everywhere throughout the world,’’ writes Professor L. Berg, of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
‘Certainly these widely distributed phenomena cannot be due to the action of the Gulf Stream, which, however, naturally receives its share of the greater general warmth.’’_ The slow thawing of the Arctic is given as a partial explanation for the record voyages of Soviet icebreakers to northern latitudes, which have never before been reached by navigated vessels. The Sadko, in 1935, in ice-free water of the North Kara Sea, steamed to 82 degrees 42 minutes of northern latitude—an all-time record,The Yermak, which at the opening of the century was unable to penetrate the fringe of ice-fields jamming the South Kara Sea, last year _ sailed northward in the Laptev Sea, turning back only after it had exceeded the Sadko mark by 24 nautical miles at 82 degrees 6 minutes.
The general warming of the earth seems also to account for the loosen-ings up of the huge cap of ice on the roof of the world.
This was shown in the drift of the Papanin Tee-Floe Expedition, which for nearly a year studied Arctie conditions from its preearious floating laboratory. The party of four youthful scientists in their spectacular drift from the North Pole to the Greenland Sea found that the Polar ice-pack is moving approximately twice as fast as expected from earlier observations.
Again, research buoys dropped into the Kara Sea to study Polar Sea currents indicated a movement to the coast of Greenland and Iceland two to three times more rapid than recorded movements several decades ago.
This gradual loosening of the Polar ice-pack has led such Arctic experts as Professor Vise to forecast that the ice-breaker Sedov, now adrift in the Polar ice-pack, following a course similar to, but more northerly than that of Nansen’s Fram, will be carried along much faster than the Fram, shortening the crossing of the Arctic Ocean to a little over two years.
The Fram took three years. Professor Vise believes that the Sedov, which was trapped in the ice fields north of the New Siberian Islands more than a year ago, should reach the Greenland Sea by the end of this |year, carried by the same ocean bare that bore the Papanian party.
The strange weather records of 1938 seem to fit the picture of a slowly warming earth. In England, March and December of last year were the warmest of the century during which records have been kept at Greenwich.
In December, Moscow was gripped in a protracted cold spell and temperatures fell at times to 59.8 degrees below zero, Centigrade. During the same month, Soviet scientists wintering at the observatory on Rodulf Island, 560 miles from the North Pole, reported a temperature well above the freezing point,”
03 Mar 1939, 3 – The Muswellbrook Chronicle at Newspapers.com
At the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, Al Gore said the world was spinning out of kilter, and predicted an ice-free Arctic by 2014. Since then, Arctic sea ice extent has increased.
“By 1879 naturist John Muir found that the ice had retreated 48 miles up the bay. By 1916 the Grand Pacific Glacier headed Tarr inlet 65 miles from Glacier Bay’s mouth.”
“The glaciers seen here today are remnants of a general ice advance- the Little Ice Age- that began about 4,000 years ago. This advance in no way approached the extent of continental glaciation during Pleistocene time. The Little Ice Age reached its maximum extent here about 1750, when general melting began.”
Informational Visitors Guide to Glacier Bay National Park: Facts, Lodging, Tips and More.
According to Michael Mann, glaciers melt during the coldest decades on record.
NASA chooses to ignore 540 million years of earth history, and instead promote superstitions about fossil fuels.
NASA predicts a 99% decline in corals at 2C warming, which could occur by 2050.
The greatest expansion of ocean life (including the appearance of corals and shellfish) occurred 540 million years ago, with CO2 levels fifteen times higher than now and temperatures 15C warmer.
The world’s largest coral reef has record amounts of coral
Highest coral cover in central, northern Reef in 36 years | AIMS
In 1954, the US blew up a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Island and raised water temperatures 99,000F. Corals are thriving there now.
National Geographic News Photo Gallery: CCorals Flourish at ”Nuked” Atoll
