Real Climate Science

We are about to blow away our cold record for this early in autumn here in Boulder, CO – and the animals are busy preparing for winter. The Chamisa is blooming late because summer started so late this year. I captured this slow motion video yesterday on my iPhone of moths, bees and wasps fighting over Chamisa nectar.

12 Jan 1924, 14 – The Guardian at Newspapers.com

09 Jun 1977, Page 1 – The Daily Inter Lake at Newspapers.com

California Governor Jerry Brown warned of immeasurable disaster.

LOS ANGELES, March 7—Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., warned here today that drought?stricken California was “facing a disaster of immeasurable magnitude.” “The specter of drought has been gathering momentum, not only in California, but across the country,” the Democratic Governor declared, adding that people must learn that “this is an era of limits and there are very hard choices to make.”

Brown Warns of Drought Disaster; Says ‘Hard Choices’ Face California – The New York Times

Forty years later, he blamed drought on global warming.

California Braces for Unending Drought – The New York Times

Thanks El Niño, But California’s Drought Is Probably Forever | WIRED

The permanent drought appears to have been short lived, however.

In Mammoth, the snow is so deep residents must tunnel out. There’s a history to that – Los Angeles Times

Then back inside to warm up in a fossil fuel powered building, and drink a fossil fuel brewed coffee brought over on a fossil fuel powered boat from Brazil – while talking on their fossil fuel powered cell phone.

“We are not a cult”