Thirty nine years ago today, Mt. St. Helens erupted. I was skiing on Wheeler Peak, New Mexico that day, after a very big snow season. But there is a lot more snow on Wheeler Peak today than there was in 1980.
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The ski area at Flagstaff, Az is still open. I took this picture from an airplane a couple of hours ago.
A few other Arizona pictures from the last couple of days.
Enjoy snow now . . . by 2020, it’ll be gone
Australia is also eleven years into their permanent drought.
This drought may never break – Environment – smh.com.au
Similarly, the UK is seven years into their permanent drought.
Drought may be new norm for UK, says environment secretary | Environment | The Guardian
And they had their last snow almost 20 years ago.
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent
Britain will also be a Siberian climate by next year, and global civilization will be destroyed.
Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us | Environment | The Guardian
I saw a claim last year that global warming would make it too hot for Kestrels. It was 100 degrees here yesterday.
The press loves to print stories about what was going on “the last time CO2 was this high.”
People who know how to think logically would recognize that very different conditions at equal levels of CO2, would indicate that CO2 is not the cause of those conditions – and is in fact unrelated. But superstitious people link together unrelated phenomena (like rabbit’s foot/good luck) and no amount of contrary evidence can sway them.
Five hundred years ago, bad weather was blamed on witches. Equally stupid and ignorant people now blame it on CO2.
This is what a person sees.
This is the same plant seen from a bird’s vantage point.
According to the leading expert in Congress, the world will end in the year 2030.
Natural Disasters – Our World in Data
UN experts had previously slated the end of the world in the year 2000.
Prior to that, the most widely recognized academic expert predicted the end of the world by 1980.
A few days after we landed on the moon 50 years ago, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich forecast that we would disappear in a cloud of blue steam within 20 years. Ehrich is John Holdren’s close associate, and Holdren was Obama’s science advisor.
FOE OF POLLUTION SEES LACK OF TIME The New York Times
A year later, he predicted that we would run out of food and water within a decade.
6 Oct 1970, Page 3 – Redlands Daily Facts at Newspapers.com
17 Nov 1967, Page 9 – The Salt Lake Tribune at Newspapers.com
This bee is almost as enthusiastic about the cactus flowers as I am.
