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The Pecos River Basin in New Mexico, where I used to work as a wilderness ranger, has 2,480% of normal snowpack.

https://wrcc.dri.edu/snotelanom/snotelbasin

I’m expecting to see significant flooding in Colorado, if it ever warms up.

NWS Phoenix on Twitter: “In Arizona, that record was set in Lake Havasu City

My best friend from high school in England (50 years ago) just sent this over. The press imagines that England’s coasts will be underwater soon.

This is what the East Sussex coast looked like 1,700 years ago when Romans built a castle at Pevensey Bay. The water formed a natural moat around the most of the castle.

The castle is now a mile away from the ocean, and the bay is farmland.

aerial photograph of Pevensey Castle East Sussex, England UK. Originally built in 290 AD by the Romans as a “Saxon Shore Fort to defend against seaborne Saxon raids. In Roman times the fort was known as Anderitum it was garisoned until the Romans left Britain in 410 AD, after which it was occupied by local Britons. In 471 AD the fort was taken in a Saxon raid and all the occupants slaughtered. In 1066 William the Conqueror landed hois invading forces at nearby Pevensey bay and camped within the Roman Walls before marching on to the Battle of Hastings and eventual conquest of all England. Immediately after the Norman Conquest , William had the site refortified with a Norman Keep being constructed within the Roman Curtain Wall. Alterations and improvements continued to be made throughout the medieval period. The Castle was besieged during the Rebellion of 1088 with the occupants eventually surrendering after 6 weeks due to lack of food. The castle was again besieged during the Second Barons War when Simon De Montofd besieged the loyalists foreces within the castle. The fared better than the previous siege as they were able to receive supplies by ship and help against the sige for a year. The castle faced its last siege in 1399 when it was held by forces loyal to Henry Bolingbroke, later Henry IV during his rebellion to over throw Ricahrd II.After that the castle fell into ruin, although it was temporarily garrisoned with arterially crews in 1587 when England faced the Spanish Armada. The Castle was again refortified during the second world war with anti tank defences and machine gun positions built into the walls. While some of these defences were removed after the war, some have been retained as a memorial to the last stage in this castles military history.

People are so worried about sea level rise, that you can now buy a house on the south coast for an average price of only one million dollars.

Seaside towns UK: Most expensive seaside town REVEALED as Sandbanks | Express.co.uk

New Mexico

Arizona

Montana

Memorial Day weekend is considered the traditional start to summer, because it used to be hot – when CO2 was below 350 PPM.

31 May 1934, Page 1 – Star Tribune at Newspapers.com

NASA didn’t like the hot weather in 1934, so they simply erased it.

NASA 1999   NASA 2016

Dear Teacher,

The vast majority of scientists believe that humans have some impact on the climate. However, most of the claims of future catastrophe being made by politicians and the press, have no basis in science.

The National Climate Assessment shows that heatwaves in the US were much worse in the past. John Steinbeck wrote about this poignantly in “The Grapes of Wrath.”  Millions of people fled the heat and drought of the Great Plains during the 1930s.

Exact opposite of predictions made by some well known climate scientists, the US has been getting wetter, and droughts have been becoming less frequent.

Data from NOAA tide gauges shows no change in the rate of sea level rise since Abraham Lincoln was president.

According to data from the National Interagency Fire Center, US burn acreage is down 80% since the 1930s.

The worst US floods occurred during the 1920s and 1930s. The worst US tornado occurred in 1925. The most intense US hurricane occurred in 1935.  The deadliest US hurricane occurred in 1900. The deadliest Atlantic hurricane and the third deadliest Pacific Hurricane both occurred in 1780. The worst US forest fires occurred in 1871 and 1910.

Predictions of an ice-free Arctic and the demise of Polar bears have not panned out.  Many of the world’s leading scientists are prominent climate skeptics, including Freeman Dyson and Ivar Giaever.  The only scientist to have walked on the moon, Harrison Schmitt, is a well known climate skeptic. There are tens of thousands of skeptical scientists who are systematically ignored by the press.

Global warming is real, but the wild climate exaggerations being parroted by politicians and the press – are nothing but 16th century superstition. Similar to what Galileo faced.

Temperatures warmed up to a balmy 41 degrees this afternoon, and much of the snow melted. It was the coldest May 21 on record here, and probably the coldest day ever this late in the spring. Average temperature for the date is 72 degrees.

Scientific American says we broke the atmosphere, and we need to increase CO2 emissions to fix it.

We Broke the Atmosphere; Here’s a Way We Can Start to Fix It – Scientific American Blog Network

Looks pretty broken to me.

Hillary Clinton so far ahead in polls that she ‘doesn’t even think about’ Donald Trump anymore

I normally focus on the comedic behavior of people like Michael Mann, Katharine Hayhoe, and AOC. But there is a serious side to climate change too.

In 1989, NOAA said most global warming occurred before 1919.

Analysis of warming since 1881 shows most of the increase in global temperature happened before 1919 – before the more re-cent sharp rise in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. said Thomas Karl, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

7 Dec 1989, Page 14 – at Newspapers.com

NOAA now shows cooling from 1881 to 1919, and that all global warming occurred after 1910.

NASA: Climate Change and Global Warming