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Luna was born on day 58 of the United Nations Global Boiling crisis. He braved the heat to take his first hike today.

The Mercury News says California is flooded and having the worst drought in 1,200 years. They also say California has had 200 year long droughts during the past 1,200 years.

“Current drought is worst in 1,200 years in California and the American West, new study shows

Tree rings indicate 2001-2022 is driest 22-year-period since at least 800 A.D., when Vikings sailed and Mayans built temples”

Current drought is worst in 1,200 years in California and the American West, new study shows

“California drought: Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years, scientists say

California’s current drought is being billed as the driest period in the state’s recorded rainfall history. But scientists who study the West’s long-term climate patterns say the state has been parched for much longer stretches before that 163-year historical period began.”

California drought: Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years, scientists say – The Mercury News

Fifty years ago today, the lead story in the New York Times was people lined up for hours to purchase gasoline.

The New York Times announced the end of snow ten years ago this week

Opinion | The End of Snow? – The New York Times

Accumulated Snowfall (GFS 10-dayforecast)

“leftists firebombed my office last Saturday night. At around 2 am, they broke into the building that houses Center of the American Experiment and two other conservative organizations with which we often collaborate, along with many other businesses.”

They Firebombed My Office | Power Line

“Energy bills must rise to pay for net zero, says Siemens Energy boss

Interview: Joe Kaeser says ‘a lot of big mouths but little action’ pushing ‘wind turbine makers into the red

The German boss of Britain’s biggest wind turbine maker has warned energy bills will have to keep rising to pay for the green transition as he attacked “fairytale” thinking about net zero.

Joe Kaeser, chairman of Siemens Energy, suggested higher energy bills were inevitable as turbine makers grapple with huge losses, forcing them to pass on costs to their customers.”

Energy bills must rise to pay for net zero, says Siemens Energy boss

Alaska used to be the canary in the global boiling coal mine, but now they are having record cold and snow.

With regard to climate change, is Alaska the canary in the coal mine?

“ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Much of Alaska has plunged into a deep freeze, with temperatures well below zero. Anchorage has seen some of its coldest temperatures in years and the mayor opened warming facilities for people who are homeless or don’t have reliable heating.

To the south in the state capital, Juneau, snow blanketed streets and rooftops as part of a two-day storm that helped set a new January snowfall record of 6.4 feet (2 meters) for the city, which is nestled in a relatively temperate rainforest. That’s after back-to-back storms walloped Juneau earlier in the month.

Anchorage surpassed 100 inches (2.5 meters) of snow this week, the earliest date the state’s largest city has ever hit that mark.”

It’s so cold and snowy in Alaska that fuel oil is thickening and roofs are collapsing | AP News

“If You Torture the Data Long enough It Will Confess to Anything”

Thermometers show that Adelaide summers have been cooling for 150 years, but NOAA tampers with the data to turn a cooling trend into a warming trend.

In 1984, NASA’s James Hansen predicted 4-5C warming for the US.

Wayback Machine

Fifteen years later Hansen was upset that the US wasn’t warming as he predicted.

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

So they started tampering with the data. In the 2005 USHCN documentation, US temperature adjustments were 0.5F. Since then the adjustments have quadrupled.

Wayback Machine

This graph of US temperatures was posted by NASA in 1999, showing a strong cooling trend from the 1930’s through the end of the century. The years 1934 and 1998 are circled.

NASA 1999

And this is NASA’s current graph, which now shows a strong warming trend during that period.

NASA 2019

There has been a sharp decline in hot summer afternoons in the US

Wyoming – State Climate Summaries 2022

There is a close correlation between summer average maximum temperature and number of 90F days.

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