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“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”

? Mark Twain

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
? Mark Twain

Was there ever life on Venus? | World Economic Forum

Those look like lava flows, not rivers drainages.

This is what river drainages look like.

It is analogous to misinterpretation of Mars Imagery 120 years ago.

THERE IS LIFE ON THE PLANET MARS; Prof. Percival Lowell recognized as the greatest authority on the subject, declares there can be no doubt that living beings inhabit our neighbor world. – The New York Times

The photographs show that the dark areas in Mars can only be explained by vegetation

08 May 1926 – LIFE ON MARS – Trove

15 Jan 1915 – How the Martians Made Their Canals. – Trove

20 Jan 1901, Page 4 – The Anaconda Standard

TimesMachine: November 10, 1907 – NYTimes.com

MARS CANALS FOR DRAINAGE. – German Says They Are to Prevent Floods When Pole Caps Melt.

TimesMachine: August 27, 1911 – NYTimes.com

12 Feb 1921, Page 10 – Reading Times

04 Oct 1919, Page 47 – The Winnipeg Tribune

08 Feb 1920, Page 69 – New-York Tribune

TimesMachine: March 26, 1927 – NYTimes.com

27 Feb 1928, Page 4 – The Daily Courier

18 Sep 1940, Page 3 – The Hopewell Herald

10 Jun 1948 – PLANT LIFE ON MARS – Trove

TimesMachine: June 25, 1950 – NYTimes.com

St. Petersburg Times – Google News Archive Search

06 Jun 1965, Page 82 – Express and News

The Southeast Missourian

05 Aug 1998, Page 4 – Clarion-Ledger

Experts say racist carbon dioxide is targeting developing countries.

WPS cover

In 1989, NOAA reported that the US had not warmed since 1895. Now they show a lot of warming.

“After examining climate data extending back nearly 100 years, a team of Government scientists has concluded that there has been no significant change in average temperatures or rainfall in the United States over that entire period.

While the nation’s weather in individual years or even for periods of years has been hotter or cooler and drier or wetter than in other periods, the new study shows that over the last century there has been no trend in one direction or another.

The study, made by scientists for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was published in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters. It is based on temperature and precipitation readings taken at weather stations around the country from 1895 to 1987.”

TimesMachine: January 26, 1989 – NYTimes.com

National Time Series | Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

There is a consistent pattern of data tampering in the GHCN V4 database to cool past US temperatures.

With each successive “climate agreement”, the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 increases.

Global Monitoring Laboratory – Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases

In 1878, Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota had their earliest ice-free date on record.

Ice-out on Lake Minnetonka – Freshwater Society

h/t Steve Erdahl

There was no winter in Minnesota that year.

19 Mar 1878, Page 2 – Star Tribune at Newspapers.com

Three years ago the New York Times published this chart showing Wyoming had the most intelligent residents, and Vermont and Massachusetts ranked at the bottom.

Opinion | How to Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy – The New York Times

“Ms. Leslie said her employer rejected her request for a medical exemption; Ms. Conrad referenced vaccine side effects she claimed to have seen but that veer from the scientific consensus”

“Experts have called the mandate a clear-cut way for health care workers to prevent new waves of the virus from spreading”

Oct. 18, 2021

These Health Care Workers Would Rather Get Fired Than Get Vaccinated – The New York Times

I begin my explorations of the global temperature record in 1878.

The worldwide drought and record heat of 1876-1878 killed fifty million people.

A freak 1870s climate event caused drought across three continents | New Scientist

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World , Davis, Mike – Amazon.com

It has been clear since the 1980s that the 1877-78 El Niño was intense. “Now we have a lot more data,” says Singh. “This event was the strongest El Niño that has occurred since the 1850s.” Sea surface temperatures remained high for 16 months. That makes it bigger than the huge El Niños of 1997-98 and 2015-16. A nexus of impacts But that’s not all. In 1877 a second climate cycle, the Indian Ocean Dipole, was active – meaning the western Indian Ocean was warmer than the east. This typically weakens India’s monsoons. “It was the strongest Indian Ocean Dipole on record,” says Singh. The Atlantic Ocean was also unusually warm from 1877 to 1879. “Following the El Niño, it peaked to the most extreme temperatures on record,” says Singh.

A freak 1870s climate event caused drought across three continents | New Scientist

This came at the peak of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

New South Wales’ all-time record temperature of 127F occurred on January 17, 1877.

13010_1995_Bk77.pdf

There was no winter in Minnesota that year.

19 Mar 1878, Page 2 – Star Tribune at Newspapers.com

CRUTEM5 shows 1878 below average temperature.

Met Office Hadley Centre observations datasets

But they only had coverage of a small percentage of the planet.  They showed southeast Australia as being average,

Maximum temperatures at Bourke, NSW average 41.5C, which is 5C above average.

Average temperatures were 3.5C above average.

For the entire year, CRUTEM5 showed the region below average

For the entire year Bourke was about 2C above average