‘The Worst Thing I Can Ever Remember’: How Drought Is Crushing Ranchers North Dakotans can’t grow enough feed for their cattle, so they’re selling off the animals before they starve. Since December, in the weekly maps produced by the United States Drought Monitor, all of North Dakota has been colored in shades of yellow, orange and red, symbolizing various degrees of drought. And since mid-May, McHenry County, where Mr. Rice ranches and farms, has been squarely in the middle of a swath of the darkest red, denoting the most extreme conditions. The period from January 2020 to this June has been the driest 18 months in McHenry and 11 other counties in the state since modern record keeping began 126 years ago, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/...te=1&user_id=fecdfdffdaaa11107b72f0f4f6e429cc
California’s ‘Cantaloupe Center’ struggles to reign supreme as drought pummels agriculture across the West MENDOTA, Calif. — This small town in California’s agriculture-rich Central Valley advertises itself as the “Cantaloupe Center of the World.” But as relentless drought punishes California and the West, the land is drying up and the cantaloupes are disappearing. Farmers have let large portions of their melon fields lie fallow as they struggle to get by on dramatically curtailed water supplies. Some are giving their vines barely enough water to stay alive in an effort to conserve. In other cases, fields that have already been planted will never get harvested because there’s not enough water for the fruit to survive. “We could have fields that could burn up because of lack of water,” said Joe Del Bosque, who grows organic melons on a 2,000-acre farm near here and sells to high-end grocers like Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. Del Bosque has cut back his melon crop by 20 percent this year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/08/27/california-drought-farmers-cantaloupe/ Get used to it.
LOL, CA once had a 200 year drought long before SUVs but hey, what’s a little uneducated fear mongering?
Hurricanes are neither stronger nor more frequent. Fess Up, Washington Post, Actual Data Doesn’t Show Climate Change Made Ida Worse HURRICANES AUGUST 30, 2021
Rainfall in Central Park broke a 94-year-old record, according to the National Weather Service. Newark, New Jersey, smashed a 62-year-old record. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weathe...-region-flood-emergency-issued-first-n1278336
MULLICA HILL, N.J. — Gov. Phil Murphy said Thursday that New Jersey needs infrastructure capable of handling a more violent climate, as he warned of a “long road“ ahead to clean up damage throughout the state caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. Tornadoes tore through parts of South Jersey on Wednesday and major flooding spilled across the rest of the state during what the governor called “an extraordinary, sadly tragic, historic 24 hours in New Jersey.” Murphy said he had spoken with President Joe Biden and asked for a federal disaster declaration and heavy-duty trucks that could help the state recover. https://www.politico.com/states/new...eeds-new-playbook-for-extreme-weather-1390687
Yup. We can look forward to increasing use of climate as funding leverage. Just another in a long line. Remember Y2K?
Climate is benign. Hype is dangerous. Sorry, BBC, the World Meteorological Organization Is Wrong, Climate Change Is Not Causing Increasing Weather Disasters EXTREME WEATHER SEPTEMBER 2, 2021 The BBC, among other mainstream media outlets, published a story today claiming climate change has caused a 500 percent increase in extreme weather events over the past 50 years. This is wrong. According to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released in early August, data show little discernable increase in most extreme weather events during the past fifty years, much less a substantial human influence on the number or severity of extreme weather events. . . .
As CA is on fire, much of LA is without power, and NY/NJ deal with record rainfall (just a few examples of recent extreme weather around the world) the Y2K analogy is nonsensical. We can look forward to climate being the cause for huge expenditures to deal with the aftermath of disasters as costly weather events become more frequent and more severe. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/
Bingo. The hype doesn't hold up well over time. Germany’s Tragic 2021 floods and misinformation from Orwellian Science NewSpeak Guest Blogger Video reveals the natural weather dynamics that undeniably caused the deadly July 2021 flooding in Germany and clearly refutes any causal connection to global warming . . .
Get used to it. Half a million without power in Louisiana, Mississippi amid new flash flood warnings https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/06/hal...ississippi-amid-new-flash-flood-warnings.html
OMG! Flooding in Louisiana? That's never freaking happened before in the history of the US!! We're doooooooooooooomed!! DOOOOOOOOOOMED!!
Here the lying alarmist narrative about wildfires is debunked. None of those claims last long when exposed to the light of day. Watch Dr. Willie Soon Surgically Shredding Climate Change Forest Fire Alarmism Eric Worrall Video of Dr. Willie Soon at his awesome best, obliterating the absurd climate driven wildfire narrative under the weight of the evidence he presents. ". . . One of the most shocking slides in Dr. Soon’s video was an environmentalist and climate activist, who was convicted in court of deliberately setting fires. As an Australian I’m acutely aware that screaming alarmists like the BBC in Britain and CNN in the USA painted a wildly sensationalist picture of the impact of the 2019-20 fires on Australia. I had friends in Britain contacting me to ask me if I was OK. Watching Dr. Soon rip apart their flimsy exaggerated claims is like a breath of fresh air."
Study: ‘Global Warming’ Does Not Cause Hurricanes – No ‘increase in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes’ https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/0...-in-the-frequency-or-intensity-of-hurricanes/ Even the alarmist Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) acknowledged in its Fifth Assessment Report in 2013 that there has been little change in long-term hurricane activity: In summary, [there is] low confidence that any reported long-term (centennial) increases in tropical cyclone activity are robust, after accounting or past changes in observing capabilities. More recent assessments indicate that it is unlikely that annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have increased over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin. Evidence, however, is for a virtually certain increase in the frequency and intensity of the strongest tropical cyclones since the 1970s in that region. Unfortunately, a particularly severe hurricane season in the North Atlantic in 2017 gave the alarmists just the excuse they needed to cry wolf once more. Backed by footage of the devastation caused by that year’s two major landfalling hurricanes — Harvey and Irma — they concocted a plausible theory as to why global warming will increase such extreme weather events: hurricanes feed off warm waters, so the warmer the waters, the more intense the hurricane. This theory, though, is confounded by real-world evidence: The longest and most reliable database of hurricanes is of US landfalling ones. NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division has carefully reanalysed the original records of all hurricanes up to 1960. Its HURDAT database shows that there has been no increase in the frequency of hurricanes or major hurricanes (Category 3 and over) since the start of the record in 1851. Prior to Harvey, no major hurricane had hit the US since Wilma in 2005, the longest such period on record. In 2017, for instance, two major landfalling hurricanes – Harvey and Irma – hit the US, but this is not unusual. In 1893, for instance, there were three, a number repeated in 1909. The record year for landfalling hurricanes was 1886, when there were seven. Only three Category 5 hurricanes have hit the US mainland: the Labor Day hurricane in 1935, Camille in 1969, and Andrew in 1992. Data provided by HURDAT also shows that recent hurricane activity in the North Atlantic has not been unusual by historical standards. In 2017, there were six major Atlantic hurricanes, but the highest total recorded was eight in 1950. Of last year’s six, two were Category 5 – Irma and Maria – but again, this is not unusual, having occurred five times previously, including in 1932 and 1933. Historical data shows that Atlantic hurricanes, particularly major ones, were much more common between about 1930 and 1960 than in the following three decades. Since 1990, the numbers have returned to the earlier levels. It is widely accepted that this pattern is linked to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), a natural reoccurring cycle of temperature changes in the sea surface temperatures. A database of global hurricanes is kept, with data going back to 1970. This shows an increase in the number of major hurricanes and their accumulated energy between 1970 and 1993. This is associated with the AMO cycle too. Since 1993, there has been a decline in the frequency of all hurricanes, major hurricanes and accumulated energy. In summary, there is little evidence that global warming has resulted in more hurricanes, or more intense ones in recent years. On the contrary, available evidence confirms that hurricane and major hurricane frequency has been similar in many prior periods.
"Watching Dr. Soon rip apart their flimsy exaggerated claims is like a breath of fresh air." Enjoy it while you can. Get used to it. Responders Are Gaining On The Caldor Fire, But Now They've Got New Blazes To Battle https://www.npr.org/2021/09/07/1034711477/updates-wildfires-california
Who'd ever think that a fire might start in a desert which was piled with kindling. Good grief. But hey, it helps you sell the doooom!!!! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! We're all going to die except for Obama in his safe beach house with no COVID mask birthday parties because he's better than you. Did you understand that right? Obama IS BETTER THAN YOU. He's more important than you. He doesn't have to follow the same rules as YOU, and he is just a better person than YOU. Own it. Admit it. Obama and his ilk are your gods.
The data are the data. Climate at a Glance: U.S. Wildfires Wildfires, especially in arid parts of the United States, have always been a natural part of the environment and likely always will. Global warming did not create wildfires. Bullet-Point Summary: Wildfires are far less frequent and severe than was the case throughout the first half of the 20th century. Occasional upticks in current wildfire activity still result in far less land burnt than was the case throughout the 20th century. Even the worst recent wildfire years burned only 1/5th to 1/2 as much land as typical wildfire years during the early 20th century. Drought is the key climate factor for wildfires. As shown in Climate at a Glance: Drought, the United States in recent decades is benefiting from strikingly small amounts of drought. Short Summary: Wildfires, especially in arid parts of the United States, have always been a natural part of the environment and likely always will. Global warming did not create wildfires. In fact, wildfires have become less frequent and less severe in recent decades.
Save the gay trees!!! And the horned toad gay fire sprinkler frog! And the porcupine caribou! And the muskrat! ALL OF WHOM have more sense to leave a desert than to stay, like liberals. Good grief. Most leftist humans are less intelligent than your average rodent/mammal.