Solar Grand Solar Minimum part deux

[jed turtle]

Everything man-made about our civilization has become corrupted. The mass-production of everything: “FDA- approved food“, “AMA-approved” medical institution drugs, the Teacher‘s Unions And their government approved indoctrination policies, the government regulated water treatment facilities, the belief that paper can be “money”, the air in the skies (chem trails and pollution) (sorry about that deniers...), the belief that abortion is a virtuous right indicates our government itself is deeply corrupted on every level. the belief that men can marry men, women can marry women. ALL corrupt.

i read everyday the multitude of the various ways that everything is broken or in upheaval. i seldom see articles on the conclusion that we - the Entire Earth’s population is under Judgement.

as in Noah’s day, the corruption has reached almost everywhere, and the only way to save the earth itself is to wipe the slate clean, apparently by weather: Ice and / or by fire this time since God promised not to flood it again.

the elite blame carbon dioxide as our nemesis. The masses blame inflation.
so sad. The evidence is within each of us: our sins are at war with God ...

 

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Articles Crop Loss Extreme Weather GSM

Greenland Gains Record Volumes Of Snow And Ice For The Time Of Year; Official Estimates Lower Argentinian Wheat Exports Amid Cold Weather Woes; Cold Taiwan; + Australian’s Instructed NOT To Charge Their EVs Due To Energy Crunch
June 15, 2022 Cap Allon

Greenland Gains Record Volumes Of Snow And Ice For The Time Of Year
Greenland continues to defy AGW Party orders, refusing to melt as prophesied. Data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) reveals that the island’s ice melt slowed significantly during the past decade, and that the trend has now swung to one of growth — media tizzies of ‘mass ice loss’ are wildly unfounded.
The Greenland ice sheet has been faring increasingly well in recent years. Since 2016, a sharp uptick in the Surface Mass Balance (SMB) –a calculation used to determine the ‘health’ of a glacier– has been detected, and daily/monthly records have routinely been broken.
Decades of reliable satellite measurements have allowed trends to be detected. And while it is true that the world’s largest island lost mass from around 1995 to 2012, that trend of loss has now reversed, almost completely, and like the gradual turning of a vast ship, from the year’s 2010 to 2015 Greenland’s SMB changed course and has been on an upward trajectory ever since.
This is clearly visible on the below chart which plots the total mass balance since 1985:



And most recently, the 2021/2022 season is continuing that trend of growth.
Impressive spikes have been posted across the Greenland ice sheet all season.
And on Tuesday, June 14 a record-breaking SMB gain –for the month of June– of over 4 Gigatons was posted:


[DMI]

Even more impressively, Tuesday’s gains push this season’s SMB totals above the 1981-2010 mean:


[DMI]

If you seek proof of mainstream media lies then you need look no further than their reporting of the Greenland ice sheet.
The above data very clearly outlines the reality, yet here is how the Western corporate media –whose job it is to instill fear and forward agendas, not to impart truth– has been misinforming the masses: “Phenomenally high rates of melting have been discovered at the base of the Greenland Ice Sheet”, reports Cambridge Independent; “Melting Ice Sheet in Greenland Becomes the Largest Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise”, reads a Nature World News headline from earlier in the year.
The science, in all fields, has been hijacked by vested interests. And that quote from Dr. Paul Reiter again rings true: “As far as the science being ‘settled,’ I think that is an obscenity. The fact is the science is being distorted by people who are not scientists.”

Official Estimates Peg-Back Argentinian Wheat Exports Amid Cold Weather And Inflation Woes
There were some early, optimistic expectations that Argentina would be able to capitalize on the Black Sea debacle, but these hopes are fading fast as a combination of early-season frosts and freezes, spiraling inflation, and political uncertainty combine to thwart the country’s Agricultural sector.
The 2022/23 winter wheat crop, which is going in the ground now, is the first of Argentina’s main crops to be sown since the Russia invaded the Ukraine. But a myriad of issues are being reported. According to agricensus.com, South American farmers are planting under the lingering impact of a second-consecutive La Nina, and amid fears of an extremely rare third-consecutive La Nina in the months ahead, dry conditions and intense freezes have slowed the planting progress.
A total of just 30% of the area has been planted with wheat as of June 8, down 6.2% from the same levels of a year ago, according to the latest estimates from the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange (BAGE), with further delays expected.
Also, and as is the case across globe right now, record-high prices and shortages for key inputs, such as fertilizers, are seeing growers even more reliant on the elements being favorable.
“This year there are going to be less hectares planted with wheat and less use in fertilizers this season,” said Jeremias Battistoni, Market Analyst from AZ Group.
A lack of inputs also drastically reduces the end yield, particularly in wheat and corn which require the highest application.
Battistoni also fears that farmers could scrap their wheat area and migrate to barely instead which is cheaper to grow.
“But wheat export dynamics are surging this year, with around 90% of the exportable quota filled already,” he points out. “However, only 30% of the crop has been planted … so there is a risk there.”
It is looking as if Argentina won’t be able to fulfill its export quota this year, which, more than likely, will have catastrophic knock-on effects for import nations. Domestic supply is likely to suffer, too. Interventionist measures have been a key theme for global agricultural markets this year. And the Argentinian government is no different, with President Alberto Fernandez imposing a series of protective measures to tackle ever-rising domestic inflation levels in the country, warning of increases in export taxes and potential additional measures to protect the domestic market, which is bringing further uncertainty into the farming sector.
The measure that has greatest impact for the grains trade is the so-called “equilibrium volumes” imposed for the first time for wheat in December 2021, whereby an automatic ban on exports and other restrictions are triggered when a threshold volume determined by the Government are achieved.
For wheat, the export quota for has been set at 10 million mt for 2022/23, some 4.5 million mt below the exports achieved in 2021/22.
“There is a lack of responsibility from the Argentine government, that instead of encouraging the sowing of wheat so that we reach 20 or 22 million mt, they have stopped exports at ten million tonnes,” Luis Miguel Etchevehere, from the Rural Society of Argentina (SRA), said at a global conference at the end of last week.
“The world should not expect Argentina to contribute significantly to export volumes this year,” said an Argentina-based grain analyst. And the same can be said for the key export nations of Brazil, which is also suffering from cold weather woes, inut shortages, political pressures and global supply chains breakdowns.

Cold Taiwan
May 2022 in Taiwan finished markedly cooler than the norm.
An average temperature of 21.93C (71.5F) was noted for the month, which is -1.37C below the multidecadal norm.
The below anomaly map comes courtesy of the CWB:


[CWB]

Australian’s Instructed NOT To Charge Their EVs Due To Energy Crunch
This is where an unchecked spread of ill-informed ideologies get you; it’s where spineless politicians, bowing to a crazed mob of placard brandishing hippies, have led us — and the world is suffering — big time.
There is no data to back-up catastrophic anthropogenic global warming: global deaths from natural disasters (including heatwaves and wildfires) are at all-time lows; Earth’s average temperature isn’t increasing inline with CO2 emissions (it’s actually fallen quiet substantially since 2016); and the planets glaciers are refusing to melt (as highlighted above re. Greenland).
I call on every person believing in the AGW Party doctrine to stop ingesting the propaganda, to instead open your eyes to the data, to the world around you. You have been misled by a powerful racket hellbent on destroying our civilization so they rebuild it in their own name. They call it The Great Reset. And it is behind every single crisis of the past few years: that’s global warming, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine.
The warnings have been sounding for years. And now Australians, despite living in the world’s largest coal exporting nation, are being warned by their pandering, weak-kneed, timorous, placating and cowardly government that they need to conserve power in order to avoid blackouts, steps which include not charging their electric vehicles (a laughable request that has also just been asked of Texans in the U.S., too).
Australia’s energy crisis is showing no signs of abating, and today the nation’s Energy Market Operator made an unprecedented intervention by suspending the whole east-coast electricity market until further notice.
One Aussie told me via email today: “Here in South Australia we have had two warnings this week to reduce energy consumption to avoid blackouts. Today, Friday, and earlier in the week. All this and the Federal Government has an 80% renewable target by 2030.”
The world is going to hell; and tragically, the indoctrinated greenies, buoyed by the support of a corrupt establishment, are merrily hopping aboard the handbasket. And they’re taking us all with them. But where’s the democracy? Where’s my vote?
Revolution…?

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

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Add this to all the mysterious food and grain processing "misfortunes" ...

Stunning footage of thousands (10k+) of dead cattle in Kansas yesterday.

It is reported these cattle died of excessive heat — while temps were not excessively high, there was also high humidity and no wind.

Others are speculating that this is exceptional even for summer heat, and this is another blatant destructive act perpetrated on our food supply.

What do you think?

#FoodWars #WarOnMeat

Article: Heat Stress Kills Estimated 10,000 Head of Kansas Feedlot Cattle

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As the food crisis develops ...

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Sri Lanka’s Public Sector Workers Given Fridays Off To Grow Food; Pakistanis Told To Drink Less Tea To Fight Economic Crisis; + Iran Turns To French Barely After Germany, Russia and Kazakhstan Fail To Deliver
June 16, 2022 Cap Allon

Sri Lanka’s Public Sector Workers Given Fridays Off To Grow Food
Sri Lanka has told its public sector workers to take an extra day off each week to grow food in their back yards. A move that is expected to ‘domino’ across the planet over the coming months in a bid to forestall an inevitable global famine.
An unprecedented economic downturn, supply chain woes and global crop failures have left staple foods in short supply in Sri Lanka. The same can be said for petrol and medicines, too, as record-high inflation continues to ravage household budgets.
The country’s public employees, which amount to 1.5 million people, will have every Friday off for the next three months with full pay. Workers will also be permitted to find work abroad and send money back to the island without it impacting their seniority or pension amid a labor crisis primarily driven by a critical shortage of foreign currency to buy imports.
“It seems appropriate to grant government officials leave for one working day of the week and provide them with the necessary facilities to engage in agricultural activities in their backyards,” said a cabinet statement–which, even with all the political spin and downplaying in the world, must have Sri Lankans panicked — it should have us westerns worried, too.
The day spent working the vegetable garden would be a “solution to the food shortage that is expected to occur in the future”, the statement continued, adding that cutting down on civil servant commutes would also help reduce fuel consumption.
The UN has warned that Sri Lanka faces a “dire humanitarian crisis” due to food shortages.
The county has also defaulted on its $51bn foreign debt and is in talks with the IMF for a bailout.




Victory Gardens: returning to a western nation near you soon.
I believe this it is.
This is the start of the collapse ‘proper’.
And while I am still expecting a ‘blow-up’ in the stock market, an irrational price explosion where equities climb exponentially higher off the back of some Fed policy change (rather than an economic revival), after that though, I see it’s all down down down.
In order to have Great Reset, you first need a Great Depression.



Pakistanis Told To Drink Less Tea To Fight Economic Crisis
Similarly in Pakistan, the government there has appealed to its citizens to drink less tea in order to help save on imports amid the nation’s deepening economic crisis.
“I appeal to the people to reduce their tea drinking by one or two cups a day because we also borrow money for the tea, which is imported,” planning minister Ahsan Iqbal said at a press conference on Tuesday.
The government spends about $600m on tea imports annually, with a single Pakistani drinking at least three cups a day.
The appeal has been lambasted across the country, but Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has deemed it necessary to help avert an economic disaster and also to meet conditions set by the IMF in order to revive a desperately needed $6bn bailout package.
The request to drink less tea may the final straw for everyday Pakistanis, however.
In recent months, the government has increased the price of fuel, natural gas and electricity by 45%, which in turn has sent food prices soaring. And to the shock of many, Sharif’s government late last night announced the third 24 rupees petrol rise in the past three weeks, taking the price to approx. 234 rupees per liter — an almost doubling from where it was when Sharif took office just two months ago.
And in an interesting side-plot, Pakistan’s previous president, Imran Khan, who was removed in a no-confidence vote in April, has claimed his successor, Sharif, came into power under a United States’ plot–a charge Washington denies.
Now in opposition, Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party recently took to Twitter, claiming Sharif’s government has damaged the economy, barely two months since taking office.
Khan blames the current administration for rolling power outages, which are now commonplace, as well as for the country’s currency, the rupee, plummeting to a record low in trading against the US dollar.

Iran Turns To French Barely After Kazakhstan, Germany And Russia Fail To Deliver
Iran, short on grain reserves, has booked at least two cargoes of French barley in a rare move.
According to La Pallice port data, a vessel with 63,000 mt of barley is currently being loaded destined for BIK port, Iran.
The move comes with Iran short on reserves, according to market sources, namely feed grains.
Canada and France have been the only nations able to meet their expected barely exports in recent months, with other traditional suppliers, namely Russia and the Ukraine, failing to meet demands for well-documented reasons.
Iran traditionally buys 44% of its imported barley from the EU, usually from Germany and Baltic origins; a large portion also comes from Kazakhstan; while 40% of all its imports derive from Russia. This year, however, all have had to turn Iran away, which has forced the country to scour the global markets to fulfill its needs, and it is paying a premium to do so.
This is the story for many import nations as global shortages and food nationalism hit.
First, you have spiraling prices and shortages (check & check), and then comes the famine (now an inevitability). Next, you have civil unrest, violent regime changes and, finally, a Great Reset with all that that entails–including a complete overhaul of the monetary system.
It’s all meticulously planned and there’s now no was of stopping it.
What we can do, however, is stand strong and reject their version of the ‘reset’ once it is proposed. There will be a negotiation. They will push things hard to see what they can get away with, it is then that we push back and don’t give them an inch.
Resist.

 

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Crop Loss Extreme Weather GSM

Lima’s Coldest Night Since 1996; South Africa Shivers; Blackouts In Pakistan As China Power Plants Go Unpaid; North American Oat Shortage; + U.S. Corn Belt Already Suffering From Late Planting
June 17, 2022 Cap Allon

Lima’s Coldest Night Since 1996
Anomalous cold is continuing to ravage South America this week.
On Wednesday, the Peruvian capital of Lima suffered its coldest nights in decades when a low of 13.1C (55.6F) was logged at the Callao Airport–the city’s official weather station.
Other sites across Lima registered even colder lows: the park of Campo de Marte saw 11.9C (53.4F), while the neighborhood of Von Humboldt experienced 8.4C (47.1F) — the lowest readings for both downtown stations since 1996 (solar minimum of cycle 22).

"La noche más fría desde hace 26 años en #Lima"
Para recordar eh.#frío
13.1°C Aeropuerto #Callao (aeródromo)
11.9°C Jesús María (parque urbano)
10.2°C Ancón
8.4°C La Molina (zona agrícola)#weather #tiempo #Perú #LaNiña #otoño pic.twitter.com/4FM3LK6ocv
— Rony Mendoza (@RonaldMndz) June 15, 2022

Swathes of the South American continent have has been suffering historic chills in recent weeks and months.
In fact, Argentina just experienced its coldest autumn (March-April-May) since 1976 (solar minimum of cycle 20), with the freeze expected to have dire consequences across many of the country’s key growing regions:

Argentina’s Coldest Autumn Since 1976, As South America’s Freeze Intensifies; Blizzards Sweep Tasmania, As “Too Much Snow” Delays Reopening Of Aussie Ski Resort; + New Zealand’s “Best June Snow Conditions In Memory”

The COLD TIMES are returning…


And looking ahead, more of the same is forecast as the the month of June rolls on:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) June 26 – June 30 [tropicaltidbits.com].

South Africa Shivers
After a brief burst of warmth, South Africa is now shivering through another cold spell with frosts noted in the Highlands.
Some notable lows: Bloemfontein Airport recently sank to -7.3C (18.9F); Johannesburg to -2.3C (27.9F); Graaff-Reinet plunged to -4.2C (24.4F); while neighboring Botswana registered an anomalously-low -1.3C (29.7F) at its capital Gaborone.
And as is the case with South America, Southern Africa’s pockets of polar cold are forecast to persist.

Blackouts In Pakistan As China Power Plants Go Unpaid
Blackouts have been sweeping Pakistan this month as the country’s cash-strapped government struggles to pay Chinese power suppliers, complicating efforts to rescue its failing economy.
As reported by asia.nikkei.com, the power is going out in cities like Rawalpindi for 8 hours a day, which is having dire consequences on economic activity and, in turn, on household budgets already squeezed by 13%-plus inflation levels.
The outages are worse still in rural areas, such as in the southwestern province of Balochistan, which is receiving just six hours of electricity per day.
“We are used to living without government-supplied electricity as our forefathers did in ancient times,” said Mumtaz Baloch, a government employee living in Balochistan — an apposite statement, in my opinion.
A key cause for the blackouts is Chinese power producers shutting down multiple plants because the Pakistani government has failed to pay dues amounting to 300 billion rupees ($1.5 billion).
Ahmed Naeem Salik, a research fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad, said that current power generation capacity in Pakistan is 41,000 MW, while consumption is around 28,000 MW: “We have 13,000 MW of extra electricity capacity, but still there is a lot of load shedding,” he said. “[This] is mainly because we have to pay the loans [to Chinese companies] that we are unable to pay, and hence [the Chinese] have stopped power production.”
Blackouts are prevailing ACROSS Pakistan, including in the coastal town of Gwadar. Aslam Bhootani, a member of the National Assembly in Gwadar, told asia.nikkei.com that a 300 MW plant was supposed to power the town, “[but] the Chinese stopped construction of this power plant after [the government] failed to pay the dues to existing Chinese power producers.”
Pakistan’s power woes echo the ongoing crisis in another South Asian country, Sri Lanka — social unrest there is mounting and, as I reported on yesterday, public sector workers are being given Friday’s off to grow food in their back yards amid a looming famine:

Sri Lanka’s Public Sector Workers Given Fridays Off To Grow Food; Pakistanis Told To Drink Less Tea To Fight Economic Crisis; + Iran Turns To French Barley After Germany, Russia and Kazakhstan Fail To Deliver

In order to have Great Reset, you first need a Great Depression.

And similarly to Sri Lanka, the Pakistani government has reverted back to a five-day workweek, reversing a change to a six-day week that was intended to increase productivity. In another measure, the country is planning to shut down commercial markets early to conserve energy. And thirdly, it is also seeking an International Monetary Fund bailout but first has to jump through IMF hoops, which include renegotiating a cheaper energy deal with the Chinese.

North American Oat Shortage
Soaring global demand combined with fierce chills and a persistent drought has led to record low ending stocks for oats in Canada and the United States: “an exceptional situation for oats and oat products markets,” reports world-grain.com.
Demand for oats outpaced production last year after major North American oat growing regions suffered from severe drought and destructive outbreaks of Arctic cold — a recipe that led to depleted supplies that failed to keep up with usage.
“I’ve never seen anything like this in my 40 years of working in the oat industry,” Randy Strychar, president of Oatinformation, recently said. “The bottoms are in, and prices are only going up from here,” he continued.
Besides oats’ tight supplies and growing demand, soaring costs of wheat and other grains are supporting its price strength.
However, despite the strong headwinds, Strychar said he is somewhat optimistic.
North American soil moisture in the oat-growing regions has been improved by record-setting snowpacks from last winter. And while the snow-saturated soil made the ground too wet for planting in both the U.S. and Canada –with late planting resulting in lower crop yields– Strychar is hopeful that the higher moisture content may counter some of those late planting yield loses.
Concerns remain, however, that oat supplies will still fail to keep up with domestic demand: “I suggest you get the coverage you need now, and don’t expect farms to sell large loads,” Strychar warned North America’s oat processing plants.

U.S. Corn Belt Already Suffering From Late Planting
“I recently asked my neighbor when was the last time he remembers a “normal” planting season,” said Paul Hodgen, a corn, soybean, and wheat farmer in Roachdale, Indiana, “He told me those days are long gone.”
Hodgen said he has only just finished planting, adding that it went much slower this year. Typically, he is finished several weeks earlier.
“We got zero farming done in March. [And] because we didn’t get hardly any planting done in April, that month was pretty much a washout. Then it all hit at once,” Hodgen said. “Basically, the recap for 2022 is we’re waiting for 2023.”
Indiana’s cold winter turned into a cold spring, and the soil took a long time to warm up to a temperature acceptable for planting, reports agriculture.com. Then, and in another swing between extremes, Indiana was hit by brief burst of heat which Hodgen says will prove “a shock to the corn”. The warmth is required to speed along growth; however, Hodgen adds that “it is also condensing our spraying window, which means less time to get all our in-crop applications done.”
According to the latest USDA planting figures, corn has played a miraculous catch-up in recent weeks to now stand at the 5-year average of 97% planted. Soybean, wheat and oat plantings have also recovered and stand at or close to their averages.
But this “official” reporting flies in the face of what farmers on the ground are telling us. However, and as every market analyst and grower has come to accept, the USDA is a government agency tasked with stabilizing the markets as opposed to always portraying the true picture.
With this in mind, I am betting that the finalized figures will reveal that acreage is indeed down.
Moreover though, given the late planting (a large percentage of which took place outside of the ideal window), along with a global shortage of key agricultural inputs, yields are set to be drastically reduced this year, meaning even tighter global stocks and additional pain come harvest time in Sept/Oct, particularly for the planet’s import nations.

You think 2020 is bad? Think again. Wait for the “real” Catastrophes to kick-in — Volcanic Eruptions, Global Cooling, Crop Loss, and Famine



Recent studies put ancient political turmoils firmly at the feet of solar shutdowns and powerful volcanic eruptions — the end of the Roman Republic, for example, was the result of violent explosion in the Aleutians some 6,000 miles away.


The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

[TheSearcher]

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Greenland Gains Record Volumes Of Snow And Ice For The Time Of Year; Official Estimates Lower Argentinian Wheat Exports Amid Cold Weather Woes; Cold Taiwan; + Australian’s Instructed NOT To Charge Their EVs Due To Energy Crunch
June 15, 2022 Cap Allon

Greenland Gains Record Volumes Of Snow And Ice For The Time Of Year
Greenland continues to defy AGW Party orders, refusing to melt as prophesied. Data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) reveals that the island’s ice melt slowed significantly during the past decade, and that the trend has now swung to one of growth — media tizzies of ‘mass ice loss’ are wildly unfounded.
The Greenland ice sheet has been faring increasingly well in recent years. Since 2016, a sharp uptick in the Surface Mass Balance (SMB) –a calculation used to determine the ‘health’ of a glacier– has been detected, and daily/monthly records have routinely been broken.
Decades of reliable satellite measurements have allowed trends to be detected. And while it is true that the world’s largest island lost mass from around 1995 to 2012, that trend of loss has now reversed, almost completely, and like the gradual turning of a vast ship, from the year’s 2010 to 2015 Greenland’s SMB changed course and has been on an upward trajectory ever since.
This is clearly visible on the below chart which plots the total mass balance since 1985:



And most recently, the 2021/2022 season is continuing that trend of growth.
Impressive spikes have been posted across the Greenland ice sheet all season.
And on Tuesday, June 14 a record-breaking SMB gain –for the month of June– of over 4 Gigatons was posted:


[DMI]

Even more impressively, Tuesday’s gains push this season’s SMB totals above the 1981-2010 mean:


[DMI]

If you seek proof of mainstream media lies then you need look no further than their reporting of the Greenland ice sheet.
The above data very clearly outlines the reality, yet here is how the Western corporate media –whose job it is to instill fear and forward agendas, not to impart truth– has been misinforming the masses: “Phenomenally high rates of melting have been discovered at the base of the Greenland Ice Sheet”, reports Cambridge Independent; “Melting Ice Sheet in Greenland Becomes the Largest Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise”, reads a Nature World News headline from earlier in the year.
The science, in all fields, has been hijacked by vested interests. And that quote from Dr. Paul Reiter again rings true: “As far as the science being ‘settled,’ I think that is an obscenity. The fact is the science is being distorted by people who are not scientists.”

Official Estimates Peg-Back Argentinian Wheat Exports Amid Cold Weather And Inflation Woes
There were some early, optimistic expectations that Argentina would be able to capitalize on the Black Sea debacle, but these hopes are fading fast as a combination of early-season frosts and freezes, spiraling inflation, and political uncertainty combine to thwart the country’s Agricultural sector.
The 2022/23 winter wheat crop, which is going in the ground now, is the first of Argentina’s main crops to be sown since the Russia invaded the Ukraine. But a myriad of issues are being reported. According to agricensus.com, South American farmers are planting under the lingering impact of a second-consecutive La Nina, and amid fears of an extremely rare third-consecutive La Nina in the months ahead, dry conditions and intense freezes have slowed the planting progress.
A total of just 30% of the area has been planted with wheat as of June 8, down 6.2% from the same levels of a year ago, according to the latest estimates from the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange (BAGE), with further delays expected.
Also, and as is the case across globe right now, record-high prices and shortages for key inputs, such as fertilizers, are seeing growers even more reliant on the elements being favorable.
“This year there are going to be less hectares planted with wheat and less use in fertilizers this season,” said Jeremias Battistoni, Market Analyst from AZ Group.
A lack of inputs also drastically reduces the end yield, particularly in wheat and corn which require the highest application.
Battistoni also fears that farmers could scrap their wheat area and migrate to barely instead which is cheaper to grow.
“But wheat export dynamics are surging this year, with around 90% of the exportable quota filled already,” he points out. “However, only 30% of the crop has been planted … so there is a risk there.”
It is looking as if Argentina won’t be able to fulfill its export quota this year, which, more than likely, will have catastrophic knock-on effects for import nations. Domestic supply is likely to suffer, too. Interventionist measures have been a key theme for global agricultural markets this year. And the Argentinian government is no different, with President Alberto Fernandez imposing a series of protective measures to tackle ever-rising domestic inflation levels in the country, warning of increases in export taxes and potential additional measures to protect the domestic market, which is bringing further uncertainty into the farming sector.
The measure that has greatest impact for the grains trade is the so-called “equilibrium volumes” imposed for the first time for wheat in December 2021, whereby an automatic ban on exports and other restrictions are triggered when a threshold volume determined by the Government are achieved.
For wheat, the export quota for has been set at 10 million mt for 2022/23, some 4.5 million mt below the exports achieved in 2021/22.
“There is a lack of responsibility from the Argentine government, that instead of encouraging the sowing of wheat so that we reach 20 or 22 million mt, they have stopped exports at ten million tonnes,” Luis Miguel Etchevehere, from the Rural Society of Argentina (SRA), said at a global conference at the end of last week.
“The world should not expect Argentina to contribute significantly to export volumes this year,” said an Argentina-based grain analyst. And the same can be said for the key export nations of Brazil, which is also suffering from cold weather woes, inut shortages, political pressures and global supply chains breakdowns.

Cold Taiwan
May 2022 in Taiwan finished markedly cooler than the norm.
An average temperature of 21.93C (71.5F) was noted for the month, which is -1.37C below the multidecadal norm.
The below anomaly map comes courtesy of the CWB:


[CWB]

Australian’s Instructed NOT To Charge Their EVs Due To Energy Crunch
This is where an unchecked spread of ill-informed ideologies get you; it’s where spineless politicians, bowing to a crazed mob of placard brandishing hippies, have led us — and the world is suffering — big time.
There is no data to back-up catastrophic anthropogenic global warming: global deaths from natural disasters (including heatwaves and wildfires) are at all-time lows; Earth’s average temperature isn’t increasing inline with CO2 emissions (it’s actually fallen quiet substantially since 2016); and the planets glaciers are refusing to melt (as highlighted above re. Greenland).
I call on every person believing in the AGW Party doctrine to stop ingesting the propaganda, to instead open your eyes to the data, to the world around you. You have been misled by a powerful racket hellbent on destroying our civilization so they rebuild it in their own name. They call it The Great Reset. And it is behind every single crisis of the past few years: that’s global warming, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine.
The warnings have been sounding for years. And now Australians, despite living in the world’s largest coal exporting nation, are being warned by their pandering, weak-kneed, timorous, placating and cowardly government that they need to conserve power in order to avoid blackouts, steps which include not charging their electric vehicles (a laughable request that has also just been asked of Texans in the U.S., too).
Australia’s energy crisis is showing no signs of abating, and today the nation’s Energy Market Operator made an unprecedented intervention by suspending the whole east-coast electricity market until further notice.
One Aussie told me via email today: “Here in South Australia we have had two warnings this week to reduce energy consumption to avoid blackouts. Today, Friday, and earlier in the week. All this and the Federal Government has an 80% renewable target by 2030.”
The world is going to hell; and tragically, the indoctrinated greenies, buoyed by the support of a corrupt establishment, are merrily hopping aboard the handbasket. And they’re taking us all with them. But where’s the democracy? Where’s my vote?
Revolution…?

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

Something in this particular entry just makes me sticky mad. It's the Greenland lies, I think. I mean, look at that SMB graph. The trajectory looks to blow right through the average line. Even if it started to nose over now, it would be well above the norm. And I don't think it's poised to nose over just yet. There is a factor in the natural environment that is imposing a forcing function on the normally expected cycle.

But TPTB just lie, lie, lie.

 

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Europe wilts under early heat wave from Med to North Sea
A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western Europe its first heat wave of the summer
By Frank Jordans Associated Press
June 17, 2022, 3:51 PM

BERLIN -- A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western Europe its first heat wave of the summer, with temperatures Friday exceeding 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) from London to Paris.

Meteorologists say the unusually early heat wave is a sign of what's to come as global warming continues, moving up in the calendar the temperatures that Europe would previously have seen only in July and August.

“In some parts of Spain and France, temperatures are more than 10 degrees higher — that’s huge — than the average for this time of year,” Clare Nullis, a spokesperson for the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, said.

In France, some 18 million people woke to heat wave alerts affecting about a third of the country Friday. Forest fire warnings were issued from the Pyrenees in the south to the Paris region.

Tourists dunked their feet in fountains near the Eiffel Tower or sought relief in the Mediterranean.

France has introduced numerous measures to cope with extreme summer temperatures following a deadly heat wave in 2003 that killed about 15,000 people.

On Friday, schoolchildren were allowed to skip classes in the 12 western and southwestern French regions that were under the highest alert. The government stepped up efforts to ensure nursing home residents and other vulnerable populations could stay hydrated.

Temperatures in France have mounted all week and passed 39 C (102.2 F) in the southwest Friday. Nighttime temperatures are also unusually high, and the heat is stretching to normally cooler regions in Brittany and Normandy on the Atlantic Coast.

Matthieu Sorel, a climatologist at national weather service Meteo France, told public broadcaster France-Info that temperatures are expected to break several records. He called the exceptionally early long stretch of hot weather a “marker of climate change.”

Britain recorded its hottest day of the year so far, with the temperature reaching 32.4C Celsius (90 Fahrenheit) at Heathrow Airport near London just after midday.

The heatwave prompted organizers of the Royal Ascot horse racing event to relax their famously strict dress code, with men allowed remove their jackets and ties once the traditional carriage procession by members of the royal family had ended.

In the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, people boarded trains to the nearest North Sea beach early Friday afternoon while others took to boats and stand-up paddle boards on one of the city’s historic ring of canals.

In Germany, where firefighters were tackling several wildfires including one south of the capital Berlin, the national weather service predicted that the big sweat would continue over the weekend, as the heat moves into central and Eastern Europe. It follows an unusually dry spring in Western Europe, with authorities ordering water to be rationed in northern Italy and parts of France and Germany.

Experts say climate change is already affecting rainfall patterns and evaporation rates across the region, with knock-on effects for agriculture, industry and wildlife.

“Heat waves are starting earlier,” said Nullis, from the U.N. weather agency. “They’re becoming more frequent and more severe because of concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which are at record level. What we’re witnessing today is, unfortunately, a foretaste of the future.”

She noted that extreme temperatures hit other parts of the globe in recent weeks. Nearly a third of Americans were under some form of heat advisory this week. During months of scorching temperatures, India and Pakistan saw the mercury scrape past 50 C (122 F) in some places.

The current heat wave in Europe started almost a week ago in Spain, where temperatures reached 43 C (109.4F). Spanish authorities hope the weather will begin to cool again Sunday.

The intense temperatures and a lack of rain has helped fuel wildfires across Spain, taxing firefighting capacity.

The heat made itself felt also at a meeting in Madrid, where experts and policymakers gathered to discuss ways to tackle drought and the increasing spread of deserts across the globe.

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Angela Charlton in Paris, Ciaran Giles in Madrid, Mike Corder in Amsterdam, Jill Lawless in London and Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this report.

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Follow AP's coverage of climate change at Climate | Latest News & Updates | AP News

Europe wilts under early heat wave from Med to North Sea - ABC News (go.com)

 

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China's Northeastern Black Soil Grain Field Is Alarmingly Depleted

BY TYLER DURDEN
ZERO HEDGE
SUNDAY, JUN 19, 2022 - 08:30 PM

Authored by Mary Hong via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The fertile black soil in northeastern China, which the Chinese grain community relies on, is in an alarming state of degradation due to over-use. Chinese researchers recently admitted that the area has lost a huge chunk of its productivity.

It is the most important grain commodity base in China, affecting the country’s food security. This grain field is over 107 million acres, which is one-fifth of China’s arable land; the rice production accounts for at least a quarter of China’s total grain crop.

That is, this land affects the food reserves that matter to hundreds of millions of people in China.


An image of Chinese a heavenly maiden was created using different varieties of rice in a rice paddy field during the harvest season in Shenyang, in China's northeast Liaoning Province on Sept. 20. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Alarming Soil Degradation

On June 15, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said that the rich black soil in the northeastern region has lost 20 percent of productivity, the Chinese media reported.

Significant loss of soil and the organic nutrients in the soil from excessive use of the land are the main causes of the decreased productivity, said the report that came after an inspection by a regime high official.

Li Zhanshu, chairman of the Party’s Standing Committee, led the inspection of the environmental protection in the northeastern province, Heilongjiang, from June 10 to 13.

Li emphasized the importance of sustaining the black soil belt, according to the report by state mouthpiece, CCTV, on June 14.

In fact, China has been continuously losing its rich and fertile black soil for decades. Heavy mechanization and fertilizer use since the early 20th century under the regime increased productivity but also caused tremendous damage to the rich soil.

In 2021, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) released its first “White Paper on Black Soil Region in Northeast China, 2020.”

The white paper revealed that in the past 60 years, the organic content of the black soil tillage layer has dropped by 33 percent, and in some areas by 50 percent.


A farmer waiting to sell his grain at a state grain reserves depot in Yushu, Jilin Province, China on Jan. 8, 2009. (China Photos/Getty Images)

Black Soil is Poor Farmers’ Easy Money

To protect the black soil, the regime intends to stipulate heavy punishment for illegal black earth trading and theft. However, as the local poor farmers know, the black soil is black gold—easy money for them. The illegal trading of black soil inside China has formed a highly profitable industrial chain.

For instance, state mouthpiece Xinhua News reported in 2021 a case of illegal black soil trade covering more than 27 acres of soil that generated $53,000.

Considering the fact that any industrial chain would not get an easy pass without the Communist officials’ recognition and protection, whether the newly stipulated regulation will have any effect remains to be seen.

China's Northeastern Black Soil Grain Field Is Alarmingly Depleted | ZeroHedge

 

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China's Northeastern Black Soil Grain Field Is Alarmingly Depleted

BY TYLER DURDEN
ZERO HEDGE
SUNDAY, JUN 19, 2022 - 08:30 PM

Authored by Mary Hong via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The fertile black soil in northeastern China, which the Chinese grain community relies on, is in an alarming state of degradation due to over-use. Chinese researchers recently admitted that the area has lost a huge chunk of its productivity.

It is the most important grain commodity base in China, affecting the country’s food security. This grain field is over 107 million acres, which is one-fifth of China’s arable land; the rice production accounts for at least a quarter of China’s total grain crop.

That is, this land affects the food reserves that matter to hundreds of millions of people in China.


An image of Chinese a heavenly maiden was created using different varieties of rice in a rice paddy field during the harvest season in Shenyang, in China's northeast Liaoning Province on Sept. 20. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Alarming Soil Degradation

On June 15, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said that the rich black soil in the northeastern region has lost 20 percent of productivity, the Chinese media reported.

Significant loss of soil and the organic nutrients in the soil from excessive use of the land are the main causes of the decreased productivity, said the report that came after an inspection by a regime high official.

Li Zhanshu, chairman of the Party’s Standing Committee, led the inspection of the environmental protection in the northeastern province, Heilongjiang, from June 10 to 13.

Li emphasized the importance of sustaining the black soil belt, according to the report by state mouthpiece, CCTV, on June 14.

In fact, China has been continuously losing its rich and fertile black soil for decades. Heavy mechanization and fertilizer use since the early 20th century under the regime increased productivity but also caused tremendous damage to the rich soil.

In 2021, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) released its first “White Paper on Black Soil Region in Northeast China, 2020.”

The white paper revealed that in the past 60 years, the organic content of the black soil tillage layer has dropped by 33 percent, and in some areas by 50 percent.


A farmer waiting to sell his grain at a state grain reserves depot in Yushu, Jilin Province, China on Jan. 8, 2009. (China Photos/Getty Images)

Black Soil is Poor Farmers’ Easy Money

To protect the black soil, the regime intends to stipulate heavy punishment for illegal black earth trading and theft. However, as the local poor farmers know, the black soil is black gold—easy money for them. The illegal trading of black soil inside China has formed a highly profitable industrial chain.

For instance, state mouthpiece Xinhua News reported in 2021 a case of illegal black soil trade covering more than 27 acres of soil that generated $53,000.

Considering the fact that any industrial chain would not get an easy pass without the Communist officials’ recognition and protection, whether the newly stipulated regulation will have any effect remains to be seen.

China's Northeastern Black Soil Grain Field Is Alarmingly Depleted | ZeroHedge

The Chinese have not read the Law of Moses

Lev 25:3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
Lev 25:4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Lev 25:5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

Land needs rest, a time to regain nutrients, most farmers know this?

 

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[alpha]

Electroverse

Articles GSM

On Saturday, Greenland’s Surface Mass Balance Gained A Record-Smashing 7 Gigatons…
June 20, 2022 Cap Allon


If you want proof of mainstream media manipulation and agenda driving drivel, you need look no further than the “official” reporting of the Greenland ice sheet–the poster child for anthropogenic global warming. If today’s intensifying energy crisis wasn’t rooted in said obfuscations, all of this would be laughable.
Impressive surface mass balance (SMB) readings –a calculation to determine the ‘health’ of a glacier– have been posted across the Greenland ice sheet all season. But the cherry, at least for me, is taken by Saturday’s record-smashing 7 Gigaton GAIN–particularly when you consider the glacier should be losing mass at this time of year.
The MSM appears to love dumb, decontextualized headlines to advance their AGW narrative. So here’s one for them:
Greenland’s Recent SMB Gains Enough To Bury Central Park, New York City Under 7,833 Feet Of Ice… (it’s true, do the math).


Greenland SMB [DMI]

[DMI]

This unprecedented mid-June GAIN has helped push the ice sheet’s SMB well-above the 1981-2010 average:


This season’s Acc. SMB (blue line) vs 1981-2010 mean (grey line) [DMI]

Greenland is defying AGW Party orders, refusing to melt as prophesied. And this year is far from an anomaly. Since 2016, an overall net gain has been detected.

Here’s the 2016-2017 season:

SMB 2016 – 2017 [DMI]

And here’s 2017-2018:

SMB 2017 – 2018 [DMI]

The incompetence/fraud is clearer than ever.
Also on full display is the power of propaganda and indoctrination.
Despite decades of reliable satellite measurements, which have resulted in unambiguous and unalarming data, the official narrative remains one of fire and brimstone, one hellbent on pushing a suicidal demonizing of affordable and reliable fossil fuels.
It is indeed true that the Greenland ice sheet lost mass from around 1995 to 2012; however, that trend of loss has now reversed, almost completely. Like the gradual turning of a vast ship, from the year’s 2010 to 2015 Greenland’s SMB changed course and has been on an upward trajectory ever since:



And now we have 2021/2022 season advancing that trend of growth:


[DMI]

If ever you want to convince someone ‘on the fence’ of the global warming scam, point them to the “official” reporting of Greenland’s surface mass balance. It also stands that even the staunchest of alarmists can have no comeback to the blatant obfuscation and propagandizing on show.

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

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"Dangerous" Heat Dome Shifts Eastward, Triple-Digit Temps Expected For Southeast

BY TYLER DURDEN
ZERO HEDGE
MONDAY, JUN 20, 2022 - 08:45 AM

A heat dome hovering over the northern Plains has begun to shift eastward early this week, expected to bring triple-digit temperatures across southern and eastern regions of the U.S.

"Dangerous heat will continue to make headlines from the central U.S. to the Southeast. One more day of well above normal, near-record and record-breaking heat is expected from the central Plains to the Upper Midwest.
"Excessive Heat Warnings remain in effect for the Red River Valley of the North and the greater Minneapolis area. High temperatures up to 100 degrees along with high humidity will lead to head indices into the mid-100s ...
"The center of the heat wave begins to transition further east on Tuesday into the Great Lakes, with forecast highs in the mid- to upper 90s, up to 15-20 degrees above normal.
"In addition to hot high temperatures, very warm, near-record and record-breaking low temperatures in the 70s will provide little relief from the heat overnight. Temperatures will also warm up across the Southeast on Wednesday, with highs into the low 100s expected. Maximum heat indices may reach as high as 110 degrees along the central Gulf Coast when factoring in high humidity. High temperatures in general will be hot and a bit above normal across most of the central and eastern U.S. outside of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic," the National Weather Service wrote in an early morning weather outlook.

At 0800 ET, at least nine million people across eight northern and central U.S. states, including Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Kansas, were under heat alerts. That number should exponentially increase as the heat dome moves eastward.

Summer begins Tuesday, and large swaths of the Central and southern parts of the country could see above-average max temperatures through the end of the month.

Above-average weather will increase cooling demand from households and businesses, may strain power grids, and result in higher electricity costs for tens of millions of Americans, or worst, power blackouts.

"Dangerous" Heat Dome Shifts Eastward, Triple-Digit Temps Expected For Southeast | ZeroHedge

 

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Yesterday I was talking to a customer service rep for directv. I asked him where he lived and he said asia, but would not give specifics, but I think they are from the Phillapines, doesn't really matter. Something came up in the conversation, I talk a lot to CSreps, particularly since my brother died, about climate change. I told him is was a scam because we are in a weather cycle called the Grand Solar Minimum, that happens in nature. He had never heard of it, but it peaked his interest. He asked me to spell it and he said he would do some research about it. Anyway, I try to spread the truth around when I can.

 

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Electroverse

Crop Loss Extreme Weather GSM

Low Temperature Benchmarks Toppled In Canada And US: Latest <50F on Record In Caribou, 143-Year-Old Low Falls In Pittsburgh, Heavy Snow On Mt Washington; + EU Crop Yields Reduced
June 21, 2022 Cap Allon

Low Temperature Benchmarks Toppled In Canada And US
The out-of-season freeze in Southeast Canada and the Northeast U.S. is producing hundreds of record low readings for the time of the year. Atmospheric confluences are also resulting in dumpings of mid-June snow across the higher elevations.
Daytime highs have held below 10C (50F) in New Brunswick and Maine this week — record low levels for the time of year.
While elsewhere, anomalous readings of 9.3C (48.7F), 10C (50F), 10.6C (51.1F) and 9.4C (48.9F) were noted in Edmundston, NB, Woodstock, NB, and Red Pines and Bathurst, NB, respectively.


Fallen Records as of 10:00 UTC on June 20, 2022.

Record cold has also been noted in Caribou, ME where Monday’s max of 9.4C (48.9F) has gone down as the locale’s latest <50F on records, according to the NWS, surpassing the 47F from June 16, 1958 and also the the 50F registered on June 26, 1941.
Similarly in Pittsburgh, PA, a record daily low of 7.8C (46F) was noted, tying the city’s previous benchmark set way back in 1879.
And it was also a cold and snowy mid-June day atop Mt Washington, NH where a record-challenging -1.1C (30F) was observed:
(We had a day hiker die on the mountain from this last week. - alpha)


Mt Washington’s summit [photographed by staff at the Mt Washington Observatory].

However, and despite all of this historic cold, despite the fact that the planet as a whole has cooled since 2016, those wily prevaricators within the AGW Party will still consider these realities mere “inconveniences” and will instead continue to use localized heatwaves and droughts (that have historically and periodically ALWAYS occurred) to prop-up their failing hypothesis.
If you believe in ‘global heating,’ ‘climate broiling,’ ‘Terra-Firma Toasting’ –or whatever the hell you want to label it– then you are part of a grandiose political scam. You are doing harm to society and to our modern civilization. And although you think you’re Earth’s savior (because that’s how they get you), remember that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions,” and that all the do-gooders in the world are really just troublemakers.
As the story goes: “kindly let me help you or you’ll drown, said the monkey putting the fish safely up a tree.”
If you aren’t privy to the facts, or worse still, are willfully blind to them, then this is the danger. The virtuous think they know what is best for EVERYBODY, but their belief is based solely on their own narrow viewpoint. This is isn’t virtuousness, this is a destructive rampage, and one orchestrated from on high.
If you believe in AGW –which is just one modern example– and push for extreme planet-reshaping policies then you are nothing more than a destructive sheep, a useful idiot, and you need to stop enforcing what you think is best on everybody else.
Modern science is an indulgence, largely — it is rarely correct, and rarer still should it be used as a tool to scare the masses into such powerfully dangerous measures.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” — Voltaire.
People should be free to think, permitted to use their own real-world observations to form their own thoughts and opinions. But clearly, this is not the world we live in. Government funded labs with their endless production line of dire climate models and projections should not be required to prove a point as obvious as ‘catastrophic anthropogenic global warming’ claims to be.
CAGW’s impacts should be palpable by now having been around for some four+ decades: whenever we step foot outside ‘climate change’ should be smacking us in the face — hard; we should be wading through the risen oceans; and baking in the winter sun.
But of course, we aren’t suffering these fates, and we likely never will — these EOTW prophesies are a mere fabrication, a dark Brothers Grimm fairytale and the newest politicized weapon wielded used to control and reshape the masses into working as the powers-that-be see fit.
History has shown us time and time again that it takes a tumultuous, undeniable, world-shaking truth to awake the hypnotized masses from their manufactured psychosis. Perhaps this orchestrated societal collapse landing in conjunction with a cyclical round of global cooling will prove that truth–and on the note, check out what the U.S. has to contend with next, starting this weekend:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) June 26 [tropicaltidbits.com].

EU Crop Yields Reduced
The EU’s crop monitoring service has reduced its expectations for the bloc’s 2022 winter crop for a third consecutive month, amid drier-than-usual conditions and colder than ideal growing conditions across large parts of the continent.
The June report published by Monitoring Agriculture Resources (MARS) showed that drought continued to have an adverse impact across the regions key growing regions: 2022 yield forecasts for soft wheat, durum wheat and winter barley are now parked below the 5-year average; while the forecast for rapeseed, corn, and sunflowers and were also reduced; soybean and spring barley output are the only crops that were unchanged.
The strongest downward revision, by almost 5%, was for durum wheat in southern Europe; while soft wheat was revised downward in 13 of the 25 EU wheat producing countries, most crucially in Hungary, Romania, Poland and, the bloc’s largest producer, France–where drought in southern and western parts during May lowered the yield outlook of winter cereals.
According to an agricensus.com report, precipitation in early June arrived too late to preserve the yield potential in these regions. Along with this, continues the report, crops in the Baltic Sea region were negatively affected by persistently colder-than-usual weather.

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

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Electroverse

Crop Loss Extreme Weather GSM

“Unprecedented” Summer Snow Hits Afghanistan; Similarly In India And Pakistan, Rare Mid-June Freeze Delivers Heavy Snowfall; + Unusual Cold Sweeps Namibia
June 22, 2022 Cap Allon

“Unprecedented And Heavy” Summer Snow Hits Afghanistan
According to local sources, and as reported by khaama.com, unprecedented and heavy snowfall has struck central Afghanistan which, at this time of the year, poses a threat to young livestock and tender crops.
Residents in various towns and villages of Bamyan province have reported snow down to an unusually low elevation, even as the calendar reads summer.
Witnesses documented the sharp cool-down and rare snow which descended overnight Monday:

How strange! Snow coming in summer, Bamyan covered by snow. Everything turn upside-down in Afghanistan even snow. pic.twitter.com/AcF5OLGzJ2
— Ewaz Ali Mahdawi (@EwazMahdawi) June 21, 2022

Snow in Bamyan. It is very rare to snow in the middle of June, where spring almost is finished for summer. pic.twitter.com/e6cfBVmEHe
— Afghanistan (@Afghanistan_5) June 21, 2022

The Bamyan province snow has been confirmed by the Taliban’s Ministry of Public Works, with the agency also noting historic accumulations in Samangan province, as well as heavy snow in the Salang area:

Snow in Bamyan and Samangan provinces.
And heavy snow in Salang area.
Afghanistan.
3rd week of June 2022 pic.twitter.com/Qjdz21Id8q
— Mutmaeen (@Metmaeen) June 21, 2022

As concluded by the khaama.com article, snowfall on a summer night is unprecedented in at least the last 20 years.

However, although snow is cold –at least the time I checked– that hasn’t stopped the marauding gangs of do-gooders on Twitter from laying the feet of this climatic anomaly firmly at the feet of ‘global warming’.
One twitter user, who I’ll nickname Klaus Schwab’s Wet Dream, wrote: “Snow in parts of Afghanistan. Global warming is real, please take it seriously. Raise awareness.” While another tweeted: “Snow in summer! This is not just #ClimateChange, it’s #ClimateCrisis actually.”
The power of propaganda.
The unthinking compliance of indoctrinated sheep.

Today was snowing in Bamyan Afghanistan.

It looks so beautiful and amazing ….. #snow #Afghanistan

pic.twitter.com/ZjmU4ZUzh8
— Tamim (@iamtammim) June 21, 2022

Afghanistan Quake
300 people are feared dead and hundreds more wounded after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake (downgraded from an M6.1) hit eastern Afghanistan Wednesday, compounding the misery in a nation already dealing with a full-blown economic collapse.
The earthquake hit in the early hours of Wednesday morning, at roughly 46 kilometers (28.5 miles) southwest of the city of Khost, which lies close to the country’s border with Pakistan, according to the USGS.
The quake was shallow, striking at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).
Casualties have been reported in the Barmal, Zirok, Nika and Giyan districts of Paktika province, with more than 600 injured, according to Bakhtar.
Local officials and residents have also warned that the death toll is likely to rise.

A strong earthquake left more than 250 dead in Khost and Paktika provinces of #Afghanistan. The images show the destruction left behind by the natural calamity and how the residents are attending to the emergency, which includes turning up for blood donation in large numbers. pic.twitter.com/Iind80WYwZ
— The Conflict Diaries (@factsnconflicts) June 22, 2022

Seismic and volcanic activity has been correlated to changes in our sun.

The recent global uptick in earthquakes and volcanic eruptions is possibly attributed to the drop-off in solar activity, an increase in coronal holes, a waning magnetosphere, and the influx of Cosmic Rays penetrating silica-rich magma; however, and I freely admit, the science is far from settled.

Rare Mid-June Freeze Delivers Snow To Indian And Pakistan
A very rare spell of mid-June cold is ravaging swathes of Northwest India and Pakistan this week.
Islamabad, Pakistan reached just 23C (73F) on Tuesday–an astonishing feat for a city with an average June high of 38C (100F).
It was colder across the region’s higher elevations –as you would expect– with Gulmarg, India struggling to a maximum of just 7.5C (45F). Moreover, substantial summer snow was also noted in India, even at levels well-below 4,000m (13,000ft):

Hard to believe it is snowing in #June in Kausarnag #kulgam #PirPanjal District Kulgam pic.twitter.com/xgsXjp4D5b
— Dr Bilal M Bhat IAS (@DrBilalbhatIAS) June 21, 2022

“Affects of global warming”, comments another useful idiot on Twitter.

Unusual Cold Sweeps Namibia
A fiercely cold night with widespread frosts has been suffered the Namibian highlands.
A startling chilly low of -5.8C (21.6F) was registered by the agro station of Waterberg Tuesday morning.
The cold is also prevailing further north in the Southern Angola Highlands. There, a record low of 1.6C (34.9F) has been logged at Ondjiva, formerly known as Pereira d’ Eca, which sits at just 17 degrees south of the Earth’s equatorial plane (17S).
The blast of exceptional polar cold is impacting the nation’s farmers.
According to a report by NBC Digital News, cold weather conditions have hit small livestock farmers, particularly in Southern parts, where one farmer in the Aroab district is noted to have lost some 30 goats to the anomalously low temperatures:




Just as unusual, snowfall has also been documented in Southern Namibia, as the chill of solar minimum continues its intensification:

A video taken earlier today of a snowfall in Southern Namibia

Most Parts of Namibia are notoriously dry and much of the country is made up of the Namib Desert and the Kalahari

Namibia is situated along the cold Benguela Current of south Atlantic coastpic.twitter.com/cmEW31MmEa
— Africa View Facts (@AfricaViewFacts) June 21, 2022

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

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From my email inbox the Old Farmer's Almanac June 21

 

[TxGal]

Buy your flour now while you can! Western Kansas wheat crops are failing just when the world needs them most - Strange Sounds

Buy your flour now while you can! Western Kansas wheat crops are failing just when the world needs them most
Jun 21, 2022

This time of year, the wheat growing in this part of western Kansas should be thigh-high and lush green. But as a months-long drought continues to parch the region, many fields tell a different story.


Catastrophic wheat harvest forecast for Kansas, the Wheat State

“There’s nothing out there. It’s dead,” farmer Vance Ehmke said, surveying a wheat field near his land in Lane County. “It’s just ankle-high straw.”

Across western Kansas, many fields planted with wheat months ago now look like barren wastelands. The gaping spaces between rows of brown, shriveled plants reveal hardened dirt that’s scarred with deep cracks from baking in the sun.

Of all the years for drought to hit western Kansas wheat farmers, it couldn’t have come at a worse time.

Even with wheat selling for near-record-high prices as the war in Ukraine disrupts the world’s food supplies, a lot of farmers in western Kansas won’t have any to sell.

And those who made it through the drought with enough crop to harvest will likely end up with far fewer bushels than they had last year, a downturn that limits the state’s ability to help ease the global food crisis.

Projections estimate that more than one of every ten wheat fields in Kansas will be abandoned this season due to the drought.

Wheat prices have bounced between $10 and $12 per bushel since setting an all-time record north of $13 in March. So it might stand to reason that farmers should be able to make up for poor harvests by selling the wheat they do have for more money.

But it’s not that simple.

The US Department of Agriculture estimates that wheat fields statewide will average roughly 39 bushels per acre this year, down sharply from 52 bushels per acre last year. But many farms in the western half of the state will produce far less than that.

USDA projections for Lane County say wheat farmers here will end up harvesting an average of 27 bushels per acre — less than half of what the county’s farmers averaged last year.

At $11 per bushel, each acre of that average Lane County farmer’s land would bring in just under $300 this season. In order to recoup the costs of doing business, Ehmke said farmers here need to gross closer to $325 per acre.

Ehmke considers himself fortunate. He expects his wheat to end up higher than that 27 bushel average, something he credits to the way he lets his land rest between plantings. But even with conservative land management strategies, his fields might still only produce half of what they did last year — all because of too much heat and not enough rain.
And he figures that at least half the wheat fields in western Kansas won’t produce enough for farmers to break even.

“They’re losing money,” Ehmke said, “even with the highest price of wheat that we’ve probably ever seen in the past 50 or 100 years.”

Part of the problem is an increase in costs. Farmers face higher expenses across the board this season, largely thanks to supply chain issues caused by the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia.

The price of diesel — the fuel required to run the tractors and trucks that keep farms going — reached an all-time high last month and remains more than $5.50 per gallon.

Nitrogen fertilizer prices also soared to record levels this spring, peaking above $1,500 per ton — more than twice what it cost one year ago.

“It’ll be a very difficult year,” Rejeana Gvillo with Farmers Business Network said. “Just because commodity prices are high, it does not mean that producers are better off.”

Gvillo, a senior commodity analyst with the national agricultural data and e-commerce platform, traveled across the state last month to survey crop conditions during the annual Kansas wheat tour.

She said the differences between wheat stands in eastern and central Kansas — areas that should still see a decent harvest this year — and western Kansas were stark.

“Shorter crop. Uglier fields,” Gvillo said. “As we drove west, it just got way worse.”


This map of stops from the Kansas wheat tour shows that northwest and southwest Kansas have the state’s poorest crop conditions.

In past years’ wheat tours, Gvillo said she would wear a rain suit to walk into wheat fields because she would get soaked with dew. This year, she didn’t see any morning moisture on plants until the tour neared Wichita.

Many stands were in such bad shape that she could easily step between scrawny rows of wheat without touching the plants at all. In some of the hardest-hit areas, she found seeds lying in the dirt that never got the chance to sprout.

“It was so dry, the grass on the side of the road was dead,” Gvillo said. “And that’s weeds.”

Even some of the better-looking crops in western Kansas are so short — stunted by the heat and lack of moisture — that there’s concern about whether or not combines will be able to reach low enough to harvest them properly.

And with those high diesel costs, she said, it might not be financially feasible for some farmers to run a combine over their wheat — even if the crop could produce a few bushels per acre.

Too little, too late

Kansas isn’t called the Wheat State for nothing. It produced nearly one quarter of all American wheat harvested last year. But this year’s Kansas wheat crop has been through a lot of hardship since seeds went into the ground this past fall.

There was the Dec. 15 storm that battered the region with widespread wildfires, hurricane-force wind gusts and swirling clouds of dirt that zapped crops with static electricity and evoked images of the Dust Bowl.

This spring, extreme weather has continued to damage some wheat stands with hail, above-average winds and freezing temperatures.

Then there’s the months-long drought that continues to ring the region dry of what little moisture it has.

Every inch of western Kansas remains blanketed by some level of drought. Virtually all of southwest Kansas faces extreme or exceptional drought, the two most severe levels on the U.S. Drought Monitor’s scale. Some areas in the southwest corner of the state have been in extreme or exceptional drought since Christmas.

Even with some recent precipitation, much of western Kansas would still need an additional three to five inches of rain just to get back to its historical year-to-date average.

Most of the wheat stands in western Kansas are dryland, meaning they’re not irrigated. So growth depends on how much it happens to rain on that particular field.

But after months of wheat farmers hoping for rain, that window has closed.

“It’s basically too late for moisture to help,” Gvillo said. “In fact, water would probably hurt.”

That’s because rain would be more likely to increase the risk of disease or fungus than it would increase the yield at this late stage in the plant’s growth.

Marsha Boswell, vice president of communications with the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers, said the good news is that modern varieties of wheat seed have been bred to handle this dry climate.

“Wheat is one of the most drought-tolerant crops and one of the most resilient crops,” Boswell said. “But it does need just a little bit of help.”

The conditions this year have pushed those crops to the limit.


This map shows how wheat crop conditions fare across the High Plains this year compared to last year. Western Kansas has the biggest expected drop in yields.

The US Department of Agriculture says 41% of Kansas wheat is in “very poor” or “poor” condition. That’s up from just 14% at this time last year.

The Wheat Quality Council estimates that more than one of every ten wheat fields in Kansas will be abandoned, meaning they didn’t grow enough crop to bother harvesting it. And that number is likely to creep up in the coming weeks.

“Abandonment is going to be a lot higher than an average year,” Boswell said. “There’s no way to harvest some of those acres where there’s just next to nothing left.”

In other parts of the High Plains, the outlook is even more grim.

To the west in Colorado, projections say nearly one-third of wheat fields won’t produce enough to bother harvesting. In Texas, around three-quarters of the crop will likely be abandoned.

Daryl Strouts is president and CEO of the Kansas Wheat Alliance, which helps get new wheat varieties developed by Kansas State University out to farmers. If the state hadn’t already spent decades developing those drought-tolerant wheat breeds, he said, this year could have been much worse.

Kansas is still expected to harvest more than 250 million bushels of wheat this season. But that total will be down more than 100 million bushels from last year.

With record high wheat prices, that drop in production really adds up.

If you take those missing 100 million bushels and multiply them by the $11 per bushel that farmers could have potentially sold them for this year, it means the drought could cause the Kansas economy to miss out on more than one billion dollars.

“I’m always reminded of an old proverb,” Strouts said. “A farmer that has too much water has a lot of problems. A farmer that doesn’t have enough water has only one.”

 

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This is a nice video about the GSM from Pinball.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGxxAdSgayA


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From my email inbox the Old Farmer's Almanac June 22

 

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oops. awesome!

 

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U.S. Corn Belt Already Suffering From Late Planting

The hail and windstorms we've been having out here on the prairie/plains has not been helping the crops out one bit either.

 

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We haven't had triple digit temps here in N Florida in a good while, today:

 

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Snowstorms And Frozen Lakes In Patagonia; More Unprecedented Summer Gains On Greenland; + B.C. Ski Resort Postpones Summer Opening Due To “Too Much Snow”
June 23, 2022 Cap Allon


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However, my earnings have been significantly reduced (by 80+%) due to the policy violation Google slapped on me late last year. According to them, my content “contradicts authoritative scientific consensus on climate change” and as a result, the Google Ad Network is refusing to serve ads to the site.
I plan to leave the ‘lower-quality’ adverts up for a week-or-so, to see if I can earn a few extra pennies; but if the revenue isn’t worth the impact on user experience, then rest assured, they’re outta’here.

Snowstorms And Frozen Lakes In Patagonia
Polar cold has returned to much of Argentina this week, where an extended spell of anomalous lows and heavy snows are forecast. Conditions could rival the big freeze of July, 2007 (solar minimum of cycle 23) when snow settled in Buenos Aires.
The lowest temperatures will sweep Patagonia, explains meteorologist Ignacio López Amorín — some regions will experience record-challenging lows of -13C (8.6F). Amorín continues: “This polar wave will bring snow to Argentina … heavy snowfall is expected in Neuquén and Mendoza … In addition, snow could occur in the city of Mendoza and in the mountains of Córdoba.”

Overnight Monday, ‘cencellada’ was observed in the city of Esquel, Chubut–a phenomenon in which the dew or fog freezes, reports lanacion.com. Ezequiel Marcuzzi, a meteorologist who lives in Esquel, shared images of the phenomenon on Twitter after record lows of -10C (14F) were noted in the city:

Cencellada en la noche de Esquel. Chubut. pic.twitter.com/0wGNQb7AtO
— Ezequiel A. Marcuzzi (@eamarcuzzi) June 21, 2022

The polar wave intensified on Wednesday, with the harshest of the chiils again being felt in the Patagonian region.
In Chubut, the National Meteorological Service logged an astonishing low -15C (5F).
The service also shared photos of frozen lakes, streets, windows and even clothes, reports adnsur.com.ar.

Everything freezes: Chubut, Argentina [Julio Berwin].

The fierce polar cold is gripping more than just Chubut, of course.
According to the SMN, residents of Madryn woke to -9.2C (15.4F) on Wednesday (with a wind chill of -15.7C (3.7F)); the city of Trelew suffered -9.6C (14.7F); again in Esquel, -9.7C (14.5F) was recorded; while El Bolsón logged a rare -6.5C (20.3F).
And on the Comodoro Rivadavia, the morning began with a low of -4.7C (23.5F).
In addition, the province of Santa Cruz suffered some remarkably low daytime highs on Wednesday: El Calafate reached just -11C (12.2F); Perito Moreno saw only -10.5C (13.1F); Gobernador Gregores struggled to -7.5C (18.5F); while Desired Port topped out at only -4.2C (24.4F).
Elsewhere in Argentina, sections of the National Highway were blocked by ice and snow, most notable in the Rio Negro territory. Below is an image of Clemente Onelli on National Route 23, located between Ingeniero Jacobacci and Comayo.


Snow on Argentina’s National Highway, route no. 23.

More Unprecedented Summer Gains On Greenland
The month of June 2022 on Greenland has held much colder than the multidecadal average.

The summer solstice saw another settling of snow at the island’s capital, Nuuk:

Kold morgen i Nuuk pic.twitter.com/BiltseNtv4
— Jesper Eriksen (@Vejrkonsulenten) June 21, 2022

In more northern reaches of Greenland, however, the accumulations have been record-breaking.
Vast amounts of snow and ice have been reported by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) in recent days; and following Saturday’s record-smashing SMB gain of 7 Gigatons, yesterday, the world’s largest island reported another 3 Gigatons gain — an unprecedented feat during the onset of summer; a time when the ice sheet should ordinarily be losing 3 Gigatons of ice a day.


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Clearly visible above, this season’s snow and ice gains are marching well-above the 1981-2010 mean, continuing the glacier’s ‘trend reversal’ which began around 2012:



Greenland continues to defy AGW Party orders, and media tizzies of ‘mass ice loss’ remain wildly unfounded.
For more on the glacier’s inconvenient turnaround, click below:



On Saturday, Greenland’s Surface Mass Balance Gained A Record-Smashing 7 Gigatons…

…enough to bury Central Park, New York City under 7,833 feet of ice.


B.C. Ski Resort Postpones Summer Opening Due To “Too Much Snow”
Big White Ski Resort in Kelowna, British Columbia, recently announced that it is postponing its summer opening due to too much snow.
The announcement was posted on the resort’s Facebook page: “OH NO, too much snow! Summer opening delayed until Thursday July 7th. Due to unseasonably cool temperatures this spring and a lingering snow pack we’ve made the decision to delay summer opening at Big White by a week.”
The resort was set to open for summer biking, hiking, and festival fun on June 30, reports sports-news-now.com, but thanks to recent heavy snows and out-of-season lows, that date has been put back.


The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).

Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

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From my email inbox The Old Farmer's Almanac June 23 2022

Also 91 days until autumn begins

 

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Monthly Lows Fall In New Zealand; Climatic Fallacies; + Germany Braces For Gas Rationing
June 24, 2022 Cap Allon

Monthly Lows Fall In New Zealand
Historically low temperatures have been sweeping New Zealand this week.
Wednesday morning saw the mercury bottom-out at a remarkable -11.2C (11.8F) in Middlemarch, Otago:

Middlemarch in Otago reached -11.2˚C this morning, the coldest temperature at a non-high elevation climate station so far this winter.

This surpasses the nationwide coldest temperature reading last year (-10.8˚C, Tara Hills). pic.twitter.com/LPPNTkd5I8
— NIWA Weather (@NiwaWeather) June 22, 2022

While a frosty -8.6C (16.5F) was registered in Dunedin — a new record low for the month of June, and a reading just 0.2C from the city’s all-time coldest temperature ever recorded (at least since weather books began back in 1972):

The Dunedin airport has just broken it's record for the coldest day in June. Since records began in 1972, the -8.6C recorded this morning is the coldest June temperature. ^KL pic.twitter.com/PoeVYRxOJh
— MetService (@MetService) June 22, 2022

New Zealand’s record-breaking freeze is forecast to persist into the weekend.
There’s also been unprecedented lows and historic snows in nearby Australia, too; but don’t worry, the corporate media has that covered with their latest explain-away article: “Four ways to understand why Australia is so cold right now despite global warming“. Thanks corporate media. For a minute there, I was in danger of thinking for myself.
In all seriousness though, what scenario would allow me to question catastrophic anthropogenic global warming without being labelled a heretic? If broken *monthly* low temperature records aren’t enough; if Australia’s best start to a ski season ever doesn’t do it; if Earth observing stark cooling since 2016 isn’t it; if Greenland gaining record-smashing mass doesn’t do it — then what would…?
If the answer is “30+ years of cooling data” then it’ll be too late by then, we’d most likely be in the throws of a mini ice age.
A 2C decrease of the global average temperature would see us enter into a very different existence, just as it did during the Dalton Minimum (1790-1820). Historical documentation from that time reveals that the Oberlach Station in Germany –for example– experienced a 2C decline over just 20 years, which devastated the country’s food production.
Today, convincing people that ‘trends change’ feels like an enormous challenge. Modern scientism has taken a modest spell of warming and extrapolated it out to the end of times. This rookie mistake is akin to watching temperatures rise in June, July and August (in the NH) and assuming that by Christmas we’ll be outside cooking the turkey on the BBQ.
However, climatic trends, like the seasons, are not linear, they are cyclic, and they change on a regular, calculable periodicity.
The COLD TIMES are returning:
Grand Solar Minimum 101: The Future Looks Cold



The Sun is at its weakest state in more than a century, and the impacts on Earth’s weather/climate are unfolding before our eyes, whether we know it or not…

Germany Braces For Gas Rationing
The global warming hypothesis has been hijacked for political gain, namely in order to advance the controlled demolition of society and the now inevitable Great Reset.
Whichever way you cut it, though, and wherever your allegiances lie, the propagandizing of AGW has resulted in a chronic under investment within the fossil fuel sector. This, although a cause for celebration for the crazed climate alarmists among us, is now seeing the lights go out across even the most developed and prosperous nations.
This week, Germany has taken a step closer to gas rationing by triggering the “alarm” stage of an emergency plan to deal with shortages.
German economy minister Robert Habeck said Russia was using gas “as a weapon” in response to EU sanctions. However, and in line with cries of ‘climate change’, Russia’s antics appear to be another preplanned cog in the demolition of society, as well as the scapegoat for Western governments’ self-inflicted failures: such as spiraling inflation, food shortages, supply chain woes, etc.
Russia reduced flows through its Nord Stream 1 pipeline to 40% capacity last week citing problems with equipment. This move has greatly impacted Germany. The key pipeline is also due to undergo maintenance from July 11 to 21 when flows will stop.
Twelve European Union countries have now been affected by Russia’s cuts to the gas supply, EU climate policy chief Frans Timmermans said on Thursday, with nations including Poland, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Finland cut off over their refusal to comply with a new payment scheme.
And while Putin is receiving terrible press in the West, Russia is being rewarded both politically and financially domestically–where it counts. Moscow has more than offset its lost gas sales to Europe with new markets in Asia and elsewhere, and is making more money than ever.
“We must not fool ourselves. The cut in gas supplies is an economic attack on us by Putin,” Habeck said in a recent speech, before going on to warn Germans that they will likely have to reduce consumption. Chiming with this victim rhetoric, the head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, warned that Russia may cut off gas supplies to Europe entirely and that the continent needs to prepare now.
In response, a desperate German government –perhaps one privately realizing the AGW ruse?– has ordered the recommissioning of its coal-fired power plants. With fairytales of zero carbon tossed out of the window, at least temporarily, perhaps Germany will be able stave off the cold during this upcoming Grand Solar Minimum winter.
But it’s looking like a close call:
Although additional coal can be shipped in from the likes of South Africa and Columbia, gas will be harder to replace.
First off, the LNG terminals that enable the purchase of shipped gas from around the world will need significant investment in order to receive the required higher volumes. This retooling normally takes years, but Germany is exploring the idea of floating terminals that some hope could be ready by the end of the year.
And then secondly, there is the much bigger issue of where the shipped gas actually comes from. Approximately 155 billion cubic meters of Russian gas exported to Europe by pipeline needs to be found from the current 500 billion cubic meters market for shipped LNG.
This of course means that producers need to pump much more gas to meet the demand; but, 1) the Qataris are finding it easy to sell on long-term contracts lasting more than a decade, which won’t work for Germany given its current climate goals; and 2) issues such as the fire at a key U.S. export hub are actually sending global LNG exports in the opposite direction.
As a result of these self-inflicted headwinds (driven by shortsighted climate pledges involving a cynical and pointless outsourcing of carbon emissions to Russia), Europe’s industrial powerhouse now finds itself scrambling to expand its gas import options and at the same time preparing its citizens for “demand management”, i.e. using less energy in its factories and households, which risks recession across Europe, not to mention a winter of blackouts.
Nathan Piper, head of oil and gas research at Investec, said “all bets are off on what could happen next.”
In the summer disrupted gas supplies are “less of a pressing concern”, but Piper added that the situation could become dire in the winter when people need more heating. Whether Germany has to start rationing gas “remains to be seen”, he said, but if prices continue to rise industry will cut back anyway as gas becomes uneconomical.

Confluence Of Catastrophes: The Next Great Depression Could Be Just Months Away



Prepare NOW.


The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

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Its 101 here today, please God don't let them turn off the power. Now that we've turned on the central ac I'm not too sure how I would be able to handle not having it. Not a leaf blowing outside.

 

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Milan to turn off fountain spigots as drought bakes Italy
The mayor of Milan has signed an ordinance turning off public decorative fountains and limiting water sprinklers as northern Italy endures one of the worst droughts in decades
By Nicole Winfield and Luca Bruno Associated Press
June 25, 2022, 12:53 PM

FILE - People fish near a hydroelectric power plant at Isola Serafini, on the Po river in San Nazzaro, Italy, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. The drying up of the river is jeopardizing drinking water in Italy's densely populated and highly industrialized districts and threatening irrigation in the most intensively farmed part of the country. The mayor of Milan signed an ordinance Saturday, June 25, 2022, turning off public decorative fountains and limiting water sprinklers in Italy’s business capital as northern Italy endures one of the worst droughts in decades. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
The Associated Press

MILAN -- The mayor of Milan signed an ordinance Saturday turning off the spigots of public decorative fountains and the city's archbishop prayed for rain in a tour of churches as northern Italy endures one of its worst droughts in decades.

The city ordinance follows the declaration Friday of a state of emergency in the surrounding Lombardy region, which has endured an unusually early heat wave and months without significant rainfall. Neighboring Emilia Romagna and Piedmont have undertaken similar crisis measures.

Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said the ordinance would turn off decorative fountains except those holding flora and fauna that need fresh water. It further limits use of water sprinklers except for new-growth trees.

The mayor also decreed that shops in Italy's business and fashion capital can't set thermostats under 26 degrees Celsius (79 F) and must keep their doors closed to avoid overtaxing the power grid.

In a Facebook post, Sala invited Milanese to do their part and reduce water use as much as possible at home, in private gardens and even when cleaning terraces and courtyards.

Separately, Archbishop Mario Delpini made a pilgrimage Saturday to pray for “the gift of rain,” visiting three churches that serve the farming communities on the outskirts of Milan. He recited the Rosary and used holy water to bless a field in front of the St. Martin Olearo di Mediglia church.

Italy’s drought has dried up rivers crucial for irrigation, including the Po, threatening some 3 billion euros ($3.1 billion) in agriculture, Italian farm lobby Coldiretti said this week. Italy's confederation of agricultural producers, Copagri, estimates the loss of 30%-40% of the seasonal harvest.

While unusual heat and lack of rainfall are to blame for the current crisis, Italy has a notoriously wasteful water infrastructure that national statistics agency ISTAT estimates loses 42% of drinking water from distribution networks each year, in large part due to old and poorly maintained pipes.

Italy’s civil protection agency is gathering information from regions and various national ministries to propose a broader state of emergency for affected regions. Hundreds of towns and cities across the north have already passed various ordinances calling for responsible water use to avoid the possibility of rationing.

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Winfield reported from Rome.

Milan to turn off fountain spigots as drought bakes Italy - ABC News

 

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Sounds like Italy will have some really good wine's this year and no joke some the best wines come on the driest years.

 

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Add this to all the mysterious food and grain processing "misfortunes" ...
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Stunning footage of thousands (10k+) of dead cattle in Kansas yesterday.

It is reported these cattle died of excessive heat — while temps were not excessively high, there was also high humidity and no wind.

Others are speculating that this is exceptional even for summer heat, and this is another blatant destructive act perpetrated on our food supply.

What do you think?

#FoodWars #WarOnMeat

Article: Heat Stress Kills Estimated 10,000 Head of Kansas Feedlot Cattle

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How far is it from this location to Manhatten Kansas and the new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, the stuff they used to do on Plum Island in that Biolab is now being done in Kansas.

 

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From my email inbox The Old Farmer's Almanac June 26 2022

 

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I apologize for neglecting to post today... my internet provider is having some kind of issue with my account. I can connect with merely 10% of my bookmarked sites, fortunately TB2K is one I CAN log into. They are working on the problem so, maybe tomorrow?

 

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Fierce Cold Sweeps Antarctica, Drives The Continent -4.4C Below 1979-2000 Average; Persistent Chills Reduce Central Washington Cherry Harvest; + Slumberous Sun - Electroverse

Articles Crop Loss Extreme Weather GSM

FIERCE COLD SWEEPS ANTARCTICA, DRIVES THE CONTINENT -4.4C BELOW 1979-2000 AVERAGE; PERSISTENT CHILLS REDUCE CENTRAL WASHINGTON CHERRY HARVEST; + SLUMBEROUS SUN
JUNE 27, 2022 CAP ALLON

FIERCE COLD SWEEPS ANTARCTICA, DRIVES THE CONTINENT 4.4C BELOW 1979-2000 AVERAGE

Not that the MSM cares, but Antarctica has suffered a fiercely cold last 18-or-so months — cold that is refusing to abate.
According to t
he official data, yet contrary to the mainstream’s ‘heat induced catastrophe’ narrative, between April and September 2021, the South Pole’s temperature averaged a penguin-hugging -61.1C (-78F).

Simply put, this was the locale’s coldest six month spell ever recorded, one that comfortably usurped the South Pole’s previous coldest ‘coreless winter‘ on record, the -60.6C (-77F) from 1976 (solar minimum of weak cycle 20).


This chart displays the average winter temperature (April to Sept) since 1957 in degrees Celsius at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. [Richard Cullather/British Antarctic Survey]

Also worth noting, the months of June, July, August and September (2021) all averaged readings below -60C (-76F) — a phenomenon has occurred on just three previous occasions: in 1971, 1975 and 1978.

More than all that, though, the entire year of 2021 (not just the winter) was also a record-breaker.

The below graph –supplied by Antarctica climatology journalist Stefano Di Battista, who has published research on Antarctic temperatures for many years– shows that the South Pole averaged just -50.5C (59F) throughout 2021, making it the continent’s coldest year since 1987 (solar minimum of cycle 21) and also the third coldest on record in weather books dating back to 1957.

The unusual chill has extended into 2022, too.

The month of April –for example– at the South Pole Station finished approximately -2C below the multidecadal norm; while an anomaly of -3C was noted at the infamous Vostok station against the 1958-2021 mean.

And since April 2022, the continent as a whole has consistently logged remarkable anomaly after remarkable anomaly; and now, today, June 27 a reading of -4.4C below the 1979-2000 base has been observed by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine (also worth noting is that the global temp stands at just 0.1C against the multidecadal norm):



Antarctica’s late-June chills continue the intensifying cooling trend witnessed over the past year and a half.
It also continues the unmistakable cooling witnessed over the past 40 years.

Official data reveals that East Antarctica, which covers two thirds of the continent, has cooled 2.8C over the past 40-or-so years, with West Antarctica cooling 1.6C. It stands that only a tiny slither of Antarctica (the Antarctic Peninsula) has seen any warming –statistically insignificant warming, at that– but there are no prizes for guessing which region the MSM focuses on.

And likewise when it comes to ice, Antarctica’s glaciers have been EXPANDING in recent years, also continuing the trend of growth witnessed over the past four+ decades (the satellite era).

According to the data, sea ice rebounded sharply during the years 2020 and 2021 to the levels of some three decades ago — this rebound is visualized in the chart below, as is the multidecadal expansion which stands at approximately 1% per decade:



TPTB and their MSM lapdogs can disinform the compliant masses all they want, but it doesn’t change the facts.

PERSISTENT CHILLS REDUCE CENTRAL WASHINGTON CHERRY HARVEST

June is usually a busy month for the cherry industry. However, growers are saying it’s different this year, lamenting that cold weather, including out-of-season frosts and snowfall during the spring, is resulting in this year’s crop falling below the average of 20 million 20-pound boxes.

“Normally, it’s a hive of activity,” said Frank Lyall, a grower in Grandview; but this year, “it’s taking (workers) a few days to pick what would normally take a week or 10 days to pick. It’s a different year.”

Cold conditions pushed back the start of the cherry harvest by two weeks, said B.J. Thurlby, Northwest Cherry Growers president: “It’s as crazy a spring as we ever had. Getting 6 inches of snow in the middle of our bloom (this year) didn’t help.”

Last year, even with the region’s ‘End Of Times’ heat dome, cherry growers picked 20.3 million boxes of cherries, which is inline with the average. This year, however, Thurlby said the persistent cold has growers are looking at just a 14 million box harvest.

The record-cold spring, although good for water storage, has not done cherry growers any favors. Frost and snow hitting the cherry blossoms is bad enough, but consistent overnight lows in the 30s and daytime highs in the 50s has taken its toll on crop yields — it was too cold for the bees to pollinate the cherry blossoms.

Orchards are down as much as 90%, according to industry experts.

“It’s the worst since I took over my family’s business 22 years ago,” said grower Morgan Rowe, of Rowe Farms.

Of course, 2022’s ‘year without a spring’ is impacting far more than just Central Washington cherries.

North America’s slow planting of wheat and corn, combined with a reduced application of inputs due to global supply chain woes, will become a cause for concern during the summer crop tours; however, I don’t see the USDA informing commodity markets of the true, dire picture until they have no choice but to do so–so around harvest time 2022 (Sept/Oct).
And while the fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide shortages are self-inflicted problems, the lingering freeze during the entire spring planting window was most certainly not. Despite activists being duped into believing we humans can control the climate, we really can’t. There are a myriad of cosmological forcings at play that we haven’t even conceived right now, and so attempting to alter something you aren’t even halfway to understanding is a hopeless, potentially dangerous endeavor.
Switching our diets from cows to crickets will not have the desired affect, alarmists; neither will changing our civilization’s fuel source from coal/gas to wind/batteries. All that these extreme measures will achieve is the transfer even more wealth from us the public into private hands. That is the main purpose of government, is it not–a template demonstrated by the past few ‘crises’: COVID-19 and the European war. During these two well-promoted ‘catastrophes’ we peasants somehow lost trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars that somehow worked their way up the chain to a just a handful of elites.
The masses don’t seem to realize that government has been bought-out by corporations, that their democratic vote means nothing. Government, that is to any major government, whether it be red or blue, is beholden to its backers and lobbyist, not to the wills and wants of the powerless voters.

Currently, of the top 100 most powerful organizations in the world (the top 100 economic revenue collectors), only 29 are states whereas the remaining 71 are multinational conglomerates–and these were 2018 figures, before the most recent wealth transfer.

Globalization, it appears, is at the heart of the demise of society. The revolution needs to be aimed at reclaiming this power from the corporations. This can only be achieved by a rejection and complete overhaul of the current system. We must organize a decentralized, autonomous future where states, cities, towns and even villages are permitted to put their own needs before those of the current prevailing globalist agenda. We must break from the homogenized march towards the authoritarian technocracy the elites have us on — that ends in a total loss of freedom and prosperity for the majority. Let’s use their Great Reset for our True Reset, one that gives ordinary people the power to enact real and positive change on their day-today lives, rather than be purposefully distracted and misguided by endeavors to save the planet from existential fabrications such as ‘climate change’.

Further reading on our ever-cooling climate:

"The next 30 years will be Cold," says Climate Scientist Dr. Willie Soon

"If you want to face a serious problem, worry about an ice age, never worry about global warming." #GrandSolarMinimum

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NASA, 2001: "Low Solar Activity = Global Cooling" - Electroverse

"From 1650 to 1710, temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere plunged when the Sun entered a quiet phase now called the Maunder Minimum" -- NASA.

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SLUMBEROUS SUN

With only one solitary sunspots on the visible disk of the sun, solar activity is currently very low.

NOAA forecasters say there is minimal threat of flaring.



Activity was always expected to rise during the ramp-up of solar cycle 25.

It is solar cycle 26 where the chill of solar minimum is forecast, by many, to commence.

And although SC25 has indeed been firing-off M-flares in recent months –a fully expected development during the ramp-up of a solar cycle (even a weak one)– the cycle is now taking a noticeable breather. Last week, it even experienced a ‘spotless day’.

Far more telling, as always, is the bigger picture, though.

As shown in the chart below, solar cycle 25 is on course to be far weaker than the recent cycles of 21, 22 and 23, and so more in keeping with its immediate predecessor, the historically weak solar cycle 24:


Solar Cycle 25 progression (green line) compared to 24, 23, 22 & 21 [solen.info].

But despite the reduced activity, a “surprise” geomagnetic storm still managed to occur at around midnight (UT) on June 25-26:



The culprit of the storm: “A co-rotating interaction region (CIR) hit Earth’s magnetic field, opening a crack in our planet’s magnetosphere. Solar wind poured in to spark a rare solstice display of auroras,” explains Dr Tony Philips of spaceweather.com.


[Harlan Thomas of Calgary, Alberta].

And even more recently, something of a Schrodinger’s CME was observed.

On Sunday, June 26, a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) billowed away from the sun’s southern hemisphere:



“The strange thing is,” writes Dr Philips, “analysts aren’t certain which side of the sun it came from. Some clues suggest farside, others Earthside. If it is an Earthside event, it could reach us late on June 28th or June 29th.”

It will be interesting to see how our planet’s ever-waning magnetosphere handles this potential impact.
For more on the looming magnetic excursion/pole shift, click the link below:

"Weak" Solar Storm Sends 40 Starlink Satellites Plunging To Earth; Deep Snow Is Forcing Bison Onto Alaskan Highways, With A Feels-Like Of -91F Suffered In Howard Pass; + USA's Coldest January In 8 Years - Electroverse

Earth is losing its protective shield against energy from space, and nobody is telling you... Grand Solar Minimum + Pole Shift

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Snow Plows Won't Have Passes At Glacier National Park Open Before July 4; Sunshine Village Offers Summer Skiing For First Time In 31 Years; Antarctica -5.1C Below 1979-2000 Base; + Proposed Biofuels Cap Rejected At G7, Despite Global Food Crisis - Electroverse

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SNOW PLOWS WON’T HAVE PASSES AT GLACIER NATIONAL PARK OPEN BEFORE JULY 4; SUNSHINE VILLAGE OFFERS SUMMER SKIING FOR FIRST TIME IN 31 YEARS; ANTARCTICA -5.1C BELOW 1979-2000 BASE; + PROPOSED BIOFUELS CAP REJECTED AT G7, DESPITE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS
JUNE 28, 2022 CAP ALLON

SNOW PLOWS WON’T HAVE PASSES AT GLACIER NATIONAL PARK OPEN BEFORE JULY 4

Snow clearing crews at Glacier National Park have only just gotten through Logan’s Pass. And much to the chagrin of visitors, Going-to-the-Sun Road won’t be cleared anytime soon, even as the calendar approaches July.

Since records began, Going-to-the-Sun has experienced only five openings in the month of July: these were July 1, 2007 and July 2, 2008 (solar minimum of cycle 23), July 10, 1943 (solar min of cycle 17) , July 13, 2011 (the very start of the space-age-record-weak solar cycle 24), and July 15, 1933 (solar min of cycle 16)–that last one, however -July 15, 1933- was the date of the road’s official opening and so wasn’t necessarily due to a large snowpack.

Only three factors have ever delayed the iconic alpine highway’s opening later than the Fourth of July: World War II, a global pandemic, and a deep, lingering mountain snowpack. This year is suffering the latter, of course; and given the truly historic snowpack of 2022, the year has a shot at breaking the current record for the road’s latest opening — July 13 set back in 2011.

Having recently cleared five avalanche slides that buried the upper reaches of the Sun Road, snowplow crews are now making progress, but there’s still plenty of work to do before all 50 miles of the road can open to motorists, reports flatheadbeacon.com.

On June 24, Glacier Park officials announced that the Sun Road would not fully open before July 4:

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“Unprecedented winter snows and late spring snowstorms slowed plowing progress on Going-to-the-Sun Road this spring,” reads a section of the post–an inconvenient reality for the AGW Party and their ‘EOTW heat induced apocalypse’ narrative.

Towering snowbanks of as high as 80 feet have proven laborious for the experienced clearing crews. And although progress is now finally quickening, the unseasonably cold and snowy spring of 2022 has the team working the Continental Divide section a full month behind schedule–their progress slowed by 1) June’s lingering snowpack, 2) fresh snow accumulations measuring in the feet, and 3) frequent avalanches and rockslides.



Serving as further evidence of how so-called ‘climate experts’ can get it spectacularly wrong, let’s recall the predictions made by Montana’s National Park Service (NPS) back in the early 2000s.

For almost two decades the NPS warned the world that glaciers at Glacier National Park would be gone by the year 2020. They even went to the trouble of erecting signs across all of its visitor centers prophesying the 2020 doomsday date.

Embarrassingly for these spineless, bandwagon frauds, however, that deadline of doom uneventfully pass; and, laughably, the NPS sheepishly pulled all ‘2020 signs’ from its displays after the computer models it relied upon from the early 2000s –which foretold of unending glacial retreat– turned out to be woefully inaccurate.

The opposite is actually occurring.

In a supposedly catastrophically warming world Going-to-the-Sun-Road is about to witness its latest opening on record.

The NPS Removes all "Glaciers Gone by 2020" signs at Glacier National Park, Montana after "Larger-than-Average Snowfall over Several Winters" - Electroverse

The NPS Removes all "Glaciers Gone by 2020" signs at Glacier National Park, Montana after "Larger-than-Average Snowfall over Several Winters" -- GSM

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It is the Sun and the Sun alone that can impact Earth’s climate in any sustained and meaningful way.
Every great civilization of the past knew this and they acknowledged the Sun’s power, worshiping it as a God: the Egyptians called it “Ra”, the Minoans “Ariadne”, and the Romans “Sol”.

Today, we humans consider ourselves the most powerful entity in the solar system. Perhaps our recent technological advances and achievements have given rise to a sense of all-conquering self-confidence. But the Sun, as we call it, ended every one of those great civilizations of the past, and it will take down our modern one, too–and likely not in some raging fiery explosion but by a mere dimming of its energy colloquially known as The Grand Solar Minimum.



Don’t fall for the bogus political agendas perpetuated across the MSM. There is far more to behold than the obfuscating BS spewing from your TV.

SUNSHINE VILLAGE OFFERS SUMMER SKIING FOR FIRST TIME IN 31 YEARS

Record winter snowfall and a cold spring at the ski hill in Banff National Park has the slopes reopening for summer.

“This is definitely the craziest amount of snow I’ve seen in my recollection,” said Kendra Scurfield, director of brand and communications. “I’ve never seen a season where we’ve had so much snow this late.”

“People are out-of-this-world excited for [the summer reopening],” added Scurfield. “A lot of them are like, ‘Is this a prank? Is this for real? Is this actually happening?’ I personally am like, what’s more Canadian than skiing on Canada Day?”

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Scurfield continued: “Nine-hundred centimeters (30 feet) is one of our snowiest winters on record. The last time we had so much snow was actually in the 1956-57 ski and snowboard season. So it was a very, very snowy winter,” she said.

Banff Sunshine Village on Instagram: "Now that’s that’s a lot of snow! While we’re stoked for summer skiing this week, our Trail Hosts are working hard to get the hiking trails ready! || #sunshine #happytrails #sunshinevillage #banffsunshine #banff

4,379 likes, 36 comments - sunshinevillage on June 27, 2022: "Now that’s that’s a lot of snow! While we’re stoked for summer skiing this week, our Trail Hosts are working hard to get the hikin..."

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It’s the first time in more than three decades that the resort has opened this late in the ski season, and only the second time in the resort’s nearly 100 years of operation.

“The last time we did so was in 1991, after an incredibly snowy year just like this one,” concluded Scurfield.

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Elsewhere in Canada, an anomalously cold lobe of air will swirl around Hudson Bay this week, one that is forecast to deliver summer snow to parts of Ontario.

Northern reaches of the province will also see the mercury plunge 15C below the seasonal norm.

ANTARCTICA -5.1C BELOW 1979-2000 BASE

Following yesterday’s -4.4C anomaly, temperatures across the Antarctic continent have cooled further today.

According to the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, today’s anomaly stands at an astonishing -5.1C below the 1979-2000 average (also worth noting is that the overall global temp stands at just 0.1C against that same multidecadal norm):



For more on Antarctica’s historic and prolonged cooling (now stretching 4+ decades), see the article below:

Fierce Cold Sweeps Antarctica, Drives The Continent -4.4C Below 1979-2000 Average; Persistent Chills Reduce Central Washington Cherry Harvest; + Slumberous Sun - Electroverse

Globalization is at the heart of the demise of society. The revolution needs to be aimed at reclaiming power from the corporations.

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PROPOSED BIOFUELS CAP REJECTED AT G7, DESPITE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS

A proposal to temporarily reduce the volume of biofuels consumption in G7 countries has failed to gain traction, with the US and Canada said to be leading the opposition to the move.

Germany and the UK are reportedly pushing for a temporary relaxation of biofuels mandates. But the US and Canada have cited the recent spike in fossil fuel prices as the reason to refrain from introducing a waiver to biofuels mandates.
The choice, again, appears to be between ‘heating and eating’.

In a statement published late Sunday by Boris Johnson’s UK government, G7 leaders were urged to look at their demands on the use of land and biofuel globally: “The use of grain for biofuel is contributing to reduced availability and increased costs for human consumption. That is something the Prime Minister will be raising at the G7 today (Monday),” the statement said.

Reuters reported on June 23 that Germany and the UK would ask other G7 countries to consider reducing biofuels blending requirements in order to free up grains and vegetable oils amid fears of a global food crisis.
UK newspapers on June 24 reported comments from Boris Johnson that biofuels use should be moderated by 10% to free up the availability of grain for the world’s poorest countries.

However, and as is always the case, company revenue is being put before the needs of the people, and the U.S. will likely prevail in its drive to keep biofuel producers in operation.

Even amid a global food crisis, the biofuel waiver request has been met with disdain and frustration by large producers. The RTFA, the UK’s main biofuels lobby, said in statement that it has “no intention of curbing its ambition on renewable fuels, nor pulling back on E10 which was successfully and smoothly introduced in September 2021″–which translates as: We’re currently in a very profitable market. Don’t jeopardize our profits. We’re even willing to throw the hot-button that is ‘climate change’ into the mix.

Amusingly, though, the lobby also pointed out that the country’s bioethanol industry is also the single largest producer of food-grade carbon dioxide, which is essential for food preservation and distribution: “Lack of food-grade CO2 would trigger a food crisis in its own right,” the RTFA statement added.
But who’s really surprised by this gamesmanship?

As discussed in yesterday’s article, corporations rule the world, via lobbying.

The U.S. Agribusiness spent more than $150,000,000 on lobbying in 2021, via a total of 1,238 lobbyists–of which an uncomfortable 56% were former government employees.

The fact is that there is a very small circle of unelected power controlling our lives. Decisions are not made with the intention of improving the existence of the powerless masses, we are merely placated with empty promises and distracted by controversial, wedge-driving topics — such as gun laws and abortion rights.
The masses are idiots, basically, and they, the elite, know it.

The unnoticed monstrous wealth transfer during the most-recent ‘manufactured crisis’ –COVID-19– has shown how inattentive and easily led the majority are. Global Warming and the European War are the other key ‘catastrophes’ the elites are using to extract additional wealth and power from us. But how bad do things need to get before the masses awake from their manufactured psychosis? IS there even a limit?

Excess deaths reveal that COVID-19 was NOT a pandemic; while satellite temperature datasets show that the Earth is NO LONGER warming (see link below). Once these seismic pennies drop, I believe all hell could break lose. Unfortunately though, by then the elites may-well have a firm enough grip on us –via central bank digital currencies and a universal basic income, etc.– that anyone even contemplating stepping out of line is ‘stopped’ with just a click of a button–via a stripping of their benefits and their livelihood, and also by restricting their access to essentials.

Resist this authoritarian technocracy.

Don’t get riled up by the divisive topics TPTB continue to throw in front of your face; instead, concentrate and argue the points they routinely and keenly want resigned to the sidelines, such as a failing economy, crippling inflation, nonsensical climate pledges (while still buying oil from the Saudis) and nosediving living standards.

It's Getting Harder and Harder to Maintain the Lie: Global Temperatures Sink Further in April - Electroverse

It takes a tumultuous event to awake the masses from their manufactured psychosis. Perhaps 'global cooling' is that event.

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The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among many other forcings, including the impending release of the Beaufort Gyre).
Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.