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War, Weather Endanger Global Food Supplies, Farm Leaders Say; Disruption to Ukraine's output plus poor weather in the U.S. and South America are two crises, Syngenta CEO says at Wall Street Journal Global Food Forum

Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 3:17 PM ET
By Jesse Newman and Patrick Thomas
Wall Street Journal

CHICAGO—War and weather are imperiling global food supplies, according to U.S. agriculture officials and executives, as rising food prices drive shortages and protests around the world.

The pressures are playing out this year as conflict in Eastern Europe disrupts exports from Ukraine, one of the world’s top crop producers, and drought and poor weather afflict major crop-growing regions.

“We’ve actually got two crises,” said Erik Fyrwald, chief executive of pesticide and crop-seed maker Syngenta, at The Wall Street Journal’s Global Food Forum on Monday. “The food-security crises and the climate crises.”

Mr. Fyrwald said weather extremes are growing, with heat, drought or flooding challenging farmers in the U.S., Europe, Australia and India. That has been exacerbated, he said, by Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has upended world grain markets and pushed up food prices across the world.

Rising food prices are prompting unrest, as disruptions in the flow of crops from Ukraine compound existing stress on global supplies of grains and other goods. The head of the United Nations World Food Program has warned outright food shortages are possible in 2023 if Russia continues to block Ukraine’s crop exports.

Even among the world’s wealthiest countries, higher food prices have been taking a toll. U.S. grocery prices in May rose nearly 12% over the past 12 months, the largest annual increase since April 1979, according to the Labor Department. Prices increased 7.4% at restaurants and other food venues outside the home, also marking a more-than-four-decade increase.

“It is very serious,” said Mr. Fyrwald. Food prices “will keep going up until and unless we can get product out through the Black Sea in the south of Ukraine.”

Ukraine’s global wheat exports, which along with Russia had accounted for nearly one-third of the global total, are projected to be cut in half this year, according to the USDA. Russia’s invasion helped drive wheat prices to record levels in March, and while futures prices have declined 27% since then, they remain about one-fifth higher since the beginning of the year.

“There is just not going to be enough supply of certain ingredients,” said Florian Schattenmann, chief technology officer for agricultural giant Cargill Inc., speaking at the Journal event on Tuesday. The war in Ukraine has strained availability of ingredients such as sunflower oil used in baby formula, spurring companies to have to reformulate their products, he added.

On Monday, U.S. Agriculture Department Secretary Tom Vilsack called for Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea to be opened to export grain out of the war-torn country to help ease the food-supply crunch. Trading needs to resume to free up storage space for the country’s farmers, he said, and the U.S. needs to look for ways for it to increase its own crop production.

Mr. Vilsack also discouraged export bans enacted by countries such as India, which recently banned wheat exports to shore up its domestic food supply.

Russia is destroying grain production in Ukraine, said Mr. Vilsack, speaking at the Journal event Monday. “They are making it hard for farmers to plant and grow their crops.”

Poor weather including in South America is putting more strain on agricultural regions that have grown more important to maintaining world food supplies given the conflict in Ukraine.

In the U.S., wet and windy conditions in parts of the Midwest slowed planting for many corn and soybean farmers last month. The wet conditions were followed by a heat wave earlier this month that killed thousands of cattle in Kansas and prompted concern for U.S. production of crops such as corn and soybeans.

Dryness, meanwhile, is battering farmers and ranchers in Western states, with drought affecting more than 78% of the American West, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Western rivers and reservoirs have contracted, threatening water supplies for farmers in places such as California, where the latest dry spell has pushed farmers to bulldoze thousands of acres’ worth of almond orchards and close decades-old dairies.

As conflict continues, Mr. Fyrwald said Syngenta is working with farmers in Ukraine but also continuing to supply Russian farmers with seeds and chemicals. Some agriculture companies, including Syngenta and Bayer AG, and grain traders, such as Cargill, have continued to sell seeds and handle crops in Russia despite pressure to sever ties after the invasion of Ukraine. Companies cite humanitarian grounds for their decisions to keep operating certain parts of their business in Russia, which is expected to increase its wheat exports from a year ago, according to the USDA.

“Snygenta has looked at it and decided that we serve farmers everywhere in the world,” Mr. Fyrwald said. “We are not political.”

The USDA earlier this month projected global wheat exports would come in 2.6% higher for the coming crop marketing year, while the International Grains Council also forecast a modest increase in world-wide wheat production. Wheat prices have also declined recently, with European Union farmers progressing faster than usual with their spring harvest on improved weather conditions.

Mr. Fyrwald said Syngenta is also working with farmers, governments and others to promote practices that enrich soil and capture more carbon while at the same time increasing yields and reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.

The USDA’s Mr. Vilsack also said the U.S. needs to look for ways to increase its own crop production, to help make up for the shortfall in global grain supplies.

“Every generation of Americans get tested,” Mr. Vilsack said, adding that such is the case now with the pandemic and its aftermath, climate change and the war in Ukraine. “They are significant challenges, but there is significant capacity for us to emerge stronger.”

Write to Jesse Newman at jesse.newman@wsj.com and Patrick Thomas at Patrick.Thomas@wsj.com

War, Weather Endanger Global Food Supplies, Farm Leaders Say - WSJ

 

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From my email inbox The Old Farmer's Almanac June 28 2022

 

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New Study: Severe Droughts Not Due To Climate Change - Electroverse

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NEW STUDY: SEVERE DROUGHTS NOT DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
JUNE 29, 2022 CAP ALLON

Severe droughts in many parts of the world are not due to climate change, according to the review by scientists from University of Oxford, Imperial College London and the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

In a somewhat refreshing take, study co-author Friederike Otto, of Imperial College London, said the impact of global warming on extreme weather events was often “overestimated”.

“I think on the one hand we overestimate climate change because it’s now quite common that every time an extreme event happens, there is a big assumption that climate change is playing a big role, which is not always the case,” she said.

Dr Otto pointed to East Africa, which has a naturally highly variable climate that contributes to drought, and warned that disaster there was linked to poverty and lack of health care systems and infrastructure, not the West’s increasing CO2 emissions.

But let’s not get too hopeful now, the study did obtain mainstream funding after all — and although the researchers didn’t find the ‘fingerprint of climate change’ on droughts, they most certainly did within heatwaves.

Dr Otto said climate change was “absolutely” making heatwaves more likely and intense.

“We can very confidently say that every heatwave that is occurring today is made more intense and more likely because of climate change. There are local factors like land use changes that might change how much more likely, but there’s no doubt climate change is really an absolute gamechanger when it comes to heatwaves around the world,” she said.

Lead author Ben Clarke, of the University of Oxford, added: “The rise of more extreme and intense weather events such as heatwaves, droughts and heavy rainfall have dramatically increased in recent years, affecting people all over the globe.

Understanding the role that climate change plays in these events can help us better prepare for them. It also allows us to determine the real cost that carbon emissions have in our lives.”

Jarring with the researchers’ findings, however, is the annual heatwave index for the United States (shown below).

Clear for everyone to see –even for IPCC lapdogs like Clarke– is that the frequency of heatwaves as well as how widespread they are have decreased over time and currently reside at the lower-end of the scale.

Today’s heatwaves appear in line with those at the start of the 1900s (the Centennial Minimum).

Referring to the ‘Centennial Minimum’ is pertinent, because it is the Sun, not CO2, that is at the heart of all major climatic events on Earth — a reality the IPCC refuse to acknowledge.

Also swept under the rug is the fact that our star is experiencing a spell of historically-weak output. This is significant and is likely the cause of the majority of the detected weather anomalies besieging parts of our planet in recent years (both hot and cold).

When solar activity is HIGH, the jet stream is tight and stable and follows somewhat of a straight path. When solar activity is LOW, that meandering band of air flowing 6 miles above our heads becomes weak and wavy, it effectively buckles which diverts frigid Polar air to atypically low latitudes and replaces it with warmer tropical air.

The jet stream reverts from a Zonal Flow to a Meridional Flow and, depending on which side of the jet stream you’re on, you’re either in for a spell of unseasonably cold or hot weather and/or a period of unusually dry or wet conditions.

This forcing FULLY explains why some regions are impacted by bursts of anomalous heat while other locales, even those relatively nearby, are contending with blasts of record cold. The global warming hypothesis DOES NOT explain the increasing number of ‘polar outbreaks’ we’re witnessing, it only covers the heatwaves; whereas a waning Sun, and a corresponding weak and wavy jet stream flow, explain both.

Given our current understanding of the forcings, ‘the low solar activity theory’ absolutely nails it:



On the same hand, however, be very wary of those claiming to have a solid grip on the inner workings of Earth’s climate — everything is still up in the air, complex, and very little of the science is actually settled.

And for the same reasons, take ALL claims and extrapolated forecasts with a pinch of salt, such as this one made by climatologists at the World Weather Attribution: “heatwaves are made 30 times more likely by climate change”. This statement is far too specific to be taken seriously. There is no way researchers were able to accurately and honestly calculate this figure. Such a simplification feels political–which then begs the question, ‘what are we really dealing with here?’ — incompetence or fraud?

Again, heatwaves are NOT increasing across the United States–or is it that America is exempt from global warming?

Wildfires, another natural disaster key to the AGW Party’s narrative, are also DECREASING:

Note also that the Biden administration recently scrubbed all wildfire data prior to 1983 from the official record books.

This was done because fire burn acreage was found to be much higher between 1910-1960 than it is today and therefore disproved their AGW/wildfire correlation. The ACTUAL data destroys ‘the climate emergency’ narrative, and so the current administration unabashedly removed the records, citing the lackluster reasoning that “it wasn’t official”–linked here.

However, and after delving a little deeper, the real reason they deleted the pre-1983 data is likely because the year 1983 contains the lowest burn acreage in recorded history. Therefore, by starting in 1983 it appears that burn acreage has increased.

In reality though –where I’m keen to reside– there is ZERO correlation between rising CO2 and heatwaves/burn acreage. Burn acreage is actually down 90% since CO2 was at pre-industrial levels, but the administration recently deleted this document, too:

There is, however, a close correlation between heatwaves and wildfires –as visualized in the below chart which overlaps the official heatwave data (red line) with that of the burn acreage (blue and green lines)– but this fact does nothing to support the ‘climate crisis’ narrative and so goes completely unmentioned:


Correlation between heatwaves and wildfires [Tony Heller of realclimatescience.com].

Don’t fall for the agenda-driving drivel spouted by power-hungry politicians and cock-and-bull pop-scientists.

DYOR.

Always.

Believe what is logical, not what is merely popular.

BONUS: AUSTRALIA

It’s been exceptionally cold in Southeast Australia this week.

So cold, in fact, that monthly low temperature records have been toppled.

Temperatures at the capital Canberra plunged to an anomalous -6C (21.2F) at its official weather station, located at the Airport.

While Hillston airport, with its reading of -4C (24.8F), just suffered its coldest June temperature on records, pipping the -3.9C (25F) set on June 18, 1958 (the reading was also only 0.6C from the locale’s all time low).

And looking ahead, something colder and much more widespread is on the cards as the calendar flips to July:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomaly (C) July 1 – July 4 [tropicaltidbits.com].

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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Very important article, I believe:

Summer Frosts In The Highlands Of Portugal & Spain, As Record Heat Sweeps Italy: Low Solar Activity & A 'Meridional' Jet Stream, Explained - Electroverse

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SUMMER FROSTS IN THE HIGHLANDS OF PORTUGAL & SPAIN, AS RECORD HEAT SWEEPS ITALY: LOW SOLAR ACTIVITY & A ‘MERIDIONAL’ JET STREAM, EXPLAINED
JUNE 30, 2022 CAP ALLON

Unusual summer chills have been gripping Western Europe over the past 7-10 days.

Spain and Portugal have witnessed a drastic cool down, with even rare summer frosts suffered in the highlands.

Remarkable minimums for the time of year have been registered, including yesterday’s 4C (39.2F) at Burgos; the 10C (50F) at Bilbao Airport; the 10.5C (50.9F) at Granada; the 9.7C (49.5F) at Beja and the 2.3C (36.1F) at Xinzo de Limia.



Contrastingly, note the anomalous heat simultaneously sweeping more central regions of the continent.

Tuesday, June 28 was a historic day in the “eternal city” of Rome. The MSM is raving about a reading of 40.8C (105.4F) logged at Rome Macao, which is said to be the highest “reliable” temperature ever recorded in downtown Rome.

Additional record highs were also set across Italy on Tuesday, including Campobasso’s 37.4C (99.3F) and Ronchi dei Legionari’s 36.7C (98.1F).

However, rather than serving as an illustration of catastrophic global warming, as proponents of the AGW Party would have you believe, Europe’s stark temperature divide –between summer frosts and record June heat– is the result of a slumberous Sun.

Low solar activity impacts Earth’s climate via a number of different mechanisms. The most notable of which is the reduction of energy entering the jet streams — this reverts the jets’ standard straight ZONAL flow to a weak and wavy MERIDIONAL one:


In times of meridional flow, a region’s weather is determined by which ‘side’ of the stream it’s on. If it is located ‘above’ the stream (in the NH) then it’s in for a spell of unseasonably cold conditions–as it is open to influxes of Arctic air; while conversely, if the locale is ‘under’ the jet stream then it is set for anomalously hot conditions–subject to air masses dragged up from the tropics.

A ‘wavy’ jet stream flow also increases the prevalence of swings between extremes; that is to say, intense bursts of heat will linger in one area, while a teeth-chattering chill will dominate nearby. These regions are also open to ‘flipping on a dime’ — and it is this unpredictable ‘chopping and changing’ that will hasten the failure of our modern food production systems as growers fail to adapt quickly enough.

Staying in Europe, Portugal experienced a burst of intense heat in early/mid-June, while central nations were noted to be freezing; but now, barely a week later, record lows are being challenged across the country with summer frosts gripping the highlands, while central Europe bakes in an early-season heatwave.

And looking ahead, yet another ‘swing’ is forecast to take place, when these regions once again ‘switch’:





Proponents of the global warming hypothesis are very confident at explaining Rome’s record heat: “rising CO2 levels increase the global temperature making heatwaves more likely”; however, when it comes to the record cold currently infecting Western Europe, the official explanation turns murkier and rather lackluster: “climate change” is the blanket terminology used, with no mechanism offered to explain it.

Given the prevalence of this meridional flow in recent years, the AGW Party have, at times, attempted explanations that still maintain their CAGW juggernaut. Depressingly, this is how modern science works — findings are reverse engineered: powerful entities (multinational conglomerates/governing bodies) offer their desired results and task (pay) researchers to fit the pieces together in order to obtain the ‘correct’ outcome. This can often see scientists jamming square pegs into round holes. However, as soon as that outcome has the branding ‘science says’ slapped upon it, then it can’t be touched, it’s as good as Gospel.

Still, today’s scientific ‘consensus’ –not a scientific word by the way– has pulled together a weak explanation for this observed uptick in meridional flows–one that isn’t widely agreed upon, however, but one that is still used by the MSM to explain-away those pesky and increasingly regular polar outbreaks.

The consensus states that “because the Earth’s polar regions are warming more quickly than the rest of the world, the temperature contrast that drives jet streams has decreased (making for weaker jet streams)”.

‘Polar Amplification’ is the theory in a nutshell, but for it to work BOTH poles need to warm, which simply hasn’t been the case.

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.

Climate alarmists love long-term trends, and to them, forty years is regarded as a long-enough time-frame by which to draw significant climatic conclusions. But the evaluation of the past 4-decades can result in only one irrefutable summation:

Antarctic is cooling yet the southern jets are still weakening, which blows apart the mainstream’s ‘polar amplification’ explain-away.

Moreover, this Antarctic cooling has actually been intensifying in recent years.

As discussed in more detail here, between April and September 2021 the South Pole’s temperature averaged a penguin-hugging -61.1C (-78F) — the locale’s coldest six month spell ever recorded, and 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).
Furthermore, the entire year of 2021 (not just the winter) was also a record-breaker.

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.
And more recently still, the unusual chill has extended into 2022, too.

The month of April 2022 –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, in the final day of June, a reading of -5C 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, where it has remained for a while now):



To conclude, the establishment’s explain-away theory that ‘warming poles’ are to blame for a weak and wavy jet stream flow, and in turn the correlated violent swings between extremes in the weather (dubbed ‘climate change’ by the MSM), is, to put it scientifically, complete and utter BS.

Antarctic is undoubtedly COOLING, and so are the regions surrounding the continent.

The southernmost tip of South America, for example, has in “the most recent decades” seen its climate deteriorate to the coldest sea surface temperatures of the last 10,000 years (Bertrand et al., 2017); while additional studies show that not only has the sea ice around Antarctica been advancing in recent decades –in tandem with Southern Ocean cooling (Fan et al., 2014)– but also that the entire Southern Hemisphere’s sea ice extent has been creeping northwards since the 1970s (Comiso et al., 2017).

And now, a new study (Salame et al., 2021) reports that Southern Hemisphere sea ice has been creeping so far northwards since 2000 that it now extends well into the 54°S southern Chilean fjords, or up to 100 km further north than the NSIDC’s previous extension limit estimates (55°S).

I have so much more to say, but this isn’t the place for rambling essays. Instead, I’ll leave you with my favorite image of the past few years which serves as a powerful example of dirty mainstream media tricks, obfuscations and outright lies:



Everywhere is warming twice as fast as everywhere else.

Reject the politicized cries of “climate emergency”, they are not rooted in science. Instead, prepare for the next big freeze: climate is cyclic, after all, never linear, and the COLD TIMES are returning…

Grand Solar Minimum 101: The Future Looks Cold - Electroverse

The Sun is at its weakest state in over a century--the impacts on Earth's climate are unfolding before our eyes, whether we know it or not.

electroverse.net

 

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Interesting article today, a little different than the usual ones:

Freezing Iowa Spring Means No Fourth Of July Corn; + Germany Builds 'Huge Thermos' To Help Stave Off The Cold This Winter As European Energy Crisis Intensifies - Electroverse

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FREEZING IOWA SPRING MEANS NO FOURTH OF JULY CORN; + GERMANY BUILDS ‘HUGE THERMOS’ TO HELP STAVE OFF THE COLD THIS WINTER AS EUROPEAN ENERGY CRISIS INTENSIFIES
JULY 1, 2022 CAP ALLON

FREEZING IOWA SPRING MEANS NO FOURTH OF JULY CORN

Thanks to a historically cold spring, Iowa farmers say their initial harvest will be pushed back by at least couple of weeks.

“We would like to have corn for the Fourth,” said Luke Funk, owner of Hilltop Farms Produce in Dallas Center. “The problem was it was cold [this spring]. Now, it just depends on sunshine and how cool it gets at night.”

The shortage is firing prices higher, as are the increasing costs of inputs. According to an Iowa State University report, the cost of fertilizer, for example, is four times higher than in 2020.

And added to that, rising fuel prices and a shortage of labor, equipment and other supplies are upping a farm’s operating costs by thousands of dollars–costs that will passed on to the consumer, said Funk.



Ron Deardorff, who founded Deardorff Sweet Corn in Adel, also won’t have sweet corn by the Fourth of July weekend.

“It was a cool and cloudy April,” he said. “We will start the weekend following the Fourth or around the 11th.”

Michelle Christenson, co-owner of Grimes Sweet Corn in Grange, hopes sweet corn will be available by the second week of July.

“A very challenging, late, persistently cold, and rainy spring means many crops are behind schedule,” she told the desmoinesregister.com. “We are too! All of our seasonal tasks related to crop care are pushed back.”

GERMANY BUILDS ‘HUGE THERMOS’ TO HELP STAVE OFF THE COLD THIS WINTER

Germany’s absurd climate policies are coming home to roost. This isn’t Putin’s fault, or Trump’s fault — this is the German government’s fault, namely its cowardly buckling to green ideologies at the expense of the living standards and energy-security of its citizens.

The rust-colored tower rising from an industrial site near the banks of Berlin’s Spree river is symbolic of the monstrous mess Europe hasn’t gotten itself in.

The 150-foot-high structure can hold 14.8 million gallons of hot water, and is intended to provide Berliners with warmth during the depths of what is on course to be a bleak winter, with industry experts warning of inevitable brownouts and blackouts.

Utility company Vattenfall says the tower is a ‘backup’ in case Russian gas supplies ‘dry up’.

“It’s a huge thermos that helps us to store the heat when we don’t need it,” said Tanja Wielgoss, who heads the Sweden-based company’s heat unit in Germany. “And then we can release it when we need to use it.”


Inside the vast thermal tank in Berlin, Germany, June 30, 2022 [AP Photo/Michael Sohn].

The new facility, unveiled Thursday at Vattenfall’s Reuter power station, will hold water brought to almost boiling temperature using electricity from solar and wind power plants across Germany–so the line goes. During periods when renewable energy exceeds demand –never going to happen– the facility effectively acts as a giant battery, though stores heat instead of electricity.

As reported by the AP, the 50-million-euro facility will have a thermal capacity of 200 Megawatts — enough to meet much of Berlin’s hot water needs during the summer and about 10% of what it requires in the winter–scoff. The vast, insulated tank can keep water hot for up to 13 hours, helping bridge ‘short’ periods when there’s little wind or sun–the three-months of winter then?

Berlin’s top climate official, Bettina Jarasch, said the faster these heat storage systems are built, the better — and many more are planned, including an even larger one in the Netherlands.

“Due to its geographic location the Berlin region is even more dependent on Russian fossil fuels than other parts of Germany,” Jarasch told The Associated Press. “That’s why we’re really in a hurry here. The war in Ukraine and the energy crisis teach us that we need to be faster. First of all to become climate neutral. And secondly, to become independent (of energy imports).”

Figures released Thursday by Germany’s utility industry association BDEW shows that appeals from the government for citizens to reduce natural gas usage are having an effect, with consumption dropping 14.3% during the first five months of the year.

Wielgoss said she was confident that Vattenfall’s customers won’t go cold this winter, despite the looming energy crisis.



Few paragraphs are given to the cause of this crisis, though, and cries of “Putin bad man” are nothing but a cop-out.

In reality, Germany’s energy crises is caused by 1) a pointless transitioning from cheap and abundant fossil fuels to overpriced and unreliable renewables, and 2) an uncritical and shortsighted reliance on Russian gas.

Germany spends more than €100 billion on its defense budget annually; yet, like idiots, runs its economy on Russian gas.

This begs the questions: Who are German politicians actually working for? And: Where’s the sense in spending 100 billion on defense while the ‘arteries’ of your economy are controlled by a foreign superpower–not least one with such a checkered past as Russia.

“Consumers in Germany are very well protected, so they for sure will not suffer any shortages,” continued Wielgoss, who then went on to immediately contradicted herself: “But of course, we plead with everybody to really start saving energy.

Each kilowatt hour we save is good for the country,” she added.

These are crazy times.

And this is where delegation of power to a centralized cabal of globalist elites gets you.

We’ve tried it their way, and all it did was bring the biggest wealth transfer in human history, from us to them.

We need to reclaim autonomy for individual cities, towns and even villages.

We need to dismantle the current political system — voting red or voting blue changes NOTHING.

We need a revolution, but I just don’t see how that can be achieved right now. We still have the masses believing in a phony climate crisis, even four+ decades on; we have the majority thinking that the Ukraine/Russian war is a simple case of good vs evil; and we have 80+% wholeheartedly trusting that a fifth COVID vaccination is a smart idea, worst still that young kids should be jabbed.

A takedown of the mainstream media would go someway to awake the masses from their manufactured psychosis. But this isn’t an easy task. Electroverse used to achieve 800,000+ page-views a month a few years ago, and was well on its way to making a meaningful impact, but since being banned from Facebook, shadow-banned on Twitter, and blacklisted by Google, this number has more than halved.

'The Center For Countering Digital Hate' Successfully Strips Electroverse Of Its Advertising - Electroverse

The CCDH wants to take down "The Toxic Ten" -- 10 fringe publishers which it says "fuel 69% of digital climate change denial". Welcome, to 1984.

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The elite’s modus operandi appears to be: “make people’s living standards so awful that –through food shortages and hyperinflation– that they have no choice but to accept our version of future”–that is to say: central bank digital currencies, a universal basic income for the well-behaved, and digital IDs/ration cards.

It is imperative that when these draconian measures are proposed that we are all in a strong enough position to reject them. An autonomous local community is our greatest weapon in that regard, as is being off-grid and growing our own food.

And with the latter in mind, I’m about to head out to harvest our potato crop, and tend to our goats.

We –my young family and I– have no prior experience when it comes farming or even growing basic vegetables. We simply saw what might be coming down the pike and felt we needed to sell-up in the UK and buy 8 acres of rural land in Central Portugal.

And I will say, even if the crisis we’re preparing for were to never materialize, and my read on worldly developments is completely wrong, this is still the most content I have ever been, and I know that this life is far closer to what we humans are intended for; whereas being chained to a desk in an office cubical, on the other hand, is a form of imprisonment in my mind.

Grow Your Own Potatoes - Electroverse

Electroverse Grow Your Own Potatoes are the main staple of our homestead -- they are easy to grow, resilient, and rewarding.

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From my email inbox The Old Farmer's Almanac June 27 2022

 

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I'm back up and running (at least for the time being). A whole week without internet or email taught me how dependent we are on this medium.

 

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Electroverse

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Earth’s Temperature Saw A Sharp Drop In June, As Did Solar Activity
July 4, 2022 Cap Allon


Despite the establishment’s ever-loudening cries of “Terrifying Terra-Firma Broiling” and their frustrating and relentless obfuscations and cherry picking, planet Earth actually COOLED last month, continuing the trend started in 2016.
According to the 15x NASA/NOAA AMSU satellites that measure every square inch of the lower troposphere (where us humans reside), planet Earth was actually warmer back in the late-1980s (during the political adoption of the global warming theory).


DR ROY SPENCER

Delving a little into the data, which comes courtesy of Dr Roy Spencer and Dr John Christy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, version 6.0 of the global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for June 2022 reads just 0.06 deg. C.
This continues the overall downward trend observed since the beginning of 2016–now down approx. 0.65C deg. C since then.
The linear warming trend since January, 1979 stands at +0.13 C/decade (recently dropping from +0.14 C/decade). This warming, rather than being tied to rising atmospheric CO2 levels, correlates neatly with ‘The Modern Solar Maximum’ (1914 – 2000) — a spell of very high solar activity, the highest activity in potentially thousands of years.
Conversely, the spell of low solar output we find ourselves in now (which began in 2008) is proving truly historic–the weakest activity of the past two centuries, in fact; and its impact on Earth’s temperature is beginning to ‘snowball’.
It is theorized that during the next solar cycle (26) –so the early 2030s– that activity could of fallen off a cliff whereby the Sun remains ‘blank’ –devoid of sunspots– even during the ramp-up into its maximum.
Such as prolonged spell of low solar output would, as it has done on every previous occasion, usher in the next Grand Solar Minimum (aka Little Ice Age) — a drop of ‘just’ 2C below the multidecadal norm would be more than enough to trigger this.

[A few of the] Scientists who warn of a coming Grand Solar Minimum and Little Ice Age



“The so-called ‘greenhouse effect’ will not avert the onset of the next deep temperature drop, the 19th in the last 7500 years, which without fail follows after natural warming.”


Turning back to the June’s UAH data, the various regional LT departures from the 30-year average are highlighted below:

YEAR MO GLOBE NHEM. SHEM. TROPIC USA48 ARCTIC AUST
2021 01 0.12 0.34 -0.09 -0.08 0.36 0.50 -0.52
2021 02 0.20 0.32 0.08 -0.14 -0.66 0.07 -0.27
2021 03 -0.01 0.13 -0.14 -0.29 0.59 -0.78 -0.79
2021 04 -0.05 0.05 -0.15 -0.28 -0.02 0.02 0.29
2021 05 0.08 0.14 0.03 0.06 -0.41 -0.04 0.02
2021 06 -0.01 0.30 -0.32 -0.14 1.44 0.63 -0.76
2021 07 0.20 0.33 0.07 0.13 0.58 0.43 0.80
2021 08 0.17 0.26 0.08 0.07 0.32 0.83 -0.02
2021 09 0.25 0.18 0.33 0.09 0.67 0.02 0.37
2021 10 0.37 0.46 0.27 0.33 0.84 0.63 0.06
2021 11 0.08 0.11 0.06 0.14 0.50 -0.43 -0.29
2021 12 0.21 0.27 0.15 0.03 1.63 0.01 -0.06
2022 01 0.03 0.06 0.00 -0.24 -0.13 0.68 0.09
2022 02 -0.00 0.01 -0.02 -0.24 -0.05 -0.31 -0.50
2022 03 0.15 0.27 0.02 -0.08 0.22 0.74 0.02
2022 04 0.26 0.35 0.18 -0.04 -0.26 0.45 0.60
2022 05 0.17 0.24 0.10 0.01 0.59 0.23 0.19
2022 06 0.06 0.07 0.04 -0.36 0.46 0.33 0.11

Note, all regions –excluding the Arctic (see link below)– cooled last month; however, the standout was the tropical anomaly (20N-20S) — at -0.36 deg. C, it was the Tropic’s coolest June in 22 years.

More Climate Backtracking: “A Warming Arctic Drove Earth Into The Little Ice Age”



…and scientists warn the exact same phenomena are playing out today.

“New Little ICE Age Instead of Global Warming?” by Dr Theodor Landscheidt



Unlike the IPCC, which tosses its thermageddon doomsday date back and forth like a hot potato, researchers who track the multimillennial plays of the cosmos (namely those of the Sun) routinely land on the year 2030 as being the date of ‘climate deterioration’: this in itself should serve as compelling evidence.

Earth is COOLING — a reality that must have proponents of the AGW Party concerned, to say the least: with every 0.1C our planet cools, it becomes harder and harder for their politicized ‘catastrophic anthropogenic global warming’ narrative to be maintained.
However, propaganda is still a powerful tool.
And even as our planet COOLS before our very eyes, carbon credits/taxes are only gaining traction, as is the roll-out of costly and failing renewables at the expense of affordable and reliable fossil fuels. But as Gustave Le Bo laments: “The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduces them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
A continuation of this COOLING trend is likely over the coming months (with the odd bump along the way: climate is cyclic, after all) as low solar activity, La Nina, and the aftereffects of Hunga Tonga’s monstrous stratospheric eruption continue to influence our climate.

Decreasing Solar Activity
Solar Cycle 25 is progressing as expected. Following a somewhat fiery uptick in recent months, activity is still tracking the historically weak cycle of 24, helped by the sharp drop-off witnessed last month.
Sunspot numbers, a great barometer for solar activity, have been tabulated for June 2022.
As recently postulated, output has taken something of a tumble–visualized in the updated SILSO chart below.


Solar activity takes a sharp plunge in June 2022.

Solar Cycle 25’s ‘energetic’ start tempted some to suggest that the cycle will be much stronger than its predecessor; but “not so fast,” cautioned Dr Ron Turner, an analyst at the ANSER research institute in Virginia, back in February.
Dr Turner, who has been studying solar cycles for many years, recalled something pertinent about the previous cycle (SC24) — it heated up quickly, much like Solar Cycle 25 is doing now, but then ‘stalled-out’ early to become the weakest cycle in more than a century.
“I took sunspot numbers from the early years of SC24 and overlaid them on SC25,” explained Turner; “They’re an almost perfect match.”
Note the graph below.
It shows how similarly SC25 (green line) is tracking with SC24 (pink line).
Also note how weak SC25 is compared to the other most recent cycles (21, 22, and 23).


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The next chart compares SC25 with the historically weak cycles of 12, 13, 14, and 16 (1878 to 1933 — the Centennial Minimum).
Clear to see, SC25 is weaker than those, too (note that June’s ‘dip’ hasn’t yet been plotted, same as with the chart above).


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Solar Cycle 25 is playing out within the parameters of what was expected — it is another historically weak cycle.
It has always been my contention that it won’t be until Solar Cycle 26 that we are threatened with the prospects of a true Grand Solar Minimum, as the cumulative effects of decades of low activity (since 2008) combined with the ‘no-show’ that will be SC26 work to drive Earth into its next cyclical round of severe GLOBAL COOLING.

 

[northern watch]

EXTREME SUMMER
Summer in America is becoming hotter, longer and more dangerous
By Anna Phillips,
Brady Dennis,
Jason Samenow
John Muyskens
and
Naema Ahmed

July 2, 2022 at 11:16 a.m. EDT
Washington Post




Wildfires had been burning for weeks, shrouding Reno, Nev., in harmful smoke, when Jillian Abney and her eight-year-old daughter Izi drove into the Sierras last year in search of cleaner air. The eerie yellow haze that filled the sky had brought summer to an abrupt halt, canceling all of the season’s usual delights.

Abney headed for Donner Lake, hoping the higher elevation would put them above the smoke. But instead of the blue skies that had greeted her on countless trips throughout her life, she arrived to find smoke hanging in the sky and creeping through the valleys below. It smelled like a campfire, but those had been banned for the season.

“If it’s like that again this August, we are escaping,” she said.

Summer temperatures in Reno have risen 10.9 degrees Fahrenheit, on average, since 1970, making it the fastest warming city in the nation during the hottest months, according to an analysis by the nonprofit research group Climate Central. For two consecutive summers, smoke from blazes burning in California has choked the region, sending residents to the emergency room, closing schools and threatening the tourism industry.

It is among the sharpest examples of how climate change is fundamentally altering the summer months — turning what for many Americans is a time of joy into stretches of extreme heat, dangerously polluted air, anxiety, and lost traditions.

Casinos in Stateline, Nev., are surrounded in smoke during the Caldor Fire on August 31, 2021. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal/AP)

Though the summer season of 2022 is young, parts of the nation already have experienced punishingly high temperatures, extreme drought, wildfires, severe storms, flooding or some combination. Projections from federal agencies suggest more abnormally hot weather, an expansion of drought and well above average wildfire and hurricane activity in the months ahead.



Scientists say the recent spate of severe summers is a clear change from previous generations. The average summer temperature in the past five years has been 1.7 degrees (0.94 Celsius) warmer than it was from 1971 through 2000, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But some parts of the country have been much harder hit, with the West showing a 2.7 degrees (1.5 Celsius) increase.



“The past few summers, we’ve just seen such a constant parade of one climate-related event after another,” said Kristina Dahl, principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental advocacy group. “This really does strike us as a point where we need to be shifting our thinking about summer and how we are approaching it.”

Summer has always been a turbulent season, a time of checking weather forecasts and watching the skies. And despite the major shifts that have taken place, many people still relish the season. Vacationers still flock to places that now face some degree of wildfire or flood risk. But climate change is increasingly pushing summer to extremes, creating inhospitable conditions and endangering lives.

While these climatic shifts are occurring year-round nationwide — in fact, in many areas, it’s getting warmer faster during other seasons — the summer is often when the effects cascade. The temperatures are higher, so any increase may be felt even more strongly. And people are more likely to spend extended time outside, exposed to the elements.

Across the country, heat waves are arriving more frequently, more intensely and earlier in the year. Nights are warming at a slightly higher rate than days in most parts of the United States, according to the most recent National Climate Assessment, harming people’s ability to cool down after hot days. A Climate Central study found that in just more than half of cities analyzed, high-heat days arrived at least a week earlier, on average, than 50 years ago. Three-fourths of places had more “extremely hot” days.



In the West and Southwest, the wildfire season is lengthening, and a historic drought is emptying reservoirs. On the East Coast, hotter-than-usual temperatures are contributing to more severe flooding and heavy downpours. As hot weather arrives, the nation’s electric grid is under growing strain, with regulators from the Midwest to the Southwest warning of rolling power outages this summer.

This year, the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center’s three-month outlook through September suggests there will be hotter-than-normal temperatures throughout much of the country, with a punishing heat dome building over the western and central U.S. in coming days.

As heat bakes the country, drought is expected to grip parts of the nation’s Corn Belt and the Middle Mississippi Valley. The country is also facing the likelihood of another active wildfire season and the seventh straight above-average Atlantic hurricane season.

Global warming is driving the shift to hotter summers, experts say, but urban growth is also to blame. The three fastest-warming cities — Reno, Las Vegas and Boise — are expanding outward. As new homes are built and more asphalt is poured, these cities are absorbing and retaining more heat than the undeveloped land around them, said Nevada state climatologist Stephanie McAfee. Scientists call this the urban heat island effect.

“Increasingly, Las Vegas is seeing nights where it’s only cooling into the upper 80s,” McAfee said. “There are people in Southern Nevada who are doing the calculus of keeping the air conditioning on versus making budget cuts.”

The consequences of scorching daytime temperatures and nights without relief were on vivid display last year, when a historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest sent temperatures climbing more than 30 degrees higher than average.
Portland broke records three days in a row, peaking at 116 degrees. According to official estimates, the heat wave killed nearly 200 people in Oregon and Washington.

“Our imagination for what the impact could be has been completely changed,” said Steven Mitchell, medical director of the emergency department at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
“So many of us saw a career’s worth of heat stroke and heat illness in a matter of hours,” Mitchell said. “We began to treat it like a multi-casualty event.”

Tracy Wallace puts ice cold cloths on her forehead and chest to stay cool at the Sunrise Center cooling center in Portland, Ore., during a record-breaking heat wave on June 27, 2021. (Alisha Jucevic for The Washington Post)

Those hit hardest, he said, were the most vulnerable — the very old, the very young and low-income residents who had the least access to cooling.

“On the hottest day, we had more calls to our 911 system than at any time in the history of the 911 program,” Mitchell said. “A huge portion of those were for heat-related impacts.”

These days, the hospital and others in the area are working to prepare for the next severe heat wave. Mitchell said he attends a weekly check-in call with hospitals in the region to make sure they have a plan to prevent any one facility from getting overwhelmed. And he said hospitals are working more closely with emergency responders to improve monitoring for a rise in heat-related cases.

Summertime in the Pacific Northwest has always been referred to as “trauma season” by hospital staffers, Mitchell said, because more people are on vacation, outdoors and more likely to get injured. But the prospect of extreme heat has added another dimension of worry.

“It just strains our system more than it already is,” Mitchell said. “There is a certain amount of trepidation as we move into the summer months.”

Researchers have found that some heat waves in recent years, including the one that struck the Pacific Northwest last year, would have been virtually impossible without human-caused global warming.

“We can start saying people are dying because of climate change,” said Kristie Ebi, a professor of global health at the University of Washington. “This is really shifting the kinds of statements we can make.”

In other parts of the Southwest, communities are bracing for the prospect of flash floods.

In Flagstaff, Ariz., a gateway to the Grand Canyon and other local attractions, summer signals the arrival of the monsoon season.

But the rains, which would typically be welcome in a region suffering from drought, have lately inspired anxiety and fear. Last year, heavy rainfall over recent wildfire burn scars sent torrents of water, mud and debris into the city, damaging homes and forcing residents to evacuate.

A resident uses a snow shovel to throw water over a berm of sandbags while trying to keep floodwater out of their home in Flagstaff, Ariz., on July 14, 2021. (Jake Bacon/Arizona Daily Sun/AP)

This year, the Tunnel Fire, a fast moving wildfire, swept through the Coconino National Forest in April, fueled by high winds and a years-long drought. More than 700 homes were evacuated. Another wildfire burned about 26,500 acres just six miles north of the city last month.

“It’s a totally different environment out there these days, and it’s not like it’s going to get back to normal anytime soon,” said Flagstaff City Manager Greg Clifton. “This community is remarkably resilient, but you have to wonder how far that resiliency can go.”

As he spoke late last month, Clifton was driving through a neighborhood fortified with piles of sandbags. City officials had issued a news release urging people living near the recent wildfires to immediately buy flood insurance. Once again, Flagstaff was preparing for an unpredictable wet season, not knowing if the rains would be gentle or would wash away the roads.

For the last several years, some cities in the West have replaced their Fourth of July fireworks displays with shows put on by drones equipped with color-changing lights over concerns about fires. Flagstaff is switching to a laser light show this year. Elsewhere, fire officials are urging people not to set off fireworks at home.

Barbeque restrictions have also become commonplace, as have summertime bans on campfires in national forests during dry, breezy weather.

The cascading effects of climate change have also left their mark on summer camp, a cherished ritual for millions of Americans.

In the Northeast and parts of the Midwest, rising summer-time temperatures and increasing rainfall have caused camp directors and summer youth program organizers to worry about heat stress, higher utility bills and flooding, in addition to the usual scrapes and bruises.

Stephanie Koch, CEO of the Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City, said increasingly volatile weather is stretching her organization’s budget. In the last two years, the club has purchased flood insurance for two of its three buildings for the first time — it couldn’t afford to insure the third.

It is seeking donations to cover the cost of water bottles for about 300 campers, as well as soaring electricity bills from energy price spikes and having to run the air conditioning more often. Training for camp staff now includes conversations about flexibility and patience with schedule changes.

“I’m third generation to this area and I’ve seen incredible changes,” Koch said. “When you live on a barrier island, you’re focused on weather all of the time. But now it’s a matter of asking: Where are you going to be located? What buildings do you need flood insurance on? My own house was damaged by Hurricane Sandy and is now 12 feet off the ground.”

People stand on a mound of construction dirt to view the area where a 2,000-foot section of the “uptown” boardwalk that was destroyed by flooding from Hurricane Sandy in Atlantic City, on October 30, 2012. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

On the shore of Lake Tahoe, the University of Nevada, Reno offers a sleep-away 4-H camp that has embraced a sense of cautiousness. Last year, the Caldor Fire, a huge blaze that became the 15th largest in California’s recorded history, burned more than 200,000 acres near the lake. The group had to cancel one program and reschedule another.

Kenny Haack-Damon, the state’s 4-H Camp education program coordinator, said campfires have become a thing of the past. Instead, campers build solar ovens, using cardboard boxes lined with tin foil to cook their s’mores. He said the biggest challenge is to figure out which outdoor activities can still be done safely, and which lessons might best be taught indoors.

“The point of camp is to be outside as much as possible,” Haack-Damon said. “It’s hard to think about what that’s going to look like as things get warmer or wildfires become more of a threat.”

About this story: County and regional temperature data is from the Monthly U.S. Climate Divisional Database (NClimDiv) maintained by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Reno temperature data is from the Reno-Tahoe International Airport station via The Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCNd), also maintained by NCEI.

Summer in America is becoming hotter, longer and more dangerous - The Washington Post

 

[nomifyle]

I'm back up and running (at least for the time being). A whole week without internet or email taught me how dependent we are on this medium.

We haven't lost internet, yet, but I'm not looking forward to the potential of it. Our Directv was out for two days and we were lost. We don't watch anything on broadcast tv or cable news, just older tv shows, Gunsmoke for ever so to speak. I try to read, but just can't stay interested in whatever I'm reading.

I know that this life is far closer to what we humans are intended for; whereas being chained to a desk in an office cubical, on the other hand, is a form of imprisonment in my mind.

I can certainly relate to this, I use to sit at my desk and wonder "is this all there is". God blessed me with being able to move to the woods, I look around and think "this is what it is and I'm happy".

 

[northern watch]

From my email inbox The Old Farmer's Almanac July 1 2022

 

[alpha]

Electroverse

Articles Extreme Weather GSM

All-Time Cold Records Fall In Australia; + Solar Activity Controls The Climate
July 5, 2022 Cap Allon

All-Time Cold Records Fall In Australia
Following its best start to a ski season ever, conditions have anomalously cold and snowy across swathes of Australia.
June 2022 finished with a temperature anomaly of -0.1C below the multidecadal average, according to data supplied by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology–whatever that’s worth.



The unusual chill has extended into July, too, and hundreds of monthly low temperature records have fallen over the past two days alone–particularly across the northeastern state of Queensland, where even a number of all-time benchmarks have been toppled.


List of busted low temperature records, in Queensland alone.

Senior meteorologist Harry Clark said the combination of rain and cold temperatures was “extremely unusual” for July.
“Both in terms of the amount of rainfall and the extent of it, for what is one of our driest months of the year, but also for the extremely low maximum temperatures we’ve seen,” said Clarke. “Temperatures are looking more into what you might expect in Melbourne, or some of those southern capital cities where it’s the typical winter weather.”
Clarke confirmed that “many” cold weather records were broken across Queensland this week, with the standouts for him being Rockhampton peaking at only 12.5C (54.5F) yesterday, and Toowoomba struggling to just 7.6C (45.7F).
Other locales registered equally impressive readings: The Gold Coast Seaway set its coldest day of any month ever yesterday with 14C (57.2F); while further north, in Townsville, residents there suffered their coldest July day ever with a high of 15C (59F).
And most recently, Brisbane, the capital of Queensland –which had already registered its coldest start to a winter since 1904— has, today (July 5), gone and logged its coldest daily high in 22 years, reaching only 12.4C (54.3F).
For reference, Brisbane’s lowest-ever maximum remains the 12C (53.6F) set in July 2000; with the city’s third-coldest July maximum actually being yesterday’s 14.2C (57.6F) … but ‘catastrophic global warming’, you know … ?
And looking ahead, Australia’s Antarctic blast isn’t forecast to abate anytime soon — quite the opposite, in fact:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) July 4 – July 13 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Solar Activity Controls The Climate
The global temperature record since 1880 is highly correlated to solar activity, and solar activity is highly correlated to the harmonics of planetary motion.
The below chart is NASA’s Historical Total Solar Irradiance Reconstruction, Time Series.
What it reveals is that the IPCC and their MSM lapdogs picked an ideal starting year for their hypothesis, the perfect ‘low’ benchmark to which all future activity is to be compared.


Historical Total Solar Irradiance Reconstruction, Time Series –1610-2018 [climate.nasa.gov].

Studying the chart, the vertical gray line indicates the year 1880 –the supposed beginning of the industrial revolution (‘supposed’ because the revolution actually occurred between 1760 and 1840)— and it just so happens that 1880 received the lowest solar output since the Dalton Minimum (1790-1830). Also note that ‘flat-lining’ at the opening — the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715).
The chart also shows us that Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) has been cumulatively building since exactly 1880. The following 120+ years became so active and so sunspot-productive that it was designated as a Grand Solar MAXIMUM –the strongest maxima of the past 4,000 years, at that– and in turn, it led to a natural increase of the global average temperature.
Recently though, namely since the onset of Solar Cycle 24 (around 2008), activity on the sun has started to decrease, and although there is a complex and poorly understood lag between changes in solar activity and the global temperature (ocean thermal inertia being one likely culprit), as eminent Russian space scientist Habibullo Abdussamatov states: “[Nothing] will avert the onset of the next deep temperature drop, the 19th in the last 7500 years, which without fail follows after natural warming.”

Top Russian Scientist: “We Should Fear A Deep Temperature Drop — Not Global Warming”



The slight warming we just experienced had a natural origin, the contribution of CO2 was insignificant — carbon dioxide does not serve as an explanation, the Sun does.


The establishment’s cherry-picked starting point of 1880 recalls the Arctic sea ice extent debacle.
Those charged with pushing the global warming narrative (that is to say NOAA, NASA and the IPCC) chose the year 1979 to begin their referencing, which, akin to the gamesmanship on show above, was a very deliberate choice.
Unknown to most, we have reliable polar ice data extending back to the 1920s (much further if you include ice cores, of course), and what this historical data reveals is that our planet’s climate is cyclic; but more to the point, it shows that northern hemisphere sea ice extent was at an historically high level in 1979, but just five years prior had been at historically low levels.



The ebbing-&-flowing and melting-&-refreezing of the Arctic is even clearer in the ‘Vinnikov’ chart below. In addition, again note the historically high point of ‘sea ice amount’ NOAA begin their modern-day charts with.



This government obfuscation smacks you in the face. Hard. Worse still, this isn’t strictly obfuscation, this is fraud; because although these old records still exist, available for anyone to Google, NOAA have now replaced them with their own fake data which depicts an unexplainable decrease in Arctic sea ice during the 1970s:



This outright fraud is being used to promote a dangerous ideological reshaping of our world, one driven by the whim of a handful of powerful elites — and they’re winning, just look at the ongoing wealth transfer that’s taking place…
Resist the propaganda.
Instead, be driven by data and logic.

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]

EU parliament backs labelling gas and nuclear investments as green

EU parliament backs labelling gas and nuclear investments as green

The European Parliament on Wednesday backed EU rules labelling investments in gas and nuclear power plants as climate-friendly, throwing out an attempt to block the law that has exposed deep rifts between countries over how to fight climate change.

www.reuters.com

 

[Publius]

EU parliament backs labelling gas and nuclear investments as green

EU parliament backs labelling gas and nuclear investments as green

The European Parliament on Wednesday backed EU rules labelling investments in gas and nuclear power plants as climate-friendly, throwing out an attempt to block the law that has exposed deep rifts between countries over how to fight climate change.

www.reuters.com

And here in the USA they are pushing a 100% solar and wind and anything that can be powered by a battery, but with no way to recharge all these batteries as the power grid system is not big enough to handle it all.

 

[TheSearcher]

And here in the USA they are pushing a 100% solar and wind and anything that can be powered by a battery, but with no way to recharge all these batteries as the power grid system is not big enough to handle it all.

Yep. They can only act this stupidly on purpose.

 

[TxGal]

German Professor: Climate Change Is Delusional Nonsense - Electroverse

Articles

GERMAN PROFESSOR: CLIMATE CHANGE IS DELUSIONAL NONSENSE
JULY 6, 2022 CAP ALLON

One of Germany’s most distinguished atmospheric scientists, Professor Hermann Harde, has slammed his nation’s politicians for being duped into “believing they can save the world”.

The vast majority of the published studies and “horror scenarios” are not based on a secure physical foundation, said Harde, “but rather represent computer games that reflect what was fed in”.

The idea that humans can control the climate with their CO2 emissions is an “absolute delusion”.

There is considerable doubt over the “scientifically untenable thesis” of human-caused climate change, continued the Professor, “and it is completely wrong to assume that 97% of climate scientists, or even more, would assume only anthropogenic warming”.

Climate and energy policy need to be based on reliable knowledge, “and not on speculations or belief”.

"Record-High" Coral Coverage across the Great Barrier Reef: Claims of Impending Extinction Proven False - Electroverse

“So you’ve just got to wonder," says Dr. Peter Ridd, "were those bleaching events as catastrophic as these experts supposedly claimed?"

electroverse.net

For years now, Germany’s politicians have been placating the ‘green movement’ by closing nuclear and coal power stations and banning exploration for fossil fuels. At the same time, the country started importing large quantities of oil and gas from Russia.

For a nation happy to spend €100b a year on defense, handing your energy security over to a foreign, nuclear-armed superpower should be all the proof you need that politicians follow the gravy and the fad, and not what’s actually best for their country.

In Harde’s view, the extreme ‘climate emergency’ policies we’re all suffering with today (the main cause of inflation) are driven by competition between different research groups trying to outdo each other in predicting the most hair-raising horror scenarios.

These alarming, click-baity predictions attracted media attention, unsurprisingly; it then got an ill-informed public involved, “and our decision-makers felt obliged to quickly react”.

Cheap energy has been under attack for decades now. But it is absolutely clear, noted Harde, that without a reliable and sufficient energy supply, “Germany and many other countries that take such a path will end in anarchy”.
Or is that the goal?

So-called ‘journalism’ today isn’t designed to seek truth, it is rather a mechanism for the elites to propagandize their ideologies to a trusting and compliant population.

This is visible in the data: the vast majority of mass media journalists come from the exact same schools and neighborhoods as the elites and politicians they purport to be holding to account–which wasn’t always the case. This is a deliberate move, of course, and results in the MSM sharing the same world-views as those in power, views that have little appeal to the general population; however, because the ideologies are promoted everywhere you turn –newspapers/TV/internet– it is assumed that this is the way to think, and so the sheeple blindly follow-along without question.

When a question is raised, however, and a sheep reaches in vain for a logical answer — bam! — it can feel like a sledgehammer to the head. I, personally, can remember that moment vividly, and I also recall the crucial decision that follows: “You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”

I’m sure the majority of those reading Electroverse are, by now, riving in the deepest, darkest reaches of the rabbit hole; but truth is approaching, and along with it will come light and redemption for those of us branded ‘deniers’, ‘anti’-whatevers, and ‘heretics’.

Serving as another example: those who have avoided ‘the vaccine’ up until now have ‘won’. This is particularly true given the fresh revelations that all the vaccines are doing is keeping the virus in circulation; forcing it to mutate but never actually eradicating it.

It is proposed, by some scientists (see video HERE), that when the strain finally ‘breaks’ the vaccines’ resistance, which Mother Nature is currently aiding it in doing, it will be far more destructive to the vaccinated than the unvaccinated as the immune systems of the jabbed wouldn’t of been exposed to all the prior, steadily mutating ‘versions’.

Evolution really sorted this out for us: vaccines are a money-making ploy, a political power trip — they are not necessary.

Professor Harde’s research leads him to state that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change overestimates by five times the thermal effect of doubling carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. He points to the “highly overlapping and saturated absorption bands” of CO2 and water vapor, and the significant reduced effect of greenhouses gases under cloud cover.

Harde goes on to state that the recent increase in CO2 has caused warming of less than 0.3°C over the last century.

Only about 15% of the global CO2 increase is of man-made origin. After doing a little math –15% of 0.3°C– the warming attributed to humans can only be 0.05, at most.

In view of this insignificant contribution, it is absurd to think that a ban on fossil fuels could even remotely impact Earth’s climate. Climatic changes are caused by grand natural forcings and interactions that exceed our human influence by orders of magnitude.

In Professor Hande’s opinion, modern climate science has developed more as an ideology and world view, rather than a serious science. Scientists who question or point to inconsistencies in the global warming hypothesis are “publicly discredited” and excluded from research funds; research contributions in journals are suppressed; and in a reference to the recent Professor Peter Ridd case, scientists placed on leave or dismissed from their university.

What we call truths, continued Harde, depends to a large extent on our state of knowledge. He suggests that climate science requires a fundamental review of the hypotheses and a shift away from the widely established climate industry.

Science must not be misled by commerce, politics or ideology, he said. It is the genuine task of universities and state-funded research institutions “to investigate contradictory issues and to ensure independent, free research that gives us honest answers, even when these answers are often complex and do not fit into a desired political context”.

Harde concludes by warning politicians that it would be an irresponsible environmental and energy policy to continue to ignore serious peer-reviewed scientific publications that show a much smaller human impact on the climate than previously thought.

It is also irresponsible to shut down a reliable, adequate and affordable energy supply, to be replaced by millions of wind turbines, “that destroy our nature and shred trillions of birds and insects”.

Professor Hermann Harde retired a few years ago from Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg as Professor of Experimental Physics after a long career in science academia. This is the main reason he is able to speak out: his career isn’t on the line.

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

A deep dive in to why this is occurring. The takeaway being: PREPARE NOW.

electroverse.net

Grand Solar Minimum 101: The Future Looks Cold - Electroverse

The Sun is at its weakest state in over a century--the impacts on Earth's climate are unfolding before our eyes, whether we know it or not.

electroverse.net

 

[Walrus Whisperer]

Ive always said that the climate changes, from one day to the next. Might be hotter or colder from day to day.
These people need to get over themselves.

 

[alpha]

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Queensland Crops “Wiped-Out” By Record-Breaking Cold; Heavy Snow Hits Argentina; + Strongest Noctilucent Cloud Activity In Decades
July 7, 2022 Cap Allon

Queensland Crops “Wiped-Out” By Record-Breaking Cold
Unseasonal rain and record-smashing cold is wiping out Queensland’s fruit and vegetable crops.
Prices have soared for fresh produce like lettuce and strawberries in recent weeks; now the cost of other fruits and vegetables are set to follow suit after inclement conditions have torn through the state’s key growing regions, reports freshplaza.com.
Widespread rain and record-busting polar chills have dominated Queensland’s weather in recent days, in what the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has described as abnormal conditions for this time of year.
The BoM, unsurprisingly, is keen to underplay the fierce nature of the freeze, focusing instead on the flooding as that’s more easily correlated to their CAGW narrative; but the data doesn’t lie — hundreds of ‘monthly’ and even a host ‘all-time’ low temperature benchmarks have fallen this week, and many by some measure, too (click below for an in no way comprehensive list).



All-Time Cold Records Fall In Australia; + Solar Activity Controls The Climate


Truly historic COLD is sweeping Australia this week, particularly the northeastern state of Queensland.


One of Australia’s largest fruit and vegetable growers, Cross Family Farms, is registering major losses in Bundaberg.
“A lot of our beans have all died because of the wet weather, so that’s probably our most impacted. Those and the snow peas,” said farmer Trevor Cross. “Zucchini plants are in the ground, but they don’t like the rain. The harvest drags out a lot because it’s too cold for them to grow. You’ll see a lot of cracking in the tomatoes, as well as leaf disease.”
Cross is expecting issues with anything and everything that’s currently growing outside in these unusually harsh conditions.
The polar cold hasn’t just been confined to Queensland, with hard frost and fog noted in coastal towns in South Australia, too.
At Ceduna, for example, the mercury plunged to -3.7C (25.3F), and as was the case with many other Eyre Peninsula locations, an icy mantle was discovered by morning risers.
The BoM has said frosts gripped west of Ceduna early Thursday morning, too; and looking ahead, the agency is forecasting additional, record-challenging cold through the weekend and into next week — a prediction supported by latest GFS runs:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomlaies (C) to July 13

Heavy Snow Hits Argentina
Harsh lows and heavy snows have been battering swathes of Argentina this week.
Caviahue, a village located in Neuquén Province, suffered a sizable dumping on Wednesday:

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Disruptive flurries have been falling elsewhere, too, including across the northern Patagonian province of Rio Negro:

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Two people were hospitalized this week after getting caught in an avalanche at Las Leñas ski resort.
The avalanche occurred between the Venus and Neptuno slopes, and was reportedly triggered by the two skiers as they descended the expert Ceñidor slope.
Both skiers are now being cared for in Buenos Aires, with one suffering cerebral hypoxia due to asphyxiation caused by snow crushing. The patient, a 60-year-old male, was admitted to intensive care for neurological and pulmonary function and pain monitoring.


Strongest Noctilucent Cloud Activity In Decades
On Wednesday morning, July 6, sky watchers in Europe woke up to some of the brightest noctilucent clouds (NLCs) in years.
The clouds were observed ACROSS the continent, from backlighting the Eiffel Tower in Paris…


Noctilucent clouds over Paris
Taken by bertrand kulik on July 6, 2022.

…to extending deep into the dawn in Bochum, Germany:


Very bright noctilucent clouds
Taken by Daniel Fischer on July 6, 2022 at Bochum, Germany.

These night shining clouds were also observed filling the skies in places where, normally, NLCs are confined to just a thin band near the horizon.
But what is their significance?
NLCs are Earth’s highest clouds. Seeded by meteoroids, they float at the edge of space and form when summertime wisps of water vapor rise up to the mesosphere, allowing water to crystallize around specks of meteor smoke. Crucially, upper atmospheric temperatures need to be exceptionally COLD for the clouds to form.
Early-July is, traditionally, a good time to see NLCs in the northern hemisphere, but this July is proving truly exceptional.
Looking down on Earth’s north pole, NASA’s AIM spacecraft is seeing some of the strongest NLC activity in at least 15 years:



The charts above display the frequency of NLCs at two northern latitudes: 69o and 80o — the red line represents 2022; the gray traces 14 previous seasons, back to 2007.
“This season appears to be a strong one throughout the polar region,” says Cora Randall, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. “In fact, although day-to-day variability is substantial, on July 2nd AIM measured higher cloud frequencies at 69N latitude than in any other year since the spacecraft was launched.”
As touched on above, extremely cold temperatures –as low as -150F– are required for NLCs to form.
These night shining clouds are also more prevalent during solar minimum conditions, when there is less solar energy heating the extreme upper atmosphere–and there has been an stark uptick in NLC sightings in recent years — the clouds have been spilling out of the Arctic Circle and descending farther south than ever before.
Prior to 2019, no sightings of Noctilucent clouds at the mid-latitudes existed. Then, from around mid-June 2019, NLCs were observed as far south as Joshua Tree, CA (34 deg. N) and Albuquerque, New Mexico (35 deg. N).
In 2020, Lynn Harvey of the University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics noted very low mesospheric temperatures: “At polar latitudes (60N-80N) temperatures have been breaking 14-year records … In fact, mid-latitude (35N-55N) temperatures in late May were the coldest of the AIM record”.
This mesospheric cooling is thought to be key piece in the increasing NLC puzzle.
Other theories see the water vapor from rocket exhausts potentially boosting the seeding of these clouds. Rocket launches have been increasing in recent years — last month alone saw 16 launches, all of which would of added water to the upper atmosphere. However, what the ‘rocket exhaust theory’ doesn’t explain is the zero NLC sightings at the mid-latitudes prior to 2019, nor does it take away from the fact that the mesosphere is cooling. The link between rockets and NLCs is an area of active research.



Summer Frosts In The Highlands Of Portugal & Spain, As Record Heat Sweeps Italy: Low Solar Activity & A ‘Meridional’ Jet Stream, Explained

The AGW hypothesis can confidently explain Central Europe’s heatwave; but it fails when it comes to Western Europe’s simultaneous summer freeze. A new theory is needed: ‘low solar activity’.


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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Senior UK Banker Quits After “Nut Job” Climate Speech; The UN’s “Benefits Of World Hunger” Article Removed; + “Extreme” Wintry Weather Sweeps New Zealand
July 8, 2022 Cap Allon

Senior UK Banker Quits After “Nut Job” Climate Speech
It’s unusual for bankers to garner any respect, but senior HSBC executive, Stuart Kirk, has earned at least a little this week after he accused the industry of exaggerating the financial risks of climate change, resigning as a result.
Kirk, HSBC’s global head of responsible investing, was reportedly suspended in May after he said in a speech: “There’s always some nut job telling me about the end of the world,” adding: “A cancel culture destroys wealth and progress”.
He said on Thursday that these views had made his position “unsustainable”.
Mr Kirk’s role, which was based in London, involved considering the impact of investments on environmental, social and governance issues, reports the BBC. In his resignation statement, he said he had “only ever tried to do the best for my clients and readers” in a “27-year unblemished record in finance, journalism and consulting”.
“Ironically given my job title, I have concluded that the bank’s behavior towards me since my speech at a Financial Times conference in May has made my position, well, unsustainable,” he said. “Funny old world.”
HSBC came under increasing pressure from the AGW Party and their ‘woke brigade’ of mindless activists to investigate Mr Kirk after he gave the presentation entitled “Why investors need not worry about climate risk” at a conference.
During the 15-minute address, Mr Kirk said climate change was “not a financial risk that we need to worry about,” as a slide behind him read: “Unsubstantiated, shrill, partisan, self-serving, apocalyptic warnings are always wrong”.
Of course, such thinking is barred from modern public discourse; in fact, straying from the line at all on any topic ends in punishment; whether your views jar with the propagandized wisdom re. vaccinations, BLM, or indeed ‘climate change’, the system will work to crush you, no matter how distinguished you are or, more importantly, how purely logical your stance is.
Mr Kirk said on Thursday that investing was “hard” and “so is saving our planet”.
“Opinions on both differ. But humanity’s best chance of success is open and honest debate. If companies believe in diversity and speaking up, they need to walk the talk. A cancel culture destroys wealth and progress,” he added.
“There is no place for virtue signalling in finance.”
No wonder they forced him out.
Unfortunately for them, however, Kirk is far from finished: “I will continue to prod with a sharp stick the nonsense, hypocrisy, sloppy logic and group-think inside the mainstream bubble of sustainable finance,” he said.
But HSBC don’t look set to accept to Kirk’s logic and wisdom anytime soon, with the bank’s group chief executive Noel Quinn saying in predictably cowardly fashion that he did not agree “at all” with Kirk’s remarks, adding “they are inconsistent with HSBC’s strategy and do not reflect the views of the senior leadership of HSBC or HSBC Asset Management”.
Pah… what a spinless puppet.

The UN’s”Benefits Of World Hunger” Article Removed
The United Nation’s 2008 op-ed, “The Benefits of World Hunger”, is now reading a ‘404 error’ after the governmental body scrubbed the article in which it was claimed world hunger was a necessary evil in the successful running of the world.
According to the article, penned by professor George Kent of the University of Hawaii, without the “threat of hunger” the global economy would cease to exist.
“How many of us would sell our services if it were not for the threat of hunger? More importantly, how many of us would sell our services so cheaply if it were not for the threat of hunger?” Kent wrote.
“When we sell our services cheaply, we enrich others, those who own the factories, the machines and the lands, and ultimately own the people who work for them. For those who depend on the availability of cheap labour, hunger is the foundation of their wealth.”



The now ‘vanished’ article (currently still available on ResearchGate) continues: “No one works harder than hungry people. Yes, people who are well nourished have greater capacity for productive physical activity, but well-nourished people are far less willing to do that work.”
Some are adamant that the article is satire, and that Kent is in truth deeply against hunger but is cleverly pointing out how the elites are cruelly benefiting from it — this is supported by Kent having written extensively on the issue of global hunger, including the book: “Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food”.
But why was such a potentially trouble-making piece published by the UN?–a piece that turns much much darker as it goes on, too: Kent adds that those at the higher echelons of the system actually view food scarcity as an “asset,” claiming that efforts to end global hunger would actually be a catastrophe.
“For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.”
Whatever Kent’s exact ‘angle’ when writing the piece –whether straight or satirical– this is the menacing, twisted darkness that us normies are up against. Those at ‘the high end of the social ladder’ have all the wealth and all the power, and so are able bend ‘the system’ and, in turn, the sheeple whichever way they deem fit.
Frustratingly, it seems no matter how draconian or downright evil the top-down request may be, the compliant masses will always take it in their stride and dutifully ‘jump’ whenever asked: “take your fifth booster shot”, “pay your carbon tax”, “lockdowns!”, “climate change!”, “mask mandates!”, etc. … and so on … and so on … and on … and on … until death.

“Extreme” Wintry Weather Sweeps New Zealand
Heavy snow is blanketing swathes of New Zealand’s South Island today (Friday), as a meridional jet stream flow funnels Antarctic air over Australasia.
Snow in the Mackenzie Basin and Central Otago on Friday morning was so substantial that it closed schools and state highways.
It was snowing all night at Aoraki village, according to one resident, who said that continuous snow was falling into Friday, too. The resident added that there was at least 30cm (a foot) of snow on State Highway 80.
Along with closed schools and roads, Alpine Energy said there were also power widespread outages, particularly across inland South Canterbury.


State Highway 6 was closed due to fallen trees and heavy snow Friday morning.

More snow is on the way, according to MetService.
The agency has issued fresh snowfall warnings for Saturday afternoon and overnight, covering, among other places, Lewis Pass, Arthur’s Pass, Porters Pass, and Lindis Pass, where another 30+cm is forecast.
Flakes will settle down to elevations of just 300m (980ft), and below over the weekend.
Monday and Tuesday are also on course to deliver heavy rounds of low-level snow.
The forecast prompted MetService meteorologist Dan Corrigan to urge folk to be careful on the roads and avoid travel altogether wherever possible.

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…


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 July 8 2022

 

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From my email inbox The Old Farmer's Almanac July 10 2022

 

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Argentina’s Coldest June In 20 Years; Antarctica Plunges Below -80C (-112F); + Winter Damage Strips Niagara Vineyards
July 11, 2022 Cap Allon

Argentina’s Coldest June In 20 Years
Argentina’s official Meteorological Service has tallied the nation’s temperatures for June — and they’ve come out frosty.
Cold wave after cold wave has been sweeping South America in recent weeks, as a ‘meridional‘ jet stream flow continues to kick Antarctic chills northwards.
The first cold wave struck Argentina at the end of May and persisted into first days of June, reports diarionorte.com — anomalous readings were noted up and down the country, with frog noted in Buenos Aires and south of the Litoral.
By mid-June, another shot of polar cold had invaded southern Patagonia. The Antarctic air mass then gradually moved from south to north, breaking records as it traversed the provinces of Tierra del Fuego, Santa Cruz, Chubut, Río Negro and Neuquén.
The wave reached the province of Buenos Aires and the central region of Córdoba by June 21.
For the country as a whole, the National Meteorological Service confirms this was Argentina’s coldest June in twenty years.
The previous month, May 2022, also finished colder than average, with some northern locales suffering -3C below the multidecadal norm — this chilly month of May capped what was Argentina’s coldest Autumn (March-April-May) since 1976 (solar minimum of cycle 20). It was also the fifth coldest Fall in the historical series, also bested by 1971, 1968 and 1965:



June 2022 was also an exceptionally dry month, continues the Meteorological Service report, with large areas receiving no rain at all — it was one of the driest Junes the historical record, along with 2009, 2007, 1988, 1962.
The dry-streak ended for many locales as the calendar flipped to July, however, with heavy snow noted in the provinces of Neuquén and Rio Negro–to name just two:

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Antarctica Plunges Below -80C (-112F)
South America’s polar outbreaks have no doubt been intensified by an exceptionally frigid Antarctica. The entire continent has been holding unusually cold over the past 18+ months, with the freeze only appearing to intensify.
The first -80C (-112F) of 2022 was registered July 8, globally, at the French-Italian Antarctic base ‘Concordia’.
The mercury dropped to -80.3C last Friday, marking the first sub -80C reading since 2019.
Also worth noting, in just 53 hours the station dropped more than 40C.
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First -80C of 2022 worldwide yesterday 8 July: the French-Italian Antarctic Base of Concordia dropped to -80.3C. In just 53 hours the station dropped more than 40C.


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Returns to -80 °C after three years At Concordia station the minimum dropped to -80.3 °C. The value was recorded after 53 hours of the maximum set on 6 July at -38.6 °C The last time the threshold was exceeded was on 27 May 2019 (-80.6 °C) At Dome CII AWS -78.1 °C at 20:21 UTC

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This continues the cooling trend witnessed at ‘the bottom of the world’ over the past year and a half+.
As previously documented on Electroverse, between April and September 2021, the South Pole’s temperature averaged a just -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).
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 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 cold has continued into 2022, too, with the continent’s temperature holding below the 1979-2000 ‘base’ used by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine.
Today’s anomaly of -2.6C (shown below) is actually on the warmer end of what we’ve seen in recent months — the continent has regularly held -5C below the multidecadal norm since the end of March, dipping as low as 8.6C below.



Winter Damage Strips Niagara Vineyards
The loss rate for grape vine crops in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada usually stands at 10 to 15 percent. This year, however, damage of 50 percent is being recorded across the board.
A frigid Canadian winter has led to the worst damage in at least 17 years, with early estimates measuring around 50 percent of grape vines damaged, reports cbc.ca.
“We are seeing some warm and milder winters in the past but we also see the extreme colder weather events, extreme weather events,” said Chair of Grape Growers of Ontario Matthias Oppenlaender. “We don’t know what happens from one week to the next week,” he continued, perfectly describing the impacts of that weak and wavy ‘meridional‘ jet stream flow.
Damage in vineyards happens when the bud of a plant freezes to an extreme either in winter or spring.
“There’s a main [bud] but there’s a secondary and tertiary, but when it gets too cold, then these buds freeze, they die. And obviously, the vine doesn’t bud out in the springtime.”
The loss rate for crops is usually 10 to 15 percent, said Oppenlaender, and the last time a significant loss like this happened was 2005.
“We were surprised,” he continued. “We knew that there were cold temperatures, we expected a certain amount of damage, but we didn’t expect to [this] extent. We’re still trying to get a handle on this. It makes everything more difficult in the vineyard.”
Oppenlaender has been growing grapes for almost 40 years. He said the effects of these losses can be devastating. There’s extra labor required to try and recover the vines where possible, and there’s also a high demand for material needed for this process.
“Depending on the extent of the damage, it takes us a couple of years to come back to a full crop and that’s providing that Mother Nature will be kind to us over the next couple of winters.”
Cough-cough.

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…


Today’s article is a relatively short one.
I spent three hours of my morning helping my nearest neighbor pull a 300-foot water pipe out of a borehole — I am now dead.
Local community is essential in these times we’re headed into. Tackling a societal collapse on your own is not advisable, it’s actually almost impossible–particularly if you’re prepping for a young family, too.
Building connections with similar-minded neighbors is key.
Setting up a simple, mutually-beneficial bartering system free from fiat is also wise. For my efforts this morning, I earned a few solar panels — panels that will power my two freezers in which our processed chickens will be housed.
Small autonomous communities is what’s needed.
Reject all forms of centralized power.



Summer Frosts In The Highlands Of Portugal & Spain, As Record Heat Sweeps Italy: Low Solar Activity & A ‘Meridional’ Jet Stream, Explained

The AGW hypothesis can confidently explain Central Europe’s heatwave; but it fails when it comes to Western Europe’s simultaneous summer freeze. A new theory is needed: ‘low solar activity’.


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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UK Met Office Issues Absurd “Extreme Heat Warnings” For 32C (89.6F)
July 12, 2022 Cap Allon


I believe you can tell a nation’s ‘sheep status’ by the percentage of its population that accepted the COVID shots; and in that ranking, the UK is up there, having had almost 80% of its people jabbed (according to the official stats).
Whether it be COVID or ‘catastrophic climate change’, the UK population seems ready and willing to head down whatever path the elites put before them.
With regards to the latter, the UK Met Office’s issuance of “extreme heat warnings” on Monday –for a high of 32C (89.6F)– is nothing more than propagandizing. Their ‘climate crisis’ narrative needed a boost. It’s failing. And the UK reaching the low-thirties in July, no matter how uneventful that may seem to those with heads screwed on, was seen as a opportunity to remind the compliant masses of their imminent demise–a rare burst of heat that the UK arm of the AGW Party couldn’t let go to waste.


Beach-goer enduring the heat induced climate crisis.

As a result of these slightly above average temperatures, the UK Met Office –a warm-mongering government agency charged with forwarding CAGW– has urged Brits to stay indoors where possible and to drink plenty of fluid to cope with the heat.
Parents are also being encouraged to limit their children’s exposure to the sun.
And the elderly, people with underlying health conditions and those who live alone are deemed to be particularly at risk.
In addition, it has also been suggested that people shade or cover windows exposed to direct sunlight, check fans and fridges are working properly, and that medicines are correctly stored.
Dog owners are being advised to avoid over-exercising their pets.
While Hampshire County Council is preparing to deploy gritters to deal with road surfaces being melted by the sun.
We’re talking about a high of 32C (89.6F) here, right?! In the month of July?!
Moreover, the majority of the country didn’t even reach 30C (86F)!
Wales, for example, rose to a high of just 28.7C (83.7F) in Cardiff’s Bute Park.
It stands that the handful of readings at or just-below 32C were registered in and around London–at the usual suspect, Heathrow airport with its ignored Urban Heat Island bias. For reference, the UK’s top five hottest recorded temperatures of the modern era occurred between 1990 and 2020, with London/Heathrow taking three out of the five spots.
But I’m past frustrated rage now, and I’m onto finding this opportunistic pounce on ordinary summer temperatures laughable.
To be fair to the Met Office, it could indeed reach the mid-30s!!! this coming Sunday. However, such readings, in the month of July, are also hardly unexpected. It stands that the most newsworthy feature about all this is how government agencies, in partnership with their mainstream media lapdogs, are reprogramming the masses to be fearful of ‘summer’.

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Amber Weather Warning issued This rare Extreme Heat warning covers much of England and parts of Wales Exceptionally high temperatures are possible from Sunday, lasting into early next week #heatwave Latest info http://bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware



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Readings of 32C – 35C (89.6F – 95F) are not “extraordinarily high”.
Nor do they don’t pose a health risk–nothing a paddling pool and a Solero couldn’t fix, anyway.
Where we’re based, in central Portugal, we’re located on the ‘bottom end’ of this Western European heatwave (which, in a nutshell, is caused by a plume of African air riding northwards–a phenomenon likely exaggerated by a low solar activity-induced ‘meridional‘ jet stream flow), and highs of 42C (107.6F) have been registered on our land.
In response to this, my kids have been splashing about in our lake and watching movies in our shaded pergola. It’s been fun. And we would consider readings of 32C in July/August comparatively ‘chilly’ — certainly too cold for a swim.
The UK needs to get out more — there is nothing all-that unusual, yet alone extraordinary, about this week’s summer highs.


Summer fun.

An increasingly ‘meridional‘ jet stream flow does, however, come with the increased potential for ‘swings between extremes‘ — but that is for both cold and hot, the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis explains only half of what we’re seeing, at best.
Case in point, while Western Europe is currently toasty, Central Europe is suffering a bout of anomalous cold (see below)–the exact opposite was the case a mere week ago; and looking ahead, these regions appear on course to ‘switch’ again later in the month, with Western Europe susceptible to cooler air dragged down from the Arctic, and Central Europe experiencing summer plumes pulled up from the Tropics.


A continent divided: Western Europe is hot, while Central nations (and N. Africa) are cool.

The MSM never paints the full picture.



Summer Frosts In The Highlands Of Portugal & Spain, As Record Heat Sweeps Italy: Low Solar Activity & A ‘Meridional’ Jet Stream, Explained

The AGW hypothesis can confidently explain Central Europe’s heatwave; but it fails when it comes to Western Europe’s simultaneous summer freeze. A new theory is needed: ‘low solar activity’.
Grand Solar Minimum and the Swing Between Extremes



Intense bursts of heat will linger in one area, while a teeth-chattering chill will dominate nearby — and then the regions will “switch”. It’s this chopping and changing that will hasten the failure of our modern food production systems — crops will fail, on a large scale, and famine will quickly ensue.
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…


Despite the all the propagandizing, Earth’s temperature actually saw a sharp drop in June:



Earth’s Temperature Saw A Sharp Drop In June, As Did Solar Activity

According to the 15x NASA/NOAA AMSU satellites that measure every square inch of the lower troposphere, planet Earth was actually warmer back in the late-1980s.


I have to go. My goats have busted out of their enclosure (again). I should probably help my son protect the butternut squash!
Enjoy your Tuesday.
Be sure to take steps to secure your family’s food and energy needs.
The Great Collapse appears to be quickening…

 

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UK Met Office Issues Absurd “Extreme Heat Warnings” For 32C (89.6F)
July 12, 2022 Cap Allon


I believe you can tell a nation’s ‘sheep status’ by the percentage of its population that accepted the COVID shots; and in that ranking, the UK is up there, having had almost 80% of its people jabbed (according to the official stats).
Whether it be COVID or ‘catastrophic climate change’, the UK population seems ready and willing to head down whatever path the elites put before them.
With regards to the latter, the UK Met Office’s issuance of “extreme heat warnings” on Monday –for a high of 32C (89.6F)– is nothing more than propagandizing. Their ‘climate crisis’ narrative needed a boost. It’s failing. And the UK reaching the low-thirties in July, no matter how uneventful that may seem to those with heads screwed on, was seen as a opportunity to remind the compliant masses of their imminent demise–a rare burst of heat that the UK arm of the AGW Party couldn’t let go to waste.


Beach-goer enduring the heat induced climate crisis.

As a result of these slightly above average temperatures, the UK Met Office –a warm-mongering government agency charged with forwarding CAGW– has urged Brits to stay indoors where possible and to drink plenty of fluid to cope with the heat.
Parents are also being encouraged to limit their children’s exposure to the sun.
And the elderly, people with underlying health conditions and those who live alone are deemed to be particularly at risk.
In addition, it has also been suggested that people shade or cover windows exposed to direct sunlight, check fans and fridges are working properly, and that medicines are correctly stored.
Dog owners are being advised to avoid over-exercising their pets.
While Hampshire County Council is preparing to deploy gritters to deal with road surfaces being melted by the sun.
We’re talking about a high of 32C (89.6F) here, right?! In the month of July?!
Moreover, the majority of the country didn’t even reach 30C (86F)!
Wales, for example, rose to a high of just 28.7C (83.7F) in Cardiff’s Bute Park.
It stands that the handful of readings at or just-below 32C were registered in and around London–at the usual suspect, Heathrow airport with its ignored Urban Heat Island bias. For reference, the UK’s top five hottest recorded temperatures of the modern era occurred between 1990 and 2020, with London/Heathrow taking three out of the five spots.
But I’m past frustrated rage now, and I’m onto finding this opportunistic pounce on ordinary summer temperatures laughable.
To be fair to the Met Office, it could indeed reach the mid-30s!!! this coming Sunday. However, such readings, in the month of July, are also hardly unexpected. It stands that the most newsworthy feature about all this is how government agencies, in partnership with their mainstream media lapdogs, are reprogramming the masses to be fearful of ‘summer’.

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Readings of 32C – 35C (89.6F – 95F) are not “extraordinarily high”.
Nor do they don’t pose a health risk–nothing a paddling pool and a Solero couldn’t fix, anyway.
Where we’re based, in central Portugal, we’re located on the ‘bottom end’ of this Western European heatwave (which, in a nutshell, is caused by a plume of African air riding northwards–a phenomenon likely exaggerated by a low solar activity-induced ‘meridional‘ jet stream flow), and highs of 42C (107.6F) have been registered on our land.
In response to this, my kids have been splashing about in our lake and watching movies in our shaded pergola. It’s been fun. And we would consider readings of 32C in July/August comparatively ‘chilly’ — certainly too cold for a swim.
The UK needs to get out more — there is nothing all-that unusual, yet alone extraordinary, about this week’s summer highs.


Summer fun.

An increasingly ‘meridional‘ jet stream flow does, however, come with the increased potential for ‘swings between extremes‘ — but that is for both cold and hot, the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis explains only half of what we’re seeing, at best.
Case in point, while Western Europe is currently toasty, Central Europe is suffering a bout of anomalous cold (see below)–the exact opposite was the case a mere week ago; and looking ahead, these regions appear on course to ‘switch’ again later in the month, with Western Europe susceptible to cooler air dragged down from the Arctic, and Central Europe experiencing summer plumes pulled up from the Tropics.


A continent divided: Western Europe is hot, while Central nations (and N. Africa) are cool.

The MSM never paints the full picture.



Summer Frosts In The Highlands Of Portugal & Spain, As Record Heat Sweeps Italy: Low Solar Activity & A ‘Meridional’ Jet Stream, Explained

The AGW hypothesis can confidently explain Central Europe’s heatwave; but it fails when it comes to Western Europe’s simultaneous summer freeze. A new theory is needed: ‘low solar activity’.
Grand Solar Minimum and the Swing Between Extremes



Intense bursts of heat will linger in one area, while a teeth-chattering chill will dominate nearby — and then the regions will “switch”. It’s this chopping and changing that will hasten the failure of our modern food production systems — crops will fail, on a large scale, and famine will quickly ensue.
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…


Despite the all the propagandizing, Earth’s temperature actually saw a sharp drop in June:



Earth’s Temperature Saw A Sharp Drop In June, As Did Solar Activity

According to the 15x NASA/NOAA AMSU satellites that measure every square inch of the lower troposphere, planet Earth was actually warmer back in the late-1980s.


I have to go. My goats have busted out of their enclosure (again). I should probably help my son protect the butternut squash!
Enjoy your Tuesday.
Be sure to take steps to secure your family’s food and energy needs.
The Great Collapse appears to be quickening…

Thanks for your great diligence keeping us all updated daily! Regarding goats, btdt. Right size for a homestead, but too mischievous for their own good, and mine. Looking for a milkmaid that might want to try and see if milking sheep might be a better fit for a homesteader not interested in continually repairing the damage goats seem genetically purposed to inflict.

 

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Texans Asked to Conserve Power as Extreme Heat Threatens Electric Grid; State officials asked people to turn up their thermostats even as temperatures were forecast to reach as high as 112 degrees
Monday, July 11, 2022, 9:20 AM ET
By Alyssa Lukpat
Wall Street Journal

Texas officials asked residents to conserve electricity Monday as extreme heat blanketed much of the state and threatened the power grid capacity.

With temperatures in Texas forecast to reach as high as 112 degrees Monday, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, an organization that runs most of the state’s power grid, asked Texans to turn up their thermostats one or two degrees and to not run major appliances from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. local time Monday.

Ercot, the organization, said in a statement Sunday night that extreme heat in the state had fueled a record surge in electricity demand.

Still, it added that it didn’t expect systemwide outages.

If Ercot’s energy reserves plummet, the organization can order large customers or transmission companies to turn off their electricity, according to Ercot’s website. It can also begin rolling blackouts in extreme circumstances.

The National Weather Service warned of dangerous heat across the state on Monday and Tuesday. Orlando Bermudez, a meteorologist at the agency’s office in Austin and San Antonio, said that the heat was driven by a subtropical ridge, which is a high-pressure system that is funneling hot air toward Texas.

Fears of rolling blackouts come more than a year after a major winter storm nearly triggered an electricity crisis in the state. The state’s power grid was within minutes of collapsing as power generators shut down.

If the grid had failed, it could have caused weeks or months of power outages, grid operators estimated.

After Ercot asked people to conserve power, people on social media expressed frustration that the power grid hadn’t been fixed since the winter storm in February 2021.

“That Texas power grid is something isn’t it?” one person on Twitter wrote.

Write to Alyssa Lukpat at alyssa.lukpat@wsj.com

Texans Are Asked to Conserve Power as Extreme Heat Threatens Electric Grid - WSJ

 

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Much Of The Southwest Is Turning Into 'Death Valley' As Dust-Bowl Conditions Return And Water Resources Dry Up
BY TYLER DURDEN
ZERO HEDGE
TUESDAY, JUL 12, 2022 - 12:00 PM

Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,

The endless drought in the Southwest has become a full-blown national emergency. If Lake Mead, Lake Powell and the Colorado River keep drying up at the rate they have been, millions of Americans could soon be without water and electricity. Despite all of our advanced technology, those living in the Southwest continue to be extremely dependent on a handful of critically important water sources, and if those water sources get so low that they cannot be used we are going to have a major crisis on our hands.

The National Park Service says that Death Valley is the hottest and driest place in North America, but the truth is that vast stretches of the Southwest are now starting to resemble Death Valley.

For example, Utah has been dealing with extremely unusual heat in recent weeks and at this point nearly the entire state is officially suffering from either “extreme drought” or “exceptional drought”.

As a result, the Great Salt Lake has been shrinking and the water level has plunged to the lowest level ever recorded…

Utah’s Great Salt Lake has hit a new historic low for the second time in less than a year, dipping to a water level of only 4,190ft over the weekend.
The state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said the water levels have sunk past the last record set in October, which at the time had matched a 170-year record low.
DNR officials and weather experts warn that the water levels at the Great Salt Lake are expected to drop even further until fall or early winter as the West contends with an ongoing drought.

Meanwhile, water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell continue to fall as well.
If water levels keep sinking in the months ahead, millions of Americans living in the Southwest could soon lose their main source of electricity…

Supplies at Lake Mead and Lake Powell are dangerously low, holding just more than a quarter of their total capacities — and threatening the dams’ ability to generate electricity and provide water to its nearly 40 million users. At its highest level, in the 1980s, Lake Mead could have submerged the Empire State Building up to its top floor. Now, water levels have dropped by nearly 200 feet, or 20 stories, exposing a stark white “bathtub ring” around the rocky walls of the perimeter.

The drinking water for millions of Americans is also at risk.
Normally, the Colorado River provides drinking water for approximately 40 million people, but now it is drying up really fast.
And we aren’t talking about a crisis point that is years or even months away.
If California and six other states can’t agree to severe water reductions in less than 60 days, the U.S. government “will do it for them”…

California and six other Western states have less than 60 days to pull off a seemingly impossible feat: Cut a multi-way deal to dramatically reduce their consumption of water from the dangerously low Colorado River.
If they don’t, the federal government will do it for them.

Needless to say, the endless drought is also having a massive impact on agriculture.
Normally Kansas grows more wheat than any other state, but this year fields all over western Kansas are in really bad condition…

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.
“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.”

Most of us don’t think much about where our food comes from, but the truth is that if farmers don’t grow it we don’t get to eat.
And right now many wheat fields in western Kansas “look like barren wastelands”…

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.

There was a period of time last century when we witnessed similar things.
The Dust Bowl days of the 1930s are a very dark chapter in American history, and now those conditions are returning.
In recent years, giant dust storms have become quite common in states such as Arizona and New Mexico, but now they are starting to happen in states as far north as Iowa…

Iowa’s News Now Meteorologists Nick Stewart and Rebecca Kopelman captured an impressive view from a haboob in northwest Iowa Thursday night.
A haboob is an intense dust storm. One hit near Little Rock, Iowa Thursday night bringing 70 mile per hour winds and zero visibility.

Normally it is very rare for such a storm to ever happen in Iowa, but thanks to the endless drought there is a tremendous amount of dust that can now be picked up and blown around…

Although not impossible to see in Iowa, they are rather uncommon. However, severe to extreme drought in Nebraska, South Dakota, and far western Iowa left a lot of dry soils to be kicked up by Thursday’s intense winds.

For years, I warned that Dust Bowl conditions would return, and now it has happened.
We are being told that the Southwest is in the midst of the worst “megadrought” in 1,200 years, and there is no end in sight.
So there will be more water restrictions.
And unless something changes, electricity generation in the Southwest will become a major issue.
But I am most concerned about the impact that this drought will have on ranchers and farmers.
So much of our food is normally grown in the Southwest, but without sufficient water that simply is not going to be possible.

Much Of The Southwest Is Turning Into 'Death Valley' As Dust-Bowl Conditions Return And Water Resources Dry Up | ZeroHedge

 

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Australia’s Antarctic Outbreak Intensifies–WA Town Logs Coldest Temperature Since 1965; Summer Frosts Sweep Eastern Europe; + Chilly June In Bermuda
July 13, 2022 Cap Allon

Australia’s Antarctic Outbreak Intensifies–WA Town Logs Coldest Temperature Since 1965
Many regions of Western Australia are shivering through their coldest starts to July on record, with towns and cities breaking monthly low temperature records left, right and center.
The mercury has dropped to 6C (42.8F) in the tropical town of Kununurra (15S)–its coldest low since 1965, after the same locale endured a record low daytime max of 19.3C (66.7F) on July 1.
Areas across the Kimberly region have also reported below average mean temperatures for the start of July, with fierce, persistent cold snaps registered at Broome, Fitzroy Crossing and Halls Creek, to name just three.
Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster Angeline Prasad said the “extraordinarily low” temperatures were caused by high pressure systems over southern Australia that generated cool, dry south-easterly winds across the tropics; of course, had it been record high temperatures invading the state, Prasad’s explanation would of been far simpler, a two-worder: ‘climate crisis’.
The unseasonably cold conditions have caught some visitors to the state’s north by surprise, reports abc.net.au, many of whom traveled to the region to escape the southern winter.
Tourists are buying “emergency winter clothing,” said Sally Town, owner of three department stores in Pilbara and Kimberley.
“The tourists have not been expecting the cold weather — a lot are coming up to the Kimberley to get away from the cold,” she said. “It’s definitely been very different to normal for us … we normally have just a few days of winter and people will come and buy for those days, but it’s certainly gone on longer than expected.”
Town said she had ordered extra winter clothes to meet increased demand.
Elsewhere in Australia, frosts are invading both the Southeast and Southwest, with the cold air, as it did in WA, ‘ascending’ deep in to the Tropics, too. Worth noting: the Tropics –as a whole (20N to 20S)– suffered its coldest June in 22 years last month, registering an anomaly of -0.36C (click HERE for more).
Snow is also continuing to dump on the higher elevations and ski resorts, continuing what has been a record start to the Aussie ski season.


The cold has brought heavy snowfalls in the Blue Mountains, southern highlands, northern ranges and northern tablelands.

At sea level, the northern New South Wales town of Byron Bay was left looking like a winter wonderland yesterday after a severe hailstorm pummeled the area.
“The hail was just like a regular storm but walking to my car involved walking through ice, which was the first time I’ve experienced that,” said Ballina resident, Karen Haupt Anderson.
“I’ve never seen snow before so it was a magical experience once the storm passed.”

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Senior BoM meteorologist, Jonathan How, called the storm “unusual given the time of year,” explaining that it was the result of a warm trough from the north colliding with an Antarctic air mass from the south.
On the ground, the scenes were reminiscent of a fairytale as images of white streets and ice-covered surfboards triggered a flurry of social media posts saying it was “Christmas in July” in Byron Bay, reports theguardian.com.
How is calling for the cold to persist as July progresses.
“We’ll see some very cold mornings,” he said, “chances of frost, particularly in inland parts of New South Wales.”



Queensland Crops “Wiped-Out” By Record-Breaking Cold; Heavy Snow Hits Argentina; + Strongest Noctilucent Cloud Activity In Decades

Hundreds of low temperature benchmarks have been toppled across Australia this week — largely unreported by the MSM.


All-Time Cold Records Fall In Australia; + Solar Activity Controls The Climate

Truly historic COLD is sweeping Australia this week, particularly the northeastern state of Queensland.

Summer Frosts Sweep Eastern Europe
While Western Europe deals with a burst of summer heat, Central and Eastern regions have been suffering extreme chills for the time of year. Likewise, Northern Africa and pockets of the Middle East have also been shivering.

GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for July 11 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Very cold nights have gripped Eastern Europe and the Balkans this week, with rare summer frosts noted in Serbia and Montenegro, among other nations, and at low elevations, too.


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July frost on locations known for frost in Serbia and Montenegro: Karajukića Bunari (SW Serbia) Tmin -1.4°C Kosanica (N Montenegro) Tmin -2.2°C https://hidmet.gov.rs/ciril/osmotreni/kbunari.php
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The lows of -1.4C (29.5) and -2.2C (28F) registered in Karajukića Bunari, SW Serbia, and Kosanica, N Montenegro, respectively, are thought to be the coldest July readings ever recorded in these areas, in weather books dating back to the 1970s.
The surrounding nations are also suffering astonishing summer lows, with Slovakia approaching its July record of -2.5C (27.5F).
Looking ahead, more of the same is on the cards for Eastern Europe. However, for the West, the heat will soon abate, to be replaced by cooler polar air as a weak and wavy meridional jet stream flow continues to throw the continent’s growers for a loop.
While later in the month, the majority of nations could be on for a stark cool down:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) for July 25 – July 27 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Chilly June In Bermuda
June 2022 in Bermuda finished with an average temperature of 24.4C (75.9F), which is -0.9C below the 1971-2000 baseline and -1.3C below the 1991-2020 average.
Similarly on another remote island nation, Réunion –a French department in the Indian Ocean located 14,000km to the SE of Bermuda– an anomalously cold June was also suffered, with the month winding up 0.3C below the 1991-2020 base.
Here, rare summer frosts were even observed in the highlands of Plaine des Chicots, with a reading of -0.6C (30.9F) noted on the 22nd.
Again, despite mainstream media cherry picking, obfuscations and downright dirty lies, Earth’s average temperature actually saw a stark decline in June — it now reads just 0.06 above the multidecadal average, which is down some 0.65C from the start of 2016.
Despite the narrative, our planet is cooling in line with historically low solar activity.



Earth’s Temperature Saw A Sharp Drop In June, As Did Solar Activity

According to the 15x NASA/NOAA AMSU satellites that measure every square inch of the lower troposphere, planet Earth was actually warmer back in the late-1980s.


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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It’s snowing a bit here in Prudhoe Bay this morning.
Nothing unusual. It’s a good thing no gnats and skeeters out and about.

 

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Going-To-The-Sun Road Ties Its Latest Opening On Record; Additional Cold Records Fall In Tropical Queensland; + Germany Braces For A Cold, Dark Winter Of Blackouts
July 14, 2022 Cap Allon


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Going-To-The-Sun Road Ties Its Latest Opening On Record
On Wednesday, Glacier National Park’s Going-to-the-Sun-Road finally opened to traffic, matching the latest opening on record since the alpine byway debuted to the public in 1933.
Since its opening back in 1933, Going-to-the-Sun Road has experienced only four 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), and July 13, 2011 (the very start of the space-age-record-weak solar cycle 24).
Park officials and road crews attributed this year’s delayed opening to late-spring snowstorms that significantly slowed down plowing progress. New snow accumulations at higher elevations lead to frequent avalanches and rockslides, occasionally forcing crews to clear sections of road multiple times.
On June 13, an unusual late-season atmospheric river slammed into the region, dumping record volumes of snow onto the mountains. SNOTELs -in nearby mountain ranges- logged 2 to 4 feet of snow in less than 72 hours, with levels dropping to 4,500 feet.
The storms from early May into mid-June delivered 28 inches to the region, and left snowpacks 340+% of the median on June 18.
“Unprecedented winter snows and late spring snowstorms slowed plowing progress on Going-to-the-Sun Road this spring,” reads a statement issued by Glacier National Park officials at the end of June, an inconvenient reality for the AGW Party.
Even more of an inconvenience, and serving as further evidence of how so-called ‘climate experts’ can get it spectacularly wrong, let’s recall the predictions made by the Montana 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 ‘super computers’ it relied upon at the turn of the new millennium –which foretold of unending glacial retreat– turned out to be woefully inaccurate.
In fact, the opposite is actually occurring: in a supposedly catastrophically warming world, Going-to-the-Sun-Road just tied its latest opening on record due to a heavy, record-setting snowpack.

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



Computer model projections from the early 2000s have been proved catastrophically inaccurate…


Additional Cold Records Fall In Tropical Queensland
Temperatures across Far North Queensland once again fell below zero Thursday morning, busting additional benchmarks.
On the Tablelands between Ravenshoe and Malanda, the mercury dipped well into negative figures, while on the coast, a low of 8C (46.4F) was noted at Cairns Racecourse, and 10C (40F) at the Airport — their coldest readings in years.
More impressive records were busted a little further south.
Innisfail, for example, with its low of 4.7C (40.5F), just shivered through its coldest night on record. Note: that particular station has only been open for six years; however, when looking at Innisfail’s previous station, an all-time low of 6.2C (43.2F) is shown from 1984.
Up on the Tablelands, widespread frost has been observed with potentially record breaking temperatures — I say ‘potentially’ because the only weather station up there –located at Ravenshoe– mysteriously went offline yesterday (that’s the BoM for you).
However, according to photos of temperature gauges taken by locals, Wondecla got down to –3.6C (25.5F) — a new record.
Frost damage has been extensive across the tropical state, said Beverley Poyner from the Nerada Tea plantation at Malanda.
“It was unexpected shall we say, they (the BoM) told us it would be 6C, but it would have been down in the negatives,” she said.
BoM forecaster Steve Hadley has warned of more frost on the Tablelands overnight Thursday.
“It’s because of the dry air south and west of Atherton,” he said. “On the coast, the moisture could be pushed back for milder conditions but for areas to the west it’ll still be really dry there tonight, particularly at elevation. You could definitely see another frost.”
Here, again, we have a rather long climatic ‘explain-away’ from a government agency who got it wrong–long at least compared to the press release had Australia been witnessing record high temps, which would of been a simple two-worder: ‘climate crisis’.
The cold conditions are being created by a large high over South Australia and a low pressure system over the Tasman Sea — this setup is funneling a rare Antarctica airmass over Queensland, right up into the tropics.
See ‘meridional’ jet stream flow and low solar activity for more…



Summer Frosts In The Highlands Of Portugal & Spain, As Record Heat Sweeps Italy: Low Solar Activity & A ‘Meridional’ Jet Stream, Explained

The AGW hypothesis can confidently explain Central Europe’s heatwave; but it fails when it comes to Western Europe’s simultaneous summer freeze. A new theory is needed: ‘low solar activity’.


Germany Braces For A Cold, Dark Winter Of Blackouts
Ordinary Germans are watching their country go to pot as an entirely self-inflicted energy crisis looms.
Low cost of living, food, and energy security –indicators of economic stability– have gone bust over the last few months, as ‘green ideals’ and an over-reliance on Russian gas come home to roost.
Record-breaking food and energy inflation has exposed Germany to potential social unrest.
Off the back of a punishing reduction in flow, 10-days of scheduled maintenance currently means there is zero gas flowing through the NordStream 1 pipeline. The big fear in Berlin is that Moscow, angered by the ‘sanctions game’ played by the West, won’t turn the spigots back on after the maintenance work ends on July 21.
Experts have said Germany might not be able to fill its gas reserves before the winter. Usually, the country’s tanks are filled to capacity by October 1. But this isn’t looking likely this year, and it is believe Berlin is conducting a review of its sanctions policy.
A study published in June by the economic research institute Prognos said that in the case of a complete halt of Russian gas, Germany’s gas reserves would deplete after just four weeks.
Germany’s Economy Minister, Robert Habeck, has already warned that the country might have to ration energy, which would have both a political and economic impact: following that press conference, the share price at two of Germany’s biggest lenders, Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank, fell some 12%.
Before the conflict, Russia supplied 65% of Germany’s gas.
This dropped to below 40% in recent months, and now, with the ongoing maintenance, stands at zero.
In response, a desperate German government has signed an emergency LNG deal with Qatar. However, much of Qatar’s gas is locked in long-term contracts, meaning Germany can only get LNG from Qatar’s investments in the US. Moreover, even if Germany manages to secure gas from the US it won’t be anywhere near enough to fill the void left by Russia’s ‘cut off’.
Energy insecurity and a failing economy have led to a cost of living crisis in Germany–as it has in most other nations.
With inflation at 8% and energy prices rising 40%, German’s are bracing themselves for further shocks this winter, with brownouts and blackouts all-but assured.
According to one economist, globalization, just-in-time supply chains, and cheap energy from Russia, factors that helped Germany’s unparalleled economic growth, have changed forever.
Case in point, Germany used to pride itself on its ‘global export champion status’, aka ‘Exportweltmeister’, yet in May, Germany imported more than it exported for the first time in 30 years.
The sanctions appear to be backfiring on Germany and the rest of Europe.
If Russia’s Gazprom doesn’t restart its gas supply after July 21, estimates suggest Germany’s economic output could drop nearly 13% by the end of the year.

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



Prepare NOW.


But more than that, ordinary Germans run the risk of suffering through a cold, dark GSM winter without adequate heating.

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…


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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Alice Springs, Australia Suffers Longest Streak Of Sub-Zero Days On Record; + Greenland Refuses To Melt As Scheduled
July 15, 2022 Cap Allon


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Alice Springs, Australia Suffers Longest Streak Of Sub-Zero Days On Record
The ‘climate brigade’ have gone quiet re. Australia in recent weeks, focusing instead on a slither of summer heat gripping Western Europe and a perfectly ordinary ‘heat dome’ building in the Central U.S. — and that’s because it’s bloody freezing Down Under, unprecedentedly cold, in fact.
The middle of Australia is renowned for its scorching hot summers and year-round blue skies, not for its cold winters.
However, this year the region has been buffeted by rare Antarctic blasts and, as a result, is suffering its coldest spell ever.
The Northern Territory locale of Alice Springs has seen its thermometers sink below 0C (32F) for twelve consecutive mornings now, which, according to the Bureau of Meteorology –in books dating back 81 years– surpasses the previous longest streak of below-zero days set in July 1976 (solar minimum of cycle 19).
The frosty nights aren’t set to abate just yet, either.
“There’s every chance you’re going to smash the record and set a new one each day,” said BoM senior forecaster Billy Lynch, who added: “It’s been below average for so long — I’m sure some people might just appreciate some average conditions for a while.”



Queensland Crops “Wiped-Out” By Record-Breaking Cold; Heavy Snow Hits Argentina; + Strongest Noctilucent Cloud Activity In Decades

Hundreds of low temperature benchmarks have been toppled across Australia this week — largely unreported by the MSM.


As reported by abc.net.au, plumbing businesses around Alice Springs have been fielding dozens of calls a day to repair burst pipes that have frozen overnight.
Project manager at SDA Plumbing, Owen Auricht, said he had to turn away about 50 potential customers one morning because of the huge volume of work: “The climatic conditions when it freezes in Alice causes a lot of mayhem for the town,” he said.
“People don’t think much of it because it only freezes here a couple of nights of the year really. It’s not a common occurrence, but when it does happen it does create a lot of havoc.”

Greenland Refuses To Melt As Scheduled
We’re now well into the summer melt season on Greenland, and the ice sheet is still maintaining a large portion of its mass — the ice is has held comfortably above the 1982-2010 average all season.
Impressive surface mass balance (SMB) readings –a calculation to determine the ‘health’ of a glacier– have been posted across the Greenland ice sheet in 2021-2022, culminating in the historic early-summer gains of a few weeks ago.
Greenland is continuing to defy AGW Party orders into July, too, refusing to melt as scheduled.
As shown below, this year (blue line) hasn’t dipped below the multidecadal average (grey line) since late-May.


[DMI]

Here’s a closer look:


[DMI]

Note how 2021-22’s Acc. SMB is progressing well-above the 1981-2010 mean — an impossibility under the original global warming doctrine, which called for linearly rising global temperatures and rapid, unabating glacial melt.
Mainstream divinations foretold of an ice-free Arctic/Greenland by 2007, 2010, 2014, 2018–the date kept getting pushed back as each doomsday deadline uneventfully passed by.
And the dates continue to evolve even to this day, too — latest prophesies see the disappearance of Greenland ice arriving by 2035, 2050, 2065–depending on whichever BS study you happen to stumble upon first on Google.
In reality, though –where I try to exist– the SMB trend on Greenland appears to of reversed.
While it is true that the Greenland ice sheet lost mass from around 1995 to 2012, that trend of loss has now been overturned, 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:



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 and outright lies, all of this would highly entertaining.


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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Articles Extreme Weather Volcanic & Seismic Activity

Is Australia Experiencing A ‘Volcanic Winter’?
July 18, 2022 Cap Allon


Significant polar fronts have delivered record-low temperatures and record-high snowfalls to swathes of Australia in recent weeks. The continent is on for one of its coldest winters on record. But why…?
June was an exceptionally cold month, according to data provided by the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM):



And July is continuing that frigid trend.
Serving as just three recent examples: Alice Springs busted its longest streak of sub-zero days in recorded history; secondly, on July 15, Hillston Airport, NSW logged -6C (21.2F) — its lowest temperature ever recorded; and, thirdly, just last night, snow settled across many of Hobart’s suburbs, almost reaching sea-level in Tasmania’s south, and an apparent low of -20C (-4F) was observed.

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This morning at Fern Tree in the foothills of kunanyi/Mt Wellington Welcome to #SnowBart. What a chilly start to the week… with snow falling as low as 150 metres overnight video: http://instagram.com/jeon_landscapes

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“[It is] a very cold outbreak for the state, with snow showers down to low levels –nearly sea level– with a few reports of snow flurries, so not settling, to about 20 meters above sea level in Howden,” said BoM forecaster Luke Johnston.
And there are MORE freezing nights on the way.
“All the cold air over Tasmania is just going to sit here all week,” added Johnston, pointing out that the next few mornings would be “very, very cold for most of Tasmania … with widespread minimum temperatures between -2C and -4C (28.4F and 24.8F)”.
But in these times of ‘catastrophic global hotty heat hot’ –I think that’s the official term now– why is it so consistently cold, and ACROSS a continent as large as Australia, too?
Climatologist Emeritus Professor Roger Stone from the University of Southern Queensland believes an increase of ice around the Antarctic has led to a lot of snow on the southern Alps, causing “what we call the Thredbo Index to go up”–a phenomenon he has also tied to a rare third La Niña.
However, there are many theories doing the rounds, as is only good an proper; and while the media likes to focus on a rare third La Niña –likely because this oceanic COOLING can be somewhat chiseled and rounded to fit their ‘climate change’ hole– an overlooked factor is volcanic activity, namely Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai’s record-high mesopsheric eruption in January.

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The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga Volcano caused the tallest ash plume ever recorded. It’s height was recorded at approximately 38 miles, poking into the Mesosphere. That’s over 200,000 feet tall. Amazing.

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Volcanic eruptions are one of the key forcings driving Earth into its next bout of global cooling. Their worldwide uptick is tied to low solar activity, coronal holes, a waning magnetosphere, and the influx of Cosmic Rays penetrating silica-rich magma.
Hunga Tonga’s eruption of Jan 15 fired particulates through the stratosphere and into the mesosphere.
At 36 miles up, it was the highest volcanic eruption ever recorded.
Those particulates are now ‘trapped’ in the upper atmosphere, and are forecast to cool the planet by approx. 0.3C. It has been suggested that Australia’s exceptionally cold and snowy winter of 2022 is being driven, at least in part, by these trapped volcanic aerosols.
Of late, Antarctica has been awash in dazzling pink and plum hues — all due to the “afterglow” of the Tongan eruption:


The Antarctic sky in the ‘afterglow’ of the Tongan volcano’s January eruption. [Stuart Shaw]

Similarly fiery skies have also been reported across New Zealand and Australia, which scientists, unanimously, are putting down to a spike in aerosols that were hurled up into the stratosphere following the Hunga Tonga’s record eruption.
“Usually in mid-winter, Antarctica is nearly continuously dark, except for a slight ‘nautical twilight’ at around midday, which means the horizon is faintly visible in good conditions,” said Stuart Shaw, a science technician with Antarctica New Zealand, who is stationed at Scott Base for the winter and who captured stunning images of the blazing skies.


‘Vince’s Cross’, viewed from Hut Point looking north. [Stuart Shaw]

“But this year,” continued Shaw, “we were presented with quite a show, which had most of the station personnel grabbing jackets and running outside with their cameras to look at the awesome colors.
“Believe it or not, I haven’t edited these colors either, they are pretty much as we saw them … It’s incredible.” he said.
Data from satellite lidar –a laser radar- shows there is an abundance of aerosols in the stratosphere above Antarctica, which were not there prior to the eruption, said Nava Fedaeff, a forecaster at Niwa.
“Stratospheric aerosols can circulate the globe for months [and even years] after a volcanic eruption, scattering and bending light as the sun dips or rises below the horizon, creating a glow in the sky with hues of pink, blue, purple and violets,” explained Fedaeff.
Where these so-called experts fall silent, however, is on the cooling implications of such a phenomenon.
Scientists have long known the effect of major volcanic eruptions. The Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo, for example, cooled Earth by as much as half a degree Celsius for years after it blew its top in June 1991–a cooling that is obvious in the satellite record:


[Dr Roy Spencer]

And while Antarctica, and indeed Australia, are located many thousands of kilometers from Tonga –the location of January’s eruption– “we share the same skies”, points out Jordy Hendrikx, Antarctica New Zealand’s chief science adviser.
When you dump large volumes of ash and sulfuric acid into the higher reaches of the atmosphere less sunlight reaches the surface of the planet. These particulates act in much in the same way clouds do –as Earth’s sunshade– and a cooling effect is exerted.


Volcanic cooling effect (I went for an image even Jittery Joe-Joe Biden could understand).

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption was one of the largest in modern history, certainly the highest. And with the recent reports of visible aerosols above New Zealand, Australia and Antarctica, they are clearly still up there, still exerting a cooling effect over these regions.
Of course, the Southern Hemisphere comprises of more land masses than just Antarctica, New Zealand and Australia; and to that point, it actually stands that almost wherever you look across the ‘bottom half of the world’ there is significant cooling afoot.
Argentina, for example, just suffered its coldest autumn (March-April-May) since 1976 (solar minimum of cycle 20). And the month of June has continued that trend: temperature anomalies of as low as -3C below the multidecadal norm made for Argentina’s coldest June in 20 years, according to the nation’s meteorological agency SMN.



And likewise in neighboring Uruguay, June 2022 finished with a temperature anomaly of a whopping -2.3C below the average, making for the country’s coldest June in the last 41 years.
Temperature anomalies ranged from -1C below normal in the Southeast, to -3C in the Northwest, according to Inumet.



Moreover, the temperature of the entire planet appears to of been impacted, with a stark decline noted last month:



Earth’s Temperature Saw A Sharp Drop In June, As Did Solar Activity

According to the 15x NASA/NOAA AMSU satellites that measure every square inch of the lower troposphere, planet Earth was actually warmer back in the late-1980s.


And so it stands, while the mainstream media assigns all of its ink to a Western European heatwave –a phenomenon linked to low solar activity, namely its weakening of the jet stream (see link below)– the entire Southern Hemisphere –and the planet overall– is experiencing exceptional cooling–as are the Tropics, which recently experienced their coolest June in 22 years.



Summer Frosts In The Highlands Of Portugal & Spain, As Record Heat Sweeps Italy: Low Solar Activity & A ‘Meridional’ Jet Stream, Explained

The AGW hypothesis can confidently explain Central Europe’s heatwave; but it fails when it comes to Western Europe’s simultaneous summer freeze. A new theory is needed: ‘low solar activity’.
In these Days of “Catastrophic Global Warming,” the South Pole just suffered its Coldest ‘Winter’ in Recorded History



With an average temperature of -61.1C (-78F), the South Pole has just logged its coldest 6-month spell ever recorded (April-Sept).
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…


The AGW Party are cherry-pickers to the extreme. And the average, gullible alarmist is being played like a fiddle.
Do you know who came up with the term “Carbon Footprint”? It wasn’t Greenpeace, it wasn’t a bunch of whale-hugging hippies — it was British Petroleum (BP).
Back in 2005, BP sensed the monumental environmental wave that was building, and in order to combat it launched a multi-million dollar preemptive PR campaign (hundreds of millions of dollars, in fact). This was intended to shift attention away from their own expansive drilling efforts and instead onto an individual consumer’s wasteful energy usage — and it worked.
Remember, everything is the citizens fault, never the multinational conglomerates (who now own governments, by the way, and so, in turn, the world).
Alarmists: You. Are. Being. Played.
This is all a game.
The carbon offset market is now monstrous. Enormous. However, rather than reducing global carbon emissions all it is doing is further lining the pockets of the so-called ‘polluters’, as they swap their credits around like Pokemon cards under the absurd and transparent yet heavily propagandized guise of ‘saving the planet’.
It’s another game, another market to bend, abuse and profit from. And the big names are betting BIG on carbon credits, and it’s already making them a pretty penny — this market is actually forecast to outstrip oil tenfold in the near future.
Again, alarmists: You. Are. Being. Played.
Wake up, already.
It’s time to get angry.
It’s time to get ****ing furious.
All of us, versus the machine — we can win if only we reject their ‘distractions’ and ‘dividing wedges’ and instead focus on our common goals of autonomy, health and family. We must reject Big Pharma; reject Big Ag; reject their Great Reset and plot for globalization whereby us peasants own nothing but are expected to look happy about it, or else.
We must win.
Because the alternative is eternal slavery.

 

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Largest Summer Sea Ice Extent Since 2008 Traps Arctic Ships; + Coldest July Airmass In 70 Years Blows Through The Bering Strait
July 19, 2022 Cap Allon
The mainstream are heat-chasers. They report only on stories that fit the AGW Party agenda. This cherry-picking leads to a painfully misinformed public when it comes to the climate–which is exactly where they want us.
It usually stands, however, that if the MSM goes silent on a particular locale then it’s probably because that particular locale isn’t ‘behaving’ as they would like.
Case in point today: we have the Arctic and Greenland refusing to play ball.
Earth’s most-northern reaches are actually experiencing persistent and long-lasting COOLING, which is far more telling than a brief burst of heat in, for example, Western Europe, which, 1) is forecast to be over before it’s even really begun, and 2) can be tied to entirely natural forcings–namely low solar activity and a violently ‘buckling’ jet stream flow (more on that below).

Summer Frosts In The Highlands Of Portugal & Spain, As Record Heat Sweeps Italy: Low Solar Activity & A ‘Meridional’ Jet Stream, Explained

Largest Summer Sea Ice Extent Since 2008 Traps Arctic Ships
The mainstream’s silence re. the Arctic this year is deafening. Why is it that ice loss is newsworthy yet substantial GAINS are deemed irrelevant? What we see from the likes of the BBC and CNN isn’t a honest account of worldly events, it’s selective programming.
These corporate-backed agencies never question vaccine safety issues, either, let alone efficacy — and it’s the same thing: their masters, those financial backers on high, are paying for the delivery of a narrative; and although the truth is forever circling the peripheral of said agenda, these backers have the wealth and influence to prevent it from ever infiltrating — truth is treated like a nuisance, like a swarm of flies that need swatting, constantly, forever –‘firehosing’– and they’re very good at it.
The Svaytoy Petr set sail from the far eastern Russian port of Petropavlovsk on June 23, on course for Arctic waters. Two weeks later, the oil tanker had reached the Bering Strait, but it encountered an issue — unusually thick summer ice.
The ship, built in 1992, with only limited ice-protection, called for assistance to break through an ice sheet that, even in mid-July, still covers major parts of the Arctic shipping route.
Help was quickly dispatched, and on July 12 nuclear-powered icebreaker Sibir busted its way through the East Siberian Sea and met the Svaytoy Petr.
On Sibir’s tail was another old oil tanker, Ice Eagle, on its way from Murmansk to Pevek.
These two aging oil tankers are among the first ships to tackle the Northern Sea Route this year.
So far, only LNG carrier Nikolai Yevgenov has managed to transit the route. The natural gas carrier sailed eastwards towards Asian markets in mid-June; and while It managed to traverse most of the route independently, the powerful vessel still required an icebreaker escort on some particularly thick stretches.
As reported by thebarentsobserver.com, it is mid-summer, but major parts of the waters that connect the eastern Bering Strait with the Barents Sea remain covered by sea-ice.
Ice maps from Russian meteorological service Roshydromet (shown below) reveal that ice layers in late June were most comprehensive in the area of the Vilkitsky Strait, the New Siberian Islands and in the Chukchi Sea.


Sea-ice in the Arctic in late June 2022. Map by Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.

Russia’s Arctic shipping ambitions have been increasing, in part spurred by the sever sanctions imposed on it.
The Russian government argues that the sanction regime will only make shipping on the Northern Sea Route more important. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev underlined that better transport corridors to Asian markets are needed as western markets close.
However, and as revealed above, stubbornly thick Arctic sea ice has proved an issue this year.
Looking at NASA’s Seasonal Cycle of Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice chart, which extends back to 2011, this summer has seen Arctic sea ice area fire above all previous years:


[NASA]

Moving on to the NSIDC’s chart, it shows that Arctic sea ice extent is sitting at its highest level since 2008:


[NSIDC]

Likewise with the Danish Meteorological Institute’s Arctic sea ice volume (thickness) chart –which mysteriously ‘disappeared’ large volumes of ice last year– here we have another data point giving out noteworthy readings:


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And while we’re up north, let’s also take a look at Greenland — the poster child for anthropogenic global warming.
Unfortunately for the AGW Party, and the reason you’re hearing nothing about Greenland in the press either, is because the ice sheet is refusing to melt as scheduled, even as we approach the height of summer.
Acc. SMB is trending well-above the 1981-2010 mean (bottom chart):


[DMI]

More on that here:

Alice Springs, Australia Suffers Longest Streak Of Sub-Zero Days On Record; + Greenland Refuses To Melt As Scheduled

Coldest July Airmass In 70 Years Blows Through The Bering Strait
In related news, an unusually frigid mass of air is currently spinning through the Bering Strait region, bringing rare July snowfall and high surf advisories.
“These kinds of things spin around the higher latitudes all year long,” said Rick Thoman, Alaska climate specialist at the International Arctic Research Center at UAF. “Usually, this cold would stay farther north. If this was happening on the North Slope, it would be chilly but nothing particularly to write home about. The fact that it’s moved so far south is really the news here.”
Flicking through the climate records, Thoman notes that this is coldest July airmass of the past 70 years.
“I would chalk this particular storm up to one of those random variabilities that are going to happen from time to time, even in a warming climate,” added Thoman–which serves as another example of a so-called expert being led by a narrative rather than the data in front of them.
The low-pressure area saw the wind at the Nome Airport reached 48 mph on Monday. Such a speed might be expected for a November storm, but gusts of that force have not been seen in the month of July since such records began in the mid-1980s.
Just as obscure, summer snow has fallen on the Diomede islands, Ear Mountain near Shishmaref and the mountains near Dexter and Banner Creek, too. Thoman said he would not be surprised if downtown Nome saw snow overnight Monday, which he said would be an unprecedented event after failing to find documented July snow in Nome’s entire climate record, which stretches back more than a century.
Thoman closed with a note on wildfires, which he said are likely to be over in Alaska now, given the early onset of Fall.
“The Nome area could see smoke aloft from fires in Siberia … [but] it’s been comparatively quiet over central Siberia as far as wildfires this summer”–which, again, is why media mentions of this region are lacking.
The media are heat-chasers.
And cherry-pickers.
They are frauds.
Yet the gullible masses continue to fall for it.
However, when the penny finally does drop, which it inevitably will, the mass disillusion and confusion that will follow as the framework that so many have had their reality built upon crumbles before their eyes will shake the foundations of our modern civilization.
Picture the distrust and chaos that will ensue as decades of damaging lies are exposed.
Many of us are already there, of course, but imagine the scene when the remaining 80-90% cotton on. It will bring carnage and destruction, it will see a level of anger rarely witnessed throughout human history.
Moreover, that anger will be directed at the right place, too: at ‘the system’.
This our best hope of defeating the elites.
Their day of reckoning is approaching, and they know it.
They are preparing for war.
And so should we.

 

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