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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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10:09 PM · Jul 17, 2022


“[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.

If I could only get everyone to just READ this article...
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Articles Extreme Weather GSM
South America Snow Extent At All-Time Highs — A Forerunner For The Coming Northern Hemisphere Winter
July 20, 2022 Cap Allon


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While the media focuses on a two-day heatwave in Europe and a rather run-of-the-mill wildfire season –heat that was pulled anomalously far north by a low solar activity-induced ‘meridional‘ jet stream flow– unbeknownst to them, or at least unreported by them, is the fact that the entire Southern Hemisphere has been holding COLDER than the 1979-2000 average for some time now–according to the data provided by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine.
Beginning in Antarctica –and as regular readers of Electroverse will well know, but it bears repeating– the continent as a whole has been unusually COLD over the past 18+ months, with the freeze only appearing to intensify.
The first -80C (-112F) of 2022, globally, was registered on July 8 at the French-Italian Antarctic base ‘Concordia’ — the first sub -80C since 2019.
More tellingly though, between April and September 2021 the South Pole averaged -61.1C (-78F), which made for its coldest six month spell ever, comfortably besting its previous chilliest ‘coreless winter‘ on record — the -60.6C (-77F) set back in 1976 (solar minimum of weak cycle 20).
The cold has persisted into 2022, too — the month of April 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.
The chill extended into May, June and is now gripping July, too, with fierce anomaly routinely registered ACROSS the continent.
Antarctica’s unmistakable cooling over the past 18-or-so months is also indicative of longer trend.
Official data reveals that East Antarctica, which covers two thirds of the continent, has cooled 2.8C over the past 40-or-so years, with West Antarctica cooling 1.6C. It stands that only a tiny slither of Antarctica (the Antarctic Peninsula) has seen any warming –statistically insignificant warming, at that– but there are no prizes for guessing which region the MSM focuses on.
A frigid Antarctica is, as you would expect, impacting other Southern Hemisphere land masses — its colder-than-average air is being transported northwards via the jet stream, unusually-far north, in fact, thanks to that ‘meridional‘ jet stream flow.
Australia and South America –the hemisphere’s largest land masses– have noted record-breaking cold conditions in recent weeks and months.
Australia is actually on for its coldest winter on record, after experiencing its snowiest start in recorded history.
The month of June was an exceptionally cold one, according to data provided by the country’s Bureau of Meteorology; and July is continuing in that same vein and is seeing the slaying of a myriad of all-time cold records.
Volcanic activity is likely playing a key role in this stark cool down, namely Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai’s record-high mesopsheric eruption back in January:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1495525634789023749

For a deeper dive into that, click the link below:



Is Australia Experiencing A ‘Volcanic Winter’?

The evidence suggests Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai’s record-high eruption of Jan 15 is COOLING the Southern Hemisphere.
South America Snow Extent At All-Time Highs
Moving onto South America, the continent has been suffering a similar fate to Australia in recent months, particularly Argentina, which been under the influence of a seemingly unending string of Antarctic fronts.
Argentina’s entire Autumn season (March-April-May) was the nation’s coldest since 1976 (solar minimum of weak cycle 20).
It was also the fifth coldest in the historical series–bested only by 1976, as mentioned, and also 1971, 1968 and 1965:


Argentina’s coldest falls on record [SMN].

The anomalous cold spilled into June, too, with the month finishing as Argentina’s coldest in 20 years.
Neighboring Uruguay also finished with an anomalously frigid June–its chilliest in 41 years.


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

Antarctica notes the first sub -80C (-112F) of 2022, intensifying the continent’s 18+month COOLING trend.

Snowfall in these nations has also proved significant.
“It’s a lot of snow, a lot, a lot. It hasn’t snowed so much in years,” said Manual Calfuqueo, head of operation at Batea Mahuida.


Snowy scenes at Batea Mahuida, July 19, 2022.
And just last week, hundreds of Brazilian trucks were stranded by successive snowstorms between Argentina and Chile:


Almost 1,000 Brazilian trucks trapped by blizzards on the Argentinian/Chile border.

According to the president of the Union of Autonomous Transporters of Goods, Pedro Paulo da Rosa Dutra: “There must be 300 trucks on the border who are paralyzed within the problem itself, at the place of the blizzard. And outside, there must be about 500 more. All from Brazil,” added Dutra, who went on to note that many of the truckers were housed in nearby barracks.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1546901170043731969

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1546216242431795202

Snowfall across the entire continent is also proving historic.
According to the GMASI Snow Tracker, South America’s snow/ice extent recently surpassed the all-time high set in 2017.
Admittedly, the dataset only extends back to 2005; but still, that’s 17 years during which “catastrophic global warming” was prophesied to all-but eradicate seasonal snowfall, yet here we are, witnessing the complete opposite…


The GMASI Snow Trackers are derived from combined observations of METOP AVHRR, MSG SEVIRI, GOES Imager and DMSP SSMIS. The Global Multisensor Snow/Ice Cover Map (GMASI) algorithm is fully automated. It is a NOAA/NESDIS product.

…just as we did during Northern Hemisphere’s 2021-2022 snowfall season:


NH Snow Water Equivalent [ECCC].

A Forerunner For The Coming Northern Hemisphere Winter
What’s occurring in the SH right now is a likely forerunner for what’s about to hit the NH this coming winter–and during a time when America, Asia, and in particular Europe are contending with a severe energy crisis.
The volcanic aerosols contributing to the Southern Hemisphere’s bitterly cold winter of 2022 won’t of dissipated by the time Dec, Jan and Feb roll around — they can engulf the globe for years; nor will the impacts of low solar activity on our planet’s jet streams
These powerful climatic forcings will be with us for some time, and are actually only forecast to intensify as we continue our descent into a full blown Grand Solar Minimum–predicted by many to manifest proper during Solar Cycle 26 (so the early-2030s).
This serves as a warning to all those still unwilling to prepare.
The coming winter will be fierce, and there will be blackouts. Russia has cut off the gas supply to Germany, and the German government is currently in crisis mode, desperately and hurriedly building all sorts of backup facilities in an attempt to ward off the worst of the impacts and to give ordinary Germans a fighting chance during the depths of this fast-approaching winter.


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

This is where delegation of power to a centralized cabal of globalist elites gets you…

This isn’t an exaggeration, and it is far from a joke — it also doesn’t even touch on the crippling food shortages that are potentially just around the corner.
Akin to the measures implemented during the COVID debacle, governments will do all they can to avoid civil unrest. And while the unprepared risk being unable to heat their homes and freezing to death in their own beds (as we saw in Texas in 2021), rather than expecting the government to turn up at their door with a thermos of hot soup, instead they should prepare for ‘stay at home’ orders, another round of ‘lockdowns’ as authorities work to prevent angry gatherings, protests and full-blown riots.

This also fails to address the coming wave of winter COVID infections, which could also be used as a preemptive excuse to lock people down BEFORE the cold and food shortages actually hit.
Cases are on the rise, and, concerningly, the latest data suggests that this is looking like a chronic diseases of the vaccinated — one that results in repeated reinfection without the body ever fully overcoming the variants.
Thanks to the vaccines, it seems that a person’s immune system is engaged in an never-ending game of ‘whac-a-mole’.
When a new variant infects a person, they develop an immune response based on whatever variant their body has been trained to fight. For the majority, this is the ‘Wuhan’ version through vaccination. And the ‘original antigenic sin’ is very, very strong.
The upshot?
New variants only need to change ‘a little bit’ to avoid this narrow immune response. Which, despite the assurances to the contrary from the ‘experts’ involved in the roll-out, is now exactly what we’re seeing: the vaccinated are being hit again and again and again.
This, if true, will ultimately result in immune exhaustion, and will open people up to all sorts of other infections.
And all this is without delving into the ‘spike protein’ issue.

The above, however, are merely my current thoughts, based on what I’m seeing in the latest data.
Feel free to disagree in the comments below.
An open dialogue is key.

 

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A 20-minute storm with 12 months of consequences: Farmers devastated by crop loss | Globalnews.ca

A 20-minute storm with 12 months of consequences: Farmers devastated by crop loss
By Meaghan Archer & Erik Bay Global News
Posted July 19, 2022 7:43 pm

Summer crops were looking hearty just two days ago, according to local farmers.

But a devastating storm that swept through southern Alberta Monday afternoon has left crops looking bleak.

Lethbridge County grain and sugar beet plants were left with broken and bent stalks, the once promising yield now completely flattened.

Marble-sized hail, and dark, fast-moving clouds rolled across the sky early Monday.

“I knew we were in for something seeing that one coming,” said farmer Arnie Bergen-Henengowen.

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Lethbridge County experienced some aspects of the major wind storm that tore through southern Alberta, bringing winds of up to 140 km/h. The largest extent of the storm’s damage occurred in Cypress County, where it left several families without homes and many structures completely torn apart.

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“[We] had a really good crop coming,” Bergen-Henengowen told Global News. “[It’s] quite disappointing to see it disappear like this.”
“It was a 20-minute storm but it’s got 12 months of consequences for us,” added Leighton Kolk, another farmer from the area who also lost crops. He guessed that fields that were in the storm’s path are anywhere between 40 to 100 per cent wiped out.

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“That land is gone. The corn is all snapped off and the canola is no longer yellow – it’s kind of a dull green,” Kolk said. He said the storm’s damage will likely lead to reduced cash flow for farmers over the coming months, plus the possibility of lack of feed for the winter – a potentially bigger problem for some farmers.

The next step for farmers is to contact their insurance providers and try to salvage what remains in their fields.

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“These losses are always devastating in the agricultural community, and yesterday’s severe weather has only added to the recent challenges we have faced as producers,” said Reeve Tory Campbell, noting how important it is for those affected by the storm to take care of their mental health in the wake of this loss.

“We are a strong agricultural community and must support each other during trying times,” he said in a news release, Tuesday.

 

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Articles Crop Loss Extreme Weather
Russia’s Cold Summer Sees Wheat Protein Drop; Low Temperatures Affect Zimbabwe Cotton; ‘Solar Tsunami’; + CNN Untruths
July 21, 2022 Cap Allon
Russia’s Cold Summer Sees Wheat Protein Drop
While Western Europe has been under the influence of a jet stream-induced heatwave, Eastern Europe has been freezing. These cold and damp conditions have hurt Russia’s main growing regions, leading to fears that higher protein wheat will remain in tight supply, further supporting an increased price gap between quality milling wheats and lower quality grades.
Russia, after upping its planting acreage, is on course to deliver its biggest ever wheat crop this season; however, higher acreage stands for very little if the quality –i.e. the protein– isn’t there.
This season’s tours are suggesting a higher-than-preferred percentage of crops will be suitable for animal feed only.
The price gaps between the different protein grades –which range from 12.5%, 11.5% and then down to feed grades– have been increasing over the last week, with a gap of almost $16-17/mt noted between 11.5% and 12.5% grades.
“Yes, the protein has dropped, but from a very high-level last year … now we are waiting for the results of widespread rains, which can change the picture,” Dmitry Rylko the General Director of analytical agency Ikar told Agricensus.
“It is not yet known, but … the quality will be below average,” said Andrey Sizov, Managing Director of analytical agency Sovecon.
As hinted at by Dmitry Rylko, the weather outlook continues to look unfavorable with Eastern Europe on course, at least for now, to continue its ‘year without a summer’.

Low Temperatures Affect Zimbabwe Cotton
Cotton farmers in Zimbabwe have raised the alarm over the possible loss of yield this year as persistently cold temperatures continue to affect cotton maturity.
The Chinyohi business unit, which is an area under the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) covering Chinhoyi, Hurungwe, Kariba, Makonde and Zvimba, projects losing at least 25% of this year’s yield to the cripplingly cold conditions.
Destructive livestock grazing is another concern for the cotton farmers, as the low temperatures lead to cotton balls failing to split in time which has resulted in animals eating them.
Farmers have now resorted to taking turns in guarding their fields from livestock, reports herald.co.zw.



‘Solar Tsunami’
Sunspot AR3060 exploded during the early hours of July 21, producing a C5-class solar flare and a solar tsunami.
The “tsunami” is the shadowy shock wave seen racing away from the blast site in this extreme ultraviolet movie from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory:



Soon after the explosion, the US Air Force reported a Type II solar radio burst–a natural form of radio noise produced by shock waves in the leading edge of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), explains Dr. Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com.
This means we can expect a CME to emerge from the blast site.
Indeed, coronagraphs onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) may have already seen the CME, visible in this preliminary movie captured during the hours immediately after the flare:



The images captured by SOHO are complicated, continues Dr. Phillips. They appear to show multiple overlapping CMEs. NOAA analysts are working now to determine which, if any, are headed towards Earth.
However, even if a ‘direct hit’ were to occur, this is unlikely to cause any major pertubations here on the ground — this is not ‘the biggie’ we’re waiting on, it isn’t the CME that fires modern humans back to the Stone Age.
But still, it will be interesting to see how Earth’s ever-waning magnetic field deals with a relatively minor impact.
It hasn’t coped so well in the recent past:

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



Earth is losing its protective shield against energy from space, and nobody is telling you…


Earth’s Magnetic Field just Struggled with a Weak CME: Sign of the Times



Our planet’s magnetosphere is weaker than we’ve all realized. The recent CME released from the Sun should not have caused a G3-storm. Prepare for a grid-down scenario. Soon.

CNN Untruths
The MSM are at it again, using dumb, decontextualized headlines to dupe the small yet noisy minority who still fall for their BS into believing that Greenland is melting.
A recent CNN article states that the amount of ice that melted in Greenland between July 15 and 17 was enough to fill 7.2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools, or cover the entire state of West Virginia with a foot of water.
“The northern melt this past week is not normal, looking at 30 to 40 years of climate averages,” said Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado. “But melting has been on the increase, and this event was a spike in melt.”
I don’t know what they’re paying Scambos, or perhaps it’s simply that he doesn’t have the scientific chops to evaluate the data, but it’s mid-summer on the Greenland ice sheet, the height of the ‘melt season’ — what exactly was Scambos expecting?
Moreover, data from the Danish Meteorological Institute reveals that this is actually a lower-than-average melt season, meaning the Greenland ice sheet is retaining more ice that usual.
Scambos, and in turn CNN, have it entirely backwards.
Looking at the data (shown below), Greenland’s Surface Mass Balance (SMB) –a measurement used to determine the ‘health’ of a glacier– is currently sitting comfortably above the 1981-2010 average (bottom chart), where it has been since mid-May:


The top graph shows that this summer’s daily SMB melt has, thus far, been tracking lower than average (i.e. Greenland isn’t melting in line with the historical average). The bottom chart reveals that the 2021-22 season’s Acc. SMB is now well-above the multidecadal norm.

Frustratingly, CNN clearly aren’t concerned with the data, and it appears that those scientists based on the ice sheet aren’t all that bothered by it either as they willingly trade whatever credibility they have left in return for a few paragraphs in a media outlet the vast majority of American’s deem “untrustworthy”, according to recent polling.
“It definitely worries me,” said Kutalmis Saylam, with the University of Texas who is currently stationed in Greenland–a quote the CNN article follows with a picture of a lowly seal sunbathing on a portion of calved ice.
So emotive. Excuse me while I wipe away a tear.



CNN don’t even bother to offer any hope anymore, writing that in 2020, scientists at The Ohio State University found that Greenland’s ice sheet had melted beyond the point of no return, meaning no efforts to stave off global warming can stop it from disintegrating, forever.
Really now…?



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

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


Also according to CNN, and only the likes of CNN (i.e. corporately funded MSM publications), since the 1980s, this region has warmed by around 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit per decade which is four times faster than the global pace.
All this statement does, however, is recall my favorite image of the past few years, which exposes MSM climate claptrap for exactly what it is, MSM climate claptrap:


Apparently, everywhere is warming twice as fast as everywhere else.

A top CNN director was recently caught on secret camera admitting that “fear sells” and also that his company will “probably be able to milk that (global warming) quite a bit”.
This is the level of degeneration and fraud we’re dealing with here. Fear sells, and, moreover, it also keeps the masses in check. The elites know this, of course, and they fund it’s CONSTANT circulation via their MSM outlets.
It’s long time that small yet noisy minority woke up to the fact that they’re being played.

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…


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Articles Extreme Weather
Satellite Imagery Reveals A Snow-Covered Andes; + Rules Are The Fabric Of Reality
July 22, 2022 Cap Allon
It is currently very hot in some corners of the planet–in corners experiencing what used to be known as ‘summer’. To all those on the ‘Climate Change’ fence, I urge you not to let MSM propaganda succeed in making you fearful of a season.
What’s occurring was entirely predicted: winter is followed by spring and summer, always. Similarly, larger cosmological phenomena are also forecastable, which is thanks to the fact that our known reality runs on cycles, and cycles within cycles.
Earth’s climatic cycles are driven by activity on the Sun.
Taking the UK for example, which saw two-days of intense heat earlier this week, the country’s summer heatwave of 1976 was one for the ages, particularly in terms of its longevity — and the year 1976 lands within a period of historically weak solar activity:

[spaceweatherlive.com]

The Sun runs on approx. 11-year cycles with a solar maximum and a solar minimum within each cycle.
Looking again at the above chart, we see 1976 falls directly off the back of Solar Cycle 20–a weak cycle of relatively low output.
After the UK’s intense summer of 1976 came the brutal, record-setting winters of 1977, 1978, and 1979. North America also suffered one of its worst winters ever in 1978. And it is no coincidence that these phenomena –hot summers/cold winters– occurred in line with a slumberous Sun.
Low solar output disrupts the jet streams, weakening their usual ‘straight’ ZONAL flows to ‘wavy’ MERIDONAL ones.
This results in our planet’s weather patterns becoming more extreme: bursts of heat are more pronounced–as hot air is pulled up from the Tropics; and injections of cold are equally anomalous–as polar air masses are dragged down from the Arctic:

‘Wavy’ MERIDIONAL flow (blue) vs ‘straight’ ZONAL flow (grey).

Forwarding to 2022 and we find ourselves ‘between’ two historically weak cycles (24 and 25) –the lowest cycles since The Dalton Minimum (1795-1815), the previous multidecadal spell of persistently low solar output– and far weaker than 1976.
Summer in the UK has been relatively cool overall this year, but when the heat did finally arrive, it arrived in spectacular fashion; it was brief, lasting only two-days (so not technically a heatwave) but it was impressive nonetheless, record-breaking, in fact.
However, this scenario is FULLY explained, expected and forecast during times of low solar activity: in a nutshell, there is less energy to power Earth’s jet streams, and these bands of air circulating 6-miles above our heads revert to a ‘meridional’ flow.
If ‘anthropogenic global warming’ is to blame for Western Europe’s heatwave, then what will explain the truly historic and debilitating cold that is about to ravage the North Hemisphere this coming winter? This is a forecast, of course, I get that, but after studying the historical documentation and reviewing every relevant chart and graph I can get my hands on, THIS IS WHAT’S COMING, and I urge everyone to prepare.
Do not rely on governments to protect you from the cold. The majority have been programmed to expect linearly warming winters with less and less snowfall. And while this is what the propaganda confidently foretells, it is the exact opposite of what the data and the logic are vehemently pointing to.
Seasons in the Southern Hemisphere are often a forerunner for what’s to be expected for its northern cousin. And the winter of 2022 is proving mightily frigid across the majority ‘the bottom half of the world’.
Heavy snow led to Australia’s best start to a ski season on record, and the continent is currently on for its coldest winter ever. Likewise on Antarctica, remarkable temperature anomaly after remarkable temperature anomaly has been suffered since April–and actually before that, too, with the South Pole logging its coldest 6-month spell on record in 2021. And recently, I wrote of the pervasive cold sweeping Southern Africa, which has Zimbabwe cotton farmers expecting at least a 25% reduction in yield.
That leaves to South America –as far as Southern Hemisphere land masses go– and more specifically, to Argentina…

Satellite Imagery Reveals A Snow-Covered Andes
Fierce winter storms have brewed south of the equator in recent weeks. July has seen back-to-back systems ease precipitation deficits in Chile and Argentina, and added to the snowpack atop the Andes–a critical reserve for the coming summer.
The blanket of fresh snow along the mountain range between Chile and Argentina is clearly visible in the image below, which was acquired on July 16 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.

Andes snow, July 16, 2022 [NASA].

Heavy snow fell in the area despite the returning La Niña offshore in the Pacific, which typically delivers dry winters.
Climate alarmists were only recently bemoaning a decade-long drought in this region, only for the deficit to be all-but erased in one single burst from the heavens — this the biggest problem with being led by predetermined narratives: egg on face.
The snowstorms were the result of a blocking anticyclone atmospheric pattern near the Antarctic Peninsula that steered several extratropical cyclones unusually-far north. Two weather systems –on July 9–10 and July 14–15– dumped copious amounts of rain along the coast and historic accumulations of snow over the higher elevations.
The snow left hundreds of truckers stranded on a mountain pass where well-over 3 feet of powder had accumulated:





BRAVE SPIRIT
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1:54 AM · Jul 10, 2022

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“Until 10 days ago, north-central Chile was experiencing one of its driest winters,” said René Garreaud, from the University of Chile. The change from dry to wet was swift and visibly striking, and is visualized in the below ‘before and after’ shot courtesy of the visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-20 satellite:

The Andes: before and after the recent snow dump.
To give some context, the coastal city of La Serena, for example, had a year-to-date rainfall deficit of about 80%; but after the recent storms, the city now has a 64% surplus. And farther inland, Santiago’s rainfall deficit improved from 70% to 27%.
Deluges in arid regions are not all that unusual — much of their annual precipitation budget is often achieved in a short space of time. But in these days of baseless ‘climate crisis’ rhetoric, you now have ill-informed ‘disciples of the propaganda’ switching from blaming Chile’s drought on ‘global warming’ to now claiming the same culprit is responsible for its ‘catastrophic torrents’.

Rules Are The Fabric Of Reality
Continuing on from earlier, it that Solar Cycles 21, 22 and 23 (1990 -2000) were, conversely, the strongest cycles of the past few thousand years — they culminated in the peak of the ‘Modern Solar Maximum’ and the warmth and predictable climate they delivered, that we modern humans built our fragile civilization around, are now spluttering to a end: the COLD TIMES are returning.
Brief bursts of heat will, however, ALWAYS still occur, even in the depths of an Ice Age — the evidence actually points to their ferocity increasing with their duration decreasing. And to that end, I suggest you make the most of them, Alarmists; be sure to milk them for everything they’re worth, whenever they do arrive, because this weak and wavy ‘MERIDIONAL’ jet stream flow is going to come back and bite you in the rear this coming NH winter. But then again, record snows and historic lows are also due to “Climate Change” — your hypothesis can’t lose.
Your problem, however, comes when green-hamstrung politicians, who have dutifully tossed your nation’s energy security out the window in an attempt to appease their WEF masters, have no answers when you’re freezing, hungry and scared.
In turn, you may well find yourselves joining the angry mob in storming and ransacking your leader’s house, and swimming in their heated pool. Starvation is a great leveler. And in that event, literally nothing else matters.





CBS News
@CBSNews
Sri Lanka protesters are seen swimming in the president’s pool after thousands stormed the presidential palace Saturday demanding his resignation as the country faces a severe economic crisis. https://t.co/NsTnATol4x



1:01 PM · Jul 9, 2022

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God help these soulless, spineless, backstabbing politicians upon their fast-approaching day of reckoning.
The universe always seeks equilibrium, balance, in all things, from forcings as vast as ‘the intergalactic plays of the cosmos’ to the ‘fortunes of an individual’. I know this to be true. And as Jordan Peterson eloquently put it, which remains one of the most profound speeches I’ve heard in recent years, “rules are the fabric of reality … I have never seen anyone get away with anything, even once”:

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.

 

[TxGal]

From Ice Age Farmer on 21 July:

 

[alpha]

They are winning the war on meat — protein pipeline shrinking. Are you growing/raising your own?
> USDA’s Cattle Inventory Report is expected to show U.S. cattle herd as of July 1 down 2.1% from year-ago.
The projected 2022 calf crop is expected to have shrunk another 2%.
Beef heifers held back for breeding are expected to be down 3.2% from last year.
#WarOnMeat


construct massive “carbon pipelines

 

[ktrapper]

So far this year we are having a better moisture year than the last three years so we are not complaining. We have a bumper crop grass for the horses and cows this year. Daughter sent this picture this morning.

 

[alpha]

Electroverse

Articles Extreme Weather
Lake Superior Holding 7F Colder Than Normal; + Another “Historic” Snowstorm Pummels Southern Argentina
July 25, 2022 Cap Allon
Lake Superior Holding 7F Colder Than Normal
While the media focus on brief bursts of summer heat –as the establishment continues to work to make us fearful of a season– there are far more telling climatic phenomena at play, such as Lake Superior holding much COLDER than normal.
The deepest of the Great Lakes is known for its cold depths, but the water on its surface usually warms-up in the summer.
This year, however, Lake Superior is running more than 7F (4C) below the long term average, according to NASA — such low water temperatures at this time of year have only occurred twice since 1995.

The map above shows water surface temperature anomalies of each lake on Jul 18, 2022 — data courtesy of the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (MUR SST) project, based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (MUR SST blends measurements of sea surface temperatures from multiple NASA, NOAA, and international satellites, as well as ship and buoy observations).
Colder air temperatures lead to colder lake temperatures, explains the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL)–they’re sure earning their funding. And this year, fiercely cold air –funneled south on the back of a weak and wavy ‘Meridional‘ jet stream flow– chilled Lake Superior’s surface waters to an extraordinary degree.
In fact, according to regional climate reports, January air temperatures were as much as 9F (5C) colder than normal in the Great Lakes region; and by February, air temperatures in the western Superior basin were holding 11F (6C) below the multidecadal average.
Water temperatures soon responded to the ambient chill, consistently falling January through March.



The graph above shows the lake’s average daily temperature for each year compared to the 1995-2021 average.
This year’s colder-than-normal temps started to emerge in early-Feb, where they’ve struggled ever since; so much so, in fact, that by July 19, 2022, the average surface temp was 47.5F (8.5C — only 1996 and 2014 exhibited colder readings on that date.

Another “Historic” Snowstorm Pummels Southern Argentina
Another record-busting blizzard battered the Andes region over the weekend, resulting in blackouts, collapsed buildings, mountain rescues and the issuance of a “Climate Emergency”–the real kind.
The snowstorm, which many local meteorologists have described as “historic”, generated close to a meter (3.3ft) of snow in several locales, including Esquel and Trevelin.





BRAVE SPIRIT
@Brave_spirit81
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6:17 PM · Jul 23, 2022

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Other affected towns and cities included Lago Puelo, El Bolsón, Epuyén, El Maitén, and El Hoyo–with the latter launching a rescue operation to save a group of people stranded at its Ski Center, and also suffering the collapse of its municipal gym roof due to a high snow load.
Fortunately, the gym, which had stood for 40 years ago, was empty–despite it recently functioning as an emergency shelter.
“Luckily … we made the decision to move [the] evacuee center that was in the Municipal Gymnasium to the House of Culture. We never imagined this, but it was a success,” said the mayor of El Hoyo, Pol Huisman, who is already foreseeing the next issue: “Once this snow thaws, we will surely have problems with the canals, streams and the Epuyén River, so we are already on guard.”


The accumulation of snow on the roof collapsed a gym in El Hoyo

Due to the record snow, authorities in the municipality of Lago Puelo have declared a “Climate Emergency” lasting 90 days.
This, among many other things, has allowed Army facilities to be used to accommodate and feed those residents who have found themselves woefully unprepared for such a climatic event, according to the ADN Sur portal.

Satellite Imagery Reveals A Snow-Covered Andes; + Rules Are The Fabric Of Reality

Elsewhere, roads located near the mountain range “Curva de los Guanacos”, in the province of Chubut, became blocked by snow drifts on Saturday, July 23, and the National Gendarmerie launched an operation that wound-up saving 47 stranded souls.
The rescue operation, carried out in the early hours, utilized Esquel’s 36th Squadron who successfully evacuated a stranded bus, among other vehicles, in a coordinated effort with volunteer firefighters and the civil protection of the Municipality of Esquel.
The 47 were taken to a local community center where all are reported to have made a full recovery.



Fierce conditions in the Río Pico area have had an impact on farmers, too — not only growers, but also those raising livestock.



And as you might expect, the heavy, record-breaking snow load has taken its toll on Southern Argentina’s power grid.
The electricity is currently out for tens-of-thousands of homes, which, according to authorities, will take “at least five days” to restore, reports FM Paraiso.



Low temperatures have compounded the misery, and have contributed to road accidents and livestock deaths.
In El Calafate, lows of -12.2C (10F) were registered, with the windchill bringing it down to -16.8C (1.8F); the city of Río Gallegos suffered -4.2C (24.4F), with it feeling like -9.1C (15.6F); and in Esquel, a low of -3.6C (25.5F) was noted, with a windchill of -9.2C (15.4F).
According to the National Weather Service, the ravaging lows and “historic” snows will continue into Monday and Tuesday.

Is Australia Experiencing A ‘Volcanic Winter’?

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.

 

[alpha]

Electroverse

Articles Crop Loss Extreme Weather
Rare Summer Snowfall Hits Northwest China; Snow Blankets South Africa; Data Shows European Heatwaves Are In Decline; + EU And U.S. Crop Yields “Substantially” Reduced, Again
July 26, 2022 Cap Allon
Rare Summer Snowfall Hits Northwest China
As reported by cgtn.com, an unusual freeze and rare, heavy summer snow has swept China’s Northwest provinces.
Inches of unseasonal snow have coated the mountainous regions of Gansu, as well as the neighboring province of Qinghai.



As the CGTN reporter notes in the video below, while snow is by no means unprecedented across these regions, known to fall even as late as May and June, to see “widespread, heavy snowfall during the hottest days of summer is rare”.



CGTN
@CGTNOfficial
Rare, heavy snow falls in mountainous regions in NW China's Gansu province https://t.co/IsVeOvncaE

10:00 PM · Jul 25, 2022


Snow Blankets South Africa
The Southern Hemisphere has experienced a stark cool down in recent months, with Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai’s record-high mesospheric eruption of Jan 15 believed to be a key contributing factor (more on that HERE).

With record lows and historic snows sweeping Australia, portions of Southern Africa and swathes of South America of late, it is now South Africa’s turn for a persistent blast of anomalously-cold Antarctic air.

Heavy snow this week has turned eastern parts of Lesotho and the Eastern Cape into a winter wonderland, reports news24.com.



Snow at Semonkong Lodge in Lesotho.

The SA Weather Service (SWAS) said inches of snow was evident over the eastern parts of Lesotho as well as the southern Drakensberg.

In expectation of these flurries, SAWS issued a yellow level 1 warning for disruptive snow for the southern Drakensberg.

The office also issued a snow advisory for other high-lying areas over the Eastern Cape.




Snow News SA
@SnowNewsSA
☃❄❄ LET IT SNOW ☃❄❄ Snowfalls for the Eastern Cape, Lesotho and the Southern Drakensberg. Snow has already started falling in parts of Lesotho and we expect to see some good amounts of low-level snow in Underberg, Giants Castle and in the KZN midlands. https://t.co/5RaZYD9SE5

11:49 AM · Jul 23, 2022


‘We’ve a had a generous output of snowfall this winter, and the white stuff isn’t done with us yet,’ reads a July 25 thesouthafrican.com article, which goes on warn that another icy blast is set to hit three South African provinces later this week.



A snow-capped SA mountain, which thesouthafrican.com says is becoming “a familiar sight this winter”.

This season looks set to continue the colder and snowier trend building in South Africa in recent years, with 2022 following the truly historic season of 2021 when the nation saw the slaying of all-time cold record after all-time cold record:

“Snowstorm in Africa!” — South Africa Smashes *an additional* 19 All-Time Low Temperature Records over the past 24 hours




“I have never had to drive through a snowstorm in Africa before.”



Data Shows European Heatwaves Are In Decline
In a recent article, the BBC asks if ‘European heatwaves are linked to climate change?’ And, despite the use of emotive images of burning buildings and deep red fire risk maps, they get a definite answer: no, the overall trend is actually down.

With almost 1,370 sq miles of land recorded as burnt (as of 16 July) this is a higher-than-average fire season across Europe, particularly across Spain and France.

“There are basically three important ingredients for fires: high temperatures, dryness, and high wind,” says Dr Friederike Otto, a senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London — and Spain and France have seen all three in recent weeks.

However, according to the experts, this fire season is actually something of an outlier.

“We’ve actually seen a decline in the area burned by fires in the Mediterranean and across Europe more widely over the last couple of decades, in a way that doesn’t marry up with the rapidly changing risk of fires,” said Dr Matthew Jones, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia–who himself, it seems, has also been duped by the propaganda. A look at the data with an objective eye shows that it doesn’t ‘marry up’ because there isn’t a correlation, yet alone a causation, to be wed.




But the BBC, true to their unobjective form, go on to purposely muddy the waters, calling it a ‘complex picture’ and adding that it isn’t known why European heatwaves are on the decline despite the increasing ‘existential risk’ posed by ‘global warming’.

This data is clearly a setback to the dogmatic agency’s 20-year fear campaign, during which they have gradually ratcheted-up and pushed an ‘EOTW Climate Crisis’ narrative onto an ever disconnected, anxious and lonely populous who are all-too susceptible to a ‘unifying group cause’ (this is how mass formation prevails)–of which increasing wildfires are supposed to be a key component.

But as revealed by the data, the reality simply isn’t serving the agenda.

And we see the same thing across the pond, too–only it’s even more pronounced in the U.S., and even shadier, to boot.

Below is the ‘official’ wildfires charts for the United States.



It, like Europe’s, also shows a declining trend.

But there’s more.

The Biden administration recently scrubbed all wildfire data prior to 1983.

This was done because fire burn acreage was found to be much higher between 1910-1960 than it is today and therefore contradicted the government’s AGW/wildfire correlation — the actual data destroyed their ‘climate emergency’ narrative, and so the administration, in typically Orwellian fashion, wiped it from the history books citing the lackluster reasoning: “it wasn’t official”–linked here.

Moreover, and rather conveniently, the year 1983 –the new starting point– just so happens to have the lowest burn acreage in recorded history:



The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)

In reality, though –where I’m keen to reside– there is no correlation between to be found between anthropogenic global warming and wildfires.

U.S. burn acreage is actually down 90% since CO2 was at pre-industrial levels, but the Biden administration recently deleted this document, too:




EU And U.S. Crop Yields “Substantially” Reduced, Again
While parts of Western Europe have been baking in recent weeks, Eastern Europe has been suffering unusual summer cold — both climatic phenomena are negatively impacting official crop yield estimates, which have just seen yet another reduction.

The EU’s crop monitoring service has substantially reduced its expectations for the bloc’s 2022 spring crops, amid continued drier-than-usual conditions across large parts of the continent, reads a recent AgriCensus report.

The July report published by Monitoring Agriculture Resources (MARS) showed that hot temperatures continued to have an adverse impact across the region’s key growing regions, while persistent chills east of Germany are causing its own set of headaches.

At an EU level, 2022 yield forecasts for corn, sunflowers, and soybeans are expected to reduce by 8 to 9%, below the 5-year average, continues the AgriCensus report. Negative impacts on the yield potential of spring crops are most pronounced across large parts of Spain, southern France, central and northern Italy, and central Germany–due to drought; and northern Romania, eastern Hungary, and the Ukraine–due to an unusually cold start to summer.

Many Western European reservoirs are now at a very low levels, and irrigation restrictions are now in place, with French farmers, for example, contending with an imposed 50% reduction in water usage, which will have further knock-on effects to yield as the growing season progresses.

The report noted that there is little that can be now done to reverse the impact.

Below are the updated yield forecasts as of late-July 2022:

mt/ha	2022	Diff June	5yrs’av	Diff 5yrs’av
Wheat	5.54	-0.4%	5.62	-1.4%
Barley	4.83	-1%	4.85	-0.3%
winter	5.72	-0.2%	5.75	-0.5%
spring	4.10	-2.1%	4.13	-0.7%
Corn	7.25	-7.9%	7.87	-7.8%
Rapeseed	3.13	+0.3%	3.07	+1.9%
Sunflower	2.18	-8%	2.34	-6.7%
Soybean	2.72	-9%	2.88	-5.7%

[MARS]


The picture is similar in the states, too, where a myriad of issues, including delayed planting thanks to a historically cold and wet spring, as well as crippling input shortages, seriously hindered yields before a single seed even made it into the ground.

Texas grain acres, for example, “are not looking promising,” according to Mark Welch, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension grain economist in the Department of Agricultural Economics, who adds that this could impact supplies and prices in both the short and long-term.

Texas is facing much lower grain production in 2022 compared to the previous year–a depressing reality that is being echoed across much of the country. Wheat yields were abysmal for much of the Lone Star State, continued Welch, with corn and sorghum projections fairing similarly poorly.

“Cash prices for feed-grade grain in Texas are still at a premium,” he said. “We’re still living on supplies, and harvests in southern parts of the state are trickling in, but yields are below average.”

Many producers in regions where corn and sorghum plants are still progressing were reporting poor crop conditions, with some reports of fields being salvaged as forage for cattle.

“It’s just going to be a tough year for producers to find a profit,” said Welch.

“Grain prices are relatively high, but input costs for everything from fuel to fertilizer are high too. Producers need every penny.”

There is a perfect storm brewing within the global food supply chain, and success stories are few and far between.

Even Russia’s recently agreed upon accord which allowed the export of Ukrainian grains out of the Black Sea appears to have failed, following Moscow’s reported missile attack on the port of Odesa over the weekend.

I’m expecting all of these chickens to come home to roost as early as September/October this year, as the harvest season concludes. These global shortages, and the running down of the whatever reserves nations’ have left, combined with the coming energy shortages, particularly in Europe, could make for a truly troublesome Northern Hemisphere winter.

Make hay while the sun shines; prepare for the worst, hope for the best–and other such clichés.

It’s now late July, and while myself and my family are busy harvesting and enjoying our abundant summer crops here on our Portuguese homestead, attention has already turned to autumn/winter. And this week, we’re sowing thousands of brassica and other cool weather heirloom vegetable seeds in preparation for the grocery stores shelves running dry.

I suggest those in the NH do the same.

Don’t rely on corrupt, backwards-thinking governments to come to your rescue when the SHTF.

Rely on you.

Rely on your local community — build relationships, now.


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

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

 

[TxGal]

 

[alpha]

Electroverse

Articles Extreme Weather
“Too Much Snow” Closes New Zealand Ski Resort; Rare Cool Down Sweeps UAE And Oman; + Quiet Atlantic Hurricane Season (So Far)
July 27, 2022 Cap Allon
Too Much Snow Closes New Zealand Ski Resort
Ski resorts across the Southern Hemisphere are having a ‘great season’ with ‘massive snowstorms dumping feet of snow on the mountains’, reports snowbrains.com.
The New Zealand ski season has been one for the record books, according to unofficialnetworks.com, and a number of ski areas are struggling to stay open with all the new snow.
Mt Lyford Ski Area has been forced to close once again after receiving feet upon feet of record-setting accumulations.
The resort, located near Christchurch on NZ’s South Island, announced the ‘bad news’ on social media:

SORRY. We tried. We are not going to make opening today. There is just too much snow on our road, the visibility is not improving. The lifts also have a good amount of rime ice on them so we will be spending the rest of the day getting everything sorted for a sunny Saturday with plenty of pow.

Of course, such climatic phenomena don’t qualify for mainstream publication, for obvious reasons — they’re cold.
And there are yet more ‘inconveniences’ on the way, too, with 22+ NZ Ski Areas expecting additional heavy flurries over the next 48 hours.

Rare Cool Down Sweeps UAE And Oman
Similarly ignored by the corporate media are the rare cool and rainy days sweeping Oman and the UAE this week.
Yesterday, at 14:45 local time, Al Ain peaked at ‘just’ 28.8C (83.8F) — a full 16C below its July average (44.8C/112.6F).
The rain has extended further west today (July 27) and also northwards into Dubai and Abu Dhabi — nigh-unprecedented for the month of July.





اسریٰ
@freakonomist5
Rain in Dubai, a rare sight ️ https://t.co/vCZWfbg1TI



5:32 AM · Jul 26, 2022

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Climate Ignorance
The U.S. may of busted a handful of heat records in recent days, but the situation isn’t anything to write home about–not even close, it’s called ‘summer’. Watching MSM tricksters dupe the masses into becoming fearful of a season is deeply troubling.
The below temperature anomaly map puts things into perspective, just as the U.S. government launches heat.gov: “a website designed to help keep Americans safe from extreme heat.” I note there’s no ‘cold.gov’, which is curious, given that cold, by some calculations, kills 20x more people than heat.
Despite the ‘fiery’ rhetoric, however, much of the CONUS is experiencing temperatures BELOW the climatological average, an anomalous cool down that is forecast to persist into August, and across a high percentage of the North American continent, too:


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

This wasn’t the case in the past.
On July 25, 1936, Iowa suffered its all-time record high of 117F, set at Atlantic and Logan.
With an overnight low of 84F at both stations, the average temperature for the day finished at a staggering 100.5F.

Picture the furor if such readings were logged today.
Imagine the EOTW headlines and MSM-‘expert’ testifications that ‘this is the end’ and that crippling ‘energy reductions’ and expensive ‘carbon taxes’ are our only hopes to avoid our extinction (there’s always an element of hope, a carrot and stick).
But comparable climate ignorance has been around for as long as man has had to endure ‘weather’. It’s what we do about it that has mellowed somewhat — from sacrificial virgins of days past, to the eradication of a cheap and reliable fuel source today.
The below paragraph is lifted from page 2 of The Topeka Daily Capital, Kansas, dated June 18, 1882:

“Because the majority, perhaps, who belong to this generation have not investigated the subject anterior to their own lives, the belief is prevalent that great storms and cyclones are a new phenomena of nature”.

And on the point of ‘great storms’, where are the Atlantic hurricanes this season? As of July 26 there have been none.

Quiet Atlantic Hurricane Season (So Far)
Back in May, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center predicted an “above-average hurricane activity year”. The agency’s outlook for the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, which extends from June 1 to Nov 30, saw a 65% chance of an above-normal season, a 25% chance of a near-normal season, and a 10% chance of a below-normal season.
NOAA’s predictions, however, are based on a failing global warming narrative that calls for linearly rising temperatures, less snowfall, and increased storms; and as a result, reality routinely proves the agency’s forecasts spectacularly wrong.
For the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane season, NOAA expected as many as 21 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher), of which 10 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including as many as 6 major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5; with winds of 111 mph or higher).
NOAA provided these ranges with a 70% confidence.


NOAA’s 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook.
Admittedly, the season is still young with the calendar only just about to flip to August–with early-Aug the historical start of the season; but nevertheless, the 2022 hurricane season is proving a disappointment for the AGW Party, with three named storms registered in the Atlantic basin all year (to July 26), all peaking at tropical storm strength.
By this time in 2005, for example, there had already been 3 major hurricanes, of which 2 had hit in the United States.
Also, four of the past five seasons have seen their first hurricane form in July, with the earliest being Elsa, which formed on July 2, 2021. You have to go back to 2017 to find the last ‘first’ hurricane to develop in August — Hurricane Franklin, on Aug 9.
July 2022 has seen relative tranquility in the tropics, which, according to meteorologists, is thanks to strong winds aloft and dry, dusty air coming off the coast of Africa — high-elevation winds help prevent storms developing into tropical systems, while dust can act as an atmospheric stabilizer.
Traditionally, August brings a subsiding of this Sahara dust; the month also sees environmental conditions across the Atlantic Basin become more conducive for tropical development, with Aug 11 being the average date for the first hurricane (1991-2020).
The month of August, historically, sees two hurricanes develop, while the average first major hurricane –a category 3 or stronger– rarely occurs before Sept 1, which is close to the statistical peak of hurricane season of Sept 10.
La Niña –a cooling of Region 3.4 of the Pacific– is usually a driver for Atlantic hurricanes, and us entering a very rare third a Niña was a factor in NOAA’s ‘above average’ season prediction. But that hasn’t played out as expected, at least not so far — we’re currently on for an ‘average’ Atlantic hurricane season, at best, which NOAA put at a 25% probability.
The Climate Prediction Center is due to update its seasonal outlook in early-August. And although things can turn on a dime, if NOAA honestly interpret the current data then they’ll announce that the outlook for the first half of Aug remains eerily quiet.





Mike Ventrice
@MJVentrice
Atlantic ACE is flat-lining and will probably continue to do so for the next week or two. https://t.co/xfYfUrqNH7



11:36 AM · Jul 26, 2022
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General ignorance is bred, often intentionally, through incessant mainstream media propaganda.
CNN director, Charlie Chester, was caught saying as much:
“Like, you can shape an entire people’s perception about anything based on how you do it. Right? Just by forcing a story…”
And regarding ‘climate change’, Chester had this to say, “Pandemic-like stories we’ll beat to death, but that one’s got longevity. You know what I mean? Like there’s a definitive ending to the pandemic. It’ll taper off to a point that it’s not a problem anymore. Climate change can take years, so they’ll [CNN] probably be able to milk that quite a bit.”
Chester concluded, “Be prepared, it’s coming. Climate change is going to be the next COVID thing for CNN. We are going to hone in on it”.
Unfortunately for Chester, the masses are slowly stirring from their formation — more and more Americans are losing trust in the media with each passing day, with each historical story that the present reveals to be false.
This should be seen as a beacon of hope. There is a way to go, clearly, but the momentum is on our side.

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.

 

[alpha]

I don’t have words for this.
Exclusive: Thousands of U.S. cattle buried, dumped at Kansas landfill
Top U.S. cattle feeding companies sent 1,000-pound carcasses to a Kansas landfill, where they were flattened by loader machines and mixed with trash, after a June heatwave killed thousands of cows, documents seen by Reuters show.
Other cattle were buried in unlined graves, a feeding company said.
Neither is a typical method for disposing of bodies. But so many cows died in the unusual heat and humidity that facilities that normally convert carcasses into pet food and fertilizer products were overwhelmed, prompting the state government and cattle feeders to take emergency measures.https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-thousands-us-cattle-buried-dumped-kansas-landfill-after-deadly-2022-07-26/

Reuters

Exclusive: Thousands of U.S. cattle buried, dumped at Kansas landfill

Top U.S. cattle feeding companies sent 1,000-pound carcasses to a Kansas landfill, where they were flattened by loader machines and mixed with trash, after a June heatwave killed thousands of cows, documents seen by Reuters show.

This couldn't possibly have happened due to the cattle having been poisoned?

 

[alpha]

Electroverse

Articles Crop Loss Extreme Weather
Following Its 2-Day Heatwave, The UK Suffers Unusual July Chills (2.9C/37.2F); Summer Snow Sweeps Alaska; + Fresh Fertilizer Cuts In Canada And Germany Spark The Latest ‘Awakening’
July 28, 2022 Cap Allon
Following Its 2-Day Heatwave, The UK Suffers Unusual July Chills (2.9C/37.2F)
It’s been 11-days since the UK endured its 48-hours of heat, since that toasty plume of African air rode anomalously-far north on the back of weak and wavy meridional jet stream flow and sent climate extremists into record-breaking fits of bed wetting hyperbole (which they must surely now be embarrassed about).
Britain, and also large parts of Northern France, have seen a pause in summer this week — very cool temperatures for late-July have invaded vast swathes with lows of 2.9C (37.2F) logged on Wednesday morning at Sennybridge, Wales — the nations coldest late-July reading in decades.
But according to master shillers theguardian.com, “the UK is no longer a cold country”:



This criminally insane statement is to be expected from such a ‘compromised’ outlet that relinquished its principles to ‘the beast’ many moons ago now–when UK authorities came down hard on the publication following its wiki-leaks and ‘Climategate‘ stories of a little over a decade ago now).
Climate scientists have called for the UK to quickly adapt to extreme heat or risk thousands of excess deaths, continues the rag: “climate breakdown,” they claim, “means previously impossible heatwaves are killing people”.
I’m confidently calling BS on that one. It stands, and forever will stand, that COLD is a bigger killer than heat.
This call is backed by a new study (July 2022) which discovered that for every year in the UK from 2000-2019 excess deaths attributable to cold temperatures were 80-85x more common than deaths attributable to heat. In real numbers, the researchers concluded that, on average, an excess of 791 deaths were associated with heat and 60,753 deaths were linked to cold.


[New study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health]

The likes of The Guardian don’t serve you and me — the people, they instead do the bidding of the establishment by propagandizing, propagandizing and propagandizing some more. But it wasn’t always that way.

Summer Snow Sweeps Alaska
Another region of the planet purported to be ‘burning into oblivion’ is Alaska.
Frustratingly for the climate zealots, however, conditions have been holding exceptionally cold across much of the state of late, with hefty dumps of July snow settling around the Bering Strait with flurries noted on Iŋaliq (Little Diomede).
Snow in July is highly unusual, so says Rick Thoman, climate specialist with ACCAP/IARC at UAF.
River valleys have been close to the freezing mark, particularly in the Bristol Bay region, and low temperature benchmarks have been toppled, such as at King Salmon — the 35F (+1.7C) logged on July 23 smashed its previous record of 39F (3.9C) set in 1970.
According to NWS reports, snow is falling around the Fairbanks area as I type — again, a rare feat for July.
“Between 3 and 5 inches of snow is expected above 2000 feet through Thursday afternoon. This includes the Dalton Highway from Sagwon to Atigun Pass. The snow will continue tonight and Thursday before tapering off Thursday afternoon,” reads an up to date NWS ‘Special Weather Statement‘.

Fresh Fertilizer Cuts In Germany…
Germany’s BASF, one of the world’s largest fertilizer producers, announced Wednesday that it will implement fresh cuts to its ammonia production in response to soaring natural gas prices.
“We are reducing production at facilities that require large volumes of natural gas, such as ammonia plants,” BASF’s chief executive said, adding that the higher energy costs would be passed onto consumers, including farmers who, the executive continues, should expect a sharp increase in fertilizer costs next year.
These BASF reductions follow an announcement from Yara International that it is also reducing fertilizer production at several plants, curtailing output to an annual capacity of 1.3 million mt of ammonia and 1.7 mt of finished fertilizer.
Further shocks and closures are on the horizon, particularly if the German government activates the “emergency” phase of its response plan to natural gas shortages. Under the emergency plan, all participants in the German market are obliged to take coordinated action to avoid gaps in supply and to achieve the target storage level of 85% by October 1, 2022.
European gas prices have soared after Russia’s Gazprom announced on Tuesday that it would reduce daily gas deliveries to Germany and other central European countries via the Nord Stream pipeline to 33m cubic meters a day–or just 20% of the pipeline’s capacity.
Germany imports 55% of its gas from Russia with the vast majority of it being delivered via the Nord Stream.
In a sign of desperation, Brussels recently requested that all EU member states cut their natural gas usage by 15% — a request, however, that was roundly rejected; while in the UK, the government has drawn up ‘energy contingency plans’ ahead of what is setting up to be a historically frigid winter in which they will demand that Brits turn down their thermostats.
As discussed in the past, this appears to be a calculated take down, a controlled demolition of society. Politicians are merely actors, they are simply following a script, and aiming your frustrations at them (via the ballot box) is a futile endeavor. The entire system has been corrupted, and Western players can easily be replaced by equally compliant minions of the WEF.
The pyramid has been setup so as to reward the handful of elites at the top–most of whom remain unseen; and the modus operandi of government is to transfer wealth ‘up’, and in that regard, it has been very successfully in recent years.
The ‘debacles’ of 2020-onward resulted in the largest wealth transfer in the history of the human race.
This was all by design, of course, meticulously planned; and, depressingly, I don’t think they’re with us yet.

…And Canada
Speaking of actors, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s recent push to accelerate his ‘noble fight against global terra-firma broiling’ is sparking a showdown with the nation’s farmers, who it appears, like the nation’s truckers, have a backbone, and need supporting.
The government is proposing to cut emissions from fertilizer 30% by 2030 as part of its suicidal goal to get to net zero. But growers are rejecting the plans, warning that in order to achieve such nonsense they’ll, 1) have to reduce grain output significantly during a global food crisis, and 2) will have to accept a C$10.4 billion ($8.08 billion) decline in revenue.
It appears that pricing farmers out of the business is another aspect of this net zero goal — such a forced mass sell-up will likely allow multi-national conglomerates (that now own governments btw) to sweep in and buy up all the arable land for cheap.
Control is the real goal here.
The pandemic and global warming are merely propagandized narratives aiding this latest phase of the ‘Mass Formation’ which is designed to lure a disconnected, fearful and lonely global population into willfully accepting misanthropic atrocities.
Global governments no longer function independently; instead, they receive the same orders from on high and implement them in a clear and obvious concert. In recent weeks, the orders have been to ratchet up the climate crisis rhetoric, capitalizing on summer in the NH — a ‘story’ that is being heavily propagandized ACROSS the bought-and-paid-for mainstream media.
From Canada to the UK, and from Australia to the Netherlands — the programming is identical.
Climate targets on nitrogen in the Netherlands spurred protests from growers worried they’d be priced out of the business. Furious Dutch farmers took cows to parliament, threatened to slaughter them and blockaded food distribution centers.
And the protest are continuing, seemingly gaining traction.
We need more of this.





RadioGenova
@RadioGenova
Dutch farmers' protest continue day and night unabated. Tonight on the A50 motorway in Apeldoorn. Dutch farmers are not joking. https://t.co/A6zCGYLsJe



5:41 PM · Jul 27, 2022
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Ordinary residents of planet Earth are engaged in a fight for freedom, and, increasingly, more and more groups are waking up to it–most recently the farmers.

And although ‘winning’ this war may be a big ask, given the power, organization and endless bankroll of the enemy, I think a unified resistance could at least limit the level of control ‘our betters’ can achieve.

At every turn and with each globalist policy decision we all need to kick up a monstrous fuss, akin to the farmers.

We outnumber them, and a billion+ resounding ‘nos’ ringing out in unison will send an intimidating, game-changing message.


RadioGenova
@RadioGenova
Canadian farmers support Dutch farmers' protest: "No fertilizers, no farmers, no food." https://t.co/dzmZhcRDmE



8:04 AM · Jul 25, 2022
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Still, my message is to prepare for food shortages later in the year and into 2023, which I think are now unavoidable given the level of disruption to global supply chains (of seeds, inputs, and grain exports, etc.), and also the weather-related issues reported across farmland in North and South America, Europe and Australia–to name just four.

We need to grow your own food, and also bolster our family’s energy security while we’re at it, too — this controlled collapse could be mere months away.

 

[alpha]

Electroverse

Articles
‘Urban Heat Islands’–According To The U.S. Government; + New Study Finds 96% of U.S. Temperature Stations Are “Corrupted”
July 29, 2022 Cap Allon
The U.S. government recently unveiled the website heat.gov with its vision of achieving “a nation free from heat-related illness and death”–which is a big ask for a website.
Surprisingly, the site tackles the topic of Urban Heat Islands, and it has this to say:
‘The term “urban heat island” refers to the fact that cities tend to get much warmer than their surrounding rural landscapes, particularly during the summer. This temperature difference occurs when cities’ unshaded roads and buildings gain heat during the day and radiate that heat into the surrounding air. As a result, highly developed urban areas can experience mid-afternoon temperatures that are 15°F to 20°F warmer than surrounding, vegetated areas.’
For decades now, scientists have queried the placement of U.S. thermometer stations given this skewed warming in built-up areas. It has even led to suggestions that the observed increase in U.S. temperatures between the 1980s and the 2000s is, at least partly, attributable to negligent weather station placement.
This contention is backed up by a recent nationwide study published by the Heartland Institute which asserts that “official NOAA temperature stations produce corrupted data due to purposeful placement in man-made hot spots”.
The new study, Corrupted Climate Stations: The Official U.S. Surface Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed, finds that approximately 96 percent of U.S. temperature stations used to measure climate change fail to meet what NOAA considers to be “acceptable” and uncorrupted placement by its own published standards.
The detailed report was compiled via satellite and in-person survey visits to NOAA weather stations that contribute to the “official” land temperature data in the United States.
The research shows that 96% of these stations are corrupted by localized effects of urbanization — producing heat-bias because of their close proximity to asphalt, machinery, and other heat-producing, heat-trapping, or heat-accentuating objects.
Placing temperature stations in such locations violates NOAA’s own published standards (see section 3.1 here), and strongly undermines the legitimacy and the magnitude of the official consensus on long-term climate warming trends in the United States.
“With a 96 percent warm-bias in U.S. temperature measurements, it is impossible to use any statistical methods to derive an accurate climate trend for the U.S.,” said Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Anthony Watts, the director of the study. “Data from the stations that have not been corrupted by faulty placement show a rate of warming in the United States reduced by almost half compared to all stations.”
NOAA’s “Requirements and Standards for [National Weather Service] Climate Observations” instructs that temperature data instruments must be “over level terrain (earth or sod) typical of the area around the station and at least 100 feet from any extensive concrete or paved surface”, and also that “all attempts will be made to avoid areas where rough terrain or air drainage are proven to result in non-representative temperature data.”
The new report reveals the above instruction is routinely violated, and, according to H. Sterling Burnett, director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environment Policy at The Heartland Institute, is evidence of two things: “First, the government is either inept or stubbornly refuses to learn from its mistakes for political reasons. Second, the government’s official temperature record can’t be trusted. It reflects a clear urban heat bias effect, not national temperature trends.”
Checking back with heat.gov, the U.S. government fully acknowledges that the urban heat island effect is indeed a thing and also that it impacts metropolitan temperatures: ‘cities create their own microclimates because they greatly alter the local landscape.’
The website then goes on to list four of the largest influences that cause cities to be hotter than their surroundings:

1) ‘Low Albedo, Heat-Storing Materials’–dark surfaces absorb more energy from sunlight than lighter, more reflective surfaces;
2) ‘Lack of Trees and Other Vegetation’–vegetation, including soil, absorb and release moisture, which requires the use of heat
3) ‘Urban Canyons & Urban Geometry’–buildings create an urban canyon effect that blocks wind flow that would otherwise provide ventilation to streets below, cooling them as well as speeding up evaporation;
4) ‘Waste Heat’–urban areas concentrate heat-emitting devices, like cars and air conditioners, over small areas. All of this heat adds up and contributes to higher air temperatures in cities.

These images from the NIHHIS Urban Heat Island Mapping Campaign in Las Cruces, NM, show how the temperature can differ greatly (by 44.5 °F) between shaded grass and exposed pavement. [David DuBois/heat.gov].

The Heartland Institutes’ new study gives examples of what it calls ‘the bias problem’.
The chart below (found on page 17 of the report) shows 30 years of data from NOAA temperature stations loccted in the CONUS.
The blue lines show recorded temperatures and the trend from stations that comply with NOAA’s published standards; the yellow lines are temperatures taken from stations that are not compliant with those standards (i.e. near artificial hot spots); and the red lines are the “official” adjusted temperature released by NOAA.

“If you look at the unperturbed stations that adhere to NOAA’s published standard–ones that are correctly located and free of localized urban heat biases–they display about half the rate of warming compared to perturbed stations that have such biases,” explained Watts.
“Yet, NOAA continues to use the data from their warm-biased century-old surface temperature networks to produce monthly and yearly reports to the U.S. public on the state of the climate. The issue of localized heat-bias with these stations has been proven in a real-world experiment conducted by NOAA’s laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and published in a peer reviewed science journal,” Watts added.
“By contrast, NOAA operates a state-of-the-art surface temperature network called the U.S. Climate Reference Network. It is free of localized heat biases by design, but the data it produces is never mentioned in monthly or yearly climate reports published by NOAA for public consumption.”

Conclusion
The observed increase in U.S. temperatures between the 1980s to the 2000s could be attributable, at least partly, to urbanization and negligent weather station placement.
It is unanimously agreed upon that built-up areas –our towns and cities– run hotter than rural areas, and it has also been found that 96% of NOAA temperature stations produce corrupted data due to purposeful placement in said “hot spots”.
They did always tell us that global warming was ‘man-made’…
The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank founded in 1984, is one of the world’s leading organizations promoting the work of scientists who are skeptical that human activity is causing a climate crisis.

 

[jed turtle]

Electroverse

Articles Crop Loss Extreme Weather
Following Its 2-Day Heatwave, The UK Suffers Unusual July Chills (2.9C/37.2F); Summer Snow Sweeps Alaska; + Fresh Fertilizer Cuts In Canada And Germany Spark The Latest ‘Awakening’
July 28, 2022 Cap Allon
Following Its 2-Day Heatwave, The UK Suffers Unusual July Chills (2.9C/37.2F)
It’s been 11-days since the UK endured its 48-hours of heat, since that toasty plume of African air rode anomalously-far north on the back of weak and wavy meridional jet stream flow and sent climate extremists into record-breaking fits of bed wetting hyperbole (which they must surely now be embarrassed about).
Britain, and also large parts of Northern France, have seen a pause in summer this week — very cool temperatures for late-July have invaded vast swathes with lows of 2.9C (37.2F) logged on Wednesday morning at Sennybridge, Wales — the nations coldest late-July reading in decades.
But according to master shillers theguardian.com, “the UK is no longer a cold country”:



This criminally insane statement is to be expected from such a ‘compromised’ outlet that relinquished its principles to ‘the beast’ many moons ago now–when UK authorities came down hard on the publication following its wiki-leaks and ‘Climategate‘ stories of a little over a decade ago now).
Climate scientists have called for the UK to quickly adapt to extreme heat or risk thousands of excess deaths, continues the rag: “climate breakdown,” they claim, “means previously impossible heatwaves are killing people”.
I’m confidently calling BS on that one. It stands, and forever will stand, that COLD is a bigger killer than heat.
This call is backed by a new study (July 2022) which discovered that for every year in the UK from 2000-2019 excess deaths attributable to cold temperatures were 80-85x more common than deaths attributable to heat. In real numbers, the researchers concluded that, on average, an excess of 791 deaths were associated with heat and 60,753 deaths were linked to cold.


[New study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health]

The likes of The Guardian don’t serve you and me — the people, they instead do the bidding of the establishment by propagandizing, propagandizing and propagandizing some more. But it wasn’t always that way.

Summer Snow Sweeps Alaska
Another region of the planet purported to be ‘burning into oblivion’ is Alaska.
Frustratingly for the climate zealots, however, conditions have been holding exceptionally cold across much of the state of late, with hefty dumps of July snow settling around the Bering Strait with flurries noted on Iŋaliq (Little Diomede).
Snow in July is highly unusual, so says Rick Thoman, climate specialist with ACCAP/IARC at UAF.
River valleys have been close to the freezing mark, particularly in the Bristol Bay region, and low temperature benchmarks have been toppled, such as at King Salmon — the 35F (+1.7C) logged on July 23 smashed its previous record of 39F (3.9C) set in 1970.
According to NWS reports, snow is falling around the Fairbanks area as I type — again, a rare feat for July.
“Between 3 and 5 inches of snow is expected above 2000 feet through Thursday afternoon. This includes the Dalton Highway from Sagwon to Atigun Pass. The snow will continue tonight and Thursday before tapering off Thursday afternoon,” reads an up to date NWS ‘Special Weather Statement‘.

Fresh Fertilizer Cuts In Germany…
Germany’s BASF, one of the world’s largest fertilizer producers, announced Wednesday that it will implement fresh cuts to its ammonia production in response to soaring natural gas prices.
“We are reducing production at facilities that require large volumes of natural gas, such as ammonia plants,” BASF’s chief executive said, adding that the higher energy costs would be passed onto consumers, including farmers who, the executive continues, should expect a sharp increase in fertilizer costs next year.
These BASF reductions follow an announcement from Yara International that it is also reducing fertilizer production at several plants, curtailing output to an annual capacity of 1.3 million mt of ammonia and 1.7 mt of finished fertilizer.
Further shocks and closures are on the horizon, particularly if the German government activates the “emergency” phase of its response plan to natural gas shortages. Under the emergency plan, all participants in the German market are obliged to take coordinated action to avoid gaps in supply and to achieve the target storage level of 85% by October 1, 2022.
European gas prices have soared after Russia’s Gazprom announced on Tuesday that it would reduce daily gas deliveries to Germany and other central European countries via the Nord Stream pipeline to 33m cubic meters a day–or just 20% of the pipeline’s capacity.
Germany imports 55% of its gas from Russia with the vast majority of it being delivered via the Nord Stream.
In a sign of desperation, Brussels recently requested that all EU member states cut their natural gas usage by 15% — a request, however, that was roundly rejected; while in the UK, the government has drawn up ‘energy contingency plans’ ahead of what is setting up to be a historically frigid winter in which they will demand that Brits turn down their thermostats.
As discussed in the past, this appears to be a calculated take down, a controlled demolition of society. Politicians are merely actors, they are simply following a script, and aiming your frustrations at them (via the ballot box) is a futile endeavor. The entire system has been corrupted, and Western players can easily be replaced by equally compliant minions of the WEF.
The pyramid has been setup so as to reward the handful of elites at the top–most of whom remain unseen; and the modus operandi of government is to transfer wealth ‘up’, and in that regard, it has been very successfully in recent years.
The ‘debacles’ of 2020-onward resulted in the largest wealth transfer in the history of the human race.
This was all by design, of course, meticulously planned; and, depressingly, I don’t think they’re with us yet.

…And Canada
Speaking of actors, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s recent push to accelerate his ‘noble fight against global terra-firma broiling’ is sparking a showdown with the nation’s farmers, who it appears, like the nation’s truckers, have a backbone, and need supporting.
The government is proposing to cut emissions from fertilizer 30% by 2030 as part of its suicidal goal to get to net zero. But growers are rejecting the plans, warning that in order to achieve such nonsense they’ll, 1) have to reduce grain output significantly during a global food crisis, and 2) will have to accept a C$10.4 billion ($8.08 billion) decline in revenue.
It appears that pricing farmers out of the business is another aspect of this net zero goal — such a forced mass sell-up will likely allow multi-national conglomerates (that now own governments btw) to sweep in and buy up all the arable land for cheap.
Control is the real goal here.
The pandemic and global warming are merely propagandized narratives aiding this latest phase of the ‘Mass Formation’ which is designed to lure a disconnected, fearful and lonely global population into willfully accepting misanthropic atrocities.
Global governments no longer function independently; instead, they receive the same orders from on high and implement them in a clear and obvious concert. In recent weeks, the orders have been to ratchet up the climate crisis rhetoric, capitalizing on summer in the NH — a ‘story’ that is being heavily propagandized ACROSS the bought-and-paid-for mainstream media.
From Canada to the UK, and from Australia to the Netherlands — the programming is identical.
Climate targets on nitrogen in the Netherlands spurred protests from growers worried they’d be priced out of the business. Furious Dutch farmers took cows to parliament, threatened to slaughter them and blockaded food distribution centers.
And the protest are continuing, seemingly gaining traction.
We need more of this.



RadioGenova
@RadioGenova
Dutch farmers' protest continue day and night unabated. Tonight on the A50 motorway in Apeldoorn. Dutch farmers are not joking. https://t.co/A6zCGYLsJe

5:41 PM · Jul 27, 2022
https://twitter.com/intent/like?ref...8736widget=Tweet&tweet_id=1552408953220468736


Ordinary residents of planet Earth are engaged in a fight for freedom, and, increasingly, more and more groups are waking up to it–most recently the farmers.

And although ‘winning’ this war may be a big ask, given the power, organization and endless bankroll of the enemy, I think a unified resistance could at least limit the level of control ‘our betters’ can achieve.

At every turn and with each globalist policy decision we all need to kick up a monstrous fuss, akin to the farmers.

We outnumber them, and a billion+ resounding ‘nos’ ringing out in unison will send an intimidating, game-changing message.


RadioGenova
@RadioGenova
Canadian farmers support Dutch farmers' protest: "No fertilizers, no farmers, no food." https://t.co/dzmZhcRDmE

8:04 AM · Jul 25, 2022
https://twitter.com/intent/like?ref...0080widget=Tweet&tweet_id=1551538848898990080

Still, my message is to prepare for food shortages later in the year and into 2023, which I think are now unavoidable given the level of disruption to global supply chains (of seeds, inputs, and grain exports, etc.), and also the weather-related issues reported across farmland in North and South America, Europe and Australia–to name just four.

We need to grow your own food, and also bolster our family’s energy security while we’re at it, too — this controlled collapse could be mere months away.

No farmers, no food. Seems like everything is going according to the Rothschild/Rockefeller’s plan!

pretty soon, no nasty little “peasants” to deal with, as the entire Earth will be relieved of its overburden of teeming masses, and they can rename Earth whatever their satanic pagan god requires them to. We get to watch the show with front row seats. My suggestion: keep your distance but throw sand in the gears however you best are able. It is, after all, just one big machine...

 

[alpha]

Electroverse

Articles Extreme Weather
July In Antarctica Was Another Colder-Than-Average Month; Record Chills In Madagascar; + Heavy Snow Closes New Zealand Roads
August 1, 2022 Cap Allon
July In Antarctica Was Another Colder-Than-Average Month
Antarctica’s provisional average temperature for July is in, and as expected, it was a cold month across the bottom of the world.
The South Pole Station logged an average temperature of -61.2C (-78.2F) last month, which is a full -1C below the 1991-2020 baseline and some -1.4C below the 1981-2010 average–a further indication that the Antarctic continent has actually been COOLING in recent decades.
For more on that, click the links below:

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).





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

Antarctica notes the first sub -80C (-112F) of 2022, intensifying the continent’s 18+month COOLING trend.



Record Chills In Madagascar
July saw unusually cool temperatures across the island nation of Madagascar, even in its coastal areas.
Record or near-record lows have hit throughout the month, including the 15.8C (60.4F) in Diego Suarez; the 14.9C (58.8F) in Nosy Be; Majung’s 15.6C (60.1F); and Fort Dauphin’s 13C (55.4F).
“Here in Madagascar, they are having an unusually cold, long winter — with temperatures below 10 degrees (Celsius) at night and no heating or insulation. People aren’t equipped for this and are really struggling to stay warm,” said former BBC journalist and current Communications Lead at the WHO-hosted global COVID-19 access initiative, Charlotte Baker, who, I’ll add, is keen to blame Madagascar’s extreme cold on ‘global warming’–well what else would you expect given those credentials?


Charlotte Baker
@charlie_baker23
@giles_fraser @christian_aid We’ve been buying blankets today @smallsteps_2015 to help - but this is a sticking plaster. These communities are suffering drought and heat in summer, cyclones in rainy season, and extreme cold in winter. And people still drive to buy a pint of milk ‍ https://t.co/vkDK8ueG2x
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Heavy Snow Closes New Zealand Roads
Heavy snow has closed roads and knocked the power out across parts of New Zealand’s South Island.
The Canterbury high country and alpine passes were among the snowiest locales.
Mt Dobson skifield was forced to close on Sunday after an additional 12cm (4.7 inches) of powder landed overnight.
While Mt Hutt ski area manager James McKenzie said an impressive 40cm (1.3ft) had accumulated Saturday night, and that he planned to open the slopes Sunday–so long as the access road could be cleared.

“Too Much Snow” Closes New Zealand Ski Resort; Rare Cool Down Sweeps UAE And Oman; + Quiet Atlantic Hurricane Season (So Far)

Hanmer Springs received an extra 15cm (5.9 inches), which was enough to bring about the closure of State Highway 7 through the Lewis Pass from the Hanmer turn off to Springs Junction.
The SH73 from Arthur’s Pass to Porters Pass between Springfield to Otira is also closed, reports stuff.co.nz.
Households in Wellington suffered power outages on Sunday as the air temperature dropped close to freezing.
While in Mt Lyford, the heavy, record-challenging snow has brought the alpine village to a standstill.


Snow in brings Mt Lyford to a standstill.

Mt Lyford Sunday morning [Tess Simpson].

Two climbers “miraculously” survived after being buried by an avalanche atop The Remarkables mountain range in Queenstown, reports wionews.com.
The avalanche measured 70m (230ft) across and carried the pair some 20m (65ft) down the mountain, partially burying them. After digging themselves out, they contacted the emergency services, but the first two rescue attempts failed due the helicopter having to contend with an fierce blizzard.
The pair, both in their 20s, survived by building a snow cave and eating muesli bars until help finally arrived.


Officials rescue two men stuck in avalanche [NZ Police].

The crew of the International Space Station were treated to incredible views of Aotearoa on Monday morning as the skies cleared to show off the Southern Alps under freshly fallen snow.


ISS Above
@ISSAboveYou
Kia ora Aotearoa New Zealand : Snowy views over Te Waipounamu / South Island leading to a super clear view of Te Ika-a-Māui / North Island over @Wellington_NZ and beyond. How was breakfast? Aug 1, 2022 8:30am NZST @MetService @RocketLab (LC1) @nzspacegovt @Space_Station https://t.co/2hSkA4KmTI



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The situation has been exceptionally frosty in Australia, too — a nation enduring a historically cold and snowy start to winter
And while a brief warm-up is on the cards during the first few days of August, Antarctic air looks set to return shortly thereafter:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Aug 6 to Aug 11 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Accompany this season’s record-breaking and persistent chills has been impressive accumulations of snow, across both Australia and New Zealand, too.
This is visualized in the below GMASI Australia/NZ Snow Extent chart, which shows 2022 (red line) is tracking above the majority of recent years:


[GMASI — globalcryospherewatch.org]

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai’s record-high eruption of Jan 15 is likely COOLING the Southern Hemisphere, seeing it endure something of a ‘volcanic winter’.
For more on that, click below:

Is Australia Experiencing A ‘Volcanic Winter’?

 

[TxGal]

Below is a posting Ice Age Farmer made on his Telegram account yesterday, 31 July:

 

[alpha]

Electroverse

Articles
‘Climatic Change Throughout The Ages’ + Preparing For The Collapse
August 2, 2022 Cap Allon
In 1941, the U.S. government explained why increasing levels of CO2 would not have a significant impact on the climate:

IT WILL be news to many people that man, during his geo- logically brief existence on earth, has never known a “normal” climate. We are now at the tail end of an ice age and living in a period of crustal and climatic violence as great as any the earth has known. This is why we have to think so much about the weather. Such periods of revolution have occurred briefly several times in the history of the earth.
Much has been written about varying amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a possible cause of glacial periods. The theory received a fatal blow when it was realized that carbon dioxide is very selective as to the wave lengths of radiant energy it will absorb, filtering out only such waves as even very minute quantities of water vapor dispose of anyway. No probable Increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide could materially affect either the amount of insolation reaching the surface or the amount of terrestrial radiation lost to space.

[screen-grabs courtesy of Tony Heller].

The science hasn’t changed since 1941, only the politics.
And while you Climate Alarmists continue to demonize said trace atmospheric gas (CO2) and blindly advance the Net Zero suicide mission, please note that the energy companies are laughing at you, right in your pugnacious little faces.
Because while your (taxpayer) money is being funneled into corrupt climate scheme after corrupt climate scheme after corrupt climate scheme, via powerful lobbying groups and amoral politicians, and as Americans wrestle and suffer with the consequences, i.e. record-high inflation, just know that BP –those coiners of the term ‘carbon footprint’ btw– tripled their profits last quarter to $8.5bn, making for profits totaling $14.7bn this year to date.
‘They’ know that ‘global warming’ isn’t real; rather, it is a powerfully distractive narrative, a scary campfire story to keep the masses in check, a controlling stick, and a maleficent way to divert yet more money ‘upward’: Do as we say. Relinquish all of your possessions and whatever capital you have left otherwise the world will end. AGW is part of a Grand Heist, and they’re even telling us straight: You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
‘They’ (Central Banks) are driving the global population into serfdom, via shortages and inflation. Their end goal is a two-tier system, the 1% and the 99% (bye-bye middle class). They want us laborers 100% dependent on the system, akin to slaves.
The way to combat this is to escape their systems (easier said than done). This, at least to my mind, is best achieved by going off-grid and growing your own food — i.e. completely detaching yourself from their controlling grip.
Accruing a horde of physical gold and silver would also be beneficial, as it would protect your wealth during the coming collapse, but given the ever-tightening stranglehold they have on an individuals finances (via taxes and inflation), I don’t know many who have any useful capital to throw into precious metals right now.
The aforementioned endeavors aren’t mutually exclusive, of course. Forging a self-sufficient community with its own gold reserve is probably the ideal bet. Trust is of course key. As is a high level of secrecy and/or security.
Gold, unlike fiat, has survived the test of time; it has been used for thousands upon thousands of years; gold is God’s money and nothing will change that. ‘Their’ new system, whenever it is rang in and whatever form it takes (likely a Central Bank Digital Currency with the unparalleled control that brings), will still acknowledge gold as a crucial asset, potentially the key underlying one. Why do you think governments have been acquiring such monstrous volumes of the stuff over the years?

As of March 2022, these are the five countries with the largest gold reserves–at least, this is what they’re willing to admit they hold (data courtesy of investopedia.com):
1. United States: 8,133.5 tons. During the height of the Bretton Woods system of international exchange (when the U.S. offered to house and protect other countries’ gold in exchange for dollars), it was reported that 95% of the entire world’s gold reserves lay in American vaults. Decades later, the U.S. still holds the most, with gold making up over 75% of its foreign reserves.
2. Germany: 3,359.1 tons. Germany keeps its gold reserves in three locales: the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank branch in New York, and the Bank of England in London.
3. Italy: 2,451.8 tons. The eurozone crisis led to calls for Italy’s government to sell some of its gold reserves to raise funds, but no such plans ever materialized — again illustrating the asset’s value.
4. France: 2,436.5 tons.
5. Russia: 2,301.6 tons. Russia overtook China as the fifth-largest holder of the yellow metal in 2018. Russia’s increase in its gold stores was seen as an attempt to diversify beyond American investments.

Governments don’t want Pete down the street owning gold, which is one of the reasons the price is so heavily manipulated–held lower so as to look unattractive. It is also why you rarely hear of any gold tips and/or investment advice on mainstream market outlets. They. Don’t. Want. Us. Owning. It.



Gold has always outperformed the stock market, due mainly to the dollar simply being inflated away, but its time to really shine is likely approaching. We’re potentially about to see the true power of gold as the current financial goes through a tumultuous ‘reset’. Silver, platinum and palladium will also ‘run’, as will many other commodities, even ‘their’ clandestine adoption of crypto could be rewarded. However, physical gold will always remain ‘the daddy’ for a myriad of different reasons.
Central Banks know this, of course, and it is the main reason they’ve been increasing their reserves in recent years.
When gold does finally go, when ‘they’ inevitably lose control of the market, $5K-$10K an ounce (in relation to today’s dollar) isn’t hopium, it’s a probability. During this run-up (which will anti-correlate with a stock market collapse) anyone with a private horde will do very well–if they get their timing right; but at worst, it will still protect their wealth–even after the mania phase subsides.
So long as ‘they’ don’t ban private ownership again, that is…
Between 1933 to 1974, ‘Executive Order 6102’ made it a criminal offense for U.S. citizens to own or trade gold anywhere in the world, with exceptions for some jewelry and collector’s coins. These exceptions have turned some modern gold-loves into jewel-freaks — I know of people that only store gold in the form of rings and bracelets, etc. as a further hedge against government interference.



Putting precious metals to one side, though, getting off-grid and learning to successfully grow your own food (no small tasks) should be a ‘preppers’ first port of call. They were mine. And I’m still wrestling with both even four years into my journey.
Protecting my lineage is the driver. There is no better meaning than fighting for the future prosperity of my children. To achieve this, I’m open to looking into any and all options: from growing my own corn, to hording my own gold and silver coins. Start small. And build. And keep moving forward, no matter the setbacks.

These are my current thoughts–hopefully at least somewhat coherently assembled. But as always, please let me know what you think in the comments. Am I off?

 

[alpha]

Electroverse

Articles Crop Loss Extreme Weather Volcanic & Seismic Activity
Europe Is Already Rationing Gas; More MSM Obfuscation, Freezing Southern African Nights; + “Unusually Cold Outbreak” To Hit New Zealand
August 3, 2022 Cap Allon
Europe Is Already Rationing Gas
Across even the most developed and industrious European nations–across Germany and across France, including even Paris–the lights are going out and citizens are being instructed to take cold showers.
You would be forgiven for thinking the end times were approaching, or that WWIII had broken out; but no, this is an entirely self-inflicted blow, one rooted in the establishment’s transparent and absurd ruse to ‘save the planet’.
Make no mistake, the miseries being endured by Europeans–and indeed much of the global population–land squarely at the feet of the AGW Party, or more directly at their arm of extreme tree-hugging activists which I liken to the Hitler Youth — that is, indoctrinated beyond all hope and past all scope of reality.
Come sunset, one by one, the outdoor lights of many European shopfronts are extinguished. It is one small but symbolic step in a giant leap of energy saving that the continent is undertaking as it rushes to wean itself off natural gas and oil from Russia before winter hits and things turn serious.
The stakes are high, reports the AP. If Russia severs already drastically reduced gas supplies, authorities fear Europe risks becoming a colder, darker and potentially deadlier place this winter. It’s plan is to economize gas now so that anything left over can be squirreled away for burning later in homes, factories and power plants, officials say.
“Europe needs to be ready,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “To make it through the winter, assuming that there is a full disruption of Russian gas, we need to save gas to fill our gas storages faster. And to do so, we have to reduce our gas consumption. I know that this is a big ask for the whole of the European Union, but it is necessary to protect us.”
This effort, while technically sensisicle, is too little too late. Europe cannot store enough gas for the coming winter simply by moderately reducing usage during the summer. It is a folly and all it will achieve is to commence the suffering sooner. But governments want to look like they’re doing something, and so, as is always the case, their proposal ultimately sees the masses needlessly hurt.
The continent should be rushing to kick decommissioned coal-fired power plants back into gear, as well as crank-up nuclear power station output. But those in charge refuse to take these steps, of course, at least not on a scale that’s required — the EU, even in times as dire as these, are still hamstrung by suicidal climate pledges and Net Zero fairy tales.
Europe is scrambling to get energy from elsewhere, but 1) at a great cost (when compared to Russian’s Nordstream pipeline), and 2) at much lower quantities (it simply isn’t feasible to ship or train-in the volumes required to satisfy a continent of 750 million souls).
Looking to this upcoming winter, which by my calculations–looking at the continued low solar output as well as the ‘volcanic winter‘ playing out in the SH–will be a historically cold and snowy one, and the coming struggles could also be a harbinger of worse to come should Russia cut the gas supply off through 2023 — a warning echoed by France’s minister overseeing energy, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
“If gas deliveries are cut by the end of the year, that will mean we’ll have a full year without Russian gas, so the following winter could be even harder,” Pannier-Runacher told French senators.

Is Australia Experiencing A ‘Volcanic Winter’?

This is the backdrop for rationing.
And let all of this fully and properly sink in.
The year is 2022, and Europeans are being urged to take cold showers, switch off power sockets/lights as their authorities, come the late-evening, turn off the streetlights and cities go dark.
How have we allowed this happen? Why were European governments content to hand their energy security over to a foreign superpower? Who are the geniuses that thought passing their carbon emission ‘buck’ to Russia would ever reduce atmospheric levels of said trace gas? Who thought wind and solar were ready to replace coal and gas? There is ZERO accountability.
Right now in Germany, who had been receiving a third of its gas from Russia, energy saving is in full swing, with lights going off, public pools becoming chillier and thermostats being universally lowered.
The glass dome of the Reichstag, the parliament building in Berlin, is going dark after it closes to visitors at midnight, and two facades will no longer be lit. Legislators’ office temperatures will drop by 2C (to 20C/68F) this winter. Berlin City Hall, the Jewish Museum, two opera houses and the landmark Victory Column with panoramic views are among about 200 sites in the German capital that will no longer be lit at night. Saunas are closing in Munich’s municipal swimming pools, which have chillier water now, too. There’ll only be cold showers at public pools in Hannover, part of a plan by the northern city to cut its energy use by 15%.
“The sum of all the contributions will help us get through this winter and be prepared for the next one,” said Robert Habeck, Germany’s vice chancellor and economy minister in moment of blinded wishful thinking. He also told news weekly Der Spiegel he has slashed the time he spends showering–what a hero.
“It will be a demanding, stony road, but we can manage it,” he said–sounding like a man whereby enough time had elapsed for him to have successfully wrestled internally with the looming nightmare so as to now land at a place of spiritual resignation and acceptance.
Elsewhere, and with a campaign dubbed “Flip the Switch,” the Netherlands’ government is implementing its own energy rationing: no more than five minute showers, using sun shades and fans instead of air conditioning, and air-drying laundry.
In Spain, a law passed Monday means offices, stores and hospitality venues will no longer be allowed to set their thermostats below 27C (81F) even during the height of summer, nor raise them above 19C in the depths of winter.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez asked office workers to ditch neckties, presumably to lessen the temptation to use air conditioning…? He led by example, appearing at a news conference in an open-necked shirt–another hero.
The Italian government also is recommending limits on heating and cooling in public buildings–all heroes.
While in France, the government is targeting a 10% reduction in energy use by 2024, with what it’s calling an “energy sobriety” drive. Fines are also being introduced for air-conditioned or heated stores that leave front doors open. Fines? That’s what small business need right now: Macron–the people’s hero.
“When it comes down to it, there’s no reason to keep the lights on at night,” said Aureilhan Mayor Yannick Boubée. “It is shaking up our way of thinking,” added Boubée–what a Boubée. “Next will be convincing townspeople to agree to less-heated classrooms when schools reopen … We’re going to ask parents to put a pullover on their children, all measures that don’t cost anything … We have no choice, unfortunately.”

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



Prepare NOW.
Food, like energy, could be in just as short a supply this winter as harvests around the planet fair poorly thanks to a myriad of reasons, including reduced fertilizer, herbicide and pesticide applications, general supply chain issues, and inclement weather.
Heed the warnings, and brace for the worst.
This is a controlled demolition of society: in order to have Great Reset you first need a Great Depression.
I believe those in charge, the elites, TPTB, the ‘puppet masters’–or whatever the hell you want to call them–are planning to make things so miserable and so downright terrifying that the vast majority of the unprepared will accept the new system (CBDCs & Digital IDs) in the blink of an eye.
They will be so desperate, so miserable and so terrified that anything will be preferable to watching your children starve to death, no matter how draconian the policies–and who in all honesty could blame them; in that position, I would likely do the same.
But I do not find myself in that position for I have worked myself and my family into a place of self-reliance. ‘The World’ could end tomorrow yet we would continue largely unaffected: growing our own food, filtering our own water, and powering our own home.
This is where everyone needs to position themselves, and I urge that they do it now, and in a hurry.
This is the only way to reject ‘their’ new system — that is, to simply not need it. And the more of us that have the power to say “no” the greater the resistance will be when the time to uniformly ‘push back’ against The New Word Order–or whatever the hell you want to call it–arrives; and those small, at first, freedoms that we win back will multiply and grow, and the future could look a lot less bleak.

More MSM Obfuscation
A lot has been made of the heat in Western Europe, particularly in France.
It was indeed a hot month of July, nobody’s disputing that. But to put things into perspective, and to allay MSM-distributed fears that this heat is a symptom of some cataclysmic climatic broiling event, France averaged a temperature of 23.18C last month which tied 2018 as the third hottest July in the modern temperature record, behind the July of 2006 and July of 1983.
In other words, nothing unprecedented occurred last month, and it was actually hotter in 1983.
The MSM has picked a hot region of the planet, in summer, and milked it to death. They gave no mention of the simultaneous summer freeze in Eastern Europe, leaving the general public ill informed, which is where they want them.
Obfuscation and cherry-picking exposed.
The Netherlands, located a little north of France, was included in many MSM reports regarding Europe’s heat. And, as I’m sure you know, the farmers there are embroiled in weeks-long protests versus government over the roll-out of extremist, food-destabilizing environmental policies in the name of ‘anthropogenic global warming’.
Well, despite the apocalyptic tone of recent weather reports the month of July in The Netherlands, according to the official data, finished with an average temperature of 18.3C which, somehow, comes out at -0.3C BELOW the multidecadal average.

Freezing Southern African Nights
Anomalously cold nights have swept the South African and Namibian highlands in recent days.
On August 1, South Africa’s Sutherland suffered a low of -12.2C (10F), with Graaff Reinet registering -6C (21.2F).
The record freeze has impacted Nambia, too, with -3.9C (25F) noted in the capital of Windhoek.

Rare Summer Snowfall Hits Northwest China; Snow Blankets South Africa; Data Shows European Heatwaves Are In Decline; + EU And U.S. Crop Yields “Substantially” Reduced, Again

“Unusually Cold Outbreak” To Hit New Zealand
Weather models are signalling another large snow event next week, said New Zealand’s MetService in its outlook for August.
This time the high ground of both Islands could be affected, which follows “the best snow in a decade” that settled across swathes of the South Island in July, reports stuff.co.nz.
“It does look like a pretty cold outbreak driving onto certainly the South Island late on Sunday, and into Monday,” said MetService meteorologist Peter Little, adding that the country was expected to get stuck in a southerly regime, under the influence of Antarctic air, with even the lower-reaches of the North Island suffering harsh conditions.
On Sunday, snow is forecast fall to around 600m from Otago southwards, to 700m in Canterbury and to maybe 900m in Marlborough, continued Little. One model run even has snow falling to as low as 400m in Wellington on Monday; however, “It’s a bit far out to be certain.”

Stay tuned for updates.





Ben Noll
@BenNollWeather
Sending my "cool regards" from Aoraki/Mt Cook, New Zealand! This majestic place is wrapping up its wettest July on record which fell as huge amounts of snow at high elevations ️ Quite a contrast to the heat in the Northern Hemisphere! https://t.co/2jxLSuNCx5



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Ben Noll
@BenNollWeather
Something like 9 feet of snow in those hills Ben Ohau Range, New Zealand https://t.co/ZzGKi6SE3p



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

 

[ktrapper]

Farmers Almanac winter forecast.
I had to copy and paste. It’s from a email subscription. No link


Are you ready to Shake, Shiver, and Shovel?
Farmers’ Almanac Predicts Extreme Winter

Lewiston, ME: Every year since 1818, the Farmers’ Almanac provides an extended weather forecast that helps people plan ahead. This year, with the extreme summer weather conditions broiling the country, and the growing concern over the rising costs of heating oil, Farmers’ Almanac is releasing its winter weather forecast earlier than ever. Farmers’ Almanac 2023, which hits store shelves on August 15, is warning readers that this winter will be filled plenty of shaking, shivering, and shoveling.

How Cold?
Shivery temperatures are predicted to rattle warm weather seekers in the Southeast and South Central states, but the real shivers might send people in the Great Lakes areas (Northeast and North Central regions) hibernating. According to the Almanac, the North Central States are forecast to experience extremely cold temperatures during mid-January—possibly 40 degrees below zero!

Areas in the western half of the country should escape major shivers, with an overall forecast of brisk temperatures predicted in the Northwest and mild temperatures in the Southwest.

Shovel Worthy
The Farmers’ Almanac suggests a stormy winter in on schedule especially for the eastern half of the country. For some areas this may mean snow, but for others it will result in more slush and mush.

January 2023 looks to be the stormiest for many areas including Texas and Oklahoma, where heavy snow is predicted during the first week. Unfortunately, a dry winter is predicted for the Southwest states, which won’t help the drought situation.

Year-Long Guide to Great Living
Farmers’ Almanac 2023 offers 16 months of weather predictions—September 2022 through December 2023.

Last year, the Almanac predicted many of the 2021-2022 winter storms, most notably: the early-season nor’easter in the end of October, and the unusual blizzard in the last week of April (in parts of Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas).

The new edition features many new elements, including weather maps for all four seasons and redesigned calendar pages for easier reference.

 

[mecoastie]

Map for the above Frmers Almanac predictions

 

[BenIan]

Map for the above Frmers Almanac predictions
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Yep...I just planted my fall root crops about 2-3 weeks earlier than recommended...hopefully I timed it right. I'm in the "Chilly Normal Precipitation" area.

 

[nomifyle]

Yep...I just planted my fall root crops about 2-3 weeks earlier than recommended...hopefully I timed it right. I'm in the "Chilly Normal Precipitation" area.

What did you plant, I'm north of you.

 

[BenIan]

beets, carrots and daikons

ran out of time to plant turnips but will be doing so this weekend (God willing)

 

[alpha]

Electroverse

Articles Extreme Weather
Quiet Sun, Blue Jets And Super Sprites; Cold July In Australia; + Monthly Chills Across Scandinavia
August 4, 2022 Cap Allon
Quiet Sun…
Solar activity has been subdued of late, with just two sunspots currently visible on the Earth-facing solar disc:

Two lowly sunspots: ‘3068’ and the unlabeled ‘3071’ [spaceweather.com]

There is, however, a big sunspot growing on the farside of the sun, one that is so big that it is changing the way the sun vibrates.
Helioseismic maps reveal its acoustic echo resonating behind the sun’s southeastern limb:



We’ll get a better look at the sunspot in a few days time, when it turns to face Earth.

…Blue Jets And Super Sprites
These are what the ancients warn off in their pictographs and petroglyphs: changes in the sky, odd firings from the heavens.
Sightings of such electrical phenomena have been on the uptick in recent years, as both our sun and magnetic field ‘step down’.





AccuWeather
@accuweather
Red sprites and blue jets appear in amazing timelapse of lightning in Hawaii https://t.co/CaKIKKhFzV



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Seeing ‘blue jets’ used to be considered rare, but not so much anymore.
Photographer Matthew Griffiths recently captured several of them over the Big Bend National Park in Texas.
“On July 28, I was starting a five night West Texas road trip to capture the Milky Way,” said Griffiths. “But with thunderstorms storms in the distance I decided to try for red sprites instead.”
And although red sprites may have eluded Griffith that night, he did end up photographing their elusive blue cousin:


A ‘blue jet’ emerges from a thunderhead in Big Bend National Park, Texas [Matthew Griffiths].

First recorded by cameras on the space shuttle in 1989, blue jets are part of a growing menagerie of “transient luminous events,” which leap from up thunderstorms toward the edge of space. Sprites, ELVES and green ghosts are other examples.
They are all elusive, writes Dr Tony Phillips over at spaceweather.com, but blue jets may be the hardest to catch, potentially due to their blue color — Earth’s atmosphere naturally scatters blue light, which makes them harder to see.
“It’s important to study blue jets,” so says Oscar van der Velde, of the Lightning Research Group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Photos taken from the ISS show that these jets reach astonishing altitudes, as high as 170,000 feet. This is high enough to touch the ionosphere, forming a new and poorly understood branch of Earth’s global electrical circuit.
“Also,” continues van de Velde, “there can be considerable production of NOx (nitrogen oxides) and ozone by these discharges, potentially affecting the chemistry of the atmosphere.”
The below video is of a ‘Super Sprite’ recently captured over the Kiso Observatory, Tokyo, Japan:

As per the Japan Meteorological Agency:
“Sprites are a lightning discharge phenomenon that occur in the stratosphere or mesosphere above a thundercloud when there is a lightning discharge between the thundercloud and the ground.”
The below graphic is useful when differentiating the different discharges:


Atmospheric electrical phenomena.

Electrical discharges and heavenly perturbations are a sign of the times.
Our solar system’s charge is changing: eyes to the skies.

Cold July Across Australia
Even according to the data-tampering, UHI-ignoring ‘Bureau of Meteorology,’ July 2022 across Australia was a cold month.
The country as a whole, according to the official data, closed with an average July reading some -0.8C BELOW the 1991-2020 average. The month was also -0.16C BELOW the 1961-1990 baseline — a historically cold era.


Mean temperature anomaly for July 2022 [BoM].


It was dry in the West and South, and very wet in the North and East (with record rain besieging Sydney).


Rainfall percentages for July 2022 [BoM].

Monthly Chills Across Scandinavia
As in Australia, the month of July was anomalously cold across Scandinavia, too–a reality which jars with the MSM’s ‘catastrophe’ rhetoric with regards to Europe this summer.

Norway
July 2022 in Norway finished with a temperature anomaly -0.3C BELOW the multidecadal average.
It was mild and wet in the far north, in Finnmark–which received almost 200% of its average precipitations; and cold and dry in most other parts, particularly central and southwestern areas–with readings of -2C below the norm were registered here.
Map courtesy of Meteorologene:



Sweden
July 2022 in Sweden was also a colder than average month.
The cold was most notable in central parts. Here, readings of between -0.5C and -1C BELOW the norm were logged.

It was dry in the south and wet in the north.
Map by SMHI:



Denmark
July 2022 in Denmark closed with an average temperature -0.5C BELOW the multidecadal baseline.
Denmark’s colder-than-average July came despite a brief heatwave that sent the mercury to 35.9C on July 20 (the country’s second hottest reading) and saw the MSM spiral into another pathetically ill-informed meltdown.
Logic, data and historical documentation, however, suggest that brief bursts of heat stand for next to nothing when determingin the state of the climate — they can and will ALWAYS occur, even in the depths of a full blown ice age.
The bigger picture is paramount, of course, and the bigger picture points to a cooling planet in line with historically low solar activity. Denmark’s 2-day heatwave (so not technically a heatwave) was driven by a weak and wavy ‘meridional’ jet stream flow–a phenomenon also tied to our waning sun–which kicked an African plume anomalously-far north.
Map courtesy of the DMI:



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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More Global Warming Hysterics Exposed: Great Barrier Reef Sees Record Coral Cover
August 5, 2022 Cap Allon
The Greens have had to contend with yet more egg on their faces this week, as a new study points to the fact that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef–doomed under their dogmatic scriptures for decades now–is witnessing unprecedented coral cover.
Like the now stonewalled scares of extinct polar bears and an ice-free Arctic, the Great barrier reef has gone exactly the same way and the ‘cLiMaTe ScIeNcE’ said theory was rooted in has been proven catastrophically inaccurate.
And this isn’t me ripping from a position of hindsight, this was something we realists have been pointing out for years now.
Realists such as Dr. Peter Ridd, formerly of James Cook University (JCU) in Queensland, who lost his job for daring to wade against the AGW Party’s bought-and-paid-for consensus by succinctly explaining, with data, that fears of ‘global warming’ somehow ‘killing the reef’ are wholly unfounded and are based on junk models and ideologically-driven horseshit (to paraphrase).
In short, Dr. Ridd wrote an opinion piece in the Jan, 2018 issue of ‘Marine Pollution Bulletin’ which challenged the prevailing understanding of the state of the Great Barrier Reef. The essay drew attention to what Ridd argued was a “reproducibility crisis” and also to the validity of specific papers on the topic. Moreover, he recommended a new review body for “policy science”.
Following the piece, Dr. Ridd’s employers JCU took a number of disciplinary measures against him, and ultimately he was dismissed. It didn’t stop there, though. Oh no. Even to this day, Ridd’s character is routinely assassinated, his professional reputation tarnished, and his funds drained (via fighting this BS in court). And for what…? What great crime did he commit…? Well, in today’s world of controlling agendas and narrative-driving fraud, Dr. Peter Ridd’s crime was ‘speaking the truth’.
At the risk of writing the most redundant statement on the web: today’s scientific establishment has been corrupted–from funding to the peer-review process. Those scientists at the higher echelons, the ones effectively in control of a given field, are often nestled snugly within the pockets of the elites–those forces on-high with big agendas and a limitless bankroll to push them.
Frustratingly, there is no accountability; and doubly-frustratingly, despite the clear and obvious reality, the same old bought-and-paid-for conclusions and EOTW projections continue to be parroted by ignorant activists that haven’t yet worked-out that they’ve been led down the garden path.
Just this week, Aussie Green Party leader, Adam Bandt, had the gall to spew this tiresome gush of fear porn in front of the enabling legacy media cameras:
“The Great Barrier Reef will die,” said Bandt, “as will the 60,000 jobs that depend on it. More coal and gas mines will cause more floods, fires and droughts; that will increase the cost of living; destroy infrastructure; ecosystems will collapse; and more species will become extent; and more of us will die.”
Such criminally insane ramblings, rather than being confined to public bathroom-wall scribblings where they belong, are instead not only permitted on national TV, they are actively encouraged, egged on even.
As CNN director, Charlie Chester, was secretly filmed saying: “Fear sells … Be prepared, it’s coming. Climate change is going to be the next COVID thing for CNN. We are going to hone in on it.”
Unfortunately for Chester, however, the masses are stirring from their formation, albeit slowly — a process aided by real-world dataset after real world-dataset exposing these charlatans’ past prophesies for what they really are: ideologically-driven horseshit with, very possibly, nefarious and deeply troubling undertones.
Marine scientists monitoring the Great Barrier Reef have recorded the highest levels of coral cover since such measurements began in 1986:


Percentage of coral cover in the northern and central Great Barrier Reef [Australian Institute of Marine Science].

This reality is a frustration for the AGW Party, visible in the ‘angle’ their legacy media lapdogs have chosen in their reporting of it.
There are a lot of “ifs” and “buts” and “cherries” and “nuts”, and it’s embarrassing to behold.
The BBC has run with a story entitled, “Great Barrier Reef sees record coral cover, but it is highly vulnerable”; and king of the warm-mongers, The Guardian have behaved in similarly obfuscating fashion, “Record coral cover on parts of Great Barrier Reef, but global heating could jeopardize recovery.”
What’s amusing to me, though, is the ‘related articles’ section beneath these ‘damage limitation stories’. The BBC has a suggested article from 2019, “Great Barrier Reef outlook is ‘very poor'”; it also has one dated as recently as July 2021, which asks, “Why is the Great Barrier Reef in trouble?”; and likewise over at its partner in climate crime The Guardian, the ‘further reading’ section contains, “‘Devastating’: 91% of reefs surveyed on Great Barrier Reef affected by coral bleaching in 2022”.
And in equal measures of amusing and frustrating, the MSM also wheel out the same-old ‘experts’–that have been proven completely wrong for decades now–to support their ‘claims’; and like the dogs they are, they simultaneously continue to castigate true actors, such as Dr. Peter Ridd, resigning them to the sidelines even as time proves them correct.
These publications have no interest in portraying the truth, this is as clear as that ‘coral cover’ chart embedded above. All too often, truth threatens the established agenda, and any mainstream outlet found to be reporting on things ‘straight’ would surely risk the divine chastisement of their totalitarian backers.

The BBC Attempts To Rewrite The History Books

This is the power, and danger, of group think — facts don’t matter, being right with your group is the be all and end all.
Another name for this is ‘mass formation.’ This malignant force is aiding and abetting the death of our modern civilization, or at least it is ringing in in the end of the way we currently do things, which I’m sure the handful at the top, the powers that be, feel is ‘too free’.
I also do not think that this death is by accident. Nor do I believe that it will ultimately–or in any way–benefit the masses, the majority that still seem so utterly oblivious to what’s really going on.
If it’s true that a revolution requires 25% of the population to reach the critical mass necessary to reverse a majority viewpoint–the ‘tipping point’ percentage as it’s known–then that seems a very attainable number — we may actually be nearing it.
However, we could be in for a battle of the ’25-percenters’, because although I would estimate that a frustratingly-high 75% of the global population still believes in the mainstream narrative, I would argue that only 25% would be willing to fight for it. And if we are indeed nearing 25% that now see past the curtain and are prepared to fight for freedom, the question then is, what the hell happens next? Well, historically at such a juncture the end result has been war, either civil or global… but I just don’t know…

Enjoy your weekend.
I need to get out and do some ‘real work’ — tending to the animals and beginning construction on a new goat shed.
I am working to free myself and my family from ‘the system’, and I see self-sufficiency as the key.

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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I sure believe we are in this. It is the 5th of July and it is 44 degrees at our home this morning. We will get another couple of days in the low 90's Monday and Tuesday and then back down to the high 80's. We had 5 whole days in the last 2 weeks in the high 90's with 60's at night.Wow.

 

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Articles
“New Little Ice Age Instead of Global Warming?” — Dr Theodor Landscheidt
August 7, 2022 Cap Allon
[Originally published Sept 7, 2020 on electroverse.net]

Among the long list or scientific papers suggesting that a solar-driven spell of global cooling is on the cards, Dr Theodor Landscheidt’s ‘New Little ICE Age Instead of Global Warming?‘ probably has the claim of priority.
Published in 2003, just a year before his death, Landscheidt’s research is standing the test of time, and is still largely on course to be proved correct.
The paper’s abstract begins:
‘Analysis of the sun’s varying activity in the last two millennia indicates that contrary to the IPCC’s speculation about man-made global warming as high as 5.8C within the next hundred years, a long period of cool climate with its coldest phase around 2030 is to be expected.’
Crucially, in the growing list of research concluding that a solar-driven multidecadal spell of global cooling is on the cards (research from multiple studies of quite different characteristics), the year 2030 ALWAYS features prominently. 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.
Dr Landscheidt continues:
‘It is shown that minima in the 80 to 90-year Gleissberg cycle of solar activity, coinciding with periods of cool climate on Earth, are consistently linked to an 83-year cycle in the change of the rotary force driving the sun’s oscillatory motion … As the future course of this cycle and its amplitudes can be computed, it can be seen that the Gleissberg minimum around 2030 and another one around 2200 will be of the Maunder minimum type accompanied by severe cooling on Earth. This forecast should prove skillful as other long-range forecasts of climate phenomena, based on cycles in the sun’s orbital motion, have turned out correct as for instance the prediction of the last three El Niño years before the respective event.’
Dr Landscheidt concludes his introduction with the IPCC’s position on global warming, and he points to a growing list of publications showing a solar-climate connection:
‘The IPCC’s judgement that the solar factor is negligible is based on satellite observations available since 1978 which show that the Sun’s total irradiance, though not being constant, changes only by about 0.1 percent during the course of the 11-year sunspot cycle. This argument, however, does not take into account that the Sun’s eruptional activity (energetic flares, coronal mass ejections, eruptive prominences), heavily affecting the solar wind, as well as softer solar wind contributions by coronal holes have a much stronger effect than total irradiance. The total magnetic flux leaving the Sun, dragged out by the solar wind, has risen by a factor of 2.3 since 1901 (Lockwood et al., 1999), while global temperature on earth increased by about 0.6°C. The energy in the solar flux is transferred to the near-Earth environment by magnetic reconnection and directly into the atmosphere by charged particles. Energetic flares increase the Sun’s ultraviolet radiation by at least 16 percent. Ozone in the stratosphere absorbs this excess energy which causes local warming and circulation disturbances. General circulation models developed by Haigh (1996), Shindell et al. (1999), and Balachandran et al. (1999) confirm that circulation changes, initially induced in the stratosphere, can penetrate into the troposphere and influence temperature, air pressure, Hadley circulation, and storm tracks by changing the distribution of large amounts of energy already present in the atmosphere.’
Moving on, Section 3 of the paper includes this golden nugget:
‘If the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) were the dominant cause of the observed rise in global temperature, the trend of this rise would be similar to the continuously rising CO2-trend shown [below] after Peixoto and Oort (1992).


Time series of the atmospheric CO2 concentration as measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawai (From Peixoto and Oort, 1992). These data are accepted to be representative for the global trend.

‘The course of the Northern Hemisphere land air temperature, however, represented by the thick line in Fig. 4, does not follow the CO2 trend.


Close correlation between surface land air temperature in the Northern Hemisphere (thick curve) and the changing length of the 11-year sunspot cycle (thin curve), indicating the varying intensity of the sun’s eruptional activity (From FriisChristensen and Lassen, 1991). Contrary to the curve in Mauna Loa graph (above), representing the steadily increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the thin solar curve covaries with the undulations of observed temperature.

‘The increase in surface temperature from 1890 to 1940 was steeper and smoother than in the current warming phase since the early 1980s though the rate of anthropogenic emissions at that time was only 10% of the present rate. From 1940 through the late 1960s temperatures were falling in spite of the fast rise of anthropogenic CO2-emissions.
‘A closer look shows that nearly all Gleissberg minima back to 300 A.D., as for instance around 1670 (Maunder minimum), 1810 (Dalton minimum), and 1895, coincided with a cool climate in the Northern Hemisphere, whereas Gleissberg maxima went along with warm climate as for instance around 1130 (Medieval climate optimum). The degree of temperature change was proportional to the respective amplitudes in the Gleissberg cycle. During the Maunder minimum solar activity was minimal and during the Medieval Climate Optimum very high, probably even higher than in the six decades of intense solar activity before 1996.’
In subsequent sections, Dr Landscheidt’s paper delves into ‘the length of the 11 year solar cycle and temperature’, it looks at ‘the relationship between solar eruptions and global temperature’, as well as the ‘forecast of deep Gleissberg minima and cold climate around 2030 and 2200’.
My summary serves as a brief introduction to Dr Theodor Landscheidt’s work, and of course should not be seen as a substitute for reading the paper itself, which concludes with a damning verdict on the IPPC’s scientific method:
‘The IPCC’s “story lines”, far from forecasts as practiced in other fields of science, are nearly exclusively supported by runs of General Circulation Models (GCM). These models are based on the same type of nonlinear differential equations which induced Lorenz in 1961 to acknowledge that long-range weather predictions are impossible because of the atmosphere’s extreme sensitivity to initial conditions. It is not conceivable that the “Butterfly Effect” should disappear when the prediction range of a few days is extended to decades and centuries.
‘The IPCC-hypothesis of global warming requires that long-wave radiation to space is reduced because of the accumulating anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Actually, satellites have observed a trend of increasing tropical long-wave radiation to space over the past two decades (Wielicki et al., 2002). GCMs predict greater increase in temperature with increasing distance from the equator, but observations show no net change in the polar regions in the past four decades (Comiso, 2000; Przybylak, 2000; Venegas and Mysak, 2000). According to the most recent data, Antarctica has cooled significantly (Doran et al., 2002) instead of warming.’
In this prominent paper’s final section (11), it is concluded:
‘We need not wait until 2030 to see whether the forecast of the next deep Gleissberg minimum is correct. A declining trend in solar activity and global temperature should become manifest long before the deepest point in the development. The current 11-year sunspot cycle 23 with its considerably weaker activity seems to be a first indication of the new trend, especially as it was predicted on the basis of solar motion cycles two decades ago. As to temperature, only El Niño periods should interrupt the downward trend, but even El Niños should become less frequent and strong.’
Landscheidt’s contentions are indeed chiming with reality — the truest test of any theory.
Unfortunately though, accurately gauging today’s temperatures have been made difficult, perhaps intentionally so. Many modern datasets cannot be trusted for they ignore, deliberately or otherwise, crucial factors such as the Urban Heat Island effect (UHI) in order to exaggerate, or indeed completely fabricate, a warming trend.
Looking at the global temperature datasets out there, the most trustworthy is probably the UAH Satellite-Based Temperature of the Global Lower Atmosphere. Currently, as of July 2022 *UPDATE*, the UAH has Earth at 0.36C above the multidecadal average, which is DOWN some 0.35C from the start of 2016 — we are beginning to cool, according to the satellites.
I would contend, though, that regional fluctuations –rather than the global average– will be more important to ascertain as we move forward into a Grand Solar Minimum. To confuse matters further, some parts of the planet actually warm during GSMs, during bouts of otherwise “global” cooling–the Arctic being one.
Still, and overall, Earth’s average temperature is expected to drop–perhaps by as much as 2C: devastating for crop production.



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

 

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Electroverse

Articles
[A few of the] Scientists who warn of a coming Grand Solar Minimum and Little Ice Age
August 6, 2022 Cap Allon
[Originally published over at electroverse.net on Sept 10, 2020]

There are many reputable scientists out there combating the orchestrated consensus that Earth is heating into oblivion due to trace CO2 — they just don’t receive any airtime, and so the masses are never privy to their alternative lines of research and thinking.
The Sun’s historically low activity during cycle 24 took the majority of researchers and solar physicists by complete surprise, particularly with regards to its very long minimum period between cycles 23 and 24 (more than two years in 2008–2010) in which there was a lack of any activity at all.
As discussed by Simon J. Shepherd et al. in their 2014 paper PREDICTION OF SOLAR ACTIVITY FROM SOLAR BACKGROUND MAGNETIC FIELD VARIATIONS IN CYCLES 21-23: “this minimum solar activity was evident not only in the lack of sunspots but also in solar magnetic field variations (de Toma et al. 2010a, 2010b), modulation of cosmic rays (McDonald et al. 2010), and in interplanetary coronal mass ejections (Barnard et al. 2011).”
This prolonged minimum in cycle 24 was all the more surprising because the previous five cycles had been extremely active and so sunspot-productive that they were designated as a Grand Solar MAXIMUM (Solanki et al. 2004; Usoskin 2008; Usoskin et al. 2008; Solanki & Krivova 2011).
“In cycle 24, the Grand Maximum was followed by much lower solar activity, prompting some authors to suggest that the Sun is on its way toward a Maunder Minimum of activity (Lockwood et al. 2011),” writes Shepherd. “This reduced appearance of sunspots in the current cycle 24 was not anticipated by many researchers before the cycle began but has since given birth to a slew of papers suggesting we are indeed now headed into the next Grand Solar MINIMUM.”
Simon J. Shepherd et al. concluded in 2014, with a sufficient degree of confidence, that the solar activity in cycles 24–26 will be systematically decreasing: “we predict a noticeable decrease of the average sunspot numbers in cycle 25 to ≈80% of that in cycle 24 and a decrease in cycle 26 to ≈40%”:


Modulus summary principal component (solid curve) for cycles 21–23 and predicted for cycles 24–26.
In 2010, Professor Nils-Axel Mörner’s paper Solar Minima, Earth’s rotation and Little Ice Ages in the past and in the future: The North Atlantic–European case suggests that past Solar Minima were all linked to a general speeding up of the Earth’s rate of rotation — an interesting take.
Mörner writes: “This affected the surface currents and southward penetration of Arctic water in the North Atlantic causing “Little Ice Ages” over northwestern Europe. At around 2040–2050 we will be in a new major Solar Minimum. It is to be expected that we will then have a new “Little Ice Age” over the Arctic and NW Europe. The mechanism proposed for the linkage of Solar activity with Earth’s rotation is the interaction of Solar Wind with the Earth’s magnetosphere; the decrease in Solar Wind at sunspot minima weakens the interaction with the magnetosphere that allows the Earth to speed up, and the increase in Solar Wind at sunspot maxima strengthens the interaction with the magnetosphere that slows down the spinning of the Earth.”
Eminent Russian space scientist, Habibullo Abdussamatov (Dr. Sc. – Head of Space research laboratory of the Pulkovo Observatory) wrote Optimal prediction of the peak of the next 11-year activity cycle and of the peaks of several succeeding cycles on the basis of long-term variations in the solar radius or solar constant in 2007, and his forecasts –to date– have proved accurate.
“We propose a new technique for the optimal prediction of the peak of the next 11-year activity cycle prior to the cycle beginning and of the peaks of several succeeding cycles on the basis of long-term variations in the solar radius or solar constant,” reads the opening lines of the paper’s Abstract.
Using this new technique, Abdussamatov predicted (back in 2007) that “the peak of the succeeding cycle 24 is expected to have the height W max = 70 ± 10 (in units of relative sunspot number)”–which turned out to be correct–“and the subsequent cycles 25 and 26 … will have still lower peaks with the heights W max = 50 ± 15 and W max = 35 ± 20″–this forecast would take us below Dalton Minimum levels.
“The Sun defines the climate, not carbon dioxide,” says Abdussamatov.
“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,” warns Abdussamatov.
“We should fear a deep temperature drop — not catastrophic global warming” he continues. “Humanity must survive the serious economic, social, demographic and political consequences of a global temperature drop, which will directly affect the national interests of almost all countries and more than 80% of the population of the Earth.”


Desperate scenes during the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715).

UPDATE (Aug, 2022):
And regardless of what the MSM is force-feeding the masses, or what the ‘official’ government data sets reveal–with their cherry-picking, UHI-ignoring biases–the global average temperature is beginning to fall, currently down some 0.35C since 2016, according to the satellites.

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Dr. Roy Spencer]

As Dr. Patrick Moore (co-founder of Greenpeace) said in his speech at the Water, Oceans and Wildlife Subcommittee hearing in 2019: “I’ve been watching this prediction of the Grand Solar Minimum for some time now, and now it’s coming to pass and so I’m willing to say that yes, it appears as though the Grand Solar Minimum is occurring and will continue to occur for some time, and will result in a cooling of the climate, which we see just in the last couple of years beginning to set in.”
Moore continued: “Indeed in the Arctic, the ice is more prevalent now than it has been in many years, at least fourteen. And so the trend is going in the opposite direction to the prediction of ever-increasing warmth and loss of ice. It’s long been stated that the sun is the main controller of the earth’s climate,” he concluded.

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

 

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Electroverse

Articles Extreme Weather
Colder-Than-Average Iceland; Skiing In Southern Africa; More Snow Down Under; + Farmers’ Almanac Foresees “Record-Breaking Cold” And “Snowy” U.S. Winter
August 8, 2022 Cap Allon
Colder-Than-Average Iceland
Iceland’s average temperature for July finished at 10C (50F), which was 0.4C below the multidecadal average.
This is quite a shift from July last year, which would up being Iceland’s warmest since 1933.



The image above shows Iceland’s average July temperatures extending back to 1822 (although years prior to 1874 are generally taken with a pinch of salt due to unreliability).
Still, the chart is fascinating as it clearly reveals a natural waxing and waning of the temperature over time: another perfect example of how climate on Earth, as with everything else, is cyclic, never linear.
The year 1933 –Iceland’s warmest July on record– signaled the peak of the prior warming cycle (prior to today’s) — one that began in 1890 and ran for a little over four decades. And after 1933, it was downhill until 1970 — another roughly 40 year spell.
It is my contention that Iceland’s modern warming spell ended last year, in 2021 — the nation’s warmest July since 1933.
This natural period of warming –driven primarily by the sun experiencing its highest output in millennia (the Modern Solar Maximum)– ran from 1970 to 2021, with a few bumps along the way (namely 1993 & 2015).
When looking at the 10-year average (green line), however, the peak likely occurred earlier, in 2008. This correlates with the onset of The Grand Solar Minimum with 2008 signalling the beginning of the historically weak Solar Cycle 24.
The temperature data prior 1874, although somewhat unreliable, shows another waxing and waning, meaning we have three identifiable warming and cooling episodes, all of similar length and with similarly-sized peaks and troughs.
We can speculate what comes next.
It’s likely already begun.

“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.”
Russian space scientist, Habibullo Abdussamatov

Last week, Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano erupted–for the second year in a row: another signal of low solar activity.
“Yesterday around 2 a.m. I was lucky to see the erupting volcano and noctilucent clouds (NLCs) for the first time ever!” said an excited Madelon Dielen, who captured this picture from the Reykjanes Peninsula:



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.

For more:


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.

Skiing In Southern Africa
Lesotho, a tiny mountain kingdom situated within South Africa, has an obscure geographical claim to fame: it is the only country on Earth where every inch of its territory sits more than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) above sea level.
Although cold winters aren’t all-that rare in southern Africa, snow most certainly is and ski resorts are even rarer.
At an altitude of 3,000 meters (9,842 feet), Afriski, situated in Lesotho’s Maluti Mountains, is Africa’s only operating ski resort south of the equator.


Heavy, fresh snow covers the Afriski ski resort, Lesotho, August 2022.

Thanks to an impressive blanket of snow, more competitors than ever lined up last month for the annual Winter Whip Slopestyle snowboard and ski competition at Afriski’s Kapoko Snow Park — the only freestyle snow park on the continent.
Ski instructor Meka Lebohang Ejindu has taught in Austria for more than a decade, but this is his first season in the southern hemisphere: “For a competition like this to happen in southern Africa is so heartwarming,” he said.
Although not quite at the level of Europe’s vast Alpine resorts, a love of winter sports is catching on at Afriski. This is thanks, at least in part, to the record snowfall observed in recent years, most notably the truly historic dumps (and chills) of 2021:

“Snowstorm in Africa!” — South Africa Smashes *an additional* 19 All-Time Low Temperature Records over the past 24 hours



“I have never had to drive through a snowstorm in Africa before.”
Heavy snow is continuing to fall across Lesotho, including into Monday morning at the Let’seng Diamond Mine…


The Reporter - Lesotho
@TheReporterLS
#LesothoSnow There was snow overnight at Let’seng Diamond Mine Monday 08 August. 2022 https://t.co/lU0XHXtE8a



12:51 AM · Aug 8, 2022
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ReenvalSA
@ReenvalSA
Snow over the Lesotho mountains yesterday.Sarel Roos Reënval in SA | Sneeu oor die Drakensberge in Lesotho afgeneem gister soos aangestuur en met erkenning aan Sarel Roos met toestemming vir gebruik https://t.co/Yd8zKIyJze



1:06 AM · Jul 29, 2022
…further inconveniences for the AGW Party.

continued below....

 

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Electroverse part two...

More Snow Down Under
Australia’s state of Victoria is on track to deliver its strongest ski season on record, reports theage.com.au. Early, record-setting snowfall allowed Victoria’s slopes to open weeks earlier that normal.
Australian Ski Areas Association chief executive Colin Hackworth said visitor numbers were expected to break records, which he is putting down to an early start combined with a keen desire for skiing following two years of pandemic-related restrictions.
“It’s a recipe for better times,” he said.
Hackworth, buyoed by mid-range weather forecasts, said he expected the solid attendances to continue through to September.
“The season’s already mapped out now,” he said. “It’s going to be really good right to the end.”
Major Victorian ski resorts have the ability to generate their own snow, used to bolster natural accumulations. But Mt Buller communications manager Rhylla Morgan said more than a meter (3.3 feet) of natural snow had already fallen by mid-June–a record-breaking amount–which allowed the resort to open its fields earlier than normal and without the need for snowmaking.


Mt Buller
@mtbuller
It’s official: the DEEPEST #snow for Opening Weekend ON RECORD #nevermissamoment #ski #skiing #snowboard #snowboarding #weather #snowfall https://t.co/WyDvQhIey3



12:04 AM · Jun 11, 2022
NEVER let the AGW Party–working in cahoots with their mainstream media lapdogs–forget how catastrophically, woefully and embarrassingly inaccurate their agenda-based prophesies of the past have turned out to be:


A 2012 article from The Australian prophesying ‘no more snow by 2020’.

As hinted at earlier, Australia’s snowy conditions are set to continue.
Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) forecaster Matthew Thomas said there more snowfall is likely on Monday, followed heavier accumulations from Thursday, mostly at the higher resorts, including Mount Buller, Falls Creek and Mouth Hotham.
“It’s good news if you’re out wanting to ski,” he said.
Switching attention to Western Australia, a wintry mix of hail, blustery thunderstorms and even a second round of rare snow flurries in as many weeks are on the cards, as the south-west corner of the state, including Perth, braces for what could be its coldest temperatures in years.
A gusty cold front reached Perth just before midday on Monday, reports abc.net.au, one that is now set to sweep over the remainder of the South West Land Division into the evening.
BoM senior forecaster Caroline Crow said WA’s latest cold front would be followed by yet another pool of Antarctic air on Tuesday, which would send maximum temperatures plummeting and deliver damaging hail to a large area of the state.
“Broadly speaking,” said Crow, “it’s the coldest outbreak for the south-west of the state that we’re looking at for this season so far, given the region of hail potential which is quite far inland.”

Crow added that maximum temperatures would hold as much as six degrees Celsius below the norm on Tuesday, with temperatures in the Great Southern region struggling to reach the low teens–potentially record-breaking.
The polar blast could mean additional snow on Bluff Knoll, in the Stirling Ranges–for the second time in a fortnight.


Weatherzone
@weatherzone
Could it snow in #WesternAustralia again this year? Check out this cold front arriving in southwestern Australia today! This system will cause a wintry mix of rain, hail, thunderstorms and possibly even #snow during the next 24-48 hours. WA snow potential as wintry weather arrives from today https://t.co/YPk7QbfkL7



11:34 PM · Aug 7, 2022
Farmers’ Almanac Foresees “Record-Breaking Cold” And “Snowy” U.S. Winter
The Farmers’ Almanac has released is extended 2022-23 winter forecast.
Unlike the Old Farmers’ Almanac, which bases its weather predictions on a combination of animal signals, chicken bones, pig spleens, and other weather lore, the Farmers’ Almanac bases its outlook on a “mathematical and astronomical formula” dating back to 1818 that takes sunspot activity and other astronomical anomalies into account.
The outlook is calling for “unreasonably cold” and “snowy” conditions across much of the U.S., especially come January, but it foresees an earlier start to winter, too.
“December 2022 looks stormy and cold nationwide with an active storm pattern developing and hanging around for most of the season over the eastern half of the country,” reads The Farmers’ Almanac report.
The Almanac continues, calling for a record-breaking 40F-below-zero across parts of the country, especially the North Central United States–the coldest Arctic outbreak in years; but even Gulf states are expected to be chilly, wet and slushy.
“According to our extended forecasts, this winter season will have plenty of snow, rain, and mush—as well as some record-breaking cold temperatures! We are warning readers to get ready to shake, shiver, and shovel!”
Snow lovers will be happy in the Ohio Valley, Great Lakes states and North Central states, which will see “a fair amount of storminess during the winter season”. Even South Central states could see accumulating, record-threatening accumulations.
“The big takeaway for our winter season forecast is that frigid temperatures should flow into many areas nationwide”:


The Farmer’s Almanac 2022-2023 winter season calls for record-breaking cold temperatures of -40F.


Time, of course, will tell how the Almanac’s predictions fair, but the clock is ‘tick-ticking’ down. Fall arrives next month, and it could signal the beginning of a fierce, long-lasting wintry season of debilitating cold compounded by energy and food shortages.
As is always my advice: prepare, and stay free.

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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Article on the effect of shortages of fodder due to drought is below.

We've been in a drought since early June in our area of Texas. A good chunk of Texas was lucky to get their first hay cutting this spring. It is unlikely that we'll see a second cut (normally 3-4 cuts can be harvested). Texas is one of those states where many cattle ranchers are having to liquidate or at least downsize their herds. I've seen one very large chunk of acreage planted in cotton, but it doesn't look like it will be productive. The domino effects of this drought year will be significant.

French Farmers' Union Official Warns Of Milk Shortage | ZeroHedge

French Farmers' Union Official Warns Of Milk Shortage
BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, AUG 08, 2022 - 05:55 AM

The president of the largest farmers' union in France has warned that a shortage of feedstock caused by severe drought may lead to a milk shortage.


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"I think that in the coming months, we will have a shortage of milk in France. To make milk, you need fodder, mainly alfalfa and corn, which have grown little this year," said Yannick Fialip, president of the economic commission of the FNSEA and a breeder (translated).

According to Fialip, during normal seasons animals are typically grazing in the meadows this time of year. Thanks to severe drought, however, "It is necessary to bring fodder stored this spring, which was intended to feed the animals in winter, which is used from July and August."

"This severe drought brings together two conditions: a significant lack of rain and very high temperatures which had a "hair-drying" effect on the plants which dried out many plants, especially all that is fodder. We had to harvest very early, especially corn." -Yannick Fialip

He also noted that the state does provide a "calamity fund" which helps breeders to buy fodder by splitting the cost, and which many breeders have tapped with success.

That said, Fialip also notes that the price of milk paid to breeders in France is 20% lower vs. other European countries, and he's calling for a measure to "better renumerate our breeders, which would allow them to have better cash flow and ensure the sustainability of the sector," because "there is a big risk that some breeders will decide to decapitalize their livestock in the face of this situation."

 

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Greenland Is *GAINING* Ice In The Middle Of Summer
August 9, 2022 Cap Allon
The summer of 2022 has delivered colder-than-average temperatures across Greenland, readings well-below the multidecadal norm.
The latest data point from the Danish Meteorological Institute, an agency charged with tracking Greenland’s Surface Mass Balance (SMB)–a calculation used to determine the ‘health’ of a glacier–shows impressive GAINS across the ice sheet.
We’re in the middle of summer. Moreover, we’re in the middle of the summer of 2022; by now, according to AGW Party scripture, Greenland should be ice-free and, as a result, coastal cities around the globe should be submerged:
NASA’s James Edward Hansen, ‘the father of global warming’, is on record as saying, back in 1989: “The West Side Highway [of New York City, which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water [by 2009!]” due to glacial melting. Hanson continued, doubling down on the absurdities: “There will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change.”
“The greenhouse effect is here,” was the pronouncement from Hansen a year prior, during his 1988 Congressional testimony on man-made global warming–an announcement that “shook the political establishment,” according to grist.org. George H. W. Bush, in the middle of a heated presidential campaign, vowed to use “the White House effect to battle the greenhouse effect.”
Hansen told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that there is only a “1 percent chance” that he is wrong in blaming rising temperatures around the world on the buildup of man-made gases in the atmosphere.
A 1 percent chance that he is wrong? In a field as complex and unknown as Earth’s climate? When many of his peers and even colleagues at the time were already casting doubt on his assumptions and “leaps”, as they called them?
Something was off from the very start.
And indeed, ever-since Hansen’s 1988 Congressional testimony, real world observation after real world observation, and dataset after dataset has seen the unlikely play out: that ‘one-in-a-hundred chance’ that Hansen was wrong.
Returning to the Greenland, SUMMER GAINS have been reported this week–a rare occurrence.
Ordinarily in early-August, the Greenland ice sheet will see daily SMB LOSES of approximately 4 gigatons. On Monday, August 8, however, the world’s largest island, doomed by relentless propagandizing for decades now, saw a 0.5 gigaton gain:



Taking a closer look, also apparent is that the ice the summer of 2022 is fairing incredibly well, holding above the 1981-2010 mean (grey line) for the past three months, barring a few brief dips in July:

There is nothing concerning, let alone alarming, occurring on Greenland.
Despite this irrefutable fact, however, below is how the establishment and their MSM lapdogs have chosen to report on events this summer–and once again, they’ve resorted to using dumb, decontextualized headlines because the alternative –showing the actual data– would surely raise the eyebrows of even the most proselytized alarmist.
CNN–who’s surprised, not me–state in an article dated July 20: “The amount of ice that melted in Greenland between July 15 and 17 was enough to fill 7.2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools, or cover the entire state of West Virginia with a foot of water.”
They even have a quote from cLiMaTe ScIeNtIsT Ted Scambos: “The northern melt this past week is not normal, looking at 30 to 40 years of climate averages. But melting has been on the increase, and this event was a spike in melt.”
SCAMbos is talking about this period of melting, circled below:


Small SMB loses make international news.

I don’t know what they’re paying him, or perhaps it’s simply the case that Scumbos doesn’t have the scientific chops to evaluate the data, but it’s mid-summer on the Greenland ice sheet, the height of the ‘melt season’, the event circled above, that made international news, was entirely normal, utterly uneventful–I mean, what are cLiMaTe ScIeNtIsTs expecting during the summer, SMB gains…?


Large SMB gains are ignored.

Gains at this time of year are not normal, nor uneventful.
And what they also do–along with tearing the CAGW hypotheses to shreds–is reveal something deeply sinister about the legacy media. If these institutions had even a modicum of interest in reporting the truth, they’d be all over yesterday’s event, asking honest questions and perhaps even questioning the ‘global heating’ theory altogether.
Of course, said SMB gains do not serve their narrative, and reporting honestly on them would risk stopping, for even the briefest of moments, the intravenous dispensation of fear, which needs to be constantly administered to the masses in order to have the desired effect.
This is what the MSM are tasked with nowadays, perhaps it’s always been the case: a population forever scared, always looking over their shoulder for the next ‘catastrophe’ that’s going to sneak up and ruin them are far easier to keep under the thumb, to marshal, to own, and also to convince that injecting themselves–and even their young children!–with an experimental gene therapy created and marketed by a company charged with the largest criminal fine in U.S. history is not only a great idea but also that all those that refuse or even question said procedure are moronic and a danger to the health of humanity; and other such absurdities, such as eradicating a cheap and reliable fuel source for a wholly-inadequate replacement in the name of ‘saving the world’s glaciers’:


Acc. SMB in 2022 (blue line) is tracking well-above the 1981-2010 mean (grey line) [DMI].

Doubly-frustratingly for the AGW Party, the summer of 2022 isn’t an anomaly; rather, it looks to be another signal within a larger ‘shift’. Since 2016, the ice sheet has been faring incredibly well, according to DMI data:

Here’s the 2016-2017 season:

SMB 2016 – 2017 [DMI]

And here’s 2017-2018:

SMB 2017 – 2018 [DMI]

And 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 supertanker stuck in ice, 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-driven drivel, you need look no further than their “official” reporting of the Greenland ice sheet–the poster boy 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. In reality, though, I fear that bigger issues will dominate people’s lives when the Climate Crisis narrative comes crashing down.
I worry that we the masses will be drowning in an orchestrated sea of misery by then, contending with the controlled demolition of society which will see us struggle to even source enough food for our tables, let alone have the funds to be able to afford it.
I believe energy rationing will begin proper this winter (Europe is already cutting its gas usage) and will result in blackouts and the most vulnerable freezing to death in their homes.
They are destroying ALL supply chains, by design. People must recognize this because the implications will be unavoidable: whoever you are and wherever you are (excluding the <1%), a Great Depression is coming, followed by a Great Reset in which a new totalitarian financial system will be rolled-out where “you will own nothing, and will be happy”–or else!
And so it stands, if a blockchain-based Central Bank Digital Currency, a Digital ID and a Universal Basic Income payment determined by a Social Credit Score are not your ideas of Utopia then speak and stand up now, awaken those around you from their entranced state of Mass Formation and induced state of fear before it’s too late, before the hammer falls and we’re enslaved forever with our only hope being some cosmological intervention from the heavens, such as a direct hit from a X-Flare CME which will knock-out the power at a global level and put a stop to Central Bank’s dreams of a totalitarian technocracy and digitization of the human race.

 

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Articles Extreme Weather
Snow Falls In The Stirling Range As Antarctic Blast Sweeps Western Australia; “Boomer Season” Keeps New Zealand Ski Fields Open For An Extra Week; + Brits Braced For Winter Blackouts, Gov Draws-Up Emergency Plan
August 10, 2022 Cap Allon
Snow Falls In The Stirling Range As Antarctic Blast Sweeps Western Australia
As forecast, snow settled on the Stirling Range, Western Australia on Tuesday after upper-level air temperatures cooled dramatically and created almost ideal conditions for flurries.
Uploads to social media show large amounts of snow covering the ground of Bluff Knoll, as a thick fog lingers:


Last year, snow was recorded at least five times in the Stirling Range, equaling the all-time record set 53 years ago — a data point serving as yet another signal that Earth’s climate is cooling.

“Boomer Season” Keeps New Zealand Ski Fields Open For An Extra Week
New Zealand’s southern ski fields are lapping up the high visitor numbers and will stay open an extra week thanks to a healthy covering of snow.
Coronet Peak and Treble Cone have decided to give themselves an extra week, and will close on Oct 2.
Coronet Peak general manager Nigel Kerr said the decision was an easy one: “We’ve had a boomer of a season, there is no doubt about it, the 75th year is going to be very memorable one for snowfall and the amount of skiers up the hill, among other things.”
Kerr concluded: “It is very close to a record season if not, it certainly it has been our best season in quite some time.”


Coronet Peak is looking at a record-breaking “boomer season”.

Looking ahead, and across the country, MetService has warned New Zealanders to brace themselves for the “coldest week of the year” as record-challenging, sub-zero temperatures, additional snowfall, and heavy rain are readying to strike.
Lows of -8.1C, -6C and -5.7C have already been logged Manapouri, Lumsden, and Alexandra, respectively–on Monday–and there’s much more to come, warned MetService in a tweet:





MetService
@MetService
Here are the temperatures recorded at 7am this morning. Also worth noting that overnight Manapouri got down to -7.7C, Lumsden -6C, and Alexandra -5.6C. Expect it to be even colder over the South Island tomorrow morning. Check the forecast here https://t.co/Yjbq0jgaoz. ^SG https://t.co/NY0A83EdT0



4:04 PM · Aug 8, 2022
https://twitter.com/intent/like?ref...9104widget=Tweet&tweet_id=1556733107990319104


Elsewhere, storms generated 261 lightning strikes across the Auckland region on Tuesday morning alone:

261 lightning strikes hit Auckland on Monday morning.

Due to the benchmark-challenging cold, New Zealand’s Transpower has called on energy companies to fire-up more generation this week after cautioning that it only has a small buffer to cope with what could be a record peak demand.
The state-owned enterprise issued a “customer advice notice” to power companies on Tuesday urging them to provide more electricity to the market between 7.30am and 9am on Friday.
“With the cold snap worsening and moving north over the country to higher population centers, we are now predicting that Friday morning could potentially see a record morning peak,” said general manager of operations Stephen Jay.
“We have also been consulting closely with the MetService, which is forecasting very little wind on Friday morning, which would mean the amount of electricity generated from wind would be much smaller than expected.”
Transpower last issued a customer advice notice in early July when generation was also looking tight. And in June, it issued a rare grid emergency notice after a mechanical failure halved the output from one of the turbines at the Huntly Power Station and a sudden drop in wind speeds combined to leave generation 315MW lower than expected.
In both cases, power cuts were avoided, but the episodes expose the unreliability of wind generated power.

Brits Braced For Winter Blackouts, Gov Draws-Up Emergency Plan
On the topic of energy woes, the UK government (and indeed governments across much of mainland Europe) are preparing their citizens for a tough winter of energy rationing and–depending on how cold it gets–prolonged blackouts.
Warning of this eventuality for the past few years has seen me labeled all sorts of things, but now we’re here — the “impossible” is upon us; that is to say, suicidal energy policies, devised by green-hamstrung politicians duped into thinking the planet needs saving, have come home to roost.
‘They’–those individuals who collectively hold authority over our lives–have played a blinder.
While governments and citizens alike have been distracted by an exaggerated pandemic, a proxy U.S./Russia conflict, and heatwaves during the summer–fancy that–there have been far more pervasive threats lurking: food and energy shortages.
To blame listed distractions for these shortages is folly; rather, the root cause of this fast-approaching humanitarian disaster is the decades of painfully-stupid environmental policies rolled-out across the Western World by puppet politicians groomed and put in place by the WEF. All the aforementioned distractions have done is exasperate and quicken the orchestrated collapse, rather than instigate it.
Focusing on energy, the UK is bracing itself for the potentially deadly combination of Arctic outbreaks and gas shortages this winter. The gov has drawn up plans that involve organized blackouts for both industry and even households come January.
Under the government’s revised “reasonable worst-case scenario,” Britain is facing a severe electricity capacity shortfall, even after emergency coal plants have been fired up.
The scenario foresees below-average temperatures and reduced electricity imports from Norway and France triggering the emergency plan to conserve gas, according to sources close to the government–although the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
As a further slap in the face, the blackouts would come as Brits face soaring annual energy bills which are set to rise above £4,200 ($5,086) for the first time from <£2,000 currently–which is already crippling high–stoking already soaring inflation.
The colder the winter the increasingly reliant Britain will be on pipeline shipments of gas from mainland Europe, where supplies are already tight as Moscow curbs flows. The UK has very little domestic storage capacity, renewables are failing, and it has only kept a handful of coal-fired plants as a backup.
As reported by bloomberg.com, the UK’s main fall-back option was to restore its biggest natural gas storage site, ‘Rough’. However, owner of the site, Centrica Plc, says its initial return to service this winter would equate to just 10 LNG cargoes, not enough to make a significant difference. Furthermore, the nation will also face stiff international competition for cargoes of liquefied natural gas meaning securing imports will be at an extortionate cost resulting in consumer bills firing even higher.
Another likelihood is that electricity supplied along huge cables connecting the UK to France, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands will be curtailed. Norway announced, on Monday, that it will have to limit power exports this winter to prevent domestic shortages.
France’s nuclear fleet is also threatening to prioritize domestic security, which is fair enough. Usually a power exporter, less than half of France’s reactors are currently running with maintenance and repairs taking longer than expected, which, if you prescribe to the idea that this is ‘controlled demolition of civilization’, as I do, raises eyebrows (brows that have now traversed the top of my head and relocated to the back of neck).
The first stage of the UK’s emergency plan involves the network operator redirecting flows of gas, temporarily overriding commercial agreements, a government source said, asking not to be identified because ‘the information is private’.

The second stage involves halting supplies to gas-fired power stations, triggering planned blackouts for industry and domestic users alike. This is a genuinely scary prospect, particularly if this winter sees a run of Arctic outbreaks which is made more probably given the prolonged period of historically low solar activity we currently find ourselves in.
A slumberous weakens the jet streams, reverting their usual straight ZONAL flow to more of a wavy MERIDIONAL one (this setup also explains how July’s toasty African plume managed to ride so far north):



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’.


Bolster your personal energy security now, Brits.
The government does not have this one under control. It cannot magic energy, or indeed food, out of thin air, it cannot propagandize you into feeling warm — ‘global warming’ will seem but a distant, abstract ideology come January.
The UK has resigned itself to the status of ‘cog’ within the globalist machine; it is now a nation devoid of nationalism, of security: it is a country reliant on the wider community in order for it to function properly, which is problematic come times of trouble.
These backward steps are true of most developed nations, of course, as the WEF has worked, over the past few decades, to infuse its destructive ideals deep into the majority of Western political structures.
And so it stands in these times of trouble, those with are hording, and those without are left fighting over table scraps.
To the individual: buy a backup generator, fuel, a gas heater, blankets, and those little had warmer thingies where you snap the disk. Stock it all and then hope for the best, hope that the worst that this coming Grand Solar Minimum has to offer will buffet another region of the Northern Hemisphere and spare a wholly unprepared UK.

Good luck.

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).

 

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Rare Summer Snow Hits Alaska; Bering Strait Sea Ice Refuses To Melt; + NASA/NOAA Erase The Arctic’s 1940s “Warming Blip”
August 11, 2022 Cap Allon
Rare Summer Snow Hits Alaska
Unusual summer flurries have settled in Denali, South-Central Alaska this week where the mercury has been holding some -6C below the climatological norm.
According to climate specialist Rick Thoman, “an inch or two of slushy snow” accumulated near the Denali NPS Headquarters on Tuesday morning, which “would appear to be the fourth occurrence on record, since 1923, of accumulating [summer] snow at the HQ.”


Rare summer snow at Denali NPS HQ, Alaska, Aug 9, 2022.

Bering Strait Sea Ice Refuses To Melt
And while we’re up in these northern reaches, let’s note another rare feat: Summer Sea Ice in the Bering Strait.
On August 9–the latest data point–ice has remained along the north Chukotka coast thanks, in part, to persistent chills and north winds. The ice has now even shifted south of East Cape, as visualized by NOAA20’s VIIRS false color image:



Northern Hemisphere sea ice has held strong during 2022.
It has refused to melt not only as scheduled by the season but also as demanded by AGW Party scripture.
Wherever you look–whether that be Alaska, the Arctic, or Greenland–sea ice this summer is proving very robust and stubborn.
Taking Greenland, for example, the ice sheet actually saw snow/ice GAINS on Monday, Aug 8 — a reality that the MSM–no surprise–has refused to report on, despite its rarity and despite its obvious signal that the end may not be so nigh, after all:

Greenland Is *GAINING* Ice In The Middle Of Summer

NASA/NOAA Erase The Arctic’s 1940s “Warming Blip”
The evidence suggests that NASA/NOAA have been cooling the past in order to fabricated/exaggerate a warming trend, all in a desperate attempt to prop-up their failing AGW hypothesis.
Also, why are the scientists at the heart of the AGW Party so desperate to evade scrutiny at all costs? What do they have to hide?
To that point, watch the awkward interview with NASA’s Gavin Schmidt embedded below.
Schmidt only agreed to speak if it “wasn’t a debate”.
And while I urge you watch the entire video, particularly the parts with the excellent Dr Roy Spencer (a real climate scientist btw), skip to 2:00 and then to 6:30 if you’re interested in Schmidt’s embarrassing “la la la–fingers in ears” evading tactics.

So NASA refuses to debate an issue which supposedly negatively impacts every living organism on the planet. And 2013 should be considered ‘the good old days’! Now, the climate hucksters have worked a position where so-called “skeptics” (such as Dr Spencer) have no platform at all. Today, even this kind of non-debate would never be agreed to.
Turning to the ever-mounting case against NASA/NOAA–namely with regards to their temperature graphs–they probably have good reason to evade scrutiny.
Serving as just one example, “government agencies have been erasing the 1940s warmth in the Eastern Arctic for decades,” writes Tony Heller.
This is what the raw data for Iceland’s capital Reykjavík looks like:


[Measured – NASA]

And this is what the data looks like after NASA made its ‘adjustments’:


[NASA link removed]

Note the tactic: cool the past in order to fabricate a warming trend where there was none before:


A comparison [NASA link removed]

NASA’s removing of the 1940s warmth–without any justification–was discussed by the world’s leading climate experts in this Climategate email:



Those at the Icelandic Met Office (IMO) couldn’t understand this ‘historical tampering’.
Trausti Jónsson, senior meteorologist at the IMO wrote in 2012 that his office was never advised as to the reason for them.
Furthermore, Jónsson said the temperature corrections “are grossly in error in the case of Reykjavík…” And when asked if the IMO intended to modify its data to match that of NASA’s/NOAA’s, Jónsson replied with a succinct: “no”.
Years later, Jónsson–rather suspiciously–flipped his story, going from “the corrections are grossly in error” to “the adjustments are quite sound” — and absolutely no explanation for this change of heart was given.
Equally suspicious, following the kickback received for their Icelandic temperature tampering debacle, Schmidt and his merry band of NASA frauds quietly stopped adjusting Reykjavík’s data, without comment–thus confirming that the removal of the 1940s warmth was without justification.
Such temperature ‘adjustments’ aren’t just confined to the Eastern Arctic, of course.
Government book-cooking encompasses the entire globe.
Back in 1999, NASA’s graphs showed, unambiguously, that there was no net global warming from 1866 to 1976, and also that 1877 was the warmest year during that interval:


Archived version linked here.

Note also that NASA’s 1999 graph looks nothing like Michael Mann’s infamous hockey stick blade, where Mann ‘appears’ a roughly 0.4C net warming from 1866 to 1976:



This, once again, deserves explanation; but, once again, NASA/NOAA proved none.

Don’t fall for ‘warm-mongering’ political agendas supported ONLY by questionable datasets–at best.
Not least when the future, according to the real, objective science–which looks at solar activity and other cosmological forcings–suggests something more like the below is on the cards; the next Grand Solar Minimum — the Modern “Eddy” Minimum — the return of the COLD TIMES:

 

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From my email inbox The Old Farmer's Almanac August 11 2022

 

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Articles Crop Loss Extreme Weather
Cold Records Fall In Western Australia As Rare Third La Niña Builds; 4 Feet Of Snow Forecast For Southern Andes; Bermuda And Puerto Rico Chill; + Global Grain Stocks Cut (again)
August 12, 2022 Cap Allon
Cold Records Fall In Western Australia…
The Antarctic air currently residing over Western Australia has resulted in a host of busted temperature records.
Benchmarks for ‘lowest maximum temperatures’ have been tumbling this week.
In Telfer, for example, located at 21S, record-low highs of between 9C (48.2F) and 12C (53.2F) have been noted.
While snow has settled on the Stirling Range:

Snow Falls In The Stirling Range As Antarctic Blast Sweeps Western Australia; “Boomer Season” Keeps New Zealand Ski Fields Open For An Extra Week; + Brits Braced For Winter Blackouts, Gov Draws-Up Emergency Plan

…As Rare Third La Niña Build
There remain vast areas of the central/astern Pacific Ocean experiencing below average sea surface temperatures. Patterns there remain quite ‘La Niña like’ and are well-placed to fire us back into full-blown La Nina conditions.
Some models put a 65% chance on this occurring, which is significant, and would result in a rare triple La Niña event (the fourth since 1900).
Stronger than usual easterly trade winds have continued across much of the western Pacific this southern hemisphere winter–a pattern typical with La Nina–which points to a higher potential for moisture to push in from the Pacific Ocean along the east coast as we move towards Australia’s spring.
Also, La Niña looks set to combine with a negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IDO)–peak due Sept/Oct–which bolsters the chances of a wetter than usual spring Down Under: a strong negative IDO typically correlate with an earlier start to the storm season.
Sky News Australia puts it bluntly: “it’s wet and it’s going to stay wet for at least another six months.”
The Bureau of Meteorology declared the most recent event over in June; however, as is often the case when it comes to the BoM, Mother Nature is doing the opposite — the rain has kept coming and the Pacific has cooled again during the past few weeks.
The atmosphere is responding to the change in ocean temperatures, and, as discussed above, all major Pacific indicators are signalling La Niña, including:


* SSTs below average
* Trade winds stronger than normal with cloud cover near International Dateline below normal
* Southern Oscillation Index is strongly positive and well beyond the La Niña threshold
* Sub-surface Pacific temperatures are cooling

It’s no surprise then that the US’s NOAA along with Japanese agencies have set the Pacific status at a rare third La Niña. Indeed, the oceanic phenomenon likely spells larger headaches for meteorologists, and indeed authorities, across the northern hemisphere: La Niña’s are linked to colder-than-average winters with increased snowfall across much of the NH, including North America and Europe–something the EU will be praying to doesn’t manifest given its particularly-dire energy outlook.

Bermuda And Puerto Rico Chill
July 2022 in Bermuda finished with an average temperature of 27.2C (81F), which is -0.2C below the 1971-2000 baseline (a historically cold era).
And similarly in Puerto Rico, located a 10-hour flight to the south, the Caribbean island and unincorporated U.S. territory averaged 83F (28.3C), which is -0.3F below the multidecadal average.

4 Feet Of Snow Forecast For Southern Andes
A monstrous winter storm is on track to slam into the southern Andes today, lasting into next week. By Tuesday, most ranges and resorts will see snow totals of 4+ feet, with some spots expecting 6+ feet.
Large, deep troughs are rotating a series of four shortwave troughs over the Southern halves of Argentina and Chile, each rich with subtropical moisture and all subject to pooling polar air–a combination which threatens to fuel a record-breaking snow event.
The initial shortwaves pushed into the region Thursday, and have already delivered dense snow to high and low elevations alike. Directly behind the first wave is an even colder airmass, on course to push in early Friday and stay in place through the weekend.
The second shortwave will have arrived by Friday morning. It will combine with the initial waves and frigid air to deliver a greater moisture surge. This see more widespread snow sweep the southern Andes.
The third shortwave trough will bring yet more heavy and widespread snow Saturday through Sunday; while the fourth and final shortwave will rotate through Monday, which looks to be a case of saving the best until last. The finale will pack the biggest punch,the wave looks to have the most moisture of the series and, as a result, threanes to dump the heaviest accumulations.
As reported by snowbrains.com, the four major global deterministic models –the ECMWF, GFS, GDPS, and ICON– and their ensemble counterparts are putting the ‘bullseye’ just to the northeast of Gulf de Ancud:


Southern South America ECMWF Snowfall Map, through Aug 14, 2022 [map.weatherbell.com].

Looking further ahead, additional rounds of heavy snowfall are on the cards next week as another polar trough looms.
All of this snow will undoubtedly send records tumbling, just as the accumulations did last month, an all; totals that helped drive South America’s snow extent to all-time highs:

South America Snow Extent At All-Time Highs — A Forerunner For The Coming Northern Hemisphere Winter

Also worth mentioning: Argentina’s entire Autumn season (March-April-May) was the nation’s coldest since 1976 (solar minimum of weak cycle 20), and those anomalous chills–and the snow flurries they’re causing–have clearly persisted into winter and aren’t set to abate anytime soon.
These are realities the MSM purposefully ignore.
The likes of CNN and the BBC, et al., go out of their way to assure such inconvenient climatic phenomena go unreported. This further misinform a public already blinded to the natural ‘balancing act’ our planet routinely plays: hot in one region (Western Europe, for example), and fiercely cold in another (most recently, South America).
The problem for the AGW Party, however, is that they’re having to ignore pretty much ALL of the southern hemisphere this winter, because wherever you look, from South America to Australia, SH landed masses, and indeed the oceans, are experiencing historic and prolonged chills.

Is Australia Experiencing A ‘Volcanic Winter’?

The mainstream media’s aim–their order received from ‘on high’–is to make the general population fearful of standard summer heat, to condition them into believing that heatwaves are a new, increasingly-destructive climatic phenomenon.
This is patently untrue, of course, as revealed by the data. Heatwaves are most certainly not new; and in any case, Western Europe’s high temperatures over the past few weeks can be explained by an African plume riding anomalous far north on the back of a weak and wavy ‘Meridional‘ jet stream flow which itself is the result of a bout of historically low solar activity.
To that point, EVERYTHING can be explained by natural forcings — Brothers Grimm fairy-tales are not required, nor are the wholly deficient yet economically painful environmental policies enforced by green-hamstrung politicians, policies that do nothing but transfer yet more wealth ‘up’.
This is seemingly their end goal: to price the middle class out of existence.
They want a two-tier economy: the 99% vs 1%.

Global Grain Stocks Cut (again)
Food shortages, in combination with an energy crisis, are the key components in their aforementioned plot. A population on its knees, hungry and cold, will dutifully accept any new system put in front of it, no matter how draconian: if it fills their bellies and sees the energy flow again then it’ll simply be a case of, “Where do I sign? Be damned with the small print!”.

Wheat
Agricensus’ monthly survey of analysts has seen global ending stocks (for wheat) nudge lower, again. Globally, on average, analysts polled are projecting stocks to continue to decrease, by 100,000 mt to 267 million mt.
In the US, and ahead of the latest USDA’s crop report (due to be released 12:00 ET Aug 12), the winter wheat harvest was reported as being 86% complete as of the week ending Aug 7, which is behind the 94% during the same week last year. While elsewhere, the spring wheat crop harvest was reported at 9% complete, down from 35% in 2021.
Turning attention to the Black Sea.
While the media made much of the first grain-filled vessel setting off from the Ukraine since February, the payload has been rejected after inspection at its destined port — the grain was found to be black and moldy and not even suitable for animal feed.
At 81.5 million mt, the USDA’s outlook for Russian wheat production also continues to look poor, where cold and wet conditions continue to hamper the yield. The harvest is also running well behind schedule due to the inclement weather.

Corn
Switching back to the United States, but focusing now on corn, the USDA is set to further downgrade US crop conditions and rein in its overall production figure in the days ahead as hot and dry conditions across the country’s main producing regions threaten immature crops that had a late start due to a persistently-frigid spring.
“West-central areas will see limited rain for the corn belt,” Terry Reilly, senior grain and oilseed commodity analyst at Futures International, told Agricensus. “We expect to see western corn belt states post a decline in good/excellent ratings,” he added.
Nationally, corn conditions were noted at 58% in good-to-excellent condition in the week ended August 7; this is the with the USDA ‘holding back’ somewhat on the truth, too, as they often do in times of concern. But even with this unrealistic, rose-tinted picture, 58% is still down from the 61% that we were at last week, and down significantly from the 64% a year earlier.
Any reduction in corn production would have a negative impact on farmers raising livestock, market participants said. These regions are “feeding areas so the poorer crops there mean higher basis levels and pressure feed margins for cattle growers,” said Jeffrey McPike of McWheat Inc.

Enjoy your weekend.
Don’t underestimate the threat posed by this coming NH winter.
Prepare: stock up.

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).

 

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Ice Age Farmer

Jersey’s largest veg producer stops growing food — citing spiralling operational costs as the reason. They produced 80% of Jersey’s fresh vegetables. Now the island depends on UK produce and may see shortages of fresh vegetables, particularly in the winter months. “‘Obviously, it reduces food security because we lost our biggest vegetable producer,’ “

They have made it economically unviable to farm — part of the #WarOnFarms.

Island’s biggest vegetable producer ceases deliveries

Jersey Evening Post

Island’s biggest vegetable producer ceases deliveries

THE Island’s largest vegetable producer has made its final deliveries, ending a 135-year family farming tradition.Woodside Farms has produced 80% of Jersey’s fresh vegetables for seven years, since Amal-Gro ceased operations in 2015, and was the ...