principiascientificinternational--2020-04-16--Why Are Government Climate Models So Unreliable?

Why Are Government Climate Models So Unreliable ?
The first thing to know about global climate models ( GCMs ) is that they ’ re all government products , created by a small closed clique of govt.-funded lifers owned by the globalist Marxists centered in the U.N .
The U.N. extols its politician-run IPCC octopus of kept scientists , academics , journalists , and politicians , so no wonder they all closely track each other while all being wrong , with all 103 being off by over 2 sigma in the warming direction .
No surprise , they all try @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grid of elements , often 100,000 , and lamely try to use supercomputers to advance the elements in time via patchwork physics , some based on parameterization not equations because the physical phenomena take place in a smaller volume than the elements .
That brings up the question of how they initialize all the elements , namely , by taking a small motley collection of data points and interpolating .
Too bad , they all buy the CO2 AGW hoax , with subroutines that automatically throw the models off in the direction of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it and diverge from reality , which doesn ’ t bother the IPCC but rather pleases it so that the climate agitprop octopus can go to work with climate alarmist stories to make the cash registers ring .
It ’ s pure GIGO – garbage in , garbage out .
Oops , there ’ s one that doesn ’ t track the others because it discounts the fake warming effect of CO2 , and it comes from Moscow .
Here ’ s one of the IPCC publications touting their GCMs : Climate models @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In 2017 American climatologist Judith A. Curry published the report “ Climate Models for the Layman ” , concluding that global climate models ( GCMs ) are “ not fit for the purpose of justifying political policies to fundamentally alter world social , economic and energy systems ” for the reasons that : “ GCMs have not been subject to the rigorous verification and validation that is the norm for engineering and regulatory science ” ; “ There are valid concerns about a fundamental lack of predictability in the complex nonlinear climate system @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supporting the conclusion that climate models are not fit for the purpose of identifying with high confidence the proportion of the 20th century warming that was human-caused as opposed to natural ” ; “ There is growing evidence that climate models predict too much warming from increased atmospheric carbon dioxide ” ; “ The climate model simulation results for the 21st century reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) do not include key elements of climate variability , and hence are not useful as projections for how the 21st @ @ @ @ @ @ @ basic reason that IPCC-backed GCMs are always wrong is their attempt to push the hoax that atmospheric CO2 doesn ’ t just help the rest of the atmosphere cool the Earth ’ s surface after the Sun heats it , but somehow sends the heat back down and actually heats it up , in violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics .
Here ’ s a quote straight from NASA ’ s Web site : Any so-called climate scientist who doesn ’ t disavow this moose hockey isn ’ t fit to shine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ give their degrees back and find another more useful career like pipefitting or hairstyling .
Yet the fake field of “ climate science ” is going gangbusters , hitching its wagon to IPCC ’ s star as it rakes in billions and has its sights set on trillions .
No surprise , since it ’ s pushing a blatant scientific hoax the IPCC has long had a stranglehold on academia and academic journals , closing off outside input in their cozy kept world of true believers in so-called anthropogenic global warming ( AGW @ @ @ @ @ @ @ control .
It ’ s pure corruption of science for political motives with the goal of foisting world govt.
, as proved by the way they jump to use the models to predict climate Armageddon way out decades ahead even though they have been patched over and over just to keep up with the past , worse than models of the stock market .
The only way to make progress now would be to throw all the models out and start over with new basic principles , and keep Marxism and its social @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BALL MUST READ : Environmentalism – Evidence Suggests It Was Always And Only About Achieving World Government The real skinny on today ’ s climate models is that due to the influence of the IPCC , funding for climate scientists has ballooned into the ballions , er , billions a year , and since there is no money in real climate research , which takes years sometimes , to get their piece of the pie now every climate scientist finds it easier to model some piece of the climate with a computer program @ @ @ @ @ @ @ produce any real information but pays well per hour .
On top of that , if they can get more powerful computers authorized to run their models , they can hope for pay increases .
And what ’ s really nice is that no matter how far off the models are , they never lose their jobs and just keep getting treated like sacred cows .
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( 2019 ) and Lewis & Curry ( 2018 ) NEW RESEARCH – NATURAL VARIABILITY NOT CO2 EXPLAINS SEVERE WEATHER from droughts , floods , hurricanes DECLINING since 1961 .
“ Cooling , Not Warming , Leads To Weather and Climate Instability.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Says New Study After 30 years of failed climate politics , let ’ s try science !
– Fabius Maximus website Let Experience be your Guide to Climate Science Climate Models Are Running Red Hot , and Scientists Don ’ t Know Why About the author : T L Winslow is a graduate of Electrical Engineering , University of Colorado , Boulder and former software engineer for McDonnell-Douglas .
He is a prolific writer , historian and researcher and edits and runs various websites including the Science & Technology Watch Blog and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL , legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes .
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Why Are Government Climate Models So Unreliable?
Written by TL Winslow
The first thing to know about global climate models (GCMs) is that they’re all government products, created by a small closed clique of govt.-funded lifers owned by the globalist Marxists centered in the U.N.
The U.N. extols its politician-run IPCC octopus of kept scientists, academics, journalists, and politicians, so no wonder they all closely track each other while all being wrong, with all 103 being off by over 2 sigma in the warming direction.
No surprise, they all try to reduce the gigantic atmosphere to a grid of elements, often 100,000, and lamely try to use supercomputers to advance the elements in time via patchwork physics, some based on parameterization not equations because the physical phenomena take place in a smaller volume than the elements.
That brings up the question of how they initialize all the elements, namely, by taking a small motley collection of data points and interpolating.
Too bad, they all buy the CO2 AGW hoax, with subroutines that automatically throw the models off in the direction of global warming, causing them to overestimate it and diverge from reality, which doesn’t bother the IPCC but rather pleases it so that the climate agitprop octopus can go to work with climate alarmist stories to make the cash registers ring. It’s pure GIGO – garbage in, garbage out.
Oops, there’s one that doesn’t track the others because it discounts the fake warming effect of CO2, and it comes from Moscow.
In short, climate modelers aren’t climate scientists, they’re overpaid gamers.
Here’s one of the IPCC publications touting their GCMs:
Climate models: An assessment of strengths and limitations
In 2017 American climatologist Judith A. Curry published the report “Climate Models for the Layman”, concluding that global climate models (GCMs) are “not fit for the purpose of justifying political policies to fundamentally alter world social, economic and energy systems” for the reasons that:
“GCMs have not been subject to the rigorous verification and validation that is the norm for engineering and regulatory science”;
“There are valid concerns about a fundamental lack of predictability in the complex nonlinear climate system”;
“There are numerous arguments supporting the conclusion that climate models are not fit for the purpose of identifying with high confidence the proportion of the 20th century warming that was human-caused as opposed to natural”;
“There is growing evidence that climate models predict too much warming from increased atmospheric carbon dioxide”;
“The climate model simulation results for the 21st century reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) do not include key elements of climate variability, and hence are not useful as projections for how the 21st century climate will actually evolve.”
The basic reason that IPCC-backed GCMs are always wrong is their attempt to push the hoax that atmospheric CO2 doesn’t just help the rest of the atmosphere cool the Earth’s surface after the Sun heats it, but somehow sends the heat back down and actually heats it up, in violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Here’s a quote straight from NASA’s Web site:
“The natural greenhouse effect raises the Earth’s surface temperature to about 15 degrees Celsius on average – more than 30 degrees warmer than it would be if it didn’t have an atmosphere. The amount of heat radiated from the atmosphere to the surface (sometimes called ‘back radiation’) is equivalent to 100 percent of the incoming solar energy. The Earth’s surface responds to the ‘extra’ (on top of direct solar heating) energy by raising its temperature.” – NASA Earth Observator Climate and Earth’s Energy Budget (Climate and Earth’s Energy Budget)
Any so-called climate scientist who doesn’t disavow this moose hockey isn’t fit to shine shoes in a subway, and should give their degrees back and find another more useful career like pipefitting or hairstyling. Yet the fake field of “climate science” is going gangbusters, hitching its wagon to IPCC’s star as it rakes in billions and has its sights set on trillions.
No surprise, since it’s pushing a blatant scientific hoax the IPCC has long had a stranglehold on academia and academic journals, closing off outside input in their cozy kept world of true believers in so-called anthropogenic global warming (AGW), whose incomes are under IPCC control.
It’s pure corruption of science for political motives with the goal of foisting world govt., as proved by the way they jump to use the models to predict climate Armageddon way out decades ahead even though they have been patched over and over just to keep up with the past, worse than models of the stock market.
The only way to make progress now would be to throw all the models out and start over with new basic principles, and keep Marxism and its social justice out of it.
DR TIM BALL MUST READ : Environmentalism – Evidence Suggests It Was Always And Only About Achieving World Government
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The real skinny on today’s climate models is that due to the influence of the IPCC, funding for climate scientists has ballooned into the ballions, er, billions a year, and since there is no money in real climate research, which takes years sometimes, to get their piece of the pie now every climate scientist finds it easier to model some piece of the climate with a computer program, which doesn’t have to produce any real information but pays well per hour.
On top of that, if they can get more powerful computers authorized to run their models, they can hope for pay increases. And what’s really nice is that no matter how far off the models are, they never lose their jobs and just keep getting treated like sacred cows.
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It’s Time To Move Beyond The Toy Models that Guide Climate Policy
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The latest generation of climate models is running hotter—here’s why
Paper praising models’ predictions proves they greatly exaggerate
Explaining the Discrepancies Between Hausfather et al. (2019) and Lewis&Curry (2018)
NEW RESEARCH – NATURAL VARIABILITY NOT CO2 EXPLAINS SEVERE WEATHER from droughts, floods, hurricanes DECLINING since 1961. “Cooling, Not Warming, Leads To Weather and Climate Instability.”
Putting Climate Change Claims to the Test
GOLDSTEIN: Feds scrapped 100 years of data on climate change
Global Temperature Increases Are Lower and Slower, Says New Study
After 30 years of failed climate politics, let’s try science! – Fabius Maximus website
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New Satellite Data Confirm Real World Temperature Cooler Than Climate Models
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Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don’t Know Why
Read more at antarcticvolcanoesproject.blogspot.com
About the author: T L Winslow is a graduate of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder and former software engineer for McDonnell-Douglas. He is a prolific writer, historian and researcher and edits and runs various websites including the Science & Technology Watch Blog and The Antarctic Volcanoes Project Blog.
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Viral Authoritarianism

In the rush to mitigate a public-health emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic , illiberal governments around the world are testing the limits of civil rights and democratic checks and balances .
As history has shown time and again , there is no better moment than an emergency for aspiring strongmen to consolidate power .
NEW YORK – “ God and the people are the source of all power … I have taken it , and damn it , I will keep it forever , ” declared Haiti ’ s François “ Papa Doc ” Duvalier in 1963 .
And so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death in 1971 , whereupon he was succeeded by his son , Jean-Claude ( “ Baby Doc ” ) , who extended the dictatorship another 15 years .
This may seem like ancient history .
But not to me .
My family is Haitian , and though we immigrated to the United States during my childhood , we always seemed to remain within reach of the Duvaliers ’ ruthless regime .
I have never lost sight of the brutal lessons Haitians learned under the Duvaliers , including how they regularly used natural disasters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on power .
We must heed that lesson today .
COVID-19 is a threat not just to public health , but also to human rights .
Throughout history , crises like the current one have served as a convenient pretext for authoritarian regimes to normalize their tyrannical impulses .
My parents witnessed this firsthand in Haiti .
We are all seeing it again now .
The new threat started in China , where an already authoritarian government ’ s initial effort to cover up the epidemic allowed it to spread globally .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’ s government instituted a 21-day lockdown with only four hours ’ notice , providing no time for millions of the world ’ s poorest people to stockpile food and water .
Worse , Indian law-enforcement authorities have since been using the lockdown to increase their targeted discrimination against the country ’ s Muslims .
Meanwhile , in Kenya and Nigeria , police and military forces have pummeled anyone who does not seem to be complying quickly enough with social-distancing protocols .
In Israel , the authorities have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stretching privacy protections to the breaking point , by using cellphone data to track citizens ’ movements .
And in Hungary , Prime Minister Viktor Orbán , who has been consolidating power for years , has pushed through a law that effectively codifies his status as an absolute dictator .
The response to these violations from the world ’ s democracies has barely risen to the level of a whisper .
But lest Americans think themselves immune from such power grabs , they should consider that , in late March , the US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power to detain American citizens ( not just undocumented immigrants ) indefinitely without trial .
Governments that adopt such measures justify them as necessary to combat the pandemic .
But history shows us that illiberal leaders rarely , if ever , allow their emergency powers to expire .
To be sure , every government has a duty to respond forcefully to the unfolding public-health calamity , and doing so might require temporary but significant restrictions on citizens ’ actions .
But many of the policies adopted by authoritarian leaders in recent weeks are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ counterproductive in fighting the pandemic .
For example , far from preventing the spread of disease , suppressing press freedoms makes it far more difficult to raise awareness about how the public should respond .
Likewise , detaining civilians without trial undermines trust in government precisely when it is needed most .
And canceling elections removes any incentive political leaders have to place the public ’ s interests first .
As we take the fight to COVID-19 , we also must do everything we can to protect the health of our democracies .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ recognize that , in many ways , defending public health and defending democracy are two fronts in the same battle .
Fortunately , civil-society organizations and individuals are not powerless in the face of pandemic crackdowns .
After more than three decades on the front lines in defense of democracy , we at the Open Society Foundations have learned some relevant lessons .
For starters , we must use every tool available to protect civil liberties .
While the pandemic calls for social distancing , it does not justify police brutality and abuse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political leaders start restricting free speech and the right to protest , or spurn checks on their power , the risk of a slide into authoritarianism becomes real .
Governments that start to test these limits must be held accountable immediately .
The second lesson is that we must resist scapegoating .
In responding to the pandemic , too many governments have sought to label COVID-19 a “ Chinese ” virus , setting the stage for surveillance and stigmatization of people of Chinese descent .
As a Haitian-American , I witnessed such persecution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1980s , when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that AIDS was being transmitted by “ homosexuals , heroin users , hemophiliacs , and Haitians.
” As a result of that unscientific , biased messaging , the US started detaining Haitian asylum seekers in a horrific Guantánamo Bay prison camp , which actually undermined efforts to prevent the spread of HIV .
Finally , we must address the underlying economic and social disparities that pandemics tend to exacerbate .
To see how the coronavirus has laid bare America ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rikers Island , New York City ’ s main jail , which now has the highest infection rate on the planet .
More broadly , the crisis is demonstrating once again that far too many American families lack access to health care , paid sick leave , worker protections , personal savings , and other basic needs .
Even as we fend off new attacks on democracy and civil rights , we must use this moment to recognize all the ways our societies were stripping the rights of citizens , refugees , migrants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hit .
Yes , concerns about the state of democracy is not most people ’ s main concern nowadays .
But if safeguarding democracy is not on your own personal “ to-do ” list , it is safe to assume that it isn ’ t on anyone else ’ s , either .
Sadly , too many of those in power will never take it upon themselves to protect our rights .
We must do that for ourselves .
Democracy is more than just a system of governance ; it is a lens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one ’ s place in it .
If we break that lens during an emergency , we may never see ourselves the same way again .
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Viral Authoritarianism
Written by Patrick Gaspard
In the rush to mitigate a public-health emergency like the COVID-19 pandemic, illiberal governments around the world are testing the limits of civil rights and democratic checks and balances.
As history has shown time and again, there is no better moment than an emergency for aspiring strongmen to consolidate power.
NEW YORK – “God and the people are the source of all power … I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever,” declared Haiti’s François “Papa Doc” Duvalier in 1963. And so he did, remaining president until his death in 1971, whereupon he was succeeded by his son, Jean-Claude (“Baby Doc”), who extended the dictatorship another 15 years.
This may seem like ancient history. But not to me. My family is Haitian, and though we immigrated to the United States during my childhood, we always seemed to remain within reach of the Duvaliers’ ruthless regime. I have never lost sight of the brutal lessons Haitians learned under the Duvaliers, including how they regularly used natural disasters and national crises to tighten their stranglehold on power.
We must heed that lesson today. COVID-19 is a threat not just to public health, but also to human rights. Throughout history, crises like the current one have served as a convenient pretext for authoritarian regimes to normalize their tyrannical impulses. My parents witnessed this firsthand in Haiti. We are all seeing it again now.
The new threat started in China, where an already authoritarian government’s initial effort to cover up the epidemic allowed it to spread globally. But China is hardly alone. In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government instituted a 21-day lockdown with only four hours’ notice, providing no time for millions of the world’s poorest people to stockpile food and water. Worse, Indian law-enforcement authorities have since been using the lockdown to increase their targeted discrimination against the country’s Muslims.
Meanwhile, in Kenya and Nigeria, police and military forces have pummeled anyone who does not seem to be complying quickly enough with social-distancing protocols. In Israel, the authorities have joined around two dozen other governments in stretching privacy protections to the breaking point, by using cellphone data to track citizens’ movements. And in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has been consolidating power for years, has pushed through a law that effectively codifies his status as an absolute dictator.
The response to these violations from the world’s democracies has barely risen to the level of a whisper. But lest Americans think themselves immune from such power grabs, they should consider that, in late March, the US Department of Justice asked Congress for the power to detain American citizens (not just undocumented immigrants) indefinitely without trial.
Governments that adopt such measures justify them as necessary to combat the pandemic. But history shows us that illiberal leaders rarely, if ever, allow their emergency powers to expire. To be sure, every government has a duty to respond forcefully to the unfolding public-health calamity, and doing so might require temporary but significant restrictions on citizens’ actions.
But many of the policies adopted by authoritarian leaders in recent weeks are not just anti-democratic; they are also counterproductive in fighting the pandemic.
For example, far from preventing the spread of disease, suppressing press freedoms makes it far more difficult to raise awareness about how the public should respond. Likewise, detaining civilians without trial undermines trust in government precisely when it is needed most. And canceling elections removes any incentive political leaders have to place the public’s interests first.
As we take the fight to COVID-19, we also must do everything we can to protect the health of our democracies. More to the point, we must recognize that, in many ways, defending public health and defending democracy are two fronts in the same battle.
Fortunately, civil-society organizations and individuals are not powerless in the face of pandemic crackdowns. After more than three decades on the front lines in defense of democracy, we at the Open Society Foundations have learned some relevant lessons.
For starters, we must use every tool available to protect civil liberties. While the pandemic calls for social distancing, it does not justify police brutality and abuse of government power. The instant that political leaders start restricting free speech and the right to protest, or spurn checks on their power, the risk of a slide into authoritarianism becomes real. Governments that start to test these limits must be held accountable immediately.
The second lesson is that we must resist scapegoating. In responding to the pandemic, too many governments have sought to label COVID-19 a “Chinese” virus, setting the stage for surveillance and stigmatization of people of Chinese descent.
As a Haitian-American, I witnessed such persecution firsthand during the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s, when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that AIDS was being transmitted by “homosexuals, heroin users, hemophiliacs, and Haitians.” As a result of that unscientific, biased messaging, the US started detaining Haitian asylum seekers in a horrific Guantánamo Bay prison camp, which actually undermined efforts to prevent the spread of HIV.
Finally, we must address the underlying economic and social disparities that pandemics tend to exacerbate. To see how the coronavirus has laid bare America’s profound inequities, look no further than Rikers Island, New York City’s main jail, which now has the highest infection rate on the planet. More broadly, the crisis is demonstrating once again that far too many American families lack access to health care, paid sick leave, worker protections, personal savings, and other basic needs.
Even as we fend off new attacks on democracy and civil rights, we must use this moment to recognize all the ways our societies were stripping the rights of citizens, refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers before the pandemic hit. Yes, concerns about the state of democracy is not most people’s main concern nowadays. But if safeguarding democracy is not on your own personal “to-do” list, it is safe to assume that it isn’t on anyone else’s, either.
Sadly, too many of those in power will never take it upon themselves to protect our rights. We must do that for ourselves. Democracy is more than just a system of governance; it is a lens through which to view the world and one’s place in it. If we break that lens during an emergency, we may never see ourselves the same way again.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-04-16--Climate Models Grossly Under-estimate Earth’s Dusty Atmosphere

Dust is a key component of Earth ’ s climate system .
When it interacts with clouds , oceans and the sun ’ s radiation , it has an overall impact on our planet ’ s living systems , affecting everything from weather and rainfall to global warming .
There are two types of dust in the atmosphere , both kicked up by high-velocity winds in dry areas .
Fine dust tends to cool because it scatters sunlight , much like clouds do .
Coarse dust , which is larger in size and originates in places like the Sahara Desert @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like supposed ‘ greenhouse gases.
’ Knowing precisely how much coarse dust is in the atmosphere is essential for understanding not only the atmospheric phenomena that dust influences but also the degree to which dust may be warming the planet .
Now , UCLA scientists report that there is four times the amount of coarse dust in Earth ’ s atmosphere than is currently simulated by climate models .
Their findings appear in the journal Science Advances .
The researchers found that Earth ’ s atmosphere contains 17 million metric tons of coarse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mass of every person in America put together .
“ To properly represent the impact of dust as a whole on the Earth system , climate models must include an accurate treatment of coarse dust in the atmosphere , ” said the study ’ s first author , Adeyemi Adebiyi , a postdoctoral researcher in UCLA ’ s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a recipient of the University of California President ’ s Postdoctoral Fellowship .
By plugging this amount of missing coarse dust into models , Adebiyi said , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of dust overall—both fine and coarse—is warming rather than cooling the Earth ’ s climate system , from air to oceans .
Coarse dust particles warm the Earth ’ s entire climate system by absorbing both incoming radiation from the sun and outgoing radiation from the Earth ’ s surface .
These particles can impact stability and circulation within our atmosphere , which may affect atmospheric phenomena like hurricanes .
Adebiyi worked with Jasper Kok , a UCLA associate professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences , to determine the actual amount of coarse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of published aircraft-based observations , including recent measurements taken over the Sahara Desert , and comparing those with half a dozen widely used global atmospheric model simulations .
“ When we compared our results with what is predicted by current climate models , we found a drastic difference , ” Kok said .
“ State-of-the-art climate models account for only 4 million metric tons , but our results showed more than four times that amount.
” In addition , Adebiyi and Kok found that coarse dust leaves the atmosphere less quickly than current @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tendency to mix more turbulently when dust is present .
In the case of the Sahara , air and dust mix in ways that push the dust upward , which can work against gravity and keep the dust in the air much longer , they said .
The scientists ’ findings also show that because dust particles stay in the atmosphere longer , they are ultimately deposited further from their source than has been predicted by these models or explained by current theory .
For example , dust particles blown from the Sahara @ @ @ @ @ @ @ atmosphere , reaching as far as the Caribbean and the United States .
When desert dust ends up in oceans , it may stimulate the productivity of ocean ecosystems and increase the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the oceans .
Due to the way coarse dust interacts with the sun ’ s energy and clouds , it can also have a major impact on the timing of precipitation , as well as how much , or how little , rain falls .
“ Models have been an invaluable tool for scientists , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they miss most of the coarse dust in the atmosphere , it underestimates the impact that this type of dust has on critical aspects of life on Earth , from precipitation to cloud cover to ocean ecosystems to global temperature.
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Climate Models Grossly Under-estimate Earth’s Dusty Atmosphere
Written by Lisa Y Garibay
Dust is a key component of Earth’s climate system. When it interacts with clouds, oceans and the sun’s radiation, it has an overall impact on our planet’s living systems, affecting everything from weather and rainfall to global warming.
There are two types of dust in the atmosphere, both kicked up by high-velocity winds in dry areas.
Fine dust tends to cool because it scatters sunlight, much like clouds do. Coarse dust, which is larger in size and originates in places like the Sahara Desert, tends to warm the atmosphere, like supposed ‘greenhouse gases.’
Knowing precisely how much coarse dust is in the atmosphere is essential for understanding not only the atmospheric phenomena that dust influences but also the degree to which dust may be warming the planet.
Now, UCLA scientists report that there is four times the amount of coarse dust in Earth’s atmosphere than is currently simulated by climate models. Their findings appear in the journal Science Advances.
The researchers found that Earth’s atmosphere contains 17 million metric tons of coarse dust—equivalent to 17 million elephants or the mass of every person in America put together.
“To properly represent the impact of dust as a whole on the Earth system, climate models must include an accurate treatment of coarse dust in the atmosphere,” said the study’s first author, Adeyemi Adebiyi, a postdoctoral researcher in UCLA’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a recipient of the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship.
By plugging this amount of missing coarse dust into models, Adebiyi said, it increases the likelihood that the net amount of dust overall—both fine and coarse—is warming rather than cooling the Earth’s climate system, from air to oceans.
Coarse dust particles warm the Earth’s entire climate system by absorbing both incoming radiation from the sun and outgoing radiation from the Earth’s surface.
These particles can impact stability and circulation within our atmosphere, which may affect atmospheric phenomena like hurricanes.
Adebiyi worked with Jasper Kok, a UCLA associate professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, to determine the actual amount of coarse dust in the atmosphere by analyzing dozens of published aircraft-based observations, including recent measurements taken over the Sahara Desert, and comparing those with half a dozen widely used global atmospheric model simulations.
“When we compared our results with what is predicted by current climate models, we found a drastic difference,” Kok said. “State-of-the-art climate models account for only 4 million metric tons, but our results showed more than four times that amount.”
In addition, Adebiyi and Kok found that coarse dust leaves the atmosphere less quickly than current climate models predict. Air has a tendency to mix more turbulently when dust is present.
In the case of the Sahara, air and dust mix in ways that push the dust upward, which can work against gravity and keep the dust in the air much longer, they said.
The scientists’ findings also show that because dust particles stay in the atmosphere longer, they are ultimately deposited further from their source than has been predicted by these models or explained by current theory.
For example, dust particles blown from the Sahara can travel thousands of miles in the atmosphere, reaching as far as the Caribbean and the United States.
When desert dust ends up in oceans, it may stimulate the productivity of ocean ecosystems and increase the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the oceans.
Due to the way coarse dust interacts with the sun’s energy and clouds, it can also have a major impact on the timing of precipitation, as well as how much, or how little, rain falls.
“Models have been an invaluable tool for scientists,” said Adebiyi, “but when they miss most of the coarse dust in the atmosphere, it underestimates the impact that this type of dust has on critical aspects of life on Earth, from precipitation to cloud cover to ocean ecosystems to global temperature.”
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principiascientificinternational--2020-04-16--NASA Resisting Removal of Fake 97% Climate-Consensus Claim

Nothing sends climate skeptics into orbit faster than seeing NASA repeat the 97 % climate-consensus claim , but the effort to have the Obama-era declaration removed from the government website is suffering from a failure to launch .
NASA officials rejected the Competitive Enterprise Institute ’ s July 9 request for correction under the Information Quality Act , concluding that “ changes to the Web site are not needed at this time , ” prompting the free-market group to file an appeal Tuesday .
CEI attorney Devin Watkins , who called the statement “ inaccurate , unreliable , and biased @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to budge even though President Trump has expressed reservations about the consensus argument on anthropogenic global warming .
In 2017 , for example , Mr. Trump told The Associated that “ you have scientists on both sides of the picture.
” In her reply to the CEI , NASA chief information officer Renee P. Wynn said that the Global Climate Change website “ presents the state of scientific knowledge about climate change and honors the role that NASA has played and plays in researching and communicating climate science.
” Mr. Watkins countered that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to nothing , ” and that instead of giving a point-by-point response as required by Office of Management and Budget rules , “ her denial does not even respond to even a single point of our request.
” The CEI ’ s original request for correction ran 11 pages and included specific methodological challenges to the studies cited by NASA , but the NASA response was barely two pages .
The Washington Times has reached out to NASA for comment .
The research papers cited by NASA to bolster the 97 % claim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ claims that NASA ’ s claiming they make , ” in some cases excluding — or including — scientists “ who don ’ t have an opinion or say they ’ re uncertain or don ’ t know , ” Mr. Watkins said .
He said the statement was posted by NASA at some point during the Obama administration .
The debate over the scientific consensus on climate change has raged since at least 2004 when Science magazine published an essay by the now-Harvard history of science professor Naomi Oreskes , “ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reviewed 928 study abstracts with the words “ climate change ” published in journals from 1993-2003 , concluding that 75 % implicitly or explicitly endorsed the consensus view and 25 % took no position , but “ none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position.
” The 97 % figure took off following a 2013 study led by John Cook , now an assistant research professor at the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University , who reviewed peer-reviewed paper abstracts with the words “ global warming ” or “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ The first thing we noticed was that a lot of papers don ’ t even bother to mention whether humans are causing global warming or not .
It ’ s like , you look at astronomy papers : Not many of them would bother mentioning that the earth revolves around the sun .
It ’ s established consensus , ” Mr. Cook told Yale Climate Connections in a 2017 interview .
“ But amongst the papers that did mention it — there were about 4,000 papers amongst the 12,000 papers we looked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human-caused global warming in their abstract , ” Mr. Cook said .
The pushback was immediate .
PopularTechnology.com interviewed a half-dozen prominent scientists who said the study mischaracterized their work , while other academics , including Richard Tol of the University of Sussex and the University of Delaware ’ s David Legates , published challenges to the study ’ s methodology .
The debate has left little room for middle ground .
In 2017 , Yale Climate Communications rated the 97 % figure as “ true , ” while Mr. Tol said in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from thin air.
” NASA also cited statements from 18 scientific organizations , including the American Association for the Advancement of Science , which said in 2014 : On the other hand , CEI noted that NASA failed to take into account documents signed by researchers rejecting the climate-catastrophe scenario , such as the Oregon Petition , which has more than 31,000 signatures of self-identified scientists , including more than 9,000 with doctoral degrees .
The SkepticalScience blog , founded by Mr. Cook , slammed the CEI challenge , calling the “ no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most popular climate myths ” perpetrated by “ fossil fuel-funded think tanks.
” At the other end of the spectrum , Climate Depot ’ s Marc Morano , author of “ The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change , ” took a jab at the consensus “ myth , ” saying it was “ about time NASA is forced to confront its part in repeating the 97 % claim.
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NASA Resisting Removal of Fake 97% Climate-Consensus Claim
Written by Valerie Richardson
Nothing sends climate skeptics into orbit faster than seeing NASA repeat the 97{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} climate-consensus claim, but the effort to have the Obama-era declaration removed from the government website is suffering from a failure to launch.
NASA officials rejected the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s July 9 request for correction under the Information Quality Act, concluding that “changes to the Web site are not needed at this time,” prompting the free-market group to file an appeal Tuesday.
On its Global Climate Change page, NASA states:
“Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities.”
CEI attorney Devin Watkins, who called the statement “inaccurate, unreliable, and biased,” said that NASA has refused to budge even though President Trump has expressed reservations about the consensus argument on anthropogenic global warming.
In 2017, for example, Mr. Trump told The Associated that “you have scientists on both sides of the picture.”
“It’s really weird when the President of the United States seems to say the 97{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} figure is incorrect, but an agency he is responsible for overseeing continues to say on their website that the President is wrong,” Mr. Watkins said in an email.
In her reply to the CEI, NASA chief information officer Renee P. Wynn said that the Global Climate Change website “presents the state of scientific knowledge about climate change and honors the role that NASA has played and plays in researching and communicating climate science.”
“NASA also still finds this information to be accurate and clear as it does not rely on results of a single peer-reviewed publication for facts, which is why a number of peer-reviewed papers are listed on the Web site to capture the robust nature of the scientific debate,” Ms. Wynn said in the March 11 letter.
Mr. Watkins countered that the “single sentence response says next to nothing,” and that instead of giving a point-by-point response as required by Office of Management and Budget rules, “her denial does not even respond to even a single point of our request.”
“Ms. Wynn totally ignores the requirements of reliability and lack of bias,” said the CEI appeal.
The CEI’s original request for correction ran 11 pages and included specific methodological challenges to the studies cited by NASA, but the NASA response was barely two pages.
The Washington Times has reached out to NASA for comment.
The research papers cited by NASA to bolster the 97{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} claim “don’t actually make the claims that NASA’s claiming they make,” in some cases excluding — or including — scientists “who don’t have an opinion or say they’re uncertain or don’t know,” Mr. Watkins said.
He said the statement was posted by NASA at some point during the Obama administration.
“I just think there was political pressure to get it added, and no one questioned NASA directly on it at the time,” he said. “As the political winds shifted and the Trump administration came in, I suspect NASA didn’t really even look at it.”
Consensus gap or myth?
The debate over the scientific consensus on climate change has raged since at least 2004 when Science magazine published an essay by the now-Harvard history of science professor Naomi Oreskes, “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change.”
She reviewed 928 study abstracts with the words “climate change” published in journals from 1993-2003, concluding that 75{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} implicitly or explicitly endorsed the consensus view and 25{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} took no position, but “none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position.”
The 97{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} figure took off following a 2013 study led by John Cook, now an assistant research professor at the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, who reviewed peer-reviewed paper abstracts with the words “global warming” or “global climate change” from 1991-2011.
“The first thing we noticed was that a lot of papers don’t even bother to mention whether humans are causing global warming or not. It’s like, you look at astronomy papers: Not many of them would bother mentioning that the earth revolves around the sun. It’s established consensus,” Mr. Cook told Yale Climate Connections in a 2017 interview. “But amongst the papers that did mention it — there were about 4,000 papers amongst the 12,000 papers we looked at — 97.1{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of them endorsed human-caused global warming in their abstract,” Mr. Cook said.
The pushback was immediate. PopularTechnology.com interviewed a half-dozen prominent scientists who said the study mischaracterized their work, while other academics, including Richard Tol of the University of Sussex and the University of Delaware’s David Legates, published challenges to the study’s methodology.
For example,
“Legates’ peer-reviewed independent study reevaluating the 64 articles that Cook said explicitly endorsed AGW (that more than half of the warming was caused by humans) found that actually only 41 made such claims,” said the CEI.
The debate has left little room for middle ground. In 2017, Yale Climate Communications rated the 97{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} figure as “true,” while Mr. Tol said in 2014 that it was “essentially pulled from thin air.”
NASA also cited statements from 18 scientific organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which said in 2014:
“Based on well-established evidence, about 97{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of climate scientists have concluded that human-caused climate change is happening.”
On the other hand, CEI noted that NASA failed to take into account documents signed by researchers rejecting the climate-catastrophe scenario, such as the Oregon Petition, which has more than 31,000 signatures of self-identified scientists, including more than 9,000 with doctoral degrees.
The SkepticalScience blog, founded by Mr. Cook, slammed the CEI challenge, calling the “no consensus” argument “one of the most popular climate myths” perpetrated by “fossil fuel-funded think tanks.”
“That so-called ‘consensus gap’ between public perception and the reality of expert agreement is largely due to a sustained misinformation campaign,” said the Aug. 15 post.
At the other end of the spectrum, Climate Depot’s Marc Morano, author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change,” took a jab at the consensus “myth,” saying it was “about time NASA is forced to confront its part in repeating the 97{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} claim.”
“NASA is likely to fight tooth and nail over this false 97{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} claim because NASA has a vested interest in keeping up the ‘consensus’ myth,” Mr. Morano said in an email. “Sadly, NASA has long been overrun with many scientists who are willing to bend the truth for the climate cause.”
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principiascientificinternational--2020-04-16--Lawyer Arrested, Held in Psychiatric Ward for Criticising COVID19 Lockdown

In Merkel ’ s fascist Germany you now may be handcuffed and violently abused by authorities for daring to make legal arguments supporting protest against the mass quarantine .
A German medical lawyer who criticized the coronavirus lockdown law was arrested and taken to a psychiatric ward , where she says she was violently abused by authorities .
Beate Bahner published a press release on April 3rd decrying the German lockdown laws as : “ flagrantly unconstitutional , infringing to an unprecedented extent many of the fundamental rights of citizens.
” “ These measures are not justified by the Infection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few days ago , ” she asserted .
“ Long-term restrictions on leaving home and meeting others , based on high-death-rate modelled scenarios , which fail to take account of actual critical expert opinions , and the complete shutdown of businesses and shops with no proof that they pose any risk of infection , are thoroughly unlawful.
” Bahner called for a nationwide protest on Easter Sunday to “ end the tyranny at once , ” before Heidelberg Police announced that they would seek to prosecute her for inciting Germans to break the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called her sister from Heidelberg ’ s Klinik fur Allgemeine Psychiatrie describing what happened to her .
After claiming she was “ suspiciously ” followed by a car , Bahner says she asked another motorist to call the police only for the police to show up , handcuff her and push her to the ground “ with massive force.
” After being driven to the psychiatric facility , Bahner says she was treated like a terrorist .
“ I asked to be allowed to sit down and was shown to a bench .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ taken off , since it was actually I who had requested police protection , ” she recounted .
“ But instead , I was thrown to the floor again , having my head hurled onto the stone floor from a meter height , which nobody reacted to .
Then I was forced to spend the night lying on the floor in some high-security Guantanamo psychiatric clinic…there was no toilet , no sink , though they did allow me water , and there was a bell I could ring , though they ignored it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” The lawyer was charged for incitement yesterday , with her attorney sounding the alarm bell over her treatment .
“ I shouldn ’ t have to add Bahner ’ s claims of very grave abuse have untoward connotations of the darkest chapters of German history , ” he said .
“ The mere fact she claimed to have been so badly abused was what prompted me to write to you .
Bahner is in the company of over 50 well-known experts in criticising the nationwide lockdown ; I would be glad to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ names .
If it really is the case lawyers critical of government measures can now be intimidated using the state legal apparatus or psychiatry , and can be professionally and socially destroyed , then it is five minutes to midnight in this country.
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Lawyer Arrested, Held in Psychiatric Ward for Criticising COVID19 Lockdown
Written by Paul Joseph Watson
In Merkel’s fascist Germany you now may be handcuffed and violently abused by authorities for daring to make legal arguments supporting protest against the mass quarantine.
A German medical lawyer who criticized the coronavirus lockdown law was arrested and taken to a psychiatric ward, where she says she was violently abused by authorities.
Beate Bahner published a press release on April 3rd decrying the German lockdown laws as:
“flagrantly unconstitutional, infringing to an unprecedented extent many of the fundamental rights of citizens.” “These measures are not justified by the Infection Prevention Act, hurriedly amended just a few days ago,” she asserted. “Long-term restrictions on leaving home and meeting others, based on high-death-rate modelled scenarios, which fail to take account of actual critical expert opinions, and the complete shutdown of businesses and shops with no proof that they pose any risk of infection, are thoroughly unlawful.”
Bahner called for a nationwide protest on Easter Sunday to “end the tyranny at once,” before Heidelberg Police announced that they would seek to prosecute her for inciting Germans to break the law.
On April 13th, Bahner called her sister from Heidelberg’s Klinik fur Allgemeine Psychiatrie describing what happened to her.
After claiming she was “suspiciously” followed by a car, Bahner says she asked another motorist to call the police only for the police to show up, handcuff her and push her to the ground “with massive force.”
After being driven to the psychiatric facility, Bahner says she was treated like a terrorist.
“I asked to be allowed to sit down and was shown to a bench. Then I asked to have the handcuffs taken off, since it was actually I who had requested police protection,” she recounted. “But instead, I was thrown to the floor again, having my head hurled onto the stone floor from a meter height, which nobody reacted to. Then I was forced to spend the night lying on the floor in some high-security Guantanamo psychiatric clinic…there was no toilet, no sink, though they did allow me water, and there was a bell I could ring, though they ignored it after the third time I pressed it.”
The lawyer was charged for incitement yesterday, with her attorney sounding the alarm bell over her treatment.
“I shouldn’t have to add Bahner’s claims of very grave abuse have untoward connotations of the darkest chapters of German history,” he said. “The mere fact she claimed to have been so badly abused was what prompted me to write to you. Bahner is in the company of over 50 well-known experts in criticising the nationwide lockdown; I would be glad to furnish you with a list of their names. If it really is the case lawyers critical of government measures can now be intimidated using the state legal apparatus or psychiatry, and can be professionally and socially destroyed, then it is five minutes to midnight in this country.”
Bahner has won three cases in the Federal Constitutional Court and written five books on German medical law.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-04-17--CNN Anchor Admits on Air Trump Is Right on COVID19 and WHO

CNN Anchor Admits on Air Trump Is Right on COVID19 and WHO We shouldn ’ t have to reward the establishment media for getting basic facts right .
It should be a given that reporters conduct themselves with some degree of journalistic integrity , and they should operate with a singular goal of telling the truth — especially regarding events that affect every aspect of our lives .
Unfortunately , in today ’ s politically charged atmosphere , we find ourselves taking note when reporters at establishment outlets decide to be honest with us during a time when there is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ correspondent John King , for example , is not a man who is generally considered by people outside of the far-left media echo chamber to be an impartial party when it comes to President Donald Trump .
But the CNN anchor bucked his network ’ s blind anti-Trump narrative Wednesday when he admitted that the World Health Organization got it wrong when it failed to alert global health experts about the threat posed by COVID-19 .
In response to Trump ’ s announcement that he is suspending funding for the WHO — pending @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus pandemic — King told “ OutFront ” host Erin Burnett the president was right .
“ I am not going to defend the World Health Organization .
CNN called the coronavirus a pandemic before the World Health Organization , ” King said as he criticized Trump during the network ’ s coverage .
“ It was flat-footed .
It did overly trust China , the president is right about that , ” he said .
King made similar comments during an appearance on another CNN show , Wolf Blitzer ’ s “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the CNN anchor went on to accuse the president of downplaying the virus early on and blasted him for being too friendly with China .
“ He repeatedly defended China .
On the day in late January he said this would never be a pandemic , he said that was because President Xi [ Jinping ] was on top of it and he trusted the president of China , ” King told Burnett .
That ’ s a rich argument from King , considering his network published Chinese Communist Party propaganda Tuesday .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ from CNN ’ s reporting , at least when those facts are favorable toward Trump , it is almost shocking to see anyone at the network betray the narrative that the president can do no good .
While CNN ’ s King is as anti-Trump as just about everyone else at the far-left network , at least he was willing to concede that China and the WHO are ultimately responsible for the havoc the virus is currently wreaking on American life .
The WHO has , as Trump has said , become “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country as the U.S. foots the bill for its activities .
China , while outnumbering the U.S. in population by roughly a billion people , has paid only a fraction of the cost required to run the WHO — and yet it has so much influence .
A Jan. 14 tweet from the WHO is still up , reminding the world of its colossal failure .
“ Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel # coronavirus ( 2019-nCoV ) identified in # @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agency assured us .
Even Dr. Anthony Fauci , director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , was downplaying the threat of the coronavirus as late as Feb. 29 , when he told Americans , “ This is not a major threat for the people of the United States , and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.
” But Fauci — like Trump and White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx — was misled by the WHO about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I think once this is over , we ’ ll be able to look back and see , ‘ Did China and the WHO say and do everything to alert the rest of the world to the nuances of this virus ?
’ — because when it first explodes someone had to have known that there was human-to-human transmission , ” Birx told ABC ’ s “ The View ” Wednesday .
Everything Americans are currently enduring can be traced back to the actions of China and inaction of the WHO — not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ president was chosen by the American people to protect American sovereignty and bring prosperity back to working families — not to predict the future .
A leader ’ s actions during a potentially deadly scenario , such as the coronavirus pandemic , are driven by data from scientists and health experts .
And the U.S. has paid a hefty price for bad data that has now left more than 31,000 Americans dead and another 300 million living under some sort of government-mandated lockdown .
It ’ s fair to say we haven ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our investment from the WHO .
It is equally fair to say that Americans now have a leader willing to do something about that in Trump .
King can shill for Democrats and against Trump all day , as he so often does .
But , at the very least , he is right about Trump and the WHO .
What a strange time we are living in when a reporter ’ s decision to be honest with his audience is itself newsworthy .
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CNN Anchor Admits on Air Trump Is Right on COVID19 and WHO
Written by Johnathan Jones, The Western Journal
We shouldn’t have to reward the establishment media for getting basic facts right.
It should be a given that reporters conduct themselves with some degree of journalistic integrity, and they should operate with a singular goal of telling the truth — especially regarding events that affect every aspect of our lives.
Unfortunately, in today’s politically charged atmosphere, we find ourselves taking note when reporters at establishment outlets decide to be honest with us during a time when there is so much disinformation.
CNN chief national correspondent John King, for example, is not a man who is generally considered by people outside of the far-left media echo chamber to be an impartial party when it comes to President Donald Trump.
But the CNN anchor bucked his network’s blind anti-Trump narrative Wednesday when he admitted that the World Health Organization got it wrong when it failed to alert global health experts about the threat posed by COVID-19.
In response to Trump’s announcement that he is suspending funding for the WHO — pending an investigation into its handling of the coronavirus pandemic — King told “OutFront” host Erin Burnett the president was right.
“I am not going to defend the World Health Organization. CNN called the coronavirus a pandemic before the World Health Organization,” King said as he criticized Trump during the network’s coverage.
“It was flat-footed. It did overly trust China, the president is right about that,” he said.
King made similar comments during an appearance on another CNN show, Wolf Blitzer’s “The Situation Room.”
“The president’s criticisms of the World Health Organization are quite legitimate,” he said. “It was flat-footed here.”
Of course, the CNN anchor went on to accuse the president of downplaying the virus early on and blasted him for being too friendly with China.
“He repeatedly defended China. On the day in late January he said this would never be a pandemic, he said that was because President Xi [Jinping] was on top of it and he trusted the president of China,” King told Burnett.
That’s a rich argument from King, considering his network published Chinese Communist Party propaganda Tuesday.
Still, with facts often being absent from CNN’s reporting, at least when those facts are favorable toward Trump, it is almost shocking to see anyone at the network betray the narrative that the president can do no good.
While CNN’s King is as anti-Trump as just about everyone else at the far-left network, at least he was willing to concede that China and the WHO are ultimately responsible for the havoc the virus is currently wreaking on American life.
The WHO has, as Trump has said, become “China-centric” and corrupted by the communist country as the U.S. foots the bill for its activities.
China, while outnumbering the U.S. in population by roughly a billion people, has paid only a fraction of the cost required to run the WHO — and yet it has so much influence.
A Jan. 14 tweet from the WHO is still up, reminding the world of its colossal failure.
“Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China,” the agency assured us.
Even Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was downplaying the threat of the coronavirus as late as Feb. 29, when he told Americans, “This is not a major threat for the people of the United States, and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.”
But Fauci — like Trump and White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx — was misled by the WHO about the severity of the virus.
“I think once this is over, we’ll be able to look back and see, ‘Did China and the WHO say and do everything to alert the rest of the world to the nuances of this virus?’ — because when it first explodes someone had to have known that there was human-to-human transmission,” Birx told ABC’s “The View” Wednesday.
Everything Americans are currently enduring can be traced back to the actions of China and inaction of the WHO — not Trump, which King conceded.
The president was chosen by the American people to protect American sovereignty and bring prosperity back to working families — not to predict the future.
A leader’s actions during a potentially deadly scenario, such as the coronavirus pandemic, are driven by data from scientists and health experts.
And the U.S. has paid a hefty price for bad data that has now left more than 31,000 Americans dead and another 300 million living under some sort of government-mandated lockdown.
It’s fair to say we haven’t exactly received a good return on our investment from the WHO.
It is equally fair to say that Americans now have a leader willing to do something about that in Trump.
King can shill for Democrats and against Trump all day, as he so often does. But, at the very least, he is right about Trump and the WHO.
What a strange time we are living in when a reporter’s decision to be honest with his audience is itself newsworthy.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-04-17--India Now Giving ‘Trump Cure’ to Blunt COVID-19

Mumbai : Maharashtra government will give Hydroxychloroquine ( HCQ ) tablets in slums to curb COVID-19 spread as a preventive measure .
The suspected coronavirus patients kept in quarantine centres in Dharavi are likely to be the first to receive them .
Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope said that HCQS which is used to treat malaria will be used in Dharavi and other high-infection areas .
He further said it has been used in the United States as preventive medicine against COVID-19 .
On Tuesday , Dharavi recorded six new coronavirus disease infections , including two deaths , taking the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s largest slum to 55 .
The densely populated area has reported seven Covid-19-related deaths so far .
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ( BMC ) has listed 29 containment zones and six Red Zones , which reported over 15 Covid-19 positive cases , in Dharavi .
According to a report by Hindustan Times , so far , the civic body has quarantined 2,184 Dharavi residents and tested 138 high-risk contacts and 3,450 low-risk contacts of the patients from the slum .
India has lifted the partial ban on the export of hydroxychloroquine , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and has approved the first list of countries that will receive the first batch of the highly-demanded drug touted by US President Trump as a life-saving cure for COVID-19 .
The first list of 13 recipient countries includes the USA , Germany , Spain , Bahrain , Brazil , Bhutan , Nepal , Afghanistan , the Maldives , Bangladesh , Seychelles , Mauritius and the Dominican Republic .
As per the government reports , around 14 million tablets and 13.5 tonnes of API will be exported to these countries .
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India Now Giving ‘Trump Cure’ to Blunt COVID-19
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Mumbai: Maharashtra government will give Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets in slums to curb COVID-19 spread as a preventive measure. The suspected coronavirus patients kept in quarantine centres in Dharavi are likely to be the first to receive them.
Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope said that HCQS which is used to treat malaria will be used in Dharavi and other high-infection areas.
He further said it has been used in the United States as preventive medicine against COVID-19.
On Tuesday, Dharavi recorded six new coronavirus disease infections, including two deaths, taking the count of active cases in Asia’s largest slum to 55. The densely populated area has reported seven Covid-19-related deaths so far.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has listed 29 containment zones and six Red Zones, which reported over 15 Covid-19 positive cases, in Dharavi.
According to a report by Hindustan Times, so far, the civic body has quarantined 2,184 Dharavi residents and tested 138 high-risk contacts and 3,450 low-risk contacts of the patients from the slum.
Life-saving cure for COVID-19: US President Trump
India has lifted the partial ban on the export of hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug used for Covid-19 disease, and has approved the first list of countries that will receive the first batch of the highly-demanded drug touted by US President Trump as a life-saving cure for COVID-19.
The first list of 13 recipient countries includes the USA, Germany, Spain, Bahrain, Brazil, Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan, the Maldives, Bangladesh, Seychelles, Mauritius and the Dominican Republic. As per the government reports, around 14 million tablets and 13.5 tonnes of API will be exported to these countries.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-04-17--The ‘Bootleggers and Baptists’ of the Coronavirus Crisis

This writer is old enough to recall various health scares from the 1977 Russian flu and HIV/AIDS in the 1980s through to SARS in 2002–03 and the swine flu in 2009–10 , not to mention other scares such as 9/11 and the 2007–08 GFC ( Great Financial Crisis ) .
Yet I have never seen a greater , and more unjustified , panic and overreaction by governments ( e.g.
, New Rochelle , NY ) , institutions ( e.g.
, NCAA ) , and even businesses ( e.g.
, NBA ) .
And not just in the on-air and online @ @ @ @ @ @ @ among my family , friends , and broader personal network , including normally “ cool-headed ” economists , doctors , and other “ highly educated ” professionals .
Why is that , and is it justified ?
Let ’ s start with the latter .
I was fortuitously sent a March 14 article that is quite typical of others in recent weeks , both in traditional and social media , which blur the lines between news and commentary as well as between analysis and activism .
In it the “ longtime health reporter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ newsroom ” with a mission to “ expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust ” wrote the following with “ the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform ” : I have been caught off guard by the pushback from top elected officials [ e.g.
, Trump ] and even some friends and acquaintances who keep comparing [ coronavirus ] to the flu….In the meantime , not one public health expert I trust—not one—has said this flu comparison is valid or that we ’ re overdoing it….If 1 in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus and 1 in 7 people age 80 or older who get the virus die , and the virus spreads to 20 % , 40 % or 70 % of the population , we ’ re talking massive death tolls , the likes of which we have never seen before in our lives .
According to Nobel laureate physicist Niels Bohr : “ Prediction is very difficult , especially if it ’ s about the future.
” History is an imperfect guide to the future , but , along with logic , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s law is the opposite of the exponential growth “ model ” implied in the article above .
This law of epidemiology was described in a March 2018 Infectious Disease Modelling journal article as follows : Comparing the coronavirus ’ s death toll to that of related pandemics over the past one hundred years provides much-needed historical context for the outbreak .
As of March 15 , the death toll for coronavirus was 63 in the US and nearly 6,500 globally .
However , death rates are unreliably high at 1.9 and 3.8 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so far been relatively low ( and thus the denominator is unreliably small ) .
By contrast , in America and the world the 2009 swine flu killed 12,000 and 300,000 , respectively ; the 1968 Hong Kong flu killed 100,000 and 1,000,000 ; and the 1918 Spanish Flu , 600,000 and 40,000,000 .
The dramatic decline in deaths over the past century is a very good reason for optimism .
In this context , Dr. Brian Joondeph and the famous Dr. Drew Pinsky , both physicians , made the following points each @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the press , I had to respond .
The weird part on social media is that people are angry with me for trying to get them to see reality and calm down….If you put corona and the flu together , it ’ s still a moderate flu season .
Wash your hands , take precautions , do what you ’ re supposed to do….What I have a problem with is the panic and that businesses are getting destroyed and people ’ s lives are getting upended .
Not by the virus , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) In “ Coronacrisis and Leviathan , ” Austrian school economist Peter Klein recently referred to Robert Higgs ’ s seminal book Crisis and Leviathan , reminding us that : Only time will tell whether history will repeat itself here and to what extent .
Before anything can get ratcheted up and locked in , the alarm must be sounded and a crisis sold to the public by what public choice school economist Bruce Yandle called the “ Baptists and Bootleggers.
” Yandle originally wrote about this in 1983 and then wrote a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will remember , support Sunday closing laws that shut down all the local bars and liquor stores .
Baptists support the same laws and lobby vigorously for them .
Both parties gain , while the regulators are content because the law is easy to administer….Politicians need resources in order to get elected .
Selected members of the public can gain resources through the political process , and highly organized groups can do that quite handily .
The most successful ventures of this sort occur where there is an overarching public concern to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) whose “ solution ” allows resources to be distributed from the public purse to particular groups or from one group to another ( as from bartenders to bootleggers ) .
( 1983 ) So , paraphrasing Yandle in the context of this “ coronacrisis ” : 1 .
The most successful ventures of this sort ( i.e.
, this coronacrisis ) occur where there is an overarching public concern to be addressed ( like the problem of coronavirus pandemic ) , whose “ solution ” allows resources to be distributed from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the public-private partnership , or P3 , that was a large part of the announced Trump national emergency response , or from one group to another ( e.g.
, profit opportunities from skeptical to alarmist media ) .
2 .
Baptists virtue signal and give vital and vocal endorsement ( through traditional and social media ) of the laudable public benefits promised by a desired government intervention .
Baptists such as those in the mainstream media flourish when their moral message ( against selfish individualism and choice ) forms a visible foundation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and public-spirited officials and woke corporates ) .
3 .
Bootleggers are much less visible but no less vital ( and often publicly play the part of Baptists as well , most notably in the media ) .
Bootleggers expect to profit from the very restrictions ( and favors or handouts ) desired by Baptists both ex ante , as those in the media do , and ex post , as those in the health bureaucracy do .
Those in the worlds of anticapitalistic academia , activism , elections , and politics will @ @ @ @ @

This writer is old enough to recall various health scares from the 1977 Russian flu and HIV/AIDS in the 1980s through to SARS in 2002–03 and the swine flu in 2009–10, not to mention other scares such as 9/11 and the 2007–08 GFC (Great Financial Crisis).
Yet I have never seen a greater, and more unjustified, panic and overreaction by governments (e.g., New Rochelle, NY), institutions (e.g., NCAA), and even businesses (e.g., NBA). And not just in the on-air and online “public squares,” but even among my family, friends, and broader personal network, including normally “cool-headed” economists, doctors, and other “highly educated” professionals. Why is that, and is it justified? Let’s start with the latter.
Coronavirus Crisis
I was fortuitously sent a March 14 article that is quite typical of others in recent weeks, both in traditional and social media, which blur the lines between news and commentary as well as between analysis and activism. In it the “longtime health reporter” for “an independent, non-profit newsroom” with a mission to “expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust” wrote the following with “the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform”:
I have been caught off guard by the pushback from top elected officials [e.g., Trump] and even some friends and acquaintances who keep comparing [coronavirus] to the flu….In the meantime, not one public health expert I trust—not one—has said this flu comparison is valid or that we’re overdoing it….If 1 in 12 people age 70–79 who get the virus and 1 in 7 people age 80 or older who get the virus die, and the virus spreads to 20{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}, 40{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} or 70{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of the population, we’re talking massive death tolls, the likes of which we have never seen before in our lives.
According to Nobel laureate physicist Niels Bohr: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” History is an imperfect guide to the future, but, along with logic, it is all we have. Farr’s law is the opposite of the exponential growth “model” implied in the article above. This law of epidemiology was described in a March 2018 Infectious Disease Modelling journal article as follows:
In the mid-19th century, Dr. William Farr made the observation that epidemic events rise and fall in a roughly symmetrical pattern that can be approximated by a bell-shaped curve. He noticed that this time-evolution behavior could be captured by a single mathematical formula (“Farr’s law”) that could be used for epidemic forecasting….He used this approach to predict that [smallpox mortality in England from 1837–39] would decline rapidly. His predictions were close to what subsequently happened.
Comparing the coronavirus’s death toll to that of related pandemics over the past one hundred years provides much-needed historical context for the outbreak. As of March 15, the death toll for coronavirus was 63 in the US and nearly 6,500 globally. However, death rates are unreliably high at 1.9 and 3.8 percent, respectively, because testing has so far been relatively low (and thus the denominator is unreliably small).
By contrast, in America and the world the 2009 swine flu killed 12,000 and 300,000, respectively; the 1968 Hong Kong flu killed 100,000 and 1,000,000; and the 1918 Spanish Flu, 600,000 and 40,000,000. The dramatic decline in deaths over the past century is a very good reason for optimism. In this context, Dr. Brian Joondeph and the famous Dr. Drew Pinsky, both physicians, made the following points each:
Big Media are all about ratings, view, and clicks, hence their axiom: “If it bleeds, it leads.” A viral outbreak is the perfect story….The added bonus is that any negative news can be laid at the feet of a president loathed by [this same] media, who just so happens to be running for reelection….Numbers are inconvenient to the media. [Instead] you will be inundated with fear [and a] constant barrage of coronavirus codswallop. (Joondeph)
When I saw excessive corona coverage in the press, I had to respond. The weird part on social media is that people are angry with me for trying to get them to see reality and calm down….If you put corona and the flu together, it’s still a moderate flu season. Wash your hands, take precautions, do what you’re supposed to do….What I have a problem with is the panic and that businesses are getting destroyed and people’s lives are getting upended. Not by the virus, but by the panic. (Pinsky)
Bootleggers and Baptists
In “Coronacrisis and Leviathan,” Austrian school economist Peter Klein recently referred to Robert Higgs’s seminal book Crisis and Leviathan, reminding us that:
The expanded role taken on by the state during [a crisis] remain[s] largely in place once the crisis passe[s], leading to a “ratchet effect.”
Only time will tell whether history will repeat itself here and to what extent. Before anything can get ratcheted up and locked in, the alarm must be sounded and a crisis sold to the public by what public choice school economist Bruce Yandle called the “Baptists and Bootleggers.” Yandle originally wrote about this in 1983 and then wrote a retrospect in 1999:
Bootleggers, you will remember, support Sunday closing laws that shut down all the local bars and liquor stores. Baptists support the same laws and lobby vigorously for them. Both parties gain, while the regulators are content because the law is easy to administer….Politicians need resources in order to get elected. Selected members of the public can gain resources through the political process, and highly organized groups can do that quite handily. The most successful ventures of this sort occur where there is an overarching public concern to be addressed (like the problem of alcohol) whose “solution” allows resources to be distributed from the public purse to particular groups or from one group to another (as from bartenders to bootleggers). (1983)
Baptists point to the moral high ground and give vital and vocal endorsement of laudable public benefits promised by a desired regulation. Baptists flourish when their moral message forms a visible foundation for political action. Bootleggers are much less visible but no less vital. Bootleggers, who expect to profit from the very regulatory restrictions desired by Baptists, grease the political machinery with some of their expected proceeds. (1999)
Conclusion
So, paraphrasing Yandle in the context of this “coronacrisis”:
1. The most successful ventures of this sort (i.e., this coronacrisis) occur where there is an overarching public concern to be addressed (like the problem of coronavirus pandemic), whose “solution” allows resources to be distributed from the public purse to particular groups, such as the public-private partnership, or P3, that was a large part of the announced Trump national emergency response, or from one group to another (e.g., profit opportunities from skeptical to alarmist media).
2. Baptists virtue signal and give vital and vocal endorsement (through traditional and social media) of the laudable public benefits promised by a desired government intervention. Baptists such as those in the mainstream media flourish when their moral message (against selfish individualism and choice) forms a visible foundation for political action (by allegedly unselfish and public-spirited officials and woke corporates).
3. Bootleggers are much less visible but no less vital (and often publicly play the part of Baptists as well, most notably in the media). Bootleggers expect to profit from the very restrictions (and favors or handouts) desired by Baptists both ex ante, as those in the media do, and ex post, as those in the health bureaucracy do. Those in the worlds of anticapitalistic academia, activism, elections, and politics will benefit handsomely as well.


principiascientificinternational--2020-04-17--New Study: Green-Energy Mining Does Massive Ecological Damage

Mining all of the lithium , cobalt , rare earth minerals , and other elements required for a wind- and solar-powered economy would unleash massive and widespread environmental devastation , according to a newly published study .
The study , authored by Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow ( CFACT ) senior policy advisor Paul Driessen and published by The Heartland Institute , concludes that climate activists impose more environmental harm than good when they insist on a wind- and solar-powered economy .
“ Expanding mining on the scale needed to meet the renewable energy requirements of the Green New Deal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cause unimaginable harm to the environment , wildlife , and humans , ” the study , titled , “ How the Green New Deal ’ s Renewable Energy Mining Would Harm Humans and the Environment , ” reports .
Particularly troubling is the “ renewable ” economy ’ s reliance on rare earth minerals mined in China , lithium mined in Argentina , Chile , and Tibet , and cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( pictured ) .
The study comprehensively documents the environmental and human health misery imposed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There ’ s not one step of the rare earth mining process that is not disastrous for the environment , ” reports Greenpeace China program director Jamie Choi , according to the study .
Also , the study cites a 2018 study by Harvard University researchers concluding it would require covering one-third of the land in the United States with wind turbines just to meet existing electricity demand .
Transforming all automobiles to electric power would likely push that total closer to one-half of the United States .
What would happen to all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country is devoted to wind turbines ?
As the study shows , the clear impact of global warming activism is imposing more environmental harm than good .
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New Study: Green-Energy Mining Does Massive Ecological Damage
Written by James Taylor
Mining all of the lithium, cobalt, rare earth minerals, and other elements required for a wind- and solar-powered economy would unleash massive and widespread environmental devastation, according to a newly published study.
The study, authored by Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) senior policy advisor Paul Driessen and published by The Heartland Institute, concludes that climate activists impose more environmental harm than good when they insist on a wind- and solar-powered economy.
“Expanding mining on the scale needed to meet the renewable energy requirements of the Green New Deal and other proposed renewable energy mandates would cause unimaginable harm to the environment, wildlife, and humans,” the study, titled, “How the Green New Deal’s Renewable Energy Mining Would Harm Humans and the Environment,” reports.
Particularly troubling is the “renewable” economy’s reliance on rare earth minerals mined in China, lithium mined in Argentina, Chile, and Tibet, and cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo (pictured).
The study comprehensively documents the environmental and human health misery imposed by such mining.
For example, “There’s not one step of the rare earth mining process that is not disastrous for the environment,” reports Greenpeace China program director Jamie Choi, according to the study.
Also, the study cites a 2018 study by Harvard University researchers concluding it would require covering one-third of the land in the United States with wind turbines just to meet existing electricity demand.
Transforming all automobiles to electric power would likely push that total closer to one-half of the United States. What would happen to all the wildlife in America if half our country is devoted to wind turbines?
As the study shows, the clear impact of global warming activism is imposing more environmental harm than good.
Read more at Climate Realism
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principiascientificinternational--2020-04-17--‘Arctic April’ is Breaking Hundreds Of Cold Records in America

‘ Arctic April ’ is Breaking Hundreds Of Cold Records in America Record cold and snowfall hit many parts of North America over the Easter weekend , continuing what has so far been a largely Arctic April .
Records were toppled across many U.S. states , with Montana , Iowa , South Dakota , and Colorado seemingly worst hit .
A winter storm system moved through Iowa on Sunday delivering between three inches and a foot to the majority of locations — several northern Iowa towns saw all-time records tumble : The 3.7 inches that fell at Sioux Gateway Airport @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it also made it the second-highest Easter snowfall ever behind the 4.7 inches during Easter 1929 .
The town of Ringsted in Emmet County ( also Iowa ) came in with a record-busting 11 inches .
Robert “ Lightning ” Petersen was the man to log the accumulation — he uses his back yard measuring equipment to keep track of snow and rainfall .
He works in concert with the National Weather Service out of Johnston .
When the snow fell on Easter Sunday , Petersen checked his 12-inch gauge and was shocked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , reports whotv.com/news .
“ I was flabbergasted because it was not a blizzard activity during the day , ” said Petersen .
“ But holy smokes , when I got that gauge up on the deck , it was plum full .
I thought it can ’ t be .
I must be seeing things.
” According to the National Weather Service ( NWS ) , other Eastern snowfall records tumbled in Rock Valley ( 7 inches ) , Hull ( 6.5 inches ) , and Rock Rapids ( 8.3 inches ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saw a whopping 5.2 inches on Monday , the most snowfall on any date in the city going back to 1893 .
The COLD TIMES are returning , the lower latitudes ( where us humans reside ) are REFREEZING ; in line with historically low solar activity , cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays , and a meridional jet-stream flow .
Even NASA agrees , in part at least , with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle ( 25 ) revealing it will be “ the weakest of the past 200 years , ” with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prolonged periods of global cooling here .
Don ’ t fall for bogus warm-mongering political agendas — our future is one of ever-descending COLD & CROP LOSS .
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‘Arctic April’ is Breaking Hundreds Of Cold Records in America
Written by Cap Allon
Record cold and snowfall hit many parts of North America over the Easter weekend, continuing what has so far been a largely Arctic April.
Records were toppled across many U.S. states, with Montana, Iowa, South Dakota, and Colorado seemingly worst hit.
A winter storm system moved through Iowa on Sunday delivering between three inches and a foot to the majority of locations — several northern Iowa towns saw all-time records tumble:
The 3.7 inches that fell at Sioux Gateway Airport broke the record for April 12th; it also made it the second-highest Easter snowfall ever behind the 4.7 inches during Easter 1929.
The town of Ringsted in Emmet County (also Iowa) came in with a record-busting 11 inches.
Robert “Lightning” Petersen was the man to log the accumulation — he uses his back yard measuring equipment to keep track of snow and rainfall. He works in concert with the National Weather Service out of Johnston.
When the snow fell on Easter Sunday, Petersen checked his 12-inch gauge and was shocked to discover the almost 1 foot total, reports whotv.com/news.
“I was flabbergasted because it was not a blizzard activity during the day,” said Petersen. “But holy smokes, when I got that gauge up on the deck, it was plum full. I thought it can’t be. I must be seeing things.”
According to the National Weather Service (NWS), other Eastern snowfall records tumbled in Rock Valley (7 inches), Hull (6.5 inches), and Rock Rapids (8.3 inches).
Nearby Sioux Falls, South Dakota saw a whopping 5.2 inches on Monday, the most snowfall on any date in the city going back to 1893.
…snip…
The COLD TIMES are returning, the lower latitudes (where us humans reside) are REFREEZING; in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet-stream flow.
Even NASA agrees, in part at least, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) revealing it will be “the weakest of the past 200 years,” with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.
Don’t fall for bogus warm-mongering political agendas — our future is one of ever-descending COLD & CROP LOSS.
Read rest at Electroverse
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