Solar Grand Solar Minimum part deux
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TxGal
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A staggering 23 Norwegian Weather Stations Logged their COLDEST-EVER July Temperature last month - Electroverse
Overall, Norway suffered its coldest July for 50 years. Plus, 'Further Evidence that the Arctic Cold is Shifting South'. GSM.
electroverse.net
A STAGGERING 23 NORWEGIAN WEATHER STATIONS LOGGED THEIR COLDEST-EVER JULY TEMPERATURE LAST MONTH
AUGUST 4, 2020 CAP ALLON
July, 2020 was historically cold throughout Scandinavia–and across much of Europe for that matter.
The Nordic nation of Norway’s average temperature came out at 0.6C below the norm, making for the country’s coldest July in 50 years.
As reported by kommunikasjon.ntb.no, a staggering 23 weather stations measured their lowest-ever July temperature, mainly in Innlandet, Viken, and Vestland.
To boot, 39 records were set for the lowest average July temperature.
In addition, the bone-chilling low of -7.2C logged at Sognefjellhytta went down as Norway’s coldest July temperature ever recorded
And one final impressive feat, the mercury didn’t surpass 30C anywhere in Norway last month — the first time that’s happened since 1951 (this July’s highest maximum temperature was the 27.4C registered at Pasvik).
FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT THE ARCTIC COLD IS SHIFTING SOUTH
While Norway was suffering record-breaking July cold, the nation’s northern archipelago of Svalbard (located between mainland Norway and the North Pole) was enjoying record heat.
Svalbard Airport’s reading of 21.7C on July 25 set a new record for the warmest July temperature ever. The previous record was set back in 1976.
Notice any similarities between 1976 and 2020?
Weak solar cycles (20 & 24) precede the minimum.
Furthermore, July 2020’s Arctic ice distribution was the lowest since satellite observations began more than 40 years ago — but this eventuality is expected during a Grand Solar Minimum (GSM).
NASA, and others, have revealed that while Earth’s overall temperature trends colder during a GSM –as the Sun’s output drops lower and lower– not all regions experience the chill. As with the previous GSM (the Maunder Minimum 1645-1715), areas like the Arctic, Alaska, and S. Greenland/N. Atlantic actually warm during bouts of otherwise “global” cooling — NASA reveals the phenomenon in their Maunder Minimum temperature reconstruction map:
Temp change between 1780 (a year of normal solar activity) and 1680 (a year within the depths of the Maunder Minimum) — NASA.
Climate is cyclic, never linear –despite what the MSM may be feeding us– and historical documentation is calling this the return of the COLD TIMES. The Arctic appears to be warming again -slightly- but the warming is line with the historically low solar activity we’re currently experiencing and its impact on the jet streams, and NOT due to Man’s wholly-beneficial CO2-excretions.
Thankfully, real-world observations have been doggedly persistent of late, and even through the noise and obfuscation oozing out of fraudulent political bodies like the IPCC they can be seen, by those with the ability to think critically.
Low solar activity = global cooling — a baffling notion to some, but one that makes total sense when you drop the modern political dogma and instead incorporate the science of cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays and a meridional jet stream flow. Even NASA themselves appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) seeing it as “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, political agendas.
Prepare for the COLD — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
TxGal
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Big Freeze Begins Buffeting Australia: Tasmania transformed into a "Winter Wonderland," Snow in Victoria, Perth Records Coldest August Day since 1968, and a "Code Blue" Issued in SA - Electroverse
Temps are plummeting ACROSS Australia. Multiple polar fronts delivering heavy snow down to exceptionally low-levels--and there's more where that came from.
electroverse.net
BIG FREEZE BEGINS BUFFETING AUSTRALIA: TASMANIA TRANSFORMED INTO A “WINTER WONDERLAND,” SNOW IN VICTORIA, PERTH RECORDS COLDEST AUGUST DAY SINCE 1968, AND A “CODE BLUE” ISSUED IN SA
AUGUST 4, 2020 CAP ALLON
Temperatures have started plummeting ACROSS Australia, with multiple cold fronts already delivering heavy snow down to exceptionally low-levels. And the BOM is promising much more where that came from…
As reported by TND, snow has fallen in central Victoria and on the fringes of Hobart as a wintry blast continues to shift across Australia’s south-east, flurries down to as low as 100m (328ft) have been registered.
In central Victoria, Ballarat and Buninyong woke to snow on Tuesday morning, with more forecast for eastern Melbourne later in the day. There were also reports of snow on the Great Ocean Road in southern Victoria.
Diana Eadie, from the Bureau of Meteorology’s extreme weather desk, said “we could see snow levels drop to unusually low levels for large parts of the south east” as the week progresses.
View: https://twitter.com/Duranozfan/status/1290532086609113089
View: https://www.facebook.com/greatoceanroadaustralia/posts/2070868239714079
Parts of Tasmania have been transformed into a “Winter Wonderland”, as tweeted by SNOWSEARCH australia, with powder burying Mt Field National Park:
View: https://twitter.com/SNOWSEARCH_aus/status/1290472038981758976
And looking forward, all this anomalous cold is only forecast to intensify-further as the week progresses, according to the BOM. Mid-week will see temperatures “in the single digits for large parts of Tasmania, and even southern parts of Victoria just clipping up into the low teens,” said Eadie.
“That’ll be compounded by that windchill as well, with an increase in the southerly winds associated with that low.”
Overnight minimums are also expected to be “exceptionally cold,” Eadie concluded.
Then into the weekend, temp-departures are forecast to sink as much as 14C below the seasonal average across large parts of southern/eastern Australia:
GFS 2m Temp Anomalies (C) — AUG 7
GFS 2m Temp Anomalies (C) — AUG 8
GFS 2m Temp Anomalies (C) — AUG 9
Some have already had a taste of the historic cold to come.
On Monday, Perth recorded its coldest August day since 1968 — the city’s daily high reached just 11.6C (53F), according to the BOM’s climate database:
And finally, as reported by miragenews.com, regional South Australia has issued a “Code Blue” extreme winter weather response for people sleeping rough.
“Predicted cold weather in the regions is expected to reach below five degrees for five nights or more and that’s why we, together with our homelessness partners, will be activating a Code Blue this week,” said local Minister Lensink.
From Tuesday night, Housing SA will makes additional accommodation available for extended hours.
The COLD TIMES are likely returning in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow. Even NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) seeing it as “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, political agendas.
Prepare for the COLD — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
TxGal
Day by day
All, there have been so many storm/major flooding reports coming in from across the world, there are simply too many to post here. Please go to the link below to read them:
www.sott.net
Earth Changes -- Sott.net
News category 'Earth Changes' on Signs of the Times: The World for People who Think
www.sott.net
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parsonswife
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I complained to a farmer once that fruits like cantaloupe just aren't as sweet as I remember as a kid. He said the sweetness comes from multiple pollination , how many time a flower get touched by beesView: https://twitter.com/IceAgeFarmer/status/1290405228848668672
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Netherlands - Half of blueberries lost due to night frost
A test year, is what Sil Moonen calls the current season for blueberries. “Normally we always say at the start of the Dutch season that the market will only pick up when the schools start again and everyone is back from their holiday. Now that many people are holidaying at home to a greater or lesser degree, things could turn out quite differently for us. For example, the UK market is an important market. Normally around 30% of the UK’s 65 million residents go on holiday. If they now go to their supermarkets more, this could increase sales. ”
The grower could make good use of this. “We have half the amount of berries to harvest this year as a result of the night frost. Fortunately, we have spread our production locations across the Northern Netherlands, the Southern Netherlands and Northern Germany (a total of 60 hectares), but it was Drenthe that suffered in particular. In this region it was almost 10 degrees below zero during the night of 10 to 11 May, I have never experienced damage like this before, and I am not alone, although the damage is extremely local, for example, in Roggel I have hail damage on one plot and on the plot 200 meters away there is nothing wrong. ”
“At the moment, prices are also somewhat disappointing. From Eastern European countries, the market is currently flooded with blueberries, mostly free varieties, which have put prices under pressure. But when these are off the market, there may still be a shortage,” the grower expects. “But it remains to be seen, because I heard that the first import berries from the southern hemisphere have already arrived in the country. But nothing is certain at this time. If a second Corona wave continues in South America, then the world will look very different again. ”
Source – FreshPlaza: Global Fresh Produce and Banana News
View: https://twitter.com/IceAgeFarmer/status/1290341905935425536
USA - Bee population decline leads to food crop shortages
Read more at: Agroinsurance – Portal on Agricultural Insurance and Risk Management » USA – Bee population decline leads to food crop shortages
New research shows that the loss of bees in agricultural areas is hampering the supply of a number of key food crops. Biodiversity experts have for years raised alarm bells over the consequences of continued decline in pollinators. The latest study shows that the loss of wild bees due to habitat destruction, pesticide use and the climate crisis could pose serious complications for global food security.
The U.S.-based study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, examined seven crops grown across a total of 131 crop fields in 13 states in the country. Surveying bee activity and crop abundance, researchers found that five crops had evidence that the lack of bees is limiting the amount of food that can be grown – these include apples, cherries and blueberries.
The team of scientists, hailing from Canada, Sweden and the U.S. found that wild native bees contribute a significant portion of the pollination even in intensively farmed areas. Species of wild bees, including bumblebees, have been experiencing sharp declines due to the loss of flowering habitat, the use of toxic pesticides and insecticides in intensive farming and the impacts of climate change.
The trends we are seeing now are setting us up for food security problems. We aren’t yet in a complete crisis now but the trends aren’t going in the right direction. Our study shows this isn’t a problem for 10 or 20 years from now – it’s happening right now.
“Our findings show that pollinator declines could translate directly into decreased yields or production for most of the crops studied, and that wild species contribute substantially to pollination of most study crops in major crop-producing regions,” wrote the authors of the paper.
Wild bees are different from honeybees managed by beekeepers in commercial honey production, and are more effective pollinators. Almost three-quarters of the world’s food crops are dependent on pollinators like wild bees, and their suffering numbers could pose serious problems for global food security.
Fruit and vegetables are especially vulnerable because they rely on insects and other pollinators, while rice, wheat and corn are not affected by bee declines because they are wind pollinated.
Currently, many agricultural regions in the U.S. are relying on managed honeybees, deliberately shifted all over the country to meet the need for crop pollination. Almonds, for instance, which is one of the two crops shown not to be suffering from the loss of bees, in fact depend on the annual trucking beehives across the country to the almond-growing California.
Our findings show that pollinator declines could translate directly into decreased yields or production for most of the crops studied, and that wild species contribute substantially to pollination of most study crops in major crop-producing regions.
The scientists warn that action must be taken now to protect wild bee pollinators in order to protect the supply of fruit and vegetables, without which could lead to nutritional deficiencies and other public health implications.
“Given the evidence of widespread pollinator limitation, especially in tree fruits and blueberry, our results suggest that the adoption of practices that conserve or augment wild bees, such as wildflower enhancements and the use of alternative managed pollinators, is likely to be successful for increasing yields,” wrote the researchers.
“The trends we are seeing now are setting us up for food security problems,” Rachael Winfree from Rutgers University and one of the authors of the paper told. “We aren’t yet in a complete crisis now but the trends aren’t going in the right direction. Our study shows this isn’t a problem for 10 or 20 years from now – it’s happening right now.”
In terms of what individuals can do, supporting organic farming, avoiding honey and participating in wild beekeeping, a form of regenerative agriculture are key actions that can help save pollinator populations such as bees and butterflies.
Source – Green Queen | Asia's Award-Winning Sustainability & Plant-Based Media
TxGal
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Interesting, we've noticed that, too, this year and a bit last year, too. This year is particularly bad. None - absolutely none - of the cantaloupes we bought this year have been good. Even stranger, we'll put them out for our chickens - and they won't eat them. And yet more strange, when we've left them out overnight, the raccoons won't eat them either, and they'll eat just about anything.
TxGal
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"A Historic Event" - Aussie City Blanketed in Snow for the first time in 40 Years - Electroverse
POLAR COLD IS SHIFTING TO THE MID-LATITUDES. Heed the warnings handed-down by EVERY great civilization of the past, and prepare.
electroverse.net
“A HISTORIC EVENT” — AUSSIE CITY BLANKETED IN SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS
AUGUST 5, 2020 CAP ALLON
Australia’s ever-intensifying Antarctic Blast is beginning to deliver. This morning (Aug 5), swathes of Tasmania received their first settling snow for 40 years.
As picked up by Yahoo News Australia, Tasmania’s riverside city of Launceston was hammered by snow on Tuesday evening, as the mercury at the airport sank below-zero just after 9pm.
Bureau of Meteorology’s Matthew Thomas said the settling snow in Tasmania’s north is a weather event not seen for some 40 years.
“It’s a very rare event for Tasmania,” said Thomas.
“We saw some snow settled in Hobart, with the last two occurrences in 1986 and 2015. [However] the last time we saw snow settle in Launceston was in the early 1970s,” he said.
Weatherzone meteorologist Ben Domensino described it as “a historic event for Tasmania”:
View: https://twitter.com/Ben_Domensino/status/1290792676699193344
View: https://twitter.com/Ben_Domensino/status/1290850888962039811
View: https://twitter.com/JanelleKerrison/status/1290841361780895747
View: https://twitter.com/BecMorris6/status/1290782224510414849
Weatherzone meteorologist Joel Pippard has said it’s “likely” northern Tasmania will see more snow before the week is out, and added that Launceston is set for bone-chilling lows of -2C by Friday.
Stay tuned for updates.
Historically low solar activity continues to weaken the jet streams, changing their flow from one that is tight (ZONAL) to wavy (MERIDIONAL). This “weakening” pulls Antarctic air anomalously-far north (in the southern hemisphere), and kicks Arctic air unusually-far south (in the northern hemisphere).
For more on the science, click the link below:
The Changing Jet Stream and Global Cooling - Electroverse
This explains why far-northern latitudes (Siberia) have been experiencing anomalous heat of late, while the lower-latitudes have been suffering record cold.
electroverse.net
The Grand Solar Minimum (GSM) is intensifying.
Soon, even the most propagandized of jumbucks will admit that the Earth is cooling.
However, as NASA -and others- have revealed, while Earth’s overall temperature trends colder during a GSM –as the Sun’s output drops lower and lower– not all regions suffer the chill. As with the previous GSM (the Maunder Minimum 1645-1715), areas like the Arctic, Alaska, and S. Greenland/N. Atlantic actually warm during bouts of otherwise “global” cooling — NASA reveals the phenomenon in their Maunder Minimum temperature reconstruction map:
Temp change between 1780 (a year of normal solar activity) and 1680 (a year within the depths of the Maunder Minimum) — NASA.
Climate is cyclic, never linear –despite what the MSM is feeding us– and historical documentation is calling this the return of the COLD TIMES.
The Arctic appears to be warming again -slightly- but, as touched on above, the warming is line with the historically low solar activity we’re currently experiencing and its impact on the jet streams (along with cloud cover), and NOT due to Man’s wholly-beneficial CO2-excretions.
Don’t fall for bogus warm-mongering political agendas.
POLAR COLD IS SHIFTING TO THE MID-LATITUDES.
Heed the warnings handed-down by EVERY great civilization of the past:
You think 2020 is bad? Think again. Wait for the "real" Catastrophes to kick-in - Volcanic Eruptions, Global Cooling, Crop Loss, and Famine - Electroverse
Ancient political turmoils were caused by the Sun & volcanic eruptions - the end of the Roman Rep., for example, was the result of an Alaskan eruption.
electroverse.net
1,500-Year-Old Pile of Trash Reveals a Civilization's Overnight Collapse - Electroverse
A volcanic eruption and the associated drop in temp brought down the ancient Negev Desert economies. Heed the warnings of the past, for history repeats.
electroverse.net
Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
TxGal
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Okay, I'm posting this article just as it appears right now....but I've got to tell you, we're supposed to be near 100 for the foreseeable future as of late last night's weather forecast. So I'm reading this article and thinking, what? Either our local forecasts are off, or the article below is off....not sure yet :-)
electroverse.net
RECORD-SETTING SUMMER-CHILL ENGULFS THE U.S.
AUGUST 5, 2020 CAP ALLON
The brutal, fall-like temperatures that have infected much of the CONUS since Saturday will continue to slam-home the “global cooling” message for the remainder of the week — all-time record lows are likely to tumble.
Looking at the latest GFS runs, an almost continent-spanning blob of “blue” and “purple” is currently engulfing the United States, as a meridional jet stream flow –linked to the historically low solar activity we’re experiencing– kicks Arctic air anomalously-far south.
Temperature departures as much as 12C below the seasonal average will continue to grip central and eastern regions as the weekend approaches:
GFS 2m Temp Anomalies to Fri, Aug 7 [tropicaltidbits.com].
The National Weather Service says both daily and monthly low temperature records are under-threat, particularly in Southern and Midwestern regions.
View: https://www.facebook.com/NWSStLouis/photos/a.209557009076118/3517637101601409/?type=3
August is usually a hot box of sweat and humidity in this part of the world, but this unseasonable-chill comes during what has [so far] been a historically cold start to the month across the Show-Me State.
Kansas City is also threatening all-time August lows.
“Temperatures tomorrow morning [Weds] are going to be down in the 50s. We may break a record,” said FOX4 meteorologist Joe Lauria.
Despite these few-and-far-between local weather reports, the MSM has been deathly silent on this potentially historic summer chill, further exposing their warm-mongering bias. Contrary to the scientifically baseless BS western media-outlets are pedaling to the masses, North America has actually been COOLING since 2015 at a rate of 2.03C per decade, says NOAA. This is a substantial drop, one 29 times the official avg. rate of increase since 1880, according to NOAA’s latest report from Jan, 2020: “The global annual temperature has increased at an avg. rate of 0.07C (0.13F) per decade since 1880.”
North America, 2.03C decline
Don’t fall for bogus political agendas.
The COLD TIMES are returning in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow.
Even NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) seeing it as “the weakest of the past 200 years,” with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.
Prepare for the COLD — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
Record-Setting Summer-Chill Engulfs the U.S. - Electroverse
The fall-like temps that have infected much of the CONUS since Sat will continue to slam-home the "global cooling" message for the remainder of the week.
electroverse.net
RECORD-SETTING SUMMER-CHILL ENGULFS THE U.S.
AUGUST 5, 2020 CAP ALLON
The brutal, fall-like temperatures that have infected much of the CONUS since Saturday will continue to slam-home the “global cooling” message for the remainder of the week — all-time record lows are likely to tumble.
Looking at the latest GFS runs, an almost continent-spanning blob of “blue” and “purple” is currently engulfing the United States, as a meridional jet stream flow –linked to the historically low solar activity we’re experiencing– kicks Arctic air anomalously-far south.
Temperature departures as much as 12C below the seasonal average will continue to grip central and eastern regions as the weekend approaches:
GFS 2m Temp Anomalies to Fri, Aug 7 [tropicaltidbits.com].
The National Weather Service says both daily and monthly low temperature records are under-threat, particularly in Southern and Midwestern regions.
View: https://www.facebook.com/NWSStLouis/photos/a.209557009076118/3517637101601409/?type=3
August is usually a hot box of sweat and humidity in this part of the world, but this unseasonable-chill comes during what has [so far] been a historically cold start to the month across the Show-Me State.
Kansas City is also threatening all-time August lows.
“Temperatures tomorrow morning [Weds] are going to be down in the 50s. We may break a record,” said FOX4 meteorologist Joe Lauria.
Despite these few-and-far-between local weather reports, the MSM has been deathly silent on this potentially historic summer chill, further exposing their warm-mongering bias. Contrary to the scientifically baseless BS western media-outlets are pedaling to the masses, North America has actually been COOLING since 2015 at a rate of 2.03C per decade, says NOAA. This is a substantial drop, one 29 times the official avg. rate of increase since 1880, according to NOAA’s latest report from Jan, 2020: “The global annual temperature has increased at an avg. rate of 0.07C (0.13F) per decade since 1880.”
North America, 2.03C decline
Don’t fall for bogus political agendas.
The COLD TIMES are returning in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow.
Even NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) seeing it as “the weakest of the past 200 years,” with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.
Prepare for the COLD — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
I wonder what would happen if you put organic cantaloupe out for them? I once had mice invade our root cellar and eat a bushel of homegrown organic apples down to the cores... while not touching 2 bushels of commercial (heavily sprayed) apples on the shelf next to them.
Summerthyme
TxGal
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That's what we've been thinking - heavily sprayed produce. It's the only thing that makes sense.
desertvet2
Veteran Member
North Idaho, had some small Yukon gold taters sitting out on a quad to get sun kissed for a day or two before bringing in...last night must have froze, they are very squishy now. I went for a walk at 4:30a.m. not frozen. Getting weird?
TxGal
Day by day
Okay, that is weird!
Martinhouse
Deceased
There's a new Adapt 2030 video out. rt = 24:58
"How Willing Are You to Change Your Lifestyle for Events That Are Happening?"
This one is interesting, partly because it's so very different from any he's done before that I've seen!
"How Willing Are You to Change Your Lifestyle for Events That Are Happening?"
This one is interesting, partly because it's so very different from any he's done before that I've seen!
TxGal
Day by day
Thanks, Martinhouse! Just came in for lunch....I can't keep up!!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBJSgXIG0Wo
How Willing Are You to Change Your Lifestyle for Events That Are Happening?
3,415 views • Aug 5, 2020
Run time is 24:58
I opened a can of peas with a rock by sanding off the ring holding the can lid on, at the same time discussing why small businesses are being put out of business, so when you receive universal basic income you will be allowed to spend it at at approved retailers, i.e corporate 500 businesses.
How Willing Are You to Change Your Lifestyle for Events That Are Happening?
3,415 views • Aug 5, 2020
Run time is 24:58
I opened a can of peas with a rock by sanding off the ring holding the can lid on, at the same time discussing why small businesses are being put out of business, so when you receive universal basic income you will be allowed to spend it at at approved retailers, i.e corporate 500 businesses.
TxGal
Day by day
The Oppenheimer Ranch Project has a new podcast out:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2nrxWC1dBg
Flooding From Isaias Caused ‘Millions' in Philly Damage - Record Cold & Snow The MSM Won't Touch
2,944 views • Premiered 7 hours ago
Run time is 22:22
A Russian ship's dangerous ammonium nitrate stranded in Beirut for years https://cnn.it/3kj8yk3
Flooding From Isaias Likely Caused ‘Millions' in Philly Damage https://bit.ly/3fzelhM
Family rescued from car trapped in flooded street in Richmond https://bit.ly/30wFiOH
Cosmic Ray Maximum https://bit.ly/3kfM82Y
The Great Geomagnetic Storm of May 1921 https://bit.ly/3fzw3BN
Apple fire destroys 4 homes, 8 other structures https://bit.ly/3fzw7Bx
Vehicle ignites 9,500-acre wildfire in San Saba County https://bit.ly/2EMwo7h
Pine Gulch Fire impacts De Beque residents, 5% contained https://bit.ly/31mlInv
Colorado State University Raises 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast to 24 Named Storms, Second Most on Record https://bit.ly/3igcBvI
Severe Weather in the High Plains; Heavy Rain/Flood Concerns in Parts of the East https://www.weather.gov/
RECORD-SETTING SUMMER-CHILL ENGULFS THE U.S. https://bit.ly/3icIV2f
BIG FREEZE BEGINS BUFFETING AUSTRALIA: TASMANIA TRANSFORMED INTO A “WINTER WONDERLAND,” SNOW IN VICTORIA https://bit.ly/2C2CmA5
“A HISTORIC EVENT” — AUSSIE CITY BLANKETED IN SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS https://bit.ly/39YvAbb
A STAGGERING 23 NORWEGIAN WEATHER STATIONS LOGGED THEIR COLDEST-EVER JULY TEMPERATURE LAST MONTH https://bit.ly/2XzFBGD
Greenland Surface Mass Budget https://bit.ly/2XA9SVI
Worldwide Volcano News http://bit.ly/2v9JJhO
Solar flares are predicted by new model https://bit.ly/33vd5K1
Massive ancient temple complex may lurk beneath famous Northern Ireland fort https://bit.ly/2EVQFaK
Watch Carl Sagan Prove Flat Earthers Wrong With Just a Piece of Cardboard https://bit.ly/3fzw60c
Everything at the grocery store is getting more expensive https://cnn.it/3a4kcub
Bitcoin Price Rises 3% as Gold Trades Above $2K for First Time https://bit.ly/33xHDe3
Flooding From Isaias Caused ‘Millions' in Philly Damage - Record Cold & Snow The MSM Won't Touch
2,944 views • Premiered 7 hours ago
Run time is 22:22
A Russian ship's dangerous ammonium nitrate stranded in Beirut for years https://cnn.it/3kj8yk3
Flooding From Isaias Likely Caused ‘Millions' in Philly Damage https://bit.ly/3fzelhM
Family rescued from car trapped in flooded street in Richmond https://bit.ly/30wFiOH
Cosmic Ray Maximum https://bit.ly/3kfM82Y
The Great Geomagnetic Storm of May 1921 https://bit.ly/3fzw3BN
Apple fire destroys 4 homes, 8 other structures https://bit.ly/3fzw7Bx
Vehicle ignites 9,500-acre wildfire in San Saba County https://bit.ly/2EMwo7h
Pine Gulch Fire impacts De Beque residents, 5% contained https://bit.ly/31mlInv
Colorado State University Raises 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast to 24 Named Storms, Second Most on Record https://bit.ly/3igcBvI
Severe Weather in the High Plains; Heavy Rain/Flood Concerns in Parts of the East https://www.weather.gov/
RECORD-SETTING SUMMER-CHILL ENGULFS THE U.S. https://bit.ly/3icIV2f
BIG FREEZE BEGINS BUFFETING AUSTRALIA: TASMANIA TRANSFORMED INTO A “WINTER WONDERLAND,” SNOW IN VICTORIA https://bit.ly/2C2CmA5
“A HISTORIC EVENT” — AUSSIE CITY BLANKETED IN SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS https://bit.ly/39YvAbb
A STAGGERING 23 NORWEGIAN WEATHER STATIONS LOGGED THEIR COLDEST-EVER JULY TEMPERATURE LAST MONTH https://bit.ly/2XzFBGD
Greenland Surface Mass Budget https://bit.ly/2XA9SVI
Worldwide Volcano News http://bit.ly/2v9JJhO
Solar flares are predicted by new model https://bit.ly/33vd5K1
Massive ancient temple complex may lurk beneath famous Northern Ireland fort https://bit.ly/2EVQFaK
Watch Carl Sagan Prove Flat Earthers Wrong With Just a Piece of Cardboard https://bit.ly/3fzw60c
Everything at the grocery store is getting more expensive https://cnn.it/3a4kcub
Bitcoin Price Rises 3% as Gold Trades Above $2K for First Time https://bit.ly/33xHDe3
TxGal
Day by day
Summer Snow Falls on the Russian Town of Pevek - Electroverse
Climatic swings-between-extremes are common in this part of the world--something our misinformed eco-warrior-journalists haven't been able to grasp.
electroverse.net
SUMMER SNOW FALLS ON THE RUSSIAN TOWN OF PEVEK
AUGUST 6, 2020 CAP ALLON
The Arctic port town of Pevek is one of the “wildest” regions of Russia. Much like in the well-documented –yet poorly explained– Verkhoyansk, the annual temperature range is a staggering 80 degrees, from -50C in winter to +30C in summer.
Pevek’s first snow of the coming winter fell all night on August 5, reports gismeteo.ru. Temperatures gradually sank as the evening progressed, hovering just above 0C by the early hours of the morning.
The town doesn’t usually see its first flakes until mid-September, according to weatherspark.com. But ‘swings-between-extremes’ are commonplace in this part of the world, something our misinformed eco-warrior-journalists haven’t been able to grasp. The weather very much depends on where the wind is blowing from, explains the gismeteo.ru article. Heat arrives via a “southern hairdryer,” whereas cold from the north comes down as “white flies” — “the winds of change”.
Serving as a good example is Verkhoyansk.
On the night of July 30, temperatures in the “Arctic-is-on-fire” town plunged to -2C — a fact never reported by the MSM. And then before that, just days after the town’s record-breaking 38.4C, rare summer snow was settling — again, not a sniff of impartiality from our propagandizing press.
Looking forward, the latest GFS run suggests a brutal mass of Arctic air is about to ride anomalously-far south on the back of a wavy meridional jet stream flow –the “white flies”– a phenomenon associated with the historically low solar activity we’re currently experiencing.
Vast swathes of the Russian continent, particularly central and western regions, as well as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan (in fact, all of the ‘stans) will see temperature departures sink some 14C below the seasonal average by next week:
GFS 2m Temp Anomalies (C) Aug 11 – Aug 21 [tropicaltidbits.com]
The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING, in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow.
Even NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) seeing it as “the weakest of the past 200 years,” with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.
Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
Martinhouse
Deceased
There is a new Ice Age Farmer video out. rt = 11:49
"Covid-19 Strike Teams Shut Down Farms - Food Wars Go Hot - Beirut, Aus., China Shortages.
"Covid-19 Strike Teams Shut Down Farms - Food Wars Go Hot - Beirut, Aus., China Shortages.
TxGal
Day by day
Thanks, Martinhouse! Been outside in the pastures working all evening, just got back in a little while ago.
Here's the Ice Age Farmer Martinhouse mentioned:
COVID-19 Strike Teams Shut Down Farms - FoodWars Go Hot - Beirut, Aus, China Shortages
18,231 views • Premiered 4 hours ago
Run time is 11:49
The global food supply is being destroyed, production dismantled, and farmers put out of business: California is sending in "COVID-19 Strike Teams" to shut down farms that are not "properly distanced." China bans cellphones in granaries. Australian food shortages. Beirut loses main port and grain stores. Middle East food production & distribution is on fire. Christian breaks down the latest as the #FoodWars go hot.
Martinhouse
Deceased
TxGal, thanks for posting the IAF video with it's link. I thought the whole think very concerning.
Lately it seems like I should just go ahead and stay scared all the time.... sorta like then I don't have to turn it on and off with each new thing I come across. Each new thing seems to be worse than the last!
I think I"d better start canning now, even though it looks like the hot weather will be back by Saturday.
Glad I had my nephew go ahead and order the materials I need to finish my greenhouse. Order should be here next week plus a lot of materials were in stock and are already bought and hopefully picked up.
We seem to be getting a nice little rain right now. I'm hoping for a good half-inch, but I doubt it will last that long.
Lately it seems like I should just go ahead and stay scared all the time.... sorta like then I don't have to turn it on and off with each new thing I come across. Each new thing seems to be worse than the last!
I think I"d better start canning now, even though it looks like the hot weather will be back by Saturday.
Glad I had my nephew go ahead and order the materials I need to finish my greenhouse. Order should be here next week plus a lot of materials were in stock and are already bought and hopefully picked up.
We seem to be getting a nice little rain right now. I'm hoping for a good half-inch, but I doubt it will last that long.
TxGal
Day by day
You're welcome! There's so much going on the in the news I think it's overwhelming for everyone, and seems like so many have taskers they're trying to catch up on. There seems very little anymore that isn't concerning, isn't there?!
I still have a msg to finish in response to yours, I'll get to it soon - honest! So much going on here, mostly good stuff but you know the other we're working (going well), and with the 100 degree heat it's like slogging through mud some times :-)
TxGal
Day by day
Adapt 2030 has a new podcast out:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN-31JzGksA
Sahara Has Fish (1024)
8,967 views • Premiered 12 hours ago
Run time is 10:52
Looking at the African Mega-Lakes which would be the largest lakes on Earth today, scientists say they found fossilized bones from tilapia and catfish, on massifs with rock carvings and stone art. Timeline seems off for fossils as well the sheer amount of caravans and trade points across N. Africa with known habitation points, vast swaths of civilization across the region and all we get is the Egyptians. I see a missing part of human history, what do you see?
Sahara Has Fish (1024)
8,967 views • Premiered 12 hours ago
Run time is 10:52
Looking at the African Mega-Lakes which would be the largest lakes on Earth today, scientists say they found fossilized bones from tilapia and catfish, on massifs with rock carvings and stone art. Timeline seems off for fossils as well the sheer amount of caravans and trade points across N. Africa with known habitation points, vast swaths of civilization across the region and all we get is the Egyptians. I see a missing part of human history, what do you see?
TxGal
Day by day
The Oppenheimer Ranch Project has a new podcast out:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2nrxWC1dBg
RECORD FLOODING Caused ‘Millions' in Philly Damage - Record Cold & Snow The MSM Won't Touch
5,440 views • Premiered Aug 5, 2020
Run time is 22:22
A Russian ship's dangerous ammonium nitrate stranded in Beirut for years https://cnn.it/3kj8yk3
Flooding From Isaias Likely Caused ‘Millions' in Philly Damage https://bit.ly/3fzelhM
Family rescued from car trapped in flooded street in Richmond https://bit.ly/30wFiOH
Cosmic Ray Maximum https://bit.ly/3kfM82Y
The Great Geomagnetic Storm of May 1921 https://bit.ly/3fzw3BN
Apple fire destroys 4 homes, 8 other structures https://bit.ly/3fzw7Bx
Vehicle ignites 9,500-acre wildfire in San Saba County https://bit.ly/2EMwo7h
Pine Gulch Fire impacts De Beque residents, 5% contained https://bit.ly/31mlInv
Colorado State University Raises 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast to 24 Named Storms, Second Most on Record https://bit.ly/3igcBvI
Severe Weather in the High Plains; Heavy Rain/Flood Concerns in Parts of the East https://www.weather.gov/
RECORD-SETTING SUMMER-CHILL ENGULFS THE U.S. https://bit.ly/3icIV2f
BIG FREEZE BEGINS BUFFETING AUSTRALIA: TASMANIA TRANSFORMED INTO A “WINTER WONDERLAND,” SNOW IN VICTORIA https://bit.ly/2C2CmA5
“A HISTORIC EVENT” — AUSSIE CITY BLANKETED IN SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS https://bit.ly/39YvAbb
A STAGGERING 23 NORWEGIAN WEATHER STATIONS LOGGED THEIR COLDEST-EVER JULY TEMPERATURE LAST MONTH https://bit.ly/2XzFBGD
Greenland Surface Mass Budget https://bit.ly/2XA9SVI
Worldwide Volcano News http://bit.ly/2v9JJhO
Solar flares are predicted by new model https://bit.ly/33vd5K1
Massive ancient temple complex may lurk beneath famous Northern Ireland fort https://bit.ly/2EVQFaK
Watch Carl Sagan Prove Flat Earthers Wrong With Just a Piece of Cardboard https://bit.ly/3fzw60c
Everything at the grocery store is getting more expensive
https://cnn.it/3a4kcub Bitcoin Price Rises 3% as Gold Trades Above $2K for First Time https://bit.ly/33xHDe3
RECORD FLOODING Caused ‘Millions' in Philly Damage - Record Cold & Snow The MSM Won't Touch
5,440 views • Premiered Aug 5, 2020
Run time is 22:22
A Russian ship's dangerous ammonium nitrate stranded in Beirut for years https://cnn.it/3kj8yk3
Flooding From Isaias Likely Caused ‘Millions' in Philly Damage https://bit.ly/3fzelhM
Family rescued from car trapped in flooded street in Richmond https://bit.ly/30wFiOH
Cosmic Ray Maximum https://bit.ly/3kfM82Y
The Great Geomagnetic Storm of May 1921 https://bit.ly/3fzw3BN
Apple fire destroys 4 homes, 8 other structures https://bit.ly/3fzw7Bx
Vehicle ignites 9,500-acre wildfire in San Saba County https://bit.ly/2EMwo7h
Pine Gulch Fire impacts De Beque residents, 5% contained https://bit.ly/31mlInv
Colorado State University Raises 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast to 24 Named Storms, Second Most on Record https://bit.ly/3igcBvI
Severe Weather in the High Plains; Heavy Rain/Flood Concerns in Parts of the East https://www.weather.gov/
RECORD-SETTING SUMMER-CHILL ENGULFS THE U.S. https://bit.ly/3icIV2f
BIG FREEZE BEGINS BUFFETING AUSTRALIA: TASMANIA TRANSFORMED INTO A “WINTER WONDERLAND,” SNOW IN VICTORIA https://bit.ly/2C2CmA5
“A HISTORIC EVENT” — AUSSIE CITY BLANKETED IN SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS https://bit.ly/39YvAbb
A STAGGERING 23 NORWEGIAN WEATHER STATIONS LOGGED THEIR COLDEST-EVER JULY TEMPERATURE LAST MONTH https://bit.ly/2XzFBGD
Greenland Surface Mass Budget https://bit.ly/2XA9SVI
Worldwide Volcano News http://bit.ly/2v9JJhO
Solar flares are predicted by new model https://bit.ly/33vd5K1
Massive ancient temple complex may lurk beneath famous Northern Ireland fort https://bit.ly/2EVQFaK
Watch Carl Sagan Prove Flat Earthers Wrong With Just a Piece of Cardboard https://bit.ly/3fzw60c
Everything at the grocery store is getting more expensive
https://cnn.it/3a4kcub Bitcoin Price Rises 3% as Gold Trades Above $2K for First Time https://bit.ly/33xHDe3
TxGal
Day by day
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent has Tracked the 1979-1990 Average ALL YEAR - Electroverse
Alarmists take note, the ice locked within Antarctica is far more important to your hokey climate theories than that contained in the Arctic.
electroverse.net
ANTARCTIC SEA ICE EXTENT HAS TRACKED THE 1979-1990 AVERAGE ALL YEAR
AUGUST 7, 2020 CAP ALLON
According to official government data from the National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC), 2020’s Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is tracking the 1979-1990 average.
Climate alarmists take note, the ice locked within Antarctica is far more important to your hokey climate theories than that contained in its northern cousin the Arctic.
The Antarctic contains 90% of our planet’s ice, and, therefore, if Antarctica isn’t melting then any potential sea-level rise will be severely limited.
And Antarctica isn’t melting.
According to the latest NSIDC data, sea ice extent around the southern pole has been tracking the 1979-1990 average ALL YEAR:
[nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph]
In addition, August 2020’s extent is currently greater than it was in the 1980s:
[nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph]
NO CORRELATION
Since 1979 (the year sea ice satellite measurements began), carbon dioxide readings taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii have been on an “unnaturally linear” rise; while, during the same period, Antarctic Sea Ice Extent has been “extremely variable” with “the yearly minimum hitting both record highs and lows” (NOAA climate.gov).
Antarctica’s “extremely variable” minimum sea ice extent for each year (NOAA climate.gov).
CO2 levels at Mauna Loa which show an unnaturally linear rise.
This reveals that there is NO correlation between rising Mauna Loa CO2 levels and Antarctic Sea Ice Extent, and that climate alarmists are barking up the wrong tree in that regard.
Add to that, the Mauna Loa (Keeling) CO2 curve shows signs that it may in fact be doctored as “no real-world measurements of a parameter would follow such a clean, simple, and straight trajectory for 60 years,” posits Ned Nikolov Ph.D.:
According to 'Direct Atmospheric Measurements,' CO2 Levels were above 400 ppm in the 1940s... - Electroverse
"CO2 curve has some synthetic features. No real-world measurements of a parameter would follow such a clean, simple and straight trajectory for 60 years."
electroverse.net
And, the inconvenient climate bombs keep coming:
Higher levels of atmospheric CO2 have only-ever been BENEFICIAL to biodiversity on our planet, every life-form is carbon based, after all — carbon is the backbone of every known biological molecule.
Proxy data shows CO2 levels have never correlated with temperatures.
Heat should also be welcomed, for life on our planet thrives during periods of warmth, and is stifled during times of cold — serving as evidence for this is that fact that tropical forests cover <12% of all land yet contain the majority of plant and animal species; while the Arctic, which covers 10% of the land, contains just 600 plant species, 100 species of birds, no reptiles or amphibians, and only 20 mammals.
AGW advocates try to circumvent the connection between warm climates and biodiversity by claiming that the secondary effects of global warming, such as droughts or the melting of ice, threaten life — however, droughts are NOT increasing on a planetary scale, and, as highlighted above, the ice is NOT melting.
Heat = good.
Cold = bad.
Simple, really, yet the alarmist-brigade have it entirely backwards.
And now, the COLD TIMES appear to be returning in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow.
The Grand Solar MAXIMUM –in which humanity prospered and thrived thanks to a constant and predictable warmth– is unfortunately coming to an end, and is giving way to the next Grand Solar MINIMUM — cold = bad.
Even NASA appear to foresee this upcoming chill, if you read between the lines, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) seeing it as “the weakest of the past 200 years,” with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.
Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
TxGal
Day by day
Tasmania Confirms Coldest Temperature EVER Recorded - Electroverse
In what we're to believe is a catastrophically-warming, Australia's 68,401km2 island state of Tasmania is currently the coldest it's ever been.
electroverse.net
TASMANIA CONFIRMS COLDEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED
AUGUST 7, 2020 CAP ALLON
In what we’re to believe is a catastrophically-warming world on the brink of disaster, Australia’s 68,401km2 island state of Tasmania is currently the coldest it’s ever been.
Just days after its riverside city of Launceston was hammered by its first settling snow for 40 years, the state of Tasmania has now just SMASHED its lowest ever temperature reading.
A nipple-hardening -14.2C (6F) was logged at Liawenee –located in Tasmania’s Central Plateau– at 6:01am Friday morning, August 7.
This reading was not only a new record for the town –busting 2013’s -12.2C (10F)– but, according to the BOM’s Michael Lasko: “It looks like that -14.2C (6F) is the coldest minimum for all of Tasmania.”
Weatherzone meteorologist Joel Pippard has since confirmed the reading, stating that Friday’s low was indeed the coldest temperature ever recorded in Tasmania, comfortably beating-out the previous record of -13C (9F) set in Tarraleah and Butlers Gorge back in 1983, in books dating back 100 years.
View: https://twitter.com/gmarimer/status/1291656609454624769
Rare, heavy snow continues to blanket the island state.
Where anomalously-cold temperatures also persist:
Overnight Thursday, a bone-chilling -3C (27F) was observed at Strahan on the west coast, -2C (28F) was logged at Wynyard in the north-west, and a nippy -3C (27F) was suffered in Launceston.
Snow is also falling in South Australia, in what 9news.com.au is calling “an usually cold snap”. Today’s snow event follows consecutive days of ice-cold temperatures with the town of Keith recording its lowest temperature on record yesterday — a cousin-hugging -4.7C (23.5F).
In addition, record-cold temperatures have also been felt across Victoria, and will continue to be felt into the weekend:
GFS 2m Temp Anomalies (C) Aug 7 [tropicaltidbits.com]
GFS 2m Temp Anomalies (C) Aug 8 [tropicaltidbits.com]
Wrap-up, Australia.
The COLD TIMES are returning in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow.
Even NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) seeing it as “the weakest of the past 200 years,” with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.
Prepare accordingly — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
TxGal
Day by day
Coldest temperature ever recorded for the island state of Tasmania, Australia -- Sott.net
If you thought it was cold this morning, spare a thought for Liawenee in Tasmania's Central Highlands — it is already one of the coldest places in Australia and has just broken its own record. Temperatures dropped to -14.2 degrees Celsius just...
www.sott.net
Coldest temperature ever recorded for the island state of Tasmania, Australia
Damian McIntyre
ABC News (Australia)
Thu, 06 Aug 2020 11:27 UTC
© ABC News/Jessica Moran
Senior Constable Dan Adams said police sometimes have to leave stranded vehicles until the snow melts.
If you thought it was cold this morning, spare a thought for Liawenee in Tasmania's Central Highlands — it is already one of the coldest places in Australia and has just broken its own record.
Temperatures dropped to -14.2 degrees Celsius just after 6:00am — a new record low for the state and even colder than Antarctica.
Michael Lasko from the Bureau of Meteorology said the Liawenee temperature was 2C colder than the town's previous record low of -12.2C, made back in 2013.
"But also it looks like that -14.2 is the coldest minimum for all of Tasmania," Mr Lasko said.
The previous record for Tasmania was -13C at Tarraleah and Butlers Gorge back in 1983.
It is the lowest temperature since weather recording started at Liawenee about 20 years ago.
"We've had observations in Hobart at least for about 100 years and observations up on some of those mountainous areas at least the last 50 years," Mr Lasko said.
Meteorologist Simon Louis said it was colder than an Australia Antarctic research station.
View: https://twitter.com/BOM_Tas/status/1291265665140170752
"Casey station in Antarctica it only got to -12, so it was actually colder up at Liawenee than it would have been at least at Casey in Antarctica last night," he said.
"I don't think that would happen very often at all."
Liawenee is already well known for its extraordinarily cold weather.
Only two people live there.
One is the local cop, Senior Constable Dan Adams, who has been kept busy in the past couple of days after heavy snow.
He said a few vehicle recoveries had been performed on Thursday and he is anticipating there may be more today.
"The locals are pretty smart up here, they don't venture too far in conditions like this," he said.
"It will probably be later on when word gets out that there is still now around and folk come up from the lowlands."
The closest town, nearby Miena, has also seen heavy snow.
"There were a few recoveries yesterday, we try to help out as much as we can, and the locals will also lend a hand if they can," Senior Constable Adams said.
"Sometimes though our capabilities are exceeded by the conditions and we have to leave the vehicles here until the snow melts."
Constable Adams has been at Liawenee for a couple of years but said it was not a "hardship posting."
Other cold temperatures around the state overnight include -3C at Strahan on the west coast, -2C at Wynyard in the north-west and -3C in Launceston.
© Facebook: Great Lake Hotel
Snow blanketed the Central Highlands this week including at nearby Miena.
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Martinhouse
Deceased
TxGal, I hope you'll consider posting the picture of the Walmart vegetable shelf from Ice Age Farmer's Twitter page. It actually IS related to the GSM, if you remember the awful harvests of the last two or three years, and it's a light touch we could all probably use.
TxGal
Day by day
Martinhouse, is the one below the one you wanted me to post? I can't find any other Walmart vegetable shelf photos. If there are others you'd like posted, now or later, just let me know....as long as my computer cooperates, I'd be glad to post them! :-)
View: https://twitter.com/KnuckleheadIma/status/1291802816328105985
Martinhouse
Deceased
TxGal, yes! I thought that can of "bean" was GREAT!
Sometimes I wonder where people get these ideas? I seem to remember maybe Asimov wrote a short story about where jokes or stories came from. It could have been a different author, but I'm sure it was Sci-Fi.
Sometimes I wonder where people get these ideas? I seem to remember maybe Asimov wrote a short story about where jokes or stories came from. It could have been a different author, but I'm sure it was Sci-Fi.
Here in east South Florida, the rain has been hit and miss lately. I remember when my grandparents first moved down here in the 70s. My grandfather would tell me "Expect a thunderstorm every afternoon after 2:00, and you know what? He was right! Ive been living here off and on for 40 yrs since my parents moved here in the 80s and the weather has definitely changed. Instead of getting daily thunderstorms, we get a blowout every 10 days it seems. Hardly got anything with Isaias, but a thunderstorm after that gave us over 7 inches of rain in 2 hrs! So far my fruit trees are doing ok.
TxGal
Day by day
The Oppenheimer Ranch Project has a new podcast out:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrYR8tublT8
Collapse Of Canada’s Last Intact Ice Shelf Is All Your Fault: Glaciologist - Solar Science Update
2,668 views • Premiered 7 hours ago
Run time is 12:37
Canada’s last intact ice shelf collapse - only a matter of time: glaciologist https://bit.ly/3im5Bxb
Canada's last intact Arctic ice shelf has collapsed https://cbsn.ws/3a7Az9n
ANTARCTIC SEA ICE EXTENT HAS TRACKED THE 1979-1990 AVERAGE ALL YEAR https://bit.ly/31uiOxb
TASMANIA CONFIRMS COLDEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED https://bit.ly/3kmn8Hn
SUMMER SNOW FALLS ON THE RUSSIAN TOWN OF PEVEK https://bit.ly/3ikpOmX
Greenland SMB https://bit.ly/3gGq1jV Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving https://bit.ly/2DNR4vq
What is iceberg calving, and why does it matter? https://bit.ly/3kwlpj1
MASSIVE SUNSPOT IS TURNING TOWARDS EARTH THIS CAN RESULT IN MAJOR SOLAR FLARES THAT CAN EFFECT ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS https://bit.ly/3gFrkQi
Actual Tiny Sunspot 2770 https://www.solarham.net/regions/map.htm
Sunspot 2770 (AR12770) BETA CSO https://www.solarham.net/regions/2770...
Massive sunspots 3/29/2001 https://bit.ly/33QZBsv
GOES X-Ray Flux (1-minute data) https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/go...
Collapse Of Canada’s Last Intact Ice Shelf Is All Your Fault: Glaciologist - Solar Science Update
2,668 views • Premiered 7 hours ago
Run time is 12:37
Canada’s last intact ice shelf collapse - only a matter of time: glaciologist https://bit.ly/3im5Bxb
Canada's last intact Arctic ice shelf has collapsed https://cbsn.ws/3a7Az9n
ANTARCTIC SEA ICE EXTENT HAS TRACKED THE 1979-1990 AVERAGE ALL YEAR https://bit.ly/31uiOxb
TASMANIA CONFIRMS COLDEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED https://bit.ly/3kmn8Hn
SUMMER SNOW FALLS ON THE RUSSIAN TOWN OF PEVEK https://bit.ly/3ikpOmX
Greenland SMB https://bit.ly/3gGq1jV Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving https://bit.ly/2DNR4vq
What is iceberg calving, and why does it matter? https://bit.ly/3kwlpj1
MASSIVE SUNSPOT IS TURNING TOWARDS EARTH THIS CAN RESULT IN MAJOR SOLAR FLARES THAT CAN EFFECT ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS https://bit.ly/3gFrkQi
Actual Tiny Sunspot 2770 https://www.solarham.net/regions/map.htm
Sunspot 2770 (AR12770) BETA CSO https://www.solarham.net/regions/2770...
Massive sunspots 3/29/2001 https://bit.ly/33QZBsv
GOES X-Ray Flux (1-minute data) https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/go...
TxGal
Day by day
Greenland's Summer-Melt Season looks to be Over, almost a full MONTH ahead of Schedule - Electroverse
Each year, from early-June to August's-end, Greenland's SMB is negative. This year, however, things have played out very differently.
electroverse.net
GREENLAND’S SUMMER-MELT SEASON LOOKS TO BE OVER, ALMOST A FULL MONTH AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
AUGUST 8, 2020 CAP ALLON
Each year, from early-June to August’s-end, Greenland’s SMB is negative–i.e., the ice sheet is in its summer melt season and loses mass. This year, however, things have played out very differently…
Crucial to the survival of a glacier is its surface mass balance (SMB)–the difference between accumulation and ablation (sublimation and melting). Changes in SMB control a glacier’s long-term behavior, and are its most sensitive climate indicators (wikipedia.org).
So far this season, these climate indicators have told a rather different story to one portrayed by our propagandizing western media. Greenland didn’t actually start “melting” until mid/late-June, and back in early-June –when the melt-season should have kicked-in– the ice sheet was in instead registering never-before-seen GAINS:
Astonishing, Record-Breaking Gains Continue across the Greenland Ice Sheet - MSM Silent - Electroverse
The month of June is breaking records across the Greenland ice sheet -- but new benchmarks for COLD and SMB GAINS are being set.
electroverse.net
Overall, the remainder of June and all of July continued the trend of lower-than-average losses across the ice sheet. And today, as we enter the second week of August, Greenland’s SMB has actually touched “0” and looks set to turn positive almost a full month ahead of schedule:
Blue line (Gt/day): total daily contribution to the SMB from the entire ice sheet. Grey line: mean value from 1981-2010 (DMI).
[polarportal.dk]
In spite of this “good news”, activist-scientists and their MSM lapdogs have been upping their obfuscating game of late, painting the collapse of a tiny 190 square kilometres ice shelf in northern Canada (Milne) as a catastrophe for all mankind. However, what these frauds fail to mention is the anomalously-low summer melt occurring at the world’s largest island. Greenland‘s ice sheet covers a whopping 1.7 million square kilometres, and so gains/lower-than-average-melt here EASILY offset Milne’s comparatively paltry losses.
“The Milne Ice Shelf in Canada lost nearly 40 percent of its ice over a two-day period in late July”, screams an obfuscating article from Yale Environment.
The MSM never offers any context, and so the masses never know any better.
Context like, no matter what occurs in or around the Arctic, a whopping 90% of Earth’s ice is locked-up in Antarctica, and ice in and around this southern polar region has actually been INCREASING -since satellite records began 41 years ago:
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent has Tracked the 1979-1990 Average ALL YEAR - Electroverse
Alarmists take note, the ice locked within Antarctica is far more important to your hokey climate theories than that contained in the Arctic.
electroverse.net
All this is partly why Electroverse exists, to expose AGW for the pack of lies it is, and to offer people the chance to prepare for what is a far-more-likely eventuality — the return of the COLD TIMES, brought-about by historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow.
NASA has told us this upcoming solar cycle (25) will be “the weakest of the past 200 years,” and the agency has long-correlated previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.
Prepare for the COLD — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
Sammy55
Veteran Member
We have the same thing, sort of, happening in northern Minnesota. We used to have rains every few days. Now we are getting drought weeks punctuated by terrific thunderstorms the last few years!
The bad storm we had last night, after a couple of weeks of no rain (again), dropped almost 6 inches within a couple of hours. On top of that, last night's storm and the last few storms have been taking out our electric power. Plus, these storms have burnt the electrical connections and weakened our septic pump motor, blown out our DirecTV box in the house, ruined our new phone system, and weakened our daughter's alternator which then quit and literally burnt the battery. Lots of money has gone out to repair or replace damaged items! And they say that today and tomorrow are going to bring more storms with more possible flooding. Ai yai yai!
This hasn't helped the garden any this summer as it either needs to be watered or it is drowning. Not a good year for gardening for us! But our newly planted fruit trees, which get watered two times a week, seem to be doing okay.
This is the craziest weather I've ever known here, and I've lived here all my life, 60 plus years!!
TxGal
Day by day
The Oppenheimer Ranch Project has a new podcast out today:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyPjPQtun1g
Wild Weather Brings Biblical Flooding To New South Wales (SE Region) Australia -Cosmic Rays To Blame
4,270 views • Premiered 6 hours ago
Run time is 12:53
Wild weather + major flood warnings for New South Wales SE region https://bit.ly/3gK73sI
Southern NSW hit by up to 300mm rain as weather warnings issued https://bit.ly/2F3g9Tv
Severe weather warning for NSW South Coast as deluge brings flash flooding https://bit.ly/3ifH90u
Weird patterns on radar as rain band hits https://bit.ly/2PBBPZ1
NSW South Coast residents warned flash flooding will get worse as wild weather continues https://ab.co/3krPgJ9
Windy Model Wind Gusts https://bit.ly/3gUaYUd
Windy Mosel Total Rain https://bit.ly/3kp1MZX
cf jingara local dam overrun https://bit.ly/3kqKyeL
cf jingara on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAsX...
Cosmic Ray Maximum https://bit.ly/3kfM82Y
Comic Ray 12% increase in 3 Years https://bit.ly/3kl7ps2
Cosmic rays bombardment vs. Latitude https://bit.ly/3kqa1oA
Cosmic Rays Increasing For The 4th Year in a Row https://bit.ly/3ktz6PF
Physicists claim further evidence of link between cosmic rays and cloud formation https://bit.ly/3ioILFi
Increased ionization supports growth of aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei https://go.nature.com/2qmprmy
Wild Weather Brings Biblical Flooding To New South Wales (SE Region) Australia -Cosmic Rays To Blame
4,270 views • Premiered 6 hours ago
Run time is 12:53
Wild weather + major flood warnings for New South Wales SE region https://bit.ly/3gK73sI
Southern NSW hit by up to 300mm rain as weather warnings issued https://bit.ly/2F3g9Tv
Severe weather warning for NSW South Coast as deluge brings flash flooding https://bit.ly/3ifH90u
Weird patterns on radar as rain band hits https://bit.ly/2PBBPZ1
NSW South Coast residents warned flash flooding will get worse as wild weather continues https://ab.co/3krPgJ9
Windy Model Wind Gusts https://bit.ly/3gUaYUd
Windy Mosel Total Rain https://bit.ly/3kp1MZX
cf jingara local dam overrun https://bit.ly/3kqKyeL
cf jingara on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAsX...
Cosmic Ray Maximum https://bit.ly/3kfM82Y
Comic Ray 12% increase in 3 Years https://bit.ly/3kl7ps2
Cosmic rays bombardment vs. Latitude https://bit.ly/3kqa1oA
Cosmic Rays Increasing For The 4th Year in a Row https://bit.ly/3ktz6PF
Physicists claim further evidence of link between cosmic rays and cloud formation https://bit.ly/3ioILFi
Increased ionization supports growth of aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei https://go.nature.com/2qmprmy
TxGal
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NASA's "Smoking Gun" of Climate Fraud - Electroverse
NASA have cooled the past so as to create a fake modern warming trend that correlates almost-perfectly with rising atmospheric CO2 levels.
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NASA’S “SMOKING GUN” OF CLIMATE FRAUD
AUGUST 9, 2020 CAP ALLON
NASA have cooled the past so as to create a fake modern warming trend that correlates almost-perfectly with rising atmospheric CO2 levels. Below is the PROOF (research courtesy of Tony Heller).
Back in 1974, at the height of the global cooling concerns, the National Center For Atmospheric Research (NCAR) generated this graph of Earth’s average temperature change:
[www.denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf]
Clearly visible in the graph is 1) the large spike in temps during the 1940’s, 2) the subsequent rapid cooling to 1970, and 3) the overall cooling from 1900 to 1970.
In 1975, the National Academy of Sciences published a very similar graph for Northern hemisphere temperatures –one we regularly feature on Electroverse– which supports the three conclusions of the NCAR graph:
Page 148: [understandingcli00unit.pdf]
However, by 1981 the graph had started to tilt to the left:
The temperature in 1970 was suddenly now 0.1C warmer than in 1900.
Unsurprisingly, this change coincided with NASA “Climate Prophet” James Hansen’s interest in demonstrating a CO2-driven warming trend:
NASA had just committed climate fraud, and they got away with it.
Spurred-on by the complete lack of scrutiny, NASA, saddled with the task of proving the politicized global warming theory, brazenly continued cooling the past so as to exaggerate their already exaggerated warming trend.
Serving as an example of this, the next graph shows how their 1880-2000 global warming trend has been overstated again (doubled, in fact) since 2001–again, simply by cooling the past:
NASA obtains its global temperature data from NOAA’s GHCN (Global Historical Climatology Network), but data is missing for about half of the Earth’s surface, including most of Africa, Antarctica, and Greenland.
That missing data is filled-in with computer modeled readings, meaning that 50% of the global temperature data used by NOAA and NASA is fake.
Furthermore, the only places with complete coverage are the U.S. and Western Europe — and, rather tellingly, it is these areas which are the ones starting to show the GSM-induced cooling trend.
Since 2015, according to NOAA’s own data, North America has been cooling at a rate of 2.03C per decade. This is a whopping drop, one 29 times the “official” average rate of increase since 1880: “The global annual temperature has increased at an avg. rate of 0.07C (0.13F) per decade since 1880” (NOAA’s latest report from Jan, 2020).
North America, 2.03C decline
And here is the smoking gun of NASA/NOAA climate fraud:
The global “adjustments” being made correlate almost-perfectly with the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels–i.e., the data is being manipulated in order to prove the greenhouse gas global warming theory:
This isn’t science.
This is a criminal act — the biggest scam in the history of mankind.
And this evil is compounded by the fact that the exact opposite is bearing-down on us all — the COLD TIMES are returning, and -unlike during times of warmth- prolonged periods of cold have ALWAYS caused untold suffering for humans–including crop loss, famine, and even the total collapse of empires.
Earth’s climate is cyclic, never linear.
And the next global chill appears to be gaining pace, intensifying in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow. Even NASA themselves appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) seeing it as “the weakest of the past 200 years,” with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.
Prepare for the COLD — learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
TxGal
Day by day
View: https://twitter.com/IceAgeFarmer/status/1292523008217645056
Article from the tweet:
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East Africa - Seeing the worst swarms of locusts in many decades
_____________________________________________________________________________________
07.08.2020
Drawn to an emaciated avocado drooping from a drying mother tree, Esther Ndavu wonders aloud if it will ever mature into the fist-sized oval fruit that keeps city residents going. Like many others at her farm in Mathyakani village in central-eastern Kenya, this avocado tree has been attacked by desert locusts. With a wide sweep of her right hand, Ndavu counts about 10 avocado, mango and paw paw trees that are losing their boughs after the infestation.
The locust invasion that swept over farms in rural Kenya from December 2019 has left farmers like Ndavu not only counting crop losses, but struggling with emerging environmental and health problems. The swarms have been the worst seen in Kenya for 70 years, and experts are concerned that swarms later in the year will be even larger.
Desert locusts, or Schistocerca gregaria, have often been called the world’s most devastating pest, and for good reason. Swarms form when locusts’ numbers increase and they become crowded. This causes a switch from a relatively harmless solitary phase, to a gregarious, sociable phase. In this phase, the insects are able to multiply 20-fold in three months and reach densities of 80 million per square kilometre. Each can consume 2g of vegetation every day – combined, a swarm of 80 million can consume food equivalent to that eaten by 35,000 people a day.
In 2020, locusts have swarmed in large numbers in dozens of countries, including Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, India, Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia. When swarms affect several countries at once in very large numbers, it is known as a plague.
Ndavu’s village of Mathyakani, which covers about 50 sq km (19 sq miles), is home to about 10,000 people. At Ndavu’s 1.6 hectares (four acres) of land, the locust swarms destroyed produce worth 50,000 Kenyan shillings ($460/£350), which she was set to begin harvesting in July.
The vegetation that grows at the edges of her farm, where she used to collect fodder for her livestock, was also depleted by locusts. With nothing to feed her livestock, she has moved them to a neighbouring village which was spared the invasion. There, she pays about 100 Kenyan shillings (93 cents/70p) every day to her hosts for her cattle to feed. The manure produced by her six cows remains with the hosts as additional payment.
This locust invasion is more than a challenge. It is a matter of life and death – Esther Ndavu
“I have gone through a lot of challenges growing up as an orphan,” says Ndavu. “But this locust invasion is more than a challenge. It is a matter of life and death because it has left us hungry and confused.”
The toll of defence In February 2020, local media reported that a swarm covering 2,400 sq km (930 sq miles) was recorded in northern Kenya and could have been the largest on record in Kenya. At Ndavu’s village, the locusts occupied about 20 sq km (7.7 sq miles) of vegetation when they swarmed.
The invasion has taken its toll on mental health in the village of Mathyakani. For more than a week during the infestation, Ndavu’s children could not go to school. They stayed home to help their parents battle the swarm that had landed on their farm.
At first adults used the tools immediately available to drum away the locusts as well as lighting fires and burning vehicle tires, says Ndavu. Children were enlisted to scream at the pests to try to scare them away before the village was able to use pesticides. That drumming and screaming has left a lasting effect on her children.
“Most nights I do not sleep enough,” says Ndavu. “The children wake me up when they begin screaming at night. When I ask them what the problem is, they tell me that they were dreaming that another locust invasion had come to our home.”
Peninah Nguli, a teacher from a village neighbouring Mathyakani, adds women have been particularly affected. Women are typically responsible for crop farming in the region, while men look after livestock. Some women are suffering from throat problems due to the strain of shouting to scare away the insects, says Nguli, while most fear another swarm.
Another swarm is indeed likely, and it could be devastating. Another surge would put between five million and 25 million people at risk of acute food shortage in East Africa. A further 25 million people will face acute food insecurity.
Tools for resilience
In mid-February, Kenya’s government announced it was focusing its intervention measures in areas heavily infested with locusts in the north. The interventions included manual and aerial spraying of pesticides, followed by deployment of response teams to assess the damage caused by the locusts. That assessment would then help the government come up with a plan on how it would support livelihoods of Kenyans affected by the locust invasions.
Kenya was one of nine beneficiaries of a $1.5m (£1.1m) grant given to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in April by the African Development Bank to help the East and Horn of Africa battle the locust invasions. In May, the World Bank distributed a further £43m grant to aid 70,000 pastoral households and 20,000 farmers in Kenya to recover from locusts.
One way this funding could be used to help farmers like Ndavu is equipping them with technology so that they can battle new locust infestations, says Moses Muli, a social and conservation expert who has worked with Action Aid, Kenya, for six years.
The first line of defence is chemical insecticides, which can be distributed using packs on the ground, or by aircraft. During Covid-19, this protection has been made difficult or, in some places, impossible because of disruption to the chemical supply chain. And spraying, though one of the more effective methods, comes with drawbacks: the substances used can be harmful to the environment and to human health.
Alternatives include the use of drones and electrified metal grids to control locust swarms. Drones can be navigated to fly low enough to spray chemicals and do surveillance, without the need for larger planes with human pilots. Electric grids can be dragged over fields to generate vibrations in open fields to scare away the locusts and shock any that it comes into contact with. While early tests of the grids have been successful, they may be better suited to smaller swarms.
Another option is to use “biological pesticides”, based on the fungus Metarhizium acridum that infects and kills locusts. Fungus-based pesticides are thought to be harmful to a much narrower range of species than conventional pesticides, and so pose less risk to the environment and people. However, some researchers have questioned whether fungal deterrents could also harm other species of insect, such as termites. They also take longer to kill the pests than conventional pesticides, which risks greater crop damage.
But some of the key protection comes before the swarm arrives. Remote weather alert stations within farms could also help farmers prepare for future locust invasions. Locust swarms usually happen when a prolonged drought is followed by heavy rains, says Muli. Remote weather stations could help to capture data that reveals such weather variations and gives farmers time to start spraying early.
For Munyithya Kimwele, a farmer in Mathyakani, investing in forecasting is the best option for families to be prepared for future locust swarms. “Long ago traditional forecasts would help villages prepare for locust invasions. This is the best intervention the government can give to poor farmers like us,” says Kimwele.
In villages like Mathyakani, which has not been a priority area for spraying or government assistance, farmers are taking steps towards recovery by diversifying their crops. Instead of relying on traditional crops like maize and cowpeas, which are more vulnerable to locusts, a growing number of farmers are investing in fruit and vegetables.
The locusts are not likely to go away soon. This is because of erratic weather, which has led to prolonged rains is providing the pests with enough vegetation to keep them fed and breeding – Ezra Kipruto Yego
This has been made possible by village irrigation projects that Action Aid Kenya, in partnership with some farmers, established there in 2009. About 40 families along the seasonal river Enzio enlisted with the project, which helps them grow cabbages, tomatoes, kale and capsicum, among other crops by sinking a series of boreholes along the river. This group is not as worse off after the locusts as farmers who had only grown maize, green grams and cowpeas, says Nguli.
“Hungry families from neighbouring villages come to us for help and we give them food,” says Nguli. “We also train them on how to take advantage of the irrigation project and establish kitchen gardens to guard them against future food shocks.”
Predicting plagues
The question of whether the Horn of Africa could experience worse plagues of locusts in future is a difficult one to answer, according to Ezra Kipruto Yego, the Sustainable Development Goal coordinator of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
Yego sees a possible link between climate change, extreme weather events and locust swarms in East Africa. For example, when last year’s cyclones in the Indian Ocean made landfall, they may have created an attractive environment for locusts to swarm into the region from their nesting sites in the Middle East, he says.
“The locusts are not likely to go away soon. This is because of erratic weather, which has led to prolonged rains is providing the pests with enough vegetation to keep them fed and breeding,” says Yego.
Another major challenge for controlling locusts in east Africa is political instability. For instance, Yego says, UN agencies that have committed to fight the swarms rarely risk taking their personnel to countries like Somalia, which experiences frequent attacks from al-Shabab militants.
Hence, when a country like Kenya makes headway in containing locusts, those that have bred and hatched in less politically stable countries often swarm across borders. That makes international peacebuilding and political stability a key part of dealing with locusts, says Yego.
Until such large-scale international solutions are possible, the people of Mathyakani are working hard to adopt and build post-locust resilience, says Ndavu. But all the while there is the threat of another swarm. The locusts of the most recent invasions laid eggs in the area, which could hatch later in the year close to harvest time.
People have lately seen locust hatchlings hopping around the village. They spray them with pesticides, and sometimes they die and disappear.
“I know this is not over yet,” Ndavu says. Source – BBC - Homepage
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East Africa - Seeing the worst swarms of locusts in many decades
_____________________________________________________________________________________
07.08.2020
Drawn to an emaciated avocado drooping from a drying mother tree, Esther Ndavu wonders aloud if it will ever mature into the fist-sized oval fruit that keeps city residents going. Like many others at her farm in Mathyakani village in central-eastern Kenya, this avocado tree has been attacked by desert locusts. With a wide sweep of her right hand, Ndavu counts about 10 avocado, mango and paw paw trees that are losing their boughs after the infestation.
The locust invasion that swept over farms in rural Kenya from December 2019 has left farmers like Ndavu not only counting crop losses, but struggling with emerging environmental and health problems. The swarms have been the worst seen in Kenya for 70 years, and experts are concerned that swarms later in the year will be even larger.
Desert locusts, or Schistocerca gregaria, have often been called the world’s most devastating pest, and for good reason. Swarms form when locusts’ numbers increase and they become crowded. This causes a switch from a relatively harmless solitary phase, to a gregarious, sociable phase. In this phase, the insects are able to multiply 20-fold in three months and reach densities of 80 million per square kilometre. Each can consume 2g of vegetation every day – combined, a swarm of 80 million can consume food equivalent to that eaten by 35,000 people a day.
In 2020, locusts have swarmed in large numbers in dozens of countries, including Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, India, Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia. When swarms affect several countries at once in very large numbers, it is known as a plague.
Ndavu’s village of Mathyakani, which covers about 50 sq km (19 sq miles), is home to about 10,000 people. At Ndavu’s 1.6 hectares (four acres) of land, the locust swarms destroyed produce worth 50,000 Kenyan shillings ($460/£350), which she was set to begin harvesting in July.
The vegetation that grows at the edges of her farm, where she used to collect fodder for her livestock, was also depleted by locusts. With nothing to feed her livestock, she has moved them to a neighbouring village which was spared the invasion. There, she pays about 100 Kenyan shillings (93 cents/70p) every day to her hosts for her cattle to feed. The manure produced by her six cows remains with the hosts as additional payment.
This locust invasion is more than a challenge. It is a matter of life and death – Esther Ndavu
“I have gone through a lot of challenges growing up as an orphan,” says Ndavu. “But this locust invasion is more than a challenge. It is a matter of life and death because it has left us hungry and confused.”
The toll of defence In February 2020, local media reported that a swarm covering 2,400 sq km (930 sq miles) was recorded in northern Kenya and could have been the largest on record in Kenya. At Ndavu’s village, the locusts occupied about 20 sq km (7.7 sq miles) of vegetation when they swarmed.
The invasion has taken its toll on mental health in the village of Mathyakani. For more than a week during the infestation, Ndavu’s children could not go to school. They stayed home to help their parents battle the swarm that had landed on their farm.
At first adults used the tools immediately available to drum away the locusts as well as lighting fires and burning vehicle tires, says Ndavu. Children were enlisted to scream at the pests to try to scare them away before the village was able to use pesticides. That drumming and screaming has left a lasting effect on her children.
“Most nights I do not sleep enough,” says Ndavu. “The children wake me up when they begin screaming at night. When I ask them what the problem is, they tell me that they were dreaming that another locust invasion had come to our home.”
Peninah Nguli, a teacher from a village neighbouring Mathyakani, adds women have been particularly affected. Women are typically responsible for crop farming in the region, while men look after livestock. Some women are suffering from throat problems due to the strain of shouting to scare away the insects, says Nguli, while most fear another swarm.
Another swarm is indeed likely, and it could be devastating. Another surge would put between five million and 25 million people at risk of acute food shortage in East Africa. A further 25 million people will face acute food insecurity.
Tools for resilience
In mid-February, Kenya’s government announced it was focusing its intervention measures in areas heavily infested with locusts in the north. The interventions included manual and aerial spraying of pesticides, followed by deployment of response teams to assess the damage caused by the locusts. That assessment would then help the government come up with a plan on how it would support livelihoods of Kenyans affected by the locust invasions.
Kenya was one of nine beneficiaries of a $1.5m (£1.1m) grant given to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in April by the African Development Bank to help the East and Horn of Africa battle the locust invasions. In May, the World Bank distributed a further £43m grant to aid 70,000 pastoral households and 20,000 farmers in Kenya to recover from locusts.
One way this funding could be used to help farmers like Ndavu is equipping them with technology so that they can battle new locust infestations, says Moses Muli, a social and conservation expert who has worked with Action Aid, Kenya, for six years.
The first line of defence is chemical insecticides, which can be distributed using packs on the ground, or by aircraft. During Covid-19, this protection has been made difficult or, in some places, impossible because of disruption to the chemical supply chain. And spraying, though one of the more effective methods, comes with drawbacks: the substances used can be harmful to the environment and to human health.
Alternatives include the use of drones and electrified metal grids to control locust swarms. Drones can be navigated to fly low enough to spray chemicals and do surveillance, without the need for larger planes with human pilots. Electric grids can be dragged over fields to generate vibrations in open fields to scare away the locusts and shock any that it comes into contact with. While early tests of the grids have been successful, they may be better suited to smaller swarms.
Another option is to use “biological pesticides”, based on the fungus Metarhizium acridum that infects and kills locusts. Fungus-based pesticides are thought to be harmful to a much narrower range of species than conventional pesticides, and so pose less risk to the environment and people. However, some researchers have questioned whether fungal deterrents could also harm other species of insect, such as termites. They also take longer to kill the pests than conventional pesticides, which risks greater crop damage.
But some of the key protection comes before the swarm arrives. Remote weather alert stations within farms could also help farmers prepare for future locust invasions. Locust swarms usually happen when a prolonged drought is followed by heavy rains, says Muli. Remote weather stations could help to capture data that reveals such weather variations and gives farmers time to start spraying early.
For Munyithya Kimwele, a farmer in Mathyakani, investing in forecasting is the best option for families to be prepared for future locust swarms. “Long ago traditional forecasts would help villages prepare for locust invasions. This is the best intervention the government can give to poor farmers like us,” says Kimwele.
In villages like Mathyakani, which has not been a priority area for spraying or government assistance, farmers are taking steps towards recovery by diversifying their crops. Instead of relying on traditional crops like maize and cowpeas, which are more vulnerable to locusts, a growing number of farmers are investing in fruit and vegetables.
The locusts are not likely to go away soon. This is because of erratic weather, which has led to prolonged rains is providing the pests with enough vegetation to keep them fed and breeding – Ezra Kipruto Yego
This has been made possible by village irrigation projects that Action Aid Kenya, in partnership with some farmers, established there in 2009. About 40 families along the seasonal river Enzio enlisted with the project, which helps them grow cabbages, tomatoes, kale and capsicum, among other crops by sinking a series of boreholes along the river. This group is not as worse off after the locusts as farmers who had only grown maize, green grams and cowpeas, says Nguli.
“Hungry families from neighbouring villages come to us for help and we give them food,” says Nguli. “We also train them on how to take advantage of the irrigation project and establish kitchen gardens to guard them against future food shocks.”
Predicting plagues
The question of whether the Horn of Africa could experience worse plagues of locusts in future is a difficult one to answer, according to Ezra Kipruto Yego, the Sustainable Development Goal coordinator of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
Yego sees a possible link between climate change, extreme weather events and locust swarms in East Africa. For example, when last year’s cyclones in the Indian Ocean made landfall, they may have created an attractive environment for locusts to swarm into the region from their nesting sites in the Middle East, he says.
“The locusts are not likely to go away soon. This is because of erratic weather, which has led to prolonged rains is providing the pests with enough vegetation to keep them fed and breeding,” says Yego.
Another major challenge for controlling locusts in east Africa is political instability. For instance, Yego says, UN agencies that have committed to fight the swarms rarely risk taking their personnel to countries like Somalia, which experiences frequent attacks from al-Shabab militants.
Hence, when a country like Kenya makes headway in containing locusts, those that have bred and hatched in less politically stable countries often swarm across borders. That makes international peacebuilding and political stability a key part of dealing with locusts, says Yego.
Until such large-scale international solutions are possible, the people of Mathyakani are working hard to adopt and build post-locust resilience, says Ndavu. But all the while there is the threat of another swarm. The locusts of the most recent invasions laid eggs in the area, which could hatch later in the year close to harvest time.
People have lately seen locust hatchlings hopping around the village. They spray them with pesticides, and sometimes they die and disappear.
“I know this is not over yet,” Ndavu says. Source – BBC - Homepage
Read more at: Agroinsurance – Portal on Agricultural Insurance and Risk Management » East Africa – Seeing the worst swarms of locusts in many decades
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TxGal
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Adapt 2030 has a new podcast out this morning:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgPR9DfuE0M
Satellites Go Down as Food Prices Run Away with No Recovery in Sight (1025)
16,843 views • Aug 9, 2020
Run time is 7:34
Exceptional food price increases have the world wondering if people will be priced out of simple items like beef and eggs. Satellites go down in Australia with almost unnoticeable space weather, which shows a huge problem, small coronal holes and not even CME's are causing problems with Earth's communication satellites. Massive dust storm right out of a movie in Rajasthan, India and metals are making a run from endless money printing.
Satellites Go Down as Food Prices Run Away with No Recovery in Sight (1025)
16,843 views • Aug 9, 2020
Run time is 7:34
Exceptional food price increases have the world wondering if people will be priced out of simple items like beef and eggs. Satellites go down in Australia with almost unnoticeable space weather, which shows a huge problem, small coronal holes and not even CME's are causing problems with Earth's communication satellites. Massive dust storm right out of a movie in Rajasthan, India and metals are making a run from endless money printing.