No fun and games tonight.

January 6, 2013
0030.20z
UNISYS Infrared Satellite of the north and west hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop)

The US has a serious Climate Storm coming. Yes, life and death. People are used to thinking that their infrastructure is going to fail.

The alerts to this has to be taken as seriously as if they was a Category Five Hurricane coming.

North Michigan is expected to hit -60 Fahrenheit. That is not livable. The other areas this storm is going to hit will see temperatures of -30 to -35 Fahrenheit and everything in between -30 to -60 Fahrenheit.

I'll give you equivalents.

In winters at Vostok the coldest it has gotten in the least severe of winters is -75 Fahrenheit.

In Mucmurdo, in that same type of winter the temperatures achieve -35 Fahrenheit.

Scientists are NOT permitted to stay at their bases during the winter because it is too dangerous to life and there is no possibility of rescue.

If people could travel safely south they should consider that. The cities and towns that will experience this climate event need to have community heating centers, however, there is a chance the electricity can fail. Make preparations for that very real possibility.

I'm not playing around with this.

VEHICLES

Vehicles with an engine of any kind need to have pure anti-freeze in the radiator. At that it will only take it down to -35 Fahrenheit, last time I looked. Emergency vehicles need to be kept running to maintain the engine compartment warm so the lines won't freeze. 

Animals in this cold will not survive. There is a strong chance livestock in barns will not survive either.

No one should be out in this weather. 

NO ONE ! Emergency responses will know when it is not safe to be responding to calls. They cannot take the chance when infrastructure starts to fail to continue to respond to emergencies. These services shut down during major hurricanes and this is exactly the same thing.

The USA has never experienced temperatures down to -60 Fahrenheit. Not in my memory.

Mount Washington in New Hampshire is the ONLY place it has gotten this cold before and it was never -60 Fahrenheit. People aren't going to be prepared for this.

No one should ride this storm out alone. If nothing else is an option go to a hotel so others are around in case anything should wrong. Just do it.

–50 Degrees

The weather observatory (click here) that sits atop New Hampshire's Mount Washington bills itself as "the home of the world's worst weather," where the winds sometimes exceed 200 mph (in fact, the highest wind speed ever recorded on land — 231 mph — occurred here on April 12, 1934).

The mountain also is home to some of the nation's coldest temperatures, as the mercury there dropped to 50 degrees below zero Fahrenheit on Jan. 22, 1885.

It isn't the measurable temperatures to worry about it is the WIND CHILL.

Wind chills: gusty (click here) west to northwest winds combined with temperatures in the single digits on Monday and Tuesday will create wind chill readings of 10 to 30 below zero. 

There is expected 'White Out' conditions.

Good night.

I think 'the truth' was lost with the scandal.

February 8, 2013

by Frank Newport

PRINCETON, NJ -- Non-Hispanic whites (click here) accounted for 89% of Republican self-identifiers nationwide in 2012, while accounting for 70% of independents and 60% of Democrats. Over one-fifth of Democrats (22%) were black, while 16% of independents were Hispanic....

There is no going back now. The new "Marijuana Bubble."

Sam Walsh, left, a budtender, and facility manager David Martinez set up marijuana products as the 3-D Denver Discrete Dispensary prepares to open for retail sales on January 1, 2014 in Denver, Colorado. (AFP Photo / Getty Images / Theo Stroomer)



Mary Jane comes of age. Get used to hearing these words in the Board Room; "Are you stoned?"

Published time: January 04, 2014 03:55

The long lines (click here) stretching around Colorado marijuana shops have apparently not gone unnoticed by investors, with the price of shares for cannabis-related companies skyrocketing since the drug became legal throughout the state on January 1.

One of the claims most often cited by marijuana legalization advocates is how profitable the policy would be both for state governments and the local economy. While a sample size of just a few days is small, the initial success indicates the claims may prove to be true.

A study cited by AFP estimated that the Colorado state government could reap an annual $10 billion by 2018, but private companies already have reason to celebrate. MediaSwipe Inc, which has built a business on selling transaction processing systems to the medical industry and now works with cannabis stores, has seen its shares jump 88 percent over the past month of trading and 69.4 percent on Thursday alone....

List of Marijuana Stocks (click here)

When is Japan going to shut Fukushima down?

Published time: January 04, 2014 19:47

As TEPCO (click here) began preparations for the cleaning of the drainage system with tons of leaked radioactive water at the Fukushima power plant,a former employee reveals the reason for so many leaks was cost cutting measures such as using duct tape,Asahi reported.

Yoshitatsu Uechi, auto mechanic and tour-bus driver, worked at the devastated nuclear power plant between July 2 and Dec. 6, 2012, according to Asahi Shimbun report. He was one of the 17 workers from Okinawa Prefecture sent to work at the crippled nuclear plant in 2012 to create new places to store contaminated water....

Wisconsin needs extended unemployment benefits more than the rest of the nation.

Scott Walker took office as Governor on January 3, 2011. Ever since then Private Sector Job Growth has lagged behind the rest of the nation. His 'retrain' the work force is a failure.

Walker's Balanced Budget is austerity and it is imploding the Wisconsin economy.

Wisconsin's unemployment rate is 6.3 when the US is 7.0, but, there are major cities exceeding the national average.

Dec. 18, 2013

The nation's (click here) most recent employment report, which examines job creation in all 50 states, raises a familiar question with renewed urgency: Why is Wisconsin a chronic laggard?

According to Wednesday's report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wisconsin gained 23,963 private-sector jobs in the 12 months from June 2012 through June 2013, a 1.0% increase that ranks the state 37th among the 50 states in the pace of job creation during that period.

The state's ranking slid from a revised rank of 32nd three months earlier, which covered the 12 months through March 2012.

Wisconsin continued to trail the national rate of job creation, as it has since July 2011. The United States created private-sector jobs at a rate of 1.9% in the latest 12-month period, nearly double Wisconsin's 1.0% rate, the data show.

"It's like déjà vu all over again," said Dale Knapp, director of research at the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, a nonpartisan pubic policy group in Madison....


While the lack of economic growth and/or recovery is somewhat expected in northern Wisconsin, but, the real surprise is the rates of 8.0% to 9.9% unemployment in the middle and southern end of the state.

The places where one would expect the quickest recovery and growth in Wisconsin, namely Madison and Milwaukee, has lagged in that growth and is experiencing unemployment rates above the national level. The unemployment in these two major US cities is 8.0% or  greater.

Walker's reign over Wisconsin's economy while touting balanced budget and union destruction has caused greater adversity while he has been Governor.

His latest approval ratings in March 2013 reflect his 'likable' quotient and not his performance. He appears on television with has brown bag lunches and talking with the Wisconsin people. His demeanor is about touting his success as a humble man while never providing factual information. His talks with the people of Wisconsin is that of image enforcement as if he was their neighbor. Wisconsin doesn't need Mr. Rogers as Governor they need a Governor that can protect their cities and put Wisconsiners back to work. He has created the image of being a successful Governor by appearing warm and fuzzy. In fact he is nothing more than fluff.

By Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel
March 19, 2013

Gov. Scott Walker has a 50% approval rating, (click here) according to the latest Marquette University Law School poll released Tuesday. The Republican governor’s disapproval rating is 44%.

Walker’s approval rating before the November election was about the same. In the school’s poll on Oct. 31, Walker had a 49% approval rating and 45% disapproval rating....

Mandela, Mandela, Mandela.

By Sheriff Janko
3 January 2014 

Widely regarded as one of the African liberators (click here) in the 21st century, the lives of Nelson Mandela continues to inspire millions of people all over the world. He has gone but his life and charismatic qualities will forever live on. His demise according to many has created a huge vacuum especially in his native country South Africa. However, since his death was announced, tribute concerts in his honor were held globally and is against this backdrop that an internationally reputed Gambian star,-Mo Hawk through his Block Entertainment in collaboration with G Click, are organizing a mega tribute show in the country to celebrate the live of the South African anti-apartheid hero.

The show is slated for January 3rd and 4th at Lama Lama in Bakau and Old School Nite Club, respectively. However, other venues for the tribute show include; Brikama, Lamin and Sanyang, all in the West Coast Region.

In a recent chat with What's On, Mo Hawk who is presently in the UK said; "I'm returning from UK, after an end of term break from my Sound Technology and Sonic Design Degree. I have 2 hot singles I'm gonna release and one is featuring a renowned Gambian musician, plus a tribute to Nelson Mandela tour"....

   

Public Service Awareness Announcements

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

Published: December 25, 2013

...In Maine and Vermont, (click here) where state authorities described the ice storm as the worst since 1998, there were no deaths from falling tree limbs or fallen power lines. But each state reported one death from carbon monoxide from a generator run after power was lost.

The authorities reported a similar fatality in Michigan, and at least five people in eastern Canada were reported to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Many others in those places who used generators or grills to heat homes also fell ill from the toxic, but odorless, gas....

The generators need to have a label, but, ovens and grills are one of those strange alternatives by desperate folks. So, the label on generators won't end all the dangers.

Hellfire Missiles, huh?

BAGHDAD (AP) — Two Iraqi cities (click here) that were strongholds of Sunni insurgents during the U.S. war in the country are battlegrounds once more after al-Qaeda militants largely took them over, fending off government forces that have been besieging them for days.

The overrunning of the cities this week by al-Qaeda's Iraqi branch in the Sunni heartland of western Anbar provinces is a blow to the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Malik. His government has been struggling to contain discontent among the Sunni minority over Shiite political domination that has flared into increased violence for the past year.

On Friday, al-Qaeda gunmen sought to win over the population in Fallujah, one of the cities they swept into on Wednesday. A militant commander appeared among worshippers holding Friday prayers in the main city street, proclaiming that his fighters were there to defend Sunnis from the government, one resident said....

What the USA under Bush did to Fallujah was a crime. Just that simple. White Phosphorus and annihilation of the people in that city. Either they became refugees or they died. Bush just had to make it happen. I think Fallujah was carried out in 2004. Bush really had to make it appear the Commander and Chief was in charge and Americans still had something to fight in Iraq. He should be so proud.

Maliki needs to stop fighting for a country in name only. The USA is not going to fight a civil war in Iraq. We were Baghdad's private military force for too long. There was a reason why Bush suspended any support by the USA of the Geneva Conventions. By all rights he and Cheney and their commanders should be on trial for war crimes. But, it is so easy to forget. Or did they?

Only 17% of Americans support the war in a new poll (click here)

By Maya Rhodan @m_rhodan
Dec. 30, 2013

A mere 17% of Americans support the war in Afghanistan, according to a new poll, making it by one measure the most unpopular war in U.S. history.

The new low in support, in a CNN poll out Monday, comes after 52% of Americans supported the war in a 2008 CNN poll, and just 46% opposed it. By 2013, opposition had mushroomed to 82%, according to the poll. Though comparing public opinion across the decades is difficult, the support falls short of previous CNN polling on the Iraq War, and opposition to the Vietnam War next eclipsed 60% in Gallup polling....

By ROBERT BURNS

The Associated Press
Wednesday, November 16, 2005; 5:49 AM

WASHINGTON -- Pentagon officials (click here) say white phosphorous was used as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of Fallujah last November, but deny an Italian television news report that it was used against civilians....

The people of the USA don't want war anymore. They fully believe war itself is the worst enemy they have, when innocent people die in horrid ways and pilotless drones destroy without conscience. We need to continue to reduce the military budget into a defense force and not a war machine.

ByLUCY MADISON  
CBS NEWS 
March 26, 2012, 6: 35 PM

CBS News Poll analysis (click here) by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.

Two weeks after an American soldier in Afghanistan allegedly went on a rampage killing 17 Afghan civilians, American confidence in the war is at an all-time low, a new CBS News/New York Times poll suggests.

According to the survey, conducted among 986 adults from March 21-25, just 23 percent of Americans believe the U.S. is doing the right thing by fighting in Afghanistan....

Oh, yeah, this is cute. Now al Qaeda has TRIBES. I hope their ritual dances are interesting to them. OMG the tribes are out of control. My, my, my. Ya want to know something, if my government were planning to use Hellfire Missiles aimed at my neighborhood, I'd be out of control, too. No doubt in my mind. Beware the al Qaeda sympathizing tribes! I think it is a no go zone.

Iraqi army shells Falluja to try to dislodge Qaeda, tribes (click here)

Sat Jan 4, 2014 6:07am EST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi army shelled the western city of Falluja with mortar bombs overnight to try to wrest back control from Sunni Muslim militants and tribesmen, killing at least eight people, tribal leaders and officials said on Saturday.

Falluja has been held since Monday by militants linked to al Qaeda and by tribal fighters united in their opposition to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in a serious challenge to the authority of his Shi'ite-led government in Anbar province....

This is an ethnic issue. The Shi'ites and the Sunnis are at it again and the USA should not be anywhere near it. This is an issue for the United Nations and negotiations for power sharing before the people of Al Anbar are wiped out by Baghdad. Seriously.  When the Power Sharing negotiations are set up bring in the Kurds in the north and get this over with.

People are happy. Leave them alone. Just leave them alone.

The product is grown, inspected, processed, packaged and merchandised locally. The money is local. It stays local and benefits the people and their state government. The money doesn't go to China or India or any other country. It is a home grown product whereby the monies involved stays within the borders of Colorado. Guaranteed economic growth. No outsourcing.

10:16 AM - 1 Jan 2014
By Mark Joseph Stern
This New Year's Eve (click here) was an especially celebratory one for Colorado: When the clock hit midnight (Mountain Time), the state's first legal marijuana sale took place:  Washington state and Uruguay have joined Colorado in legalizing the substance, but Colorado was first to create and implement a regulatory framework....

People have been through enough. No matter how many have made obscene money and believe they are happy, they didn't get a hoot about the great people of this nation. People have suffered for over a decade now. They have suffered economically, they have lost their homes, they have been abandoned when they wanted to work, they have gone hungry when food stamps were removed from within their grasp, they have watched their education costs escalate to hideous amounts of repayment, the American Dream has been robbed from this nation.

This is a new economy. These folks have fought and demanded and aided the infirmed and solved problems in chronic pain as well as saw cancer victims eat and gain weight. They are heroes unto themselves and others. They have now made a stride in legalization that can help their state pay it's bills and begin to rebuild. They are heroes. They are happy being RESPONSIBLE heroes, exhibiting the maturity that brings.

This is a new economy and they aren't going to abandon it.  They are happy and they are making others happy. Leave them alone. They have done something for themselves and others that Wall Street abandoned. I just hope they continue to be their own heroes without the selling out to Wall Street because the quality will be ruined and the responsibility for safe practice will disappear with exploitative corporate profits.

Leave them alone. They are hurting no one and there is every measure they are helping many.

President Obama needs to talk about how he is fixing the National Budget and how it relates to the National Debt.

Rick Hohensee of Washington carries a "Fire Congress" sign near the House steps on Capitol Hill in Washington in October. Americans enter 2014 with a profoundly negative view of their government, expressing little hope that elected officials can or will solve the nation's biggest problems, a new poll finds. Associated Press 

Posted: Thursday, January 2, 2014 6:17 pm

...Americans, (click here) who have a reputation for optimism, have a sharply pessimistic take on their government after years of disappointment in Washington.

The percentage of Americans saying the nation is heading in the right direction hasn’t topped 50 in about a decade. In the new poll, 70 percent lack confidence in the government’s ability “to make progress on the important problems and issues facing the country in 2014.”

The poll comes about two months after partisan gridlock prompted the first government shutdown in 17 years....

...Local and state governments inspire more faith than the federal government, according to the poll, with 45 percent at least moderately confident in their state government and 54 percent expressing that much confidence in their local government....

The US House said it won't put the unemployment extension on it's January calendar. The US House is living to play with the Debt Ceiling. They will practice brinkmanship until the last minute AGAIN. President Obama needs to address these issues when he speaks about the reason why it is in the best interest of the nation to extend unemployment benefits. 

As it stands right now, the US House is going to grand stand on the fact the US Senate is spending AGAIN rather than working on the National Debt and the Debt Ceiling. President Obama has to speak to the nation to have them understand that progress has been made on the nation's budget and that progress translate into reducing the Nation's Debt and how that will end the continual rising Debt Ceiling. If the President doesn't address this in a way to empower Americans to take a stand and resolve their anxiety over the fiscal condition of the country today and in their children's future; the US House Republicans will play politics that say, "Democrats are nothing but tax and spend."

While most Americans understand that unemployment benefits continue to support the USA economy, it is still spending and seems counter intuitive to the nation's best fiscal outcomes.

The two year budget agreement appears to be more of an appeasement to Ryan than a real accomplishment by Murray. The Democrats need to remind Americans while the controversial aspects of the budget seems to be a win for the US House, in actuality SSI, Medicare and Medicaid were maintained while the task remains to raise the cap on the program. They need to remind the nation that simply raising the cap on the programs will solve the fiscal challenges and the sooner that is completed the better the outcome for the Seniors and Poor. Democrats need to remind the nation, the US House isn't interested in solving the problems of these programs, but, only interested in ending them and the Dems prevented that from happening.

posted on January 3, 2014 at 5:29pm EST

WASHINGTON — As Congress returns to session next week, (click here) House Democrats and Republicans are still nowhere near an agreement to extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program.

On Monday, Sen. Harry Reid is scheduled to bring a three-month extension of the program without a way to offset the cost up for a vote. It’s unclear whether it has enough support to pass, but even if it does, House Republicans say they won’t agree to any extension, for any length of time, without a cost offsetting provision.

“It’s hard for me to know if the Democrats are sincere about this. I must say I have my doubts,” Rep. Tom Cole told BuzzFeed. “There’s no way there’ll be an extension of extraordinary unemployment without a pay-for.”

House Speaker John Boehner has said he won’t support an extension without a cost offsetting measure as well....

The problem is 'sea ice extent' because of global warming. NASA reported about this, but, no one paid attention.

Published time: January 03, 2014 18:56

This photo provided by Fairfax Media Pool and released by the Australian Antarctic Division on January 2, 2014 shows the Chinese Antarctic vessel Xue Long (C) from the bridge of the Aurora Australis ship off Antarctica, both in the frozen waters to help rescue a nearby Russian research ship (not pictured). (AFP Photo / Jessica Fitzpatrick)

The Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, (click here) which helped rescue 52 passengers from the stranded Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy, is feared to be stuck in the Antarctic sea ice. An Australian icebreaker is now on standby for a potential second rescue mission.

The Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, had helped ferry stranded passengers from the Akademik Shokalskiy to an Australian icebreaker the Aurora Australis, but is now concerned about its own ability to move through the heavy sea ice, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said....

All the news media services globally dependent and favoring the petroleum industry goes around ignoring valuable information from NASA because it doesn't fit into their political ranting and raving.

Everyone wants to sensationalize this mess with the tilt that favors their political outcome and no one reports the truth.

Let's all just play with fire because human beings are the smartest creatures on Earth and we can put out any fire once we get it started. Right? Arrogance? Yes? Absolutely.

Earth is just the place to drill and frack and punch holes in it for oil and gas and coal and minerals for profits so profiteers don't have to worry about their future. The more money in their Pots of Gold the better, heck, they can jump on a space ship to nowhere then and live forever.

Well, lookey thar. NASA has been doing their jobs after all.

I'll be hog tied and hornswoggled, they even fixed up a graph for our better understanding. It isn't a Wall Street graph, but, it is interesting one. Right?

See this graph is a plot of ALL the advances and retreat of Antarctica Sea Ice since 1980. I'll be darn those scientists at NASA have plotted a trend in sea ice advance that predicted exactly what is happening in the CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS today. There are two circumpolar currents. Indeed.

To the right is about the simplest picture I could find regarding the two currents that circulate at the bottom of the world. The one nearest the ice continent is East Wind Drift and then outside the East Wind Drift is the West Wind Drift. They lie next to each other and flow in opposite directions.

Interesting thing happens at their convergence point, there is OCEAN UPWELLING caused by the two current rubbing against each other. The same phenomena occurs at the Equator. When there is upwelling there are phytoplankton exposed from below the surface to the top of the ocean waters. It provides incredible feeding opportunities for marine mammals like whales. The whales migrate. They migrate like birds, they go to either polar regions to feed and they go to the tropical areas to breed and give birth. Smart aren't they? They know their young calves can have adverse outcomes when born in frigid temperatures. I am wondering long about now how much upwelling is occurring and how much open water there is for them to feed. This is the only season they can feed in Antarctica. I suppose there will be yet another scientific expedition to check on them soon.

Now about this map and that graph. This is an evaluation NASA does annually. They conduct these surveys to account for changes in polar ice masses and to realize where there are ice bergs and what kind of havoc the bergs will cause in shipping lanes. Well, here it is and guess what, the sea ice is causing problems in ship traffic.

October 1, 2013

In late September 2013, (click here) the ice surrounding Antarctica reached its annual winter maximum and set a new record. Sea ice extended over 19.47 million square kilometers (7.51 million square miles) of the Southern Ocean. The previous record of 19.44 million square kilometers was set in September 2012....

Remember that year 2012. I'll be referring to it soon. I just love the way NASA scientists minimize their own measurements. "Oh, it only is adding 22 miles to the sea ice?" Are these scientists ever required to get their heads out of their satellites and actually ride in a ship to understand what 22 miles of sea ice will do?

...Sea ice extent is defined as the total area in which the ice concentration is at least 15 percent.

“For the second year in a row, we set a record high winter maximum,” said Walt Meier, a glaciologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “But even though it is a record high, it is only 3.6 percent above the 1981-2010 average maximum. That means the difference between this year and an average year is that the ice edge extended an average of only about 35 kilometers (22 miles) farther this year.”...

The truth is they minimize their measurements so Senator Inhofe doesn't demand their firing for being honest in a way that is damaging to his reputation as a Climate Denier. NASA scientists worry about whistle blowing because Russia already has their own scientists and they would profoundly be out of work even if they fled the country from Inhofe.

Keep in mind the 'wind chill' factor when thinking about the growth of sea ice. Also realize when water moves it does not readily freeze. So, when water and wind reach the East Wind Drift it becomes more stagnant and moves with water that is already frigid. Now what happens when water and cold is added to an established ocean current? 

I'll wait a minute on that one. Most people can figure this one out. I have confidence most anyone reading this can establish an understanding of what occurs here. So I'll wait a minute or two.

June 13, 2013
PASADENA, Calif. -- Ocean waters (click here) melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found. 

Scientists have studied the rates of basal melt, or the melting of the ice shelves from underneath, of individual ice shelves, the floating extensions of glaciers that empty into the sea. But this is the first comprehensive survey of all Antarctic ice shelves. The study found basal melt accounted for 55 percent of all Antarctic ice shelf mass loss from 2003 to 2008, an amount much higher than previously thought....

I'll be darn NASA scientists have plenty of guts to go with their smarts. So, I have to conclude it is the media that is scared to death to report what exactly the truth is, because scientists already know and are not in denial.

This study by NASA was conducted because there were large amounts of 'something' entering the ocean currents from under the ice sheets. All the satellites knew is that it was happening, but, the satellites can't state it is melting ice. So, now the assessments are complete WE KNOW that Antarctica is losing vast amounts of it's ice structures. 

There is a similarity between this map of Antarctica and that of the Arctic Circle map I posted earlier. The colors and methodology in reporting is the same. So between the two maps it is clearly DOCUMENTED that Earth is losing it's ice caps and we losing them where Continental and Oceanic ice meets warmer ocean waters. 

So, what is all this sea ice mess about and why does it indicate global warming? There is 2012 again.

November 12, 2012
NASA and British Antarctic Survey scientists (click here) have reported the first direct evidence that marked changes to Antarctic sea ice drift caused by changing winds are responsible for observed increases in Antarctic sea ice cover in the past two decades. The results help explain why, unlike the dramatic sea ice losses being reported in the Arctic, Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change....

..."We now know that these regional changes are caused by changes in the winds, which, in turn, affect the ice cover through changes in both ice drift and air temperature," he continued. "The changes in ice drift also suggest large changes in the ocean surrounding Antarctica, which is very sensitive to the cold and salty water produced by sea ice growth."... 

When continental ice melts it is adding H2O to the ocean currents. The salinity drops in the East Wind Drift first.

Remember when I first started this blog how I recorded daily from information familiar to consumers, the daily changes in wind and temperature of Antarctica and places like Barrow, Alaska? 

Oh. 

Yeah. See, there was a reason for all that and it wasn't to scare people into 'believing' in the Climate Crisis. It was to demonstrate with solid scientific principles how serious Earth's deterioration is to all people in all areas of the world. I did that successfully. It was those that were receiving the information that didn't want to valid what I knew, even back then, was occurring. NASA eventually was moved to FINISH the work they were already doing to a conclusion regarding the warming of Earth.

The drastic loss of ice in particular ways that alarmed observers; they had to account for it. So, they did.

Why the larger extent of 'sea ice' as opposed to 'continental ice?' The oceans are warming so there is more ice melt entering waters. That ice melt are really cold, so when the water finally stops moving in the East Wind Drift and adds to the coldness of that current it starts to solidify again. Add to that the high winds with really low temperatures causing a wind chill and contributing to the fall in temperature of surface water in the East Wind Drift and the water solidifies. Add to that the East Wind Drift and West Wind Drift interact at their convergence zone and then the West Wind Drift starts to become effected in the same way as the East Wind Drift.

Just because the wind blows cold doesn't mean that Earth is in a cooling cycle. Because if Earth was in a cooling cycle the ice at the poles where they meet with ocean waters would not be melting.

It is all there. It is all documented by the best scientists in many nations and their data concurs. It is very difficult to deny that the poles are losing their ice and sea ice extent is increasing due to the loss of that ice from the continent. If anyone denies it; they are lying.

I posted this about a week or so ago. 

The Arctic continued to shift to a warmer, greener state in 2013. (click here)

So, because of the higher winds and arrival of Arctic temperatures to the lower 48 makes this mute? Or maybe folks just, "don't get it?"

Okay. maybe folks just don't get it in the face of a ship being stuck in the sea ice around Antarctica. I'll be back later to dig into what this counter intuitive effect of wind is all about. Okay? Later then.

The wind brings temperature change in double digits and the wind also dries the land.

January 3, 2014
1200 GMT
The Weather Channel Departure from Normal Low Temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit

Odd, isn't it? So much of the country is far colder while there are areas up to ten degrees warmer.

So, one would expect the lows to be very low based on what people are experiencing, but, a departure this profound in high temperatures? The departure from high temperatures in the areas where it is frigid maintain that level, but, the areas with warmer departures are still far higher.

Additionally, there is snow cover, but, not in all areas of the frigid map. Why is that important, because, the less snowfall in many areas of the country the greater the drought come Spring and Summer.

Then there is the amount of snowfall and the quality of the snow. Will the snow continue to exist throughout the winter or will it melt or partially melt and then return with the next storm?

How much of the snow becomes ice?

And dig this, the wind chill factor actually increases temperature in some areas of the country by single digits up to 39 degrees Fahrenheit.

The small map below is the current temperatures across the nation.

Where the wind chill increased normal temperatures that continues to be indicated in actual temperatures. Where the wind chill decreased normal temperatures the same exists in actual temperatures. What does that mean? It means the temperatures are weather dependent and episodic.

It is not a general cooling of the climate. The dominating factor is the wind and not normal storms. If the winds are coming from the Pacific the land is warmer. If the winds are coming off the Arctic Circle the land is colder. This is not a lasting cold. It is episodic. 





January 3, 2014
1330.18z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of North and West Hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)

This should be a somewhat familiar dynamic to this hemisphere. The moisture delivering the snow is from equatorial water vapor to the point the ICZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone) is nearly absent of water vapor. Off the west coast is an Arctic Oscillation.

Idaho drought monitor map shows ‘Severe’ and ‘Extreme’ drought (click here)
The Idaho Drought Monitor Map shows around half of the state is under a “severe” or “extreme” drought.
About 5 percent of the state, in the southwest, is under the extreme drought, while another 40 percent is under the severe drought.
Much of the rest of the state is under a “moderate” drought (25 percent), or “abnormally dry” (8 percent), according to the map.
The top part of the state, which is significantly more narrow than the rest of the state, is not under any type of adverse weather. This is about 22 percent of the state.
This is worse than January 1, 2013, when 45 percent of the state was under no drought conditions.
The surrounding states, including Nevada, Washington, and Oregon, are also experiencing a lack of rain.
Source: theepochtimes.com
Publication date: 1/3/2014

January 1, 2013
By Tina Volpe
Posted by Life Channel
California has seen its share of drought, (click here) anyone who is a long-time resident can attest to water rationing and restrictions – and it appears it might be dealing with water shortages again in 2014.

Although winter is a strange time of year to announce a drought – with three-fourths of the country under ice and snow, but California has not had its usual rain or snowfall. A city like Santa Cruz usually gets at least 30 inches of rain every year, but this year – only about five inches fell – from July to June.

As of December 24th, 85 percent of the state was experiencing severe or extreme drought conditions. Reservoirs are at below normal levels, and people are starting to worry....

The US Drought Monitor 
December 31, 2013

Where are the temperatures higher due to wind and where is the drought?

At least one farmer is taking the recommendations about planting varieties of wheat with deep roots. Thank you Land Institute.

This picture is from the article about California in this entry. The pathway shows the droughted land, but, the wheat shows a crop of wheat. The plants have deep roots and are able to tap enough water to continue to grow. That is an amazing picture. The trees in the background have deep roots by the age of the trees alone. They are not young trees. So, there is a healthy water table underneath this crop, it is just finding the right wheat to plant. 

This picture makes an excellent argument to plant perennial grain crops. The roots should not be disturbed. This crop can be harvested. Wheat is a grass. In a similar species family as anyone's yard grass. Yard grass can 'go to seed' if it is not mowed regularly, right? That is what this is. That wheat can be harvested and the roots will continue to grown a wheat crop. It is important to monitor the 'yellowing' of any perennial crop as to the nutritional status of the crop. Liquid fertilizer can be added as necessary.

A broken axle is irrelevant until the investigation is complete. A broken axle could be a symptom and not a cause.

Regardless, the safety margin for any such disaster is not enough. Rail safety is lacking. The fact there are three derailments, at least one fatal is more than suspicious. I don't buy the fact three derailments are caused by increased use of rail services. That is an excuse. There is no excuse for this level of negligence or worse.

I'll talk about the Climate Crisis later. This reality of frigid temperatures and severe weather, even really bad snow storms, VALIDATES the FACT Earth is warming at an incredible rate and indeed it is important for the USA to find solutions to their Greenhouse Gas Pollution. Yes, even the boats stuck in the Antarctica Sea Ice is due to the Climate Crisis. As a matter of fact it was predictable they were going to stuck in that sea ice.

This topic is not one entry with a short paragraph.

Later today. It is already after 2 AM.