Drought Conditions

If it does not rain, the stores of water in the environment will decrease. The most important time is during the period from October to April as this determines how much is available for the summer. A lack of rain in the winter will cause problems in the summer.

2003 North Carolina Drought - Kindly note as time goes forward there is more drought than excess

Agriculture is very important to The State of North Carolina. As a result is has a State Climate Office. Woody Yonts runs it (click here). I think Woody can be a role model for every state and every nation to have a Climate Center to know when they are reaching critical climate conditions for their people, their economy and their water supply. I think the United Nations should be a clearing house of need with standby efforts at the ready as is the response of Russia which is nearly always one of the first nations to respond to humanitarian needs by sending large amounts of food and water.

The non-existant hurricane season this year is due to the fact Earth has gotten to be very hot. A dramatic example of this is the year 1956. If one is able to stop the timeline of the drought DVD and then look at the hurricane maps from UNISYS (click here) you'll find a short and mild hurricane season. A direct correlation can be drawn between mild hurricane seasons and drought.

It would be easy to try to pass this hurricane season off as something to ignore without being accountable for the realization that Earth is continually heating and we are contributing through our consumerism and negligence. This cannot continue and have a sustainable Earth where agriculture is not under attack and water supplies are becoming more precious than breathable air.

The ozone layer over Antarctica is at a record size this year. As a result there is a large heat movement toward that 'hole' and Antarctica is melting. Even the far reaches of the 3 mile Blue Ice is receiving significant heat due to the hot air mass under the Ozone Hole. We have a lot to be worried about and time is not on our side. There is a tipping point coming in only about 7 to 8 years. We need to address climate change now and begin to scale back human impact on Earth. There has never been this many people on Earth before and it grows every year. Countries with the largest populations such as China are practicing population growth models to bring their growth under control. India is not such a country and while they and China are growing in consumerism they are also not growing good environmental habits. The USA under decades of Republican leadership has done everything possible to thwart advancements in science that would bring consumerism into a benign rhelm.

If one looks at the timeline of consumer invention, it is notable that the issues of transportation has surrounded the burning of fossil fuels while other forms of energy have been virtually nonexistant in recognition of their virtue or economy to a sustainable Earth. That is due to gross mismanagement of federal policy to provide movement toward better and safer energy sources. It is negligent. As a nation we have not at all disciplined ourselves to protect Earth for future generations and in doing so we have not provided for their environmental safety.

While ideas of cutting allowable emissions of Greenhouse Gases from auto exhaust is necessary, we also have to address the smokestakes, and modes of mass transportation by which we move our economy. We are a moral people without moral leadership. We have to demand better of our leaders and higher expectations for the protections of Earth's climate and water supply. We owe that to the people who have not benefitted from a life on Earth. As a people we are very selfish and not at all vigilant to the needs of those yet to inherit the freedom passed down to us just a couple hundred years ago. It is amazing to realize there were people on this continent that stood unafraid against an authority to forge a nation. A democracy. Freedom. They did that so we could have it better than any other generation ahead of us and we have squandered that legacy when it comes to protecting Earth from demise. We need to reach back and find the strength to demand change and now. Time is not on our side. Ice becomes water all to easily and while Antartica seems to have huge reserves of ice, it does not have the resilience of the bad habits of over 6 billion people currently living on Earth.

We can do this. We can move mountains and make a change and now is the time.

Thank you for your interest.

Scientists Reconstruct the History of Drought for North America

Over the years discussed since the Revolutionary War there have been all kinds of hurricane seasons, but, the general trend is obvious.

This is a study done of North America and drought. Drought and hurricanes are related. The worse the drought the less hurricanes because there is far less water vapor in the troposphere to generate the storms.

Click on link above and experience the devastation of 2005 years of ever increasing drought. As you watch it's progression realize it starts with desert in the West but spreads throughout the West. Each drought season is actually building the next drought season as biota dies off with each passing drought and the trees are less hardy.

Also realize the intrusion of an every growing population in the USA and it's destruction by timber and replacing biota with concrete and macadem.

Fast Forward to 2005 Hurricane Season

There would be 31 storms some with names like Alpha, Zeta but it would be the year of the Cat 5 storm with a record number of three. The most devastating would be a storm named Katrina. It would push a storm surge equivalent to a Cat 5 strom surge of at least 20 feet ashore of the USA Gulf Coast causing thousands of deaths with the majority in a neglected district of New Orleans called The Lower Ninth.

As Katrina reached shore in it's last moments as a completely aquatic animal it would drop it's winds and come ashore at a Cat 3 over Mississippi, however, it would be too late to abate the storm surge which had a velocity and ferocity to match the heat and votex that generated it's fury.

In the year 2006, the USA would hit another population milestone of 300 million people.

In 1950 the average family was a one income household with a washing machine, dog and one car.

In the year 2006, airline travel would be a necessity for a shrinking global economy with professionals going to all extremes to meet their profits to stockholders. The average family had at least two cars. There was at least two incomes to every family.

Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets (1926)


Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver (1936)


The first working turboprop engine (1938)


The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff (1944)


The atomic bomb invented (1945)


The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider (1950)

1950 Hurricane Season

There were thirteen storms that year. Two Tropical Storms and one hurricane reaching Cat 5.

The season started August 12th and ended October 21st.

The storms now had names, like Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox, George, How, Item, Jig, King, #12 and Love.

The central pressures were measured that year from 979 millibars to 955 millibars of the Cat 3 storms of which there were five. There were two Cat 4s.

The Cat 5 storm was Hurricane Dog and there was no central pressure measurement on this storm that started August 30 - Spetember 17th.


The Census Bureau of the USA would register a population of nearly 150 million people, half of what it is today. 74,833,249 were men and 75,846,122 were women of all ethnicities within the USA borders.

Links to all below, click on subject

Of course we all know about The Wright Brothers with their gas motored and manned airplane (1903)


Paul Kornu, the first piloted helicopter (1907)


Leo Baekeland, first synthetic plastic called Bakelite; smoke stakes (1907)


1908, the first Model T Ford was sold


Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system (1911)


Sir Frederick Grant Banting, Insulin (1922)

1900 Hurricane Season

There were seven storms that year beginning August 27th and ending October 29th.

There were three hurricanes, all occuring in the first three storms with the first being a Cat 4, followed by a Cat 3 and the last was a Cat 2. The central pressure of storms were beginning to be measured on the higher velocity storms and the one Cat 4 storm had a central pressure of 936


The Census Bureau of the USA was not considering all ethnicities of significance.

All Ethicities

Men

38,816,448

Women

38,178,127

Links on each item below

William Sturgeon, the Electromagnet (1825)


Michael Faraday, the Electric Dynamo (1831)


Welshman, William Robert Grove, a Welsh judge, inventor and physicist, The Hydrogen Fuel Cell (1839)


Karl Benz, invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine(1885)


Gottlieb Daimler, first four-wheeled motor vehicle (1886)


Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine (1892)


Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine (1898)

The Pullman Sleeping Car - The year was 1857

The steam locomotive was invented some time before this. But, in order to understand the impact human activity has on a benevolent Earth one has to understand that it is 'consumerism' and the mass use of inventions that cause the dramatic shift in climate and unreasonable Global Warming.

The inventions alone don't cause the warming. The consumer use of invention in mass number causes the warming.

The Pullman Coach was the commercial/consumer use of the railroad. People could now be transported from one place to another with the use of rail cars. It became very popular and somewhat of a status symbol.

1851 Hurricane Data

There were no names to storms then. They were only numbered.

Hurricane 1 June 25 - 28 80 knots per hour Cat 1

Hurricane 2 July 5 -5 80 knots per hour Cat 1

Tropical Storm 3 July 10 -10 50 knots per hour

Hurricane 4 August 15 - 27 100 knots per hour Cat 3

Tropical Storm 5 September 13 - 16 50 knots per hour

Tropical Storm 5 October 16 -19 60 knots per hour



The Census Bureau was now recognizing Caucasians and Blacks but not any other ethnicity. The Population broke down like this:

Both races

Men
11,837,660

Women
11,354,216

Caucasian Men

10,026,402

Caucasian Women

9,526,666

Black Men

1,811,258

Black Women

1,827,550

The Revolutionary War as well all know was in 1776.

In the year 1790, the USA Census started to count citizens. There were thirteen colonies all lead by white guys. The statistics only counted caucasian men and women and the country broke down like this:

White Men

1,615,434


White Women

1,556,572

Captain Sea Level

Captain Sea Level

GENRE Folk

REGION D.C.

Captain Sea Level is a pseudonym used by an employee of the federal government, who realized in 1986 after playing his guitar at a large government meeting in Florida, that if he kept it up he would get in trouble. The front page of the local newspaper showed him playing guitar, and quoted the lyrics of his song as if a public official had made some rather outrageous statements about the consequences of rising sea level; but the paper did not quote the actual content of his official presentation, which generally suggested constructive steps to adapt to the consequences of global warming. Thereafter, he would persuade conference organizers to let him make his case for preparing for sea level rise early in the meeting; at then at the end of the meeting, Captain Sea Level (in disguise) came back and sang “Sea Level Rise.” Local reporters got the hint and quoted the public official and the troubadour separately.

In 1988, the Climate Institute asked Captain Sea Level to assemble an entire group at a dinner where the Institute would present an award to Sir Crispin Tickell. Because the meeting was in December, the Captain decided to perform “When the North Pole Melts.” He and John Huckans (a local jazz pianist, singer, and tuba player) had spent much of the summer transcribing and arranging songs by the Beach Boys Beach Boys for an a capella group. Hence, the Brian Wilson influence of this arrangement is noticeable--especially the modulation from C to E-flat during the third and fourth lines of each verse. Four members of the Environmental Protection Agency Chorus, his father, and three friends agreed to perform. The analogue recording was played by a WHFS (now WRNR) and a few other radio stations in 1988-89, but imperfections in the recording limited its usefulness and it sat on the shelf ever since. This year it was digitized so that readers of the Washington Post can hear the song’s message, which rings as true today as it did in 1988.

CREDITS & MORE
Walter Bauer--Jingle Bells, barritone
Kirby Biggs--bass
Carl Fletcher--barritone
Charlie Garlow--tenor
John Huckans--baritone and tenor, added modulation to E-flat in arrangement Santa Claus--bass
Captain Sea Level--melody, guitar
Kirby Biggs sings in local a capella groups.
Carl Fletcher runs a small recording studio in Ft. Washington, Maryland.
Charlie Garlow still sings with the EPA Chorus.
Captain Sea Level sings in the Ft. Washington Community Chorus and writes letters-to-the-editor of the Washington Post from his home in Glenn Dale, Maryland.

http://users.rcn.com/jwtitus/When_the_North_Pole_Melts.htm

It's Saturday Night 

When the North Pole Melts (click on for clearance with the Washington Post)

(Copyright 1988 by Captain Sea Level)

Want to tell you 'bout the greenhouse effect and a little ozone hole
That started out over Antarctica, but has now spread to the North Pole.
You will soon see every warm-weather man
At the Jersey Shore in March.'
Long as you use a sunscreen while you tan,
Your skin will never parch.
But What Will Santa Do

When the North Pole Starts to Melt?
What is gonna happen to his little elves?
Will they be too busy swimming to make the toys?
And what will Santa do?
If the North Pole melts too fast
Is this Christmas gonna be his last?
What will parents have to tell their girls and boys?

I used to snowski at Christmas time
But now I ski on a lake.
Scandinavia's now growing lemons and limes
And Quebec has rattlesnakes.
The Sahara desert now has grown
To the entire Continent.
But you do not have to lose your home:
Just trust the government!
But What Will Santa Do...

When the North Pole Starts to Melt?
What is gonna happen to his little elves?
Will they be too busy swimming to make the toys?
And what will Santa do?
If the North Pole melts too fast
Is this Christmas gonna be his last?
What will parents have to tell their girls and boys?

The Australian Labor Party wants to see the economy grow;
So their platform says that we will tow Santa from the Equator to the South Pole.
If the Russians will get him through the Bering Strait,
The currents can do the rest.
But the Conservatives would rather that we make him wait,
And put him to the market test.
But What Will Santa Do?

When the North Pole Starts to Melt?
What is gonna happen to his little elves?
Will they be too busy swimming to make the toys?
And what will Santa do?
If the North Pole melts too fast
Is this Christmas gonna be his last?
What will parents have to tell their girls and boys?

You may not believe my story because the ending's not very nice,
You may not believe in Santa Claus.
You may not believe in Christ,
But if you don't believe this warning
'Bout the climate and the ozone hole:
Look under your tree one Christmas morning
All you'll see are lumps of coal.
And that's what Santa will do

When the North Pole Starts to Melt?
What is gonna happen to his little elves?
Will they be too busy swimming to make the toys?
And what will Santa do?
If the North Pole melts too fast
Is this Christmas gonna be his last?
What will parents have to tell their girls and boys?