It is about time climate scientists take volcanoes more seriously! Almost my entire life, I have known that volcanoes cause more rain and snow. Indeed, many of my life choices and plans hinge on volcanic activity. When volcanoes are active, I take measures to prepare for floods and blizzards. This year, finally, scientists have proof that volcanoes cause floods and blizzards! At last! The climate scare people put every negative weather situation into their stupid ‘climate change’ model that is based on CO2, not the sun or volcanic activity. So when either of these are suddenly very active, we get much faster and much greater ‘climate change’ than CO2 accumulation. And these changes can and will cause the next major Ice Age cycle, too!
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First off, yet another volcano has erupted today: Mount Lokon, located in northern Sulawesi province in Indonesia, unleashed its first powerful eruption at 10:46pm on Thursday.
Here is the story that vindicates my own observations over the course of the last half a century: Volcanoes may cause more rain than realized
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The eruption last spring of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano provided French scientists with the perfect natural laboratory to measure the levels of weather-changing particles released in such eruptions. Taking measurements at the Puy de Dôme research station in central France, they found was that the eruption released much larger amounts of particles at low levels in the atmosphere than previously known.
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I noted over the years how, when we go into volcanic ash phases where there is a lot of ash in the higher stratosphere, rain drops are huge during storms. They splat down in big drops, sometimes, when hitting the ground, the ensuing puddle can be as big as a dinner plate! The effect with winter snow is even stronger: we get one blizzard after another and what would normally be a snow storm with 10 inches of snow becomes pounding snow storms with 30 inches or more.
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Every time I prepare for very snowy winters due to volcanoes, we get exactly that. I have spent much of this summer preparing for a second heavy snow winter after last year’s big snows. Instead of laying about, enjoying the summer warmth, I have frantically been working on snow equipment, repairs on all the family’s homes so that they can endure greater snow loads, making as much firewood as possible, etc. This has been hard, hard work and summer is no time to relax when facing the possibility of a colder, wetter winter.
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Volcanoes’ impact on climate underestimated? I would say, absolutely. The major thing that irritates me about the global warming people is the dishonesty about the true drivers of climate change. We are in the middle, not at the end, of a major and rather new cycle in the Earth’s climate, that is, we are in an Ice Age cycle and understanding what is causing this is life and death. Even though many people are getting a summer heat wave this year, here on my mountain, I have opened the windows at night exactly a dozen times!
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Last night is typical: it is July and the temperature was below 50 degrees! It was around 48 last night….brrrr. Normally, at this time of year, I sleep with the windows open and sometimes with a fan blowing. Unlike city people who live in a falsely warm environment due to miles of black pavements heating up the local air, I live in the country where there is far fewer roads and many of these are shaded by forests. So my own climate is more ‘natural’ and thus, gives me a more correct reading of what is really going on here. That is, thanks to the volcanoes, it is getting obviously chillier and colder, especially at night.
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The coincidence of the Yellowstone Caldera and the Long Valley Caldera explosions in the US beginning around 2.5 million years ago and the massive Ice Ages which mainly hammer the North American continent, putting it under mile thick ice sheets, is no mere coincidence. This may be totally connected and I am betting, is connected especially if an eruption coincides with the sun producing slightly less solar activity compared to warmer sessions.
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Meanwhile, just like in the US which has cut home heating fuel subsidies to the poor and elderly, so is the US: One in five households in fuel poverty as energy prices soar | Money | The Guardian
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The Department of Energy and Climate Change statistics show 700,000 more UK families fell into fuel poverty in 2009, bringing the total to 5.5 million — one in five of all households. In the UK, fuel poverty is when a household needs to spend more than 10% of its income on fuel in order to heat its home to an adequate standard, and have hot water and run lights and appliances.
The department admitted that 100,000 more families in England alone were expected to go into fuel poverty this year.
The figures came less than a week after British Gas said its gas prices will rise by an average of 18% and electricity bills by 16%. Scottish Power has also raised its gas prices by 19% and electricity by 10%, while other power companies are expected to follow suit, blaming wholesale gas prices.
The government has admitted that bills will have to rise additionally to pay for a major rebuilding of the UK’s power networks.
Michelle Mitchell, charity director at Age UK, said it was astonishing that help for poorer households through the Warm Front subsidy scheme was being phased out despite “scandalous” power bills. “The promised solutions contained in the [government's] Green Deal don’t come into force until late 2012 – too late for the millions of people struggling to heat their homes this winter,” she added.
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As I predicted, the CO2 energy tax would be put on top of higher prices due to speculators bidding up oil and gas and electricity contracts and this, in turn would simply squeeze the middle class and poor ruthlessly. Not one penny of the CO2 taxes will end up creating solar power on anyone’s roof, for example. All of this loot would go into major corporations building alternative energy systems they control, not fund privately-owned energy for individual home owners.
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This, in turn, will lead to much higher energy prices instead of free energy after one pays off the cost of installing solar panels on all roofs! If I had a government ZIRP interest loan to build a solar system on my home which then I pay off over 10 years, this would mean the rest of my life, I would pay nothing for my solar energy! This is true economic freedom! Instead, since I have a fixed income, it is hard to get money to do this and I struggle to stay alive and I haven’t used any energy systems for heating in 20 years except back breaking work, producing firewood all summer long and then burning it in winter to stay alive.
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Far from global warming making my winters easier, it still drops to well below zero for long spells every winter. The winters also feature high winds and lots of snow. Far from vanishing, my snow has been deeper than ever. The main thing here is, the green energy tax designed to save us from being warmer in winter and believe me, I would love to be warmer in winter and the vast majority of people, when they can afford it, move or retire to warmer, not colder places…this energy tax being imposed on us to save us from being too hot is put on top of record energy prices while at the same time, all governments of all first world economies are simultaneously cutting social services, reducing pensions and dumping the costs of the massive bank bail outs onto the lower working classes and retirees and the abject poor!
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While looking for information in the past, I came across this story in Australia, from last April: Leaked document shows how Australian government planned to “sell the idea of a carbon dioxide tax to the public” | Watts Up With That? Many people who might be worried about it getting too warm (cities are much warmer than the countryside and most people now live mainly in cities) want this to change but are unable to figure out how to change things to fix the problem. On top of which, everyone wants to live like we live today and there is a ton of wishful thinking going on here. The obvious solution of fixing things so people use self-owned renewable energy more, is the last thing the governments want and alas, many people who fear global warming go along with this. Here is the report from Australia:
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Here on Vancouver Island daytime temperatures are running about 4 to 5 degrees C below 30 year historical norms.
Even in NYC, I’ve been noticing high temps during the day and extreme drops at night. The climatologists must wake up and catch up on Volcanic activity affecting the environment.
I just read that it is now thought that higher volcanic activity caused the major 100 year droughts that destroyed the Mayans.
We’ve all been caught up in a kind climate religious fervor that we have lost sight of the real dangers right in front of us.
You delusions continue – you must think this is Aesop’s world. Keep putting away the winter fodder dutiful ant. When the grasshopper will be hungry, your provisions will be called away from you, option expiration style. Properly paid for with all the Federal Express scrip that is fit to print. Have you seen savings rewarded lately, or going hopelessly into hock? Observe past your delusions.
One of the stories I tell my students is how the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 resulted in a year without a summer in the U.S. Midwest during 1992. Here in Detroit, it was the coldest and cloudiest July on record, and just about the rainiest, too. The following October was warmer and sunnier!
As for turning cities greener, that’s certainly happening here in Detroit, whether through neglect and nature taking over or from people promoting urban agriculture. Not everyone is on board with this, as some in the suburbs are fighting whatever Detroit might be exporting, both good and bad. I’ve been following the latest iteration of this story over on my blog.
A woman in Oak Park has been hassled by the city for planting a vegetable garden in her front lawn for the past month and had a court date for a misdemeanor. Now, the city has dropped that charge and reinstated charges for not having her dogs licensed, when she already got licenses for them and presented evidence. It’s a bureaucratic soap opera. You can reach all my posts on the issue as well as links to the woman’s own blog posts at the following link.
Oak Park Woman plants vegetable garden; city objects
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ELAINE: When that happened, I was living on my mountain, in a TENT for crying out loud, building my house. I stopped work on the house and began shoring up the tent, fast, for that winter and boy, was it a DOOZY. We had a total of over 25 feet of snow. Lots of ice, too. My big woodpile out back was totally encased in ice so we had to take the dog sled up into the woods and chop down trees and drag them down to the tent. One had to wear snow shoes or the snow would be too deep.
It was a most amazing winter and came very fast and furious, in mid-October rather than December! And the worst blizzard came the first week of April and in March it was 40 below ZERO. BRRRR. Lovely for polar bears, though.
Here in Arizona, we have had big swings in temperatures, going from cooler than average to hotter and back again. I am just hoping for more rain, we really need it.
Arizona monsoons: they come at night. I loved watching the storms form as the sun descended. But if it is cold and dry at night, this doesn’t happen. It has to be night-humid! Pray for humidity! And this, in turn, comes from the Pacific Ocean! If the ocean is too COLD, this is a problem.
Remember: global warming supposes warm oceans. Yet, Mother Nature could tease us by giving us a very cold Pacific Ocean. La Nina is Mother Nature.
How polluted cloud cover accounts for much of our climate change:
When the “Father of the H-Bomb” Dr. Edward Teller addressed an International Seminar on Planetary Emergencies in August 1979, Teller called for a billion-dollar-a-year protective chemical “sunscreen” to be spread across the skies of planet Earth.
Computer simulations by climate modeller Ken Caldeira at the Lawrence Livermore atom bomb laboratory predicted that 10 million tons of tiny airborne particles (nanoparticles) could reflect 1% of incoming sunlight – resulting in no further global warming despite doubling C02 in our atmosphere.
By 1991, a patent filed by Hughes Aircraft Company called for the stratospheric seeding of highly reflective aluminum oxide particles “for Reduction of Global Warming”. The company cautioned that the resulting “white skies may be unpopular.”
Chemtrail spraying began in earnest in 1998, when USAF “Weather Force Specialists” began gridding North American skies with lingering aerosol plumes spread by formations of huge aerial tankers.
Airborne research showed that while pollution (including chemtrails) is indeed blocking some incoming sunlight, far more significant is what they are doing to the clouds. It turns out that tiny particles of industrial ash, soot and sulphur dioxide – as well as aluminum, barium, strontium, and other chemtrails constituents – have been turning our clouds into giant mirrors!
Because metal nanoparticles are providing ten-times as many nuclei around which water droplets form, polluted clouds contain many more water droplets – each one far smaller than it would be naturally. Many small droplets reflect more light than fewer big ones. So polluted clouds are reflecting much more light back into space than contrails and chemtrails alone – causing Global Dimming and preventing more of the sun’s heat from getting through. Farmers blame this lose of solar heat units for lower yields and delayed harvests.
Caldeira expressed public concern over the human health effects from chemtrail fallout. The EPA later found that chemtrail nanoparticles easily enter the bloodstream, triggering increased death rates within 24 hours. Respiratory disease has jumped from 8th to 3rd on the mortality list in just six years. Cancer is in second place.
Over the last five years here in Pennsylvania, a 35% increase in very high cloud cover resulted in a 10 fold increase in high UV Index levels, meaning a lot more ozone is being trapped in earth’s surface atmosphere. Photosynthesis and stomatal responses to light and temperature in plants and trees are significantly reduced with accumulated ozone dose. Perhaps you may have noticed the decline in our plant and tree vibrancy in recent years.