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Here's what the media reports https://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/parts-of-north-america-are-currently-heading-for-a-megadrought-study-finds/ar-BB12V7E5?ocid=spartandhp But here's what science actually says, Is the USA in a “megadrought”? Looking at April 14th 2020 data from the United States Drought Monitor, it sure doesn’t seem so. While there are indications of some drought in the USA Southwest, there seem to be equally large areas that have no drought conditions at all. And, just one year ago, there were no indications of drought in the southwest USA whatsoever. This might be why Stahle only used data through 2018, because the “no drought” year of 2019 didn’t support the claims of “megadrought”. Cherry picking anyone? Looking at the USA drought monitor map for summer 1934 and summer 2019, the difference becomes clear. Using a tree-ring-based drought record from the years 1000 to 2005 and modern records, scientists from NASA and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found the 1934 drought was 30 percent more severe than the runner-up drought (in 1580) and extended across 71.6 percent of western North America. Another study suggests that the 1934 dust-bowl drought didn’t even make the top 10 in terms of severity, and another found a “megadrought” in the Southwest USA during the time of the Roman Empire. With that historical data, it is impossible to claim our use of fossil fuels in the last century is leading to a new megadrought.

Clouds regulate Greenland’s climate…and models grossly fail to simulate this According to a new study (Lenaerts et al., 2020), clouds “control the Earth’s hydrological cycle”, “regulate the Earth’s climate”, and drive polar ice melt. Further, “the surface melt climate is strongly dependent on the representation of clouds and related radiation fluxes“. Models of cloud effects over Greenland are biased – or wrong – by 25-50 W/m². Wow, a third study confirming the same as the other two, the evidence is starting to pile up that his has been a very poorly researched subject.

Cloud cover decline from 1994-2017 “dominates” the warming and ice melt trend Another new study (Hahn et al., 2020) finds reduced cloud cover from 1994-2017 led to enhanced shortwave radiation (+7.3 W/m²) and drove the warming from the 1990s to mid-2000s. This shortwave cloud forcing trend is what “dominates” the melt signal for Greenland. Greenland’s warming trend is shown to taper off into a pause or a slight cooling trend since ~2005. Likewise, the ice melt trend spiked in 2012 but has been flat (or declining) overall since about 2005 too. There is thus no clear indication in the scientific literature that atmospheric CO2 concentration changes can even remotely compete with cloud radiative effects as drivers of climate trends over Greenland. And the same results for Greenland too, can't be a coincidence or bad science when you can replicate the results. Time to scrap the current climate models and get them properly tuned for the clouds.

Cloud forcing dominates in the Arctic Within a matter of hours, the radiative forcing effects from clouds can vary by ±40 W/m² in the Arctic. From one year to the next, cloud radiative effects can vary by 70 W/m² and overall cloud radiative effects can reach 360 W/m² (Ebell et al., 2020). In contrast, the total accumulated change in net impact from CO2 forcing is only 1.82 W/m² since 1750 (Feldman et al., 2015). Simply put, cloud forcing radiatively dominates in the Arctic. CO2 is a bit player, at most. Uh oh, looks like someone has some splaining to do, lol.

Trumps toast, Biden will steamroll him.

I didn't think anyone would be in favor of letting the virus run it's course or for having a vote on it. Sweden chose this path, doesn't mean all their medical experts are quacks, it's just another approach.

This is just an opinion, https://townhall.com/columnists/douglasmackinnon/2020/03/22/should-america-vote-on-letting-covid19-run-its-course-n2565441 but it does raise the issue.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/the-coronavirus-pandemic-is-the-breakthrough-xi-jinping-has-been-waiting-for-and-hes-making-his-move/ar-BB128rTu?ocid=spartandhp

China imports $17 trillion a year, 10% of the world total, they buy a lot from the rest of us too.

Trump is a pathetic excuse for a human being maybe even worse than my avatar character.

Dear God, promise me you will never go into politics because if you do, we are all doomed.

I expect credit where credit is due anyone gonna man up?

Okay, time to take the tinfoil hat off and come back when it's affects have worn off.

Or maybe we should just go back to the good old days and become a British colony again, then we can join the EU too.

Did you miss Brexit?

What would you rather have 5% of 100 billion or 50% of nothing? Like it or not, we are all at the mercy of big business because we the well paying jobs they offer. If you know of a better way to create well paying jobs I'm all ears.

They'll just leave and go somewhere else, what your suggesting doesn't work, you don't think it's been tried before, talk about thinking in a vacuum.

Hey, I thought it was strange advice too.

The middle class bears the brunt of that, always has, always will.

lol, no right here in Winnipeg.

What a curious statement, how do you see this being implemented, by force?

I'm no AV but our family doctor has never recommended that we get the flu shot. His reasoning was that only people in poor countries living in squalor should get it and that it's just a guess at what strains you are being immunized against, it may have no affect at all. I think everyone should take their doctors advice when it comes to something like this.

In well over 3 months since its purported inception, the COVID-19 virus is claimed to be responsible for less than 50,000 deaths globally (as of the 1st of April). Every year, about 500,000 people from across the world die from the five-month-long seasonal flu. During the last pandemic, the swine flu (H1N1) killed up to 575,000 people. This was interestingly classified as “fairly mild” for total pandemic deaths in 2012 (ABC NEWS).