“But extinction rates among many other groups are approaching amphibian levels. It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all freshwater mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys. If you know how to look, you can probably find signs of the current extinction event in your own backyard.

There are all sorts of seemingly disparate reasons that species are disappearing. But trace the process far enough and inevitably you are led to the same culprit: ‘one weedy species.’”

Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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When I purchased my first SLR almost two decades ago and took up nature photography in a semi-serious way, I was motivated by a desire to recapture some of the wonder that had moved me as a child. At that time, I also took a series of naturalist courses at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL where I learned a lot about various habitats and biodiversity. But it never occurred to me then that I would today be asking myself how much longer people will be able to see and photograph many of the species that I see. It never occurred to me that the process of observing the natural world would acquire such an aura of poignancy. I have great faith in the goodness of individual human beings, in their desire to be true caretakers of this planet and all the life it contains. I have much less faith in our ability to cooperate as a species. Whatever the future holds for people, assuming we survive, it is likely we will live in a world that has been stripped of its richness and diversity. People of my age and our children may be the last generations to remember and record that diversity.

New York Times, July 20, 2021

Extreme Weather and Climate Updates

Excerpt: The West’s punishing summer heat dries out thunderstorms and fuels raging wildfires.

Oregon, where the nation’s largest blaze is burning, faces a ‘long and difficult fire season,’ officials say.

Why is the sun red? Wildfire smoke from a continent away spreads to New York.

The West’s punishing summer heat dries out thunderstorms and fuels raging wildfires.

Another scorching summer heat wave was set to peak across portions of the western United States, with air so dry that rain evaporated before reaching the ground and smoke from wildfires delaying hundreds of flights at one of the region’s largest airports.

Temperatures reached the upper 90s and lower 100s in parts of the Northern Rockies, and forecasters warned of “dry thunderstorms,” which bring lightning that can spark fires, but no rain to quench them.

It was the fourth major heat wave to afflict parts of the West since early June, bringing dangerously hot temperatures and helping fuel the deepening drought and exploding wildfires across the region. An excessive heat warning was also in effect for parts of Montana and Wyoming through Thursday, the National Weather Service said.

Glasgow, a town in northern Montana, hit 110 degrees on Monday, the Weather Service said. By 2:45 p.m. local time, Billings, toward the southern portion of the state, was officially hotter than Death Valley, Calif., at 110.4 degrees. Weather officials in Billings took advantage of the toasty temperatures and baked a batch of cookies on the dashboard of a car. “It may have taken 5 hours but we have fully baked cookies,” they shared on Twitter.

Lander, in central Wyoming, reached a record 100 degrees on Monday, according to the Weather Service. In 130 years, it was only the 21st day in Lander to reach triple digits. Parts of Idaho, including Boise and Twin Falls, saw much needed rain showers.

Blind patriotism is simply a form of tyranny. Now again enter the CV-19 scenario, and all that goes with it. Countless issues and factors are coming to a head, at blinding speed, the former paradigm is done, it's over, it's not coming back, and even now how many are willing to turn away from countless verifiable truths, existential truths? Many are all too willing to bury their head, even deeper in the rapidly rising sea of lies, even to help perpetuate the lies and disinformation, if they feel it provides a paycheck and pension, which won't matter much longer. Wait and see.

Plankton produce elements that help to create the marine layer that helps to keep the oceans cool. When the oceans super-heat and become lifeless and dead, which they are becoming by the day right now, we're done, it's that simple. The same processes of climate engineering are the single greatest factor with the forest burn-downs. Again, ozone layer destruction, which is frying foliage, toxic rain, killing root systems, cutting off precipitation from regions like the US west coast, ionizing the atmosphere, making it more electrically conductive, which makes more lightening, more lightning strikes, more fires -- from every imaginable direction the incendiary dust that is the climate engineering element, starting with aluminum that coats foliage and the forest floor, as the forests burn, less clouds.

New York Times Opinion, June 11, 2021

Stop The Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline

By Bill McKibben

The announcement this week from the Canadian company TC Energy that it was pulling the plug on the Keystone XL pipeline project was greeted with jubilation by Indigenous groups, farmers and ranchers, climate scientists and other activists who have spent the last decade fighting its construction.

The question now is whether it will be a one-off victory or a template for action going forward -- as it must, if we’re serious about either climate change or human rights. The next big challenge looms in northern Minnesota, where the Biden administration must soon decide about the Line 3 pipeline being built by the Canadian energy company Enbridge Inc. to replace and expand an aging pipeline.

It’s easy to forget now how unlikely the Keystone fight really was. Indigenous activists and Midwest ranchers along the pipeline route kicked off the opposition. When it went national, 10 years ago this summer, with mass arrests outside the White House, pundits scoffed. More than 90 percent of Capitol Hill “insiders” polled by The National Journal said the company would get its permit.

But the more than 1,200 people who were arrested in that protest helped galvanize a nationwide -- even worldwide -- movement that placed President Barack Obama under unrelenting pressure. Within a few months he’d paused the approval process, and in 2015 he killed the pipeline, deciding that it didn’t meet his climate test.

“America’s now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change,” Mr. Obama said. “And frankly, approving this project would have undercut that global leadership. And that’s the biggest risk we face -- not acting.”

And that’s what puts the Biden administration in an impossible place now. Enbridge wants to replace Line 3, which runs from Canada’s tar sands deposits in Alberta across Minnesota to Superior, Wis., with a pipeline that follows a new route and would carry twice as much crude. It would carry almost as much of the same heavy crude oil as planned for the Keystone XL pipeline -- crude that is among the most carbon-heavy petroleum on the planet.

If Keystone failed the climate test, how could Line 3, with an initial capacity of 760,000 barrels a day, possibly pass? It’s as if the oil industry turned in an essay, got a failing grade, ignored every comment and then turned in the same essay again -- except this time it was in ninth grade, not fourth. It’s not like the climate crisis has somehow improved since 2015 -- it’s obviously gotten far worse. At this point, approving Line 3 would be absurd.

The Keystone announcement is no doubt buoying the spirits of the protesters, led by Indigenous campaigners who are currently occupying the headwaters of the Mississippi River where the Line 3 pipeline must go. They’ve pitched tents along a quarter-mile of wooden boardwalk that the pipeline company built to get its drilling rig to the bank of the river, and now there are prayers and ceremonies underway.

The authorities could try to roust them out -- earlier in the week, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter hovered above a group of protesters, throwing up a huge cloud of dust, an action that the federal government says is now under investigation. But it’s not just the climate that’s changed in the last few years; it’s also the political climate. In an era when officials talk constantly about coming to terms with the dark parts of American history, I doubt Mr. Biden actually wants to sic the cops on Native elders as they sit at the headwaters of one of America’s most storied rivers, on land that, as Native leaders are pointing out, by treaty should fall under Native control.

Instead, the administration should pause construction on Line 3 and re-examine the river-crossing permits granted by the Army Corps of Engineers. The Department of Justice should stop trying to uphold the last administration’s decisions, which were made by people who thought climate change was a hoax. And the Biden administration should issue standards to make sure that new fossil fuel infrastructure has to pass a climate test -- a test that takes into account America’s theoretical commitment to the Paris accords.

That pact commits us to trying to hold the planet’s temperature increase to as close to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit as possible. Climate scientists say emissions must fall 45 percent this decade to meet that goal. That’s why the International Energy Agency said last month that new fossil fuel investment must end this year. But the Biden administration also has to take a hard look at any new infrastructure, from liquefied natural gas export terminals on the Oregon coast to gas compressor stations in suburban Boston.

The headwaters of the Mississippi are also, at least for now, the place where Mr. Biden’s climate commitment will be judged. Yes, Republicans will attack him if he blocks the pipeline, and so will some of the unions whose workers are likely to fill many of the 8,600 jobs that Enbridge says would be created over a two-year period. But the polls make clear that the people who elected Mr. Biden expect action on the climate. He can’t go backward; the climate test of 2015 means that Line 3 in 2021 is an anachronism that must be blocked.

What we’ll find out next is whether Keystone lives up to its name -- whether, with its demise, much of the rest of the elaborate architecture of fossil fuel expansion begins to topple. If so, then it will have been a victory not just for a decade but also for the ages.

I'm only quoting the headline relating to the FOX News broadcast. The public has the right to hear that broadcast. The expert on the FOX News Laura Ingraham show was Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi. After Dr. Bhakdi made these statements he was abruptly taken off the air, with Ingraham stating that they would bring Dr. Bhakdi back on the air at a later date. Has that happened? What do you think? All the power structure-controlled corporate media presstitute cowards do exactly as they're told; all should be held legally and morally accountable for their participation in the coverup of countless controller atrocities.

New York Times, July 12, 2021

Heat Wave Spread Fire That ‘Erased’ Canadian Town

By Vjosa Isai

Busloads of residents went to tour the charred town of Lytton, British Columbia, this week and found it almost unrecognizable.

TORONTO — Something strange was happening to the acacia trees in Lytton, British Columbia. The small town in Western Canada had seen three days of extreme heat that each broke national temperature records by June 30, rising to 121 degrees. That morning at the Lytton Chinese History Museum, Lorna Fandrich noticed the green leaves dropping off the trees surrounding the building, she said, apparently unable to tolerate the heat. Hours later, Lytton was on fire. A village of fewer than 300 people, nestled among mountain ranges, and prone to hot summers, the town was consumed by flames that destroyed 90 percent of it, killed two and injured several others, the authorities said.

Investigators are probing whether local rail traffic is responsible for starting the fire, which was exacerbated by the heat, amid temperatures that climate researchers say would virtually not be possible without human-caused global warming. On Friday, when a path was finally cleared of downed power lines, bricks and other debris to make way for five buses taking residents to tour the town, the village was almost unrecognizable, the residents said. Mounds of warped metal and disfigured wood poked out of gutted buildings. Whatever brick walls remained were often scarred by black scorch marks.

Matilda and Peter Brown saw that their house has been destroyed, leaving just the skeleton of a traditional Indigenous hut used to air dry salmon. “That was our home,” Ms. Brown said through tears. “That was our sanctuary. Right now we have no place.”

The extreme heat wave that blasted through much of the Pacific Northwest at the end of June spurred widespread wildfires, a drastic spike in heat-related deaths and environmental devastation that wiped out millions of coastal wildlife.

The massive man-made lake, which straddles the border of Arizona and Nevada, is now only at 39 percent of its full capacity, down from 44 percent in April 2020. That’s equivalent to a 10-foot drop in the water level, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Reclamation. Which means mandatory restrictions on the amount of water surrounding states draw from Lake Mead could be triggered in the next few months. Lake Mead’s dropping water levels will affect Arizona’s water supply as soon as next year. Lake Mead’s recent contractions are concerning because the body supplies water to 25 million people across Arizona, Nevada, California, and Mexico. Built in 1936, the Hoover Dam and the attached reservoir have shaped the geography of the West, making life in Las Vegas and Los Angeles possible. (Vox.com, April 21st)

And we know they're reading scripts because we know whose making the scripts: Raytheon and Lockheed Martin do all the modeling for the National Weather Service and NOAH -- the two agencies that have a federal gag order on them, an illegal federal gag order -- and they pass the script all the way down. That's how meteorologists like our local meteorologist in northern California at ABC Channel Seven can say days in advance that the day will be mostly sunny and on that day there's not a natural cloud in the sky, there's simply the filth being spewed from the climate engineering aircraft that haze out the entire sky. Welcome to geoengineering, welcome to solar radiation management, and all of it is highly toxic. And think about how much nanoparticulate materials of polymers and aluminum it takes to cover the entire horizon, and every bit of it is settling down on all of us. And they are spraying radically off the US west coast, and all that drifts in over us, so even if you can't see the long linear particulate dispersions from the aircraft, it is still occurring, it is still in the air, and you're still breathing it in with every breath you take, and all these particulates are highly inflammatory to our respiratory system, which makes us much more susceptible to any and every form of pathogen. Think about that.

An offshore Ocean Cleanup crew visiting the new device in the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit organization, aims to rid the world's oceans of plastic.

October 25, 2021, Extinction Rebellion:

This morning, 33 activists from Extinction Rebellion NYC and Sunrise NYC were arrested for disrupting rush hour traffic on FDR Drive and West Side Highway. With this action, we demand that President Biden use all the tools at his disposal to ensure the clean electricity provision is included in the Build Back Better Act and we insist that the United States cannot show up empty-handed at the upcoming 26th United Nations climate conference (COP26). This conference is the last best chance for the world to agree on the steps necessary to avoid climate catastrophe.

We vow to cause further disruption until President Biden takes executive action to fulfill his climate pledge to cut U.S. emissions in half by 2030. The coming weeks are critical but continued efforts are only possible with financial support - if you are able, please make a donation to fund upcoming actions.

To the commuters who were inconvenienced by these simultaneous disruptions, we're sorry. We believe civil disruption is necessary to force awareness of the urgent need for climate action by the government. This action follows in the footsteps of many historical social-change movements that used non-violent civil disobedience to instigate large-scale political change.

Today's act of civil disobedience was a collaboration between Extinction Rebellion NYC and Sunrise Movement NYC. We stand in solidarity with all of the young people taking action in cities and towns around the country pressuring President Biden at this crucial moment.

Those at the top of the power structure pyramid are not sane. And psychoanalysis tells us this: their common thread is that they have no comprehension of the consequences of their actions, even to themselves. That's why we're in this position.

So back to the headline we just covered. The possibility of a soon-to-be super-heated cloudless, lifeless ball of rock, that was once a thriving planet, a.k.a. Planet Earth. Climate engineering, more than any other single factor, is decimating the planet's ability to make clouds. It's destroying the ozone layer, and that's killing plankton, which are exposed to the now extreme UV radiation because they have to feed in the upper layers of the water call, because they have to photosynthesize.

In a video posted on social media on Saturday (May 22), Thunberg said the environmental impact of farming as well as disease outbreaks such as COVID-19, which is believed to have originated from animals, would be reduced by changing how food is produced.

"Our relationship with nature is broken. But relationships can change," Thunberg said in a video marking the International Day of Biological Diversity.

A focus on agriculture and linking the climate crisis to health pandemics is a new angle for Thunberg, who has typically focused her ire on policy-makers and carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

"The climate crisis, ecological crisis and health crisis, they are all interlinked," she added.

75% of new diseases come from other animals, and this spill over to humans is caused by farming, Thunberg said, adding that a move to a plant-based diet could save up to 8 billion tonnes of CO2 each year.

So our governments are threatening the arrest of anyone who dares leave their home. How's the pharmaceutical-industrial complex being treated by the power structure? From the UK Independent and other sources, this report from last week: "Coronavirus vaccine: Pfizer given protection from legal action by UK government." Which already includes our own government, as I stated earlier in this broadcast. From that report, "Pfizer's UK boss refuses to explain why they need total legal immunity from any death and injury their product causes." And it's not just Pfizer, it's all of big pharma, and it's not just big pharma, it's anybody that has anything to do with these concoctions. Those who make the injections, those who transport the injections -- nobody is liable for anything in this entire scenario.

Global Research, July 28, 2021

Forced Vaccination and the Road to “Digital Tyranny”:

Agenda ID2020 Revisited

By Peter Koenig

The directors of the world, the Merkels, Macrons and other compromised world leaders, plus their nameless tiny elite-bosses way above them – are calling for tightening the screws again. To use Madame Merkel’s terminology of what she decided to do with the German people a few months ago. She has hardly loosened the screws since.

The populace has had their summer fun. They have enjoyed their Gladiators.

Now reality sets in again. Preparation for the Fourth Wave. New lockdowns.

Imagine we are only in year 2021, There are another almost ten years left in the UN Agenda 2030 to accomplish the nefarious objectives of the Great Reset – if We, the People, don’t stop it.

The tyrants, first in disguise, then in semi-disguise – and now with the Fourth Wave coming, they show their true face – wide open. No scruples. They have been given their quota of vaxxing by the higher masters, and god-forbid, they may not reach their targets.

The Presidents of Tanzania and Burundi, they did not want to jab their people with poisonous mRNA inoculations. They knew about and had natural remedies to heal. While there is no firm evidence, they died mysterious deaths. Just a few months ago. And nobody dares to investigate them.

The President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse (A right wing president who was the object of mass protests), on 7 July 2021, was assassinated in the middle of the night in his bed, by a well-organized group of 28 mercenaries, they say.

He too, said there was no need to jab Haitians. They were free of masks, and they were free to hug and socialize. No social distancing. And Haiti’s “case numbers” and deaths were very low. Proportionately much lower than the artificially blown out of proportion, fear-inducing “cases”, disease and death numbers of the obedient tyrannical West.

Haiti was the only country in the Western Hemisphere which refused to implement the mRNA vaccine.

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Yahoo News, June 25, 2021

Unprecedented heat wave in Pacific Northwest

starts roasting the region

By Andrew Freedman

The most severe heat wave on record in the Pacific Northwest and southwestern Canada kicks into high gear Friday and will intensify throughout the weekend and into next week.

Why it matters: Heat waves like this one are significant public health threats, particularly in areas like the Northwest, where many people lack air conditioning.

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Extreme heat tends to be the biggest weather-related killer each year in the U.S., outranking even tornadoes and hurricanes.

Numerous daily, monthly and all-time high temperature records will be shattered.

More than 13 million residents from Northern California through much of Oregon and Washington, and eastward to Idaho are under excessive heat warnings.

The big picture: Extreme heat events are directly tied to human-caused global warming, with studies showing that severe heat events are now on average about 3°F to 5°F hotter than they would be without emissions of greenhouse gases from fossil fuel burning, deforestation and other activities.

Some recent studies have shown that certain extreme heat events could not have occurred without the added boost from human-caused warming.

What they're saying: NWS forecasters in Seattle said Friday they “have never seen Pacific Northwest data like this.”

The National Weather Service, which is typically cautious in its word choices with the public, is not holding back in its messaging this time around.

The agency's forecast office in Portland, for example, issued a forecast discussion Friday morning stating, "...UNPRECEDENTED HEAT WAVE EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND INTO NEXT WEEK..."

Agency social media accounts have also been relaying hot weather safety tips and directing people to cooling shelters.

Driving the news: A highly unusual weather pattern is setting up over the Pacific Northwest, with a record-strong high-pressure area aloft — known as a "heat dome" — settling over the region and intensifying through Monday. Such a heat dome, if it reaches the strength that computer models are projecting, would yield temperature departures from average of between 25 and 45°F across multiple states and British Columbia.

Weather balloons launched from NWS offices in the Northwest Friday found the freezing level at or above 18,000 feet in some areas, prompting concerns about meltwater runoff from unusually warm weather affecting mountain snow fields and glaciers.

This heat, combined with a worsening drought, will raise the risk of wildfires across multiple Western states.

It will also cause power demand to spike.

By the numbers: Virtually all of Oregon and Washington, plus portions of California, Idaho and Montana, are under excessive heat watches and warnings. This is the case even in downtown Portland and Seattle.

Portland, Oregon, is forecast to reach low triple-digits on Saturday through at least Monday. The city is likely to break its June heat record, its record for most 100-degree days in June, and surpass its all-time high of 107°F, perhaps by a few degrees.

In Seattle, where the average high temperature this time of year is in the low-to-mid 70s, the National Weather Service (NWS) predicts a high of 102°F on Sunday, which would break the record for the city's hottest temperature during the month of June.

Seattle's all-time high temperature record is 103°F, and the city has only seen three 100-degree days in its history.

Medford, Oregon and Spokane, Washington, are also predicted to shatter their all-time high temperature record by a few degrees.

The heat will be most intense in inland areas of Washington and Oregon. There, temperatures are forecast to soar to between 100°F and 115°F on Saturday through Tuesday, and remain extremely hot through much of next week.

Nearly every location along the I-5 corridor from Northern California to Washington is likely to set a monthly or even an all-time high temperature record during this event.

Canada will also see extreme heat, and it's possible the country's all-time high temperature record of 113°F (45°C) will be equaled or eclipsed.

How it works: One of the reasons why the Pacific Northwest will get so hot is that the core of the heat dome will be parked to the north-northeast of the region for several days.

Due to the clockwise flow of air around the high, this will produce surges of air moving from high-to-lower elevation areas in Idaho, Washington and Oregon.

When air sinks, such as when it moves out of mountainous regions and into valleys, it compresses, increasing temperatures and getting drier in the process

Another headline: "Covid-19: Four Pfizer vaccine volunteers develop Bell's Palsy." For those who don't know what that is, it's a form of facial paralysis.

New York Times, August 13, 2021

What Does It Mean for a Whole Nation to Become Uninhabitable?

By Devi Lockwood

Excerpt: Geir Wing Gabrielsen, a senior research scientist in environmental pollutants at the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromso, has been researching Arctic animals for nearly four decades. In recent years, his focus has turned to plastic pollution, which, in Arctic waters, has become a symptom of how the warming climate is altering ocean currents and affecting Arctic animals.

In 1987, he started investigating the diet of the fulmar, a bird that can live for more than 40 years in the wild. Of the 40 birds he sliced open, four had plastic in their stomach. When he repeated the study in 2013, 35 did; some had more than 200 pieces of plastic in their stomachs, preventing the uptake of nutrients. In Europe, fulmars have been found on the beaches, starved to death because of the overload of plastic in their stomachs.

Part of the reason there’s so much plastic in the Arctic is that ocean currents are changing because of the warming effect caused by the increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This, in turn, pushes more plastic contamination and pollutants into the Arctic from points south.

Plastic is now found not only in Arctic surface waters but also on the ocean floor and in sea ice. Dr. Gabrielsen has witnessed other changes in the ecosystem. Fjords that used to be dominated by polar species now have Atlantic species. Species that used to be farther south, like capelin, herring, mackerel and Atlantic cod, are more prominent than polar cod.

When the Atlantic system drifts northward, pollution also enters the food chain. Fish eat the plankton, the seal eats the fish, the polar bear eats the seal and the toxicity accumulates in the body of the apex predator.

Another headline, from Reuters and other sources, from last week: "UK issues anaphylaxis warning on Pfizer vaccine after adverse reactions." So in that report "Pfizer has said people with a history of severe adverse allergic reactions to vaccines or the candidate’s ingredients were excluded from their late stage trials." In other words, they had no idea what this would cause because they didn't do any testing for it whatsoever, and this is the case across the board in so many arenas where vaccines are concerned. No legitimate safety testing. The public has long since been guinea pigs for this area of so-called medical science.

One year before 9/11, this group, these insiders of the military-industrial complex, stating exactly what they needed, a "new Pearl Harbor," and one year later, they got it. Anyone who thinks that 9/11 was carried out by a very debilitated diabetic in some cave in Afghanistan, is living in a delusional world. Anyone who thinks that a group of Saudi nationals that couldn't fly a Cessna after a night of night-clubbing and partying, could take to the air and take over jumbo jets and outwit the entire US military, without this being an inside job, is not grounded in reality. 9/11 was absolutely an inside job. From the original Pearl Harbor event, to the new Pearl Harbor event of 9/11, to the current CV-19 scenario, we are swimming in a rapidly rising sea of lies.

Here's another headline from last week: "The FDA announced on Tuesday that two trial participants have died after their coronavirus vaccine," according to Reuters. More from that report: "The FDA also announced that there is currently no research to guarantee the vaccine's safety for immune-compromised groups, pregnant women, and children."

The CV-19 gain-of-function characteristic that allowed it to jump to humans was engineered. A peer-reviewed study from 2019 proves this. Labs in the US and China participated. Dr. Anthony Fauci from the National Institute of Health funded millions into this research. A total of $7.4 million was from the National Institute of Health. And how many self-proclaimed patriotic Americans won't even summon the courage to investigate this fact? This should be the frontline dialogue in this entire scenario.

Speaking of which, this report was issued from Scientific American last week: "Newly identified jet stream pattern could imperil global food supplies." Could, may, might? No could, may, might. Is and already has and will continue to, at an ever accelerating pace. This Scientific American article stated, "A new study finds a twenty-fold -- that's 20 times, or 2000 percent -- increase in the risk of simultaneous heat waves in the major crop-producing regions when the pattern is in place." What pattern? The pattern the climate engineers put in place. Global climate engineering operations are the crown jewel weapon of total control for the military-industrial complex. The weapon by which they can decimate and debilitate populations without those populations even knowing that they are under siege.

New York Times, August 27, 2021

40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast.

By Abrahm Lustgarten

Excerpt: On a 110-degree day several years ago, surrounded by piles of sand and rock in the desert outside of Las Vegas, I stepped into a yellow cage large enough to fit three standing adults, and was lowered 600 feet through a black hole into the ground. There, at the bottom, amid pooling water and dripping rock, was an enormous machine driving a cone-shaped drill bit into the earth. The machine was carving a cavernous, three-mile tunnel beneath the bottom of the nation’s largest fresh water reservoir, Lake Mead.

Lake Mead, a reservoir formed by the construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s, is one of the most important pieces of infrastructure on the Colorado River, supplying fresh water to Nevada, California, Arizona and Mexico. The reservoir hasn’t been full since 1983. In 2000, it began a steady decline caused by epochal drought. On my visit in 2015, the lake was just about 40 percent full. A chalky ring on the surrounding cliffs marked where the waterline once reached, like the residue on an empty bathtub. The tunnel far below represented Nevada’s latest salvo in a simmering water war: the construction of a $1.4 billion drainage hole to ensure that if the lake ever ran dry, Las Vegas could get the very last drop.

For years, experts in the American West have predicted that, unless the steady overuse of water was brought under control, the Colorado River would no longer be able to support all of the 40 million people who depend on it. Over the past two decades, Western states took incremental steps to save water, signed agreements to share what was left, and then, like Las Vegas, did what they could to protect themselves. But they believed the tipping point was still a long way off.

Like the record-breaking heat waves and the ceaseless mega-fires, the decline of the Colorado River has been faster than expected. This year, even though rainfall and snowpack high up in the Rocky Mountains were at near-normal levels, the parched soils and plants stricken by intense heat absorbed much of the water, and inflows to Lake Powell were around one-fourth of their usual amount. The Colorado’s flow has already declined by nearly 20 percent, on average, from its flow throughout the 1900s, and if the current rate of warming continues, the loss could well be 50 percent by the end of this century.

Earlier this month, federal officials declared an emergency water shortage on the Colorado River for the first time. The shortage declaration forces reductions in water deliveries to specific states, beginning with the abrupt cutoff of nearly one-fifth of Arizona’s supply from the river, and modest cuts for Nevada and Mexico, with more negotiations and cuts to follow. But it also sounded an alarm: one of the country’s most important sources of fresh water is in peril, another victim of the accelerating climate crisis.

Americans are about to face all sorts of difficult choices about how and where to live as the climate continues to heat up. States will be forced to choose which coastlines to abandon as sea levels rise, which wildfire-prone suburbs to retreat from, and which small towns cannot afford new infrastructure to protect against floods or heat. What to do in the parts of the country that are losing their essential supply of water may turn out to be the first among those choices.

About the world, more headlines: Australia's weird weather baffling scientists. This is from last week. It's baffling scientists because they refuse to acknowledge the "climate engineering elephant in the equation." And there's this new headline, from Accuweather.com: "Early signs point to potential blockbuster northeast snow-storm." This is exactly the scenario I just described. This is what is scheduled. They're not predicting it, this is what is scheduled. From this report: "Accuweather meteorologists are alerting snow lovers and those hoping for a white Christmas about the potential for a possible snow storm in the Northeast in the middle of December." This is the scheduled weather. This is the sensationalized headlines, and all the cowards in all these agencies that claim to be experts, meteorologists -- they're all reading scripts.

What exactly did PNAC state on the record? In September 2000, one year before the events of 9/11, in section five of "Rebuilding America's Defenses," entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force," is includes this sentence: "Further, the process of transformation," i.e. the militarization and pursuit of resources in the Middle East, "even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor."

In response to this, Governor Newsom later stated that he would be "withholding federal and state funding from counties who did not enforce the orders." Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco called out Newsom's "dictatorial attitude toward California residents, while Newsom himself is dining in luxury, traveling, keeping his business open and sending his kids to in-person private schools." And to all of this, Sheriff Chad Bianco called it, rightfully so, extremely hypocritical. Sheriff went on to say that, "Ironically, it wasn't that long ago our same Governor, Mr. Newsom, loudly and publicly argued how long it was for the President of the United States to withhold federal funding from state not complying with federal laws."

Consider this recent quote from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: "These government agencies are orchestrating obedience. This is not the product of democracy, it is the product of a pharmaceutical-driven, bio-security agenda that will enslave the entire human race and plunge us into dystopian nightmare. Where the apocalyptic forces of ignorance and greed will be running our lives and ruining our children, and destroying all the dreams and dignity that we hope to give our children."

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Smithsonian, August 5, 2021

Permafrost Thaw in Siberia Creates a Ticking

‘Methane Bomb’ of Greenhouse Gases, Scientists Warn

By David Kindy

In recent years, climate scientists have warned thawing permafrost in Siberia may be a “methane time bomb” detonating slowly. Now, a peer-reviewed study using satellite imagery and a review by an international organization are warning that warming temperatures in the far northern reaches of Russia are releasing massive measures of methane—a potent greenhouse gas with considerably more warming power than carbon dioxide.

“It’s not good news if it’s right,” Robert Max Holmes, a senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, who was not involved in either report, tells Steve Mufson of the Washington Post. “Nobody wants to see more potentially nasty feedbacks and this is potentially one.”

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, the study of satellite photos of a previously unexplored site in Siberia detected large amounts of methane being released from exposed limestone. A heat wave in 2020 was responsible for the emissions along two large strips of rock formations in the Yenisey-Khatanga Basin, located several hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle.

Lead author Nikolaus Froitzheim, a geoscientist at the University of Bonn in Germany, is concerned about his study’s findings. Interpreting this data correctly “may make the difference between catastrophe and apocalypse” as the climate crisis worsens, he tells Tara Yarlagadda of Inverse.

In 2020, temperatures in the basin rose nearly 11 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, causing the limestone to release ancient methane deposits that had been trapped inside. The data caught Fritzheim and other researchers by surprise, who anticipated finding gas in other locations.

“We would have expected elevated methane in areas with wetlands,” he tells the Washington Post. “But these were not over wetlands but on limestone outcrops. There is very little soil in these. It was really a surprising signal from hard rock, not wetlands.”

Another report echoes these anxieties. Published by the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG), it calls for a “global state of emergency” as temperatures continue to climb in Siberia and other Arctic regions. Permafrost covers 65 percent of Russian lands, but it’s melting fast.

“Scientists have been shocked that the warm weather conducive to permafrost thawing is occurring roughly 70 years ahead of model projections,” the CCAG warning states. It also points out that the Arctic could lose 89 percent of its permafrost by 2100, the Moscow Times reports.

The CCAG report cautions that warming temperatures could be pushing the Arctic toward an “irreversible” tipping point, causing the release of methane and other gases, as well as crumbling infrastructure in Siberia, including dams and a nuclear power plant.

“The story is simple,” the report concludes. “Climate change is happening faster than anticipated. One consequence -- the loss of ice in the polar regions -- is also a driver for more rapid global heating and disastrously rapid global sea level rise.”

From Business Insider.com: Deborah Birx states, "The winter Covid-19 surge will be the worst event in US history." How do they always know? Birx, Fauci, they know what is coming. It's scheduled. I challenge anybody.

Science Alert, April 16, 2021

Microplastics Are Now Spiraling Around The Globe in The Air We Breathe

By David Nield

Our plastic pollution problem has become so bad that microplastics are now embedded in the regular cycles of the atmosphere, circulating around the planet like oxygen or water, according to a new study. Plastic particles sent up into the air from ocean spray and road surfaces travel across continents and reaching the most remote spots on Earth, according to a mix of sampling and modeling done by researchers. Much of this plastic appears to have been circulating through our ecosystems for a long time – highlighting just how much of a massive clean up operation we've got on our hands if we're to reverse the plastic tide.

"We found a lot of legacy plastic pollution everywhere we looked," says geological scientist Janice Brahney from Utah State University. "It travels in the atmosphere and it deposits all over the world."

"This plastic is not new from this year. It's from what we've already dumped into the environment over several decades." Between December 2017 and January 2019, researchers collected 313 samples of airborne microplastics from 11 different sites across the western US. They found that 84 percent of the plastic particles came from road dust, 11 percent originated from sea spray, 5 percent came from agricultural soil, and 0.4 percent was put down to population sources. In other words, this is mainly plastic that has been ground down on roads or whipped up from garbage patches in the ocean. Microplastic pollution isn't just concentrated around urban areas – it's getting everywhere, carried on the wind.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 12, 2021

Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts

Nature is under siege. In the last 10,000 y the human population has grown from 1 million to 7.8 billion. Much of Earth’s arable lands are already in agriculture (1), millions of acres of tropical forest are cleared each year (2, 3), atmospheric CO2 levels are at their highest concentrations in more than 3 million y (4), and climates are erratically and steadily changing from pole to pole, triggering unprecedented droughts, fires, and floods across continents. Indeed, most biologists agree that the world has entered its sixth mass extinction event, the first since the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million y ago, when more than 80% of all species, including the nonavian dinosaurs, perished.

Ongoing losses have been clearly demonstrated for better-studied groups of organisms. Terrestrial vertebrate population sizes and ranges have contracted by one-third, and many mammals have experienced range declines of at least 80% over the last century (5). A 2019 assessment suggests that half of all amphibians are imperiled (2.5% of which have recently gone extinct) (6). Bird numbers across North America have fallen by 2.9 billion since 1970 (7). Prospects for the world’s coral reefs, beyond the middle of this century, could scarcely be more dire (8). A 2020 United Nations report estimated that more than a million species are in danger of extinction over the next few decades (9), but also see the more bridled assessments in refs. 10 and 11.

Although a flurry of reports has drawn attention to declines in insect abundance, biomass, species richness, and range sizes (e.g., refs. 12⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓–18; for reviews see refs. 19 and 20), whether the rates of declines for insects are on par with or exceed those for other groups remains unknown. There are still too little data to know how the steep insect declines reported for western Europe and California’s Central Valley—areas of high human density and activity—compare to population trends in sparsely populated regions and wildlands. Long-term species-level demographic data are meager from the tropics, where considerably more than half of the world’s insect species occur (21, 22). To consider the state of knowledge about the global status of insects, the Entomological Society of America hosted a symposium at their Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, in November 2019. The Society was motivated to do so by the many inquiries about the validity of claims of rapid insect decline that had been received in the months preceding the annual meeting and by the many discussions taking place among members. The entomological community was in need of a thorough review and the annual meeting provided a timely opportunity for sharing information.

The goal of the symposium was to assemble world experts on insect biodiversity and conservation and ask them to report on the state of knowledge of insect population trends. Speakers were asked to identify major data gaps, call attention to limitations of existing data, and evaluate principal stressors underlying declines, with one goal being to catalyze activities aimed at mitigating well-substantiated declines. All 11 talks were recorded and are available on the Entomological Society of America’s website, www.entsoc.org/insect-decline-anthropocene.

Although conservation efforts have historically focused attention on protecting rare, charismatic, and endangered species, the “insect apocalypse” presents a different challenge. In addition to the loss of rare taxa, many reports mention sweeping declines of formerly abundant insects [e.g., Warren et al. (29)], raising concerns about ecosystem function.

Insects comprise much of the animal biomass linking primary producers and consumers, as well as higher-level consumers in freshwater and terrestrial food webs. Situated at the nexus of many trophic links, many numerically abundant insects provide ecosystem services upon which humans depend: the pollination of fruits, vegetables, and nuts; the biological control of weeds, agricultural pests, disease vectors, and other organisms that compete with humans or threaten their quality of life; and the macrodecomposition of leaves and wood and removal of dung and carrion, which contribute to nutrient cycling, soil formation, and water purification. Clearly, severe insect declines can potentially have global ecological and economic consequences.

Science Alert, April 16, 2021

Microplastics Are Now Spiraling Around The Globe in The Air We Breathe

By David Nield

Our plastic pollution problem has become so bad that microplastics are now embedded in the regular cycles of the atmosphere, circulating around the planet like oxygen or water, according to a new study. Plastic particles sent up into the air from ocean spray and road surfaces travel across continents and reaching the most remote spots on Earth, according to a mix of sampling and modeling done by researchers. Much of this plastic appears to have been circulating through our ecosystems for a long time – highlighting just how much of a massive clean up operation we've got on our hands if we're to reverse the plastic tide.

"We found a lot of legacy plastic pollution everywhere we looked," says geological scientist Janice Brahney from Utah State University. "It travels in the atmosphere and it deposits all over the world."

"This plastic is not new from this year. It's from what we've already dumped into the environment over several decades." Between December 2017 and January 2019, researchers collected 313 samples of airborne microplastics from 11 different sites across the western US. They found that 84 percent of the plastic particles came from road dust, 11 percent originated from sea spray, 5 percent came from agricultural soil, and 0.4 percent was put down to population sources. In other words, this is mainly plastic that has been ground down on roads or whipped up from garbage patches in the ocean. Microplastic pollution isn't just concentrated around urban areas – it's getting everywhere, carried on the wind.

You have Anthony Fauci on film on the record in 2017 in front of a podium stating "there will be a surprise pandemic during this presidency." He knew. We are now constantly being told that any and all of the "warp-speed" concoctions are suddenly and miraculously 95% effective. Should we ask this question? 95% effective for what? Effective in whose opinion? Toward what end?

Remember what Fauci and others stated earlier in the year, that the vaccines would only be partially effective. They stated that in come cases 50% effective, and now suddenly, they're 95% effective, with no problems at all, even though we should have problems cropping up every day? With trials shut down, now with vaccine recipients being sick or dying? Is that big Pharma's idea of "safe and effective?"

Natural World News, August 3, 2021

Plumes of Smoke From Siberian Wildfires

Has Reached North Pole, Prompting Concerns

By Precious Smith

It is well-known that Siberia is a cold place. But it's been very hot since May due to wildfires. Those wildfires are so serious that they've sent smoke moving to the North Pole, and it is expected that the plume will eventually reach Canada this week. The plumes of smoke emanating from wildfires will also find their way to northern Canada, showing everywhere is unsafe from the climate emergency.

These 2021 wildfires are already exceeding the 2020 record-setting season speaking of the carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere. Emissions from the wildfires are twice the 2003 to 2020 average, and the fires are still getting to many places and it has increased to the extent that it can't be controlled in an area referred to as the Sakha Republic.

The European Union's Earth Observation Program, Copernicus, predicted that plume was expected to get to the North Pole on Monday, journeying over 3,219 kilometers (2,000 miles) to reach there. NASA's Satellite images verified that forecast, with thick smoke swirling in the middle of the clouds over the top of the world. This notes the first time plumes from Siberian wildfires will have ever gotten to the area. Later this week, it is anticipated that smoke from the Siberian fires will move even further away, getting to northern Canada, it will cloud skies in this region and pollute the air. Portions of Canada are already witnessing the effect because of wildfires blazing across the country from British Columbia to Ontario.

Plumes are a concern for so many reasons. In residential regions of the Arctic, especially those near the wildfires themselves, are causing horrible air quality problems. Any soot that drops out of the plume into the sea and land ice could possibly increase melting in an area already under siege from heat. That's due to the fact that dark soot can make it absorb more heat than less thick snow and ice. Those impacts can be highly destructive for Indigenous communities relying on sea ice to hunt and travel.

These fires are an indication of the climate crisis. Officials have revealed the region on fire in the Sakha Republic is dealing with some of its driest conditions in 150 years, changing forests into a tinderbox. A study published after 2020 record fires reveals the intense heat that assisted in driving them was made 600 times more possible by the climate crisis. Researchers haven't carried out an analysis on the specific role of fossil-fueled planetary warming in this 2021 season, but it's very safe to conclude that when there's an ongoing heat wave, climate change is playing a role. In a dark twist, these fires are worsening the crisis.

Now, a wave of CV-19 vaccinations are suddenly flooding from every single player in the big pharma-industrial complex. And we're suddenly being told they are all great, all effective, all safe. Reach into the bag and take your pick. Which jab do you want? Oh and by the way, every single big pharma company involved has been given total blanket legal immunity for any and all death and injury their "warp speed" concoctions cause. Question: how many people are so exhausted, so confused, and so scared that they're now on auto-pilot, now just sub-consciously accepting the constant stream of disinformation being pumped out by the power structure-controlled weapon of mass distraction, the corporate media?

Hundreds Blockade Line 3 Pumping Station

in Mass Direction Action to #Stopline3

June 7, 2021

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Associated Press, June 10, 2021

Police Say Nearly 250 Arrested In Minnesota Pipeline Protest

Nearly 250 people were arrested when protesters attempting to stop the final leg of the reconstruction of an oil pipeline across northwestern Minnesota took over a pump station, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

Hubbard County Sheriff Cory Aukes said that 43 workers at the Enbridge Energy Line 3 pump station were trapped inside the site for some time Monday morning when demonstrators locked them in behind the front gate. Protesters also put up barricades and dug trenches across roads, “presumably in preparation" for a standoff with law enforcement, Aukes said.

Science Alert, April 16, 2021

Microplastics Are Now Spiraling Around The Globe in The Air We Breathe

By David Nield

Excerpt: Our plastic pollution problem has become so bad that microplastics are now embedded in the regular cycles of the atmosphere, circulating around the planet like oxygen or water, according to a new study. Plastic particles sent up into the air from ocean spray and road surfaces travel across continents and reaching the most remote spots on Earth, according to a mix of sampling and modeling done by researchers. Much of this plastic appears to have been circulating through our ecosystems for a long time – highlighting just how much of a massive clean up operation we've got on our hands if we're to reverse the plastic tide.

"We found a lot of legacy plastic pollution everywhere we looked," says geological scientist Janice Brahney from Utah State University. "It travels in the atmosphere and it deposits all over the world."

"This plastic is not new from this year. It's from what we've already dumped into the environment over several decades." Between December 2017 and January 2019, researchers collected 313 samples of airborne microplastics from 11 different sites across the western US. They found that 84 percent of the plastic particles came from road dust, 11 percent originated from sea spray, 5 percent came from agricultural soil, and 0.4 percent was put down to population sources. In other words, this is mainly plastic that has been ground down on roads or whipped up from garbage patches in the ocean. Microplastic pollution isn't just concentrated around urban areas – it's getting everywhere, carried on the wind.

In last week's global alert broadcast (December 5th) I played an audio recording from FOX News Laura Ingraham that was very damning to the official CV-19 narrative. It seemed that the FOX directors were not ready for the "truth bomb" that was dropped by an honest and highly credentialed medical doctor who had courage and integrity. Unfortunately, Geoengineering Watch had to cut this recording out of our Youtube post, to avoid any potential repercussions from Youtube. But here's the headline from the FOX News broadcast in question: "Renowned Scientist Tells Laura Ingraham the Covid-19 vaccine is downright dangerous," and will send you "to your doom."

In our now Orwellian world the "conspiracy theory" term is used in every scenario in which the truth disputes the official narrative. And that term, "conspiracy theory," is the programmed response that is most often parroted by the most fearful and factless among us.

The tendency of clouds to dissipate with high levels of CO2 indicates solar geoengineering is not a fail-safe option to cool the planet. It might work to buy some additional time, but after a certain point the climate could rapidly warm once the clouds are gone. The model climate rapidly and dramatically then warms." Guess what? We're there! The climate engineering card was played seventy years ago, and it has done nothing but drive more nails into our collective coffin. It has de-railed Earth's life-support systems. It has decimated the ozone layer, without which we all die.

I want to stop for a moment an element called the "prion." Question: could vaccines and prions be connected? How many know what a prion is? The following is a definition of a prion (www.medicinenet.com): "Prion, a small proteinaceous infectious, disease-causing agent that is believed to be the smallest infectious particle of all. A prion is neither bacterial, nor fungal, nor viral, and contains no genetic material." The bottom line with prions is this: they are ticking time bombs, that can lay latent for extended periods of time before they are triggered, and then begin to wreak havoc in a live form. Mad Cow Disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in humans are but two examples. How many power-structure funded labs have long since been conducting research on experiments with prions? Again, "the smallest infectious particle of all." What are the ramifications? I'll leave that up to the listener to decide, because for me to do otherwise is to invite total censorship of this entire broadcast.