Throughout 2023, one topic I have kept returning to is the use of environmental rules to undermine the nation’s meat and dairy industries in the name of climate change.
I recently noted that the Environmental Protection Agency was poised to foist methane regulations on this country.
While theoretically targeting the petroleum industry, those rules could be used to control cattle ranches and dairy farms, given that these are also important sources of methane generation. [emphasis, links added]
However, an increasingly skeptical public is challenging these assertions, as the predictions of fossil-fuel-caused climate apocalypse haven’t come true.
Now it appears eco-activists and their media minions are looking for a new manufactured crisis to use as an excuse to mandate societal-level controls on important matters like diet.
Watch for 2024 to be the Year of Water Crisis.
As we head into the New Year, The New York Times has decided to push a story about a “groundwater crisis” created by the American love of poultry and dairy products.
America’s striking dietary shift in recent decades, toward far more chicken and cheese, has not only contributed to concerns about American health but has taken a major, undocumented toll on underground water supplies.
The effects are being felt in key agricultural regions nationwide as farmers have drained groundwater to grow animal feed.
In Arkansas for example, where cotton was once king, the land is now ruled by fields of soybeans to feed the chickens, a billion or so of them, that have come to dominate the region’s economy. And Idaho, long famous for potatoes, is now America’s largest producer of alfalfa to feed the cows that supply the state’s huge cheese factories.
Today alfalfa, a particularly water-intensive crop used largely for animal feed, covers 6 million acres of irrigated land, much of it in the driest parts of the American West.
These transformations are tied to the changing American diet.
This is a subject that will likely require even more attention in 2024. In early 2023, the World Economic Forum decided that the world wasn’t panicked enough about COVID-19 or carbon dioxide but began turning its attention to a “water crisis.”
Today, the planet is facing an unprecedented water crisis, with global freshwater demand predicted to exceed supply by 40 percent by 2030, President of the 77th United Nations General Assembly Csaba Kőrösi said at a press conference on the upcoming UN Water Conference, as Down to Earth reported.
“The scientific evidence is that we have a water crisis. We are misusing water, polluting water, and changing the whole global hydrological cycle, through what we are doing to the climate. It’s a triple crisis,” Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Johan Rockstrom, who is co-chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW), told The Guardian.
Based on “experts” that pushed approved Science™ narratives earlier this year, a panel at one of the WEF elite conferences focused on initiating an official “water crisis” response.
Professor Mariana Mazzucato (Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose) launched a lecture on water being a “common good” and how there needs to be a correction for something the “private sector’s not doing”…such as taking care of water resources due to “climate crisis” threat.
She stresses “objectives,” especially during “urgent periods” (e.g., like a pandemic). Then she plows into turning water into an “urgent” and an “intersectoral” problem.
To help understand this mindset, it is helpful to know that Mazzucato believes the state is the “driver of innovation.”
Capitalism as we know it isn’t really working, according to economist and author Mariana Mazzucato. Take the current concrete crisis across UK schools. For Mazzucato, that’s a case of too little being spent on the school buildings themselves.
But there’s another problem: lax regulation. If we continue to weaken the rules in the name of a stronger economy, she says, we risk tragedy.
“You need to invest. You also need to regulate,” Mazzucato warns. “You can’t just say build more houses if then those houses are with really bad cladding.”
Top photo shows a highly inefficient Calif. aqueduct.
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We are weather-takers, not weather-makers. Pretending that policy-makers are life-savers is ludicrous.
Interesting because the German narrative has also introduced this fake science of groundwater weather driven variability as a threat caused by climate change, asserting things are happening that aren’t, etc. Worth a look. It seems the robotic voice of climate religion and its narrative are closely controlled by elite dogma in claim, question and answer, as anyone who has debated their dogma and pseudo science with real science and facts they can’t answer will know. See just how tailored this common narrative has been to fit it to most Western developed countries’ climates as if it is some global problem. When it clearly is not. But only on the facts….
BEGINS:
How the climatoids spent the summer lecturing us on the permanent drought that climate change has brought to Central Europe, and how they have earned nothing but rain for their hubris
June headlines: “Germany is facing permanent drought.” August headlines after a rainy summer: “Rain is no help against drought.” December headlines after still more rain: “There is no more drought.”
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26 Dec 2023
In the past year, Germans have had to read a great deal about how carbon dioxide-induced drought is on the verge of changing life forever in the Federal Republic.
On 6 June 2023, for example, state media broadcaster ZDF ran a piece on “How Germany is losing its groundwater”:
Drought, forest fires, dry soil – for those of us in Central Europe, this was unheard of for a long time. How can we get by with the challenges of climate change in the future?
Two days later, on 8 June 2023, state media broadcaster NDR ran another piece in this genre, under the headline “Drought: The lack of rain has these consequences for wildlife”:
Dry fields, soil and meadows – not good news for farmers, and not for animals either. Spring is out of balance, explains Thomas Behrends, nature conservation officer at NABU Schleswig-Holstein. It was still very cold at night for a long time and the insect world has not yet been able to fully develop. Birds feed themselves and especially their young with insects and worms. When the ground becomes drier, these retreat into deeper layers of soil and no longer serve as food for the birds.
On 12 June 2023, Tagesspiegel asked “Is the next summer drought looming?”
After a wet spring, things looked good for the soil in Germany. But since May, there has been no rain, especially in the northeast. Researchers suspect a connection with climate change.
June remained relatively dry, but in July it started to rain, a phenomenon to which our highly observant and conscientious journalists remained initially oblivious, even though it was happening directly outside their windows. Thus the drought drumbeat continued, and regional news service hessenschau could still write on 13 July 2023 about “How Hessen is preparing for even more heat and drought”:
Water shortages, uncertain harvests – and extreme heat stress in some cities: The effects of climate change are causing people problems and forcing politicians to take action.
On the same day, NDR (state media) reported that “Drought is hitting northern Germany particularly hard.”
Heavy rainfall and heatwaves – most districts and cities in northern Germany fear an increase in these two weather events. This is the result of joint research by NDR, BR, WDR and CORRECTIV, in which all 400 districts and independent cities in Germany were asked what consequences of climate change they fear for their region and how they are preparing for them.
The extremely inconvenient rain continued through August, and slowly these paint-by-numbers articles after the manner of “X bad thing, Y bad thing, Z bad thing – why these bad things are bad” began, well, to dry up. What was worse, obnoxious internet people began to ask whether we were really in any kind of drought at all. They noted that the statistics compiled by the German Weather Service showed nothing but an increase in annual precipitation since the start of record-keeping in 1881:
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Not to worry! The fact-checkers soon arrived to save the establishment drought mythology with some very curious arguments. Foremost among them was a counterintuitive piece by the Deutsche Presse-Agentur which literally explained “Why the ground is getting drier despite more rain.” It appeared in major outlets like Tagesspiegel and Welt to refute those “opponents of climate protection” who had begun deriving awkward conclusions from publicly available data. The problem, our deboonkers explained, is not with total precipitation, but rather with a trend of decreasing summer precipitation specifically. This is bad because plants do a lot of their growing in summer, and summers have gotten about 5% drier. Of course plants also do a lot of their growing in spring, and springs have gotten even wetter …
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“Precipitation anomaly” for spring in Germany since 1881. The dotted line marks the linear trend, showing that spring precipitation has increased an average of 12.4mm since the late 19th century, while summer precipitation has decreased 10mm over the same time period.
… but they let this fact pass in silence. Even if more rain is falling, that’s no good, because it’s getting warmer, and warmer equals drier:
Additionally, the amount of precipitation alone does not indicate soil moisture or drought, says [German Weather Service meteorologist Andreas] Brömser. He cites the rise in average temperatures since 1881 as one reason for this: “The higher the temperatures, the more the rain quickly evaporates.” The increase of 1.7 degrees Celsius recorded in Germany means around 12% more evaporation.
This is an odd argument. Evaporation does not cause moisture to disappear, because evaporated water soon returns to earth in the form of rain and snow. To the extent Germany has gotten slightly warmer, the wet periods have simply moved around, while total precipitation has increased because warm air carries more moisture.
As you read further into the deboonking, you begin to realise that its authors are all too aware of this. Between the lines, they admit that the meagre groundwater bemoaned by climate hysterics is not a consequence of the slightly drier summers in general, but rather of the anomalous drought that struck Central Europe in 2018 and 2019 specifically. Deep in their article, they even reluctantly print Brömser’s warning that “we … need to be cautious when making statements about whether this is a long-term trend or a fluctuation over a few years.”
As I type this, the rain only continues. The Elbe outside my apartment has swollen to about twice its usual size …
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… and the press have begun to sing a wholly different tune, in much shorter articles squeezed onto their back pages. “After several dry years, the soil and groundwater levels in Germany have recovered,” whispers Deutschlandfunk, in a few awkward paragraphs recycled from our erstwhile drought explainers at the Deutsche Presse-Agentur:
As far as groundwater levels, 2023 was a good year for Germany, said Andreas Marx, Head of the Drought Monitor at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, to the German Press Agency. The soil is currently soaked to a depth of 60 centimetres. In Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, the soils are even as wet at a depth of up to two metres as statistically only every ten years. In many regions of eastern Germany, however, the levels have not yet returned to normal.
You can always find some variable to fit a preconceived narrative; whether it is summer precipitation, or groundwater in specific regions, something will always be below average somewhere.
Die Zeit, meanwhile, reluctantly admit that “Groundwater levels are slowly recovering after years of drought”:
It has been exceptionally dry in Germany since 2018, but groundwater levels in Germany have recovered this year. According to Andreas Marx, Head of the Drought Monitor at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, it was a good year for groundwater. Thanks to all the rain, 2023 was not a year of pronounced drought.
“Not a year of pronounced drought” is a very strange way to describe a year of above-average precipitation.
What will happen after our good journalists return from their Christmas holidays is all too predictable. We will get new deboonkings from the climate understanders to explain that there is a difference between climate and weather, that climate is about long-term trends and that fluctuations in weather do not refute climate change. They will write these pieces even though they themselves use every last remotely plausible weather event to argue for the immediacy and urgency of global warming.
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Climate extremists and especially their media stooges always impose the climate crisis narrative on naturally occurring cycles. I lived in California from 1958 to 1985. The state has naturally occurring dry and wet cycles. I remember one seven year period of drought. It was said it would take years to recover. This was followed by one wet year that filled all of the reservoirs. Just as in Germany, the dry years were attributed to climate change by the media propagandists.
The New York Slimes spreads Lies in its Daily Rag even while stuffing their fat bloated faces full these ignorant Flatlander reporters wouldn’t last long outside the NYC Penthouse