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Cool - adjective

  1. of or at a fairly low temperature.
    “it’ll be a cool afternoon”
    synonyms: chilly, chill, bracing, brisk, crisp, fresh, refreshing, invigorating, nippy
    “a cool breeze”

April 13, 2017 - Easter Weekend Weather 2017: UK Met Office Predicts A Cool Bank Holiday

It’s going to be brisk .

The Easter break is looking decidedly bleak from a weather perspective… so much so that some higher regions can even expect sprinklings of snow – with sudden hail showers possible too. A polar maritime air mass from Iceland is currently crossing the country, bringing with it blasts of cool air and scattered showers.

" Cool " and " brisk " are obviously hedges, when you are discussing snow and hail showers. Cool also references “verb 1. become or cause to become less hot.” It’s not hot, in the U.K., in April. Blasts of " cool " air, coming down from the Arctic? It’s careful, formulaic hedging, and it’s almost as hilarious as this one, from my hometown:

April 18, 2017 - Allentown, PA - A not-so-warm summer? It’s possible , says one long-range outlook …

“Not-so-warm” and the rest of the italicized verbal gymnastics used because the Orthodoxy forbids them from saying “cold”.

Here’s a rare exception, from Kentucky: May, 2017 - Cold Spring May Weather 2017

You could use " cool ", correctly, in the summer months, when the weather would have “become less hot”.

But they’ve got an Orthodoxy, a religion to support, you see:

April 16, 2017 - 2017 Is Set to Be the Hottest Year in Recorded History - Futurism

There are posts in this thread going back three years, now, with the same techniques, documenting the same programme. I’m compiling them…

January 28, 2013 - Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming

A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this month, and climate skeptics say it contains fresh evidence of 20 years of overstated global warming. The report – which is not scheduled for publication until 2014 – was leaked by someone involved in the IPCC’s review process, and is available for download online.

A chart comparing the four temperature models the group has published since 1990 (shows that)… each has overstated the rise in temperature that Earth actually experienced.

National Geographic, March, 2013: “Is Shrinking Sea Ice Behind Chilly Spring?”

Spring 2013 Recap: Cool temperatures dominate the U.S .

April, 2013 – What a difference a year makes! WELL BELOW NORMAL APRIL ACROSS THE US!

April, 2013 – In Britain, weeks of freezing weather are set to be followed by a wet and cool summer , forecasters warned yesterday

April, 2013 - forecast is for May is for near-normal to cooler than normal temperatures. Wet March and April have wiped out the drought in Georgia!

April 30, 2013 Cool , rainy weather expected to further delay Iowa corn planting

May, 2013 – US Temperatures Have Dropped Almost 3C Over The Past Year

May, 2013 – Washington, D.C.: 2013 summer outlook: Less stifling than last 3 summers

May, 2013 – April was 1.4 degrees below average nationwide . It was the 23rd-coolest April on record for the nation.

May, 2013 – the on-going cold and wet weather is enough to push people living in France to seek exile abroad.

May, 2013 – Don’t rule out a hot French summer just yet

May 14, 2013 – It certainly was chilly this past weekend. Snow flakes were seen in many areas of Michigan

May 15, 2013 - The long range summer forecast for Ireland would suggest that we are in for another year of cooler and wetter than normal conditions

June, 2013 - Record Cold Arctic Temperatures Drop Below Freezing Again

June, 2013 - Global average temperatures and the tropics continued a slow cooling drift in May

June, 2013 – At the UN Climate Conference in Bonn, Germany, a delegate explained that the unusual cold weather accompanying the conference was a perfect example of how global warming is affecting our lives.

June, 2013 saw 14 days when high temperatures in Steamboat, CO didn’t reach 80 degrees

June, 2013 – Mild , wet summer ahead for Asheville, N.C. area

June, 2013 – Blogger in Texas: ‘I am so grateful for this mild summer we’ve had so far this year. Temps down in the 60′s at night. Oh yes, I am loving it .’

June, 2013 – Birmingham, AL: A Beautiful First Weekend of Summer - Afternoon highs in the 80s with overnight lows in the 60s with relatively low relative humidity

June, 2013 – No sizzling Canadian summer in forecast like last year

June, 2013 – Cooler days more likely for most of eastern Australia

June, 2013 – Think it’s cooler than usual in Myrtle Beach? Don’t bet on it

June 4, 2013 – Wet, mild summer expected for Toronto…

June 10, 2013 – (Great Lakes) Cool Weather Slowing Summer Kickoff

June 13, 2013 - This summer hasn’t just felt hot. It’s been hot. In fact, the summer of 2012-13 is now the hottest on record.

June 26, 2013 - LONDON (Reuters) - Weather across Europe will be cooler than usual next month

July, 2013 – Milwaukee, WI: ’ One of the best starts to July in recent years weatherwise . Lows in the 50s and 60s, highs in the upper 70s to low 80s and plenty of sunshine.’

July, 2013 – Pacific Northwest: Mild Weather Continues

July, 2013 - Too cold for a dip: Ocean temperatures off South Jersey well below normal

July, 2013 – San Francisco - This has to be the coldest July ever," noted Latitude 38, the sailing magazine.

July 13, 2013 – (North Texas) Summer weather shocker : Cool and rainy

July 23, 2013 – (New York) Weather Journal: Clear and Cool Summer Days are Back

July 24, 2013 – Cool summer weather in the West

July 25, 2013 – (Alabama) The cool rainy summer

July 29, 2013 – (Chicago) Cool Weather Hurting Summer Businesses

August 1, 2013 – Cool and rainy weather this summer has kept smog from forming in metro Atlanta as it typically does on hot summer days.

August 3, 2013 – Unprecedented July Cold – Arctic Sees Shortest Summer On Record

August 4, 2013 – (Philadelphia) Impressive “cool” streak in the heat of summer

August 5, 2013 - Cool summer weather not helping corn crop

August 7, 2013 – Long-term cool spell changes dynamics of Summer Weather

August 7, 2013 - (Michigan) Record summer ‘cool streak’ poised to end with first 80-degree weather in weeks

August 17, 2013 – This rainy cool weather is getting crazy here in the SE …

August 28, 2013, Pittsburgh, PA - Cooler temps , plentiful rain meant bumper crop of wild mushrooms

This was the largest bloom of chanterelles that I’ve seen in over a decade.

August 29, 2013 – Alabama summer 2013 one of the coolest on record

September 5, 2013 - Coolest summer in many years - Alabama

February 11, 2014 – Summer 2014 'likely to be hottest on record’

March 6, 2014 – Return of El Nino Could Bring Rain, Heat, Misery

April 14, 2014 – If El Niño Comes This Year, It Could Be a Monster

April 14, 2014 - This summer will be miserable , Farmer’s Almanac says. New Yorkers who have been praying for relief from this year’s brutal winter will soon be getting exactly what they wished for — in the form of an oppressive summer of stifling heat and humidity .

April 30, 2014 – The data are trickling in, and with each passing day it seems more certain : 2014 is going to be an El Niño year, and probably a big one . “ I think there’s no doubt that there’s an El Niño underway ,” climate scientist Kevin Trenberth of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research recently told Wired.

May 8, 2014 – El Nino – Historic?

May 12, 2014 – West Antarctic Ice Sheet’s Collapse Triggers Sea Level Rise

May 12, 2014 - Antarctic Sea Ice at All-Time Record Levels

May 15, 2014 – El Nino’s threat to major food crop yields

June 14, 2014 – El Niño is going to make your 2014 miserable

June 17, 2014 – Doubts Surface Over 2014 El Nino Development

June 23, 2014 - 2014 just might be the year when El Nino kicks in again

June 23, 2014 – Is the El Nino Dying?

July 2, 2014 – Rain, Rain, Go Away: June Weather Unseasonably Cool .

July 6, 2014 – The 2014 El Niño is looking more and more like a bust

July 6, 2014 – Peru says El Niño threat over, waters cooling and fish returning

July 8, 2014 - Each month in 2014 has experienced below normal average temperatures .

July 8, 2014 - Weather underpins hopes for huge US corn crop

Weather forecasts maintained hope for US corn production prospects as crops entered the key pollination period in historically strong condition, with soybeans and spring wheat seen thriving too.

An outlook for temperatures to remain below average throughout the Midwest over the next 10 days “sets the stage for excellent pollination conditions”, said Paul Georgy, president of Chicago broker Allendale.

"If the forecast comes true it would make it the fourth coolest pollination period since 1980.

(headline is forbidden from saying " cool weather underpins hopes" -ed)

July 10, 2014 – Nature Hits the ‘Pause’ Button On El Nino Development

July 10, 2014 - Poor man’s polar vortex to make shocking summer return in eastern U.S. next week

July 11, 2014 – El Nino 2014, Climate Alarmists Disappointed

July 14, 2014 - June this year was the coldest Antarctic June ever recorded .

May 14, 2014 – How Low Will Arctic Summer Sea Ice Go?

May 24, 2014 –NOAA: Arctic sea ice extent will be above average this summer (2014)

July 10, 2014 - Unseasonably chilly air is headed for parts of the northern and northeastern U.S at the height of summer early next week. Highs may struggle to reach 80 in D.C. next Tuesday and Wednesday with widespread lows in the 50s (even 40s in the mountains).

July 14, 2014 – Record Cool in July : 10 Cities On Track For A Cool Summer As Cold Blast Approaches

July 22, 2014 – Climate Change Clouds Future of El Niño Forecasting …

July 23, 2014 - This past June was the warmest ever recorded by scientists since record keeping began in the 19th century.

July 26, 2014 - Coolest Summer On Record in the U.S.

The frequency of 90 degree days in the US has been plummeting for 80 years, and 2014 has had the lowest frequency of 90 degree days through July 23 on record. The only other year which came close was 1992, and that was due to dust in the atmosphere from Mt Pinatubo.

July 30, 2014 – The Chance of El Nino Drops to 50%

July 31, 2014 - Climate Change: Study Predicts Wide Variation in Temperature Extremes

July 31, 2014 - Clearly, the overall trend is to extreme temperatures reducing. In other words, the area of the US experiencing unusually high or low temperatures is tending to grow smaller.

July 31,2014 - Numbers released today by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center show that not only has July been abnormally cool in the USA, but so has 2014 in general. For the last 30 days, there have been 574 record highest temperatures in the USA, and 1,726 record lowest. A ratio of 3 to 1, indicating that July was very cool. But, the year so far has also been cool . So far for the USA year to date, the numbers of record lows outpace the highs two to one.

July 29, 2014 - The cool temps are causing people who live east of the Rockies to wonder if 2014 will go down as the year without a summer .

July 31, 2014 - Climate Change: Study Predicts Wide Variation in Temperature Extremes

July 31, 2014 - Clearly, the overall trend is to extreme temperatures reducing. In other words, the area of the US experiencing unusually high or low temperatures is tending to grow smaller.

July 31,2014 - Numbers released today by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center show that not only has July been abnormally cool in the USA, but so has 2014 in general. For the last 30 days, there have been 574 record highest temperatures in the USA, and 1,726 record lowest. A ratio of 3 to 1, indicating that July was very cool. But, the year so far has also been cool . So far for the USA year to date, the numbers of record lows outpace the highs two to one.

August, 2014 - Cool , unsettled and wet

August 1, 2014 – July 2014 will become the 10th coldest month of July on record for Cleveland.

August 2, 2014 – Lovely weather we’re having this August.

August 3, 2014 – Portland weather: Gorgeous , sunny Sunday

August 3, 2014 – Is It A Cool Summer? We’ve actually had an ‘average’ summer, which now feels cool considering how many hot summers have scorched the U.S. in recent years.

August 4, 2014 - Death Valley, Calif., which is known for being the world’s hottest location, maxed out at a relatively chilly 89 degrees on Sunday. This temperature – nearly 30 degrees below averagewas its coolest high temperature on record for the date by a whopping 15 degrees . The previous record of 104 was set in 1945.

This was only the eighth time that a high in the 80s has occurred in Death Valley in July or August, and there hasn’t been a high less than 90 since 1984. Weather records in Death Valley go back to 1911.

The average June high in Death Valley is 110 degrees, July is 117 degrees, and August is 115. This makes Sunday’s high temperature a ridiculous 26 degrees below normal.

August 7, 2014 – El Nino dragging its heels but still on way

August 8, 2014 – Summer 2014 is the Coolest in a Decade . The summer of 2014 has been one of the mildest on the books — and could be the first summer in a decade without a heatwave. Only four days have hit 90 degrees this summer, three in July and one in August, with the hottest temperature on the books clocking in at 91.

August 10, 2014 –August 2014 was colder and much wetter overall than average .

August 11, 2014 – Gorgeous Weather Returns. Very nice weather is moving back into the Ozarks.

August 13, 2014 – Jackson, MS - Gorgeous stretch of weather!

August 13, 2014 - Cool August not a trend for coming winter

August 16, 2014 – State College, PA - Beautiful weather on tap for rest of week

August 18, 2014 – So much for summer: Snow set to blast Scotland as forecasters warn of 'coldest August spell in a century’

August 18, 2014 – Baltimore, MD - Another Gorgeous August Day. Gorgeous August « CBS Baltimore

August 18, 2014 - Dulles Airport just recorded its longest “heart of summer” cool streak on record . Such a stretch of temperatures in the heart of summer seems unheard of . And as far as official records go, it is. Of course, the first half of this month was only part of an extraordinary streak of below normal daily temperatures at Dulles. Every day in August through the 16th came in below normal. Even more incredible, the below normal streak ran all the way back to July 24.

August 18, 2014 - Summer 2014 is the coldest in a decade

The summer of 2014 has been one of the mildest on the books — and could be the first summer in a decade without a heatwave.

“It wasn’t clear if it was going to be a hot or a cool summer,” said National Weather Service meteorologist David Stark. “We started out the year very cool and it seems like we just continued that . It doesn’t look like we have any heat waves in the near future.”

Instead of searching for the skimpiest outfits to battle the sizzling sun, New Yorkers are reaching for their sweatshirts.

“It’s been so much colder this summer,” said Susan Vartholomatos, 51, who broke out her bikini for a beach day Friday afternoon. “In the morning, when I go out to my terrace, I need a sweatshirt.”

Vartholomatos said she wishes it was hotter, adding “I’d take heat and humidity over snow any day.”

Only four days have hit 90 degrees this summe r, three in July and one in August, with the hottest temperature on the books clocking in at 91.

August 19, 2014 – No hot August nights in CNY this year – look how cool it’s been

August 19, 2014 – Kentucky weather forecast Weather Lovely

August 22, 2014 – NYT Tries Hard to Jinx Our Beautiful Weather – NYMag

August 22, 2014 – For UK, Europe, It’s One of the Chilliest Augusts in Decades

August 22, 2014 - Antarctic Sea Ice Has Been Above Average for 1,000 Straight Days

August 23, 2014 - ’Incredible’ rate of polar ice loss alarms scientists

A European satellite has shown ice sheets shrinking at 120 cubic miles a year in Antarctica and Greenland

The planet’s two largest ice sheets – in Greenland and Antarctica – are now being depleted at an astonishing rate of 120 cubic miles each year. That is the discovery made by scientists using data from CryoSat-2, the European probe that has been measuring the thickness of Earth’s ice sheets and glaciers since it was launched by the European Space Agency in 2010.

Even more alarming , the rate of loss of ice from the two regions has more than doubled since 2009, revealing the dramatic impact that climate change is beginning to have on our world.

August 23, 2014 – Providence, RI - Dry and Gorgeous Weather Continue

August 24, 2014 - Washington, D.C. Weather Forecast: Lovely weather for the last week of August.

August 24, 2014 – was a gorgeous day across the Hudson Valley.

August 24, 2014 - Washington, D.C. Weather Forecast: Lovely weather for the last week of August.

August 25, 2014 – Nice Weather - Forecast for Maritime Alps, Soaking Rain to Spread Across Europe.

August 25, 2014 – Chicago’s Cool Streak Sets New Record

August 26, 2014 - Australian scientist calls for ‘heads to roll’ over adjusted temperature data

Yesterday we posted on BoM’s bomb on station temperature trend fiddling, where BoM claimed the trend difference was a result of a station move. Apparently, BoM can’t even keep track of their own station histories! Today, Dr. Jennifer Marohasy writes: Who’s going to be sacked for making-up global warming at Rutherglen?

She writes: HEADS need to start rolling at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The senior management have tried to cover-up serious tampering that has occurred with the temperatures at an experimental farm near Rutherglen in Victoria. Retired scientist Dr Bill Johnston used to run experiments there. He, and many others, can vouch for the fact that the weather station at Rutherglen, providing data to the Bureau of Meteorology since November 1912, has never been moved . Senior management at the Bureau are claiming the weather station could have been moved in 1966 and/or 1974 and that this could be a justification for artificially dropping the temperatures by 1.8 degree Celsius back in 1913.

Surely its time for heads to roll!


The unhomogenized/raw mean annual minimum temperature trend for Rutherglen for the 100-year period from January 1913 through to December 2013 shows a slight cooling trend of 0.35 degree C per 100 years. After homogenization there is a warming trend of 1.73 degree C per 100 years. This warming trend is essentially achieved by progressively dropping down the temperatures from 1973 back through to 1913 . For the year of 1913 the difference between the raw temperature and the ACORN-SAT temperature is a massive 1.8 degree C.

In the case of Rutherglen the Bureau has just let the algorithms keep jumping down the temperatures from 1973. To repeat the biggest change between the raw and the new values is in 1913 when the temperature has been jumped down a massive 1.8 degree C. In doing this homogenization a warming trend is created when none previously existed. The Bureau has tried to justify all of this to Graham Lloyd at The Australian newspaper by stating that there must have been a site move, its flagging the years 1966 and 1974. But the biggest adjustment was made in 1913! In fact as Bill Johnston explains in today’s newspaper, the site never has moved.
Surely someone should be sacked for this blatant corruption of what was a perfectly good temperature record.

August 27, 2014 – Long, Cool Summer

The hottest weather topic for 2014 was the lack of heat. If you had a sneaking suspicion that the 2014 growing season has been tracking cooler than normal , you’d be right. The Midwestern Regional Climate Center tracked growing degree days (GDD) from May 1 to Aug. 3. It reported “departures from normal” ranging from -30 to -100 in states such as Missouri, Illinois and Indiana and deficits of -100 to -180 in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota.

August 27, 2014 – Has this been a cool summer? Temperatures are a few degrees below average in August and were a bit below average in July. All things considered, this has been an ordinary summer in the Carolinas, with a stretch of wet and rather unpleasant weekends in late July and early August.

August 30, 2014 - How Hot Was Summer 2014? Despite a noticeably cool month across much of the U.S., the answer may surprise you

August 30, 2014 – Myth of Arctic meltdown : Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7 million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago… Seven years after former US Vice-President Al Gore’s warning, Arctic ice cap has expanded for second year in row . An area twice the size of Alaska - America’s biggest state - was open water two years ago and is now covered in ice. This was the highest level recorded on that date since 2006, and represents an increase of 1.71 million square kilometres over the past two years – an impressive 43 per cent. Other figures from the Danish Meteorological Institute suggest that the growth has been even more dramatic. Using a different measure, the area with at least 30 per cent ice cover, these reveal a 63 per cent rise – from 2.7 million to 4.4 million square kilometres.

August 30, 2014 – A Change in the Wind: El Nino – the Lazarus of 2014?

September 2, 2014 – New Jersey - You can file August 2014 as one of the coldest and wettest on record

September 3, 2014 – Cool summer doesn’t invalidate climate change

September 3, 2014 – An average Summer. Then Why Did it Feel So Cool ? All of you who thought we had a cooler-than-normal summer, well, that’s just perception.

September 3, 2014 – Baltimore, MD - August ranked as 4th-coolest on record amid mildest summer since 2000 . This summer’s average ranks as the 16th-mildest on record.

September 3, 2014 – The Arctic Sea Ice Problem Is Actually Worse — Not Better

September 3, 2014 - Arctic Sea Ice Grows But Still Shrinking

September 3, 2014 –This plot from DMI shows what appears to be the classic “end of melt season” turn in sea ice extent, a good 2-3 weeks before it usually occurs. If this is truly a turn in the melt season, it will be the earliest one in the satellite record and will mean that the average sea ice extent for September will be well above 6 million square kilometers

September 9, 2014 - Baseless Alarmism: Global Warming’s Impact on Gulf of Maine Driving Away Lobsters and Fish

The supposed impact of global warming on the Gulf of Maine over the past decade has hit a multitude of media outlets. Example: take Weather.com’s article Global Warming Is Changing the Gulf of Maine, Imperiling Its Lobster, Fish Catch . http://www.weather.com/news/sc…r-20140903

According to the article, Gulf of Maine temperatures were marching along with the global average from 1982 to 2004, but then over the past decade, starting in 2004, the Gulf of Maine began warming at a rate that was 10 times faster than the previous rate.

The long-term data show the sea surface temperatures for the Gulf of Maine shifted upwards in the late 1920s. So let’s look at the sea surface temperatures there since 1930, Figure 4. While there was a recent uptick in the sea surface temperatures for the Gulf of Maine, the linear trend of the data show the warming rate there was basically flat , at only 0.004 deg C/decade, since 1930. Human-induced global warming appears to have eluded the surface temperatures of the Gulf of Maine.

The articles focused on the last decade, so maybe there something unusual about the recent decadal temperature or decadal warming rate for the Gulf of Maine. Nope.

Figure 6 shows the 10-year-average sea surface temperatures (trailing) for the Gulf of Maine. About “trailing”: the last data point at 2013 indicates the average surface temperature for the period of 2004-2013, and the data point before it presents the average for the period of 2003-2012, etc., working back in time to the first data point at 1863 for the period of 1854-1863. The 10-year-average sea surface temperatures for the periods ending in the early 1950s were noticeably higher than today.

September 4, 2014 –Weeks of monsoonal moisture contributed to rain and clouds in August 2014. Coupled with the occasional cold front, the end result was a month that saw temperatures below normal and regular daily thunderstorms .

September 7, 2014- Winter Outlook 2014-2015 U.S. Winter Forecast - After a record year in the Midwest & the East Coast, El Nino will have a big impact going into the 2014-2015 winter season . Here in August we see a 73% chance of El Nino at this point and we feel this is GAME ON in a month or so!

September 11, 2014 - The National Weather Service, in its monthly El Niño report, again downgraded the chances of the influential weather pattern occurring in the fall or winter . The odds were 80 percent in May, but were placed between 60 and 65 percent this week.

September 12, 2014 - Rapid City sees earliest snowfall since 1888

An early September winter storm in the Black Hills has dumped up to 8 inches of snow in the area , while Rapid City received its earliest snowfall in more than 120 years.

Jon Chamberlain, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Rapid City, said almost 1 inch of snow had fallen in downtown Rapid City by 8:30 a.m. while 2 inches was measured in higher elevations in town.

The snowfall in downtown Rapid City is the earliest in the city since 1888 , the NWS said. The previous early snowfall mark was seven-tenths of an inch on Sept. 13, 1970.

Chamberlain said while it is unusual for Rapid City to see snowfall this early , it isn’t for the Black Hills.

"It’s a little on the high side, though," he said.

September 13, 2014 - August 2014: Bright and sunny, but cool

September 15, 2014 - August 2014 Hottest in Recorded Weather History , NASA Says

September 15, 2014 - Extent of Antarctic sea ice reaches record levels , scientists say

Scientists say the extent of Antarctic sea ice cover is at its highest level since records began.

Jan Lieser from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) said the discovery was made two days ago.

"This is an area covered by sea ice which we’ve never seen from space before," he said.

"Thirty-five years ago the first satellites went up which were reliably telling us what area, two dimensional area, of sea ice was covered and we’ve never seen that before, that much area.

Third year in a row a record has been reached.

There has been a 1.5 per cent increase each decade since records began in 1979.

Increase believed to be linked to strong westerly winds. As the area covered in sea ice expands scientists have said the ice on the continent of Antarctica which is not over the ocean continues to deplete.

CEO of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, Tony Worby, said the warming atmosphere is leading to greater sea ice coverage by changing wind patterns.

"The extent of sea ice is driven by the winds around Antarctica, and we believe that they’re increasing in strength and part of that is around the depletion of ozone, " he said.

He said changes to sea ice levels could have implications for the entire Antarctic ecosystem.

September 15, 2014 – El Niño and its impact on Winter 2014/15 : Pattern resembles last winter

September 17, 2014 - But while an El Niño event was expected to have begun by this time, the defining oceanic and atmospheric conditions in the Pacific have not yet been established , Amis said. Nonetheless, the probability of seeing El Niño conditions by November is above 60 percent, though the event is likely to be a weak one ,” said Amis, a multilateral agency which is led by the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization.

UPDATED through Page 18 september 17, 2014

January 18, 2017 - The last time the Earth was this warm was 125,000 years ago

February 13, 2017 - Lubbock, TX - Wet and Cool Mid-February Stretch (Feb. 13-14, 2017)

February 23, 2017 - 2017 Europe spring forecast: Winter to linger from UK to Poland

Britain to FREEZE until May: UK set for COLDEST spring in YEARS as weather warnings issued

FREEZING winds, snow and sub-zero temperatures will keep Britain locked in the freezer until MAY, dire forecasts predict.

April 3, 2017 - Georgia - Masters 2017 weather report: Cool , windy conditions for opening rounds

April 4, 2017 - Philippines - PAGASA explains cool April weather | Nation, News, The Philippines …

April 13, 2017 - U.K. - Easter Weekend Weather 2017: UK Met Office Predicts A Cool Bank Holiday

It’s going to be brisk .

The Easter break is looking decidedly bleak from a weather perspective… so much so that some higher regions can even expect sprinklings of snow – with sudden hail showers possible too. A polar maritime air mass from Iceland is currently crossing the country, bringing with it blasts of cool air and scattered showers.

April 16, 2017 - 2017 Is Set to Be the Hottest Year in Recorded History - Futurism

April 17, 2017 - According to the UAH satellite measure of global temperature… March 2017 cooler than same month 10 years ago

April 18, 2017 - Allentown, PA - A not-so-warm summer? It’s possible , says one long-range outlook …

April 20, 2017 - A Terrifying Chart Showing How Much The Earth Has Warmed Since 1880

April 26, 2017 - Cool Weather in the Midwest Endangers Corn, Soybean Seedlings

April 27, 2017 - Chicago, IL - Overall cooler than average temps for next week or two,

April 28, 2017 - Early May to be cooler than average in the Great Lakes and Northeast

May 2017 Temperature Outlook: Cooler in Parts of North, West

May, 2017 - Cold Spring May Weather 2017 - AccuWeather Forecast for KY 41076

May 1, 2017 - NOAA: May 2017 may bring cooler than normal temperatures, average …

May 2, 2017 - Cool weather theme likely into mid-May | WTNH Connecticut News

May 7, 2017 - 2017 Kentucky Derby: Unseasonably cool weather … - AccuWeather

May 7, 2017 - Southern California Hit by Drenching Rains, Cool Weather | California …

May 18, 2017 - Oregon - Cooler- than-average temperatures statewide.

May 24, 2017 - they have the Great Lakes in an area of higher probability of cooler than average temperatures

“The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’.”

George Orwell, from “1984”

August 24, 2006 - Global warming could be causing some glaciers to grow, a new study claims.

April 17, 2012 – Global warming mystery: Why are some glaciers growing?

August 30, 2013 – New paper finds the majority of East Antarctic glaciers have advanced in size since 1990

October 1, 2013 – Swiss glaciers expanding again in climate change surprise …

October 13, 2014 - Why Are Asia’s Glaciers Mysteriously Expanding?

June 1, 2015 - Climate Model Suggests Everest Glaciers Could Nearly Disappear

February, 2012 - Climate Scientist Admits To Lying, Leaking Documents

Peter Gleick is not just any scientist. He got his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley and won a MacArthur “genius” award . He is also an outspoken proponent of scientific evidence that humans are responsible for climate change.

And earlier this week, he confessed that he had lied to obtain internal documents from the Heartland Institute, a group that questions to what extent climate change is caused by humans.

“ For Peter Gleick, it’s going to be a personal tragedy . For [the American Geophysical Union], it’s very unfortunate. Situations like this damage our credibility. And that really hurts."

  • Michael McPhaden, president, American Geophysical Union

March 24, 2012 – They are responsible for some of the government’s most important policies - but staff at the Department of Energy and Climate Change are too ashamed to admit where they work. S taff morale is so low the government has spent almost $175,000 on consultants to lift staff’s flagging spirits.

The findings of the report are so damning the government only released it nine months after it was first requested by the Opposition under Freedom of Information laws. " Many reported having to think about whether they would tell people where they worked because of the department’s negative image ," the report said.

January 28, 2013 - Draft UN climate report shows 20 years of overestimated global warming

The report – which is not scheduled for publication until 2014 – was leaked by someone involved in the IPCC’s review process, and is available for download online. A chart comparing the four temperature models the group has published since 1990 (shows that)… each has overstated the rise in temperature that Earth actually experienced

March, 2013: Earth Hurtling Towards Temperatures Not Seen in 11,000 Years

The 2013–14 North American cold wave was an extreme weather event extending from December 2013 to April 2014

January 6, 2014 – Climate Change Might Just Be Driving the Historic Cold Snap

National Geographic, March, 2013: “Is Shrinking Sea Ice Behind Chilly Spring?”

Sept 9, 2013 – Arctic sea ice up 60 percent in 2013

August 30, 2014 – Myth of Arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7 million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago… Seven years after former US Vice-President Al Gore’s warning, Arctic ice cap has expanded for second year in row.

May, 2013 – the on-going cold and wet weather is enough to push people living in France to seek exile abroad.

May, 2013 – Don’t rule out a hot French summer just yet.

June, 2013 – At the UN Climate Conference in Bonn, Germany, a delegate explained that the unusual cold weather accompanying the conference was a perfect example of how global warming is affecting our lives.

Spring 2013 Recap: Cool temperatures dominate the U.S .

June, 2013 – Think it’s cooler than usual in Myrtle Beach? Don’t bet on it

May, 2013 – April was 1.4 degrees below average nationwide . It was the 23rd-coolest April on record for the nation.

May, 2013 – US Temperatures Have Dropped Almost 3C Over The Past Year

June 13, 2013 - This summer hasn’t just felt hot. It’s been hot. In fact, the summer of 2012-13 is now the hottest on record.

September 24 2013 - STARTING TODAY, POPULARSCIENCE.COM WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT COMMENTS ON NEW ARTICLES. HERE’S WHY.

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September 11, 2013 – Is this a La Niña or El Niño year? Try La Nada

March 6, 2014 – Return of El Nino Could Bring Rain, Heat, Misery

April 14, 2014 – If El Niño Comes This Year, It Could Be a Monster

April 30, 2014 – The data are trickling in, and with each passing day it seems more certain : 2014 is going to be an El Niño year, and probably a big one . “ I think there’s no doubt that there’s an El Niño underway ,” climate scientist Kevin Trenberth of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research recently told Wired.

May 8, 2014 – El Nino – Historic?

May 15, 2014 – El Nino’s threat to major food crop yields

June 14, 2014 – El Niño is going to make your 2014 miserable

June 17, 2014 – Doubts Surface Over 2014 El Nino Development

June 23, 2014 - 2014 just might be the year when El Nino kicks in again

June 23, 2014 – Is the El Nino Dying?

July 6, 2014 – The 2014 El Niño is looking more and more like a bust

July 6, 2014 – Peru says El Niño threat over, waters cooling and fish returning

July 10, 2014 – Nature Hits the ‘Pause’ Button On El Nino Development

July 11, 2014 – El Nino 2014, Climate Alarmists Disappointed

July 22, 2014 – Climate Change Clouds Future of El Niño Forecasting …

July 30, 2014 – The Chance of El Nino Drops to 50%

August 7, 2014 – El Nino dragging its heels but still on way

August 30, 2014 – A Change in the Wind: El Nino – the Lazarus of 2014?

September 15, 2014 – El Niño and its impact on Winter 2014/15 : Pattern resembles last winter

September 17, 2014 - But while an El Niño event was expected to have begun by this time, the defining oceanic and atmospheric conditions in the Pacific have not yet been established , Amis said. Nonetheless, the probability of seeing El Niño conditions by November is above 60 percent , though the event is likely to be a weak one ,” said Amis, a multilateral agency which is led by the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization.

September 7, 2014- Winter Outlook 2014-2015 U.S. Winter Forecast - After a record year in the Midwest & the East Coast, El Nino will have a big impact going into the 2014-2015 winter season. Here in August we see a 73% chance of El Nino at this point and we feel this is GAME ON in a month or so!

January 13, 2015 – El Niño not likely to be a factor for 2015 Atlantic hurricane season

March 24, 2015 – Is El Nino behind our record-slow start to tornado season …

June 1, 2015 - 2015 hurricane season: El Niño could hinder Atlantic storms …

July 13, 2015 - Steamy El Niño expected to keep Atlantic hurricanes in check

May 20, 2015 – Confirmed El Niño Means Big U.S. Harvests

February 9, 2014 – Global warming ‘pause’ due to unusual trade winds in Pacific ocean, study finds. Study shows sharply accelerating trade winds have buried surface heat underwater, reducing heat flowing into atmosphere.

October 11, 2014 – The cold waters of Earth’s deep ocean have not warmed measurably since 2005 , according to a new NASA study, leaving unsolved the mystery of why global warming appears to have slowed in recent years.

February 11, 2014 – Summer 2014 'likely to be hottest on record’

July 8, 2014 - Each month in 2014 has experienced below normal average temperatures .

February 17, 2014 – Nationally, it’s been one of the warmest winters on record .

March 13, 2014 - NOAA - Winter 2013-2014 Among Coldest on Record

July 14, 2014 – Record Cool in July : 10 Cities On Track For A Cool Summer As Cold Blast Approaches

August 3, 2014 – Is It A Cool Summer? We’ve actually had an ‘average’ summer, which now feels cool considering how many hot summers have scorched the U.S. in recent years.

August 18, 2014 - Summer 2014 is the coldest in a decade.

May 14, 2014 – How Low Will Arctic Summer Sea Ice Go?

May 24, 2014 –NOAA: Arctic sea ice extent will be above average this summer (2014)

July 14, 2014 - June this year was the coldest Antarctic June ever recorded .

August 22, 2014 - Antarctic Sea Ice Has Been Above Average for 1,000 Straight Days

August 23, 2014 - ’Incredible’ rate of polar ice loss alarms scientists

August 30, 2014 – Myth of Arctic meltdown : Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7 million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago… Seven years after former US Vice-President Al Gore’s warning, Arctic ice cap has expanded for second year in row . An area twice the size of Alaska - America’s biggest state - was open water two years ago and is now covered in ice. This was the highest level recorded on that date since 2006, and represents an increase of 1.71 million square kilometres over the past two years – an impressive 43 per cent. Other figures from the Danish Meteorological Institute suggest that the growth has been even more dramatic. Using a different measure, the area with at least 30 per cent ice cover, these reveal a 63 per cent rise – from 2.7 million to 4.4 million square kilometres.

July 23, 2014 - This past June was the warmest ever recorded by scientists since record keeping began in the 19th century.

July 26, 2014 - Coolest Summer On Record in the U.S.

The frequency of 90 degree days in the US has been plummeting for 80 years, and 2014 has had the lowest frequency of 90 degree days through July 23 on record. The only other year which came close was 1992, and that was due to dust in the atmosphere from Mt Pinatubo.

July 31, 2014 - Climate Change: Study Predicts Wide Variation in Temperature Extremes

July 31, 2014 - Clearly, the overall trend is to extreme temperatures reducing. In other words, the area of the US experiencing unusually high or low temperatures is tending to grow smaller.

July 31, 2014 - Numbers released today by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center show that not only has July been abnormally cool in the USA, but so has 2014 in general. For the last 30 days, there have been 574 record highest temperatures in the USA, and 1,726 record lowest. A ratio of 3 to 1, indicating that July was very cool. But, the year so far has also been cool . So far for the USA year to date, the numbers of record lows outpace the highs two to one.

August 30, 2014 - How Hot Was Summer 2014? Despite a noticeably cool month across much of the U.S., the answer may surprise you.

August 27, 2014 – Long, Cool Summer

The hottest weather topic for 2014 was the lack of heat. If you had a sneaking suspicion that the 2014 growing season has been tracking cooler than normal , you’d be right. The Midwestern Regional Climate Center tracked growing degree days (GDD) from May 1 to Aug. 3. It reported “departures from normal” ranging from -30 to -100 in states such as Missouri, Illinois and Indiana and deficits of -100 to -180 in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota.

August 27, 2014 – Has this been a cool summer? Temperatures are a few degrees below average in August and were a bit below average in July. All things considered, this has been an ordinary summer in the Carolinas, with a stretch of wet and rather unpleasant weekends in late July and early August.

August 13, 2014 - Cool August not a trend for coming winter

Sept. 12, 2014 – “Global Warming” Advocates Plan March Amid Record Cold

November 14, 2014 - Coldest November Weather in Decades Infiltrates Wyoming to Texas From the North Pole

February 9, 2015 - Boston Buried By Snow Again as ’Absurd’ Winter Drags On

September 3, 2014 – Cool summer doesn’t invalidate climate change

September 3, 2014 – An average Summer. Then Why Did it Feel So Cool ? All of you who thought we had a cooler-than-normal summer, well, that’s just perception.

September 3, 2014 – The Arctic Sea Ice Problem Is Actually Worse — Not Better

September 3, 2014 - Arctic Sea Ice Grows But Still Shrinking

August 10, 2014 – August 2014 was colder and much wetter overall than average .

September 15, 2014 - August 2014 Hottest in Recorded Weather History , NASA Says

August 30, 2014 – Myth of Arctic meltdown : Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7 million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago… Seven years after former US Vice-President Al Gore’s warning, Arctic ice cap has expanded for second year in row .

Feb 5, 2014 – CryoSat shows Arctic sea ice volume up 50% from last year

September 3, 2014 - Arctic Sea Ice Grows But Still Shrinking

Sept. 3, 2014 – Cold year: 2014 USA temperature record lows outpace record highs nearly 2-1

Sept. 12, 2014 - Summer Chill: NOAA: 246 Low Max Records Broken or Tied

Sept. 18, 2014 – NOAA announces Summer 2014 was warmest ever on Earth

September 12, 2014 - Summer Chill: NOAA: 246 Low Max Records Broken or Tied

September 11, 2014 – Brutally Cold 2014-15 Winter Shaping Up For The United States

November 19, 2014 – Why Is Record Cold and Epic Snow Hitting U.S. So Early?

November 20, 2014 - 2014 is even more likely to become the warmest year on record, with record cold years a thing of the past.

December 1, 2014 - November 2014 Shattered Cold and Snow Records For Some

November 4, 2014 - Scientists predict global warming will end Utah’s ski industry

November 21, 2014 - (Washington) 40 inches of snow? Stevens Pass hopes to open lifts by Thanksgiving

December 1, 2014 – (California) Two feet of snow forecast for Tahoe

August 23, 2014 - ’Incredible’ rate of polar ice loss alarms scientists

November 24, 2014 - Robot Sub Finds Surprisingly Thick Antarctic Sea Ice

Antarctica’s ice paradox has yet another puzzling layer. Not only is the amount of sea ice increasing each year , but an underwater robot now shows the ice is also much thicker than was previously thought , a new study reports.

The discovery adds to the ongoing mystery of Antarctica’s expanding sea ice. According to climate models, the region’s sea ice should be shrinking each year because of global warming . Instead, satellite observations show the ice is expanding, and the continent’s sea ice has set new records for the past three winters

August 31, 2014 - Arctic sea ice increases by 43% over two years

October 1, 2014 – Walrus mass in vast numbers on Alaska beach as sea ice retreats . Concern that warming climate is responsible for gathering of about 35,000 walrus in north-west Alaska

September 17, 2014 – Antarctic sea ice expands to record high level

October 7, 2014 - Scientists explain why record-high Antarctic sea ice doesn’t mean global warming isn’t happening

December 12, 2014 - Media Go Into Panic On How To Spin Record Cold

December 30, 2014 - Does Global Warming Theory Predict Record Cold?

January 7, 2015 - As ice melts, polar bears migrate north

January 15, 2015 - Today’s NOAA Arctic radar map shows the Arctic Ice Cap at more than 4,000,000 square miles, larger than on any December 28 in the past five years.

January 14, 2015 - Arctic Is Warming Twice As Fast As World Average : NPR (npr.org)

December 17, 2014 – Arctic sea ice volumes in the autumn of 2014 are above the average set over the last five years and sharply up on the lows seen in 2011 and 2012 , according to the latest satellite data.

January 15, 2015 - 2014 Was Hottest Year on Record , Surpassing 2010. Last year was the hottest in earth’s recorded history , scientists reported on Friday, underscoring scientific warnings about the risks of runaway emissions and undermining claims by climate-change contrarians that global warming had somehow stopped.

September. 3, 2014 – Cold year: 2014 USA temperature record lows outpace record highs nearly 2-1

January 1, 2015 – Britain set for FIVE MONTH arctic freeze as 2015 winter chill sets in. Freezing gales, snow and harsh frosts will hold out until May thanks to plunging temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean.

March 3, 2015 – Maine’s lobster enigma: Record catches in warming waters …

February 18, 2015 – Unprecedented California Sea Lion Strandings Linked To Warmer Pacific. The strandings of a record number of sea lion pups along the California coast this year are linked to a puzzling weather pattern that has warmed their Pacific Ocean habitat and likely impacted fish populations they rely on for food, federal scientists said on Wednesday.

February 26, 2015 - Cold Pacific Ocean is offsetting global warming. Since the end of last El Niño warming event of 1997 to 1998, the tropical Pacific Ocean has been in a relativelycool phase—strong enough to offset the warming created by greenhouse gases.

February 7, 2015 - The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever

When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.

Two weeks ago, under the headline “How we are being tricked by flawed data on global warming”, I wrote about Paul Homewood, who, on his Notalotofpeopleknowthat blog, had checked the published temperature graphs for three weather stations in Paraguay against the temperatures that had originally been recorded. In each instance, the actual trend of 60 years of data had been dramatically reversed , so that a cooling trend was changed to one that showed a marked warming.

This was only the latest of many examples of a practice long recognised by expert observers around the world – one that raises an ever larger question mark over the entire official surface-temperature record.

Homewood has now turned his attention to the weather stations across much of the Arctic, between Canada (51 degrees W) and the heart of Siberia (87 degrees E). Again, in nearly every case, the same one-way adjustments have been made, to show warming up to 1 degree C or more higher than was indicated by the data that was actually recorded. This has surprised no one more than Traust Jonsson, who was long in charge of climate research for the Iceland met office (and with whom Homewood has been in touch). Jonsson was amazed to see how the new version completely “disappears” Iceland’s “sea ice years” around 1970, when a period of extreme cooling almost devastated his country’s economy.

One of the first examples of these “adjustments” was exposed in 2007 by the statistician Steve McIntyre, when he discovered a paper published in 1987 by James Hansen, the scientist (later turned fanatical climate activist) who for many years ran Giss. Hansen’s original graph showed temperatures in the Arctic as having been much higher around 1940 than at any time since. But as Homewood reveals in his blog post, “Temperature adjustments transform Arctic history”, Giss has turned this upside down. Arctic temperatures from that time have been lowered so much that that they are now dwarfed by those of the past 20 years

February 27, 2015 – Cool Pacific Ocean Slowed Global Warming

May 11, 2014 – Pacific Ocean Warm Spots Could Be Culprit in Global Warming

February 10, 2015 – Consider, for instance, that sea surface temperatures off the coast of New England are flashing red, showing an extreme warm anomaly . “Sea surface temperatures off the coast of New England right now are at record levels , 11.5C (21F) warmer than normal in some locations,” says Penn State climate researcher Michael Mann.

March 22, 2015 – The Atlantic Ocean is showing signs of a possible significant long-term shift in temperatures from warm to cold. Sea surface temperatures have dropped considerably during the past eight months or so in much of the northern Atlantic Ocean .

Since around 2006/2007, there has been a definitive downward trend in “monthly heat content anomaly” in the top 700 meters of the northern Atlantic Ocean (below).

February 17, 2015 – Nationally, it’s been one of the warmest winters on record

February 19, 2015 – Pretty much the entire eastern half of the United States is in the icebox . From the Canadian border to the Gulf Coast, temperatures are 25 to 45 degrees below normal.

March 2, 2015 – Antarctic sea ice did the exact opposite of what models predicted

April 17, 2015 – Volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating

March 6, 2015 – El Niño has arrived. Will it help make 2015 the hottest year on record?

May 27, 2015 – NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting a cooler than average summer across the Midwest including the Chicago area.

June 1, 2015 – European Summer Set to Arrive After Cooler-Than-Average May.

June 1, 2015 – with sea surface temperatures out in the North Atlantic several degrees blow average – the chance of cool weather in north-west Britain is increased.

March 10, 2015 - Earth entering period of fastest climate change seen in last 1,000 years. By 2020 the warming will be much more than in the last 2,000 years and rise further if current trends continue.

Europe, North America and the Arctic will feel the transition first. In the Arctic the temperature can see a 1.1 deg rise by 2040.

March 10, 2015 - Never-ending Winter: Cape Cod Freezes Over as Icebergs Wash Ashore. It’s on pace to be a record-setting winter in Massachusetts, as Boston and its surrounds have seemingly been buried since Labor Day. Now, to add insult to injury, “human-sized” icebergs are landing on the scenic shores of Cape Cod. Massive hunks of ice floating in Massachusetts Bay arrived on the beaches of Wellfleet over the weekend, in what WBX meteorologist Eric Fisher said may be a “once-in-a-generation” event.

March 23, 2015 – Atlantic Circulation Weaker Than In Last Thousand Years …

March 25, 2015 – What we are seeing in the high latitudes of the North Atlantic is natural variability, predominantly associated with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Based open observational analyses, there is no sign of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream or the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation .

Now, I am very interested in the AMO, since it strongly influences Atlantic hurricanes, Arctic sea ice, and Greenland climate. We are already seeing a recovery of the Atlantic sector of the Arctic sea ice, and some hints of cooling in Greenland.”

March 28, 2015 – Unseasonable Chill Slowly Ebbs In Eastern U.S.

April 15, 2015 - 2015 Is Shaping Up to Be the Hottest Year on Record

April 21, 2015 – Summer Temperatures Expected to be Relatively Cool in the East

May 22, 2015 – Bangor, ME - Unseasonably chilly weather ushers in freeze watches …

April 2, 2015 – Cooling Europe! Temperature & Vegetation Data Show Central European Springs Starting Later. Just two years ago Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) scientist Friedrich-Wilhelm Gerstengarbe told German ZDF television that spring would be arriving earlier and earlier – because of global warming. Unfortunately this is turning out not to be the case. The opposite is in fact happening.

April 16, 2015 – 2015 Shaping Up To Be Hottest Year On Recor

June 2, 2015 - June snow falls over Scotland’s mountains

"This is 1pm on Tuesday the 2nd of June on Aonach Mor and this is just ridiculous. Unprecedented, perhaps."

The rescue team has also asked if anyone can remember a longer winter season.

April 13, 2015 – Spring sizzle as Britain to enjoy three months of warm weather

May 13, 2015 - Britain may be in for a wet and cool summer thanks to the forecast of a “substantial” El Nino weather phenomenon in the Pacific.

June 18, 2015 – UK weather: June nights to be ‘coldest on record’ as summer takes its time

April 20, 2015 – Cooling in North Atlantic Defies Global Warming | oceanbites

May 23, 2015 – RealClimate: What’s going on in the North Atlantic?

May 27, 2015 – North Atlantic Ocean is cooling , scientists blame melting glaciers

April 29, 2015 - Climate Alarmists fighting a losing battle: Nearly Half Of Young Americans Are Climate Skeptics

In fact, the age group that least agreed with the statement that global warming is a fact and caused by CO2 emissions was that of 18 to 20-year-olds. The assumption that younger US adults are more liberal when it comes to global warming does not hold up ; if anything, they are even more skeptical.

–Emma Kromm, Harvard Political Review

May 5, 2015 - Antarctic Sea Ice Expands To New Record. According to NSIDC, a new record high has been set for April, beating last year. Ice is above average virtually all around the continent . Meanwhile, according to Bob Tisdale, Southern Ocean surface temperatures continue to plunge.

May 7, 2015 - Antarctica is melting faster than ever before — and the result will be devastating

May 9, 2015 - Summer Forecast: Northeast to Endure More 90-Degree Days Than in 2014 ; Extreme Drought to Expand in West

May 21, 2015 – And after all, meteorological summer does begin on June 1st. … Below average temperatures are expected in the Midwest

May 23, 2015 – Below-Average Temperatures for Much of U.S. this Summer

May 13, 2015 - Britain may be in for a wet and cool summer thanks to the forecast of a “substantial” El Nino weather phenomenon in the Pacific.

June 8, 2015 - Brits bask in another day of summer sun… but enjoy it while it lasts as freezing temperatures, frost and thunderstorms are due to hit by the end of this week

June 18, 2015 – UK weather: June nights to be ‘coldest on record’ as summer takes its time

May 22, 2015 – A large part of the central and eastern United States can expect relatively cool conditions during June , July and August, according to the temperature forecast released by The Weather Channel Professional Division on Friday.

June 15, 2015 – The latest global temperature data are breaking records …

June 17, 2015 – United Kingdom - June is on course to be the coldest month in 24 years - with the coldest nights since records began.

June 3, 2015 – It’s Been Really, Really Cold In Boston ( But It Ends Soon ).

June 18, 2015 – United Kingdom. Met Office: Chilly start to June. Will it last all summer? The first half of June has been much cooler than average.

June 19, 2015 – Scotland - June on track to be coldest summer for 40 years

June 19, 2015 – So far, 2015 has been the hottest year since records began

June 5, 2015 - Decades-Long Weather Shifts Due From Atlantic Cooling

June 8, 2015 – Report: Warming water in LI Sound altering fish populations …

June 23, 2015 – Natural Gas Price Falls on Cool Weather Forecasts - WSJ

June 26, 2015 - Daily weather patterns have changed in recent decades, making eastern North America, Europe and western Asia more prone to nastier summer heatwaves that go beyond global warming, a new U.S. study finds.

July 1, 2015 – Ohio – Will real summer weather ever materialize this year?

Updated through page 36 June 9, 2015

January 5, 2017 - North Atlantic Cooling Has Plunged Below 1950s (And 1800s) Levels

January 16, 2017 - “It’s really perplexing that you’ve got a set of federal scientists who are sampling the ocean methodically and coming up with a very different picture than the fishermen about what’s going on out in the Gulf of Maine,” Jonathan Labaree of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute said.

The type of trawl net scientists use and the boat they pull it from, which is larger than many commercial fishing vessels, do a poor job catching certain species . Pearce claimed that the surveys happen in the wrong places and that because the ocean has warmed, cod cluster in deeper water than they used to.

January 18, 2017 - The last time the Earth was this warm was 125,000 years ago

February 23, 2017 - 2017 Europe spring forecast: Winter to linger from UK to Poland …Britain to FREEZE until May: UK set for COLDEST spring in YEARS as weather warnings issued. FREEZING winds, snow and sub-zero temperatures will keep Britain locked in the freezer until MAY, dire forecasts predict.

February 8, 2017 – Casinos start 2017 in the hole

Northwest Indiana’s casinos started the year on a down note, bringing in more than 5 percent less gambling revenue in January than in the same month a year ago.

February 15, 2017 - Early results show gambling down at Saratoga after Rivers Casino opens. \

March 22, 2017 – Online Casino Gambling: Amaya Says PokerStars Revenue Down in 2016

Amaya, owner of the world’s largest poker platform, announced its fourth-quarter earnings this week. The company said that real-money online poker revenues for the quarter were $217.2 million, a decline of 5.1 percent year-over-year . Poker revenue for all of 2016 was $846.1 million, a decrease of 4.6 percent compared to 2015.

March 28, 2017 – Gambling revenue consistently down in Shreveport-Bossier

April 19, 2017 - Delaware Internet Gaming Market Struggles as March Revenue Drops

May 15, 2017 – U.K. - 888 shares drop amid Gambling Commission review

It’s May, 2017, and great, epochal positive changes are underway at every level of our reality. That includes steep, ongoing drops in alcohol consumption around the globe.

" Restaurant liquor sales fall for third straight year. " That’s a mapping data point against the three years covered by this thread.

And those positive changes are increasing in speed and magnitude:

“Beer consumption in Belgium fell again last year, the drop being more outspoken than in the years before.”

In the controlled-Media accounts below, you’ll see a host of local, micro-level plausible deniability excuses put forward to explain the drop. The actual reason is placed last:

“The institute of Alcohol Studies points to two main reasons for the drop. Young people have less money to spend on alcohol , due to more taxes, higher tuition, and the recession. And parents are worrying more about their children’s drinking . Other reasons include an increase in legal enforcement against underage drinking , and a backlash from young people against the previous generations drinking habit.”

In propaganda terms, putting all those specious reasons up front is called “throwing chaff”.

In some cases, as in the example from Belgium, no reason is put forward, at all .

Even the fact that it is happening, at all, is hard for them to admit: " Competition for alcohol sales at the bar to escalate in 2017 ". Wait, does that mean more brands available? Or bars competing for fewer drinkers? I’m so confused and ensheepled! And its carefully crafted so that “sales at the bar to escalate” is there in the sentence, to imprint upon your subconscious. So devious! So masterful, are they not? And the rubes will never notice .

Here’s more propaganda gymnastics, doing anything to keep from saying it to you straight: " New report from Technomic and Beverage Marketing Corporation finds consumer drink occasions flat ." It has something to do with their occasions , you see. It’s not falling, it’s flat. Tireless, ceaseless hedging, stonewalling.

And there’s always the tried-and-true negative hedge after positive news, with finger-wagging: "Kiwis are downing less booze, but our drinking habits are as harmful as ever."

Do you think this sort of propaganda and spin is having any impact on the positive changes, at all? I don’t.

It even makes it easier for people like me to demonstrate things like a wholly-controlled-and-coopted Media, and that the folks in charge are lying to you about basically everything, including falling alcohol consumption.

Rejoice - their time is at an end:

“You can look at this study two ways. One, millennials are ‘boring.’ We drink less, go out less and that means we’re having less fun, right? Or two, we’re being smarter. Smarter with our money, smarter with our health and generally smarter with our wellbeing. You know the drill, alcohol is linked to over 60 illnesses and diseases, including liver disease and cancer so drinking less will always be a positive thing.”

July 13, 2016 - Boo(ze)-hoo! Restaurant liquor sales fall for third straight year

December 6, 2016 - Competition for alcohol sales at the bar to escalate in 2017

December 6, 2016 - Chicago - New report from Technomic and Beverage Marketing Corporation finds consumer drink occasions flat.

December 7, 2016 - Maryland alcohol tax increase linked to drop in drunk driving crashes

January 17, 2017 - Minnesota - Sunday liquor sales off to a fast start at Capitol

February 26, 2017 - U.K. - Forget the hangover, under-25’s turn to mindful drinking

Feb 26, 2017 - New Zealand - Global Drug Survey 2017: Kiwis are downing less booze , but our drinking habits are as harmful as ever

March 8, 2017 - Indiana - This stated dumped its ban on Sunday alcohol sales

March 13, 2017 - Beer Industry Could Lose $2 Billion from Legal Marijuana - Forbes

March 27, 2017 - 2017 alcohol sales: No new drinkers , but more people paying for qualiity

April 24, 2017 - Washington - Pierce County populace smoking and drinking less, exercising more

May 4, 2017 – U.K. - Young people in the U.K. are binge drinking less

The share of young people who binge drink is falling in the U.K., from 49% of drinkers aged 16 to 24 years in 2005, to 37% in 2016.

The institute of Alcohol Studies points to two main reasons for the drop. Young people have less money to spend on alcohol , due to more taxes, higher tuition, and the recession. And parents are worrying more about their children’s drinking .

Other reasons include an increase in legal enforcement against underage drinking , and a backlash from young people against the previous generations drinking habit.

May 4, 2017 - U.K. - WE’RE ALL DRINKING LESS , ACCORDING TO NEW STATS

Official figures have been released from the Office for National Statistics, and according to them drinking alcohol is at the lowest level it’s ever been on record.

According to the study, 56.9% of people aged 16 and over had a drink in the week before the interview, this has fallen from 64.2% back in 2005. 21% of us are not drinking at all, and most drinking much less than normal. So, what’s happened? Have we all decided the hangover isn’t worth it? It’s too expensive, or are we all just too concerned with our health?

According to the statistics, men and women aged 45-64 are much more likely to binge drink than any other age group across the whole population. It found that those in managerial or professional jobs are more likely to drink five times a week or more. It seems like Baby Boomers and Generation X, the Ab Fab generation, are still living a supposedly stress free life where hungover panic attacks don’t exist. Whereas us millennials are either too poor, or too stressed to pick up a drink.

Student Sally, 20, told me she used to take up every opportunity to go out drinking - which would sometimes be up to 4-5 times a week. Her habits changed when she experienced crippling anxiety in the following days after a night out. Binge drinking, poor sleeping habits and student life were all attributed to the way she felt, both mentally and health wise. Since she’s cut back, not only has her mood improved, but she feels content with how her weekends are spent. Rather than hungover, she’s more productive and no longer wastes days.

You can look at this study two ways. One, millennials are ‘boring.’ We drink less, go out less and that means we’re having less fun, right? Or two, we’re being smarter. Smarter with our money, smarter with our health and generally smarter with our wellbeing. You know the drill, alcohol is linked to over 60 illnesses and diseases, including liver disease and cancer so drinking less will always be a positive thing.

May 12, 2017 – Belgium - Belgians drinking less beer!

Beer consumption in Belgium fell again last year , the drop being more outspoken than in the years before . On the other hand, exports of Belgian beers are booming, the Federation of Belgian Brewers announced. In Belgium, Trappist and Abbey Beers lost 5.4 percent, fruit beers such as Gueuze and Kriek 5.6 percent. The common lager saw consumption figures fall by 4.3 percent.

May 23, 2017 - Australia - Don’t believe the hype , teens are drinking less than they used to

Don forwarded me correspondence from a gifter in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains, who related that Diaz creek, which runs through their property in the Alabama Hills, outside the Eastern Sierra town of Lone Pine, CA.

They related that, after being dry for years, it’s now flowing nicely, and they thought is was at least Don and Carol’s doing, from their gifting of the ridge in the Sierras that Wilhelm Reich thought to be the lynchpin of the Death energy-based desertification agenda.

Every day, more good news, a world transforming back to the way it used to be…

It’s May, 2017, and the great artificial drought has been broken by the slow, steady, widespread and ever-increasing distribution of simple, inexpensive Orgonite devices in the vicinity of the Death energy-based weather warfare infrastructure that many still mistakenly presume only carrie s cell phone traffic and weather radar data.

In one of the stories below, we read “ After a long winter, followed by early-spring rain and late-season snow, some in the Northeast in Midwest tend to get itchy with persistently cloudy, wet weather in May ."

Where " some " and " tend to " both hedge defensively.

That’s followed by this quote:

“It’s hard to believe it’s almost summer,” said weather.com digital meteorologist Brian Donegan, from central New York. "I’m just waiting for the days when I can go outside without a long-sleeve shirt or light jacket for more than a few days a time. "

Here in what is purported to be the hottest year in the history of planet Earth, can you see how the reporter said “ cloudy, wet weather ” in the first paragraph, and carefully avoided saying anything about “ cold ”?

Precisely the same tactic is used in another story, below, whose headline reads “ Soggy end to May but summer months looking warmer. ” Wait…” soggy ” has nothing to do with temperature. They placed “ soggy ” where it sould read “cold”, because they’re forbidden from mentioning the fact that it’s been unseasonably cold all spring - given that we’re supposed to be here in midst of the hottest year in the history of planet Earth. And they said “soggy end to May” to imply it didn’t rain all month - which it did. That’s more careful, defensive hedging.

Yet another finger-wagging hedge, “ but summer months looking warmer ”, is used at the end.

My next compilation from this thread will feature the breaking of the great artificial drought. Once I’ve completed the multi-year doublethink compilations, it will be easy to pull out the subset of “fraudulent future predictions”, like this one, and I think it will be really effective, seeing years of them in a row, much like when one reads literally dozens of examples of experts puzzled about the death of whales and other marine life. Or experts being serially puzzled about any subject, for that matter.

Another story says " Record Flooding in April/May 2017 Swamps Parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois ." That’s a gymnastic way to avoid saying " record rainfall ."

In the meantime, revel in the great positive change that’s occurring all around the globe, and which is not stopping, and which is increasing in speed and magnitude:

May 1, 2017 - Buffalo Sets Rainfall Record for April

May 5, 2017 – Record Flooding in April/May 2017 Swamps Parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois.

May 27, 2017 - India - Bengaluru city on the verge of breaking 60-year rain record for May

May 30, 2017 - Eastern May Rain Fatigue; Any Break Ahead in June?

After a long winter, followed by early-spring rain and late-season snow , some in the Northeast and Midwest tend to get itchy with persistently cloudy, wet weather in May.

" It’s hard to believe it’s almost summer ," said weather.com digital meteorologist Brian Donegan, from central New York.

"I’m just waiting for the days when I can go outside without a long-sleeve shirt or light jacket for more than a few days a time."

It’s even had an effect on the baseball season.

According to Major League Baseball, through the May 26th postponement of the Detroit Tigers - Chicago White Sox game, there had been more postponements in less than the first two months of 2017 (26) than all of 2016.

May 30, 2017 - WEATHER: Soggy end to May but summer months looking warmer

Sweeping Positive Societal Change – Increasing in Speed and Magnitude

Compilation from Beginning of Thread - Currently updated through page 19, October 10, 2014

Between 1960 and 1980, California’s violent crime rate increased from 239 to 894 violent crimes per 100,000 residents— a staggering 274% rise.

January 7, 2007 - Domestic Violence Rates Drop Sharply -Although the rates of domestic violence followed a ten-year trend of general declining crime rates in the U.S., officials do not know the reason.

June 16, 2010 - A crime puzzle : Violent crime declines in America

Violent crime went down in America again last year.

August, 2010 – the divorce rate is at its lowest point since the early 1970s. And infidelity has continued to decline .

It runs counter to this image people have of Tiger Woods and divorce,” Prof. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, says. “ They get a sense from the media that divorce is prevalent but the reality is we’re not experiencing divorce that way .”

As the downturn wears on, the divorce rate decreased more from 2008 to 2009 than from 2007 to 2008. L egal fees, a dreary real-estate market and other economic malaise might be causing some couples to hold off from divorcing. Others may be banding together in tough times.

September 14, 2010 - Crime rate decline puzzles theorists

2011 - The homicide rate in Russia dropped from 31,553 in 2004 down to 11,500 in 2011 (down 63% in 7 years - ed)

May, 2011 – Steady Decline in Major Crime Baffles Experts

The number of violent crimes in the United States dropped significantly last year, to what appeared to be the lowest rate in nearly 40 years , a development that was considered puzzling partly because it ran counter to the prevailing expectation that crime would increase during a recession .

In all regions, the country appears to be safer. The odds of being murdered or robbed are now less than half of what they were in the early 1990s , when violent crime peaked in the United States. Small towns, especially, are seeing far fewer murders: In cities with populations under 10,000, the number plunged by more than 25 percent last year.

September 21, 2011 - From 1993 through 2010, the rate of violent crime has declined by 70 percent.

October, 2011 – WASHINGTON – It seems as if violence is everywhere , but it’s really on the run.

Historically, we’ve never had it this peaceful. Statistics reveal dramatic reductions in war deaths, family violence, racism, rape, murder and all sorts of mayhem.

In his book, Pinker writes: “The decline of violence may be the most significant and least appreciated development in the history of our species.” And it runs counter to what the mass media is reporting and essentially what we feel in our guts.

Pinker and other experts say the reality is not painted in bloody anecdotes, but demonstrated in the black and white of spreadsheets and historical documents. They tell a story of a world moving away from violence.

Murder within families. The U.S. rate of husbands being killed by their wives has dropped from 1.2 per 100,000 in 1976 to just 0.2. For wives killed by their husbands, the rate has slipped from 1.4 to 0.8 over the same time period.

Rape in the United States is down 80 percent since 1973. Lynchings, which used to occur at a rate of 150 a year, have disappeared.

It’s hard for many people to buy the decline in violence . Even those who deal in peace for a living at first couldn’t believe it when the first academics started counting up battle deaths and recognized the trends.

The “Human Security Report 2009/2010,” a project led by Mack and funded by several governments, is a worldwide examination of war and violence and has been published as a book. It cites jarringly low numbers.While the number of wars has increased by 25 percent, they’ve been minor ones. The average annual battle death toll has dropped from nearly 10,000 per conflict in the 1950s to less than 1,000 in the 21st century. And the number of deadliest wars – those that kill at least 1,000 people a year – has fallen by 78 percent since 1988 .

October 31, 2011 - Most Americans Believe Crime in U.S. Is Worsening - Despite a sharp decline in the United States’ violent crime rate since the mid-1990s, the majority of Americans, 68%, continue to believe nation’s crime problem is getting worse, as they have for most of the past decade. Currently, 68% say there is more crime in the U.S. than there was a year ago, 17% say less, and 8% volunteer that crime is unchanged.

November 8, 2011 – Significant Fall in Violent Crime in Rio State, Brazil

December, 2011 – The number of crimes in Japan detected by police between January and November dropped 6.5 percent from a year earlier

December 20, 2011 – Violent Crime Rate in US Keeps Dropping, Lowest Since 1960s

Manila, Phillipines - Crime rate down 16% in first 3 months of 2012

January 3, 2012 - Experts continue to be baffled by declining violent crime rate

March 24, 2012 - They are responsible for some of the government’s most important policies - but staff at the Department of Energy and Climate Change are too ashamed to admit where they work. Staff morale is so low the government has spent almost $175,000 on consultants to lift staff’s flagging spirits.

A negative public image of the department, changing environmental policies and lack of internal support had left them feeling miserable and disengaged, an internal report has found. The department is responsible for carrying out some of the government’s most critical and controversial policies, including those relating to global warming, carbon emission reduction and promoting energy efficiency.

The findings of the report are so damning the government only released it nine months after it was first requested by the Opposition under Freedom of Information laws.

The report, which also includes a survey of 788 people, found the department to have “low levels” of employee engagement. Staff held a poor view of the department, felt a lack of purpose, were uninformed about changes to policies and procedures, and worried about their future employment.

"Many reported having to think about whether they would tell people where they worked because of the department’s negative image ," the report said.

June, 2012 - FBI: Violent crime rates in the US drop, approach historic lows

Violent crime rates in the U.S. are reaching historic lows. Instances of murder declined overall by 1.9 percent from 2010 figures , while rape, robbery and aggravated assault declined by 4 percent nationwide .

Although the findings, released in the FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, represent a seemingly small decline in crime overall, they aren’t just a blip. Rather, criminologists say, the decline is part of larger downward trend and the result of a series of changes that have contributed to a more peaceful society.

“This is actually a pretty significant drop, which is fascinating because we’d normally expect crime to go up when we’re in an economic downturn ,” Gary LaFree, a criminology professor at the University of Maryland, told msnbc.com, adding that the U.S. is experiencing the lowest crime levels since World War II.

According to FBI analysis, the homicide drop would mean that nearly 280 fewer Americans were murdered last year, which would be the lowest homicide death toll since the mid-1950s.

June 11, 2012 - Still more (and still puzzling ) crime rate declines reported

October 29, 2012 - Violent crime in the United States fell for the fifth consecutive year

December 26, 2012 - Shootings and murders have dropped this year along with a steep decline in the number of stop-and-frisks that NYPD officials have long touted as a weapon to stop gun violence.

January, 2013 - Fall in UK crime rate baffles experts

The classic theory that property crime rises faster in times of economic strife no longer seems to apply, latest figures show

The surprise 8% fall in crime last year , revealed by government statisticians on Thursday, is sending the academic experts scurrying to rewrite their basic ‘Criminology 101’ lecture and the theory that recession leads to rising crime, particularly property crime. The official statisticians say the latest crime figures for England and Wales, which include a 10% drop in the murder rate to 549 homicides, the lowest level since 1978, herald a resumption in the long-term decline that has been going on for nearly 20 years.

January 27, 2013 - Lake Tahoe, Nevada - casino revenue across the state down 2.6 percent from October 2012. On the South Shore gaming revenue f ell 23 percent.

February 7, 2013 – Manila, Phillipines - January crime rate down by 60 percent

May 7, 2013 - Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak - Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly ( 72% ) over two decades.

May 9, 2013 - A spate of high-profile shootings has left Americans with the perception that gun crimes are on the rise, but a new study shows the opposite appears to be true.

A Pew Research poll released this week found that 56 percent of adults believe that gun crime is more common now than 20 years ago . But a report by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics seems to show that crime involving firearms has fallen dramatically over the last 20 years, with the rate of homicides committed with guns cut in half since 1993 . The rate of the violent crimes fell even more, and is now just a quarter of what it was.

“When people respond in opinion polls, it’s shaped from what they’re getting through the network news, the New York Times, the Washington Post. "

  • Alan Gottlieb, The Second Amendment Foundation

In the Pew poll of 924 adults, just 12 percent correctly answered that gun crime fell over the last 20 years . Gun rights advocates say media coverage of gun violence has distorted the public perception.

June 22, 2013 – Lead vaccine developer comes clean so she can "sleep at night"

Gardasil and Cervarix Don’t Work, Are Dangerous, and Weren’t Tested

Dr. Diane Harper was the lead researcher in the development of the human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix. She is the latest to come forward and question the safety and effectiveness of these vaccines. She made the surprising announcement at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination, which took place in Reston, Virginia on Oct. 2nd through 4th, 2009. Her speech was supposed to promote the Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines, but she instead turned on her corporate bosses in a very public way . When questioned about the presentation, audience members remarked that they came away feeling that the vaccines should not be used.

“I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all .” - Joan Robinson

July, 2013 - India bans captive dolphin shows , says dolphins should be seen as ‘non-human persons’

July, 2013 - NEW YORK (AP) — Coca-Cola says its profit dipped in the latest quarter, as the world’s largest beverage maker blamed bad weather and challenging economic conditions for weak volume growth

Coca-Cola’s shares fell nearly 3% in premarket trading. It is one of the 30 stocks in the benchmark Dow Jones industrial average. The Atlanta-based company, which makes Sprite, Powerade and Dasani, says global volume rose 1% in the period. But in its flagship North American market, volume declined 1%, including a 4% drop in sodas.

July 12, 2013 – Mexico Reports Drop in Crime-Related Homicides

July 18, 2013 – Crime in England and Wales falls to lowest level since survey began in 1981

July 26, 2013 - What’s behind Canada’s improving crime stats?

August, 2013 - Long John Silver’s reportedly announced on Wednesday that the seafood chain has begun switching all U.S. restaurants to trans fat free cooking oil.

August 2013 – Japan went nuclear-free on Monday as it switched off its last operating reactor for an inspection, with no date scheduled for a restart amid strong public hostility to atomic power.

Kansai Electric Power took offline the No. 4 reactor at its Oi nuclear plant in the western prefecture of Fukui at 1:33 am (1633 GMT Sunday) “without any problems,” said a company official. The move left the world’s third largest economy without atomic energy for the second time since the Fukushima nuclear crisis erupted in March 2011.

Nuclear power supplied about one-third of the resource-poor nation’s electricity before a tsunami knocked out cooling systems and sparked meltdowns at Fukushima, causing tens of thousands to flee their homes. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has openly backed a return to the widespread use of atomic energy, but the public remains divided over his support, with opponents concerned on safety grounds.

Japan previously was without any nuclear energy in May 2012, when all of the country’s 50 commercial reactors stopped for checkups in the wake of the disaster. Utilities were unable immediately to restart them due to public opposition .

August 30, 2013 - Monsanto insiders dump stock as the truth about GMOs spreads across Wall Street

Monsanto executives and insiders are dumping Monsanto stock in record volumes, sending the stock price spiraling downward. CEO Hugh Grant just sold off 40,000 shares at $97.74, and both Janet Holloway and Gerald Steiner - both high-level Monsanto executives - recently ditched more than 10,000 shares each. Tom Hartley also bailed on another 6,000 shares at $100.15.

Hedge funds, meanwhile, are also dumping Monsanto stock, most likely due to sharply increased "negative sentiment."

September, 2013 - Police in Seattle, Washington have responded to a major public outcry by disabling a recently discovered law enforcement tool that critics said could be used to conduct sweeping surveillance across the city.

The SPD said they had no bad intentions with installing the mesh network , but The Stranger article and the subsequent media coverage it spawned quickly caused the system to receive the type of attention that wasn’t very welcomed. Now only days after citizens began calling for the dismantling of the mesh network, The Stranger has confirmed that the SPD are disabling the devices until a proper policy could be adopted by the city.

" The wireless mesh network will be deactivated until city council approves a draft policy and until there’s an opportunity for vigorous public debate," Police Chief Jim Pugel told The Stranger for an article published late Tuesday.

September, 2013 - Israel commits to ending water fluoridation by 2014, citing major health concerns

Israel’s Ministry of Health has made a bold ruling against artificial water fluoridation, reversing more than 15 years of forced poisoning via public water supplies in the Middle Eastern country. A recent announcement by Israel’s Supreme Court has declared that a 1974 law permitting – and a later 1998 law requiring – all public water supplies in Israel to be fluoridated are both outdated and invalid, and that all current fluoridation programs in the country will have to end by April 9, 2014, in order to comply with new public safety requirements.

The welcomed ruling came after a petition filed last year by two dedicated individuals, including a representative of Israel’s Association for Dissemination of Health Education, brought to light numerous dangers associated with water fluoridation. These include lowered IQ, brittle bones and teeth and damage to the thyroid gland, serious side effects that are hardly justified by the flimsy and antiquated arguments claiming that ingested fluoride somehow helps prevent tooth decay.

The three Israeli Supreme Court justices who heard the case, along with Israeli Health Minister Yael German, took all this information to task and ultimately concluded that fluoride is, indeed, a public health threat and provides minimal, if any, health benefit to society.

“We have noted before us the State’s obligation to stop the fluorination of drinking water within one year,” reads an English-translated release of the ruling, which you can view at the following link:

" Zealous fluoridation promoters try to convince the American public that ‘everyone drinks fluoridated water.’ But the opposite is true ," says Dr. Paul Connett, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Fluoride Action Network. " An overwhelming number of countries do not fluoridate, including 97 percent of the European population . In fact, over half the people in the world drinking fluoridated water live in the U.S."

“What I find remarkable here is that Health Minister German [Israel’s Health Minister] has been able to escape the unscientific belief system on fluoridation that traps so many public health bureaucracies in fluoridated countries,” he adds.

October 8, 2013 - Northwest Indiana casino revenues dropped 7.3 percent in September as compared to the year-ago-month

October 11, 2013 - Gaming revenues down by 10 percent on Las Vegas Strip

October 22, 2013 - Just three days ago, Mexico banned genetically engineered corn . Citing the risk of imminent harm to the environment , a Mexican judge ruled that, effective immediately, no genetically engineered corn can be planted in the country. This means that companies like Monsanto will no longer be allowed to plant or sell their corn within the country’s borders.

At the same time, the County Council for the island of Kauai passed a law that mandates farms to disclose pesticide use and the presence of genetically modified crops. The bill also requires a 500-foot buffer zone near medical facilities, schools and homes — among other locations.

And the big island of Hawaii County Council gave preliminary approval to a bill that prohibits open air cultivation, propagation, development or testing of genetically engineered crops or plants. The bill, which still needs further confirmation to become law, would also prohibit biotech companies from operating on the Big Island.

Nobody knows what’s going to happen in Washington between now and November 5. But from Mexico, to Hawaii and to the 64 nations that already have GMO labeling, this tide just might be turning.

Oct 22, 2013 - Mississippi casinos won less money from gamblers in September for the 13th month out of 15

October 23, 2013 - Baton Rouge, LA casino revenue dropped to $20.9 million in September, 17 percent less than the $25.2 million posted for September 2012

November, 2013 - The TV business is having its worst year ever.

Audience ratings have collapsed: Aside from a brief respite during the Olympics, there has been only negative ratings growth on broadcast and cable TV since September 2011 , according to Citi Research.

Media stock analysts Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson recently noted, " The pay-TV industry has reported its worst 12-month stretch ever." All the major TV providers lost a collective 113,000 subscribers in Q3 2013. That doesn’t sound like a huge deal — but it includes internet subscribers, too.

Broadband internet was supposed to benefit from the end of cable TV , but it hasn’t. In all, about 5 million people ended their cable and broadband subs between the beginning of 2010 and the end of this year.

People are unplugging .

November 25, 2013 – Newly released surveillance video shows the terrifying moments an armed robber boarded a Seattle bus and how passengers took him down.

The incident began Nov. 25 when a masked man got on the bus at a stop in downtown Seattle and, at first, sat down like a fellow passenger.

“We noticed that his face was kind of covered and he was wearing a hoodie, too, so you couldn’t quite tell what was going on”, passenger Chris Briggs told local ABC affiliate KOMO.

The gunman, identified by Seattle police as 19-year-old Trevonnte Brown, then pulled out a handgun and demanded that two passengers hand him their cellphones.

“He came up to me … stuck the gun at me and took my phone,” said Briggs, one of the two passengers robbed. “He jabbed me a little harder and said, ‘Don’t make this any harder than it has to be.’”

As Brown made his way to the front of the bus, a seated passenger lunged at him and his gun, even as Brown pointed it in the passenger’s face, according to KOMO.

Other passengers, including Briggs, then jumped into the fray and pinned Brown down to the ground.

"People were kind of committed at that point," Briggs said. "It was just kinda one of those things that no one gave any thought to once things started happening."

December, 2013 - WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of law-enforcement officers killed by firearms in 2013 fell to levels not seen since the 19th century , according to a report released Monday.

The annual report from the nonprofit National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund also found that deaths in the line of duty generally fell by 8 percent and were the fewest since 1959.

According to the report, 111 federal, state, local, tribal and territorial officers were killed in the line of duty nationwide this past year, compared to 121 in 2012. Forty-six officers were killed in traffic related accidents, and 33 were killed by firearms. The number of firearms deaths fell 33 percent in 2013 and was the lowest since 1887.

December 8, 2013 - arlier this week in Thailand, a shocking turn of events took place. Ordered to harass and block protesters, policemen instead yielded to the peaceful riot by laying down their barricades and helmets as a sign of solidarity. The gathering protesters explained that their goal is to destroy the political machine of former Prime Minister Thakskin Shinawatra, who is accused of widespread corruption and abuse of power.

The present Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is Thakskin’s sister and is seen as a puppet of her brother. In a move to topple the Shinawatra government, protesters planned on storming the Bangkok Metropolitan Police Bureau. This act was devised and led by protest leader, Suthep Thaugsuban.

But what police did instead surprised many . Their lowering of arms and joining with protesters marks a turning point in the protests and a potential shift in power.

The following video shares the triumphant merging of both sides.

December 10, 2013 - Diet soda is not as popular as it once was . Sales of low calorie soda fell by nearly 7 percent over the last year , while sales of regular soda dropped just over 2 percent, according to a Wells Fargo analysis of Nielsen data.

Though soda is still the most consumed beverage in the United States overall, consumption has been declining for several years. “It used to be carbonated soft drinks were it,” says Gary Hemphill, Managing Director of Research for the Beverage Marketing Corporation, a consulting and research firm. “If you were thirsty, and you wanted something fun and refreshing, that is what you would drink. In the 80’s, you saw it broadening, that’s carried on at an accelerated pace.” But while the industry once hoped that diet soda would be its salvation, but the artificially sweetened soda has begun to contract more quickly than its full-sugar counterpart.

The explanation, experts say, is a combination of consumer’s concerns about health and the rapid proliferation of alternatives. Contemporary consumers are particularly concerned about the safety of artificial sweeteners. According to a report on health and wellness from the Hartman Group, a research and consulting firm that specializes in consumer behavior, as compared to 2007, more consumers in 2013 were concerned about avoiding sweeteners like Saccharine, Aspartame (in Diet Coke and Pepsi), and Sucralose, while those concerned about avoiding salt and refined sugar, dropped.

The report also showed a rise in the number of people concerned with genetically modified ingredients—evidence that concern about soda could be part of a larger trend away from processed foods. “The biggest trend in food, really, is a desire for consumers to move away from things that are very processed,” Hartman Group’s CEO, Laurie Demerit “The drumbeat of trend is increasing and there’s now some other ingredients to fill the gap.”

January 3, 2014 – US organic food market to grow 14% from 2013-18

January 6, 2014 - Pennsylvania: Statewide, $2.38 billion was generated from slot machine revenue in 2013. That figure amounts to 3.5 percent less than in 2012.

January 8, 2014 - Record-High 42% of Americans Identify as Independents

Forty-two percent of Americans, on average, identified as political independents in 2013, the highest Gallup has measured since it began conducting interviews by telephone 25 years ago. Meanwhile, Republican identification fell to 25%, the lowest over that time span. At 31%, Democratic identification is unchanged from the last four years but down from 36% in 2008.

The rise in political independence is likely an outgrowth of Americans’ record or near-record negative views of the two major U.S. parties, of Congress, and their low level of trust in government more generally.

January 10, 2014 - Let Banks Fail Is Iceland Mantra as 2% Joblessness in Sight

Iceland let its banks fail in 2008 because they proved too big to save.

Now, the island is finding crisis-management decisions made half a decade ago have put it on a trajectory that’s turned 2 percent unemployment into a realistic goal.

January 14, 2014 - AC Casino Revenue Below $3B; 1st Time in 22 Years

It marked the seventh straight year of plunging gambling revenue for Atlantic City , which won $5.2 billion in 2006. That was the year the first of what would become 12 Pennsylvania casinos opened, cutting deeply into a market the New Jersey resort town once called its own.

January 15, 2014 - New Jersey gaming revenue falls despite introduction of online gambling

January 16, 2014 - Congress offers glimmer of hope for incandescent lightbulb

The bill includes a prohibition on funding for “the Administration’s onerous ‘light bulb’ standard,” as Appropriations Committee chairman Hal Rogers (R., Ky) described it, which had sought to dramatically improve the energy efficiency of ordinary incandescent light bulbs but ultimately spelled the end of the road for the century-old technology.

A portion of that 2007 law, which finally took effect on Jan. 1, mandated that manufacturers improve their light bulbs: 40W bulbs must draw just 10.5W, and 60W bulbs must draw no more than 11W. The result is the effectively a ban: Incandescents simply can’t keep up with those twisty compact fluorescent (CFL) and newer LED bulbs.

But there’s hope for those glass globes yet, however: Citing “a continued public desire for these products,” the Energy and Water Appropriations section of the bill would prohibit funds to implement or enforce the higher efficiency light bulb standards .

January 17, 2014 – PITTSBURGH - Pennsylvania’s streak of winning hands, at least in terms of gambling revenue, has come to an end. For the first time since the first racetrack casino opened in the state in 2006 , total gambling revenue dropped last year , according to numbers released Thursday by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

January 20, 2014 - Catalan National Assembly collects 235,000 signatures for independence in one weekend

January 21, 2014 - Butter is now winning the fat wars

Unilever: ‘We have been too obsessed, overly obsessed’ with margarine

Butter is back.

Despite years of being warned that butter is bad for you , Americans are looking the other way. Sales of the rich stuff now top $2 billion a year in the U.S. — a 65% increase since 2000 . The American Butter Institute also reports that per-capita consumption is now at 40-year high of 5.6 pounds.

February 8, 2014 - Organic food back in vogue as sales increase

Shoppers are now more concerned with the quality of what they eat, say retailers

After years of falling sales , organic food is making a comeback. Supermarkets and food associations say that after a sustained decline, demand for organic fruit, vegetables and dairy produce is on the rise, as consumers become more willing to pay a premium for food produced to higher farming standards.

Sexton said growth was led by dairy products, which are outperforming sales in the non-organic dairy sector. “Organic sales account for 5%, 7% and 5.3% respectively of all milk, yoghurt and eggs,” he said. Organic baby food still makes up more than 54% of all baby-food purchases ."

Latest growth figures from retail analysts Nielsen indicate that overall organic sales grew by just over 1% last year, valuing the UK organic market at £1.24bn.

Abel & Cole, the organic food supplier that came close to collapse when recession struck, released results last week showing it has emerged from huge debts to record a rise in turnover. Sales rose to £38m in the eight months to May 2013, a 24 per cent increase on the same period a year before.

Tesco reports sales of organic bananas are up 60%, while sales of other fruits, such as grapes and apples, have also shown double-digit growth. It says organic dairy products are enjoying a boom. Sales of organic feta cheese, for example, are up 95% at Tesco, while those of organic mature cheddar are up 45%. Organic whole milk sales are up 40% with semi-skimmed up 25%.

February 11, 2014 - NEW YORK — McDonald’s says bad weather hurt its U.S. sales performance in January, representing another setback as the fast-food chain fights to fend off rivals and get its menu right.

Company stock sank 1% to $94.97 per share in morning trading. The world’s biggest hamburger chain says sales fell 3.3% at established U.S. locations last month.

The decline in the U.S. is just the latest disappointment for McDonald’s, which has conceded that its kitchen operations got overly complicated by the pace of new menu offerings . CEO Don Thompson also recently noted that the chain has lost some of its “relevance” with customers . In hopes of attracting more diners, McDonald’s has been aggressively promoting its revamped Dollar Menu, which includes new burgers that cost more than a dollar. The rollout of the Dollar Menu & More was designed to help improve the company’s profit margins without alienating price-sensitive customers who’ve grown accustomed to the idea of paying just a buck for various items.

Still, rivals including Burger King and Wendy’s have been promoting their value menus and special offers as well. More broadly, McDonald’s is trying to adapt to shifting eating habits by introducing items that are positioned as healthy or fresh, such as its chicken wraps and breakfast sandwiches made with egg whites.

The efforts have yet to pay off. According to a regulatory filing, McDonald’s saw customer traffic at established locations decline 1.6% in the U.S. last year.

February 18, 2014 - Violent Crimes Declined Across Country in First Six Months of 2013, F.B.I. Says

WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday that violent crimes, including murders, fell by 5.4 percent in the first six months of 2013 compared with the same period in 2012, continuing a long reduction in violent crime across the country.

“We have had almost 25 years of a decline in crime, but on a year-to-year basis it’s hard to come up with a story, ” John Roman, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center, said, referring to efforts to pinpoint reasons for the lower numbers. “But over all, this shows how we’ve gotten smarter on policing, immigration and gentrification in the cities and elsewhere.”

Small cities and rural areas saw a larger reduction in violent crime than metropolitan areas, and, by region, crime fell the most in the Midwest.

In all, murders fell by 6.9 percent, aggravated assaults by 6.6 percent and robberies by 1.8 percent, the bureau said

February 21, 2014 – Gambling Revenue Drops in New Orleans, Baton Rouge

February 28, 2014 - Analysts shrug off decline in January gaming revenue. Nevada gaming revenue declined 2.76 percent in January to $884.2 million while Strip gaming revenue fell 1.41 percent to $499.8 million.

March 26, 2014 - Michigan boy, 8, pays it forward with $27K in lunch donations

Heroes aren’t always big, and they don’t have to wear capes and masks. Cayden Taipalus proves that point. What the 8-year-old lacks in stature, he more than makes up for in heart.

And a lot of people, from a congressman to school board members, have taken notice. A newcomer to the Howell area, Cayden recently began a campaign to raise money so that all kids at his school would be able to purchase a hot meal.“He saw a boy have to put a hot lunch back and settle for a cheese sandwich and thought, ‘I’d like to help,’ ” said his mother, Amber Melke-Peters.

April 4, 2014 – Organic food: Pricey, not particularly healthy, won’t save you

April 5, 2014 – A new report from East Chicago Police shows crime rate is dropping — with some officials pointing to the lowest total crime rates in nearly two decades. The crime rate in the first three months of 2014 is down by one third compared to the same time last year. The total number of crimes reported to the FBI in the first quarter of 2014 compared to that of 2013 reflects a reduction in overall crime of 33 percent.

April 9, 2014 - Domestic violence has been dropping for 20 years . Here’s how to keep that going.

April 19, 2014 – Homicides in Jersey City, NJ are down 80 percent from 2012 , with only one in the first quarter of 2014 compared to five in the first three months of 2012. Robberies are down 42 percent, from 199 in the first quarter of 2012 to 115 this year, while assaults are down 20 percent, from 369 to 295, and shootings decreased from 15 to 13. The figures are similar when compared to the first quarter of 2013: dramatic drops in most crime categories.

April 21, 2014 – Columbus, Ohio - 24 percent fewer crimes were reported in 2014’s first quarter when compared to 2013’s fourth quarter. “This is the third-best quarter in 25 quarters,” Mayor Teresa Tomlinson said. “When you compare it it to all quarters since 2008, it’s the third lowest along with the first quarters of 2011 and 2012.”

April 25, 2104 – Charlotte, N.C. saw crime drop in almost all of the major categories for the first quarter of this year including violent crime and robberies compared to the same period last year.

April 27, 2014 - The rate of domestic violence in the U.S. plummeted by 63 percent – yes, 63 percent – from 1994 to 2012

April 27, 2014 - Divorce rates are dropping nationwide

While the anti-family, social revolutionists continue to preach the death of the traditional family , those committed to marriage and children apparently aren’t buying it.

The New York Times recently reported that the approximate 40 years of tinkering with the social system we call “family” appears to be running out of steam.

In an article by Natalie Angier late last year, the Times reported that the divorce rate, frequently and erroneously quoted at 50 percent , has been steadily falling for almost 20 years and is now “just above 40 percent among first-time marriages.”

April 28, 2014 – Camden, NJ - Crime in every major category except for arson — which held steady — was down from Jan. 1 to March 31 compared with the same period last year. The number of shootings dropped from 88 to 46.

April 29, 2014 – Violent crimes and property crimes were down in Winnipeg, Canada in the first four months of 2014 from the same time a year ago. Additionally, the city witnessed drops of 26.2% in violent crimes and 29.6% in property crimes over a five-year average.

May 7, 2014 - Dallas, Texas ends over 50 years of water flouridation

Anti water fluoridation advocates have been successful in the removal of fluoride from the water supply in Dallas, Texas. The ban comes after five decades of water fluoridation, but more and more people around the world have been gathering to put a stop to the practice over the last few years.

" We don’t need it and we’d just save a million dollars that we can use for something else . We’re looking into seeing what we can do immediately so we can get those funds up from now." - Sheffie Kadane, Dallas City Council Member

“Yeah, this is major big. I knew we would prevail . It only makes sense. We’re spending too much money on an ineffective program.”- Scott Griggs, Dallas City Council Member

The decision was made after activists continually showed up to city council meetings , providing evidence and warning them regarding the risks involved with water fluoridation. As a result, the city could save over $1 million a year that is spent on the industrial chemical, that’s right, an industrial chemical.

May 13, 2014 - Organic Food Sales on the Rise

American consumers are increasingly going organic.

Sales of the additive-free offerings surged 11.5% in 2013, to $35.1 billion, according to the Organic Trade Association. That represents the sector’s strongest sales in five years , and the OTA is predicting 12% growth in 2014, the website Food Navigator-USA.com reports.

May 13, 2014 – Increase in Organic Product Consumption in China due to Food Safety Fears

May 15, 2014 – American appetite for organic products breaks through $35 billion mark. New survey shows organic sales jump nearly 12% in 2013 to a new record. “The U.S. organic market is experiencing strong expansion, with organic food and farming continuing to gain in popularity . Consumers are making the correlation between what we eat and our health , and that knowledge is spurring heightened consumer interest in organic products,” said Laura Batcha, executive director and CEO of OTA.

May 19, 2014 - California - Violent crime plummets in Oakland

Police tactics, economy , neighborhood unity cited for dramatic drop

Oakland is seeing a dramatic drop in violent crime this year compared with last year.

Shootings have plummeted 35 percent so far this year from last year. Homicides are down 18 percent (to 28 as of May 11).Robberies have also dropped significantly. There have been 1,076 so far this year - 38 percent less than this time last year. In 2012, Oakland had more robberies than any other major American city, and 2013 was even worse.

Armed robberies are nearly half of what they were a year ago.

May 12, 2014 - Local Protesters Are Killing Big Oil and Mining Projects Worldwide

Researchers at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining interviewed employees at several dozen major international corporations who are involved with extractive activities, and found that companies are increasingly having to deal with the social and environmental impacts of their work, and that it’s hurting them where it hurts most: their bottom lines.

The researchers, led by Daniel Franks, took a look at 50 planned major extractive projects (oil drilling, new mine construction, that sort of thing) and found that in fully half of them, local people launched some sort of “project blockade.” In 40 percent of the projects, someone died as a result of a physical protest, and 15 of the projects were suspended or abandoned altogether, according to Franks’ study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“There is a popular misconception that local communities are powerless in the face of large corporations and governments,” Franks said in a statement. “Our findings show that community mobilization can be very effective at raising the costs to companies.”

May 22, 2014 –Overall Washington, D.C. Metro crime dropped by the double digits in the first quarter of 2014 .

June 3, 2014 – Domestic violence rates have dropped in Tennessee. The report said this is the greatest year-to-year decrease. Last year, offenses dropped by close to six percent… while in 2012 calls decreased by about three percent.

June 9, 2014 - Poll finds support for casino gambling dropping in Massachusetts. “It seems like you’ve had a major shift in opinion as the reality of casinos and the regressive nature of what happens with the placement of casinos in Massachusetts in addition to some of the social issues (sets in),”

"I think the tide has turned, people realize more and more that they wouldn’t want one in their community.

June 10, 2014 - The number of murders in New Orleans dropped by nearly 30 percent in the first three months of the year . The first-quarter drop in murders comes on the heels of an encouraging 2013, in which 155 people were murdered in the city, a 20 percent decline from 193 in 2012.

June 12, 2014 - Oregon Citizens Overwhelming Vote to Enforce Ban on Cultivation of GMO Crops

Despite the flood of corporate money poured into two small Oregon counties , local residents voted to ban genetically engineered crops from being planted within their borders.

June 18, 2014 – The Maine Department of Public Safety said crime dropped 9.1 percent last year, the biggest drop in 20 years.

June 23, 2014 – Organic Farmers Challenged By Demand Exceeding Supply

June 24, 2014 - Paper claiming GM link with tumours re-published

A controversial paper linking genetically modified maize to the development of tumours in rats, which was published in 2012 and retracted in 2013, has now been published again, by a different journal. Four other journals offered to publish the paper , lead author Gilles-Eric Séralini told a press conference in Paris today. But, he said, he and his team chose SpringerOpen’s journal Environmental Sciences Europe because it is open-access and would make the study’s findings available to the whole scientific community.

The paper that went online today after peer review, was slightly amended from the original. Four of the authors, including Séralini himself, also wrote an accompanying comment piece in which they allege that they had been the victims of censorship and that that t heir critics had “serious yet undisclosed conflicts of interests”.

The authors also published the raw data behind the study; Séralini said he wanted to be a paragon of total transparency, in the hope that the genetically modified (GM) food industry will follow his example. He insisted that his work complied with standard international practice for toxicity studies, and lamented the fact that Monsanto and other GM companies p ublish no toxicity data on their products .

Not a single study has been conducted on the long-term effects of Roundup on rats’ blood,” he says, referring to the popular brand of the pesticide glyphosate made by Monsanto. “ This is completely abnormal, and a scientific anomaly .”

July 1, 2014 - Macau Casino Revenue Drops 3.7% , First Decline in 5 Years

July 7, 2014 – CLEVELAND, Ohio – The summer doldrums have arrived at casinos and racinos in Ohio, and whether low revenues can be blamed on warm weather and lure of outdoor activities may not be known until fall.

July 21, 2014 - Online gambling was supposed to provide a financial boost to New Jersey’s ailing casinos, but revenue has fallen for the third month in a row and Fitch Ratings, a Wall Street credit rating firm, has cut its projection for Internet gambling this year by almost half .

July 23, 2014 - Canada’s crime rate falls, as homicides hit lowest level since 1960s

StatsCan says Crime Severity Index, which measures the volume and severity of crime based on prison sentences, was 36 per cent lower in 2013 than a decade earlier .

OTTAWA—Statistics Canada says the number of crimes committed was lower last year, and so was the severity of those criminal acts.

The agency says the police-reported Crime Severity Index (CSI) fell by 9 per cent in 2013, the tenth consecutive annual decline.

The index, which measures the volume and severity of crime based on average prison sentences handed down for convictions, was 36 per cent lower in 2013 than a decade earlier.

StatsCan says the traditional crime rate also declined last year compared with 2012, by 8 per cent. The national crime rate has been on a downward slide since the early 1990s, reaching its lowest level last year since 1969.

July 27, 2014 – Record growth of organic food consumption in the U.S. and India.

August 8, 2014 - McDonald’s monthly sales worst in more than 10 years

McDonald’s Corp. served up a disappointing July, largely due to food-safety concerns in Asia as well as widespread problems in the United States, the world’s largest restaurant company said on Friday.

For the second time this week, McDonald’s said that this year’s sales forecast “is now at risk” to be reduced further.

August 12, 2014 - Atlantic City’s Revel Casino To Close In September

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (CBS/AP) — Atlantic City’s newest casino is shutting its doors just over two years after opening amid high hopes of turning around the crumbling seaside resort’s gambling market. Revel Casino Hotel will shut down next month after failing to find a buyer in bankruptcy court, company officials announced Tuesday.

The company said the $2.4 billion casino will close its doors on Sept. 10. It has never turned a profit. The closure will mean the loss of more than 3,100 jobs.

“We regret the impact this decision has on our Revel employees who have worked so hard to maximize the potential of the property,” Revel said in a statement Tuesday morning. “We thank them for their professionalism and dedication; however we are faced with several unavoidable circumstances.

“Despite the effort to improve the financial performance of Revel, it has not proven to be enough to put the property on a stable financial footing,” the company wrote.

The company said its situation was compounded by a “considerable non-controllable expense structure” that financially burdened the property. It also said challenges arose in attempts to sell Revel. The company said it cannot avoid “an orderly wind-down of the business at this time.”

August 13, 2014 - SeaWorld Drops as Killer Whale Controversy Hurts Sales

SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. dropped to a record low after reporting earnings that missed analysts’ estimates and saying controversy over the treatment of captive whales in its theme-park shows hurt attendance.

The shares tumbled 33 percent to $18.90 at the close in New York, the lowest since they started trading in April 2013. Before today, SeaWorld had retreated 23 percent in a year following the release of “Blackfish,” a critical documentary about its performing killer whales.

The company acknowledged for the first time that pressure from animal-rights groups is reducing attendance , said Barton Crockett, an analyst at FBR & Co., calling second-quarter results “surprisingly weak.” The theme-park operator fought off a proposed ban on keeping orcas in captivity in California with a lobbying campaign that raised doubts about claims that the animals are harmed in its parks.

August 13, 2014 – Organic food in Europe on the rise

August 14 2014 - With Highway Patrol, hugs and kisses replace tear gas in Ferguson

FERGUSON, Mo. — Suddenly, everything has changed. The heavy riot armor, the SWAT trucks with sniper posts, the hostile glares: tonight in Ferguson they were gone.

A stunning change in tone radiated through the suburban streets where protests had turned violent each of the last four evenings following the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

But Thursday night, when more than a thousand protesters descended on the remains of QuickTrip – which was burned during riots on Sunday – they had a new leader.

The man at the front of the march, was Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ronald S. Johnson, a Ferguson native.

“I’m not afraid to be in this crowd,” Johnson declared to reporters.

Johnson, a towering African American man who wiped sweat from his brow as he pointed out neighborhood hangouts and restaurants he used to frequent, was put in charge of crowd control earlier in the day, replacing the St. Louis County police who had been overseeing the police response to the protests.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) announced Thursday afternoon that Johnson would take over security, and vowed that officers would take a different approach to handling the massive crowds that have taken to Ferguson’s streets each night.

Not only did Johnson march with the protesters, but he vowed to not blockade the street, to set up a media staging center, and to ensure that residents’ rights to assemble and protest were not infringed upon. Officers working crowd control, he said, have been told they must take off their gas masks.

“When I see a young lady cry because of fear of this uniform, that’s a problem.” Johnson said. “We’ve got to solve that.”

August 28, 2014 –Non-GMO is a trend, not a fad

August 26, 2014 - Sorry, naysayers : KC’s crime rate actually dropping in 2014

Surprise: Crime is down 12 percent in Kansas City over the first six months of the year.

At Kansas City’s police board meeting Tuesday, Mayor Sly James lamented that residents aren’t hearing enough about how crime rates have fallen in the city so far in 2014.

Overall, violent and property crimes were down 12 percent for the first six months. “We have good numbers,” James said. “There’s a good story.” Instead, he said, many residents are hearing too much about how the city is still “big, bad and ugly.”

That certainly fits the stereotypical view of how many critics and skeptics see the city — as a too dangerous place to live, work or play. Part of the problem is that the Kansas City Police Department doesn’t do a good enough job getting the crime numbers to the public in easily viewable form, on a regular basis.

September 3, 2017 - Canadian beekeepers sue Bayer, Syngenta over neonicotinoid pesticides

Class action lawsuit seeks $400 million in damages

The lawsuit alleges that Bayer Cropscience Inc. and Syngenta Canada Inc. and their parent companies were negligent in their design, manufacture, sale and distribution of neonicotinoid pesticides , specifically those containing imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiomethoxam.

The pesticides, which are a neurotoxin to insects, are widely coated on corn, soybean and canola seeds in Canada to protect the plants from pests such as aphids. Studies have shown that bees exposed to the pesticides have smaller colonies, fail to return to their hives, and may have trouble navigating. The pesticides were also found in 70 per cent of dead bees tested by Health Canada in 2013.

The European Commission restricted the use of the pesticides for two years and Ontario has indicated it will move toward regulating them , due to concerns over bee health.

Bayer maintains that the risk to bees from the pesticide is low , and it has recommended ways that farmers can minimize bees’ exposure to the pesticide.

September 4, 2014 - Brazil Amazon tribe takes direct action against loggers

The tribe’s warriors set fire to logs found inside their lands as well as trucks, chainsaws and other equipment used by the loggers. A group of indigenous people in Brazil’s Amazon region have detained and expelled loggers working illegally in their ancestral lands.

Leaders of the Ka’apor tribe accused the Brazilian authorities of failing to protect them.

They tied up the loggers and set fire to their trucks and chainsaws, before forcing them out, reported the Reuters news agency. The logs found at the indigenous territory in the north-eastern state of Maranhao were also destroyed.

The incident happened on 7 August but has only just been reported by Reuters. The Brazilian indigenous agency, Funai, says it has requested tighter security in the Alto Turiacu Indian Territory to prevent violent clashes.

The loggers had their hands tied to their backs before being evicted from the indigenous territory. The five tribes that live in the area say they had enough of waiting for government action to stop illegal exploitation in their ancestral lands

The indigenous group in the Centro do Guilherme municipality set up monitoring camps to prevent the return of the illegal loggers. Locals have set up an Indigenous Environmental Guard to fight for the preservation of their demarcated territory

September 5, 2014 – Sydney, Australia. Bureau report shows crime rate drop. Sydney, Australia. The latest report from the Bureau of Crime Statistics (BOCSAR) shows a decrease in 7 of the 17 major offence categories in the two years to June 2014.

September 8, 2014 - Divorce Shocker : Most Marriages Do Make It

ATLANTA – Most people believe only half of U.S. marriages make it. But a leading researcher is announcing the true divorce rate is much lower and always has been.

Shaunti Feldhahn received her research training at Harvard. She and her husband Jeff help people with their marriages and relationships through best-selling books like, For Women Only and For Men Only .

This Atlanta-based couple often quoted in their writings and at conferences what they thought was accurate research : that most marriages are unhappy and 50 percent of them end in divorce, even in the Church.

"I didn’t know," Feldhahn told CBN News. "I’ve stood up on stage and said every one of these wrong statistics."

Then eight years ago, she asked assistant Tally Whitehead for specific research on divorce for an article she was writing. After much digging, neither of them could find any real numbers .

That kicked off a personal, years-long crusade to dig through the tremendously complicated, sometimes contradictory research to find the truth. The surprising revelations are revealed in her new book, The Good News About Marriage.

The Real Divorce Rate

“First-time marriages: probably 20 to 25 percent have ended in divorce on average,” Feldhahn revealed. “Now, okay, that’s still too high, but it’s a whole lot better than what people think it is.”

Shaunti and Jeff point out the 50 percent figure came from projections of what researchers thought the divorce rate would become as they watched the divorce numbers rising in the 1970s and early 1980s when states around the nation were passing no-fault divorce laws.

"But the divorce rate has been dropping," Feldhahn said. "We’ve never hit those numbers. We’ve never gotten close."

And it’s even lower among churchgoers, where a couple’s chance of divorcing is more likely in the single digits or teens.

Hopelessness = Divorce

As the truth about these much lower divorce rates begins to spread, Feldhahn said she believes it will give people hope, which is often a key ingredient to making marriage last. She said hopelessness itself can actually lead to divorce.

“That sense of futility itself pulls down marriages,” Feldhahn said. "And the problem is we have this culture-wide feeling of futility about marriage. I t’s based on all these discouraging beliefs and many of them just aren’t true."

September 9, 2014 - Trump Casinos Bankruptcy Plan a New Blow to Atlantic City

Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., the company founded by Donald Trump, will file for bankruptcy again this week , people with knowledge of the situation said, putting a fifth Atlantic City casino in danger of closing.

“What happened to Atlantic City, there’s a lot of competition from a lot of other locations ,” Trump said in a telephone interview yesterday. “It’s happening all over.”

Trump has no active role managing the company. Robert Griffin, chief executive officer of Atlantic City-based Trump Entertainment, declined to comment.

September 10, 2014 – 2014 Crime Rate Drops In Venezuela.

The internal affairs minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres, former head of intelligence services for 10 years , acknowledged that “ modest progresses [have been made] in fighting crime,” but reaffirmed his office’s efforts “not only for the people’s security but also to improve the attention provided to people.” “We are not proud of the figures of homicides, but they have reduced.”

In the interview, the minister explained that this improvement was due to governmental programs , in addition to cooperative opposition mayors and governors of the coun t ry. Yet the improvement is still “circumstantial” - it relates only to 2014, and should be converted into a structural one, with a goal of 40 percent reduction of crime over the four next years, he said.

The minister didn´t provide details on the crime figures, arguing they could be used in the media to increase a feeling of insecurity that would not coincide with reality. Nevertheless, he said that in 2012, the homicide rate reached 57 per 100,000 inhabitants (roughly coinciding with the UN records of 53), and this figure has continuously decreased , according to his available data, to 39 at the end of 2013, and to an expected 32 to 35 by the end of this year –while an acceptable goal would be 10 homicides for 100,000 inhabitants, he added.

(a 31% drop from 2012 to 2013, and expected to drop from 38 to 43% in two years, from 2012 to 2014. They hedged defensively by giving you the numbers, but not printing those percentages - I had to do the math - ed)

September 10, 2014 - CNN/ORC poll: Most think Congress is worst in their lifetime

Overall, Americans are angry with Capitol Hill, as a whole, with a whopping 83% saying they disapprove of how Congress is handling its job , while 65% describe it as the “worst Congress of their lifetime.” The current approval rating for Congress is 14%, just four points higher than the all-time low of 10% in a September 2013 CNN/ORC Poll.

September 10, 2014 - Showbiz, Music Industry Jobs Drop 19% in Two Years

September 10, 2014 - From Kurdistan to Texas, Scots Spur Separatists

STEENOKKERZEEL, Belgium — For Kurt Ryon, the mayor of Steenokkerzeel, a Flemish village 10 miles northeast of Brussels, watching the Scottish independence campaign in the final days before the referendum is like watching a good soccer match. “They were losing for the first half and most of the second half,” he said, “ but now we’re in the 85th minute and they could be winning.”

A sign in Selkirk, Scotland, advocates voting against independence. David Cameron, prime minister of Britain, said such a break would leave him “heartbroken.”

September 12, 2014 - Carlsbad notes mid-year crime rate drop in Sept. 9 report

Carlsbad officials are noting decreases in overall crime in the city based on the Sept. 9 release of mid-year statistics from the San Diego Association of Governments. Carlsbad’s specific trends match an overall countywide drop in crime , according to SANDAG’s breakdown and a follow-up statement from the Carlsbad Police Department.

Although arsons increased 21 percent in the county in the first half of this year , property crime dropped by 13 percent and violent crime decreased by 1 percent compared with the same period last year. SANDAG noted that Del Mar saw a 37 percent drop in property crime. Overall, 16 of the 19 jurisdictions covered in the report saw decreases in property crime, SANDAG stated.

September 16, 2014 - Will Scotland Cut the Cord?

In the Edinburgh rain, a striking number of voters have recently changed their minds. Michael Constantine says he and his parents all switched sides.

"My dad, he was a ‘no,’ " says Constantine, 25. "In the past two months, he’s become a ‘yes.’ And then my mum was a ‘no’ initially. She became a ‘yes.’ "

All three of them used to support keeping the U.K. intact. Now, they plan to vote for Scottish independence. Constantine says he wasn’t so much drawn to the ‘yes’ campaign; it’s more that unity drove him away.

“The ‘no’ campaign, the scaremongering and the fear they’re putting into people , really upset me ,” Constantine says.

The campaign to keep the U.K. together has been built on dire warnings about economic calamities that would befall an independent Scotland.

British Prime Minister David Cameron was in the Scottish city of Aberdeen on Monday making one final plea for Scotland to stay with the United Kingdom.

He said Scotland would face a “painful divorce” if voters choose independence.

Many big businesses have come out against independence — Scotland’s two biggest banks have said they might relocate their headquarters. World leaders have said an independence vote could send dangerous ripples through the global economy.

September 17, 2014 - Angry mob drops Ukrainian politician into dumpster outside country’s parliament in Kiev (VIDEO)

Vitaly Zhuravsky, who has been behind several unpopular bills, was grabbed outside the parliament building and forced into the garbage can by a massive group of furious citizens.

Dramatic cellphone footage sees the crowd grabbing MP Vitaly Zhuravsky and throwing him head first into the huge garbage can.

Fearing for his life , the briefcase-clutching elected official tries to climb out of the festering trash .

But members of the screaming mob hold his head down — and toss a tire on top of him .

Liquid is then poured over his face, before a woman is heard shouting: “Boys, let me kick him at least one time.”

Zhuravsky, once a prominent member of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of the Regions, could have been targeted after he approved an amnesty to pro-Russian rebels , according to ABC News.

He also became unpopular in January after authoring a bill severely tightening restrictions on anti-government protesters.

Additionally he was behind a since-withdrawn controversial bill criminalizing libel.

September 17, 2014 - Angry passengers throw Pakistani politician off plane after getting stuck on tarmac waiting for him for two hours

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Flight delays are nothing unusual at Pakistan’s ailing state carrier, Pakistan International Airlines, long hobbled by political interference, a bloated staff and epic financial losses.

But the delayed departure of one flight on Monday caused several enraged passengers to mount a virtual mutiny and eject one politician and block another from the plane before it could even take off.

The incident occurred at the Karachi airport when Rehman Malik, a former interior minister best known for his colorful ties and erratic pronouncements , turned up two hours late for a flight to Islamabad.

The state airline often delays flights to accommodate tardy politicians and senior bureaucrats , which is seen as one reason for its patchy operational performance.

Jeering passengers stood at the entrance to the airplane, blocking Malik’s way, witnesses said. The parliamentarian turned back and did not board the flight, and videos of the protesting passengers went viral on social media Monday evening.

Malik later denied that he was responsible for the drama, and blamed his political opponents. “I felt the drama was created by some passengers who were PTI folks,” he said in an interview on Tuesday, referring to members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party led by the opposition politician Imran Khan.

Khan and his supporters have been camped out in central Islamabad for the past month, demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Malik said he had gone to airport late because Pakistan International Airlines staff members told him the flight would be delayed.

“The delay was not due to me,” Malik said. “I myself suffered because of the airline’s mismanagement.”

September 25, 2014 – Crimes Against Tourists Drop

Tobago – Tourist-related crime in Tobago fell by 76% in 2013

September 30, 2014 - Told to End Protests, Organizers in Hong Kong Vow to Expand Them

HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s leader on Tuesday called for the pro-democracy demonstrators who have blocked major roads in the city to return home immediately, but protest leaders responded with defiance, threatening to expand the demonstrations and to occupy government buildings .

In his first public remarks on the protests since the Hong Kong police used tear gas against demonstrators on Sunday, Leung Chun-ying, the Beijing-selected chief executive of the semiautonomous Chinese territory, called on one of the two main groups organizing the protests, Occupy Central With Love and Peace, to end the demonstrations.

He gave no sign that he was prepared to meet with protest organizers or compromise on their demands for open elections to choose his successor .

The crowds outside the local government headquarters swelled even larger on Tuesday night as people of all ages came to join the demonstration before public holidays on Wednesday, China’s National Day, and Thursday, which is a local holiday. A government observation of National Day on Wednesday morning proceeded relatively smoothly, despite chants by protesters outside calling for Mr. Leung’s resignation.

The protesters want Beijing and the Hong Kong government to scrap a decision by China to limit who can run in the 2017 election to choose the next chief executive. China’s plan for that election would let the public vote, but the candidates would be vetted by a committee friendly to Beijing .

The police, whose use of tear gas on Sunday seemed only to motivate more people to join the protests , gave no indication Tuesday that they were preparing to disperse the demonstrators. Hui Chun-tak, the chief spokesman for the police, acknowledged that “the majority of protesters have expressed their views in a legal way” and praised organizers for being willing to discuss opening some lanes of the blocked roads in the city center for use by emergency vehicles.

October 2, 2014 - Germany plans to make sending colleagues work emails after 6pm illegal

The advent of smartphones has allowed us to be plugged in and able to read work emails around the clock. But research suggests that this is adding an extra five hours to the average office worker’s day .

That is why Germany is considering bringing in new laws that will make it illegal to email colleagues after 6pm. The research, commissioned by the German minister for Labour, Andrea Nahles, also found a relationship between workers having constant access to their emails and poor mental health.

October 6, 2014 - Three out of four British babies are being fed organic food because of parents’ concerns about pesticides and contamination.

The words " mystery ", " baffled " and " puzzled " are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything.

Those variants include " shocked ", " surprised ", " unknown ", and the question mark.

January 7, 2007 - Domestic Violence Rates Drop Sharply -Although the rates of domestic violence followed a ten-year trend of general declining crime rates in the U.S., officials do not know the reason.

June 16, 2010 - A crime puzzle : Violent crime declines in America

Violent crime went down in America again last year.

September 14, 2010 - Crime rate decline puzzles theorists

May, 2011 – Steady Decline in Major Crime Baffles Experts

The number of violent crimes in the United States dropped significantly last year, to what appeared to be the lowest rate in nearly 40 years , a development that was considered puzzling partly because it ran counter to the prevailing expectation that crime would increase during a recession .

In all regions, the country appears to be safer. The odds of being murdered or robbed are now less than half of what they were in the early 1990s , when violent crime peaked in the United States. Small towns, especially, are seeing far fewer murders: In cities with populations under 10,000, the number plunged by more than 25 percent last year.

January 3, 2012 - Experts continue to be baffled by declining violent crime rate

June 11, 2012 - Still more (and still puzzling ) crime rate declines reported

January, 2013 - Fall in UK crime rate baffles experts

The classic theory that property crime rises faster in times of economic strife no longer seems to apply, latest figures show

The surprise 8% fall in crime last year , revealed by government statisticians on Thursday, is sending the academic experts scurrying to rewrite their basic ‘Criminology 101’ lecture and the theory that recession leads to rising crime, particularly property crime. The official statisticians say the latest crime figures for England and Wales, which include a 10% drop in the murder rate to 549 homicides, the lowest level since 1978, herald a resumption in the long-term decline that has been going on for nearly 20 years.

July 26, 2013 - What’s behind Canada’s improving crime stats?

December 8, 2013 - arlier this week in Thailand, a shocking turn of events took place. Ordered to harass and block protesters , policemen instead yielded to the peaceful riot by laying down their barricades and helmets as a sign of solidarity. The gathering protesters explained that their goal is to destroy the political machine of former Prime Minister Thakskin Shinawatra, who is accused of widespread corruption and abuse of power.

The present Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is Thakskin’s sister and is seen as a puppet of her brother. In a move to topple the Shinawatra government, protesters planned on storming the Bangkok Metropolitan Police Bureau. This act was devised and led by protest leader, Suthep Thaugsuban.

But what police did instead surprised many . Their lowering of arms and joining with protesters marks a turning point in the protests and a potential shift in power.

The following video shares the triumphant merging of both sides.

February 18, 2014 - Violent Crimes Declined Across Country in First Six Months of 2013, F.B.I. Says

WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday that violent crimes, including murders, fell by 5.4 percent in the first six months of 2013 compared with the same period in 2012, continuing a long reduction in violent crime across the country.

“We have had almost 25 years of a decline in crime, but on a year-to-year basis it’s hard to come up with a story, ” John Roman, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center, said, referring to efforts to pinpoint reasons for the lower numbers. “But over all, this shows how we’ve gotten smarter on policing, immigration and gentrification in the cities and elsewhere.”

Small cities and rural areas saw a larger reduction in violent crime than metropolitan areas, and, by region, crime fell the most in the Midwest.

In all, murders fell by 6.9 percent, aggravated assaults by 6.6 percent and robberies by 1.8 percent, the bureau said

July 7, 2014 – CLEVELAND, Ohio – The summer doldrums have arrived at casinos and racinos in Ohio, and whether low revenues can be blamed on warm weather and lure of outdoor activities may not be known until fall.

August 26, 2014 - Sorry, naysayers : KC’s crime rate actually dropping in 2014

Surprise: Crime is down 12 percent in Kansas City over the first six months of the year.

At Kansas City’s police board meeting Tuesday, Mayor Sly James lamented that residents aren’t hearing enough about how crime rates have fallen in the city so far in 2014.

Overall, violent and property crimes were down 12 percent for the first six months. “We have good numbers,” James said. “There’s a good story.” Instead, he said, many residents are hearing too much about how the city is still “big, bad and ugly.”

That certainly fits the stereotypical view of how many critics and skeptics see the city — as a too dangerous place to live, work or play. Part of the problem is that the Kansas City Police Department doesn’t do a good enough job getting the crime numbers to the public in easily viewable form, on a regular basis.

September 8, 2014 - Divorce Shocker : Most Marriages Do Make It

ATLANTA – Most people believe only half of U.S. marriages make it. But a leading researcher is announcing the true divorce rate is much lower and always has been.

Shaunti Feldhahn received her research training at Harvard. She and her husband Jeff help people with their marriages and relationships through best-selling books like, For Women Only and For Men Only .

This Atlanta-based couple often quoted in their writings and at conferences what they thought was accurate research : that most marriages are unhappy and 50 percent of them end in divorce, even in the Church.

"I didn’t know," Feldhahn told CBN News. "I’ve stood up on stage and said every one of these wrong statistics."

Then eight years ago, she asked assistant Tally Whitehead for specific research on divorce for an article she was writing. After much digging, neither of them could find any real numbers .

That kicked off a personal, years-long crusade to dig through the tremendously complicated, sometimes contradictory research to find the truth. The surprising revelations are revealed in her new book, The Good News About Marriage.

The Real Divorce Rate

“First-time marriages: probably 20 to 25 percent have ended in divorce on average,” Feldhahn revealed. “Now, okay, that’s still too high, but it’s a whole lot better than what people think it is.”

Shaunti and Jeff point out the 50 percent figure came from projections of what researchers thought the divorce rate would become as they watched the divorce numbers rising in the 1970s and early 1980s when states around the nation were passing no-fault divorce laws.

"But the divorce rate has been dropping," Feldhahn said. "We’ve never hit those numbers. We’ve never gotten close."

And it’s even lower among churchgoers, where a couple’s chance of divorcing is more likely in the single digits or teens.

Hopelessness = Divorce

As the truth about these much lower divorce rates begins to spread, Feldhahn said she believes it will give people hope, which is often a key ingredient to making marriage last. She said hopelessness itself can actually lead to divorce.

“That sense of futility itself pulls down marriages,” Feldhahn said. "And the problem is we have this culture-wide feeling of futility about marriage. I t’s based on all these discouraging beliefs and many of them just aren’t true."

“The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’.”

George Orwell, from " 1984 "

January 6, 2017 – California - Record Number of Salmon Enter Putah Creek - an estimated 1500 — up from 700 last year, were tracked

April 14, 2017 - California - Low Salmon Projections Lead to Fisheries Restrictions, Some Closures in 2017…

January 6, 2017 – California - Record Number of Salmon Enter Putah Creek

A record number of Chinook salmon — an estimated 1500 — up from 700 last year, were tracked …

(more than doubling, a 114% increase – ed)

March 12, 2017 - Washington - Columbia River salmon forecast lacks the big numbers of recent years

April 14, 2017 - California - Low Salmon Projections Lead to Fisheries Restrictions , Some Closures in 2017…

April 15, 2017 – Washington - Opportunities to catch salmon improve slightly in 2017 around Whidbey but still grim

May, 2017 – Washington - This fall, the Columbia River featured the strongest fall Chinook salmon run since 1938, when counting began at Bonneville Dam. More than 950,000 adult fall Chinook traversed the Bonneville Dam and more than 450,000 crossed McNary Dam into the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River. McNary Dam is the southern boundary of the 51-mile Hanford Reach—the most productive spawning ground for wild fall Chinook on the Columbia River.

Biologists say the historic return resulted from a perfect combination of abundant food, cool ocean temperatures, and dam improvements . Now mature, this year’s record run traveled in search of perfect spawning habitat—clear waters flowing over cobblestoned bottom.

May 30, 2017 - Washington - Record-breaking number of salmon released from Baker Lake

MOUNT BAKER-SNOQUALMIE NATIONAL FOREST - Record-breaking numbers of coho and sockeye salmon are being released from Baker Lake in the Upper Skagit Valley. That’s great news for people who fish and those who depend on the fishing industry for their livelihood.

The juvenile salmon netted in Baker Lake are near the end of their journey from hatchery to lake to tank inside Puget Sound Energy’s flowing service collector.

From there the fish travel down something akin to a Slip ‘n’ Slide that shoots out into an enormous transport container.

“We’ll turn the water flow off, close the lid and lift them out,” explained Doug Bruland, who manages the FSC.

The salmon are headed for salt water – this year – in record numbers.

If last year was the hottest year in the history of planet Earth, how is it possible that " Ample rain and moderate temperatures across the Nation’s mid-section led to record-high yield and production for corn and soybeans " in 2016?

A: It’s not possible; the " planet broils! " claim is an hysterical lie designed to trick you, part of a larger “confidence game”.

B: "Yeah, but that’s there! "

Don’t try discussing such matters with someone who’s been taken in by the con artists. I’m dating myself with this reference, but, years ago, someone tried to pitch me on Amway, a pyramid scheme. I said “no, it’s a pyramid scheme - you are being conned - it’s not going to turn out like they’re saying”. Telling them that didn’t go very well.

If someone reads this thread and has their mind changed, their perspective changed, that would be mighty gratifying. But I’m not doing it for that reason, however. I’m doing it as part of a scientific exercise - so that my basic theses can be seen not as off-the-cuff sentences, or riffs, but rather driven by data, down over time, supported by copious evidence.

You wouldn’t know that corn and soybeans were at record high levels from reading the headline of the article, which hedges by saying “Corn and Soybean Production Up in 2016”. See, they’re just " up ". They’re not allowed to write the more impactful headline, “Corn and Soybean Production Reach Record Levels in 2016”, because that would go badly off-message re: Poor Mother Gaia dying, and all.

In the post previous to this one, I mentioned record yields as being one of the keys, scientifically, to proving my thesis that the distribution of Orgonite in the larger environment is drawing down and transforming Death energy on an ongoing basis, and that the rise in what Reich called “Positive Orgone Radiation” in the larger environment is what is driving the great positive changes documented within this thread.

I’ve appended a geek-tastic article, below, which talks all about yields, yields per acre, and planted area. Let’s dig into it and see what it has to say.

Corn yields last year were 6.2 bushels per acre above last year’s. That’s a 3.6% increase in yield, although you wouldn’t know that from reading the article. They withheld the percentage, as printing it would have been more impactful, so I had to do the math. The area of corn harvested was up 7 percent from 2015, while the overall amount of corn produced increased 11%. So there’s a 4% overall increase in corn production, factoring in increased harvest area.

The soybean yield data also very clearly shows that it’s not “increase in planted area” that’s driving the most-in-history harvest. Soybean production was up 10 percent from 2015, mapping almost exactly to the 11% increase in the corn harvest. While the harvested area increased 1%. That’s a 9% overall production increase, with increase in planted area factored in.

In terms of yields, 2016 saw record high soybean yield levels across nearly all of the northern United States, from the northern Great Plains to the Appalachian Mountains. The yield level is a new record, a world record, the most ever in history. It’s 8.5% above the previous record. Although you wouldn’t know that from reading the article. They withheld the percentage, as printing it would have been more impactful, so I had to do the math. Such records are usually broken by tiny margins.

I don’t usually geek out on crop yields - vintage Hi-Fi equipment and Hot Rods are more my thing. So how come I’m figuring this out easily over coffee, but the guys who do it for a living and get articles published about it are staying mum? Think they didn’t notice ? Or is it that they forgot ? I’m guessing most readers who want to preserve current programming levels will go with "they’re just lazy. "

Cotton production was up 32 percent - up a third! - from 2015, while the harvested area is up 18%. So a 14% overall increase in productivity, with that factored in. Very close to the 11% and 12% increases documented in the previous two examples. And the yield per acre is up 11%over the year before. Although you wouldn’t know that from reading the article. They withheld the percentage, as printing it would have been more impactful, so I had to do the math. Such records are usually broken by tiny margins.

The example of Sorghum is very instructive, and perfectly supports my theses, here. 2016’s sorghum production was down 20 percent from 2015. While planted area was down 21 percent, and harvested area was down 22 percent from 2015. Can you see how that maps pretty much exactly?

Sorghum yield is “at a record 77.9 bushels per acre, up 1.9 bushels from last year. Record high yields are estimated in Georgia, Kansas, and Nebraska.” That’s 2.5% higher yield, year-over-year, to the highest sorghum yield ever seen, by anyone, in human history. Although you wouldn’t know that from reading the article. They withheld the percentage, as printing it would have been more impactful, so I had to do the math.

The world is obviously changing for the better, and quite rapidly. Just this single article contains copious data supporting that assertion. And the assiduous ignoring and downplaying of that phenomenon by the folks in charge is not going to change it in any way.

The great positive changes documented here are increasing in speed and magnitude. Animal and plant populations are going to continue to boom and flourish, to levels never seen, or levels not seen in hundreds of years. And that’s going to unmask the fact that technology operating within the Ether - electricity, radio, radar, television, cellular telephones, etc. - has had a negative impact on life itself that has been continuous and progressive.

It’s been socially engineered that there is, of course, no Ether, and, further, that the struggles of all those life forms have been mechanistic, mechanical. Habitat loss, decrease in planted area, hunting of too many animals, etc. Those are, of course, real, actual drivers. However the relatively sudden return to salmon stock levels never seen since they began counting salmon, or crops producing like no one’s ever seen, unmasks another layer to the phenomenon, and I suggest, the primary layer.

To preserve current programming levels, tell self that the Feds want to force the Amish to wire their houses for electricity to protect the housing market .

January 12, 2017 - Corn and Soybean Production Up in 2016, USDA Reports Winter Wheat Seedings and Grain Stocks also reported

Ample rain and moderate temperatures across the Nation’s mid-section led to record-high yield and production for corn and soybeans, both key U.S. crops, in 2016, according to the Crop Production 2016 Summary released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).

U.S. corn growers produced 15.1 billion bushels, up 11 percent from 2015. Corn yield in the U.S. is estimated at 174.6 bushels per acre, 6.2 bushels above last year’s average yield. Area harvested, at 86.7 million acres, is up 7 percent from 2015. The 2016 corn objective yield data indicate the third highest number of ears per acre on record for the combined objective yield States with record high ear counts in Ohio.

Soybean production for 2016 totaled a record 4.31 billion bushels, up 10 percent from 2015. With record high levels across nearly all of the northern United States, from the northern Great Plains to the Appalachian Mountains, the average soybean yield is estimated at a record high 52.1 bushels per acre, 4.1 bushels above last year’s yield. Harvested area in 2016, at a record 82.7 million acres, is up 1 percent from 2015.

For 2016, all cotton production is up 32 percent from 2015, at 17.0 million 480-pound bales. The U.S. yield is estimated at 855 pounds per acre, up 89 pounds from last year’s yield. Harvested area, at 9.52 million acres, is up 18 percent from last year.

Sorghum grain production in 2016 is estimated at 480 million bushels, down 20 percent from 2015. Area planted for sorghum, at 6.69 million acres, is down 21 percent from last year. Harvested area, at 6.16 million acres, is down 22 percent from 2015. Grain yield is estimated at a record 77.9 bushels per acre, up 1.9 bushels from last year. Record high yields are estimated in Georgia, Kansas, and Nebraska.

Also released today were the Winter Wheat and Canola Seedings and Grain Stocks reports. The Winter Wheat Seedings report is the first indicator of this year’s winter wheat acreage. Planted area for harvest in 2017 is estimated at 32.4 million acres, down 10 percent from 2016 and 18 percent below 2015. This represents the second lowest U.S. acreage on record.

In the Grain Stocks report, corn and soybean stocks were both estimated to be up 10 and 7 percent from 2015, respectively. Corn stored in all positions totaled 12.4 billion bushels, while soybeans totaled 2.90 billion bushels. All wheat stocks were up 19 percent from last year. All wheat stored in all positions totaled 2.07 billion bushels.

The strip-tilled corn yield is 3.1% higher than the previous record, set the year before, in 2015. And the yield increased 5% from 2014 to 2015. So strip-tilled corn yields increased 8% in two consecutive years, to the highest levels even seen.

For no-tilled soybeans, the yield is 9.4% higher than the previous record.

And for vertical-tilled corn, the yield is the highest on record, 4.5% above the old record, set in just 2014.

March 11, 2017 - No-Tillers Hit New Yield Records Across the Board

No-tilled corn and soybean yields climbed to new highs in the history of the study, while most U.S. regions saw better yields than 2015.

No-tillers had one of the best crop performances in the history of No-Till Farmer’s annual No-Till Operational Benchmark Study, hitting record corn and soybean yield averages overall and beating 2015 yields in most regions.

Readers who participated in the 9th annual survey reported an average 171 bushels per acre for no-tilled corn in 2016, ousting the previous average high of 169 bushels set in 2014. No-tilled soybeans averaged 58 bushels per acre last year, 5 bushels higher than the record set in 2015.

Strip-tilled corn continued the trend of setting a new average yield record with 197 bushels per acre in 2016, 6 bushels above the 191-bushel record set in 2015. The previous high was set in 2014 at 182 bushels.

Vertical-tilled corn hit 186 bushels per acre last year, the highest on record since No-Till Farmer started collecting yield data for this tillage practice in 2013. Previously the high was 178, set in 2014.

It’s May, 2017, and the great artificial drought has been broken by the slow, steady, widespread and ever-increasing distribution of simple, inexpensive Orgonite devices in the vicinity of the weather warfare infrastructure that many still mistakenly presume only carries cell phone traffic and weather radar data.

But even the folks in charge, who’ve been driving the drought-creation on the down-low, have to admit that the gambit has failed, as you’ll see below. The propaganda article does its best, closing with this hilarious whopper of a lie: " While plentiful rain signals an end to some record-breaking dry spells, multiple years of unusually hot, dry weather have left lasting damage, killing millions of trees and slowing down crop production ."

March 1, 2016 - Washington produces record harvest of wine grapes in 2016 - Phys.org

May 6, 2017 - Corn Futures Drop as U.S. Farmers Start Harvesting Record Crop …other Record Season for Walnuts - California Agriculture News …

November 16, 2016 - Another Record Season for Walnuts - California Agriculture News …

Those are just three of many record harvests in the nation where drought has purportedly killed millions of trees and slowed down crop production. And the third example is particularly troublesome for them, in that walnuts are both crops and trees, and the biggest-in-history harvest was in California, in the midst of what was purported to be the greatest drought in 11,000 years.

If you ask NASA what’s driving the great change for the better, they’ll give you the superstitious meme " atmospheric rivers ", but won’t explain exactly what caused them to show up where they weren’t before, or to become bigger, or whatever it is NASA is suggesting is going on.

So revel in the good news, and ask yourself what’s going to happen to these guys going forward, now that their drought creation and storm steering and augmentation technology doesn’t work anymore.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=90151&src=iotdrss

May 5, 2017 - As of the end of April 2017, Drought Has Disappeared from Much of the United States, with 6% of the Nation afflicted, The Lowest in 17 years of analysis.

At the end of April 2017, just 6 percent of the United States was afflicted by drought, the lowest level in 17 years of analysis by the U.S. Drought Monitor. That’s a substantial turnaround from a few years ago, when long and short term droughts spread across much of the nation.

The news marks a downward trend from mid-2011, when many areas of the country began to experience drier-than-average weather. That summer, a headline in the U.S. Drought Monitor read: “‘Exceptional drought’ record for United States set in July.” By July 12, almost 12 percent of the contiguous United States was in an “exceptional” drought—including states as far flung as Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Florida.

“Two parts of the country that have composed a big portion of [its] drought area in the last decade, Texas and California, now have mostly normal conditions,” said Matthew Rodell, a hydrologist at NASA. “Texas’s drought broke in 2015, and California’s drought was alleviated by atmospheric rivers that brought heavy rains earlier this year. Combine that with recent precipitation across much of the northwestern and central parts of the nation, and the result is a much-wetter-than-normal map.”

The maps above show the U.S. as it looked on April 25, 2017, and roughly five years earlier, on August 7, 2012. Much of the country is currently drought-free (shown in white). One outlier, as shown in the image above, is Georgia (deep orange). Parts of the state remain in extreme drought, and water levels at the Lake Lanier reservoir have sunk 8 feet below full, according to authorities. Areas of Florida, too, continue to suffer from severe drought conditions—a stark contrast to early 2016, when it received record rainfalls.

At its driest on September 25, 2012, more than 20 percent of the country was observed to be in “extreme drought,” with more than 40 percent in “severe drought.” According to Drought Monitor standards, “severe” conditions mean likely crop or pasture losses, common water shortages, and water restrictions.

“Extreme” drought conditions bring “major crop and pasture losses and “widespread water shortages or restrictions.”

Rainfall gave some respite in late 2012 before much of the country started drying out again. By 2014, half of the U.S. was experiencing some level of drought.
But conditions have since taken a 180-degree turn. Several seasons of heavy rains in the south and southeast increased soil moisture—but also caused flooding in some instances. States that were scorched by wildfires in 2016—parts of the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia—have been saturated with recent downpours.

California, which endured a record-setting drought for several years, has soaked up the moisture in the past nine months. On April 7, 2017, Governor Jerry Brown lifted the state of emergency in most areas.

The graph above shows each of the drought categories on a timeline since the year 2000, when the Drought Monitor began compiling measurements. Data are gathered from more than 300 sources, including satellites and ground-based reports.

While plentiful rain signals an end to some record-breaking dry spells, multiple years of unusually hot, dry weather have left lasting damage, killing millions of trees and slowing down crop production.

"Last summer before elevated marine toxin levels resulted in indefinite postponement of clam season on Washington’s south coast, WDFW reported “the largest population of harvestable clams on Long Beach for at least the last 25 years.”

It’s a pitched battle, you see - the great booming and burgeoning of life of all kinds, juxtaposed against the covert animal-killing operations by what we euphemistically call " secret agents ", to prop up the failing and wholly-fraudulent " Poor Mother Gaia is Dying " confidence game on behalf of the barely-closeted Death worshippers they work for. In this case, the op involved spreading domoic toxins on clam beds.

Let me be clear, that’s a surmise on my part. Let’s call it an educated guess.

Yes, they can kill thousands of clams, and keep the beds closed for longer than ever, in history. But the positive changes continue, despite those tactics.

If they push too far, do it one too many times, the rubes are going to wake up. I think eventually people are going to get hip to what I’m saying and begin guarding sensitive locations around the clock, to catch such people. And they will catch them, and, eventually, we’ll move past this point in history.

Perhaps it will be State secessions that will finally bring it to light - you know, clams all toxic in the Federal state, not toxic in the seceded state.

All of those unfounded rumination aside, I get to add this factual data point to the list: “the largest population of harvestable clams on Long Beach for at least the last 25 years.”

Supporting “It’s May, 2017, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime.”

April 12, 2017 - Dig those clams! Season opens at last

After months of toxin-related delays , Peninsula season starts Wednesday

LONG BEACH and OCEAN PARK — Ending the longest closure since 2002, state shellfish managers have approved a five-day razor clam dig set to begin Wednesday on morning tides on the Long Beach Peninsula. Twin Harbors, Copalis and Mocrocks beaches also will be open.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife approved the opening after marine toxin tests showed that clams at all four beaches are safe to eat.

Dan Ayres, WDFW coastal shellfish manager, noted that the upcoming dig marks the first time Long Beach/Ocean Park beaches will open for clam digging this season, which began in October. Marine toxin levels at the beach had exceeded state health standards since last fall, but not anymore, Ayres said.

“We know that people have been waiting to dig razor clams at Long Beach for a long time, and we’re pleased we can finally add that beach to the line-up,” Ayres said. “Toxin levels there and at the other three beaches are all well within state health standards.”

Tests on Sunday, April 9, found a maximum level of domoic toxin of 10 parts per million in Peninsula clams, well below the 20 ppm threshold at which clamming is not safe.

Digging times

Long Beach and Twin Harbors will both be open for five straight days of digging, while Copalis and Mocrocks will open on alternating days. All four beaches will be open on morning tides, with no digging allowed after noon.

The upcoming dig is approved on the following beaches, dates and morning low tides:

• April 12, Wednesday, 8:08 a.m., 0.0 feet; Twin Harbors, Long Beach

• April 13, Thursday, 8:43 a.m., 0.0 feet; Twin Harbors, Copalis, Long Beach

• April 14, Friday, 9:18 a.m., 0.1 feet; Twin Harbors, Mocrocks, Long Beach

• April 15, Saturday, 9:55 a.m., 0.3 feet; Twin Harbors, Copalis, Long Beach

• April 16, Sunday, 10:36 a.m., 0.5 feet; Twin Harbors, Mocrocks, Long Beach

2017-18 licenses required

All diggers age 15 or older must have an applicable 2017-18 fishing license to harvest razor clams on any beach. Licenses, ranging from a three-day razor clam license to an annual combination fishing license, are available on WDFW’s website at fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov and from license vendors around the state.

Ayres noted that Long Beach has also been added to a dig tentatively scheduled later this month along with the other three beaches. Final approval of that dig will depend on the results of future marine toxin tests, which generally take place about a week before the dig is scheduled. That dig, if permitted, will encompass the April 29 and 30 Long Beach Razor Clam Festival.

Record clam numbers

Last summer before elevated marine toxin levels resulted in indefinite postponement of clam season on Washington’s south coast , WDFW reported “the largest population of harvestable clams on Long Beach for at least the last 25 years.”

Enough adult clams survived and so many juveniles matured after the last digs in the spring of 2015 that there were 4.9 million clams ready for digging last fall between the mouth of the Columbia River and Leadbetter Point. Diggers will now finally have a chance to see if the local clam population is still that robust.

It’s May, 2017, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime. In response, what we euphemistically call “secret agents” are engaged in ongoing animal-killing operations in an attempt to prop up the failing and wholly-fraudulent “Poor Mother Gaia is Dying” confidence game on behalf of the barely-closeted Death worshippers they work for.

The words " mystery ", " baffled " and " puzzled " are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. Those variants include " unusual " and " unknown ".

That’s why a story below, headlined " High numbers of humpback whales dying off Atlantic coast " says " The News Journal reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Fisheries declared it an “unusual mortality event,” which is called when higher-than-normal numbers of marine mammals die for unknown reasons ."

Sometimes the agents use poisons, or designer virii, or blunt-force trauma. In one of the cases below, it appears running directly over the whale with a boat was the technique used. When that same technique was used on seals in Scotland, the media account back in this thread called them “mystery corkscrew injuries”, and went on to suggest that cannibalism among the seals was to blame.

If you scroll way back in this thread, you can find the early “mystery” “baffled” “puzzled” collections, which make it more than abundantly clear what’s going on. I may take the time to go back and find one, and reprise it, here, as a counter-spell to this.

“Plausible Deniability” exists because most people want some excuse, any excuse, to not get more deeply involved in things, and Propagandists exploit this fact with scientific thoroughness on an ongoing basis.

I’m refuting it here with the same thoroughness, and I think I’m going to win. You know how, in magic shows, the key is your not knowing how they are misdirecting you? It’s like that.

April 26, 2017 - High numbers of humpback whales dying off Atlantic coast

Scientists seek cause of 2nd whale’s death in Virginia waters

Biologists are running tests on a second humpback whale found dead in Virginia waters in the span of a just a few days. Scientists believe the first whale died from a propeller wound, although they’re waiting for a pathologist to confirm that.

The News Journal reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Fisheries declared it an unusual mortality event,” which is called when higher-than-normal numbers of marine mammals die for unknown reasons. An agency spokeswoman says details will be provided Thursday.

Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute Executive Director Suzanne Thurman says a decomposing whale washed into shallow water in the Delaware Bay recently, but weather is hampering efforts to study it. Thurman says it apparently was a juvenile humpback.

If confirmed, it would be the fourth stranded in Delaware waters in a year, an unusually high number.

Four have stranded off Virginia and there was a stranding last fall off Long Island.

It’s May, 2017, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime. In response, what we euphemistically call “secret agents” are engaged in ongoing animal-killing operations in an attempt to prop up the failing and wholly-fraudulent “Poor Mother Gaia is Dying” confidence game on behalf of the barely-closeted Death worshippers they work for.

The words " mystery ", " baffled " and " puzzled " are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. Those variants include “unusual” and “unknown”.

Heres the post I mentioned just previously:

January 11, 1979 – Largest Whale Beaching Has Biologists Puzzled .

June 20, 1991 –Scientists are puzzled about why more than 2500 gray whales arrived this week at their winter homes on the coast of Baja California

August 27, 1995 – Scientists Are Puzzled Over the Deaths of Whales in the St. Lawrence

April 28, 2002 – Researchers Puzzled By Whale Deaths On Maui

December 12, 2009 – Experts Puzzled by Nine Beached Whales on Italy’s Coast …

September 21, 2010 – Biologists Puzzled Over Beached Whales - Wall Street Journal

November 17, 2011 – Mysterious bird deaths baffle hotel workers Myrtle Beach …

January 15, 2012 – Colorful Monarch butterfly has been scarce, experts puzzled

April 25, 2012 – Over 100 sperm whales gather in Kalpitiya, onlookers puzzled

July 18, 2012 – Mysterious Mass Animal Deaths Continue: Biologists baffled

September 7, 2012 – Scientists remain puzzled over struggles of Inlet belugas …

October 11, 2012 – Idaho Fish and Game puzzled over squirrel slaughter …

February 18, 2013 –A mysterious green ‘slime’ said to come from outer space has left boffins baffled at a wildlife park.

March 18, 2013 – Scientists puzzled by manatee deaths on Florida’s east coast

August 9, 2013 – Researchers puzzled by wildlife deaths in Florida

October 24, 2013 – Researcher: High death rate, ’puzzling’ behavior in BC orcas

November 24, 2013 – Unprecedented concentration of sea creatures near shore in California; Experts baffled , longtime residents astounded — Biologist: “It’s a very strange year… The $64,000 question is why?

December 5, 2013 – Mass squirrel killing leaves wildlife officers puzzled

December 22, 2013 – Abundance of snowy owls in N.J. has bird experts baffled

December 25, 2013 – Mystery Illness is Killing Bald Eagles in Utah, Wildlife …

December 30, 2013 –It’s like a whale traffic jam right now off the coast of Long Beach, Calif. — the nation’s busiest commercial port. That has scientists puzzled

January 13, 2014 –368 gray whales were spotted off the California coast in December … Scientists are puzzled as to why the whales are suddenly so common.

January 17, 2014 – State wildlife officials are trying to figure out why all the fish have died in a northern Nevada marina where the stocked fishery has flourished since the man-made lake was created nearly 15 years ago.

February 13, 2014 – Experts Examine Dead New Zealand Killer Whales – Remain Puzzled .

February 24, 2014 – Smithsonian Scientists Solve “Sudden Death at Sea” Mystery

April 30, 2014 –The endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles skipped their annual mass nesting trip to Gahirmatha this year, something that has baffled wildlife experts

May 27, 2014 – Fish deaths a mystery at Lake Mendocino

June 5, 2014 – Biologists Puzzled By ‘Black Goo’ In Green Country Creek …

June 7, 2014 – Scientists still puzzled over cause of elk hoof disease

July 9, 2014 – Fish Kill Mystery Deepens - Thousands of dead fish washing up on Oahu’s west shores.

July 17, 2014 – Scientists Look for Causes of Baffling Die-Off of Sea Stars

September 11, 2014 – Who killed our swans? Experts baffled by Kennet and Avon Canal deaths

September 23, 2014 – Mystery of hundreds of fish found dead in popular east London park

December 9, 2014 – Mass strandings of seals in Cornwall leave wildlife experts ’slightly baffled’ .

December 12, 2014 – Scientists puzzled by dead steelhead in the Salmon River …

December 18, 2014 – Bern, Switzerland - Experts puzzled by disappearing fish

December 26, 2014 – Dead Birds In India Have Experts Baffled!

January 6, 2015 – Spate of deep sea beaked whale deaths puzzle experts

January 9, 2015 – Experts puzzled by increase in stranded whales

January 11, 2015 – Dead birds washing ashore by the thousands on Pacific coast baffle scientists.

January 15, 2015 - Rescue workers left baffled after hundreds of birds are found covered in a mysterious gooey substance in San Francisco Bay

The Illuminist-shill mouthpiece quoted in this article is named “Stormy” Mayo, which is a nod and a wink to the storm god these people have been worshipping and offering human sacrifices to all the way back to Babylon, and before.

He’s carefully hedging, as best he can, against the great news of record numbers of right whales in Cape Cod bay:

" But he cautioned people not to assume that the large number of right whales in New England is representative of the trends in the larger population. "

The article goes on to tell us " The previous record for sightings in the bay was 96 in 2014, Mayo said ."

In that latter statement, you can see how neither Mayo nor the reporter will utter the percentage of the new record over the old, as doing so would be more impactful, and go badly off-message re: Poor Mother Gaia dying, and all.

If " the global population of the endangered species appears to be declining ", as Mayo attests, how come the most ever in history were seen in 2014, and that number increased 17% in just three years, to a new all-time record, in Cape Cod Bay?

" Mayo said researchers are trying to find out why the right whales have been gathering off of Cape Cod "

It’s a mystery. They’re baffled. (furrow brow, ring hands)

He’s obviously lying baldfacedly, with the support of a controlled-media reporter who’s in on the con.

It’s hard for me to fathom that the save-the-whales crowd can remain willfully ignorant of this stuff. I guess it’s because they aren’t scientists, or scientifically-minded, but rather are religious zealots, duped followers of a snake-oil religion.

But, meanwhile, the whales are booming and burgeoning, and awareness is rising. I think we’re going to leave this whole construct behind, and I think it’s going to disappear much sooner than later.

April 11, 2017 - Record number of right whales spotted in Cape Cod Bay

It’s a big ocean, and there are only 524 known North Atlantic right whales still swimming in it. So when wildlife researchers found more than 20 percent of the worldwide population in Cape Cod Bay this week, they knew that something special was happening.

An aerial survey by the Center for Coastal Studies on Sunday spotted 112 right whales in the bay, the largest number recorded there in a single day.

Charles “Stormy” Mayo, director of right whale habitat studies at the center, said the whales often gather in the bay at this time of year, but the swelling numbers are all the more remarkable given that the global population of the endangered species appears to be declining.

“It’s quite a remarkable sighting. These are animals that are a lot rarer than a lot of those that you and I watch on TV,” he said, noting that many of the right whales spotted this week would have been visible from shore. “Lo and behold, every winter and spring, they come to this bay.”

Mayo said researchers are trying to find out why the right whales have been gathering off of Cape Cod , but it has something to do with the availability of food. The whales eat tiny zooplankton that they strain from the water.

“Basically, this is their restaurant in some respects,” he said. But he cautioned people not to assume that the large number of right whales in New England is representative of the trends in the larger population.

The animals, whose numbers were decimated by whaling, continue to be in danger of further population losses. Making the circumstances of the visit more momentous, Mayo said, is that two of the three known calves born this year were spotted in Cape Cod Bay.

The conservancy warned boaters to be extremely careful in the bay while the whales are around. Mayo said they often swim long distances just below the surface — at a depth that makes them vulnerable to propellers.

It’s illegal for watercraft or light aircraft to come withing 1,500 feet of a North Atlantic right whale without a research permit.

The conservancy did its survey Sunday with observations from both air and sea. The previous record for sightings in the bay was 96 in 2014, Mayo said.

North Atlantic right whales range from Florida to Canada, around Iceland, and from Portugal to Scandinavia. They will probably leave the bay soon, Mayo said. He has seen them remain into May, but he expects them to go sooner this year.

He encouraged people to take in the rare sight from land while they have the chance.

It’s May, 2017, and crime is dropping steeply, all over the globe. It has been for well over twenty years, now, but the trend continues to increase in speed and magnitude. This thread is documenting that process, and also the formulaic, highly-repetitive responses of the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Media complexes of every nation.

I’ve appended a recent article, below, to support that thesis, headlined: " New Report Shows Percent Drop in Overall Crime in New Jersey "

Did you notice how, hilariously and very obviously, the headline is forbidden from using the percentage number of the drop?

The Coincidence Theorist - who is, in all fairness, probably not reading this thread - would say “ah, a rare typographical error…a reporting error.” Whereas I shall add it to the “they’re forbidden from stating the percentage, as that would be more impactful, so they carefully hedged by omitting it” sub chapter of this book. Actually, this headline might be the lead-in to that chapter: " New Report Shows Percent Drop in Overall Crime in New Jersey ."

The subhead coughs up the number, though, and formulaically closes with the formulaic bitter-hedge:

"New Jersey’s overall crime rate in 2015 decreased by 5 percent compared to 2014, but there was a sharp rise in reported sex crimes. "

And that bitter hedge, the reader will go on to learn, is based on lies, subterfuge:

" Various reported sex crimes, categorized in the report as rape, increased by 43 percent, from 950 to 1,362 incidents. But the state says that’s because the FBI changed reporting criteria which resulted in more comprehensive reporting ."

They can use that trick one time, can’t use it again. So it’s a formulaic tactic, an expected tactic.

And now they’re out of tactics, like that, in this situation. While the crime numbers will continue to drop. What’s going to happen to the lying, formulaic propagandists, going forward, if the trends don’t change, and their tactics don’t change in response?

Criminologists are supposed to study crime, lucidly, scientifically. Marine Biologists are supposed to study Marine Biology, lucidly, scientifically.

What this whole situation is uncovering for a dimly-awakening populace around the globe is that the folks in charge are not their friends, and are lying to them about basically everything, including sex crime rates in New Jersey, and right whales in Cape Cod Bay, to name only two of an innumerable many. Not just Donald, not just Hillary…ALL of them.

Personally, I’ve known that the folks in charge were not my friends since I was a child, since the old Pennsylvania Dutch ladies who cooked us lunches at my elementary school were fired, and the next day a brown bag with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and an apple in it was handed to me, during our transition to insanely horrible meals in trucked-in aluminum foil containers. That was just prior to the Ronald Reagan “ketchup is a vegetable” era.

Things got steadily worse, on many different levels, every year of my life, from then all the way up until about three years ago. The fact that I and about 27 other people on the globe are the only ones aware of that great shift does not bother me, as I know that everything else I got into prior to the general populace later became very popular with them , also. Mountain Biking, burritos, and vintage Hi-Fi equipment, to name only three.

Other people are going to awaken, say “hey, I notice a change three years ago, too!” - and the whole picture is going to change for them, in a moment, as their perspective changes. And they won’t “unlearn” it, once they figure it out.

Three-card Monte tables used to be on the streets, when I was young. They simply don’t exist anymore. Cons, confidence games, have a lifespan. Then they disappear, when the rubes “get wise”. The cons - and the con artists running them - disappear forever.

April 28, 2017 - New Report Shows Percent Drop in Overall Crime in New Jersey

New Jersey’s overall crime rate in 2015 decreased by 5 percent compared to 2014, but there was a sharp rise in reported sex crimes .

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s overall crime rate in 2015 decreased by 5 percent compared to 2014, but there was a sharp rise in reported sex crimes.

The Law and Public Safety Department on Friday released the state’s Uniform Crime Report .

Various reported sex crimes, categorized in the report as rape, increased by 43 percent, from 950 to 1,362 incidents. But the state says that’s because the FBI changed reporting criteria which resulted in more comprehensive reporting.

Murders increased from 354 to 369 and violent crimes reported decreased from 23,004 to 22,899.

Attorney General Christopher Porrino says while the overall crime rate is down, there is still room for improvement.