Here’s a two-pager, a synopsis of the thread so far. Print it, put it on your fridge, in your office – use the Power of Utterance to put flight to the lies that confront you! I may print and keep a couple copies on my person, in a portfolio I carry with me, hand 'em out to the right folks at the right time.
The folks whose job it actually is to report on posts from this forum at their daily staff meetings can put it up in their cubes:
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America’s pistachio growers are on track to their biggest crop ever this year. Record corn crop and higher-than-expected stockpiles predicted in U.S. Farmers anticipate near-record almond crop.
Biggest wine grape crop ever produced in South Africa. Indiana crops are bouncing back with an expected record breaking yield. Brazil bumps up record corn, soybean forecasts. Record rice yield in Louisiana.
Rice output in India, the world’s second-largest grower, is set to climb to a record as early arrival of monsoon rains over the biggest growing regions spurs planting, potentially boosting exports. Showers have been 23 percent more than a 50-year average since June 1, with Andhra Pradesh getting at least 70 percent more rains.
Australia’s inland sea, Lake Eyer, which is the size of Wyoming, has been full for three years in a row. It has only been full 3 times in the last 150 years. Birds have turned up from as far away as Russia and Japan. ”If you had been here 12 months ago you would have seen it at its absolute worst. It was a moonscape.”
Waterfowl production in North America is at a record high.
A record run of 302,108 fall adult Chinook salmon returned to the Klamath River in 2012.
Fish populations off America’s coasts continue to rebound. The number of stocks subject to overfishing fell from 36 to 29, a record low. Ninety percent of the 284 monitored stocks no longer fall into that category.
The Atlantic cod is making a comeback off the coast of Nova Scotia. The cod population in the Grand Banks, an underwater plateau southeast of Newfoundland, had grown 69 per cent since 2007.
In spite of widely publicized fears, Bluefin Tuna populations are actually rebounding. A stock assessment in October 2010 calculated the Mediterranean stock of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna at 175,000 metric tons, a significant improvement over 2007’s 78,000 metric tons and 57% of the historical highpoint of the stock in 1955-1957.
Bowhead whale sightings increased from 1,200 animals in 1978 to 3,400 in 2011. From those numbers of whales seen, there are now 14,000 to 15,000 animals. “It’s pretty dramatic how it’s changed.”
A ship captain spotted a group of 100,000 dolphins swimming together off the coast of San Diego. The trail of dolphins was seven miles long and five miles wide. “I’ve seen a lot of stuff out here… but this is the biggest I’ve ever seen, ever.”’
There are far more polar bears alive today than there were 40 years ago. There are an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears worldwide, and that number has increased steadily in the past 40 years . Polar bear populations in certain areas have reached their “carrying capacity” — the maximum environmentally sustainable population size.
A survey released by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources shows the blue crab population in the region is at its highest level since 1993.
A third straight summer of record nesting indicates the number of loggerhead sea turtles hatching on Georgia beaches is rebounding.
Horseshoe Crab numbers are on the rebound, and public interest in the crustaceans is rising along with them. Volunteers at the wildlife reserve this season more than doubled over last year from 62 to 132.
After several years of decline in the lightning bug population, there has been a resurgence in the number and species of the beetles that lit the summer nights of our youth. The past two years have been particularly good for lightning bugs because of the rain and snow, which kept the ground moist for the larvae.
Global hurricane activity has decreased to the lowest level in 30 years.
German meteorologists say that the start of 2013 is now the coldest in 208 years. Faith in Global Warming is collapsing in formerly staunch Europe following increasingly severe winters which have now started continuing into spring.
Temperatures have flattened out over the last 15 years. The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade.
In this century, average winter temperatures have dropped by 1.45C, more than twice as much as their rise between 1850 and 1999, and twice as much as the entire net rise in global temperatures recorded in the 20th century.
“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.”
A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this month, containing fresh evidence of 20 years of overstated global warming. 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.
Staff at Australia’s 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. Many reported having to think about whether they would tell people where they worked because of the department’s negative image.
38% of Americans polled feel that Global Warming is a hoax.
U.S. organic food sales of $29.2 billion in 2011 marked an increase of more than 9% from $26.7 billion in 2010. Organic food share grew to 4.2% of total food sales in 2011, which was up from 4% in 2010 and compared with 1.4% in 2001.
Traditional TV viewing by 18-24-year-olds has now dropped for at least 5 consecutive quarters. In the second quarter of 2013, CNN plummeted to its lowest ratings since 1991.
The divorce rate is at its lowest point since the early 1970s. And infidelity has continued to decline.
The U.S. is experiencing the lowest crime levels since World War II. 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.
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.
The odds of being murdered or robbed are now less than half of what they were in the early 1990s.
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. 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.