https://www.sott.net/topic/28-Drought Signs of the Times: The World for People who Think. Featuring independent, unbiased, alternative news and commentary on world events. en-us Original content Copyright 2026 by Signs of the Times/Sott.net. For other content, see our Fair Use Policy at www.sott.net. Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:31:14 +0000 https://www.sott.net/images/sottlogo_rss.jpg SOTT.net https://www.sott.net https://www.sott.net/article/503064-Is-the-Gulf-Stream-really-collapsing-Debunking-another-climate-doomsday-claim The idea that global warming could paradoxically shut down the Gulf Stream, plunging Europe into a new cold spell — a scenario popularized by the film The Day After Tomorrow — is a powerful narrative. However, the latest episode of Klimaschau (Issue 237) challenges these alarmist predictions, scrutinizing the scientific evidence and the methods behind the claims. The segment focuses on skepticism regarding the imminent "tipping" of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Recall how climatologists like Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) argue that Arctic warming is weakening the AMOC due to an influx of freshwater, potentially causing Europe to become colder and drier. https://www.sott.net/article/503064-Is-the-Gulf-Stream-really-collapsing-Debunking-another-climate-doomsday-claim Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:44:17 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/502358-Climate-prophets-say-Humanity-is-entering-New-Reality-has-crossed-the-first-tipping-point With the climate olympic-junket just weeks away in Brazil, the race is on for word-salad-catastrophes flavored with science-incense to shake down more cash and concessions from the rich democracies. And thus the University of Exeter proffers the first round of this year's "on the brink" specials. The first tipping point is almost upon us, just like it was every year for the last 29 years in a row: 'New reality' as world reaches first climate tipping point The world faces a "new reality" as we have reached the first of many Earth system tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm unless humanity takes urgent action, according to a landmark report released today (13 Oct) by the University of Exeter and international partners. With ministers gathering today ahead of the COP30 summit, the second Global Tipping Points Report finds that warm-water coral reefs - on which nearly a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend - are passing their tipping point. Widespread... https://www.sott.net/article/502358-Climate-prophets-say-Humanity-is-entering-New-Reality-has-crossed-the-first-tipping-point Tue, 14 Oct 2025 02:23:04 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/501682-Of-empires-and-famines British Empire used famine as a weapon of war dozens of times. It will continue to do so until it is defeated and quarantined from the rest of humanity. The unbearable, yet persisting blight on humanity today is the deliberate starvation of the two million Palestinian people in Gaza, or however many are still left alive. The figure is probably closer to 1.5 million. It may seem like the worst thing humanity has witnessed since who knows when except that, unfortunately, it's only the most recent and most widely reported example of the empire's monstrous misdeeds. Many of us recall the famines in Somalia, Sudan or Ethiopia but those seemed like accidents of nature or consequences of civil wars that raged between camps dominated by cruel, barbarous warlords who couldn't or wouldn't settle their differences by any civilized means. Any involvement by Western powers in such atrocities was strictly the domain of unhinged conspiracy theorists and little more. https://www.sott.net/article/501682-Of-empires-and-famines Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:26:22 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/501477-Towering-wall-of-dust-chokes-Phoenix-Arizona-as-haboob-rolls-through-metro-center Thousands of residents left without power Phoenix, Arizona was blanketed with a thick wall of dust known as a haboob that darkened the skies and knocked out power to thousands as a major monsoon hit the area Monday night. The dusty conditions began around 4pm near Interstate-10 in Casa Grande and Eloy, south of Phoenix, according to the National Weather Service. But the storms quickly made their way north, prompting dust storm warnings just before 5pm that remained in effect until 7pm. https://www.sott.net/article/501477-Towering-wall-of-dust-chokes-Phoenix-Arizona-as-haboob-rolls-through-metro-center Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:37:40 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/499026-Who-owns-the-oceans-The-UN-wants-to-tax-ships-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-a-40b-windfall-for-unaccountable-global-bureaucrats What looks, acts, and taxes like One World Government? The UN is has succeeded in getting a global shipping tax approved supposedly to control the weather. It will be formally adopted in October, and start in 2027, applying to ships of more than 5,000 tons. I don't remember our parliamentarians debating it, do you? Somehow a tariff is terrible but a global trade tax paid to unaccountable bureaucrats will save the world? It sets a very dangerous new precedent. For the first time the United Nations would be able to tax the world directly, without twisting the arm of national governments. Who owns the oceans? The UN apparently... By 2030 the UN is projected to collect $40 billion in total from this tax. Supposedly they will hand this on to "supporting developing countries" (like China, eh?). Obviously this give the UN bureaucrats another $40 billion in power. It's more money for them to fly to conferences in the Amazon, more money to reward their "friends", and more money to buy the... https://www.sott.net/article/499026-Who-owns-the-oceans-The-UN-wants-to-tax-ships-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-a-40b-windfall-for-unaccountable-global-bureaucrats Tue, 15 Apr 2025 03:00:06 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/498285-Massive-Mesopotamian-canal-network-unearthed-in-Iraq Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C. The ancient Mesopotamians created a massive, sophisticated network of canals to water their crops more than 3,000 years ago, a new study has revealed. Researchers found thousands of ancient irrigation canals up to 5.6 miles (9 kilometers) long carved into the landscape near Basra in Iraq, which at the time was the Eridu region of Mesopotamia. Mesopotamians occupied this region along the vast Euphrates river from the sixth millennium B.C. (8,000 to 7,000 years ago) to the early first millennium B.C. (3,000 to 2,000 years ago). The canals provide researchers with rare insights into the ancient practices of Mesopotamians, according to a statement released by Durham University in the U.K., one of the universities involved in the research. "This ground-breaking discovery not only enhances our... https://www.sott.net/article/498285-Massive-Mesopotamian-canal-network-unearthed-in-Iraq Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:37:13 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/497585-A-warning-from-the-trees How bad can a solar storm be? Just ask a tree. Unlike human records, which go back hundreds of years, trees can remember solar storms for millennia. Nagoya University doctoral student Fusa Miyake made the discovery in 2012 while studying rings in the stump of a 1900-year-old Japanese cedar. One ring, in particular, drew her attention. Grown in the year 774-75 AD, it contained a 12% jump in radioactive carbon-14 (14C), about 20 times greater than ordinary fluctuations from cosmic radiation. Other teams confirmed the spike in wood from Germany, Russia, the United States, Finland, and New Zealand. Whatever happened, trees all over the world experienced it. Most researchers think it was a solar storm — an extraordinary one. Often, we point to the Carrington Event of 1859 as the worst-case scenario for solar storms. The 774-75 AD storm was at least 10 times stronger; if it happened today, it would floor modern technology. Since Miyake's initial discovery, she and others have confirmed... https://www.sott.net/article/497585-A-warning-from-the-trees Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:08:25 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/497137-Lets-talk-about-California-Wildfires Unprecedented wildfires have swept the Los Angeles area over the last few days, destroying neighbourhoods and threatening landmarks. The BBC is helpfully keeping a running tally of the number of celebrities whose homes have burned down. This is the first time in recorded history that wildfires of this scale have occurred in California in January, according to an expert quoted in the New Scientist: "While Santa Ana fires are nothing new in southern California, this type of explosive fire event has never happened in January before, and it's only happened once in December," says Crystal Kolden at the University of California, Merced. There has been no official word on what started the fires as yet, although officials from the California Fire Service claimed that 95% of wildfires in California are started by humans. https://www.sott.net/article/497137-Lets-talk-about-California-Wildfires Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:41:55 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/495809-Climate-change-kills-the-unborn-The-UN-wants-us-to-save-babies-with-solar-panels-and-wind-plants This week's UN witchcraft is that a half a degree of global warming will kill babies and pregnant women, give us your money. The UN COP29 meeting starting Nov 11th, fights for relevance in the shadow of the US Election, like a suckerfish under an aircraft carrier. The latest confected attempt to get attention is to guilt trip the West — telling us that women and babies will die if we don't install enough solar panels. This is despite humans being mammals which evolved to cope with the heat and the cold. We live a more closeted, protected existence than any time in the last million years. Not many people give birth in caves these days. Indeed we're a species that inhabits towns with monthly temperatures that vary by 90 degrees Celsius and we are supposed to panic about another half a degree? The truth is that being cold, poor and hungry increases stillbirths just as much as any heatwave, and the thing that saves babies on a hot day is an air-conditioner. The answer to all four... https://www.sott.net/article/495809-Climate-change-kills-the-unborn-The-UN-wants-us-to-save-babies-with-solar-panels-and-wind-plants Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:45:42 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/495363-Greening-Rare-heavy-September-rainfalls-have-brought-back-lakes-in-the-Sahara North Africa seems to be greening as a result of climate change, which mostly occurs naturally. Satellite photos and studies have shown that the Sahara desert has been shrinking over the past 40 years, e.g. read here and here. The latest news is from the southeastern Moroccan desert, which is among the driest around the world, where it is reported to have gotten up to 100 mm of rain within a 24 hour period in September. Hard hit were villages 400 miles from the capital city of Rabat, including Tata, reports Al Jazeera here. https://www.sott.net/article/495363-Greening-Rare-heavy-September-rainfalls-have-brought-back-lakes-in-the-Sahara Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:55:28 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/494491-Climate-Science-goes-full-bore-witchcraft-Your-beefsteak-makes-bridges-fall-like-Tinker-Toys The Modern West is regressing to 8th Century occult science Today the supposed "newspaper of record" for the most powerful nation on Earth is effectively telling people that the steak they eat, the car they drive and the heater they use could cause bridges to collapse "'like Tinkertoys". But you'll have to join the dots yourself, because they never do. No one asks the experts: How many Tofu-burgers does it take to save Brooklyn Bridge? How many bus trips will we need to save the Golden Gate? The worlds leading journalists never ask the obvious questions. They just leave a trail of breadcrumbs: Man makes CO2, CO2 causes Spooky weather and Spooky weather eats bridges. So good people drive EV's! Each breadcrumb looks like bread, like it might be real, but no one sees the whole loaf and before you know it, everyone is lost in the woods, installing solar panels to save their bridges. Two days ago the breadcrumbs said "good people go without air conditioners". Things are so bad the New... https://www.sott.net/article/494491-Climate-Science-goes-full-bore-witchcraft-Your-beefsteak-makes-bridges-fall-like-Tinker-Toys Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:47:56 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/491447-U-N-contributing-scientist-Culling-human-population-could-avert-climate-catastrophe The suggested way of doing this would be a new, very fatal pandemic, so reports One America News (OAN) Volcanologist and ultra-hysterical climate scientist Prof. Bill McGuire posted a comment on X: "If I am brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic #climate breakdown, is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate." Reaction McGuire's comment came swiftly and harshly, so much you that McGuire took down the callous comment, claiming he didn't mean it and that readers misinterpreted the comment. If anything, it tells us what kind of twisted fantasies are floating around in the heads of the members of the climate doomsday cult. https://www.sott.net/article/491447-U-N-contributing-scientist-Culling-human-population-could-avert-climate-catastrophe Wed, 15 May 2024 18:43:23 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/490250-The-extraordinary-climate-events-of-2022-24 The unlikely volcano, the warmest year, and the collapse of the polar vortex. The climate events of 2022-24 have been were truly extraordinary. From an unlikely undersea volcanic eruption to the warmest year on record to the collapse of the polar vortex after three sudden stratospheric warming events. This rare convergence presents a unique learning opportunity for climatologists and climate aficionados alike, offering insights into a climate event that may not be repeated for hundreds or even thousands of years. 1. January 2022, the unlikely volcano Never before have we witnessed an undersea volcanic eruption with a plume capable of reaching the stratosphere and depositing a large amount of vaporized water. This extraordinary event occurred in January 2022 when the Hunga Tonga volcano erupted. The conditions for such an event are rare: the volcano must be deep enough to propel enough water with the plume, but not too deep to prevent it from reaching the stratosphere. Most undersea... https://www.sott.net/article/490250-The-extraordinary-climate-events-of-2022-24 Sat, 30 Mar 2024 17:56:05 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/489500-Large-ingenous-events-cosmic-impacts-and-crises-in-the-history-of-life Last month, in the February 2024 issue of the Kosmographia Newsletter I reported on new research correlating a series of large-scale igneous events which produced the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) and the Siberian Traps with mass extinction episodes. On February 8 another paper was published in the journal Global and Planetary Change which further supports correlations between mass extinction episodes with gigantic volcanic eruptions and catastrophic cosmic impacts. The lead author of the paper is Michael Rampino, who has for decades been in the forefront of researching catastrophic events in Earth history. I have been following his work since the early 1980s and hold him in high regard as a scientist who is willing to think outside established paradigms of Earth history. The abstract to the paper begins: "We find that Large Igneous Province (LIP) volcanism, mostly continental flood basalts (CFBs), along with the largest extraterrestrial impacts show significant... https://www.sott.net/article/489500-Large-ingenous-events-cosmic-impacts-and-crises-in-the-history-of-life Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:17:25 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/489072-The-regular-Atlantic-Circulation-Collapse-story ------- One of the many regular climate scare stories you can rely on is the one about failing currents in the Atlantic Ocean bringing cold climate chaos to Europe. It's one of the most favourite doomsday speculations, based on computer models pushed to the edge - but who cares, it's a good shock-horror story and it pops up regularly. Actually we should care because it's well known that most people only register the top line of any news story — especially a climate disaster prediction - while they don't take-in or even read up on the context and the qualifications. That's when the headline becomes accepted as fact and takes its place as an undisputed example of the looming climate catastrophe. For example see the tweets by Roger Hallam and John Simpson. If some of the headlines in recent days are to be believed we are headed for a global climate disaster because of a slowdown in the circulation of the northern Atlantic Ocean predicted by computer models. But are we? No. https://www.sott.net/article/489072-The-regular-Atlantic-Circulation-Collapse-story Mon, 19 Feb 2024 23:10:17 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/486294-The-Polluter-Elites The very people flying to Davos annually on their private jets are responsible for the majority of environmental pollution. The globalists are the "polluter elites" who want to implement prohibitions on consumption for the masses. The Guardian recently reported that the top 1% produce more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%. The climate change agenda is purely a control tactic, control over our tax spending, energy and food consumption, and freedom of movement. The very people preaching that we must abandon our way of life to save the world KNOW that it is a sham. The Guardian partnered with Oxfam, the Stockholm Environment Institute, for "The Great Carbon Divide" study. As of 2019, the top 1% were responsible for 5.9bn tonnes of CO2 emmissions or 16% of all emissions. "The report found it would take about 1,500 years for someone in the bottom 99% to produce as much carbon as the richest billionaires do in a year," the article notes. "This elite also wield enormous political... https://www.sott.net/article/486294-The-Polluter-Elites Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:07:24 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/485635-Is-the-jet-stream-changing Researchers at Mainz University are investigating the jet stream to assess how its decadal variations could affect the occurrence of weather extremes in Europe. Heavy precipitation, wind storms, heat waves — when severe weather events such as these occur they are frequently attributed to a wavy jet stream. The jet stream is a powerful air current in the upper troposphere that balances the pressure gradient and Coriolis forces. It is still not known whether the jet stream is really undergoing changes at decadal timescales and, if so, to what extent. "There are various theories as to what we can expect from the jet stream in future. However, these are all based on highly idealized assumptions," said Dr. Georgios Fragkoulidis of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). "Although it is quite clear that carbon dioxide emissions make a direct contribution to the global mean temperature, changes in the atmospheric circulation are highly uncertain... https://www.sott.net/article/485635-Is-the-jet-stream-changing Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:25:14 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/483726-Drought-causes-severe-backlog-at-Panama-Canal-shipments-delayed-by-WEEKS-cost-of-goods-in-US-may-spike More than 200 ships are stuck on both sides of the Panama Canal after authorities capped the number of crossings because of a serious drought. The large vessels, thought to be carrying millions of dollars worth of goods, are locked in a traffic jam with some waiting for weeks to cross. Vessel-tracking data highlights the extent of the issue with hundreds of ships, mainly bulk cargo or gas carriers, seen waiting near entrances to the canal on the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The number of daily transits through the canal has been capped at 32 by water authorities in a bid to conserve water. Panama is set to lose $200million in revenue from the delays and it could cause a spike in US grocery and parcel prices as extra fees are hiked on to shipping costs. https://www.sott.net/article/483726-Drought-causes-severe-backlog-at-Panama-Canal-shipments-delayed-by-WEEKS-cost-of-goods-in-US-may-spike Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:22:36 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/482978-Cobalt-carnage-child-labor-and-ecological-destruction Horrific for cell phones, worse for electric vehicles, calamitous under Net Zero. Global cobalt demand soared with the advent of cell phones and laptop computers. It exploded with the arrival of electric vehicles and now is skyrocketing in tandem with government EV mandates and subsidies. Cobalt improves battery performance, extends driving range and reduces fire risks. Demand will reach stratospheric heights if governments remain obsessed with climate change and Net Zero. States and nations would have to switch to electric cars, trucks, buses and tractors; end coal and gas electricity generation; convert gas furnaces, water heaters and stoves to electricity; and provide alternative power for windless, sunless periods. Electricity generation would triple or quadruple. Weather-dependent wind turbines and solar panels would require billions of battery modules, to stabilize power grids and avoid blackouts every time wind and sunshine don't cooperate. All that Net Zero transformation... https://www.sott.net/article/482978-Cobalt-carnage-child-labor-and-ecological-destruction Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:34:02 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/482183-Thousands-of-dead-fish-wash-ashore-in-drought-hit-Iraq In a staggering scene, thousands of fish floated in the Al-Ezz River in the southeastern Iraqi governorate of Maysan due to water scarcity and the high level of salinity. Social media activists shared videos of fish deaths with angry comments about the situation in their areas because of water scarcity. The local authorities in Maysan announced on Saturday that they had monitored the deaths of fish in the Al-Ezz River, warning of serious diseases at the same time. https://www.sott.net/article/482183-Thousands-of-dead-fish-wash-ashore-in-drought-hit-Iraq Mon, 10 Jul 2023 10:39:14 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/479692-Temperature-extremes-April-records-fall-as-Spain-heads-for-100F April records in Spain are beginning to fall. As temperatures rise into the 30s Celsius and heat across southern Iberia continues to intensify, local records are being passed. AEMET, the Spanish Met. Service has highlighted 38C for Cordoba and Seville with heat advisories on Thursday. Exceeding that value at this time of year would be "something absolutely unusual, very outstanding." Seville has already seen 33C, Madrid's April record is 30.1C and forecast to see 31 even 32 by Friday. Jerez Airport in the south looks to have exceeded its monthly record too. They are toppling and there are more days of heat to come. This is more like a summer setup and around 10 degrees warmer than usual. https://www.sott.net/article/479692-Temperature-extremes-April-records-fall-as-Spain-heads-for-100F Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:46:15 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/471842-The-War-on-Life What the climate emergency narrative tells us about the death cult's psychology. The imminent destruction of the Earth's climate at human hands has been a constant theme throughout my life. The exact form of it has evolved somewhat over time. When I was a kid in the 80s it was the disappearing ozone layer. In the 90s it was global warming. In the naughts it morphed into climate change. Most recently the branding got racheted up to the more emphatic Climate Emergency. It doesn't matter that none of the dire predictions of the past have manifested. Back around the turn of the millenium Al Gore rode a crane up the side of the infamous and long-discredited hockeystick graph, and confidently proclaimed that snow would soon be a thing of the past. Meanwhile, here in 2022, the Greenland ice sheet just added more mass in one day that at any other summer day in recorded history. That's just one example; there are others, more meaningful, such as the continuous failure of climate models to... https://www.sott.net/article/471842-The-War-on-Life Tue, 06 Sep 2022 23:51:25 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/471730-UK-governments-green-energy-policy-is-a-national-disaster Net Zero Watch has condemned the Government's green energy policies as "a national disaster." This follows the announcement that a major offshore windfarm will not activate an agreement to sell power at a much lower cost to the grid. The Times has reported that the Hornsea 2 windfarm, which had a contract to sell power at £73 per megawatt hour, will instead sell in the open market, where prices have averaged £200 per megawatt hour this year, and reached £508 last week. Britain's struggling energy consumers are likely to end up paying a billion pounds extra for Hornsea's electricity over the next 12 months. The new Prime Minister should urgently look into the legal options for cancelling or revoking these poorly written contracts, the spirit of which are being grotesquely abused to the huge disadvantage to British consumers. https://www.sott.net/article/471730-UK-governments-green-energy-policy-is-a-national-disaster Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:21:55 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/471564-Global-financial-system-at-risk-from-flawed-climate-models A team of Australian scientists, financiers and economists have issued a stark warning over the use of "flawed" climate models to predict financial risk. Writing in the journal Environmental Research they say building future strategies on information that is not understood and potentially misleading is likely to expose the global financial system to systemic risks of its own making. Politicians and policy-makers are increasingly seeking to assess the potential risks to the financial system associated with climate change. They typically use a combination of databases for the global mean temperature in conjunction with so-called coupled climate models to determine regional and more local changes such as the effect on cities. According to this new study however this approach is flawed and ineffective. "We show that global mean temperature provides little insight on how acute risks likely material to the financial sector will change at a city-scale, say the researchers. They... https://www.sott.net/article/471564-Global-financial-system-at-risk-from-flawed-climate-models Tue, 30 Aug 2022 19:25:10 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/471360-Drought-drying-up-the-Yangtze-river-China-loses-hydropower No rain and a 70-day heat wave spur crop failures, power cuts, and dangerously-low reservoirs across parts of China. A historic drought in the southwest of China is drying up rivers, intensifying forest fires, damaging crops, and severely curtailing electricity in a region highly dependent on hydropower. The Yangtze River, the third largest in the world, has dropped to half its average water levels, affecting shipping routes, limiting drinking water supplies, causing rolling blackouts, and even exposing long-submerged Buddhist statues. Some 66 rivers across 34 counties in Chongqing were dried up as of last week, Reuters reported. Also last week, the province of Sichuan, which gets more than 80 percent of its energy from hydropower, cut or limited electricity to thousands of factories in an effort to "leave power for the people." Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, is just a quarter of its normal size for this time of year. https://www.sott.net/article/471360-Drought-drying-up-the-Yangtze-river-China-loses-hydropower Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:50:25 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/471322-EU-drought-assessed-at-worst-in-500-years A rainfall deficit will badly impact farming yields, the European Commission has warned Europe is experiencing what appears to be the worst drought in five centuries, the European Commission warned on Tuesday, citing a new analysis released by the EU's Joint Research Center (JRC). The August report highlighted the continued impact of extreme weather on farming. Almost half of the EU, or 47%, remains under warning conditions due to a shortage of moisture in the soil, while 17% of the EU is on alert due to the negative effects the weather has on crops. Together, they constitute 64% of the EU, the statement pointed out. https://www.sott.net/article/471322-EU-drought-assessed-at-worst-in-500-years Tue, 23 Aug 2022 18:46:47 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/471320-Germany-plans-climate-lockdown-Forbidden-to-leave-doors-open-Washcloths-instead-of-showers The future in Germany is lockdown after lockdown. After the COVID lockdown, Germany now moving to impose a climate lockdown, says German Editor in Chief. Germany's Bild TV YouTube site here looks at the latest Socialist-Green government's initiatives to combat the country's deepening energy crisis. The latest initiatives have been drawn up by Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Green Party). Among the new rules, according to BILD TV: Shops are no longer allowed to keep the entrances continuously open (in order to prevent energy from being wasted by excess heating or air conditioning). In the video, BILD TV asks its Editor in Chief, Claus Strunz, what's behind the new regulation, commenting that essentially what we have is a government that is increasingly encroaching ever deeper into our private lives. "Something that nutty could only be conjured up by some crazy bureaucrats," Strunz comments. "That's precisely what we don't want: the government ruling the area of retail." https://www.sott.net/article/471320-Germany-plans-climate-lockdown-Forbidden-to-leave-doors-open-Washcloths-instead-of-showers Tue, 23 Aug 2022 18:33:36 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/471318-Droughts-cloud-seeding-and-the-coming-water-wars Here's a puzzler for you: why is it that every time the MSM reports on cloud seeding, they treat it like some kind of crazy new invention that the world has never seen before? For the latest example of this phenomenon, check out China is seeding clouds to replenish its shrinking Yangtze River, which was posted to that bastion of truth, CNN.com, on August 18th. In this Pulitzer-worthy piece, it takes a crack squad of no less than three reporters to tell us that "Chinese planes are firing rods into the sky to bring more rainfall to its crucial Yangtze River, which has dried up in parts." Well, I never! What will they think of next, Mabel?! Of course, only a few paragraphs later they admit that this isn't some newfangled, cutting-edge technology, but a very old idea that's been in practice for nearly a century. So why, then, do they insist on reporting on cloud seeding as if weather modification has never been used before? Does it have anything to do with the fact that it isn't just... https://www.sott.net/article/471318-Droughts-cloud-seeding-and-the-coming-water-wars Tue, 23 Aug 2022 18:23:43 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/471214-Fire-tornado-kills-38-at-wildlife-park-in-Algeria A horror 'fire tornado' has killed at least 38 people in Algeria after it ripped through a wildlife park and incinerated 12 people trying to escape the flames in a bus. Fanned by drought and a blistering heatwave, the blazes have left massive destruction in their wake, mostly in the El Tarf region near the eastern border with Tunisia that was baking in 48C heat. A family of five was among the dead and at least 200 more people have suffered burns or respiratory problems from the smoke, according to various Algerian media. A journalist in El Tarf described 'scenes of devastation' on the road to El Kala in the country's far northeast. 'A tornado of fire swept everything away in seconds,' he told AFP by telephone. 'Most of those who died were surrounded while visiting a wildlife park.' https://www.sott.net/article/471214-Fire-tornado-kills-38-at-wildlife-park-in-Algeria Sat, 20 Aug 2022 11:16:33 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/471012-UK-declares-drought-in-parts-of-England-amid-heatwave Government met environment officials and water companies Drought declared for parts of England Northern English water company announces hosepipe ban Flash floods could follow dry weather, say Met Office Britain officially declared a drought in parts of England on Friday as households faced new curbs on water usage during a prolonged period of hot and dry weather that has kindled wildfires and tested infrastructure. The drought, the first in England since 2018, means that water companies will step up efforts to manage the impact of dry weather on farmers and the environment, including by managing water to protect supplies, the Environment Agency said. read more "All water companies have reassured us that essential supplies are still safe, and we have made it clear it is their duty to maintain those supplies," Water Minister Steve Double said, following a meeting of the National Drought Group. "We are better prepared than ever before for periods of dry weather, but we will continue... https://www.sott.net/article/471012-UK-declares-drought-in-parts-of-England-amid-heatwave Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:41:39 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/470932-Over-100-French-towns-without-drinking-water-amid-historic-drought More than 100 towns in France have no more drinking water and must receive deliveries by truck, France's ecological transition minister said while visiting the country's southeastern region. "There are already more than a hundred municipalities in France that today have no more drinking water, and for which supplies are being transported by truck to these municipalities because there is nothing left in the pipes," said Christophe Béchu, while visiting the town of Roumoules. Multiple European countries are experiencing historic drought conditions amid low precipitation and high temperatures made more likely due to climate change. https://www.sott.net/article/470932-Over-100-French-towns-without-drinking-water-amid-historic-drought Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:19:47 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/470893-Intense-European-heatwave-parches-Loire-Valley-Frances-garden The Loire Valley is known as "the Garden of France". But the garden is withering. France's worst drought since records began has turned lush vegetation into arid fields of brown crops, shrivelling under what is now the fourth heatwave of the year. In Vincent Favreau's vegetable farm, where he produces food for a hundred families in the area, the parched earth has stunted the growth of the cabbages. His potato plants are burnt out, producing just half the crop of a normal year. https://www.sott.net/article/470893-Intense-European-heatwave-parches-Loire-Valley-Frances-garden Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:22:14 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/470850-Drought-in-Europe-threatens-major-shipping-river The Rhine is an important shipping route for raw materials such as grain, chemicals, minerals, coal and oil products including fuel oil. Companies are keeping a close eye on its water levels and the potential impact on their operations. The water levels on the Rhine have recently continued to drop due to soaring hot temperatures and lack of rainfall in the region. https://www.sott.net/article/470850-Drought-in-Europe-threatens-major-shipping-river Wed, 10 Aug 2022 12:35:32 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/470446-France-on-course-for-driest-July-on-record "The month of July will very likely be the driest July ever recorded since 1959," spokesman Christian Veil from Meteo-France told AFP. On average, just eight mm (0.3 inches) of rain fell across the country from July 1-25, less than the previous low of 16 mm which was clocked in 2020, he said. https://www.sott.net/article/470446-France-on-course-for-driest-July-on-record Sat, 30 Jul 2022 09:35:50 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/470275-Most-of-France-on-drought-alert-farmers-forced-to-reduce-water-use-by-50-in-some-regions-harvest-also-threatened-by-recurrent-heatwave Almost all of France is now on drought alert, with restrictions on water usage as the country battles an exceptionally dry summer. Comment: It's exceptional, but it's not unprecedented, there have been others years where similar dry conditions have been recorded. After record breaking heatwaves and forest fires across the country, most of France is now on drought alert. Drought is impacting almost the entirety of the country from east to west. Of the 96 French mainland départements, 86 are currently on some level of drought alert, meaning there are restrictions on water usage in place. There are four levels of alert, beginning with least to most severe: vigilance, alert (yellow), heightened alert (orange), and crisis (red). https://www.sott.net/article/470275-Most-of-France-on-drought-alert-farmers-forced-to-reduce-water-use-by-50-in-some-regions-harvest-also-threatened-by-recurrent-heatwave Mon, 25 Jul 2022 11:46:30 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/470234-Adapt-2030-Ice-Age-Report-You-need-to-do-this-if-you-want-to-survive Massive droughts in Europe and N. America decreasing crop yields right as Amazon forbids the sale of Mylar Bags if they are not see through. How to live without money in a grid down event. https://www.sott.net/article/470234-Adapt-2030-Ice-Age-Report-You-need-to-do-this-if-you-want-to-survive Sun, 24 Jul 2022 11:02:09 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/470024-Mismanagement-or-green-agenda-Californias-farmland-rapidly-turns-to-dust-amid-water-crisis As much of the Western US suffers from a historic drought, all eyes have shifted to Californian farmers as hundreds of thousands of acres become fallow in a state responsible for a tremendous amount of US food production. Unprecedented cuts to water supplies are jeopardizing the future of growing for many farmers. Drought conditions are worsening, making it harder for farmers to irrigate crops. https://www.sott.net/article/470024-Mismanagement-or-green-agenda-Californias-farmland-rapidly-turns-to-dust-amid-water-crisis Tue, 19 Jul 2022 09:22:37 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/469691-Huge-crop-losses-expected-as-Italy-endures-prolonged-heatwave Italy is experiencing an unusual and prolonged heat wave and little rain this summer. Experts say it's the worst drought in 70 years in the country and the government has been forced to declare a state of emergency in five northern regions until the end of this year to deal with the situation. Emergency funds amounting to €37 million were also announced along with special powers for regional authorities to help guarantee public safety and to offer compensation for agricultural losses. The heat and lack of rain being experienced, particularly in the Po Valley, are not only drying up the rivers but causing significant concern to the agriculture sector in what is normally one of the country's breadbaskets. "It's the perfect storm, less than 70 percent of snow in the winter, four months of lack of rain, temperatures three or four degrees higher than the seasonal average," said Meuccio Berselli, secretary general for the district authority of the Po Valley. https://www.sott.net/article/469691-Huge-crop-losses-expected-as-Italy-endures-prolonged-heatwave Sun, 10 Jul 2022 12:46:53 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/469598-Heat-drought-and-wildfires-Torrid-spell-torments-Portugal Portugal is bracing for a heat wave, with temperatures in some areas forecast to climb as high as 43 C (109 F) this weekend just as a severe drought grips the country. The Civil Protection Agency, a Portuguese government body that coordinates official responses to emergencies, said Thursday it is placing crews on high alert because of the risk of wildfires. About a third of the country faces an extreme risk of forest fires, authorities say. The high temperatures are forecast to last at least a week. The national weather service IPMA says what it calls "tropical nights," when temperatures stay above 20 C (68 F) after sunset, are likely. The government said it will place the country on a formal state of alert against wildfires from Friday. That step grants authorities special powers, such as outlawing stubble burning and fireworks at summer festivals, and allows it to requisition equipment such as bulldozers for clearing fire breaks. https://www.sott.net/article/469598-Heat-drought-and-wildfires-Torrid-spell-torments-Portugal Fri, 08 Jul 2022 07:55:40 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/469273-Surprise-solar-storm-with-disruptive-potential-slams-into-Earth Experts were initially unsure what caused the freak geomagnetic event. Scientists were recently left scratching their heads after a "potentially disruptive" solar storm smashed into Earth without warning. The surprise solar storm hit Earth just before midnight UTC June 25 and continued throughout most of June 26, according to Spaceweather.com. Scientists classified it as a G1-class storm, which means it was strong enough to create weak power grid fluctuations, cause minor impacts to satellite operation, disrupt the navigational abilities of some migrating animals, and cause unusually strong auroras. The unexpected solar storm coincided with the peak of an extremely rare five-planet alignment, where Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn lined up in the sky in order of their proximity to the sun (which hasn't happened since 1864). Amateur astronomers in the northern hemisphere were able to capture images of the surprise auroras as they photobombed the neatly aligned planets.... https://www.sott.net/article/469273-Surprise-solar-storm-with-disruptive-potential-slams-into-Earth Wed, 29 Jun 2022 20:47:10 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/468606-Drought-threatens-Frances-crops-Italy-receives-only-half-of-usual-rainfall Farms across France were hit by heavy hail and fierce storms over the weekend, the National Farmers' Union Federation (FNSEA) said on Monday, while their counterparts in Italy warned of the impact of drought on crop yields. Hail, strong winds and torrential rain caused damage in nearly 65 departments of France, affecting wheat as well as fruit crops and vineyards, the FNSEA said in a statement. "The damage is very significant, with some farms seeing 100% of their crop affected," the statement said. The wheat harvest is approaching in France, the world's fourth-largest wheat exporter. https://www.sott.net/article/468606-Drought-threatens-Frances-crops-Italy-receives-only-half-of-usual-rainfall Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:42:22 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/468014-20-million-affected-by-African-droughts Historic droughts have hit Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia today, on May 19th 2022. The worst drought in over 40 years has affected over 20 million people on the horn of Africa. Crops and food supplies have been ruined following delayed rains, for the fourth successive year. The impact has been increased following a rise in food prices following events elsewhere in the world. Dry weather has also led to sandstorms and dust devil's, causing further impacts in the area. Aid services are working to help affected citizens, as this situation looks set to worsen in the coming weeks. https://www.sott.net/article/468014-20-million-affected-by-African-droughts Fri, 20 May 2022 13:24:41 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/467785-Wheat-crops-across-the-planet-under-threat-from-extreme-weather-world-output-set-to-drop-for-first-time As Russia's invasion chokes off Ukrainian wheat exports, pushing up bread and noodle prices, the global harvest faces an added test: extreme weather. Comment: Even Western politicians and the legacy media are admitting that what's happening in Ukraine is essentially a US-proxy war to 'weaken' Russia, rather than simply, as claimed above, a 'Russian invasion', and so any responsibility for the loss of Ukraine's wheat lies with the West. Droughts, flooding and heatwaves threaten output from the U.S. to France and India, compounding shrinking production in Ukraine. Just about every major producing region is facing one threat or another. The one notable exception is Russia, which is shaping up for a bumper crop and stands to benefit from the rising prices and limited supply elsewhere. Comment: Note that not only is the West continuing to consume Russian gas and oil, but it's also benefiting from buying and trading Russian wheat, and, despite relentless attacks from the West, Russia... https://www.sott.net/article/467785-Wheat-crops-across-the-planet-under-threat-from-extreme-weather-world-output-set-to-drop-for-first-time Fri, 13 May 2022 21:27:13 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/467125-5-signs-they-are-CREATING-a-food-crisis It's no secret that, according to politicians and the corporate press, "food shortages" and a "food supply crises" have been on the way for a while now. They have been regularly predicted for several years. What's really strange is that despite its near-constant incipience, the food shortage never seems to actually arrive and is always blamed on something new. As long ago as 2012, "scientists" were predicting that climate change and a lack of clean water would create "food shortages" that would "turn the world vegetarian by 2050". In 2019, UN "experts" warned that "climate change was threatening the world's food supply". Later the same year, the UK was warned that they could expect a food shortage as a result of "post-Brexit chaos". By early March 2020 supermarkets were already "warning" that the government had been too slow to act on the coronavirus outbreak, and they might run out of food. (They never actually did). A month later, in April 2020 when the "pandemic" was less than... https://www.sott.net/article/467125-5-signs-they-are-CREATING-a-food-crisis Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:07:08 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/466922-Drought-snow-freeze-further-damaging-US-wheat An ag economist says his concerns of tight wheat ending stocks are getting worse with more adverse weather in parts of the Western Plains and Western Cornbelt. The University of Missouri's Ben Brown said freezing temperatures early this morning in states like Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska give farmers a reason to worry. "Well, we don't want freeze warnings when the wheat is coming out dormancy...," he said. "This morning would've been something that would've caused some panic." Brown said the freeze might have knocked out some early planted soybeans too. https://www.sott.net/article/466922-Drought-snow-freeze-further-damaging-US-wheat Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:17:00 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/466292-China-continues-to-laugh-at-western-green-energy-foolishness With an energy cost crisis now striking Europe and to a lesser extent the U.S., some cracks have begun to appear in the "net zero" utopian dreams being pursued almost universally by Western politicians. Nevertheless, at this writing, the rapid elimination of use of fossil fuels, supposedly to fight "climate change," remains official government policy throughout Europe, at the federal level in the U.S., in most blue American states, and as well in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Here in the U.S., although President Biden has ordered some temporary measures like release of some oil from the nation's strategic reserves, the full federal bureaucracy remains under orders from the top to force reduction in production and use of fossil fuels in every way it can devise. Meanwhile, states like New York and California have rapidly approaching legal deadlines for shuttering all fossil fuel power plants, prohibiting all automobiles other than electric ones, banning natural gas for heating... https://www.sott.net/article/466292-China-continues-to-laugh-at-western-green-energy-foolishness Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:30:42 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/464493-The-intense-dry-spell-in-the-US-west-is-worst-megadrought-in-1200-years-new-study-says The intense dry spell that has parched the western U.S. the past 22 years is the region's worst "megadrought" since at least the year 800, a new study says. Megadroughts, which are defined as intense droughts that last for decades or longer, once plagued western North America. Now, thanks in part to global warming, an especially fierce one is back. Comment: It is now well known fact that a global warming is just a fiction. At the same time it is true that the climate of all other planets in the solar system is changing. No one is burning fossil fuels on Mars or Venus. The study, published Monday in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature Climate Change, said that more than 40% of the drought can be blamed on human-caused climate change. Comment: Climate change is a natural process. Humans have almost zero influence on it. https://www.sott.net/article/464493-The-intense-dry-spell-in-the-US-west-is-worst-megadrought-in-1200-years-new-study-says Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:31:54 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/460333-Putin-Lukashenko-approve-new-military-doctrine-as-they-ink-Russia-Belarus-integration-docs The Russian and Belarusian presidents have signed a revised Union State military doctrine, as well as a package of other integration documents, paving the way for bringing the two nations closer together. The landmark documents were signed by Vladimir Putin and Aleksandr Lukashenko on Thursday during a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Due to Covid-19 measures, the meeting was held via a video link. The new military doctrine, also signed on Wednesday, would "make defense policy more coherent [and] adapt the objectives of the defense ministries in a timely fashion," State Secretary of the Union State Dmitry Mezentsev said. Announcing the revision last month, Russia's Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said the doctrine had been updated to better coordinate the actions of the two nations, not only purely in the military arena, but also to resist the economic and political pressure coming from the "so-called collective West." https://www.sott.net/article/460333-Putin-Lukashenko-approve-new-military-doctrine-as-they-ink-Russia-Belarus-integration-docs Fri, 05 Nov 2021 13:52:19 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/460318-Slower-Atlantic-Ocean-currents-are-driving-extreme-winter-weather Slower ocean circulation as the result of climate change could intensify extreme cold weather in the U.S., according to new UArizona research. Throughout Earth's oceans runs a conveyor belt of water. Its churning is powered by differences in the water's temperature and saltiness, and weather patterns around the world are regulated by its activity. A pair of researchers studied the Atlantic portion of this worldwide conveyor belt called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, and found that winter weather in the United States critically depends on this conveyor belt-like system. As the AMOC slows because of climate change, the U.S. will experience more extreme cold winter weather. The study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment was led by Jianjun Yin, an associate professor in the University of Arizona Department of Geosciences and co-authored by Ming Zhao, a physical scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's... https://www.sott.net/article/460318-Slower-Atlantic-Ocean-currents-are-driving-extreme-winter-weather Thu, 04 Nov 2021 22:31:44 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/460265-Climate-doom-pantomime-at-Glasgow Think of Glasgow as a costume party for the Uber rich and it all makes sense. Everyone gets to hobnob, dress up in a Superhero prophet-of-doom outfit and pretend to save the world. When the richest people in the world turn up, with PM's and Presidents, and even the Royals do live photo tweets — you know the dry UN science conference has turned into the unmissable Olympics of Social Events. Just being there is the fashion statement of the year. The deals (or spin, such it is) is mostly done. The party is the reward. The World Stage beckons for politicians seeking to look important. While the offer of another glorious junket keeps the minor minions working hard all year. And any fence-sitting politicians might be awed and swept away in the spur of the moment to offer more than they might have in the cold light of day. (Send them your barbs!) https://www.sott.net/article/460265-Climate-doom-pantomime-at-Glasgow Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:51:13 +0000