The world faces some important deadlines.  If we don’t stop global warming by the year 2000, entire nations will be wiped off the face of the earth.

U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked

The Maldives will drown no later than 2018.

26 Sep 1988 – Threat to islands

The Arctic will be ice-free by 2018.

The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

Lower Manhattan will also be underwater by 2018.

Stormy weather – Global warming – Salon.com

The Arctic will also be ice-free by 2014.

Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014

If we don’t stop global warming by the year 2020, entire nations will be wiped off the face of the Earth.

2020 is the deadline to avert climate catastrophe | Daily Mail Online

Britain will have Siberian climate by the year 2020.

 

Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us | Environment | The Guardian

Britain has been in permanent drought for eight years.

Drought may be new norm for UK, says environment secretary | Environment | The Guardian

Australia has been in permanent drought for twelve years.

This drought may never break

And snowfalls ended twenty years ago.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

Despite the fact that the world ended twenty years ago, government agencies are still cranking out climate data. Arctic sea ice extent is normal, and the highest in many years.

Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Arctic winter temperatures have dropped about 5C since 2016. Summer temperatures have been running consistently below normal.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

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We are getting record snowfall, year after year.

This is what Taos, New Mexico looked like yesterday.

Snow extent during the snow season has been increasing to record levels for the past 50 years.

NH Fall

 

NH Winter

For the entire year, snow cover has been above normal for the past five years.

Snow Anomalies

Rainfall in Australia has been increasing for over a centiry.

Australian climate variability & change – Time series graphs

Australian climate variability & change – Time series graphs

Rainfall in the US has been increasing for over 100 years.

Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Afternoon temperatures have been declining in the US for a century.

The frequency of both hot days and cold nights have been declining for a century.

The daily temperature range in the US has been rapidly declining, as the US climate becomes milder.

Forest fire burn acreage has been plummeting for 90 years.

Indicator 3.16: Area and percent of forest affected by abiotic agents

This closely matches the decline in heatwaves.

Temperature Changes in the United States – Climate Science Special Report

In 2011, Texas academics predicted that Texas would be hot and dry for the rest of the century.

Texas is vulnerable to warming climate – Houston Chronicle

Texas is getting wetter and cooler.

Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

The Maldives are still there.

A few years ago, the Washington Post was terrified by the record low number of hurricanes.

The U.S. coast is in an unprecedented hurricane drought — why this is terrifying – The Washington Post

And 2018 was the first year with no violent tornadoes in the US.

2018 will be the first year with no violent tornadoes in the United States – The Washington Post

Another climate deadline is tomorrow. Congressional Democrats have given YouTube until tomorrow to come with a plan to censor anyone who tells the truth about climate.

Congress urges Google to act against climate misinformation on YouTube

Nancy wants to tear up my State of The Climate Address.

Pelosi Suffers Multiple Strains, Fractures While Ripping Up Trump’s Speech | The Babylon Bee

From The Daily Caller

Andrew Kerr And Chris White Contributor

February 05, 2020 8:07 PM ET

Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren collectively spent $59,138 in carbon offsets in 2019 to counteract the carbon they produced campaigning for president, FEC records show.

• That’s enough to offset 3,815 tons of CO2, according to an online calculator from NativeEnergy, the carbon offset firm Sanders and Warren used.
• The two candidates spent a combined $2.4 million on private jets in 2019, FEC records show.

Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren purchased carbon offsets meant to counteract the equivalent of 2,102 tons of coal while traveling the country campaigning for president, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation estimate derived from their carbon offset payments.

Both Sanders and Warren devoted a considerable amount of cash to private jets travel in 2019. Sanders led the Democratic field in private airfare spending in 2019, dishing out $1.6 million to Apollo Jets, LLC, a “luxury private jet charter service,” according to Federal Election Commission records.

Warren’s campaign, meanwhile, spent $871,000 on private jets through Advanced Aviation, FEC records show.

In March, Sanders, Vermont’s senior senator, became the first Democratic presidential candidate to promise to purchase offsets to effectively wipe out his campaign’s carbon production from travel. A Warren aide told The Hill in October that her campaign also purchases offsets for carbon emissions.

The two senators used the Vermont-based NativeEnergy for their carbon offset needs. Sanders purchased $32,230 in offsets from the firm in 2019, while Warren spent $26,908, Federal Election Commission records show.

That’s enough for the two campaigns to offset a combined 3,815 tons of carbon emissions, according to a NativeEnergy online calculator that places the offset value of a ton of carbon at $15.50.

3,815 tons of carbon emissions is the equivalent of burning 2,102 tons of coal, or consuming 429,000 gallons of gasoline, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

The precise amount of carbon the campaigns paid to offset is not clear. NativeEnergy spokeswoman Betsy Dall told the DCNF that the firm’s pricing decreases as the volume of offsets increases, which suggests that the campaigns could have offset more than a combined 3,815 tons of carbon, but she didn’t provide the exact rate they paid when asked.

Neither of the campaigns responded to multiple requests for comment about their carbon offset payments. (RELATED: Bernie To Charter A Private Jet To Campaign In Iowa During Impeachment Trial)

Sanders, a prominent environmentalist and supporter of the Green New Deal (GND), confirmed his decision to use a private jet during a Jan.10 episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” The GND calls for shifting the U.S. away from traditional fossil fuels and toward green energy fuel sources. Warren, who represents Massachusetts, rolled out her own version of a GND in June 2019 that would create one million green jobs at the cost of $2 trillion over a decade.

Democratic 2020 candidate Bernie Sanders walks to his vehicle after he landed on Feb. 04, in New Hampshire. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Warren’s campaign netted a big endorsement in December from Rhiana Gunn-Wright, whose Twitter profile suggests she crafted policy for the GND, a piece of legislation introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat. The bill was ultimately defeated in March 2019, but has become a rallying cry for young climate activists and Democrats alike.

Many of the country’s most prominent climate activists and Democratic politicians are being tight-lipped about Sanders and Warren’s private jet travel. The DCNF reached out to GND sponsors Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey but neither has responded to repeated requests for comments.

The DCNF also reached out to Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, but none of them responded to multiple requests for a reaction to Sanders’ jet travel. They are all part of the same group of freshman lawmakers who have been nicknamed “The Squad.”

The Sunrise Movement, which kickstarted the GND push, has also not responded to requests for comment.

The GND resolution, among other things, called for “10-year national mobilizations” toward a series of goals aimed at fighting global warming. A separate fact sheet claims the plan would “mobilize every aspect of American society on a scale not seen since World War 2.” It sought to nix oil production outright.

Reports suggest the GND could cost tens of trillions of dollars. Americans could be forced to pay up to $93 trillion to implement the proposal over a decade, the conservative-leaning American Action Forum (AAF) noted in a study in February 2019.

That comes to an estimated cost of $36,100 to $65,300 per household every year to meet the GND’s goals, AAF reported at the time. Such goals include “net-zero” emissions, widespread high-speed rail, guaranteed jobs, universal health care, and creating infrastructure for other social justice measures.