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There are so many policy decisions which increased revenue for govt and improved lives of people and eased the process of administration like hydro exploration policy, mental health care act and countless no of schemes like smart cities, digit India, skill India,sagramala, bharatmala, make in india etc but I did not wrote about all of them , as it will need a book ,I wrote only about changes that directly helped people still missed so many.take your time and read them patiently.WHAT HAPPENED IN LAST 5 YEARS BECAUSE OF CHOWKIDAR PM• everyone used to see middle class income groups as vote banks no one never thought about them, first time bjp government thought about them ,firstly it reduced the taxation slab between 2.5 lakh - 5 lakh from 10% to 5% and now in 2019 budget completely rebated the tax to them in this slab, even if we see ,it increased standard deduction on taxable income from 40,000 to 50,000 and it even increased tax allowance on house loans, education loans , and other things also if we include all the other allowance one individual is able to save huge amount of money.• Aam aadmi bima yojana where govt itself pays complete premium and if person belonging to Bpl and marginal income family dies government gives 50-75k for children education based on natural/ accidental ,no one ever thought of it, if family head dies children is used to suffer financially for education. free accidental insurance to jhan dhan accounts of 1 lakh rupees was also started by modi government so that poor if anyone dies it helps family for their survival., apart from it we have pm jeevan jyoti bhima yojana. ,pm suraksha bhim yojana for above BPL and BPL where premium is very less like 12 for PMSBY and 2 lakhs accident insurance for 1 YEAR IS provided which includes death and PMJJB where 2 lakhs death insurance for 1 year which includes all kinds of death. if u include all these death insurances one family may get around 4-5 lakhs based on death this may seem small amount but this amount saves whole family from distress and gives constant income to them if saved the amount in bank.• before modi govt urea is not available to farmers ,but it is available because of neem coated urea and DBT scheme where neem coated urea can not be used in industry, this blocked channeling of urea to industry and by DBT a seller will be given subsidy amount only after he made sale to farmers through POS machine only and he has to take all the kisan credit card number , aadhar card and other things and govt verify quota limit of the farmer and release the subsidy amount to seller through these urea is not abled to channeled to Nepal/ Bangladesh farming community.ujjwala yojana on women empowerment• it reduced significant cases of chronic diseases like astma among women and children, it reduced stress on them as co2 inhaled causes headache, nausea among children/ women.• it gave free time to women before that they used to collect firewood or used to make dung cakes, now they can involve in other economic and social activities.• women used to go to forests are nearby areas to collect them often faces risk of snakes,insects and some times security risks also same problem they used to face before swatch bharat tiolet construction.• it increased the forest covers that the people around the areas can breathe pure air.• more than 6 crores lpg are given under this scheme and refilling capacity almost 80-90% under this scheme.• before mudra ,if people need to get loans without collateral it is impossible, they used to take loan from money lenders and start business and many r pushed to debt because of high interest rate but after modi MUDRA yojana many women, petty shop owners ,drivers etc availed loan and started their own business without debt trap and created a livelihood for them•swatch bharat on women and disease burdenswatch bharat not only uphold the self respect of women,it had saved thousands of lives of children from diarrhea, typhoid and other diseases as per World Bank every year 1.5 lakh people will be saved, before swatch bharat many women used to face harassment as they can not defecate in day light, if they r having any diarrhea it is literally hell to them, many used to go out in dark to defecate many times they have to face harassment, wild animals threat ,same kind of problems used to be faced by some of the men.• everyone say modi is pro capitalists ,let me clear he is not pro capitalist, he is for ease of doing business and healthy competition ,if modi has not created it we would not have got quality services for cheaper rates for example take data rates they used to be 1 gb for 200 rupees and no need to say about call rates/ sms rates but now we have cheapest data in the world , in us 1 gb is around 12$, and in uk 7$ etc. you can see the change in price reduction in many goods.• before modi government the rate of higher education loan was used to be very high ,the rate of higher education loan dropped from 14.75- 10.88% which through one may save around 1 lakh on 10 lakh loan where the loan has repayment period of 60 months, if the student is BPL or minority, sc/st. he may get it at very less interest based on different schemes for the different category students.•Created Assam NRC after this many years and tried to solve the illegal migration problem through NRC, exchange of Bangladeshi and Indian enclaves , and complete border fencing between india and bangladesh, congress allowed illegal migration as per mha report there are nearly 5 crore Bangladeshi illegal immigrants in india involved in drug trafficking, child trafficking, anti national activities. government started sending rohingyas one bye one as they were dispersed from Kashmir to kerala because of congress government which allowed them to infiltrate. atleast government tried to check rohingyas so that they won't become another illegal Bangladeshi migrants issue.before aayushman bharat program if a poor has to take treatment ,he has to take loan ,even though medical facility is free, because of lack of proper facilities in government hospitals and lack of government hospitals in near by areas , even if available there will be huge crowd and even if he avails treatment ,he used to spend around 60% from his pocket for various medicines/ tests/ equipment's and if the poor faces any dreadful diseases like cancer, AIDS, TB, diabetes he will be completely moved into poverty and chances of his survival are also less and the whole family pushed into debt for his treatment, but after 5 lakh free health insurance to family where they can avail treatment in any private hospitals also and capping of all life saving drugs,equipments like(reduction of cost of cromium cobalt Knee implant from 1.58-2.5 lakh to 54,720 and high flex implant from Rs181728 to 56490 (69%), 85% reduction in cardiac stent price to Rs 28000) ,generic medicines promotion, availability of generic medicines through jan aayushadi kendras,500-1000 nutritional support to people suffering from TB etc the poor can avail treatment on par with rich in private hospitals without debt trap.first time to stop insurgency problem government started OPERATION ALL OUT program in Kashmir to kill terrorists, 100s of terrorist were killed and valley is almost freed from militancy now, even surgical strikes in Myanmar and coordinated attacks with Myanmar army almost eliminated majority of NOrth east insurgency groups ,the only government who don't think about vote bank politics and shows no mercy to terrorists.SAMADAAN doctrine and govt steps helped in reducing maoist related deaths by 34% from 2013, and 44 districts are freed from clutches of Maoists ,now the people in this villages no longer can pay taxes to Maoist and no longer can fear death threats and loot of Maoist, even children who used to trained by Maoists can now go to schools and women who used to get abused can walk freely.3000 rupees pensionmany elder people who used to work in unorganized sector does not have constant source of income after they become old ,only oldage pension is their source which varies from state to state( 500- 2000) which is not at all sufficient for their basic needs , but modi govt created new scheme so that poor people can pay just 55-110 rupees per month and based on their age of joining and they will be given fixed 3000 pension after 60 years ,earlier atal pension yojana was their but it has age bracket of 18-40 and premium from 42-210 and pension varies from 1000-5000.• farm loan waiver which is used to happen regularly is putting greater pressure on govt resources and fiscal deficit is increasing but on reality the farmers economic status in not changing ,even privates are moving out of business because of high interest rate, the main reason is farmers earn only around 8900 per month of this 8900, 3100 is from agriculture and many farmers are tenants and many took loan from non official sources so they are not getting benefited so government started 6000 farmer input so that they won't go into debt and it helps people who are not having opportunities to take loan from official sources ,with price deficiency payment scheme government decided to pay the difference between MSP and mandis paying them directly to farmers through DBT with these MSP will reach everyone.• before 2014 many habitats don't have electricity connection, many villages even if connected they don't have household connection , even if households are connected they usually don't have continuous power supply for not more than 12 hrs maximum in many parts of the country, but now almost 100% villages are connected ,16 states have complete household connections, 6 states receive 24 power supply, a very few states receive less than 12 hrs power supply, from power deficit we became power surplus and 3rd.electricity generation country in the world, now there is no need for a child to study under lamp light , and there is no need for farmer to wait until night to on motor, even the cost of led bulb, led tube light , fan reduced drastically under the ujala scheme so that now less power is consumed with more efficiency and power bill also gets drastically reduced for poor, helps environment also with less co2 and Uday scheme with smart metering's helped in reducing power thefts, which made profits to discoms which are running in losses.boost in economyindia moved from Fragile five to Fastest growing economy ,11th largest to 5th largest economy Share of world GDP from 2.43% in 2014 to 3.08% in 2018,Average GDP 7.3% against 6.7% in previous regime,Forex reserves from 300 bn USD in 2014 to 420 bn USD in 2018,Doubling of FDI inflow from 36 bn USD in 2014 to 66 billion USD in 2018,Inflation less than 2.3 % (Nov 18) against 10.1% in 2014,Growth of sensex from 24,121.74 in 2014 to 36,395.03 on 12 Feb 19 (50.88%).fiscal deficit which is highest at 6.6%(09-10) has reduced to 3.4 % ( 18-19), revwnue deficit which is highest at 5.3 (09-10) reduced to 2.2%( 18-19) ,average fiscal deficit and revenue deficit between 2009-2014 is 5.36, 4% respectively modi govt got it down to 3.4, 2.2% respectively. Per capita income increased from Rs 86,647 in 2014 to Rs 1,25,397 and this increased income removed crores of people out of poverty and now India is no longer home for largest no of poor people.with rise in percapita usually inflation increases and price of goods increases but infarct with GST and government taxation policy goods cost has reduced a lot, one can save around 500-1000 rupees now on groceries of a family for a month after GST. Simple visible example is check the service tax in restaurants before 18% now 5%. Almost people 130 rupees which they used to pay as tax before for 1000 rupees bill.• people used loop holes in double taxation agreement and used to evade taxes by sending money to Mauritius through hawala and from Mauritius they used to invest in India and evade taxes as they used to pay less tax around 5% in marutius and we have agreement not to tax twice in India and Manutius, similarly companies used to create subsidary companies and used to invest through them in india, they also used to transfer profits from Indian company to marutius subsidiary company for example they will sell shares / goods to marutius company @100 rupees and from marutius company they used to sell to customers @ crores and used to evade taxes, government made changes in the law and made companies that they have to pay 25% to india, and 5% tax to Manutius.•• complete revamp of railway station facilities like ramp facility, escalator facilities, wi-fi facilities, and achieved 100% electrification of railways ,by eliminating manual crossings and by electrification there is reduction of 80% rail accidents. And platforms became disabled friendly 2300 km of rail tracks constructed, rail track construction speed increased from 4.1 km/day in 2014 to 6.53 km/day in 2018• before 2014 many habitats were not connected through any means of transport ,people living in those areas like farmers, tribals used to face huge problem to transport their crops ,forest products , they even not able to come to hospitals frequently if they fallen ill because of no connectivity, no net facilities are also not available but now through PMGSY ,1.46 lakh habitats were connected with the help of 73,000 kms of road laid in rural areas, Rural road connectivity increased from 55- 91%, even villages are now connected by common services centres,Common service centers up from 84k to 3 Lakh during last 5 years ,so that now people r using them for various purpose like to get legal advice from lawyers to internet facilities, even government started educating adults in digital literacy per person from family, already 2.92 lakh km of optical fiber were laid this helped in connecting gram panchayats from 0.02% to 50% once it gets completed they can have world information in their hands no need to go to common centers also.• if there is anything that boosted in recent 5 years is infrastructure , the complete infrastructure of india changed like anything , with the jumping of Highway construction rate from 12 km/day in 2014 to 27 km/day today the transport of goods became so easy and with GST even inter state transport of goods picked up, projects like National waterway reduced the cost per ton per km of transport to 1 rupee, eastern and western dedicated freight corridors connected industry with raw materials , goods with marketsome of the infrastructure projects areKatra rail line work completed after 16 years,Dhola Sadiya bridge work completed after 16 years which is largest railway bridge in India, this connects north east people who r left by successive governments, Sardar Sarovar Dam work completed after 15 years which is 2nd largest gravity dam in india which provides water to drought effected gujarat and rajasthan, madhya pradesh, maharashtra areas ,it will completely changes their life , Pakyong airport completed after 10 years which is the first green field airport in north east,first airport in sikkim,Chenani Nashri Tunnel longest tunnel in india after 10 years which reduced time in mobilizing troops in kashmir and helped people by reducing their time travel between jammu and srinagar by two hours. Kollam bypass after 43 years,Bansagar canal project on son river built after 40 years helps up, bihar Mp farmers in boosting crop growth, Bogibeel bridge after 23 years( which is largest rail cum road bridege) ,this connects assam to arunachal pradesh, western and eastern peripheral expressways helped in reducing traffic problem, congestion in delhi and saved huge time for people,Delhi Meerut Expressway completed,delhi mumbai expressway is under construction,Ganga Expressway project (world's longest underway project ),Metros in Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Jaipur, Lucknow, Washermenpet36 new airports were built in 5 years ,in last 67 years only 65 airports were built, and with UDAAN project airfare cost has reduced and is in par with AC 2 tier / 1 tier costs and airwaysusage among public boosted because of it. before UDAN people used to feel aircraft is only for elite people now common middle class man able to access it.modi govt completely changed the fate of education system first removed the no detention policy and left it to states to conduct exam after 5th ,no detention policy is the main reason for poor learning outcomes more than 30% class 8 students are not able solve basic math problem because of promotion of class without knowledge, he revamped the education through digital school program where digital class will be their from 9th class, online free courses, online free e library where all books pdf are available for free, ncert books are available for free on online, e paatashala courses ,online courses for teachers and students to learn self,institute of eminence for 6 public and 6 private universities to improve our university rank at world level, created prime minister fellowship programme where 75,000/ month will be given phd students this to stop brain drain and help scientific brains financially.pradhan mantri vidhya lakshmi portal where through students can avail education loan without going through hectic procedure of going to banks. 6 new IITs were created and doubled IIT seats ,previous governments are able to build only 16 IITS in 57 years,6 new IIMs were created against 13 by previous governments, it doubled the no of IIITs,12 new AIIMS were established against 7 by previous governments , educational infrastructure and digital infrastructure created by govt shows its education prioritysome of the achievements of india under modiIndia is now world's largest 2-wheeler manufacturer, 2nd largest smartphone manufacturer (94% of mobiles sold now made in India),because of this made in india products the smart phone penetration increased now almost 30 crore smart phone users are in india. 4th largest automaker, 2nd largest steel producer• there are so many changes in railway system ,a simple.example is MRP pricing, before 2014 no one used to sell for MRP @ railway station , trains, platforms,even food items used to be sold at high prices than government prescribed prices ,after govt action everything is coming at MRP, and govt made price list avalable to people and now everything is coming at government priscribed prices, and government is responding quickly on any complaints like even if we complaint on online app , within next station they are cleaning the coach, toilet. now no one is not able to sell train tickets in black after quota limits and strict rules,all unmanned crossing are eliminated which reduced 100s of death of every year due to unmanned level crossings.• fugitive economic offenders bill was passed and government confiscated the properties of vijay malya amd nirav modi and other offenders ,first time bjp is using its diplomacy and making countries to extradite criminals to india like, christen michel( bofors scam mediator), vijay maliya agreed to pay the amount after all roads are blocked for him , nirav modi àrreated in london.with insolvency and bankruptcy code people who used to collide with bank managers and get funds and use it for personal benefits in previous regime are forced to pay all their debts now, single penny was not waived to them unlike in previous governments.because of GST people business man who used to evade taxes are now forced to pay taxes on par with salaried employees, IT returns almost doubled and tax collection almost doubled because of it.• after modi introduced DBT, biometric identification through aadhar crores of fake benificiaries were deleted from mid day meal scheme to lpg connections and farmers are able to get urea and other fertilizers and seeds on subsidy which earlier this urea was channelled to industry, not only this in every spear it helped common man for example inorder to get pension before biometric identification one has to produce alive certificate by going to government office which caused so much pain to common man but now through biometric directly they are receiving pensions, there are thousands of examples of DBT helping common man.• benami property act and RERA act completely reduced the housing prices , rent and helped common man and with PMAY poor people are able to get their house, and middle income people able to build their house by taking loan with less interest rate of 8.3% which used to be above 10% during the time of previous government. This 2% difference in interest rate almost saves 1.18 lakhs on 10 lakh rupee loan with average tenure of 60 months.• India's foreign policy• modi foreign policy was dynamic with clear vision, unlike previous policy of peace with enemy and give and take policy, para diplomacy where local governments and states engage with local govt and states of other nations is a new creative concept,• india successfully isolated pakistan at international level for example SAARC meeting which is scheduled to happen in pakistan was not taken place because of india refusing to participate and other SAARC nations followed india, we denied SAARC satellite services to pakistan, even after pulwama attack it is france and Uk, Usa that started resolution in UN against masood azhar and cornered pakistan unlike previous regimes where india used to find only sympathy of others without any action against pakistan like after math of 26/11 attacks, even Organization for Islamic states welcomed india as chief guest and pakistan left the meeting as a protest and no one cared pakistan at all, same Organization of islamic states denied entry to india all these years even during indira gandhi period.INDIA withdrawn Most favored nation status in trade to pakistan and decided to use its full share of indus waters by building run off river projects to make understand pakistan.• everyone used to say he is anti muslims but modi govt made huge efforts in bringing indians who r stranded in libya crisis, yemen ,crisis, iraq crisis, more than 8000 indians were saved and brought back to india safely from these nations who r mostly muslims.• solved tamil nadu and SL fisherman problem by giving 50% subsidy on deep sea fishing boats to fisherman for purchase and providing remaining amount through loan from banks to financial institutions. by this there will no longer fisherman gets arrested by SL navy and there will be no deaths of fisherman.because of india diplomacy now SL realized china policy and started engaging with india in development of airports, staff quarters, ports. Similarly african nations allowed india to invest and gave priority to india than china especially if we see the allowed access to roads built by china and china without no other option agreed to it.•• now india has naval ports in many nations like singapore, vietnam, Indonesia, oman, marutius, seychelles, etc and they are relying on india for naval security. which shows india as a regional power. now india is net donor than receiver we provided billions of dollars as aid to monogolia, Maldives, nepal, Afghanistan, african nations etc . we r completely providing almost everything to Afghanistan , we built dams, libraries, parliament building, we train soldiers ,we provide basic materials and almost all afghan exports happen through india's chabhar port .•• india and france relations are very high especially with international solar alliance( where the first inter governmental and international organization headquarters is in india), india now united world against terrorism now every country is giving support to india in terrorism ( france resolution on massod azhar),and in every forum terrorism is addressed like UN, SCO, BRICS, BIMSTEC etc.• until a decade back india is used to succumb to international pressure, domestic pressure in foreign policy first time ( like during UNSC resolution on SL because of Dmk pressure upa voted against them leaving indias interest)we are taking decisions independently when US threatened india with sanctions for dealing with iran( trade in rupees) and USSR(S-400) we carried forward and made deals with them and later successfully handled USA regarding sanctions.USA gave STA-1 status to inda which is not given to NATO nations, its close ally israel , now India and USA can do trade in almost all defense equipment’s through it, india can now use ports of USA, france , singapore through logistics agreement.• israel is now closet to india than ever before and israel technology of water conservation, agriculture is already getting exchanged to india and indian farmers are increaing yield by 2-3 times in drought prone areas , modi became first prime minister to visit israel.• we have nuclear agreements with russia, canada, Usa, japan etc and japanese investments in india are at all time high they are investing in bullet trains, delhi mumbai industrial corridor etc. indias entry into Missile technology control regime( where china was denied membership), wassenaar agreement, Australian group shows how successful our diplomacy is. india jointly with other nations created so many regional security, trade groups like QUAD, INSTC, JAI, even we proved our mettle with china on doklam issue and made china to go back.p now world started seeing india as raising super power.• turkey which is against india in many forums until now agreed for indias UNSC seat, helped india in extradition of indian origin ISIS terrorists.• new maldives president reiterated india first policy and invited only modi no other country head for his ceremony of oath.Demonetization benefits• every one says demonetization is a failure but if we see many used poor people as money mules to deposit their black money, Those who used poor people as money mules- must have paid some commission to them, So even if government did not get tax from black money, atleast poor people benefited. even many gave free loans to poor people which helped the poor to avail credit without any interest rate.• now every business is under GST this makes employment formal and laborers can get employment benefits which were denied to them earlier.• Further, during Operation Clean money, IT-dept issued notices to the suspicious bank accounts where large amount of money was deposited. Such shell firms & their benami,properties are being seized. With Project Insight & Op. Clean Money: IT dept fetched ₹ 1.30 lakh crore in taxes.• The number of PAN card registration, IT returns, registrations under excise / VAT / GST have greatly increased in the aftermath of demonetisation which proves that crooked who used to evade taxes can no longer evade , digitalization happened and made the work easy for people, no need to say about digital transactions after demonetization.• to stop swiss bank black money he used his diplomatic skills and made an agreeement for automatic tax data sharing with switzerland which may now completely solve swiss bank black money hoardings.• india's vaccination programme indradhanush helped in saving millions of children life ,it is rewarded as one of the 12 best practices of the world by UN , neonatal and maternal tetanus was eliminated from India because of it, the number of deaths due JE, pneumonia, rubella, and deaths due to vector borne diseases like malaria, dengue, TB reduced by 50-100% , deaths due kala azhar are zero now.• 59minutes loan portal for msme, before that msme sector inorder to get loan has to give bribes to manager and other people and the loans usually hetting delayed but with this portal almost 30,000 crore loans to msme people upto 1 crore were sanctioned with in 59 minutes if they have relavant documents ,all they need to do is just upload documents.• no more human excreta on railway tracks ,almost all trains are fitted with bio tiolets , no need to say about swatch bharat which completely eliminated Odf and uphold the pride of woman, they no need to fear for security ( sexual harrassment)/ dangers of wild animals ,snakes when they go out to open defecate.not only this because of imoroved sanitation lakhs of children are saved from diarrhoea, typhoid related deaths, and disease burden reduced in villages.• he eliminated VIP culture , he passed the order to remove red beacons on vehicle and make every government official, legislator as common man.• 1084 essential medicines include living saving drugs and medical devices are brought under price control ,for example heart stunts, knee implants and generic medicines encouragement and jan aayushadi kendras completely reduced the price of medicines where 200 rupees sheet of tablet is now available at 30 rupees.• pm surksha matritva abhiyan and janani surksha yojana helped in reducing maternal and neo natal, child mortality rate , cash benefit for institutional delivery made people to go to hospitals for delivery and it reached 80% now, and cash compensation of 6000 rupees as wage loss to pregnant women and free medicines , health care and nutritious food/ vitamin tablets to child and mother solved not only malnutrition problem but also anemia problem of women and children. A child nutrition and cognitive skills mainly depends on how mother takes food during pregnancy and nutrient supply to child during early years of life because of modi initiative the health and cognitive skills of children are raising.• until now no government take any necessary initiative for sports person and development of sports culture first time khelo india programme started with annual scholarship of 5 lakh for 8 years to 1000 sportsman and other expenditures like coach salary and facilitiea to help sports personalities before that many used to quit sports and used to join in other jobs inorder to support themselves and families.• unanimous election of justice dalveer bandari to ICJ forcing for UK to pull out nominee christopher greenword demonstarting indias clout in international politics and indias dominance• everyone says modi is anti muslim but modi is the one who saved them in yemen crisis though operation raahat where 5600 people which includes 960 foreigners were also saved .modi made diplomacy for release of 850 indian prisoners in saudi arabia where many are Muslims, and increased haj subsidy quota to 2 lakh people surpassing pakistan quota, so that more muslims can visit mecca.no need to say about more no of different schemes for minorities from education to skill development, employment even the amount of funds released to wafq boards is higher than previous governments.• international yoga day was celebrated by UN and first time indian culture was promoted at world level and everyone started praising indian yoga, ayurveda and benefits ,he started a revolution which nit only created thousands of jobs and helped economy but raised the pride of india and india yoga and ayurveda really attracted many foreigners .• modi even auctioned all the gifts / awards, prize money he received ( like seoul peace prize first time a indian got,( highest south korean civilian award)un champions of earth award (highest environmental honor award), UAE, Palestine and other many countries highest civilian award was given to modi),and added this fund to namamami ganga programme which shows his commitment for cleaning of river ganga.• honored national freedom fighters who r left by successive congress governments like sardar vallabhai patel( state of unity), renaming of A&N islands with subash chandra bose name, 75 rupees coin,ambedhkar memorial ,BHIM app on his name, national war memorial ( to honor soldiers sacrifices/ bravery).Awards to modi1. Soel Peace prize - South Korea2. Un champions of Earth award.3.grand collar of the state of Palestine4.amar Abdullah Khan award of Afghanistan5.king Abdullahaziz shah award of saudi ArabiaOpposition says modi is anti muslim but all muslim nations praise him and honor him with their highest civilian awards if he was anti muslim will they atleast do it?• first time a prime minister started kashi vishwanth temple ganga ghat corridor project to revamp complete area like Led street lights, ghat lights , clean up project and renovate complete bath ghats.• by digitalizing passports and increasing passport kendras , postal office passport kendras he almost made the process corruption free and now 1 kendra for every 50km.previously people used to suffer a lot they need t bribe constables and follow hectic timelines and procedures.• first time vande bharat express an engine less train in first in the world is created by modi govt, first time a airport was completely solar powered in the world ( cochin airport) happened in india, we are reaching great tech innovations under the government.WHAT IS WRONG WITH DYNASTY PARTIES• upa is known for scams but bullet proof jacket scam was horrible ,soldiers are the one who protects our country but upa govt did scam in the bullet proof jackets also which provides protection to soldiers but modi govt delivered ,2.3 lakh Bullet proof jackets where the requirement was 1.9 lakh jackets, even it provides 1.6 lakh Bullet-proof helmets to soldiers.• opposition parties which came together are saying they are together just to stop modi and on other hand modi is saying my agenda is strong india, and to make india as a super power, double farmers income etc. who is power hunger ,who is chowkidar?• congress being in power for all these years could not able to stop illegal bangaldeshi immigration, radicalization ,the result was Kashmir pandits genocide ,govt did not stop the genocide, hindus were persecuted for religion during muslims rules but it is sad that being secular country and majority religion, kashmir pandits were massacured.everyone talks about Godhra riots but no one talks about Godhra train incident , no one talks about muzzaffarnagar riots, Bhagalpur riots and many more riots where more number of people are killed than godhra riots and congress did nothing to stop the riots , infarct after bjp in power no riot happened in its states but see WB every year riot was happening and many people are getting killed they don't talk about them as the victim is from other community. See hashmipura massacre where congress govt used army and killed muslim youth for their vote bank politics ,they all know one thing appeasement they don't want to really develop them.• congress government purposely delayed rafeal deal for kickbacks, it did not modernize our AIRFORCE . still we are using Mig21 which is the reason for 170 IAF pilots deaths in various crashes{30% flights ended in crashes} and when MODI govt tried to modernize the air force with rafeal they started this fake scam, they don't want india to be strong.• congress leader in karnataka belur gopala krishna called for killing modi. they want to kill our PM but praise pak PM and questions airforce and army strikes and THEIR capability ,do strikes . Did they hate modi or india?• mamata banerjee says PM destroying constitutional institutions but she will arrest CBI people so that her scams won't be investigated, and when ex dgp of West bengal wrote suicide note with reason as mamata torture, not an enquiry happened.• manmoham singh says “muslims have first right on resource” and want to divide people based on religion but piyush goyal in budget speech says “poor has first right on resources”.• in karnataka ola app was banned and at the same time hd kumaraswamy launches his own cab hailing app, is this not open mockery of democracy and is it not a dictatorship?•• sam pitroda overseas congress chief saying that we should not bomb terrorist camps, it shows what is congress ideology, from 2004-2013 huge number of attacks happened for example2004 - assam dhemaji school bombing2005- delhi bombings2006 - mumbai train bombings2007 - lucknow, varanasi and fazaibad blasts2008- mumbai attacks(26\11)2009- assam bombing2010 - pune bombing2011 -delhi bombing2012 - pune bombing2013 - Hyderabad blasts2014 - jharkahand blasts etcBut congress did not retaliated at all.• AIMIM owaisi gives legal support to 5 terror suspects linked with ISIS arrested by NIA, it is ok if they hate hindus but it is not acceptable to support terrorists.robert vadra dlf land scamBest Land Deal in last 20 years : 5 acres only in 15 Lakhs, And that 15 lakhs too was given by DLF to Vadra as 'loan'. After 3 years, the same land was 'sold' back to DLF for some 47 crores, from which the original 15 lakhs loan was 'deducted'. So, 47 crores is free money. What a deal! ,similar kind of deal was national herald newspaper scam of rahul and sonia, one can listen to the scam in words of Subramanian swamy.• samjahuta express blast they purposely created Hindu terror term and tortured swami assemananda and other for years, and real terrorists usman and ajmat ali were left of without proper enquiry to gain votes by congress, they hate hindus like anything.congress loves jehadis, see digvijay singh calling hafeez sayeed as hafeez sayeed ji[ LET responsible for 2001 parliament attacks, 26/11 attack, kashmir pundits genocide and many more terror activities} and rahul gandhi calling masood azhar[JEM chief responsible for parliament attack and pulwama attack ] as masood azhar ji.• On page 111 of the DMK's 2016 English manifesto, under the sub heading 'Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowment Department' (HRCE), the document states, "Besides regulating and collecting rent to be received by the temple trust from temple lands, a Land Bank will be established for protecting vacant land belonging to temple. Moreover, a high level committee led by a retired judge will be constituted for considering the demand of people, who are offering to purchase the temple land within the legal frame work."• Page 85 in the 2016 manifesto, meanwhile, which carries content on welfare of minorities, states that “Properties of Wakf Board will be recovered from encroachments and protected”. Already temple funds are getting mismanaged because of endownments ,now they want temple sell temple lands also ,why is this bias?• congress law maker and lawyer kapil sibal, tehseen poonwala a congress supporter filed case against 10% economic reservation in supreme court which shows congress is anti poor.•• congress writing letter to goa governor as soon as the demise of manohar sir shows how they are playing vulture politics on death of great indian son.• congress getting arrested a techie for raising modi slogans in rahul bangalore meet and supporting kanaiaha kumar and JNU batch who raised anti indian slogans shows what freedom of speech it supports.• Every citizen wants revenge on pak for pulwama but mamata and CBN of mahagathabandan quotes pak pm statement and questions the own Indian government, I really felt ashamed that such people are our leaders who uses soldiers sacrifice for political accusations. we as a citizens have to make these people answerable for their comments. I don't understand are they living in India or pak?,they r quoting pak pm statements where Pakistan was in grey list of FATF for terrorism, and was condemned as terrorist nation internationally.• when pulwama attack happened so many anti nationals tweetd against indian army and partied one of them is papri banerjee (assistant professor of english department at icon commerce college), she called Indian army as rapists and police arrested her but congress got her out.• bjp is trying to bring triple talaq bill but the congress is trying to block the bill in rajya sabha it shows, they don't want muslim women to be saved from triple talaq, nikaha halal( wife swapping).this one picture speaks a lot about congress work on child labor and their concern for poor.

Research is your friend, but at some point you're going to have to trust what the doctor is telling you. And having said that, many times doctors are wrong, and many times I have fired doctors, both for bad information and for sucky behavior. Doing research on your own is good, but the doctor has spent many years in both training and work learning minutia about problems that you’re not going to recognize. Now, this is not to say they are always right! Case in point: ME!February 2009. I caught pneumonia. Ok, it happens. Didn’t have to be hospitalized, missed a week of work, got over it, went back to work. Then I got it again, less than two months later. THAT is kind of significant. My wife’s father was a medical doctor, specifically a pathologist, and my wife is a PhD with an above average knowledge of medicine. She rapidly found the most likely cause of my problem was an immunological issue called Common Variable Immune Deficiency, which is basically a collapse of the immune system. Most common in children, rare for people of my age (mid 40s at that time), but it happens. My GP wouldn’t run a blood test that would prove or disprove the condition, I don’t know why. It’s just numbers, it’s not like I expected him to be a subject matter expert on immunology and treat me. Whatever. He wanted me to go to a lung specialist. So I did.There was only one practice in the Las Cruces, NM area that was seeing new patients, all the other practices were solely devoted to sleep studies. And since I was a new patient, it was a 30 day wait to get in, during which time I had a third pneumonia but we didn’t have x-rays for that. So wife and I show up with two sets of x-rays - before and after - with radiology reports that clearly state shadows consistent with left lower lobe pneumonia, along with blood work that clearly demonstrates massive infection (elevated white blood cell counts), I also had 103 degree fevers with the illnesses.First off, sign in exam room: “TURN CELL PHONES OFF UNDER PAIN OF DEATH!” Well, didn’t say under pain of death, but you get the point. And we had ours on silent as a matter of course. The doctor took 2–3 calls while with us. Next, no light box in the room for reading x-rays. There was one in the hall, but not in the room. This struck me as quite peculiar, they can’t be that expensive. So the doctor holds up the x-rays to the overhead fluorescent lights, and flips back and forth between them, not looking at them for more than 3 or 4 seconds. He then pronounces “I don’t see pneumonia. He concludes the visit by pronouncing that I had not, in fact, had pneumonia. I had had bronchitis. Didn’t matter what the radiology report said, didn’t matter what the blood work had said, didn’t matter that I’d experienced 103 degree fevers or that it had responded so well to antibiotics, didn’t matter what WE SAID. I had not had pneumonia. He scheduled me for a lung function test the following Monday. End of appointment.That was Friday.Monday comes. I feel like crap and am running a fever. My wife is an astronomer, she worked that weekend and was staying at her house, 90 minutes away. I drag myself to the appointment and tell the tech that I don’t feel good and probably can’t perform well for the test. We do the test anyway so we at least have some data. After the test is over, I ask if I can see the doctor. Nope, he’s on vacation. The bastard was taking calls during my appointment arranging his vacation and doesn’t have the decency to tell me he’s about to be out of the office. Can I see either of the other two doctors in the practice? Nope.I go back to my apartment, my sleep-deprived wife makes the 80 mile drive to take care of me. Sure enough: 103 degree temperature, another pneumonia. I get through that one, later get the 4th pneumonia. GP says see the lung doctor. I call the lung doctor: can I see him? Nope, he’s doing hospital duty this week. Can I see one of the other doctors in the practice? Nope, that would be a new patient intake and the appointment would be 30 days out.That was the second set of doctors that I fired in Las Cruces. I can’t count how many I’ve fired in Alamogordo, it’s gotten to the point that I just don’t see any here, I get a recommendation from my immunologist then drive across to Las Cruces or El Paso. Ultimately I get in to see an immunologist, the proper specialist that I needed (after another 30 day new patient wait!) and got the correct diagnosis after my wife threatened him with exsanguination when he wanted to blame my illnesses on - drum roll please - bronchitis!My Rules for Getting the Best Health Care for Myself - Adapt As Needed or Suits You:STAND UP FOR YOURSELF! Don’t be afraid to fire doctors, there are more where they came from. You might have to drive - you do NOT want to know how many miles I’ve driven this year! Most of my doctors are 90 minutes away, some are 2 hours away. That’s one-way!Make a list of questions for the doctor.Do not leave until your questions have been answered.Make sure you understand the answers. You may not like the answers, but be comfortable with them. YOU are paying THEM, you can take your insurance money elsewhere and leave them bad reviews in social media.MAKE SURE YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH AND UNDERSTAND ANY TREATMENT!If the doctor adds or changes any meds, ask them about side effects! I recently had to add a urologist to my list of doctors, and the med he put me on he told me had a potential side effect of “reverse ejaculation”. That led to an interesting discussion with my wife in the room! And no, it didn’t happen.Keep excellent records. Smartphones are great for this. I have three important files in the notepad app on my phone: Med Miles and Copays, Doctor Questions, and Meds and Vaccinations. All of them have (med) after them so it’s easy for me to filter and find them when they inevitably get buried by other stuff.Medical miles are usually deductible on state tax returns: I have each doctor’s name and use Google Maps to tell me how far a round trip is from my house to their practice is. I copy that information in to a spreadsheet when I do my taxes. When I mail in a check for lab work or whatever, I make a note in the Miles/Copays file and note the date, who it is, and the dollar amount with the note No Visit so I don’t add miles.My doctor questions grows and shrinks as time goes by. Sometimes a question will be asked of several doctors until I’m satisfied.My Meds & Vaccinations file is the longest. I list all of my meds, dosage, how often I take them - this is invaluable as every time I go to a new doctor they want the list, and when I return to an old doctor they want to review it. I just pull up the list and hand them my phone. Next in that file is my vitamins and supplements, then vaccinations, my surgical history: date and what was done, and my list of antibiotic use. Because of my immune disorder, I’m on antibiotics far more than most people should, but it’s the way that it has to be: the list helps to keep usage rotated to try to prevent misuse.Additionally, update your emergency contact information on your phone and consider a medical emergency card for your wallet if you have a complicated set of medical problems like I do. iPhones have an Emergency Information access available when the phone is locked, the information can be updated through the Health app. I expect something similar is available on Android and other phones, but I don’t know the specifics. Review this information once or twice a year since your medications occasionally change.On top of information on your phone, keep records on your computer. You can buy a scanner at Staples for about $100 or less. You can get one with a sheet feeder, but you’re fine without one. I personally wouldn’t recommend a multi-function printer with a scanner, because frequently if you run out of ink, the scanner won’t work, and I guarantee it will happen at an inconvenient time. This happened to me, and that’s why I bought a single-purpose scanner.I have a folder on my hard drive called Medical Stuff. It contains files like Bloodwork_2018, Bloodwork_2017 going back to 2007, RR(radiologist reports), PFT (pulmonary (lung) function tests, sinus cultures, all sorts of things. I have a full license of Adobe Acrobat Pro, so it’s easy for me to merge documents together by year. I get new bloodwork in from the labs: *POOF* it gets pulled in to the appropriate year’s file.Beneath this directory is my Scans folder, which contains a subdirectory containing every CT, x-ray, MRI, etc. that’s ever been performed on me that I can get a CD for. I take the CD and copy the whole thing on to the computer: they surprisingly don’t take much space. Each directory name is Date (in YY-MM-DD format) Type (MRI/CT/X-Ray) and What Was Scanned (knee, brain, chest, whatever. Makes it very easy to find a specific scan if I need to burn a copy to take to a new doctor. Then the radiologist report for the appropriate scan is in the directory above with an RR prefix and the exact same name!My GP, who is actually a nurse practitioner, recently thought I had cancer based on a CT with some weird imagery of my L3 vertebrae. I didn’t trust the local doctors, so we went to an oncologist in Las Cruces whom I’d worked with before (no cancer then). I had an MRI done with and without contrast. After this was done but before we saw the oncologist again, my wife found a 2015 MRI of my L3 and it was identical to the 2018 CT. This strongly argued in favor of whatever was going on being not cancer. When we met with the oncologist to review the MRI results, there was no mention in his report of comparing with the DVD that I had left that contained all of the spinal imaging that I’d ever had done going back 8 years - the hospital lost it. The oncologist called the radiologist to confirm this, and while they were talking, my wife (who has a copy of my medical stuff on her laptop) found a copy from 2010 of my L3, and it was the same as 2015 and 2018. Because of this evidence of imaging, the oncologist is convinced that I don’t have bone cancer. We don’t know what it is, but since it isn’t changing and I’m not in ghastly amounts of pain, which normally accompanies bone cancer or bone infection, she doesn’t think it’s either of those. So having this imagery collection has saved me from some much more invasive testing!You have an absolute and irresistible right to copies of your medical information! Most of your providers are more than happy to help you get it, though it’s easiest if you go directly to them to get it. Trying to get it over the phone can be trickier. You’ll have to fill out a form and present ID. A couple of weeks ago I was at the Mayo Clinic asking for a copy of everything involving what I had done for an operation in 2008, and I specified ‘please burn it to a CD’. We had some problems with verifying the address as I was living in one city at the time and it turns out we used our PO Box, but we got it straightened out. Then they printed everything instead of putting it in a PDF, so I’ve got about 30 pages to scan. *sigh* But I’m now able to get my sinus cultures downloaded as PDFs, I was able to get all of my radiologist studies done locally downloaded, unfortunately I have to drive down to get hardcopies of my lab work because the download format really sucks. And there’s no way for me to download the actual radiology studies, so I have to drive down to the hospital for those, too.I currently have the problem that a new hospital that I’m now working with - their patient portal for accessing my information remotely hasn’t worked in months. I have to go in to get copies of anything. Fortunately once everything is resolved, I won’t be doing anything with them for the foreseeable future.Sometimes if you want old information, you might get hit with a copying charge. I went to my old provider and asked for 10 years of information, and it was all stuff they had to dig through files to copy. It cost me $25, but for my purposes it was worth it. And it was a lot to copy, it was a good two inches thick.Don’t lose your temper with a doctor if you’re having a disagreement. Twice my wife has had a different conclusion with a doctor, both times she was correct. One time the doctor did research and admitted he was wrong, the other time a different doctor stuck to her guns and defended her point. One doctor got fired, I think you can figure out which one. Which leads directly to my next point….When you are diagnosed conclusively with Condition X, read up on it! What have you got to lose? You’re going to learn interesting things. A decade ago I was diagnosed with a hyperactive parathyroid gland that had to be surgically removed. The common surgical procedure would have left me with a scar that would look like someone tried to chop my head off. I researched new surgical techniques and found that a specific doctor at the Mayo Clinic trained surgeons in a minimally-invasive laparoscopic technique. I contacted him, he performed the procedure, and now you can’t see the scar. I’ve learned more about the parathyroid and immune system than I ever wanted to know and learn more every year.Related to #7, learn about your medications. This is very important. I’ve been on a large number of antibiotics this year, and just to change things up a bit, my ENT wanted to try me on a sulfa antibiotic. He plugged it in to the computer, and it turns out that I have a serious interaction with another medication and it could cause a very bad potassium spike which could be deadly. I’ve been on that medication for ages and never knew that before, so I’ve added sulfa drugs to my drug allergy list - even though it’s not an allergy, it’s a problem so I’m treating it as such. Those paper novels that are supplied in the boxes that your meds come in? It’s pretty amazing what they can tell you in terms of what side effects those drugs can cause. Or go to the drug’s web site or to WebMD to see what other drugs it might interact with and what the result might be! Doctors frequently miss those interactions, and their software and your pharmacy’s might not catch them either!The most important thing is to make sure that you stay within your insurance plan’s network! You can rack up tremendous bills if you accidentally wander out of network. Obviously if you have an accident and are transported to a hospital that is out of network, you don’t have much of a choice initially, but there are rules for dealing with such situations.One thing that I didn’t know is that if you are hospitalized, even if the hospital is in-network, there’s something known as ‘drive-by doctoring’. You’re lying in bed, miserable as anything, and some doctor whom you’ve never met in your life walks in the room, picks up your chart, and says ‘So, how are we today?’ You say ok, he replaces your chart, and leaves. And you’re billed $500+ out of network for his two minute visit that did nothing for your treatment. And he’s not on your primary care team. If my wife or I are ever hospitalized, and I haven’t been since the 3rd grade, we’re going to put a sign on the door that says “If you’re not Blue Cross/Blue Shield, don’t come in this room!”I was hit by this during a procedure. The facility was BCBS. The doctor was BCBS. The anesthetist was not, and I received a ridiculous bill from them. I called them and they said Blue Cross disallowed the bill because they were out of network. I called BCBS and they said that because two of the three groups involved in the procedure were in-network, then the third should have been covered. BCBS made a note in my file and told me to tell them to resubmit the bill. I did, and a lot more was covered, but a large amount still remained. I pulled the ‘currently unemployed’ card, which I was, and they cut the bill further, I didn’t mention that my wife makes $80k. ;-)When I had sinus surgery a few months ago, I confirmed in advance that both the surgical center and the anesthetist were on Blue Cross!Most doctors don’t volunteer a lot of information, so you have to be your own advocate.Insurance plans are pretty much not your friends, so you have to be your own advocate.Pharmacy plans are definitely not your friends, so you have to be your own advocate.And they wonder why we look up so much information for ourselves online?

YES, the reason summer is hot is the seasonal change in the earth’s orbit around the sun that controls the temperature. Like the old saying one swallow doth not a summer make nor does one heat wave localized in the North East USA. There is no GLOBAL WARMING / climate change here. A hot summer is just normal weather and natural variability of the climate.We are in the Quaternary Ice Age and lucky temperatures seesaw back and forth although temperatures are in a long 7000 year decline.We think the alarmist big media no a reckoning of their fake news is becoming clear. They double down with exaggerated claims but the public are not duped when they go to the ballot box and vote against useless carbon taxes to make the climate cooler.The evidence mounts that the earth is cooling not becoming too hot. This so called mini heat wave is tepid compared with past summer temperatures in the USA, particularly during the dirty thirties.REFERENCESThis USA heat wave is far from unusual when you compare the data of the past and look at the scientific data of actual temperatures only in the 90s. THE COMMON DEFINITION OF A HEAT WAVE IS MORE THAN 3 DAYS OF TEMPERATURES REACHING OVER 101 * F. THIS DID NOT HAPPEN, EXCEPT WITH THE “REALFEEL” DNON SCIENCE DATA.The double counting of “REAL FEEL” Data is not recorded science. No catastrophic warming and now temperatures have plummeted with extensive flooding..July 22, 2019, 11:18 PM PDT / Updated July 23, 2019, 9:07 AM PDTBy Phil HelselFlooding hit parts of New York’s Long Island and hundreds of thousands of people in New Jersey lost power Monday after a series of storms swept through the tri-state region.The outages and flooding occurred after the city and much of the East Coast emerged from a heat wave.Thousands of people lost power due to the storms. In New Jersey, they numbered more than 300,000, Gov. Phil Murphy said.Knee-deep flooding jams transit, swamps battered Brooklyn, darkens parts of New JerseyJohn Bacon, USA TODAYPublished 8:27 a.m. ET July 23, 2019 | Updated 9:34 a.m. ET July 23, 2019CLOSECommuters navigate flooded streets in Brooklyn, New York as flash flood warnings were issued.StoryfulCONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORETrains and planes were delayed while cars and pedestrians slogged through knee-deep water in battered Brooklyn as flash flooding swept through parts of the borough following days of intense heat and power outages.The storms hit late Monday and early Tuesday. The National Weather Service posted a Flash Flood Warning that included Brooklyn and neighboring Queens. Parts of New Jersey also took the brunt of the storms, and widespread power outages were reported.The first storms hit during rush hour, and gridlock prevailed."As frustrating as this situation is (and as a commuter I share in that frustration), let's be good to one another amid the transit hell," tweeted Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.Knee-deep rain floods a Brooklyn street. (Photo: Adrienne Zhou via Storyful)The storms broke a string of heat emergency days for the city. But Brooklyn and Queens had been hit with power outages late Sunday. Thousands remained without power early Tuesday.New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was "extremely disappointed" with utility Con Edison."They've been giving us consistently inconsistent information over these last days,” de Blasio said. “This was a situation we all saw coming and I don't have any good answers yet as to why this happened and why it was not prevented.”Julie Chang@BayAreaJulieOof. Photo cred: Adrienne Zhao22Oof. Photo cred: Adrienne Zhao pic.twitter.com/r4QtClpgTh— Julie Chang (@BayAreaJulie) July 22, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacySee Julie Chang's other TweetsNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo deployed state police, generators and light towers. He agreed that the utility should have been better prepared, saying there was "no excuse" for the outages.In New Jersey, there were reports of "dime-size hail. Some roads were closed and Newark Airport warned of delays. More than 325,000 homes and businesses lost power across the state late Monday. The state Board of Public Utilities issued an ominous statement."The utilities are working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible," the statement said. "Due to the severity of the storm damage, it may take up to several days. Please check on your neighbors, particularly anyone elderly or infirm."Almost 230,000 remained without power Tuesday morning; another 30,000 were in the dark in Pennsylvania; 10,000 more in New York.Epic And Massive Flooding In Europe During The Little Ice AgePublished on June 24, 2016Written by iceagenow.orgKilled more than 500,000 people.Andrew McKillop has a new article posted at The Market Oracle. Here are some excerpts.This is the global cooling fearIntense flooding in the low countries of Europe became “darkly repetitive” during the Little Ice Age, writes McKillop. The cooling period lasted 450 years,For the Dutch, the Grote Mandrenke is nothing to do with Linux software, but means “The Great Drowning” and is named for the epic and massive flooding that occurred, more and more frequently in the Low Countries of Europe’s North Sea region as Europe’s Little Ice Age intensified.Grote Mandrenke flood killed at least 100 000Normal or predictable spring and autumn flooding was increasingly replaced by large-area and intense flooding, sometimes outside spring and autumn from about 1300, in recurring crises which lasted into the 18th century. In the Low Countries and across Europe, but also elsewhere, the cooling trend starting in the late 13th century became more intense. It brought long cold winters, heavy storms and floods, loss of coastal farmlands, and huge summer sandstorms in coastal areas further damaging agriculture. Climate historians estimate that major flooding on an unpredictable but increasingly frequent basis started as early as 1250. Extreme events like the Grote Mandrenke flood of 1362 which killed at least 100 000 people became darkly repetitive.Other giant floods probably killed 400 000Other giant floods in the region through the next 200 years probably killed a total of 400 000 persons in the coastlands of what is now Belgium, Germany and Holland. At the time, Europe’s population was at most a quarter of today’s, meaning that corrected for population size these were really catastrophic disasters. During this time, the Zuider Zee region of northern Holland was inundated and its former farmlands disappeared under water – for several centuries.Crop failures and faminesThe basic reasons was that the weather was getting colder, as well as more unpredictable. As the climate cooled, it also became wetter. Combined with the cold, this caused more crop failures and famines spread as the northern limit of farming retreated south. The start of the cooling – called Europe’s Little Ice Age by glaciologist Francois Matthes in 1939 – in the 13th century was in fact the start of a long, sometimes steep dip in temperatures that held sway on an unpredictable, on-and-off basis until at least the first decade of the 19th century. Overall, the cooling lasted about 450 years.Preceded by more than two centuries of much warmer more predictable weatherMaking things worse, the cooling had been preceded by more than two centuries of much warmer and better, more predictable weather. Farming moved northwards, seasons were predictable, food supplies had expanded. Europe’s population also grew, in some regions tripling in 200 years. The colonization of Greenland, which failed when the cooling intensified, was a well-known historical spinoff from the previous warming, but by the 16th century there was no trace of Europeans in Greenland. Only ruins of their farms and homes could be found, but with few or no tombstones dated beyond the early 15th century, leading to the theory that these early “Climate Refugees” packed their longboats and sailed south, to what is now the New England coast. Where they became easy prey for American Indian tribes along those coasts.And as more evidence shows that the Medieval Warm Period was no isolated event in Europe but was a global phenomenon, McKillop’s analysis takes on more immediate relevance:The climate historian Hubert H. Lamb in his 2002 book ‘Climate History and the Modern World’ dates the cooling to two main phases. The first leg of this change he places at about 1200-1400, but his second phase of about 1500-1825 which for some climate historians is Europe’s Little Ice Age, was marked by much steeper drops in average temperatures. Indicators used by Lamb and other climate historians like Emmanuel Leroy Ladrie and Wolfgang Behringer include food price peaks as cold summers followed cold and wet springs, with increasing examples of “climate wars”, such as Louis X’s Flanders campaign where the climate chilling was a sure factor in play.I fear that we’re headed into such a period of great cooling and repetitive catastrophic flooding right now.This while our leaders prattle on about global warming, leaving us almost totally unprepared.Andrew McKillop is former chief policy analyst, Division A Policy, DG XVII Energy, European Commission, and co-author of ‘The Doomsday Machine’, Palgrave Macmillan USA, 2012McKillop has more than 30 years experience in the energy, economic and finance domains. Trained at London UK’s University College, he has had specially long experience of energy policy, project administration and the development and financing of alternate energy. This included his role of in-house Expert on Policy and Programming at the DG XVII-Energy of the European Commission, Director of Information of the OAPEC technology transfer subsidiary, AREC and researcher for UN agencies including the ILO.https://principia-scientific.org/epic-and-massive-flooding-in-europe-during-the-little-ice-age/Europe weather: Italy and France hit by flooding after torrential rainfall@BigJoeBastardi athttps://www.weatherbell.com/Also research studies increase showing the human emissions of Co2 have no impact on the climate. For example, A new paper published by researchers from the University of Turku in Finland suggests that even though observed changes in the climate are real, the effects of human activity on these changes are insignificant. The team suggests that the idea of man made climate change is a mere miscalculation or skewing the formulas by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).ELECTROVERSEDOCUMENTING EARTH CHANGES DURING THE NEXT GSM AND POLE SHIFTAll-Time Record Low Temperatures set across Montana + one tied from 1898Extreme Weather GSMALL-TIME RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES SET ACROSS MONTANA + ONE TIED FROM 1898JULY 23, 2019 CAP ALLONWith the few days of ‘eastern heat’ taking all the headlines, the anomalous and long-lasting cold infecting vast swathes of North America is again being swept under the sustainably-sourced non-synthetic-petroleum-derived-fiber carpet. Record cold hit Montana over the weekend with several cities and towns setting new all-time record lows, but I’ll bet my diesel-guzzling L200 you never heard about it.I’ve listed a few of the new record lows below:Utica set a new record low of -1.1C (30F) on Saturday July 20.Kalispell’s 2.2C (36F) busted the previous record of 3.3C (38F) set in 1996 (solar minimum of cycle 22).Great Falls set a new record low of 3.3C (38F) over the weekend, beating the old 4.4C (40F) set back in 1926 (exiting solar min of cycle 15).Livingston broke it’s previous all-time record with a low of 3.9C (39F).While Helena tied its previous record low set way back in 1898 (entering solar minimum of cycle 13) with a reading of 6.1C (43F) on Saturday.In addition, Missoula’s low of 39F on Saturday was the first time since 1995 (solar min of cycle 20) that a temperature in the 30s has been observed in the last two weeks of July, and only the fifth time in the last 50 years.RECORD HEAT IN A COOLING WORLDThe sun, the oceans and a wavy jet stream are the main drivers of earth’s climate.Extreme heat and extreme cold will always occur, it’s the averages that matter.Global warming was a thing, it did happen — it was called the Grand Solar Maximum and lasted from approximately 1980 up until very recently. Global average temperatures rose by around 0.7C during this time, though the rise was natural, driven entirely by historically high solar activity, and would have occurred even if humans had never evolved to invent coal-fired power-plants and L200s.The coin has now flipped however, and solar activity is waning fast (NASA, see below) with global average temperatures responding, falling at least 0.3C since the start of 2016. This drop is expected to now pick-up-the-pace as the most up to date CFSv2 forecast for region 3.4 of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean reveals that a dramatic flip from the current El Niño setup (warming) to a La Niña one (cooling) is on the cards, beginning mid-to-late summer (NH) 2019 (click here for more on that).A few daily heat records may have tumbled in the US and Europe of late, but 1) those heat records are more often than not occurring at airports — all that tarmac and jet engines, a terrific unbiased location for a thermometer station (for more on the UHI effect, click here), and 2) as touched on above, both anomalous heat as well as cold is to be expected with a meridional (wavy) jet stream flow:During a solar minimum, the jet stream’s usual Zonal Flow (a west–east direction) reverts to more of a Meridional Flow (a north-south direction) — this is exaggerated further during a Grand Solar Minimum, like the one we’re entering now, and explains why regions become unseasonably hot or cold and others unusually dry or rainy, with the extremes lasting for an extended period of time (for more, click the link below).NBC Montana on Twitter asks, “Do you remember [Missoula’s] horribly hot summer of 2007?”The year 2007 occurred during the previous solar minimum, of cycle 23.Missoula’s record warmest-low temperature was set in the July of that year, before the winter months rolled around and dished-out one of the coldest seasons on record.NBC Montana✔@NBCMontanaDo any of you remember the horribly hot summer of 2007? A viewer recently asked what the all-time warmest low temperature was for Missoula. No surprise, from the summer of 2007! It was 71 degrees on July 24th. #mtwx #weather #Heat #Montana3Do any of you remember the horribly hot summer of 2007? A viewer recently asked what the all-time warmest low temperature was for Missoula. No surprise, from the summer of 2007! It was 71 degrees on July 24th. #mtwx #weather #Heat #Montana— NBC Montana (@NBCMontana) June 21, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacySee NBC Montana's other TweetsA wavy jet stream –associated with low solar activity– brings extremes at both ends of the temperature scale. While all the while, average temperatures slide ever-cooler:The cold times are returning, in line with historically low solar activity.NASA’s latest forecast for the next solar cycle (25) is for it to be “the weakest of the past 200 years” (www.nasa.gov):This NH is on course for an incredibly severe winter.Prepare.Grand Solar Minimum + Pole ShiftAll-Time Record Low Temperatures set across Montana + one tied from 1898 - ElectroverseHistory shows that the warmest US decade on record was the 1930sJuly 25, 2019 by RobertThis was “long before industry emitted significant amounts of carbon dioxide,” writes Steve Goreham.According to NOAA, “23 of the 50 state record high temperatures were recorded during the 1930s,” says Goreham. “Thirty-six of the 50 state record highs occurred prior to 1960.”But never mind such inconvenient facts.Seventy-four US medical and public health groups released a “U.S. Call to Action” last month, in which they declared climate change to be a “true public health emergency.” They also claimed that we urgently need to transition away from hydrocarbon energy and a move to a low-carbon economy.“(Trouble is), “actual weather and health trends don’t support either the alarm or the demanded actions.”“Last week, temperatures in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania peaked at about 100 degrees Fahrenheit. But these temperatures were far below the state record highs, which were Iowa (118oF in 1934), Illinois (117oF in 1954), Indiana (116oF in 1936), Ohio (113oF in 1934), and Pennsylvania (111oF in 1936).”Goreham goes on to eviscerate the false claims of increasing storm, drought, flood, hurricane or tornado activity – even wildfire activity.“The belief that changing light bulbs, driving electric cars, and erecting wind turbines can improve human health is as medieval as the belief that bloodletting can cure disease,” Goreham concludes.See entire comprehensive article:Never Have US Health Professionals Been So Foolish - NewsBlaze NewsCLOUDS NOT CO2 GOVERNS THE CLIMATE RESEARCH SHOWSJyrki Kauppinen and Pekka Malmi, from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, in their paper published on 29th June 2019 claim to prove that the “GCM-models used in IPCC report AR5 fail to calculate the influences of the low cloud cover changes on the global temperature. That is why those models give a very small natural temperature change leaving a very large change for the contribution of the green house gases in the observed temperature.”Thus, in order to come to the results matching the actual climate change the IPCC has to “use a very large sensitivity to compensate a too small natural component. Further they have to leave out the strong negative feedback due to the clouds in order to magnify the sensitivity.” In addition, Kauppinen and Malmi claim that their paper proves that “the changes in the low cloud cover fraction practically control the global temperature.”The authors argue that the IPCC has used computational results which can not be considered experimental evidence, and site this as the reason for contradictory conclusions.“The IPCC climate sensitivity is about one order of magnitude (i.e. 10 times) too high, because a strong negative feedback of the clouds is missing in climate models. If we pay attention to the fact that only a small part of the increased CO2 concentration is anthropogenic, we have to recognise that the anthropogenic climate change does not exist in practice, write Kauppinen and Malmi. “The major part of the extra CO2 is emitted from oceans, according to Henry‘s law. The low clouds practically control the global average temperature. During the last hundred years the temperature is increased about 0.1℃ because of CO2. The human contribution was about 0.01℃.”yrki Kauppinen and Pekka Malmi, from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, in their paper published on 29th June 2019 claim to prove that the “GCM-models used in IPCC report AR5 fail to calculate the influences of the low cloud cover changes on the global temperature. They show the small amount of human Co2 means there is no man-made effect on the climate….In a separate study, Japanese scientists have also suggested a much more important role for low clouds cover caused by an increase in cosmic rays resulting form the weakening of the earths magnetic filed.Prof. Masayuki Hyodo and his team Yusuke Ueno, Tianshui Yang and Shigehiro Katoh from the University of Kobe in Japan in their paper published this month in propose that the “umbrella effect” is the main factor behind climate change.“When galactic cosmic rays increased during the Earth’s last geomagnetic reversal transition 780,000 years ago, the umbrella effect of low-cloud cover led to high atmospheric pressure in Siberia, causing the East Asian winter monsoon to become stronger. This is evidence that galactic cosmic rays influence changes in the Earth’s climate.”“The Intergovernmental IPCC has discussed the impact of cloud cover on climate in their evaluations, but this phenomenon has never been considered in climate predictions due to the insufficient physical understanding of it”, comments Professor Hyodo. “This study provides an opportunity to rethink the impact of clouds on climate. When galactic cosmic rays increase, so do low clouds, and when cosmic rays decrease clouds do as well, so climate warming may be caused by an opposite-umbrella effect. The umbrella effect caused by galactic cosmic rays is important when thinking about current global warming as well as the warm period of the medieval era.”Finnish Scientists: Effect of human activity on climate change insignificantNO EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR THE SIGNIFICANT ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGEJ. KAUPPINEN AND P. MALMIAbstract. In this paper we will prove that GCM-models used in IPCC report AR5 fail to calculate the influences of the low cloud cover changes on the global temperature. That is why those models give a very small natural temperature change leaving a very large change for the contribution of the greenhouse gases in the observed temperature. This is the reason why IPCC has to use a very large sensitivity to compensate a too small natural component. Further they have to leave out the strong negative feedback due to the clouds in order to magnify the sensitivity. In addition, this paper proves that the changes in the low cloud cover fraction practically control the global temperature…If we pay attention to the fact that only a small part of the increased CO2 concentration is anthropogenic, we have to recognize that the anthropogenic climate change does not exist in practicehttps://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00165... (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00165...)This means the references in my post about Co2 overturn the Paris Climate Accord. Here is current research that demolishes the Co2 theory partly because its percentage in the atmosphere is near zero. (Thanks for responding)Climate change hoax COLLAPSES as new science finds human activity has virtually zero impact on global temperatures07/12/2019 / By Mike AdamsThe climate change hoax has collapsed. A devastating series of research papers has just been published, revealing that human activity can account for no more than a .01°C rise in global temperatures, meaning that all the human activity targeted by radical climate change alarmists — combustion engines, airplane flights, diesel tractors — has virtually no measurable impact on the temperature of the planet.Finnish scientists spearheaded the research, releasing a paper entitled, “No Experimental Evidence for the Significant Anthropogenic Climate Change.”The paper explains that IPCC analysis of global temperatures suffers from a glaring error — namely, failure to account for “influences of low cloud cover” and how it impacts global temperatures. Natural variations in low cloud cover, which are strongly influenced by cosmic radiation’s ability to penetrate Earth’s atmosphere due to variations in the strength of our planet’s magnetosphere, account for nearly all changes in global temperature, the researchers explain.As this chart reveals, more cloud cover is inversely related to temperature. In other words, clouds shield the surface of the Earth from the sun, providing shade cover cooling, while a lack of clouds results in more warming:Cloud cover accounts for the real changes in global temperaturesThis is further supported by researchers at Kobe University in Japan who published a nearly simultaneous paper that reveals how changes in our planet’s magnetic field govern the intensity of solar radiation that reaches the lower atmosphere, causing cloud formation that alters global temperatures.Get more news like this without being censored: Get the Natural News app for your mobile devices. Enjoy uncensored news, lab test results, videos, podcasts and more. Bypass all the unfair censorship by Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Get your daily news and videos directly from the source! Download here.That study, published in Nature, is called, “Intensified East Asian winter monsoon during the last geomagnetic reversal transition.” It states:Records of suborbital-scale climate variation during the last glacial and Holocene periods can be used to elucidate the mechanisms of rapid climate changes… At least one event was associated with a decrease in the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field. Thus, climate records from the MIS 19 interglacial can be used to elucidate the mechanisms of a variety of climate changes, including testing the effect of changes in geomagnetic dipole field strength on climate through galactic cosmic ray (GCR)-induced cloud formation…In effect, cosmic rays which are normally deflected via the magnetosphere are, in times of weak or changing magnetic fields emanating from Earth itself, able to penetrate further into Earth’s atmosphere, causing the formation of low-level clouds which cover the land in a kind of “umbrella effect” that shades the land from the sun, allowing cooling to take place. But a lack of clouds makes the surface hotter, as would be expected. This natural phenomenon is now documented to be the primary driver of global temperatures and climate, not human activity.Burn all the oil you want, in other words, and it’s still just a drop in the bucket compared to the power of the sun and other cosmic influences. All the fossil fuel consumption in the world barely contributes anything to actual global temperatures, the researchers confirmed.As they explain, the IPCC’s climate models are wildly overestimating the influence of carbon dioxide on global temperatures:…the [IPCC] models fail to derive the influences of low cloud cover fraction on the global temperature. A too small natural component results in a too large portion for the contribution of the greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. That is why J. KAUPPINEN AND P. MALMI IPCC represents the climate sensitivity more than one order of magnitude larger than our sensitivity 0.24°C. Because the anthropogenic portion in the increased CO2 is less than 10%, we have practically no anthropogenic climate change. The low clouds control mainly the global temperature.The entire “climate change” hoax is a fraudCarbon dioxide, in other words, isn’t the “pollutant” that climate change alarmists have long claimed it to be. CO2 won’t destroy the planet and barely has any effect on global temperatures (the IPCC’s estimate of its effect is, according to Finnish researchers, about one order of magnitude too large, or ten times the actual amount).In fact, NASA was forced to recently admit that carbon dioxide is re-greening the Earth on a massive scale by supporting the growth of rainforests, trees and grasslands. See these maps showing the increase in green plant life, thanks to rising CO2:Climate change hoax COLLAPSES as new science finds human activity has virtually zero impact on global temperaturesWhile it was hot in much of the UN for a short while is was below normal temperatures in California and most of the West. This contradiction shows alarmist contradictory hype like OBAMA during the last California drought.NO HEAT WAVE IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE MIDDLE OF JULY. THEY HAVE RECORD RAINFALL AND FLOODINGClimate change doesn't threaten to "destroy civilization." Misguided responses to it—including those promoted by Pope Francis—do.In reality, the postulate that CO2 is significantly trapping heat is still subject to debate (verifying the theory by measuring trapped heat can’t be done) and there are so many other factors involved in planet-wide warming and cooling that it’s impossible to say with any degree of certainty. For example, atmospheric water vapor (clouds) has a much more profound effect on temperature than CO2. The global circulation models—upon which rests the “proof” that CO2 is causing recent warming is based—don’t account for water vapor. This is one of many reasons the climate models were so inaccurate 6 years ago and why they’re even further off(p.5 graph) as time passes.Climate scientists haven’t been able to explain previous natural warming and cooling periods like the Medieval Warm Period, the Roman Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age, which had global temperature fluctuations that rivaled the current 1° C since the end of the Little Ice Age. In other words, despite the massive collective study of global climate by climate scientists over the past few decades, and the assurance by many vocal climate scientists who are concerned about catastrophic warming, the current temperature rise appears to be mostly—if not completely—within the range of natural variability.Advanced and accurate measurements of density of the growth rings in Northern Scandinavian pine trees have formed the basis for a highly accurate modern reconstruction of temperatures over the past 2,000 years. It shows that today's warm period is colder than the medieval warming, which again was colder than the Roman era. In modern times, there have been some particularly warm years, such as 2004, but they will be much less visible after a mathematical smoothing. Probably there have always been few years with exceptional heat or cold. It also follows from the historical accounts above about particular severe winters.Sea surface temperature in the East China Sea (between Japan, Taiwan and China). It is seen that changes in temperature did not happen simultaneously over the whole Earth. The Roman Warm Period took place also in China, the cold spell of the Peoples migration period was significant, but not very long lasting, instead, it was replaced by the Sui-Tang heating period. The Medieval warm period was not particularly significant in East Asia and nor was the Little Ice Age. But the steadily falling temperature trend has been the same in China as around the Atlantic.Jan Esper and his co-authors to "Variability and extremes of northern Scandinavian - -" conclude that their results "provide evidence of considerable warming during the Roman and Medieval warm period in larger scale and of longer duration than the twentieth century heating period." More specifically they identify the Medieval Warm Period to has taken place around 700 to 1300 AD and identify the warmest 30-year intervals during this period, which occurred from 918 to 947 AD in which period the June, July and August temperatures were about 0.3 degrees hotter than the hottest 30-year interval in the current warm period. Their findings differ from other researchers, who think that the Medieval Heating period began around 950 AD.If for example we have declining temperatures from the past 7000 years then the onus to rebut this cooling and declare a new weather pattern of warming that amounts to ‘climate change’ is high and has not happened since our industrializationDon't Tell Anyone, But We Just Had Two Years Of Record-Breaking Global Cooling5/16/2018Inconvenient Science: NASA data show that global temperatures dropped sharply over the past two years. Not that you'd know it, since that wasn't deemed news. Does that make NASA a global warming denier?Writing in Real Clear Markets, Aaron Brown looked at the official NASA global temperature data and noticed something surprising. From February 2016 to February 2018, "global average temperatures dropped by 0.56 degrees Celsius." That, he notes, is the biggest two-year drop in the past century."The 2016-2018 Big Chill," he writes, "was composed of two Little Chills, the biggest five month drop ever (February to June 2016) and the fourth biggest (February to June 2017).A similar event from February to June 2018 would bring global average temperatures below the 1980s average."Isn't this just the sort of man-bites-dog story that the mainstream media always says is newsworthy?In this case, it didn't warrant any news http://coverage.In fact, in the three weeks since Real Clear Markets ran Brown's story, no other news outlet picked up on it.They did, however, find time to report on such things as tourism's impact on climate change, how global warming will generate more hurricanes this year, and threaten fish habitats, and make islands uninhabitable. They wrote about a UN official saying that "our window of time for addressing climate change is closing very quickly."Reporters even found time to cover a group that says they want to carve President Trump's face into a glacier to prove climate change "is happening."In other words, the mainstream news covered stories that repeated what climate change advocates have been saying ad nauseam for decades.That's not to say that a two-year stretch of cooling means that global warming is a hoax. Two years out of hundreds or thousands doesn't necessarily mean anything. And there could be a reasonable explanation. But the drop in temperatures at least merits a "Hey, what's going on here?" story.What's more, journalists are perfectly willing to jump on any individual weather anomaly — or even a picture of a starving polar bear — as proof of global warming. (We haven't seen any stories pinning Hawaii's recent volcanic activity on global warming yet, but won't be surprised if someone tries to make the connection.)We've noted this refusal to cover inconvenient scientific findings many times in this space over the years.Hiding The EvidenceThere was the study published in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate showing that climate models exaggerate global warming from CO2 emissions by as much as 45%. It was ignored.Then there was the study in the journal Nature Geoscience that found that climate models were faulty, and that, as one of the authors put it, "We haven't seen that rapid acceleration in warming after 2000 that we see in the models."Nor did the press see fit to report on findings from the University of Alabama-Huntsvilleshowing that the Earth's atmosphere appears to be less sensitive to changing CO2 levels than previously assumed.How about the fact that the U.S. has cut CO2 emissions over the past 13 years faster than any other industrialized nation? Or that polar bear populations are increasing? Or that we haven't seen any increase in violent weather in decades?Crickets.Reporters no doubt worry that covering such findings will only embolden "deniers" and undermine support for immediate, drastic action.But if fears of catastrophic climate change are warranted — which we seriously doubt — ignoring things like the rapid cooling in the past two years carries an even bigger risk.Suppose, Brown writes, the two-year cooling trend continues. "At some point the news will leak out that all global warming since 1980 has been wiped out in two and a half years, and that record-setting events went unreported."He goes on: "Some people could go from uncritical acceptance of steadily rising temperatures to uncritical refusal to accept any warming at all."Brown is right. News outlets should decide what gets covered based on its news value, not on whether it pushes an agenda. Otherwise, they're doing the public a disservice and putting their own already shaky credibility at greater risk.https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-global-warming-earth-cooling-media-bias/“We had expected more Melting” — Thick Arctic Ice forces Norwegian Research Vessel and Icebreaker to turn back at SvalbardExtreme Weather GSM“WE HAD EXPECTED MORE MELTING” — THICK ARCTIC ICE FORCES NORWEGIAN RESEARCH VESSEL AND ICEBREAKER TO TURN BACK AT SVALBARDJULY 17, 2019 CAP ALLONThe Norwegian research vessel and icebreaker Kronprins Haakon (Crown Prince Haakon) was forced to turn back north of Svalbard after meeting considerably thicker ice than expected.Thick one-year ice combined with large batches of multi-year ice have merged to form powerful helmets, and several of these are impenetrable to us, said Captain Johnny Peder Hansen.The ice is still 3m (10ft) thick, in mid-July! Even the researchers’ long special-purpose chainsaws proved hopeless, while the 20,000 horsepower Kronprins Haakon, at a cost of USD $175 million, failed miserably at attempts to push through.“In the middle of July, we saw a few signs of thawing and [assumed] that spring had come, said Captain Hansen, who for several decades has worked on various vessels in the Arctic. “We had expected more melting.”Klassekampen, a respected left-leaning Norwegian newspaper writes: “Polar bears were seen on Bjørnøya this past winter –located in the middle of the Barents Sea– which shows that the ice edge was very far south.”Extreme WeatherNorth America to see Widespread Record Low Temperatures as a Midsummer Cold Front Plunges unusually far SouthExtreme Weather GSMNORTH AMERICA TO SEE WIDESPREAD RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES AS A MIDSUMMER COLD FRONT PLUNGES UNUSUALLY FAR SOUTHJULY 24, 2019 CAP ALLONInstead of holding its usual midsummer track in the northern U.S., the jet stream is plunging unusually far south this week, likely bringing record-breaking low temperatures with it.Normally at this time of year, writes the Weather Channel’s Jonathan Erdman, only the northern tier of states enjoys heat relief, while the South continues to sear. But the weather pattern this week is anything but typical and is giving the heat-weary South something to cheer about.Dew points in the 50s (dry air) are expected to plunge as far south as the Texas Gulf Coast and possibly other parts of the Deep South — dew-point values this low in summer are incredibly rare in Houston.RECORD LOWSKansas City, Missouri already tied it’s all-time record low temperature for July 23, with many more records expected to be tied or broken as the week progresses, particularly in southern and eastern parts.Cities expected to set new daily record lows, according to the National Weather Service (NWS), include Oklahoma City, Dallas, Little Rock, Arkansas; Memphis, Tennessee; Mobile, Alabama; and Charleston, South Carolina.Houston is expected to see lows in the 60s for three straight mornings, something that hasn’t occurred during the summer for 25 years (NWS).In addition, looking at the latest GFS runs, the anomalous cold is also forecast to infect central and eastern regions too, with temperature departures of up to 14C expected to last well into the weekend:GFS TEMP ANOMALY (C) for JUNE 24As always, the brief bursts of heat steal the headlines, but it’s the persistent cold that’s proving detrimental (to growing regions, for example) — the U.S. just averaged its coldest Oct-May in recorded history, and as a result is having it’s slowest planting season ever.Historically low solar activity is disturbing the jet stream, as well as allowing an influx of cloud-nucleating and volcano-popping cosmic rays to bombard earth’s atmosphere (see below links or more)— the upshot of which is a dramatic cooling of the planet beginning in 2020 (Zharkova).Prepare for the cold times. Grow your own.Grand Solar Minimum + Pole Shifthttps://electroverse.net/north-america-to-see-widespread-record-low-temperatures-as-a-midsummer-cold-front-plunges-unusually-far-south/Ned Nikolov, Ph.D.‏ @NikolovScience 18h18 hours agoMoreThe net global effect of clouds is COOLING according to NOAA's National Center for Environmental Predictions (NCEP) reanalysis data. This effect is 10 times STRONGER than the computer-generated GHG "radiative forcing". See this 2011 paper by Mueller et al: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/11/2305 …MUST READ : China And India Will Watch The West Destroy Itself – OpEdPosted: July 15, 2019 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Australia,|Leave a commentPIC source : Rising Powers in Global Governance“Those who can make you believe absurdities,can make you commit atrocities.”– Voltaire“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue.Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,we will be doing the right thing in terms ofeconomic and environmental policy.“– Timothy Wirth,President of the UN Foundation***THOSE sceptical of the “Save The Planet” inspired, mad rush into supposedly ‘green’ energy sources by the climate change theory-obsessed West, leading to skyrocketing power prices, rampant energy poverty and an exodus of jobs and industry to China, will be keenly aware of the poignant and concerning realities expressed in this must read op-ed by Todd Royal :“Without having a basic understanding that every single wind turbine and solar panel is intermittent and has to be continually backed-up by fossil fuels, the west is committing environmental degradation, and putting itself at risk against China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Based on self-interest rightly understood, India will then choose aligning with countries hostile to western interests over environmental concerns.”“Without energy you have nothing…”READ it all …*China And India Will Watch The West Destroy Itself – OpEdChina and India will allow the west – led by the United States (US) and European Union (EU) – to destroythemselves through dysfunctional, domestic, and continent-wide politics. This isn’t a Donald Trump or EU issue, but electorates having a vague understanding of how societies function, particularly, when it comes to energy.The “Green New Deal” is evident of that fact, which has no chance of ever working under current technology, taxpayer monies available, and the first “New Deal” was a failure. China and India will allow the US, EU, NATO and their Asian allies to:“Muddle through endemic crises menacing to its very existence (e.g., economic stagnation, demographic decline, rising unassimilated Islamic populations in many EU democracies, high taxes, mounting debt and the fiscal unsustainability of Western European social democracy)”Without energy you have nothing. China and India understand this better than the west since their citizenry and leaders view energy through the lens of what will help over two-billion-combined-citizens; join the prosperous, western, consumer-driven world. Most western, environmentally sensitive nations believe fossil fuels are evil. Instead, western countries strive for a renewable energy, carbon-free world. Even if the US were to cut its CO2 emissions, “100 percent it would not make a difference in abating global warming.”China and India have never bought into that notion of energy, or economies based on supposedly carbon-free renewables that inspire their nations toward a cleaner world. I wish they would, but that isn’t reality. Both countries will continue importing, exporting, and excavating tankers full of coal, oil, and natural gas from countries that are authoritarian, human right abusers such as Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Iraq, Nigeria, Angola and Algeria.Furthermore, Chinese and Indian politics, and increasingly Africa, will never allow lack of pipelines, domestic politics, or sensitivity to western environmentalists keep them from first world status enjoyed by the US, EU, and Asian nations like South Korea and Japan.Naïve-thinking, bordering on western suicide, believes China and India will stop using fossil fuels, led by coal. Each country understands coal is plentiful (“estimated 1.1 trillion tonnes of proven coal reserves worldwide that at current rates of production will last 150 years”), and it is scalable, reliable, cost-effective to the end user, and has the best energy density of all fossil fuels or renewables available.China is currently building hundreds of new, coal-fired power plants. To counter China, “India has 589 coal-fired power plants, they are building 446 more, bringing their total to 1,036.” These figures are after both governments signed the Paris Climate Agreement, and touted their green credentials.Since the US, Russia, China and India have the largest global coal reserves, and each country is vying for geopolitical dominance, they will continue using coal in record amounts. Energy is then a geopolitical weapon. Europe does not understand this fact.Only Trump seems to have gained clarity on this issue, with the US using their newfound shale oil and natural gas power, to their geopolitical and global advantage. Daily global, media onslaughts, US Democrats, and Never-Trump Republicans constrain Trump at every turn, and facilitate the US’ waning power. China and India sit back and do nothing, knowing the west is too weak to come to the US or Trump’s rescue.Renewable energy advocates can speak, write and publicly lobby that solar and wind-produced electricity is the same cost, or dropping compared to oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear. This claim is false. Renewables cost more to ratepayers and nations compared to fossil fuels or nuclear.Without having a basic understanding that every single wind turbine and solar panel is intermittent and has to be continually backed-up by fossil fuels, the west is committing environmental degradation, and putting itself at risk against China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Based on self-interest rightly understood, India will then choose aligning with countries hostile to western interests over environmental concerns.A great power struggle has broken out between the world’s largest democracy – India – and the world’s largest authoritarian state – China – and whichever country uses the most energy will win Asia for the rest of this century. National security and the competition between them over Asia are at the crutch of why they will watch the west destroy their economies over bad energy policies.Sure, India and China will use natural gas, nuclear and oil, but coal is where each economy finds its basic energy resource. Horrible for world emissions, air pollution and global health, but how do westerners, the United Nations, and environmental organizations tell both, growing countries they cannot have access to the same energy opportunities and growth the west has now had for over seventy years?It simply won’t happen; world health organizations, research universities, think tanks, and multinational corporations interested in global longevity and clean air should begin working towards clean coal technology.All great nations, including China and India, view energy as a domain of power. The west already has their power, but no longer knows how to use it the way it did during the Cold War. Global warming, abortion, gay marriage, and renewables versus fossil fuels have overtaken realism in all facets of government, military strategy, economics and countering the global threats from China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea.Raw, amoral geopolitics that will grow economies, engage realist strategies, house militaries and feed energy-hungry populations is the new Cold War. Social issues are important, but unless you are talking about the unintended consequences of abortion in the US and China, these issues have no valid correlation within energy geopolitics. Energy and electricity are at the forefront, of which ideological viewpoint, will win the 21st century.Accessible energy becomes more important than ever, as the competition between China and India heats up. Unless something drastically changes the west will diminish significantly – ushering in the “Asian century” – with China and India biding their time to take over the US-led, liberal order that was created after World War II ended.China And India Will Watch The West Destroy Itself – OpEd – Eurasia Review