Once in a while, we toss some of our leftovers up into the wash behind the house. We have thrown stale bread, unused tortillas, rice (had a bug in the bag) and so forth. I had some left over celery (which usually goes into the compost) and decided to toss it into the wash. Later, we saw a cottontail rabbit munching on a piece. Click on the image to enlarge.
We hear all the greenbats proclaim that the current heat wave and drought throughout the US is due to “global climate change.” News media blames all this heat and dry on greenhouse gasses ostensibly emitted by us humans.
Well, consider this contrary little factoid: in London, where the Olympic Games are starting today, there will be high temperatures in the 60’s and lows in the 50’s with rain. Funny how the hot and dry reports here fail to include details about cool and wet weather someplace else on the globe.
As we say in the title, “Global Climate Change – Except It’s Not Global.”
Well, maybe that’s not the official name, but it is near “big” Casandro Wash and it runs right in front of our little house. When the monsoons come, runoff from the local hills all collects and runs down the little river that serves as our access road.
I took this panorama during the aftermath of the monsoon downpour of July 22. The gatepost featured in Damsel’s sepia photo from a few days ago is near the right edge of the panorama. Click on the thumbnail to see the full-sized panorama.
This evening looks like a repeat of last evening. Afternoon cumulus followed by wind/dust storm and steady evening rain. We don’t need the dust, but the rain helps to settle it.
This is a cholla growing over the RV drive and a palo verde behind it with a cumulus stage thunderstorm building up in the distance. Click on the image to enlarge.
This is one of my “gnarly” sepia photos. The subject is the fencepost on the corner of our neighbor’s property where our little “river” originated the other day after a heavy monsoon shower. You can see the eroded area to the left of the boulder below the fence in the picture. The flow of the runoff carved little riverbanks all along our road down to the paved road where the flow joined the main Casandro wash. Click on the image to enlarge.
Remember when all the hurricanes were pounding Florida and the Gulf Coast a few years back? All the greenbats and global warmists were blaming greenhouse gas and other horrible man-made things for the weather; the warming apocalypse was nigh!
Well, it’s the middle of freaking huricane season and if you go to the National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Center website you get the “No tropical Cyclones at this time” message.
This must be An Inconvenient Truth for the Goracle and all the other warmist liars.
New sunspot 1520 has rotated into view and is producing C class solar flares according to SpaceWeather.com. They also expect M class and possibly X class flares as the sunspot rotates toward the mid-solar southern latitudes.
I took this image this morning from Wickenburg, Arizona using my Canon SX40 and a Rainbow Symphony solar filter. I annotated the sunspot numbers with my Irfanview graphic editor. Click on the image to enlarge.
Update: 07/11/2012 The group is now closer to facing Earthward.
