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SoCal climatologist, Great Plains storm chaser and photographer, Tempest Tours tour director, certified wx observer & Death Valley record-temperature researcher

Los Angeles
Joined March 2012
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Your climate change lesson for the day, by Peter Clack
Earth is a water planet. Oceans cover 72% of the global surface area to an average depth of 2.3 miles, holding 96.5% of all water on the planet. Consequently, it is the oceans that exercise overwhelming influence over global heat distribution, atmospheric moisture, and the planet's regional climate zones. The global ocean holds more than 1,000 times the heat capacity of the atmosphere and absorbs over 90% of all recent global warming. Oceans hold 91% to 93% of the world’s retained heat energy. They are the primary source of atmospheric water vapour - reaching up to 4% in tropical surface regions - and are the principal source of clouds, storms, rainfall and snow. Water vapour is responsible for up to 75% of all atmospheric radiative heat retention. Thermohaline currents act as a planetary conveyor belt, taking roughly 1,000 years to recirculate cold, dense deep water and warm tropical currents. Without this system - including permanent gyres like the Sargasso Sea and regional eddies - places like Northern Europe would share the frigid climate of Greenland. These ancient ocean patterns have operated continuously for hundreds of millions of years, stabilising and redistributing energy across the globe. When evaluating the carbon cycle, the ocean's role remains central, while atmospheric carbon represents a remarkably small fraction of the active reservoir. The oceans hold 86% of the world’s active carbon reservoir. Carbon stored in permafrost soils (tundra) accounts for 3%, while living biomass holds 1.5%. At 426 ppm, atmospheric CO₂ accounts for much less than 1% of the active carbon pool. In warm tropical air, water vapour is up to a hundred times more abundant in the atmosphere than CO₂. Human activities contribute roughly 1% to 4% annually to total global carbon fluxes. The ocean’s dominance does not negate CO₂’s radiative role, but integrates with it: warmer oceans naturally hold less dissolved gas, releasing CO₂ back into the atmosphere as a secondary feedback during warming cycles, such as El Niño events. Attributing the modern observed temperature increase of 1.1°C to 1.4°C since the pre-industrial period exclusively to a trace gas overlooks the powerful array of natural climate drivers. Current average global temperatures (estimated statistically at 15°C) reflect a 1.4°C recovery from the 500-year Little Ice Age (1300–1850). This remains significantly cooler than the Phanerozoic Eon average of 24°C, or its peak hothouse periods of 34°C. It remains a key scientific challenge to explain how a trace gas alone can override or obscure the primary drivers of Earth's system - including solar output, lunar tidal influences, ocean heat transport, cloud dynamics and orbital anomalies such as the Milankovitch cycles. The crusade for Net Zero by 2050 and the annual COP summits have increasingly morphed from environmental stewardship into a vast campaign of wealth redistribution. Under the banner of an impending 'climate crisis', complex natural interactions are reduced to a single-variable narrative. This political momentum shifts authority away from national sovereignty and towards centralised global governance. This is globalism in action. The winners in this unwinnable war are the BRICS nations and the Global South. China alone has become the greatest manufacturing nation in history, powered by the world's largest coal fleet - and continues to build roughly two new coal-fired power plants every week. China is now the greatest source of atmospheric carbon dioxide in the world.
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Holy crap The “conspiracy theorists” were right
Massive concession: Los Angeles election officials just told a federal court they have no independent way to verify citizenship beyond what voters attest. (They simply take their word for it.) Under federal law, only citizens may vote in federal elections. Yet California has not acted on the list of 20,000 suspected noncitizens or agreed to set aside their ballots. American citizens’ votes are being diluted in California.
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The weeklong California heat wave is diminishing. I threw together a spreadsheet which compares this October run of hot maximums with those of previous Octobers, with a focus on downtown L.A., Woodland Hills and the western SFV, and my Westlake Village station.
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Sunset takeoff from LAX this Saturday. Check out the end if you have a minute!
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A few looks at the high-based thunderstorms over the waters south of Malibu this afternoon. Lightning was rather sporadic. I was above El Matador Beach on Encinal Canyon Road.
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The new People Movers at LAX are moving, but they are not people-ing. Maybe this October. This is video from today, Aug 6, 2026.
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The Gann Valley, SD, tornado on Thursday afternoon, July 2. View to the west. With Tempest Tours.
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Weak tornado about 8-10 miles south of Minot from 10:03 to 10:08 pm CDT Sunday. View to the south from 93rd Ave SE, about a half mile east of US 83.
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Wall of dust to the SSE and S, close to the time that the tornado began to our south.
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The ave daily max temp at Los Angeles for March 2026 is 82.2F. This breaks the previous record highest of 79.1F (March 2015) and is 13.6 deg above the 148-year ave of 68.6F for March. This is the largest departure (+ or -) of ave max for ANY individual month in L.A. since 1877.
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The month with the previous greatest positive departure from long-term average at L.A. was February 2016, with 77.5F compared to the ave of 67.2F. Greatest negative departure was Jan 1937 with 55.2F, which is 11.1 deg lower than the long-term average of 66.3F
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This ave daily max for L.A. of 82.2F is 12.3 degrees higher than the 1991-2020 normal ave max of 69.9F for March. This (slightly smaller) departure of 12.3 deg is also large enough to give March 2026 the greatest departure from normal on record for any month at L.A, per WRCC.
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WPC's list of places with the hottest temperature in the nation on Fri. 3 of these are RAWS stations: Fort Yuma, FWS R2 PORT #2 (near Martinez Lk), and Buttercup (SSW of Ogilby). The one NE of Winterhaven is an "AZMET" station. The nearby NWS climate stations maxed out at 109F.
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First Smith, and then Hughes
THE AMERICAN TEAM BEATS THE CANADIAN TEAM IN OVERTIME ONCE AGAIN😭😂😂😂😂
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The truth and common sense win again.
This incredible woman—lifelong hardcore Democrat—woke up, did her OWN research, saw through the media lies, and walked straight into the Trump camp Smart, articulate, authentic as hell—she lays out exactly why millions are leaving the plantation Her journey is PROOF: once you question the narrative and think for yourself, there’s no going back. Watch this and share—real people, real awakenings!
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A concise 90-second summary of the climate hoax. 🔥
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June 7, 2025, near Amistad in northeast New Mexico.
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It is time for the country to see who the real treasonous actors are.
BREAKING: Steve Baker blows the J6 Fedsurrection hoax wide open A software algorithm that analyzes walking parameters rated Shauni Rae Kerkhoff as a 94% match to the bomb suspect shown on video from Jan 5, 2021 She was a USCP officer The FBI covered it up J6 was a setup!
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My god this is an incredible moment between Clayton Kershaw and his family after the following game of his career ♥️ Going out a champion
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