By P Gosselin
A year ago, Europe’s media blared on about Lake Garda’s dangerously low level, and warned the lake risked drying out. Today, the water level is at a near high.
Nestled in northern Italy, Lake Garda is a favorite holiday destination for Germans. It has historic charm and is framed by the picturesque Dolomites to the north.
Just a year ago, the media and climate “experts”, however, were warning that Italy’s largest lake, at 370 square kilometers, risked drying up – a sure consequence of climate change, no doubt!
For example, last April the German Handelsblatt reported the lake had reached a “new low”, after a protracted drought period in the region:
German online weekly FOCUS here reported last year that the famous lake was “drying out” and was near an all-time low level.
“The water level has halved,” reported Munich’s Merkur.
German news magazine Stern chimed in and reported Lake Garda to be “only 38 percent full”!
Everywhere were hints it was all brought on by the climate crisis. All of Europe, in fact, risked drying out.
Drought-alarmism washed away
Then, in late 2023, the rains came across Europe. And how! Today we’re suddenly hearing only about floods and crop losses.
And what about Lake Garda? Official water level websites show the lake is now near the maximum level:
Image cropped from: Enti Regalatori Deo Grande Laghi
Currently, Lake Garda is well above the mean level, as the chart above shows, and all the fears of it going dry are gone! Now it’s overflowing, according to recent reports. The climate ambulance chasers have packed up their freak show and moved out of northern Italy.
Overall, Lake Garda’s length is 51.6 km and measures 17.2 km at its widest point. The maximum depth is 346 m and the main tributary of the lake is the river Sarca at Torbole in the north.
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Weather can do that…
The WMO has redefined “climate” as 30 years of weather now, not the thousands to millions of years that people were taught in school.
I guess that’s all the models could hope to handle, and they do a very poor job even on that.
‘Climate’ has always been the 25-30 years average of weather.
That’s arbitrary.
Of course it’s arbitrary. What else could it be?
Climate is the consistent weather patterns in any specified area. There are no consistent weather patterns in any area. So a meaningful climate must be the expected range of typical weather with median values defined. Median values and variability must be defined over a chosen time period.
Since we started doing climatology that time period was defined as 30 years.
Why?
It’s arbitrary.
But it’s also practical.
30 years is the lifetime of infrastructure before it needs a huge renovation. That’s not arbitrary. That’s dependent on technology change and material life. Also, above all, it’s the working life of any academic cohort.
Other period lengths may be chosen but they won’t be a s useful nor as historically accepted.
“Since we started doing climatology that time period was defined as 30 years.”
Actually it wasn’t. 30 years was set as the time period for a temperature norm at a location.
So why is the NSIDC using a 30 year period and one to their key scientists says 30 years is “climate”? They even justify using the 1981 to 2010 period by referencing NASA using 1951 to 1980 for surface temperature.
Your friends cherry pick much, you think?
BTW Nick, why do you hate the poor so much, you know, supporting all the expense caused by your friends and their non scientific unprovable and non disprovable theory/consensus.
So no such things as a global temperature then
I don’t agree on your infrastructure lifetime nor on the usefulness of the 30 year period. Unless you get a full weather cycle in the cliimate period it is useless.
Only since 1934 when the WMO decided 30 years was “climate”
They repurposed (hijacked) the definition of micro-climate, which was the 30-year average weather in a region or locality to benefit people choosing where to live by providing a sense of expected weather. (Note: That is not the EXACT definition of micro-climate.)
They did this because the records going back in geological time are neither comprehensive, accurate, or complete.
30 years is a period that humans relate to — nothing to do with climate.
This 30-year bit was established in mid-1930, prior to modern communications and computers.
If you want to know about “climate” look at the vegetation.
Follow Wladimir Köppen’s work and updates.
Vegetation integrates climate. Repeat after me: Vegetation integrates climate.
BINGO!
Has the flooding started north of Ellensburg yet, the snow level was below average this winter.
yeah calis megadrought fell over so now? theyre trying the same bullshit downunder via the unloved ABC this last week
And the Panama Canal.
That’s called Climate Science DuJour. The issue of the Day is the emergency of tomorrow, until the next day when the issue of the day is a completely different potential disaster
So true Bryan A.
In 2013 Lake Huron/Michigan level was at an historic low, and there was talk of damming the bottom of the dredged channel of the St. Clair river to save the lakes from climate change. Thankfully this geo-engineering project didn’t go ahead. In 2020 the great lakes saw record highs, washing away decades old beach and dunes. This might be inconvenient to the alarmists, but no, climate change causes extremes!
It’s worth noting however that without these extremes beaches and dunes would cease to exist as such.
No doubt in this case climate change would be blamed for the lack of extremes,and the loss of yet another fragile ecosystem.
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:e39555d1-b76f-4410-a93f-6aeb49e02278
Now this is Climate change…
Hunting caribou hunters beneath lake Huron:
“9,000 years ago, water levels in Lake Huron were about 76 meters (250 feet) lower than they are today”
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/lakehuron-arch/research/pre-historic-archaeology-on-the-alpena-amberly-ridge/
As was Doggerland – lots of prehistoric artefacts waiting to be found in the North Sea
People are getting tired of them crying “WOLF” and then no wolf appears.
They are the wolf.
Isn’t it the TRUTH! Yes!
If you can’t see the wolf your blind. The complete Western power structure is wolf’s nest
East controlling west is more of the way it looks.
Just look at the UN Youth Advisor for Climate.
Not going to repeat her racist comments.
The California droughtist nitwits haven’t been so vocal lately either.
I once had the misfortune to be interacting with a lawyer on another site who happened to be working on destroying the idea of the new runway at Heathrow Airport. I’m not sure how his case went, but because he knew I lived in California, he couldn’t understand how I couldn’t see that the effects of man-made climate change were ending the world (or so he lied – practicing for the judge, I guess). Amazing isn’t it, the effect of a big salary on honesty ??
https://cdec.water.ca.gov/reportapp/javareports?name=rescond.pdf
And the spring melt in California has just barely started.
Left our mountain cabin yesterday. Roads were clear and mostly dry but there is still a lot of snow.
I checked the weather there this morning and the US weather service (NWS) has a flash flood advisory until at least Saturday, with NO precipitation forecast until then with a chance of snow.
How is this possible you may ask?
Well it was in the 50s (f) when we left yesterday afternoon and the temperature overnight was about freezing (32) and is to be the high 50 today, mid 30s overnight, 60s the next day then upper 30s overnight, so the melt is on in southern Utah such that the NWS thinks it may be fast and substantial. The local SNOTEL site snow water equivalent is about at the 30 year median. (1991 to 2020 “climate”)
Not necessarily lying, although he is a lawyer, so you may be correct. He may be a true believer, relying on his faith in CAGW rather than non-modelled data. (I know, model output is not data.)
The accusation of “lying” is thrown around a lot – too much in my estimation. It is done to throw doubt on the intentions of the of the person who makes a statement we disagree with.
I would rather be accused of being a liar, rather than being known as being the guy rationalizing everything and living in a delusion that was manufactured by others. These people are too lazy to even create their own illusions.
(if I am going to live in an illusion, I want it to be a positive illusion of my own creation)
The Third runway at Heathrow saga has been ongoing for at least 10 years. The UK Supreme Court has ruled that it can go ahead but it may take another 10 years before it sees it’s first flight.
This is happening all over the world as nature takes its’ course with weather/rain/sun/wind. When will people separate fear mongering from fact?
Never; humans are hardwired to fear the unknown.
Never, it is too effective a method of manipulation.
Yes….
Crichton’s “State of Fear” premise.
Gums sends..
Lake levels go down and up again periodically.
Who knew?
And the press reported it.
Who knew?
They didn’t just report it. They reported that it is indicative of an end of the world scenario.
There is no evidence that they did that. All that Gosselin quotes are just factual reports.
I agree Nick.
We should all stop reading alarmist bumpf about climates in the media.
Trouble is, every mention of weather or climate these days is alarmist bumpf.
Any idea why, when, where, how this all started?
People and the press have always commented on hot and cold weather, low lake levels etc. How is this different?
Well Nick, (like you?), I’ve been around for more than my fair share of the 3-score and 10 years of life expectancy.
And for the first 55 or 60 years of I’ve been around, weather was a subject we all talked about when we knew better than to raise politics, religions or football teams in the conversations.
Climates were what you were told to expect in different areas, (e.g Vung Tau was different to Melbourne) but we accepted that weather was what we were going to get.
No biggie.
But for some now-obvious nefarious reasons 25 or 30 years back, politicians, academia, media and bureaucrats glommed on an opportunity to monetize weather / climates.
And it’s been a godsend for all these otherwise-irrelevant cabals since AlGore showed them all how the taxpayer $$$s mining works.
Show me where I’m misinterpreting this obvious history.
Yes. And for as long as I can remember, heat waves, storms and floods were headlined in the newspapers. They were news. People wanted to know. As now.
I will concede that the 1896 continent-wide week+ long heatwave in Australia was widely reported.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/64889112
But pre-2000 news about weather events almost never added some obligatory ooga-booga paragraph attributing said weather events to “climate change / emergency / crisis”.
How is this different? The alarmism. The creation of unneeded fear. Everything is due to the climate crisis.
It’s the boy who cried wolf and Chicken Little combined on steroids.
Not to mention the eclipse, the NJ earthquake, and the emerging cicadas all are due to climate change. Just ask [name redacted] from The View.
Then we have Rep. Maxine Waters commenting on the eclipse, claiming that the moon is made of gas. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would beg to differ, if they were still alive.
In their reporting, did the press recant the alarmist predictions from the days of yore of the lake disappearing due to catastrophic anthropogenic climate change?
What is there to recant? Quotes, please!
All we have here are apparently truthful and proper commentary on the declining level.
Very few, if any, MSM reports of a declining lake/reservoir water level where they didn’t mention climate change. Otherwise there is no reason for them to report such a common occurrence.
“A year ago, Europe’s media blared on about Lake Garda’s dangerously low level, and warned the lake risked drying out. Today, the water level is at a near high.”
Didn’t you read the article?
Gosselin says it blared. But what did they actually say?
Sceptics?
You either do not read the media or you have an enviable innate ability to screen out and not seen the alarmist things in those reports.
You will need to some research because I am too lazy to do it for you. I would suggest you find paper(s) published by professors from the University of Michigan and other major Midwestern Universities in 2013 that explained how global warming was lowering Great Lakes water levels. Fast forward to 2020-2021, you will find many of the same professors publishing papers that blamed climate change for rising lake levels and
coastal flooIding.
Rather like the Australian/California/Texas neverending droughts/floods.
Whenever dams overflow down here… It is called a “Flannery”
A Flannery Event.
(= overflowing dam)
Now that there is worthy of an official name in meteorology / hydrology.
Let’s see if we can get some naive “journalist” to report a Flannery Event in the same way that even ordinary summer afternoon thunder storms are given names now.
Climate change. Is there anything it can’t do? It can cause record lows lake levels. And then it can cause record high lake levels. It’s like magic. There is nothing it cannot do. LOL
It caused the eclipse. It caused the New Jersey earthquake that rocked NYC. It even caused the converging emergence of 2 cycles of cicadas. Or so a co-host on The View declares.
I have fond memories of gazing upon the pool of Hotel Luise there and admiring the unhidden “peaks.”
Story Tip
Holes in Ross Sea Ice Grow and Shrink in Unexpected CycleChanges in polynya area in the Ross Sea region off Antarctica follow a previously unidentified 16-year periodicity.
https://eos.org/articles/holes-in-ross-sea-ice-grow-and-shrink-in-unexpected-cycle
That is what ticks me off about the alarmists, whatever happens is cause for alarm and they never admit their mistakes, and always claim the models predicted it, even opposites, flood and drought.
More evidence of Moonbat’s hotter drier apocalypse
In a paper of some years ago analyzing the great drought of 1930’s in the USA NASA concluded that it was caused by prolong La Nina conditions
Maybe – BUT
IIRC during La Ninas Australia gets the opposite and I don’t recall hearing of any such wet period here in the 1930;
Climate change is the postmodern real world equivalent of the Simpson’s monorail episode.
Or the ever to be feared NUCLEAR WINTER.
In 2019 we spent a month driving around Northern Italy, it was our 50th anniversary.
Visited all 3 of the big lakes, Garda, Como and Maggiore.
Noticed that more than a few locals and inn keepers were obsessed with climate change and kept repeating the same old mantra. Probably because they were concerned with their lifestyle and tourist business. A lot like farming.
I tried to remind them that up the road in Bolzano, the 5300 year old remains of Otzi were being studied. It appears that the alpine passes were clear back then and they weren’t driving any SUVs. Kinda made them stop and think…
PS: Forgot to mention, the people were extremely graciously wonderful. Not kidding.
As they are all over the world.
Even the French.
The CAGW crowd is despicable.
Propaganda train rolls on to the next drought then, Morocco Al Massira reservoir drying up!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68665826
A very common occurrence these days is confusion between weather and climate. The hyperbolic media is not helpful. Cliff Mass is, however.
Another common confusion is between thermal energy (aka heat) and electromagnetic radiation (e.g., infra red).
News report: Lake Garda overflowing due to apocalyptic climate change. We have crossed the precipice.
(humor is a difficult concept)
“Any change in anything is bad and caused by Man” seems to be the mantra.
Grab a “Headline”.
Depend on people forgetting that headline before publishing a contradictory “Headline”.