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“The attack was undertaken over a 9 hour period using proxy servers from around the world including universities, schools and broadband providers. Unfortunately, hackers believe themselves to be smarter than they are. In this instance they have used the web01.defence.gov.au web server as a proxy which is located at the Woomera Air Force Base. No doubt the Department of Defence will be interested in all the data collected by the jonannenova.com.au web server pertaining to its machines. Additional confirmation will be sought from private broadband suppliers who keep detailed logs of their web traffic.”

Ratio Of Record Highs To Lows Peaked During The 1930s | Real Science

The graph shows the July ratio of all-time record highs to lows for all USHCN stations with records going back to at least 1930. The three highest years were 1936, 1980 and 1934

The interesting thing about 1936 is that February of that year had a ratio of record lows to record highs of 35 to one. Weather can change very quickly…..

Youths Appeal Climate Case Against Washington State | Environment News Service

“Our children will be forced to address unprecedented crises since their government has failed to take meaningful action to protect their interests in the critical natural resources of the state,” said Joyce Svitak, the mother of 14-year-old petitioner Adora Svitak.
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NASA climate scientist [not unaffiliated private citizen?] Dr. James Hansen submitted a declaration supporting the youths’ appeal to the Washington Supreme Court in which he states, “Further delay of meaningful action to address climate change vastly increases the risk of irretrievable damage to the climate system. Delaying action to return the atmospheric CO2 concentration to approximately 350 ppm by the end of the century may doom the prospect of stabilizing the Earth’s climate system and mitigating human suffering.”

ESR | August 6, 2012 | What really triggers a resource crisis?

[Dennis Avery] During a symposium held recently at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yale historian Tim Snyder told the attendees: "Climate change acts as a "multiplier of other resource crises leading to "the ecological panic that I'm afraid will lead to mass killings in the decades come." In his attempt to predict the future, he is relying on historic resource crises that have led to mass killings, revolts, invasions, and famines. However, almost all of those resource crises came during the earth's "little ice ages," not during our planet's warm cycles. (Neither Hitler nor Mao Tse Tung were driven by resource crises; Japan may have thought it was, but their invasion of China cost a terrible price)

On the whole, the warmings have been the good times. The long summers, sunny skies, and moderate rainfall in the Medieval Warming tripled human numbers around the globe, according to respected Medieval population scholar Josiah Russell. The long Roman Warming delivered similar benefits, with ample food and a massive increase in economic growth, trade, and prosperity.

The key resource crises have always been about food. It's hard to grow much food if your farmers are beset by short, cold, cloudy summers, century-long droughts and violent, flooding storms. The six cultural collapses in Egypt's famously fertile Nile Valley were all caused by centuries of too little rainfall in the Sudanese and Ethiopian highlands during the "little ice ages." Half the Egyptians may have died in the resulting famines, and records say that parents literally ate their own children. That was truly a resource crisis!

The famed Bronze Age collapse occurred at AD 1200 because of a global stab of cold and storms. Roads turned to mud, and sea-storms sank ships. Making bronze required tin, and the ships could no longer safely reach the major tin mines in southern England, Turkey, and the Malay Peninsula. The Greeks, the Hittites in Turkey, the Egyptians, the Akkadian Empire in the Tigris-Euphrates valley, the Harappans in northwestern India, the steppe nomads on the grasslands across Eurasia, and several cultures in China all collapsed. For several centuries, famine ruled most of the populated world

Dian Zhang calculates that 80 percent of China's wars, rebellions, and failed dynasties have come during the floods, droughts, and famines of its "little ice ages." What comparable "resource crises" does Dr. Snyder see in our globally warmed future?