by me, Kerry Burgess, 06/16/2026 2:51 PM
This must be a hoax, right?
Well, I don't have a f'n clue. I don't know a single damn thing.
What I do have is my original-work. And my original-work clearly establishes clear pattern anyone can read here on my blog and it's more than 15 thousand blog-posts by me (many I suspect are deliberate sabotage by my replicate-predecessor so it becomes too tedious to read)
So there is the possibility it's a hoax for mainstream-media. A constructive fraud, let's say, about a topic people will ignore until too late. More than 8 billion (perhaps 10 billion) polluter-humans infesting this once beautiful planet Earth will never read anything here by me.
My concern is that while it might be a hoax there is concern in my mind that the hoaxers are simply useful fools for some thing manipulating them
They think they are being clever when in fact some monster from outer-space is simply manipulating them for its own purpose.
It caused me to think of that good-story_stupid-movie-from-Amazon back in year 2021
Summer finally began here in Spokane yesterday.
I was especially miserable last night, avoiding the a/c
Not looking forward to winter
Temp's have been below average, I am vaguely aware, not that unusual this time of year. An image I captured on my patio in year 2016 reminds me that nights can be downright cold around here even through end of May. When I lived in Seattle, I reminded myself that summer-weather in Seattle did not usually begin until around July 4th. Makes sense because of the labels on the calendar. However, my youth in South Carolina set my expectations of heat well before summer began on the calendar.
Today would be a perfect day to sit outside under a shade tree. The wind is strong and pleasant on this very warm day here in Spokane.
In continental USA, I am about as far from South Carolina now as one could get.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/scientists-horrified-huge-heatwave-hits-134500820.html
Yahoo! News
Futurism
Scientists Horrified as Huge Heatwave Hits Antarctica
Joe Wilkins
Sun, June 14, 2026 at 6:45 AM PDT 3 min read
As the Guardian reported, the record breaking temps hit on June 6
From 7/2/2021 ( ) To 6/6/2026 ( ) is 1800 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/7/1970 ( Richard Nixon, 37th president of USA federal government 1969-1974: Message to the Congress Transmitting a Study on Ocean Pollution by the Council on Environmental Quality ) is 1800 days
From 3/26/2014 ( premiere USA "Noah" ) To 2/28/2019 ( debut "Space Engineers" computer-game by Keen Software House ) is 1800 days
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/scientists-horrified-huge-heatwave-hits-134500820.html
Yahoo! News
Futurism
Scientists Horrified as Huge Heatwave Hits Antarctica
Joe Wilkins
Sun, June 14, 2026 at 6:45 AM PDT 3 min read
Record-breaking heat in Antarctica in June saw temperatures soar up to 36 degrees Fahrenheit above average, causing significant melting and ablation of glaciers.
When you're studying weather patterns across Antarctica, recording breaking heat is pretty much one of the last things you want to see. Unfortunately, that's exactly what June has wrought across broad swaths of the icy continent, with temperatures reaching an alarming 36 degrees Fahrenheit above average in some places.
As the Guardian reported, the record breaking temps hit on June 6, when researchers stationed on the Trinity peninsula — the northernmost point of the continent — logged temperatures as high as 15.4 degrees Celsius, or 59.72 degrees Fahrenheit, well above freezing.
"This is absolutely crazy," climate professor at the University of Groningen Raúl Cordero told the Guardian. "It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly."
Chilean glaciologist Luis Muñoz told the publication he and a colleague climbed up to the top of the Collins glacier last weekend, on the very Northwestern tip of the peninsula. There, they found that "temperatures here went very high so everything outside melted."
"Usually there is 20cm of snow and a lot of ice on the ground at this time," Muñoz continued. During the trek, they observed that it was raining, and that the precipitation was warm enough to melt the surface ice. "There was a direct impact on the glacier, which should be receiving snow now. It should not be suffering ablation at this time of the year. This is obviously not good for the glacier."
The Antarctic heat wave comes as the world has experienced its second-warmest May in recorded history. Along with a barrage of polluting tourists, Antarctica faces rapidly dwindling glacial coverage, embodied by the recent scramble to set up monitoring instruments along the fast-melting Thwaites glacier, commonly called the "doomsday glacier" due to fear that its disintegration could devastate coastlines across the world.
Scientists largely failed to deposit long-term monitoring equipment underneath the Thwaites, a scientific effort which had hoped to provide real-time insights as the glacier faces its now-inevitable collapse. However, they succeeded in taking a few snapshot measurements from the waters beneath the glacier, showing that temperatures were warmer than scientific models had assumed.
As the Cordero told the Guardian, a one-off heat wave won't destroy Antarctica's ice on its own. But it nevertheless follows decades of increasingly warm temperatures observed on the white continent, a troubling symptom of humanity's noxious impact on the planet.
"This heatwave happened because of extremely strong westerlies," Cordero explained. "This has been happening with increasing frequency since the 1980s, and that is known to be related to climate change."
As a recent study from the Antarctic Research Center at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington found, the ongoing melt-off could rise to ten times its current levels before the year 2100, unless we find a way to drastically reduce our carbon emissions.
"Under a scenario in which global temperatures rise by approximately 3.5 to 4C above pre-industrial levels, increased surface melting around the continent will leave ice shelves much more vulnerable to rapid collapse and sea-level rise," Te Herenga Waka climate professor and the study's co-author Nicholas Golledge explained in a statement. "In an extreme scenario where warming rises above 4C, the risk of rapid collapse becomes even more pronounced."
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 3:26 PM Pacific-timezone USA Tuesday 06/16/2026
