Is that what you're saying, Tony? Tell me what you're saying.

I've been analyzing, following the election really closely, um, for the last few months and trying to understand what's going on, same way I analyze climate stuff.

And I appear to have a few interest- I had a few interesting thoughts which I thought you might wanna hear.

Um, so some, so some background, like, he's down 20 points in, in approval ratings right now, and if, if Democrats take control next year, it's going to be problematic for him.

Um, but he doesn't seem particularly concerned.

Um, he seems, he seems fairly relaxed about the election given the high stakes.

Would you agree with that, Jimmy?

He seems unusually unconcerned about the midterms, or else he would be doing something.

... making things cooler and warmer, and then creating sharper curves.

Yeah.

Yeah, what they do is, um, they, and they collect ...

I mean, the thermometers just collect temperature one moment at a time.

And so they, um, they take the daily temperature data.

They typically have sort of a maximum and a minimum temperature for the day in the historical record, and then they create what they call a monthly data set, which is an av- so it's an average.

But when they're creating those monthly data sets, they tamper with it.

Um, and I think the moral of the story is, is what?

Now, is, in your opinion, is this because of climate change, or is this because of something else?

I think it's actually a return to the normal climate of the Southwest.

The 20th century was actually the wettest century of the last 1,200 years, um, in the Western United States and, and people developed unrealistic expectations about water availability.

If you go back in time, say bef- uh, 1,200 years ago, there were droughts which lasted 200 years.

Uh, levels of water at Mono Lake were extremely low, uh, much lower than they are now.

So th- this is, this is a pattern which has occurred many times in the past, but during the 20th century was very wet, and people just got the wrong idea about what the normal climate is.

So iT- it's, uh, so you're saying we're looking at a, at a, at a, at a short-term catastrophe, and hopefully, fingers crossed, the El Niño that's forecasted for this winter will f- will fix this temporarily, but it's not gonna fix it forever.

Well, it's, I wouldn't necessarily describe it as a short-term catastrophe because there's kind of a hidden part of this which most people don't know about, in that there's, there's a lot of water in Flaming Gorge Reservoir, uh, on the Green River in Utah and Wyoming.

Let me play your video.

Hello, this is Tony Heller from RealClimateScience.com.

I live in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and this story is big news around here.

Wyoming County approves construction of what could become the largest data center in the United States.

Project J could eventually use the same amount of electricity as produced by 10 nuclear power plants.

Cheyenne to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined.

An enormous data center in Wyoming will consume five times more power than the state's people.

So why don't they go do it offshore or why don't they do it in space like Elon Musk says? Why are they doing it i- in the most destructive, catastrophic way possible?

Is, is it, do you think it's planned that they don't wanna have reservoirs so they could continue this climate change scaremongering narratives?

Well, Cal- you know, California was lucky this year.

Um, you know, they had a lot of, uh, precipitation, which they didn't get east of the Sierra Nevada.

Um, but it wouldn't, wouldn't do the Colorado River community any good anyway because all of the drainage from the Sierra Nevada goes west to the Pacific Ocean.

So like in the Imperial Valley, where they grow like 90% of the United States' winter vegetable crop, they depend completely on Colorado River water, 'cause th- they're, they don't, there currently isn't any mechanism to move water from, you know, the western side over to the Imperial Valley or to Yuma, Arizona, where the, uh, lettuce is grown.

So yeah, Calif- the California situation is, is another really interesting story, but it's actually kind of unrelated to what's going on along the Colorado River.

Do you think this, uh, tell me about what, what is an El Niño, how is it forming, and what do you th- what would be the best case scenario for it?

Well, El Niño is, um, a thing which happens every few years.