Clouds, Climate, and Cosmic Rays

All regulated by ‘one’ phenomenon – changing magnetic fields resulting from solar activity. Not carbon dioxide.

Don’t miss any of this 5-part series by Henrik Svensmark, author of The Chilling Stars.

Turned up here first: Gore Lied Five-part video series: Henrik Svensmark discusses his pioneering research on cosmic rays, cloud formation and global warming

Obama Suppresses Science

It’s true, there’s no debate (permitted):

H/T: Moonbattery EPA Buries Truth About Global Warming Hoax

Lower Temperatures Stress Crops

Say, this is deja-vu from last year all over again! Could there be a trend. Historically aware observers think there could be a serious food crisis (this is a serious understatement) like there was in 1650 and 1815 and over and over again stretching far back into history. Will North Dakotans prove heartier than 1650s Norsemen Greenlanders, who were made extinct circa and courtesy of The Little Ice Age?

North Dakota floodwater in March, 2009 Photo: Reuters

North Dakota had its first June snow in 60 years.
Crops under stress as temperatures fall - Christopher Booker

For the second time in little over a year, it looks as though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, thanks to our old friend “climate change”. In many parts of the world recently the weather has not been too brilliant for farmers. After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest. In Manitoba last week, it was -4ºC. North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.

There was midsummer snow not just in Norway and the Cairngorms, but even in Saudi Arabia. At least in the southern hemisphere it is winter, but snowfalls in New Zealand and Australia have been abnormal. There have been frosts in Brazil, elsewhere in South America they have had prolonged droughts, while in China they have had to cope with abnormal rain and freak hailstorms, which in one province killed 20 people.

None of this has given much cheer to farmers. In Canada and northern America summer planting of corn and soybeans has been way behind schedule, with the prospect of reduced yields and lower quality. Grain stocks are predicted to be down 15 per cent next year. US reserves of soya – used in animal feed and in many processed foods – are expected to fall to a 32-year low.

In China, the world’s largest wheat grower, they have been battling against the atrocious weather to bring in the harvest. (In one province they even fired chemical shells into the clouds to turn freezing hailstones into rain.) In north-west China drought has devastated crops with a plague of pests and blight. In countries such as Argentina and Brazil droughts have caused such havoc that a veteran US grain expert said last week: “In 43 years I’ve never seen anything like the decline we’re looking at in South America.”

In Europe, the weather has been a factor in well-below average predicted crop yields in eastern Europe and Ukraine. In Britain this year’s oilseed rape crop is likely to be 30 per cent below its 2008 level. And although it may be too early to predict a repeat of last year’s food shortage, which provoked riots from west Africa to Egypt and Yemen, it seems possible that world food stocks may next year again be under severe strain, threatening to repeat the steep rises which, in 2008, saw prices double what they had been two years before.

There are obviously various reasons for this concern as to whether the world can continue to feed itself, but one of them is undoubtedly the downturn in world temperatures, which has brought more cold and snow since 2007 than we have known for decades.

Three factors are vital to crops: the light and warmth of the sun, adequate rainfall and the carbon dioxide they need for photosynthesis. As we are constantly reminded, we still have plenty of that nasty, polluting CO2, which the politicians are so keen to get rid of. But there is not much they can do about the sunshine or the rainfall.

It is now more than 200 years since the great astronomer William Herschel observed a correlation between wheat prices and sunspots. When the latter were few in number, he noted, the climate turned colder and drier, crop yields fell and wheat prices rose. In the past two years, sunspot activity has dropped to its lowest point for a century. One of our biggest worries is that our politicians are so fixated on the idea that CO2 is causing global warming that most of them haven’t noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, with all the implications that has for whether we get enough to eat.

It is appropriate that another contributory factor to the world’s food shortage should be the millions of acres of farmland now being switched from food crops to biofuels, to stop the world warming, Last year even the experts of the European Commission admitted that, to meet the EU’s biofuel targets, we will eventually need almost all the food-growing land in Europe. But that didn’t persuade them to change their policy. They would rather we starved than did that. And the EU, we must always remember, is now our government – the one most of us didn’t vote for last week.

Chicago June, 12 degrees cooler than last

H/T: The Astute Bloggers GLOBAL WARMING DOES THE DARNDEST THINGS – RECORD LOW JUNE TEMPS IN CHICAGO

Somebody clue NOAA in: You better PRAY for global warming, ladies and gentlemen conspirators.

June at O’Hare was 7 degrees below normal, and the coldest since records began 50 years ago.

So far, June’s chill is one for the records

The cloudy, chilly and rainy open to June here has been the talk of the town. So far this June is running more than 12 degrees cooler than last year, and the clouds, rain and chilly lake winds have been persistent. The average temperature at O’Hare International Airport through Friday has been only 59.5 degrees: nearly 7 degrees below normal and the coldest since records there began 50 years ago.

More bad weather is on the way Saturday with a cold rain expected to linger through the bulk of the morning. Rainfall could be heavy — especially north of the city, which would be a reversal of Thursday’s deluge that targeted the southern suburbs.

Hmm, Canada and the northern tier of states certainly seems to be experiencing unusual and very marked cold, again; from Portland to NY City. It was cool here last summer, too, generally. What climate model forecasted this change? Not one involving carbon dioxide as a primary or even secondary player, certainly. Prolonged periods of solar quiet, as we are experiencing, are clearly associated with equally prolonged periods of climate frigidness in history. There is no data connecting carbon dioxide emissions with global warming.

I am enjoying my fireplace in Colorado tonight (June 14), and emitting lots of carbon dioxide. If statist (cap-and-trade) energy taxes are implemented, woodburning fireplaces will be a much more frequent necessity for heating American homes next winter. Carbon dioxide is absolutely the greenest of the by-products.

Al Gore’s strawman “pollutant” carbon dioxide is the least of our environmental, or climate concerns.

Illegal Climate Information

Never let a good crisis go to waste - Saul Alinsky

“Federal” government (the Obama regime) is rabid to raise your energy taxes, in the form of what you pay for energy, by thousands of dollars every year; and Henry Waxman and Obama want this rip-off passed NOW. As has become customary in the Obama regime, they don’t know what is in the bill, just that vast riches they can spread around will come out of your pockets and into theirs:

The false premise is that Earth is warming; and the even falser (in the dictionary, but it’s like a new language must emerge to comprehend the manipulations of the Obama regime) premise is that carbon dioxide from humans does it.  So we must pay Obama and Waxman, they think.  Carbon dioxide is now listed by the Obama regime as legal poison.  Only the regime (of Obama) can decide where cash is to be spread around, or even design new cars.  Free markets have failed and caused the ruination of Earth.

The head alchemist in the Obama regime (one James Hansen, pictured above) and his idiot mentor Al Gore say it ought to be illegal to dispute warmist dogma and claptrap and inverted computer model print-out.  Information showing the actual temperature of Earth as it drops off ominously is either assiduously massaged to reverse its implication (rendering falsehood), or else it is cleanly censored from the politically acceptable output of major media. The news from the Obama regime to the world is false.

Anecdotal, or nearly anecdotal information is the most reliable and far superior to “science,” which has been suborned by research grants over the last 20 years to produce only falsehood.

In summation of anecdotal information, Earth is cooling rapidly today.  Word has leaked out from scientists by rare accident that the oceans have been cooling since 2003.  Cooling is legally required to be called climate “change,” as if the climate never changed before the industrial revolution, so the government can tax Americans and seize control of every glimmer of economic resource or activity that might accidentally remain. The latest disaster mechanism invoked is greenhouse change, the old mechanism “greenhouse warming” is rapidly disappearing from the parlance; as if Alinsky himself decreed it.

IceAgeNow is replete with anecdote.  Record cold is sweeping America, did you know?  It’s illegal to talk about it, though.  How do I know (see below) there  wasn’t  even more record highs in at least the the remaining  29 states (Elite Obama thinks there are 57 states in America)?  Obama’s media would have been blasting the information 24×7 if there were; and you know it.  Saul Alinsky’s principles apply to climate just as they do to creating opportunities through economic crisis.  Never waste a good crisis, and if you can make a crisis, including a climatological crisis, so much the better. Stick it to ‘em!

With the Earth chilling rapidly, and the imposition of the Obama cap-and-trade tax to “Skyrocket” (his word) energy prices, what will your heating bills look like next year? I expect mine will double. Skyrocket is the correct word. Skyrocketing taxation is the goal.

2009 – 165 record lows in 28 states

 

Record low temperatures in 28 states! – and nary a peep from the media
19 May 09 – “Wow,  99 new record lows in 28 states – more than half of the states!” says reader Chuck Clancy. “Curious, isn’t it, how we hear nothing about them. A person actually has to search for them! Many of these records are over 100 years old, and a few 115 years old.”

        If there had been record warmth in 28 states, “we’re-causing-global-warming”
        headlines would have been plastered across the front page of almost every
        newspaper in the country, and TV hosts would have gleefully announced the
        dire consequences of our actions. . . . But had you even heard about this?

 

Total Number of Records for May 19, 2009
New: 99 + Tied: 66 = Total: 165
 

	Record New (99) Tied (66)	Previous Record	Previous Year	Period of Record
HIGHLAND HOME, AL	43.0°F	45.0°F	2007	115
LAFAYETTE, AL	44.0°F	45.0°F	2001	60
BREWTON, AL	48.0°F	48.0°F	2002	30
MURFREESBORO, AR	44.0°F	44.0°F	2007	33
LEOLA, AR	45.0°F	45.0°F	1976	43
HARTFORD , CT (KBDL)	34.0°F	35.0°F	2002	64
NEW HAVEN, CT	41.0°F	44.0°F	1952	32
WILMINGTON NEW CASTLE, DE	37.0°F	39.0°F	2003	64
MARIANNA, FL	54.0°F	57.0°F	2007	61
NEWNAN, GA	41.0°F	41.0°F	1976	103
WEST POINT, GA	45.0°F	45.0°F	1976	107
PLAINS SW GA EXP STN, GA	47.0°F	47.0°F	2007	53
KILAUEA, HI	59.0°F	59.0°F	1932	60
MOLOKAI AP, HI (PHMK)	61.0°F	61.0°F	2004	47
WAIMANALO EXP F 795.1, HI	62.0°F	63.0°F	1987	38
MT STERLING, KY	33.0°F	33.0°F	2002	104
PAINTSVILLE, KY	37.0°F	38.0°F	2002	30
COLFAX, LA	51.0°F	53.0°F	2007	30
LAKE ARTHUR, LA	55.0°F	57.0°F	1912	81
PITTSFIELD, MA	29.0°F	29.0°F	1944	45
SAVAGE RVR DAM, MD	30.0°F	33.0°F	2002	57
SALISBURY, MD (KSBY)	35.0°F	36.0°F	2002	60
MECHANICSVILLE, MD	37.0°F	41.0°F	2003	31
BALTIMORE, MD	38.0°F	39.0°F	2003	64
LONG FALLS DAM, ME	27.0°F	27.0°F	1981	54
BRUNSWICK, ME	33.0°F	33.0°F	1983	42
AUGUSTA, ME	34.0°F	34.0°F	1951	60
BALDWIN, MI	24.0°F	25.0°F	1954	73
GREENVILLE, MS	47.0°F	48.0°F	2002	47
DEL BONITA, MT	26.0°F	26.0°F	1997	43
TRANSOU, NC	28.0°F	29.0°F	1994	63
JEFFERSONE, NC	29.0°F	29.0°F	2002	82
MARSHALL, NC	32.0°F	32.0°F	2002	105
FLETCHER, NC	34.0°F	34.0°F	1976	49
ASHEVILLE,NC (KAVL)	35.0°F	36.0°F	1976	61
HENDERSON, NC	36.0°F	38.0°F	2007	109
ROXBORO, NC	36.0°F	38.0°F	2007	59
STATESVILLE, NC	37.0°F	37.0°F	2002	104
SALISBURY, NC	38.0°F	39.0°F	1976	115
CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS, NC	40.0°F	41.0°F	1976	64
MEDICINE CREEK DAM, NE	36.0°F	36.0°F	1983	55
BENTON, NH	28.0°F	28.0°F	1991	44
SUSSEX, NJ	30.0°F	30.0°F	1973	102
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ	34.0°F	34.0°F	2002	40
MILLVILLE MUNI, NJ	35.0°F	35.0°F	2002	59
SEABROOK FARMS, NJ	37.0°F	41.0°F	2002	40
DELHI, NY	25.0°F	25.0°F	1944	75
LITTLE VALLEY, NY	25.0°F	28.0°F	1973	65
FRANKLINVILLE, NY	26.0°F	27.0°F	1973	84
BAINBRIDGE, NY	26.0°F	29.0°F	1944	55
BATH, NY	27.0°F	28.0°F	1983	46
ITHACA CORNELL UNIV, NY	28.0°F	28.0°F	1944	115
ELMIRA, NY	28.0°F	30.0°F	1983	113
WAVERLY, NY	30.0°F	34.0°F	2007	41
BINGHAMTON, NY (KBGM)	31.0°F	31.0°F	2002	61
SYRACUSE, NY (KSYR)	32.0°F	32.0°F	1944	87
GENEVA RSCH FARM, NY	33.0°F	35.0°F	2002	40
WESTCHESTER CO, NY (KHPN)	37.0°F	37.0°F	2002	47
WARRENS, OH	29.0°F	30.0°F	1976	114
WOOSTER EXP STN, OH	32.0°F	32.0°F	1976	109
HANNIBAL L&D, OH	34.0°F	35.0°F	2002	33
PORTSMOUTH SCIOTOVILLE, OH	35.0°F	35.0°F	2002	115
TUSKAHOMA, OK	42.0°F	42.0°F	2002	49
MONTROSE, PA	25.0°F	29.0°F	2002	101
CHALK HILL, PA	26.0°F	30.0°F	2002	31
RENOVO, PA	27.0°F	34.0°F	2002	46
PUTNEYVILLE 2 SE DAM, PA	27.0°F	28.0°F	2002	64
HAWLEY, PA	28.0°F	28.0°F	2002	80
EVERETT, PA	28.0°F	30.0°F	1979	78
CLARION, PA	29.0°F	29.0°F	2002	62
TOWANDA 1 S, PA	29.0°F	30.0°F	1932	112
CONFLUENCE 1 SW DAM, PA	29.0°F	31.0°F	2002	61
BUTLER 2 SW, PA	30.0°F	30.0°F	2002	41
DUBOIS FAA AP, PA (KDUJ)	30.0°F	32.0°F	1973	40
WILKES BARRE SCRANTON, PA	30.0°F	32.0°F	2002	60
INDIANA 3 SE, PA	30.0°F	30.0°F	2002	62
WAYNESBURG 1 E, PA	31.0°F	33.0°F	1976	48
ALLENTOWN AP, PA (KABE)	32.0°F	35.0°F	2002	61
BLUE MARSH LAKE, PA	33.0°F	35.0°F	2002	31
WEST CHESTER 2 NW, PA	33.0°F	34.0°F	2003	103
SELINSGROVE 2 S, PA	34.0°F	34.0°F	1916	95
NESHAMINY FALLS, PA	34.0°F	36.0°F	2002	60
LEWISTOWN, PA	35.0°F	35.0°F	1973	69
SHIPPENSBURG, PA	36.0°F	36.0°F	2003	76
HAMBURG, PA	36.0°F	36.0°F	1925	68
LANCASTER 2 NE FLTR PL, PA	37.0°F	39.0°F	2002	32
CHESTER 1 NW, SC	40.0°F	40.0°F	1976	78
SULLIVANS IS, SC	44.0°F	49.0°F	1994	52
JOHNSON CITY, TX	43.0°F	43.0°F	2002	40
BLANCO, TX	44.0°F	46.0°F	2002	108
BOERNE, TX	45.0°F	45.0°F	1970	105
FREDERICKSBURG, TX	46.0°F	46.0°F	1986	86
SOMERVILLE DAM, TX	46.0°F	52.0°F	1995	42
JUNCTION FAA AP, TX	47.0°F	47.0°F	1968	73
ATHENS, TX	47.0°F	48.0°F	2002	55
SMITHVILLE, TX	47.0°F	50.0°F	2002	82
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX	49.0°F	50.0°F	1986	111
MADISONVILLE, TX	49.0°F	49.0°F	2002	60
VICTORIA ASOS, TX (KVCT)	50.0°F	54.0°F	2002	53
CARTHAGE, TX	51.0°F	51.0°F	1976	53
FOWLERTON, TX	51.0°F	56.0°F	2002	49
BRENHAM, TX	51.0°F	51.0°F	2002	106
AUSTIN CAMP MABRY, TX	52.0°F	55.0°F	2002	77
CANYON DAM, TX	53.0°F	53.0°F	2002	44
DANEVANG 1 W, TX	53.0°F	53.0°F	2002	111
POTEET, TX	54.0°F	55.0°F	2002	64
EL CAMPO, TX	54.0°F	54.0°F	2002	38
GOLIAD, TX	54.0°F	56.0°F	2002	70
TILDEN 4 SSE, TX	54.0°F	55.0°F	1986	51
MERCEDES 6 SSE, TX	54.0°F	58.0°F	2007	38
PALACIOS MUNI AP, TX	55.0°F	55.0°F	2002	66
FALFURRIAS, TX	55.0°F	58.0°F	1945	100
ALVIN, TX	55.0°F	57.0°F	1986	38
COTULLA LA SALLE CO AP, TX	55.0°F	55.0°F	1986	55
MCCOOK, TX	57.0°F	57.0°F	1986	65
FREEPORT 2 NW, TX	57.0°F	57.0°F	2002	50
KINGSVILLE, TX	58.0°F	58.0°F	1986	69
WESLACO, TX	58.0°F	58.0°F	1956	88
BISHOP, TX	58.0°F	58.0°F	2002	30
BROWNSVILLE INTL AP, TX	59.0°F	62.0°F	1986	85
FALCON DAM, TX	60.0°F	60.0°F	1986	46
GALVESTON, TX	60.0°F	62.0°F	1986	58
MCALLEN INTL AP, TX (KMFE)	60.0°F	63.0°F	1986	48
WYTHEVILLE 1 S, VA	30.0°F	30.0°F	2002	90
STAFFORDSVILLE 3 ENE, VA	31.0°F	32.0°F	2002	37
HOT SPRINGS, VA	32.0°F	32.0°F	1916	111
LURAY 5 E, VA	33.0°F	34.0°F	2002	67
WOODSTOCK 2 NE, VA	33.0°F	34.0°F	2002	111
LOUISA, VA	33.0°F	34.0°F	2002	91
WINCHESTER 7 SE, VA	33.0°F	36.0°F	2002	93
STERLING RCS, VA	36.0°F	36.0°F	2002	30
STUART, VA	36.0°F	37.0°F	1976	45
ROANOKE INTL AP, VA (KROA)	37.0°F	39.0°F	1994	61
FARMVILLE 2 N, VA	37.0°F	38.0°F	1956	87
JOHN H KERR DAM, VA	38.0°F	42.0°F	2002	59
DANVILLE RGNL AP, VA	38.0°F	41.0°F	1976	47
WARRENTON 3 SE, VA	39.0°F	40.0°F	1976	58
PIEDMONT RSCH STN, VA	39.0°F	39.0°F	1976	62
RICHMOND INTL AP, VA	41.0°F	42.0°F	2002	88
CHARLOTTESVILLE 2W, VA	41.0°F	42.0°F	1994	115
MORRISVILLE 4 SSW, VT	26.0°F	26.0°F	1987	36
MONTPELIER AP, VT (KMPV)	28.0°F	29.0°F	1991	60
BAYARD, WV	26.0°F	28.0°F	1941	100
KUMBRABOW, WV	27.0°F	29.0°F	1955	33
ELKINS RANDOLPH CY AP, WV	28.0°F	31.0°F	2002	83
BELINGTON, WV	28.0°F	32.0°F	1979	43
BECKLEY VA HOSPITAL, WV	29.0°F	29.0°F	1916	101
BUCKEYE, WV	29.0°F	34.0°F	2007	47
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV	30.0°F	32.0°F	2002	93
MIDDLEBOURNE 3 ESE, WV	30.0°F	33.0°F	2002	67
ROWLESBURG 1, WV	31.0°F	36.0°F	2002	63
MOOREFIELD 1 SSE, WV	31.0°F	33.0°F	1925	86
WEST UNION 2, WV	32.0°F	33.0°F	2002	35
FAIRMONT, WV	32.0°F	35.0°F	2002	104
UPPER TRACT, WV	32.0°F	33.0°F	1923	37
CLARKSBURG BENEDUM FLD, WV	32.0°F	38.0°F	1941	43
BUCKHANNON, WV	32.0°F	33.0°F	1893	113
SUMMERSVILLE LAKE, WV	32.0°F	34.0°F	1973	41
PHILIPPI, WV	32.0°F	37.0°F	2002	39
CLARKSBURG 1, WV	33.0°F	34.0°F	1935	85
WESTON, WV	33.0°F	35.0°F	2002	106
HAMLIN, WV	34.0°F	35.0°F	2002	66
GASSAWAY, WV	35.0°F	35.0°F	2007	57
MARTINSBURG, WV	35.0°F	37.0°F	2002	83
CHARLESTON YEAGER, WV	35.0°F	35.0°F	2002	60

 

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/records/index.php?ts=daily&elem=mint& month=5&day=19&year=2009&submitted=Get+Records

Thanks to Chuck Clancy for this link

Obama Moves To Halt Global Warming

Vicious Global Warming Attack

Man, that was fast!

I think he’s done already. (Ice Age Now).

Obama now has only to collect your cash (all of it), which he will use to fund massive ACORN vote fraud “organization.”

Ominous Carbon Dioxide Shortfall

The human contribution to atmospheric carbon dioxide is tailing off, rapidly.

Unless there is some other dominant source of carbon dioxide that is tailing off.
(in edit, actually I allude too vaguely here to uptake by the cooling oceans).

Temperature is tailing off.

But your energy taxes, and what you will pay for your next car, is SURGING UP; to stop global warming you think, since geniuses in or from government told you

I wouldn’t stand for it; but that’s me.

The graph is difficult to attribute, but ICECAP is always a good place to start/visit/hang around. The real truth is here, if you can handle it.

I added the green dashed line.

Carbon Dioxide Multiplier Less Than Unity

Climate Change Before Invention of CO2

Like the Internet – CO2, at least the variety that affects climate, was invented by Al Gore. Unlike the internet, he has yet to show us any of the article, though.

Before the convenient (and much more lucrative than the internet) invention of CO2, climate change visited Earth on virtually innumerable occasions. “One-third of the human race died; terror and anarchy prevailed,” in the most recent pre-CO2 climatic excursion.

Today, we are rapidly learning what causes ice ages, big and little (Chilling Stars, here and here), and also what causes hypsithermals, the namesake of this blog’s URL. (Thank God for hypsithermals; I do).

Hypsithermals are rare in the “geologic perspective” of Earth. Enjoy the warmth while you can; but take great heed that hypsithermal is not forever. They don’t last long, at all.

In northern Europe, the Little Ice Age kicked off with the Great Famine of 1315. Crops failed due to cold temperatures and incessant rain. Desperate and starving, parents ate their children, and people dug up corpses from graves for food. In jails, inmates instantly set upon new prisoners and ate them alive.

The Great Famine was followed by the Black Death, the greatest disaster ever to hit the human race. One-third of the human race died; terror and anarchy prevailed. Human civilization as we know it is only possible in a warm interglacial climate. Short of a catastrophic asteroid impact, the greatest threat to the human race is the onset of another ice age.

The oscillation between ice ages and interglacial periods is the dominant feature of Earth’s climate for the last million years. But the computer models that predict significant global warming from carbon dioxide cannot reproduce these temperature changes. This failure to reproduce the most significant aspect of terrestrial climate reveals an incomplete understanding of the climate system, if not a nearly complete ignorance.

Story here: The Coming Ice Age

Footnote: Why are the dips referred to as minima? I leave it to you, as an exercise.

SERIOUS Climate Change before CO2

Gore Pwnd Hard; Put Away Wet

Climate prediction failure and leading candidate for clown of the year Al Gore TAKES A MAJOR BEATING in Congress (ouch, EMBARRASSING); his downward spiral to full laughingstock status accelerates:

H/T:  SVBOR  Al Gore, the Filthy Lying Scumbag, gets OWNED

Orgy of Spending (bad!)

In case you missed it, Orgies of Spending are BAD!!!!

Now, apocalypses of spending, dwarfing mere orgies, make a lot more sense:

My debt is the biggest of all

What the hey; Obama expects your children can clean it up.

Gateway Pundit, White House Sees Higher US Deficit Than Expected …Updated With Video