How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
Have you ever had the experience of having seen something, and then realizing later that you were probably just remembering a dream?
OK, it’s just me. I’m the crazy one, right?
So anyway, we were in Fort Myers, and I was walking down a concourse in an airport, and there was a stack of USA Today’s, and the headline read “Snow will soon be a thing of the past.”
Continue reading “The end of snow predicted in 2000 … and 2014 … and 2024”
This stack of firewood is the sum total of a week’s effort.I am not done by any means, as we normally go through a couple of cords every winter. By my estimation this is over a cord, but I have one partial and another full stack to to go. Note that a cord is 4X4X8, which is what the back two stacks are, roughly. Since the work is very hard I opted to finish the job in October, giving my body a needed rest.
Last year, knowing foot surgery was on the horizon, I put up as much wood as I could in a short period of time. That wood included garage scraps and pieces of willow and aspen (which do not burn as well as pine). We decided that for the first time in our then-twelve years here we would purchase a cord of wood. The cost was going to be $300. We burned less wood, however, and did not get around to purchasing it.
I make it a point not to make my readers the object of anger, as it is their tastes and ideas that should govern what is written on this blog. But I do notice that whenever I write about climate change, reads and comments drop off a cliff.
I am going to guess at why: There is a general disinterest in climate change in the public, with it typically finishing 15th or 16th in polls asking what matters most to people. That is reflected in readership here. That is the reality I must deal with, and my choice is to 1) adopt the same indifference to the matter, 2) continue on as before, or 3) lecture you about it.
“No big deal” are the words used by David Wojick, PhD, an independent analyst who reviewed the proceedings.
The ruling was much more limited than I understood. The kids won a little, but lost a whole lot more.
Continue reading “The ruling in the Montana kids’ environmental lawsuit explained (better)”
Big Swede commented the other day that, amazingly, a nonsense lawsuit filed by some kids in Montana had received a favorable ruling from a judge. Here is the link he supplied. The ruling is simply outrageous, but also chilling. Was there a fix at work? Was it understood in advance that the judge, Kathy Seeley, would allow the bullshit claims to proceed?
Emily Flower, spokeswoman for Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, correctly slammed the ruling as absurd in an emailed statement and vowed to appeal.
This ruling is absurd, but not surprising from a judge who let the plaintiffs’ attorneys put on a weeklong taxpayer-funded publicity stunt.
Continue reading “Montana Judge Kathy Seeley issues brain-damaged fact-free ruling”
The news media and public officials have been off their rocker lately talking about our “boiling” planet. It is all hyperbole, completely unscientific, and really just a propaganda exercise. But they mean business as follows: Climate lock downs are in store. They saw it done with Covid and thought “We can do that too!” (Actually, “they” and “we” are the same people.)
It is discouraging to see how utterly controlled the news media is, and public officials like Biden as well. Has it always been like this? (Yes.)
Watts Up With That is claiming that the above video was suppressed by YouTube, which is like them. I searched for it there, and it turned up, now labeled “New.” That means it just came back to life today. YouTube must have relented.
Continue reading “Hottest day ever? Not so fast! And John Kerry – a grifter?”
“Most glaciers in the NH [Northern Hemisphere] have only formed in the last 4,000 years. While these new glaciers are often used as evidence of global warming, that these new glaciers have formed in the past few thousand years is actually evidence that the Earth and Northern Hemisphere specifically are cooler now than they were in the past few thousand years.” (John Kehr, The Inconvenient Skeptic: The Comprehensive Guide to the Earth’s Climate, page 116.)
Mr. Kehr seemingly wrote this book (2011) and then walked off the face of the earth. He’s not on YouTube, makes no public appearances, doesn’t Google well. Maybe (guessing) he opted not to engage the propaganda and madness that is the Climate Change movement. Maybe he did not want to endure personal attacks from people less knowledgeable than him. Maybe he just doesn’t suffer fools well.
At the end of this post where you see in bold “Youth Plaintiffs… ” is a brief synopsis of a lawsuit against the State of Montana alleging the following:
…greenhouse gas emissions [are] “already triggering a host of adverse consequences in Montana, including dangerously increasing temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, increasing droughts and extreme weather events, increasing the frequency and severity of wildfires, increasing glacial melt***, and causing numerous adverse health risks, especially to children …
If it were me, and be thankful it wasn’t, I would simply have put the burden of proof on Our Children’s Trust, the group behind this lawsuit and many others, all tossed out of court. All of the adverse consequences are nonexistent. Even melting glaciers***, while ongoing, has been going on since 1860 or so, the end of the Little Ice Age. If courts of law are a means of discovering truth, which I think only sometimes possible, then this case would be a no-brainer.
Prior to discussing the Streisand Effect, I am reminded of radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger, heard on weekdays on SiriusXM channel 111. She is currently 75 years old and going strong. Back before the proliferation of Sirius channels she was usually heard on AM radio. The program was very popular. Even as I was a liberal at the time, and her advice very conservative, I liked her and had very little trouble with her advice, which was stern, sensible and straightforward.
