Saturday, July 22, 2023

LOL US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm: Our planet is on fire, but OPEC needs to produce more crude oil

 

“There is a lot of emotion in these markets and so we have deep concern about trajectories of where things are headed,” the energy secretary added.   

No kidding.

Story. 

Friday, July 21, 2023

To be fair the whole team is gay

 NFL coach comes out as gay in first for American pro sports...

Oh, sorry, I was thinking of a different team.

 



 

 

 

 

Democrats Debbie Washerwoman Schultz and Stacey Plaskett try to stop RFK Jr testimony at House censorship hearing

 

Scott Walker, who ought to know, urges DeSantis to spend less while remembering what made Trump's campaign unique


He's from Milwaukee. For president in 2016 he spent like he was blitzed on Blatz.

 Here:

From the moment he opened his mouth at the first presidential primary debate in Cleveland, he took command of the discussion. Every voter knew he was going to build the wall, drain the swamp, and prevent radical Islamic terrorists from coming to America.

Yeah, build the wall. 

Too bad about that.

 

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

C'mon man, the National Weather Service can't decide RIGHT NOW what the weather is, let alone tomorrow, next week, next year, or in ten years

 One man's partly sunny is not another man's mostly cloudy.



Trump has learned nothing, still admires the strong man of China

 

“Think of President Xi. Central casting, brilliant guy. You know, when I say he’s brilliant, everyone says, ‘Oh that’s terrible,'” said Trump during the event. “Well, he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. Smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There’s nobody in Hollywood like this guy. I got them to pay us $28 billion because they screwed our farmers for years.”


Not even Asian Americans like China, including Chinese Asian Americans.
 

 



LOL WaPo: "Global warming has brought a steady increase in average temperatures"

Except it hasn't. Average temperature in Phoenix is still running 1 deg. F below normal year-to-date.

Mean average annual temperature in Phoenix is 72.2 deg. F since 1895. Year-to-date it's 72.9. In 1974, the year of its big June heat wave, it was 73.1. The hottest year ever by average temperature was six years ago, when Phoenix averaged 77.3. 
 


 
WaPo didn't check apparently, or simply omitted the inconvenient data.
 
Same with Reno, NV and Las Vegas, NV, both of which are mentioned in the story. 
 
Reno is running 2.8 deg. F below normal year-to-date. Las Vegas is running 2.4 deg. F below normal.
 
El Paso is indeed setting records, but year-to-date its average temperature is still only 1.5 deg. F above normal. Annualized it would make the top ten warmest years ever, but the year is far from over.
 
Either way, WaPo is simply full of it, as usual.
 
It's also worth mentioning the special pleading going on. 
 
WaPo cites the June 1974 Phoenix climatological records as proof that it's hotter now than during that heat wave:
 
Temperatures have averaged above 101 degrees in Phoenix over the past 17 days. That is significantly hotter than another record-setting heat wave, when the city surpassed 110 degrees on 18 consecutive days in 1974. During that stretch, temperatures averaged 96.5 degrees.
 
The June 1974 data is the same data The Weather Gods have now declared unreliable, but WaPo wants to have it both ways when the micro-average-comparisons are convenient, you know, like Hillary or Hunter, one law for me, another for thee:
 
Reliable observation times are not available prior to 1982.
 
  







Sunday, July 16, 2023

What complete rot: Drudge's heat index map for 6PM EST shows 92 for Lake Michigan when it's 78 in Grand Rapids

LIVE: MAP...


 


A random list of U.S. cities with above average temperature year to date coincidentally averages +1.7 degrees F

Checked yesterday:

 

Seattle, WA +0.2 degrees F

Baton Rouge, LA +4.3

Minneapolis, MN +1.1

DFW, TX +2.3

Grand Rapids, MI +1.7

Miami, FL +2.8

Pensacola, FL +3.3

Milwaukee, WI +2.2

Juneau, AK +0.8

Albany, NY +2.7

Tulsa, OK +0.2

Helena, MT +0.5

Omaha, NE +0.10

Concord, NH +2.2

Burlington, VT +2.7

Ft. Wayne, IN +2.1

Marquette, MI +1.5

Duluth, MN +0.2

Memphis, TN +1.5 

 

The anomaly for Grand Rapids, where I live, year-to-date is 3.5% above 48.2 degrees F, the mean average annual temperature going back to the 1890s.

The peak full year anomaly for Grand Rapids was in 2012: 9.5% above normal. 

So if 2023 is a climate emergency, what was 2012?

Factor in the 10 cities with below normal temperatures from the previous post and the 2023 anomaly year to date drops to +0.55 degrees F for 29 randomly chosen locations (my yellow legal pad has 28 blue lines).

Enjoy the beach.

 



A random list of U.S. cities with below average temperature year to date

 Checked yesterday:

 

Denver, CO -2.9 degrees F

Redding, CA -1.3

Phoenix, AZ -1.2

Fairbanks, AK -0.7

Nome, AK -3.6

Death Valley, CA -1.7

Bismarck, ND -1.9

Cheyenne, WY -1.8

Albuquerque, NM -0.7

Portland, OR -0.4

Friday, July 14, 2023

The national debt is up $1.06 trillion since May 31, 2023

 To $32.518 trillion on July 12th.

It was $23.171 trillion on January 2, 2020, $9.347 trillion ago.

InflAtIOn Is sO OvEr.

The new reactionaries: LGB OK, TQ+ a bridge too far

"It's the TQ+ that I'm not going to support," she said, referring to transgender and queer or questioning people.

 

Ron DeSantis is up against an American public grown and growing overwhelmingly libertine on sex, which is one reason why Trump remains as popular as he is