Also today we learned that your receding shoreline is the canary in the climate coalmine

 The oceans are rising, or something, but not on Martha's Vineyard.

Receding hairlines remain unexplained.

“Now for the bad news: We are nowhere near where we need to be yet…Most countries have failed to meet the action plans that they set 6 years ago".

Today we learned the road to racism is paved

 All of it must be torn up, starting with the Interstate Highway Systemic Racism.

"If an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach, [...] in New York was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices."

J. Bradford DeLong finds the inflationistas' logic hard to follow, but so is his

... the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its associated disruptions continue to cause a substantial undersupply of labor. ...

The labor market is still weak enough that workers are unable to demand substantial increases in real wages.

More.

Make up your mind, Brad.

The White House says 1,100 deaths a day from COVID-19 is a grave matter, requiring a vaccine mandate

 2,400 abortions a day in 2017 was just chopped liver.

I own fresh green vegetables and I've been interested in them for a while

Hop on the bandwagon, people. :-\

smdh

Climate Update for KGRR: October 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Climate Update for KGRR: October 2021

 

Max T 80, Mean 79

Min T 31, Mean 28

Av T 57, Mean 51.3                             (7th highest on record for October)

Rain 6.44, Mean 3.06                          (7th most in October on record; La Nina!)

Cooling Degree Days 23, Mean  9      (season is 19th highest on record to date)

Heating Degree Days 266, Mean 425 (8th fewest for October on record)

Republicans voted for the Biden infrastructure bill despite the CBO's estimate it would add $250 billion+ to the national debt over 10 years

 Is $25 billion a year a big deal?

We're already paying $500 billion+ EVERY YEAR in interest expense on the debt.

Nobody cares.

 

 

Whistleblower reveals to British Medical Journal that just 9 of 153 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial sites were inspected by the FDA, among a host of other problems

 

 

 

 

 

"full trial swabs were not taken from 477 people with suspected cases of symptomatic COVID-19"

Civilian employment under Biden in October 2021 is at about the same level it was four years ago under Trump

How long will it take to recover? Seven years like it did under Obama-Biden?

Let's hope not.

The current trajectory looks like civilian employment will recover round about March 2023, a little more than three years after the Feb 2020 peak. That is slightly longer than the typical 2-3 years during recessions.

Foolish energy and vaccine policies could interfere with that, however.

LOL, "He is supposed to be committed to reducing emissions", the story opens

An informed source has told The Mail on Sunday that Camilla was taken aback to hear Biden break wind as they made polite small talk at the global climate change gathering in Glasgow last week.

'It was long and loud and impossible to ignore,' the source said. 'Camilla hasn't stopped talking about it.'

More.

I'm speechless: The Wall Street Journal blames unvaccinated children for breakthrough infections, not the shitty vaccines

 

Ajit Lalvani, chair of infectious diseases at Imperial College London and lead author of the household-transmission study, said people in their 40s were at higher risk of breakthrough infection for two reasons. “Waning immunity plus pools of unvaccinated people acting as vectors of infection into the household where it transmits effectively to vaccinated parents,” he said. “Both are happening.”

Most people in their 40s received their second vaccination at least four months ago. ... They are also the most-likely age band to share a home with teenage children, a group that is still mostly unvaccinated in the U.K. and in which case numbers have been surging. The household-transmission study, which tracked 205 vaccinated and unvaccinated household contacts of a symptomatic case of Covid-19, found that around a quarter of those who were fully vaccinated went on to develop a breakthrough infection. The study, published in the medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases last week, found that unvaccinated household members had a 38% chance of infection.

More.

Compared to the same period last year, the last seven months have seen a huge increase in C19 cases despite the mass vaccination effort, with deaths down only 14%

Year over year Apr-Oct 2021 US COVID-19 cases are up 71% from 9.02m to 15.45m; deaths are down 14% from 226,208 to 193,877.

Are cases up so much because vaccinated people keep spreading it asymptomatically?

 

Why is the white tail deer population in the US so badly infected now when the Chicoms couldn't find any infected animals to blame in the wet market in Wuhan in early 2020?

 

Are the deaths down because of vaccines? Better clinical practices in hospital? Monoclonal antibodies? A less deadly variant? Fewer vulnerable older people?

In California to date, just 10% of the cases have been 65+ years of age, but those account for 71% of the deaths, down from 74% at the beginning of May.

 

The number of people who received retirement benefits from the Social Security Administration rose 900,000 to 46.4 million in March, the smallest year-over-year gain since April 2009. ... the year-over-year change appears to reflect excess deaths. About 447,000 people who died from the virus were 65 or older, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or about 80% of total deaths.

More.

 

 

Bi-partisan Senate infrastructure plan authorizing $550 billion in new spending passed the House late last night and goes to Biden for his signature

The bill was opposed in the House by almost all Republicans, and by six far-left Democrats who were outmaneuvered by thirteen moderate Republicans who threw their support to the plan, which 19 Republican US Senators had voted for earlier this summer. 

The House progressives had insisted that the infrastructure plan be voted on together with Biden's social spending plan in order to force moderate Democrats to go along with the latter. The House Republican votes for the Senate bill ended up thwarting that linkage, making it even more likely that the House version of the social spending plan will have to be much less ambitious.

A small group of House Democrats have insisted the Congressional Budget Office score the impact of the separate social spending plan, which would have been standard operating procedure under Republicans but which Democrats under Pelosi have been avoiding until now. They don't give a damn about the true costs. They've even claimed absurdly a $3.5 trillion social spending plan will cost NOTHING. Ha ha ha ha ha.

That ranks among the most shameless attempts to change reality through a talking point ever attempted.

Whatever comes out of the House on that will face the hard scrutiny of Democrat Senators Manchin and Sinema regardless. 

Roll Call:

The bipartisan bill would reauthorize surface transportation and water programs for five years, adding $550 billion in new spending. 

It includes $110 billion for roads, bridges and major projects; $39 billion for transit and $66 billion for rail; $65 billion for broadband; $65 billion for the electric grid; $55 billion to upgrade water infrastructure and $25 billion for airports.

WaPo:

The bill includes more than $110 billion to replace and repair roads, bridges and highways, and $66 billion to boost rail, making it the most substantial such investment in the country’s passenger and commercial network since the creation of Amtrak about half a century ago. Lawmakers provided $55 billion to improve the nation’s water supply and replace lead pipes, $60 billion to modernize the power grid and billions in additional sums to expand speedy Internet access nationwide.

Many of the investments aim to promote green energy and combat some of the country’s worst sources of pollution. At Biden’s behest, for example, lawmakers approved $7.5 billion to build out a national network of vehicle charging stations. Reflecting the deadly, costly consequences of global warming, the package also allocates another roughly $50 billion to respond to emergencies including droughts, wildfires and major storms.

This negative jobs growth trend should have everyone up in arms, but instead we shrug, retreat, and self-medicate

 What has any politician done for you and your kids in 20 years?

Job creation under Trump in 2019 using W-2 payroll data actually looks pretty crappy based on the most recent figures out in October: The worst in eight years

 

Full-time as a percent of population peaked in July at 49.28% and averages 48.47% for the first 10 months of 2021

 Still way off the (lousy) Trump peak of 50.4% in 2019.

 

LOL, PEW Research now distinguishes the Latino Darkies from the regular, lighter skinned Latinos

Maybe the non-Hispanic white people at PEW should try that on the African Americans. I'm sure that would go over well.

Good morning: Climate change is to global warming as gender is to "Hi, I'm a sexual degenerate"

 You're welcome.

Case in point: This morning Glenn Beck had on the show the former CEO of Toyota North America and they both agreed that reducing atmospheric CO2 is critical to preventing future warming

 It's not, but it sure as hell would be associated with another ice age.

Glenn Beck might as well be another AOC.

The new "conservatism": The Republican sweep of Virginia's top offices is a narrow victory for MLKJr-ism over critical race theory, which isn't saying much

 The kooks on the left scared the normies.

It could have easily gone the other way.

Conservatism keeps redefining itself leftward.