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259 responses to “Sandbox – 5sep19”
6 more fine individuals who just happen to be illegals.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/05/six-illegal-aliens-accused-of-stabbing-21-year-old-man-to-death-in-maryland/?
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Although Yang does not have a snowball’s chance, he encapsulates the Lefties perfectly. There is no place in your life they believe that government cannot reach into and tell you what to do. What kind of car you can drive, what you can eat, how you travel…..
“None of this is speculative anymore. We need to wake up and let you know that you’re not on your own,” Yang said. “This is not a you problem, this is an us problem. What do sophisticated, advanced societies do? We solve the problems on the ground.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/51409/yang-goes-extreme-suggests-car-buy-back-shaping-ryan-saavedra?
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Well that’s so eradiate at 923, did you finish pulling the wings off your fly’s so early on a Thursday evening? Run dog, run.
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Posted by: Jig Wiggly | 05 September 2019 at 09:23 PM
You are a special kind of embarrassing to your wing nuts friends.
Not embarrassed by Walt at all! Go pound sand!
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The jiggered one can’t comprehend the meaning “global warming”.
His buds, knew when to cut and run.
Here is a clue jiggered one… Snow, where none should be, if GW were real…. Think about that.
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Jiggerhead forgets that his precious MJ could grow farther north. Maybe Canada!
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The jobs report came out. More people working than ever. Record low unemployment,wages up.
And the LIBS bitch.. A complete opposite of what their boy “O” accomplished.
The Proggys can’t wait to return the nation back to the Obummer economy.
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White man tastes like ripe banana! How very Truckee of them.
“The scientist mentioned the possibility of cannibalism during a broadcast on Swedish television channel TV4 this week about a fair in Stockholm regarding “food of the future”.
“Söderlund is set to hold seminars at the event, entitled “Gastro Summit — about the future of food” where he intends to discuss the possibility of eating people in the name of cutting down greenhouse emissions.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/09/06/swedish-scientist-proposes-cannibalism-fight-climate-change/?
What does old lady RBG taste like? Depends.
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That would be Soylent Green Brother Bill.
Soon to be available in Nevada City.
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Oh… My apologies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zAFA-hamZ0
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Republicans to scrap primaries and caucuses
WOW. You guys are so democratic. Looks like you are owned by a strong arm dictator. A one man party. Taking a line from his buds in N. Korea and Myanmar. Even Venezuela isn’t this bad.
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,,,Donald Trump is the Sharpie tool in the shed!!!
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I do find it amusing that Walt thinks that having some remaining snow fields visible in the Sierra Nevada in September is somehow an indicator that 1) the climate is not changing, 2) this is somehow an unprecedented occurrence, and 3) not acknowledging it as some sort of unprecedented occurrence is a sign of denial that the climate is not changing.
Greg, your buddy needs a tutorial on the difference between weather and climate.
As a resident of the 6000 foot level for more than 39 years now I can anecdotally attest to the fact that we usually have snow fields that last through the summer, usually “visible from Truckee.”
But as someone more influenced by science than the anecdotal I can also attest to the fact that the vast majority of scientists who have studied the issue agree that snowpack is shrinking, has been shrinking for the past few decades, that precipitation is coming in pulses with a higher degree of year to year variation than in previous decades, and that that will have profound impacts on California’s water supply and the timing of its water supply, our storage systems and capacity, snowfall accumulation between 5000 and 8000 feet, particularly in the northern Sierra and Cascade, and the economies and people who depend on it.
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/project/climate-change-sierra-nevada/
I know I am just opening the sluice of denialist bullshit that regularly comes form these pages and people, but perhaps a few lurking open minded readers will be curious and explore on their own. 🙂
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Oops, there is an awkward double negative in there I regret, and I have lived at 6000 feet for 31 years not 39–that’s a typo.
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You go with that Stevey. It’s “special” snow that’s heat resistant.
Is that why you idiots went with “climate change”? So no matter what happens, you can claim to be right?
Again, you refuse to answer.. Just when did climate NOT change?
I can show you the remains of a forest in the Arizona desert.
Did we do that?
Gotta love your ambitious Pres. hopefuls. The end of the gas powered car by 2030. DO explain how that’s going to work.
And end to fossil fuels as well.. So smart guy,, what going to keep the lights on? This we gotta hear!!
This is where you gotta run off to write grant requests.
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Posted by: MMAVP | 06 September 2019 at 09:12 AM
dugsKKKi…….loosen the finch on the Hefty bag….ugh!
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…….finch?
Better loosen mine too!
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sharpie-gate sharpie-gate sharpie-gate — If you make facts up and then are proven to be wrong.. just invent new facts to prove your point.. sharpies work well for that. How much more stupid can trump get or anyone who believes a word he says?
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Posted by: Roberta Cross | 06 September 2019 at 09:49 AM
Jeez sock puppet take a Valium!
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LOL Babs,,,
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/09/05/cnn-map-mislabels-alabama-as-mississippi-in-hurricane-dorian-coverage/
“CNN erroneously labeled Alabama as Mississippi during its weekend coverage of Hurricane Dorian”
And you think you got something? 🤣🤷♂️
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Steve @ 9:19, notwithstanding a bit of gratuitous snark, your comments appear to be entirely correct. No doubt you are aware that tree ring records (not Yamal trees) are quite useful in showing past rainfall trends and the Ca is well-known for past mega-droughts that lasted decades or even centuries.
Were these caused by higher temperatures back then? If so, then we’ve been here before and if not, you got some explaining to do.
Just for the fun of it, I’d like you to list the extreme weather events of your lifetime that lie outside the range of normal climatic variability; it literally shouldn’t take any time at all, ’cause there aren’t any.
Tornados, floods and droughts are holding steady over the last 150 yrs for which we have reasonable records. Hurricanes, by contrast, are declining in frequency as well as intensity, which is exactly what we would expect in a gradually warming world.
Your attached article was more of the usual crap from my alma mater; I’d be interested in hearing from their engineering department on the subject.
My takeaway from the article is that I’m well advised to pay attention to the historical records of all kinds and ignore the blind modeling so much in vogue among the AGW hoaxters. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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Science is cool. Now, how much of Climate Change is due to man’s activities? What percent, how many degrees?
https://fee.org/articles/5-surprising-scientific-facts-about-earth-s-climate/
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In passing, I’ll note that Trump wasn’t quite as daft as some imagine in re: Cat 5 hurricanes. Turns out that that term hadn’t been used prior to 1973 as 4 grades apparently were enough for earlier, less panicky generations.
This was several years after I, and presumably Trump, had finished our formal educations. Old habits are hard to break and all…
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,,,Sarah Huckstable Sanders’ new book it out!!!
Subtitled…“Lies, By the Lying Liar Who Told Them”
and now she is going on Fox and Friends
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
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,,,Tell Me Lies Tell Me Sweet Little Lies Tell Me Lies Tell Me Tell Me Lies (apologies to Fleetwood Mac)
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Her Lies Were Watched by God
Triumph of the Shill
Lied with Prejudice
As I Lay Lying
Hannity Fair
Lord of the Lies
The Lack of Innocence
Charlotte’s Web of BS
Waiting for Cookie Dough
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Mr. Frisch; I lived in the Modesto area when they built the New Melones Dam on the Stanislaus River in the late 1970s. During that period California experienced a drought. When finished, the experts stated it would take five years to fill the lake behind the new dam. Well, we had a wet winter and the lake filled in one year.
During this last hot spell we had, the forecasters thought Sacramento could break the old record for the high temperature for the date…108 set in 1920.
We have had swings in the weather for years. Just now, people like you are making money off of scaring the hell out of people and telling them we only got ten years, send your money to me so I can save you. You would have been great in the lead in The Music Man.
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TrumpWorld Take 2,,,here we see an American citizen being attacked by a diseased, violent, Mexican illegal immigrant
https://www.daily-choices.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/56981/12-77.jpg
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,,,TrumpWorld update,,,Commander in Chief code name Cat5 Sharpie attempts to cover his ass by throwing a rear admiral under the bus. I guess that is what ”’rear”’ admirals are for in Trump World
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-orders-coast-guard-admiral-140132223.html
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DAMN Dougy,, you get your hands and lips on one of those contaminated vape pens? Or did you put in a krack cartridge?
Since you insist on using that “P”,, stay away from playgrounds and schools. You have registered,,, right?
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Jeez fishy — remove your skull from your anus
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“If you’re wondering why so many young people are mired in despair, futility, and occasionally violent nihilism, try listening to the Democrat presidential field babbling for 7 hours about how humanity is a virus that must be culled to save the Earth.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1169588304003653633.html
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Posted by: Roberta Cross | 06 September 2019 at 11:01 AM
Now Roberta…..would your mother approve of that language?
I think not!
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A purveyor of progressive propaganda bites the dust –
Top officials at CAP had been searching for a buyer to take over ThinkProgress, which has run deficits for years, and according to sources there were potentially three serious buyers in the mix recently. But in a statement to staff, Navin Nayak, the executive director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, said the site was ultimately unable to secure a patron.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/thinkprogress-a-top-progressive-news-site-is-shutting-down
😉
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 06 September 2019 at 11:52 AM
Good News Friday!
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THC “vapors” dropping like flys.
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Frisch 919am
Walt, climate is unusual warm and dry weather. Weather is unusual wet and cold weather.
We are in for an interesting ten years, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years. We just came off an unusually cool and snowy winter in the Sierra Nevada, and the little Frischies like it but expect it’s just an anomaly on the way to the hot and dry hell they just know is our Doom because of the petroleum economy they want to bring down.
Now, every time a solar or astrophysicist starts talking about galactic cosmic rays, sunspots, the heliosphere and the spectre of Maunderish solar Minimums during cycles 26 and 27, Steve and friends stick their fingers in their ears and chant “naaa, naaa, naaa, I can’t hear you” but if there’s going to be a rip-roaring Maunderish Minimum going to be in place by 2030, there will be cooling, in fits and starts, over the next ten years.
Will the winter of ’19-’20 be a repeat of ’18-’19, or colder and wetter, or warmer and dryer?
Place your bets.
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db
I think progress is served by ThinkProgress shutting down.
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my 1238pm continued:
Now, as the decade progresses, how cold and wet does it need to get before the Democratic Party hegemony in California begins losing statewide? How badly will so-called Progressives act before their religion, with CO2 as the daemon at the center, begins collapsing in California and across the nation?
Or will people like me just have to slink back into our corners and kiss our asses goodbye in the heat?
I doubt the latter.
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Speaking of “climate change” This dude who ain’t going to be President got it right.
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/09/05/andrew-yang-compares-automation-to-climate-change/
“Presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Wednesday compared automation to climate change, saying that they are “easy to ignore at first, but already having calamitous effects and set to accelerate.” ”
Yup,, it’s called LIBERALISM “climate”. Demanding 15 bucks an hour for unskilled workers was a great idea. Right?
A self serve kiosk took the place of a cash register jockey.
So instead of 6 workers at the McD’s counter there are only 1 or 2.
Seen the inner workings of an auto plant? Mostly robots.
Good job UAW. Robots don’t strike.
If it’s repetitive, a machine can do it.
The more Proggys stick their nose into the business of business, the more low skilled (and high priced union labor) will go to a machine.
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Keith @ 10:58 I well remember that drought (1976-77). It’s when ‘Friscans’ learned to flush less frequently. Nowdays, they just cut to the chase, saving even more water. Progress, Kali style!
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Now, as the decade progresses, how cold and wet does it need to get before the Democratic Party hegemony in California begins losing statewide? How badly will so-called Progressives act before their religion, with CO2 as the daemon at the center, begins collapsing in California and across the nation?
Christianity has been waiting on Jesus for 2000 years…..!
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The results of peddling rancid Russian dressing continue to be felt –
CNN lost 21 percent of its already minuscule audience last week, MSNBC lost 24 percent, while Fox News grew its already enormous viewership by six percent, as TVNewser highlights.
Yep, even the massively over-hyped news about a mass shooting and a regional weather story — Hurricane Dorian — could not stop the bleeding at both of these far-left, Russia Collusion Hoax channels.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/09/06/hurricane-dorian-cant-save-cnn-msnbc-losing-fifth-audience/
😉
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Political futures: “The 2020 election is going to be a referendum on President Trump. People who do not like him will either vote Democrat or stay home. Either helps the Democratic candidates. They can be as outlandish as they want and are gambling that the President’s behavior will be more outlandish and the election will be about the President. Then, should they win, they can say they made no secret of their radicalism and clearly the American people are okay with it.” —Erick Erickson
For the record: “[The Democrats’] answer to everything is more government control. We want to control what you eat, we want to control whether you can fly, we want to control how you eat, what utensils you use. Everything is more government control and limiting freedoms, and they also want to limit the economy of the United States of America. There is no way our country can lead on any issue if we are going through a recession, if we don’t have high wages and great jobs.” —GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel
Friendly fire: “Experts say Democrats’ assertions are accurate, to a point. Fighting climate change will create jobs. Yet the rosy net numbers, some warned, don’t tell the far more complicated story of what that green growth could look like.” —The New York Times’s Lisa Friedman in her piece, “Democrats Say Their Climate Plans Will Create Jobs. It’s Not So Simple.”
Friendly fire II: “I know this sounds naive. I didn’t think the left was so mean. I didn’t think the left lied like this.” —Marianne Williamson
Alpha jackass: “What Osama bin Laden did to us was terrible but he doesn’t hold a candle to Mitch McConnell.” —Jim Carrey
Double standards: “We’ve learned over the last few years from trying to govern the country by executive order that there’s a lot that can be done legally with executive order. Only the Democratic president can get that done.” —former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
Non compos mentis: “Millions of us seeing [Hurricane] Dorian turn away from land is not a wacky idea; it is a creative use of the power of the mind.” —Marianne Williamson
How ‘bout no: “The UN just released a study that said we’re going to be OK if the vast majority of the world goes vegetarian immediately. … So, I think it would be healthy on both an individual and societal level for us to move in that direction.” —Andrew Yang
The BIG lie: “[Mitigating climate change] is the hardest thing we will have done — certainly in my lifetime as a country. This is on par with winning WWII — perhaps even more challenging than that.” —Pete Buttigieg
Pipe dream: “In my administration, we won’t be building new nuclear plants. We will start weaning ourselves off nuclear and replace it with renewables.” —Sen. Elizabeth Warren
And last… “Climate change is a bunch of rich people telling poor people how they have to make their lives worse so the rich people’s beachfront property doesn’t get messed up.” —Frank J. Fleming
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My my. The Lefties are obsessed with Climate Change, complete OCD bonkers obsessed. Make sense since the Leftinistas have such few things to talk about. Racism, guns, Climate Change, and Orange Man Bad. Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change is racist, and blame Orange Man Bad for all of the above.
What Hot Spot?
“The warming trend we found suggests we are having a relatively minor impact on global temperatures. From the IPCC, we know what the forcing was over that 37.5 years – how many extra greenhouse gas molecules there were and what forcing they would represent. We also know about the effect of aerosols. Taking all this data together, we can calculate what I call – and we were the first to use this term – the ‘tropospheric transient climate response’. In other words: how much temperature actually changes due to extra greenhouse gas forcing. The calculation includes a major assumption, namely that there are no natural variations left in the temperature data, and in particular that there are no long-term natural variations. It’s a huge assumption, but it allows us to move on.
“Our result is that the transient climate response2 – the short-term warming – in the troposphere is 1.1◦C at the point in time when carbon dioxide levels double. This is not a very alarming number. If we perform the same calculation on the climate models, you get a figure of 2.31◦C, which is significantly different. The models’ response to carbon dioxide is twice what we see in the real world. So the evidence indicates the consensus range for climate sensitivity is incorrect.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/09/wheres-the-hot-spot.php
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I suspect the warmistas will begin to fade as soon as they become fodder for late night comedians.
While the science is solid in the latest paper from John Christy, it’s a white paper through the GWPF and not a peer reviewed journal, so expect the Frischies to ignore it.
I do note Christy’s 1.1 degree for a doubling is very close to Nir Shaviv’s 1.2C, calculated from basic thermodynamics and temperature measurements. And again, any number less than 2.0C is not expected to result in runaway feedback events. No tipping points. Smaller than natural effects.
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Hummm,,, what’s missing from the ECO rants???,,,??? OH YES!!
The planet killing ozone hole. Not a peep. But only if you dig deep to find that info.
I love how they come up with fictitious numbers.
“Recognition of the harmful effects of CFCs and other ozone-depleting substances led to the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer in 1987, a landmark agreement to phase out those substances that has been ratified by all 197 UN member countries. Without the pact, the U.S. would have seen an additional 280 million cases of skin cancer, 1.5 million skin cancer deaths, and 45 million cataracts—and the world would be at least 25 percent hotter.”
Notice how they threw in a little extra for the AGW true believers?
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Another thing you can thank a LIB for.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/06/americas-aging-population-is-leading-to-a-doctor-shortage-crisis.html
“Projections from the Association of American Medical Colleges say the U.S. will see a shortage of 46,900 to 121,900 physicians by 2032 in primary and specialty care.”
Anyone who been paying attention who was/is looking for a career will think twice about medicine. Why in hell would you knowing that when LIBS regain power would limit what you can charge and make?
As it is right now, a Dr. is spending more time filling out gov. forms and fighting insurance.
The minute Proggys get control it’s “O”losercare on steroids.
If your a VET, good luck getting anyone outside the VA to give you the time of day. ” Nope, we don’t take VA people”.
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Posted by: L | 06 September 2019 at 10:17 AM
I sure hope you clicked through the cover page I posted from UCLA IoES to read the full study by Dr. Alex Hall.
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Well, Gregory, I dunno about late night comedy, but the warmunists faded from this blog as soon as an inconvenient request for examples went unanswered at 10:17.
Steve really should get on the trolls’ case for their lack of support when the going gets tough- they’d rather switch to insults and ad homs. Sorry Steve, you deserve better.
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