Predictable

As the summer goes on, we are seeing things that were highly predictable.

Fires near my cabin in Minnesota and across the border in Canada along with some floods from heavy rainfall in Europe and heat in my home of Las Vegas are bringing up the chorus of global warming.

First off, the only way to “solve” global warming and meet an information economy on-demand energy needs (with electronic vehicles included!) is to build lots and lots of nuclear power plants.  All the solar and wind stuff is a diversion and just an excuse to funnel subsidies and government cash to cronies.

Let’s think about the events of this summer logically without fearful breathlessness.

-There are fires in forests every year.  This year the fires near me were started by lightning.  They are being fueled by an older growth forest and by “blowdown”.  The blowdown happened because spruce budworm came through the forest and killed a lot of old spruce trees.  It has nothing to do with global warming.  An aside, I am seeing a lot of old spruce trees across the lake from me get brown.  I am hoping it’s not spruce budworm which we have been mercilessly spared of so far since it first did a lot of damage here in the early 2000s.   There are forest fires in Oregon.  They aren’t related to global warming at all.

-It rains every year.  Some years are more intense than others.  I remember in 1987 a huge rain in Chicago.  The rain in Europe isn’t a sign of global warming.  I notice the seas in Miami aren’t overwhelming the apartment buildings along the beach which was supposed to happen.  The cities that are being flooded need to update their water abatement systems.  We could use some rain up here in Northern MN.  Where are Spahn and Sain when you need them? (Baseball aficionados will understand that last remark)

-It’s hot in Las Vegas in the summer.  No surprise that it’s hot this summer.  It is a desert.  It gets hot in the desert. By the way, people are worried about Las Vegas running out of water. Why don’t governments take all the money they are wasting on high-speed rail and put it into building desalination plants along the Pacific Coast? It will sop up all the excess water caused by global warming.

Another predictable thing is the response by policymakers to the new Delta variant of Covid. Mask requirements are back.  Of course, masks don’t work to stop any spread and it looks like the Delta variant is more transmissible than Covid 1, but less lethal.

It turns out, if you are vaccinated you can still get Covid.  One of the inventors of the vaccine said early on the vaccine wouldn’t prevent transmission of the virus.  Since he said the wrong thing, he was summarily squelched on social media.   Turns out, hydroxychloroquine as a Covid treatment works well.  Remember when Trump said something about that?  It also is fact that a drug that is prohibited in the US, ivermectin, works to stop Covid in populations that have used it.

Of course, the White House spreads disinformation on anything Covid in order to keep fear alive.  My friend Richard Porter published a Facebook story elucidating all the factual errors they continuously spew about everything.  The White House press secretary Jen Psaki actively practices fascism in her latest pronouncements to have private social media companies stop people from spreading what they characterize as “misinformation”.  Alex Berenson was the first to feel the heat.

Where are the anti-fascists which were so prevalent between 2016-2020 now?  I guess they are hanging out at a coffee shop with Code Pink.

That was totally predictable too.

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