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Good news on wildfire this year. I keep my fingers crossed on this issue.

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Rand Paul Doesn’t Buy Doctor’s Diagnosis Of McConnell

Rand Paul Doesn’t Buy Doctor’s Clearance Of McConnell, Not A ‘Valid’ Diagnosis

“…Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a former ophthalmologist who has long been a thorn in his home state colleague’s side, took issue with Monahan’s letter and the overall rationale given for McConnell’s health episodes after the Capitol physician cited dehydration as a contributing factor.

“It’s just mildly annoying to see people saying this is dehydration when it’s obviously not,” Paul told reporters outside the Senate chamber. “Everybody’s seen the clips. It’s not a valid medical diagnosis for people to say that’s dehydration.”

He added, “I don’t think it’s been particularly helpful to have the Senate doctor describing it as dehydration, which I think even non-physicians seeing that probably aren’t really accepting that explanation.”…”

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Climate Cult crackpots have new predictions…

Alarmists Predict ‘1 Billion’ Deaths from Climate Change This Century

“…Beyond Parody: ’A Future Person Is Killed Every Time Humanity Burns 1,000 Tons of Fossil Carbon’…

…’Researchers’ from Canada and Australia have published a study predicting a remarkable one billion deaths from climate change over the next 100 years…”

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None of their previous predictions came true.

Related. Liberal Western elites have devolved. Cult beliefs may not be changed by scientific analysis and they are loosely strung together without supporting data:

Remember what Feynman said:

“…I have a great suspicion that they don’t know…”

Bugs has thoughts on the latest Climate predictions:

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Is there something government does well?

The $53,000 Connection: The High Cost of High-Speed Internet for Everyone

“…Officials doling out billions of dollars for broadband in rural America are struggling to decide when a new hookup costs too much.

Nebraska’s Winnebago Tribe has long been stuck with sluggish internet service. The federal government plans to fix that by crisscrossing the reservation with fiber-optic cable—at an average cost of $53,000 for each household and workplace connected.

That amount exceeds the assessed value of some of the homes getting hookups, property records show. While most connections will cost far less, the expense to reach some remote communities has triggered concerns over the ultimate price tag for ensuring every rural home, business, school and workplace in America has the same internet that city dwellers enjoy…”

And the understatement of the week:

“The problem is, money is not infinite”

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Complications of mindlessly following Democrat policy preferences…

New Jersey Governor No Longer Wants Illegal Immigrants After Advocating for Sanctuary State

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Sciency science. Misrepresentation through exclusion: “I just got published in Nature because I stuck to a narrative I knew the editors would like. That’s not the way science should work.”

I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published

“…If you’ve been reading any news about wildfires this summer—from Canada to Europe to Maui—you will surely get the impression that they are mostly the result of climate change.

Here’s the AP: Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse. Scientists call it the “new abnormal.”

And PBS NewsHour: Wildfires driven by climate change are on the rise—Spain must do more to prepare, experts say.

And The New York Times: How Climate Change Turned Lush Hawaii Into a Tinderbox.

And Bloomberg: Maui Fires Show Climate Change’s Ugly Reach.

I am a climate scientist. And while climate change is an important factor affecting wildfires over many parts of the world, it isn’t close to the only factor that deserves our sole focus.

So why does the press focus so intently on climate change as the root cause? Perhaps for the same reasons I just did in an academic paper about wildfires in Nature, one of the world’s most prestigious journals: it fits a simple storyline that rewards the person telling it.

The paper I just published—“Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California”—focuses exclusively on how climate change has affected extreme wildfire behavior. I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature and its rival, Science, want to tell.

This matters because it is critically important for scientists to be published in high-profile journals; in many ways, they are the gatekeepers for career success in academia. And the editors of these journals have made it abundantly clear, both by what they publish and what they reject, that they want climate papers that support certain preapproved narratives—even when those narratives come at the expense of broader knowledge for society.

To put it bluntly, climate science has become less about understanding the complexities of the world and more about serving as a kind of Cassandra, urgently warning the public about the dangers of climate change. However understandable this instinct may be, it distorts a great deal of climate science research, misinforms the public, and most importantly, makes practical solutions more difficult to achieve…”

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I keep thinking the monolithic black American voting block is going to break up. I’ll believe it when I see it…

Democrats beware: These Black voters are fed up, and looking for a political home

“…Biden dropped the ball for me on inflation, so no I don’t think he’s doing a good job — not just because I don’t think he has the cognitive ability to do it effectively, but because he knows no one like us. And by that I mean middle-class America,” said Mr. Beatty, who is now a registered Independent…

…Mr. Beatty said it is insulting for Mr. Biden and the Democrats to keep saying how great the economy is. “Maybe for his friends. It is about the rich getting richer and putting us working class people against each other instead of looking at the real problem. The real problem is the rich people against poor people. It’s more classism than racism,” he said.

Mr. Beatty, who has earned multiple degrees and certificates in the trades, criminal justice and leadership, said the media tries to divide people on the basis of skin color…”

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Does it get better than this? Biden calling Newsom racist if he runs…

Biden Cronies Insinuate That It Would Be Racist for Gavin Newsom to Run for President

Race-obsessed buffoonery.

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Election season is coming up so Biden tries to bring back masks. He thinks he gains politically by doing this.

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We have an epidemic of mental disease where aberrant behavior is the new normal…

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Climate Reparations? Or how stupid are the woke green idiots?

Kenya Prez Wants $$ from Global Carbon Taxes. John Kerry Agrees

We live in the age of absurd stupidity.

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Democrat controlled Massachusetts brings up the guard to deal with the effects of Democrat border policies…

Massachusetts National Guard Activated Due to Migrant Crisis

The complications of being a woke Democrat.

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Determined to discriminate based on skin color…

“Colleges and universities across the country are scrambling to find legal means of maintaining the levels of diversity they would like to see.”

“…Though barred from actively using race as a factor, they will still ‘see’ race in signifiers such as name, ZIP code and, perhaps most notable, what students say about themselves in their essays. But this also means that this year’s class of high school seniors — the first to apply under the affirmative-action ban — must read the signals sent by colleges about how to articulate their case for admission correctly and effectively…”

That’s right, students applying to woke college must figure out how to surreptitiously use their skin color as a lever to gain advantage in a competitive application process. Just the right woke wording may do the trick.

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RFK Jr. on Covid vaccine…

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Uniparty Republicans become liberal media darlings…

“No Labels” Co-Chair Larry Hogan: 70 Percent Of The American People Don’t Want Trump Or Biden

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