"So, now it’s summer; people are broiling in the heat (or so the climate change gang assures us) and…no camp."
There you go again with puerile jabs on the climate. The ability of CO2 to trap infrared heat is a physical fact of nature and requires no "gang," just basic intelligence, like observing that H20 molecules boil at specific temperatures and pressures. Seeing news, like the globe's warmest average day in early July is another hint that Rush Limbaugh died a moron. The climate only became political when people saw extractive livelihoods under threat, so they spiked the topic with childish emotions.
A lot of us who despise leftist crime and gender-modification policies also hate the GOP's willful ignorance on global warming, always pretending Man can modify nature with no real consequences. Record fires have ravaged their own states, and now boreal forests in Canada are burning (never thinned before; lack of "management" isn't the problem, desiccation is).
Republicans would get our vote if they started respecting the laws of nature instead of commodifying every possible resource as a money-maker. Along with simple greed, that's often driven by archaic Creationist views on Man's place in nature. Rural people also don't feel population pressures like city folk, and think resources are somehow still plentiful (easily debunked by satellite maps).
You can be sure that former Republican Gov. Tom McCall would not make snarky comments about AGW. To be truly moral, the GOP should ditch EPA-haters just like Democrats should throw out cop-haters (same selfish people, different types of crimes).
It can be embarrassing to vault into the highest dudgeon when letting rip one’s passions. Indeed the contribution above could be termed jejeune as opposed to purile in the same way as Justice Jackson’s recent dissent in which she demonstrated her weak understanding of arithmetic and law when discussing black infant mortality and white doctors.
Though not one to laud Limbaugh overmuch, I too took 8th grade science class and understand something of climate science as well as climate politics. I do not believe a record setting overwarmth occurred the other day and I believe that people exist who took not only 9th grade science but post-graduate degrees in climate related sciences that would agree with my skepticism. Hysterical emotionality ill becomes adults as well as children and it reflects most poorly on the elders.
I cannot speak to the dryness of boreal forests but let the “management” of your emotional tenor and thought testify to credibility.
Urban talk about rural folk belie assertions of reason or fairness or common sense. Matter of fact, I think many people disturbed when alluding to the menace of creationist thinkers. I’m pushing 70 and am pretty thick with the Protestants and have missed isolated much less tidal currents of creationist’s agitating for property mismanagement.
I have never had an interest in creationism but I did read Gould for many a year. Consequently, one can understand my dismay when he was found to have gotten up to some monkey business with factual science. Part of that chicanery was inspired by proto or precursor racial justice activism pretending to be scientific proof. Alas.
Additionally, I believe that one can miss the conservative resistance to the arbitrary imposition of rules, fines, sequestrations, and seizures by unelected, extrajudicial administratrative potentates whether their action be governed by whim, case law, or ill-reasoned premises.
McCall would not make snarky comments. But, one’s suggestion as to his AGW position is suspect and similar to saying his prison reform efforts would embrace Kate Brown’s let ‘em all go approach or the no jail policy of contemporary Oregon Democrats.
I met Tom McCall a couple times and followed his life pretty closely. I think that neither he nor his mother would endorse the hysterical POV although young Sam would doubtless have welcomed its embrace.
I like your idea of the GOP ditching EPA-haters and the Democrats throwing out cop-haters. But both parties fall short when it comes to global warming.
Last month The New York Times’ Ezra Klein described how California hopes to become carbon neutral by 2045: “That means turning huge areas of land over to solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal systems. It means building the transmission lines to move that energy from where it’s made to where it’s needed. It means dotting the landscape with enough electric vehicle charging stations to make the state’s proposed ban on cars with internal combustion engines possible.”
Not surprisingly, about 100 environmental groups are opposed to all of that.
California Gov. Gavin Newsome told Klein, “People are losing trust and confidence in our ability to build big things. People look at me all the time and ask, ‘What the hell happened to the California of the ’50s and ’60s?’”
It sounds like the bureaucratic and political swamp that fighting drugs and homelessness has become.
Former Gov. Tom McCall was not above getting irreverent when he thought he was surrounded by fools.
I'm against industrial wind power as any sort of "environmental" solution because it ruins natural aesthetics and just doesn't work very well, always needing backup, built with fossil fuels it can't possibly replace at scale.
Solar has the same intermittency problems but they could do it a lot better by mandating it on far more roofs and parking lots, not just covering open space.
Nuclear power is really the intelligent option if it can get past stigmas (see Oregon's NuScale). Shutting down nuclear plants is a very impractical form of virtue-signaling.
Jul 20, 2023·edited Jul 20, 2023Liked by Pamela Fitzsimmons
I created and instructed classes for Oregon's DEQ about 25 years ago. Highly educated and lovely people on the whole. Their devoted advocacy was such that a Jehovah's Witness would blush, Boko Haram be ashamed, and a Barbary Pirate apologize.
Here’s a little tidbit from Brimm-Edwards and her actions on the school board. Can’t get fired for lying and scamming if you’re the “right” color apparently.
Jul 17, 2023·edited Jul 17, 2023Liked by Pamela Fitzsimmons
It's selfish of the great and the good who run the upper-crust Trinity Episcopal Cathedral not to put their landmark facilities to the same use as St. Peter and Paul Episcopal Church. Plus, the organ music at Trinity will bring the addled homeless much closer to God.
Another amazing but maddening article Richard. Thank you. If you haven’t check out “Future Portland”, the new iteration of The Portland Party supporting pragmatic candidates and policies.
I bet a lot of people feel like they’re making a real difference out there. Step back a wee bit and the benefits aren’t so clear. Step way back (as in you’re not hopelessly woke, you’re just an average Joe-blow citizen) and it’s apparent we’re driving ourselves right off the cliff, or down the toilet, or up Sh#+ creek - take your pick, but we aren’t fixing or solving anything!
"So, now it’s summer; people are broiling in the heat (or so the climate change gang assures us) and…no camp."
There you go again with puerile jabs on the climate. The ability of CO2 to trap infrared heat is a physical fact of nature and requires no "gang," just basic intelligence, like observing that H20 molecules boil at specific temperatures and pressures. Seeing news, like the globe's warmest average day in early July is another hint that Rush Limbaugh died a moron. The climate only became political when people saw extractive livelihoods under threat, so they spiked the topic with childish emotions.
A lot of us who despise leftist crime and gender-modification policies also hate the GOP's willful ignorance on global warming, always pretending Man can modify nature with no real consequences. Record fires have ravaged their own states, and now boreal forests in Canada are burning (never thinned before; lack of "management" isn't the problem, desiccation is).
Republicans would get our vote if they started respecting the laws of nature instead of commodifying every possible resource as a money-maker. Along with simple greed, that's often driven by archaic Creationist views on Man's place in nature. Rural people also don't feel population pressures like city folk, and think resources are somehow still plentiful (easily debunked by satellite maps).
You can be sure that former Republican Gov. Tom McCall would not make snarky comments about AGW. To be truly moral, the GOP should ditch EPA-haters just like Democrats should throw out cop-haters (same selfish people, different types of crimes).
https://twitter.com/ClimSciJournal/status/1679834118475993088
https://stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/stanford-president-resigns-over-manipulated-research-will-retract-at-least-3-papers/
Sod off swampy:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/18/german-woman-drags-climate-activist-by-hair-for-blocking-traffic/
Oh, heck why not - it's Standford again:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-law-refuses-comment-on-fate-of-dei-dean-who-helped-shout-down-judge/
It can be embarrassing to vault into the highest dudgeon when letting rip one’s passions. Indeed the contribution above could be termed jejeune as opposed to purile in the same way as Justice Jackson’s recent dissent in which she demonstrated her weak understanding of arithmetic and law when discussing black infant mortality and white doctors.
Though not one to laud Limbaugh overmuch, I too took 8th grade science class and understand something of climate science as well as climate politics. I do not believe a record setting overwarmth occurred the other day and I believe that people exist who took not only 9th grade science but post-graduate degrees in climate related sciences that would agree with my skepticism. Hysterical emotionality ill becomes adults as well as children and it reflects most poorly on the elders.
I cannot speak to the dryness of boreal forests but let the “management” of your emotional tenor and thought testify to credibility.
Urban talk about rural folk belie assertions of reason or fairness or common sense. Matter of fact, I think many people disturbed when alluding to the menace of creationist thinkers. I’m pushing 70 and am pretty thick with the Protestants and have missed isolated much less tidal currents of creationist’s agitating for property mismanagement.
I have never had an interest in creationism but I did read Gould for many a year. Consequently, one can understand my dismay when he was found to have gotten up to some monkey business with factual science. Part of that chicanery was inspired by proto or precursor racial justice activism pretending to be scientific proof. Alas.
Additionally, I believe that one can miss the conservative resistance to the arbitrary imposition of rules, fines, sequestrations, and seizures by unelected, extrajudicial administratrative potentates whether their action be governed by whim, case law, or ill-reasoned premises.
McCall would not make snarky comments. But, one’s suggestion as to his AGW position is suspect and similar to saying his prison reform efforts would embrace Kate Brown’s let ‘em all go approach or the no jail policy of contemporary Oregon Democrats.
I met Tom McCall a couple times and followed his life pretty closely. I think that neither he nor his mother would endorse the hysterical POV although young Sam would doubtless have welcomed its embrace.
I like your idea of the GOP ditching EPA-haters and the Democrats throwing out cop-haters. But both parties fall short when it comes to global warming.
Last month The New York Times’ Ezra Klein described how California hopes to become carbon neutral by 2045: “That means turning huge areas of land over to solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal systems. It means building the transmission lines to move that energy from where it’s made to where it’s needed. It means dotting the landscape with enough electric vehicle charging stations to make the state’s proposed ban on cars with internal combustion engines possible.”
Not surprisingly, about 100 environmental groups are opposed to all of that.
California Gov. Gavin Newsome told Klein, “People are losing trust and confidence in our ability to build big things. People look at me all the time and ask, ‘What the hell happened to the California of the ’50s and ’60s?’”
It sounds like the bureaucratic and political swamp that fighting drugs and homelessness has become.
Former Gov. Tom McCall was not above getting irreverent when he thought he was surrounded by fools.
I'm against industrial wind power as any sort of "environmental" solution because it ruins natural aesthetics and just doesn't work very well, always needing backup, built with fossil fuels it can't possibly replace at scale.
Solar has the same intermittency problems but they could do it a lot better by mandating it on far more roofs and parking lots, not just covering open space.
Nuclear power is really the intelligent option if it can get past stigmas (see Oregon's NuScale). Shutting down nuclear plants is a very impractical form of virtue-signaling.
I created and instructed classes for Oregon's DEQ about 25 years ago. Highly educated and lovely people on the whole. Their devoted advocacy was such that a Jehovah's Witness would blush, Boko Haram be ashamed, and a Barbary Pirate apologize.
Keep shining light on the dark deals.
Richard,
Here’s a little tidbit from Brimm-Edwards and her actions on the school board. Can’t get fired for lying and scamming if you’re the “right” color apparently.
https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2023/07/a-portland-principal-wanted-to-fire-a-well-liked-black-teacher-with-a-history-of-misconduct-but-the-school-board-said-no-will-it-set-a-precedent.html
And compared to Vega-Pederson Brimm Edwards is reasonable. What a mess.
Good thing you don’t believe in acronyms.
Otherwise, Straightaway Services would be the SS.
It's selfish of the great and the good who run the upper-crust Trinity Episcopal Cathedral not to put their landmark facilities to the same use as St. Peter and Paul Episcopal Church. Plus, the organ music at Trinity will bring the addled homeless much closer to God.
Another amazing but maddening article Richard. Thank you. If you haven’t check out “Future Portland”, the new iteration of The Portland Party supporting pragmatic candidates and policies.
https://futureportland.org/
I bet a lot of people feel like they’re making a real difference out there. Step back a wee bit and the benefits aren’t so clear. Step way back (as in you’re not hopelessly woke, you’re just an average Joe-blow citizen) and it’s apparent we’re driving ourselves right off the cliff, or down the toilet, or up Sh#+ creek - take your pick, but we aren’t fixing or solving anything!