BS Meter

Mayor Peter Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana has announced his candidacy for the US presidency ... see: AP Story. A center plank in his platform joins many of his fellow announced candidates — climate change is our biggest security challenge.

Apparently Americans are supposedly waking up to this existential threat ... as determined by recent pedagogical polling ... see: Yale Study.

So am I convinced yet? Do I think that extreme weather events are increasing and will soon consume us? No, kind reader, I have been around too long and have a historic perspective ... and can search the Internet for the actual facts on hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and other extreme weather events. You, kind reader can duplicate these efforts to test the many hysterical news stories we are being fed on a daily basis.

Witness tornadoes in the US ... which we have been told are increasing dramatically. As you can view above, this is another non-fact ... like so many of the fabricated facts supposedly validating global warming: dying polar bears, melting Greenland glaciers, more severe hurricanes than times past (see: NOAA Study), California droughts and flooding, etc.

Kind readers, every time you hear another validating claim about the 12 years that we only have left ... your BS meter should read red. Go to Google (better DuckDuckGo) and do your own research ... like mine above. (Avoid Snopes and FactCheck.) And then I doubt you will vote for Mayor Peter or the rest of the climate alarmists.

Headlines

Golden Globe speech sets off Oprah 2020 talk

NBC: Oprah our next president ...

Buffet's Berkshire stands to gain $37 billion windfall from tax plan

Ratings down for all four NFL playoff games

Trump to end protected status for Salvadorans

Obamas criticized for lavish libtary plans ...

Starting Jan. 22, some may need a passport for domestic air travel

Pope: Global warming 'consequence of human activity'

Trump delays fake news awards

Romney treated for cancer over summer ...

Hurricanes, wildfires cost $300 billion in 2017, setting record

Report: 10% of Amazon employees in Ohio on food stamps

A Few Observations

- Global-warming alarmists point to our recent hurricanes as evidence of their religion ... saying that warmer waters makes for more powerful storms. However, there is another factor that seems to be neglected ... the speed of such hurricanes over water. Both hurricanes Irma and Maria were very slow moving and thus could pick up more energy independent of the actual water temperature. Hurricane Nate is fast moving and would seem to be far less dangerous.

- Why was Harvey Weinstein finally outed after decades of his well-known boorish behavior? Malia Obama has been an intern of his for some months and she has been seen recently bundled up in a parka when around Weinstein (a well-known local protection against his groping hands). Perhaps Harvey had earlier made a move on Obama's number one ... and the NYT is in payback mode?

- The Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock, owned several airplanes and was a licensed pilot. He could have loaded up one of his planes with ammonium nitrate and flown it into the same crowd he shot up (it was right near the Las Vegas airport) ... and killed multiples more country-music fans than he did.

- The U.S.stock market is currently extended and overbought. Just about everyone expects at least a 10% correction ... but we don't know when. I believe that all stocks will suffer then ... but the ones which will be most punished will be the high multiple tech stocks typified by the FANG group (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google). Staying with multinational companies with price-earnings multiples below 15 and dividend yields above 3% should offer a modicum of safety. And don't forget that, after the bloodbath, to be a buyer.

Headlines

All these headlines have been collected from Internetnews sites. Can you guess which ones came from Politico?

Trump in tweet: Portland attack 'unacceptable'

Leftist media outlet attacks Matines on Memorial Day for 'toxic masculinity'

Macron and Putin agree on restart of Ukraine talks

NYT: Talaban killing Islamic scholars to silence criticism

Goldman Sachs lowers forecast for oil prices in 2017

Silicon Valley elites continue to push for Universal Basic Income

Exclusive: Trump set to roll back Obama's Cuba policies

Trump's budget plan lands with a thud in Middle America

 McCain says Russia bigger threat than ISIS

Venezuelan opposition accuses Goldman Sachs of financing dictatorship

Memorial weekend [movie] boxoffice falls to lowest in 19 years ...

NOAA: Above normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely this year

Change

The United States has had only one glancing blow from a hurricane in the last eleven years ... and now we learn that the number of tornadoes are also down here for the fifth year in a row ... see: Climate Depot Story. Yikes! This can't be! Climate change is supposed to be bad! It is a goblin that is forcing us to hide under our beds in trembling trepidation of extremes of all sorts that will kill polar bears and traumatize snail darters. But we are now learning that some of this naturally-occurring change can be good. This is bad! It has to be bad to be good! Legions of fake scientists buy their timeshares in Hawaii or their new Porsche 911s by ringing the alarm bells every government-grant cycle about the next climate catastrophe that is about to occur. If we don't have more catastrophes how will they survive?

Isn't it ironic that President Obummer who rode in office eight years ago under the banner of "change" could then spend billions of taxpayer dollars fighting the bugbear "climate change" ... which anyone with a room temperature IQ realizes is what Mother Nature has been doing for eons ... all to keep us on our toes. Yet, without even trying, Obummer was in office when this good climate change happened. He must be Devine.

If you are compelled to read more about what Obummer changed and didn't change during his plutocratic romp at the White House, read Peter Baker's thoughts on the subject in the New York Times  Opinion Piece. He gets it about half right.

Breaking Wind

This Sunday’s New York Times magazine section had an Acrostic puzzle which, when solved, had a quote from David Mamet about how the weather strangely often follows the moods of man.  This fits nicely into what I was thinking about writing in today’s blog … hurricanes and global warming.

Just this past late May, NOAA predicted that the United States could have a very active hurricane season with 7 to 11 named hurricanes and with 3 to 6 being of the major category … see: NOAA News Story.  This then would be further justification for the global-warming alarmists … such as our chief climatologist in the White House.

Now we are almost through August and these dire predictions, once again, have proven to be a fart in a wind storm.  There have, so far, been no Atlantic-based hurricanes making 2013 one of the slowest starts of the hurricane season on record … see: Wordpress Story.  (Pay no attention to the chart there listing hurricanes by President … it is meaningless since it doesn’t account for the number of their terms.)

Yes, hurricane season is not over until November, so there is still time for this pessimism to come true.  Accuweather, a site I respect, predicts that things might still get dicey … see: Accuweather Story.  But if weathermen (not including Bill Ayers) can’t accurately forecast how things will develop in just the coming months, how are they going to nail how things will be over the next decade or two?