Monthly Archives: June 2022

By focusing only on ‘resilience,’ Florida’s governor ignores climate change’s deadly heat – Florida Phoenix

Our climate research team expanded to seven this morning. Photo of Kirye taken by @KiryeNet

Nothing in this executive order has anything to do with reality. Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad | The White House

“The midwestern Corn Belt — which roughly covers parts of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas — will be “unsuitable” for cultivating corn by 2100 if climate change continues on its current trajectory, a new study finds.” Climate change … Continue reading →

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H.L. Mencken South Australia ends their … Continue reading →

How the German National Socialists dealt with dissent. “HITLER FIRING SQUAD ACTIVE ALL DAY; FATE OF HUNDREDS STILL UNCERTAIN; HINDENBURG PUBLICLY HAILS ‘VICTORY’ PRESIDENT BACKS HITLER Decision Is Held to Have Been Made Because of Fear of Chaos. Civil officials … Continue reading →

“The New York Times FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1934 DROUGHT HASTENS ABOUT-FACE BY AAA ON CURBING CROPS. Tugwell Says Farm Policy Can Be One of Expansion as Well as One of Restriction. WORLD WHEAT PACT IS DIM, That Grain Passes Dollar … Continue reading →

“A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FLOODS AND DROUGHT. BY J. M. GUINN. {Read March 4, 1889.) After the deluge, what? The drought. It began in the fall of 1862, and lasted to the winter of 1864-65. The rainfall for the season … Continue reading →

“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue” – Richard Horton   Lancet Editor