The EPA creates the appearance of an increase in burn acreage in the US, by hiding all of the inconvenient data from before 1983.
Climate Change Indicators: Wildfires | US EPA
The EPA creates the appearance of an increase in burn acreage in the US, by hiding all of the inconvenient data from before 1983.
Climate Change Indicators: Wildfires | US EPA
I am confident that the researcher at “Logically Facts” will not be able to find the time or have the inclination to look at the glaringly cherry picked and misleading EPA data Tony has exposed here. Anyone who quotes John Cook is not interested in facts.
I particularly like the graph that shows “Full Data Set” and “EPA Data Set”. Again, as always, how to get this to more people? Our problem is we are spinning around in our own echo chamber. We need to find ways to punch holes in it. One way is to repost to our own private echo chamber, which probably is different than this website. It can be your friends on Facebook or followers on Twitter, or make a copy a take it to your weekly meeting at the local coffee shop. I know everyone just rolls their eyes when I say this, but we need to be doing something other than sitting here up to our necks in mud and making cracks about how dumb the dummies are.
While I’m at it. How do we help the conservatives take more control during the next cycle? I’ve been trying to come up with cost-effective ways. My latest idea, being in California, which we aren’t going to win anyway, with caveats, is donate money to the tightest Senate and Hose races. Try to figure out which those are! You would think that the Republicans would have a web page that says here are the tightest races where we might win a seat or lose a seat by a few votes. If such a site exists, then it appears to be being blocked. The only lists I have found so far are CNN and the NY Times. Oh boy, we really want to rely on those lists.
My next refinement was donate to tight congressional races in swing states. This might have a double bang, of boosting Trump and securing an important seat. Folks, we aren’t going to get a landslide. We need to start viewing ourselves as Le Pen in France : We win by bits and pieces and we may be struggling at this for the rest of our lives, so grid up thy loins.
Some close races in swing states:
Senate Races: David McCormick, Pennslyvania/ Kari Lake , Arizona/ Sam Brown Nevada.
Some close House races:
David Schweikert, /Arizona-maybe a triple whammie helping both Kari Lake and Trump by helping him.
Juan Ciscomani, Arizona, ditto above
John Duarte, CAL (not a swing state but he won last time by only 500 votes).
Ryan MacKenzie, Penn, trying to turn a Democrat seat to an R
Robert Bresnahan, Penn, ditto above, but in a district where Trump won, but the seat went D. So basically just needs to get the voters who voted for Trump to also vote for him.
Lastly, I don’t know how good this is, but I donated to “Turning Point PAC” a group seeking to increase conservatism among young people.
Finally, it would be nice if the Heritage Foundation or the Republican Party made a list of critical seats for us, and not rely on me.
Conrad,
You nailed it. We are a tiny little echo chamber, seen by almost none but the most radical of fake “fact checkers” who falsely paint Tony as a propagandist.
Thank you for the suggestions, and that list.
Z, you have some good ideas there. I hate to be a party pooper…but… Republicans have let us down almost as often as the Commycrats. you can count on one hand how many are fighters. Trump, Gaetz, Green, Boebert, Paul….. after that I’m stumped. doesn’t bode well. but on the bright side even Harris is admitting the left’s ideas are awful. oh she hasn’t said that, but she sure seems to be running away from a lot of it… at least till November 5th.
+1
to borrow Big D’s line…. nothing says glaringly cherry picked like the fire numbers. if they would show the whole graph you would see it’s dropped by 80%. take Minnesota for example we had two fires one called the Hinckley fire and one called the Cloquet fire that burned for miles and killed hundreds of people 100 years ago. that doesn’t happen anymore, although far northeastern Minnesota does get a big wildfire every 10 years or so, where nobody lives and almost always caused by lightning. never caused by a hot day.