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On election night 2016 Frank Luntz announced Hillary’s victory.

Frank Luntz on Twitter

Now he is back making up incomprehensibly clueless statistics about COVID deaths.

9:00 AM · Feb 3, 2022

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United States COVID – Coronavirus Statistics – Worldometer

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
– H. L. Mencken

The real story behind Boris Johnson’s disastrously poor judgement.

The Winter Olympics are being held in a place which normally receives no precipitation during the winter, and as predicted USA Today is blaming the lack of snow on global warming.

Zhangjiakou and Yanqing climate – Google Search

Winter Olympians face climate change as snow takes center stage

USA Today is also complaining about how cold it is.

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According to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, earth has warmed 1.21C since the 1970s.

Global temperature trend monitor

Satellites show very little warming during that period.

UAH Global Temperature Update for January, 2022: +0.03 deg. C. « Roy Spencer, PhD

Earth is a terrifying 0.1C above the 1979-2000 average.

Climate Reanalyzer

Sea ice extent at both poles is just below average since the 1970s.

OSI-420 | osisaf-hl.met.no

Michael Mann believes that Senator John Kennedy’s support of Nigerian doctors makes him a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

5:06 PM · Feb 2, 2022

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He also believes Florida is run by Nazis.

8:35 AM · Feb 1, 2022

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“some ponderosa pine stands now have well over 2000 stems/acre, in contrast to 120 years ago when only about 50 stems/acres were present.”

Where Have All the Grasslands Gone?” (part 4 of 5)

“Fire suppression during this century has promoted conditions that today threaten New Mexico’s forests with increasingly large, intense, and uncontrollable crown fires. The past 20 years have been unusually wet in our region, but true drought conditions (like the 1950s) will certainly recur unless global climate has indeed changed recently. The Dome and Hondo Fires that took place after the dry winter of 1996 are just a small foreshadowing of the potential for enormous and unnaturally intense wildfires to burn through our overcrowded forests and woodlands when multi-year drought returns. Such large crown fires will have many undesirable ecological and social effects, from degradation of habitats for endangered species to downstream flooding of human settlements.”

Where Have All the Grasslands Gone?” (part 5 of 5)

Fires were much more common prior to the 20th century, when they burned frequently. But fire suppression has caused a huge buildup of fuel which leads to larger fires. The worst fire year was 1748.

“Fig. 9-13. A cross-scale comparison of the largest regional fire year in the Southwest during the past 400 years: 1748. The synchrony of the 1748 fire year among fire-scarred trees at the smallest spatial scale (a forest stand) is shown in the bottom panel. Patterns of synchrony, which are a measure of relative areal extent, are then illustrated at higher levels of aggregation (larger scales, coarser grain size) up through the watershed, mountain range, and finally the regional level (uppermost panel).”

LUHNA Chapter 9: Landscape Changes in the Southwestern United States: Techniques, Long-term Data Sets, and Trends

During early May, 1890 there were fires “everywhere” in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

08 May 1890, 6 – Minneapolis Messenger at Newspapers.com

This week in 1890, there were large fires on both sides of the Rio Grande in Colorado and New Mexico.

21 Jun 1890, Page 6 – San Francisco Chronicle at Newspapers.com

Spokane Falls Daily Chronicle – Google News Archive Search

The burn area from the 1890 fires in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains north of Santa Fe are now some of the largest and most spectacular Aspen forests anywhere.

The White House is one of the leading sources of social media misinformation, and they call for more censorship of misinformation on social media.

White House urges Spotify to take further action on Joe Rogan: ‘More can be done’ | The Independent

29 Nov 1929 – DROUGHT CONDITIONS – Trove