Real Climate Science

I filmed this Sunday afternoon driving east on I-70 from the Colorado ski areas, on a day when the traffic normally would have been bumper to bumper. Colorado has achieved spectacular carbon emission reduction, by laying off only half of the workforce.

Democrats don’t want to help Americans, until jets stop emitting so much CO2.

CONGRESS: Democrats want climate action included in coronavirus aid — Thursday, March 19, 2020 — www.eenews.net

Italy has had 3,400 COVID-19 deaths. They average nearly 23,000 flu deaths per year.

Investigating the impact of influenza on excess mortality in all ages in Italy during recent seasons (2013/14–2016/17 seasons) – ScienceDirect

Flu typically rises exponentially, and then drops off nearly as fast once everyone is exposed, or the behavior of the virus changes due to weather, etc.  This time, government will claim it was their draconian actions which caused it to fall.

Spanish flu – Wikipedia

That pattern is also what happened in South Korea and China with COVID-19.

South Korea Coronavirus: 8,652 Cases and 94 Deaths – Worldometer

South Korea has had less than 100 deaths. China has had about 4,000 deaths. How does that get extrapolated to a death rate of 3%, or millions of deaths in the US?

France has banned cycling.  This is about control, not public health.

Ohio unemployment claims soar after Gov. Mike DeWine closes businesses due to coronavirus – cleveland.com

On this date in 1936, much of the Eastern US was underwater. My grandfather was evacuated from a meeting in downtown Pittsburgh by boat.

20 Mar 1936 – ALL EASTERN AMERICA UNDER FLOOD WATERS 

19 Mar 1936, Page 1 – The Plain Speaker at Newspapers.com

This came after a record cold February, and before the hottest summer in US history.

Wayback Machine

The Bulletin – Google News Archive Search

Wayback Machine

April of 1936 also brought one of the worst tornado outbreaks in US history.

11 Apr 1936, Page 1 – Weekly Town Talk

Yesterday afternoon the mayor of Phoenix announced that all restaurants will close at 8PM that evening, so I drove to my old hangout in Tempe (The Chuckbox) and had dinner.  While I was there, I was talking on the phone to my one surviving friend from college. She is too afraid to leave the house, and suggested that I visit her daughter who worked at one of Scottsdale’s most popular restaurants – OSHO. I got to OSHO at 8:05 and her daughter told me that she had just been laid off, and that the restaurant was closing its doors.

Many people have this fantasy that life will return to normal in a few weeks, but the amount of damage being done to our society and the economy is much larger than most people seem to understand. We no longer have any guarantees of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” – which is supposed to be the basis of our government,