Do you ever think before you post......
Take a break, your " New " semester is coming up.....
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Do you ever think before you post......
Take a break, your " New " semester is coming up.....
You can cite a source for your proclamation regarding these major universities....?
Way to step up for the idiots that need a say.
Sheriff Joe
DA
JANUARY 6, 2019
California's El nino storms: worse than wildfires?
By Chriss Street
California is being slammed by an El Niño storm train packing heavy rains and mountain snow that could generate massive flooding that could be more dangerous than wildfires.
Like rail freight cars slowly moving down a track at increasing speed, AccuWeather is forecasting that over five days, California will receive two to five-inch rainfall across lowlands and at least three feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
California suffered about 9,000 fires wildfires in 2017 and in 2018, which was somewhat below the state’s average. But the 1.5 million acres and 10,000 structures that were destroyed each year was substantially above prior periods. With a record $14 billion of California wildfire insurance losses recorded in 2017, catastrophe modeler Risk Management Solutions estimates 2018 wildfire insurance losses of another $13 billion.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting a 90 percent chance of an El Niño cyclical condition this Winter and 60 percent risk for Spring. Known for torrential rains and mass flooding, a 2016 January and February El Niño storm train, destroyed 22,500 structures and caused the worst beach erosion in 145 years.
California uses disinformation and every sleight-of-hand trick to justify drastically underfunding infrastructure spending to prevent a state insolvency. Despite horrific El Nino flooding in 2016, it is still California state policy that climate-change models unanimously project a growing risk of “mega-droughts” lasting for decades.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) awards California its booby prize as the worst state in the nation with $65 billion infrastructure investment deficit involving dams, waterways, airports, roads, bridges, seaports, and tunnel maintenance.
Despite ASCE’s “Infrastructure Report Card” awarding a “D” grade in 2013 for levees and flood control as California’s most neglected sector, the state failed to raise spending on dams. California did convince voters in 2014 to approve a $7.5 billion water bond that was advertised as funding five major dams. But this writer warned that Prop 1 was a “bait and switch” ruse to siphon off 75 percent of the proceeds for fish ecosystems.
When a similar El Nino storm train slammed into California in early 2017 and washed-away the 800-foot high Oroville Dam spillway, 220,000 people had to evacuate over the risk of imminent death from the collapse of America’s largest earthen dam. The 584-page Federal analysis of the near disaster found the state’s 1960s structure was poorly designed and that public risks were “exacerbated by inadequate repairs”
A Pacific Ocean high pressure ridge delayed the storm train from coming on shore, but AccuWeather is now warning that damage in Northern California from the low pressure storm system will be magnified by strong winds with frequent 40-60 mph gusts. As the storm saturates the ground, surging winds could increase risk of broad power outages.
California has been able to transfer much of the costs from its failure to build infrastructure onto American taxpayers by convincing presidents to declare damage the result of reimbursable national disasters. But President Trump threatened in November, at the height of the latest wildfires, to pull billions of dollars of federal payments if nothing is done by California to "remedy" the “gross mismanagement of the forests.”
Although the President eventually relented and declared California wildfires a national disaster, Trump shined a light on the fact that the federal government provides about 36 percent of State of all California spending, or over $100 billion in 2018.
California's El nino storms: worse than wildfires?
By Chriss Street
California is being slammed by an El Niño storm train packing heavy rains and mountain snow that could generate massive flooding that could be more dangerous than wildfires.
Like rail freight cars slowly moving down a track at increasing speed, AccuWeather is forecasting that over five days, California will receive two to five-inch rainfall across lowlands and at least three feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
California suffered about 9,000 fires wildfires in 2017 and in 2018, which was somewhat below the state’s average. But the 1.5 million acres and 10,000 structures that were destroyed each year was substantially above prior periods. With a record $14 billion of California wildfire insurance losses recorded in 2017, catastrophe modeler Risk Management Solutions estimates 2018 wildfire insurance losses of another $13 billion.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting a 90 percent chance of an El Niño cyclical condition this Winter and 60 percent risk for Spring. Known for torrential rains and mass flooding, a 2016 January and February El Niño storm train, destroyed 22,500 structures and caused the worst beach erosion in 145 years.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) awards California its booby prize as the worst state in the nation with $65 billion infrastructure investment deficit involving dams, waterways, airports, roads, bridges, seaports, and tunnel maintenance.
Despite ASCE’s “Infrastructure Report Card” awarding a “D” grade in 2013 for levees and flood control as California’s most neglected sector, the state failed to raise spending on dams. California did convince voters in 2014 to approve a $7.5 billion water bond that was advertised as funding five major dams. But this writer warned that Prop 1 was a “bait and switch” ruse to siphon off 75 percent of the proceeds for fish ecosystems.
When a similar El Nino storm train slammed into California in early 2017 and washed-away the 800-foot high Oroville Dam spillway, 220,000 people had to evacuate over the risk of imminent death from the collapse of America’s largest earthen dam. The 584-page Federal analysis of the near disaster found the state’s 1960s structure was poorly designed and that public risks were “exacerbated by inadequate repairs”
A Pacific Ocean high pressure ridge delayed the storm train from coming on shore, but AccuWeather is now warning that damage in Northern California from the low pressure storm system will be magnified by strong winds with frequent 40-60 mph gusts. As the storm saturates the ground, surging winds could increase risk of broad power outages.
California has been able to transfer much of the costs from its failure to build infrastructure onto American taxpayers by convincing presidents to declare damage the result of reimbursable national disasters. But President Trump threatened in November, at the height of the latest wildfires, to pull billions of dollars of federal payments if nothing is done by California to "remedy" the “gross mismanagement of the forests.”
Although the President eventually relented and declared California wildfires a national disaster, Trump shined a light on the fact that the federal government provides about 36 percent of State of all California spending, or over $100 billion in 2018.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Why Climate Change Isn't Science
DANIEL G. JONES
There must be a nonscientific reason for the "climate change" agenda.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/why_climate_change_isnt_science.html
DANIEL G. JONES
There must be a nonscientific reason for the "climate change" agenda.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/why_climate_change_isnt_science.html
Hüsker Dü
DA
You need all the help you can get.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Except all the money is on the side of the deniers. It’s called energy companies. Your idiocy about financial matters is truly a wondrous sight to behold.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Kek!
Sheriff Joe
DA
Climate Change, Racial Justice and Some Inconvenient Truths
Posted at 9:36 am on January 13, 2019 by davenj1
(AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Back in December, the Democratic darling du jour- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez- in reference to her vaunted Green New Deal pie-in-the-sky said it was the next way to “establish economic, social, and racial justice in the United States of America.” Thenjiwe Harris of the Movement for Black Lives at the “People’s Climate March” in January 2018 had this observation: “There is no climate justice without racial justice.” As early as 2016, Greenpeace declared “Racial and environmental justice are fundamentally linked.” These are great tag lines and slogans to link climate change to another thing near and dear to the wealth redistribution purveyors- racial justice.
However, this view runs into a brick wall when certain facts enter the equation. Let us, for the sake of argument, assume that climate change is real and that it is manmade. Mankind consists NOT just of the corporate white capitalists who seem to the bear the brunt of the Left’s rhetoric when it comes to climate change. Targeting the West (the developed world) will accomplish nothing IF their real concern is climate change.
For example, in 2012 (and it has gotten worse since) China’s carbon emissions exceeded those of the United States AND the European Union combined! The bulk of China’s energy needs comes from coal. When they are not developing coal power plants domestically, they are building them throughout Africa. When you throw in two other growing countries in terms of both population and their economies- Vietnam and India- the problem is made even worse.
By 2015, it was estimated by the Center for Global Development that 63% of the world’s carbon emissions were caused by non-developed nations, all of whom are non-white and many of whom are not capitalist. That percentage is likely to increase in the coming decades. State-driven industrialization- NOT white corporate capitalism- is driving the increase in carbon emissions. It is not just carbon emissions, but pollution in general. The World Economic Forum has determined that 90% of the plastic in the ocean originates in just ten rivers- eight in Asia and two in Africa- both hardly bastions of white capitalism.
Climate Change, Racial Justice and Some Inconvenient Truths
Posted at 9:36 am on January 13, 2019 by davenj1
(AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Back in December, the Democratic darling du jour- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez- in reference to her vaunted Green New Deal pie-in-the-sky said it was the next way to “establish economic, social, and racial justice in the United States of America.” Thenjiwe Harris of the Movement for Black Lives at the “People’s Climate March” in January 2018 had this observation: “There is no climate justice without racial justice.” As early as 2016, Greenpeace declared “Racial and environmental justice are fundamentally linked.” These are great tag lines and slogans to link climate change to another thing near and dear to the wealth redistribution purveyors- racial justice.
However, this view runs into a brick wall when certain facts enter the equation. Let us, for the sake of argument, assume that climate change is real and that it is manmade. Mankind consists NOT just of the corporate white capitalists who seem to the bear the brunt of the Left’s rhetoric when it comes to climate change. Targeting the West (the developed world) will accomplish nothing IF their real concern is climate change.
For example, in 2012 (and it has gotten worse since) China’s carbon emissions exceeded those of the United States AND the European Union combined! The bulk of China’s energy needs comes from coal. When they are not developing coal power plants domestically, they are building them throughout Africa. When you throw in two other growing countries in terms of both population and their economies- Vietnam and India- the problem is made even worse.
By 2015, it was estimated by the Center for Global Development that 63% of the world’s carbon emissions were caused by non-developed nations, all of whom are non-white and many of whom are not capitalist. That percentage is likely to increase in the coming decades. State-driven industrialization- NOT white corporate capitalism- is driving the increase in carbon emissions. It is not just carbon emissions, but pollution in general. The World Economic Forum has determined that 90% of the plastic in the ocean originates in just ten rivers- eight in Asia and two in Africa- both hardly bastions of white capitalism.
Do you agree with the implication of this article that carbon emissions are the primary cause of global climate change?
You're busy erasing all doubt...atta boy.
Sheriff Joe
DA
That is not what it said, but no I do not.
So what was this for then?
"For example, in 2012 (and it has gotten worse since) China’s carbon emissions exceeded those of the United States AND the European Union combined!"
And if you don't agree with the article, why did you post it without criticism?
Sheriff Joe
DA
All it says is that China's carbon emissions exceed the us and Europe and it has gotten worse. Doesn't say that climate change is.
Since you find no reason to post the article, why did you do it? Did your twitter puppet-master tell you it would make you look smarter than Izzy?
That's really funny.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Izzy likes people that are smarter than he is. Can’t you tell?
Sheriff Joe
DA
Who is this?