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They Can't Keep The Lights On, But

Here's an idea: let's force everybody in California to drive only electric cars! Worry about the necessary infrastructure later; it'll probably all magically take care of itself. Every day after rush hour, when everybody's charging their cars and trucks, things should get even more interesting.

PG&E posted outage maps Wednesday to reflect locations around California that will see a deliberate power shutoff as early as 6 p.m. Wednesday afternoon with severe fire weather in the forecast. You can also look up your address on the PG&E website to determine if you will lose power.

If you consider about three people live in each household on average, the outage could impact up to 158,000 people.

 

 

Well, There She Goes Again...

Now she once again wants to dictate what you eat:

As a Bronx resident, there have been many times, it's almost a way of life, where it can be very difficult to get access to fresh and healthy foods. I remember one of the earliest times, like, one of the worst stories I have about this, was that I was very excited, to make, I think I was making gazpacho, or something like that, I looked at this recipe, I needed basil, and um, I was going home, and I get off the subway station, and I go into the grocery store and there's no basil, no fresh basil in the grocery store. so then I walked to another grocery store, two blocks down. No fresh basil! I was very stubborn about making this recipe that evening, and I must have been, walked around for an hour, in the neighborhood, visitng four or five grocery stores, and there was no basil, no fresh basil in any of them! And it just goes to show, it's very illustrative of the difficulties that we have in our comunities in accessing fresh produce, and even when we do, or are able to access some of that fresh produce, a lot of times it's on a styrofoam tray wrapped in plastic, um, or if you are able to access it it may have been sprayed with tons of pesticides or what have you, and it's almost as if to access the good stuff, you have to travel to affluent neighborhoods to do that.

Basil? Freakin' basil?

Here's the thing, dimwit:

Basil is easy to grow on a balcony, the porch or indoors next to the window. And home-grown basil is better than any store can stock. You can squeeze basil into small cubes and freeze them for later use, or simply dry some of your fresh crop. It's generally possible to harvest for several months from a single window-pot.

Fresh-cut basil is also extremely perishable, which is why your NYC bodegas (small convenience stores) don't stock it; it rots before it can be sold.

So Much For Mann-Made Global Warming

Climate researcher Michael Mann said last week that if President Donald Trump is reelected, it’s “game over for the climate.” It’s the same alarmism we’ve been hearing for decades, all of it empty. But the alarmists won’t stop telling us we’re about to set the sky on fire. Even if NASA has said record cold might be on the way.

The sun, it seems, has been powering down. “We see a cooling trend,” Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center said two years ago, a remark largely ignored but still relevant. “High above Earth’s surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold.”

For the record, global temperatures dropped from 2016 through late 2019. We don’t know about any unprecedented cooling in the last two years. But maybe the climatistas need to consider that solar activity affects our climate. The Little Ice Age, in which Europe and North America experienced brutally cold winters and mild summers, coincided with the Maunder (solar) Minimum of 1645 to 1720. They don’t want to deny science, do they?

This is unsurprising; of course the sun's activity impacts the climates of the surrounding planets in the solar system - only idiots would claim otherwise.

More Portland BS

While Portland is a renowned climate action leader, the extreme weather events of the recent past in Oregon and around the world have made it clear that more action – and more intensive action – is required to ensure that we curb carbon emissions now.

 

The Cimate! Shave The Planet!

When you thought it couldn't get any wackier...

Apparently, the supporters of the climate change hypothesis are jealous of the streaming service because they released something almost as funny as a comedian on Netflix. They are complaining that watching Netflix (or porn) releases CO2 into the atmosphere and causes Climate Change.

Per Maxime Efoui-Hess, which is associated with the French think tank The Shift Project: “Watching a half-hour show leads to emissions of up to 1.6 kilograms of carbon dioxide.” That’s the equivalent of driving 3.9 miles.

 

Moonbeam's At It Again

He still ain't dead yet, and his latest trope's a doozy: he's blaming Trump and Republicans in general for the California wildfires.

Apparently, there were no wildfires there when Barry posed as president....

Former California Governor Jerry Brown told Congress on Tuesday that President Donald Trump and the Republican Party were responsible for the ongoing California fires because of their opposition to drastic climate change policies.

In 2015 and in 2017, Brown also blamed climate change for wildfires in California, though scientists disagreed, calling Brown’s arguments an example of “noble-cause corruption.”

But while California's burning, here in Oregon I awoke yesterday at 7 a.m to freezing temperatures outdoors and winds of 45 mph, which made it feel considerably colder out there. It was 28 this morning, plus strong winds, although the winds have settled as of this afternoon. I could be wrong, but I believe that Trump is still president and the Senate still has a Republican majority. Oddly, we don't seem to have any wildfires here.

But your problems are always something or somebody else's fault: The Gospel According To Moonbeam.

 

 

Oh My, Californians

Californians who screech about climate change were furious after discovering that the expensive solar panels they installed on their rooftops don’t work during a blackout unless they buy an equally expensive battery system. Moreover, beginning in January 2020, California has made it mandatory for all new homes to be built with solar panels.

That mandate adds between $10,000 and $15,000 to the cost of a house (don't they know there's a "homeless crisis" there?)...Anyway:

In other words, installing solar panels to combat climate change is not only more expensive, but has proven to be ineffective in helping maintain power during a blackout. So what’s the point?

Fortunately, leftists believe that interpretive dance can combat climate change.

 

And in the middle of it all: Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has declared a jihad on farting cows, saying they’re to blame for climate change.

Note to the nut: cows rarely fart; they mostly belch.

 

 

We Only Have 12 Years!

WORLD—Climate experts have solemnly warned that we only have twelve years left until they change the dates on global warming again.

“If we don’t take action, then in 12 years we will have to explain why the world hasn’t ended and come up with a new number,” one UN scientist warned. “This is a very serious threat, and we urge everyone to hand control of the economy to the government immediately before we have no more time left to change the timeline again.”

I've been watching this moving target for 40 years or so and it's always just out of reach. It's a lot like the slot machines at a casino – the red 7’s are only off by one line, but one more pull and they will fall into place.

In the 1970s, they tried to scare you to death over "global cooling". When that failed, they switched it to "global warming". That didn't exactly take off, either. So today they're going with climate change. Anything to keep the grant money flowing.

They'll have to revert to global warming or global cooling in the coming years.

 

 

 

It's A Left-Coast Thing

(Natural News) As illegal aliens and wealthy foreigners continue to flood their way into California, driving the state to the point of reaching maximum capacity, some lawmakers there are proposing a “solution” that would effectively eliminate all single-family zoning – meaning no more detached housing for Californians, and plenty of high-density apartments and condominiums instead.

Oregon's legislators are proposing the same thing, and I understand they're considering it in Washington as well. It seems unlikely that illegal aliens have much to do with the trend, however; in the Portland area, they mostly head to outlying towns such as Woodburn and Hillsboro. It's more likely related to our Democrat politicians' desire to feel good about themselves - they hate cars, so they constantly prattle about creating "walkable" environments. This involves stacking people into lab-rat cages. In Portland, they've even passed a rule that allows developers to build multi-story lab-cages with zero vehicle parking. But the cages have their very own bike racks.

That's the plan: you either bike, walk, or take public transit to get from point A to point B and back to your cage.

For more related news about this leftist push towards high-density “smart” living, the endgame of which will mean that Americans no longer have a right to property ownership, be sure to check out Agenda21.news.

"Considered unsustainable under this plan: middle class lifestyle, single family homes, private vehicles, meat-eating, air conditioning, appliances, dams, farming, etc."

And the Lefties are jumping aboard. Want a bit of a yard, or just some privacy? Tough.

 

 

Oregon Drivers Beware

Portland - and Oregon's so-called "leaders" hate you. We're not talking mere disagreement here; they really hate you.

The City Council approved the appointment of an advisory group to help the Portland Bureau of Transportation develop a plan to charge motorists to drive on some streets and bridges to reduce congestion and greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday, July 10.

Why have a "Bureau of Transportation" if they need an "advisory group" of car-haters? The purpose of the "advisory group" is supposedly to discourage driving. But the real purpose is to add more taxes in order to force modification of your behavior to conform to what these really fart smellers have decided must be done in order to Save The Planet™. The plan is to simply raid your wallet even more, rather than to achieve anything that might even remotely impact the global climates. But it makes them feel righteous, which is all that matters.

Of course, the fleets of government vehicles would be exempt. What a surprise!

As for the state itself:

State government is once again supplying just what residents have come to expect from state programs devised to make Oregon green: failure.

Might be time for government (Democratics) to just leave people alone, for a change.