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10,500 Steaks at 2020 Democrat Steak Fry Despite Their Meat Consumption Climate Change Concerns
AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall
HANNAH BLEAU21 Sep 20196,458
3:42
Democrat presidential candidates took part in the Polk County Democrats Steak Fry in Iowa Saturday, which featured thousands of sizzling steaks.
Their participation follows weeks of climate change alarmism from the presidential candidates, many of whom have signaled support for limiting beef consumption in order to combat what they say is a looming climate catastrophe.
According to reports, organizers were prepared to grill roughly 10,500 steaks plus 1,000 vegan burgers. Seventeen candidates attended the event, including:
AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall
HANNAH BLEAU21 Sep 20196,458
3:42
Democrat presidential candidates took part in the Polk County Democrats Steak Fry in Iowa Saturday, which featured thousands of sizzling steaks.
Their participation follows weeks of climate change alarmism from the presidential candidates, many of whom have signaled support for limiting beef consumption in order to combat what they say is a looming climate catastrophe.
According to reports, organizers were prepared to grill roughly 10,500 steaks plus 1,000 vegan burgers. Seventeen candidates attended the event, including:
- Joe Biden (D)
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
- Kamala Harris (D-CA)
- Cory Booker (D-NJ)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Michael Bennet (D-CO)
- Beto O’Rourke (D)
- Andrew Yang (D)
- Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D)
- Julián Castro (D)
- Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)
- Tim Ryan (D-OH)
- Tom Steyer (D)
- Joe Sestak (D)
- Steve Bullock (D)
- Marianne Williamson (D)
Sheriff Joe
DA
September 22, 2019
Canada’s global warming models threw out actual historical data and substituted models of what the temperature should have been
By Thomas Lifson
Environment Canada, led by Justin Trudeau-appointed Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, is all-in on the hypothesis that manmade global warming is an existential threat to humanity. It is so important to hand control of energy use to the government that mere actual, historical data that might raise doubt about the extent of purported warming over time must be thrown out and replaced by “models” of what the “scientists” think the historical temperature record must have been.
In other words, the computer models Canada uses to measure and project “global warming” are themselves based on other computer models. The expression “Garbage in / garbage out” refers to the vulnerability of all computer models to poor quality data used as the basis of their calculations. The raises the awkward question of the quality of the models used in place of actual historical data. And it raises the question of why this scrapping of actual data and substituting of guesses (aka, models) was not made clear from the outset.
We only know about this fundamental issue because of the efforts of an intrepid reporter in Ottawa, who digs through Canadian government documents. Lorrie Goldstein explains in the Toronto Sun:
Canadians already suspicious of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax are likely be even more suspicious given a report by Ottawa-based Blacklock’s Reporter that Environment Canada omitted a century’s worth of observed weather data in developing its computer models on the impacts of climate change.
The scrapping of all observed weather data from 1850 to 1949 was necessary, a spokesman for Environment Canada told Blacklock’s Reporter, after researchers concluded that historically, there weren’t enough weather stations to create a reliable data set for that 100-year period.
“The historical data is not observed historical data,” the spokesman said. “It is modelled historical data … 24 models from historical simulations spanning 1950 to 2005 were used.”
These computer simulations are part of the federal government’s ClimateData.ca website launched by Environment Minister Catherine McKenna on Aug. 15.
She described it as “an important next step in giving our decision-makers even greater access to important climate data for long-term planning. The more each of us uses this type of information, the more it will help.”
Blacklock’s Reporter notes that in many cases the data that were scrapped indicated higher temperatures in the past:
For example, Vancouver had a higher record temperature in 1910 (30.6C) than in 2017 (29.5C).
Toronto had a warmer summer in 1852 (32.2C) than in 2017 (31.7C).
The highest temperature in Moncton in 2017 was four degrees cooler than in 1906.
Brandon, Man., had 49 days where the average daily temperature was above 20C in 1936, compared to only 16 in 2017, with a high temperature of 43.3C that year compared to 34.3C in 2017.
Those of us who are castigated as “science deniers” for questioning the output of the models forecasting doom must point out that real scientists don’t hide or downplay the source of their data used as inputs, they are completely upfront and transparent.
James Delingpole of Breitbart points out that this sort of shenanigan is a tie-honored practice among the climate hysteria promoters.
McKenna’s Environment Canada is merely following the bad example set by several other institutional climate gatekeepers including NASA, NOAA, and the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia.
NOAA, for example, has frequently been caught adjusting past temperatures downwards and more recent temperatures upwards in order to make “global warming” look more dramatic.
During the Climategate scandal, scientists at the CRU admitted that they had thrown away much of their raw data, leaving only their revised data intact.
Their excuse was that it had been done to “save space”.
As the London Times reported:
Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.
The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.
Nobody was fired. And the scientists at CRU were subsequently rewarded with a visit from the Prince of Wales who pointedly congratulated them on their fine work.
If global warming is not a fraud, why do the promoters of it so often do the sorts of things that fraudsters do?
Sheriff Joe
DA
September 21, 2019
Trump gives California a big fat 'no' after state calls for more taxpayer cash to perpetrate homelessness
By Monica Showalter
To the blue-state satraps running homeless haven California, it was all supposed to be so easy. Shake the feds down for millions in the name of ending homelessness, or else yell loudly to the gullible media about the heartless Trump administration denying them funds. And once the funds rolled in, party hearty and fatten the bureaucracy.
They tried it one time too many, and this time, they got the mother of all smack-downs:
In a return letter signed by [Housing and Urban Development] Secretary [Ben] Carson, the Administration responded by pointing out that California "seeks federal dollars…from hardworking American taxpayers but fails to admit that your State and local policies have played a major role in the current crisis." Carson lists some of the state-based causes as being an "over-regulated housing market, its inefficient allocation of resources, and its policies that have weakened law enforcement."
Experts who spoke to ABC agree that "state and local policies...have led to the affordable housing shortage in California," while also admitting that simply spending more money "could take decades...to impact homelessness."
The dispute comes as President Trump has also threatened to hit California with environmental violations due to the pollution caused by the high rate of homelessness.
In other words, they wanted the feds to pay for the poverty they themselves created, and instead of getting it, they got called out. It recalls Thomas Sowell's old warning that you can have all the poverty you want to pay for, except in this case, they wanted other people to pay.
The details of the letter, explaining exactly the blue-state policies that are causing the problem and laying it at the feet of the state's leftist rulers, are frankly pretty amazing. Here's a screenshot of a couple of PDF files, with pink emphasis mine:
Carson laid it right out, citing that his letter was coming straight from President Trump: they've trashed the housing market for affordable housing through their greenie regulations, which incidentally drive the cost of housing vouchers sky-high, meaning fewer served even as the homeless population soars well above the national average. Worse still, they've shiftlessly failed to spend the veteran vouchers they have. They're still sitting there as illegals get coddled under California's first-in-line policies and homeless veterans get ignored.
They've undercut the cops in their cop-demonization policies and prevented cops from hauling mendicants off to places of actual housing, including those with mental illness problems. Worse still, they have emptied out their mental institutions, dumping the patients on the streets, where they become homeless. They've done little about drug addiction, which is a major driver of homelessness — their decriminalization policies have been a bonanza for drug-dealers and human-trafficking cartels bringing in illegals.
And speaking of illegals, their vast welcome mat of bennies offered to illegal aliens has made a massive number of them want to come to their state, chasing legal residents out, and taking up housing stock that could help the homeless.
Not a pretty picture, but persuasively and specifically argued. This isn't a case of political vindictiveness or payback from the Trump administration, but a tried and true, strongly supported intellectual and experiential argument that they can't argue with. They think it's just easy to yell for more funds no matter what they do.
Well, not anymore. The excellence of these arguments is worthy of the Wall Street Journal's or New York Post's or Issues & Insights's editorial pages. Someone laid it out for them instead of just telling them to go to heck. That makes it much harder for these blue-state panjandrums to carry on business as usual, expecting more money and just making the problems worse because of it.
Someone told them no. Someone gave these socialist drunks the intervention they needed.
Thanks, Ben Carson. Thanks, President Trump.
3%ers causing trouble for enlightened modelers.
September 22, 2019
Canada’s global warming models threw out actual historical data and substituted models of what the temperature should have been
By Thomas Lifson
Environment Canada, led by Justin Trudeau-appointed Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, is all-in on the hypothesis that manmade global warming is an existential threat to humanity. It is so important to hand control of energy use to the government that mere actual, historical data that might raise doubt about the extent of purported warming over time must be thrown out and replaced by “models” of what the “scientists” think the historical temperature record must have been.
In other words, the computer models Canada uses to measure and project “global warming” are themselves based on other computer models. The expression “Garbage in / garbage out” refers to the vulnerability of all computer models to poor quality data used as the basis of their calculations. The raises the awkward question of the quality of the models used in place of actual historical data. And it raises the question of why this scrapping of actual data and substituting of guesses (aka, models) was not made clear from the outset.
We only know about this fundamental issue because of the efforts of an intrepid reporter in Ottawa, who digs through Canadian government documents. Lorrie Goldstein explains in the Toronto Sun:
Canadians already suspicious of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax are likely be even more suspicious given a report by Ottawa-based Blacklock’s Reporter that Environment Canada omitted a century’s worth of observed weather data in developing its computer models on the impacts of climate change.
The scrapping of all observed weather data from 1850 to 1949 was necessary, a spokesman for Environment Canada told Blacklock’s Reporter, after researchers concluded that historically, there weren’t enough weather stations to create a reliable data set for that 100-year period.
“The historical data is not observed historical data,” the spokesman said. “It is modelled historical data … 24 models from historical simulations spanning 1950 to 2005 were used.”
These computer simulations are part of the federal government’s ClimateData.ca website launched by Environment Minister Catherine McKenna on Aug. 15.
She described it as “an important next step in giving our decision-makers even greater access to important climate data for long-term planning. The more each of us uses this type of information, the more it will help.”
Blacklock’s Reporter notes that in many cases the data that were scrapped indicated higher temperatures in the past:
For example, Vancouver had a higher record temperature in 1910 (30.6C) than in 2017 (29.5C).
Toronto had a warmer summer in 1852 (32.2C) than in 2017 (31.7C).
The highest temperature in Moncton in 2017 was four degrees cooler than in 1906.
Brandon, Man., had 49 days where the average daily temperature was above 20C in 1936, compared to only 16 in 2017, with a high temperature of 43.3C that year compared to 34.3C in 2017.
Those of us who are castigated as “science deniers” for questioning the output of the models forecasting doom must point out that real scientists don’t hide or downplay the source of their data used as inputs, they are completely upfront and transparent.
James Delingpole of Breitbart points out that this sort of shenanigan is a tie-honored practice among the climate hysteria promoters.
McKenna’s Environment Canada is merely following the bad example set by several other institutional climate gatekeepers including NASA, NOAA, and the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia.
NOAA, for example, has frequently been caught adjusting past temperatures downwards and more recent temperatures upwards in order to make “global warming” look more dramatic.
During the Climategate scandal, scientists at the CRU admitted that they had thrown away much of their raw data, leaving only their revised data intact.
Their excuse was that it had been done to “save space”.
As the London Times reported:
Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
The UEA’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was forced to reveal the loss following requests for the data under Freedom of Information legislation.
The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.
Nobody was fired. And the scientists at CRU were subsequently rewarded with a visit from the Prince of Wales who pointedly congratulated them on their fine work.
If global warming is not a fraud, why do the promoters of it so often do the sorts of things that fraudsters do?
Hüsker Dü
DA
San Fran is beautiful this morning!
Hüsker Dü
DA
The stuff you get off Twitter is cute.
I agree, but that wasnt off twitter.
Did you read the article, rat?
Bruddah IZ
DA
Wait for the wind direction to change.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Fracked t-shirts.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
San Francisco human feces map shows waste blanketing the California city
By Greg Norman | Fox News
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Watch where you step in San Francisco.
A new map pinpointing the locations where human feces are reported to have been found in the California city since 2011 shows San Francisco has a staggering problem with the stinky stuff.
Nearly every city block has had a poop sighting in recent years as the city grapples with homelessness, according to data compiled by Open The Books.
Not even the basking sea lions and aquatic life calling the Bay Area home have been spared. One report was pinpointed to Seal Rocks – a jagged formation surrounded by the ocean – and more waste was sighted in the waters off the popular Fisherman’s Wharf tourist area.
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The largest concentration of complaints was in the area of Market St., where the headquarters of companies such as Twitter and Uber are located. Nearly a hundred markers also were clustered along the block that surrounds city hall.
The details of the complaints that the San Francisco Department of Public Works has received are unclear, but data shows the number of sightings has increased dramatically since 2011. That year, 5,547 human feces incidents were reported. The number rose to 28,084 in 2018.
You're in a complete Fantasy World along with all of
the other cardboard crunching nuts....
Fossil Fuels are a mainstay of most City infrastructures
and if used PROPERLY they are much much cheaper
in the short term and long term than any of the crazy
ideas you nuts put forth.....
How about JUST repair the existing road infrastructure
so all the vehicles that travel them aren't destroyed
by the lack of repairs they have seen over the last few
decades.....California keeps siphoning off funds from
various " areas " to temporarily shore up the unsustainable
pension plans..in the next 2 - 5 years if not less the whole
pension obligation could COMPLETELY collapse....
Yes that is a fact !
California has more of it's pension money invested in
Chinese assets than they want to admit, they are on the
brink as I type this....No you won't hear this elsewhere,
but that is the TRUTH !
I've been saying this for as long as I've been posting on this
forum and it's only getting worse .....
The Christian Bale wanna be Gov Gavin Gruesome is throwing
what little ( and I mean Little ) reserve down the drain with all
of his Socialist give away programs ....
That will lead to only one thing here in California ...more and
more taxes in an attempt to SHORT TERM shore up the pension
plans....big money is leaving California in droves and the
California Govt knows it !
What do the 1 through 24 numbers on the bottom of the chart represent?
Hours of a day.
Why do they stop relaying info at 12?
Cute " Little " graphs....
Where's all the plastics/Glass/Aluminum going that was
being shipped to China from JUST California....?
When is the "Bay Area " ( Biomass ) fecal matter renewable
sources come on line....?
When is the State going to start using plastic mass in their
concrete full time....
It's noon.