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Hurricane Algore

by coldwarrior ( 102 Comments › )
Filed under meteorology, Open thread at August 25th, 2017 - 5:42 am

First, to our Texas contingent, please be safe.

Second, as one can see, first there is no relationship between overall hurricane severity, frequency and ‘global warming’. America has gone 12 years without a hurricane hitting our shores. TWELVE YEARS! let’s see what the predictive genius  Manbearpig has to say in 2005:

… the science is extremely clear now, that warmer oceans make the average hurricane stronger, not only makes the winds stronger, but dramatically increases the moisture from the oceans evaporating into the storm – thus magnifying its destructive power – makes the duration, as well as the intensity of the hurricane, stronger.

Last year we had a lot of hurricanes. Last year, Japan set an all-time record for typhoons: ten, the previous record was seven. Last year the science textbooks had to be re-written. They said, “It’s impossible to have a hurricane in the south Atlantic.” We had the first one last year, in Brazil. We had an all-time record last year for tornadoes in the United States, 1,717 – largely because hurricanes spawned tornadoes.

Fact of the matter is that  total global tropical cyclone accumulated energy (ACE) was found to have fallen by half to the lowest level since 1977.

Either there is no ‘global warming’ or Algore and his socialist minions are full of shit, or both. I pick both.

Third, watch this be the most political meteorological event since Katrina.

Fourth, I do have a grudging respect for Algore, he did bilk his followers out of millions of dollars. Fools and their money, soon parted!

 

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/55559/inconvenient-truth-about-hurricanes-rich-trzupek

 

 

 

 

Reality Hits The Millennials

by coldwarrior ( 28 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, Open thread at August 24th, 2017 - 1:07 am

Costco’s and Lowe’s and Walmart are right up the road…Welcome to Suburbia!

 

Millennial Americans Are Moving to the ‘Burbs, Buying Big SUVs

 

Millennials are finally starting their own baby boom and heading for the suburbs in big sport utility vehicles, much like their parents did.

Americans aged about 18 to 34 have become the largest group of homebuyers, and almost half live in the suburbs, according to Zillow Group data. As they shop for bigger homes to accommodate growing families, they’re upsizing their vehicles to match. U.S. industry sales of large SUVs have jumped 11 percent in the first half of the year, Ford Motor Co. estimates, compared with increases of 9 percent for midsize and 4 percent for small SUVs.

“We do see that demographic group driving larger sport utility sales as they acquire homes, create families and gain some wealth,” said Michelle Krebs, an analyst at car-shopping website Autotrader. “They started with compact sport utilities and now, with families, they’re moving up.”

The shift to suburbia may surprise those who’ve chided millennials for being more interested in pricey avocado toast than in saving for a home. Much of the generation delayed marriage, childbearing and home ownership after graduating with heaping student-loan debt and entering a weak job market. As more millennials overcome this, many want the life of their baby-boomer parents — the kids, the house in the ’burbs and the beefy SUV.

“As more people move out of their parents’ basement — and there’s still quite a few living there — we expect to see continued healthy demand for homes,” said Svenja Gudell, chief economist for Zillow, which found millennials made up 42 percent of homebuyers last year. “Millennials delayed home ownership, just like they delayed getting married and having kids, but now they’re making very similar decisions to their parents.”…

More millennials are expected to move up into bigger SUVs with three rows of seats and enough cargo space for strollers and portable cribs. Sales of midsize SUVs will grow by 16 percent between now and 2022, while deliveries of the biggest rigs — think Ford Expeditions and Chevrolet Tahoes — will jump 25 percent, according to a forecast by researcher LMC Automotive.

Millennials ranked having children, buying a suburban home and driving a big family vehicle higher in terms of importance than living in a major city or relying on alternate forms of transportation in a survey that Ford conducted in June.

 

HOLD THE FREE-RANGE-CARBON-NEUTRAL-ORGANIC-HEIRLOOM ARUGULA!!! THERE’S A SALE ON DIAPERS AT COSTCO!!!!!

TRUMP HATES THE EARTH!!!

by coldwarrior ( 163 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at August 21st, 2017 - 8:44 am

TRUMP HATES THE EARTH!!! Because of HIS election by the great unwashed and uneducated, racistbigothomophobeislmophobesuvdriving hoi polloi, THE SUN WILL BE BLOTTED FROM THE SKY TODAY!!!!!

SOLAR POWER WILL BE INTERRUPTED!!!

COAL WILL HAVE TO BE BURNED!!!!!

DARKNESS WILL BEFALL THE REDDEST OF STATES!!!!!

DOOOMMMMM!!!!!!

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Saturday Lecture Series: Two Scotsmen Invent Modernity

by coldwarrior ( 133 Comments › )
Filed under Academia, History, saturday lecture series at August 19th, 2017 - 7:43 am

No, it isn’t a joke.

 

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-scotsmen-who-invented-modernity-21940

 

Enjoy the read, sorry about the drive by lecture.


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