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Biden admin set to finalize major gas car crackdown over warnings from automakers, energy industry
By Marc Morano
March 18, 2024


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-finalize-major-gas-car-crackdown-warnings-from-automakers-energy-industry

By Thomas Catenacci Fox News

The Biden administration is expected this week to finalize highly anticipated regulations targeting gas-powered vehicle tailpipe emissions, considered the tip of the spear in its efforts to electrify the transportation sector.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is slated to issue the final rulemaking — which officials have boasted will incentivize greater adoption of electric vehicles (EV), but which opponents have criticized as a de facto mandate — as soon as Wednesday, industry sources told Fox News Digital. The regulations, a key part of President Biden’s climate agenda, would ultimately force automakers to more rapidly expand electric options in their fleets beginning in a matter of years.

“It certainly won’t do anything to improve human health. It won’t do anything to reduce pollution,” American Energy Institute president and CEO Jason Isaac, who has researched the EV market, told Fox News Digital in an interview. “We’ve proven in this country that we’re already a world leader in clean air. All it’s going to continue to do is push the costs of electric vehicles on to purchasers of internal combustion engine vehicles.”

https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/03/18/biden-admin-set-to-finalize-major-gas-car-crackdown-over-warnings-from-automakers-energy-industry/
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Punched holes in Lake Sakakaweja just a couple weeks ago,and despite the first tracess of spring and a mild winter by local North Dakota standards (only a few days of -30 weather) there was still 3 ft. of ice on the lake. Plenty thick to drive a pickup out on the ice without worry, as long as you avoid pressure ridges.

Not sure what panic they are pimping, but I'm not seeing cause for alarm.
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Is climate change to blame for the atmospheric rivers impacting California? The evidence says “No.”
By
Chris Martz
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March 17th, 2024
 
Since the end of January, California has been pelted by a series of atmospheric rivers bringing rounds of moderate-to-heavy rainfall for days on end, spurring hundreds of flash floods across the state, inundating roads and neighborhoods from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, and triggering several destructive mudslides. Each event has been separated only by a brief lull, providing Californians little relief from the deluge. Additionally, heavy upslope mountain snow in the Sierra Nevada has brought California’s snowpack—measured as snow water content—up to 104% of the 1970 to 2022 historical median (Figure 1) as of March 4th.[1]


Figure 1. California snow water content vs historical (1970-2022) percentiles. Source: Engaging Data.
The Meteorology

The recent boost in Sierra snowpack over the last few days was actually driven by a deep low-pressure area that originated in the Gulf of Alaska and then transcended down the Pacific coastline and into the Pacific Northwest. Pressure falls in the extratropical cyclone’s center increased the low-level convergence field, allowing the system to tap into the Pacific moisture and steer it inland through advection. Upon coming into contact with sloped terrain on the windward side of the Sierra Nevada, the moisture-enriched air was force-lifted up the mountain, whereby it was dynamically cooled to saturation, at which point the vapor could condense and precipitate back down into subfreezing air at elevations above 5,000 feet. Persistently heavy snow accompanied by >90 mph wind gusts prompted the National Weather Service (NWS) to issue blizzard warnings from last Thursday, February 29th, to Sunday, March 3rd, for the ski areas.

https://www.cfact.org/2024/03/17/is-climate-change-to-blame-for-the-atmospheric-rivers-impacting-california-the-evidence-says-no/
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Wrong, NBC News, Climate Change Doesn’t Threaten Minnesota Ice Fishing
 
By
Anthony Watts
March 18, 2024
 

A broadcast by NBC News, titled “Ice fishing threatened by climate change,” claims that warmer winters, particularly the 2023/2024 winter, is affecting the ice fishing season due to supposed influences from climate change. This is false. Climate change does not make such localized effects in a short time, and it is well established that the warmer weather pattern this winter is a result of El Niño patterns in the Pacific Ocean.

The story begins stating:

NBC News’ Jesse Kirsch explores how warmer temperatures are impacting a winter tradition. Business owners near Minnesota’s Mille Lacs Lake who rely on the cold weather say they’re having a slow season.

The video then proceeds with interviews of ice fishermen and local business owners who are the bemoaning the fact that they are having a slow season. In the video they say “over the past 50 years Minnesota has lost 10 to 14 days of lake ice” but they did not back that up with any scientific citation.

First, it has to be said that any single winter having warmer than normal temperatures and the resultant less ice is in fact due to short term weather patterns not long-term climate change. It is well defined that climate change takes place over 30 years. As discussed in Climate at a Glance: Weather vs. Climate:

https://climaterealism.com/2024/03/wrong-nbc-news-climate-change-doesnt-threaten-minnesota-ice-fishing/
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Climate Change / Matt McGrath of the BBC Goes Climate Banana Crazy
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:18:07 am »
Matt McGrath of the BBC Goes Climate Banana Crazy
BY CHRIS MORRISON 17 MARCH 2024 7:00 AM

Banana prices to go up as temperatures rise, reports Matt McGrath of the BBC. What a magnificent story – adding to the fake climate emergency narrative and helping out Big Banana all in one go. Alas, the uncharitable might note that the story is slightly spoilt by banana output having doubled over the last 20 years, helped, almost certainly, by a little extra warmth and atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Bananas are set to get more expensive as climate change hits a much loved fruit, says Pascal Liu of the World Banana Forum, a UN umbrella group promoting the banana business. ‘Experts’ are reported to be concerned about the growing threats from a warming world and from the diseases that are spreading in its wake. McGrath helpfully adds that last week saw shortages in several U.K. supermarkets due to “storms at sea”. There are reported to be concerns about a relatively new strain of Fusarium Wilt, a plant disease that has been widespread in commercial banana plantations for over 100 years.

McGrath quotes the Big Banana spokesman as observing that climate impacts pose an “enormous threat” to supply, compounding the impact of fast-spreading diseases. Prices in the U.K. “are likely to go up – and stay up”. Which would appear to be very good news for those in the banana business. As the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) graph below shows, they have also enjoyed staggering high rises in recent yields.

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/17/matt-mcgrath-of-the-bbc-goes-climate-banana-crazy/
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Exactly bass ackwards.
 

@roamer_1

Yes,you  are.

Doing nothing accomplishes nothing,but you are one of those people who would rather do nothing and allow things to get worse,than to do ANYTHING positive that doesn't get you everything you want all at once.

But we have been having this argument for months now,so I am done wasting my  time trying to convince someone that wants all or nothing RIGHT DAMN NOW.
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Pookie's Toons / Today's Toons 3/19/24
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Pookie's Toons / Re: Today's Toons 3/18/24
« Last post by pookie18 on Today at 10:12:00 am »
Monday!!  Thanks for the Monday Toons and Argus Extras!!!  I hope you had a wonderful, restful weekend!!!

My pleasure & thanks, CL!
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Ban alcohol and drugs they kill waaaay more.
Actually, I'm okay with that, but the Government was never granted power over what any person consumes, at least not in the Constitution.

It isn't your lack of desire to own the same things which appeal to me that I find distressing, far from it. Freedom is about living as you please, while embracing responsibility for it, and not interfering with other's rights.

It's that willingness expressed (correct me if I am wrong) to throw the parts and parcels of freedom that do not particularly interest you to the wind, precisely because you do not want them for yourself. The shooing sports embrace an incredible number of disciplines, and the tools to engage in those, from matchlock muskets state of the art long distance shooting platforms, and even some which were once legal to order through the mail which have since been declared "destructive devices" or restricted in other ways.

During the "Assault Weapon Ban" debates of the 90s there emerged a group of firearm owners who decided as long as their particular arm of interest was not in jeopardy, other groups of firearms could be sacrificed on the altar of compromise. Essentially, they practically interpreted the Second Amendment to be about hunting, and no arm they saw as not being particularly useful in that regard was useful to them. They'd gladly sacrifice the vacuously defined "assault weapons" so long as their guns of interest were not involved. Hence, the name "Fudd" (as in Elmer, huntin' wabbits), was applied, and at least for a time, it stuck, a mild pejorative for those who would give up whole classes of firearms to ridiculous legislation to retain their firearms of interest. The fallacy being, of course, that the gun grabbers would not stop there, and eventually would ban them all.

Nope, I will take issue with that stance, because it is all of us standing together that ultimately gives us the best chance of resisting the efforts of those who would disarm us all, whether it be piecemeal or in one fell swoop. I am not content with shaving off bits of a fundamental Civil Right, just to placate those who want all of that Right, and frankly, I am concerned for our mutual welfare that anyone would be.

In no sense do I see that an "Echo Chamber" matter because those principles and Rights the Bill of Rights is meant to protect should be something we all stand steadfast behind, fundamental to the existence of our Republic.

You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but on those matters discussion and disagreement would certainly arise were any of those rights be ceded in toto or in part.

It is a pity to see you go, but the freedom to leave is as much yours as the freedom to stay. Fare thee well if you decide to leave.
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