Governor Gruesome has a knack for getting everything wrote. His remarks in this article, prior to the recall, are coming back to haunt him.
Gavin Newsom warns California could turn into Florida or Texas on COVID if recall succeeds (msn.com)
“Newsom pointed to leading recall challenger Larry Elder’s assertion that he would end the state’s mask and vaccine requirements immediately if he is elected governor.
“His model is Texas and Florida, and Mississippi,” Newsom said. “We have among the lowest positivity rates in America. They have the highest positivity rates in America. We have one of the lowest case rates in America. They’re among the highest.”
Then he bragged that:
“California’s COVID test positivity rate of 4.6% is the seventh lowest in the country and a decrease from 7.1% several weeks ago, Newsom said.
In comparison, Texas, Florida and Mississippi all have seven-day positivity rates between 15% and 20%, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
These remarks did not age well. Today it was reported that Florida COVID cases, and the death rate have dropped to among the lowest levels in the U.S. Even MSN is covering this:
Florida COVID cases, death rate drop to among lowest levels in US (msn.com)
Every statistic, in recent weeks has shown Florida rates dropping steadily. But the MSM just ignored this. Florida has a significantly older population than California, so the results should be much worse. They ignored that too. In addition, there are few mask mandates and even fewer lockdowns. Instead, Florida is wide open and focusing on things like vaccines for people who want them and Monoclonal antibody treatments. Here is the official Florida website:
Home – Florida Department of Health COVID-19 Outbreak (floridahealthcovid19.gov)
Meanwhile Governor Newsom is jetting off to Scotland for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. It is too bad his route is unlikely to over fly Florida, because he just might get a glimpse of a state that is handling COVID very well, thank you, without all the unnecessary and annoying nonsense.
Note the setting for the UN Climate Change conference:
“The Greenhouse Gas Bulletin contains a stark, scientific message for climate change negotiators at COP26,” World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said of his agency’s annual report on heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. “At the current rate of increase in greenhouse gas concentrations, we will see a temperature increase by the end of this century far in excess of the Paris agreement targets of 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius (2.7-3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.”
Further proof that when they say climate change, they ALWAYS mean global warming. The truth is we don’t even know what effect rising CO2 levels are having on climate and no one predicts that reducing them will change anything anytime in the near or even distant future.
The following article from MIT, while attempting to explain the greenhouse theory, instead explains why they can’t even measure this. In other words, they are guessing.
Radiative Forcing | MIT Climate Portal
“Radiative forcing measures how much energy is coming in from the sun, compared to how much is leaving. The analysis needed to pin down this exact number is very complicated. Many factors, including clouds, polar ice, and the physical properties of gases in the atmosphere, have an effect on this balancing act, and each has its own level of uncertainty and its own difficulties in being precisely measured. However, we do know that today, more heat is coming in than going out.”
The only thing they really know is that it has been getting hotter and even that is debatable, because temperatures did not actually rise for several years. This was unacceptable, of course, so places like Stanford rearranged the data to get the desired results.
Global warming ‘hiatus’ never happened, Stanford scientists say
I will let them explain:
“If you wanted to determine the likelihood of getting 15 marbles of a certain color pattern, you could repeatedly pull out 15 marbles at a time, plot their average color on a graph, and see where your original marble arrangement falls in that distribution,” Tsiang said. “This approach is analogous to how many climate scientists had previously approached the hiatus problem.”
In contrast, the new strategy that Rajaratnam, Romano and Tsiang invented is akin to stringing the marbles together before placing them into the jar.
“Stringing the marbles together preserves their relationships to one another, and that’s what our subsampling technique does,” Tsiang said. “If you ignore these dependencies, you can alter the strength of your conclusions or even arrive at the opposite conclusion.”
Let me paraphrase. If at first it doesn’t fit, get a bigger hammer. They didn’t like the results, so they changed the assumptions until they got the result they wanted and needed. This is easy to understand. If your research supports climate change (global warming) you get more money. If not, then good luck getting more funds.
The arctic has more ice this year:
Current State of Sea Ice Cover | Earth (nasa.gov)
What makes this even more remarkable is that in March 2021, the Arctic Sea ice extent was the ninth lowest in Satellite records:
Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis | Sea ice data updated daily with one-day lag (nsidc.org)
I am hardly a scientist, but it seems pretty obvious that things in the Arctic are getting colder and it is happening FAST!
In the meantime, the Antarctic has the coldest winter on record.
We need less “California Dreaming” about things that cannot and will not work and pay more attention to places like Florida which did at least and well and potentially better at handling COVID by using common sense. While Gruesome Newsom was arrogantly lecturing us on following the science and destroying our economy in the process, Santos just ignored the nonsense and said let’s focus on what actually works. Lesson learned.
Sunday, we got the highest rainfall ever recorded in a 24/hr. period. It broke a record set in 1880. 1880? Before the industrial revolution? Here is Folsom we got 7 inches of rain. So, what was the response? A reminder that mandatory water use restrictions are still in effect, we all need to do more to conserve water, and it will take several more storms to change anything. Those doing this California Dreaming might want to check the conditions in the Arctic and watch those low pressure systems start to pile up before predicting permanent drought. Sometimes I really think God has a sense of humor since his response to the warning about drought was to send rain, a lot of rain, but not enough to stop California Dreaming or should I say “California Scheming.”
TDM