It is Part Time to Just Say NO!

Russ Steele

Ellen and I attended the CABPRO Defend Rural America Conference in Grass Valley last night with like minded friends the Rebane’s and Booth’s.  It was an eye-opening event for every one attending, though some of us were aware of the UN Agenda 21 tentacles. The incremental strangling of our individual freedoms by a collection of non-government agencies that are funded by State and Federal environmental agencies to incrementally implement Agenda 21.

We have an immediate example right here in Nevada County, which I wrote about HERE.

It would appear that Nevada County 2005 Community-Wide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Phase I was just a non-threatening effort to discover how much energy that Nevada County government uses and the CO2 that these agencies produced. Next it was Phase II to determine how much CO2 all activities in Nevada County generated.  Nothing to get concerned about — right?  Now the SBC, PG&E and ICLEI camel has its noses under the County BOS tent flap. They were being lulled into the acceptance of Phase III.

Phase III of the PG&E Green Communities Program is to develop local Climate Action Plans, including one for Nevada County.  The Phase III Action Plan will develop detailed emission reduction strategies to reduce the impact of global warming. The claim is improve the quality of services, reduce costs, stimulate the local economy and inspire local residence and businesses to redouble their efforts to combat climate change.

How is this going to be done?

According to the Phase II report. ICELI has created the tools for Nevada County to use to assist with future monitoring inventories. These tools are designed to work in conjunction with the IEAP, which is the primary reference documents for conducting an emissions inventory.

So Nevada County will be using a set of tool developed by an International NGO, funded by the UN to reduce CO2 emissions on Nevada County. Those are the emission created by our local economy; to reduce CO2 emissions is to reduce economic activity. It is all an effort to apply parts of Agenda 21 in our local community.  We are like the frog in a pan of water with the heat slowly being increased under the pan: Phase I, Phase II and then Phase III when the burner is turned up to maximum.

It is time to say no to Phase III It is time to tell PG&E, the Sierra Business Council and the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives to go pound sand. We do not need any “stinking” Agenda 21 crap in Nevada County.

One interesting note: There were no Supervisors at the CABPRO Defend Rural America Conference, but Sue McGuire was there learning how to Defend Rural America. Where were the rest of the BOS? Are they not interested in preserving Rural America? You might want ask Nate Beason the next time you see him  hanging our in the liberal environs of Nevada City.

Prop 23 Update: A Lesson For California

Russ Steele

During the Prop 23 Campaign I warned readers about the negative economic impact of converting to alternative energy, that going green was going to destroy jobs, as companies left the state taking jobs with them. At that time I uses Spain as an example, who lost 2.4 industrial jobs for every green job created.  Now Spain’s unemployment rate is north of 23%, with the youth unemployment at about 50%. A dismal future for the country’s youth. Now this from Handelsblatt.

As a result of Germany’s green energy transition, electricity prices are exploding. Consumers and businesses are paying the price while Germany faces gradual de-industrialisation. Economists estimate that the cost of the green energy transition will total 170 billion Euros by 2020. This is more than double of what Germany would have to write off if Greece were to withdraw from the monetary union. “The de-industrialization has already begun,” the EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has warned.

German corporations are moving energy consuming industries offshore, along with the core of the German economy. The same will happen in California as the cost of energy soars. While California is known for its innovations, those innovative companies are not building manufacturing plants in the state. They are moving manufacturing to low cost energy states and offshore.

Wake up Sacramento. Look at what where economic growth is taking place in the United States, the states that are revitalizing their energy sector. The markets are moving these state in the exact direction California should go — toward cheap, plentiful energy. We have the energy, in our shale gas formations and in offshore oil, yet our political leaders refuse to exploit it. Without learning the positive lessons of North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Wyoming and the negative lesson of Germany and Spain, California’s de-industrialisation and resulting job loss will continue. The lessons are there, it is time for our political leaders to stop ignoring them.

Just Wondering

Russ Steele

I was listening to Rush Limbaugh today promoting his new Rush Babes for America  gear. Over 69,000 have signed up to the Rush Babes for America Facebook page.

I was wondering will women voters wearing any of this gear will be asked to remove it before entering the polling place in June?

I remember there was a problem at some voting places in Nevada County when women voters showed up with Tea Party Patriot shirts. Poll watchers claimed it was electioneering in the polling place.

What do you think, will this gear be allowed in a voting booth?

The Photoshop Presidency

Russ Steele

It looks like the Obama Administration has issued yet again another photoshopped photo of the “Situation Room”  Mara Zebest has another example at the American Thinker. Another attempt to show that the O was in change, when in fact he was on the golf course. Details HERE

This presidency will be know in history as the Photoshop Presidency.

• We have the photoshopped birth certificate
• We have the photoshopped “Situation Room” 

And now another attempt to show the O’s leadership with yet again another photoshopped product.  When will the hacks on Obama staff learn that there are much smarter people out here in the hinterlands with more skills than they do?  Oh!

Here is a segment of the discussion I found most interesting:

 Obama’s entire “Composite Presidency” and administration are orchestrated in this fashion.  Not only is the photo’s legitimacy in question, but so is the narrative illusion behind it.  Obama knew of OBL’s location for a year and refused to act.  The CIA admits that there was “no live video feed,” as implied by the iconic White House photo.  It is anyone’s guess what the captive audience was looking at, but it wasn’t the OBL raid.  It was recently reported that a highly lawyered CYA memo was drafted that made it clear that the military would take all blame for any errors, while Obama would claim all glory for successes.  Not surprisingly, the real heroes seem to have a problem with this form of spiking the ball and using our brave SEALs for political gain.  Why would Obama need to Photoshop the Situation Room photos?  For the same reason behind everything else he does: to influence perception in which everything is about Obama

Just Say No to Phase III.(Updated)

Russ Steele

Some insights from the Board of Supervisors Meeting this morning and their response to the Nevada County 2005 Community-Wide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, which was conducted by the Sierra Business Council. The presentation was made by Nicholas Martin and B.J. Schmitt from the SBC.  This was a report on Phase II, establishing the base line for reducing CO2 emissions to the 1990 levels as mandated by AB-32. The survey team used 2005 as the base line year, because the data was not available for 1990.

Now let me ask you, how can we return to the 1990 emission levels if we do not know what those levels were? By their own admission Martin and Schmitt said it was “too hard to collect the data on 1990.” So, now can we return to a place we cannot identify?  It was a wonderful opportunity for one of the Supervisors to shine by asking the question.

The SBC Team collected information on the Carbon Dioxide, Methane and Nitrous Oxide emissions.  They collected information on emissions from gas and diesel emissions, but not propane.  Why not propane?  By their own admission it was not a regulated source and the data was too hard to collect.   Must not be important if it was “too hard to collect”.

Never mind, the SBC will soon be moving on to Phase III to develop Climate Action Plans to reduce County CO2 emission to the mandated 1990 levels. However they have no idea what those level were. You cannot get to there,  from here if you have no idea where there is?

The questions asked by the Supervisors were interesting, well some were.

Lamphier:   His focused his comments on how to implement a future AB-1900 Bio Gas regulation, on how methane emitted by the Landfill and Waste Water Plants could used to generate electricity.  The SBC team had no idea.

Weston: Wanted to know what ICLEI meant and what was their role in the evaluation process. The SBC Team did not know what ICLEI stood for. They just used the ICLEI Tools to make the emission calculations.   [International Council  for Local Environmental Initiatives.]  The County is not a member of the ICLEI but Nevada City is.

Beason: He asked if the Inventory was being driven by AB-32, which the SBC Team responded that it was. He also made the point the county was reducing energy use as an economic measure with out regard to air quality. He wanted to know if the inventory considered Ozone, since it was a bigger problem for citizens.

Scofield: He ask George Rebane to tell everyone what ICLEI means and what the organization does.  Ed also have very insightful comment: A Climate Action Plan will only result in more regulations.

Owens: He asked the most probing question. If the SBC Team was using software provided by the ICLEI what action has been take to valid the programs to insure they were accurate models of the real world.  The SBC Team proclaimed they had no knowledge of software validity. They just used the protocol and calculation tools without question.

Weston: Hank had a follow up question. What is the IEAP reference in the report?   According the the SBC Team it was the model used to make the calculations. They did not offer anymore information on the models or it’s heritage.  According to the ICLEI web site:

Building on 17 years of experience through the CCP Campaign, ICLEI has developed the first version of the International Local Government GHG Emissions Analysis Protocol (IEAP) that follows principles of the GHG Protocol.

The IEAP consists of the general principles and philosophy that any local government, regardless of location, should adhere to when inventorying GHGs from its government operations and community as a whole.

The emission sources that should be included in a GHG inventory and the methods used to quantify theses sources are generally consistent between local governments, but are unique when compared with any other type of entity.

The International Protocol is informed by developments such as:

• IPCC 2006 methodological changes;
• GHG Protocol by WRI */ WBCSD**;
• ISO 14064 Greenhouse Gases series of standards;
• GRI Public Sector Agency Supplement.

Since November 2007 key peer organizations around the world – including United Nations Environment Program, World Resources Institute, International Energy Agency, California Climate Action Registry, Federation of Canadian Municipalities and Center for Neighborhood Technologies – have reviewed the International Protocol. It has also been reviewed by ICLEI member cities and stakeholders during a public comment period.

A US national supplement of the IEAP, Local Government Operations Protocol (LGOP) was further developed as a collaborative effort of The California Air Resources Board, The California Climate Action Registry, The Climate Registry and ICLEI. The Climate Registry adopted LGOP in 2009 for use by local government reporters, including from Canada and Mexico with country-appropriate supplements.

 * WRI: World Resources Institute

** WBCSD: World Business Council for Sustainable Development

More about ICLEI HERE. Though not much mention that there goal is implementation of UN Agenda 21. This was explained in the public comment by George Rebane and Judi Caler. More on Agenda 21 HERE, HERE and HERE.

What did we learn?  We leaned the the software tools and evaluation protocols used by SBC, without any validation and verification, was developed by International Environmental organizations and then modified by the California Air Resources Board and the California Climate Action Registry.  If you go on the CARB web site you soon learn that Phase III may required mandated greenhouse gas reporting. Under Phase III instead of just using modeling and estimation tool, local government will have to measure and report green house emissions like the power companies and other large energy users in CA have to do now.

What troubled me the most was that none of our Supervisors even questioned the need for an inventory.  They just accepting the AB-32 mandated requirements without questioning that  human generate greenhouse gases cause global warming.  See my post on that issue HERE. Scientific calculation have demonstrated that AB-32 will not have any measurable impact on global temperatures. The idea that reducing carbon dioxide emissions in California will affect the climate of the entire planet is totally absurd.

However, implementing AB-32 will have a huge economic impact when cap and trade sucks millions of dollars out of the economy.  And Phase III Climate Action Plans will create more regulation and increase government operating costs, collecting emissions data can be expensive. Who will buy the instruments and pay the staff to collect and report the data?   Costs that we tax payers may have to shoulder.

We need a Board of Supervisors that will just day NO to Phase III!  We cannot afford anymore regulations! Tell SBC when they come calling  for Phase III to just pound sand! 

I will have more on the young Forest Service Scientist, on his own time, who claimed that I was wrong when I spoke, and later accused George and I of lying, and being lied to, when we say the CO2 emissions were not a danger to the planet.

Update (05-22-12: 1700) George Rebane at Ruminations has some more comments on our encounter with the “young scientist” and Agenda 21. 

Global Temperatures are Declining, NOT Increasing

Russ Steele

The Board of Supervisors will be considering a document this morning that recommends Nevada County develop a plan for reducting CO2. That recomendation is based on the IPCC claim that CO2 generated by humans is responsible for global warming. The probem is global warming stopped in 2001 and is declining, while CO2 continues to increase. How can the two be connected?

This is the paragraph in the document being presented by the Sierra Business Council that got my interest:

The steady uptick in average temperatures is significant and expected to continue if action is no taken to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Here are the facts:

Do you see any upticks this this temperature record?  I sent the Board of Supervisors this attached file: Agenda 25 Facts

Let’s see how they respond!  Stay Tuned, I am planning to attend the meeting.  Let’s see which of the Supervisors are AGW supporters.

The Economist Shares My Economic Ignorance.

Russ Steele

Our local lefty blogger writes:

BTW, longtime hard-right blogger Russ Steele is showing his ignorance about financial matters here:

http://2012nevadacounty.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/gov-brown-call-your-office-facebook-shares-plunging/

Russ doesn’t seem to understand that Facebook rank-and-file and “insiders” — California residents — sold their shares before the public IPO and that capital gains taxes and sales taxes will be recorded regardless of what is happening in the “retail” market.

ooo

This is all good news. Nobody ever said the Facebook IPO would bail out California.

Having never been and “insider” like our lefty blog has been when C/Net went public, I would not know how those “insiders” make out while the rest of of 99% wish we were one. That said,  this is what the Economist said about the Facebook IPO and CA budget bailout.  The basis for my comment about the economic impact on California if the Facebook stock fails to soar after the IPO.

The Facebook Effect

A single IPO may have a big effect on the world’s ninth-largest economy

AMONG those in suspense as Facebook prepares for its initial public offering (IPO) of shares later this month are the bean-counters of California. After all, Facebook, which could be worth as much as $100 billion, is a Californian company and many of its employees, including its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, live there. That means they may soon be paying lots of tax.

The IPO’s timing fortuitously coincides with the beginning of California’s annual budget “kabuki”, as a former governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, called the process. This kicks off with the official revision, on May 14th, by the current governor, Jerry Brown, of estimated incomings and outgoings. It drags on through June in the legislature and then, if all goes well, the governor signs something resembling a balanced budget by July 1st, the start of the new fiscal year.

Last year Mr Brown proposed spending $89 billion for the current fiscal year, which began on July 1st. As in recent years, however, revenues are falling short of official projections. Jason Sisney of the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office says that the state seems to be facing an overall budget “problem” of more than $9 billion this year and next.

Enter Facebook (see article). The details are not yet known—at what price the shares list, how many Facebookers cash out, and so forth. But back-of-the-envelope calculations by Mr Sisney suggest that California might get a windfall of $2 billion over the current and coming fiscal years, and possibly billions more if the shares trade well.

In California such mathematical games bring giddy memories of the dotcom boom in the 1990s, and of the previous big listing, by Google, in 2004. That particular IPO [Goodgle] led to $7 billion in windfall tax revenues over the subsequent three years, by minting a new batch of millionaires with income and capital gains to declare. [Emphasis is editors]

If I understand what the Economist said, Governor Brown’s budget could see a big upside if Facebook stocks failed to soar.  The stock was sliding down hill when I posted and it is still down at the end of the day.  The shares dropped below their offering price in their first full day of trading Monday, wiping $11.5 billion off the social network’s market value.

That was the basis of my “ignorant”comment, which was a little in jest.   It is nice to have the company The Economist in my ignorance. They seem to think a soaring FB stock would have an economic impact on CA.

If I has been an “insider” cashing out would be the right thing to do.  Three years after IPO 2/3s of all  stocks had negative returns. Since 2010 60% of all IPOs have negative returns so far. Stay tuned for more ignorance.

Gov Brown, Call Your Office — Facebook Shares Plunging

Russ Steele

Governor Brown was expecting $2 billion in tax revenue from the Facebook IPO.   Facebook prices are falling below the IPO opening.

Update (05-21-12, 10:50) From the WSJ some more insight:

NEW YORK—Facebook Inc. FB -9.34% shares plunged on their second day on the stock market, a black eye for all those involved with the social networking company going public.

The shares fell 13.7% early Monday to well below the $38 price for the initial public offering, before pulling off the low.

“The underwriters completely screwed this up,” said Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Securities. “This thing should have been half as big as it was, and it would have closed at $45.”

A spokesman for Morgan Stanley, the IPO’s lead underwriter, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Falling below the offer price so quickly is considered disappointing for a new stock, especially in the case of the most heavily traded IPO of all time. The reasons cited for the decline include an overly aggressive IPO price, the increased number of shares offered and concerns about Facebook’s slowing revenue growth.

While investor enthusiasm early on was high for Facebook shares and while bankers on the deal increased the stock price and number of shares ahead of the offering, many observers questioned the valuation of more than $100 billion that was placed on the social network, where revenue and earnings growth were already beginning to slow.

“Facebook’s IPO priced at a level well above where we foresaw compelling 12-month returns,” BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield said in a research note Monday. With revenue and earnings growth decelerating in 2012, “we find Facebook’s current valuation unappealing.”

The drop Monday has dealt Facebook Chairman and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg about $2.2 billion of paper losses, though his stake was still worth more than $17 billion Monday morning. The social network’s founder also retains almost 56% of Facebook’s voting power.

Over the E-mail Transom – The Queen’s Riddle

Russ Steele

This came for a regular reader of this blog.

Barack Obama met with the Queen of England.

He asked her, “Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government?Are there any tips you can give me?”

“Well,” said the Queen, “the most important thing is to surround your selfwith intelligent people.”

Obama frowned, and then asked, “But how do I know the people around are really intelligent?”

The Queen took a sip of tea. “Oh, that’s easy; you just ask them to answer an intelligent riddle.” The Queen pushed a button on her intercom.

“Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?”

Tony Blair walked into the room and said, “Yes, Your Majesty?”

The Queen smiled and said, “Answer me this please, Tony. Your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?”

Without pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answered, “That would be me.”

“Yes! Very good,” said the Queen.

Obama went back home to ask Joe Biden the same question. “Joe, answer this

for me. Your mother and your father have a child. It’s not your brother and it’s not your sister. Who is it?”

“I’m not sure,” said Biden. “Let me get back to you on that one.” He went to his advisors and asked everyone, but none could give him an answer.

Finally, Biden ran in to Sarah Palin out eating one night. Biden asked, ”Sarah, can you answer this for me? Your mother and father have a child and it’s not your brother or your sister. Who is it?”

Sarah Palin answered right back, “That’s easy, it’s me!”

Biden smiled, and said, “Thanks!” Then, he went back to speak with Obama.

“Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle. It’s Sarah Palin!”

Obama got up, stomped over to Biden, and angrily yelled into his face,

“No! You idiot! It’s Tony Blair!”

And that is precisely what’s going on at the White House.

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I think this has been around on the Internet for a while, but seem to be played out every day when ever Biden opens his mouth and Obama tries to cover for him.

Hockey Stick Mann at Disneyland

Russ Steele

Details at Watts Up With That! 

Seeking AB-32 Slush Fund

Russ Steele

While AB-32 Global Warming Solutions act was sold to the public as way to to save the planet from CO2 emissions, it has now pivoted into another method to fleece citizens of $50 to $100 Billion dollars over ten years. Creating an AB-32 slush fund that has politicians pulses pounding as they devise methods of take control of this slush funds distribution.  CalWatchDog has more details:

Cap and Trade Fund Distribution Bills

Assembly Bill 1532, sponsored by Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, would deposit Cap and Trade pollution permit monies into a new Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account to be controlled by the California Air Resources Board.

Senate Bill 535, sponsored by State Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, would divert some of the Cap and Trade auction funds to disadvantaged communities, affordable housing, hospitals and schools.

Senate Bill 1572, the AB 32 Revenue Investment Plan, sponsored by State Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Los Angeles, devises a strategic investment plant to distribute Cap and Trade proceeds.

AB 2404, the Local Emissions Reduction Fund, sponsored by Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes. D-Arleta, would delegate the award of Cap and Trade monies to the Strategic Growth Council — a six person cabinet level committee under the Governor’s Office.

What is the Strategic Growth Council? 

The Strategic Growth Council was authorized under Senate Bill 732 in 2008, sponsored by State Sen. Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento. It creates a cabinet-level committee to serve as a clearinghouse for the distribution of Cap and Trade funds.  According to the Strategic Growth Council website, a laundry list of activities can be funded: “to improve air quality, protect natural resources, increase the availability of affordable housing, promote public health, improve transportation, encourage greater infill and compact development, revitalize community and urban centers, and assist state and local entities in the planning of sustainable communities.”  But this may be a wish list more than what Cap and Trade auction proceeds can be legally spent on.

Who is on the Strategic Growth Council? 

The Strategic Growth Council is composed of six members. Five are the heads of state agencies and a sixth member is from the public.

Current Council members include:

Ken Alex, secretary of the Office of Planning and Research;
John Laird, secretary of California Natural Resources Agency;
Diana Dooley, secretaru of California Health and Human Services;
Brian Kelly, acting secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency;
Matt Rodriguez, secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection;
Bob Fisher, public member, president of the Mendocino Redwood Corporation and a member of the National Resources

Now the real question is why should California citizens vote for an $8.5 billion sales and income tax increase in November 2012 if Cap and Trade is going to raise $50 billion to $100 billion for state discretionary spending? That’s $6.25 billion to $12.5 billion per year from 2012 to 2020.

Vote NO on any initiative to raise taxes. Period.

CARB Makes Rules, Companies Game Rules for Profit

Russ Steele

The Legislature and former a Gov made the rules when they passed AB-32, and CARB established  the mandated Cap and Trade program. One to the four cap and trade offset protocols established by CARB was  Improving Forest Management.

Now the environmentalist have discovered that Sierra Pacific Industries is going to make millions of dollars by gaming the system and they are upset.  SPI is going to log the forest and then plant replacement trees. They do this as a normal business practice in the timber industry, however now they are going to collect offset credits from CARB for the plant of those trees.

This gaming of the system by timber companines has been discovered by NBC’s Bay Area Investigation Team. Details HERE.  Here is the part of the story that warms my heart.

Companies that harvest timber like Sierra Pacific Industries, also known as SPI, admit they stand to gain tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars through carbon offsets.

“You’re not doing this out of the goodness of your heart,” Stock said to Ed Murphy, SPI’s manager of Resource Information Systems. “Of course not,” replied Murphy.

Murphy further explained his position on the issue raised by The Center for Biological Diversity: Additionality (or adding more things such as trees to reduce carbon further than what would be expected under normal or ‘business as usual’ conditions.

“Under the definition of additionality, there’s a process called common practice,” said Murphy. “We can show we’re well above common practice in terms of total carbon stored. But more importantly, the change in business practices comes when once we move into the offset market, we can no longer cut the forest down.”

Awesome, SPI gets the offset credits with a promised not to cut down the newly planted trees for a 100 years.  It takes about 90 years to grow a good sized tree. Better yet in 20 years CARB’s and Cap and Trade will be nothing more that a economic foot note in the collapse of the California economy following the Next Grand Minimum. Go SPI, take the money and run!   Future generations will cut the trees to stay warm!

The Mystery of Obama’s Kenyan Birth

Russ Steele

I have always been interested in the issue of where the O was born, but tried to keep an open mind until there was more of a smoking gun than a fake birth certificate.

That said,  I have always been puzzled as to why the public did not have access to his academic records? My view is that he registered as foreign student from Kenya or Indonesia to get an affirmative action qualification. Now Roger Simon at PJ Media is investigated the mystery. Here is a summary from Power Line:

Over at PJ Media, CEO Roger Simon, a mystery writer by trade, put his mind to the puzzle and came up with an intriguing theory. Perhaps Obama had a tangible incentive to pass himself off as African, rather than merely African-American. Perhaps the explanation goes back to his college and law school days, which remain weirdly shrouded in mystery, deemed off-limits by liberal reporters and editors. Perhaps Obama took advantage of a scholarship–or, I would add, an affirmative action opportunity–that was available only to those born in Africa. Perhaps, in other words, Obama was like Elizabeth Warren, dishonestly checking a diversity box to get ahead. There would be no down-side at all, up until the moment when Obama decided he might run for president.

Locally, Martin Light is blogging on the issues at Light on Nevada County.

My question is: Regardless of where a person is born, if they think of themselves as a Kenyan, do they continue to think like a Kenyan, rather than an American?  Just wondering.

Data Mining to Purge Voter Polls

Russ Steele

The Florida Secretary of State just discovered that there are up to 53,000 dead voters still on the states voter rolls. How could all these dead people be on the polls for so long?  Florida was not using the best available data until now.  The discovery of 53,000 dead voters was made now that Florida is now using the nationwide Social Security Death Index for determining which voters should be purged because they have died.

The question is what data bases are California and Nevada County mining to purge the voter polls.  Are our voter rolls still are filled with dead voters?  What is being done to detect and removing them in Nevada County? If they are not removed, they maybe sent Vote by Mail Ballots and this could lead to an increase in voter fraud. Dead people voting!

I recently attended a Nevada County Tea Party Patriots meeting to establish a Election Integrity Project in Nevada County. Phase one of this effort will be to identify dead people on Nevada County voter polls and uncover any registration irregularities.  I hope this effort to purge the voter polls of dead people and to uncover any registration irregularities will be well received by the Nevada County Clerk-Recorders Office.  Stay Tuned.

Western Streams Resisting Non-existing Climate Change

Russ Steele

I love to read the KQED Climate Change blog, that is were I go to get my daily chuckles on what our lefty environmentalist wackos are up to this week. And, this week they did not disappoint with this study of western streams that are resisting climate change by not following the computer models.

Study: Western Streams Resist Influence of a Warming Climate

Hot Creek, near Mammoth Lakes, was one of 20 streams in the Western U.S. examined in a study by Oregon State researchers who found no clear relationship between increasing air temperatures and stream temperatures.

Rising sea levels, melting glaciers, intensifying storm events – evidence is mounting that the effects of a warming planet will be far-reaching and potentially catastrophic. But one natural system may be more resilient than others when it comes to global warming: mountain streams.

Researchers from Oregon State University report in the journal Geophysical Research Letters that small streams in the western United States have not heated up in response to the region’s warming air temperatures.

You can read the rest of this academic non-sense HERE. First, lets dispel the non-sense about rising sea levels, melting glaciers and intensifying storms.  Check out the charts HERE. Sea levels have been rising at regular rate since the Little Ice Age, in Africa, Asia, New Zealand,  South America and California glaciers are growing, and there has been no increase in storm intensity, and we are now at record levels for no hurricanes striking the US.  Where do these people get their scientific information, the New York Times?

Now lets get to those stream that are resisting the rise in Sierra temperatures. What if the real reason they have avoided any climate change influence is that there has not been any climate change?  Temperatures have been essential flat for more than ten years globally.

The following figure shows the annual mean temperature anomalies for the two 5×5 degree grids covering the Pacific Northwest coast of the U.S. — western Oregon and Washington from 1900 to 2007. This data is from the Hadley Climatic Research Unit (HadCRU) as used by the IPCC.

The following figure shows the average annual temperature anomalies for the average of the four 5×5 degree grids covering California for 1930 – 2009 (indicated in yellow on the map).

Two grid charts above are from Global Warming Science

The report rattles on:

“It is a small set and we are trying not to extrapolate too much from this data. But some streams in our study seem to be getting warmer,” lead author Ivan Arismendi told me. “Others are getting cooler and some have not changed much at all. But our data suggests that warming air temperatures are not having a corresponding effect on streams.”

It just could be that there has been no significant warming in the Sierra for over 80 years.  I wonder if these academic idiots thought of that as a solution and not have assumed that the there has been significant warming just because the computer models indicated there should have been warming, where in reality none existed.

 . . . the research will continue, focusing on current computer models used to predict how streams will respond to a warming climate.  “Most of the predictions in the models are based on a correlation [between air and stream temperature],” says Arismendi. “So we are trying to test how good those models are for specific sites.”

I think it would help if these folks got out of the computer modeling labs and took a look at some real world temperatures before they embarrass themselves some more.  If there was no warming, there would be no response from the streams.