Obviously they were conflating celcius with farenheit… though I admit I dont know how anyone could write that sentence and not stop and say “Wait a minute. That CAN’T be right.”

But I’ll tell you what… I’d bet you anything they believe 100% in anthropogenic global warming.

But definitely a very dumb piece of reporting.

Wouldn’t higher taxes on energy encourage conservation?

Funny how they admit to using the tax system to punish bad behavior expecting to get less of it but deny that increased taxes on good behavior will have no effect on behavior.

Someone opposes your bill? They’re a nazi. Someone wants to cut spending? Obviously they want to see old people and children dead. This kind of dialogue is ridiculous, and the people who employ it are ridiculous.

This is why America is in decline: we elect fools.

re the abysmal failure of the Corps: Perhaps you could post a link why this is so? I can only speculate that they waited too long to release water upstream this year in the face of a record snowpack but I have not followed the sequence of events.

Having said that I would venture to say the flooding would be much worse had the corps never built any flood protection anywhere along the Missouri. With limited resources it is hard to build a flood control system while not knowing how bad a worst case scenario can be.

O/T: I missed your blogging, hoping you would be commenting on the Fukishima disaster, as well as the EPA actions to shut down so many coal fired plants. I am wondering how close the proposed shutdowns would push us to the capacity of the grid?

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