op ed review 6/30
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Chaos and confusion at the democrat debates.
Bernie pushes plan to cancel all student loan debt.
Warren seconds: “I’m
calling for…Universal free public college and cancellation of student debt”
Bernie: Hell Yes, My Single-Payer Healthcare Plan Would
Cover 11 Million Illegal Immigrants
Democrats want to move ahead on slavery reparations, could
carry a $17.1 trillion price tag.
Elizabeth Warren promises reparations for gay couples.
Eric Swalwell Tells Hispanics to Fight Trump in the Streets
Beto O'Rourke: If Minor Illegal Immigrants Can't Get
Abortions, We're 'The Handmaid's Tale'
Biden Likens Cultural Effects Of Trump’s 2016 Victory To
RFK’s Assassination
Byron York: In debates, Democrats move toward open borders
Hawks rip Donald Trump for keeping America at work, not war
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/24/hawks-rip-donald-trump-keeping-america-work-not-wa/
Trump slams Dems for backing health care for undocumented
immigrants
President Trump Announces New Platform to raise reelection funds
After years of social engineering by the left, polls show Americans
think 23.6% of population is gay. Actual
number is less than 5%.
Pelosi caves, agrees to pass Senate border funding bill
after McConnell defeats House version
Syrian Muslim Refugee Plotted a Black Church Massacre.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274083/muslim-syrian-refugee-plotted-black-church-daniel-greenfield
Pelosi On Enforcing Immigration Laws: ‘What’s The Point?’
New high poll numbers say immigration most important issue
facing the country.
California's Gov. Newsom puts out a video for illegals on
how to obstruct ICE
Caught on camera: African
migrants raft cross Mexico border - with no National Guard in sight
Obama Built The ‘Cages’ for Illegals, Not Trump, Says Obama
ICE Chief
Dalai Lama warns: “Europe is for Europeans,” EU will become
“Muslim” or “African” if migrants allowed to stay
Supreme Court decisions handed Republicans a huge political
victory on gerrymandering.
But “Roberts The Mind Reader” Joins Liberal Justices On The
Census issue
Insider Blows Whistle On Google Plan to Prevent “Trump
situation” in 2020. Guest on Tucker Carlson estimates that Google can swing 15
million votes by how they stack search engine results.
Project Veritas Exposes How Google Gives Billions of in-Kind
Value to the Democrat Party
New leaked Google Document describes Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager,
as ‘nazis using the dogwhistles’.
Alabama car dealership offers free shotgun, Bible and
American flag to customers
State Senate Republicans in Oregon successfully block climate
bill, now dead.
Great-nephew of British National Health Service founder dies
after blunders at two hospitals.
A U.S. bishop has issued a “prayer” card that celebrates
homosexual “pride” and includes an image of a crucifix with rainbow colors
coming from it.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Vijay Jayaraj 6/23
On
June 29, 2017, the Dailymail in UK ran an article headlined “Four years to save the Earth: 2020
is the deadline to avert climate catastrophe, experts claim in chilling
commentary.”
Two
years later and halfway to deadline, the earth has not changed much. If
anything, the El Niño of the 2016-17 season gave way for much cooler
temperatures across the globe and the past two years have been colder than
2016.
This
is just one of the many climate doomsday news articles that gets published in
our mainstream news media every single day. How seriously should we treat the
climate doomsday claims?
In
mid-2000s “Arctic sea ice melting” became the buzz word and the star of the
climate apocalypse movement. Since then, the melting of Arctic sea ice became
the central theme of climate doomsday theories.
In
2007, news media across the globe warned that the Arctic would soon be ice-free
because of the excessive melting from global warming. It came on the heels of
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, a 2016 documentary on how global
warming is melting Arctic ice and killing Polar bears.
“Arctic
summers ice-free 'by 2013,” was a BBC headline. The article justified its claim by referring to the
modelling forecasts of climate scientists. It read, “using supercomputers to
crunch through possible future outcomes has become a standard part of climate
science in recent years … modelling studies indicate northern polar waters
could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.”
But
instead of disappearing, the Arctic sea ice grew. The 2013 minimal sea ice
extent in the Arctic outgrew the 2012 levels. The ice-free predictions
have been proven to be wrong and extremely inaccurate. The minimal sea ice extent
today (2018) is much higher than that of 2012.
This
was not the only case where the computer models failed in their predictions.
During
the past 19 years, the computer climate models used to forecast global
temperatures failed to predict the temperature levels accurately. Even worse, the
models failed to capture the apparent slowdown in the warming of earth. These
are the very same models that are currently being used to justify climate
policies like the Paris agreement. With a two-decade record of dismal failure
in predicting temperatures, the model outputs can hardly be trusted as valid
indicators of future climate.
Other
climate gaffes include the claims about the worsening of extreme weather events
due to climate change. Contrary to popular belief, there has been no observable
increase in extreme weather events. In the U.S., tornado activity was at its record
low in 2018 and the severity of
wildfire has actually declined.
Studies also indicate
that the global area burned by wildfire has declined during the
past few decades.
And
these are just the incompetency of doomsayer’s claims with the current state of
climate. If we contextualize the present-day climate in comparison to the
climate during the past 10,000 years, then most of the doomsday theories lose
their sting.
Arctic
sea ice, for example, is at one of its highest levels in the Holocene (last
10,000 years). The temperature levels have constantly swung in the past,
including the well-studied two warm periods (Roman and Medieval) and one cold
period (Little Ice Age) in the past 2000 years.
More
surprisingly, throughout the history, the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2)
concentration levels followed the temperature levels and not vice
versa. In other words,
atmospheric CO2 concentration were not the primary drivers of the rise in
temperatures (whenever they occurred). This was reflected in the temperature
measurements between 2000 and 2018, when the exponential increase in atmospheric
CO2 concentration failed to cause a rise in global temperature
levels.
It
is a gentle reminder that we should take the doomsday claims with a pinch of
salt. Neither are they scientifically accurate nor are they put through
rigorous scrutiny before being disseminated to the masses.
Vijay Jayaraj holds a
M.Sc. in Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia, England
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Progressives want to create a system without risk, where
students aren’t responsible for their debt and schools aren’t responsible for
their costs. Once colleges know that prospective students can get any loan for
any major they desire, incurring no risk whatsoever, what motivation do these
institutions have to offer degrees of value? And, in the end, forgiveness does
nothing to lower costs. Then again, when the state takes control of private
institutions, it inevitably turns to price controls and all the usual tools
that destroy industries. … The world doesn’t owe you a dream college or a dream
house or a dream job. You have no right to someone else’s labor and time. If
you want to attend free college, ask professors to offer you their lectures
gratis or ask school administrators who run massive endowments to open their
doors to everyone. Or, maybe, ask them to bring down their tuition prices.”
-David
Harsanyi
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LEFTIST WATCH
At Renton WA public library, drag queen on all fours roars,
growls incoherently at library ‘pride’ event for teens. One twitter: “This is
what demonic possession looks like.”
Rise of the religious left? DNC hires faith outreach
director to address party's 'God problem'
Restaurant employee spits on Eric Trump. She gets “placed on leave”, but she’s a hero
with the left, GoFundMe page started for her.
UC Santa Cruz will remove 'offensive' mission bells from campus
after lefties complain.
A "nonpartisan" dark money group that regularly
files litigation against President Trump's administration is powered by money
from the Center for American Progress (CAP), the liberal think tank founded by
former Clinton campaign manager John Podesta.
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GLOBALONEY
Tampering Past The Tipping Point
Global warming?? Colorado's snowpack is 40 times normal
after rare summer solstice snow dump.
Americans' plastic recycling is being dumped in landfills,
investigation shows. Doesn’t matter
because it still helps liberals feel good.
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ARTICLES
Why Are Democrats So Incredibly Ignorant About ‘Medicare for
All’?
Capitolism [sic]: The defining issue of the 2020 elections
Democrats point to Nordic nations as models of socialism.
Here’s how they actually work.
The Middle Class Will Pay Bigly For All The Dems’ ‘Free
Stuff’
California: Here Be Monsters
Here
is how the LGBT movement gained legal, cultural and political supremacy over
Christianity in America in just 50 years. It advanced through five stages and
four Supreme Court rulings. The five stages of homofascism are: 1. Tolerance 2.
Acceptance 3. Celebration 4. Forced Participation 5. Punishment of Dissenters.
“No, Teen Vogue, you should not promote prostitution as a
career choice”
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WISE
WORDS
“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of
confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the
Constitution.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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