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Hazardous air quality from California fires forces closure of Yosemite

Yosemite National Park is closing at least through the weekend because of the hazardous air quality caused by wildfires that continue to rage along the West Coast.

In a statement, officials announced the California park was closed to all visitors and vehicles as of 5 p.m. Thursday, and would likely remain closed through the weekend “with air quality projected to be in the unhealthy to hazardous range over the next several days.”

“The park will continue to assess the smoke impacts, air quality index, and fire activity throughout the region. Yosemite National Park will reopen to visitors when conditions improve, and it is safe for visitors and employees to be in Yosemite National Park,” the park said in the statement.

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Clint Eastwood working on his car before becoming a big movie star

When dandelions bloom

Years ago when we lived in Lincoln, Nebraska we told the kids they could start going barefoot outdoors when they could see the first dandelion.

That wouldn’t work here in Colorado.

Biden: Climate Change is our greatest health threat

Coronavirus restrictions have cleaned up the air in heavily polluted cities

A bittersweet silver lining to the COVID-19 virus is how clean the air in some of the world’s most polluted cities has become.

New Delhi is one of many megacities around the world reporting much fresher air for the first time in years since the virus forced people inside two weeks ago.

Members of a Delhi Whatsapp group exchanged screenshots of the daily air quality index last week, not believing their eyes when they saw that a green banner had replaced the familiar ominous red banner, indicating the conditions were “good.”

“It’s positively alpine,” one person wrote, according to the Guardian.

Bernie Sanders once pushed nuclear waste dumping that threatened Latino communities

In the late 1990s, when now-U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont was a member of the House, he supported a compact between Maine, Vermont and Texas that originally proposed dumping low-level radioactive waste in a small minority community in far-West Texas, putting him at odds with other progressive congressmen.

Even the left-leaning Snopes web-site admits that Sanders did support a proposal in which Maine and Vermont could dispose of low-level nuclear waste at a proposed site in Sierra Blanca, Texas, which is a predominantly Latino and relatively poor community.

Why aren’t Democratic candidates picking up on this to use against Sanders?

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NOAA Scientist Turns Climate Skeptic, Recounts Censorship

The “science is settled” liberal media don’t want people to know there are scientists, even award-winning ones, who dispute the idea of catastrophic global warming.

Because outlets ignore and censor such scientists, curious individuals must turn to other sources such as English journalist James Delingpole’s columns or podcast, the Delingpod. On the July 25 podcast, he interviewed award-winning, former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientist Dr. Rex Fleming about his conversion from global warming

The scientist also discussed manipulation of data within NOAA, accusing a few individuals of “fiddling” with ocean and atmospheric data under the Obama Administration. He also brought up the prominent scientific organizations’ censorship of viewpoints by refusing to publish skeptical scientific papers.

Fleming admitted that for years he supported and “funded projects” by scientists attributing global warming to carbon dioxide in spite of “having doubts” while working for NOAA.

According to Fleming, the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science refuse to publish scientific papers from scientists (like him) it considers “deniers.” So he had to travel to Europe to have his 2018 paper on climate change peer-reviewed and published.

Full report here.

Report: Climate expert shreds claims made by Ocasio-Cortez and Thunberg in Congressional Testimony

Michael D. Shellenberger, President of Environmental Progress, ripped the far-left extremist rhetoric parroted by fringe activist Greta Thunberg and socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during his testimony in front of the House Committee On Science, Space, and Technology on the science of climate change.

Without using their names, Shellenberger — who is a regular contributor in some of America’s largest publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Forbes — ripped apart many of the extreme claims made by Ocasio-Cortez and Thunberg.

Full report here.

Appeals court throws out climate alarmist lawsuit

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals did no favors for the climate alarmism movement on Friday after the panel of judges in San Francisco threw out a lawsuit against the government based on climate change.

The suit was filed in 2015 by a group of young climate alarmists, insisting that the government is solely responsible for creating climate change via cooperating with the fossil fuel industry. The suit claims that the government turned a blind eye to the potential for damage via carbon emissions.

In a rare moment of constitutional textualism by the Ninth Circuit, the trio of Obama nominees affirmed in a 2-1 vote that it was not the duty of the court to craft climate change policy, or to tell the legislative branch how to go about making laws.

Lawyers serving both Presidents Obama and Trump asserted that the government is not at fault because a livable climate is not guaranteed in the Constitution.

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Oops: According to The Heartland Institute, The Planet Might Not Be Warming Like NOAA Says

From a report at the link below:

If there is one thing I love is a good old fashioned debate on things that the vast majority of regular people do not understand yet we think we know. Probably one of the greatest examples of this in the modern day is GLOBAL COOLING/WARMING hysteria.

Now we have some push back from The Heartland Institute which is one of the leading think tanks in studying data on…climate.

Full report here.