On this date in 1944, a hurricane wiped out the Atlantic City boardwalks, damaged or destroyed every home in Ocean City, and damaged 700 miles of the Atlantic coast.

15 Sep 1944, Page 1 – The News-Herald at Newspapers.com

Americans were too busy dealing with real problems (like WWII) to waste on energy on fake problems (like climate change.)

15 Sep 1944, Page 1 – The Danville Morning News at Newspapers.com

Climate change has been fake news for hundreds of years. It is an obsession of the world’s stupidest people.

10 Jan 1871 – IMAGINARY CHANGES OF CLIMATE. – Trove

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September 14, 2017 at 01:30AM

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September 14, 2017 at 01:00AM

A new incendiary blog by Dr. Duane Thresher  and Dr. Claudia Kubatzki unleashes on NASA Goddard Institute (one of the two main motherlodes of climate activism), calling for them to be defunded because they are “ignoble”, with “herds of do-gooders”, and “NASA GISS is a monument to bad science”.

They are a husband and wife team, both producing peer-reviewed climate papers. He worked at NASA GISS for seven years. Since they came out as skeptics in California, they’ve had to move house.  Thanks to Marc Morano for the tip.

His latest post calls on the new NASA head, appointed by Trump, to just turn off the tap, cut the cash: Bridenstine, Climate Scientists Are Not Noble, Stop Paying Them

Everyone assumes climate scientists are noble. Fighting to save the planet. What nonsense. Not even close.

They write about a wave of new money into climate science and the decay of the field:

Enter opportunists, carpetbaggers, the corrupt, the ignoble.

What to do?  Stop paying climate scientists. The good ones are so into their science they will work for food, maybe less, maybe even pay to do it. French President Macron has invited the rest […]

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September 13, 2017 at 09:53PM

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen In remembrance of the victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma:  I have held off publishing this essay until after the damage from Hurricane Irma could be determined hoping not to add to the fears, angst and now sorrow experienced by both victims and their relatives.  My prayers and sympathy go…

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September 13, 2017 at 08:28PM