13 Mar 2019 – Colorado governor declares state of emergency as blizzard paralyzes Front Range.

“Snow driven by winds approaching 100 mph shut down schools, highways, air travel and businesses in the Pikes Peak region Wednesday and left more than 1,000 stranded in their cars awaiting rescue.”

Denver International Airport shut down all six runways for only the fourth time in its history.

Blowing snow “reduced visibility not to car lengths but to inches. Some reported they couldn’t see even the front of their vehicles.”

https://gazette.com/news/more-than-drivers-stranded-in-colorado-springs-area-gov-polis/article_9056f158-458a-11e9-9974-53e3ebdd484a.html

https://www.9news.com/article/weather/weather-colorado/so-many-colorado-drivers-were-stranded-in-the-blizzard-the-governor-asked-the-national-guard-for-help/73-7916f5c8-018a-4e2f-9958-6e4eea5f2f59

Thanks to Vance von Raab for these links

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March 19, 2019 at 09:45PM

Guest ridiculing by David Middleton Hat tip to Clyde Spencer Exxon’s Climate Denial Set To Face First Public Scrutiny As Legal Woes Mount Alexander C. Kaufman ,HuffPost•March 19, 2019 It’s been nearly four years since leaked documents revealed Exxon Mobil Corp.understood that fossil fuel emissions caused the planet to warm before it began funding a Big Tobacco-style misinformation…

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March 19, 2019 at 08:09PM

A letter from Pierre Bouteille

Dear friends from the English-speaking world,

Just to keep you abreast of what is going on in France…

You may have heard of the Yellow Vests, who triggered our president Macron into embarking on a “Grand Debate”, mainly on the internet. It is mostly a closed questionnaire with circular arguments on the most surreptitious ways to shoehorn the energy transition, without offering to question its legitimacy in the first place. However, looking closely at the fine print, contributors like associations can still express an open opinion.

On our side Rémy Prud’homme is an emeritus professor of economics, former consultant to the OECD, occasionally to the World Bank, and visiting professor at the MIT. As such he is our chief economist within the steering committee of the French Climato-Réalistes. He came up with the attached “ENERGY TRANSITION IN FRANCE: USELESS, COSTLY, UNFAIR”, initially in French of course. See: https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/energy-transition-in-france.pdf [PDF, 346 KB]

We thought you may like to know that we Froggies are enduring the same attacks as everywhere in the western world and that we like to voice our concern.

Sympathetically yours,

Pierre Bouteille, on behalf of the French Climato-Réalistes

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March 19, 2019 at 07:52PM

His comments denigrating the ANZACS have stirred both Australia and New Zealand Govts. A year ago I posted Our ANZAC history could be put in perspective 22Apr2018 which just sets out the basic facts that the Ottoman Empire was a German ally in WWI and closing the Dardanelles was a legitimate war aim.

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