It’s been a wet weekend here at the lake, having received about an inch or rain between yesterday and today. It’s something we’ve needed as we’re still a bit under the average for snowfall over the winter and rainfall for spring so far. Not that I’m complaining as the rain didn’t affect anything I had planned for the weekend. Not that there’s been a whole lot going on around here in general. We’re still gearing up for the upcoming summer season but most of that will start taking place this coming week as summer businesses open in preparation for the Memorial Day weekend crush which is the unofficial start of summer up this way. (I’m sure is just about everywhere else in the US as well.)
Speaking of summer, I have made arrangements to pick up the Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout in a little over three weeks. Beezlebub and I will get it cleaned up and all of the gear loaded before we take it down to our town docks for launching on the weekend of May 17th, give or take a couple of days. That will be the official start of our boating season!
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This seems like an incredibly stupid idea considering they really don’t know what will happen. To what am I referring?
‘Sun-Dimming’ Aerosol Injections Into Atmosphere For Climate Change.
It seems there’s something of a disconnect here, particularly when so many of the Climate Cult faithful have been pushing for us to go more into solar power.
As
Neil Oliver comments:
“I do wonder why so much money is being spent smothering the landscape with solar panels when the parallel plan is to diminish the energy available from the sun.”
Decreasing the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface means a lower output from solar arrays. It also means lower temperatures, something we won’t be able to control because of the inertia involved with doing this. There will be no thermostat we can just turn up and down as needed. If these morons get it wrong they’ll be triggering another Ice Age, something we really don’t need. We’ve seen the effects of those aerosols when something like a volcanic eruption takes place, causing all kinds of debris into the atmosphere which has the effect of cooling the Earth, sometimes for decades. There have been two volcanic eruptions that were so large that they created two different “Years without Summer”. Ironically, they also increased the CO
2 content of the atmosphere some small amount.
What still baffles me is how many people seem to think our present climate conditions are somehow unprecedented when they are anything but. The Climate Cultists have tried to explain away the Medieval and Roman Warm Periods and have failed to do so as they found it impossible to erase historical records from both of those time periods.
When B.E.S.T. - Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature – did a survey of land-based weather reporting stations they found that many of them that had once been ‘pristine’ weather stations were now directly affected by the Urban Heat Island effect, the Climate Cultists did their best to bury that survey because it didn’t support the narrative.
And so it goes…
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Does anyone really know what China’s population is? China says it’s 1.4 billion, but I have my doubts considering after it’s 36-year long One Child Policy. How could it’s population have grown over almost two generations when the birth rate was mandated by the Chinese Communist Party to be 0.5? In 2016 China’s government reset the limit to two children, and in 2021 raised it to three, then removing the limit later that same year.
Was the One Child Policy fully enforced over the years between 1979 and 2015? No, as there were exceptions made for some groups, but even then they weren’t given much leeway. For instance, rural families were allowed two children if their first child was female.
Some are saying China’s population is well under 1 billion, with
one YouTube content creator stating that at best China may have around 900 million but she posits it could be as low as 690 million taking into account China’s One Child Policy, the disincentives for marriage, and then the debacle that was the Covid pandemic. One estimate she also covers puts China’s population as low 324 million, post-Covid, a number I think may be far too low. She does provide the reasoning behind her estimate as well as estimates made by others.
I have seen a number of YouTube videos showing
empty streets, empty shops, and empty shopping malls in China’s major cities. However, I have been suspicious of them because all it takes is recording those videos during the right time of day to give the impression of empty streets and shopping malls. (I know this personally because a film I made for one of my high school classes back in 1973 had a lot of the footage I shot in downtown Boston that was taken early on a Sunday morning, showing lots of empty streets, closed shops and businesses.) But if the the estimates about China’s population being well below the official population are correct, its possible those aforementioned videos are showing exactly what’s happening in China.
Add in China’s weak economy and that adds yet another factor leading to those empty streets, shops, businesses, and malls.
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Something I came across that has me disturbed is it seems that some of our state representatives to the New Hampshire House haven’t a clue what is going on in their home towns.
How is it they can possibly represent us in the state capitol if they have no idea what’s happening in the towns (or wards) they represent? I am fortunate that at least one of the four state reps that cover our district is pretty well clued in. That could be because we talk quite often and he brings me up to speed on whats happening in the State House and I do likewise for him about what’s happening in our town. But is that the ‘exception to the rule’ or is it more common among the 400 state representatives? From the few examples I have seen, it is more the exception rather than the rule, and that’s sad.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where warmer weather is returning, more boats are being seen out on the lake, and where Monday is returning to plague us yet again...