Thoughts On A Sunday

Well, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is winding to a close. That means no more worries about “Black Friday” or “Local Shops Saturday” Christmas shopping crowds to deal with. Holiday traffic has tapered off, at least around here. Things have returned to normal for the most part. About the only thing we'll have to keep an eye on is a possible snow storm on Tuesday, one that out local Weather Guys^TM can't quite seem to pin down as to where and how much we might expect. But then, that isn't out of the ordinary, is it? For the moment they're predicting between 4 and 8 inches of snow here at the lake.

If you read my Saturday post you'll know that I spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday traveling here and there, all of which made for long days. The only 'traveling' I did today was for my usual pre-church shopping at Walmart early this morning.

Things have been settling down back to a more normal routine for now. There are still plenty of things to be done before Christmas, but I'll take those one day at a time.

Tomorrow it's back to work, something I am actually looking forward to despite it being a Monday.

So, how was your Thanksgiving?

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Have you ever noticed just how intolerant our “tolerant” liberal friends and neighbors are should our viewpoint differ from theirs? This seems to be particularly true if the particular liberal is of the female persuasion. They preach tolerance but but I get the feeling that word is misunderstood by most of them as it only applies to those they happen to agree with or those they see as “victims”, even if those alleged victims are intolerant, rapists and murderous bigots who have no problem killing people they disagree with.

Can anyone explain the logic behind why liberal women are supportive of importing Muslims into their countries, cities, and neighborhoods?

Despite all of the evidence that this is a horrible idea, they still do it.

This phenomenon is happening in all white countries.

I have to wonder how many of these liberal women are AWFLs – Affluent White Female Liberals – who always seem to focus on the wrong things and paint too many criminals as “victims” of whichever injustice is currently popular amongst them.

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This isn't all that surprising considering that more people have come to recognize that much of the climate change industry is being seen as a scam that is used only to raise money.

One of the first indications that people aren't buying what the Climate Cult Faithful are selling is that the Sierra Club has lost 60% 0f its members, “proving even the Green left can 'Go Woke, Get Broke.'" Then 350.org “suspended operations” earlier this month.

I have to wonder if some of this might also have to do with that fact that their dire predictions of climate doom haven't played out. Heck, they haven't even come close and people noticed.

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The following is something even the more savvy and open-minded climate change activists have admitted, something that is quite refreshing.

Ecological Impacts Of Offshore Windparks Are Worse Than Expected, New Study Finds

I've been hearing about some of the major negative effects of off-shore wind farms for some time, particularly when it comes to how they affect marine life and can cause warming of the atmosphere and sea surface water. (It's not just that, but also the off-shore wind farms are more expensive to build and to maintain, and don't have the service life of land-based wind turbines and require more frequent maintenance due to the hostile environment.)

How can wind turbines warm the climate? The secret lies in the vortices and the altered air circulation.

1. The rotors extract energy from the wind. This creates vortex structures that spread over wide areas.

2. These vortices weaken the natural mixing of the lower air layers and the surface water.

3. The natural cooling capacity of the sea surface is thereby reduced. Heat cannot be dissipated as easily, which intensifies the temperature increase at the sea surface. This additional heat rises into the atmosphere.

Measurements confirm this effect: there are slight but constant temperature increases near the ground. In densely concentrated wind farms, these effects can reinforce each other.

Moreover, the impacts are not just local; analyses show that the effects of the vortices extend over more than 100 kilometers and cause measurable temperature increases up to 200 meters in altitude.

While I wasn't aware that wind farms could cause warming, I have heard reports of whales being affected by the infrasound generated by the wind turbine rotors which can confuse them and affect their health. But the effects of infrasound doesn't affect just whales and other marine life. It can affect humans as well. (This isn't just caused by offshore wind farms, but by wind turbines in general.)

Read The Whole Thing.

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And that's the post-holiday news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where we've had a little snow on Sunday, are expecting more snow on Tuesday, and where Monday doesn't really matter this week.