It’s going to be busy during the coming week as work continues as the ex continues moving into her new home, duties at work as equipment calibration comes due, town duties, and making sure the sole member of the feline contingent here at The Gulch makes it to her appointment with the veterinarian.
And so it goes.
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A Blast From The Past (Month):
Cuba Becomes The First Country To Reach Net Zero.
Of course, it must be said that Cuba hadn’t planned to reach Net Zero.
[W]ith a small assist from the United States, the island nation of Cuba has almost entirely ended the use of fossil fuels. Finally, we have the first country in the world to achieve the climate movement’s Holy Grail and nirvana — Net Zero! Or at least a very close approximation. This should be cause for a huge celebration.But has anyone asked the people of Cuba if they’re happy to be the first country in the world to reach that goal? Somehow, I doubt it.
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Seeing the Democrats’ efforts to ‘punish’ the GOP for not reigning in ICE as it does its job turn into punishing the American people by making the US even more vulnerable to terrorist attacks has me in a bit of a quandary. Is it “punishment” or are the Democrats hoping that by crippling our antiterror defenses by refusing to fund DHS that they are facilitating terror attacks that they can then use to win the mid-term elections in November? Seeing just how much the Democrat Party has decayed into a tacit socialist/communist party, I think it may be both.
Democrats have imposed a partial government shutdown to cripple DHS, the department responsible for defending us from Islamic terror. Their explicit purpose is to hamper ICE, which would facilitate unlawful entry into the country by hostile foreign agents.It’s like they’re working hard to destroy America and trying to the lay the blame should such destruction succeed upon the GOP.
According to leftist Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI), Democrats are “very serene” about how this will play out. Even now, they believe the media can prevent voters from realizing what they are doing to the country.
Nothing new there.
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This illustrates one of my reasons for not buying into solar to be a large part of ‘baseload’ capacity, that being its vulnerability to severe weather as seen recently in Indiana and Illinois.
In the quiet town of Wheatfield, Indiana, a powerful storm system unleashed chaos on March 10, 2026, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. While initial reports suggested hail as the primary culprit, investigations point to a suspected tornado as the main force behind the widespread damage. The Dunns Bridge I and II solar farms, key components of Northern Indiana Public Service Company’s (NIPSCO) renewable energy portfolio, bore the brunt of the storm’s fury. These facilities, located in Jasper and Starke counties, represent a combined capacity of approximately 700 MW of solar power, making them among the largest in the region.I have seen other instances where solar farms were heavily damaged during thunderstorms when hailstones smashed thousands of solar panels. One has to remember that solar panels are, for all intents and purposes, glass. Glass doesn’t like hailstones hitting them as they tend to crack or shatter.
Eyewitness accounts and drone footage circulating on social media depict twisted metal frames, shattered panels, and debris scattered across acres of farmland. NIPSCO confirmed the damage in an official statement, noting that teams were on-site to assess and secure the area as soon as conditions allowed.
There was one solar farm that had been proposed in my town many years ago that would have roughly 500KW of generating capacity if it were built. The developer had put up a small demonstrator solar ‘farm’ at the proposed location consisting of three panels to show how it would work. One thunderstorm later and it was offline, heavily damaged. The thunderstorm that caused that damage wasn’t even all that much of a thunderstorm. It wasn’t hail that damaged the panels, but a wind gust that caused a tree branch to break off and ‘fly’ almost 30 yards before it hit the demonstrator, cracking the panels and knocking over the portable setup.
I think I’d rather have a Small Modular Reactor rather than a solar farm any day.
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I’m glad the climate change faithful were so wrong on this one.
Climate Alarm Brews False Coffee Crisis As Global Production Sets Records
WTAE ABC, Pittsburgh, published a story titled, “Climate change affecting global coffee production, study finds.” The study is false, perpetrated by a climate activist group called Climate Central, and uncritically echoed by WTAE meteorologist Jill Szwed.I have to wonder if these are the same folks who predicted climate change would also cause shortages of chocolate because cocoa bean yields would be negatively affected. So far I haven’t seen any indications of chocolate shortages. Have you?
Had Szwed or WTAE fact-checked Climate Central’s claims against real-world data, they would have found coffee production has increased dramatically around the world amid the modest recent warming, including in each of the countries cited in WTAE’s story.
So far the predictions made by the climate change faithful over the past few decades have not come to be. Have there been weather ‘anomalies’? Of course there has. But these anomalies are not climate and have always occured. Trying to turn them into indications of climate change works against them because they haven’t been repeating as one would expect if they were indicators of climate change.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee where we’re expecting a lot of rain and temps in the upper 50’s on Monday, hopefully the snow banks will continue to shrink, and where we’re still getting used to the change to Daylight Saving Time.