28 July 2016 - Granite Grok

July 28, 2016

Climate Alarmists – Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at Risk from Sea Level Rise

Local media is reporting claims that the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is in imminent danger from sea level rise. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), is asking local communities to prepare for the worst. What is “the worst?” More than a quarter of the shipyard’s land area, including places currently key to operations, will become part of the tidal …

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And we wonder why Academia makes nitwits out of our children?

This from Powerline shows the utterly absurdity of what seems to be passing for real academic study: The A/Un/grammatical Child/hood/s and Writing Nature/Culture Edusemiotic Entangling With Affective Outside Encounters and Sustainability Events to Come Anne B. Reinertsen, Queen Maud University College,Trondheim, Norway Abstract This is about creating new ontologisations of sustainable child/hood/s and/as exceeding forms of …

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Sums up the Democrat Party in one Tweet

Crowd chanting “USA! USA!” Delegate in front of me stands up and yells, “Stop that! That’s a Trump chant!” #DNCinPHL — Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) July 28, 2016 Maybe they should have chanted ‘CUBA! CUBA!’ That’s more along the lines of the Democrat-type of government.

Data Point – Hurricanes hitting the US

No major hurricane has made landfall in the continental United States for a record-breaking 129 months, according to data going back to 1851 compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The last major hurricane to make landfall on the continental United States was Hurricane Wilma, which slammed into Florida on Oct. 24, 2005–129 months ago. …

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Notable Quote – David Boaz

When you lay out a picnic, you get ants. When you hand out more wealth through government, you get lobbyists. The federal budget is the biggest picnic in history. -David Boaz (The Libertarian Mind) (H/T: Cafe Hayek)