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Eric Cornelius
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Just another 96% drop to go to FMV vs. auto industry peers.
March 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Swain also generally misses what most ecological analysis calls out as the real significant climate factor: more rapid vegetative proliferation due to CO2 fertilization effect.

If brush is growing nearly 30% faster it causes a greatly magnified impact on wet/dry oscillations.
January 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"Now winter is dry" - is a big nope from the historical records.

And Swain regularly acknowledges that fact too, given net atmospheric moisture carrying capacity is higher with average higher temps.

The California lack of precip is not widely seen as "climate" oriented in the meteorology circles.
January 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
California has always had chaotic wet/dry oscillations.

May certainly be more frequent now, but there's absolutely nothing particularly atypical about having fires here at this time of year - it's not purely a result of climate change despite lots of poorly informed opinions to the contrary.
January 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
It hasn't. Plenty of historical accounts of extremely dry winters, in particular 1852/53 where there was allegedly zero precipitation until February:

www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...

Which was one year after the most recent ArkStorm no less.
How a 19th-Century Drought Gave Us the L.A. We Know Today
The Owens Valley aqueduct and water from the Colorado River blunted the impact of 20th century droughts. Cattle and sheep range, emptied by thirst, became 50-by-100 foot house lots for the ten million...
www.pbssocal.org
January 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Reposted by Eric Cornelius
Short of impoundments, the admin may test all sorts of ways to kill programs they don't like. Grants getting held up indefinitely. Funding rules suddenly shifting.

If you work in federal government and spot these kinds of changes, reach out: www.propublica.org/article/seco...
Some Issues and Topics Our Reporters Will Be Following in a Second Trump Presidency — and How to Get in Touch
During Donald Trump’s second presidency, ProPublica will continue our focus on the areas most in need of scrutiny. Here are some of the issues our reporters will be watching — and how to get in touch ...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2024 at 3:04 PM
This morning we find out they sat on an interview with Tom Homan?

Where could they find the opportunity to run it between the 3 articles a day they were running about how Biden was too old at AG's direction?

Let them reap.
November 15, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Given their regular trafficking in false equivalency, let's not make a false equivalency that the NYT is the sole representative of 1A freedoms.

They are the institutional equivalent of Trump voters. It's FAFO time.
November 15, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Justice department clearly can't be bothered.

Especially when it comes to Leon.

And that's Bipartisan reality.
November 15, 2024 at 2:19 PM
And if people are going to be slapped into the reality of a first amendment assault and get motivated to win, I can't think of any more karmically justified frontline cannon fodder than the NYT.

Maybe it can do one decent thing as a martyr, even if in a situation of its own making.
November 15, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Free press exists outside of media/entertainment outlets that busily boosted Trump for the last four years with a campaign of sanewashing and false equivalency and targeted propaganda against the Democratic admin.

So yep, still the point.

Let the kleptocratic propaganda outlets have it.
November 15, 2024 at 2:02 PM
It is the point.

No need to feel bad for media outlets (journalism is a big stretch of late) which are run by nepobaby infants who did their best to tear down Biden and promote a horserace.

The Politico article from last year was all anyone should need to believe the Grey Lady belongs in hospice.
November 15, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Implying we're not already there and haven't been for quite some time?
November 14, 2024 at 3:27 PM