SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: So Science-y! Bill Nye Says Voting for Kamala Harris Will Stop Hurricanes.

We’ll start this story with the usual disclaimer: Bill Nye is not a scientist. He has no degree in science and no background in science. HIs degree is in mechanical engineering and he’s a comedian.

So no one should take him seriously on any field of science, let alone climate change.

But here he is, being so science-y and saying the way to stop storms like Hurricane Milton is to vote for Kamala Harris:

But alas, it’s too late for that, Bill:

Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added.

— President ‘has four years to save Earth,’ the London Guardian, January 17, 2009.

But then, the year prior, Obama promised his merely winning his party’s presidential nomination would do the job:

“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children … this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

If only Barack hadn’t lost his bottle and allowed his “science” “czar” to shoot pollution into the atmosphere — that would have done the trick, for sure:

The president’s new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth’s air. John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed. One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.

“It’s got to be looked at,” he said. “We don’t have the luxury of taking any approach off the table.”

Of course, if it didn’t work, the Dr. Strangelove-esque scientist was prepared to inflict even sterner measures upon the population — or eventually, the lack thereof.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Greta Thunberg Accuses Germany of Genocide Complicity over Israel Support.

The former darling of the apocalyptic climate change movement, Greta Thunberg joined a Berlin protest against Israel on the anniversary of the October 7th terror attacks on the Jewish state.

In a tacit admission that there are other issues in the world, and that perhaps the end of the world is not nigh, Thunberg has increasingly begun to associate herself with the Palestinian cause.

Speaking from a “Solidarity with Palestine” rally on Monday in Berlin, the keffiyeh scarf-clad 21-year-old Swedish activist accused the German government of being complicit in a “genocide” in Gaza by supporting the Israeli effort to eradicate the Hamas terrorists responsible for the October 7th attacks and who still have dozens of hostages held captive.

“The German government is complicit in this genocide. It finances and legitimises Israel’s apartheid-state occupation and genocide,” Thunberg said.

“It is absolutely… I can’t even find the words to tell you how upset it makes me to see how Germany and how the German police are treating peaceful protesters for saying no to genocide,” she added.

The protest that the climate activist joined in Berlin on Monday later descended into violence, with agitators reportedly throwing rocks and launching fireworks at police officers, who in turn deployed pepper spray to quell the mob.

As Jon Gabriel in June about America’s never-ending protests: Welcome to protest season, where the cause changes but the tactics stay the same. “One year, statues are toppled and the next, Jews are bullied, but it’s amazing how the far-left treats such wildly diverse issues with the same small toolbox. It has ever been thus. As one radical wrote for a Students for a Democratic Society publication in the 1960s, ‘The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.’”

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SPACEX:

In addition to the thousands (>10k) of Starlink kits we are delivering in response to Hurricane Helene, the @Starlink team and @TMobile activated our Direct to Cell satellites to provide emergency alerts for all phones and carriers of those in affected areas.

The @FCC has also…

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 8, 2024

CHANGE: Milton now a Category 3 hurricane is it approaches Florida.

UPDATE: Hurricane Milton regains Category 5 status.

I DONATED CONVALESCENT PLASMA REGULARLY FOR SIX MONTHS AFTER I HAD COVID IN LATE 2020: Missed COVID Lifesaver: Johns Hopkins Reveals How Plasma Therapy Could Have Saved Thousands. “A new study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimates that widespread use of convalescent plasma, especially among outpatients at high risk for severe disease and hospitalized patients in the early stages of their admission, could have saved thousands of lives in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Plus: “If 15% of outpatients had received convalescent plasma, the authors estimate that between 85,268 and 227,377 hospitalizations would have been avoided. If 75% of outpatients received convalescent plasma, between 426,331 and 1,136,880 hospitalizations would have been avoided.”

People in my area used it, but there was a distinct lack of enthusiasm among the medical community as a whole. That lack of enthusiasm appears to have been mistaken.

ANOTHER CONSPIRACY THEORY PROVEN TRUE.

I DROVE A DIESEL AUDI A8 ABOUT THAT FAR ON ONE TANK: Our 2024 Chevy Silverado 1500 ZR2 Has 826 Miles of Range … No, Really. Is this the most fuel efficient off-road diesel half-ton ever?

UNIVERSITIES ARE DOING EDUCATION BADLY. But is it even more purposeful than we suspected? Repeating what should be taught in K-12 means “students receive insufficient instruction in their ‘specialization’ area, thereby creating a felt need to pursue further study at the graduate level”–which brings in more cash.

‘WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT GRAPPLES WITH GOVERNOR’S 400-YEAR VETO, CALLING IT ‘CRAZY.’‘ But Trump must be destroyed because “muh norms.” (Gov. Evers is a Democrat, which goes unmentioned in this AP article.)

JAKE TAPPER BESTED BY FORMER GQ MOTORING JOURNALIST:

. @jaketapper is being ridiculed by world leaders.

He’s a gossip not a journalist.

A real journalist would ask himself “how in the world would Bob Woodward even know this?” before simply repeating anonymous sources.

The public knows Jake is a Democrat activist. https://t.co/jkchqnqMGY

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 9, 2024

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21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS:

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And for those who wish to cut to the chase:

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NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Kansas professor on leave after calling to ‘shoot’ men who won’t vote for female president.

A University of Kansas professor is on administrative leave after a viral clip circulating social media Wednesday showed him calling for men who refuse to vote for a female presidential candidate to be shot.

The professor in the clip appears to be addressing a lecture hall full of students. He bluntly tells the students that men who underestimate a woman’s ability to lead the country should be shot, arguing “they clearly don’t understand the way the world works.”

“It’s what frustrates me, there are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential female president because they don’t think females are smart enough to be president,” he says. “We can line all those guys up and shoot them.”

The professor then adds, “Scratch that from the recording, I don’t want the dean hearing that I said that.”

Why are leftist monopoly institutions such cesspits of hate?

BREAKING: University of Kansas professor who said men who don’t vote for Kamala should be shot, has been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation. https://t.co/Lk9QeuUxkw pic.twitter.com/db8a4tF6U2

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 9, 2024

SPACE: NASA Strengthens Safety Protocol in Response to Persistent Air Leak in International Space Station.

The leak, first identified in 2019 within the Zvezda module’s PrK vestibule, has been under investigation and mitigation efforts.

A report from NASA’s Office of Inspector General indicated that the leak had escalated to nearly 1.7 kilograms per day by April 2024, prompting the ISS program to categorise it as a high-risk issue. However, NASA officials have reported significant improvements, noting that recent repairs have decreased the leak rate by about one-third.

The root cause of the leak remains under scrutiny, with both NASA and Roscosmos investigating internal and external welds. As a precaution, station crews maintain the hatch to the affected area closed when not in use to minimize the leak’s impact on overall station operations.

While NASA and Roscosmos collaborate on resolving the issue, they have not yet agreed on what constitutes an “untenable” leak rate. If the situation deteriorates further, a potential long-term solution could involve permanently sealing the hatch, which would eliminate a docking port for Progress and Soyuz spacecraft.

“Long-term” isn’t much for a station tentatively scheduled to be deorbited in 2030.

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COLUMBIA BROADCASTING STRUGGLE SESSION UPDATE: Reporter Who Dared to Ask Woke Prophet Ta-Nehisi Coates Offers “Regrets” For Committing Unauthorized Journalism at “Teary” Racial Bullying Struggle Session.

“CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil told staffers during an emotional meeting that he “regretted” putting them in a difficult position amid the brewing scandal at the network over his grilling of an anti-Israel author, The Post has learned.

The embattled anchor spoke at Tuesday’s staff-only meeting — which was not attended by co-hosts Gayle King and Nate Burleson — a day after being reprimanded by CBS brass for his fiery sit-down with Ta-Nehsi Coates, a source with knowledge said.

“Tony said he regretted putting his colleagues in that position especially the ones overseas and in danger,” the insider told The Post.

Are you shitting me? That’s the pretext for this racial struggle session? That he was putting fake reporters in danger in Gaza by doing real reporting in America?

This is the cover story.

Wow, this is corrupt. They literally do nothing but lie.

“There were tears. [People were] very upset,” the source continued, adding that staffers are “divided” on the Israel-Palestinian conflict and were “troubled” by how Dokoupil challenged Coates last week.

So that’s the real story — the wokies were upset that any of their hard left pro-terrorist dogma was challenged.

So what’s this bullshit about “putting reporters overseas in danger”?

And if reporters really are in danger because a reporter in America asks a question about Hamas’s terrorism — doesn’t that mean that Coates’ claim that Hamas are the good guys is a lie?

Earlier: Paul Coates, father of journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, republishing antisemitic screed ‘The Jewish Onslaught.’ “But even as Coates has been celebrated for nurturing such contemporary authors as Walter Mosley and reissuing works by W.E.B. Du Bois, among other luminaries, his company has also recently chosen to spotlight an antisemitic screed that seeks to uphold a widely discredited conspiracy theory alleging Jewish domination of the Atlantic slave trade.”

Exit question: How much did Coates inherit his worldview from his father?

Ta-Nehisi Coates is right that there are strong parallels between Israel-Palestine and America’s racial legacy. But, perhaps because of the antisemitism he inherited from his father, he has it completely backwards:

In the Jim Crow era, why did Southern whites hate Blacks more… https://t.co/Llt1qyAY3X

— David Cohen (@DavidBCohen1) October 9, 2024

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Hollywood AWOL on Hurricane Helene (And We All Know Why). “A smattering of stars have finally entered the frame. It’s mostly driven by country crooners.”

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