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Proposal to Shut Down the National Center for Atmospheric Research

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NCAR's headquarters on Table Mesa near Boulder, Colorado. Courtesy of Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr.  The Trump Administration has proposed to shut down National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) located in the Rocky Mountain foothills (specifically, Table Mesa) near Boulder, Colorado. The usual suspects are furious or think it is "past time." The issue, as I see it, is that NCAR was originally set up to be the nation's premier institution of applied  meteorological research:   thunderstorm safety, and that type of thing. Unfortunately, just a few years after its creation, it was "captured" by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) -- which changed its focus that atmospheric scientists call "basic" research. An example was (and this real) how much carbon dioxide is released every time a bee farts?  While there is nothing wrong with basic research, we have an imbalance in the U.S. where too much tax money goes to basic research and ...
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Another Bad GeoEngineering Idea

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Cooling the earth likely equals stronger storms and other unintended consequences. Geoengineering is a terrible idea. 
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Nothing Like a Kansas Sunset

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This evening's sunset. 
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Yes, The Media Really Did Say "Snowfalls are Becoming a Thing of the Past"

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The stuff that never falls anymore falling at my home.   In spite of the Big Climate and Big Media (same thing!) trying to gaslight us last week into believing that "no mainstream media ever reported snow was going away," here is the first (year 2000 from Great Britain's Independent ) headline proclaiming just that.  Given the absurdity of this article, I did a screen capture of it at the time, but I didn't grab the entire article because I mistakenly thought The Independent would have the ethics to leave the article, which quoted climate scientists such as Dr. David Viner, in their online library. Nope!  On November 30, in this space, I asked the question, Why Don't Incorrect Forecasts Dissuade Climate Alarmists?  Little did I know that 48 hours later another round of gaslighting would begin.  More unmentionable, impossible stuff falling at my home. Evidently, it never occurs to the alarmists that correcting their (all too numerous) errors would help  the...
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Mr and Mrs Rob Reiner Rest in Peace

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The Reiners were found murdered in their home this evening. The full story is here . May they rest in peace. 
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Update on Patrick Mahomes.

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To make things even worse, Patrick has a torn ACL in his left knee. That will be a minimum of six months of recovery. 
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What the Satellite is Showing this Morning

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The band of snow that fell yesterday and the current fog from Texas to the Dakotas.  Here's a map of snow amounts.
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