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My Home Town Getting Some Major Love!

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From the Wall Street Journal.  Wichita is a great, great city. Boeing announced earlier this week it will spend $1 billion upgrading their factory and facilities. The cost of living is amazingly low.  Come check us out!

Exactly Why We Need a National Disaster Review Board

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Wall Street Journal , today This is an oft-recurring issue. Which is why America desperately needs a National Disaster Review Board: not just to provide answers but to fix the problems so they don't cost life and property in the future. 

Sunday Fun: Climate, Companies and Dilbert

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When you see "news" stories like this from the Wall Street Journal  Monday, Or, like the one below , It is from 2023.  They are incorrect because climate  doesn't delay anything. It is  weather,  on a given day, which causes delays -- something United frequently "fibs" about (see here and here for just two examples).  United isn't the only one, the Financial Times  published an article a few years ago about companies that blame weather for poor earnings results.  There is little evidence that storms have gotten worse, although some believe they will in the future.  I expect more and more companies to Dilbert's approach. 

The Wall Street Journal Is in the Tank For Climate Alarmism

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As a subscriber for decades, I'm really sorry to report that The Wall Street Journal  is now all-in for climate alarmism stories in their news coverage. Recently, they've been printing alarmist stories about once a week. Yesterday's story was about derecho's  -- headline above -- and the one that affected Houston on May 16. One of claims made in the stories is that the airports only had just 60 to 90 minutes of advance notice -- which simply isn't true. Nor are derecho's connected to climate change.  The National Weather Service did a fine job with their forecasts of damaging winds in the Houston area May 16, the day of the derecho. Their 11:33am severe wind forecast had Houston in the "enhanced" area -- more than six hours before the wind arrived. A tornado watch was out at 2:40pm (above) -- more than 3.5 hours before the winds arrived -- plenty of notice to take mitigation actions. If the airport officials weren't paying attention, that is not th...