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Justin M. Ruhge's avatar

But, the world has always been like this. Humans make it what it is today, a threat to them.

Jeff barton's avatar

I am afraid that we must give up our personal sovereignty and treasure to the government in exchange for safety from these existential threats.

DLDawson's avatar

sounds like fear porn is on the breakfast menu today…weather wars are heating up!

Julia Gonzales's avatar

Climate change is a hoax, according to the magas and taco supporters.

Emmett's avatar

And this doesn’t cover all the atmosphere geo engineering that is well documented and finally admitted to in public finally. Yet one more conspiracy theory proved true.

Ever wonder why no one can predict the weather in boring old SB accurately?

Gotta ask yourself, why the environmentalists, the global warming culture who is trying to ban your car is busy polluting the atmosphere globally with chemicals in order to change the global weather patterns while they blame cow farts and your suv.

Michael Wilson's avatar

Awesome...but of course none of this should surprise anyone. We were told this is going to happen. All these "natural disasters" will increase in frequency and intensity. Just like "birth pains". It's not a good time to visit Mt. Etna (or any other active volcano). Like to saying goes...'y'all haven't seen nutten yet" 😉 Blessings

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Robert Johnson's avatar

Not to rain on your parade, Ms. Livingston, but the WSJ article claiming the Earth is cooling rather than warming contradicts the consensus of 97%+ of climate scientists. This from Google AI:

"While some individuals and publications, including the WSJ, have presented arguments suggesting the Earth is cooling or that climate change is not as severe as scientists predict, the overwhelming scientific consensus is that the Earth is warming and that this warming is primarily caused by human activities."

Here's a link which might help explain how Holman Jenkins (the author of the Wall Street Journal article (from 3 Nov 2023) arrived at his misleading conclusion. Interestingly, the very same WSJ claimed on 10 Jan of this year that 2024 was "the hottest year on record."

Not the direction one would expect the trend to be heading if indeed the planet was cooling, eh?

https://science.feedback.org/review/wall-street-journal-questions-decades-scientific-evidence-demonstrating-elevated-atmospheric-co2-causes-global-warming/

Jeff barton's avatar

Climate science is that branch of pseudo-science devoted to the proposition that the planet is warming due to the burning of fossil fuel. This discipline is generously funded by government programs such as the inflation reduction act which handed out billions tor “climate stuff” to the likes of Stacey Abrams’ NGO to hand out to other NGO’s until the money disappears. I thought a failed grifter could spot grift. Perhaps it is a flavor of plausible denial used by grifters to cover for grifting. The grifter has no clothes oh my.

Robert Johnson's avatar

Mr. Barton. It's rather telling that your go-to response to anyone you disagree with is to assail their character with juvenile putdowns. I don't know; maybe it helps you sleep?

Anyway, on more than one occasion you have called me a "grifter" for my attempt to form a nonprofit real estate company some fifteen years ago. As I've explained to you before, I, regrettably, never got the Santa Barbara NonProfit Real Estate Company off the ground. So you can snuff your libelous aspersions right there.

But here's a little background on that endeavor: I founded and formed the 501(c)3, got approval for a pilot program to install 200kW of panels on Peabody Charter School, got approval from our Principal (Kate Ford) and the School District but, unfortunately, never was able to bring the program to fruition. This was mostly due to the fact that my wife, Dana O'Neill (you can Google her obituary in the Independent) contracted breast cancer and, not long thereafter, passed away.

As I had two young sons to raise on my own, the Sisyphean task of attempting to start a new business (let alone one with a novel approach) proved just too daunting, so I had to give it up and return to the plain old for profit real estate model.

I realize you must have felt you struck "gold" when you Googled my name and found the Independent article about Santa Barbara NonProfit Realty. But, alas--for you--it was never a "scam" or a "grift" or a "scheme" as you claim. Rather, it was an honest attempt to pay for solar panels on Santa Barbara public schools to reduce their energy bills. The program at Peabody alone would have saved the school $56,000 per year.

My hope was that enough people would support the goals of the NonProfit and use us for their real estate needs over the for-profit competition. The ultimate plan (and a condition of a nonprofit structured so) was for SBNPR to split the real estate commission 50/50; half to go to any realtor that worked for us, and half to go to the school's solar installation.

Unfortunately, as I already mentioned, the project never had even a single real estate transaction, and therefore never got off the ground.

Now, you can continue calling me a "grifter" all you like, but you are mistaken. Again, I hope this helps clarify matters.

Jeff barton's avatar

I already read this twice hence failed grifter.

DLDawson's avatar

FYI…Google was created by DARPA/CIA (In-Q-Tel) and is now run by the Deep State actors…more mind control for the sheeple…

CarsAreBasic's avatar

WOW,

Go out of town and the world comes to an end.

At the least interesting.

Tom Fitzgerald's avatar

Oh dear. Some how the sarcasm is lost on so many. Oh well. Remember: Eat healthy, exercise daily, die anyway. Cheers and thank the gods for single malts.

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david mccalmont's avatar

That's more time than I spend reading the "Santa Barbara Independent"!