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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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The arrogance of the Climate Clerics knows no bounds. The temperature record has not complied with their models for 25+ years, thus the only place any warming has been observed is in their models. They expect us to not believe all of their failed predictions, while their politician deities load up on multi-million dollar coastline estates and fly around on private jets. Eat bugs, peasants! These clerics are no better than the loonies who once meandered about downtown wearing sandwich board warnings that the end of the world was near. Their dire predictions don’t even rarely come true. They NEVER… Read more »
Is that from your scholarly scientific research, or is that more Googlefu?
It comes from what geologists’ research says. Unlike the clerics, like Michael Mann, who insist on hiding their data and assumptions from scrutiny, quite a few geologists actually make their data available freely to the public.
Reliable temperature records primarily exist in Europe and more so in the US. If you look for yourself at unadjusted temperature data for stations in existence for 100 years or more, not in recent year urban heat islands, you find a slight cooling trend since 1990 or so. You find zero reason to panic. Quite the opposite.
Or you can believe the clerics.
#ClimateScam
Links to the research, please. And their funding source.
My goodness, I want to post the ‘sources’ meme, but the button to link pictures is gone! https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/987/227/1f3.png “Do you have a source on that? Source? A source. I need a source. Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion. No, you can’t make inferences and observations from the sources you’ve gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you’ve gathered. You can’t make normative statements from empirical evidence. Do you have a degree in that field? A college degree? In… Read more »
As a few climate scientists acknowledge, we are actually STILL in an ice age, because the evidence being that the polar caps are still frozen, whereas throughout most of the history of earth, the ice caps were not frozen solid: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-12378934 “It may be hard to believe, but Antarctica was once covered in towering forests. One hundred million years ago, the Earth was in the grip of an extreme Greenhouse Effect. The polar ice caps had all but melted; in the south, rainforests inhabited by dinosaurs existed in their place. These Antarctic ecosystems were adapted to the long months of… Read more »
And the mile high glaciers that covered much of northern Illinois only melted 10-15,000 years ago, which is barely yesterday in geological history and they melted to become Lake Michigan.
For the sake of argument I’ll agree that humans are changing the climate. China and India are increasing their emissions so much each year that if ours went to zero next year it wouldn’t matter one bit in the scheme of things. So how does the USA convince those countries to suspend their development? It ain’t gonna happen in the next decade or two, that is for certain. Best scenario for the USA is to devote our resources to mitigating any bad effects, and otherwise adapting to the climate changes. rather than pretending that we can turn back the clock… Read more »
LOL, the sun-times tries to ‘shame’ the climate realists.