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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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If climate change is certain why are they trying to silence other opinions? Wouldn’t it be better to allow those opinions and debunk them, that is if they were able to debunk them. https://issuesinsights.com/2020/02/28/the-academic-blacklist-climate-alarmists-dont-want-you-to-know-about/
What about Pritzker’s climate change madness in Illinois
Climate change is a matter of reality, not a matter of opinion. Science is where the answer lies. What is the scientific consensus?
There is no consensus on the real issues, which are the extent to which carbon dioxide from human activity is warming the planet, and the extent to which trillions of dollars in green initiatives will make a difference. What’s very clear is that predictions from many climate extremists have been wrong and they routinely peddle unfounded claims, making it hard for us with open minds to sort things out.
It’s actually easy for people with open minds to sort things out. Explain to me why the glaciers melted and formed the Great Lakes 10,000 years ago, and I’ll maybe listen to what the ‘climate scientists’ have to say. Until then, it’s just a bunch of hysterical nonsense, not too different than the Atzec sacrificing their children to the rain gods. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-thawed-the-last-ice-age/ “Roughly 20,000 years ago the great ice sheets that buried much of Asia, Europe and North America stopped their creeping advance. Within a few hundred years sea levels in some places had risen by as much as 10… Read more »
yep……and Al Gore pushed the most BS and got very rich on malarky
Who cares about Al Gore? This is about reality and science, not the words of politicians.
I will ask again…………What is the reality??
The 99% consensus among climate scientists is that climate change is occurring and that it is man made. The extent to which it has happened is a matter of measurement. The extent to which it will continue can only be guessed, and the best guesses come from regression analysis, modeling and future human actions.
Modeling seems awfully unreliable these days…
The scientific consensus is that a measly 10,000 year ago, one mile high glaciers melted and the water turned into Lake Michigan. As the glacier slowly receded, it formed ridges along the way, which gave us names like Park Ridge, Mt. Prospect, Arlington Heights, Barrington Hills, and so on. Brian, what caused the glaciers to melt? Wholly Mammoth flatulence? Cave Man campfires? Please do tell, I’d love to know what caused a dozen or more temperature degree change that melted 5,000 foot high glaciers that had been there for tens of thousands of years. Please do tell, because the scientists… Read more »
And also positive they can stop it, if only we give them complete control and trillions of dollars!
Very true!
Normal glaciation advance and reatreat is due to known changes in the Earth’s orbit.
That’s a new one, hadn’t heard that before, and if true, totally contradicts that climate change is man made.
Here’s some info on that.
https://geo.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Geology/Environmental_Geology_(Earle)/03%3A_Climate_Changes_in_Earths_Past/3.04%3A_Earths_Orbital_Fluctuations_and_Climate_Change
climate change is baloney just like Al Gore who started this junk
really……….so what is the reality??