Unca Darrell

OCTOBER 11, 2019 / Unca D accuses California of Venezuelization. The WSJ . . .

. . . sees that comparison, raises it, and takes the pot: Editorial, "California's Dark Ages," The Wall Street Journal, October 11, 2019 (emphasis added).

CALIFORNIANS ARE LEARNING to live like the Amish after investor-owned utility PG&E this week shut off power to two million or so residents to prevent wildfires amid heavy, dry winds. Blame the state’s largest blackout on a perfect storm of bad policies.

AUGUST 10, 2017 / A YouTube video that never gets old:

. . . Michael Berry on Unca Darrell on Houston Chronicle on global warming 

A tip of the fedora to Mr. Robert Ecks, who made the video.

Here is Unca D's original blog of September 3, 2008. 

And here is the follow-on blog of September 3, 2013, that inspired Mr. Berry's commentary.

Now to NOVEMBER 8 / Closed: Unca Darrell will vote for . . .

. . . one of the worst human beings and presidential candidates in American history, Donald John Trump. Here's why: 

SEPTEMBER 15 / Stuff to read

ONCE UPON A TIME there was a thing called "geologic time". It was a hell of a ride, as Professor Robert Laughlin of Stanford, summarizes:

Six million years ago the Mediterranean Sea dried up. Ninety million years ago alligators and turtles . . .

SEPTEMBER 11 / "It all seems to boil down . . .

. . . to a few questions," essayist Theodore Dalrymple says of global warming. Exactly right. And here are the questions and, no extra charge, Unca D's quick answers:

Is global warming taking place?

JUNE 27 / On the bright side, Houston Chronicle editors got . . .

. . . four W's right: who? what? where? and when?

From last Saturday's typically lamentable "Ups and Downs" editorial:

JUNE 5 / The second The Chris Tomlinson . . .

. . . SCIENCE Award for Excellence in Demonstrating Things Clearly goes to . . .

JUNE 2 / Unca D proudly announces . . .

. . . the establishment of a brand-new award, soon to be mentioned in the same breath with Nobel, Pulitzer, and Most Improved Player in West University Little League: The Chris Tomlinson SCIENCE Award for Excellence in Demonstrating Things Clearly.

The first recipient will be announced tomorrow, June 3, the anniversary of Mr. Tomlinson's most-memorable column in the always-memorable Houston Chronicle.

Herewith, the story behind the story:

MAY 26 / Three reasons Democrats say "climate change" . . .

. . . is a national security threat.

First, if global warming climate change can be recharacterized as a threat to national security, then the entire national security budget can be raided for progressive social and economic projects.

Second . . . 

SEPTEMBER 5 / "Just fine, thank you very much."

THAT'S HOW the Arctic ice cap is doing on the sixth anniversay of the Houston Chronicle's hysterical 2008 prediction that the Arctic ice cap could disappear in five years.

Go here to read Unca D's takedown -- one of the most golden of Unca's oldies.

So how big was the ice cap in August of the year of our Lord, 2014?