AGW-Climate Change-Global Warming (AKA: Weather)

Eeewww!! – Cricketeria Reprise

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Since NBC News decided to trot out it’s predictably gross “How Crickets Could Help Save the Planet” to commemorate Al Gore’s newest inconvenient movie release and Donald Trump’s ‘Climate Denier’, oil-guy EPA appointment, it time to reprise our little story on crickets.  First NBC.

Unless we all stick to salads, the global production of meat will need to double in that time to feed our growing population, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO). Feed and crop production will also have to increase in kind to support livestock and our own appetites, inevitably taking up more land space and water — precious and dwindling commodities required for cattle.

Now our reprise – Your Sustainable Thanksgiving Dinner

Forget that turkey. Or dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy and cranberries. Belly up to the cricket buffet. Eat your fill and feel good about exterminating hunger for the next generation.

California Dreamin’ – Gov. “Moonbeam’s” Failed Spending Priorities

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Gov. Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, was well aware that the Oroville Dam needed extensive, costly repairs and upgrades, but with the “Climate Change” drought turning California into sandy wasteland, why bother?  Besides, the Governor needed the money to provide all those goodies that the State’s Illegal Immigrant population has come to expect and demand.  After all, it was California’s job to make sure Hillary’s ‘popular votes’ would be around when she needed them.

But AGW-Climate Change-Global Warming (AKA: Weather), turn out to be just weather.  It rained again in California.  Ooops.  That deferred maintenance does add up.  Read what The Mercury News reports.

More than a decade ago, federal and state officials and some of California’s largest water agencies rejected concerns that the massive earthen spillway at Oroville Dam — at risk of collapse Sunday night and prompting the evacuation of 185,000 people — could erode during heavy winter rains and cause a catastrophe.

FERC rejected that request, however, after the state Department of Water Resources, and the water agencies that would likely have had to pay the bill for the upgrades, said they were unnecessary. Those agencies included the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which provides water to 19 million people in Los Angeles, San Diego and other areas, along with the State Water Contractors, an association of 27 agencies that buy water from the state of California through the State Water Project.

Time warp back to California’s Golden Age with The Momas & The Papas – “California Dreamin'”

Snowpocalypse 2017 – Travel and Swimming Forecast

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From AccuWeather,

The storm will affect heavily traveled stretches of Interstate 68, I-70, I-76, I-78, I-80, I-81, I-83, I-84, I-87, I-90 and I-95.

For you swimmers, expect frozen hair and frost accumulations of up to 3/4 of an inch.

Major travel delays and disruptions to daily activities are likely from accumulations ranging from a slushy coating to as much as 12 inches. The snow could fall at the rate of 2 inches per hour. Thunder and lightning can accompany the snow in some locations. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, had thundersnow early Thursday morning.

**Possible FakeNewsAlert – Do not make your swimming plans based on what you read here.

AGW – Remember the Donner Party

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The Mercury News reports, “Sierra Nevada snowpack is biggest in 22 years — and more snow is on the way“.

After a month of huge blizzards and “atmospheric river” storms, the Sierra Nevada snowpack — source of a third of California’s drinking water — is 177 percent of the historic average, the biggest in more than two decades.

Gov. Jerry, “Moonbeam“, Brown is calling for all travelers in the Sierra Nevada’s, especially around the Donner Pass area, to carry at least 3 months worth of supplies because, “You remember how hungry those Donner Party folks got during the winter of ’46-’47.”

Trump Approves Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines

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From NPR,

President Trump on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for construction of two controversial oil pipelines, the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access.

As he signed the paperwork in an Oval Office photo op, Trump said his administration is “going to renegotiate some of the terms” of the Keystone project, which would carry crude oil from the tar sands of western Canada and connect to an existing pipeline to the Gulf Coast.

The pipelines had been stopped during the Obama administration. The State Department rejected a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, and President Obama ordered work halted on the Dakota pipeline after Native American groups and other activists protested its route near culturally sensitive sites in North Dakota.