Guest Post by Bob Tisdale
Lee Bergquist opens his article DNR purges climate change from webpage at the Wisconsin Journal Sentinel (my brackets):
The state Department of Natural Resources recently scrubbed language from an agency web page on the Great Lakes that said humans and greenhouse gases are the main cause of climate change. [See DNR webpage The Great Lakes and a changing world.]
The DNR now says the subject is a matter of scientific debate.
The department made the changes on Dec. 21, striking out whole sentences attributing global warming to human activities and rising levels of carbon dioxide.
Bergquist explains:
In the latest changes, the DNR says of climate change, “as it has done throughout the centuries, the earth is going through a change. The reasons for this change at this particular time in the earth’s long history are being debated and researched by academic entities outside the Department of Natural Resources.”
Officials replaced this wording:
“Earth’s climate is changing. Human activities that increase heat-trapping (‘greenhouse’) gases are the main cause.”
Bergquist’s article continues with statements from a Wisconsin DNR spokesperson, then follows it with a typical reminder of the consensus (a.k.a. groupthink) from the United Nation’s agenda-supporting, report-writing entity called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-IPCC (a political body, not a scientific one).
I’m looking forward to more changes like this in the not-so-distant future.
On Wisconsin.
Update: Corrected a typo.
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Yes! Yes! This is HUGE. Such happiness! This reminds me of a story. I once was terrorized by a pack of a dozen or so semi-feral dogs belonging to a neighbor’s farm. Every time I went to fish in the creek I was confronted by the snarling mob. One day I carried a pocket full of rocks and prepared to do battle. True to form they charged me as I approached my fishing spot. I took out a ping pong ball sized rock and launched it at the big black lead dog. To my astonishment the first stone dropped from the sky directly on the top of the big brute’s head. It struck like a lightening bolt leaving the nasty sucker stunned and yelping in pain. All of the dogs scattered never to approach me again. Perhaps one of the stones of sanity has struck its mark and a scattered retreat will ensue!!!
I’m from Wisconsin and glad to see this. There is a lot of other DNR literature that has false info in it also. One example is that DDT killed all the Eagles and Osprey in the Midwest which was proven to be mostly fake science, all the DNR literature still states this as a fact though. I hope other Republican states start to change their wording also on Climate change, dem states also but not sure that will happen.
The DNR needs to manage resources and not do propaganda. Since the unions have lost power in Wisconsin and we have turned Red, the government agencies have been reined in. Good job Scott Walker.
Once the global warming hoax is on the way out many, including journalists, will wonder what other porkies the environmental activist have been telling us.
Where have all the sturgeons gone? Fifty years ago, going spear-fishing was common in Green Bay during the winter time. Save for some artificially-reared ones, there seems to be hardly any sturgeon left in Lake Michigan, how come?
The DNR has done an outstanding job managing the Sturgeon population in Wisconsin, managed my conversationalist and scientist based on facts and in field validation. Lake Winnebago has one of if not the most healthy Sturgeon pops in the world.
By The Way, It’s the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel not Wisconsin.
And it’s the top story on the front page (-:
I’m saving today’s paper.
So the SUV is not the cause of this then? ;-P
Yes, of course it is…. 😉
CO2 is a magic molecule. When the first SUV was produced the exhaust created a time worm-hole and deposited the CO2 14,000 years before present to melt the great ice sheets and create the Great Lakes, such is the power of the devil’s molecule. Though it may be only carbon itself that is the devil’s – after all you can’t have mankind without carbon (/sarc for the humor impaired)
This is encouraging. Please send a vacation guide for Wisconsin.
Uh, buy skis, and Alpaca socks, its cold here.
I was in the UP during the winter of 78/79. That was enough.
I mush my German shepherd on cross country skis (I am on the skis not the dogs) in Wisconsin, great fun
I’ve been to the dells. May is great. Now until then rent a snowmobile on vacation there.
Google “Pewitt’s Nest Gorge”
and
Parfrey’s Glenn
Some of the best hiking/pools/diving in the world
near the Dells
I still remember when we were all going to die from a second ice age.
Here is a different star named Leonard who was on board with the contemporary alarmists at that time.
How do you spell “relief”… t-r-u-m-p.
Now there is a cold blob in the Eastern Pacific
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2016/anomnight.12.29.2016.gif
Ooh, the orange is getting harder to see! What happens if the whole N. Atlantic SST turns cold too?
Buy parkas. The good ones. The one they sell above the Arctic Circle.
The Trump effect is real. I attribute the DC court clearing the way to trial for Michael Mann – Mark Steyn the effect of Trump. This will be a fun trial with Mike resisting to the last release of discovery of the stinking guts of his hockey stick beating of the LIA and MWP and the cherry picked proxies for the extension of the “blade”, which incidentally got bent back to flat the very year of its publication! The EPA withdrew from a suit by TX challenging their new coal legislation. All BOs exec orders being piled up to stop the Trump Admin from progressing and the masterminding of the UN motion against Israel only demonstrate that the duck isn’t just lame, it’s sick. It will be cleaned up as fast as road kill. When the shock to the “consensus” of the election wears off, there will be timely changes of ideas on climate by federal bureaucrats and a large number of resignations and retirements of the old guard (bye bye travesty Trendburst and Unravlin Schmidt – you heard it from me first) – this will help the federal budget because they won’t need to be replaced. When the smoke clears, the dozen agencies or so that do climate doom will be reduced to one with a re-dedication push by bureaucrats. Applications will come pouring in to recover the raw global data, reopen long standing rural weather stations that were closed to exacerbate warming, back to Argo Buoys, maybe a new generation and more of them and the Pause and troubling cooling which has been buried and bent will attract our attention. Look for real cost-benefit analysis for CO2. We may have to pay companies to make more.
Oh and another foreign policy gem from pearse FP 101: Right now, I expect, the Palestinian Authority is preparing to ‘sauve qui peut’. They will suddenly get serious about peace and acceptance of Israel and negotiate a separate state at the 11th hour while they still have a chance. After Jan 2017, it may be too late. All that part of the world and including all of Asia were raised to fear and respect strength and they will become a lot more amenable to peace and negotiations. No more barrel rolls by Russian and Chinese aircraft over US Navy ships and no more Iranian little boats shooting at Navy ships (nose thumbing after having been handed a huge ransom and a nuclear club deal in Iran). Reagan didn’t have to lift a finger to get hostages released and a collapse of the USSR. Demo Global Kumbaya and political correctness licenses to turn the world upside down. Europe will also drop all this craziness, knowing that it will be terminal for them. Hows that for a prediction?
Aahhh… you’re just trying to cheer us up 🙂 GK
Excuse me for being a little hesitant and not too, too cynical…but…Shouln’t we wait for the other shoe to drop. Maybe sales are flagging at the Journal Sentinal.
Comes to our house, and it’s the thinnest pathetic little rag you ever saw. Used to be quite the hefty tome every day and a good three pounds on Sunday. Oh, comes to my address because I’m not the only one who lives here. I didn’t check it out in the print edition until after I read Bob Tidale’s post.
No such thing as a bad publicity steve…there’s only publicity. And the bigger the bang…the banger the boom.
And what a shame and (as The D might say) so sad, so sad. I, being long on tooth and short on hair, remember when Milwaukee had two very competitive and fine papers. The Sentinel (1837) in the morning and the Journal (1882) in the afternoon. I delivered the Sentinel by bike… yes, including in the winter @ur momisugly below zero. But I digress… Point is there was competition, not always for the “truth” but usually equal “news” on opposite sides of an issue. As you all well know, that is completely gone and the M J/S is a perfect example how and why they have failed in their fiduciary duty to the public. So sad… 🙁
Once the funding goes away so will the problem.
Or, “The global-warming conjecture has developed not necessarily to the DNR’s advantage”…
I just received this list from another like-minded friend. Please note that these are on Paul Ryan’s agenda, Wisconsin Congressman and Speaker of the House. Some of this stuff I have never heard of. I do believe that the government should support the arts and humanities to some extent, but maybe not to the tune of 335 MILLION bucks a year!
PAUL RYAN’S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS
A List of Republican Budget Cuts
Notice S.S. and the military are NOT on this list .
These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting.
Read to the end.
* Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy — $445 million annual savings.
* Save America ‘s Treasures Program — $25 million annual savings.
* International Fund for Ireland — $17 million annual savings.
* Legal Services Corporation — $420 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Arts — $167.5 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Humanities — $167.5 million annual savings.
* Hope VI Program — $250 million annual savings.
* Amtrak Subsidies — $1.565 billion annual savings.
* Eliminate duplicating education programs — H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon , eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
* U..S. Trade Development Agency — $55 million annual savings.
* Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy — $20 million annual savings.
* Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding — $47 million annual savings.
* John C. Stennis Center Subsidy — $430,000 annual savings.
* Community Development Fund — $4.5 billion annual savings.
* Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid — $24 million annual savings.
* Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half — $7.5 billion annual savings
* Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% — $600 million annual savings.
* Essential Air Service — $150 million annual savings.
* Technology Innovation Program — $70 million annual savings.
*Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program — $125 million annual savings..
* Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization — $530 million annual savings.
* Beach Replenishment — $95 million annual savings.
* New Starts Transit — $2 billion annual savings.
* Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts — $9 million annual savings
* Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants — $2.5 billion annual savings.
* Title X Family Planning — $318 million annual savings.
* Appalachian Regional Commission — $76 million annual savings.
* Economic Development Administration — $293 million annual savings.
* Programs under the National and Community Services Act — $1.15 billion annual savings.
* Applied Research at Department of Energy — $1.27 billion annual savings..
* Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership — $200 million annual savings..
* Energy Star Program — $52 million annual savings.
*Economic Assistance to Egypt — $250 million annually.
* U.S.Agency for International Development — $1.39 billion annual savings..
* General Assistance to District of Columbia — $210 million annual savings.
* Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority — $150 million annual savings.
*Presidential Campaign Fund — $775 million savings over ten years..
* No funding for federal office space acquisition — $864 million annual savings.
* End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
* Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act — More than $1 billion annually.
* IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget — $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
*Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees — $1 billion total savings. WHAT’S THIS ABOUT?
* Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees — $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
* Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of — $15 billion total savings.
*Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress. WHAT???
* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies — $1 million annual savings.
*Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — $12.5 million annual savings. WELL ISN’T THAT SPECIAL
* Eliminate Market Access Program — $200 million annual savings.
* USDA Sugar Program — $14 million annual savings.
* Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) — $93 million annual savings.
* Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program — $56.2 million annual savings.
*Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs — $900 million savings.
* Ready to Learn TV Program — $27 million savings..
* HUD Ph.D. Program.
* Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
*TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years
My question is, what is all this doing in the budget in the first place
Remove solar and wind ITC and focus NSF grants on real science, cut admin costs across the boards with switch to block grants instead of cumbersome by design. Stop splintering the highway funds with mass transit that discriminates against rural states that don’t apply. Eliminate Bill Clinton’s metro planning authorities that spout anti-automobile bias with highway tax dollars.
See the stimulus act by Obama (ARRA) for a further roadmap of what not to fund.
Interesting list. All Federal agencies, departments, commissions, and programs should be reviewed, and sunsetted—requiring regular review and reauthorization (if merited). I’d hate to see Amtrak cut, though.
/Mr Lynn
Well….. It’s a start.
Obama won’t be taking any more vacations on the taxpayer’s dime which means an annual savings of $8 million, minus whatever Trump’s vacations will cost (if he takes any:).
This is more of that “fake news” I’ve been hearing about, isn’t it?
http://www.accuweather.com/en/climate-change
Here is the link
Sorry this did not appear where it should, probably my error. This is the link to the accuweather climate change center
http://www.accuweather.com/en/climate-change
Google climate change and your local council. You will be amazed at what you find!! Mine has photos of our park benches underwater and lawns cracked from drought. Neither of which have ever happened.
I did, it was disgusting.
The Accuweather climate change website has made a another significant change in its climate coverage since the November election day. Prior to the Trump victory, the articles regarding Climate Change had a “comments” section, where climate realists and man-made climate change supporters would comment and debate the articles that had been presented.
However, as soon as the election occurred, a rising tide of commenters began making comments that tied to news stories about the impact of the Trump administration on climate change research.
Within a few days, Accuweather simply removed the entire comments function from the Climate Change website, seemingly to suppress the growing tide of comments regarding future plans for NASA, NOAA, the EPA, the Dept. of Energy, etc.
Wisconsin has gone mad.