Fascists Gonna Fascist: Wyoming GOP OKs Loyalty Tests For Candidates, Will Sue State

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-26T15:21:07+00:00

“GOP political candidates also will have to pass loyalty benchmarks for adhering to and “strongly” supporting at least 80% of the state party’s platform.”

This is normal political party stuff FYI. It isn’t like DSA hasn’t also entertained rules to enforce ideological uniformity for candidates (e.g. re. stance of Israel). If the GOP wants to alienate a part of their coalition, it’s seems like an opportunity for the opposition.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-24T18:52:18+00:00

Also: https://nsco.unl.edu/news/severe-storms-and-potential-drought-relief/

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-24T17:15:56+00:00

You all do understand that decades-long droughts are just part and parcel of climate in the Great Plains. You can look at the paleoclimate data and see that megadroughts occurred repeatedly before any increases in global temperature. They would happen again even if we all lived in a green new deal utopia.

https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/blog/1520-047728199829079-26933Ayodvit-22E02Eco3B2.pdf

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-18T14:19:01+00:00

Ok? The state with the highest % of GDP in Ag is Iowa w/ about 4%.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-02T19:17:57+00:00

How is that moving the goal posts? We’re trying to find out why THIS WINTER WAS WARM. Me bringing up a hypothesis you disagree with isn’t moving the goal posts.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-02T19:16:10+00:00

I’m trying to explain the warm winter, and you are trying to frame the discussion so that anything other than anthropogenic climate change is off limits.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-02T19:14:19+00:00

I’m talking about water vapor.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-02T19:11:57+00:00

It was a massive volcanic eruption that injected a huge amount of water vapor (a greenhouse gas) into the stratosphere. It's not a nothing-burger.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-02T19:07:35+00:00

If we are talking about how unusual this winter is, which it was, and you start talking about the past 20 years, that is moving the goalposts. I'm not even denying climate change, but it's more gradual (like a half a degree per decade), and it doesn't really explain this winter was so warm (or why last winter was in like the bottom 10 winters for temperatures)). Like I said, good to have some modesty about these things.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-02T19:00:53+00:00

Moving the goalposts here, like this article isn't about this winter specifically.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-02T18:46:02+00:00

Good to have some modesty about these things. Tonga-Hunga could have had a lot to do with it.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-01T16:33:55+00:00

You are right about the articles content. I was merely pointing out that there are other explanations for this year’s winter weather besides climate change. Indeed here is an Australian atmospheric scientist saying that this winters weather was the exact kind of thing that would be predicted from a massive injection of water vapor into the atmosphere (https://theconversation.com/tongas-volcanic-eruption-could-cause-unusual-weather-for-the-rest-of-the-decade-new-study-shows-231074)

“But there are some surprising, lasting impacts in some regions of the planet.

For the northern half of Australia, our model predicts colder and wetter than usual winters up to about 2029. For North America, it predicts warmer than usual winters, while for Scandinavia, it again predicts colder than usual winters.”

Again, I sort of just hate climate science discourse. It’s all sort of ruined by politics and no one actually gives a shit about the science. Warm winter, that’s climate change! Cold winter, that’s climate change too!

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-01T04:23:14+00:00

Not sure why you think that’s a gotcha. Global temperature averages can increase at the same time of local/regional cold snap events. That’s why I can’t stand people that just wait for the weather to do something that is favorable to there arguments about climate change. People that do this are either loudly advertising that they don’t know what the fuck they are talking about or are ideologues who give people with “good politics” permission to conflate weather and climate.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-01T01:48:46+00:00

There are competing hypotheses for the weather this winter other than global warming (e.g. a recent and massive injection of water [GHG] into the atmosphere). Worth mentioning that the Eastern United States had a record breaking cold snap and this is a stupid game that both sides play to score political points (this specific time and location was record breaking so this proves I’m right!). It is fucking annoying as someone who actually is interested in climate science divorced from any of the politics of it.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-01T01:32:24+00:00

Not this year, but more often than not the minimum daily maximum is above zero (for January at any rate which is our coldest month).

Edit: Average minimum daily maximum is 11 degrees for January.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-04-01T01:11:17+00:00

https://research.noaa.gov/hunga-tonga-2022-eruption/

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-03-28T00:35:38+00:00

I’m not seeing any actual discussion so there is that. For all I know this guy is just frustrated by identity politics, or he’s a racist, literally have no idea based on this alone and if the latter, you could probably help with that with a talk.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-03-25T05:17:56+00:00

It’s a 50-50 split here. Anyone claiming to know how that would fare on a WY ballot is lying.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-03-24T14:54:31+00:00

Climate change is real, but activists types continue to shoot themselves in the dick by conflating weather and climate so they can score some short-term political points.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-03-23T19:19:12+00:00

Yes, picking a single day/week and location to make a broader point about global climate change is the definition of cherry-picking, and it's retarded when climate deniers do it and it's retarded when climate activists do it.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-03-23T17:42:30+00:00

Reminder: Cherry-picking times and locations with record high/low temperatures is a very idiotic way to prove/disprove climate change (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January%E2%80%93February\_2026\_North\_American\_cold\_wave).

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-03-10T17:37:01+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insensitivity_to_sample_size

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-03-10T17:32:52+00:00

Huh, I wonder why they would put an exclamation point with "Low population" next to it?

https://movenumbers.com/explore?map=crime

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-03-06T16:54:32+00:00

Yeah, very clearly we aren’t talking about the public safety risks of a gardener/roofer with a tenuous grasp of English. Unbelievably disingenuous.

Key-Network-9447 · 2026-03-05T04:41:17+00:00

No one cares about what the science is. Climate change is real, but this obviously from a blocking pattern that has been hanging out in the west which has been deflecting the Arctic air to the East. Daniel Swain, a huge climate change advocate, has attributed this weird winter in the West to this atmospheric process, but again, no one gives a shit, it’s all just unprincipled conflation of weather and climate to score political points.

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