{"id":109993,"date":"2023-06-01T19:23:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T23:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=109993"},"modified":"2023-06-01T19:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T23:23:17","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-may-31st-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=109993","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, May 31st, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Wednesday, May 31st, 2023…and we apologize at the outset for the length of this installment, but there’s soooo much happening out there it’s tough to ignore certain stories, such as this one which broke just before the Memorial Day weekend highlighting how the depths of Progressive insanity haven’t even begun<\/em><\/span> to be plumbed:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jane Fonda blames ‘White men’ for climate crisis, calls to ‘arrest and jail’ them<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

Fonda said the climate crisis would cease to exist without racism, the patriarchy<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

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“It\u2019s good for us all to realize, there would be no<\/em><\/span><\/strong> climate crisis if<\/em><\/span><\/strong> there was no racism<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. There would be no<\/em><\/span><\/strong> climate crisis if<\/em><\/span><\/strong> there was no patriarchy<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. A mindset that sees things in a hierarchical way. White men are the things that matter<\/em><\/span><\/strong> and then everything else [is] at the bottom.”<\/p>\n

Such absurdities are akin to claiming 2+2=snorkle.\u00a0 Then again, having embraced the North Vietnamese as benevolent Communists…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…Fonda has long demonstrated a detachment from reality.\u00a0 It’s only appropriate she now spouts spurious assertions shared by an adolescent, obsessive-compulsive Swedish Asberger’s sufferer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, energy correspondent Jeff Foutch offers reality in the form of this paper published in the Health Physics<\/em> section of The Radiation Safety Journal<\/em>, which offers an in-depth analysis of…<\/strong><\/p>\n

World Atmospheric CO2<\/sub>, Its\u00a014<\/sup>C Specific Activity, Non-fossil Component, Anthropogenic Fossil Component, and Emissions (1750\u20132018<\/span><\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/h1>\n

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The last sentence of the opening Abstract says it all:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We determined that in 2018, atmospheric anthropogenic fossil CO2<\/sub>\u00a0represented 23% of the total emissions since 1750 with the remaining 77% in the exchange reservoirs. Our results show that the percentage of the total CO2<\/sub>\u00a0due to the use of fossil fuels from 1750 to 2018 increased from 0% in 1750 to 12% in 2018, much too low<\/em><\/span><\/strong> to be the cause of global warming.”<\/p>\n

Then there’s the first sentence of note #8 in the Conclusions section:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Claims of the dominance of the anthropogenic fossil component have involved (a) the misuse<\/span><\/em><\/strong> of the\u00a0d13C<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0D14C<\/em>\u00a0statistics to validate these claims when they are expressed in the common unit of per mil (\u2030), which causes their slopes in plots to be magnified by a factor of 1,000 above what they otherwise would be<\/span><\/em><\/strong>;”<\/p>\n

Here’s the juice: As noted above, given the choice between hard, unbiased science and Hanoi Jane’s echoing of the emotional rants of an adolescent, obsessive-compulsive Swedish Asperger’s sufferer, we’re going with the science. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, here’s The Gouge<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First,\u00a0Townhall.com<\/em>‘s Guy Benson is scratching his head, wondering…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seriously? Trump Really Just Said This About Andrew Cuomo<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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He’s run with this stupidity before<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>, but I’m genuinely wondering why he or his advisors think that this — of all things — is an effective attack to persuade anyone, really, let alone Republican voters. Claiming that Florida’s Ron DeSantis handled COVID worse than New York’s Andrew Cuomo because the former state experienced more raw deaths is an insult to the intelligence of anyone he’s trying to convince. Florida had the third-most COVID deaths because it has the third highest population in the country. New York had fewer COVID deaths because it has almost two million fewer residents. According to these statistics<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Florida outperformed New York (and many other states) on per capita deaths, which is impressive, given its disproportionately older population. Florida also outperformed New York (and many other states) on the key metric of so-called ‘excess deaths<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>.’ And yet, the former president, eager to blast his top 2024 rival with ‘kitchen sink’ attacks — regardless of truth — just repeated the following. Stay tuned in the clip for DeSantis’ response:<\/p>\n

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TRUMP: Ron DeSantis is “better than most Democrat governors, but very average at best compared to Republican governors…Even Cuomo did better [on COVID].”<\/p>\n

DESANTIS: “Would have rather have lived during COVID under Cuomo in New York? Are you glad that we in Florida stood up to\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/LPdJiLNiTo<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n