Category Archives: Rancho Roly Poly

We’ve had 2.5 inches of rain at the rancho in the past forty-eight hours, with more forecast, though radar indicates the cells are heading away from us. Not unusual (despite our big drought) for October, which usually sees rain after the heat and high pressure of spring-summer-early-fall dissipate.

Delicious irony, as well, after the daily invited some local journo student group to weigh in with a big Sunday story on how (get this) drought and heat are our “new normal” thanks to impending AGW—which, the story proclaims, most Texas scientists agree is happening, so we’re in big, big trouble.

For one thing, the students are ignorant of Texas history, in which drought and heat are very much the “old normal.” And the rest of their argument is the familiar “consensus” wheeze of the ignorant. The critical mass of scientists, etc., as if science (like politics) was decided by majority vote.

These young journos are as clueless as the old ones who teach them. Probably for that reason. Fortunately they’ll have a lot harder time finding jobs to propagandize us. As for the “scientists,” these “climatologists” need to change their name to “cosmetologists.” They’re more about the latest trend in face powder and lipstick than climate.