Again: if global warming is real, why lie?

Useful idiots swarm in Aspen

You’d think that if there were facts available to support their hypothesis, they’d use them, instead of fake news

One example:

The Independent, Nov. 5 2020t: Climate crisis: Lancashire fracking site ‘leaked emissions equivalent to 142 transatlantic flights’

But:

How much of it was lost in the January 2019 event? The subhead says 4.2 tonnes, which a handy online calculator equates to about 268,000 standard cubic feet. That sounds like a lot, but at today’s wholesale price it’s worth around $800.

But still, 142 transatlantic flights sounds like a lot of planes in the air; let’s check that number out, too.

One kilogram of methane is the global warming equivalent of 28 kg of CO2, according to climate scientists. The 4.2 tonnes of CH4 equate to 118 tonnes of CO2 in terms of climate-damaging potential. According to this website, a single one-way economy ticket from New York to London has a carbon “footprint” of 0.81 tonnes of CO2.

118 tonnes ÷ 0.81 tonnes per passenger = 145 economy passengers, by my calculation.

Do you see what they did there?

The Independent’s blaring headline had me thinking we were talking about 142 jet crossings of the Atlantic, and you were likely thinking the same. In fact, their factoid refers to the carbon footprint of 142 passengers, not planes, crossing the Atlantic.

“Climate Crisis”? Hardly.

Put another way, the leak emitted methane equivalent to the output of a herd of 50 cows.

Great Britain has banned fracking, and will now rely on the beneficence of Vladimir Putin for its energy needs, just as Europe does. Who is at work in the U.S. conducting a propaganda campaign to achieve the same result here?

Just askin’.

For those who must, absolutely must have 16,775 sq. ft,, here's your opportunity

I’m always a tad suspicious of artist’s renderings of homes, especially when there have been 27 years to take a photograph.

857 Lake Avenue, custom-built for the present owners in 1993, is new to the market today and priced at $12 million. It certainly appears to have been constructed to the highest standards, as you’d expect at this price level, but houses and prices this size, especially non-waterfront, haven’t been flying off the shelves during the past dozen-years. You should be able to find newer, comparable quality for less than half of this, if you’re willing to settle for a more modest 10,000 sq. ft.

If this were a normal market, I’d guess a final selling price around $6.5 or lower, but this isn’t a normal market, so who knows? Let’s check back in, say, 2025.

Suitable for framing

Pending on Birchwood

36 Birchwood, $2.450 million, contract and now, pending, after 34 days. This hasn’t been a popular style in the past decade, but the price is, and choosers, beggars, and all that.

Sale in the wilderness

11 Partridge Road asked for $6.695 million when it was new in 2015 and failed to get it. It was withdrawn from the market in October 2019, when it was priced at $5.195, and Joe Barbieri brought it back at $5.250 ten days ago; full-price sale, closed yesterday.

Partridge Hollow is a northern neighborhood, convenient to nowhere, but far removed from nasty COVID germs, I suppose, and since you really can’t get anywhere from there, the new owners can shelter in place, and should be safe.

As long as they don’t let more than three guests come for Thanksgiving.

And a sale

14 Dingletown Road went to contract on November 4, and closed at $3 million ($3.250 ask) yesterday. That suggests either a cash sale or a buyer on very good terms with his lender.

As an aside, despite Mickster’s oft-repeated boast that this road was named in honor of his home town, Dingle, back on the old sod, it’s a little-known fact that the original name was “Dingleberry”, and was changed at the same time that the owners on Hooker Lane, tired of being embarrassed when telling deliverymen their address, changed their street’s name to “Stone Brook” You can trust me on this.

Or not.

UPDATE: Publius’ ditty is too good to bury in the comments section. A little polishing needed, maybe, but speed is all, and this went up almost instantly. Well done!.

Dingletown, Dingletown, Dingle all the way

Oh what fun it is to live on a Mick named street today!

Dashing through the spuds with a mule and Mr. O'Day

O'er the fields we go, drinking all the way

Bells on bob-tails ring making the spirits taste right

What fun it is to drink and plough, no different than last night!

Fore!

14 Fairway Lane (off Stanwich), asking $5.695, reports a contract. The owners paid $6.5 for it in 2005 and put in some extensive improvements, but they also got 15 years of living here, so I would say they’re doing alright.

(Some of) the house was built in 1770, and it still retains 5.67-acres of its original land. There are preliminary plans for a three-lot subdivision, though I hope it remains intact, because it adds a real grace to Fairway.

And it won't be noticed when that stops

US Household Incomes Increased More in 2018 than in the Previous 20 Years — Combined.

The Democrats intend to put a stop to that. Fuel prices will double, regulations will squelch job growth, unemployment will soar, and the country will return to Obama’s “new normal”.

As the economy declines, people will shrug and blame “bad luck”, but they almost certainly won’t see the link between their new misfortune and the return of the ruling class.

In Portland, Maine, the woke voters enacted rent control and “New Green Deal” measures that will reduce the amount of and increase the cost of moderate-income housing — the wokettes will probably notice the failure of their favorite restaurants and music venues to reopen as the new $22-hour minimum wage strikes home, but they won’t notice the new stores that never open, the jobs that were never created, the housing that isn’t renovated, or the new housing that’s never built.

And so it goes.

You'd think this was good news, but no

I call bullshit

Over 1,000,000 kids have had Coronavirus

More than 1 million American kids have been diagnosed with COVID-19 to date — with the highest seven-day uptick occurring last week, according to a study released Monday.

The grim figures indicate that while “it appears that severe illness due to COVID-19 is rare among children … there is an urgent need to collect more data on longer-term impacts’’ on them, including emotional and mental health issues, said researchers with the American Academy of Pediatrics and Children’s Hospital Association who did the study.

A total of 1,039,464 kids in the US have been reported to have contracted the virus so far — or 11.5 percent of all the infected peopled in states that offer patient age breakdowns, according to the findings.

The Pandemic Cult may consider these figures “grim”, but why? The kids aren’t dying or even getting sick. As for studying the long term emotional and mental health issues of all this, is anyone looking at the effect of keeping children out of school and away from their playmates and grandparents for 18 months? Of scaring them into wearing masks, even when it’s not Halloween? Of keeping infants from seeing a smiling face for the first years of life?

Meanwhile, Saint Fauci and his fellow priests are calling for the continued wearing of masks and shuttering of restaurants, concerts, and sports games forever, because a mere-vaccine won’t be sufficient to keep the elderly 100% safe from dying, of anything.

There’s something very wierd going on here.

The Elephant Graveyard continues to empty

275 Round Hill Road, priced at $8.4 million in 2008, has sold for $3.950 million. (Some of) it was built in 1726, but you’d be hard-pressed today to say which part that was.

This keeps up, there may yet be hope for Conyers Farm

9 Chieftans, asking $2.995 million, reports a contract after just 21 days. This development under the Westchester flightpath was popular when first built in 2004-2006, commanding prices in the $4.5-$5.3 range, but has languished since, and prices have been in the low-to mid-$2s, with on-market times measured in months and years. Now we’ve seen two sales in the high-$2s - low-$3s, and days on market are dropping.

This particular house sold new in 2004 for $4.250 million, but this owner paid $2.7 for it in 2016, so he’s actually coming close to breaking even which, for the Chieftans, is a pleasant surprise.