Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
But here are the two new single-family listings:
17 Pintail Lane, $3.950 million.
Listing claims a two-car garage, but, at 10’8” x 23’, that only works if one of the “cars” is a skinny bicycle
I didn’t put the tipi here, Listing agent Joy kim Metalios anticipated me
And:
And faithful NY Times readers will nod their heads and say, “Oh, course, I must have misremembered”
UPDATE: Powerline’s John Hinderaker dissects and debunks this latest tactic of the global warmists:
Global warming morphed into climate change so that liberals could complain about any inconvenient weather and blame it on free enterprise. Thus, we have the absurd situation where liberals claim that “climate change” causes both excessive heat and excessive cold, whichever happens to be occurring at the moment.
This makes no sense. Saying that climate change causes warmer (or colder) weather is circular. It is like saying that my weight change caused me to get heavier. Blaming both heat and cold on climate change is like saying that my weight change caused me to get both heavier and lighter, at different times.
In any event, it isn’t true. Both extreme heat and extreme cold in the U.S. have become less frequent, not more frequent:
In the United States, which is the focus of the [New York Times] article, the picture is even less supportive of the “both hot and cold” claim. As meteorologist Chris Martz notes in his X thread posted here, extreme heat and extreme cold have both declined since the early twentieth century. As shown in the graphs he created (seen below) the blistering heat of the 1930s and 1950s still stands out as the hottest peak periods on record, while cold waves dropped sharply after the late 1980s. Comparing the 30-year periods 1901–1930 and 1996–2025 using GHCN-Daily station data, Martz finds cold waves decreased by about 31 percent and heat waves by about 20 percent.
THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO… GOOD LORD, THAT’S A TOTAL IMPLOSION:
Jeep maker Stellantis announces a ‘reset’ of its business and massive charges. Shares crumble.
The company said Friday that it would take charges of more than $26 billion, the bulk of which includes write-offs and cash payments for canceled EV products and costs of resizing its EV supply chain.
The announcement sent Stellantis (STLA) shares crashing. They fell as much as 30%.
The strategy revision follows similar — and expensive — actions from Ford and General Motors in recent weeks.
Many carmakers in the United States had invested heavily in EV plans in response to strict environmental regulations put in place by the Biden administration. They also expected some states to follow California and ban sales of gasoline-powered vehicles within a decade.
But the Trump administration has rolled back those emissions rules along with financial support for EVs. It is also challenging states’ authority to set their own tougher rules.
Commenting on the charges of €22.2 billion ($26.2 billion), Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa said they “largely reflect the cost of over-estimating the pace of the energy transition.”
The company also said in a statement that the shift to EVs “needs to be governed by demand rather than command.”
The Week in Pictures posted. I particularly like this one:
I posted on this last year when the poll results were first reported, but Lay’s new Super Bowl ad reminded me to remind you. Forty-two percent.
AI Overview
A 2025 PepsiCo study revealed that 42% of consumers were unaware that Lay's potato chips are made from real, farm-grown potatoes. As a result, the brand launched its largest rebrand in nearly 100 years, featuring new packaging that explicitly highlights the "real potatoes" ingredient to combat this misconception.
Key Details About the Consumer Misconception:
The Statistic: Nearly half (42%) of fans did not know the chips come from actual potatoes.
The Reaction: The finding served as a "wake-up call," prompting a shift in marketing to emphasize the farm-to-table process.
Rebrand Focus: The new packaging, rolling out in late 2025, features "made with real potatoes" in bold lettering and rustic, farm-focused imagery.
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Climate Scientist Who Predicted End Of “Heavy Frost and Snow” Now Refuses Media Inquiries.
More than two decades ago, renowned climate scientist Mojib Latif of Germany’s Max Planck Instiute for Meterology, based in Hamburg, warned the climate-ambulance chasing Der Spiegel that, due to global warming, Germany would likely no longer experience harsh winters with heavy frost and snow as it had in previous decades.
Spiegel reported climate scientist’s prediction of harsh winters disappearing due to man’s activities. Image cropped here.
In light of the current severe winter weather in Germany, Latif’s statements are facing renewed scrutiny. An article appearing in the Berliner Zeitung here notes that Latif’s prophecy has “aged poorly” and he appears to want to have nothing to do with them.
Hiding from the media
According to the Berliner Zeitung, the former Max Planck Institute scientist has recently stopped responding to media inquiries regarding his past claims.
In the days of TV and print media, it was easy to run shock stories about global cooling/global warming. But the Internet makes it much easier to look up old stories and verify if the forecasts made have come true. Or if the scientists have played both sides of apocalyptic rhetoric over the decades:
UPDATE: Here’s one scientific model-disrupter that will be ignored as an inconvenient truth by the warmists. Nice to know that there are at least some climate predictions they will reject.
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting substance, to break down in the atmosphere more quickly than previously thought, introducing significant uncertainty into climate projections for the rest of the 21st century.
…. According to "extended satellite observations," the atmospheric lifetime of N20 "is decreasing at a rate of 1.4 percent per decade," a significant decline.
As UC Irvine professor Michael Prather put it:
While most research has focused on projecting changing N2O emissions from human activities, we've shown that climate change itself is altering how quickly this gas is destroyed in the stratosphere - and this effect cannot be ignored in future climate assessments.
And it's worth noting that, according to this latest research, the change in concentration is not just a rounding error or a forgettable percentage of climate concerns. Indeed, these changes can apparently radically alter climate projections in the decades ahead:
[T]he scientists found that a continuation of the observed lifetime decrease trend would reduce projected N2O levels by an amount equivalent to shifting from a high-emissions scenario ... to a moderate-emissions scenario ... - without any change in actual emissions.
The work "highlights a gap in current Earth system models," one expert said, pointing for the need to "incorporate these effects into the models used for international climate assessments."
fuck the country, we have an election to win
In five days, the Democrats will shut down the TSA, FEMA, and Homeland Security.
"I absolutely would expect that it's going to shut down," Fetterman said on "Sunday Morning Futures."
Without intervention, DHS funding will expire on Friday after being carved out of a larger government funding package. A shutdown would impact TSA workers, FEMA operations and border security enforcement.
…. Democrats sent Republicans a list of proposed reforms that GOP lawmakers have rejected. Their demands included a requirement for agents to unmask, mandatory body cameras and judicial warrants for arrests.
While some Democrats have called for the disbandment of DHS, Fetterman said he supports securing the border and deporting illegal immigrants who commit crimes. He urged his colleagues to focus on those shared priorities.
"Secure our border… deport all the criminals," he said.
"Those are very fundamental things that most Americans signed up for."
Voter ID is another issue dividing the two parties. Democrats refuse to support the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAFE) Act, which would require states to verify voter eligibility.
Republicans argue the act would strengthen election integrity, while Democrats say it could make voting harder for people without photo ID.
I’ve posted this 9-year-old video before, but if you missed it, or just want to again enjoy watching patronizing white supremacists at play, here it is:
But if you think I'm disappointed, imagine the crushing blow that’s just landed on the Ladies on Invisible Greenwich.
Immigrant groups have a message for their mostly White allies: Quit blowing the whistle on ICE.
… Signal chat rooms reveal that a new internal feud has erupted inside the anti-ICE protest industry, pitting immigrant-led organizations against predominately White "rapid response" networks that have made whistle-blowing a dramatic part of anti-ICE protests. ….
Groups from Seattle to Montgomery County, Md., are telling mostly White "rapid responders" to back off a dynamic described by activists as "White Savior," reminding them they are not cameo actors in an "action movie" against ICE.
This past weekend, the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network — known locally as "WAISN," a Seattle-based, immigrant-led organization, publicly rebuked the practice of whistles, setting off a backlash inside mostly White liberal activist "rapid response" circles.
"WHY WAISN RAPID RESPONSE DOES NOT USE WHISTLES," the group wrote in an Instagram post, emphasizing, "We show up with care and accountability, not noise or panic."
"It is not about being the loudest, the bravest, or the most visible person on the scene or confronting immigration agents. It is a commitment to non-violence, discipline and harm reduction, centering the well-being of the most vulnerable immigrant and refugee committees in Washington," the post continued.
The message amounted to a blunt directive: Put away the whistles.
Update: Now they’re throwing their dildos at ICE agents; I’m sure they have more of them at home in Belle Haven, but it seems wasteful nonetheless.
just doing my patriotic duty
Of course, the comment section remains active and open to discussions on any topic; disport yourselves accordingly.
10 Verona Drive in Riverside hit the market last Thursday at $3.595 million, and FWIW intern Jimmy Olsen and I predicted it would be gone by that Sunday, February 1st. In fact, it took until today for contracts to be finalized and reported.
(In Jimmy’s and my defense, it can take a few days to sort through competing bids and then finalize contracts.)
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