If you believe in climate change, shutting down the Strait of Hormuz is the best thing that ever happened to Mother Earth because it reduces fossil fuel supply and, thus, reduces CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuel. Bizarrely, however, people and organizations who’ve been reliable climate change alarmists describe the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, and the resultant obstruction of oil and gas exports, as a catastrophe. Example from today’s New York Times:
Here’s CNN. For a Follower of Science, the headline should be “Key method of destroying our planet shut down” and high oil prices should be welcomed as a spur to conservation. Instead, we learn that high oil prices should be “fixed” (i.e., oil should be cheap enough to burn in a profligate Earth-destroying CO2-emitting-as-fast-as-possible manner) by Trump and that the strait being closed is a bad thing.
An Obama-generation Democrat in 2022 says that he wants to make it illegal for people to purchase gasoline or, at least, the cars that burn gasoline. This will be an “important climate change policy”:
A few years later, Gavin Newsom is excoriating Trump for causing an increase in the price of the product that he thinks should be outlawed because use of that product is harmful:
Here’s a representative young Democrat saying, in July 2025, that we need to take climate change seriously:
Here is the climate change alarmist, less than a year later, saying that gas prices should be lower so that people can afford to buy and operate that 12 mpg SUV:
Was surprised to see at least 4 F-14’s were in airworthy condition during the sparse news coverage. They’re all destroyed now, but 2 were obviously moving on their own as late as 2026. All that destruction & the world is now hostage to an invincible insurgent military.
> A few years later, Gavin Newsom is excoriating Trump for causing an increase in the price of the product
I don’t want to sound bitchy, er unnecessarily gender-neutrally complaining; however, isn’t pointing out that a democrat is hypocritical like saying “That leopard has spots!” You think the Gates Foundation and Big Oil would just build an underground pipeline on the sea floor, and be done with it.
One thing about living in Seattle is that drainage infrastructure is pretty robust.
Everything that is not robust would be washed away long time ago. Even if water gets puddled on highway during major storm it gets drained in couple of hours.
Maybe they should get serious about drainage and not stealing construction project funds in New Jersey.
SK: Florida too! Any neighborhood that was built within the last 30-40 years has awesome drainage and rain capacity. Disney World is older, but it has never seriously flooded.