This Is A PBS / NPR Poll -- As Predicted By ... -- T+20; January 22, 2019 , Part 4

Mitch McConnell is readying a bill to fund the "rest" of the government. From Fox News

"The bill marks the first real action in the Senate since Dec. 19, when McConnell moved an interim bill through the Senate. McConnell hopes to start debate on the measure as soon as possible, but it could be filibustered by Democrats -- meaning the debate may not even begin until late Friday. 

If we do see a filibuster, the headline most folks will see: Democrats filibuster bill to re-open government. 

This tells me the Dems don't want to "re-open" the government. Regardless of what the US Senate does, the bill that goes to POTUS to sign must be approved by the US House. 

From twitter this morning:

And,

Earlier I posted this: the discussion in the US Senate is gradually moving from "the wall" to "right-sizing the federal government." We hear from the loonies (left and right) through social media but the movers and shakers, on both sides of the aisle, are remaining strangely quiet.

TSA sick-in:

• Sunday: 10%
• yesterday: 11%
• forecast: 21% by the end of the week
• tipping point: 15%

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The Science Is Settled

As you read through these articles, remember that with regard to AGW, the science is settled.

The first article: that "amazing" 4,500-year-old stone circle was actually built in 1990s by farmer, admit archaeologists (scientists), from The [London] Telegraph, London, home of the smartest people on earth:

When archaeologists announced the discovery of an ‘amazing’ 4,500-year-old stone circle on an Aberdeenshire farm in December they admitted it was odd that it had remained hidden for so long.

With its diminutive circumference and smallish stones, experts said the Neolithic monument in the parish of Leochel-Cushnie was unusual, but hoped it might change their understanding of prehistoric building.

Sadly such optimism was not to be realised. This week a farmer who had once owned the land got in touch to say he had built it himself in the 1990s. [Insert laughing face emoji here.]

Neil Ackerman, historic environment record assistant at Aberdeenshire Council, said: “These types of monument are notoriously difficult to date.

A nominee for the 2019 Geico Rock Award? Neil Ackerman -- an historic environment record assistant -- "these types of monument are notoriously difficult to date," but predicting the future is really, really easy, especially when you have Algore's PowerPoint presentations and no critical thinking ability.

We know that the earth will be 2.7 degrees warmer one hundred years from now. And Occasional-Cortex says we have but twelve years to save the world. The science is settled.

Then this, from STATnews: it appears scientists are still discovering "new" anatomy after 200 years of study.

Anatomy of surprise: Scientists discover hidden blood networks that cross through bone or years, physiologists looking closely at bones noticed something puzzling. It was a microscopic prison break, blood cells slipping unseen from the enclosed depths of the bone marrow into the general circulation.

“We have the bone marrow, which produces the blood cells, and when you need them, you need them urgently. But how do they get out?” said Svetlana Komarova, who studies bone biology at McGill University in Montreal.

That anatomy should still contain such surprises is itself something of a surprise. It’s easy to think that 19th-century anatomists pulled apart the body tendon by tendon, vein by vein, describing and drawing every filament they came across, no matter how tiny. But eight years ago ... 

Climate: the science is settled.

From notalotofpeopleknowthat, flashback to 2004: the Pentagon tells President Bush II that "Siberian winter" will kill us.

Paul Matthews reminds us that we are now only a year or two away from our new Siberian climate in Britain, at least according to the Guardian in 2004.

Wow, how did that happen?

Is this accurate? Did Ms Maxine Waters give the Democrat response to the 2018 State of the Unioin Address? I really can't remember. 

The lonesome friends of scientists and the end of the world as we know it:

Lonesome Friends of Science, John Prine