Schwab Leaving California; Moving To Texas -- November 25, 2019

Huge story.

Just a few miles west of us down TX-114, Westlake, Texas, Schwab has been building a huge 3,000 - 5,000 employee campus. Nearby is a huge Ameritrade campus.

Today we hear that Schwab is leaving California. That's true, but as I noted the other day, it's only the Bay Area and the sprawling Los Angeles County that is bearing the brunt of California companies moving to Texas.

In this case, it's 7,000 Schwab employees -- repeat, 7,000 Schwab employees -- leaving the Bay Area to move to Tarrant County, Westlake, a suburb of Ft Worth, TX.

Early we posted that this area would be the population center of the DFW metroplex in 2050. The population center will move west from Dallas, Plano, Frisco, McKinney, to Fort Worth, Southlake, Westlake, Roanoke, and Rhome.

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The Science Is Settled

It's really quite "amazing."

I'm sitting here reading the current issue of Scientific American. Some of the stories:

• the challenge of measuring the size of the proton; measurements date back to the 1950s and discrepancies still exist; 
• Alzheimer's: "after a strong of drug failures, it's time to look beyond targeting amyloid"
• Qatar women in STEM (several-page advertising insert)
• escape from a black hole: science told us nothing can escape from a black hole; now new observations may help tell us how
• cancer: "when it comes to human cancers, many theories about treatment have not panned out" -- page 6

So, lots of stuff being studied.

But there it is, the first -- the very first essay in this issue -- page 9, in the "Science Agenda" section,

"To cope with climate change, we need every strategy we've got." 

Yup, the science is settled. Only the name is changing. From "global warming" to "climate change." Politically correct, I may have missed it, but I did not see the phrase, "global warming," but that's what it was all about. This was the "culprit": heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Heat-trapping. Global warming.

When it comes to global warming/climate change, the science is settled. In all other areas of science, nothing is settled. Not even the size of the proton which should have been sorted out decades ago.

And so it goes.