Another LATE Weekend Round-up

Hey,

We’ve made tremendous progress with the Salt Torpedo and both the front and rear suspension. Friday, we hit a local machine shop to get something handle, a clamp made to hold the front axle.

I don’t know about you, but sometimes my weekends are very planned out. Everything clicks into place. Then other weekends it’s pandemonium with some project falling apart and new ones emerging.

Okay, so Friday I started to work on my Cycle Source deadlines, the World Report and Micah’s David Mann Panhead story.

Saturday, I worked on the news, added Micah’s corrections to the story and worked out. Then Frankie arrived, we worked for the rest of the afternoon wiring the FXR, charging the battery and firing it to life. He rode it around the block and wanted to keep going. The CCE front end works like a champ. CCE is for sale. Drop me a line if you’re interested.

Sunday I’m still getting adjusted to no Sunday Post. I cleaned the shop and tried to stay away from my computer, which was a new laptop. Last week my iMac was fucking with me. That also threw the week out of whack. First the email system started to act up and I tried to download the upgraded system. I did, but then it called for a new operating system and I couldn’t download it. My computer was too old. What bullshit. I refused to go buy a new computer, so I dug out an old Mac laptop, but it was a year newer and would accept a new system.

Fuck it. So, no emails this weekend because my computer guy didn’t fill in all the blanks properly. Also, I got a call from the redhead. She had a flat and wanted to bring her van home and get the truck. I pulled out the ratty Panhead I built last year and fired it up. I coulda gone to the Long Beach Swap Meet or the Grand Nationals Roadster Show, but the bros had other plans.

I was about to take the Pan for a short ride, when the Redhead called. She got about half way to work and made a right on a busy street. Suddenly there was a terrible noise. She pulled over to discover the spare tire under the bed had escaped. She crawled under the ’72 F250 replaced the support rod (the nut didn’t leave, remained on the frame rail) but couldn’t open the tailgate. She called and I explained.

Then she turned around and discovered the spare in the center of the street. I was amazed. She was able, with a shot of adrenalin, to hoist the 70-pound steel wheel and 250-tire into the bed. That was part of my Monday, trying to get it back under the bed. Whatta bitch.

See you Thursday with the news.

NEWS FROM THE CLIMATE DEPOT–
Scientists, studies & data agree: ‘Global warming’ not fueling acceleration in sea level rise – ‘Miami Is Sinking, But That Doesn’t Mean Sea Levels Are Rising’

Analysis Debunks Absurd Sea Level Rise Claims About South Florida
– Sea level rise in the Miami area is not accelerating and it is rising at a rate of about 1 foot per century.

Climatologist’s sea-level rise study disputes climate-disaster predictions – In many cases, ‘half of the sea-level rise is really from land sinking’
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Miami Is Sinking, But That Doesn’t Mean Sea Levels Are Rising”

Sea level expert Geologist Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner ridiculed the claim in Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth that Florida would be half covered by rising seas. “These are models. They are doing it wrongly, and this is lobbying. Geologic facts are on one side, lobbying and models are on the other side.” Morner added, “The rapid rise in sea levels predicted by computer models simply cannot happen.” …

Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook: “If you look at the total global sea level from about 1850 until the present time it’s been rising at a fairly constant rate, rather slow—about 7 inches a century…. It’s about 1 to 2 mm a year so if you’re 50 years old you experienced a sea level rise about 3 ½ inches and you probably didn’t even notice it,”

Former NASA Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer: “Sea level rise, which was occurring long before humans could be blamed, has not accelerated and still amounts to only 1 inch every 10 years.” … Spencer on Miami flooding: “That flooding is mostly a combination of (1) natural sea level rise (I show there has been no acceleration of sea level rise beyond what was already happening since the 1800s), and (2) satellite-measured sinking of the reclaimed swamps that have been built upon for over 100 years in Miami Beach.”

U. Penn Geologist Dr. Robert Giegengack explains, “At the present rate of sea-level rise it’s going to take 3,500 years to get up there [to Gore’s predicted rise of 20 feet]. So if for some reason this warming process that melts ice is cutting loose and accelerating, sea level doesn’t know it. And sea level, we think, is the best indicator of global warming.”

The man-made climate-induced sea level rise scare is back in the news today as a Miami beach developer has correctly dismissed sea level rise scares as “paranoia.”

See: Billionaire Miami Beach Developer Dismisses Rising Sea Levels as ‘Paranoia’ – (Bloomberg) — A South Florida developer is questioning the well-established facts of climate change, and is putting his money where his mouth is, investing millions to build residential projects in highly exposed Miami Beach. Brazilian billionaire Jose Isaac Peres….is a real estate magnate and chief executive officer of shopping-center developer Multiplan Empreendimentos Imobiliarios SA said he isn’t factoring in the financial risk of rising sea levels… “It’s funny, that’s the last concern that I have here in Miami, that global-warming issue,” he said. “You’re leaning toward paranoia, you know?” he said, suggesting that Americans are more fixated on the study of climate change than Brazilians are. “You see a ghost, and you run after it as if it were real.”

Climate Depot Reality Check: The feared sea level rise in Miami and Florida has failed to materialize. The latest studies and data has scientists speaking out about the unscientific claims of man-made climate change induced sea level rise.

Analysis Debunks Absurd Sea Level Rise Claims About South Florida
– Sea level rise in the Miami area is not accelerating and it is rising at a rate of about 1 foot per century.

“Gore has previously said there has been a three-inch sea level rise since 1992 when Hurricane Andrew struck Florida. But tidal gauges and satellite altimeters show only a sea level rise of 1.2 mm per year. That would be about 28 mm since 1992, or 1.1 inches. He was off nearly 300 percent. Gore also brought up the unique phenomenon in Miami that allow “fish from the ocean to swim on the streets of Miami-Dade and Delray, Ft. Lauderdale.” But that assertion has no basis in fact, wrote the Miami Herald when President Obama made the same claim.”

All of the sea level rise since 1700 is insignificant relative to the natural variability of Holocene sea levels.

Sea level rise in the Miami area is not accelerating and it is rising at a rate of about 1 foot per century.