Doing Something about the Weather: Today's News for October 24th

"Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."--Charles Dudley Warner

Fortunately, government to the rescue...

CNN:

Government report calls on Trump to act on climate change

A government report released Monday is sounding an alarm over the threat of climate change, and the government's response.

The US government has spent more than $350 billion over the past decade in response to extreme weather and fire events, and the Government Accountability Office report estimated the US would incur far higher costs as the years progress if global emission rates don't go down.

Note that last statement is based on the infamously unproven theory of anthropogenic climate change. This theory ignores the sun's impact on climate change, and assumes atmospheric processes (such as plant life converting CO2 to O2) are incapable of absorbing the CO2 which mankind creates. But why let scientific facts get in the way of the Left's political crusade? Just keep repeating the mantra often enough, and it will be true. There is no place like home, there is no place like home... 

In other news that at least has the virtue of facts to support it...

Fox Business:

Clinton Uranium One deal: 

FBI informant blocked by Obama-era AG can unlock key info, attorney says

An informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is under a gag order that prevents him from testifying before the United States Congress that Russian nuclear officials were involved in fraudulent dealings in 2009 before the Uranium One deal was approved.

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch blocked the informant from testifying last year and threatened criminal action against him if he were to do so.

In an interview with FOX Business’ Loud Dobbs, Victoria Toensing, the attorney representing the FBI informant, said she has never heard of a criminal penalty for breaching a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).

“If it does and it is unconstitutional and it’s invalid, if it prohibits my client from giving information to the legislature, the executive cannot say to people, ‘Hey, you can’t give information to another body of the government,’” Toensing said.

This story was nicely ignored by the media during the election, even though the New York Times reported on it back in 2015. For more details about it, here is the previous TRUTH story on it. 

But now it appears the Obama administration was also working to cover it up. Once we get past this era of Leftist media, history will not be so kind to Obama and his cronies.

Finally, in some sad news...

BBC:

Raqqa: US coalition 'wiped city off Earth', Russia says

Russia has accused the US-led coalition of bombing the Syrian city of Raqqa "off the face of the earth" during the fight against so-called Islamic State.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, took Raqqa last week.

Pictures suggest much of Raqqa is in ruins, and Moscow compared it to the Allied destruction of the German city of Dresden in World War Two.

Raqqa (hat tip to Al Jazeera for the pic)

The US-led coalition says it tried to minimise risks to civilians.

Russia has itself been accused of committing war crimes for its bombardment of Aleppo last year.

UN war crimes investigators in June that there had been a "staggering loss of civilian life" in Raqqa.

Syrian activists say between 1,130 and 1,873 civilians were killed and that many of the civilian casualties were the result of the intense US-led air strikes that helped the SDF, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, advance.

Over a thousand civilians dead, and nobody is talking about this? While there has been news coverage, it has taken a back seat to the GAO report and stories about tax reform and North Korea.