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sherro01
September 29, 2024 2:11 am
Here in Australia and from reading of other countries, I have a firm impression that as the US Nov election approaches, those who seek more power are seeking more power more emphatically, while we who eventually confer power through votes are being trodden on heavier than ever. For example, the Australian Federal Parliament is progressing with bringing into law the ridiculous “misinformation” legislation that the voters clearly do no want. From the Parliamentary site, verbatim: “On 19 September 2024, the Senate referred the provisions of the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 (the bill) to the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee for report by 25 November 2024. Submissions close on the 30 September 2024. The committee has received a large volume of material for this inquiry. The secretariat is processing this material as quickly as possible. Submissions will be loaded to the committee website in due course.”
We are in due course.
Can readers report any other overbearing legislation from other countries with events in the past week or two?
Geoff S?
Here in Canada, we are awash with government attempts at legislation of not just misinformation, but information as well.
Bill C-70, Countering Foreign interference
Bill C-63, Online Harms Act
Bill C-18, Online News Act
Bill C-11, Online Streaming Act
Bill C-10, Amendment to the Broadcasting Act to include search and seizure powers for streaming, or online broadcasts.
All these basically say “We are starting a department to accept complaints from anyone that says someone is breaking the rules. If you want to know if you are breaking the rules, you can apply to the department for approval. If you don’t apply, you might have to appear before a tribunal to determine if you have transgressed. The tribunal has powers of search, seizure, setting of fines…”
They all start off well by identifying their purpose….to stop sexual predators, stop internet misinformation, stop foreign agencies meddling in political campaigns….then they end with a version of “plus stop whatever we don’t like by making you spend big bucks on lawyer defences unless you just STFU”.
If you want to know if you are breaking the rules, you can apply to the department for approval.
This is what US law recognizes as “Prior Restraint,” particularly with respect to the First Amendment, and has consistently ruled it as being unconsitutional.
John Kerry said “freedom of speech” was not a good thing when it comes to fighting climate change “disinformation”. At the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, last week, he called the U.S. First Amendment, which protects the free speech of Americans, to be a “major block” to stopping “disinformation”.
The Radical Democrats in the United States are openly attacking Freedom of Speech now.
Demonstrable virtue. And with the highest electricity prices in the world, we have much virtue – though it’s going to be a very chilly winter. One of real discontent.
It’s a belief, a religion, they’ve been brainwashed by the green industry into believing that they have to do this, or we’re all going to die, and they don’t have the technical skills to analyse the problem properly.
A Winter of Discontent? Funny that; weren’t Labour in power the last time we had one of those?
Ron Long
September 29, 2024 3:33 am
CNN blames Climate Change for larger and stronger hurricanes (see article two before this Open Thread), and the use of Climate Change as the universal excuse, appeared to be replacing more traditional themes, such as My Dog Ate My Homework. There is another rapidly evolving universal excuse, according to Robert Kennedy JR, who notes that VP Kamala Harris has three times, when confronted with a direct question, replied: I Was Born In The Middle Class.
She says she grew up middle class and her mother worked and saved her money and bought a house (the American dream), but Kamala never includes her father in any of these conversations.
Her father happens to be a Marxist who was a professor somewhere, so maybe that’s why she never mentions him.
It means she dyes her own hair, plucks her own eyebrows and walks to the refrigerator for coffee creamer instead of having the hired help do it.
Of course, all that changed when she entered the White House which is why she wants to stay.
Quondam
September 29, 2024 3:36 am
My earliest notes on global warming and carbon dioxide date back over decade. At that time, discussion focused on the theoretical issues of modeling the relationship between greenhouse gases and thermal profiles. Suffice it to say, the foibles of those models remain unresolved. What modelers fail to mention is that their favored RCE model had been proposed by Kelvin in 1862, labeled Convective Equilibrium and shortly thereafter scuttled by both Maxwell and Boltzmann. Kelvin’s model assumed equilibrium fluids were isentropic in gravitational fields. He calculated a thermal gradient of 10K/km (in today’s units) and puzzled over why it differed from an observed 6K/km. Joule suggested water vapor might be a factor and Kelvin recalculated values ranging 5-10K/km. Maxwell and Boltzmann offered mathematical proofs that equilibria in gravitational fields remained isothermal and so it was – until an immaculate isentropic resurrection in the 1960’s by a new generation.
Why then does the troposphere have a thermal gradient? An electric flux through a wire creates a potential gradient. A volume flux through a pipe creates a pressure gradient. And an entropy flux through a fluid? In thermodynamics, these are the basic dissipative processes. When fluxes are arbitrarily small, they are proportional to gradients and dissipation is termed linear.
The first answer we seek from climate models is, should we increase surface temperatures 1K, how much do energy fluxes (joules/m^2) change? For linear dissipation, this requires only a knowledge of the flux and boundary temperatures. Only when linearity limits are exceeded does what’s in between come into play.
Why does climate science have such difficulty answering this question? To the best of my knowledge RCE models universally presume it is the adiabatic lapse rate, independent of greenhouse gases, which sets thermal gradients. Hence my need for an alternative model with gradients determined by radiative absorption and convective viscosity. Easier done than might be imagined for steady states are characterized by minimal dissipation. It is such a model that led to a realization that thermal sensitivity is primarily a boundary value issue. Internal effects, clouds, aerosols, etc., are implicit in empirical boundary values.
I’ve found this model helpful in understanding how dissipation determines flux vs. temperature relationships. Those also interested in environmentally approved tropospheric experimentation may find my Python code of interest. https://pdquondam.net/HBC_VIIb.zip
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (R. Hamming)
This is an interesting topic. Suppose that you had a climate model which implemented all the basic rules of science correctly. Not only would it replicate accurately the thermal gradient of the entire atmosphere, it would not have to be given any information about the thermal gradient – not even its existence. The climate modellers claim that their models only implement the laws of physics. The thermal gradient proves that they don’t, or rather, can’t.
Mike, seems like a fairly jankey claim, plus contradicts itself with the opening “Not only” .
…the atmospheric temp. reduction with altitude matches pretty well with dry adiabatic lapse rate calc from thermodynamics plus modifications for water content. So how can you say a model with all the rules wouldn’t even indicate the existence of the thermal gradient ?
I think you have misread my comment. With ‘not even its existence’ I wasn’t saying that the models could not predict the existence of a thermal gradient, I was saying that the models would not have to be told of the existence of a thermal gradient.
My point is that the climate modellers claim that their models simply apply the laws of physics. Such a model, if fully competent, would not have to be told that the atmosphere had a thermal gradient, it would work it out and get it right. See the comment I was replying to, where it says “Why does climate science have such difficulty answering this question?” for where it doesn’t/can’t do this.
The climate models are full of such deficiencies. Every ‘parametrization’ in a model very quickly generates small errors. Every small error in a model rapidly leads to major errors.
… climate modellers claim that their models simply apply the laws of physics.
Except for the ‘trivial’ exchanges of energy within and between clouds and the air. Not being able to calculate those energy exchanges at the same scale as everything else, they resort to parameterization. That is equivalent to saying that E = mc^2 +/-(best guesses). The accurate physics is meaningless when the error term is not constrained and is not calculated the same way as the actual “laws of physics.”
Yesterday 9/28/2024 at 1600Z, mid-day, this shows the Band 16 “CO2 Longwave IR” visualization for southern South America from the GOES East geostationary satellite. The second image is 12 hours earlier, in the middle of the night.
The radiance at a “brightness temperature” of 50C (red) is 13 times the radiance at -90C (white.)
Notice how time of day, the presence or absence of clouds, terrain type, ocean v. land, dry v. humid, etc. have a huge effect on the resulting emission of longwave radiation to space. One cannot assume that the minor static radiative effect of incremental CO2 governs the dynamic end result at the surface. Also, it is plain to see that the static incremental GHG “forcing” cannot be isolated for reliable attribution of a reported warming trend by any means we presently possess.
For more background about why Band 16 is so important, please see this plot of Modtran values for 560 ppmv CO2 vs 280 ppmv. Band 16 is centered at a wavelength of 13.3 microns at the edge of the “atmospheric window.” It is one part of the IR spectrum where the computed static effect of incremental CO2 is significant.
Why did the Biden-Harris administration release 40,000 illegal aliens who have been *convicted* of murder and/or sexual assault, into the United States?
So even the worst criminal aliens are acceptable to the Biden-Harris administration.
They want that illegal alien vote real bad, don’t they. If that includes importing 40,000 convicted murderers and rapists, then so be it, say Biden and Harris. That’s a small price to pay to keep the Democrats in power, they say.
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the other radical Democrats are the worst, most destructive, and most dangerous administration/political party in the history of the Untied States. They are too dangerous to allow them to govern us.
Don’t vote for radical Democrats (that includes just about all of them) if you value your freedom.
Animal sacrifice is also a safe and effective way of countering the negative effects of climate change. It’s at least as effective as demolishing your country’s economy in pursuit of unattainable net zero (and a heck of a lot cheaper).
Let me put it like this, a government that paid out $2 billion in false unemployment and social security claims over the last 12 months just told you what it “knows”.
One thing that I know, if the puppet regime thought that the true count of violent criminals that they had released into the US was as low as 40,000 they would definitely scream “conspiracy theorist!”, and boldfaced claim the number to be zero.
There must be incontrovertible hard evidence recorded in multiple places that is too difficult to erase for them to be admitting to an eye-popping 13k convicted murderers.
And I’ll mention again, there are plenty of countries that won’t share data with the US. The implicit assumption is that any murderers or rapists illegally entering the US from those countries would have self-reported that they were convicted violent felons. For example, I am pretty sure we don’t get any data from Venezuela, not that we’ve ever seen any violent characters from there.
Scissor,
I see Aurora is seeking $10,000,000 to spend on additional police. Do you suppose that qualifies as a tax on those making less than $400,000 a year?
You really should do a little research before spouting your nonsense. Both the Telegraph and the BBC have confirmed that convicted illegal immigrants have been or are being released.
Only you are confused Eric. They had not yet committed any crimes in the US as of the moment they entered the country other than the unenforced law of fraudulently claiming asylum. They had been convicted in other countries.
Let’s not forget that many countries don’t share data with the US, so it’s most probable that some of the worst actors claimed to have no criminal record but are actually serious predators.
Then you apparently can’t read. It doesn’t imply that the ‘newcomers’ had committed crimes in the US although every one of them were in fact illegally present.
The deeper question in my view is who coordinated the release from prisons and mental hospitals across multiple shithole countries in concert with the puppet regime eliminating enforcement of immigration law? And why import violent criminals except to wreak havoc? They imported literal millions of illegitimate asylum seekers in contravention of immigration law. Forty thousand denied entry would in no way have compromised their voter fraud scheme.
Dementia Joe has had little to do with any of what occurred on his watch. He had long-ago been manipulated into playing the role of a puppet president. He was always a known dullard, plagiarist, and corrupt blowhard. It is no coincidence that his crack-addicted trainwreck of a son was given obviously corrupt deals with corrupt Ukrainian, Chinese, and other unsavory regimes. It was not a problem for the Obama regime, it was a setup to ensure complete control over the doddering old fool.
So given the manifest incapacity of the pathetic creature, who was actually running the government and controlling his teleprompter?
Who had the reach to entice dictators to release murderers and insane people into migration caravans?
The purpose goes far beyond bringing in undocumented Democrats. The purpose is to destabilize our society. Election fraud is just one small cog in the machine.
QAnon? Is that all you can muster in defense of the indefensible? A made-up conspiracy theorist group to label any ‘mal’-information that can’t be plausibly refuted?
The crimes committed here are enough of a problem.
Only about a mile from my house, an illegal immigrant, previously known for driving under the influence, hit and killed a mother picking up her son at the local high school. The “immigrant” was speeding and under the influence again.
The illegal immigrant killer should not have been here in the first place and should have been deported earlier. Instead, he destroyed a family and ended the lives of a mother and her son.
And then there is the incident of two illegal aliens shooting an eagle for food in Nebraska. I’m also wondering how they came by their rifle. Since the press announced their arrest, I have seen nothing more about it.
LOL…But No, I heard the thump when he hit the wall. Thought my puppy had fallen off the bed again…he’s figured out how to get up onto the furniture, but not how to get down.
“And why import violent criminals except to wreak havoc?” Also to rid their country of the criminals and the burden of their upkeep. Thinks about it, it’s a win-win for the countries losing the undesirables and the Marxists in the process of destroying America.
Sure there’s an incentive to dump the problem on the US. I suppose it could be as simple as hostile or ambivalent regimes opportunistically dumping their problems on a hapless puppet regime, but why would the puppet regime allow it?
If the only goal were to import undocumented Democrats wouldn’t it have been a far better PR policy to deport the violent criminals? Allowing the chaos undermines the scheme by building popular opposition. They apparently decided that their real objectives required tolerating a growing resistance, that without the violent criminals, their true objectives could not be met.
If the people violating their oaths of office by not faithfully executing the laws of the United States actually had any concern for a stable society, would they have chosen to admit murderers and rapists? Violent criminals who in a best-case scenario would need to be housed and fed in prison for the rest of their lives?
The objective is to swell the ranks of the radical left’s storm troopers. To be released on us if Science ™ Forbid! the Orange Man Bad should not be assassinated.
The regime correctly understands that it’s current enforcers might be a tad reluctant to fire upon native dissidents, hence the need for new citizens, who will not only vote correctly, but will be quite willing to ‘light up’ the regime’s opponents.
Rich, your observations about the whole 4-year Biden gong show are precisely what mine are.
The Democrat machine could just as easily have gone to a dementia hospital and sponsored the release of the most advanced patient from there, put a rubber Obama mask on him, and presented him to Dem voters as the “3rd coming of the chosen one”.
And the Dem voters would still have voted ‘D’, such is their level of incoherence in all things.
“Why did the Biden-Harris administration release 40,000 illegal aliens who have been *convicted* of murder and/or sexual assault, into the United States?” Tom Abbott
This is a conservative myth
The correct interpretation:
ICE released over 435,000 illegal aliens with criminal convictions in the past 40 years
13,000 had been convicted of murder
Another 226,847 had pending criminal charges,
The Joe Bribe’em administration is obviously responsible for a large percentage of the total because of 12 million illegal aliens entering in his four years: 10 million known and 2 million estimated but unknown.
The ICE numbers obviously do not include convicted criminals who evaded them when coming into the US.
The Trump supporters falsely claim 20 million illegal aliens under Biden and claim over 400,000 were criminals. They do that because Trump is a blowhard who exaggerates everything, so is a fact checker’s dream.
Meanwhile, Kamaliar spends 20 minutes posing in from of Trump’s border wall, that she opposed, and promises to fix the border problem she ignored for the past 4 years. Which of curse she claims was Trump’s fault.
That half of Americans believe Harris BS are evidence this nation is doomed as a productive free market economy.
Those of us living in the Dayton (OH) area received an unwelcome introduction to what the future holds for us if the alarmists get their way. We got hit by the tail end of hurricane Helene Friday. It was not a particularly bad storm, as far as it went. I have experienced several far worse over the last 20 years here. During the 20 years that I have lived near Wright-Patterson AFB, I have experienced electricity outages several times, with the actual outage lasting commonly from two to six hours. There were 136,000 homes losing power, of which there are now only about 55,000 left without power, with the utility company predicting all to be re-connected by Monday evening. I have now been without power for over 48-hours. The hot tub is now too cold to use, and what is left in the hot water heater will probably be too cold to shower tomorrow morning. I will probably have to go to the YMCA to shower tomorrow. I was afraid of losing all the frozen food in my refrigerator. Fortunately, my nearest neighbor didn’t suffer an outage and through his good graces supplied me with an extension cord plugged into an outside outlet. I’m typing this after bringing the refrigerator back to normal temps, and running the extension cord up to my computer room temporarily. Talking with neighbors, I have discovered that even those with gas stoves cannot bake, being restricted to manually lighting only the top burners. Even gas water heaters, such as mine, with electronic ignition, do not work. It is strange that this, what will probably be a 72-hour interruption, is happening in a neighborhood with lots of trees, but all the utilities are underground. This will be the longest I have gone without power in my life. Even when I lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains (Calif), in a cabin with the last telephone and electricity connection on the road, I never went more than a few hours without power. This is a milestone that I hope isn’t a harbinger of what is to come.
I’m planning a new home, which will be heated with coal. We have (thank you Lord and the EPA) so much surplus coal in Wyoming that it will ultimately prove to be the most easily affordable home heating going, and I can pile it on the ground in near-infinite BTUs.
The Houthis terrorists in Yemen fired on three American warships a couple of days ago, and the Biden-Harris administration has no response.
Biden and Harris allow the Iranian terrorist proxies to fire at will at Americans in the region and take no action in reponse.
This is because Biden and Harris wish to appease the Mad Mullahs of Iran (why, I can’t imagine), the biggest State sponsor of terrorism in the world, even to the point of enabling the Mad Mullahs to build themselves nuclear weapons.
I assume this appeasement of the Mad Mullahs of Iran is a legacy from the Obama-Biden administration. Obama just loves these Iranian terrorists, for some reason.
Obama and Biden are going to be the cause of a nuclear war in the Middle East if things keep going like they are going. Their appeasement philosophy has brought us the invasion of Ukraine and the attacks on Israel, and when the Mad Mullahs acquire a working nuclear weapon, the whole Middle East area is going to blow up. Or rather, a large portion of Iran is going to be devastated. I don’t think the Israelis will give the Mad Mullahs a chance to use a nuclear weapon on Israel. When the Mad Mullahs get the ability, the Israelis will act, which might include Israel using nuclear weapons on Iran’s infrastructure and leadership..
That’s the Obama-Biden appeasement legacy they have and will, leave us.
A Bunch of Damn Fools is what they all are. Radical Democrats will get us all killed if we leave them to their own devices.
But we can put a stop to that November 5, if we are smart, by voting the crazy, dangerous, radical Democrats out of power, and putting common sense Republicans back in power.
There is unfortunately no “Religion” that hasn’t been used as a tool of megalomaniacs to have a compliant citizenry and allow conscription of many soldiers willing to give their lives so that the leader can be “their leader”.
It is unfortunate that it is fairly easy to declare a “fatwah” in Islamic states. Western cultures have generally separated church and state functions several centuries ago, primarily to prevent angry priests from sending too many intelligent people’s relatives to be judged by God….
I don’t want to see Israel annihilated but that’s Israel’s affair. Arguably Germany has a moral obligation to Israel, and maybe the UK does too, for meddling there in post-WW1 League of Nations mandates.
We in the US have no legitimate national strategic interest in the Middle East and if our past actions point to any obligations at all, it is arguably our CIA meddling in Iran in the 1950s pointing to a moral obligation to make amends with the ancient Persian culture. That doesn’t mean that I have any affection for the mad mullahs, it is just a sober acknowledgement that we likely had a hand in creating the problem.
Israel needs to find a path to a sustainable peace that doesn’t depend on deviously entangling the US into bleeding out our patriots fighting their battles.
Yemen isn’t really their battle (the main threat being to shipping and the Suez Canal), and Iran is as much of a threat to the west as a whole as it is to Israel.
A ground invasion of Yemen would be a relatively low cost affair, the Houthis wouldn’t last 5 minutes against a NATO armoured division, the legitimate Yemeni government could quickly occupy the captured territory, and any NATO forces could be in and out in a month or so.
As for Iran, I’m all for bombing them forward into the Stone Age.
Appeasement didn’t work in the 1930s, it’s not working now.
Not getting involved in other people’s fights is not appeasement. In what way is traffic through the Suez Canal a US interest? Why are we paying blood and treasure to protect the EU’s trade routes?
Having said that, if anyone attacks US forces, there needs to be an overwhelming response to deter future attacks and protect our soldiers and sailors.
I don’t have a dislike of Europe any more than I do of Israel, but it’s up to Europe to defend European interests, not the US. If Europe were doing its utmost to defend itself and it were hard-pressed by an aggressor, then I would support helping them. As it is, Europe is behaving like a weak kid brother who starts fights and expects big brother to protect him.
Ultimately, the US benefits from having allies, wealthy trading partners, and a rules based world order, if you want to throw the former to the wolves then the latter will follow and everyone including the US will be worse off.
You’re in a forever war already, it ends when you win.
In what way is traffic through the Suez Canal a US interest?
We are a consumer nation that has shipped all most or our manufacturing off shore. It is very much in our interest. Some of our recent inflation problems can be blamed on supply problems.
We’ve shipped it offshore to where Clyde? You know as well as I do that it’s China and Mexico for the lion’s share.
Explain to me the foreign source and US destination where the Suez Canal forms part of the shortest path.
Now if we’re talking LNG from Qatar or crude oil from Saudi Arabia heading to Europe, then the Suez Canal is vital. Just that it has nothing to do with the US.
I don’t think a ground invasion of Yemen is required. Some well-placed munitions will do.
I don’t think an invasion of Iran is necessary, either. I think if Western leaders played their cards right, they could incite a revolution against the Mad Mullahs by the Iranian people. A little moral support of the Iranian people would go a long way towards freeing the world of the insanity embodied in the Mad Mullahs of Iran.
Of course, that will never happen if radical Democrats remain in power in the U.S. Radical Democrats lift up the Iranian Dictators, not the Iranian people.
To this jaded (and very worried) observer of world events, it seems that there is a sort of unspoken alliance between the shadowy leftie wokers, net-zeroists and warmongers who are trying to run our lives on one hand, and Islamic activism on the other hand. Both have the aim of dismantling the democratic structures of the west, and replacing them with their own vision of authoritarian dictatorship where dissent won’t be possible. The invisible leaders of each of these movements probably think that they are co-opting the other as a group of “useful idiots” who will be cast aside as the hoped-for paradise comes into view (that might be fun to watch – from a safe distance).
How else to explain that our leaders (including some of our archbishops FFS) seem to hate Christianity while they tolerate absolutely anything that islamists do, legal or otherwise?
How else to explain demands for “cease-fire” in the middle east versus “more arms for Ukraine” from the same side of the fence?
How else to explain the gift of enough military hardware to prosecute a medium-sized war to the Taliban (please don’t tell me it was all a mistake, I wasn’t born yesterday)?
How else to explain that the 7/7 bombers travelled from Luton to London on a train that didn’t run that day?
I asked perplexity.ai, and this is what it said. Any evidence to support the claim and to show perlexity is wrong?
‘the 7/7 bombers travelled from Luton to London on a train that didn’t run that day’ is this true or is it yet another mad internet conspiracy theory?
Answer
This claim is not true and appears to be a conspiracy theory. The facts about the 7/7 bombers’ journey from Luton to London are well-documented and do not support this assertion. On the morning of July 7, 2005, the four bombers – Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, Hasib Hussain, and Germaine Lindsay – traveled from Leeds to Luton, where they met up. From Luton, they boarded a train to London’s King’s Cross station, arriving there at approximately 8:30 am. Several pieces of evidence confirm this journey: CCTV footage shows the bombers entering Luton train station on the morning of the attacks
The official investigation and subsequent inquests have thoroughly examined the bombers’ movements that day, including their train journey from Luton to London.
The timeline of events, which has been meticulously reconstructed by authorities, clearly indicates that the bombers traveled from Luton to London by train on the morning of July 7, 2005.
The idea that the train didn’t run that day is simply not supported by any credible evidence. It contradicts the extensive documentation and investigation that followed the attacks. This type of misinformation is often characteristic of conspiracy theories that attempt to cast doubt on well-established facts surrounding tragic events.In conclusion, the claim that the 7/7 bombers traveled from Luton to London on a train that didn’t run that day is false and should be regarded as an unfounded conspiracy theory.
Longshorepersons are preparing to saunter off the job.
vwch60
September 29, 2024 5:23 am
Looking for some expert opinion. Why does the hot summer continue in the Phoenix area? 117° at the end of September with no real cooldown in sight.
Thank you,
Not sure why you were downvoted for a honest question.
Have you lived on the surface of the sun, er I mean in the valley of the sun for long? The five hottest years are in the past 30 years. In that same time, how much urban development has gone on? It’s practically one city from Sun City to Apache Junction.
I’ve been fortunate and have spent more than 60 years in the valley of the sun. all summers have been warm and I’ve gotten so that I don’t enjoy being cool.
The pest 2 summers just seem to have been a little longer and hotter than just a normal variation.
The official temp is taken at the end of a runway at Sky Harbor and it’s generally a few degrees cooler in my back yard.
Hope nest summer is closer to average.
Forecasts say that temps will drop significantly in the next week or so. Anyway, Phoenix definitely suffers from the urban heat effect, especially around Sky Harbor where such temperatures are recorded.
Records in Yuma for example are not so different from historical data.
Having lived in Phoenix about 20 years ago, it was my experience that through the Summer it was too hot to work on a car outside of an air-conditioned garage, which I didn’t have. One could receive painful contacta with the frame while working on the car. I had some minor repairs that I resolved to put off until it cooled down in the Fall, which I anticipated to be in October. September came and went and I was looking forward to getting the repairs done. However, it was then suddenly too cold to work without bulky clothes to keep a heat-adapted body comfortable. Enjoy Phoenix.
There is a high pressure ridge over your location. I marked what looks like the center of it (see link below).
Everything under this high pressure system will get warmer than normal and will stay that way as long as the high pressure system remains over the area.
High pressure systems usually don’t remain over one area for very long.
My particular area in Oklahoma is also experiencing warmer than usual temperatures for this time of year, and we are also under the influence of this high pressure system.
CO2 has nothing to do with where and when and how long a high pressure system will establish itself.
On a more technical note, what’s with this “More stories for you to check out” window that now keeps on coming up when you exit the site? I have never yet seen it have anything listed in it. You X away the message and there’s a blank window there. I have even seen it come up after I have read an article, when I hit the Back button to go back to the main menu. It’s a pain.
That scenario implies an enormous amount of energy storage to be built in the next 15 years, where are the materials to build that coming from? Looks like someone got a hold of a copy of YV88 (an eco-fantasy or perhaps eco-hallucination about Yosemite Valley in 1988 written in 1977).
Might work ok in some areas, provided you had no plans to be doing much at all on any given night, or when nice calm weather spells settled over your windmills farms for weeks at a time.
ps – I’d like your advice about something –
I saw a sign on one of those party pontoon hire boats that said – “DAYLIGHT HOURS ONLY”
Do solar panels come with these signs attached, and if not, would there be a business opportunity for an entrepreneurial individual (me?) to start a business offering to supply such after-market signs to worshipers purchasers of rooftop solar panels?
Every one of China’s, India’s, (and rest of world’s) COAL fired power station built in the last 10 or so years will be going strong for at least another 40-50 years.
As will all modern GAS-fired power stations.
NONE of the current infestation of wind and solar will still be operating in 40-50 years.
Curious – Visa’s computer called me this AM to verify that my monthly renewal for my Premium Membership was authorized. This was the third bill, the second garnered no attention.
I assured the computer it was okay, it thanked me and said goodbye.
I think Visa has been lowering the bar on when to call, a couple previous calls seemed not as alarming as I would have thought and other buyers also got called. (One for a Raspberry Shake & Boom from Panama, a trustworthy vendor for years, the other for a “PiDP-10” from Florida. that’s a functional model of a DEC PDP-10 computer console with a Pi simh emulator that runs MIT’s ITS from the 1970s. You aren’t expected to understand that.)
Visa, or the issuing bank? I get notifications for certain unusual purchases, but they come from the issuer. (And their algorithm is actually pretty good – distrubingly so). But never from Visa.
The computer claims to be from the credit union, but I’m confident it’s Visa’s computer. It does do account verification with multiple choice answers for zip code and last four digits of SSN.
At home I have time to login to DCU and follow along in the Visa transaction page. The poor computer fails miserably trying to pronounce “FLIGHTRADAR24 AB STOCKHOLM” and once I told it I didn’t make the transaction, forgetting that flightradar24 is in Sweden.
Not only did it cancel the transaction, but it disabled the card. When I got home the credit union folks were able to restore that corner of the universe for me.
Kind of wild to think that an inexpensive R Pi can emulate what was a serious machine back in the 1970’s. FWIW, Compuserve was running on DEC-10s and DEC-10 clones up until 1995 or so.
In addition to emulating the machine, the Pi emulates MIT’s peripherals and gloriously simulates the appearance of the incandescent lamps used on the PDP-10 with the LEDs on their replica!
I have my kit, but have some serious projects to finish before I can make it back to the -10 era. I have a graphic hack that I use to learn new languages and systems Writing it in PDP-10 assembler will be a great finish to my PDP-10 programming career.
More fun in Southern California with lithium bombs, this one closed the big bridge between Long Beach and San Pedro:
“A truck carrying lithium-ion batteries overturned on the 47 Freeway in San Pedro on Thursday, Sept. 26, sparking a fire and shutting down traffic in both directions between the 110 and 710 freeways.”
“The Vincent Thomas Bridge is[sic] San Pedro remained closed Friday morning about 20 hours after a truckload of lithium ion batteries exploded and caught fire near the Port of Los Angeles.”
“Sound familiar?” Very. It is becoming the elephant in the EV room in California. With many high density cities (where the EV has its’ niche) this will only increase. I’ve seen videos of a foam that squelches LiOn fires, not sure how because the thermal runaway creates its’ own environment, and I’m wondering was the video real and the process being ignored or what?
FWIW, it is very easy to set up FireFox to block most of these ads – really get a nasty surprise visiting websites in other browsers or in Fire Fox before tweaking.
On another site, users were complaining about a Harris-Walz ad that was kept centered on the screen while people were scrolling through the content being large blocked by the ad. Almost sounds like a good advertisement for Trump by ticking off potential voters.
I saw an estimate of between $5 billion and $8 billion in damages from Hurricane Helene.
The unionized dockworkers on the U.S. East Coast are scheduled to go on strike tonight at midnight if a new working agreement is not signed.
The estimate of losses should the dock workers go on strike is about $5 billion per day. So a dockworkers strike will be the equivalent of hitting the American economy with a Hurrican Helene every day.
President Biden could stop this stike and call for a 90-day cooling off period, but he said yesterday that he will not stop the strike. Joe Biden gets a lot of money from worker unions, and he gives them billions of dollars in return.
Now Biden is going to make another stupid, costly, destructive decision based on radical Democrat politics.
Employers on the East coast are already predicting layoffs of workers in the coming weeks if the strike goes on for any long period of time.
A bunch of Damn Idiots are running our country into the ground.
It must be true that Kamala Harris lied about working at a McDonalds restaurant.
Trump called it a lie the other day.
Now, normally, when Trump accuses Kamala of distorting the truth, the Leftwing Media will jump all over it and fact check and spin the story in favor of Kamala, and in this case, they would go interview the owner of the McDonalds that Kamala worked for and would interview some of Kamala’s fellow McDonalds workers to confirm that Kamala was not telling a lie about her employment.
But we have seen none of that. Not a peep out of the Leftwing Media in defense of Kamala working at McDonalds.
The logical conclusion is that kamala is lying and the Leftwing Media cannot spin it in her favor.
So, would you vote for a person who lies about working at McDonalds?
If Kamala lies about working at McDonalds, what else is she lying about? Answer: Just about everything.
I heard that Kamala’s “answer” to the question “are you better off now than four years ago” is to say “I come from a middleclass family”, and then Kamala goes off on a tangent and never does answer the original question. Kamala’s method of deflection is now being used on social media. Anyone who gets a question they don’t want to answer now says “I come from a middleclass family”.
Here in Australia and from reading of other countries, I have a firm impression that as the US Nov election approaches, those who seek more power are seeking more power more emphatically, while we who eventually confer power through votes are being trodden on heavier than ever. For example, the Australian Federal Parliament is progressing with bringing into law the ridiculous “misinformation” legislation that the voters clearly do no want. From the Parliamentary site, verbatim:
“On 19 September 2024, the Senate referred the provisions of the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 (the bill) to the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee for report by 25 November 2024.
Submissions close on the 30 September 2024.
The committee has received a large volume of material for this inquiry. The secretariat is processing this material as quickly as possible. Submissions will be loaded to the committee website in due course.”
We are in due course.
Can readers report any other overbearing legislation from other countries with events in the past week or two?
Geoff S?
The UK is doing its bit
Harris’ campaign lies and uses disinformation to fool voters.
https://x.com/its_The_Dr/status/1839867426646704639
Yeah, just about everything Kamala says is a lie or a distortion of reality.
What kind of a fool would vote for this woman?
Here in Canada, we are awash with government attempts at legislation of not just misinformation, but information as well.
Bill C-70, Countering Foreign interference
Bill C-63, Online Harms Act
Bill C-18, Online News Act
Bill C-11, Online Streaming Act
Bill C-10, Amendment to the Broadcasting Act to include search and seizure powers for streaming, or online broadcasts.
All these basically say “We are starting a department to accept complaints from anyone that says someone is breaking the rules. If you want to know if you are breaking the rules, you can apply to the department for approval. If you don’t apply, you might have to appear before a tribunal to determine if you have transgressed. The tribunal has powers of search, seizure, setting of fines…”
They all start off well by identifying their purpose….to stop sexual predators, stop internet misinformation, stop foreign agencies meddling in political campaigns….then they end with a version of “plus stop whatever we don’t like by making you spend big bucks on lawyer defences unless you just STFU”.
As usual, the process will be more than enough punishment for suspected “deplorables” who haven’t taken their “woke” flavoured KoolAid.
This is what US law recognizes as “Prior Restraint,” particularly with respect to the First Amendment, and has consistently ruled it as being unconsitutional.
Is this like the liberal Guardian providing their slant on the upcoming American election?
John Kerry said “freedom of speech” was not a good thing when it comes to fighting climate change “disinformation”. At the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, last week, he called the U.S. First Amendment, which protects the free speech of Americans, to be a “major block” to stopping “disinformation”.
The Radical Democrats in the United States are openly attacking Freedom of Speech now.
I think we need a new term to describe what these evil people are trying to create. How about “Liberal Dictatorship”?
One has to wonder quite what they are imbibing at The Guardian.
“Britain’s tropical rain and parched Amazon are new norms in a messed-up climate
…ever-greater combustion of fossil fuels has turned the world’s climate on its head. In the past week, the northern latitudes are behaving like the equatorial margins.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/26/britain-tropical-rain-parched-amazon-new-norms-messed-up-climate
Tropical? It’s 10C
They are not confused, just deliberately twisting the language. Scary word syndrome (SWS). Stupidly extreme words are now the green norm.
[Orwellian] Word play is a major tool for the woke/post-modern/environMental etc etc
“”Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment””
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/17/why-the-guardian-is-changing-the-language-it-uses-about-the-environment?ref=footprint-magazine
Five years of the current ‘language’ (heating not warming etc) haven’t worked. Back to the sustainable drawing board.
My personal favorite is “climate collapse”. Meaningless and scary.
As good as boiling oceans 😀
Is that supposed to be a synonym for entropy, or the climate at The End of the Universe?
And the utterly STUPID thing is that nothing the UK does about zero-CO2 and other idiocies…
… will make one tiny iota of difference to anything to do with the climate or weather.
What’s it all about?
Demonstrable virtue. And with the highest electricity prices in the world, we have much virtue – though it’s going to be a very chilly winter. One of real discontent.
It’s a belief, a religion, they’ve been brainwashed by the green industry into believing that they have to do this, or we’re all going to die, and they don’t have the technical skills to analyse the problem properly.
A Winter of Discontent? Funny that; weren’t Labour in power the last time we had one of those?
CNN blames Climate Change for larger and stronger hurricanes (see article two before this Open Thread), and the use of Climate Change as the universal excuse, appeared to be replacing more traditional themes, such as My Dog Ate My Homework. There is another rapidly evolving universal excuse, according to Robert Kennedy JR, who notes that VP Kamala Harris has three times, when confronted with a direct question, replied: I Was Born In The Middle Class.
I once came across CNN described as the Clinton News Network, but these days it seems more like the Complete Numpty Network
That was back when the Clintons were considered the ne plus ultra of American Leftism. We’ve
comefallen a long way since then.No need to delete the “come”. Remember Monica!
I don’t get what Harris means when she says that.
You’re not supposed to. It’s above your level – as they would frame it.
Oh, I guess I must be one of those deplorables.
Despite living in Wokeachusetts, you are considered to be an inhabitant of “flyover country.”
Her parents were both academics so she says a lot of things that make no sense.
And they had a lawn. This will draw the voters in.
Didn’t she say she grew up middle class?
One of her many lies.
Kamala is such a liar.
She says she grew up middle class and her mother worked and saved her money and bought a house (the American dream), but Kamala never includes her father in any of these conversations.
Her father happens to be a Marxist who was a professor somewhere, so maybe that’s why she never mentions him.
There could be a reason for that…
It means she dyes her own hair, plucks her own eyebrows and walks to the refrigerator for coffee creamer instead of having the hired help do it.
Of course, all that changed when she entered the White House which is why she wants to stay.
My earliest notes on global warming and carbon dioxide date back over decade. At that time, discussion focused on the theoretical issues of modeling the relationship between greenhouse gases and thermal profiles. Suffice it to say, the foibles of those models remain unresolved. What modelers fail to mention is that their favored RCE model had been proposed by Kelvin in 1862, labeled Convective Equilibrium and shortly thereafter scuttled by both Maxwell and Boltzmann. Kelvin’s model assumed equilibrium fluids were isentropic in gravitational fields. He calculated a thermal gradient of 10K/km (in today’s units) and puzzled over why it differed from an observed 6K/km. Joule suggested water vapor might be a factor and Kelvin recalculated values ranging 5-10K/km. Maxwell and Boltzmann offered mathematical proofs that equilibria in gravitational fields remained isothermal and so it was – until an immaculate isentropic resurrection in the 1960’s by a new generation.
Why then does the troposphere have a thermal gradient? An electric flux through a wire creates a potential gradient. A volume flux through a pipe creates a pressure gradient. And an entropy flux through a fluid? In thermodynamics, these are the basic dissipative processes. When fluxes are arbitrarily small, they are proportional to gradients and dissipation is termed linear.
The first answer we seek from climate models is, should we increase surface temperatures 1K, how much do energy fluxes (joules/m^2) change? For linear dissipation, this requires only a knowledge of the flux and boundary temperatures. Only when linearity limits are exceeded does what’s in between come into play.
Why does climate science have such difficulty answering this question? To the best of my knowledge RCE models universally presume it is the adiabatic lapse rate, independent of greenhouse gases, which sets thermal gradients. Hence my need for an alternative model with gradients determined by radiative absorption and convective viscosity. Easier done than might be imagined for steady states are characterized by minimal dissipation. It is such a model that led to a realization that thermal sensitivity is primarily a boundary value issue. Internal effects, clouds, aerosols, etc., are implicit in empirical boundary values.
I’ve found this model helpful in understanding how dissipation determines flux vs. temperature relationships. Those also interested in environmentally approved tropospheric experimentation may find my Python code of interest. https://pdquondam.net/HBC_VIIb.zip
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (R. Hamming)
This is an interesting topic. Suppose that you had a climate model which implemented all the basic rules of science correctly. Not only would it replicate accurately the thermal gradient of the entire atmosphere, it would not have to be given any information about the thermal gradient – not even its existence. The climate modellers claim that their models only implement the laws of physics. The thermal gradient proves that they don’t, or rather, can’t.
Mike, seems like a fairly jankey claim, plus contradicts itself with the opening “Not only” .
…the atmospheric temp. reduction with altitude matches pretty well with dry adiabatic lapse rate calc from thermodynamics plus modifications for water content. So how can you say a model with all the rules wouldn’t even indicate the existence of the thermal gradient ?
I think you have misread my comment. With ‘not even its existence’ I wasn’t saying that the models could not predict the existence of a thermal gradient, I was saying that the models would not have to be told of the existence of a thermal gradient.
My point is that the climate modellers claim that their models simply apply the laws of physics. Such a model, if fully competent, would not have to be told that the atmosphere had a thermal gradient, it would work it out and get it right. See the comment I was replying to, where it says “Why does climate science have such difficulty answering this question?” for where it doesn’t/can’t do this.
The climate models are full of such deficiencies. Every ‘parametrization’ in a model very quickly generates small errors. Every small error in a model rapidly leads to major errors.
Except for the ‘trivial’ exchanges of energy within and between clouds and the air. Not being able to calculate those energy exchanges at the same scale as everything else, they resort to parameterization. That is equivalent to saying that E = mc^2 +/-(best guesses). The accurate physics is meaningless when the error term is not constrained and is not calculated the same way as the actual “laws of physics.”
The link does nothing on Safari.
Those interested in this topic may also find https://pdquondam.net/Adiabatic_Lapse_Rate.pdf of interest
Yesterday 9/28/2024 at 1600Z, mid-day, this shows the Band 16 “CO2 Longwave IR” visualization for southern South America from the GOES East geostationary satellite. The second image is 12 hours earlier, in the middle of the night.
The radiance at a “brightness temperature” of 50C (red) is 13 times the radiance at -90C (white.)
Notice how time of day, the presence or absence of clouds, terrain type, ocean v. land, dry v. humid, etc. have a huge effect on the resulting emission of longwave radiation to space. One cannot assume that the minor static radiative effect of incremental CO2 governs the dynamic end result at the surface. Also, it is plain to see that the static incremental GHG “forcing” cannot be isolated for reliable attribution of a reported warming trend by any means we presently possess.
For more background about why Band 16 is so important, please see this plot of Modtran values for 560 ppmv CO2 vs 280 ppmv. Band 16 is centered at a wavelength of 13.3 microns at the edge of the “atmospheric window.” It is one part of the IR spectrum where the computed static effect of incremental CO2 is significant.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/175qnVngPPfZJKUPUH13u6t5wolTBl0qi/view?usp=drive_link
David, I have a hard time finding your videos on YouTube.
Here is a link to my Youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI8vhRIT-3uaLhuaIZq2FuQ
A Climate Science Challenge.
Can any climate scientist explain the lightning at Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela? With or without a model?
And remember, the science IS settled….
Why did the Biden-Harris administration release 40,000 illegal aliens who have been *convicted* of murder and/or sexual assault, into the United States?
So even the worst criminal aliens are acceptable to the Biden-Harris administration.
They want that illegal alien vote real bad, don’t they. If that includes importing 40,000 convicted murderers and rapists, then so be it, say Biden and Harris. That’s a small price to pay to keep the Democrats in power, they say.
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the other radical Democrats are the worst, most destructive, and most dangerous administration/political party in the history of the Untied States. They are too dangerous to allow them to govern us.
Don’t vote for radical Democrats (that includes just about all of them) if you value your freedom.
That sounds a lot like another “they are eating the cats” lie.
Oh so you’ve popped up for the Camel. Sorry, Kamala.
Have you moved to one of the very many car free cities yet? If not why not?
It’s not Kamala It’s Que Mala
In Voodoo, animal sacrifice is a safe and effective way to ward off enemy spirits.
Animal sacrifice is also a safe and effective way of countering the negative effects of climate change. It’s at least as effective as demolishing your country’s economy in pursuit of unattainable net zero (and a heck of a lot cheaper).
The head of ICE under Biden released the data. Your dishonesty is astounding.
Revealed: The number of criminal migrants released into the US (yahoo.com)
Malinformation squeals the trollbot!
If the puppet regime acknowledges 40,000 then how many are there in reality, 120,000? 400,000?
(And also, ignore the trollbot!)
Let me put it like this, a government that paid out $2 billion in false unemployment and social security claims over the last 12 months just told you what it “knows”.
One thing that I know, if the puppet regime thought that the true count of violent criminals that they had released into the US was as low as 40,000 they would definitely scream “conspiracy theorist!”, and boldfaced claim the number to be zero.
There must be incontrovertible hard evidence recorded in multiple places that is too difficult to erase for them to be admitting to an eye-popping 13k convicted murderers.
And I’ll mention again, there are plenty of countries that won’t share data with the US. The implicit assumption is that any murderers or rapists illegally entering the US from those countries would have self-reported that they were convicted violent felons. For example, I am pretty sure we don’t get any data from Venezuela, not that we’ve ever seen any violent characters from there.
And the gotaways… 100% were altar boys.
It’s OK as long as Rolling Stone approves.
Scissor,
I see Aurora is seeking $10,000,000 to spend on additional police. Do you suppose that qualifies as a tax on those making less than $400,000 a year?
It’s not a good situation.
I see that Denver is going to stop enforcing low level traffic rules. More chaos to follow.
Road Rage Rules.
You really should do a little research before spouting your nonsense. Both the Telegraph and the BBC have confirmed that convicted illegal immigrants have been or are being released.
In Germany eating dogs is forbidden only since 2010.
Eating dogs and cats isn’t forbidden in Switzerland.
You want fries with that poochburger?
Certain Haitian folk religions practice animal sacrifice including pets. … Some rural Haitians do eat cats, but not all of them.
Elon Musk shares Haitian woman’s video to back Trump’s ‘eating pets’ claim – India Today
Who let you out of your cage Username?
After putting your foot in your mouth, are you going to respond to the citation about “sounds like?”
That looks like a very confused article.
Convicts, with cases pending?
Immigration authorities don’t make parole decisions.
Released after detention when caught crossing the border, how did they have time to commit the crimes?
It looks to me like these are crimes committed outside the US (presented otherwise), but how would they know who had those convictions?
Only you are confused Eric. They had not yet committed any crimes in the US as of the moment they entered the country other than the unenforced law of fraudulently claiming asylum. They had been convicted in other countries.
Let’s not forget that many countries don’t share data with the US, so it’s most probable that some of the worst actors claimed to have no criminal record but are actually serious predators.
(Also, ignore the trollbot!)
Thanks for stating the obvious, it’s the article that’s confused, not me.
BTW, why are we relying upon a UK paper for stories about the US?
We must be referring to different articles. I understood you to be referring to the yahoo.com article referenced by Nelson.
That said, if the notoriously biased anti-American British press confirms a point made by a Republican, then it must be an undeniable truth.
(Also, ignore the trollbot!)
The articles are one and the same.
Then you apparently can’t read. It doesn’t imply that the ‘newcomers’ had committed crimes in the US although every one of them were in fact illegally present.
The deeper question in my view is who coordinated the release from prisons and mental hospitals across multiple shithole countries in concert with the puppet regime eliminating enforcement of immigration law? And why import violent criminals except to wreak havoc? They imported literal millions of illegitimate asylum seekers in contravention of immigration law. Forty thousand denied entry would in no way have compromised their voter fraud scheme.
Dementia Joe has had little to do with any of what occurred on his watch. He had long-ago been manipulated into playing the role of a puppet president. He was always a known dullard, plagiarist, and corrupt blowhard. It is no coincidence that his crack-addicted trainwreck of a son was given obviously corrupt deals with corrupt Ukrainian, Chinese, and other unsavory regimes. It was not a problem for the Obama regime, it was a setup to ensure complete control over the doddering old fool.
So given the manifest incapacity of the pathetic creature, who was actually running the government and controlling his teleprompter?
Who had the reach to entice dictators to release murderers and insane people into migration caravans?
The purpose goes far beyond bringing in undocumented Democrats. The purpose is to destabilize our society. Election fraud is just one small cog in the machine.
(And also , ignore the trollbot!)
Ignore the QAnon bot.
QAnon? Is that all you can muster in defense of the indefensible? A made-up conspiracy theorist group to label any ‘mal’-information that can’t be plausibly refuted?
The crimes committed here are enough of a problem.
Only about a mile from my house, an illegal immigrant, previously known for driving under the influence, hit and killed a mother picking up her son at the local high school. The “immigrant” was speeding and under the influence again.
The illegal immigrant killer should not have been here in the first place and should have been deported earlier. Instead, he destroyed a family and ended the lives of a mother and her son.
And then there is the incident of two illegal aliens shooting an eagle for food in Nebraska. I’m also wondering how they came by their rifle. Since the press announced their arrest, I have seen nothing more about it.
They should have just hung out near a wind farm. No rifle needed.
Sadly, a young hawk flew into the side of my home last weekend and killed itself. I believe he mistook it for a wind turbine.
Are you sure it wasn’t killed by a house cat, roaddog? They’re known to drag home tons of eagles and condors.
LOL…But No, I heard the thump when he hit the wall. Thought my puppy had fallen off the bed again…he’s figured out how to get up onto the furniture, but not how to get down.
“And why import violent criminals except to wreak havoc?” Also to rid their country of the criminals and the burden of their upkeep. Thinks about it, it’s a win-win for the countries losing the undesirables and the Marxists in the process of destroying America.
Sure there’s an incentive to dump the problem on the US. I suppose it could be as simple as hostile or ambivalent regimes opportunistically dumping their problems on a hapless puppet regime, but why would the puppet regime allow it?
If the only goal were to import undocumented Democrats wouldn’t it have been a far better PR policy to deport the violent criminals? Allowing the chaos undermines the scheme by building popular opposition. They apparently decided that their real objectives required tolerating a growing resistance, that without the violent criminals, their true objectives could not be met.
If the people violating their oaths of office by not faithfully executing the laws of the United States actually had any concern for a stable society, would they have chosen to admit murderers and rapists? Violent criminals who in a best-case scenario would need to be housed and fed in prison for the rest of their lives?
The objective is to swell the ranks of the radical left’s storm troopers. To be released on us if Science ™ Forbid! the Orange Man Bad should not be assassinated.
The regime correctly understands that it’s current enforcers might be a tad reluctant to fire upon native dissidents, hence the need for new citizens, who will not only vote correctly, but will be quite willing to ‘light up’ the regime’s opponents.
Rich, your observations about the whole 4-year Biden gong show are precisely what mine are.
The Democrat machine could just as easily have gone to a dementia hospital and sponsored the release of the most advanced patient from there, put a rubber Obama mask on him, and presented him to Dem voters as the “3rd coming of the chosen one”.
And the Dem voters would still have voted ‘D’, such is their level of incoherence in all things.
“Why did the Biden-Harris administration release 40,000 illegal aliens who have been *convicted* of murder and/or sexual assault, into the United States?” Tom Abbott
This is a conservative myth
The correct interpretation:
ICE released over 435,000 illegal aliens with criminal convictions in the past 40 years
13,000 had been convicted of murder
Another 226,847 had pending criminal charges,
The Joe Bribe’em administration is obviously responsible for a large percentage of the total because of 12 million illegal aliens entering in his four years: 10 million known and 2 million estimated but unknown.
The ICE numbers obviously do not include convicted criminals who evaded them when coming into the US.
The Trump supporters falsely claim 20 million illegal aliens under Biden and claim over 400,000 were criminals. They do that because Trump is a blowhard who exaggerates everything, so is a fact checker’s dream.
Meanwhile, Kamaliar spends 20 minutes posing in from of Trump’s border wall, that she opposed, and promises to fix the border problem she ignored for the past 4 years. Which of curse she claims was Trump’s fault.
That half of Americans believe Harris BS are evidence this nation is doomed as a productive free market economy.
It was reported that the portion of the wall Kamala stood in front of was put up by Obama.
Even standing in front of a wall is politics.
Somebody ought to ask Kamala if she intends on completing the wall.
OPEC and IEA Oil Demand Views Are A World Apart
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/OPEC-and-IEA-Oil-Demand-Views-Are-A-World-Apart.html
Place your bets 😀
People need oil and petrol.
Even your miserable existence is totally dependent on them.
OPEC boosts long-term oil demand outlook, driven by developing world growth | Reuters
World oil demand outpacing expectations, challenging peak crude predictions
OPEC forecasts 18% global oil demand growth by 2050 on energy security, accessibility concerns (worldoil.com)
Those of us living in the Dayton (OH) area received an unwelcome introduction to what the future holds for us if the alarmists get their way. We got hit by the tail end of hurricane Helene Friday. It was not a particularly bad storm, as far as it went. I have experienced several far worse over the last 20 years here. During the 20 years that I have lived near Wright-Patterson AFB, I have experienced electricity outages several times, with the actual outage lasting commonly from two to six hours. There were 136,000 homes losing power, of which there are now only about 55,000 left without power, with the utility company predicting all to be re-connected by Monday evening. I have now been without power for over 48-hours. The hot tub is now too cold to use, and what is left in the hot water heater will probably be too cold to shower tomorrow morning. I will probably have to go to the YMCA to shower tomorrow. I was afraid of losing all the frozen food in my refrigerator. Fortunately, my nearest neighbor didn’t suffer an outage and through his good graces supplied me with an extension cord plugged into an outside outlet. I’m typing this after bringing the refrigerator back to normal temps, and running the extension cord up to my computer room temporarily. Talking with neighbors, I have discovered that even those with gas stoves cannot bake, being restricted to manually lighting only the top burners. Even gas water heaters, such as mine, with electronic ignition, do not work. It is strange that this, what will probably be a 72-hour interruption, is happening in a neighborhood with lots of trees, but all the utilities are underground. This will be the longest I have gone without power in my life. Even when I lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains (Calif), in a cabin with the last telephone and electricity connection on the road, I never went more than a few hours without power. This is a milestone that I hope isn’t a harbinger of what is to come.
“Even gas water heaters, such as mine, with electronic ignition, do not work. “
Ditto, and no way I can find to ignite it manually, unlike my old gas storage water heater with its pilot light..
I’m planning a new home, which will be heated with coal. We have (thank you Lord and the EPA) so much surplus coal in Wyoming that it will ultimately prove to be the most easily affordable home heating going, and I can pile it on the ground in near-infinite BTUs.
I bet you will lose – again.
Thank you for the good news that oil demand is increasing not decreasing as in your wet dreams
I get the Just Stop Oil jailbirds antics Just Aren’t Working
The Houthis terrorists in Yemen fired on three American warships a couple of days ago, and the Biden-Harris administration has no response.
Biden and Harris allow the Iranian terrorist proxies to fire at will at Americans in the region and take no action in reponse.
This is because Biden and Harris wish to appease the Mad Mullahs of Iran (why, I can’t imagine), the biggest State sponsor of terrorism in the world, even to the point of enabling the Mad Mullahs to build themselves nuclear weapons.
I assume this appeasement of the Mad Mullahs of Iran is a legacy from the Obama-Biden administration. Obama just loves these Iranian terrorists, for some reason.
Obama and Biden are going to be the cause of a nuclear war in the Middle East if things keep going like they are going. Their appeasement philosophy has brought us the invasion of Ukraine and the attacks on Israel, and when the Mad Mullahs acquire a working nuclear weapon, the whole Middle East area is going to blow up. Or rather, a large portion of Iran is going to be devastated. I don’t think the Israelis will give the Mad Mullahs a chance to use a nuclear weapon on Israel. When the Mad Mullahs get the ability, the Israelis will act, which might include Israel using nuclear weapons on Iran’s infrastructure and leadership..
That’s the Obama-Biden appeasement legacy they have and will, leave us.
A Bunch of Damn Fools is what they all are. Radical Democrats will get us all killed if we leave them to their own devices.
But we can put a stop to that November 5, if we are smart, by voting the crazy, dangerous, radical Democrats out of power, and putting common sense Republicans back in power.
The Day of Reckoning is coming soon.
Israel is a glimpse of the pre-woke west.
So, are you in favour of a ground invasion of Yemen? I am BTW.
How about Iran?
islam will have to be confronted
There is unfortunately no “Religion” that hasn’t been used as a tool of megalomaniacs to have a compliant citizenry and allow conscription of many soldiers willing to give their lives so that the leader can be “their leader”.
It is unfortunate that it is fairly easy to declare a “fatwah” in Islamic states. Western cultures have generally separated church and state functions several centuries ago, primarily to prevent angry priests from sending too many intelligent people’s relatives to be judged by God….
No to the endless wars.
I don’t want to see Israel annihilated but that’s Israel’s affair. Arguably Germany has a moral obligation to Israel, and maybe the UK does too, for meddling there in post-WW1 League of Nations mandates.
We in the US have no legitimate national strategic interest in the Middle East and if our past actions point to any obligations at all, it is arguably our CIA meddling in Iran in the 1950s pointing to a moral obligation to make amends with the ancient Persian culture. That doesn’t mean that I have any affection for the mad mullahs, it is just a sober acknowledgement that we likely had a hand in creating the problem.
Israel needs to find a path to a sustainable peace that doesn’t depend on deviously entangling the US into bleeding out our patriots fighting their battles.
Yemen isn’t really their battle (the main threat being to shipping and the Suez Canal), and Iran is as much of a threat to the west as a whole as it is to Israel.
A ground invasion of Yemen would be a relatively low cost affair, the Houthis wouldn’t last 5 minutes against a NATO armoured division, the legitimate Yemeni government could quickly occupy the captured territory, and any NATO forces could be in and out in a month or so.
As for Iran, I’m all for bombing them forward into the Stone Age.
Appeasement didn’t work in the 1930s, it’s not working now.
Not getting involved in other people’s fights is not appeasement. In what way is traffic through the Suez Canal a US interest? Why are we paying blood and treasure to protect the EU’s trade routes?
Having said that, if anyone attacks US forces, there needs to be an overwhelming response to deter future attacks and protect our soldiers and sailors.
I don’t have a dislike of Europe any more than I do of Israel, but it’s up to Europe to defend European interests, not the US. If Europe were doing its utmost to defend itself and it were hard-pressed by an aggressor, then I would support helping them. As it is, Europe is behaving like a weak kid brother who starts fights and expects big brother to protect him.
Ultimately, the US benefits from having allies, wealthy trading partners, and a rules based world order, if you want to throw the former to the wolves then the latter will follow and everyone including the US will be worse off.
You’re in a forever war already, it ends when you win.
Rules-based
There’s the rub. Most of our ‘wealthy trading partners’ don’t even abide by an absurdly low 2% of GDP rule.
And they are actively committing suicide importing replacement populations that are inimical to their traditional cultures.
And destroying their once wealthy economies with insane fever dreams of Net Zero.
The same demons are attempting to wreak the same havoc in the US. As on the airplane we must put on our own oxygen mask before assisting others.
We are a consumer nation that has shipped
allmost or our manufacturing off shore. It is very much in our interest. Some of our recent inflation problems can be blamed on supply problems.We’ve shipped it offshore to where Clyde? You know as well as I do that it’s China and Mexico for the lion’s share.
Explain to me the foreign source and US destination where the Suez Canal forms part of the shortest path.
Now if we’re talking LNG from Qatar or crude oil from Saudi Arabia heading to Europe, then the Suez Canal is vital. Just that it has nothing to do with the US.
Very much so.
You must be thinking about all the vital products that we’re importing to the US from Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and of course Djibouti.
I don’t think a ground invasion of Yemen is required. Some well-placed munitions will do.
I don’t think an invasion of Iran is necessary, either. I think if Western leaders played their cards right, they could incite a revolution against the Mad Mullahs by the Iranian people. A little moral support of the Iranian people would go a long way towards freeing the world of the insanity embodied in the Mad Mullahs of Iran.
Of course, that will never happen if radical Democrats remain in power in the U.S. Radical Democrats lift up the Iranian Dictators, not the Iranian people.
To this jaded (and very worried) observer of world events, it seems that there is a sort of unspoken alliance between the shadowy leftie wokers, net-zeroists and warmongers who are trying to run our lives on one hand, and Islamic activism on the other hand. Both have the aim of dismantling the democratic structures of the west, and replacing them with their own vision of authoritarian dictatorship where dissent won’t be possible. The invisible leaders of each of these movements probably think that they are co-opting the other as a group of “useful idiots” who will be cast aside as the hoped-for paradise comes into view (that might be fun to watch – from a safe distance).
How else to explain that our leaders (including some of our archbishops FFS) seem to hate Christianity while they tolerate absolutely anything that islamists do, legal or otherwise?
How else to explain demands for “cease-fire” in the middle east versus “more arms for Ukraine” from the same side of the fence?
How else to explain the gift of enough military hardware to prosecute a medium-sized war to the Taliban (please don’t tell me it was all a mistake, I wasn’t born yesterday)?
How else to explain that the 7/7 bombers travelled from Luton to London on a train that didn’t run that day?
And on and on.
I asked perplexity.ai, and this is what it said. Any evidence to support the claim and to show perlexity is wrong?
‘the 7/7 bombers travelled from Luton to London on a train that didn’t run that day’ is this true or is it yet another mad internet conspiracy theory?
Answer
The idea that the train didn’t run that day is simply not supported by any credible evidence. It contradicts the extensive documentation and investigation that followed the attacks. This type of misinformation is often characteristic of conspiracy theories that attempt to cast doubt on well-established facts surrounding tragic events.In conclusion, the claim that the 7/7 bombers traveled from Luton to London on a train that didn’t run that day is false and should be regarded as an unfounded conspiracy theory.
Longshorepersons are preparing to saunter off the job.
Looking for some expert opinion. Why does the hot summer continue in the Phoenix area? 117° at the end of September with no real cooldown in sight.
Thank you,
Weather is random, at least within seasons.
So I ask for expert opinion and the reaction here is – vote?? Who are you people???
You’re now +ve. Look on the bright side could be 1000+, 999-
Due to the ramblings of the jet stream.
Not sure why you were downvoted for a honest question.
Have you lived on the surface of the sun, er I mean in the valley of the sun for long? The five hottest years are in the past 30 years. In that same time, how much urban development has gone on? It’s practically one city from Sun City to Apache Junction.
So part of the answer is urban heat island.
I’ve been fortunate and have spent more than 60 years in the valley of the sun. all summers have been warm and I’ve gotten so that I don’t enjoy being cool.
The pest 2 summers just seem to have been a little longer and hotter than just a normal variation.
The official temp is taken at the end of a runway at Sky Harbor and it’s generally a few degrees cooler in my back yard.
Hope nest summer is closer to average.
Two things are probably contributing.
Firstly an strong El Nino event in 2022, which has been refusing to dissipate.
Secondly the Hunga Tonga eruption which is probably the cause of the long El Nino event by slowing the outflow of energy through the upper latitudes.
I suspect, given recent NCEP data, that UAH for September will show the El Nino released energy starting to decline.
Forecasts say that temps will drop significantly in the next week or so. Anyway, Phoenix definitely suffers from the urban heat effect, especially around Sky Harbor where such temperatures are recorded.
Records in Yuma for example are not so different from historical data.
Having lived in Phoenix about 20 years ago, it was my experience that through the Summer it was too hot to work on a car outside of an air-conditioned garage, which I didn’t have. One could receive painful contacta with the frame while working on the car. I had some minor repairs that I resolved to put off until it cooled down in the Fall, which I anticipated to be in October. September came and went and I was looking forward to getting the repairs done. However, it was then suddenly too cold to work without bulky clothes to keep a heat-adapted body comfortable. Enjoy Phoenix.
It’s the desert; and they paved the whole damn thing. IF there is an urban heat island in the southwest, Phoenix surely qualifies.
There is a high pressure ridge over your location. I marked what looks like the center of it (see link below).
Everything under this high pressure system will get warmer than normal and will stay that way as long as the high pressure system remains over the area.
High pressure systems usually don’t remain over one area for very long.
My particular area in Oklahoma is also experiencing warmer than usual temperatures for this time of year, and we are also under the influence of this high pressure system.
CO2 has nothing to do with where and when and how long a high pressure system will establish itself.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/orthographic=-98.42,36.94,367/loc=-111.179,37.829
On a more technical note, what’s with this “More stories for you to check out” window that now keeps on coming up when you exit the site? I have never yet seen it have anything listed in it. You X away the message and there’s a blank window there. I have even seen it come up after I have read an article, when I hit the Back button to go back to the main menu. It’s a pain.
I never see that but I’m on the no-ads subscription.
The Dazzling Future of Solar Photovoltaics
https://www.evwind.es/2024/09/29/the-dazzling-future-of-solar-photovoltaics/101340
Now that’s a cool looking graph.
It’s like an episode of The Jetsons with these renewables salesmen.
Speculative nonsense the same as the global cooling scare in the 70s and the current global warming scare.
BTW, if China is so great, why don’t you go and live there?
I still think Lusername probably runs in a Shanghai data center owned by the CCP.
“I think you need more detail on step 3” or however that cartoon with the two scientists goes…
Step 3 – then a miracle occurs
Found it…
PS – I think the author of you know who’s graph needs to rethink the x-axis scaling – it’s not conveying the point he/she/it thinks it does.
You are funny. Do you get a bonus for humour?
That scenario implies an enormous amount of energy storage to be built in the next 15 years, where are the materials to build that coming from? Looks like someone got a hold of a copy of YV88 (an eco-fantasy or perhaps eco-hallucination about Yosemite Valley in 1988 written in 1977).
Try 10 years, not 15.
Might work ok in some areas, provided you had no plans to be doing much at all on any given night, or when nice calm weather spells settled over your windmills farms for weeks at a time.
ps – I’d like your advice about something –
I saw a sign on one of those party pontoon hire boats that said – “DAYLIGHT HOURS ONLY”
Do solar panels come with these signs attached, and if not, would there be a business opportunity for an entrepreneurial individual (me?) to start a business offering to supply such after-market signs to
worshiperspurchasers of rooftop solar panels?Looks like a child, who had somehow got to the liquor cabinet, got loose with a set of crayons.
Just the sort of thing to catch an ignorant luser’s attention.
So, someone is predicting conventional power to disappear by 2030, and ‘solar’ to explode in 2035? Some people have limitless imagination.
Every one of China’s, India’s, (and rest of world’s) COAL fired power station built in the last 10 or so years will be going strong for at least another 40-50 years.
As will all modern GAS-fired power stations.
NONE of the current infestation of wind and solar will still be operating in 40-50 years.
I think there is something seriously wrong with your critical thinking skills. Did you even give it one thought before posting?
Curious – Visa’s computer called me this AM to verify that my monthly renewal for my Premium Membership was authorized. This was the third bill, the second garnered no attention.
I assured the computer it was okay, it thanked me and said goodbye.
I think Visa has been lowering the bar on when to call, a couple previous calls seemed not as alarming as I would have thought and other buyers also got called. (One for a Raspberry Shake & Boom from Panama, a trustworthy vendor for years, the other for a “PiDP-10” from Florida. that’s a functional model of a DEC PDP-10 computer console with a Pi simh emulator that runs MIT’s ITS from the 1970s. You aren’t expected to understand that.)
Visa, or the issuing bank? I get notifications for certain unusual purchases, but they come from the issuer. (And their algorithm is actually pretty good – distrubingly so). But never from Visa.
The computer claims to be from the credit union, but I’m confident it’s Visa’s computer. It does do account verification with multiple choice answers for zip code and last four digits of SSN.
At home I have time to login to DCU and follow along in the Visa transaction page. The poor computer fails miserably trying to pronounce “FLIGHTRADAR24 AB STOCKHOLM” and once I told it I didn’t make the transaction, forgetting that flightradar24 is in Sweden.
Not only did it cancel the transaction, but it disabled the card. When I got home the credit union folks were able to restore that corner of the universe for me.
Kind of wild to think that an inexpensive R Pi can emulate what was a serious machine back in the 1970’s. FWIW, Compuserve was running on DEC-10s and DEC-10 clones up until 1995 or so.
Yeah, though MIT (and CMU, where I was) had the first PDP-10 model, the KA10. About 150k instructions per second, but they were good instructions!
For a walk down [core] memory lane, see https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/the-pidp-10-is-finally-done-and-to-celebrate-i-put-up-a-web-site-covering-the-family-pidp-1-8-10-and-11/3981/15
In addition to emulating the machine, the Pi emulates MIT’s peripherals and gloriously simulates the appearance of the incandescent lamps used on the PDP-10 with the LEDs on their replica!
I have my kit, but have some serious projects to finish before I can make it back to the -10 era. I have a graphic hack that I use to learn new languages and systems Writing it in PDP-10 assembler will be a great finish to my PDP-10 programming career.
I first learned to program in FORTRAN on a DDP-24 in 1966.
I vaguely remember using FORTRAN punch cards, probably around 1975 ??
But used FORTRAN a lot over the last 15 or so years of my research life.
More fun in Southern California with lithium bombs, this one closed the big bridge between Long Beach and San Pedro:
“A truck carrying lithium-ion batteries overturned on the 47 Freeway in San Pedro on Thursday, Sept. 26, sparking a fire and shutting down traffic in both directions between the 110 and 710 freeways.”
https://www.dailybreeze.com/2024/09/26/overturned-truck-spills-lithium-ion-batteries-on-freeway-sparks-fire-in-san-pedro/
“The Vincent Thomas Bridge is[sic] San Pedro remained closed Friday morning about 20 hours after a truckload of lithium ion batteries exploded and caught fire near the Port of Los Angeles.”
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/truck-crash-lithium-ion-battery-fire-san-pedro/3520949/
Sound familiar?
[story tip]
“Sound familiar?” Very. It is becoming the elephant in the EV room in California. With many high density cities (where the EV has its’ niche) this will only increase. I’ve seen videos of a foam that squelches LiOn fires, not sure how because the thermal runaway creates its’ own environment, and I’m wondering was the video real and the process being ignored or what?
Seems to be happening more frequently. In Northern CA, Tesla truck fires closed I-80 around the end of August and again in the middle of September.
Similar “problem” in Montreal port 2 days later.
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/lockdown-notice-issued-for-residents-near-port-of-montreal-due-to-lithium-battery-fire-1.7049203
And the wokester carbomaniacs want to carpet the entire country with these things, to “fix” a non-problem.
Word is that saltwater saturated EV batteries will be igniting any minute now.
More fun!
And here we are. (You gotta get one of these. In fact, we’re making it mandatory!)
https://www.carscoops.com/2024/09/tesla-bursts-into-flames-after-apparently-being-flooded-by-hurricane-helene/
Mass stupidity.
Is anyone else disturbed by that Crohn’s Disease advertisement?
FWIW, it is very easy to set up FireFox to block most of these ads – really get a nasty surprise visiting websites in other browsers or in Fire Fox before tweaking.
On another site, users were complaining about a Harris-Walz ad that was kept centered on the screen while people were scrolling through the content being large blocked by the ad. Almost sounds like a good advertisement for Trump by ticking off potential voters.
Walz upped the ante yesterday by flipping off Trump supporters at the Michigan-Minnesota game.
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I saw an estimate of between $5 billion and $8 billion in damages from Hurricane Helene.
The unionized dockworkers on the U.S. East Coast are scheduled to go on strike tonight at midnight if a new working agreement is not signed.
The estimate of losses should the dock workers go on strike is about $5 billion per day. So a dockworkers strike will be the equivalent of hitting the American economy with a Hurrican Helene every day.
President Biden could stop this stike and call for a 90-day cooling off period, but he said yesterday that he will not stop the strike. Joe Biden gets a lot of money from worker unions, and he gives them billions of dollars in return.
Now Biden is going to make another stupid, costly, destructive decision based on radical Democrat politics.
Employers on the East coast are already predicting layoffs of workers in the coming weeks if the strike goes on for any long period of time.
A bunch of Damn Idiots are running our country into the ground.
Last I heard, the dockworkers actually upped their demand. Specifically, no automation at all.
I don’t see this being resolved quickly.
I hear there are a lot of illegal aliens looking for work. I wonder if any of them can operate a crane?
It must be true that Kamala Harris lied about working at a McDonalds restaurant.
Trump called it a lie the other day.
Now, normally, when Trump accuses Kamala of distorting the truth, the Leftwing Media will jump all over it and fact check and spin the story in favor of Kamala, and in this case, they would go interview the owner of the McDonalds that Kamala worked for and would interview some of Kamala’s fellow McDonalds workers to confirm that Kamala was not telling a lie about her employment.
But we have seen none of that. Not a peep out of the Leftwing Media in defense of Kamala working at McDonalds.
The logical conclusion is that kamala is lying and the Leftwing Media cannot spin it in her favor.
So, would you vote for a person who lies about working at McDonalds?
If Kamala lies about working at McDonalds, what else is she lying about? Answer: Just about everything.
McDonald’s is far too downscale for a middle-class girl like Kamala.
I heard that Kamala’s “answer” to the question “are you better off now than four years ago” is to say “I come from a middleclass family”, and then Kamala goes off on a tangent and never does answer the original question. Kamala’s method of deflection is now being used on social media. Anyone who gets a question they don’t want to answer now says “I come from a middleclass family”.
Kamala has started a social media fad.