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Rich Davis
November 3, 2024 2:13 am
There has never been a clearer choice in a major country’s election when it comes to climate change policy than the choice facing US voters this Tuesday.
Do we dare to hope that the years of insane Green New Scam/Inflation Creation Act will soon draw to a close?
Word Salad? Word Salad, how can you say that? Read this Churchillian prose!
The governor and I, we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right, the significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires. what we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.
or this:
So here’s the thing: Who doesn’t love a yellow school bus, right? Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow school bus, right? Just — there’s something about the — and — and most of us, many of us went to school on the yellow school bus, right? And it’s part of — it’s part of our — our experience growing up.
I doubt if many conservatives want to know the truth about Trump.
Trump is a blowhard of epic proportions who exaggerates almost every subject to make himself look good. He specializes in hyperbole rather than accurate data. That
“salesman’s disease” is offset by being a capitalist with a track record as President.
Kamaliar Harris is a liar of epic proportions and nasty socialist. Her record of accomplishments is near zero. She lies abut Trump and uses the fake threat to democracy insults. She lies about her own positions to win votes.
Both Harris and trump do not have the intelligence for accurate public speaking that is rare in politics. Examples are Senator J D Vance and Governor Ron DeSantis.
The old days of an intelligent debate, such as Nixon versus Kennedy, are long gone.
Now we have Haitians eat cats and Trump is Hitler. Neither candidate is interested in reducing government spending based on their past decisions.
Due Diligence: The wife and I have already voted for Trump in Michigan. As we did in 2020. We hope the usual Michigan vote fraud does not change the state results again in 2024.
It’s kind of amazing that Kamala stands any chance in Michigan with her economy killing policies, but the dynamics are certainly interesting. It could be that the Muslim vote and third party Stein taking votes from Kamala allow Trump to overcome all the cheating.
Here in Wisconsin mail-in voting is not by secret ballot. Ballots are not protected by an internal security envelope. The person who opens the mail-in ballot can see how you voted and act accordingly.
Secret ballots are never secret when custody control is lost.
That’s why we’ve always had an “election day” and not an “election month”. You go to the poll to get your ballot and deposit it in the ballot box yourself.
You cant keep custody of ballots assured when you mail them all over the countryside and let anyone from anywhere handle them endlessly.
Early (in-person) voting is not bad in and of itself. The problem with all voting—including voting on Election Day—is that the voter roll needs to be clean and there needs to be robust voter ID.
Mail-in ballots are inherently insecure, not only for the reasons you stated, but more importantly because by definition there is no way to do effective voter ID. Signature matching is an inaccurate process generating both false positive and false negative failure modes.
It doesn’t matter that the ballot is secret if the ballot doesn’t really come from the registered voter.
Mail in is insecure based on a total lack of chain of custody, which is a fundamental requirement in maintaining security. No fewer than 5 postal workers handle the mailed ballot and none are certified as election officials/workers.
I had 2 family medical emergencies in the past 5 days. I voted early, in person because you don’t know what might happen if you wait until election day. It’s easy to imagine a major storm such as a hurricane or blizzard interrupting election day. It’s equally easy to imagine a terrorist attack likewise keeping people from voting on election day.
I’m against vote by mail except for legitimate absentee reasons. No mass vote by mail, no mass mailing of ballots to voters. That’s just asking for a stolen election.
I doubt that RG has even the remotest idea of anything about Trump.
RG is a blowhard of epic proportions who prattles mindlessly without evidence on many subjects, because he thinks it makes him look intelligent.. But it has the very opposite effect.
A Program for a Greater America https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/a-program-for-a-greater-america
by Willem Post, Energy Systems Analyst
. Trump was right!
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Remember when he said Drain-The-Swamp. It’s a deep swamp!!!
This is why they manipulated you to hate him. He is a threat, not to Democracy, but to them!!
You must know to be informed!
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THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN USED TO WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS.
CALIF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM IS NANCY PELOSI’S NEPHEW
ADAM SHIFF’S SISTER IS MARRIED TO ONE OF GEORGE SOROS’ SONS.
JOHN KERRY’S DAUGHTER IS MARRIED TO A MULLAH’S SON IN IRAN.
HILLARY’S DAUGHTER CHELSEA IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS’ NEPHEW.
ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN CAMERON IS MARRIED TO SUSAN RICE, OBAMA’S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.
CBS PRESIDENT DAVID RHODES IS THE BROTHER OF BEN RHODES, OBAMA’S DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.
ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CLAIRE SHIPMAN IS MARRIED TO JAY CARNEY, FORMER OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY.
ABC NEWS AND UNIVISION REPORTER MATTHEW JAFFE IS MARRIED TO KATIE HOGAN, OBAMA’S FORMER DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY
ABC PRESIDENT BEN SHERWOOD IS THE BROTHER OF ELIZABETH SHERWOOD, OBAMA’S FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER.
CNN VP VIRGINIA MOSELEY IS MARRIED TO TOM NIDES, FORMER HILLARY CLINTON’S DEPUTY SECRETARY.
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THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A “STACKED DECK”. IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE CORPORATE NEWS MENU WAS SOMEWHAT RIGGED AND YOU COULDN’T PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT HELP YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE.
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Now you know why no one is investigated. They all have their hands in the cookie jar!
You might remember James Comey who investigated the Clinton email scandal and the Clinton Foundation, and made the final decision to not recommend prosecution by the DOJ.
It turns out that the Clinton Foundation was audited by the law firm DLA Piper.
One of the executives there was in charge of the Clinton Foundation audit.
Who was it? Peter Comey, James Comey’s brother.
Peter Comey held an executive position with the Washington law firm that did the audit of the Clinton foundation in 2015.
Peter Comey was officially DLA Piper “Senior Director of Real Estate For The Americas in 2015 when the Clinton Foundation scandals first broke, and Hillary was preparing her Presidential campaign.
Not only was DLA Piper, the firm where Comey’s brother worked, involved in the audit of the Clinton Foundation, but according to the foundation’s donor records, DLA Piper has given between $50 – 100k to the Foundation.
It gets even cozier.
DLA Piper executive Douglas Emhoff is taking an extended leave of absence from the firm.
Who is Douglas Emhoff? He is the husband of Kamala Harris. Just a coincidence?
Amazing if it is!! You can’t make this stuff up!
And it only gets worse. This infamous “Family Tree” will make your head spin… THE SWAMP IS DEEP!!
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Dominion (Voting Machine Supplier) serves 40% of the US market. It is in 30 states
The state of Texas rejected the machines.
Admiral Peter Neffenger is on Biden’s transition team.
Neffenger was the President of the board of Smartmatic (another Voting Machine Supplier), which entered into an agreement with Dominion in 2009
Smartmatic counted votes in Venezuela
Smartmatic is connected to Philippine Voter Fraud
Smartmatic is run by Lord Mark Malloch Brown, who works for George Soros (he and Brown are life-long friends)
Brown chairs the Boards of a number of non-profits, including the Open Society Foundation
Brown chairs the Centre For Global Development.
Open society is owned by George Soros
Smartmatic partnered with DLA Piper Global
Douglas C. Emhoff works at DLA Piper Global
Douglas C. Emhoff is Kamala Harris’s husband –
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Guess who owns Dominion? Blum Capital Partners LP
Guess who is on the board for the company? Richard Blum who is Dianne Feinstein’s husband.
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For more, see reply
Nancy Pelosi’s husband is a major investor.
An aide to Nancy Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, was hired by Dominion Voting Systems.
Dominion Voting Systems is listed on the Clinton Foundation website.
Dominion Voting Systems is listed as a $25,000 -$50,000 donor to the Clinton Foundation in 2014 by The Washington Post
Georgia Governor Kemp used Dominion Voting Systems after Texas and Florida rejected them
Dominion has a lobbyist named Jared Thomas
Jared Thomas was Governor Brian Kemp’s Chief of Staff/PressSecretary from 2012 to 2015.
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You must remember the Feinstein, Kavanaugh, Soros connections to understand this next information
Debra Katz (Christine Ford’s lawyer) worked for George-Soros at the Open Society Foundation.
Debra Katz also worked at Project on Government Oversight (POGO).
POGO is funded by Soros’s Open Society Foundation.
POGO is the co-signer of the letter Diane Feinstein presented against Kavanaugh’s nomination.
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Kamala Harris did not prosecute One West Bank for their fraud, when she had the authority, after all, Soros Owned One West Bank
Now you know why Harris became Biden’s running mate in 2020.
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Oh, what a tangled web of lies they wove
Author remains anonymous
NO! We can’t abandon our Constitution and its Bill of Rights! Just because Lindzen and Happer and Clauser and Spencer and Curry offend your Green Religion? We can’t let Word Salad Cacklin’ Kamalama-ding-dong destroy our democracy! She and Tampon Tim want to gut the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments!
Oh I think I might have misunderstood Lusername earlier. The Luser may have been implying that if Trumphitler gets back in office, he’ll take away all our freedoms just like he did last time he was President.
I mean I heard on CNN and MSDNC that he even ordered a firing squad for Liz Cheney! Can you believe the outrage of Trumphitler saying that Chickenhawk Cheney should have to fight the wars that she and her dad start?
Rich, have you seen the AI-generated ad claiming that Trump would die and Vance would become president for life? 39 years from now Vance would still be president, people would be marched into death camps, Elon would upload himself to AI so he could be immortal, etc.
How do they suppose that the 22nd amendment would be repealed? I can’t imagine that too many people are stupid enough to fall for that. Most of the morons who would believe it already vote for Democrats.
How do they suppose that the 22nd amendment would be repealed?
They address that: “He controls the Supreme Court”.
It’s frightening that there ARE people who believe it. But I do think that it isn’t going to sway anyone left. If anything it may have the opposite effect on anyone (if there are any) who remains undecided or uncertain. Would YOU want to vote for that kind of crazy?
If our election is stolen, why would I move to an even more Fascist country that hasn’t had freedom of speech for many years? Maybe after the Trudope regime falls in April things will improve in the Great White North, but as it stands at the moment, Canada is a globalist stronghold.
You seem to have a perverse desire to have most every aspect of your daily life controlled by the government. A vote for Harris and the Democrats will give you just that. The only “choice” they are willing to offer is the option (only offered to 50% of the population, and less than that if you add children and elderly) is the option to rub out a child in the womb. Otherwise, the government will tell you what sorts of appliances you can have in your house, what sort of new car you will be permitted to purchase, what sorts of things you can do (or not do) on your land, what medicines you are permitted to use (and those that are forbidden), what vaccines you might be forced to take (if you plan on working and participating in society) and all sorts of other draconian restrictions I’ve yet to mention.
If you want to be lorded over and treated like a slave, that’s your choice. But most of us would not choose such a life. Remember – A government powerful enough to give you what you want is also powerful enough to take it all away. And it is doing the latter in spades these days.
Sez the guy whose choice of presidential candidates did not receive one single democratically-earned vote in the primary selection process. Our “Username” commenter friend’s beloved political party really needs to change its name to “The Psychological Projection Party.” Back when he was very much alive, the late Dr S Fred Singer hurt the feelings of Al Gore by simply questioning Gore’s political reason for being. To this very day, the collective Al Gore crowd’s feelings have been hurt to so much of an extent that they and their enforcers seek to now silence prominent people by any means possible from simply presenting an opinion about the CAGW issue.
Trump does NOT want to restore democracy. Trump wants to restore our Constitutional Republic.
The democrats define democracy as a one party authoritarian state run by the Democrat party voting block.
Nate Silver seems to have in his latest 53.4 percent Trump, over Harris’ 46.2. Harris slightly in the lead on the popular vote, but Trump leading in the key swing states.
But there may have been a slight swing to Harris in the last few days. He thinks there may be polling bias in counting Trump supporters, who tend to be less socially forthcoming.
Could go, and maybe heavily, either way. Silver cautions against taking one’s own intuitions too seriously (including his). For what its worth my own intuition is that 53.4 to 46.2 probably overstates Trump’s lead and that Harris may well take it, narrowly. But I don’t have any basis for this other than gut feel, and would not bet on it either way.
Too close to call is correct because there’s no polling technique to predict how many dead and non-existent voters the fascists will sneak in for Harris-Walz, nor how many non-citizen welfare clients.
In a free and fair, secure election I would be cautiously optimistic of a Trump victory at this point.
Knowing the lessons of 2020, I am concerned that there may be no such thing as Too Big to Rig. When the Deep State has already resorted to Lawfare and assassination attempts (yes, I am saying that the Deep State was complicit), are they going to shrink from ballot-stuffing?
What’s interesting about them having chosen her is what it says about the Conservative Party. If you look at their cabinets and now at the members vote, they really don’t care about anything except ability. They don’t care about ethnic background, class, sex, religion.
Not that they always get it right. May was a complete disaster (though the members never got a vote on her), Johnson was barely Conservative, and he was the members darling. But the other thing they do, is when they have got it wrong, they step in pretty smartly and kick the person out – as they did with both May and Johnson.
Badenoch will be interesting. She has a capacity for bluntness about culture war issues which is probably unique at the top level in British politics. She is completely impatient and dismissive about identity politics. She’s a real conservative by instinct. And her background is unique at the top level in UK politics, engineering and systems.
Its a bit concerning that most of the previous Conservative cabinet members have declined to join her shadow cabinet. Do they know something that the public doesn’t? Or are they just burned out, as well they might be? Who knows.
That blackface comment was idiotic, and nasty with it – as it was intended to be. Its fundamentally racialist – not racist necessarily – the idea that color of skin and ethnic background are determinative. Unlike the commenter I think very few in the UK care much about her color either way.
The question will be how she holds up under the pressure, which will be considerable, week after week of PMQs, and the need to rebuild the party basically from the ground up, and get rid of all the fugitive Lib Dems who came in under Johnson. And to meet the threat from Reform, which is going to be real and serious over the next few years.
We shall see. I think Jenrick would have been the safe choice, but Badenoch has a better chance of turning them around majorly. Also of taking them down further, of course. So you can understand why they decided to go for her, and if she appoints Jenrick to some senior shadow cabinet position they might get the best of both worlds.
“….And her background is unique at the top level in UK politics, engineering and systems.”
Her background in the technical sphere gives cause for hope that she is able to see through the fraudulent Net Zero confidence-trick and will be able to help rescue the country from the pit of total disaster into which that diabolically-inspired project is driving us.
There is no good reason to be concerned about emissions of CO2, CH4, or N2O or any other similar IR-active substance, in respect to warming or any other climate-related trend.
These molecules do not add any energy of their own to the atmosphere. The “climate” movement has been based on the misconception that investigation into climate system responses to incremental CO2 can begin with the “forcing” + “feedback” framing and end up with a valid result. No. That is the circular reasoning at the root of the debate.
Sure, if nothing else changes, adding CO2 would slightly impede cooling from the surface to space.
But adding CO2 would also promote the general circulation by improving the radiative coupling to the surface, so that the atmosphere becomes a bit more responsive to daytime surface heating. It is important to understand the concept of energy conversion.
So no one “knows” that “warming” should be the expected result down here, i.e. the accumulation of absorbed energy in the land + ocean + atmosphere system as sensible heat.
Please consider these very short time-lapse videos to get the picture. Each video has a text description which is important to read. Three videos use the NOAA images from GOES East from the “CO2 Longwave IR” band 16. The fourth video uses the “Vertical Integral of Energy Conversion” parameter from the ERA5 reanalysis.
These molecules do not add any energy of their own to the atmosphere.
Succinct and to the point!
The atmosphere is not on fire generating new energy. I’ve said this before, the only energy being absorbed and radiated comes from the sun. Feedback causing increasing energy requires a source for the additional energy and there is none, it is already being used in the earth’s oceans, surface, and atmosphere.
Temperature can only be raised if a body absorbs more energy than it is radiating. That is the fundamental law of thermodynamics that says heat flows from hot to cold. As long as the atmosphere is colder than the surface, the surface temperature WILL NOT RISE. It can only continue to cool.
It is funny that I have never seen a paper from climate science that refutes any of Planck’s Theory of Heat Radiation. Until climate science can show the math behind a cooler body reversing the gradient of a cooling hot body to cause higher temperatures, they are simply tilting at windmills.
Strongly agree! The Earth is in radiation balance between the Sun (5000-6000K) and space (0.0K). As anyone who has been out on a sunny day knows, the most intense radiation occurs in the 4-6 hours of midday. That’s like a spotlight 30 to 45 degrees of latitude in radius that travels around the Earth every 24 hours with a center that wanders seasonally between the Tropics. That’s where most of the heat comes from. The balance of the “average” energy (240w/sm) in and out is a garbage calculation. A hot summer day in New York (40C) occurs at the same time as a cold winter’s night in Tasmania (-40C). New York’s temperature is 24% higher than Tasmania but radiates over three times as much heat energy (313K/233K^4). (That’s why the GAT is also a garbage calculation, it ignores the most important negative feedback in the universe.)
When the CAGW crowd switched from “global warming” to “climate change” they really jumped the shark! The climate of an area depends on a multiplicity of factors (temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, winds, geography, etc) and especially on how these factors change, both daily and seasonally as they transport the concentrated incoming energy around the planet. Even the idea of a “global climate” is ridiculous.
Am I the only one who, contemplating the fuss being made over a calculated change of 0.01C in the anomaly of the global average of the local average of the daily average of thermometer readings, feels like an aged child pointing at a naked King?
Remember, it was Al Gore, the failed democrat presidential candidate that popularized the concept of “Catastrophic” climate when he decided he should star in a Hollywood Movie about the subject.
People who believe that Hollywood movies are real are a danger to democracy. Acting is always all make believe.
Jim,
David isn’t saying what you think he’s saying. For years you’ve been mistakenly saying that the enhanced greenhouse effect defies the first law of thermodynamics.
As David said correctly:
Sure, if nothing else changes, adding CO2 would slightly impede cooling from the surface to space.
Nobody in ‘conventional’ climate science claims that the atmosphere heats the surface. You are the one doing the Don Quixote impression.
The natural greenhouse effect retains some of the heat that the sun contributes to the surface by delaying the night-time cooling of the surface. It is only the sun that heats the surface.
David’s claim is that the enhanced greenhouse effect contributed by non-condensing greenhouse gases is negligible because it is counteracted by a more effective convective heat transport. He is using empirical evidence to make his case.
The natural greenhouse effect retains some of the heat that the sun contributes to the surface by delaying the night-time cooling of the surface. It is only the sun that heats the surface.
Think about what you are saying here. Delaying the night time cooling implies that the night time temperatures do not cool as much as they could. That is far from the earth boiling away and honestly makes the earth a better place to live for most humans.
The GHE opperates 24/7, day and night. Solar energy is not accumulated on the day side and only radiated to space on the night side.
Just like anyhting enlse in radiative physics of the exchange of energy due to a DeltaT it also occurs during the day. Seeking the Earth seeking an equilibrium with space.
Stop with the “net” and “average” nonsense! The Earth radiates energy out to all parts of the sphere of space, which, except for one small disk (the sun), has an effective sink temperature of 0K. Of course the day side of the Earth radiates more energy than the night side, it’s warmer! We are fortunate that we have an atmosphere that spreads some of the incoming energy from that tiny disk around before it leaves, to make us nice and comfy.
Nothing you have said addresses anything thermodynamically.
Go read Planck. The surface is warmed by a hot body (sun) and cooled by a cooler body (atmosphere). Show us how CO2 reverses the surface gradient making the surface warmer either during the day or night! That’s what the Greenhouse Gas theory postulates.
From Planck’s Theory of Heat Radiation. Chapter 1 Section 7.
A body A at 100◦ C. emits toward a body B at 0◦ C. exactly the same amount of radiation as toward an equally large and similarly situated body Bi at 1000◦ C. The fact that the body A is cooled by B and heated by Bi is due entirely to the fact that B is a weaker, Bi a stronger emitter than A.
Again, you are making your same old strawman argument. Nobody imagines that the cold atmosphere warms the surface. That is your fundamental error. That you continue to press that point calls into question your sincerity.
Greenhouse gases reflect infrared radiation, so some of the heat leaving the Earth bounces off the greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and comes back to the Earth’s surface.
Back-radiation reduces cooling, it does not heat the surface.
It does not. Look at the first diagram closer. It shows 161 being absorbed from the sun. Yet it does show 396 being radiated outward from the surface. What is the difference? The 333 is added to the 161, in essence raising the surface temperature so it must radiate at 396.
Like it or not, this is saying the atmosphere is hotter than the surface.
Read the Planck quote again. At equilibrium, Body A and Body B would be exchanging exactly the same amount of energy. If all the energy is supplied by the sun, where does the extra originate?
When the discussion turns to radiation, you’d better be thinking in terms of K instead of degrees Celsius. Radiant energy from a surface at 0 Celsius would be quite small, while radiation from -273 C would be a very large positive number!!
“a more effective convective heat transport”
I am taking into account not only the classic idea of convection in the sense of buoyant air parcels rising to form cumulus clouds and thunderstorms, but also the more general concept that the whole atmosphere expands (i.e. upward, raising the center of mass) in a region of strong daytime sunlight, producing wind. This uneven heating (“horizontal heating gradient”) is important in maintaining the kinetic energy of the general circulation. This is described on the first page of this document from the University of Washington.
. https://a.atmos.uw.edu/academics/classes/2010Q2/545/545_Ch_1.pdf
Twaddle! The wind (atmospheric kinetic energy) does change as warm, moist air rises (kinetic to potential), but that is insignificant next to the differential of latitudinal displacement of air masses. Rising hot air spills up in latitude as the denser cool air displaces it. Why is it easy to think of the Gulfstream changing the climate of Britain, but harder to imagine the effects of the kinetic energy of “still” tropical air (roughly 1,000 mph) moving towards the truly still air at the poles?
The cited document describes atmospheric kinetic energy only in terms of the effects of slight changes to temperature and pressure. I suggest that it is too easy to forget that the Earth is a rotating body. A man standing on the equator moves 24,000 miles in a day, while his buddy at the pole just turns around. The kinetic energy of a gram of “still” air at the equator is overwhelmingly greater than at the poles (MV^2). Sailors have known for millennia of the westward flow of equator-bound winds, while the higher latitude winds push them back east. While I still credit the water cycle as the most effective/efficient energy-transport mechanism, I suggest that the atmospheric turbulence caused by the dynamic exchange of kinetic energy in latitudinal air flow must contribute importantly to weather patterns.
Hope this helps.
Thank you for your reply. I understand. It is a matter of which frame of reference is chosen. Meteorology, as represented in the linked document, uses the earth’s surface as the fixed reference for position and velocity within the atmosphere. In the final paragraph on the first page, the effect of the rotation of the earth is addressed, as it matters greatly to the patterns of flow.
“While I still credit the water cycle as the most effective/efficient energy-transport mechanism..” This is important, and I agree.
P.S. I am not a meteorologist. I am an engineer, learning from meteorology to address the climate claims.
Thanks for this reply. As Rich Davis notes nearby, I don’t make reference to the 2nd Law (heat flow from hot to cold) because the core “warming” claim about the radiative effect of incremental CO2 does not involve a violation, in my sense of it. But the expectation of “warming” of the land + oceans as a result ignores the fact that the atmosphere itself, including clouds, radiates about 5 times as much energy to space than the surface radiates directly to space without being absorbed. In other words, the emitter to space that matters most is the circulating atmosphere. It is a very small thing for the energy involved in the incremental static radiative effect at the surface (of increases in CO2) to end up in space just like all the other energy that does not make it to space directly from the surface due to water vapor and clouds.
My understanding is that a number of large ff companies have invested big time in some of the proposed new industries such as carbon capture and storage and producing hydrogen for (very inefficient) energy generation. Also, some of these companies have purchased large new wind and solar installations. The purpose of all that is, of course, to harvest the very large subsidies being offered for such practices — the only reason for having anything to do with such nonsense projects.
Their fear is that Trump seems to be leaning towards greatly reducing or eliminating those subsides and the mandates that make the projects possible. This would make all the large expenses of getting started in those projects a total loss. It is not about a loss of ff products, the demand for oil, gas, and coal is increasing and will continue to increase without government malpractice.
“Clean energy transitions have accelerated sharply in recent years…….but there is more near term uncertainty than usual over how these policies and strategies will evolve. More than ever the energy outlook is complex, multifaceted and defies a single view on how the future may unfold”
“A record high level of clean energy came online globally in 2023 but two thirds of the overall increase in energy demand was still met by fossil fuels (67%)”
In 2023 “renewables increased by 3.6 EJ, Gas 0.7EJ, Oil 4.9EJ, Coal 3.1EJ” Total fossil fuels 8.7EJ
Fossil fuels still increasing at more than twice the rate of unreliables.
IEA ‘World Energy Outlook 2024’ (Oct 2024)
Obviously the IEA is not saying fossil fuels are losing the race
It will be soooo interesting to see what sort of roll Musk gets in a Trump government and whether that means any sort of promotion of his EV’s. Where oil meets water.
Hmmm …. don’t be so sure. Trump recently said “I’m for electric cars, I have to be because Elon endorsed me very strongly,”
But you are probably right, Trump says all sorts of stuff that has no basis in truth. That’s often what fascists do.
Doug S
November 3, 2024 4:30 am
RFK is making a campaign pledge, on behalf of the Trump election effort, to reduce regulations on small farmers in the US. This may be an opportunity to remove all the mandates (chokeholds) on these small operators to control their CO2 emissions. Lets allow the little guys to run their reliable diesel harvesters and all the tried and true equipment. For the big corporate DEI farms, keep the mandates on them to go electric and abide by all the CO2 mandates currently in place.
Currently UK grid is 58% GAS, 13% Nuclear, 7% US woodchips and about 10% interconnects
Solar is NIL. wind only 5%
FOSSIL FUELS carrying most of the load, as so often happens because the absolute unreliability of wind and solar.
Marty
November 3, 2024 6:08 am
Last Thursday was Halloween. Where I live, just north of Chicago, it was a cool and windy day. I remember one Halloween back in the late 1950’s when I was about seven or eight years old a friend and I went out trick or treating after school and went door to door until it was too dark to continue, and we had to come home. I remember that it was warm outside, and I didn’t need a jacket.
My point is that there has been no change in the weather between that Halloween oh so many years ago and this current Halloween. If anything, this year’s Halloween was colder. Yet they claim the oceans are boiling, the planet has a fever, the polar bears are going extinct, the glaciers are disappearing in Tibet and in Glacial National Park, and people are getting athletes foot in record numbers. Scratch that last one.
Regarding the headlines about the hottest ____ on record, I’ve reflected on this and concluded that they reflect a misunderstanding of variability in mainstream climate science.
My reasoning is based on the fact that weather results from a combination of factors, including significant non-thermodynamic ones. If the circumstances leading to each month of above-average temperatures are always unique, isn’t it be misleading to use and interpret these months as part of a long-term trend?
While their spreadsheets may indicate that the globe is warming at a rate of ____ per decade, this is based on some idiotic assumption that collecting 30 years of temperature data, without considering physical representation, will effectively average out short-term variations, leaving only the signal of the climate’s energy state.
I hope this makes sense; I struggle to articulate my thoughts clearly.
Richard Greene
November 3, 2024 6:22 am
Democrat vs. Republican Climate and Energy Platforms, in an easy to read and concise table format that can’t be reproduced here
I find Trump has always been honest about his agenda. Since 2008, Democrats have been deceitful about theirs. They pretend to be less radical than they really are.
The US has a choice between an empty suit who cannot enunciate what her plans in any manner while being the #2 person in a rudderless administration where it’s practically impossible to determine who is in charge of decision-making, and a man who knows how to take charge, even if he has to hurt a few feelings along the way, and who clearly identifies what the main problems are facing the country. The choice is that easy. The split you speak of is actually between well-informed voters who do their own deep research and those who operate on pure emotion, believing without question in the pathetically shallow propaganda that the legacy news media feeds them.
I pick my surgeons and politicians based on their performance not personality. Arrogance is a required character trait for success in some occupations: surgeon, politician, airline pilot, etc. Performance, performance, performance!
there was a video interview clip of a union bloke being asked how come his group was endorsing Trump.
The unionist explained that most of the delegates they elected to represent them in union matters were assholes that nobody really liked, but they did the best job for the unionists’ interests.
And that’s how they viewed Trump – the asshole that nobody liked, but who would do the best job for their interests.
When it comes to best-fit candidates for business management positions, I always intensively scrutinised their qualifications, experience and achievements, and drafted questions for “further explanation / confirmation / references” before even picking up the phone for an initial Q&A session.
I would pass on any candidate that was looking to be “liked” at the outset, even people for sales management roles.
Even after commencement, I would remain very formal on a personal level for the initial probation period, usually 3 months.
Once satisfied that the new person could do the job, deliver the required results, you can indulge in character assessment and consider whether you “like” someone or not.
I employed many people I wouldn’t want to share a beer with, but I would feel confident sharing a foxhole with them.
But that isn’t fair!! What about the poor night maintenance (emptying waste baskets, cleaning floors, etc.) guy .who wants to be an airline pilot. He/she has no chance if you insist on performance/ability.
Russell Cook
November 3, 2024 7:43 am
WUWT readers might remember my July 2024 guest post about the group named “Public Citizen” who came up with a proposal on how Arizona prosecutors might be able to file charges of 2nd degree homicide against fossil fuel execs. These nuts are at it again, regarding a new proposal variant given to New York prosecutors. Please see my post at my GelbspanFiles blog:
In the coming days, the center of the polar vortex will be over northern Russia, which means a sharp frost in Russia in November.
twobob
November 3, 2024 9:11 am
I would like to think, due to recent energy supply developments,
that the Net Zero doctoring, is now in its final death throes.
If all goes as it should then the idiocy, will be at an end in less than 2 years.
I doubt that the unelected International Privileged Climate Cranks (IPCC) are going to get off the taxpayers’ teats any time in the foreseeable future.
Even then, I wouldn’t be surprised if they conspired to bequeath their sinecures to their heirs and successors.
karlo – I just heard that three states are calling up national guard for the election, and at least one downtown area (I THINK it was somewhere in Washington state) is boarding up their businesses and telling employees to stay home the rest of the week if Trump wins.
Lusername doesn’t live in America. He’s outed himself many times using British spelling. His opinion on any American political issue is just him trolling you.
Trump has not experienced a final nail yet, but in any case, the BS polls, like that recent one out of Iowa will not mean much in a couple of days.
This election represents the struggle of the people against the deep state. We the people are fortunate to have the likes of Gabbard and Kennedy on our side. The DS will lie, cheat, steal and even kill to get their way, as Kennedy well knows.
I hope that the people win on Tuesday, but this struggle will not end. I expect there to be a fight to certify Trump/Vance in January should he advance.
I don’t do polls. If asked to do one, I refuse.
Election season the results are used to try to influence the voters, not reflect the opinions of the actual voters.
There’s been the usual “climate change doom” hype surrounding the closure of the Alpe du Grand Serre ski resort in France. It’s located at a low elevation in southeastern France, in what is naturally either a maritime or Mediterranean climate. This should come as no surprise.
I live in Colorado. I moved here in the 1990s. People would tell me that it snowed a lot more in the 80s than in the 1990s. That’s probably related to the shift toward more La Niña events at the end of the 1980s. There’s a lot of hype about how snowfall in the western US has dropped by over 20% since 1980. Well no surprise, Sherlock. I can say that since moving here in the 90s, it seems like Colorado is getting more snow these days. This week is going to be a good one for the high elevation resorts, as well as the Front Range and Eastern Plains.
Frankly, I don’t see any discernable trend above the variability. I’ve had the fortune to experience long seasons, skiing from October into June, even July a couple of times, and I’ve had fantastic powder days all along the way from the 80’s to the present. Some years are just better than others.
There was the Christmas Eve blizzard of 1980 (40+ inches), then another 3-footer in 1982, and the Thanksgiving Week blizzard of 1983. After this one they tapered off.
Oh, I recall a mid-may blizzard in 1984 and another in 1986, though I can’t recall the dates. The 2022-2023 winter in Wyoming and NW Colorado, was as awful, and nearly identical in timing, to 1972-1973.
Alan
November 3, 2024 1:41 pm
Are there any peer reviewed papers that that I show my climate panicked friends that CO² doesn’t cause significant warming
Does anyone have a reference to a published scientific paper that shows a correlation coefficient number for the relationship betweem CO2 in the air and one of the global surface temperature compilations, especially one for land only? I seek this for an article in prep for WUWT but my searches are shooting blanks. Geoff S
There has never been a clearer choice in a major country’s election when it comes to climate change policy than the choice facing US voters this Tuesday.
Do we dare to hope that the years of insane Green New Scam/Inflation Creation Act will soon draw to a close?
Let’s hope so.
The election of Trump is absolutely necessary for the whole of the world.
The woke leftism and idiocy must be brought to an end.
The world cannot survive 4 years of vacuous word-salad. !
Word Salad? Word Salad, how can you say that? Read this Churchillian prose!
or this:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/8/2268733/-Trump-s-Word-Salads-Three-Served-Raw-without-Editing
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/11/02/biden-commits-gaffe-of-the-century-and-kamala-harris-has-to-be-melting-down-n2181437
At least Trump was talking about something. Kamala, in the quotes above was not. Can’t you tell the difference?
I doubt if many conservatives want to know the truth about Trump.
Trump is a blowhard of epic proportions who exaggerates almost every subject to make himself look good. He specializes in hyperbole rather than accurate data. That
“salesman’s disease” is offset by being a capitalist with a track record as President.
Kamaliar Harris is a liar of epic proportions and nasty socialist. Her record of accomplishments is near zero. She lies abut Trump and uses the fake threat to democracy insults. She lies about her own positions to win votes.
Both Harris and trump do not have the intelligence for accurate public speaking that is rare in politics. Examples are Senator J D Vance and Governor Ron DeSantis.
The old days of an intelligent debate, such as Nixon versus Kennedy, are long gone.
Now we have Haitians eat cats and Trump is Hitler. Neither candidate is interested in reducing government spending based on their past decisions.
Due Diligence:
The wife and I have already voted for Trump in Michigan. As we did in 2020. We hope the usual Michigan vote fraud does not change the state results again in 2024.
It’s kind of amazing that Kamala stands any chance in Michigan with her economy killing policies, but the dynamics are certainly interesting. It could be that the Muslim vote and third party Stein taking votes from Kamala allow Trump to overcome all the cheating.
Kamala is against EV mandates until after election day. She had to say that to win Michigan. She will certainly get the fake ballots in MI.
Note how i the past five years not one example of Republican election fraud has been discovered?
Richard, I hate to burst your bubble but there have been cases and they were jailed.
“not one example of Republican election fraud“
That’s because it has all been Democrat election fraud.
But she still has her “values.”
Here in Wisconsin mail-in voting is not by secret ballot. Ballots are not protected by an internal security envelope. The person who opens the mail-in ballot can see how you voted and act accordingly.
He doesn’t care about what is true; all that matters is the Rant of the Hour.
Same in California.
Secret ballots are never secret when custody control is lost.
That’s why we’ve always had an “election day” and not an “election month”. You go to the poll to get your ballot and deposit it in the ballot box yourself.
You cant keep custody of ballots assured when you mail them all over the countryside and let anyone from anywhere handle them endlessly.
Early (in-person) voting is not bad in and of itself. The problem with all voting—including voting on Election Day—is that the voter roll needs to be clean and there needs to be robust voter ID.
Mail-in ballots are inherently insecure, not only for the reasons you stated, but more importantly because by definition there is no way to do effective voter ID. Signature matching is an inaccurate process generating both false positive and false negative failure modes.
It doesn’t matter that the ballot is secret if the ballot doesn’t really come from the registered voter.
Mail in is insecure based on a total lack of chain of custody, which is a fundamental requirement in maintaining security. No fewer than 5 postal workers handle the mailed ballot and none are certified as election officials/workers.
I had 2 family medical emergencies in the past 5 days. I voted early, in person because you don’t know what might happen if you wait until election day. It’s easy to imagine a major storm such as a hurricane or blizzard interrupting election day. It’s equally easy to imagine a terrorist attack likewise keeping people from voting on election day.
I’m against vote by mail except for legitimate absentee reasons. No mass vote by mail, no mass mailing of ballots to voters. That’s just asking for a stolen election.
I doubt that RG has even the remotest idea of anything about Trump.
RG is a blowhard of epic proportions who prattles mindlessly without evidence on many subjects, because he thinks it makes him look intelligent.. But it has the very opposite effect.
Voter Fraud is a bigger Democrat weapon than Kamala ever was.
A collection from a mindless far-left stooge
Even then Trump has lots of content in those.
The Kamal has lots of vacuosity and zero content in her word salads..
That’s because she grew up in a middle class whatever….. no matter what the topic is.
A Program for a Greater America
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/a-program-for-a-greater-america
by Willem Post, Energy Systems Analyst
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Trump was right!
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Remember when he said Drain-The-Swamp. It’s a deep swamp!!!
This is why they manipulated you to hate him. He is a threat, not to Democracy, but to them!!
You must know to be informed!
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THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN USED TO WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS.
CALIF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM IS NANCY PELOSI’S NEPHEW
ADAM SHIFF’S SISTER IS MARRIED TO ONE OF GEORGE SOROS’ SONS.
JOHN KERRY’S DAUGHTER IS MARRIED TO A MULLAH’S SON IN IRAN.
HILLARY’S DAUGHTER CHELSEA IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS’ NEPHEW.
ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN CAMERON IS MARRIED TO SUSAN RICE, OBAMA’S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.
CBS PRESIDENT DAVID RHODES IS THE BROTHER OF BEN RHODES, OBAMA’S DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.
ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CLAIRE SHIPMAN IS MARRIED TO JAY CARNEY, FORMER OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY.
ABC NEWS AND UNIVISION REPORTER MATTHEW JAFFE IS MARRIED TO KATIE HOGAN, OBAMA’S FORMER DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY
ABC PRESIDENT BEN SHERWOOD IS THE BROTHER OF ELIZABETH SHERWOOD, OBAMA’S FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER.
CNN VP VIRGINIA MOSELEY IS MARRIED TO TOM NIDES, FORMER HILLARY CLINTON’S DEPUTY SECRETARY.
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THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A “STACKED DECK”. IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE CORPORATE NEWS MENU WAS SOMEWHAT RIGGED AND YOU COULDN’T PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT HELP YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE.
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Now you know why no one is investigated. They all have their hands in the cookie jar!
You might remember James Comey who investigated the Clinton email scandal and the Clinton Foundation, and made the final decision to not recommend prosecution by the DOJ.
It turns out that the Clinton Foundation was audited by the law firm DLA Piper.
One of the executives there was in charge of the Clinton Foundation audit.
Who was it? Peter Comey, James Comey’s brother.
Peter Comey held an executive position with the Washington law firm that did the audit of the Clinton foundation in 2015.
Peter Comey was officially DLA Piper “Senior Director of Real Estate For The Americas in 2015 when the Clinton Foundation scandals first broke, and Hillary was preparing her Presidential campaign.
Not only was DLA Piper, the firm where Comey’s brother worked, involved in the audit of the Clinton Foundation, but according to the foundation’s donor records, DLA Piper has given between $50 – 100k to the Foundation.
It gets even cozier.
DLA Piper executive Douglas Emhoff is taking an extended leave of absence from the firm.
Who is Douglas Emhoff? He is the husband of Kamala Harris. Just a coincidence?
Amazing if it is!! You can’t make this stuff up!
And it only gets worse. This infamous “Family Tree” will make your head spin… THE SWAMP IS DEEP!!
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Dominion (Voting Machine Supplier) serves 40% of the US market. It is in 30 states
The state of Texas rejected the machines.
Admiral Peter Neffenger is on Biden’s transition team.
Neffenger was the President of the board of Smartmatic (another Voting Machine Supplier), which entered into an agreement with Dominion in 2009
Smartmatic counted votes in Venezuela
Smartmatic is connected to Philippine Voter Fraud
Smartmatic is run by Lord Mark Malloch Brown, who works for George Soros (he and Brown are life-long friends)
Brown chairs the Boards of a number of non-profits, including the Open Society Foundation
Brown chairs the Centre For Global Development.
Open society is owned by George Soros
Smartmatic partnered with DLA Piper Global
Douglas C. Emhoff works at DLA Piper Global
Douglas C. Emhoff is Kamala Harris’s husband –
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Guess who owns Dominion? Blum Capital Partners LP
Guess who is on the board for the company? Richard Blum who is Dianne Feinstein’s husband.
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For more, see reply
Nancy Pelosi’s husband is a major investor.
An aide to Nancy Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, was hired by Dominion Voting Systems.
Dominion Voting Systems is listed on the Clinton Foundation website.
Dominion Voting Systems is listed as a $25,000 -$50,000 donor to the Clinton Foundation in 2014 by The Washington Post
Georgia Governor Kemp used Dominion Voting Systems after Texas and Florida rejected them
Dominion has a lobbyist named Jared Thomas
Jared Thomas was Governor Brian Kemp’s Chief of Staff/PressSecretary from 2012 to 2015.
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You must remember the Feinstein, Kavanaugh, Soros connections to understand this next information
Debra Katz (Christine Ford’s lawyer) worked for George-Soros at the Open Society Foundation.
Debra Katz also worked at Project on Government Oversight (POGO).
POGO is funded by Soros’s Open Society Foundation.
POGO is the co-signer of the letter Diane Feinstein presented against Kavanaugh’s nomination.
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Kamala Harris did not prosecute One West Bank for their fraud, when she had the authority, after all, Soros Owned One West Bank
Now you know why Harris became Biden’s running mate in 2020.
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Oh, what a tangled web of lies they wove
Author remains anonymous
Let’s sacrifice democracy because scientists hurt my feelings!
NO! We can’t abandon our Constitution and its Bill of Rights! Just because Lindzen and Happer and Clauser and Spencer and Curry offend your Green Religion? We can’t let Word Salad Cacklin’ Kamalama-ding-dong destroy our democracy! She and Tampon Tim want to gut the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments!
Let’s sacrifice democracy… and choose Kamala without a single vote…
Oh I think I might have misunderstood Lusername earlier. The Luser may have been implying that if Trumphitler gets back in office, he’ll take away all our freedoms just like he did last time he was President.
I mean I heard on CNN and MSDNC that he even ordered a firing squad for Liz Cheney! Can you believe the outrage of Trumphitler saying that Chickenhawk Cheney should have to fight the wars that she and her dad start?
Rich, have you seen the AI-generated ad claiming that Trump would die and Vance would become president for life? 39 years from now Vance would still be president, people would be marched into death camps, Elon would upload himself to AI so he could be immortal, etc.
People actually believe that lunacy.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory.
How do they suppose that the 22nd amendment would be repealed? I can’t imagine that too many people are stupid enough to fall for that. Most of the morons who would believe it already vote for Democrats.
How do they suppose that the 22nd amendment would be repealed?
They address that: “He controls the Supreme Court”.
It’s frightening that there ARE people who believe it. But I do think that it isn’t going to sway anyone left. If anything it may have the opposite effect on anyone (if there are any) who remains undecided or uncertain. Would YOU want to vote for that kind of crazy?
But Obama has been in power for more than 8 years…
…. and still thinks he is running the Democrat ship.
The 22nd amendment should be extended to Senators as well.
Remember, you can always move to Canada just like all the Never Trumpers and Not My President Hollywood stars did last time.
If our election is stolen, why would I move to an even more Fascist country that hasn’t had freedom of speech for many years? Maybe after the Trudope regime falls in April things will improve in the Great White North, but as it stands at the moment, Canada is a globalist stronghold.
The US is still the last hope for civilization.
They’ll cheat her into office if they can.
Democracy being anything that furthers Democrats‘ quest for unlimited power.
How soon until progressives just call themselves what they really are, that is, Fascists?
People who desire one party states are fascists by definition.
Two party states are not much better because one must always choose the lesser evil. If you really want democracy you must have no party government.
Huh? America today has three major parties. Democrats, Republicans and No Party Preference.
Besides, who said anything about wanting a democracy? We are guaranteed a republican form of government constitutionally.
You echo George Washington.
You seem to have a perverse desire to have most every aspect of your daily life controlled by the government. A vote for Harris and the Democrats will give you just that. The only “choice” they are willing to offer is the option (only offered to 50% of the population, and less than that if you add children and elderly) is the option to rub out a child in the womb. Otherwise, the government will tell you what sorts of appliances you can have in your house, what sort of new car you will be permitted to purchase, what sorts of things you can do (or not do) on your land, what medicines you are permitted to use (and those that are forbidden), what vaccines you might be forced to take (if you plan on working and participating in society) and all sorts of other draconian restrictions I’ve yet to mention.
If you want to be lorded over and treated like a slave, that’s your choice. But most of us would not choose such a life. Remember – A government powerful enough to give you what you want is also powerful enough to take it all away. And it is doing the latter in spades these days.
Notorious fascist endorses Kackles:
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/11/03/noted-white-supremacist-endorses-kamala-harris-n2181440
But most of us would not choose such a life.
Certainly not P’nut the squirrel, who no longer has a life (look it up, great example of government overreach)
The NY scum did to P’nut (RIP) what they’d surely like to do to all MAGAs
I cannot imagine sending in a SWAT team because of a complaint about a squirrel.
“A vote for Harris and the Democrats will give you just that.”
That will probably apply in many other countries in the world as the globalists take over.
‘Pretend-scientists’, or as we used to call them: ‘quacks’.
Sez the guy whose choice of presidential candidates did not receive one single democratically-earned vote in the primary selection process. Our “Username” commenter friend’s beloved political party really needs to change its name to “The Psychological Projection Party.” Back when he was very much alive, the late Dr S Fred Singer hurt the feelings of Al Gore by simply questioning Gore’s political reason for being. To this very day, the collective Al Gore crowd’s feelings have been hurt to so much of an extent that they and their enforcers seek to now silence prominent people by any means possible from simply presenting an opinion about the CAGW issue.
Which democracy do you live in again? Just asking because I don’t think you really know.
It is the democrat that want to sacrifice democracy… Trump wants to restore it.
You are just too dumb and brain-washed to understand that fact.
Trump does NOT want to restore democracy. Trump wants to restore our Constitutional Republic.
The democrats define democracy as a one party authoritarian state run by the Democrat party voting block.
Is telling the military to take the clot shot or get discharged Democracy?
Is forcing businesses to do the same or face heavy government penalties Democracy?
Is giving a terrorist nation hundreds of millions of dollars to rape and murder our allies Democracy?
Is letting criminals freely smuggle humans and Narcotics across the border Democracy?
Is election fraud Democracy?
Democracy has been trampled by the DNC far too long.
Too close to call.
Nate Silver seems to have in his latest 53.4 percent Trump, over Harris’ 46.2. Harris slightly in the lead on the popular vote, but Trump leading in the key swing states.
But there may have been a slight swing to Harris in the last few days. He thinks there may be polling bias in counting Trump supporters, who tend to be less socially forthcoming.
Could go, and maybe heavily, either way. Silver cautions against taking one’s own intuitions too seriously (including his). For what its worth my own intuition is that 53.4 to 46.2 probably overstates Trump’s lead and that Harris may well take it, narrowly. But I don’t have any basis for this other than gut feel, and would not bet on it either way.
Too close to call is correct because there’s no polling technique to predict how many dead and non-existent voters the fascists will sneak in for Harris-Walz, nor how many non-citizen welfare clients.
In a free and fair, secure election I would be cautiously optimistic of a Trump victory at this point.
Knowing the lessons of 2020, I am concerned that there may be no such thing as Too Big to Rig. When the Deep State has already resorted to Lawfare and assassination attempts (yes, I am saying that the Deep State was complicit), are they going to shrink from ballot-stuffing?
Pollfare is alive.
So, Kemi Badenoch is the new Tory leader.
She described Net Zero as Unilateral Economic Disarmament. An apt description.
It’s a first – a black African immigrant woman leading a Westminster party. And Labour…
Keir Starmer has been urged to kick out a Labour MP who shared a social media post accusing Kemi Badenoch of representing ‘white supremacy in blackface’.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1970880/keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch-labour-blackface-post
Stuck in the woke loop.
She was born in Britain.
And Jesus was born in a stable so he was an horse. She grew up in Nigeria.
You seem entirely content with the blackface part. Oh well.
Certainly that’s a stark contrast. With the upcoming elections, that’s a well-timed change.
Oh wait, never mind. Better luck in ‘29!
You’d better pray Trump wins…
I’d suggest WE better pray…will there even be a United Kingdom in 2029? People’s Republic of England? Or back in the Fourth Reich?
I don’t a have vote and I don’t do prayer.
Ehrlich foretold the end of England at the year 2000…
It’ll be alright on the night
The Brits are great at muddling through.
What’s interesting about them having chosen her is what it says about the Conservative Party. If you look at their cabinets and now at the members vote, they really don’t care about anything except ability. They don’t care about ethnic background, class, sex, religion.
Not that they always get it right. May was a complete disaster (though the members never got a vote on her), Johnson was barely Conservative, and he was the members darling. But the other thing they do, is when they have got it wrong, they step in pretty smartly and kick the person out – as they did with both May and Johnson.
Badenoch will be interesting. She has a capacity for bluntness about culture war issues which is probably unique at the top level in British politics. She is completely impatient and dismissive about identity politics. She’s a real conservative by instinct. And her background is unique at the top level in UK politics, engineering and systems.
Its a bit concerning that most of the previous Conservative cabinet members have declined to join her shadow cabinet. Do they know something that the public doesn’t? Or are they just burned out, as well they might be? Who knows.
That blackface comment was idiotic, and nasty with it – as it was intended to be. Its fundamentally racialist – not racist necessarily – the idea that color of skin and ethnic background are determinative. Unlike the commenter I think very few in the UK care much about her color either way.
The question will be how she holds up under the pressure, which will be considerable, week after week of PMQs, and the need to rebuild the party basically from the ground up, and get rid of all the fugitive Lib Dems who came in under Johnson. And to meet the threat from Reform, which is going to be real and serious over the next few years.
We shall see. I think Jenrick would have been the safe choice, but Badenoch has a better chance of turning them around majorly. Also of taking them down further, of course. So you can understand why they decided to go for her, and if she appoints Jenrick to some senior shadow cabinet position they might get the best of both worlds.
Jenrick would have been an easy target
“….And her background is unique at the top level in UK politics, engineering and systems.”
Her background in the technical sphere gives cause for hope that she is able to see through the fraudulent Net Zero confidence-trick and will be able to help rescue the country from the pit of total disaster into which that diabolically-inspired project is driving us.
There is no good reason to be concerned about emissions of CO2, CH4, or N2O or any other similar IR-active substance, in respect to warming or any other climate-related trend.
These molecules do not add any energy of their own to the atmosphere. The “climate” movement has been based on the misconception that investigation into climate system responses to incremental CO2 can begin with the “forcing” + “feedback” framing and end up with a valid result. No. That is the circular reasoning at the root of the debate.
Sure, if nothing else changes, adding CO2 would slightly impede cooling from the surface to space.
But adding CO2 would also promote the general circulation by improving the radiative coupling to the surface, so that the atmosphere becomes a bit more responsive to daytime surface heating. It is important to understand the concept of energy conversion.
So no one “knows” that “warming” should be the expected result down here, i.e. the accumulation of absorbed energy in the land + ocean + atmosphere system as sensible heat.
Please consider these very short time-lapse videos to get the picture. Each video has a text description which is important to read. Three videos use the NOAA images from GOES East from the “CO2 Longwave IR” band 16. The fourth video uses the “Vertical Integral of Energy Conversion” parameter from the ERA5 reanalysis.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI8vhRIT-3uaLhuaIZq2FuQ
Thank you for your patience.
Succinct and to the point!
The atmosphere is not on fire generating new energy. I’ve said this before, the only energy being absorbed and radiated comes from the sun. Feedback causing increasing energy requires a source for the additional energy and there is none, it is already being used in the earth’s oceans, surface, and atmosphere.
Temperature can only be raised if a body absorbs more energy than it is radiating. That is the fundamental law of thermodynamics that says heat flows from hot to cold. As long as the atmosphere is colder than the surface, the surface temperature WILL NOT RISE. It can only continue to cool.
It is funny that I have never seen a paper from climate science that refutes any of Planck’s Theory of Heat Radiation. Until climate science can show the math behind a cooler body reversing the gradient of a cooling hot body to cause higher temperatures, they are simply tilting at windmills.
Strongly agree! The Earth is in radiation balance between the Sun (5000-6000K) and space (0.0K). As anyone who has been out on a sunny day knows, the most intense radiation occurs in the 4-6 hours of midday. That’s like a spotlight 30 to 45 degrees of latitude in radius that travels around the Earth every 24 hours with a center that wanders seasonally between the Tropics. That’s where most of the heat comes from. The balance of the “average” energy (240w/sm) in and out is a garbage calculation. A hot summer day in New York (40C) occurs at the same time as a cold winter’s night in Tasmania (-40C). New York’s temperature is 24% higher than Tasmania but radiates over three times as much heat energy (313K/233K^4). (That’s why the GAT is also a garbage calculation, it ignores the most important negative feedback in the universe.)
When the CAGW crowd switched from “global warming” to “climate change” they really jumped the shark! The climate of an area depends on a multiplicity of factors (temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, winds, geography, etc) and especially on how these factors change, both daily and seasonally as they transport the concentrated incoming energy around the planet. Even the idea of a “global climate” is ridiculous.
Am I the only one who, contemplating the fuss being made over a calculated change of 0.01C in the anomaly of the global average of the local average of the daily average of thermometer readings, feels like an aged child pointing at a naked King?
Remember, it was Al Gore, the failed democrat presidential candidate that popularized the concept of “Catastrophic” climate when he decided he should star in a Hollywood Movie about the subject.
People who believe that Hollywood movies are real are a danger to democracy. Acting is always all make believe.
Jim,
David isn’t saying what you think he’s saying. For years you’ve been mistakenly saying that the enhanced greenhouse effect defies the first law of thermodynamics.
As David said correctly:
Nobody in ‘conventional’ climate science claims that the atmosphere heats the surface. You are the one doing the Don Quixote impression.
The natural greenhouse effect retains some of the heat that the sun contributes to the surface by delaying the night-time cooling of the surface. It is only the sun that heats the surface.
David’s claim is that the enhanced greenhouse effect contributed by non-condensing greenhouse gases is negligible because it is counteracted by a more effective convective heat transport. He is using empirical evidence to make his case.
Think about what you are saying here. Delaying the night time cooling implies that the night time temperatures do not cool as much as they could. That is far from the earth boiling away and honestly makes the earth a better place to live for most humans.
I certainly agree with that. Warmer is better. There is NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY!
The GHE opperates 24/7, day and night. Solar energy is not accumulated on the day side and only radiated to space on the night side.
Just like anyhting enlse in radiative physics of the exchange of energy due to a DeltaT it also occurs during the day. Seeking the Earth seeking an equilibrium with space.
Of course that’s true, but there is net heating on the day side and net cooling on the night side.
I don’t see how your comment adds anything useful to the discussion.
Stop with the “net” and “average” nonsense! The Earth radiates energy out to all parts of the sphere of space, which, except for one small disk (the sun), has an effective sink temperature of 0K. Of course the day side of the Earth radiates more energy than the night side, it’s warmer! We are fortunate that we have an atmosphere that spreads some of the incoming energy from that tiny disk around before it leaves, to make us nice and comfy.
Nothing you have said addresses anything thermodynamically.
Go read Planck. The surface is warmed by a hot body (sun) and cooled by a cooler body (atmosphere). Show us how CO2 reverses the surface gradient making the surface warmer either during the day or night! That’s what the Greenhouse Gas theory postulates.
From Planck’s Theory of Heat Radiation. Chapter 1 Section 7.
Again, you are making your same old strawman argument. Nobody imagines that the cold atmosphere warms the surface. That is your fundamental error. That you continue to press that point calls into question your sincerity.
Look at any of the radiation diagrams and show us where the GHG “back radiation” DOES NOT warm the surface.
https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/greenhouse-gases
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/17/nasa-revises-earths-radiation-budget-diminishing-some-of-trenberths-claims-in-the-process/
The net radiative flux between two bodies at different temperatures will be toward the cooler body and that is what the energy flux cartoon shows.
396W/sq.m outbound, 333W/sq.m inbound (net 63W/sq.m outbound)
Back-radiation reduces cooling, it does not heat the surface.
It does not. Look at the first diagram closer. It shows 161 being absorbed from the sun. Yet it does show 396 being radiated outward from the surface. What is the difference? The 333 is added to the 161, in essence raising the surface temperature so it must radiate at 396.
Like it or not, this is saying the atmosphere is hotter than the surface.
Read the Planck quote again. At equilibrium, Body A and Body B would be exchanging exactly the same amount of energy. If all the energy is supplied by the sun, where does the extra originate?
Sorry Rich…
CO2 absorption doesn’t change the temperature gradient, ΔT…
… so can’t change the net radiative flux.
Unless you ignore the Stephan Boltzmann Laws, of course..
Whoever wrote that bit in italics is a scientific numpty…
… “reflect”.…“bounces off”…. did they seriously write that ????
Such ignorance can only come from a brain-washed “climate” scientist.
The point you’re making about radiant heat is good, except that you should be thinking in terms of K^4 instead of degrees C.
Hot is hot, cold is cold. °F, °C, or K. K⁴ is certainly an important part of the issue.
When the discussion turns to radiation, you’d better be thinking in terms of K instead of degrees Celsius. Radiant energy from a surface at 0 Celsius would be quite small, while radiation from -273 C would be a very large positive number!!
Banton, never been in a desert on a cloudless night.
Just spews more ignorance.
H2O yes.. but CO2 effect is totally immeasurable.
Glad you mentioned ΔT though… because only H2O effects ΔT in the atmosphere.
CO2 doesn’t have any effect on ΔT, therefore cannot change the net radiative flux.
In the search for the “magic molecule” to affect both temperature and climate, my vote is for H2O, not CO2!
Except when it takes an 18 year vacation.
“a more effective convective heat transport”
I am taking into account not only the classic idea of convection in the sense of buoyant air parcels rising to form cumulus clouds and thunderstorms, but also the more general concept that the whole atmosphere expands (i.e. upward, raising the center of mass) in a region of strong daytime sunlight, producing wind. This uneven heating (“horizontal heating gradient”) is important in maintaining the kinetic energy of the general circulation. This is described on the first page of this document from the University of Washington.
. https://a.atmos.uw.edu/academics/classes/2010Q2/545/545_Ch_1.pdf
Twaddle! The wind (atmospheric kinetic energy) does change as warm, moist air rises (kinetic to potential), but that is insignificant next to the differential of latitudinal displacement of air masses. Rising hot air spills up in latitude as the denser cool air displaces it. Why is it easy to think of the Gulfstream changing the climate of Britain, but harder to imagine the effects of the kinetic energy of “still” tropical air (roughly 1,000 mph) moving towards the truly still air at the poles?
Sir, it is unclear to me which statement you object to. Please specify.
The cited document describes atmospheric kinetic energy only in terms of the effects of slight changes to temperature and pressure. I suggest that it is too easy to forget that the Earth is a rotating body. A man standing on the equator moves 24,000 miles in a day, while his buddy at the pole just turns around. The kinetic energy of a gram of “still” air at the equator is overwhelmingly greater than at the poles (MV^2). Sailors have known for millennia of the westward flow of equator-bound winds, while the higher latitude winds push them back east. While I still credit the water cycle as the most effective/efficient energy-transport mechanism, I suggest that the atmospheric turbulence caused by the dynamic exchange of kinetic energy in latitudinal air flow must contribute importantly to weather patterns.
Hope this helps.
Thank you for your reply. I understand. It is a matter of which frame of reference is chosen. Meteorology, as represented in the linked document, uses the earth’s surface as the fixed reference for position and velocity within the atmosphere. In the final paragraph on the first page, the effect of the rotation of the earth is addressed, as it matters greatly to the patterns of flow.
“While I still credit the water cycle as the most effective/efficient energy-transport mechanism..” This is important, and I agree.
P.S. I am not a meteorologist. I am an engineer, learning from meteorology to address the climate claims.
Thanks for this reply. As Rich Davis notes nearby, I don’t make reference to the 2nd Law (heat flow from hot to cold) because the core “warming” claim about the radiative effect of incremental CO2 does not involve a violation, in my sense of it. But the expectation of “warming” of the land + oceans as a result ignores the fact that the atmosphere itself, including clouds, radiates about 5 times as much energy to space than the surface radiates directly to space without being absorbed. In other words, the emitter to space that matters most is the circulating atmosphere. It is a very small thing for the energy involved in the incremental static radiative effect at the surface (of increases in CO2) to end up in space just like all the other energy that does not make it to space directly from the surface due to water vapor and clouds.
Correct. Each has a trivial effect on energy transfers in our planetary energy system, but they do not and can not cause a change in internal energy.
The oil and gas lobby is spending big to help Trump’s campaign
https://www.corporateknights.com/category-climate/the-oil-and-gas-lobby-is-spending-big-to-help-trumps-campaign/
As I said, the demand destruction sends them panicking
And here are a few of the things that scare them:
No, America’s battery plant boom isn’t going bust – construction is on track for the biggest factories, with over 23,000 jobs planned
https://theconversation.com/no-americas-battery-plant-boom-isnt-going-bust-construction-is-on-track-for-the-biggest-factories-with-over-23-000-jobs-planned-242567
Electric vehicle battery prices are expected to fall almost 50% by 2026
https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/electric-vehicle-battery-prices-are-expected-to-fall-almost-50-percent-by-2025
The EU got 52% of its electricity from renewables in second quarter of 2024
https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/10/29/the-eu-got-52-of-its-electricity-from-renewables-in-second-quarter-of-2024/
One ship load of solar PV is worth more to the grid than 100 ships of coal: IEA says fossil fuels losing race
https://reneweconomy.com.au/one-ship-load-of-solar-pv-is-worth-more-to-the-grid-than-100-ships-of-coal-iea-says-fossil-fuels-losing-race/
Have a nice Sunday!
Good for the oil and gas lobby, they’re working for their enlightened self-interests.
My understanding is that a number of large ff companies have invested big time in some of the proposed new industries such as carbon capture and storage and producing hydrogen for (very inefficient) energy generation. Also, some of these companies have purchased large new wind and solar installations. The purpose of all that is, of course, to harvest the very large subsidies being offered for such practices — the only reason for having anything to do with such nonsense projects.
Their fear is that Trump seems to be leaning towards greatly reducing or eliminating those subsides and the mandates that make the projects possible. This would make all the large expenses of getting started in those projects a total loss. It is not about a loss of ff products, the demand for oil, gas, and coal is increasing and will continue to increase without government malpractice.
“Clean energy transitions have accelerated sharply in recent years…….but there is more near term uncertainty than usual over how these policies and strategies will evolve. More than ever the energy outlook is complex, multifaceted and defies a single view on how the future may unfold”
“A record high level of clean energy came online globally in 2023 but two thirds of the overall increase in energy demand was still met by fossil fuels (67%)”
In 2023 “renewables increased by 3.6 EJ, Gas 0.7EJ, Oil 4.9EJ, Coal 3.1EJ” Total fossil fuels 8.7EJ
Fossil fuels still increasing at more than twice the rate of unreliables.
IEA ‘World Energy Outlook 2024’ (Oct 2024)
Obviously the IEA is not saying fossil fuels are losing the race
Ar..s over elbow is the expression, I believe.
Marxist links skipped, unopened.
Reality still happens.
But Luser has zero idea want reality actually is. !
Its mind lives in a propaganda wasteland of gullible idiocy.
Now that was quite funny.
Truth about morons usually is. !
Solar panels are totally USELESS to the grid.
In fact, they DESTROY the operation of a stable grid.
“America’s battery plant BOOM !!!!! “
You mean the one in Missouri ??
Missouri battery recycling plant erupts in flames; evacuations ordered
Or the one in Illinois??
Nearly 100 Tons of Lithium Batteries Involved in Large Morris Industrial Fire – NBC Chicago
Not in America.. but
South Korea: Exploding lithium batteries spark deadly factory fire
Once in a thousand year event 😆
It will be soooo interesting to see what sort of roll Musk gets in a Trump government and whether that means any sort of promotion of his EV’s. Where oil meets water.
Again showing your total ignorance.
Elon does not expect anything from Trump re EV’s, has already said that.
Trump will remove EV mandates and over-the-top EPA regulations and let the market decide.
That is what non-fascists do.
Fascist and totalitarians .. ie the Democrats… are the one pushing totalitarian mandates.
Hmmm …. don’t be so sure. Trump recently said “I’m for electric cars, I have to be because Elon endorsed me very strongly,”
But you are probably right, Trump says all sorts of stuff that has no basis in truth. That’s often what fascists do.
RFK is making a campaign pledge, on behalf of the Trump election effort, to reduce regulations on small farmers in the US. This may be an opportunity to remove all the mandates (chokeholds) on these small operators to control their CO2 emissions. Lets allow the little guys to run their reliable diesel harvesters and all the tried and true equipment. For the big corporate DEI farms, keep the mandates on them to go electric and abide by all the CO2 mandates currently in place.
And the consumers will gladly absorb the increases in food costs in order to “save the planet!” /s
https://www.newsweek.com/who-lead-trump-harris-what-forecasts-show-3-days-out-1979128
Final AtlasIntel Poll Has Trump Leading in EVERY SWING STATE
Video of a battery plant boom.
The recycling facility touted their “state-of-the-art fire suppression system” that could not hinder the boom.
UK combined wind/solar production as I write (1:45 pm), 2.67 GW, 7.9% of demand.
The future’s dark, the future’s green.
At 4.10pm their combined production is 4% with solar at 0.1%
https://grid.iamkate.com
Obviously means the number of whirlygigs needs to be quadrupled…
Wouldn’t it be 25x?
Let me get my calculator out again…
Currently UK grid is 58% GAS, 13% Nuclear, 7% US woodchips and about 10% interconnects
Solar is NIL. wind only 5%
FOSSIL FUELS carrying most of the load, as so often happens because the absolute unreliability of wind and solar.
Last Thursday was Halloween. Where I live, just north of Chicago, it was a cool and windy day. I remember one Halloween back in the late 1950’s when I was about seven or eight years old a friend and I went out trick or treating after school and went door to door until it was too dark to continue, and we had to come home. I remember that it was warm outside, and I didn’t need a jacket.
My point is that there has been no change in the weather between that Halloween oh so many years ago and this current Halloween. If anything, this year’s Halloween was colder. Yet they claim the oceans are boiling, the planet has a fever, the polar bears are going extinct, the glaciers are disappearing in Tibet and in Glacial National Park, and people are getting athletes foot in record numbers. Scratch that last one.
The simple fact remains that the global average temperature provides zero information about “the climate”.
Regarding the headlines about the hottest ____ on record, I’ve reflected on this and concluded that they reflect a misunderstanding of variability in mainstream climate science.
My reasoning is based on the fact that weather results from a combination of factors, including significant non-thermodynamic ones. If the circumstances leading to each month of above-average temperatures are always unique, isn’t it be misleading to use and interpret these months as part of a long-term trend?
While their spreadsheets may indicate that the globe is warming at a rate of ____ per decade, this is based on some idiotic assumption that collecting 30 years of temperature data, without considering physical representation, will effectively average out short-term variations, leaving only the signal of the climate’s energy state.
I hope this makes sense; I struggle to articulate my thoughts clearly.
Democrat vs. Republican Climate and Energy Platforms, in an easy to read and concise table format that can’t be reproduced here
Honest Climate Science and Energy: Democrat vs. Republican Climate and Energy Platforms
I find Trump has always been honest about his agenda. Since 2008, Democrats have been deceitful about theirs. They pretend to be less radical than they really are.
What Kamala Harris said then: “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.” (in 2019)
What Kamala Harris says now: “I will not ban fracking. I have not banned fracking as vice president of the United States.” (in 2024)
Kackles says whatever the omnipotent teleprompter tells her to say.
Unless it neglects to, “move forward” …
… then the Kamal goes into repeat mode.
The US seems to have a choice between an authoritarian and a Machiavellian. Tough choice, no wonder it’s split about 50/50.
The US has a choice between an empty suit who cannot enunciate what her plans in any manner while being the #2 person in a rudderless administration where it’s practically impossible to determine who is in charge of decision-making, and a man who knows how to take charge, even if he has to hurt a few feelings along the way, and who clearly identifies what the main problems are facing the country. The choice is that easy. The split you speak of is actually between well-informed voters who do their own deep research and those who operate on pure emotion, believing without question in the pathetically shallow propaganda that the legacy news media feeds them.
Your TDS ignorance is oozing out again. !
I pick my surgeons and politicians based on their performance not personality. Arrogance is a required character trait for success in some occupations: surgeon, politician, airline pilot, etc. Performance, performance, performance!
there was a video interview clip of a union bloke being asked how come his group was endorsing Trump.
The unionist explained that most of the delegates they elected to represent them in union matters were assholes that nobody really liked, but they did the best job for the unionists’ interests.
And that’s how they viewed Trump – the asshole that nobody liked, but who would do the best job for their interests.
But once they meet him, many people come away liking him.
The rancid MSM has pushed the Trump-hatred since day one.. after loving him before he ran for President.
JD Vance admitted that he initially fell for it.
Even the far-left harpies of “The View” would hug him and welcome him…
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When it comes to best-fit candidates for business management positions, I always intensively scrutinised their qualifications, experience and achievements, and drafted questions for “further explanation / confirmation / references” before even picking up the phone for an initial Q&A session.
I would pass on any candidate that was looking to be “liked” at the outset, even people for sales management roles.
Even after commencement, I would remain very formal on a personal level for the initial probation period, usually 3 months.
Once satisfied that the new person could do the job, deliver the required results, you can indulge in character assessment and consider whether you “like” someone or not.
I employed many people I wouldn’t want to share a beer with, but I would feel confident sharing a foxhole with them.
My approach to politicians is basically the same.
But that isn’t fair!! What about the poor night maintenance (emptying waste baskets, cleaning floors, etc.) guy .who wants to be an airline pilot. He/she has no chance if you insist on performance/ability.
WUWT readers might remember my July 2024 guest post about the group named “Public Citizen” who came up with a proposal on how Arizona prosecutors might be able to file charges of 2nd degree homicide against fossil fuel execs. These nuts are at it again, regarding a new proposal variant given to New York prosecutors. Please see my post at my GelbspanFiles blog:
The Political Suicide of Pushing “Reckless Climate Endangerment”
In the coming days, the center of the polar vortex will be over northern Russia, which means a sharp frost in Russia in November.
I would like to think, due to recent energy supply developments,
that the Net Zero doctoring, is now in its final death throes.
If all goes as it should then the idiocy, will be at an end in less than 2 years.
I doubt that the unelected International Privileged Climate Cranks (IPCC) are going to get off the taxpayers’ teats any time in the foreseeable future.
Even then, I wouldn’t be surprised if they conspired to bequeath their sinecures to their heirs and successors.
Millions of ‘angry and motivated’ Americans will be final nail in Trump’s coffin
Are you going to join the antifa/blm mobs out in the streets burning down cities?
karlo – I just heard that three states are calling up national guard for the election, and at least one downtown area (I THINK it was somewhere in Washington state) is boarding up their businesses and telling employees to stay home the rest of the week if Trump wins.
You mean if he loses.
Like last time.
Will only be needed in Democrat cities, as the Democrats go crazy at their loss.
Washington, Oregon, and Nevada are the states I heard.
Seems these three states expect Trump to win, else why the National Guard?
Or are you saying that Democrats operatives like antifa/blm will destroy Democrat run cities..
…. even if the Kamal wins.
Yeah, I saw a photo of plywood already up, it was either Wash. State or Wash. DC.
They must be expecting a Trump win…
… and expect the democrat hordes to destroy and loot their own cities.
Scary words you can’t even explain.
Lusername doesn’t live in America. He’s outed himself many times using British spelling. His opinion on any American political issue is just him trolling you.
Didn’t know this, thanks.
His agitating for violence is disgusting.
Trump has not experienced a final nail yet, but in any case, the BS polls, like that recent one out of Iowa will not mean much in a couple of days.
This election represents the struggle of the people against the deep state. We the people are fortunate to have the likes of Gabbard and Kennedy on our side. The DS will lie, cheat, steal and even kill to get their way, as Kennedy well knows.
I hope that the people win on Tuesday, but this struggle will not end. I expect there to be a fight to certify Trump/Vance in January should he advance.
And men are voting overwhelmingly for Trump. Men can see what a mindless ditz the Kamal is.
As Al Bundy once observed:
25 *NEW* swing state polls just got released, Trump is winning
Seems the IOWA poll is FAKE. !
I wouldn’t trust ANY poll, especially right now.
I don’t do polls. If asked to do one, I refuse.
Election season the results are used to try to influence the voters, not reflect the opinions of the actual voters.
Final AtlasIntel Poll Has Trump Leading in EVERY SWING STATE
There’s been the usual “climate change doom” hype surrounding the closure of the Alpe du Grand Serre ski resort in France. It’s located at a low elevation in southeastern France, in what is naturally either a maritime or Mediterranean climate. This should come as no surprise.
I live in Colorado. I moved here in the 1990s. People would tell me that it snowed a lot more in the 80s than in the 1990s. That’s probably related to the shift toward more La Niña events at the end of the 1980s. There’s a lot of hype about how snowfall in the western US has dropped by over 20% since 1980. Well no surprise, Sherlock. I can say that since moving here in the 90s, it seems like Colorado is getting more snow these days. This week is going to be a good one for the high elevation resorts, as well as the Front Range and Eastern Plains.
I think you’re right about La Ninas.
Frankly, I don’t see any discernable trend above the variability. I’ve had the fortune to experience long seasons, skiing from October into June, even July a couple of times, and I’ve had fantastic powder days all along the way from the 80’s to the present. Some years are just better than others.
There was the Christmas Eve blizzard of 1980 (40+ inches), then another 3-footer in 1982, and the Thanksgiving Week blizzard of 1983. After this one they tapered off.
Oh, I recall a mid-may blizzard in 1984 and another in 1986, though I can’t recall the dates. The 2022-2023 winter in Wyoming and NW Colorado, was as awful, and nearly identical in timing, to 1972-1973.
Are there any peer reviewed papers that that I show my climate panicked friends that CO² doesn’t cause significant warming
https://co2coalition.org/publications/van-wijngaarden-and-happer-radiative-transfer-paper-for-five-greenhouse-gases-explained/
A good review of a paper by Dr. Harper and Van Wijngaarden.
Thank you.
Does anyone have a reference to a published scientific paper that shows a correlation coefficient number for the relationship betweem CO2 in the air and one of the global surface temperature compilations, especially one for land only? I seek this for an article in prep for WUWT but my searches are shooting blanks. Geoff S