400,000 Britons sign petition demanding another General Election
The threshold for MPs to debate a petition – 100,000 signatures – was passed within just four hours, with more than 80,000 signing up in the last hour alone.
… the petition reads: “I would like there to be another General Election. “I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.” https://www.gbnews.com/politics/general-election-petition-keir-starmer-parliament
Now 520,000 at 11.06 am UK time. Increasing like the sea level in the minds of warmista’s 😉
It will be ignored but the irony is Starmer was the one campaigning for a second Brexit vote as he said the voters did not know what they were voting for.
1,771,641 as I type. Soon to be one more after this ex-Pat signs.
How did this monumental nitwit Sir Keir “Dazed and fkin Confused” Starmer ever grow up to be a totalitarian wannabe? British history is replete with roadside gibbets and eye-pecking crows.
I suppose he might last long enough to actually see first-hand if a nuclear war with Russia is a good idea. The twit’s been watching too many Dad’s Army reruns IMHO.
They are not “political parties” any more than Communist Party of Soviet Union was a “political party” (and in the latter case it’s downright oxymoronic). The “party” format with its trappings is just an atavism, retained only for mimicry in these cases. Zinovyev introduced the term “pseudoparty” for this reason.
You need to verify your email address to confirm your vote, I’m not sure if bot can do that?
The most that we here in Reform can hope for is a vote of no confidence in the government. This petition really is just something to make Labour MP’s with a small majority get a bit twitchy.
2,216,279 so far today and considering only 10 million voted for Labour at the last election I think it says something about the strength of feeling in the country.
KH flip flopped on policies but claimed her values had not changed.
I can only speak for myself and in my opinion and experience the only valid interpretation is, I am telling the voters what they want to hear and what I will do if elected will not be as promised;
From the Telegraph. More proof, did you need it, that the UK intelligensia have gone stark raving mad. And Scotland is probably worse than anywhere in the UK. Add this to the recording of so called non-criminal hate events by the police, which basically means expressing a politically incorrect opinion, or even hanging out your laundry in the wrong way….
Five judges, led by Lord Reed, will hear two days of arguments next Tuesday and Wednesday over whether guidance issued by the Scottish Government about the meaning of the word “woman” in the Equality Act is lawful.
The guidance states that a trans person with a full Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) that confers upon them the acquired gender of female is a woman. However, FWS has argued it is unlawful as the definition of woman in the Equality Act is tied to biological sex.
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FWS initially went to court to challenge SNP ministers over a new law designed to increase the number of women on public boards. This stated that anyone “living as a woman” would be eligible.
The Court of Session in Edinburgh found the Scottish Government had gone beyond its powers by legislating that transgender women should count as women.
This forced the publication of new statutory guidelines which stated that transgender women should still be counted as female, so long as they held a GRC.
FWS launched a new legal challenge, arguing that the Scottish Government had overstepped its powers by effectively redefining the meaning of female.
But judge Lady Haldane ruled the definition of sex was “not limited to biological or birth sex” in December 2022. An appeal was rejected by the Inner House of the Court of Session, prompting FWS to go to the UK Supreme Court.
Dr Michael Foran, a public law lecturer at Glasgow University, said the Scottish Government submission to the court noted that the Equality Act protections from “pregnancy discrimination are afforded only to women”.
However, he said that SNP ministers argued that “all of these references to a woman who is pregnant are capable of being interpreted to apply to ‘pregnant men’.” In an analysis of the submission, he said: “The Scottish Government’s argument is that the drafters of the Equality Act 2010, when they used the term ‘pregnant woman’ made the kind of embarrassing drafting error not seen in the UK since the 1860’s. Needless to say, this is a bold, perhaps even brave, claim to make.”
Dr Foran said FWS was arguing that female-only groups being forced to admit male-bodied trans people with GRCs was “absurd, unworkable, and a violation of the human rights of women and lesbians”.
However, he said the Scottish Government’s submission argued that “this is what Parliament intended to do” when it passed the Gender Recognition Act and the Equality Act. A Scottish Government spokesman said: “We cannot comment on a live legal case.”
It can’t come too soon. Unfortunately, the leftists are mounting their opposition to the Trump administration. Biden’s trying to start WWIII and hide as many illegal aliens from deportation as possible.
No, yawn, they impeached Trump coz he tried to extort the Ukrainian president by withholding aid (that had already been approved) unless he got dirt on a political opponent. It’s all on record, you read it for yourself.
That was the claim by a whistle-blower and the lying, dying media. The phone conversation was recorded, so it’s clear that neither you nor the media know what you are talking about.
That’s right it was recorded, so what part of it do you dispute? Are you denying Trump asked Zelensky to get dirt on Biden? Are you denying Trump withheld the arms? Just want to be clear.
Again… are you denying Trump withheld the military aid that had been approved? Are are you also denying he asked Zelenskyy for dirt on Biden? Simple questions.
You’re confused. It was Biden that was threatening the withholding of aid if Ukraine didn’t fire their prosecutor. He’s on video bragging about it. Trump never threatened Zelenskyy–he just asked him to look into it.
Trump did not request “dirt on Biden.” He clearly stated that there were several stories circulating about Biden and Shokin and wanted to find out which was true.
The President has at his discretion the right to determine timing of spending a funding allocation. The allocation was passed without stipulating a date. DJT held it up because he wanted more information on what it was to be used for. The funding was executed (a government word for spent) within the fiscal year so there is nothing there.
All of this was published.
Furthermore, the so called whistler blower report was co-written by a Schiff aide. It has been determined to be completely false.
The Obama/Biden administration sent Ukraine blankets. The Trump administration sent Ukraine missiles. Guess which military aid to Ukraine was more useful during the war.
Well, he’s certainly going to withhold military aid come January, and end the war. Possibly also end the other war. You a big Dad’s Army fan or something?
Always remember: Putin is behind Trump, but Mars is behind Putin!
It must be those Martian mind control rays. Only can be mitigated if you listen to the Ministry of Truth and do not skip the Two Minutes Hate. Wearing tin foil on the head when you are away from TV for too long usually helps, but it’s only a temporary measure.
Schiff is the most blatant liar in the U.S. Congress. And that’s saying something!
I guess that’s what the majority of California voters like, as they elected this liar to the U.S. Senate in the November elections.
Clueless bastards! Electing a proven liar to the U.S. Senate. A liar whose lies are harmful to the United States, including to California voters, but what can you expect out of clueless bastards.
Schiff got up before the whole world and read a transcript of the Trump/Zelenskyy conversation that was a complete, made-up lie!
It was a lie that was easily proven since the actual recording of the conversation was available and differed markedly from the transcript Lying Svchiff read.
Naturally, Schiff’s lying transcript portrayed Trump in the worst light possible, which was the purpose of the lie.
So now we have to listen to this liar spew his lies for the next six years. Thanks California.
“Schiff got up before the whole world and read a transcript of the Trump/Zelenskyy conversation that was a complete, made-up lie!” Do you have a link to that transcript Tom?
Do you DENY that Biden is doing everything he can to escalate this conflict instead of trying to resolve it !
He really does not want his family’s dealing with the totally corrupt Ukraine regime to see the light of day, and is willing to risk WWIII to hide them..
That is how sick and depraved the people you support are. !!
Funny that impeachment.
The initial investigation was performed by the Intelligence committee under Schiff. Normal procedure is for the Judicial committee to review and write the Articles of Impeachment. The Judicial committee wanted 1 week to review and have follow up interviews. Pelosi banned that and commanded the Articles be written immediately. Schiff wrote the Articles. All based on a whistleblower report written by a Schiff aide.
Prior to the 2016 election, Pelosi said (and Google has disappeared this) that if Trump were elected she would get him impeached.
All the follow on reports over the past several years has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the whole thing was bogus and orchestrated by Pelosi and her minions.
“Prior to the 2016 election, Pelosi said (and Google has disappeared this) that if Trump were elected she would get him impeached.” Bullshit. Make it up Mark has a knew name.
Back in the mid-70’s when I was a T-28 flight instructor our training squadron had two accidents. Both planes were dual flights (instructor and a student), both planes went into the trees and caught fire, and all pilots survived with minor burns.
I was not on the accident boards, but I was attached to the squadron safety department and would learn of various fact findings. I also read both accident reports when they were released. I can say that the news media made up half of what they were reporting.
That was then and about 50% of the news was made-up crap on things I knew about. Imagine now when almost nothing the media reports is true or based on facts. Poor Simon thinks he/she/it is providing evidence from news articles when he/she/it is actually quoting made-up nonsense and propaganda.
“I know this is a waste of time on a silly troll.” First I’m not a troll. I have an opinion that is different to yours. If you think living in an echo chamber where no one challenges you is the way forward, then good luck to you. Second, you know you are deep into the MAGA cult when he has convinced you not to check sources because they all lie about him. Wow…. just wow.
“. . . when he has convinced you not to check sources because they all lie about him. ”
What are you talking about? I said from personal experience I know the news media make up stuff. It’s obvious they are making up stuff because of all the lies they are caught committing. You should try media sources that aren’t lying to you. However, I know you won’t. It must be that “knew name” thing of yours–whatever that means.
“TRUMP WON THE ELECTION…. EVERY PART OF IT.” I have acknowledged that, even congratulated your team. That is in stark contrast I must say to many on your side, who for four years childishly and without evidence claimed the election Biden won was stolen. It wasn’t as many inquests have showed.
You are what I call a “sore winner.”
And you seem to be under some illusion that loosing an election means you don’t get to call out the mistakes politicians make. You are wrong so “get used to it.”
“Your only problem is that WUWT isn’t one of your echo chambers.”
Maybe, maybe not, but it is frequented by people who when challenged on their views (and often with no comeback) run to the “You’re a troll” accusation. You know they have nothing when they do that.
And if you read the WUWT rules you will find they openly welcome all points of view. I think I bring an alternative view and it is nice to be some welcomed.
And having read all that follows, I am reminded of a piece of wisdom.
Never engage in a battle of wits with the unarmed. They never know when they have lost.
Ron Long
November 24, 2024 2:31 am
Western Oregon will finish November at about double normal rainfall, with flood adversaries in many locations. But that doesn’t move the “Drought Index”, except for “slight lessening of dry conditions”? Why? Off we go to http://www.oregon.gov, where it says “Meteorological drought traditionally has been defined by a lack of precipitation, but it is better defined as evaporative demand…”. This is a weaponization of the word “drought”, led by NOAA, who introduced the “Evaporative Demand Drought Index Forecast”, an index that had some merit (assessing atmospheric current evaporation capacity), but has been converted into a CAGW tool. Guess what? Because we are in a run-away burning hell on earth regime the water will all evaporate (except for seawater, which somehow will rise?). Trump maybe can fix this.
Oregon is lost. Unfortunately, follows California around like a lost puppy when it comes to environmental regulations. How Portland votes dictates the politics. Sad, sad day.
Model fatigue is understandable, as readers here at WUWT know all too well that the large-grid, discrete-layer, step-iterated, parameter-tuned global climate models have no diagnostic or predictive power to simulate the climate system response to incremental CO2, CH4, N2O, etc.
But when a general circulation model provides good short-term forecasts, we can understand how it can be a useful representation of the bulk mass and energy flows we experience as weather. And if it is continuously updated with measured values of wind speed, barometric pressure, temperature, and relative humidity from radiosondes, aircraft, ground stations, etc., we can appreciate its value as a valid representation of the real atmosphere’s operation. This is called a reanalysis model.
I like the ERA5 reanalysis model because it offers a wide range of hourly values for convenient user selection and download. Sure, for any grid cell at any particular point in time, there would be considerable uncertainty in the values. But overall, the simulation is of the same quality as a short-term weather forecast. Quite good.
So what? The news over the last couple of years has promoted the “record” global average temperatures, often referring to the ERA5 values. But for proper context, one can look for themselves at this web page maintained by the University of Maine, which uses the 2-meter air temperature values. You can select from World, NH, SH, Tropics, Arctic, and Antarctic zones. Right now, which zone is driving the global average for T2m back down from its higher anomalies last year? The tropics. Take a look.
Those graphics are full of interesting observations, aren’t they? There is one thing I would disagree with in your post. It isn’t the tropics leading the way, but rather whatever heat transport mechanisms are currently operating in the tropics — the tropics, themselves, are not a cause. It’s nitpicking, I know, but at any rate it provides a segue into something that I have been pondering for he past six months, which is: How much excess heat transport capacity does the surface/atmosphere possess, and in what way might it be harnessed as radiative transport becomes slightly less effecctive with increased CO2 and water vapor? I noticed when looking into the situation at Albuquerque for the brief addendum, that there appeared to be a vast potential for increased convective tranport that lay untapped on a hot, sunny summer day.
It’s another potential negative feedback and one that the climate models are possibly overlooking or getting wrong numerically because of scale-size.
“ It isn’t the tropics leading the way, but rather whatever heat transport mechanisms are currently operating in the tropics…” Good point. However, what I meant was simply the numerical power of the switch in the tropics from 2023 to 2024 to influence the global average anomaly. In the tropics, the T2m anomaly was about 0.9C higher in 2024 than 2023 early in the year. Recently 2024 is about 0.4C lower than 2023. A flip-flop of about 1.3C.
If you notice there is a pronounced asymmetry between the hemispheres that shows up well in the tropics plot. The Earth is substantially warmer as the sun passes south to north during the boreal spring than it is during the austral spring going the other way. This asymmetry is 0.6 to 0.7C on average. The year 2023 was an exception where the asymmetry was a mere 0.2 to 0.3C. Thus 2023 ended unusually warm giving 2024 a head start, if you will. These more nearly symmetric years occur now and then it seems — 2019 was one. I haven’t looked carefully to see what this might be related to — La Nina maybe.
I suppose I should add that the underlying asymmetry itself is probably related to perihelion.
strativarius
November 24, 2024 4:33 am
PETA are back!
An iconic Birmingham pub has been targeted in a “ridiculous” name change row led by “delusional” woke activists. Animal rights campaigners have demanded that the Sly Old Fox in Birmingham should change its name on account of it being “derogatory”, “inaccurate” and “unfair” to British foxes. https://www.gbnews.com/news/birmingham-news-sly-old-fox-woke-activists
When a fox personally makes a complaint, I might support it. Not a proxy complaint from these idiots, though. Have you noticed how taking offence on behalf of others has become a national passtime?
The furries are increasingly recognized by the Circus World as a righteous group, whose odd assertions therefore must be accepted as true unless contested in an even more righteous way. Considering that suppression of hatefacts around them is going on for years, and that NASA furry intern was swept under the rug only for a scandal which made the rest of bureaucrats a laughing stock — until then, having a potty-mouthed primate dressed up as a small forest critter there was perfectly normal.
So it may be not very long before some “transfox” in fursuit makes such demands. Why not?
I’ve noticed two things about foxes in Britain. Fox hunting has been banned. I watch several British crime shows, and you hear a fox bark when they switch to a nighttime scene. The fox lobby is strong in Britain.
Perhaps they were genuinely afraid to lose even more?
I mean, surely all these Hollywoodsters are squeaky clean, up to and including taxes… because ever so free press is ever so impartial when it can jump on a scandal… but at least sometimes you gotta wonder… (whistling innocently)
The Nina 1-2 water usually moves into the Nina 3 zone within a few weeks. It would take some unusual change in the current or a quick reversal in the 1-2 zone to prevent cooling of Nina 3.
The Home-Based Battery Storage, a Fantasy of Non-Technical Woke Folks https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-home-based-battery-storage-a-fantasy-of-non-technical-woke Authored by Jonathan Lesser via RealClearEnergy,
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According to a recent article published in The Conversation, installing millions of storage batteries distributed through the grid — in homes, businesses, and local communities – coupled with wind and solar generation, can avoid investments in new transmission infrastructure.
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But unless installing those batteries is accompanied by physically disconnecting from the grid, or consumers are willing to forgo reliable electricity, this claim is yet another example of electricity “magical thinking.”
Even 100 hours of average demand in storage is inadequate for reliable service but let’s say 125 kWhr as an example for a typical home. At $600 per kWhr battery installation at present prices… well… a person can incur a lifetime of utility supplied electricity charges in just the first cost of batteries.
Electricity magical thinking? Yes. More like extreme innumeracy, though.
BAKU, Azerbaijan—The U.S., Europe and a handful of other rich countries agreed to triple the financing they provide for climate-change projects in the developing world to at least $300 billion a year by 2035, signaling their commitment to the Paris climate accord despite a looming obstacle: the incoming presidency of Donald Trump.
The Trump campaign pledged to pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement, and his administration, backed by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and Senate, is likely to cut U.S. climate financing over the next few years, fueling doubts about America’s ability to fulfill the Baku agreement, at least in the near term. That puts pressure on Europe to help fill the hole left by the U.S. at a time when government budgets on the continent are squeezed by spending to arm Ukraine and rebuild their militaries against the threat from Russia.
Wealthier members of the developing-country bloc—China, the oil-rich Persian Gulf states and a handful of others—agreed to limited steps that could help pick up the slack. The final agreement notes the “voluntary intention” by developing countries to allow their share of climate financing provided by the World Bank and other multilateral development banks of which they are shareholders to count toward the new financing goal.
Developing countries didn’t object to the agreement before it was adopted in the cavernous conference center in Baku, but expressed outrage immediately afterward. They were looking for an annual financing goal in excess of $1 trillion a year by 2030.
A member of India’s delegation said that Mukhtar Babayev, the Azerbaijani official presiding over the conference, ignored her request to make a statement before gaveling the debate closed.
“We are disappointed with the outcome, which clearly brings out the unwillingness of developed-country parties to live up to their responsibilities,” said the Indian delegate, Chandni Raina. “India does not accept the goal proposal in its present form.… The goal is too little, it is too distant. It is 2035, too far gone.”
Higher-income countries in the developing bloc rebuffed demands from Western countries to commit to providing climate funds to poorer countries. That would have blurred the categories of developed and developing set out in the first United Nations climate treaty of 1992, a divide that Western nations say no longer makes sense. That treaty and the Paris agreement say that only developed countries are required to provide climate finance.
In theory, higher-income developing countries are entitled to receive such funds under the U.N. climate treaties, but in practice the countries have increasingly been investing in green-energy projects in other developing countries. China has provided some $25 billion in climate financing to poorer countries since 2016, Chinese officials said.
The world is facing growing costs from extreme weather that scientists have linked to the effects of climate change. This year is likely to be the warmest on record. It is also likely to be the first, according to European Union climate scientists, that averaged 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial-era temperatures, a key threshold set out in the Paris accord. Temperatures have been so high that scientists have been at a loss to explain them, even accounting for the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The agreement in Baku will only cover a fraction of the cost for poorer countries as they shift to clean energy. Photo: aziz karimov/Reuters
The world is continuing to be faced by growing costs that the parasites of human prosperity have linked to the climate change lie
With, of course, the lie being that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, that have risen due to the burning of fossil fuels, is responsible for some deleterious changes in global climate parameters that have never been measured empirically.
If he can’t prove it- it shouldn’t be assumed to be true. No doubt there is corruption everywhere.
The story actually says “Former Polish Minister Piotr Kulpa says up to half of the US aid to Ukraine was laundered by Ukrainians”. But the link says “at least half”. There is a difference. Whenever I see “up to half”- it could mean anything.
Posted by karlomonte in this thread 3 hours earlier (though a different site).
But yes. The Polish politicians may be predatory and a bit short-sighted, but they are not stupid. They definitely don’t fancy walking into the same pit… again.
Thus as the opportunities for profit via Orange Revolution State dry up, the general thrust decisively turns away from it. They suddenly remembered grievances, all the troubles Poles had with those nasty peasants at South-East for the last few centuries, etc. The unwritten policy seems to be “quit while we are ahead”. Some probably hope for getting those lands back, or rather bragging rights for this.
There’s a collection of relevant articles on Korybko substack. For example this or this.
A Smaller Federal Government for the US https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/a-program-for-a-greater-america
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The American people would be better off, because the federal government would be smaller, the Deep State would be smaller, and spending would be at least $200 billion less each year.
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The federal government must not be allowed to engage in any activities not specified in the U.S. Constitution.
That means no NPR, no US Dept of Education, no US Endowment for the Arts, no US Radio Free Europe (all are mostly staffed by Democrats), and many other similar activities.
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The US Dept of Education, budget $240 BILLION in 2024, was started in 1980, with the US ranking 4th in education. After 44 years, the US ranks 24th. Clearly, that experiment has failed bigtime.
It needs to be ended, with all education activities conducted by the Sovereign States, as reiterated in the US Constitution and associated documents.
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The federal government would be much smaller, and much more efficient, and spend much less money, with help of RFK, jr., Elon Musk, Ramaswamy, etc.
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Eliminate all subsidies, grants and tax preferences to all industries.
End the highly subsidized wind, solar, battery, heat pump, EV, etc., follies
These subsidies, etc., promote dysfunctional and expensive systems everywhere they are applied
They enlarge the federal government with bureaucrats and onerous rules and regulations.
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Drill, baby drill, and
Build, on a fast track, at least 100 standardized nuclear plants, each with 2 or more 1,000 MW units
Conserve, not export, our precious fossil fuels to produce the tens of thousands of products that cannot be produced by hydro, nuclear, wind and solar.
The export of US fossil fuels is advocated by the Deep State to increase their geo-political war-mongering, to enable the US military/industrial/intelligence complex to rule the world.
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Bring 50,000 soldiers from Europe to the US to help build the north and south wall, and
Station them on the narrow strip of US land OUTSIDE of the completed walls, with tear gas, tasers, etc., so no one, without proper documents, can cross our borders.
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That will free up the US border guard, etc., to collect millions of recent arrivals, and
Deport millions of recent arrivals, including misfits/criminals, each year for the next 4 years, to completely offset the Biden/Harris scheme to import illegals into swing states to permanently rig elections.
Many heretofore great American communities have suffered from the great influxes of misfit illegals, illegally imposed upon them by the Biden/Harris cabal.
The ballots are still being counted by the Democrat-staffed ballot counting centers.
Trump was ahead 5.66 million on Election Day, Nov 5
Trump is ahead 3.4 million on Nov 24
Each day, Harris gets 2/3 of the ballots, Trump gets 1/3
These ballots were in envelopes, that are improperly filled in, such as:
no signature
no matching signature
illegible signature, just a scribble
moved out of state person signature
dead person signature
unidentified/fictitious person signature
felon signature
non-citizen signature
All such ballots should be rejected, but they are counted, counted, counted, by the Democrat-staffed ballot counting centers until the Democrat wins
As they have pointed out “This post is obsolete and wrong in many respects”, so I will not have to tell you it is wrong. But it is not just wrong, it was written by a complete layman, not understanding the basics. And that was G. Schmidt in 2004.
The problem is, by 2004 Schmidt was already an achieved climate scientist, with over 50 articles published, and of course founding member of realclimate.org. What kind of science is it, where you can be a leading expert, without having the slightest clue?
Good article, still timely. I’ve always wondered why it is called CS; apparently the term goes way back, 1970s at the latest. It is really engineering, but the CE acronym was already taken. Then by the 1980s universities melded two entities and created the EECS (or CSEE) departments.
Many years ago on CompuServe, we would suffer from a troll who believed in panspermia (life originated in outer-space). Fred Hoyle had a similar belief. It turned out the troll had a BA in biology. That was strange to us (that it wasn’t a BS degree), but it’s an actual degree.
I think climate scientists must have BA degrees in climate science as their efforts are more art than science.
“If you start to get big American companies like GE and Fluxus and Honeywell involved in energy reconstruction, and there’s going to be billions of dollars of energy reconstruction,” he said.
Oh dear, now it’s going to be Chinese companies getting those lucrative contracts. The best laid plans of a senile old goat and his drug addict son. Hey ho though, at least we got to see non-DEI modern weapon technology from the wrong end.
I’ve read many things about the UK that says there is reason to dislike the current government but of course, people being people, there is probably discontent in the opposite direction too; the current leadership is disliked by some because they believe there isn’t enough “progressive” Extremism being practiced or promised. The petition wisely doesn’t say what policy is wanted. Is there any general idea about why a new election is being demanded?
As an ex-Pat, yes, it was bad enough watching Labour being phony-socialists, but when the conservatives decided they were going to be phony-socialists, it wasn’t too good for checks and balances. This was caused by the short-pants politics British Bullshitting Corporation being able to extort money from the people they lie to through TV License fees.
And here we all are, sabre-rattling at Putin. The Charge of the Light Brigade nuclear style this time.
At least here, CNN and Must Sell Network By Christmas are hovering over the swirler.
Michael Turner
November 24, 2024 1:04 pm
Is it just my phone, or is the WUWT “app” just extremely slow. 30+ seconds clicking a link. Switch to browser, and no delays.
Can i ask a simple question?
Why is there no debate about buffers and positive feedback.
All stable systems have these two hallmarks, and yet the ‘climate scientists’ do not talk about them and indeed only talk about negative feedback. This is how i know they are frauds.
shouldn’t the money be spent on understanding and enhancing the items that makes stable systems, erm, stable?
define positive and negative? i define positive as something that tends back towards stable. so for example in a stable heat system, as it heats up, the increased tendency to emit heat and therefore cool down again is a positive feedback.
The Headline is: The Department of “Justice” and Special Counsel Jack Smith are preparing to drop all charges against Trump in the election interference case.
400,000 Britons sign petition demanding another General Election
The threshold for MPs to debate a petition – 100,000 signatures – was passed within just four hours, with more than 80,000 signing up in the last hour alone.
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the petition reads: “I would like there to be another General Election.
“I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.”
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/general-election-petition-keir-starmer-parliament
As they might well say, unprecedented…
Now 520,000 at 11.06 am UK time. Increasing like the sea level in the minds of warmista’s 😉
It will be ignored but the irony is Starmer was the one campaigning for a second Brexit vote as he said the voters did not know what they were voting for.
Sauce for the goose…
930,000 and increasing
1.268 million and counting
2.1 million and counting
Track it here, rising rapidly:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700143
Now >625k
Now 858k and still rising rapidly…
1,771,641 as I type. Soon to be one more after this ex-Pat signs.
How did this monumental nitwit Sir Keir “Dazed and fkin Confused” Starmer ever grow up to be a totalitarian wannabe? British history is replete with roadside gibbets and eye-pecking crows.
I suppose he might last long enough to actually see first-hand if a nuclear war with Russia is a good idea. The twit’s been watching too many Dad’s Army reruns IMHO.
Over 840,000 and still rising rapidly, looking at the map is spread pretty evenly across the country at 0.9% to 2.0% of constituents.
Start a new party not dominated by Wind Solar, etc., interests.
Be like Trump
Vote for Farage as if your life depends on it
New party = new lies and deception. Try new way. No party = no power only democracy.
Political parties are also the great poison in US government
Yep. Everywhere.
They are not “political parties” any more than Communist Party of Soviet Union was a “political party” (and in the latter case it’s downright oxymoronic). The “party” format with its trappings is just an atavism, retained only for mimicry in these cases. Zinovyev introduced the term “pseudoparty” for this reason.
So warned George Washington.
So, “problem: it’s a total failure, solution: we need more of the same”. Isn’t this a sign of madness?
1,000,819 signatures at 16.03pm
Going up by ~ 150,000/hour at the moment.
The WSJ should be able to do a better story than that.
A prediction: You’ll soon be told, whether it’s true or not, that the signatures were submitted by bots.
The mayor of London says it’s a right wing racist anti Islam petition. So they are leaving the bots excuse for now.
You need to verify your email address to confirm your vote, I’m not sure if bot can do that?
The most that we here in Reform can hope for is a vote of no confidence in the government. This petition really is just something to make Labour MP’s with a small majority get a bit twitchy.
2,216,279 so far today and considering only 10 million voted for Labour at the last election I think it says something about the strength of feeling in the country.
Promises not kept. How surprising.
Whoever believes any parties election promises needs their bumps felt. Slow to learn or stupid?
KH flip flopped on policies but claimed her values had not changed.
I can only speak for myself and in my opinion and experience the only valid interpretation is, I am telling the voters what they want to hear and what I will do if elected will not be as promised;
Almost 2 million now
Now past 2,000,000.
From the Telegraph. More proof, did you need it, that the UK intelligensia have gone stark raving mad. And Scotland is probably worse than anywhere in the UK. Add this to the recording of so called non-criminal hate events by the police, which basically means expressing a politically incorrect opinion, or even hanging out your laundry in the wrong way….
Five judges, led by Lord Reed, will hear two days of arguments next Tuesday and Wednesday over whether guidance issued by the Scottish Government about the meaning of the word “woman” in the Equality Act is lawful.
The guidance states that a trans person with a full Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) that confers upon them the acquired gender of female is a woman.
However, FWS has argued it is unlawful as the definition of woman in the Equality Act is tied to biological sex.
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FWS initially went to court to challenge SNP ministers over a new law designed to increase the number of women on public boards. This stated that anyone “living as a woman” would be eligible.
The Court of Session in Edinburgh found the Scottish Government had gone beyond its powers by legislating that transgender women should count as women.
This forced the publication of new statutory guidelines which stated that transgender women should still be counted as female, so long as they held a GRC.
FWS launched a new legal challenge, arguing that the Scottish Government had overstepped its powers by effectively redefining the meaning of female.
But judge Lady Haldane ruled the definition of sex was “not limited to biological or birth sex” in December 2022. An appeal was rejected by the Inner House of the Court of Session, prompting FWS to go to the UK Supreme Court.
Dr Michael Foran, a public law lecturer at Glasgow University, said the Scottish Government submission to the court noted that the Equality Act protections from “pregnancy discrimination are afforded only to women”.
However, he said that SNP ministers argued that “all of these references to a woman who is pregnant are capable of being interpreted to apply to ‘pregnant men’.”
In an analysis of the submission, he said: “The Scottish Government’s argument is that the drafters of the Equality Act 2010, when they used the term ‘pregnant woman’ made the kind of embarrassing drafting error not seen in the UK since the 1860’s. Needless to say, this is a bold, perhaps even brave, claim to make.”
Dr Foran said FWS was arguing that female-only groups being forced to admit male-bodied trans people with GRCs was “absurd, unworkable, and a violation of the human rights of women and lesbians”.
However, he said the Scottish Government’s submission argued that “this is what Parliament intended to do” when it passed the Gender Recognition Act and the Equality Act.
A Scottish Government spokesman said: “We cannot comment on a live legal case.”
It’s worse than we think
Dirty pants on washing line recorded as non-crime hate incident by police https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/23/police-non-crime-hate-incidents-allison-pearson/
Treating a slapstick comedy seriously is not being serious.
“Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC)”
That made me laugh. At them.
They are going to legislate whether a person is a male or female now.
Radical Leftists are SO divorced from reality. They live on another planet. A Hellish world. They want the rest of us to live there, too.
Looking forward to 20th of January…
It can’t come too soon. Unfortunately, the leftists are mounting their opposition to the Trump administration. Biden’s trying to start WWIII and hide as many illegal aliens from deportation as possible.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/former-polish-minister-least-half-us-aid-was/
It’s why they impeached Trump–the Democrats didn’t want their gravy-train exposed.
Yep. Meanwhile people keep dying and they don’t care.
No, yawn, they impeached Trump coz he tried to extort the Ukrainian president by withholding aid (that had already been approved) unless he got dirt on a political opponent. It’s all on record, you read it for yourself.
That was the claim by a whistle-blower and the lying, dying media. The phone conversation was recorded, so it’s clear that neither you nor the media know what you are talking about.
That’s right it was recorded, so what part of it do you dispute? Are you denying Trump asked Zelensky to get dirt on Biden? Are you denying Trump withheld the arms? Just want to be clear.
You’re listening to the wrong recording, obviously.
Again… are you denying Trump withheld the military aid that had been approved? Are are you also denying he asked Zelenskyy for dirt on Biden? Simple questions.
You’re confused. It was Biden that was threatening the withholding of aid if Ukraine didn’t fire their prosecutor. He’s on video bragging about it. Trump never threatened Zelenskyy–he just asked him to look into it.
And then withheld the aid…..
You really need to get out of the silly rut you’re in. Oh, I see, you’re talking about Biden.
So no evidence to support your nonsense. Seems to be a theme for you.
“Seems to be a theme for you.”
Your only “theme” is far-left fakery and BS. !
All you are capable of, because its all you know.. It is your life.
Trump did not request “dirt on Biden.” He clearly stated that there were several stories circulating about Biden and Shokin and wanted to find out which was true.
The President has at his discretion the right to determine timing of spending a funding allocation. The allocation was passed without stipulating a date. DJT held it up because he wanted more information on what it was to be used for. The funding was executed (a government word for spent) within the fiscal year so there is nothing there.
All of this was published.
Furthermore, the so called whistler blower report was co-written by a Schiff aide. It has been determined to be completely false.
The Obama/Biden administration sent Ukraine blankets. The Trump administration sent Ukraine missiles. Guess which military aid to Ukraine was more useful during the war.
So you support Biden approving the long range missiles then. Great, progress.
Well, he’s certainly going to withhold military aid come January, and end the war. Possibly also end the other war. You a big Dad’s Army fan or something?
“… and end the war.” Which is code for gift the tyrant Putin much of Ukraine.
You mean Putin’s need to protect the people of Donetsk and Luhansk etc from Zelenskyy’s Nazi regiment bombardments ???.
Or do you mean the need to have NATO remove itself out of Ukraine, in line with the Minsk Accords.
So now you are a Putin puppet too? Makes sense I guess.
And you are an ignorant jackass.. Makes sense, I know.
Always remember: Putin is behind Trump, but Mars is behind Putin!
It must be those Martian mind control rays. Only can be mitigated if you listen to the Ministry of Truth and do not skip the Two Minutes Hate. Wearing tin foil on the head when you are away from TV for too long usually helps, but it’s only a temporary measure.
Just make sure it is real tin foil, the aluminum stuff is useless.
Give me a break. Nazi?
YES,
The Ukrainian “Azov” regiments that attacked Donetsk and Luhansk are Neo-Nazi based
At least now we all agree as to who owns it currently.
Hey, baby steps.
Not certain.
He’s been watching Shifty Schiff and listening to HIS lies.
Yeah, that’s the problem.
Schiff is the most blatant liar in the U.S. Congress. And that’s saying something!
I guess that’s what the majority of California voters like, as they elected this liar to the U.S. Senate in the November elections.
Clueless bastards! Electing a proven liar to the U.S. Senate. A liar whose lies are harmful to the United States, including to California voters, but what can you expect out of clueless bastards.
Schiff got up before the whole world and read a transcript of the Trump/Zelenskyy conversation that was a complete, made-up lie!
It was a lie that was easily proven since the actual recording of the conversation was available and differed markedly from the transcript Lying Svchiff read.
Naturally, Schiff’s lying transcript portrayed Trump in the worst light possible, which was the purpose of the lie.
So now we have to listen to this liar spew his lies for the next six years. Thanks California.
Thank God Schiff is in the Minority.
“Thank God Schiff is in the Minority.”
So far.
“Schiff got up before the whole world and read a transcript of the Trump/Zelenskyy conversation that was a complete, made-up lie!”
Do you have a link to that transcript Tom?
Which one? The transcript of Trump’s actual words, or the made-up Schiff transcript?
Are you disputing that Schiff lied about the conversation between Trump and Zelinskyy?
Guess what simpleton…
TRUMP WON THE ELECTION.. every part of it
Get over it.. if you can ! 🙂
Do you DENY that Biden is doing everything he can to escalate this conflict instead of trying to resolve it !
He really does not want his family’s dealing with the totally corrupt Ukraine regime to see the light of day, and is willing to risk WWIII to hide them..
That is how sick and depraved the people you support are. !!
What an idiot….
Yes you really are an idiot…. almost of Hunter Biden level !!
Totally corrupt? In comparison to Hunter? I think not.
As to Biden doing this, Biden has been doing the bidding of his masters for the past 4 years.
What’s your fabulous opinion on drug addict Hunter Biden and his Ukrainian Energy Company Board seat?
He’s a drug addict who used his fathers name. And your point is?
Yet you worship the 10% of all his corrupt earning that Big Joe took.
You worship corruption.. Makes sense.. It is who you are..
A corruption of the human mind.
“Yet you worship the 10% of all his corrupt earning that Big Joe took.”
No evidence of that. More nonsense from the king of crap.
“from the king of crap.”
So you admit I am your King !!
If I were tell you, it would go in one ear and outta the other, totally unimpeded.
Liar.
Looser
Yes simpleton.. YOU LOST.. and you always will.!
Can’t even spell properly …. you are a complete simpleton. !
What a dolt…
Loooooser
And the simpleton makes itself look even more ignorant and stupid.
Hilarious. 🙂
The simpleton can’t even spell a 5-letter word.
Did you find that pee pee tape moron?
Simon is lucky to find its own pee-pee..
Doesn’t even know what to look for anymore.
You really are a simple fool aren’t you
Only fool and simpleton here, is you, moron. !.
FAKE news.. haven’t you woken up yet , simpleton. !
Reads the Guardian, makes everybody that reads it sound like a fkn idiot. At least his parents were prescient when they named him.
Now, THAT”S accurate!
Brilliant comeback. So clever….
Poor simpleton…. the empty mind, making an empty comment.
Funny that impeachment.
The initial investigation was performed by the Intelligence committee under Schiff. Normal procedure is for the Judicial committee to review and write the Articles of Impeachment. The Judicial committee wanted 1 week to review and have follow up interviews. Pelosi banned that and commanded the Articles be written immediately. Schiff wrote the Articles. All based on a whistleblower report written by a Schiff aide.
Prior to the 2016 election, Pelosi said (and Google has disappeared this) that if Trump were elected she would get him impeached.
All the follow on reports over the past several years has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the whole thing was bogus and orchestrated by Pelosi and her minions.
“Prior to the 2016 election, Pelosi said (and Google has disappeared this) that if Trump were elected she would get him impeached.”
Bullshit. Make it up Mark has a knew name.
“knew” name?
I know this is a waste of time on a silly troll.
Back in the mid-70’s when I was a T-28 flight instructor our training squadron had two accidents. Both planes were dual flights (instructor and a student), both planes went into the trees and caught fire, and all pilots survived with minor burns.
I was not on the accident boards, but I was attached to the squadron safety department and would learn of various fact findings. I also read both accident reports when they were released. I can say that the news media made up half of what they were reporting.
That was then and about 50% of the news was made-up crap on things I knew about. Imagine now when almost nothing the media reports is true or based on facts. Poor Simon thinks he/she/it is providing evidence from news articles when he/she/it is actually quoting made-up nonsense and propaganda.
“I know this is a waste of time on a silly troll.”
First I’m not a troll. I have an opinion that is different to yours. If you think living in an echo chamber where no one challenges you is the way forward, then good luck to you.
Second, you know you are deep into the MAGA cult when he has convinced you not to check sources because they all lie about him. Wow…. just wow.
“. . . when he has convinced you not to check sources because they all lie about him. ”
What are you talking about? I said from personal experience I know the news media make up stuff. It’s obvious they are making up stuff because of all the lies they are caught committing. You should try media sources that aren’t lying to you. However, I know you won’t. It must be that “knew name” thing of yours–whatever that means.
You are a moron. and yes you are a moronic troll.
Just too dumb to realise it.
Everything you say is provable just far-left gormless lies and regurgitated mantra rhetoric.
TRUMP WON THE ELECTION…. EVERY PART OF IT.
Time to GET OVER IT. !!
All your pathetic gibbering makes you look more and more like a petty LOSER.
“TRUMP WON THE ELECTION…. EVERY PART OF IT.”
I have acknowledged that, even congratulated your team. That is in stark contrast I must say to many on your side, who for four years childishly and without evidence claimed the election Biden won was stolen. It wasn’t as many inquests have showed.
You are what I call a “sore winner.”
And you seem to be under some illusion that loosing an election means you don’t get to call out the mistakes politicians make. You are wrong so “get used to it.”
” If you think living in an echo chamber where no one challenges you is the way forward, then good luck to you.”
As usual, you’re projecting. Your only problem is that WUWT isn’t one of your echo chambers.
“Your only problem is that WUWT isn’t one of your echo chambers.”
Maybe, maybe not, but it is frequented by people who when challenged on their views (and often with no comeback) run to the “You’re a troll” accusation. You know they have nothing when they do that.
And if you read the WUWT rules you will find they openly welcome all points of view. I think I bring an alternative view and it is nice to be some welcomed.
I read the article.
You may believe what you wish, but that does not change reality.
Yeah. Has been politicians never lie. Just like current ones.
Pretty sure they’re not letting Biden make any decisions anymore. The Whitehouse is currently the worlds most exclusive “memory care unit”.
Anybody know where he is? Has the Pentagon actually made a statement?
Putin has had at least two very serious major addresses to the population of Russia, which you could watch live here.
Thank God there’s at least one grown-up running this war.
Don’t get your hopes up too high. The “webes” still run the show. (elections don’t change a thing since webe still here)
And having read all that follows, I am reminded of a piece of wisdom.
Never engage in a battle of wits with the unarmed. They never know when they have lost.
Western Oregon will finish November at about double normal rainfall, with flood adversaries in many locations. But that doesn’t move the “Drought Index”, except for “slight lessening of dry conditions”? Why? Off we go to http://www.oregon.gov, where it says “Meteorological drought traditionally has been defined by a lack of precipitation, but it is better defined as evaporative demand…”. This is a weaponization of the word “drought”, led by NOAA, who introduced the “Evaporative Demand Drought Index Forecast”, an index that had some merit (assessing atmospheric current evaporation capacity), but has been converted into a CAGW tool. Guess what? Because we are in a run-away burning hell on earth regime the water will all evaporate (except for seawater, which somehow will rise?). Trump maybe can fix this.
I’m hoping Trump will ‘fix’ Miliband. If anyone can…
Trump has a lot on his plate. The most important is trying to get his nominations through the stupid Senate.
Even domestic policies can have an effect. Trade for example…
Oh and a big mac or two.
Well that was a completely moronic comment.
I bet you only eat cock… roaches.
Simple Simon gets paid by the comment, so any nonsense comment is useful to him.
Don’t feed the trolls.
Unfortunately, it’s been well fed.
Yes.
New movie. It’s alive!
Oregon is lost. Unfortunately, follows California around like a lost puppy when it comes to environmental regulations. How Portland votes dictates the politics. Sad, sad day.
Model fatigue is understandable, as readers here at WUWT know all too well that the large-grid, discrete-layer, step-iterated, parameter-tuned global climate models have no diagnostic or predictive power to simulate the climate system response to incremental CO2, CH4, N2O, etc.
But when a general circulation model provides good short-term forecasts, we can understand how it can be a useful representation of the bulk mass and energy flows we experience as weather. And if it is continuously updated with measured values of wind speed, barometric pressure, temperature, and relative humidity from radiosondes, aircraft, ground stations, etc., we can appreciate its value as a valid representation of the real atmosphere’s operation. This is called a reanalysis model.
I like the ERA5 reanalysis model because it offers a wide range of hourly values for convenient user selection and download. Sure, for any grid cell at any particular point in time, there would be considerable uncertainty in the values. But overall, the simulation is of the same quality as a short-term weather forecast. Quite good.
So what? The news over the last couple of years has promoted the “record” global average temperatures, often referring to the ERA5 values. But for proper context, one can look for themselves at this web page maintained by the University of Maine, which uses the 2-meter air temperature values. You can select from World, NH, SH, Tropics, Arctic, and Antarctic zones. Right now, which zone is driving the global average for T2m back down from its higher anomalies last year? The tropics. Take a look.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world
Hmmm, looks to be biased to Northern Hemisphere stations…
Those graphics are full of interesting observations, aren’t they? There is one thing I would disagree with in your post. It isn’t the tropics leading the way, but rather whatever heat transport mechanisms are currently operating in the tropics — the tropics, themselves, are not a cause. It’s nitpicking, I know, but at any rate it provides a segue into something that I have been pondering for he past six months, which is: How much excess heat transport capacity does the surface/atmosphere possess, and in what way might it be harnessed as radiative transport becomes slightly less effecctive with increased CO2 and water vapor? I noticed when looking into the situation at Albuquerque for the brief addendum, that there appeared to be a vast potential for increased convective tranport that lay untapped on a hot, sunny summer day.
It’s another potential negative feedback and one that the climate models are possibly overlooking or getting wrong numerically because of scale-size.
“ It isn’t the tropics leading the way, but rather whatever heat transport mechanisms are currently operating in the tropics…” Good point. However, what I meant was simply the numerical power of the switch in the tropics from 2023 to 2024 to influence the global average anomaly. In the tropics, the T2m anomaly was about 0.9C higher in 2024 than 2023 early in the year. Recently 2024 is about 0.4C lower than 2023. A flip-flop of about 1.3C.
If you notice there is a pronounced asymmetry between the hemispheres that shows up well in the tropics plot. The Earth is substantially warmer as the sun passes south to north during the boreal spring than it is during the austral spring going the other way. This asymmetry is 0.6 to 0.7C on average. The year 2023 was an exception where the asymmetry was a mere 0.2 to 0.3C. Thus 2023 ended unusually warm giving 2024 a head start, if you will. These more nearly symmetric years occur now and then it seems — 2019 was one. I haven’t looked carefully to see what this might be related to — La Nina maybe.
I suppose I should add that the underlying asymmetry itself is probably related to perihelion.
PETA are back!
An iconic Birmingham pub has been targeted in a “ridiculous” name change row led by “delusional” woke activists.
Animal rights campaigners have demanded that the Sly Old Fox in Birmingham should change its name on account of it being “derogatory”, “inaccurate” and “unfair” to British foxes.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/birmingham-news-sly-old-fox-woke-activists
Lets just say Foxes aren’t stupid.
When a fox personally makes a complaint, I might support it. Not a proxy complaint from these idiots, though. Have you noticed how taking offence on behalf of others has become a national passtime?
A profession even.
One of the first questions when one plays the lawfare game, “what is your standing? Are you a fox?
The furries are increasingly recognized by the Circus World as a righteous group, whose odd assertions therefore must be accepted as true unless contested in an even more righteous way. Considering that suppression of hatefacts around them is going on for years, and that NASA furry intern was swept under the rug only for a scandal which made the rest of bureaucrats a laughing stock — until then, having a potty-mouthed primate dressed up as a small forest critter there was perfectly normal.
So it may be not very long before some “transfox” in fursuit makes such demands. Why not?
No need for parody there, they’ve already done it to themselves.
This all assumes a fox can read.
Better than most climanistas.
I’ve noticed two things about foxes in Britain. Fox hunting has been banned. I watch several British crime shows, and you hear a fox bark when they switch to a nighttime scene. The fox lobby is strong in Britain.
They’re cool. And they can be both sly and old.
They are culled every once in a while so all that outrage over hunting is a red herring.
April 1st is still more than 4 months away!
Out of the frying pan…
US TV star Ellen DeGeneres ‘flees US for Cotswolds’ after Trump wins election
“Ellen, 66, and her actress wife Portia, 51, had been vocal about their desire to “get the hell out” of the United States if Donald Trump were to win the US election, according to gossip website TMZ.”
Guess she won’t be too troubled by our outrageous prices.
As I recall she was washed up anyway.
oops! meant to say “our outrageous energy prices”
But she was happy to be seen in Jeremey Clarkson’s pub!
https://www.thepinknews.com/2019/02/04/jeremy-clarkson-homophobic-lesbians-internet/
Jeremy’s farm show on Prime is a truly enjoyable, frustrating, hilarious series. I hope season 4 is made.
His exclamation “I did a thing” is one of the great lines on TV. I’ll be rooting for him.
Series 4 is being edited and series 5 filming will start in the new year. Series 4 will include the pub opening.
Ta!
One could assume that her attorneys have a good understanding of extradition laws.
Perhaps they were genuinely afraid to lose even more?
I mean, surely all these Hollywoodsters are squeaky clean, up to and including taxes… because ever so free press is ever so impartial when it can jump on a scandal… but at least sometimes you gotta wonder… (whistling innocently)
Is the predicted La Nina dead?
Not so:
The Nina 1-2 water usually moves into the Nina 3 zone within a few weeks. It would take some unusual change in the current or a quick reversal in the 1-2 zone to prevent cooling of Nina 3.
The Eastern Pacific is experiencing a strange pattern of cooling, it is not something the Nina boxes will interpret conventionally.
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The Home-Based Battery Storage, a Fantasy of Non-Technical Woke Folks
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-home-based-battery-storage-a-fantasy-of-non-technical-woke
Authored by Jonathan Lesser via RealClearEnergy,
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According to a recent article published in The Conversation, installing millions of storage batteries distributed through the grid — in homes, businesses, and local communities – coupled with wind and solar generation, can avoid investments in new transmission infrastructure.
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But unless installing those batteries is accompanied by physically disconnecting from the grid, or consumers are willing to forgo reliable electricity, this claim is yet another example of electricity “magical thinking.”
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Even 100 hours of average demand in storage is inadequate for reliable service but let’s say 125 kWhr as an example for a typical home. At $600 per kWhr battery installation at present prices… well… a person can incur a lifetime of utility supplied electricity charges in just the first cost of batteries.
Electricity magical thinking? Yes. More like extreme innumeracy, though.
Former Polish Minister: At Least Half of US Aid Was Laundered by Ukrainians and Much Was Given to Buy Votes of Democrats
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/former-polish-minister-at-least-half-of-us-aid-was-laundered-by
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/former-polish-minister-least-half-us-aid-was/
By Jim Hoft
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Former Polish Minister Piotr Kulpa says up to half of the US aid to Ukraine was laundered by Ukrainians, and much was given to US Democrats.
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Maybe that’s why corrupt Democrat lawmakers were waving Ukrainian flags on the House floor?
Did anyone really not believe this was happening?
https://www.wsj.com/world/u-n-reaches-300-billion-climate-financing-deal-as-trump-waits-in-the-wings-656ed18e?mod=hp_lead_pos11
They misspelled “pseudoscientists”.
How about:
The world is continuing to be faced by growing costs that the parasites of human prosperity have linked to the climate change lie
With, of course, the lie being that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, that have risen due to the burning of fossil fuels, is responsible for some deleterious changes in global climate parameters that have never been measured empirically.
Former Polish Minister: At Least Half of US Aid Was Laundered by Ukrainians and Much Was Given to Buy Votes of Democrats
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/former-polish-minister-at-least-half-of-us-aid-was-laundered-by
By Jim Hoft
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Former Polish Minister Piotr Kulpa says up to half of the US aid to Ukraine was laundered by Ukrainians, and much was given to US Democrats.
Maybe that’s why corrupt Democrat lawmakers were waving Ukrainian flags on the House floor?
Did anyone really believe this was not happening?
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If he can’t prove it- it shouldn’t be assumed to be true. No doubt there is corruption everywhere.
The story actually says “Former Polish Minister Piotr Kulpa says up to half of the US aid to Ukraine was laundered by Ukrainians”. But the link says “at least half”. There is a difference. Whenever I see “up to half”- it could mean anything.
To flag-waving corrupt House Democrats it meant a lot
Posted by karlomonte in this thread 3 hours earlier (though a different site).
But yes. The Polish politicians may be predatory and a bit short-sighted, but they are not stupid. They definitely don’t fancy walking into the same pit… again.
Thus as the opportunities for profit via Orange Revolution State dry up, the general thrust decisively turns away from it. They suddenly remembered grievances, all the troubles Poles had with those nasty peasants at South-East for the last few centuries, etc. The unwritten policy seems to be “quit while we are ahead”. Some probably hope for getting those lands back, or rather bragging rights for this.
There’s a collection of relevant articles on Korybko substack. For example this or this.
A Smaller Federal Government for the US
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/a-program-for-a-greater-america
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The American people would be better off, because the federal government would be smaller, the Deep State would be smaller, and spending would be at least $200 billion less each year.
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The federal government must not be allowed to engage in any activities not specified in the U.S. Constitution.
That means no NPR, no US Dept of Education, no US Endowment for the Arts, no US Radio Free Europe (all are mostly staffed by Democrats), and many other similar activities.
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The US Dept of Education, budget $240 BILLION in 2024, was started in 1980, with the US ranking 4th in education. After 44 years, the US ranks 24th. Clearly, that experiment has failed bigtime.
It needs to be ended, with all education activities conducted by the Sovereign States, as reiterated in the US Constitution and associated documents.
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The federal government would be much smaller, and much more efficient, and spend much less money, with help of RFK, jr., Elon Musk, Ramaswamy, etc.
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Eliminate all subsidies, grants and tax preferences to all industries.
End the highly subsidized wind, solar, battery, heat pump, EV, etc., follies
These subsidies, etc., promote dysfunctional and expensive systems everywhere they are applied
They enlarge the federal government with bureaucrats and onerous rules and regulations.
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Drill, baby drill, and
Build, on a fast track, at least 100 standardized nuclear plants, each with 2 or more 1,000 MW units
Conserve, not export, our precious fossil fuels to produce the tens of thousands of products that cannot be produced by hydro, nuclear, wind and solar.
The export of US fossil fuels is advocated by the Deep State to increase their geo-political war-mongering, to enable the US military/industrial/intelligence complex to rule the world.
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Bring 50,000 soldiers from Europe to the US to help build the north and south wall, and
Station them on the narrow strip of US land OUTSIDE of the completed walls, with tear gas, tasers, etc., so no one, without proper documents, can cross our borders.
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That will free up the US border guard, etc., to collect millions of recent arrivals, and
Deport millions of recent arrivals, including misfits/criminals, each year for the next 4 years, to completely offset the Biden/Harris scheme to import illegals into swing states to permanently rig elections.
Many heretofore great American communities have suffered from the great influxes of misfit illegals, illegally imposed upon them by the Biden/Harris cabal.
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The ballots are still being counted by the Democrat-staffed ballot counting centers.
Trump was ahead 5.66 million on Election Day, Nov 5
Trump is ahead 3.4 million on Nov 24
Each day, Harris gets 2/3 of the ballots, Trump gets 1/3
These ballots were in envelopes, that are improperly filled in, such as:
no signature
no matching signature
illegible signature, just a scribble
moved out of state person signature
dead person signature
unidentified/fictitious person signature
felon signature
non-citizen signature
All such ballots should be rejected, but they are counted, counted, counted, by the Democrat-staffed ballot counting centers until the Democrat wins
There are lawsuits in Pennsylvania concerning counting of illegal ballots.
The state of Wokeachusetts now spends a billion dollars/year on illegals.
Fascinating article here from G. Schmidt:
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/why-does-the-stratosphere-cool-when-the-troposphere-warms/
As they have pointed out “This post is obsolete and wrong in many respects”, so I will not have to tell you it is wrong. But it is not just wrong, it was written by a complete layman, not understanding the basics. And that was G. Schmidt in 2004.
The problem is, by 2004 Schmidt was already an achieved climate scientist, with over 50 articles published, and of course founding member of realclimate.org. What kind of science is it, where you can be a leading expert, without having the slightest clue?
I’ve personally encountered technical “experts” such as this.
And then there’s “CS research”.
Good article, still timely. I’ve always wondered why it is called CS; apparently the term goes way back, 1970s at the latest. It is really engineering, but the CE acronym was already taken. Then by the 1980s universities melded two entities and created the EECS (or CSEE) departments.
Where does one go to school to earn a degree in “climate science?”
Curious minds want to know.
Many years ago on CompuServe, we would suffer from a troll who believed in panspermia (life originated in outer-space). Fred Hoyle had a similar belief. It turned out the troll had a BA in biology. That was strange to us (that it wasn’t a BS degree), but it’s an actual degree.
I think climate scientists must have BA degrees in climate science as their efforts are more art than science.
What good or benefit is a wind farm with no customers?
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/11/20/14-year-old-casper-wind-farm-has-not-turned-a-blade-in-at-least-3-years/
Evidently having less energy dense facilities makes for harder targets
Who would have thunk it?
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-clean-renewable-energy-russian-bombing-distributed-1f226213742cc057f9f65208167e6f38
“If you start to get big American companies like GE and Fluxus and Honeywell involved in energy reconstruction, and there’s going to be billions of dollars of energy reconstruction,” he said.
Oh dear, now it’s going to be Chinese companies getting those lucrative contracts. The best laid plans of a senile old goat and his drug addict son. Hey ho though, at least we got to see non-DEI modern weapon technology from the wrong end.
Or simply low-value targets?
Here’s a portrait gallery of Trump’s choices for departmental appointments:
Free Republic
I’ve read many things about the UK that says there is reason to dislike the current government but of course, people being people, there is probably discontent in the opposite direction too; the current leadership is disliked by some because they believe there isn’t enough “progressive” Extremism being practiced or promised. The petition wisely doesn’t say what policy is wanted. Is there any general idea about why a new election is being demanded?
“discontent in the opposite direction too”
From my understanding “the opposite direction” doesn’t even exist in the UK.
All just the same kilmate kool-aide kooks, apart from the Farage party.
As an ex-Pat, yes, it was bad enough watching Labour being phony-socialists, but when the conservatives decided they were going to be phony-socialists, it wasn’t too good for checks and balances. This was caused by the short-pants politics British Bullshitting Corporation being able to extort money from the people they lie to through TV License fees.
And here we all are, sabre-rattling at Putin. The Charge of the Light Brigade nuclear style this time.
At least here, CNN and Must Sell Network By Christmas are hovering over the swirler.
Is it just my phone, or is the WUWT “app” just extremely slow. 30+ seconds clicking a link. Switch to browser, and no delays.
Can i ask a simple question?
Why is there no debate about buffers and positive feedback.
All stable systems have these two hallmarks, and yet the ‘climate scientists’ do not talk about them and indeed only talk about negative feedback. This is how i know they are frauds.
shouldn’t the money be spent on understanding and enhancing the items that makes stable systems, erm, stable?
In general, climate science does not understand the implications of Bode feedback networks: they only borrow the terminology.
Stable control systems do not have positive feedback. Negative feedback is essential for closed loop control systems to be stable.
define positive and negative? i define positive as something that tends back towards stable. so for example in a stable heat system, as it heats up, the increased tendency to emit heat and therefore cool down again is a positive feedback.
This is not a feedback amplifier.
The Headline is: The Department of “Justice” and Special Counsel Jack Smith are preparing to drop all charges against Trump in the election interference case.
They did drop them but without “prejudice.” That means they can file the charges again.
Assuming all these people still have jobs 4 years down the road.