Melancholia is the new vibe. Mad Ed is holding another wind auction – this time for 20 years. Parliament laughed at the energy CEOs who told them why our energy is so very expensive. Not much to cheer about, there. Just to rub it in
World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer
Belem massacre update:
Brazil to ask countries at Cop30 to vastly increase biofuel use, leak suggests – The Guardian
The planet possesses ample spare longwave emitter capacity. This means that any claim of a hundreds-of-milliwatts-per-square-meter value of EEI (Earth Energy Imbalance) on a global average basis is just absurd.
A few years ago I downloaded the CERES SYN1Deg hourly values of outgoing longwave radiation. I made time series plots for one year (2020) of the mean values (i.e. the mean at each hour for all longitude gridpoints) at various latitude rings from the tropics to the poles.
This points out the importance of poleward advection. One cannot honestly conclude that the fictional value of “EEI” is what drives “warming” through the LW radiative effect of incremental concentrations of IR-active gases. Don’t get me wrong – the existence of an imbalance is trivially true if the oceans are, in fact, warming. Same with diminishing ice volume. But attribution to a suppression of overall longwave emitter output expressed as EEI is not a sound concept.
Here are the plots. There is plenty of spare LW emitter capacity as you go from the tropics to the poles. The maximum seems to be at the 23.5 N/S latitude rings. And there is plenty of off-season spare capacity in the mid-latitudes too.
Headline: “Government vows to create 400,000 jobs in energy sector“
”The government has announced plans to train and recruit more workers for the UK’s clean energy sector, promising to create 400,000 extra jobs by 2030.
Plumbers, electricians and welders are among 31 priority occupations that are “particularly in demand”, with employment in renewable, wind, solar and nuclear expected to double to 860,000 in five years, ministers have said.
Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said thousands of jobs were needed to develop Britain’s clean energy sector to “get bills down for good”.
Welcoming the proposals, Unite the union said: “Well-paid, secure work must be at the heart of any green transition.”
As part of the government’s strategy, five “technical excellence colleges” will be set up to train workers with clean energy skills, with £2.5m in funding going towards pilot schemes in Cheshire, Lincolnshire, and Pembrokeshire, according to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).
A new programme is to be launched to match veterans with careers in solar panel installation, wind turbine factories and nuclear power stations, while oil and gas workers could benefit from up to £20m from the UK and Scottish governments for bespoke careers training in clean energy roles.”
How patronising to match “veterans” with careers in solar panel installation.
is welding a clean energy occupation? After all acetylene plus oxygen equals water plus carbon dioxide.
You cannot introduce “clean energy” without using energy, which means it has to be “dirty energy”. Interestingly nuclear is included as clean energy, I wonder what the response from the greens to that is going to be!
Mark Hladik
October 19, 2025 6:03 am
I’ve been waiting for an ‘open thread’ to ask this of U.S. visitors to Anthony’s:
My phone rings. The voice on the other end has a fairly distinctive accent that reminds me of a caller from India. There is a small amount of background noise, obviously voices of other call-center callers running the scam.
The caller asks me about my recent automobile accident. The one that occurred within the past year or two.
The last fender-bender that I had was well over six years ago (yes, I slid on the ice and my 4WD pickup did some damage to the car in front of me; my truck was undamaged).
So here’s the question: What is the scam that these callers are trying to run? I pointedly tell them that I’ve NOT had any accidents in the recent past, at which point they insist that I HAVE had an accident and have not been compensated for it …
Right about there I’m disconnecting (with these demon devices, one does not ‘hang up’ as there is no cradle to set the handset into, so we “disconnect” nowadays … ).
Yes, I’m well aware that I should NOT answer calls from numbers I do not recognize. What is interesting to me is they always have a phone number that is from my area code, even though they are in Asia. And, there are times that the callers from these ‘numbers I do not recognize’ have been survey solicitors, doing polling about topics of interest to me. A couple of times, the poll has offered some compensation for sharing my views.
So, on occasion, answering one of those numbers I’m unfamiliar with has been “profitable”.
Has everyone seen the documentary, or read the (suppressed) Ford Health System study concerning the relationship between childhood vaccinations and diseases?
“Impact of Childhood Vaccination on Short and Long Term Chronic Health Outcomes in Children –
A Birth Cohort Study”
Here is the documentary by Del Bigtree based on the (suppressed) Ford Health System study concerning the relationship between childhood vaccinations and diseases:
“An Inconvenient Study”, similar in title to Algore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” (a 2006 film by Davis Guggenheim) no?
Topic: PC (Personal Computer) Audio System Observation: WAAAAY too much base (low frequency content) from most sources today Cure: Graphic Equalizer;
o Low Cut enabled
o 63, 125 and 250 Hz channels minimized (-12 db)
o 500 Hz, 1k, 2k, 4k boosted +12 dB
o 8k and 16k neutral at 0 dB
The audio chain in use for the last few years has been:
o PC USB sound card behringer UC-202 –>
o behringer MiniFBQ Equalizer –>
o Alesis NanoCompressor –>
o Signstek/CZE-T200 Portable FM Transmitter (wireless distribution on property)
o RCA SA-155 15W Audio Amp –>
o E-V (ElectroVoice) High Sensitivity, ‘Studio Monitor’ speakers model ZX1-90
The equalizer makes listening to podcasters and many videos livable! The equalizer also allows level adjustment for audio sources that are weak … or strong. Depends on the content producer/Youtube channel.
Has anyone else noted the excess bass present nowadays?
Review – from yesterday’s live-cast coverage of the “No Kings” Riots -er- Rallies across the US – coverage by MattMorseTV on Rumble: (5 hrs of content; let run in the background while doing other things. This is why I use a low-power FM broadcast transmitter at home and wear a Sony Walkman FM radio to listen.)
BBC warning of Warm Blob in the Pacific. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3xynwwx4yo
Looks like getting excuses in early, just in case things get colder than expected in early winter over the UK.
Would be interesting to discover what though, if this warm blob is unprecedented as the article implies.
Melancholia is the new vibe. Mad Ed is holding another wind auction – this time for 20 years. Parliament laughed at the energy CEOs who told them why our energy is so very expensive. Not much to cheer about, there. Just to rub it in
World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer
Belem massacre update:
Brazil to ask countries at Cop30 to vastly increase biofuel use, leak suggests – The Guardian
Where did the wood go? I think we know.
The planet possesses ample spare longwave emitter capacity. This means that any claim of a hundreds-of-milliwatts-per-square-meter value of EEI (Earth Energy Imbalance) on a global average basis is just absurd.
A few years ago I downloaded the CERES SYN1Deg hourly values of outgoing longwave radiation. I made time series plots for one year (2020) of the mean values (i.e. the mean at each hour for all longitude gridpoints) at various latitude rings from the tropics to the poles.
This points out the importance of poleward advection. One cannot honestly conclude that the fictional value of “EEI” is what drives “warming” through the LW radiative effect of incremental concentrations of IR-active gases. Don’t get me wrong – the existence of an imbalance is trivially true if the oceans are, in fact, warming. Same with diminishing ice volume. But attribution to a suppression of overall longwave emitter output expressed as EEI is not a sound concept.
Here are the plots. There is plenty of spare LW emitter capacity as you go from the tropics to the poles. The maximum seems to be at the 23.5 N/S latitude rings. And there is plenty of off-season spare capacity in the mid-latitudes too.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aeDEbZXBKj_gDbUx2MCq13dzQG66xWhd?usp=sharing
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Mad Ed on Sunday
Very early low temperatures and snow in many parts of the globe. The incoming ice age has began.
We have a “roadmap” for scaled fusion power in the 2030’s. The jokes write themselves.
https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-10/fusion-s%26t-roadmap-101625.pdf
Headline: “Government vows to create 400,000 jobs in energy sector“
”The government has announced plans to train and recruit more workers for the UK’s clean energy sector, promising to create 400,000 extra jobs by 2030.
Plumbers, electricians and welders are among 31 priority occupations that are “particularly in demand”, with employment in renewable, wind, solar and nuclear expected to double to 860,000 in five years, ministers have said.
Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said thousands of jobs were needed to develop Britain’s clean energy sector to “get bills down for good”.
Welcoming the proposals, Unite the union said: “Well-paid, secure work must be at the heart of any green transition.”
As part of the government’s strategy, five “technical excellence colleges” will be set up to train workers with clean energy skills, with £2.5m in funding going towards pilot schemes in Cheshire, Lincolnshire, and Pembrokeshire, according to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).
A new programme is to be launched to match veterans with careers in solar panel installation, wind turbine factories and nuclear power stations, while oil and gas workers could benefit from up to £20m from the UK and Scottish governments for bespoke careers training in clean energy roles.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vnr45x5qyo
How patronising to match “veterans” with careers in solar panel installation.
is welding a clean energy occupation? After all acetylene plus oxygen equals water plus carbon dioxide.
You cannot introduce “clean energy” without using energy, which means it has to be “dirty energy”. Interestingly nuclear is included as clean energy, I wonder what the response from the greens to that is going to be!
I’ve been waiting for an ‘open thread’ to ask this of U.S. visitors to Anthony’s:
My phone rings. The voice on the other end has a fairly distinctive accent that reminds me of a caller from India. There is a small amount of background noise, obviously voices of other call-center callers running the scam.
The caller asks me about my recent automobile accident. The one that occurred within the past year or two.
The last fender-bender that I had was well over six years ago (yes, I slid on the ice and my 4WD pickup did some damage to the car in front of me; my truck was undamaged).
So here’s the question: What is the scam that these callers are trying to run? I pointedly tell them that I’ve NOT had any accidents in the recent past, at which point they insist that I HAVE had an accident and have not been compensated for it …
Right about there I’m disconnecting (with these demon devices, one does not ‘hang up’ as there is no cradle to set the handset into, so we “disconnect” nowadays … ).
Yes, I’m well aware that I should NOT answer calls from numbers I do not recognize. What is interesting to me is they always have a phone number that is from my area code, even though they are in Asia. And, there are times that the callers from these ‘numbers I do not recognize’ have been survey solicitors, doing polling about topics of interest to me. A couple of times, the poll has offered some compensation for sharing my views.
So, on occasion, answering one of those numbers I’m unfamiliar with has been “profitable”.
Thanks for any insight anyone is able to offer,
MH
Has everyone seen the documentary, or read the (suppressed) Ford Health System study concerning the relationship between childhood vaccinations and diseases?
“Impact of Childhood Vaccination on Short and Long Term Chronic Health Outcomes in Children –
A Birth Cohort Study”
#Ford study: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Entered-into-hearing-record-Impact-of-Childhood-Vaccination-on-Short-and-Long-Term-Chronic-Health-Outcomes-in-Children-A-Birth-Cohort-Study.pdf
Here is the documentary by Del Bigtree based on the (suppressed) Ford Health System study concerning the relationship between childhood vaccinations and diseases:
“An Inconvenient Study”, similar in title to Algore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” (a 2006 film by Davis Guggenheim) no?
Topic: PC (Personal Computer) Audio System
Observation: WAAAAY too much base (low frequency content) from most sources today
Cure: Graphic Equalizer;
o Low Cut enabled
o 63, 125 and 250 Hz channels minimized (-12 db)
o 500 Hz, 1k, 2k, 4k boosted +12 dB
o 8k and 16k neutral at 0 dB
The audio chain in use for the last few years has been:
o PC USB sound card behringer UC-202 –>
o behringer MiniFBQ Equalizer –>
o Alesis NanoCompressor –>
o Signstek/CZE-T200 Portable FM Transmitter (wireless distribution on property)
o RCA SA-155 15W Audio Amp –>
o E-V (ElectroVoice) High Sensitivity, ‘Studio Monitor’ speakers model ZX1-90
The equalizer makes listening to podcasters and many videos livable! The equalizer also allows level adjustment for audio sources that are weak … or strong. Depends on the content producer/Youtube channel.
Has anyone else noted the excess bass present nowadays?
Review – from yesterday’s live-cast coverage of the “No Kings” Riots -er- Rallies across the US – coverage by MattMorseTV on Rumble: (5 hrs of content; let run in the background while doing other things. This is why I use a low-power FM broadcast transmitter at home and wear a Sony Walkman FM radio to listen.)
https://rumble.com/v70gxu8-no-kings-protest-total-chaos..html
PS He (Matt) has a really good voice and delivery. Enjoy.
Story Tip.
https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/climate-change-cannot-be-stopped-the-fiveword-slogan-liberals-can-use-to-shift-the-debate-in-their-favour-on-net-zero/news-story/f85bab5d88072075fabcb745aa6a3ebb
BBC warning of Warm Blob in the Pacific.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3xynwwx4yo
Looks like getting excuses in early, just in case things get colder than expected in early winter over the UK.
Would be interesting to discover what though, if this warm blob is unprecedented as the article implies.