In my view, it is important for skeptics of climate alarm to understand poleward advection in terms of the overall longwave emitter output of the planet. This should help counter the unjustified concern about emissions of CO2 from the “Earth’s Energy Imbalance” line of reasoning, which claims that overall longwave emission to space must be expected to be suppressed as CO2 concentrations rise.
I posted this comment to Kevin Kilty’s article here at WUWT on October 7.
“Referring to Figure 3, “Advection is a global phenomenon, and figuring how it will change with CO2 additions seems pertinent.”
Agreed. The spare LW emitter duty is toward the poles. By “spare” I mean that the LW emission to space is maxed out near the equator, but the remainder of the spherical surface is not emitting anywhere near those maximum values. A few years ago I downloaded the CERES SYN1deg hourly values for LW emission for the entire globe. I generated these time-series plots of latitude-ring mean observed LW values to see for myself how this works. The data is for the year 2020.
One implication is that it is absurd to talk about global EEI values in hundreds of milliwatts per square meter, when the global overall emitter performance depends so much on advection. The valid null hypothesis should have been that any minor radiative influence from incremental CO2 would not be detectable from space, nor could it be reliably isolated as a cause of, say, reported ocean warming. That null hypothesis has not been falsified.
One other point. NASA knew very well in 2009 that poleward advection in both ocean and atmosphere circulations matters to the disposition of ALL energy absorbed from the sun. That is a key part of my essay posted here at WUWT in May, 2022.
The BBC has been reliving the Maldives underwater cabinet stunt; they say that at the current rate of global warming 80% of the islands will be uninhabitable by 2050.
(If you have a BBC account you can hear the claim here.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy40z22qqwwo headline “Thousands march outside COP30 summit in call for action” “Indigenous communities, Brazilian youth groups, and activists from across the world joined the march in their thousands”
“”Fossil fuels are still being burned. We know all too well what it’s like to live on the frontline of climate change,” Brianna Fruean, a climate activist from Samoa, a low-lying island extremely vulnerable to climate change, told the BBC.“
Has someone invented the Star Trek transporter? They must have done, otherwise how could someone from Samoa get to Brazil?
I’ve always liked the name “Brianna” …
Brianna Fruean is an activist and environmental advocate for Samoa; She sits on the Council of Elders for the Pacific Climate Warriors. She is 27, and a bit overweight. She might want to take some advice from Hank Williams Sr: “Mind Your Own Business“
“We haven’t heard the end of this story.”
Except there are soooo many Trump stories at the moment they all just get lost in the haze. One just today… he has a new nick name for Marjorie Taylor Greene. He now is calling her Wacky Marjorie and MT Brown, because when grass rots, it goes brown. I’m no fan of Marjorie’s, but she has been a loyal supporter of his and doesn’t deserve this in my opinion. This is all because she wants daylight shed on the Epstein files and the girls to have justice. How can anyone argue with that? Except….. if you have something to hide?
I mean let’s face it. Trump could make this all go away by saying…. I’ve done nothing wrong. I have nothing to hide. Here are all the unredacted files, now let me get on and run this country. Just an idea…. So, the obvious, elephant in the room, million dollar question is, why isn’t he? And the more he hides from this, the more he blames others, the more people wonder.
What makes his reluctance especially noticeable is that in other respects, Trump is one of the most open, transparent Presidents ever. His thoughts and claims may waffle all over the map, but he doesn’t hide them, he blurts them out like mental diarrhea. Yet in this one topic, he almost seems to be going out of his way to not discuss what he campaigned on. One could invoke 4D chess and say he wants to stoke the fires that the deep state is trying to put out, but that doesn’t really enlighten anything.
Yep. The interview he did where he was keen to release everything about anything till they asked him if he would he release the Epstein files. At that point he got all cagey. Hmmm. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZJorAVgHy7Y
Did it occur to you that he may be protecting the leaders or royalty of allies? So far, the thousands of emails released have exonerated Trump; he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, and had nothing to do with him.
He was also his “best friend” for a good number of years. Trump said he was a “great guy.” Many of the lurid videos we see of them leering at girls, testifies to the sort of relationship they had.
You’ve never had a friend that you found out wasn’t who you thought?
There’s plenty of people who continued to hang out with Epstein long after Trump disassociated himself, AFTER his first trial when it was clear who and what he was. I never hear anyone going on about any of them.
But it’s clear that absolutely nothing will satisfy you. If everything is released you’ll just claim that it was edited or stuff was lost or held back. You’ll find some reason to continue to believe your fantasy about Trump.
“You’ve never had a friend that you found out wasn’t who you thought?” Not that I can think of. I’m sure none of my friends are perfect, but….
“But it’s clear that absolutely nothing will satisfy you. If everything is released you’ll just claim that it was edited or stuff was lost or held back. You’ll find some reason to continue to believe your fantasy about Trump.”
I have no fantasy about Trump. He daily continues to show us he is a man with no morals. I wonder what you think of a man who makes the comments he did about the Republican Rep. Thomas Massie? If you haven’t heard here is what Trump said about him. Massie lost his wife last year suddenly. Trump had this to say…. “Did Thomas Massie, sometimes referred to as Rand Paul Jr., because of the fact that he always votes against the Republican Party, get married already??? Boy, that was quick!” “No wonder the Polls have him at less than an 8% chance of winning the Election. “Anyway, have a great life Thomas and (?). His wife will soon find out that she’s stuck with a LOSER!”
I can not imagine why anyone would on any level think this was acceptable coming from the president of the United States? Especially one who has been married three times and each time the previous marriage collapsed because he screwed around. Maybe you can explain it to me? Or will you just dismiss the question by saying I have Trump derangement syndrome? The Trump supporters easy way out when they have no answer.
I never said or thought Trump was a nice guy, and he often says things that are over the top. But if you think THAT is unacceptable, you might want to pay more attention to what politicians are saying – I’ve certainly seen worse.
Thing is (a) I don’t vote for someone because they’re nice, I vote because of policy (Chamberlain was a much nicer guy than Churchill) and (b) it’s a red herring fallacy: “Attempting to redirect the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond.”
You elected a neither. A real president acts presidential. Trump is a thug, bully, con man.
Anyone who….
calls a reporter doing their job “piggy”….comments on another politicians dead wife …..calls a long time supporter (MTG) a traitor…. deserves all the distain he gets. And they were all just this week.
And as an aside I see Fox news is now reporting that their polls show the peoples view of the economy is now worse than when Trump took over in January. It is sad, but that is where he is really going to lose support.
It might be because he has something to hide, but I think that’s not too likely. If there was something that could be used against him by the Democrats, how reasonable is it that nothing was released by Biden’s puppeteers between 2021 and 2024?
There is also the possibility that he is protecting donors who are guilty, but there again, unless those donors also pay off Democrats, wouldn’t they have been exposed, too?
More likely than anything else, the reason for the bipartisan/Uniparty coverup and the Jihad against Thomas Massey and MTG is that both parties are being blackmailed by a foreign country that Epstein worked for. Probably Ireland, or Indonesia, or Iraq, or Iran, or India. Am I getting close? I feel sure it’s an “I” country. Ivory Coast? I can’t think of any others.
“If there was something that could be used against him by the Democrats, how reasonable is it that nothing was released by Biden’s puppeteers between 2021 and 2024?” If Pam Bondi is right and 1000 girls were used/abuse by Epstein then there is every chance there are democrats tied up in this. The only way forward is to put everything out there for all to read. Till then this just festers.
My suspicion is that exposing Epstein will expose the deep state’s national security lies that will embarrass all politicians at the top. There’s something incredibly fishy about the whole thing, and I haven’t yet seen any conspiracy theories that make a whole lot of sense in any general way.
Here’s the law on this platform: say ANYTHING bad about Trump and you get negative votes. Doesnt matter what argument you have.
It reminds me of the Greenies. Total oxygenless mindset..
Of course — the CAGW true believer scientists. The Mann tops that list. But what the long-held accusation about “the fossil fuel industry of employing skeptic scientists to work in disinformation campaigns” implies is that scientists the likes of Fred Singer / Patrick Michaels / Robert Balling/Willie Soon know about the certainty of CAGW but were bribed by Big Oil money to say otherwise. My point is, the BBC never checked the veracity of the accusation or the source(s) of it, which is why they may be in huge trouble if that angle of their journalism malfeasance is exposed to the greater public.
One should differentiate between those who have a job title that includes “scientist,” and those who may not even have a PhD but act more like a scientist than many of those so titled.
Yes, it should get interesting, particularly in regard to at least partial admission of guilt.
From below: The BBC’s director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness have resigned after criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by Donald Trump.
….. also, why has the possible identification of the Jan 5/6 fake pipe bomber seemingly been swept under the carpet? This is hugely important for the US and its democracy. Who scripted the bogus insurrection?
Not much doubt that Obama and Pelosi played key roles.
We can speculate about FBI honeypots, and incompetent Blondie AGs, but I don’t for a second believe that they doing anything but EXACTLY what Trump is telling them to do. Trump is the one asking “Are you still talking about Epstein?” Trump is the one attacking Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Green, explicitly because they want the Epstein files released.
Clearly Trump is acting under duress to have flipped positions on so many campaign promises.
I just scanned over an article today talking about ice in the high Arctic (Canada or Greenland) that had been or was being exposed that was 777,000 years old. It exposed evidence of an ancient forest underneath. The author had to admit a couple of things- that the ice was resilient, surviving even through a warmer climate, and that the “permafrost won’t disappear so fast”.
Loads of evidence point to the Holocene Optimum, the Eemian Interglacial, and other warm periods since the start of the Pleistocene where the Arctic was much warmer, the tree line was much further to the north, and GHG levels were only modest. Sea levels were much higher. Methane was escaping what is, right now, permafrost. Life went on.
Maps, photo, references
From the abstract:
“From palynological studies it appears that northernmost dwarf spruces
of the tundra and parts of the forest-tundra boundary may be relicts from times of prior warmth, and if felled might not regenerate. This disequilibrium may help explain the partial incongruence of modern climatic limits with the present forest edge. Seedlings established as a result of recent warming should therefore be found within the northernmost woodlands rather than in the southern tundra.”
The BBC is just the freshest example of the many institutions in the UK that really need to be razed to the ground and started afresh. Others include the NHS; the Tories; the civil service, the education system, and…well I could go on, but so can we all.
I don’t care about Labour except that they’re in government, or at least, are occupying the space where the government should be.
Jimmie Dollard
November 16, 2025 4:26 am
I have been a regular reader of WUWT for several years and occasionally enter the discussions. I have observed that with few exceptions we agree on the most important issues. We agree that the folly of the Western world pursuing net zero to prevent climate change is having a huge impact on the economies and causes much human suffering. We agree on the dangers to the electric grids from closing reliable fossil fueled and nuclear plants, and on the hypocrisy and tragedy from condemning the developing world to poverty by denying them financing for reliable electricity. We recognize the benefits of increasing CO2 and fossil fuels use; higher crop yields, greening of the earth, more airable land, freeze line moves toward the poles. There are elegant and convincing papers on these topics presented daily here. But we are reaching only the small circle of deniers that read this and similar blogs. The governments, MSM, and public of the Western world still plunge forward pursuing the impossible net zero, ignoring the facts that are so obvious to us.
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They also fight against political corruption and ignorance to mass produce the SMR and use it in a unique way to bring electricity, clean cooking fuels, and safe water to the developing world. This eliminates poverty and brings industry, jobs and prosperity. The book exposes the danger from losing freedoms of press, thought and speech. Our heroes and heroine battle the UN and world governments to preserve freedom of speech. There are many other themes and lines in the book that will cause the WUWT reader to shout “YES” and do a fist pump as they see their tenants, facts and data displayed in living color in real world settings. The book is available in paperback, hardback and eBook at all book sellers. You can find it easier by using my name, Jimmie Dollard.
Affordability is the new buzzword and high prices are the problem, and the Democrats are trying to blame Trump for the high prices.
During the Biden administration, inflation rose to around 14 percent, at one time because of reckless spending on the part of the Biden administration and because of the Biden administration war on fossil fuels.
The first day Trump took over in 2025, the Democrats were asking why Trump had not brought prices down. The prices the Democrats had jacked up during the Biden administration.
Here’s the thing about inflation: It appears quickly and disappears very slowly.
Back during the Jimmy Carter presidency in the late 1970’s, we had double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment, and double-digit interest rates. So, we have been here before.
Here is a simplified example of how inflation works.
You live in a town that has two lumber companies. When inflation hits, the lumber companies raise their prices, because the prices they pay have risen and they have to raise prices or go broke.
When inflation gets back to normal (2 or 3 percent), the lumber companies don’t immediately lower their prices, even though their costs have gone down. No, they leave the high prices in place.
What causes the prices to come back down is that one lumber company decides to try to increase his business by lowering his prices, and he can do so because his costs are lower, so he lowers his prices in hopes that his competitors customers will buy from his company because his prices are lower than the competition.
Well, the competition sees what the other lumber company is doing, and this causes him to lower his prices in an effort to compete with the other lumber company. And this is how lower prices come about.
But, this lowering of prices takes time. This is not the fault of Donald Trump. Trump lowers the prices of gasoline and other essential items in the economy, but it is up to individual business people to lower their prices as the situation dictates.
The prices will come down. A year from now you won’t hear complaints about inflation. The U.S. economy is getting ready to take off Big Time!
Tom, affordability is about far more than the headline inflation rate and sticky prices due to inadequate competition.
What inflation tends to do is to drive income increases for the elite that are at least equal to inflation and similarly for the deep state clientele (the welfare recipients and the government employees), while driving the middle class and the working poor into usurious debt and ultimately into the welfare class.
The failed promise of upward mobility through a college education is now just one more debt trap for the children of the middle class.
The housing affordability gap is entirely a matter of supply and demand. The number of units on the market (whether for sale or for rent) is severely restricted by the outrageous jump in demand precipitated by importing 20 million or more non-citizens, many entirely illegally and many others quasi-legally by the Biden puppetmaster regime’s treasonous use of asylum.
There’s also a rise in homelessness paralleling this development. Homelessness is not just people living on the street or in tent cities. There is a huge reservoir of young adults living with relatives because they can’t afford rent, let alone dream of home ownership. (Two in my household).
In short, there’s a nearly infinite suppressed demand waiting to enter the market if only they could afford it, on top of the massive excess demand for housing generated by millions of people who should not be here. But the increase in supply is anemic at best, and wholly inadequate to the artificially induced demand.
Tight supply in the face of exploding demand leads to what pricing outcome? Obviously it leads to steep increases in price which can only be brought into balance by reducing demand. And how is that achieved? By homelessness (including young adults failing to launch), and by veterans put on the street when they can’t compete with governments paying landlords to house alien invaders.
If 2 million people self-deported or were actually deported this year, as has been trumpeted, then we’re on a pace to reduce about 20% of the problem by the 2026 mid-term elections. That’s nowhere near good enough!
And let’s not forget that essentially the same economic argument applies to food prices, the other critical problem of affordability.
The only way out of this in the near term is to bring down demand while simultaneously opening up supply by deporting the other 18 million people illegitimately in the country.
But instead we have an Israel-First administration focused on foreign policy, and going to extreme lengths to shelter the Epstein clients. Attacking the only people in Congress not bought and paid for by AIPAC, and endorsing neocons like Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz who cheerlead for another Forever War or three.
My general observation is that Republican administrations usually end up concentrating on foreign affairs because the Left is successful in blocking their domestic policies. Unfortunately, this causes the Republican ‘base’, call it the Tea Party, MAGA or whatever, to become disillusioned, thereby enabling the next cycle of Democrat activism.
The problem is that Trump promised to draw back on foreign affairs/ wars to concentrate on domestic ones and MAGA. But he’s got some diehard classic neocons in his cabinet who are not afraid to flat out lie to him and put false narratives forward. As Trump is a shallow and reactionary person he has no interest in the truth, let alone listen to the likes of Tulsi Gabbard. He now ownes the Ukraine conflict and started a new one w Venezuela, generally lashes out at perceived enemies and trying to strongarm them. You know, classic foreign affairs policy.
That is why his approval rating is tumbling down. He is losing both his base and sympathisers.
Classic popular delusion stuff.
I agreed with your comment until it veered into conspiracy politics in its last paragraph.
People, this illustrates the need for conservatives to stick to real social and economic issues and facts. Do not muddy-up factual issues with extremist politics or you will drive away many otherwise sympathetic supporters.
With respect, Dave, almost everything that has been called a conspiracy theory in recent years has ended up being true. Do I need to recite the litany for you?
You may not be informed about the prevalence of AIPAC money in Congress. Only two Republican senators reject AIPAC money, Rand Paul and Mike Lee. If you pay any attention at all, you know that Netanyahu is perpetually agitating for war with Iran, as he did for Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc.
Per Milton Friedman, Inflation is ‘always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon’. The US government can borrow and/or spend until the cows come home, but the overall price level won’t change unless our banking system, particularly the Federal Reserve, conjures additional deposits, i.e., money, ex nihilo to accommodate the spending.
This is true in terms of currency stability, which might be evaluated by the price of gold, for example. But that is a different phenomenon from specific commodity price changes driven by supply and demand. When there’s a crop failure in a coffee-growing region and supply plummets while demand remains flat, the resulting price increase for coffee isn’t caused by general inflation. Prices for coffee could skyrocket even in a deflationary situation where the money supply is collapsing.
This is the situation that we are facing with housing, food, and many consumer goods where there is a pulse in demand coursing through the economy, raising prices on certain critical things. And on top of that we have government borrowing and printing money to support the alien invaders. While the price of gold certainly reflects the destruction of the dollar, caused by conjuring dollars ex nihilo, the massive new demand is making things far worse.
I heartily agree that there are manifold reasons why specific prices can change, notwithstanding what the banking system is doing to the money supply. In a relatively free market economy, such price changes serve to balance supply and demand in the way which best serves consumers. The problem with our government-soaked economy is that not only are such market responses hampered by regulation, but government welfare and warfare spending itself heavily distorts the economy.
Indeed, government welfare and warfare spending, and the vast army of treasonous parasites, known as the Deep State or the Military-Industrial Complex, sucking the lifeblood out of the body politic.
Make no mistake, it’s not The Joooz by any means. Parasites come in every ethnicity. Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham and Nicki Haley never saw a war they didn’t want to fund. Pace Dave, it may be a conspiracy theory to notice that Netanyahu proposed seven countries that needed to be invaded and the US has dutifully attacked all of them at least once, most recently Iran.
My argument is not with Jewish Americans in general, either. There are many Jews who are appalled by the crimes that Netanyahu is committing. My beef is with the billionaire donors and the AIPAC lobby that are legally bribing politicians to spill American blood and treasure on behalf of an irrelevant country that is not our country and most assuredly is not our greatest ally.
‘Inflation’ had to do with the money supply which is different from what most people think it means, rising prices.
Though rising prices are often the result of inflation, or T’s favourite toy: tariffs.
( oops, i said something negative about T)
I expect downvotes
Your “When inflation gets back to normal (2 or 3 percent), the lumber companies don’t immediately lower their prices, even though their costs have gone down.” indicates your fundamental misunderstanding of the economics of inflation, costs and prices.
Any inflation rate generally raises costs (absent other economic changes such as productivity improvements & etc). A new, relatively lower inflation rate does not lower costs. It simply means thatcost inflation has been lowered. In your example the lumber companies’ costs have not gone down by a simple change in the inflation rate.
Indeed. And in fact it is similar to compounded interest. Like an electricity company raising prices twice. First, by raising it to plus 25%, shock/ horror. Then, ‘only’ 8%. Oh, not so bad. But that 8% is on top of the higher 25%.
It never goes back to zero, the price it was before. That is the point.
Inflation is defined as an increase in the money supply. Prices rise because there are more dollars bidding for the same goods. Federal reserve and the government generate inflation to keep the peons down on the farm so to speak, and increase their unconstitutional powers.
Your ending comment is rather optimistic–hope it pans out.
SIR – In 2011, the BBC programme Frozen Planet showed a polar bear giving birth to cubs. However, the BBC later admitted that this was filmed in an animal park in the Netherlands, and not in the Arctic. In reply to the accusation that it had misled the public, the BBC said that the truth “would have ruined the atmosphere of the sequence”.
I presume a wild polar bear mama would feed a camera crew to her new born cubs. 🙂
Mark Hladik
November 16, 2025 8:21 am
Hey y’all:
Just had the most incredible experience with MicroSquish:
I’ve had an issue pop up while browsing, so I thought I would contact their help desk to find out what’s going on, etc …
I get hooked up to a chat bot who helps to clarify the problem, eliminate possibilities, and such, which is all well and good. From my description, the bot was able to narrow the possible problem(s).
THEN!!!!!
The chat bot tells me it is going to connect me to a live trouble-shooter there at MicroSquish. All I have to do is provide a valid credit card number to pay $5!
Huh?
Partially-automated tech support from the vendor I BOUGHT my O.S. from is going to charge me to fix THEIR problem?
Anybody giving credit card or other personal/financial information to a chatbot or any other unknown requestor is an idiot or so old and mentally feeble that they can’t protect themselves.
A recent article in the Journal Science part of its headline was “Dangerous Ocean Acidification” . In the body of the article it said ocean pH had
Dropped from 11.11 to 11.04 since 1985. Needless to say all absurd
The supposed decline in open-ocean pH from 8.2 to 8.1 is a result of the historical measurements being discarded in favor of a — wait for it! — computer model.
Actually, your graph shows the opposite of the claimed trend.
I’m surprised by the pH values below 7. Do you know anything about the sampling localities for them? Might they be where volcanic CO2 is bubbling up in shallow water, coastal up-welling, or stagnant pools saturated with hydrogen sulfide?
I ask because the respected Stanford geochemist Konrad Krauskopf explicitly stated in his text book that he thought it improbable that sea water would ever even reach pH 7 because of buffering, let alone 6.
STOCKHOLM, November 14. /TASS/. Swedish TV channel SVT, like the British broadcasting corporation BBC, edited Donald Trump’s speech of January 6, 2021 to create the impression that he was calling for riots, Kvartal newspaper reported.
According to the newspaper, last year SVT used an excerpt from Trump’s speech, which spliced several parts in one of the reports in such a way that it appeared to the audience that Trump was in favor of storming the Capitol.
Like in the BBC version, a fragment where he calls on his supporters to peacefully and patriotically express their opinions was dropped.
In the first response to Kvartal’s request for comment on how the speech was edited, SVT responded that the TV channel’s owners were “confident in SVT’s publications dedicated to the storming of the Capitol.”
But later SVT changed the text and the clip, where black frames with pauses between different parts of the performance were added.
Executive producer Karin Ekman said that SVT has updated the text of the clip “to make it clearer to the audience in what context it was published.”
She does not believe that the scandal with the BBC will affect SVT’s credibility.
Norwegian TV channel NRK has also changed the story about Capitol storming previously presented similarly, explains SVT.
The BBC was at the center of a scandal over a Panorama program, which the broadcasting corporation aired last October.
In it, Trump’s speech was doctored in a way that it can be concluded that he is calling for the seizure of the Congress building.
The scandal forced CEO Tim Davey and head of news Deborah Turness to resign.
Trump demanded that the BBC remove the program by November 14, apologize and pay compensation, threatening to sue for $1 billion, since revised upwards. Trump says he will sue the BBC for up to $5 billion over speech edits
The corporation issued an apology, but refused to pay compensation.
MrGrimNasty
November 16, 2025 12:26 pm
Story tip? Daily Mail article covers recentish
skeptic voices and CAGW back-tracking.
“Skepticism about climate change has resurfaced, as some experts claim the exact causes of global warming remain unclear and that the policies addressing it are motivated more by money than by science.”
Are not a sign of dying coral, may actually help coral.
Rational Keith
November 20, 2025 4:46 pm
The governments of BC and Canada are shifting their EV adoption targets downstream, because adoption has substantially slowed.
And there’s no enthusiasm in the governments for more subsidies.
Reaction to Donald Trump’s trade attack has motivated some people because he was involved with Elon Musk, I think the general problems with charging are the big factor. And any price premium will discourage buyers as the economy goes into trouble.
(Some people are buying hybrids instead.)
One factor in the charging challenge is the electrical load and electricity cost in shared housing (‘condo’/’strata title’ buildings). Many if not most nit owner don’t want to pay for costly installation of charging stations nor for electricity used by others to charge EVs.(On the mid wet coast electrical outlets aren’t common in parking areas because winter is mild, inland outlets for block heaters to warm vehicles up are probably more common.)
Energy is taking center political stage in New York State.
https://nypost.com/2025/11/14/opinion/dont-be-fooled-by-kathy-hochuls-latest-pause-of-another-toxic-law/
Temporarily.
In my view, it is important for skeptics of climate alarm to understand poleward advection in terms of the overall longwave emitter output of the planet. This should help counter the unjustified concern about emissions of CO2 from the “Earth’s Energy Imbalance” line of reasoning, which claims that overall longwave emission to space must be expected to be suppressed as CO2 concentrations rise.
I posted this comment to Kevin Kilty’s article here at WUWT on October 7.
“Referring to Figure 3, “Advection is a global phenomenon, and figuring how it will change with CO2 additions seems pertinent.”
Agreed. The spare LW emitter duty is toward the poles. By “spare” I mean that the LW emission to space is maxed out near the equator, but the remainder of the spherical surface is not emitting anywhere near those maximum values. A few years ago I downloaded the CERES SYN1deg hourly values for LW emission for the entire globe. I generated these time-series plots of latitude-ring mean observed LW values to see for myself how this works. The data is for the year 2020.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aeDEbZXBKj_gDbUx2MCq13dzQG66xWhd?usp=sharing
One implication is that it is absurd to talk about global EEI values in hundreds of milliwatts per square meter, when the global overall emitter performance depends so much on advection. The valid null hypothesis should have been that any minor radiative influence from incremental CO2 would not be detectable from space, nor could it be reliably isolated as a cause of, say, reported ocean warming. That null hypothesis has not been falsified.
One other point. NASA knew very well in 2009 that poleward advection in both ocean and atmosphere circulations matters to the disposition of ALL energy absorbed from the sun. That is a key part of my essay posted here at WUWT in May, 2022.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/16/wuwt-contest-runner-up-professional-nasa-knew-better-nasa_knew/ ”
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The BBC has been reliving the Maldives underwater cabinet stunt; they say that at the current rate of global warming 80% of the islands will be uninhabitable by 2050.
(If you have a BBC account you can hear the claim here.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct744r
Here is a contemporary article from 2009.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8311838.stm
Since then the total land area has remained the same c. 298sqkm and the population has increased from estimated 348,275 to 529,676.
Commiserations.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy40z22qqwwo headline “Thousands march outside COP30 summit in call for action” “Indigenous communities, Brazilian youth groups, and activists from across the world joined the march in their thousands”
“”Fossil fuels are still being burned. We know all too well what it’s like to live on the frontline of climate change,” Brianna Fruean, a climate activist from Samoa, a low-lying island extremely vulnerable to climate change, told the BBC.“
Has someone invented the Star Trek transporter? They must have done, otherwise how could someone from Samoa get to Brazil?
“Fossil fuels are still being burned” is a colossally silly understatement given over 80% of global energy production is from blessed fossil fuels.
I’ve always liked the name “Brianna” …
Brianna Fruean is an activist and environmental advocate for Samoa; She sits on the Council of Elders for the Pacific Climate Warriors. She is 27, and a bit overweight. She might want to take some advice from Hank Williams Sr: “Mind Your Own Business“
Trump v The BBC
Why hasn’t the culprits of the infamous Panorama splice been named and sacked for their deliberate act?
Maybe it will come up in court after Trump sues the BBC.
We haven’t heard the end of this story.
Elsewhere I’ve read that the UK statute of limitations has mooted any libel lawsuit.
“We haven’t heard the end of this story.”
Except there are soooo many Trump stories at the moment they all just get lost in the haze. One just today… he has a new nick name for Marjorie Taylor Greene. He now is calling her Wacky Marjorie and MT Brown, because when grass rots, it goes brown. I’m no fan of Marjorie’s, but she has been a loyal supporter of his and doesn’t deserve this in my opinion. This is all because she wants daylight shed on the Epstein files and the girls to have justice. How can anyone argue with that? Except….. if you have something to hide?
I mean let’s face it. Trump could make this all go away by saying…. I’ve done nothing wrong. I have nothing to hide. Here are all the unredacted files, now let me get on and run this country. Just an idea…. So, the obvious, elephant in the room, million dollar question is, why isn’t he? And the more he hides from this, the more he blames others, the more people wonder.
What makes his reluctance especially noticeable is that in other respects, Trump is one of the most open, transparent Presidents ever. His thoughts and claims may waffle all over the map, but he doesn’t hide them, he blurts them out like mental diarrhea. Yet in this one topic, he almost seems to be going out of his way to not discuss what he campaigned on. One could invoke 4D chess and say he wants to stoke the fires that the deep state is trying to put out, but that doesn’t really enlighten anything.
Yep. The interview he did where he was keen to release everything about anything till they asked him if he would he release the Epstein files. At that point he got all cagey. Hmmm.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZJorAVgHy7Y
Did it occur to you that he may be protecting the leaders or royalty of allies? So far, the thousands of emails released have exonerated Trump; he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, and had nothing to do with him.
Sure, there’s all sorts of people he could be protecting. But this secrecy and about-face is contrary to everything else he’s done.
Anyone catch this?
“House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide” – DJT, Sunday on Truth Social
He missed out the word “all.”
He was also his “best friend” for a good number of years. Trump said he was a “great guy.” Many of the lurid videos we see of them leering at girls, testifies to the sort of relationship they had.
You’ve never had a friend that you found out wasn’t who you thought?
There’s plenty of people who continued to hang out with Epstein long after Trump disassociated himself, AFTER his first trial when it was clear who and what he was. I never hear anyone going on about any of them.
But it’s clear that absolutely nothing will satisfy you. If everything is released you’ll just claim that it was edited or stuff was lost or held back. You’ll find some reason to continue to believe your fantasy about Trump.
“You’ve never had a friend that you found out wasn’t who you thought?” Not that I can think of. I’m sure none of my friends are perfect, but….
“But it’s clear that absolutely nothing will satisfy you. If everything is released you’ll just claim that it was edited or stuff was lost or held back. You’ll find some reason to continue to believe your fantasy about Trump.”
I have no fantasy about Trump. He daily continues to show us he is a man with no morals. I wonder what you think of a man who makes the comments he did about the Republican Rep. Thomas Massie? If you haven’t heard here is what Trump said about him. Massie lost his wife last year suddenly. Trump had this to say….
“Did Thomas Massie, sometimes referred to as Rand Paul Jr., because of the fact that he always votes against the Republican Party, get married already??? Boy, that was quick!”
“No wonder the Polls have him at less than an 8% chance of winning the Election. “Anyway, have a great life Thomas and (?). His wife will soon find out that she’s stuck with a LOSER!”
I can not imagine why anyone would on any level think this was acceptable coming from the president of the United States? Especially one who has been married three times and each time the previous marriage collapsed because he screwed around. Maybe you can explain it to me? Or will you just dismiss the question by saying I have Trump derangement syndrome? The Trump supporters easy way out when they have no answer.
I never said or thought Trump was a nice guy, and he often says things that are over the top. But if you think THAT is unacceptable, you might want to pay more attention to what politicians are saying – I’ve certainly seen worse.
Thing is (a) I don’t vote for someone because they’re nice, I vote because of policy (Chamberlain was a much nicer guy than Churchill) and (b) it’s a red herring fallacy: “Attempting to redirect the argument to another issue to which the person doing the redirecting can better respond.”
I don’t want them to be a nice guy either, but I want them to have a level of morality above the gutter.
Did we elect a pope or a president?
You elected a neither. A real president acts presidential. Trump is a thug, bully, con man.
Anyone who….
calls a reporter doing their job “piggy”….comments on another politicians dead wife …..calls a long time supporter (MTG) a traitor…. deserves all the distain he gets. And they were all just this week.
And as an aside I see Fox news is now reporting that their polls show the peoples view of the economy is now worse than when Trump took over in January. It is sad, but that is where he is really going to lose support.
It might be because he has something to hide, but I think that’s not too likely. If there was something that could be used against him by the Democrats, how reasonable is it that nothing was released by Biden’s puppeteers between 2021 and 2024?
There is also the possibility that he is protecting donors who are guilty, but there again, unless those donors also pay off Democrats, wouldn’t they have been exposed, too?
More likely than anything else, the reason for the bipartisan/Uniparty coverup and the Jihad against Thomas Massey and MTG is that both parties are being blackmailed by a foreign country that Epstein worked for. Probably Ireland, or Indonesia, or Iraq, or Iran, or India. Am I getting close? I feel sure it’s an “I” country. Ivory Coast? I can’t think of any others.
“If there was something that could be used against him by the Democrats, how reasonable is it that nothing was released by Biden’s puppeteers between 2021 and 2024?”
If Pam Bondi is right and 1000 girls were used/abuse by Epstein then there is every chance there are democrats tied up in this. The only way forward is to put everything out there for all to read. Till then this just festers.
My suspicion is that exposing Epstein will expose the deep state’s national security lies that will embarrass all politicians at the top. There’s something incredibly fishy about the whole thing, and I haven’t yet seen any conspiracy theories that make a whole lot of sense in any general way.
Here’s the law on this platform: say ANYTHING bad about Trump and you get negative votes. Doesnt matter what argument you have.
It reminds me of the Greenies. Total oxygenless mindset..
Well one of my comments is positive 1. Must be a rogue about.
That was probably…me
Geez you are dumb. Where is the pee pee tape?
Look here comes the pee pee brain man. Move on man/boy. You will feel better for it.
The BBC’s journalism malfeasance doesn’t end there. I have a complaint now filed up to the Ofcom level (the UK’s broadcast regulator agency) about the one midsummer 2020 BBC report in which they relied on the unsolicited and never implemented ‘leaked industry memo’ named in the report title to accuse the fossil fuel industry of employing skeptic scientists to work in disinformation campaigns.’ BBC’s reliance on that worthless memo in their report (along with one other never-implemented memo set) was hardly different than the widespread news media’s reliance on the notorious “Steele Dossier” when accusing President Trump of engaging in treacherous behavior.
Are there any any sorts?
Of course — the CAGW true believer scientists. The Mann tops that list. But what the long-held accusation about “the fossil fuel industry of employing skeptic scientists to work in disinformation campaigns” implies is that scientists the likes of Fred Singer / Patrick Michaels / Robert Balling / Willie Soon know about the certainty of CAGW but were bribed by Big Oil money to say otherwise. My point is, the BBC never checked the veracity of the accusation or the source(s) of it, which is why they may be in huge trouble if that angle of their journalism malfeasance is exposed to the greater public.
One should differentiate between those who have a job title that includes “scientist,” and those who may not even have a PhD but act more like a scientist than many of those so titled.
Yes, it should get interesting, particularly in regard to at least partial admission of guilt.
From below: The BBC’s director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness have resigned after criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by Donald Trump.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3vn25d5dq7o
….. also, why has the possible identification of the Jan 5/6 fake pipe bomber seemingly been swept under the carpet? This is hugely important for the US and its democracy. Who scripted the bogus insurrection?
Not much doubt that Obama and Pelosi played key roles.
We can speculate about FBI honeypots, and incompetent Blondie AGs, but I don’t for a second believe that they doing anything but EXACTLY what Trump is telling them to do. Trump is the one asking “Are you still talking about Epstein?” Trump is the one attacking Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Green, explicitly because they want the Epstein files released.
Clearly Trump is acting under duress to have flipped positions on so many campaign promises.
Again: say anything bad about Trump: negative votes.
I am counting..
So far, so predictable..
I just scanned over an article today talking about ice in the high Arctic (Canada or Greenland) that had been or was being exposed that was 777,000 years old. It exposed evidence of an ancient forest underneath. The author had to admit a couple of things- that the ice was resilient, surviving even through a warmer climate, and that the “permafrost won’t disappear so fast”.
Loads of evidence point to the Holocene Optimum, the Eemian Interglacial, and other warm periods since the start of the Pleistocene where the Arctic was much warmer, the tree line was much further to the north, and GHG levels were only modest. Sea levels were much higher. Methane was escaping what is, right now, permafrost. Life went on.
Historical Aspects of the Northern Canadian Treeline
by Harvey Nichols, ~1976 or ’77; 10 pages
https://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic29-1-38.pdf
Maps, photo, references
From the abstract:
“From palynological studies it appears that northernmost dwarf spruces
of the tundra and parts of the forest-tundra boundary may be relicts from times of prior warmth, and if felled might not regenerate. This disequilibrium may help explain the partial incongruence of modern climatic limits with the present forest edge. Seedlings established as a result of recent warming should therefore be found within the northernmost woodlands rather than in the southern tundra.”
The BBC is just the freshest example of the many institutions in the UK that really need to be razed to the ground and started afresh. Others include the NHS; the Tories; the civil service, the education system, and…well I could go on, but so can we all.
I don’t care about Labour except that they’re in government, or at least, are occupying the space where the government should be.
I have been a regular reader of WUWT for several years and occasionally enter the discussions. I have observed that with few exceptions we agree on the most important issues. We agree that the folly of the Western world pursuing net zero to prevent climate change is having a huge impact on the economies and causes much human suffering. We agree on the dangers to the electric grids from closing reliable fossil fueled and nuclear plants, and on the hypocrisy and tragedy from condemning the developing world to poverty by denying them financing for reliable electricity. We recognize the benefits of increasing CO2 and fossil fuels use; higher crop yields, greening of the earth, more airable land, freeze line moves toward the poles. There are elegant and convincing papers on these topics presented daily here. But we are reaching only the small circle of deniers that read this and similar blogs. The governments, MSM, and public of the Western world still plunge forward pursuing the impossible net zero, ignoring the facts that are so obvious to us.
In order to reach a wider audience, I have written an adventure novel that addresses these issues by bluntly showing the consequences of continuing this folly. The title of the book is “SWITCHED”, with subtitles: “Wealthy Countries Become Poor Countries with Loss of Electricity” and “Poor Countries become Wealthy Countries with Access to Electricity”. The book emphasizes the difference between countries with and without electricity. The book is a novel with fictional characters in a real and authentic world setting. The technical parts are both reasonable and practical. Our heroes and heroine fight a gallant battle against bureaucracy and graft to stop the shutting down the reliable fossil fueled power plants. It exposes the catastrophic loss of life and property in modern society from extended widespread failure of the electric grid. Imagine a city with high rises that have no electricity. No lights, no elevators, no heat or air conditioning, no frig or cook stove, and even worse no water. No water to drink, bathe, wash hands, or flush toilets. Stores can’t open, gas pumps don’t work, credit cards don’t work, nothing works.
They also fight against political corruption and ignorance to mass produce the SMR and use it in a unique way to bring electricity, clean cooking fuels, and safe water to the developing world. This eliminates poverty and brings industry, jobs and prosperity. The book exposes the danger from losing freedoms of press, thought and speech. Our heroes and heroine battle the UN and world governments to preserve freedom of speech. There are many other themes and lines in the book that will cause the WUWT reader to shout “YES” and do a fist pump as they see their tenants, facts and data displayed in living color in real world settings. The book is available in paperback, hardback and eBook at all book sellers. You can find it easier by using my name, Jimmie Dollard.
Sorry, tenets not tenants. Darn writing aid.
I call that auto-corrupt, Jimmie. (They style it auto-correct).
Now make it into a movie!
10^42
It has been a while since I commented. I have two stories here you might find compellin
HadSST3 update
HadSST4 (H4) Update Dated 10242025.pdf
H5 update
HadCRUT5 (H5) Update 10242025.pdf
Ihope this works. It hasbeen awhile
Thanks for that. I had a look. Nice work!🙂
About Inflation:
Affordability is the new buzzword and high prices are the problem, and the Democrats are trying to blame Trump for the high prices.
During the Biden administration, inflation rose to around 14 percent, at one time because of reckless spending on the part of the Biden administration and because of the Biden administration war on fossil fuels.
The first day Trump took over in 2025, the Democrats were asking why Trump had not brought prices down. The prices the Democrats had jacked up during the Biden administration.
Here’s the thing about inflation: It appears quickly and disappears very slowly.
Back during the Jimmy Carter presidency in the late 1970’s, we had double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment, and double-digit interest rates. So, we have been here before.
Here is a simplified example of how inflation works.
You live in a town that has two lumber companies. When inflation hits, the lumber companies raise their prices, because the prices they pay have risen and they have to raise prices or go broke.
When inflation gets back to normal (2 or 3 percent), the lumber companies don’t immediately lower their prices, even though their costs have gone down. No, they leave the high prices in place.
What causes the prices to come back down is that one lumber company decides to try to increase his business by lowering his prices, and he can do so because his costs are lower, so he lowers his prices in hopes that his competitors customers will buy from his company because his prices are lower than the competition.
Well, the competition sees what the other lumber company is doing, and this causes him to lower his prices in an effort to compete with the other lumber company. And this is how lower prices come about.
But, this lowering of prices takes time. This is not the fault of Donald Trump. Trump lowers the prices of gasoline and other essential items in the economy, but it is up to individual business people to lower their prices as the situation dictates.
The prices will come down. A year from now you won’t hear complaints about inflation. The U.S. economy is getting ready to take off Big Time!
Tom, affordability is about far more than the headline inflation rate and sticky prices due to inadequate competition.
What inflation tends to do is to drive income increases for the elite that are at least equal to inflation and similarly for the deep state clientele (the welfare recipients and the government employees), while driving the middle class and the working poor into usurious debt and ultimately into the welfare class.
The failed promise of upward mobility through a college education is now just one more debt trap for the children of the middle class.
The housing affordability gap is entirely a matter of supply and demand. The number of units on the market (whether for sale or for rent) is severely restricted by the outrageous jump in demand precipitated by importing 20 million or more non-citizens, many entirely illegally and many others quasi-legally by the Biden puppetmaster regime’s treasonous use of asylum.
There’s also a rise in homelessness paralleling this development. Homelessness is not just people living on the street or in tent cities. There is a huge reservoir of young adults living with relatives because they can’t afford rent, let alone dream of home ownership. (Two in my household).
In short, there’s a nearly infinite suppressed demand waiting to enter the market if only they could afford it, on top of the massive excess demand for housing generated by millions of people who should not be here. But the increase in supply is anemic at best, and wholly inadequate to the artificially induced demand.
Tight supply in the face of exploding demand leads to what pricing outcome? Obviously it leads to steep increases in price which can only be brought into balance by reducing demand. And how is that achieved? By homelessness (including young adults failing to launch), and by veterans put on the street when they can’t compete with governments paying landlords to house alien invaders.
If 2 million people self-deported or were actually deported this year, as has been trumpeted, then we’re on a pace to reduce about 20% of the problem by the 2026 mid-term elections. That’s nowhere near good enough!
And let’s not forget that essentially the same economic argument applies to food prices, the other critical problem of affordability.
The only way out of this in the near term is to bring down demand while simultaneously opening up supply by deporting the other 18 million people illegitimately in the country.
But instead we have an Israel-First administration focused on foreign policy, and going to extreme lengths to shelter the Epstein clients. Attacking the only people in Congress not bought and paid for by AIPAC, and endorsing neocons like Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz who cheerlead for another Forever War or three.
My general observation is that Republican administrations usually end up concentrating on foreign affairs because the Left is successful in blocking their domestic policies. Unfortunately, this causes the Republican ‘base’, call it the Tea Party, MAGA or whatever, to become disillusioned, thereby enabling the next cycle of Democrat activism.
The problem is that Trump promised to draw back on foreign affairs/ wars to concentrate on domestic ones and MAGA. But he’s got some diehard classic neocons in his cabinet who are not afraid to flat out lie to him and put false narratives forward. As Trump is a shallow and reactionary person he has no interest in the truth, let alone listen to the likes of Tulsi Gabbard. He now ownes the Ukraine conflict and started a new one w Venezuela, generally lashes out at perceived enemies and trying to strongarm them. You know, classic foreign affairs policy.
That is why his approval rating is tumbling down. He is losing both his base and sympathisers.
Classic popular delusion stuff.
Lashes out 😉
I agreed with your comment until it veered into conspiracy politics in its last paragraph.
People, this illustrates the need for conservatives to stick to real social and economic issues and facts. Do not muddy-up factual issues with extremist politics or you will drive away many otherwise sympathetic supporters.
With respect, Dave, almost everything that has been called a conspiracy theory in recent years has ended up being true. Do I need to recite the litany for you?
You may not be informed about the prevalence of AIPAC money in Congress. Only two Republican senators reject AIPAC money, Rand Paul and Mike Lee. If you pay any attention at all, you know that Netanyahu is perpetually agitating for war with Iran, as he did for Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc.
Hear, hear!
Per Milton Friedman, Inflation is ‘always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon’. The US government can borrow and/or spend until the cows come home, but the overall price level won’t change unless our banking system, particularly the Federal Reserve, conjures additional deposits, i.e., money, ex nihilo to accommodate the spending.
This is true in terms of currency stability, which might be evaluated by the price of gold, for example. But that is a different phenomenon from specific commodity price changes driven by supply and demand. When there’s a crop failure in a coffee-growing region and supply plummets while demand remains flat, the resulting price increase for coffee isn’t caused by general inflation. Prices for coffee could skyrocket even in a deflationary situation where the money supply is collapsing.
This is the situation that we are facing with housing, food, and many consumer goods where there is a pulse in demand coursing through the economy, raising prices on certain critical things. And on top of that we have government borrowing and printing money to support the alien invaders. While the price of gold certainly reflects the destruction of the dollar, caused by conjuring dollars ex nihilo, the massive new demand is making things far worse.
I heartily agree that there are manifold reasons why specific prices can change, notwithstanding what the banking system is doing to the money supply. In a relatively free market economy, such price changes serve to balance supply and demand in the way which best serves consumers. The problem with our government-soaked economy is that not only are such market responses hampered by regulation, but government welfare and warfare spending itself heavily distorts the economy.
Indeed, government welfare and warfare spending, and the vast army of treasonous parasites, known as the Deep State or the Military-Industrial Complex, sucking the lifeblood out of the body politic.
Make no mistake, it’s not The Joooz by any means. Parasites come in every ethnicity. Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham and Nicki Haley never saw a war they didn’t want to fund. Pace Dave, it may be a conspiracy theory to notice that Netanyahu proposed seven countries that needed to be invaded and the US has dutifully attacked all of them at least once, most recently Iran.
My argument is not with Jewish Americans in general, either. There are many Jews who are appalled by the crimes that Netanyahu is committing. My beef is with the billionaire donors and the AIPAC lobby that are legally bribing politicians to spill American blood and treasure on behalf of an irrelevant country that is not our country and most assuredly is not our greatest ally.
‘Inflation’ had to do with the money supply which is different from what most people think it means, rising prices.
Though rising prices are often the result of inflation, or T’s favourite toy: tariffs.
( oops, i said something negative about T)
I expect downvotes
Your “When inflation gets back to normal (2 or 3 percent), the lumber companies don’t immediately lower their prices, even though their costs have gone down.” indicates your fundamental misunderstanding of the economics of inflation, costs and prices.
Any inflation rate generally raises costs (absent other economic changes such as productivity improvements & etc). A new, relatively lower inflation rate does not lower costs. It simply means that cost inflation has been lowered. In your example the lumber companies’ costs have not gone down by a simple change in the inflation rate.
Indeed. And in fact it is similar to compounded interest. Like an electricity company raising prices twice. First, by raising it to plus 25%, shock/ horror. Then, ‘only’ 8%. Oh, not so bad. But that 8% is on top of the higher 25%.
It never goes back to zero, the price it was before. That is the point.
Inflation is defined as an increase in the money supply. Prices rise because there are more dollars bidding for the same goods. Federal reserve and the government generate inflation to keep the peons down on the farm so to speak, and increase their unconstitutional powers.
Your ending comment is rather optimistic–hope it pans out.
“The prices will come down. A year from now you won’t hear complaints about inflation. The U.S. economy is getting ready to take off Big Time!”
That is….funny!
On par with the Greenies: ‘ in 5 years time’.
Delusional.
Inflation reduction Act…lol
Spot on!
If only it were just the Waffen BBC.
The Royal Society, MO etc etc are, in the vernacular: still all in.
EXCLUSIVE: New Freedom of Information Request and the UK Met Office has to Rewrite its Temperature Explanations Againhttps://dailysceptic.org/2025/11/16/exclusive-new-freedom-of-information-request-and-the-uk-met-office-has-to-rewrite-its-temperature-explanations-again/
And the normal suddenly becomes the extreme
The weather in Belém, wrote the Guardian’s environment editor, offers a convenient metaphor for the UN climate talks being held in the Brazilian city. Sunny mornings begin in blazing optimism before the Amazon’s clouds gather and the deluge begins.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/the-guardian-view-on-cop30-someone-has-to-pay-for-the-end-of-the-oil-and-gas-age
It’s a… rainforest…
Letter in the UK Telgraph:
SIR – In 2011, the BBC programme Frozen Planet showed a polar bear giving birth to cubs. However, the BBC later admitted that this was filmed in an animal park in the Netherlands, and not in the Arctic. In reply to the accusation that it had misled the public, the BBC said that the truth “would have ruined the atmosphere of the sequence”.
Been going on for a while…
I presume a wild polar bear mama would feed a camera crew to her new born cubs. 🙂
Hey y’all:
Just had the most incredible experience with MicroSquish:
I’ve had an issue pop up while browsing, so I thought I would contact their help desk to find out what’s going on, etc …
I get hooked up to a chat bot who helps to clarify the problem, eliminate possibilities, and such, which is all well and good. From my description, the bot was able to narrow the possible problem(s).
THEN!!!!!
The chat bot tells me it is going to connect me to a live trouble-shooter there at MicroSquish. All I have to do is provide a valid credit card number to pay $5!
Huh?
Partially-automated tech support from the vendor I BOUGHT my O.S. from is going to charge me to fix THEIR problem?
Caveat emptor!
Mark H
Anybody giving credit card or other personal/financial information to a chatbot or any other unknown requestor is an idiot or so old and mentally feeble that they can’t protect themselves.
A recent article in the Journal Science part of its headline was “Dangerous Ocean Acidification” . In the body of the article it said ocean pH had
Dropped from 11.11 to 11.04 since 1985. Needless to say all absurd
“ ocean pH had dropped from 11.11 to 11.04″
Are you sure you read that correctly.. that pH is highly caustic, like Ammonia or sodium hydroxide, alkaline drain cleaners etc
If I remember correctly the ocean pH is around 8.5.
more like 8.1 on average, but is quite variable from place to place
Here is a compendium of all ocean surface pH readings from about 1910 to 2015
As you can see, great variability, but basically zero trend.
The supposed decline in open-ocean pH from 8.2 to 8.1 is a result of the historical measurements being discarded in favor of a — wait for it! — computer model.
Actually, your graph shows the opposite of the claimed trend.
I’m surprised by the pH values below 7. Do you know anything about the sampling localities for them? Might they be where volcanic CO2 is bubbling up in shallow water, coastal up-welling, or stagnant pools saturated with hydrogen sulfide?
I ask because the respected Stanford geochemist Konrad Krauskopf explicitly stated in his text book that he thought it improbable that sea water would ever even reach pH 7 because of buffering, let alone 6.
I think it is closer to 8 or 8.2. Someway off from 7 which is the base line..
Sorry meant 8.11 to 8.04
Sorry meant 8.11 to 8.04
I would appreciate a discussion of teleconnections between ocean basins. Do things like Rosby waves play a part/
Is the populace paying attention to CC scare stories anymore or has the scam run its’ course with them?
HOW UKRAINE WAS CREATED
https://willempost.substack.com/p/how-ukraine-was-created?r=1n3sit&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
By Willem Post
STOCKHOLM, November 14. /TASS/. Swedish TV channel SVT, like the British broadcasting corporation BBC, edited Donald Trump’s speech of January 6, 2021 to create the impression that he was calling for riots, Kvartal newspaper reported.
According to the newspaper, last year SVT used an excerpt from Trump’s speech, which spliced several parts in one of the reports in such a way that it appeared to the audience that Trump was in favor of storming the Capitol.
Like in the BBC version, a fragment where he calls on his supporters to peacefully and patriotically express their opinions was dropped.
In the first response to Kvartal’s request for comment on how the speech was edited, SVT responded that the TV channel’s owners were “confident in SVT’s publications dedicated to the storming of the Capitol.”
But later SVT changed the text and the clip, where black frames with pauses between different parts of the performance were added.
Executive producer Karin Ekman said that SVT has updated the text of the clip “to make it clearer to the audience in what context it was published.”
She does not believe that the scandal with the BBC will affect SVT’s credibility.
Norwegian TV channel NRK has also changed the story about Capitol storming previously presented similarly, explains SVT.
The BBC was at the center of a scandal over a Panorama program, which the broadcasting corporation aired last October.
In it, Trump’s speech was doctored in a way that it can be concluded that he is calling for the seizure of the Congress building.
The scandal forced CEO Tim Davey and head of news Deborah Turness to resign.
Trump demanded that the BBC remove the program by November 14, apologize and pay compensation, threatening to sue for $1 billion, since revised upwards.
Trump says he will sue the BBC for up to $5 billion over speech edits
The corporation issued an apology, but refused to pay compensation.
Story tip? Daily Mail article covers recentish
skeptic voices and CAGW back-tracking.
“Skepticism about climate change has resurfaced, as some experts claim the exact causes of global warming remain unclear and that the policies addressing it are motivated more by money than by science.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15236133/Scientist-climate-change-hysteria-nonsense.html
I don’t claim to be an expert, but “warming” (AKA “heating”), is a direct result of “heat”. In the absence of “heat”, absolute zero is the result.
There are always dummies (AKA “experts”) who insist that adding CO2 to air creates “heat”.
Balance the equation : Chinese Communist Party + Middle East Oil Countries – Donald Trump = Zero.
The bleating continues:
The Earth reaches cascading tipping points – Victoria Times Colonist
The most specific thing in the article is discovery of a coral reef in cold water off the coast of British Columbia Canada.
I’m dumping WUWT coral reef articles onto the publisher.
Nature is complex:
Seaweed invasions of coral reefs not necessarily bad, B.C. researchers find – Victoria Times Colonist
Are not a sign of dying coral, may actually help coral.
The governments of BC and Canada are shifting their EV adoption targets downstream, because adoption has substantially slowed.
And there’s no enthusiasm in the governments for more subsidies.
Reaction to Donald Trump’s trade attack has motivated some people because he was involved with Elon Musk, I think the general problems with charging are the big factor. And any price premium will discourage buyers as the economy goes into trouble.
(Some people are buying hybrids instead.)
One factor in the charging challenge is the electrical load and electricity cost in shared housing (‘condo’/’strata title’ buildings). Many if not most nit owner don’t want to pay for costly installation of charging stations nor for electricity used by others to charge EVs.(On the mid wet coast electrical outlets aren’t common in parking areas because winter is mild, inland outlets for block heaters to warm vehicles up are probably more common.)