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December 21, 2025 2:10 am
Traditional myusernames sunday reading!
Good morning, sunshine
The seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy is Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year
https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-2025
Since the Industrial Revolution, human society has run on ancient solar energy—captured by plants hundreds of millions of years ago, stored in fossil fuels, and dug and drilled from the earth. But this year momentum shifted unmistakably toward the energy that streams from the Sun today. Renewable energy, most of it from sunlight itself or from wind, ultimately driven by the Sun, overtook conventional energy on multiple fronts.
The future is now (execpt in the US)
2025: The year the US gave up on climate, and the world gave up on us
Meanwhile, many countries have begun reorganizing their diplomatic and economic relationships in ways that no longer assume American leadership. That shift accelerated this year in part due to Trump’s decisions to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, to impose tariffs on U.S. allies, and more broadly, to slink away into self-imposed isolation.
Ah.. the rantings of a delusional Luser’s mind !!
Wind and solar are dead-end, unsustainable non-technologies.
Fossil fuels still provide nearly all the world’s energy.
Even you are absolutely dependant on fossil fuels for everything in your pitiful brain-washed existence.
Wind and solar cannot exist without huge amounts of fossil fuels and toxic chemicals.
This may come as a shock to you MUNR, the sun has been providing the majority of Earths energy since mankind decided to measure it. There is nothing special about 2025 in that regard.
What 2025 is notable for, is it was the first time in thirty years when the majority of people stopped listening to climate doom mongers and started to return to educated study and reality.
We must hope this return to climate reality continues in 2026.
merry Christmas and Happy Newyear
December 21, 2025 2:41 am
Remember that Executive Order on May 23, 2025 – “Restoring Gold Standard Science”? Seems like it went submerged. No sightings. My particular interest was in the propagation of uncertainty.
So I asked Grok,
“Consider Sec. 4 (c) of the May 23, 2025 Executive Order, “Restoring Gold Standard Science” – which says, “When using scientific information in agency decision-making, employees shall transparently acknowledge and document uncertainties, including how uncertainty propagates throughout any models used in the analysis.” In the time since this EO was issued, has any federal government official or agency or department posted any findings from having properly propagated uncertainty through a model?”
Grok’s response – first paragraph,
“No, as of December 20, 2025—about seven months after the May 23, 2025 issuance of Executive Order 14303, “Restoring Gold Standard Science”—no federal government official, agency, or department has publicly posted or published specific findings from analyses where uncertainty was properly propagated through a model in explicit compliance with Section 4(c).”
This is important. The false authority of the “climate” claims rests on the misuse of pre-stabilized, time-step-iterated, large-grid, discrete-layer, parameter-tuned-to-hindcast computer models. The investigators pretend to have diagnosed a century-scale temperature trend, claiming to have isolated incremental CO2 as the main cause of the “warming.” Then the prognosis is for continued warming, even to harmful extent, driven by emissions of CO2 and the resulting rising concentration.
What’s the nature of the misuse? It is that the rapid buildup of uncertainty in the iterated computations massively overwhelms the theoretical effect being investigated. This problem IS NOT NEGATED by having pre-stabilized the simulation and having applied time-scheduled GHG “forcings”. It was an utterly circular exercise all along, assuming that the static radiative effect MUST “force” an accumulation of energy as sensible heat down here under a dynamic circulation.
More here.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/24/10328448/#comment-4110125
Thank you for your patience in this matter.
Climate science and climate scientists remind me of the carnival barkers saying they can tell the future by reading the lines on your palm or the reading the clouds in their crystal ball.
Hat tip to Rumsfeld, you don’t know what you don’t know. Corollary: You can’t know what you can’t differentiate. If the uncertainty is wider than the difference you are trying to find you don’t know if you’ve actually found a difference or not. And the uncertainty is not the linear regression residuals between assumed 100% accurate stated values and a trend line based on those assumed 100% accurate stated values. Those residuals are just the blind leading the blind down the primrose path to perdition!
Climate science is based on several main meme’s:
- All measurement uncertainty is random, Gaussian, and cancels
- numbers is just numbers, you *can* average intensive properties
- The SEM is the measurement uncertainty of the average and can be made arbitrarily small
- Averaging *can* reduce measurement uncertainty (see #3)
- The average uncertainty is the measurement uncertainty of the average
- You don’t have to weight the calculation of the mean based on component variances
- Changes in the mid-range temperature are totally caused by increased Tmax
- Longer growing seasons don’t mean more food harvest
- The mean of a multi-modal distribution can tell you about the individual modes.
December 21, 2025 3:18 am
Red Rat Mad Ed
Ed Miliband ‘pitching himself as Chancellor’ after ‘auditioning’ for role in plot to oust Rachel Reeves
Mr Miliband enjoys considerable support among MPs on the party’s soft Left and his supporters view the expected electoral setbacks as an opportunity to demand substantial changes from Sir Keir.
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/ed-miliband-chancellor-pitch-rachel-reeves-plot-oust
Mind you, they’ve cancelled a lot of elections…
Ministers are acting like dictators by cancelling MORE local elections – Keir is running a banana republic, Farage slams
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/37678959/ministers-acting-dictators-cancelling-local-election/
Venezuela bound.
