“Does Mad Ed have a plan for reducing CO2 emissions from humans?”
Only if he ignorant of the natural carbon cycle ….
The CO2 humans and animals exhale comes from the plants we eat. Plants captured that carbon from the atmosphere via photosynthesis just months or years prior. Therefore, breathing is part of a fast-cycling, balanced system—the carbon is simply being recycled, not added to the total.
A good response Tom – you got me for a bit, however Mr AI on googs
says this…..
Methane produced by cows is generally considered part of a natural, short-term carbon cycle (often called the biogenic carbon cycle), which differentiates it from the methane produced by fossil fuel extraction. However, this does not mean it is “outside” of the climate change issue, as the massive, concentrated scale of modern livestock farming creates an imbalance that contributes to global warming.
AB ignores that food is not magically planted, cultivated, fertilized and harvested. Without man made fertilizers about 50% of us starve in a season, Without fossil fuel use for farming, refrigeration, transportation and distribution half of the remainder starve.
Is there any danger of the UK collapsing into an economic depression?
Of course.
We have an economy that is 80% services (much of that being financial services). That can all very easily move elsewhere (Asia, Ireland, North America, the cloud).
Apart from services, even some manufacturing plants already physically moved to China (e.g. MG, and BMW’s electric Mini) which proves even bricks-and-mortar count for very little.
But “collapse” sounds dramatic and unignorable—the sort of thing that would bring people into the street. The lesson of history, e.g. Argentina, is that the economy will just get a little bit more crappy year after year and people will carp about it but no one will man any barricades nor heat any pitchforks.
We have an economy that is 80% services (much of that being financial services). That can all very easily move elsewhere (Asia, Ireland, North America, the cloud).
Then you don’t know that services includes restaurants, plumbers, and a whole host of other services that cannot be relocated. Most services are local. If you think financial services are the bulk of services, you are mistaken.
You have to remember even as things get from bad to worse: The People always…lose. Barricades and pitchforks are for show. Robespierre knew that. Use the people’s disgruntlement energy for yr own benefit: every populist rising ie: the populist delusion. Happening in theatres close to you. No need to spell it out, me thinks..
Is there any danger of the UK collapsing into an economic depression?
Yes.
if current energy and climate policies are continued through 2030 its quite likely that will happen in the early thirties. The energy policies will reduce electricity supply, the climate policies will increase demand, and where the two meet there is likely to be rationing and/or blackouts, and that may bring both an economic and fiscal crisis and landslides for extreme right populism. If elections are not cancelled. It could get bad enough for that.
I say ‘may’ happen. Its not certain at all, and there may be fudges and backdowns, and something may turn up. As Yogi Berra said, prediction is difficult especially when its about the future. But its certainly possible and getting more likely the longer Miliband is in post and unopposed.
Watch for how Reform does on Feb 26 in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Straws in the wind.
I have a collection GISTEMP’s Land Ocean Temperature Index LOTI that is complete since 2016 except for September 2025. Does any one out there have a copy?
The bottom line would be filled out to show a value for Sep and not for Oct to Dec
2025 137 125 136 123 107 105 101 114 **** **** **** **** **** *** 130 122 107 **** 2025
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec J-D D-N DJF MAM JJA SON Year
After checking the Wayback Machine, and being surprised it jumped from August to October 2025, I checked my “~/Downloads” directory.
I copied a “GISS_0825.data” file on the 13th of September and a “GISS_1025.data” file on the 15th of November.
It would appear the GISTEMP LOTI file for September 2025 was a victim of the various “shutdown” knock-on effects in multiple US government agencies last autumn.
In a scientific context it is always a bad sign when the reaction to requests for data and/or methodology is “Why do you want that ?”.
E.g. Phil Jones to Warwick Hughes back in February 2005 :
“Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.”
Aside from the biological problem of him “just knowing” what the (unknown by him personally) requester’s motivation was, the reaction of many “Real Scientists” to his response was along the lines of :
“Errrrrm … because that is how The Scientific Method works [ you idiot ] !”
Whatever (valid) emotional reasons he may have had for responding as he did, the fact that “a professional scientist” phrased it in that manner came back to bite him.
Steve, I might suggest identifying another database that supplies similar monthly results, doing a least-squares regression on the available, paired September data in the two databases, and then using the equation for the trend line to predict what the missing September value probably is. If using an Excel spreadsheet, note in the comment cell that it is an estimated, not measured, monthly average. It might warrant carrying one less significant figure in the estimate, depending on the R^2 value of the correlation.
Alternatively, you might want to just use the average of the August and October 2025 GISTEMP averages.
If it were my database, I would also code that particular cell with yellow background as a precautionary flag. In any case, provide an audit trail for yourself and others showing clearly that it is an estimate and how it was derived, in case of your sudden and unexpected demise. 🙂
Fred Smith
February 1, 2026 2:25 am
The ABC is at it again…the end of the world is near, Australia is boiling, despite 14°C temperature at the Australian open tonight in Melbourne:
Putting one crap conjecture drive unvalidated model against another crap conjecture driven unvalidated model and pulling out percentages, is the very opposite of any real science.
Weather attribution models are totally BOGUS and useful only for propaganda.
Meanwhile, eastern Canada and the USA (deep into the old south) are buried under a cold snow. Dallas TX temp went to 19°F (-7°C). Just east, 20 miles, of Lake Ontario the Tug Hill Plateau has 65 inches of snow. map3.jpg (400×321)
Same here in NY. I hope Bruce Blakeman can make a successful case for governor. Not sure yet that he is expressing the energy issue effectively. And of course, the headwinds against any R candidate are daunting.
Consider the importance of precipitable water in the atmosphere. The modelers of the general circulation know this is a big deal. Here at this web page you can keep clicking on the center of the image to toggle through various viewpoints for the entire globe. This is a representation of the average for the current day from the NOAA Global Forecast System (GFS).
The values range from near zero to a bit over 60 kg/m^2. A value of 25 kg/m^2 represents a latent energy of water vapor of 17,400 W-h/m^2.
So what? The atmosphere is a steam-heated circulator, and it can operate at power intensity levels many times greater than the incident solar radiation at, say, 1361 W/m^2. A 25mm per hour rate of rainfall in a thunderstorm, for example, represents a conversion rate of 17,400 W/m^2 from latent energy to internal energy, which then drives powerful motion.
We live in a water world. There is no good physical reason to have ever expected the minor improvement in the IR absorbing power of the atmosphere in the 2XCO2 case to end up requiring a sensible heat gain on land and in the oceans to stay in balance. The water cycle is far too powerful to allow it.
One more thing. There was never any way to isolate a “water vapor amplification” characteristic for incremental IR-active trace gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) from within the ongoing conditions. It was a mistake from the start to have claimed so, and to have tuned the models to show such a result.
“The atmosphere is a steam-heated circulator, and it can operate at power intensity levels many times greater than the incident solar radiation at, say, 1361 W/m^2.” “The water cycle is far too powerful to allow it.”
No, moist convection is not taking place at any one time over the entire globe …
“While total cloud cover on Earth averages around 67–70% at any given moment, the specific areal percentage covered by cumulonimbus clouds is relatively small, usually estimated to be in the low single digits, despite their massive vertical extent“
Whereas solar SW is at play over half the globe at any one time and downwelling LWIR over the entire globe 100% of the time.
Anthony didn’t get it…clouds are white…clouds reflect sunlight….oceans are dark, absorb SW…where there are clouds, they mostly got to altitude by convection of moist air….easy peasy…oddly there is about the same % of cloud cover as % ocean on our planet….should be a good hint as to what drives atmospheric phenomena….
It is more complex than that. Oceans are transparent to light arriving near vertical, but deep enough to absorb all that light except near the shores. Oceans only appear dark because one has to be in a special viewing position to see the reflected light. Near the terminator, with say 85% of the light reflected forward, only 15% enters the water, so there is little available light to reflect diffusely off suspended particles or shallow bottoms. Thus, it will look dark to most observers despite reflecting 85% of the light impinging.
Yup, oceans don’t reflect much, especially IR. In the real world, your case of 85% reflection is rare enough to be considered a photo-op to our SW sensitive eyes. Ripples and waves…if you observe at the beach…make the ocean horizon dark….due to absorption, not reflection. The usual Fresnel reflection equations are entirely incorrect for a surface with ripples at low incidence angles.
The effect depends on the scale one is using. The visible effect, when waves are present, is to spread out the reflected light instead of being confined to a thin sheaf. It isn’t just our eyes that are important, it is the sum or integral of all the light that impinges on the surface and is subsequently reflected.
At the limit of a glancing angle, ALL wavelengths approach 100% reflectance. It is only at small angles of incidence (near Normal) that IR is absorbed strongly. It is all about geometry and index of refraction, which varies with the wavelength of the EM energy striking an object..
There are places all over the Earth, every day, every second, that has reflectivity of 85% and more, which is near the terminator.
Your example picture confirms what I am saying. The still water looks dark because in the foreground, the water is reflecting the dark-blue sky, the middle-ground is reflecting the dark-green conifers, and sitting between the two is a reflection of the snow-covered mountain that I would estimate has a reflectivity of about about 70%. The snow reflects diffusely a total of about 85%, of which only a fraction can be observed from the position of the camera. On the other hand, the water is specularly reflecting about 50-60% of the diffusely reflected light coming from the snow.
“You have no warming GHE cloud at night, only reduced cooling, that isn’t same as warming”
The GHE effect is at play 24 hours a day from GHGs in the atmosphere (WV, CO2,CH4 etc).
Good job to as the planet would freeze in a few weeks otherwise
Cloud is an enhanced GHE.
Not noticed how when it encroaches on an otherwise clear, cold start to a night it can melt away ground frost, lift fog, by raising air temperature.
I have innumerable times, professionally.
“you miss the albedo, don’t you?”.
No, that’s implicit in the “Whereas solar SW is at play over half the globe at any one time”
.in fact it is a drop in albedo because of a drop of cloud cover that caused the increase in absorbed solar energy that is responsible for most of the warming this century.. It fed the energy for the two major El Nino events.
It is also true that the specular reflection off the oceans, lakes, and rivers changes with the angle of incidence, varying between about 2% to a limit of 100%. The surface water that is available for specular reflection is also determined by the cloud cover, and the diffuse reflectance from the clouds also has semi-transparency determined by thickness (they are never opaque), and an angular dependence as well, albeit not as significant as for specular. To do a rigorous calculation of the total reflectivity, one needs to have the specific coverage of clouds with respect to the underlying water, their semi-transparency, the BRDF for the cloud cover for all angles of incidence and diffuse reflectance, the amount and specific location of open water and the reflectivity for every spot exposed to sunlight; typical imaging satellites only measure retro-reflectance. All those variations have to be integrated over the illuminated surface and cloud deck.
Calculations based on averages are very inaccurate because of the highly non-linear nature of Fresnel’s Equation for specular reflection and the ubiquitous forward lobe of the diffuse BRDF models, especially snow. Even measurements do a poor job of capturing the forward reflectance because that light, whether from specular of diffuse reflectors, leaves Earth. What we currently rely on is, at best, a first-order estimate of a very heterogeneous, non-linear system for reflected SW solar energy.
The outgoing, LW IR isn’t characterized much better because of the dependency on the 4th-power of the temperature on the emitted IR. I’m not of the opinion that it is always handled properly, particularly since the Specific Heat Capacity of water is so much greater than terrestrial materials and air. The calculated peak for outgoing IR emissions form bare ground in the Summer is always going to be a shorter wavelength than for oceans (~70% coverage) at the same latitude. It is not an insignificant error using the average 2m-air temperature for the whole globe because of the 4th-power Stephen-Boltzmann relationship. A rigorous analysis would use the water temperature and land temperature for every square meter of the surface, integrated over 10 or 20-minute steps. We don’t come close to meeting stringent requirements like that. There are many parameters, particularly cloud energy exchanges, that are estimates, while others such as foreward reflections that are ignored, and similarly poor estimates for outgoing LW IR.
“There was never any way to isolate a “water vapor amplification” characteristic for incremental IR-active trace gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) from within the ongoing conditions.”
It’s always been part of the Great Unknown. It’s only been climate science’s use of a cloudy crystal ball that has allowed “quantifying” it – “quantifying” meaning ASSUMING the value needed to make their hypothesis work.
strativarius
February 1, 2026 2:51 am
Look out, George Orwell…
Berkeley’s latest pedagogical innovation teaches undergraduates the fine art of flood-the-zone narrative management and associated memory-holing as a means to “preserve” history.
Professor of Ethnic Studies Juana María Rodríguez has cracked the code that eluded educational reformers for decades: how to train students to rewrite history while convincing them they’re documenting it. Her Wikipedia editing initiative has generated over 300,000 edits to LGBTQ+ articles, which is impressive output for the Ministry of Truth’s Junior Varsity squad.
“We’re not changing history,” Rodriguez explained while literally changing history. “We’re just correcting Wikipedia’s heteronormative bias by having ideologically uniform students systematically revise articles according to our approved narrative framework.”
In George Orwell’s 1984, this was called “rectifying.” On Wikipedia, it’s called “improving coverage”. Babbling Beaver
Had you bothered to follow the links you would have learned that..
Beginning in 2016, professor Juana María Rodríguez has assigned her students to create and edit Wikipedia articles about LGBTQ+ people, with a particular focus on queer and transgender people of color.
“We’re not changing history,” Rodriguez explained while literally changing history. “We’re just correcting Wikipedia’s heteronormative bias by having ideologically uniform students systematically revise articles according to our approved narrative framework.”
A second source other than the Daily Californian? Is that a far right newspaper?
UC Berkeley students add more than 300,000 Wikipedia edits documenting LGBTQ+ history.Daily Californian
Wikipedia as resistance: This UC Berkeley class makes queer contributions visible At a time when information about LGBTQ people and their histories is being erased from public view, students are documenting them in the world’s largest encyclopedia. – Berkeley
Best of three, five, seven? You are exhibiting a kind of denial….
The quote isn’t in the Californian. And I’m not saying she is working on making histories of LGBTQ people more visible – which is a good thing.
But the quote from the Beaver and your inital post paint a complete different picture:
“We’re not changing history,” Rodriguez explained while literally changing history. “We’re just correcting Wikipedia’s heteronormative bias by having ideologically uniform students systematically revise articles according to our approved narrative framework.”
That’s putting words in her mouth that she never said. In a language that should rile up people against her work.
And that’s the fake news part.
I’m not saying she is working on making histories of LGBTQ people more visible – which is a good thing.
I am the straightest person you will ever meet, but if I were L, G, or B, which are all real things, I’d be furious at being lumped in the the mentally ill TQ-etc alphabet-people all the time. You’re not being inclusive, you are being offensive.
Same-sex sexual behaviour has attracted the attention of many scientists working in disparate areas, from sociology and psychology to behavioural and evolutionary biology. Since it does not contribute directly to reproduction, same-sex sexual behaviour is considered an evolutionary conundrum. Here, using phylogenetic analyses, we explore the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in mammals. – Nature
Why not put the scientists right? Mammals are making a choice…
Adhering to the behavior of a low-reproductive-rate mutation of evolution, the best that one can hope for is that the normal evolutionary path will out-breed the anomalies. That is to say, it is unlikely that those who are the anomalous products of reproduction will ever amount to more than a minority of the population because even if they convince others to follow in their path, the converts will similarly have low rates of reproduction. Those who advocate homosexual behavior, even if they are bisexual, will have fewer opportunities to reproduce. Clearly, the heterosexual faction will out-breed the minority. That is basically what drives evolution. Those that are more fit for the environment will outbreed those who are less fit. The behavior is, long-term, destructive to the survival of the anomalies. They probably haven’t given that much thought.
I find my best use of Wikipedia is when I read a news article about some violent criminal being set free on no bail despite the submissions of police & prosecutors to detain the crim, and I then go to Wiki to confirm my suspicion about the judge, and yep, they’re an Obama or a Biden appointed judge.
I know, I know . .
this is so predictable it’s not necessary to check with Wikipedia, but occasionally I get a surprise.
Looks to me that Berkeley can correct history by removing Juana.
Westfieldmike
February 1, 2026 3:47 am
Here is some news about Oxford.
Labour council brings in ‘perverse’ 15-minute driving rules – it could roll out across UK
Labour ministers have drawn up plans to hand councils powers to bring in 15-minute cities branded ‘Stalinist’ and ‘perverse’.
By Aaron Newbury
10:18, Sun, Jan 25, 2026 Updated: 10:41, Sun, Jan 25, 2026
Sir Keir Starmer will introduce 15-minute cities across the country with critics slamming them as ‘Stalinist’ and ‘perverse’ , it has been revealed.…
15-minute cities are a new concept based on the idea that a person living in one will be able to access everything they need within a quarter of an hour by walking or cycling. They are sometimes accompanied by restrictions on motorists.
Oxford, which is actively implementing a plan to introduce the scheme, has seen its local authority plot to divide the city into six “15-minute neighbourhoods”. This would see drivers needing to secure a permit for residents so that they could travel for 100 days for free through the traffic filters in the city.
A separate permit would allow just 25 days of free travel, with drivers hit with fines should they move around the city beyond those allocated days.
Like everything – bar one single thing – that was u-turned on in days – see mad Ed. That one thing… what could it be that he would never u-turn on? International law and the supremacy of non-native human rights over the rights of the native population.
Example: Two tier self-determination Greenland – Greenlanders must be allowed to determine their own future. Chagos – The Chagossians will have to do whatever they are told to satisfy China.
It’s not April 1st is it?
Not knowing if this is sarc you are advocating it as true !?
What bollocks.
Then why are tropical (humid) nights hot?
And desert nights cold?
Why does it not become frosty on a cloudy night in winter when it’s overcast?
A foggy night stops surface cooling as it’s GHE separates the ground from space an instead cooling continues from the fog top.
(like the stratosphere cooling amid the present warming troposphere).
FYI: H2O and H2O vapour are the same in being water.
Just that clouds are WV condensed onto hygroscopic nuclei
Clouds are optically thick and therefore block some solar SW.
Both are present in the atmosphere in quantities directly related to temperature described by the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. WV and hence clouds are a feedback of global temperature.
As I explained they are both H2O.
A skeptic that does know that they are ?
And as such absorb terrestrial LWIR.
Which is the point at hand.
Not your desperate attempt to disparage something you cannot rebut with a sensible relevant point.
The 2nd in the play-book after resorting to a typo.
Mr Gans.
FYI: I spent many a shift at the MetO both observing and forecasting the formation/clearance of fog, both the freezing and non freezing kind.
Also FYI: Even though the fog may be freezing, most usually there is no frost on the ground due the ground heat flux keeping the surface above freezing, it not being able the escape to space due the GHE of the water droplets/WV.
What will freeze though (by deposition of water droplets is anything lifted away from the surface such as vegetation). That’s called rime.
They play a part as well, yes but the primary effect is the GHE :
Google AI:
The greenhouse effect (specifically driven by high concentrations of atmospheric water vapor) has the greatest effect on keeping tropical nights warm.
While all three factors play a role, the greenhouse effect acts as the primary, continuous “blanket” that prevents the significant heat absorbed during the day from escaping into space.
…, it comes with limited resolution and only 13 data points.
There is a general Rule of Thumb that one should have at least 20-30 samples for doing reliable statistical analyses. There are, of course, more reliable ways of testing the veracity of conclusions, but they aren’t always provided. However, when I looked at those 13 data points, I felt that the slope of the trend line didn’t properly represent the trend of the point cloud, which is what one is generally interested in, not just minimizing the dependent-variable residuals.
Chung et al 2010 has over 40 data points, but very much the same problem. In fact I have been analyzing that scatter plot more deeply afterwards.
They have a total spread of ~2.75K for the monthly global temperature anomaly within the years 1985-1988. In the gistemp record coldest and warmest month then were just 0.61K(!!!) apart
They used clear sky sampling. While that theoretically could explain that much larger, random spread (actually not), it is illicit just for that reason. It flattens the slope
Clear sky sampling does away with clouds. Clouds are the main “communicator” (over 50%) of neg. lapse rate feedback, because of their high emission altitude. That too illicitly flattens the slope
The two outliers are statistically speaking impossible. The left outlier stands at 5.37times the standard deviation of the other data point x-values. That is equivalent to a jackpot in the lottery.
Then the illicit OLS regression they used does actually not give a slope of 2.4, but 2.6! I checked this thoroughly. They just made it up, lol. That is because they wanted to be consistent with the 2-2.3 range they had with the other proxies and model output
The proper TLS regression, as named, gives a slope of 3.55 over the whole scatter plot, despite all the blunders named, thereby indicating a no feedback response
With the two implausible outliers, the TLS slope is 4.7, indicating a strong negative feedback, despite “clear sky sampling”
It is easy to see the problem. All these scatter plots consistently show about 6W/m2/K as actual slope, meaning a strong neg. feedback. Chung et al had to use all kinds of tricks to overcome this problem and reverse the sign..
Scissor
February 1, 2026 4:47 am
No Kings. Gestop global warming. Open a Somali childcare and solar farm.
That’s really progressive – and much like Charlie.
Khat or Qat – a plant whose leaves have been chewed by east Africans for hundreds of years – is said to provide a sensation between cannabis and cocaine. It is also legal, and freely sold in Gleneagle Road – the heart of Streatham’s Somali community. But a community leader, who wanted to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation within a close-knit community divided over Khat, has said it is “destroying lives in the same way as drugs” and should be outlawed, as it is in the US and large parts of Europe. – Local News
Little Somalia – just over a mile from where I live…
Just like the Papua New Guinea natives chew betel nut for their buzz.
(I’m cool with that- whatever folks want to stuff in their gobs is not my concern, but after they’ve chewed the betel nut, they just spit that bright red shit all over the footpath, looks like the floor of an abatoir. Disgusting. )
Scissor
February 1, 2026 5:15 am
“Virtually everything the Democratic Party does these days is grounded in some sort of deceit. That’s true of a lot of politics generally, and Republicans have their own cowardly versions of it, but the Democrats have made it their modus operandi.”
Favor please, On the page below, Mauna Loa Transmission, the beginning of the paragraph under the plot in blue letters “available here”, it used to bring up the text data, now it says Forbidden.
I thought it might be because of the partial government shutdown, so I checked. Apparently they (or someone/something) hate you as it works fine for me.
Yes, Colorado is on the warm side of the jet stream.
And the jet stream is funneling cold arctic air into the Eastern U.S. all the way down to Florida, on the cold side.
The year 1934 was the hottest year in the 1930’s, and 1936 was the second hottest. And even though 1936 saw record high temperatures in the summer of 1936, it also had record cold temperatures during the winter of 1936.
I saw on the news today that parts of Florida may break their record cold temperatures tonight, records that were set in 1936.
So we can get record warm temperatures and record cold temperatures all in the same year. It all depends on how the jet stream is configured. It has nothing to do with CO2.
Elon Musk—you know, President Trump’s one-time BFF—appears to have given up on the virtue signaling inherent in producing and selling EVs to offset “mankind’s emissions of CO2”, now pivoting Tesla to focus on producing RAPs (robots for the average person), with the first generation of such named “Optimus” (which is incidentally very fitting if you think about it, and even know a bit of film lore).
Is it strange that this happened just four months after the US federal tax credit for new and used electric vehicle purchases expired?
Or maybe the fact that BYD became the world’s largest manufacturer of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) based on full-year 2024 had something to do with it, when they overtook Tesla in total volume and with vehicle pricing far undercutting Tesla.
I understand that Musk has stated that Tesla will be continuing to provide factor service support to owners of Tesla vehicles . . . we’ll see how that goes . . . if Tesla ever had a Department of Efficiency, it’s likely that there won’t be a lot of spare parts laying around.
Elon is about three steps ahead of the legacy auto companies and other manufactures. Maybe you thought he was a car guy?
Stellantis, Ford, and GM having been stuffing Tesla with $$ since the Roadster was launched in 2008, while playing catchup. Musk was never wedded to personal autos, that’s just where the money was – note the past tense.
Is there an advantage to being “three steps ahead” when the direction you’re heading is a cliff?
No, I didn’t “think” Elon Musk was just a car guy . . . he is the current CEO of Tesla, Inc., and well as being the past head of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for all of 130 days, not even fulfilling his 180-day appointment to that position.
And Musk himself is quite cleat that he wasn’t really “wedded to personal autos” (notwithstanding his displayed affection for his beloved Cybertruck), instead being “wedded” to his/SpaceX’s, IMHO, sophomoric plans to have humans colonize Mars.
With all their massive supply of coal-fired electricity and really good high speed train network.. it actually makes sense for China to replace its choking 2-stroke motorbikes with small electric cars.
Does not make sense in the USA, or Australia…
And in the UK and Europe, they are often borderline on electricity supply as it is. !
That’s nice to know, but I thought China was doing fine with bicycles. Looks like I need an update on that . . . and especially their electrical grid infrastructure.
Corruption of Canada’s official temperature data sets.
Just one issue as an example –
~ 10,000 instances where days TMins were greater than TMax.
Using the data from ECCC for hundreds of stations across the country, scientists had previously calculated that the surface air temperature has increased 1-2 degrees Celsius over the past six to seven decades in Canada.
Yet in 1998, the exact year in which 72 Canadian reference climatological stations were first added to the Global Climate Observing System, a sudden stepwise increase of approximately 1 degree Celsius occurred at most stations across the country.
Believe is religion.
Think is opinion
Know is science.
Here’s what I know.
You know different?
RGHE theory founders on two erroneous assumptions.
First error: that near Earth space is cold and the atmosphere/RGHE act as a warming blanket.
That is incorrect.
Near Earth space is hot (400 K, 127 C, 260 F) and the atmosphere/water vapor/albedo act as that cooling reflective panel propped up on the car’s dash.
Second error: Earth’s surface radiates as a near Black Body. USCRN & SURFRAD data are calibrated, i.e. “tweaked“ to conform to that assumption thereby creating “extra” “back” radiation.
That is incorrect.
IR instruments are calibrated to deliver a referenced & relative temperature while power flux is inferred using S-B equation and assuming an emissivity. Assuming 1.0 assumes wrong. TFK_bams09 shows surface emissivity as 0.16 = 63/396 which zeroes out “back” RGHE radiation.
RGHE joins caloric, phlogiston, spontaneous generation, luminiferous ether, et al in science’s dust bin of failed theories.
More albedo and the Earth cools.
Less albedo and the Earth warms.
No albedo and Earth becomes much like the Moon, a barren rock ball, 400 K lit side, 100 K dark.
Geoengineering contradicts RGHE which is why it gets snipped.
Does anyone else subscribe to updates for replies?
The “from” address suddenly changed a few days ago, and since then I am NOT getting all updates. I know this because I’ve read some that have replies that I never got. Is anyone else experiencing this?
I’ll also note that just before this happened, I was getting a LOT of the notifications flagged as spam.
(Moderators – possible something glitched with the change?)
In March 2018 it was being predicted that Cape Town was about to run out of water. The city was facing Day Zero. The residents faced a calamity in the city and province because of climate change and worse droughts. National Geographic was one of the alarmist voices.
Why Cape Town is running out of water
National Geographic
March 5, 2018
What happened after this report? There were seven years of good winter rainfall and the dams were overflowing. Last year the rainfall was lower and the dams reached only 92.6% by the end of the rainseason. This was the eighth year in a row. You would think the alarmists would hang their heads in shame but no. An article recently appeared in one of the papers “Cape Town Day Zero fears: Residents face possible water restrictions if usage remains high” The reporter did not bother to do his homework. The dams were at 61.1% at the end of January and the winter rain season begins around end of March.
The problem is not a climate problem but a people one. As the population is swelling little effort has been made by central government – that has the responsibility for dams – to build more to capture the plentiful rainfall. Repairing leaking pipes, maintaining pumping stations, having reliable supply of electricity for these is being neglected. In a number of big cities in South Africa people are having serious water problems despite the level of the dams across the country being at 93% and most of the country with two more summer rainfall months.
The government needs to fix and maintain the water supply system and not obsess about climate change. They have bought into the renewables scam while they have abundant cheap fossil fuels. For years the country used to have a reliable supply of cheap electricity but corruption, mismanagement and incomptence plus falling for the climate nonsense has proved very costly and destroyed much of a vibrant economy.
Beta Blocker
February 1, 2026 12:26 pm
I may live out here in the Middle of Nowhere, Eastern Washington State, but I do have close relatives living in Manhattan, on Long Island, and in upstate New York. So let’s take a quick look at New York state politics in the upcoming 2026 governor’s race.
New York Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado is running against incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul for the Democratic Party nomination. Whomever gets that nomination will be the next governor of the state. (I wish things were different in NYS, since my grandfather grew up there. But it is what it is.)
Antonio Delgado is a political ally and philosophical fellow traveler of Zohran Mamdani. The socialist-communist agenda Mamdani is pushing in New York City can’t be achieved without direct cooperation and permission from New York state government.
Governor Hochul refuses to give Mayor Mamdani the support he needs to raise taxes on the rich, to fully implement his Net Zero climate justice agenda, and to approve other items on his agenda such as free bus fares for NYC residents.
If Mamdani is to pursue his socialist-communist agenda for New York City, then Antonio Delgado must become governor of New York state, and the downstate faction of the Democratic Party must take full control of the state party organization.
Delgado’s allies in the downstate faction ran a highly effective campaign in electing Zohran Mamdani as mayor of NYC.
They had the messaging, they had the money, they had the organization, they had the committed volunteers, and they had the ground game. The same campaign strategy, the same campaign team, and the same ground game will be used against Governor Hochul in the upcoming primary.
Now, if I were Governor Hochul, I’d be running scared. And I’d be doing things like wooing upstate voters with lofty promises such as committing to build 5 GW of nuclear power in their upstate legislative districts.
Governor Hochul hasn’t got a clue how she is going to fulfill that particular promise. On the other hand, maybe if she talks nicely to President Trump, he will grant New York some part of the billions of dollars of federal money he intends to spend in the next three years on reviving America’s nuclear industry.
The ugly side of net zero is in full view in Aberdeen. And still the brothers and sisters don’t get it.
Unions Turn on Ed Miliband and Labour Over Net Zero as the Tragedy of Aberdeen Unfolds https://dailysceptic.org/2026/02/01/unions-turn-on-ed-miliband-and-labour-over-net-zero-as-the-tragedy-of-aberdeen-unfolds/
It’s nothing short of criminal.
Is there any danger of the UK collapsing into an economic depression?
The humans of the UK exhale ca. 68 million kilograms of CO2 everyday. Does Mad Ed have a plan for reducing CO2 emissions from humans?
Why does soda pop, beer, and French champagne get a free pass on the emission of CO2?
“Does Mad Ed have a plan for reducing CO2 emissions from humans?”
Only if he ignorant of the natural carbon cycle ….
The CO2 humans and animals exhale comes from the plants we eat. Plants captured that carbon from the atmosphere via photosynthesis just months or years prior. Therefore, breathing is part of a fast-cycling, balanced system—the carbon is simply being recycled, not added to the total.
And with a proven ECS of ~1C CO2 is a life enhancing gamechanger. How green was my valley? Not as green as it is now.
Will you please chime in with this thought the next time we have an article critical of letting cows live?
A good response Tom – you got me for a bit, however Mr AI on googs
says this…..
Methane produced by cows is generally considered part of a natural, short-term carbon cycle (often called the biogenic carbon cycle), which differentiates it from the methane produced by fossil fuel extraction. However, this does not mean it is “outside” of the climate change issue, as the massive, concentrated scale of modern livestock farming creates an imbalance that contributes to global warming.
So dunno
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/06/the-misguided-crusade-to-reduce-anthropogenic-methane-emissions/
AB ignores that food is not magically planted, cultivated, fertilized and harvested. Without man made fertilizers about 50% of us starve in a season, Without fossil fuel use for farming, refrigeration, transportation and distribution half of the remainder starve.
Irrelevant:
Human ingestion and excretion (air, waste).
Is a part ofnthe nature carbon cycle.
Whether picked from nature or farmed.
Recycling carbon is true for eating meat as well as flora. there’s just a third party added to the cycle. Recycle your CO2, eat Beef and pork!
Cows cannot “put out” more “carbon” than they “take in”
They are “carbon neutral”
Anyone wanting to “constrain” them because of “carbon” is a totally clueless and deranged idiot.. ie a Miliband.
He’s an ignorant twonk on every subject.
It looks like he relies on AI LLMs to educate him as the need arises.
Every danger, Harold.
Yes, the annual UK growth rate is down to 0.1 percent, so it is not far from going into negative territory.
Mad Ed and his political party are gutting the UK economy with their Net Zero insanity.
The UK i newspaper asked pollsters BMG to carry out a survey of who people thought should replace Starmer as PM. Glad to say Mad Ed got only 3%
‘i Weekend’ 31 Jan 2026
Of course.
We have an economy that is 80% services (much of that being financial services). That can all very easily move elsewhere (Asia, Ireland, North America, the cloud).
Apart from services, even some manufacturing plants already physically moved to China (e.g. MG, and BMW’s electric Mini) which proves even bricks-and-mortar count for very little.
But “collapse” sounds dramatic and unignorable—the sort of thing that would bring people into the street. The lesson of history, e.g. Argentina, is that the economy will just get a little bit more crappy year after year and people will carp about it but no one will man any barricades nor heat any pitchforks.
Societies sleepwalking into their own demise would not be a new experience for the human species.
Then you don’t know that services includes restaurants, plumbers, and a whole host of other services that cannot be relocated. Most services are local. If you think financial services are the bulk of services, you are mistaken.
Since Brexit, the UK’s financial services now only account for about 7% of the UK’s Gross Value Added (GVA).
You have to remember even as things get from bad to worse: The People always…lose. Barricades and pitchforks are for show. Robespierre knew that. Use the people’s disgruntlement energy for yr own benefit: every populist rising ie: the populist delusion. Happening in theatres close to you. No need to spell it out, me thinks..
Is there any danger of the UK collapsing into an economic depression?
Yes.
if current energy and climate policies are continued through 2030 its quite likely that will happen in the early thirties. The energy policies will reduce electricity supply, the climate policies will increase demand, and where the two meet there is likely to be rationing and/or blackouts, and that may bring both an economic and fiscal crisis and landslides for extreme right populism. If elections are not cancelled. It could get bad enough for that.
I say ‘may’ happen. Its not certain at all, and there may be fudges and backdowns, and something may turn up. As Yogi Berra said, prediction is difficult especially when its about the future. But its certainly possible and getting more likely the longer Miliband is in post and unopposed.
Watch for how Reform does on Feb 26 in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Straws in the wind.
“if current energy and climate policies are continued through 2030 its quite likely that will happen in the early thirties.”
Unfortunately, we are also seeing a re-run of 1930s geopolitics…
(Similar script – different actors).
That turned out well !!! (sarc)
“it’s” please… not its… thanks.
Not just the economy.
The whole of the UK is bloody depressing
I have a collection GISTEMP’s Land Ocean Temperature Index LOTI that is complete since 2016 except for September 2025. Does any one out there have a copy?
The bottom line would be filled out to show a value for Sep and not for Oct to Dec
2025 137 125 136 123 107 105 101 114 **** **** **** **** **** *** 130 122 107 **** 2025
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec J-D D-N DJF MAM JJA SON Year
No.
After checking the Wayback Machine, and being surprised it jumped from August to October 2025, I checked my “~/Downloads” directory.
I copied a “GISS_0825.data” file on the 13th of September and a “GISS_1025.data” file on the 15th of November.
It would appear the GISTEMP LOTI file for September 2025 was a victim of the various “shutdown” knock-on effects in multiple US government agencies last autumn.
Google AI says
According to NASA GISS, the September 2025 release of the Land-Ocean Temperature Index (LOTI) was not published due to a government shutdown.
Shoulda gone there first.
Thanks for your efforts.
Why do you want to know this info?
“Why do you want to know this info?”
It’s called “curiosity”.
In a scientific context it is always a bad sign when the reaction to requests for data and/or methodology is “Why do you want that ?”.
E.g. Phil Jones to Warwick Hughes back in February 2005 :
“Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.”
Aside from the biological problem of him “just knowing” what the (unknown by him personally) requester’s motivation was, the reaction of many “Real Scientists” to his response was along the lines of :
“Errrrrm … because that is how The Scientific Method works [ you idiot ] !”
Whatever (valid) emotional reasons he may have had for responding as he did, the fact that “a professional scientist” phrased it in that manner came back to bite him.
Harold may just be expressing curiosity about the intended use of the data as he regularly follows the topic.
“Harold may just be expressing curiosity about …”
True.
I still prefer your
approach below compared to limiting a response to
Steve, I might suggest identifying another database that supplies similar monthly results, doing a least-squares regression on the available, paired September data in the two databases, and then using the equation for the trend line to predict what the missing September value probably is. If using an Excel spreadsheet, note in the comment cell that it is an estimated, not measured, monthly average. It might warrant carrying one less significant figure in the estimate, depending on the R^2 value of the correlation.
Alternatively, you might want to just use the average of the August and October 2025 GISTEMP averages.
If it were my database, I would also code that particular cell with yellow background as a precautionary flag. In any case, provide an audit trail for yourself and others showing clearly that it is an estimate and how it was derived, in case of your sudden and unexpected demise. 🙂
The ABC is at it again…the end of the world is near, Australia is boiling, despite 14°C temperature at the Australian open tonight in Melbourne:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-23/climate-change-increased-australian-heatwave-january-study/106253192
Yep, the temperature went up, then it went down in the space of a week.
Therefore “climate change!!” 😱😫
How much more proof do we need?
(/sarc)
Putting one crap conjecture drive unvalidated model against another crap conjecture driven unvalidated model and pulling out percentages, is the very opposite of any real science.
Weather attribution models are totally BOGUS and useful only for propaganda.
A conjecture report from “World Weather Attribution” again, huh?
Maybe realists should start up a group called –
“World Weather Bullshit Attribution”
Meanwhile, eastern Canada and the USA (deep into the old south) are buried under a cold snow. Dallas TX temp went to 19°F (-7°C). Just east, 20 miles, of Lake Ontario the Tug Hill Plateau has 65 inches of snow.
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Interesting statistics on rapidly rising electricity prices in New England. An election issue.
https://www.cfact.org/2026/01/31/poll-finds-new-england-women-feel-misled-about-climate/
Same here in NY. I hope Bruce Blakeman can make a successful case for governor. Not sure yet that he is expressing the energy issue effectively. And of course, the headwinds against any R candidate are daunting.
Consider the importance of precipitable water in the atmosphere. The modelers of the general circulation know this is a big deal. Here at this web page you can keep clicking on the center of the image to toggle through various viewpoints for the entire globe. This is a representation of the average for the current day from the NOAA Global Forecast System (GFS).
https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/?var_id=pwtr&ortho=1&wt=1
The values range from near zero to a bit over 60 kg/m^2. A value of 25 kg/m^2 represents a latent energy of water vapor of 17,400 W-h/m^2.
So what? The atmosphere is a steam-heated circulator, and it can operate at power intensity levels many times greater than the incident solar radiation at, say, 1361 W/m^2. A 25mm per hour rate of rainfall in a thunderstorm, for example, represents a conversion rate of 17,400 W/m^2 from latent energy to internal energy, which then drives powerful motion.
This is one reason why the “vertical integral of energy conversion” values can be so much greater than the incident sunshine.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PDJP3F3rteoP99lR53YKp2fzuaza7Niz?usp=drive_link
We live in a water world. There is no good physical reason to have ever expected the minor improvement in the IR absorbing power of the atmosphere in the 2XCO2 case to end up requiring a sensible heat gain on land and in the oceans to stay in balance. The water cycle is far too powerful to allow it.
One more thing. There was never any way to isolate a “water vapor amplification” characteristic for incremental IR-active trace gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) from within the ongoing conditions. It was a mistake from the start to have claimed so, and to have tuned the models to show such a result.
Thank you for listening.
“The atmosphere is a steam-heated circulator, and it can operate at power intensity levels many times greater than the incident solar radiation at, say, 1361 W/m^2.”
“The water cycle is far too powerful to allow it.”
No, moist convection is not taking place at any one time over the entire globe …
“While total cloud cover on Earth averages around 67–70% at any given moment, the specific areal percentage covered by cumulonimbus clouds is relatively small, usually estimated to be in the low single digits, despite their massive vertical extent“
Whereas solar SW is at play over half the globe at any one time and downwelling LWIR over the entire globe 100% of the time.
“No, moist convection is not taking place at any one time over the entire globe …”
No kidding. Class dismissed for lack of attention.
So know fact-based rebutal?
Good
Anthony didn’t get it…clouds are white…clouds reflect sunlight….oceans are dark, absorb SW…where there are clouds, they mostly got to altitude by convection of moist air….easy peasy…oddly there is about the same % of cloud cover as % ocean on our planet….should be a good hint as to what drives atmospheric phenomena….
Heat. Otherwise, the atmosphere would not even be gaseous.
No hints, just fact.
Hear endeth the lesson.
It is more complex than that. Oceans are transparent to light arriving near vertical, but deep enough to absorb all that light except near the shores. Oceans only appear dark because one has to be in a special viewing position to see the reflected light. Near the terminator, with say 85% of the light reflected forward, only 15% enters the water, so there is little available light to reflect diffusely off suspended particles or shallow bottoms. Thus, it will look dark to most observers despite reflecting 85% of the light impinging.
Yup, oceans don’t reflect much, especially IR. In the real world, your case of 85% reflection is rare enough to be considered a photo-op to our SW sensitive eyes. Ripples and waves…if you observe at the beach…make the ocean horizon dark….due to absorption, not reflection. The usual Fresnel reflection equations are entirely incorrect for a surface with ripples at low incidence angles.
The effect depends on the scale one is using. The visible effect, when waves are present, is to spread out the reflected light instead of being confined to a thin sheaf. It isn’t just our eyes that are important, it is the sum or integral of all the light that impinges on the surface and is subsequently reflected.
At the limit of a glancing angle, ALL wavelengths approach 100% reflectance. It is only at small angles of incidence (near Normal) that IR is absorbed strongly. It is all about geometry and index of refraction, which varies with the wavelength of the EM energy striking an object..
There are places all over the Earth, every day, every second, that has reflectivity of 85% and more, which is near the terminator.
Your example picture confirms what I am saying. The still water looks dark because in the foreground, the water is reflecting the dark-blue sky, the middle-ground is reflecting the dark-green conifers, and sitting between the two is a reflection of the snow-covered mountain that I would estimate has a reflectivity of about about 70%. The snow reflects diffusely a total of about 85%, of which only a fraction can be observed from the position of the camera. On the other hand, the water is specularly reflecting about 50-60% of the diffusely reflected light coming from the snow.
(Unintended duplicate)
Despite at places where clouds cover the sun, that’s at 67-70% of the surface.
Indeed, that is a part of the 30% albedo.
And SC cloud (main reflector of solar SW) acts as a v good warming GHE cloud at night.
Whereas solar SW is at play over half the globe at any one time and downwelling LWIR over the entire globe 100% of the time.
Here you miss the albedo, don’t you?
You have no warming GHE cloud at night, only reduced cooling, that isn’t same as warming.
And without WV, the surface cools very rapidly at night…
… even though CO2 is still there.
“You have no warming GHE cloud at night, only reduced cooling, that isn’t same as warming”
The GHE effect is at play 24 hours a day from GHGs in the atmosphere (WV, CO2,CH4 etc).
Good job to as the planet would freeze in a few weeks otherwise
Cloud is an enhanced GHE.
Not noticed how when it encroaches on an otherwise clear, cold start to a night it can melt away ground frost, lift fog, by raising air temperature.
I have innumerable times, professionally.
“you miss the albedo, don’t you?”.
No, that’s implicit in the “Whereas solar SW is at play over half the globe at any one time”
Albedo is not constant..
.in fact it is a drop in albedo because of a drop of cloud cover that caused the increase in absorbed solar energy that is responsible for most of the warming this century.. It fed the energy for the two major El Nino events.
It is also true that the specular reflection off the oceans, lakes, and rivers changes with the angle of incidence, varying between about 2% to a limit of 100%. The surface water that is available for specular reflection is also determined by the cloud cover, and the diffuse reflectance from the clouds also has semi-transparency determined by thickness (they are never opaque), and an angular dependence as well, albeit not as significant as for specular. To do a rigorous calculation of the total reflectivity, one needs to have the specific coverage of clouds with respect to the underlying water, their semi-transparency, the BRDF for the cloud cover for all angles of incidence and diffuse reflectance, the amount and specific location of open water and the reflectivity for every spot exposed to sunlight; typical imaging satellites only measure retro-reflectance. All those variations have to be integrated over the illuminated surface and cloud deck.
Calculations based on averages are very inaccurate because of the highly non-linear nature of Fresnel’s Equation for specular reflection and the ubiquitous forward lobe of the diffuse BRDF models, especially snow. Even measurements do a poor job of capturing the forward reflectance because that light, whether from specular of diffuse reflectors, leaves Earth. What we currently rely on is, at best, a first-order estimate of a very heterogeneous, non-linear system for reflected SW solar energy.
The outgoing, LW IR isn’t characterized much better because of the dependency on the 4th-power of the temperature on the emitted IR. I’m not of the opinion that it is always handled properly, particularly since the Specific Heat Capacity of water is so much greater than terrestrial materials and air. The calculated peak for outgoing IR emissions form bare ground in the Summer is always going to be a shorter wavelength than for oceans (~70% coverage) at the same latitude. It is not an insignificant error using the average 2m-air temperature for the whole globe because of the 4th-power Stephen-Boltzmann relationship. A rigorous analysis would use the water temperature and land temperature for every square meter of the surface, integrated over 10 or 20-minute steps. We don’t come close to meeting stringent requirements like that. There are many parameters, particularly cloud energy exchanges, that are estimates, while others such as foreward reflections that are ignored, and similarly poor estimates for outgoing LW IR.
“There was never any way to isolate a “water vapor amplification” characteristic for incremental IR-active trace gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) from within the ongoing conditions.”
It’s always been part of the Great Unknown. It’s only been climate science’s use of a cloudy crystal ball that has allowed “quantifying” it – “quantifying” meaning ASSUMING the value needed to make their hypothesis work.
Look out, George Orwell…
Berkeley’s latest pedagogical innovation teaches undergraduates the fine art of flood-the-zone narrative management and associated memory-holing as a means to “preserve” history.
Professor of Ethnic Studies Juana María Rodríguez has cracked the code that eluded educational reformers for decades: how to train students to rewrite history while convincing them they’re documenting it. Her Wikipedia editing initiative has generated over 300,000 edits to LGBTQ+ articles, which is impressive output for the Ministry of Truth’s Junior Varsity squad.
“We’re not changing history,” Rodriguez explained while literally changing history. “We’re just correcting Wikipedia’s heteronormative bias by having ideologically uniform students systematically revise articles according to our approved narrative framework.”
In George Orwell’s 1984, this was called “rectifying.” On Wikipedia, it’s called “improving coverage”. Babbling Beaver
Who controls the present…
You quote from a babylon bee like site. At least please mark fake news more clearly for those who are not aware what the Babbling Beaver is.
Had you bothered to follow the links you would have learned that..
Beginning in 2016, professor Juana María Rodríguez has assigned her students to create and edit Wikipedia articles about LGBTQ+ people, with a particular focus on queer and transgender people of color.
Prove that is fake news.
The Beaver is an academic with MIT
https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-students-add-more-than-300-000-wikipedia-edits-documenting-lgbtq-history/article_a469e53f-e6b4-49d4-a845-95be927b5772.html
Show me a second source for her quote:
It’s made up by the beaver
A second source other than the Daily Californian? Is that a far right newspaper?
UC Berkeley students add more than 300,000 Wikipedia edits documenting LGBTQ+ history. Daily Californian
Wikipedia as resistance: This UC Berkeley class makes queer contributions visible
At a time when information about LGBTQ people and their histories is being erased from public view, students are documenting them in the world’s largest encyclopedia. – Berkeley
Best of three, five, seven? You are exhibiting a kind of denial….
The quote isn’t in the Californian. And I’m not saying she is working on making histories of LGBTQ people more visible – which is a good thing.
But the quote from the Beaver and your inital post paint a complete different picture:
That’s putting words in her mouth that she never said. In a language that should rile up people against her work.
And that’s the fake news part.
The facts are what they are. All the Beaver does is take the piss – and rightly so.
You young shavers have no idea what a joke is, even though you behave and act like one. That’s self-unawareness to a tee.
I suggest you talk to some people over 20
Now, THAT’s a Post, right there! Thanks, strat.
I am the straightest person you will ever meet, but if I were L, G, or B, which are all real things, I’d be furious at being lumped in the the mentally ill TQ-etc alphabet-people all the time. You’re not being inclusive, you are being offensive.
LGB exists in the real world as a biological reality. Everything else can be explained thusly:
Sex: hardware
Gender: software glitch
LGB are not really “biological”
… they are psychological.. a “choice”, a “preference”, a “fad”
“T” is a fantasy, because it assumes something that cannot happen.
It is a delusion or a derangement.
A choice? If that’s what you want to think that’s up to you.
I base things on reality.. “what is” !
I’ve known lesbians, that when the meet the right guy.. are no longer lesbians..
It is a CHOICE that they make.
It certainly is not “biological”
Religious tittle tattle.
Same-sex sexual behaviour has attracted the attention of many scientists working in disparate areas, from sociology and psychology to behavioural and evolutionary biology. Since it does not contribute directly to reproduction, same-sex sexual behaviour is considered an evolutionary conundrum. Here, using phylogenetic analyses, we explore the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in mammals. – Nature
Why not put the scientists right? Mammals are making a choice…
Anecdotal evidence in this case is “your truth“.
Adhering to the behavior of a low-reproductive-rate mutation of evolution, the best that one can hope for is that the normal evolutionary path will out-breed the anomalies. That is to say, it is unlikely that those who are the anomalous products of reproduction will ever amount to more than a minority of the population because even if they convince others to follow in their path, the converts will similarly have low rates of reproduction. Those who advocate homosexual behavior, even if they are bisexual, will have fewer opportunities to reproduce. Clearly, the heterosexual faction will out-breed the minority. That is basically what drives evolution. Those that are more fit for the environment will outbreed those who are less fit. The behavior is, long-term, destructive to the survival of the anomalies. They probably haven’t given that much thought.
Never seen a Babbling Beaver yet… where are they located?
I find my best use of Wikipedia is when I read a news article about some violent criminal being set free on no bail despite the submissions of police & prosecutors to detain the crim, and I then go to Wiki to confirm my suspicion about the judge, and yep, they’re an Obama or a Biden appointed judge.
I know, I know . .
this is so predictable it’s not necessary to check with Wikipedia, but occasionally I get a surprise.
Looks to me that Berkeley can correct history by removing Juana.
Here is some news about Oxford.
Labour council brings in ‘perverse’ 15-minute driving rules – it could roll out across UK
Labour ministers have drawn up plans to hand councils powers to bring in 15-minute cities branded ‘Stalinist’ and ‘perverse’.
By Aaron Newbury
10:18, Sun, Jan 25, 2026 Updated: 10:41, Sun, Jan 25, 2026
Sir Keir Starmer will introduce 15-minute cities across the country with critics slamming them as ‘Stalinist’ and ‘perverse’ , it has been revealed.…
15-minute cities are a new concept based on the idea that a person living in one will be able to access everything they need within a quarter of an hour by walking or cycling. They are sometimes accompanied by restrictions on motorists.
Oxford, which is actively implementing a plan to introduce the scheme, has seen its local authority plot to divide the city into six “15-minute neighbourhoods”. This would see drivers needing to secure a permit for residents so that they could travel for 100 days for free through the traffic filters in the city.
A separate permit would allow just 25 days of free travel, with drivers hit with fines should they move around the city beyond those allocated days.
Remember the election promise?
His conference speech last year promised to make politics tread lightly on people’s lives
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2024/07/starmers-victory-speech-was-a-display-of-humble-realism
Like everything – bar one single thing – that was u-turned on in days – see mad Ed.
That one thing… what could it be that he would never u-turn on? International law and the supremacy of non-native human rights over the rights of the native population.
Example: Two tier self-determination
Greenland – Greenlanders must be allowed to determine their own future.
Chagos – The Chagossians will have to do whatever they are told to satisfy China.
Water Vapor is a negative Feedback!
https://greenhousedefect.com/the-holy-grail-of-ecs/regrettable-regressions-a-reanalysis
It’s not April 1st is it?
Not knowing if this is sarc you are advocating it as true !?
What bollocks.
Then why are tropical (humid) nights hot?
And desert nights cold?
Why does it not become frosty on a cloudy night in winter when it’s overcast?
A foggy night stops surface cooling as it’s GHE separates the ground from space an instead cooling continues from the fog top.
(like the stratosphere cooling amid the present warming troposphere).
Maybe you should learn the difference between WV and clouds..
Maybe you should accept that adding CO2 to air doesn’t make thermometers hotter.
So you were serious.
Staggering.
FYI: H2O and H2O vapour are the same in being water.
Just that clouds are WV condensed onto hygroscopic nuclei
Clouds are optically thick and therefore block some solar SW.
Both are present in the atmosphere in quantities directly related to temperature described by the Clausius-Clapeyron equation.
WV and hence clouds are a feedback of global temperature.
“So you were serious.”
No, I am just an incompetent moron spamming BS..
I think you confuse me with yourself!
No, I am a competent retired UKMO meteorlogist who knows you are talking bollocks.
A senior meteorogist who does not know the difference between WV and clouds? Impressive!
As I explained they are both H2O.
A skeptic that does know that they are ?
And as such absorb terrestrial LWIR.
Which is the point at hand.
Not your desperate attempt to disparage something you cannot rebut with a sensible relevant point.
The 2nd in the play-book after resorting to a typo.
Depends on what air circultion there is.
Clouds and frost aren’t a contradiction.
And certainely you never saw freezing fog, not unususl in winter.
Mr Gans.
FYI: I spent many a shift at the MetO both observing and forecasting the formation/clearance of fog, both the freezing and non freezing kind.
Also FYI: Even though the fog may be freezing, most usually there is no frost on the ground due the ground heat flux keeping the surface above freezing, it not being able the escape to space due the GHE of the water droplets/WV.
What will freeze though (by deposition of water droplets is anything lifted away from the surface such as vegetation). That’s called rime.
From post:”Then why are tropical (humid) nights hot?”
I will guess the Cp of H2O or Latent Heat.
Desert nights cold due to lack of above.
My turn. Why does the photo attached disprove the idea of 300+ W/m^2 of DWIR?
“I will guess the Cp of H2O or Latent Heat”.
They play a part as well, yes but the primary effect is the GHE :
Google AI:
The greenhouse effect (specifically driven by high concentrations of atmospheric water vapor) has the greatest effect on keeping tropical nights warm.
While all three factors play a role, the greenhouse effect acts as the primary, continuous “blanket” that prevents the significant heat absorbed during the day from escaping into space.
Because the tropics are hot.
The Antarctic desert is cold during the day as well. What’s your point?
There is a general Rule of Thumb that one should have at least 20-30 samples for doing reliable statistical analyses. There are, of course, more reliable ways of testing the veracity of conclusions, but they aren’t always provided. However, when I looked at those 13 data points, I felt that the slope of the trend line didn’t properly represent the trend of the point cloud, which is what one is generally interested in, not just minimizing the dependent-variable residuals.
Chung et al 2010 has over 40 data points, but very much the same problem. In fact I have been analyzing that scatter plot more deeply afterwards.
It is easy to see the problem. All these scatter plots consistently show about 6W/m2/K as actual slope, meaning a strong neg. feedback. Chung et al had to use all kinds of tricks to overcome this problem and reverse the sign..
No Kings. Gestop global warming. Open a Somali childcare and solar farm.
I think the bot is broken.
That’s your problem.
Does that mean you can’t litter WUWT with your usual twaddle?
Chew khat…
That’s really progressive – and much like Charlie.
Khat or Qat – a plant whose leaves have been chewed by east Africans for hundreds of years – is said to provide a sensation between cannabis and cocaine. It is also legal, and freely sold in Gleneagle Road – the heart of Streatham’s Somali community.
But a community leader, who wanted to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation within a close-knit community divided over Khat, has said it is “destroying lives in the same way as drugs” and should be outlawed, as it is in the US and large parts of Europe. – Local News
Little Somalia – just over a mile from where I live…
Interesting. The active compounds in khat are similar chemically to a few modern antidepressants and stimulants.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3991038/#:~:text=2%20Khat%20is%20therefore%20classified,and%20is%20outlawed%20in%20Qatar.
Until you encounter them spitting it out everywhere in the street…. Then you realise the third world has truly arrived.
That’s one advantage for dirt roads.
If you accept “Out of sight, out of mind” as being valid.
Just like the Papua New Guinea natives chew betel nut for their buzz.
(I’m cool with that- whatever folks want to stuff in their gobs is not my concern, but after they’ve chewed the betel nut, they just spit that bright red shit all over the footpath, looks like the floor of an abatoir. Disgusting. )
“Virtually everything the Democratic Party does these days is grounded in some sort of deceit. That’s true of a lot of politics generally, and Republicans have their own cowardly versions of it, but the Democrats have made it their modus operandi.”
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/124691-of-mobs-money-laundering-and-moderates-2026-01-31
Favor please, On the page below, Mauna Loa Transmission, the beginning of the paragraph under the plot in blue letters “available here”, it used to bring up the text data, now it says Forbidden.
Do they just hate me, or is it everybody.
Global Radiation and Aerosols – NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
I thought it might be because of the partial government shutdown, so I checked. Apparently they (or someone/something) hate you as it works fine for me.
I appreciate it, I think I touched a nerve on LinkedIn with a post.
I get “403 Forbidden” when I click on it.
Thats helpful, thanks
I also get “Forbidden”.
No problem to see it, try again later, from time to time I had the problem elsewhere, could be a temporary server error.
Hopefully so, anyway it will take them 3 weeks to publish January’s data.
We need more CO2 in the air. It’s cold around here!
It’s presently warmer in Denver than Orlando. For the most part, we’ve missed the worst of these events.
Yes, Colorado is on the warm side of the jet stream.
And the jet stream is funneling cold arctic air into the Eastern U.S. all the way down to Florida, on the cold side.
The year 1934 was the hottest year in the 1930’s, and 1936 was the second hottest. And even though 1936 saw record high temperatures in the summer of 1936, it also had record cold temperatures during the winter of 1936.
I saw on the news today that parts of Florida may break their record cold temperatures tonight, records that were set in 1936.
So we can get record warm temperatures and record cold temperatures all in the same year. It all depends on how the jet stream is configured. It has nothing to do with CO2.
Those frozen iguanas are clogging the sidewalks, and we have to stand around waiting for them to warm up.
I’ve just had a chat with a contact in Miami who said it’s currently 30F there.
I bet Florida resident are scrambling to save their tender plants!
Elon Musk—you know, President Trump’s one-time BFF—appears to have given up on the virtue signaling inherent in producing and selling EVs to offset “mankind’s emissions of CO2”, now pivoting Tesla to focus on producing RAPs (robots for the average person), with the first generation of such named “Optimus” (which is incidentally very fitting if you think about it, and even know a bit of film lore).
Is it strange that this happened just four months after the US federal tax credit for new and used electric vehicle purchases expired?
Or maybe the fact that BYD became the world’s largest manufacturer of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) based on full-year 2024 had something to do with it, when they overtook Tesla in total volume and with vehicle pricing far undercutting Tesla.
I understand that Musk has stated that Tesla will be continuing to provide factor service support to owners of Tesla vehicles . . . we’ll see how that goes . . . if Tesla ever had a Department of Efficiency, it’s likely that there won’t be a lot of spare parts laying around.
Elon is about three steps ahead of the legacy auto companies and other manufactures. Maybe you thought he was a car guy?
Stellantis, Ford, and GM having been stuffing Tesla with $$ since the Roadster was launched in 2008, while playing catchup. Musk was never wedded to personal autos, that’s just where the money was – note the past tense.
Is there an advantage to being “three steps ahead” when the direction you’re heading is a cliff?
No, I didn’t “think” Elon Musk was just a car guy . . . he is the current CEO of Tesla, Inc., and well as being the past head of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for all of 130 days, not even fulfilling his 180-day appointment to that position.
And Musk himself is quite cleat that he wasn’t really “wedded to personal autos” (notwithstanding his displayed affection for his beloved Cybertruck), instead being “wedded” to his/SpaceX’s, IMHO, sophomoric plans to have humans colonize Mars.
It’s not just BYD. There are some extremely good EV’s coming out of China at the moment. I wouldn’t want to be Tesla either.
Errrr . . . BYD is a Chinese company manufacturing battery EVs.
And your point is?
My point came directly from my Department of Redundancy Department.
With all their massive supply of coal-fired electricity and really good high speed train network.. it actually makes sense for China to replace its choking 2-stroke motorbikes with small electric cars.
Does not make sense in the USA, or Australia…
And in the UK and Europe, they are often borderline on electricity supply as it is. !
That’s nice to know, but I thought China was doing fine with bicycles. Looks like I need an update on that . . . and especially their electrical grid infrastructure.
China’s High Speed Train networks is extensive..
…why would anyone drive long distance with a system like that..
Just hire a car when you get there.
Story tip.
Corruption of Canada’s official temperature data sets.
Just one issue as an example –
~ 10,000 instances where days TMins were greater than TMax.
What the??
https://correlation-canada.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-12-23-Correlation-Artificial-stepwise-increases-Canadian-temperature-data.pdf
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/01/is_canada_really_warming.html
https://correlation-canada.org/artificial-stepwise-increases-in-temperature-data-canada/
Believe is religion.
Think is opinion
Know is science.
Here’s what I know.
You know different?
RGHE theory founders on two erroneous assumptions.
First error: that near Earth space is cold and the atmosphere/RGHE act as a warming blanket.
That is incorrect.
Near Earth space is hot (400 K, 127 C, 260 F) and the atmosphere/water vapor/albedo act as that cooling reflective panel propped up on the car’s dash.
Second error: Earth’s surface radiates as a near Black Body. USCRN & SURFRAD data are calibrated, i.e. “tweaked“ to conform to that assumption thereby creating “extra” “back” radiation.
That is incorrect.
IR instruments are calibrated to deliver a referenced & relative temperature while power flux is inferred using S-B equation and assuming an emissivity. Assuming 1.0 assumes wrong. TFK_bams09 shows surface emissivity as 0.16 = 63/396 which zeroes out “back” RGHE radiation.
RGHE joins caloric, phlogiston, spontaneous generation, luminiferous ether, et al in science’s dust bin of failed theories.
Might I construe from the silence the answer is “You do not.”
Why is no one here willing to argue against what Dane Wiggington is putting out regarding geoengineering?
More albedo and the Earth cools.
Less albedo and the Earth warms.
No albedo and Earth becomes much like the Moon, a barren rock ball, 400 K lit side, 100 K dark.
Geoengineering contradicts RGHE which is why it gets snipped.
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/geoengineering-and-earth-health-roundtable/
Who ??
That was my question, too. 🙂
Does anyone else subscribe to updates for replies?
The “from” address suddenly changed a few days ago, and since then I am NOT getting all updates. I know this because I’ve read some that have replies that I never got. Is anyone else experiencing this?
I’ll also note that just before this happened, I was getting a LOT of the notifications flagged as spam.
(Moderators – possible something glitched with the change?)
Same here. I get new topics but not posts.
I didn’t get a notification about your response.
Mods, Anthony, can someone please look into this?
In March 2018 it was being predicted that Cape Town was about to run out of water. The city was facing Day Zero. The residents faced a calamity in the city and province because of climate change and worse droughts. National Geographic was one of the alarmist voices.
Why Cape Town is running out of water
National Geographic
March 5, 2018
What happened after this report? There were seven years of good winter rainfall and the dams were overflowing. Last year the rainfall was lower and the dams reached only 92.6% by the end of the rainseason. This was the eighth year in a row. You would think the alarmists would hang their heads in shame but no. An article recently appeared in one of the papers “Cape Town Day Zero fears: Residents face possible water restrictions if usage remains high” The reporter did not bother to do his homework. The dams were at 61.1% at the end of January and the winter rain season begins around end of March.
The problem is not a climate problem but a people one. As the population is swelling little effort has been made by central government – that has the responsibility for dams – to build more to capture the plentiful rainfall. Repairing leaking pipes, maintaining pumping stations, having reliable supply of electricity for these is being neglected. In a number of big cities in South Africa people are having serious water problems despite the level of the dams across the country being at 93% and most of the country with two more summer rainfall months.
The government needs to fix and maintain the water supply system and not obsess about climate change. They have bought into the renewables scam while they have abundant cheap fossil fuels. For years the country used to have a reliable supply of cheap electricity but corruption, mismanagement and incomptence plus falling for the climate nonsense has proved very costly and destroyed much of a vibrant economy.
I may live out here in the Middle of Nowhere, Eastern Washington State, but I do have close relatives living in Manhattan, on Long Island, and in upstate New York. So let’s take a quick look at New York state politics in the upcoming 2026 governor’s race.
New York Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado is running against incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul for the Democratic Party nomination. Whomever gets that nomination will be the next governor of the state. (I wish things were different in NYS, since my grandfather grew up there. But it is what it is.)
https://delgadoforny.com/priorities/
Antonio Delgado is a political ally and philosophical fellow traveler of Zohran Mamdani. The socialist-communist agenda Mamdani is pushing in New York City can’t be achieved without direct cooperation and permission from New York state government.
Governor Hochul refuses to give Mayor Mamdani the support he needs to raise taxes on the rich, to fully implement his Net Zero climate justice agenda, and to approve other items on his agenda such as free bus fares for NYC residents.
If Mamdani is to pursue his socialist-communist agenda for New York City, then Antonio Delgado must become governor of New York state, and the downstate faction of the Democratic Party must take full control of the state party organization.
Delgado’s allies in the downstate faction ran a highly effective campaign in electing Zohran Mamdani as mayor of NYC.
They had the messaging, they had the money, they had the organization, they had the committed volunteers, and they had the ground game. The same campaign strategy, the same campaign team, and the same ground game will be used against Governor Hochul in the upcoming primary.
Now, if I were Governor Hochul, I’d be running scared. And I’d be doing things like wooing upstate voters with lofty promises such as committing to build 5 GW of nuclear power in their upstate legislative districts.
Governor Hochul hasn’t got a clue how she is going to fulfill that particular promise. On the other hand, maybe if she talks nicely to President Trump, he will grant New York some part of the billions of dollars of federal money he intends to spend in the next three years on reviving America’s nuclear industry.