Hmm, Dr StrangeMilli or how I learned to hate the bum.
strativarius
February 20, 2026 2:24 am
Argh.
It’s the whole damn party. Mad Ed has 411 equally mentally deranged colleagues in the House. Like… they all vote accordingly without question, unless it means a cut in expenditure or some pet cause or other.
They have no intention of listening to any voice of reason, this is the ultimate 6th form government: it has no experience of creating or running any commercial enterprise, or business in general. This is why despite mad Ed’s claims of a booming green economy we have record unemployment – especially among the young – and ever more taxes loaded on us and our bills for net zero.
His latest wheeze being community energy. This is a bribe offered to people who object to the scarring of the landscape. The community gets perks like lower bills. But and it is a big but, the community is funded by the general public. Can they not raise their own funding?
“Sixth Form Government is a government secondary school offering advanced level studies, situated on Ethel Street, Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago”
This can’t be the thing s was referencing. I think the meaning is Sixth Form (UK school) -> Sixth grade (US school). AKA “Sixth Form Government” means a country run by childish thinkers.
“Like….they all vote accordingly without question,” That is the first law of all political parties. It is the keystone of their power and their wrong. Communist in nature, evil in deed.
Don’t despair strat. Chris Stark head of the ‘mission control’ unit tasked with delivering the ‘clean power’ project says the “overall story is one of everything becoming much cheaper, so what we want to do is provide you with the technology and the ability to do that”
The difference between you and the majority of us here, is we are devoted to evidence. We are not reflexively opposed to real progress. We are opposed to nonsense and posturing and mindless repetition of things seen in “progressive” publications
Even in China the CCP had to do something about real pollution after all the complaints about not being able the breathe outside in the cities. Factories were bull dozed and coal fired generators moved or scrubbers added,
Not a single item of ‘renewable energy’ infrastructure, as the technology stands today, is making anything at all better. It costs more than it ever replaces in our existing energy infrastructure, and it leaves us with costly and ecologically horrific landfill. In the meantime it scars the countryside most of the time and creates eyesores that also murder harmless and valuable wildlife.
What if we’re doing all that for nothing whatsoever? That’s the real question!
Hey MyUsernameReloaded, what if the CAGW theory is wrong, the slight sea level increase is a natural recovery from the Little Ice Age, and all of the mitigation money (trillions?) was wasted, in that it should have been spent on Adaption?
Re: cartoon
If you’ve been to a few of these presentations (My first were annual employee meetings at a company devastated by the dot-com bubble and crash) then you realize that the presenter is lying. He’s not necessarily a bad person. but he took the job, so he has to say words that any normal human sees as absurd, or every employee might just go home and cry.
Miliband is more akin the sentient bomb in Dark Star.
“OK bomb. Prepare to receive new orders.”
Bomb#20: You are false data.
“Hmmm?”
Bomb#20: Therefore I shall ignore you.
“Hello… bomb?”
Bomb#20: False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore, I shall refuse to perceive.
“Hey, bomb?”
We could, er, turn them off at night, or even permanently… unpaid, of course.
Bats are paying the ultimate price for our wind turbine obsession
Birds of prey and swifts are particularly vulnerable, as are songbirds, many of which are on ornithological ‘red lists’. The scale of the slaughter of bats is monumental – Spectator
This has been going on for centuries. Any decrease in public lighting is always accompanied by an increase in crime in those spaces. Those who want decreased lighting are supporting an increase in criminal activity.
Turning off the lights is a crime as in has an established negative impact on public safety not limited to the increase in criminal activity but also accidents, etc.
Nuclear makes sense to me for USA because we have the supplies and a big/diverse enough landscape to try lots of generation methods. Would nuclear make sense in UK if UK allows fracking? Maybe I don’t understand “just how big” UK is. Googling international Uranium reserves.
On Wikipedia, UK/England does not appear in a list of top 60, meaning they would have to import. Might wreck the economics.
Australia and Canada look great if they want to go that way.
Nuclear should be the preferred supply for base-load, with natural gas for variable loads. Nuclear takes up the least amount of land and is reliable 97% of the time (refueling takes some time away from production). Modern Gen 4+ reactors and TRISO fuels are very safe.
Meanwhile, I saw a report yesterday that Starmer will refuse to allow Trump to use Diego Garcia, the island in the Indian Ocean, for an attack on Iran. At least so far.
sure, but it’s obnoxious that Starmer would even suggest that- no doubt he’ll back down if Trump wants it- Trump is also pissed that Starmer wants to give it to some tiny nation- when it’s obviously an essential military base
as for those land bases- most of the Arab nations have said they won’t allow America to use their bases to attack Iran- not because they like Iran which they hate- they’re just being cowardly, IMHO— they’re actually praying to Allah right now that America crushes Iran
As far as Arab nations declining US use of bases in their countries, it is more of not wishing to be in the crosshairs of Iranian ballistic missiles. So, yes, in fact cowardly, IMHO.
Victor
February 20, 2026 5:27 am
Earth’s global average temperature in 2024 15.1°C (Copernicus).
Earth’s global average temperature in 2025 14.97°C (Copernicus).
Earth lost 0.13°C in one year.
Earth is losing heat energy.
14.97° C should be rounded to 15.0° C. Measurement error is +/- 0.1° C, thus it can not be conclude that there was a heat lost. Temperatures at a traditional weather station are never measured to 0.01 of a degree.
You do realize that gat is just a construct derived from “data” that has scandalous probity, not fit for any scientific purpose, and no application to anywhere in the real world.
And then to argue about poofteenths of a degree differences in these constructs is like delving into how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
No, the number varies in response to the increase in temperature through time of 100,000 average-size heads of pins collected annually in forty or more countries around the world.
Victor
February 20, 2026 5:27 am
Earth’s global average temperature in 2024 15.1°C (Copernicus).
Earth’s global average temperature in 2025 14.97°C (Copernicus).
Earth lost 0.13°C in one year.
Earth is losing heat energy.
Also, temperature is not heat. It certainly is a function of heat but in even simple systems a number of factors are important. For example, I noticed the ice in my fish pond is increasing indicating that it is losing heat and yet the temperature of the water has not changed.
Kevin,
Yours are not a repeat post as they aren’t identical replies !!!
StephenP
February 20, 2026 5:52 am
We had a talk last night at our local history society about Russia, Marxism and the Gulags.
No dissent allowed, even wrong thought got you in trouble.Many millions were imprisoned and killed. Josh’s cartoon would have had him at least imprisoned in the Gulag, if not shot out of hand. So much is happening here what with cancelling and the refusal to accept anyone’s different opinion. The only people who had any form of freedom were the elite, and even they had to watch their backs as if the wind changed and Stalin took a dislike to them they got the chop.
The common factor was called Marxism, but in fact was the sole aim of the elite to retain power and wealth. No doubt Mr Milliband senior would approve, although one wishes he had stayed in Europe along with his family instead of being given asylum in the UK.
The speaker’s last comment was to beware the way the country is heading.
This is a good time to remind everyone that Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago”, like Orwell’s “1984”, was meant as a warning, NOT an instruction manual.
Russia, China Cambodia North Korea etc., have all been deadly examples of the madness that seems to have infected the UK. Socialism/communism cannot countenance any dissent from what the Party demands.
“So much is happening here what with cancelling and the refusal to accept anyone’s different opinion.”
Frighteningly, we are seeing an increase of that draconian attitude in our Western so-called democracies under the guise of ‘strong leadership’. We saw that in the 1930s, then look what happened.
History may be repeating itself.
I remember the film Dr Strangelove when Slim Pickens rode the bomb down on Russia whooping and waving his cowboy hat.
I met him when he came to our clinic at UCLA with oral cancer (which led to his death). He told me at the time that if Hollywood knew you had cancer your career was over.
I also met Alex Jacobs a well known screen writer (Point Blank with Lee Marvin and other films) who had colon cancer and told me the same thing.
The Hollywood moguls should be aware that they could be next in line.
Harry Durham
February 20, 2026 9:25 am
Recognizing it would be a little crowded if the illustration showed a large number of folks on the bomb, don’t forget that there are at least a large minority, if not a majority, of UK voters elected him. And have not actively sought to remove him. While opposition seems to be growing, as Yoda would have said, “the ignorance is strong in this [group].”
another ian
February 20, 2026 7:21 pm
FWIW – latest Kunstler seems applicable here too
It will be a while before “Their ABC” gives you a description of “Euroland” like this –
“Euroland is yet in thrall to the climate nutters, the farm-and-industry-destroyers, the one-worlders, the Jihad-migrationists, the floundering banksters, and the Klaus Schwab wannabes. Euroland seeks to throttle free speech throughout Western Civ and meddle in everyone’s elections. Euroland keeps mouthing off about a war with Russia despite having no military mojo and going broke-ass broke faster than you can say Götterdämmerung. Bottom line: the US is going solo on this one.”
If only…
Hmm, Dr StrangeMilli or how I learned to hate the bum.
Argh.
It’s the whole damn party. Mad Ed has 411 equally mentally deranged colleagues in the House. Like… they all vote accordingly without question, unless it means a cut in expenditure or some pet cause or other.
They have no intention of listening to any voice of reason, this is the ultimate 6th form government: it has no experience of creating or running any commercial enterprise, or business in general. This is why despite mad Ed’s claims of a booming green economy we have record unemployment – especially among the young – and ever more taxes loaded on us and our bills for net zero.
His latest wheeze being community energy. This is a bribe offered to people who object to the scarring of the landscape. The community gets perks like lower bills. But and it is a big but, the community is funded by the general public. Can they not raise their own funding?
When you think Labour think Two-Tier.
More like multi tears.
“Sixth Form Government is a government secondary school offering advanced level studies, situated on Ethel Street, Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago”
This can’t be the thing s was referencing. I think the meaning is Sixth Form (UK school) -> Sixth grade (US school). AKA “Sixth Form Government” means a country run by childish thinkers.
Not that it makes much difference, but the UK sixth form is the US 11th and 12th grade.
“Like….they all vote accordingly without question,” That is the first law of all political parties. It is the keystone of their power and their wrong. Communist in nature, evil in deed.
Don’t forget Mad Ed is the most popular Cabinet Minister amongst the 200,000ish members of the Labour Party.
Don’t despair strat. Chris Stark head of the ‘mission control’ unit tasked with delivering the ‘clean power’ project says the “overall story is one of everything becoming much cheaper, so what we want to do is provide you with the technology and the ability to do that”
You just have to believe!
…
We are progressing and we don’t need your hoax to do it.
Clean Air Act 1956
That was real.
If it was 1956 this site would rally against it.
No, the difference is the smogs were real. Your imaginary climate crisis is quite the opposite. A product of your indoctrination.
A product of your indoctrination.
Good one !
No they wouldn’t, because there was actual evidence that it was a serious problem and that people were really dying from it.
Rarely have I seen a more idiotic, purile and facile assertion. And I’ve seen quite a lot of the internet.
Are you a small boy?
Perhaps not a small boy, but absolutely a small mind, especially concerning science and facts.
He’s just a slob sitting in a basement jockeying on a keyboard and his mummy has just brought his warm coco.
Most of us would not.
The difference between you and the majority of us here, is we are devoted to evidence. We are not reflexively opposed to real progress. We are opposed to nonsense and posturing and mindless repetition of things seen in “progressive” publications
We are also dedicated to asking questions and not merely accepting something based on a media headline or an appeal to authority.
Even in China the CCP had to do something about real pollution after all the complaints about not being able the breathe outside in the cities. Factories were bull dozed and coal fired generators moved or scrubbers added,
(nevermind – need a cancel button.)
You are so morally superior!
And factually bankrupt.
Deep sarcasm… “them” only thinks “them” is
eff off somewhere else then, preferably a long walk off a short pier.
“preferably a long walk off a short pier.”
While doing a peer review (:-))
Except most of those bullet points are lies or not positive in any way.
Not a single item of ‘renewable energy’ infrastructure, as the technology stands today, is making anything at all better. It costs more than it ever replaces in our existing energy infrastructure, and it leaves us with costly and ecologically horrific landfill. In the meantime it scars the countryside most of the time and creates eyesores that also murder harmless and valuable wildlife.
What if we’re doing all that for nothing whatsoever? That’s the real question!
Only a total idiot would believe any of that nonsense.
He identifies nonsense as brilliance.
Hey MyUsernameReloaded, what if the CAGW theory is wrong, the slight sea level increase is a natural recovery from the Little Ice Age, and all of the mitigation money (trillions?) was wasted, in that it should have been spent on Adaption?
And the flame warrior returns.
You have again succeeded in enticing responses.
Hope your ego can handle all the attention.
Re: cartoon
If you’ve been to a few of these presentations (My first were annual employee meetings at a company devastated by the dot-com bubble and crash) then you realize that the presenter is lying. He’s not necessarily a bad person. but he took the job, so he has to say words that any normal human sees as absurd, or every employee might just go home and cry.
Wind and solar destroy energy independency.. often providing none.
Vast tracts of forests and farmland are lost to wind turbines and solar industrial estate.
Wind turbines and Soar panels are NOT sustainable, they require regular replacing
Green jobs destroy real jobs and create short term intermittent ones
15 Minute cities are ghettos..
Renewables are a parasite to grids, erratic and unreliable
etc etc
So you think the climate hysteria will lead to a better world regardless of the truth. Your idiocy and delusion are boundless.
But it’s got electrolytes!
(humor, but supporting your post)
Miliband is more akin the sentient bomb in Dark Star.
“OK bomb. Prepare to receive new orders.”
Bomb#20: You are false data.
“Hmmm?”
Bomb#20: Therefore I shall ignore you.
“Hello… bomb?”
Bomb#20: False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore, I shall refuse to perceive.
“Hey, bomb?”
No, I’d say the bomb was more intelligent than mad Ed. As the bomb finally exclaimed:
“Let there be light”
And then…
Street lights switch off across Devon made permanent – BBC
Devon County Council has said using less energy on street lighting is saving them about £270,000 a year
Oh dear! What are they going to do with all that surplus wind-generated power that no-one else wants in the middle of the night, then?
I suppose they could try persuading the generating companies to pay them to take it off their hands…
We could, er, turn them off at night, or even permanently… unpaid, of course.
Bats are paying the ultimate price for our wind turbine obsession
Birds of prey and swifts are particularly vulnerable, as are songbirds, many of which are on ornithological ‘red lists’. The scale of the slaughter of bats is monumental – Spectator
Industrialised de-wilding.
This has been going on for centuries. Any decrease in public lighting is always accompanied by an increase in crime in those spaces. Those who want decreased lighting are supporting an increase in criminal activity.
Turning off the lights is a crime as in has an established negative impact on public safety not limited to the increase in criminal activity but also accidents, etc.
Sales of Chinese manufactured flashlights and batteries are going to go through the roof.
If mad Red Ed really wanted to reduce emissions and save the planet he would be pushing nuclear.
Clearly he does not: He has another agenda. Government control of energy.
Allow me to propose a minor correction.
Total government control
of energy.Nuclear makes sense to me for USA because we have the supplies and a big/diverse enough landscape to try lots of generation methods. Would nuclear make sense in UK if UK allows fracking? Maybe I don’t understand “just how big” UK is. Googling international Uranium reserves.
On Wikipedia, UK/England does not appear in a list of top 60, meaning they would have to import. Might wreck the economics.
Australia and Canada look great if they want to go that way.
Nuclear should be the preferred supply for base-load, with natural gas for variable loads. Nuclear takes up the least amount of land and is reliable 97% of the time (refueling takes some time away from production). Modern Gen 4+ reactors and TRISO fuels are very safe.
Meanwhile, I saw a report yesterday that Starmer will refuse to allow Trump to use Diego Garcia, the island in the Indian Ocean, for an attack on Iran. At least so far.
With 2 aircraft carrier attack groups and land bases all over the middle east, that denial is inconsequential.
sure, but it’s obnoxious that Starmer would even suggest that- no doubt he’ll back down if Trump wants it- Trump is also pissed that Starmer wants to give it to some tiny nation- when it’s obviously an essential military base
as for those land bases- most of the Arab nations have said they won’t allow America to use their bases to attack Iran- not because they like Iran which they hate- they’re just being cowardly, IMHO— they’re actually praying to Allah right now that America crushes Iran
Good points.
As far as Arab nations declining US use of bases in their countries, it is more of not wishing to be in the crosshairs of Iranian ballistic missiles. So, yes, in fact cowardly, IMHO.
Earth’s global average temperature in 2024 15.1°C (Copernicus).
Earth’s global average temperature in 2025 14.97°C (Copernicus).
Earth lost 0.13°C in one year.
Earth is losing heat energy.
14.97° C should be rounded to 15.0° C. Measurement error is +/- 0.1° C, thus it can not be conclude that there was a heat lost. Temperatures at a traditional weather station are never measured to 0.01 of a degree.
You do realize that gat is just a construct derived from “data” that has scandalous probity, not fit for any scientific purpose, and no application to anywhere in the real world.
And then to argue about poofteenths of a degree differences in these constructs is like delving into how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
37 angels. Done.
I always thought it was 42.
No, the number varies in response to the increase in temperature through time of 100,000 average-size heads of pins collected annually in forty or more countries around the world.
Earth’s global average temperature in 2024 15.1°C (Copernicus).
Earth’s global average temperature in 2025 14.97°C (Copernicus).
Earth lost 0.13°C in one year.
Earth is losing heat energy.
But there is no such thing as an average temperature, temperature is an intensive property.
Add two phone numbers together… it’s no longer a phone number.
Even by that metric the alarmists aren’t winning.
Yep.
Also, temperature is not heat. It certainly is a function of heat but in even simple systems a number of factors are important. For example, I noticed the ice in my fish pond is increasing indicating that it is losing heat and yet the temperature of the water has not changed.
Heat is one of those badly abused words with common/social context derived definitions.
Your pond is not losing heat. It is losing thermal energy via heat.
Heat is the flow of thermal energy across a temperature gradiant.
“Your pond is not losing heat. It is losing thermal energy via heat.”
The ‘Latent Heat of Solidification’ (approximately 334 kJ/kg.)
Once again I see a repeat post of a comment. The grave yard moderator must be napping. A repeat post of a comment waste computer storage space.
It would be ironic if yu’d complained about this once before.
It would be ironic if you’d complained about this once before.
I see what you did there
Kevin,
Yours are not a repeat post as they aren’t identical replies !!!
We had a talk last night at our local history society about Russia, Marxism and the Gulags.
No dissent allowed, even wrong thought got you in trouble.Many millions were imprisoned and killed. Josh’s cartoon would have had him at least imprisoned in the Gulag, if not shot out of hand. So much is happening here what with cancelling and the refusal to accept anyone’s different opinion. The only people who had any form of freedom were the elite, and even they had to watch their backs as if the wind changed and Stalin took a dislike to them they got the chop.
The common factor was called Marxism, but in fact was the sole aim of the elite to retain power and wealth. No doubt Mr Milliband senior would approve, although one wishes he had stayed in Europe along with his family instead of being given asylum in the UK.
The speaker’s last comment was to beware the way the country is heading.
Have you watched that satirical movie “The Death Of Stalin”?
Good for quite a few belly laughs.
This is a good time to remind everyone that Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago”, like Orwell’s “1984”, was meant as a warning, NOT an instruction manual.
Russia, China Cambodia North Korea etc., have all been deadly examples of the madness that seems to have infected the UK. Socialism/communism cannot countenance any dissent from what the Party demands.
“So much is happening here what with cancelling and the refusal to accept anyone’s different opinion.”
Frighteningly, we are seeing an increase of that draconian attitude in our Western so-called democracies under the guise of ‘strong leadership’. We saw that in the 1930s, then look what happened.
History may be repeating itself.
Story tip – laudable, laughable and impractical all in the same breath:
https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/china-tests-worlds-first-megawatt-class-flying-wind-turbine-it-generated-enough-energy-to-power-a-house-for-2-weeks
Yes, yes, and yes, but still an interesting toy.
“Precious body fluids.”
Think Dr. Strangelove, Gen. Jack Ripper.
I remember the film Dr Strangelove when Slim Pickens rode the bomb down on Russia whooping and waving his cowboy hat.
I met him when he came to our clinic at UCLA with oral cancer (which led to his death). He told me at the time that if Hollywood knew you had cancer your career was over.
I also met Alex Jacobs a well known screen writer (Point Blank with Lee Marvin and other films) who had colon cancer and told me the same thing.
Cancer doesn’t discriminate.
The Hollywood moguls should be aware that they could be next in line.
Recognizing it would be a little crowded if the illustration showed a large number of folks on the bomb, don’t forget that there are at least a large minority, if not a majority, of UK voters elected him. And have not actively sought to remove him. While opposition seems to be growing, as Yoda would have said, “the ignorance is strong in this [group].”
FWIW – latest Kunstler seems applicable here too
It will be a while before “Their ABC” gives you a description of “Euroland” like this –
“Euroland is yet in thrall to the climate nutters, the farm-and-industry-destroyers, the one-worlders, the Jihad-migrationists, the floundering banksters, and the Klaus Schwab wannabes. Euroland seeks to throttle free speech throughout Western Civ and meddle in everyone’s elections. Euroland keeps mouthing off about a war with Russia despite having no military mojo and going broke-ass broke faster than you can say Götterdämmerung. Bottom line: the US is going solo on this one.”
More at
https://www.kunstler.com/p/does-it-smell-like-victory