What do climate model developers do to plausibly represent historical trends? They tune cloud and aerosol parameters. This is an “open secret” of the computer modeling investigation of the influence of CO2, CH4, N2O on climate trends.
I give great credit to the developers at the GFDL (NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory) to have documented their tuning process in the paper given below. This is for their model that was used for the generation and submission of scenarios for CMIP6.
So what? If you understand the tuning, you can understand how the entire modeling exercise has been circular all along. It begins with the assumption that rising concentrations of CO2 operate as a “forcing” to be expected to drive the trend. But there is no such unique influence on the energy state being discovered, when all the other knobs are being turned to get a plausible result.
Excerpts:
“12 Tuning of TOA Radiative Flux and Cloud Radiative Effects
We calibrate AM4.0 TOA radiative fluxes (OLR and SW absorption) toward the observed values primarily through tuning the parameters related to cloud processes. These parameters affect distributions of high and low (including boundary layer) cloud amount (qa), cloud liquid (ql) and ice (qi) water content, cloud liquid droplet number (qn), as well as cloud overlap assumptions which together determine the net TOA LW and SW CRE. The cloud ice crystal number (or effective radius of ice particles), which is parameterized as a function of temperature in the model, is an additional important cloud optical property that affects CRE, but we did not explore it for tuning purposes in AM4.0.”
“13 Cess Sensitivity and RFP [“RFP”=radiative flux perturbation dd]
A goal of our model development is to create a model that simulates a climate evolution of the past century that is consistent with observations. This often involves model tuning either explicitly or implicitly. …But there are also aspects of our AM4.0 development that were admittedly driven primarily by the quality of the emerging climate simulation rather than process-level fidelity, effectively admitting that our process-level parameterizations are not fully adequate to this task. The characteristics of the tuning process are of special interest in the context of obtaining a plausible simulation of temperature trends over twentieth century. This issue has come to the forefront of modern model development with the advent of models of the indirect aerosol effect and the accompanying uncertainty in the strength of aerosol cooling, increasing the potential for creating unrealistic historical simulations without implicit or explicit tuning.
One often sees the argument that the twentieth century warming does not strongly constrain either climate sensitivity or the strength of aerosol cooling because similar overall warming can result from relatively low sensitivity to CO2 and weak aerosol cooling, or by high sensitivity and strong aerosol cooling.”
There you have it. Have the investigators determined from the model that the incremental IR absorbing power from rising CO2, CH4, N2O operates as a “forcing” to suppress OLR and therefore to drive “warming?” No. That influence is assumed at the outset and produces a baked-in result. Meanwhile, the radiative performance of the model is determined primarily by tuning cloud and aerosol parameters.
The entirety of Alarmist Climate Science is made up of speculation and unsubstantiated assumptions/assertions.
It’s been that way since the 1970’s.
There is no evidence humans are causing the Earth’s weather or climate to change. None, whatsoever.
I can say this without fear of contradiction. That’s how weak the Climate Alarmist case is. There won’t be any Climate Alarmists jumping in here to refute what I say. That is because they don’t have anything to prove their case. Undecided people should pay attention.
I agree but much will stay the same.
Some years ago i read a paper outlining how this works. The writer used a 20/60/20 rule. 20% of the people who make the rules and are part of the establishment that follows it ( blindly), 60% who don’t know but comply because it does not overly concern/ impact them or simply accept without resistance because of propaganda, and 20% who do resist and try to influence others.
The trick the establishment uses, based on the very low % of those who actually make the rules but can directly force the others in the group, is to buy media and/ or fund NGOs and the judiciary to attack the 20% who resist, like lawyers who blacken witnesses as unreliable.
The 60% just sees the propaganda and doubt the Resisters, treat them with suspicion as is the aim of the Establishment. They spend no energy actually trying to find out where the truth lies and are easily manipulated.
The Climate Alarmists have been able to steer the ship their way by the march through the institutions, including lawfare. To his credit Trump has drawn a line under this.
However, the geopolitical mechanisms who operate in much the same way is many times more damaging than w the climate issue. The US is run by gangsters. Its empire a direct descendance from the british. It copied the drugtrafficking and the opium wars. It set up the private ‘federal’ reserve system ( illiminating the competition).It used prohibition to make money through corruption and propped up mafiosi to work in tandem. Despite the image of fighting the mafia the US co-opted their politics. During the war the US rehabilitated the maffia leaders who became patriots overnight. After the war zionist gangsters like Meyer Lansky infiltrated the political system and worked on building a network of zionist agents to take away the power of the old style establishment WASP-ish conservatives. The presidents involved in this were: Truman, Eisenhower and LBJ. Kennedy opposed and was shot( by a mobster), as was his brother Robert. Reagan also opposed (and was also shot but not killed).
I am not sure about subsequent presidents. It did not seem as if the outsider Trump, who frequently rallied against foreign intervention prior to his last term (Iraq, Yemen) on which platform he got elected would be the person who would in fact start a war w Iran. But, as i previously said, this zionist connection from Lansky on including neocons AND Democrats apparently have a stronghold on him and likely use blackmail, directly or indirectly w the Epstein connection.
We live in bizarre times..
I should add that Trump pulled away from the iranian nuclear deal during his first term which was working relatively well at the time. I always thought that was odd given his general anti foreign war rhetoric. It might be that he was already corrupted at the time.
People should take note that he was also against bombing Yemen. Was he just lying all the time?
When the predicted Tropical Hotspot could not be identified in observations (a global metric – UAH), the Scientific Methodology requires acknowledgement that the current assumptions about the model could be invalid. It does not say scour older less reliable 1 dimensional data (RadioSonde) as evidence to corroborate your invalid assumption.
As a Geophysicist, one who writes code, and can get in trouble for being wrong, I guess I would have been fired, because I would have been protesting that trace gasses are not the forcing we are looking for. And when they brought out the mindless and consequently unobserved ECS phenomena, that’s when I would have told them that they are idiots and their legacy will be documented as such, and that I don’t want to be a part of this.
But then again in that hypothetical scenario, comes the temptation of looking the other way because of need for a paycheck vs core ethical scientific integrity values, especially when the science venture has no legal or financial implications and essentially does not matter.
Excellent points!!
Always follow the money and do you have skin in the game?
Not much of a career going against the Establishment. Integrity comes at a cost. Would you be willing to sacrifice your career and the security of your family’s future by keeping your back straight and go against the grain?
Not an easy question to answer. I do feel some pity for those confronted w that choice and decide to go along without pushing back.
It is easy to pick on those people when you are retired and independent.
However, some HAVE resisted. I hope their partners have stood by their choices..
“can get in trouble for being wrong” This is a very important thing. These climate modelers do not really have any skin in the game. There is no cost to them being wrong, though there is a severe cost to them for going against “the consensus”.
This distortion of incentives is prevalent in many areas in the modern world, leading to all manner of upcoming catastrophic outcomes (though climate change is not one of them). When the consequences of failure do not fall upon those who create the failure, bad things happen.
Until satellites, cloud cover was estimated by weather station attendants in “Octs” at the time of reading (usually once per day)…an “Oct” being 1/8 of the Sky. This is good for pilots of ships, airplanes, blimps….but not anywhere near accurate enough to calculate “Albedo” for climate calculations, especially considering about 80% of the planet not having weather stations at the time…
So any statements of what might have happened for modeled curve fits before 1980 are wishful thinking…plus 30 years to start a trendline…
Aerosol estimation was and remains even worse, almost entirely based on guesswork and “feelings” confirmed by retrospective calculations….
The post-Bretton Woods petrodollar system, anchored by dollar-denominated oil trade and Gulf state investment in US debt, is under unprecedented strain from global de-dollarisation trends and the accelerating energy transition.
The Trump administration’s strategy of escalating arms deals and prioritising fossil fuels is accelerating this decline by alienating allies and pushing the global south towards cheaper green technologies and trade with rivals like China.
French nuclear power plants are becoming more important for the stability of the German electricity grid.
Since shutting down its last nuclear power plants in 2023, Germany has become a net importer of electricity. According to data from the Federal Network Agency, the country imported more than 60,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity from abroad last year. Nuclear power accounted for the largest share at 14,331 gigawatt-hours. France was by far the largest supplier of nuclear power to Germany, with around 9,500 gigawatt-hours, followed by Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Sweden.
The refreshing thing about MUR is his (or her) wonderful optimism. There may be a climate problem, but don’t worry, be happy. Solar is breaking out everywhere, wind is triumphing, both are way cheaper than gas, coal or nukes. EVs are on the rise, pretty soon they will dominate, all this is very effective in saving the climate. The demon Trump is losing, his struggle against righteous energy is visibly failing.
Underlying this is a very profound insight. You may wonder on reading these lines why bids on intermittent wind and solar in the UK come in so high. Why is compulsion needed in the form of the renewables obligation etc. You may wonder why EVs require such large subsidies to sell at all. Why did we need to legislate how many are made and sold if they are so great and doing so well?
Well, MUR has stumbled on the answer to this, though he (or she) has never explicitly named it. What is happening is that on green issues, and on those alone, subsidies raise prices and diminish the attractiveness of the product! Yes, that is the only explanation, and thanks to MUR for prompting the train of thought that gave rise to this insight. Not only that, but legislation compelling certain products to be made and sold actually diminishes the demand for them.
What we have to do is just repeal all this stuff, and then wind solar and EVs and heat pumps will naturally take over, and Trump will toss and turn as he has nightmares that his great plan for destroying the climate will never happen. Or maybe his great plan to thwart climate justice will run into the sand.
You are either a silly pillock or an ill-educated parrot.
From your link … “Global solar energy capacity has skyrocketed over the last decade:”
Yes, indeed it has & it’s profited China immensely.
But …
Installed capacity doesn’t equal actual output
Overall, solar energy generally has one of the lowest capacity factors compared to other power generation methods.
The UK median load factor for solar photovoltaic (PV) decreased to 9.2 per cent in 2024/25.
In 2024/25, the median load factor for Wind was 18.7 per cent, a 1.4 percentage points decrease on 2023/24, due in part to a 2.5 per cent decrease in average wind speeds over the year.
( whatever happened to increased wind speeds due to the manmade glow-ball heating crisis/emergency ?? )
The median load factor for hydro in 2024/25 was 33.6 per cent, a decrease of 7.2 %
And then there’s the intermittency problem:
~50% of the time they are not producing; ~25% of the time they give low output; ~ 25% of the time they deliver 85% of the nameplate output; & a passing cloud will knock 40% off in seconds.
Load factor is a misleading statistic. Did hydro decline for lack of water or was it forced to decline to make room for wind and solar? Did solar decline for lack of sun or for some other reason. Gas often has a moderate load factor because much of it is used to fill in the holes left by wind and solar, not because of limitations of the machines. Ditto all the others. The reason for less than 100% load factor must be known and stated to make sense of it.
It is neither winning nor having any meaningful inpact on overall energy.
And the ‘renewables’ lobby never make the distinction between energy and electricity. Well, because they aim to electrify everything they consider it the same thing. And they ALWAYS go very quiet when nuclear power is mentioned..
Mr. lametroll (userfakename): Above, a guy named Dibbel debunks your cult and exposes as farce your belief in CO2 magical powers. No surprise that you choose to avoid that, instead posting nonsense from your cult summer camp. Thanks for letting us know.
A public supported German mouthpiece isn’t the place to go for reliable energy news. The sub-head at the link: The world’s cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside. 3pf15s.jpg (511×488)
Deutsche Welle (DW), a German state-funded television network, published “The Climate Cover Up – Big Oil’s Campaign of Deception” (2018), having taken at face-value the false claim that oil companies have known the burning of fossil fuels impacts climate since 1957. I wonder if they ever get anything right.
It is interesting to note that the alarmists consider the oil companies bigger experts in atmospheric physics than the physicists who worked on the issue.
It is also very clear that they use the analogy between smoking and cancer which the tobacco companies DID know about because the research had already been done.
Now, you can just imagine somebody mustve come up w the idea to use it for the oil companies and climate change. Well, they of course knew very well that extracting and burning oil products causes pollution. Nothing new there.
But CO2 and the climate change aspect?
I think not.
Wind and solar are a very verry minor, insignificant part of global energy.
Investment in Australia on grid solar has dried up almost completely, because there is no money to be made, because when solar is producing , grid prices are zero or negative..
Petrodollar is the way USA used to tax the rest of the world. Fiat money emission is a form of currency dilution, which inherently is a form of taxation of everyone owning said currency, therefore enforcing use of such a currency is enforcing taxation. One does not need to have a Ph.D. in economics to understand this (to not understand this, maybe). It is under pressure now because the rest of the world is telling USA “We are not willing to pay for your morbidly obese blobs, junkies and perverts anymore, so the time is nigh for you to go neck yourselves” — repeatedly, and in the ways which even the last generation of the goons (jacked up to the point of being confused about their biological nature) will have no option but to heed. Hence it should be obvious that any verbal contortion which as much as “seriously considers” attempts to somehow replace this with an industry subsisting entirely on embezzlement and producing nothing useful other than nonsensical reports by bureaucrats and smug talking points for semi-literate hipsters is not worth its hard copy on toilet paper.
David Wojick
March 29, 2026 2:51 am
Here is an interesting mystery. The U.S. has about four million EVs on the road. Most of them charge at the home or business that owns them so the electricity is just added to the building’s usage. Thus we have almost no data on how much the EVs are using or when. It could be a lot.
We can make a VERY rough guess. The typical annual mileage for cars in the US is generally taken to be 13000 to 15000 miles per year. Assuming some amount of rationality in vehicle purchasing, EVs probably are driven a bit less because many folks who put a lot of miles on their car every day probably aren’t going to want to spend a lot of time sitting around waiting for a mid day charge up. Call it 10000 miles per year for EVs. Mileage figures for EVs tend to cluster around 3 miles per Kwh. So:
I know several people who charge their EVs w their own solar panels. It works pretty well. Obviously better on sunny days but still, if you already have solar panels on yr roof why not?
I am neither for or against EVs btw.
I’ve followed DS (formerly Lockdown Sceptic) ever since the earliest days…That’s just the sort of hard evidence people need to swing them over to more scepticism..! BUT…it doesn’t break into their double-glazed minds…sadly…
It isn’t going to be too much of a problem for the ‘eco-establishment’ as long as they have a stranglehold over what people get to be informed on – or not, as the case may be.
I heard a report on the Iranian War the other day I found particularly irritating.
Jennifer Griffin, who reports on the Department of War for Fox News Channel did a report on U.S. Marines and the possibility of the Marines seizing Iran’s Karg Island, which controls nearly all Iranian oil exports.
Jennifer Griffin compared the invasion of Karg Island with the Marine attack on Okinawa Island during World War II, where she reported that Okinawa was an 8-square mile island and it took 70,000 Marines to secure Okinawa and then she said Karg Island was about 14 square miles and implied that to take Karg Island would require a minimum of 70,000 Marines and probably more.
Jennifer should know better. The battle for Karg Island will be much different than the battle for Okinawa. Today, the air power the U.S. has in the area is overwhelming. No ground force could stand up to the pounding the U.S. military could give them. There will be little opposition once the air campaign is over. A small number of Marines will be sufficient.
As I said, Jennifer should know this, yet she left millions of Fox News viewers thinking an invasion of Karg Island would require tens of thousands of U.S. Marines, just like Okinawa did.
Jennifer doesn’t like Trump. Maybe that’s why she slanted her story that way. Whatever the reason, the report did not give the viewers all the facts. It is the kind of report I would expect to see from someone who is against the war and is using their position to throw cold water on it.
Does TDS refer to
Three times a day, ( Sadly I can’t manage that any more !! )
Tax Deducted at Source.
The Total Dissolved Solids swirling around in Trump’s skull,
or
Trump’s Derangement Syndrome ( I hope there’s an institution that can cure him )
Most of it usually is, and you should know. There are justifiable criticisms and serious debates, but the vast majority is fake news and TDS stoked by the US party of violence, fake crises and saving American democracy through election fraud.
Also, by one of life’s interesting curiosities, I happen to be posting this from Okinawa Island (yes, I am indeed jet lagged at ~ 3:00 am local time). I think I can safely say that I saw more than 8-square miles on my taxi ride to the hotel. A quick check says 463-square miles for the main island, so I assume she was talking about Iwo Jima.
According to Sun Tzu, all warfare is based on deception. So, the purported interest in Kharg Island is at least possibly a ruse. I’d personally focus effort further down closer to the Straight. Of course, there likely are multiple strategic targets. In any case, we’ll find out soon.
We could always just seize all of the Iranian oil tankers and start knocking out the Iranian power grid. Lots of options. Rubio said it’s best to have a lot of options as plans must change from day to day.
The main issue is the delusion of the US that they will be able to control the strait and the ships in the area.
This will NEVER happen. It cannot happen. It is not just Hormuz, it’s the entire persian gulf including the oil states. They are getting hammered by missiles atm. Does anyone seriously believe that is all simply going to stop?
Again, the US pretends it can control…but it never does. Time ticks away and so does the US’s influence. Like…in EVERY war since WW2.
The US can only destroy and even that seems increasingly limited.
If the US doesnt wake up it will lose everything..
According to Clausewitz, warfare is but a continuation of politics by other means.
It follows that if warfare is politics plus shooting, politics is warfare minus shooting. :]
We know what it looks like now.
US carriers withdrew to 1000 km from Iran, US bases closer than this were made “uninhabitable” and their radar installations turned into smoking ruins, while the hospitals are dropping non-essential functions to handle casualties. US planes? Well, supposedly 3× F-15 at once got mistakenly hit by Kuwait SAM. And then two KC-135 refueling craft accidentally malfunctioned to death at once, in such a manner that others now avoid the part of Iraq where those accidental malfunctions accidentally happened, presumably fearing bad luck. Uh huh.
The sensible guess is that Iran possibly received a batch of Geran in air-to-air missile bus variant, and almost certainly was given an opportunity to backport their new hardware to the Shahed UAV from which Geran supposedly have descended. Those things had several F-16 confirmed kills IIRC. Then what we know of this from the Orange Revolution’s slow demise fully applies. At a long range and with planes being able to dive low and friendly EW helping, even Russian SAM proved not very deadly, sure. And a war plane can easily avoid a few slow UAV just in case, sure. But when small flocks of UAV pop up everywhere, and the pilots cannot identify them, either the entire area is avoided, or now and then air-to-air drones get an opportunity to launch missiles from ranges too short for countermeasures to be fully effective and score another mission kill.
If air power would be enough they could secure the strait.
Trump gave Iran an ultimatum to open the strait. Iran said no and trump bailed.
This is no 5D chess. There is a reason why no other president attacked Iran.
You, like western leaders, are terrified of islam.
I think the immigration statistics show they are positively enamoured.
[Islamist leaders?] will look at you as a total weed.
I’m not sure they particularly care whether we are weeds or berserkers. In Iran especially, the theocrats embrace martyrdom for themselves and give less than not a stuff for the people. That is why other presidents opted for containment. They kept the dangerous loons in their box ‘cos nothing is bad enough for them.
Annihilation is the only way forward now. Which is going to test America’s squeamishness about committing war crimes. Marquess of Queensberry warfare ain’t gonna do it.
They are beginning to realise – post Gorton and Denton – that the Labour party has lost its once dependable bloc islamic vote to the Greens – who are way more islamophilic. Hence campaigning in Urdu.
They thought they could control it. They cannot. The islamo tendency is far more concerned with events thousands of miles away with the 5 MPs for Gaza (Birmingham).
Don’t make assertions about that which you know nothing about.
(snerk) You talk like a climatologist.
As to the matter at hand, you know the saying, “I don’t need to be a proctologist to recognize…”? Well, it’s clearly one of those, and it’s clear who is deep in it as well.
All the Iranian military assets on Karg Island have already been destroyed. It won’t take many marines to take the island- but- there won’t be any defenses for them as long as Iran can still fire off missiles. So I think the bombing or Iran will continue until there are no more missiles. On the other hand, it could be argued that Iran won’t hit their island with missiles as that would damage/destroy their oil processing and shipping assets. I’m confident that the American military has thought about this for many years.
Griffin needs to do a bit of thinking before she speaks. She’s off by a factor of 100 on the size of Okinawa. It’s over 800 square miles. You couldn’t possibly put 70,000Marines and all their equipment, and an even larger defending force and equipment on an island that is smaller than 3 miles by 3 miles.
Further, the purposes of the two outposts are entirely different. Okinawa was meant to be defended, Kharg Island is not of similar significance. About 95,000 Imperial Japanese Army troops were killed.
The issue is, as always, not the taking of Kharg island. I assume that with massive troop deployment the US WILL be able to take it. However, the issue is, as always what happens next. Now you have created a nearby target. Put ships around it..more targets. The US will run out of defensive missiles. They are already pulling recources out of other areas.
The US has put their war ships out of range atm. Move them closer and they become targets. Trump wants the EU( the coalition(!))to step in there. Nice try, Donald but..no thanks.
We will get attrition…and the US will eventually lose.
Unless it believes it has to use nukes. Israel is already a few steps ahead there. Will Trump be strong enough to resist? I have my doubts..
However, the issue is, as always what happens next.
A foothold in short term only creates a great logistic demand, yes. Even if it was somehow done, it would mean having to somehow support those marines, by ships exposed to anything from micro-drones to mines to hand-me-down Soviet Shkval (as Fadavi hinted https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/iran-cows-us-navy-into-submission ). Never mind moving in more troops to reinforce. If this was possible, there would be no great value in taking that island to begin with. It seems to be no more than journalist level drama.
The US will run out of defensive missiles.
Mostly ran out already. Not counting Navy, the only USA made SAM missile system worth a damn seems to be THAAD. There were few, and in 12-Day War so many missiles were expended that it was already depleted at the start of this misadventure — as in, not enough of ammunition to fully load allevery launcher. And it would take years to replace. See for example: https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/bottom-of-the-barrel
THAAD radars are vastly more expensive and less replaceable, of course, and were a priority target for Iran.
At any rate, these are mainly against SRBM. There so far is nothing that proved very effective against large numbers of small to medium sized UAV anywhere in the world, and USA in the usual smug complacency were neglecting SHORAD other than naval point defenses. So… did the Shahed swarms really just fly over those bases unopposed and bomb whatever, while the troops could only stare and swear at this? Probably yes.
Trump wants the EU( the coalition(!))to step in there. Nice try, Donald but..no thanks.
Trump is a negotiator first and foremost, his book is “Art of the Deal”. It’s hard to tell what he even tries to achieve this time, but you see what he deals with: environment of the Circus World (whether among the thin clowns or fat clowns) is choke full of air castles and other hallucinations. At least he got some explicit answers and cleared another shovelful of BS in these Augean stables. Which may be all that he could do.
Sounds like Jennifer Griffin was confusing Okinawa with Iwo Jima. Okinawa is much larger than 8 miles square. The energy related facilities on Karg can be mostly destroyed without needing an invasion.
It may surprise you Tom, but I don’t have the same confidence you have that this war is going smoothly for the US or Trump. And while he will tell you everything is going tickety-boo, there are some dark clouds circling here and they just don’t seem to want to lift.
Trump has many faults as a politician, and I think his main one is he appoints terrible people to positions of power.
He seems to have two criteria
Loyalty to himhow they appear (the way they look)
RFK a complete joke, single handedly destroying the health system. Bondi about to go down for lying… but, Pete Kegsbreath is the finest example. The guy may have been a soldier, but he has never run an organisation of any size or standing. He also has a serious alcohol problem to boot. His last job was a TV host. He is way out of his depth as evidenced by the poor decisions he has made so far re this war. He’s also a religious extremist which should worry all those who correctly say the same about the Iranian regime.
So while it is true the US has overwhelming fire power and has destroyed much of the Iranian forces, Iran hold a few key cards and they are playing them well. This war is far from over and anyone who thinks it is isn’t paying attention.
And…. Trump has one huge problem that is obviously weighing on him enormously. Every day the war drags on, is another day closer to the mid terms. If we get to November and gas prices are high and the war is still a mess, he is probably (at the very least at risk of) going to lose the house and the senate. His popularity is at an all time low (despite what he says) and is likely to fall further if this war drags on. Americans hate high gas prices, but they hate wars that drag on more….
November is still quite a long way away. I do expect Trump to back down at some stage. If he keeps escalating the oil price will keep going high. His big mistake is wanting to believe that he can get a decisive victory by using overwhelming force. He is certainly not the first president to believe in that myth with all known consequences in the past.
But he has surrounded himself w idiots like Hegseth.
If we dont get to the nuclear stage, either by the US or more likely Israel the escalation will have serious repercussions and Trump might not even make it to the mid terms.
Those who still believe in a quick american victory believe in a myth.
They will be in full denial and cope mode soon enough..Many will push the revenge ie destruct button. Mad cows..
While November is a way away, it is difficult to see an easy turn around for gas prices from here before then. From what I have read many of the wells have been shut down and will take some time to get up and running again.
Sunday Talks – SSCI Chairman Tom Cotton Discusses Ongoing Military Operation in IranMarch 29, 2026 | sundance | 6 Comments
Senator Tom Cotton is the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and in that position Cotton is an intelligence Gang of Eight member who receives regular updates and briefings at essentially the same level as the President.
Senator Cotton states that from everything he has seen and been briefed about, Operation Epic Fury continues to proceed on a timeline that he feels is confident to accomplish the task in weeks, not months.
Can we be confident of the truth in any public statements from high end officials? The majority of those officials have been careerists playing the game of sucking up to the ‘leaders’. This has been made abundantly clear by the likes of McGregor and Davis. The higher you get the more politics involved.
Compare the run up to the Iraq war ( where McGregor actually had a major role) to this one. It is so obvious a disaster in the making. I am beginning to suspect that even the taking of Kharg island might be very difficult.
I was puzzled by the size of Okinawa in this story. Its about 1,000 square miles in size. Its about 70 times the size of Kharg.
Kharg Island is a small coral island in the Persian Gulf, measuring approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) long and 4–5 kilometres (2.5–3 mi) wide, with a total surface area of around 20 sq km (approx. 8.1 sq miles). Located about 25–30 km off the Iranian coast, it acts as a critical oil export terminal, handling roughly 90% of Iran’s crude oil exports.
Yeah, as I posted above, I’m actually vacationing on Okinawa right now. The main island is 463 squ miles. Other islands, some of which I can see over my left shoulder as I type, take that number up some.
Anyone ever try Okinawan sea grapes? I had some for breakfast this morning – best seaweed ever, although they don’t go too well with Espresso !!! I should have had a mimosa.
The battle for Karg Island will be much different than the battle for Okinawa.
I agree with the above statement, if not with its self-congratulatory follow-up. That one was the world’s #1 at the time industrial nation muscling its way into the province of one weaker by orders of magnitude and starving on resources. This one would have a glorified safari force, armed by boutique style MIC and already demoralized, haul their meat parts into a shooting range for the forces of a country which proved its ability to destroy various military assets farther than this, whose loitering munitions USA is reverse-engineering now (to have something useful), and who is backed by 2 top actually working MICs of the world. It would be very, very different.
Ultimately, the whole point of such an operation would be to have a foothold, that is an improvised forward base… at a range closer than the adversary already have made some purpose-built bases uninhabitable, instead of degrading this capability first. In other words, the very objective is idiotic. Which is why, of course, it will not be done. It’s just talks and fake work.
The people who would have to actually deal with it (rather than cheerleading from behind) and got half a brain already see how deep down this mess is. And speaking of mess in the drains, consider the repeated internal sabotage on USS Gerald R. Ford. It’s almost like the US sailors really don’t want to be anywhere closer than 1000 km of Iran (which is where USS Lincoln sits).
Today, the air power the U.S. has in the area is overwhelming.
I have to call BS on this.
Because, why won’t they “overwhelm” the way for their carriers through the Strait of Hormuz, hey?Or, you know, as much as allow moving the big ships closer than 700km of Iran’s shores… Since they don’t, «the air power the U.S. has in the area» must be either insignificant or irrelevant where it counts.
No ground force could stand up to the pounding the U.S. military could give them.
In the above phrase the second “could” definitely should not be confused with “can”. As was demonstrated by the latest show: “advisors” and “volunteers” sent to protect the achievements of Orange Revolution. They appear to have been only slightly more useful for the puppet junta than the Reddit Legion was, and a lot of them returned in gurneys or sealed boxes. So, in the observable reality nobody is very impressed.
Denis
March 29, 2026 4:54 am
I have read some interesting articles of late regarding solid state batteries and how they will be the savior of the EV market; 5-minute charging, lots of stored electricity. Unstated is that 800 volt service at very high amperage is needed to charge such devices in a few minutes. My utility does not provide 800 volt – high amperage service to homes, just 120/240 volts at 20 amps. How much would it cost to provide 800 volt high amp service for my home charger? I don’t think I want to know.
If 5-to-7-minute charging becomes possible, the situation becomes more like going to a station for gasoline, so home charging would be unnecessary for the “real soon now” solid state batteries. Such will be necessary if apartment dwellers are expected to adopt EVs. But 10s of thousands of 800 volt chargers will not be easily accomplished.
I’d also think batteries would last longer if they were usually charged at a slower rate.
strativarius
March 29, 2026 4:55 am
Above I posted on a story concerning the Met Office and how it, er, operates to get those records.
To get anywhere you have to resort to Freedom of Information legislation. Certainly in the case of the dear old Met Office this has – for the eco-establishment’ – been a bit of a disaster; they have to drag their feet in lieu of releasing nothing at all, a la Phil Jones. But the government is on it…
Labour is considering lowering the cost ceiling for processing Freedom of Information (FoI) requests, using ‘spiralling administrative costs’ as the latest excuse to limit government transparency. – Guido
We can afford to throw billions around on futile net zero but we cannot afford an information request.
Act in haste, repent at leisure..
Ministers told to use Post-it notes to avoid Freedom of Information requests Tony Blair regarded the FoI Act as one of his greatest mistakes as prime minister. – Independent
Choosing vehicles that use electricity we don’t have to replace vehicles that use oil we don’t have is just an expensive way of standing still.
I think there are solutions and they are fairly agreeable solutions. I know this because I have adapted my own lifestyle to minimize my vehicle use. But the difference between me and the zealots is I’m not pressing my solution on other people. Let the market decide. No subsidies. No incentives. No penalties. No protections.
The invisible hand works in the long run, but it doesn’t guarantee people won’t act like idiots along the way.
“For the past few years, a familiar narrative has been building across American automotive media.
Chinese electric vehicles, we’re told, are about to reshape the global car market. Reviewers praise their low prices, sleek interiors, and feature-packed dashboards. Commentators speculate about a coming wave of imports that could challenge American, European, and Japanese automakers alike.”
“In many cases, the conversation in the United States has focused almost entirely on price and novelty while ignoring deeper concerns about reliability, safety, and the financial stability of the companies producing these vehicles.”
“Cold-weather performance has become a particular point of concern. Electric vehicles in general lose efficiency when temperatures drop, but reports from regions with harsh winters suggest some Chinese models struggle more than expected. Range losses of 30% to 40% during freezing conditions have been widely documented in winter testing environments.
Batteries lose efficiency, charging times increase, and vehicle systems must consume additional power simply to maintain battery temperature and cabin comfort. For drivers in northern climates, that matters. A vehicle rated for a certain range in ideal conditions may deliver far less in a real winter environment.”
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Fads come and go MUNR. I live in the northern U.S. with cold snowy winters. I doubt that the ICE motor vehicle is going anywhere in these parts.
There should be awards for various categories of naked pseudoscientific alarmism.
But who to name them after? Mann, Jones, Schneider, Gleick, Wadhams, Otto ad nauseam.
MUNR must be in the running for the Bob WardGrantham Research award for product placement?
Mr. lametroll: I don’t recall the part of Obama’s Great Appeasement that allowed him to drop bunker busters on Iran’s nuke works. The article you cite is a pathetic lie, and the fact that you trust it tells us all about you. All.
See my current NewsLetter : https://cosy.com/y26/NL202603.html , particularly the section , https://cosy.com/y26/NL202603.html#278.7+-2.3 on the calculation of the radiative equilibrium temperature of our ball .
Also note the beginnings of an open implementation of planetary physics with an emphasis on temperature .
As I mentioned above, I’m in Japan right now (Okinawa currently). A few days ago, the flight from SFO into Narita took the usual Aleutian Island route and visibility was so excellent that I got some great pics using my iPhone. I thought WUWT readers might like to see a couple or three. This first one is a small Island that appears to be unnamed, at least on Google maps.
Open Thread.
I’ve noticed there’s a remake of the animated version of Animal Farm out there.
I watched the trailer. Horrible!
I searched for a link to the 1954 animated version of the book. (Except for the very end, it was a very good prtrayal of the book.)
This is the best I could find doing a quick search of that original animated version.
It seems this new version has changed the main villain from being socialism becoming communist Stalin into a human capitalist (who looks a lot like Cruella Deville from 101 Dalmatians) corrupting Napoleon.
“Woke” from top to bottom!
The original book and animated version were based on history. This seems to be based on Disney.
Rational Keith
March 29, 2026 3:44 pm
Goonpeace trying to use the restriction of fossil fuel supply of the war in Iran to push shifting to ‘renewables’. Blaming oil companies as Marxists tend to.
Suzuki was a fruit fly genetics guy. CBC went looking for a nerdy looking bookworm kind-of-guy who would work for cheap on their weekly national TV science show. They found the ratings soared for enviro crisis stories. Suzuki parlayed it into riches and fame for himself with speaking tours…but really he only became a celebrity host, and never did any science after his fruit fly days. He pushed global cooling for a while, population explosion for a while, global warming. There were good bucks in fear mongering lectures at universities and libraries back then. Today your tablet feed has you covered without having to drive to the guest lecture hall… saving greenhouse emissions….Suzuki probably could care less if activists failed or not with his multiple beachfront houses and all….
Good news from France: the association QuotaClimat was put back in its place during one of the parliamentary hearings held as part of the inquiry into public broadcasting. This elegant clarification was delivered by journalist Géraldine Woessner from the magazine Le Point.
That feels good!
I’m attaching to this uplifting message a lovely song by Guy Béart, entitled “La Vérité”:
What do climate model developers do to plausibly represent historical trends? They tune cloud and aerosol parameters. This is an “open secret” of the computer modeling investigation of the influence of CO2, CH4, N2O on climate trends.
I give great credit to the developers at the GFDL (NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory) to have documented their tuning process in the paper given below. This is for their model that was used for the generation and submission of scenarios for CMIP6.
So what? If you understand the tuning, you can understand how the entire modeling exercise has been circular all along. It begins with the assumption that rising concentrations of CO2 operate as a “forcing” to be expected to drive the trend. But there is no such unique influence on the energy state being discovered, when all the other knobs are being turned to get a plausible result.
Zhao, et al 2018b “The GFDL Global Atmosphere and Land Model AM4.0/LM4.0: 2. Model Description, Sensitivity Studies, and Tuning Strategies”
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017MS001209
Excerpts:
“12 Tuning of TOA Radiative Flux and Cloud Radiative Effects
We calibrate AM4.0 TOA radiative fluxes (OLR and SW absorption) toward the observed values primarily through tuning the parameters related to cloud processes. These parameters affect distributions of high and low (including boundary layer) cloud amount (qa), cloud liquid (ql) and ice (qi) water content, cloud liquid droplet number (qn), as well as cloud overlap assumptions which together determine the net TOA LW and SW CRE. The cloud ice crystal number (or effective radius of ice particles), which is parameterized as a function of temperature in the model, is an additional important cloud optical property that affects CRE, but we did not explore it for tuning purposes in AM4.0.”
“13 Cess Sensitivity and RFP [“RFP”=radiative flux perturbation dd]
A goal of our model development is to create a model that simulates a climate evolution of the past century that is consistent with observations. This often involves model tuning either explicitly or implicitly. …But there are also aspects of our AM4.0 development that were admittedly driven primarily by the quality of the emerging climate simulation rather than process-level fidelity, effectively admitting that our process-level parameterizations are not fully adequate to this task. The characteristics of the tuning process are of special interest in the context of obtaining a plausible simulation of temperature trends over twentieth century. This issue has come to the forefront of modern model development with the advent of models of the indirect aerosol effect and the accompanying uncertainty in the strength of aerosol cooling, increasing the potential for creating unrealistic historical simulations without implicit or explicit tuning.
One often sees the argument that the twentieth century warming does not strongly constrain either climate sensitivity or the strength of aerosol cooling because similar overall warming can result from relatively low sensitivity to CO2 and weak aerosol cooling, or by high sensitivity and strong aerosol cooling.”
There you have it. Have the investigators determined from the model that the incremental IR absorbing power from rising CO2, CH4, N2O operates as a “forcing” to suppress OLR and therefore to drive “warming?” No. That influence is assumed at the outset and produces a baked-in result. Meanwhile, the radiative performance of the model is determined primarily by tuning cloud and aerosol parameters.
That is all for now.
“That influence is assumed at the outset”
Exactly right.
The entirety of Alarmist Climate Science is made up of speculation and unsubstantiated assumptions/assertions.
It’s been that way since the 1970’s.
There is no evidence humans are causing the Earth’s weather or climate to change. None, whatsoever.
I can say this without fear of contradiction. That’s how weak the Climate Alarmist case is. There won’t be any Climate Alarmists jumping in here to refute what I say. That is because they don’t have anything to prove their case. Undecided people should pay attention.
And , with Weatherbell predicting a “super El Nino” the chicken littles are really going to cluck!
😉
I agree but much will stay the same.
Some years ago i read a paper outlining how this works. The writer used a 20/60/20 rule. 20% of the people who make the rules and are part of the establishment that follows it ( blindly), 60% who don’t know but comply because it does not overly concern/ impact them or simply accept without resistance because of propaganda, and 20% who do resist and try to influence others.
The trick the establishment uses, based on the very low % of those who actually make the rules but can directly force the others in the group, is to buy media and/ or fund NGOs and the judiciary to attack the 20% who resist, like lawyers who blacken witnesses as unreliable.
The 60% just sees the propaganda and doubt the Resisters, treat them with suspicion as is the aim of the Establishment. They spend no energy actually trying to find out where the truth lies and are easily manipulated.
The Climate Alarmists have been able to steer the ship their way by the march through the institutions, including lawfare. To his credit Trump has drawn a line under this.
However, the geopolitical mechanisms who operate in much the same way is many times more damaging than w the climate issue. The US is run by gangsters. Its empire a direct descendance from the british. It copied the drugtrafficking and the opium wars. It set up the private ‘federal’ reserve system ( illiminating the competition).It used prohibition to make money through corruption and propped up mafiosi to work in tandem. Despite the image of fighting the mafia the US co-opted their politics. During the war the US rehabilitated the maffia leaders who became patriots overnight. After the war zionist gangsters like Meyer Lansky infiltrated the political system and worked on building a network of zionist agents to take away the power of the old style establishment WASP-ish conservatives. The presidents involved in this were: Truman, Eisenhower and LBJ. Kennedy opposed and was shot( by a mobster), as was his brother Robert. Reagan also opposed (and was also shot but not killed).
I am not sure about subsequent presidents. It did not seem as if the outsider Trump, who frequently rallied against foreign intervention prior to his last term (Iraq, Yemen) on which platform he got elected would be the person who would in fact start a war w Iran. But, as i previously said, this zionist connection from Lansky on including neocons AND Democrats apparently have a stronghold on him and likely use blackmail, directly or indirectly w the Epstein connection.
We live in bizarre times..
I should add that Trump pulled away from the iranian nuclear deal during his first term which was working relatively well at the time. I always thought that was odd given his general anti foreign war rhetoric. It might be that he was already corrupted at the time.
People should take note that he was also against bombing Yemen. Was he just lying all the time?
Was his mouth moving?
There you have it – the physics behind these models is not only phenomenological, it’s phudged.
When the predicted Tropical Hotspot could not be identified in observations (a global metric – UAH), the Scientific Methodology requires acknowledgement that the current assumptions about the model could be invalid. It does not say scour older less reliable 1 dimensional data (RadioSonde) as evidence to corroborate your invalid assumption.
As a Geophysicist, one who writes code, and can get in trouble for being wrong, I guess I would have been fired, because I would have been protesting that trace gasses are not the forcing we are looking for. And when they brought out the mindless and consequently unobserved ECS phenomena, that’s when I would have told them that they are idiots and their legacy will be documented as such, and that I don’t want to be a part of this.
But then again in that hypothetical scenario, comes the temptation of looking the other way because of need for a paycheck vs core ethical scientific integrity values, especially when the science venture has no legal or financial implications and essentially does not matter.
Excellent points!!
Always follow the money and do you have skin in the game?
Not much of a career going against the Establishment. Integrity comes at a cost. Would you be willing to sacrifice your career and the security of your family’s future by keeping your back straight and go against the grain?
Not an easy question to answer. I do feel some pity for those confronted w that choice and decide to go along without pushing back.
It is easy to pick on those people when you are retired and independent.
However, some HAVE resisted. I hope their partners have stood by their choices..
“can get in trouble for being wrong” This is a very important thing. These climate modelers do not really have any skin in the game. There is no cost to them being wrong, though there is a severe cost to them for going against “the consensus”.
This distortion of incentives is prevalent in many areas in the modern world, leading to all manner of upcoming catastrophic outcomes (though climate change is not one of them). When the consequences of failure do not fall upon those who create the failure, bad things happen.
Until satellites, cloud cover was estimated by weather station attendants in “Octs” at the time of reading (usually once per day)…an “Oct” being 1/8 of the Sky. This is good for pilots of ships, airplanes, blimps….but not anywhere near accurate enough to calculate “Albedo” for climate calculations, especially considering about 80% of the planet not having weather stations at the time…
So any statements of what might have happened for modeled curve fits before 1980 are wishful thinking…plus 30 years to start a trendline…
Aerosol estimation was and remains even worse, almost entirely based on guesswork and “feelings” confirmed by retrospective calculations….
Solar is winning the energy race
https://www.dw.com/en/solar-is-winning-the-energy-race/a-76517556
What is the petrodollar and why is it under pressure?
https://greencentralbanking.com/2026/01/29/what-is-the-petrodollar-system-and-how-might-green-energy-replace-it/
You are winning the BS Award.
“Green central banking”? Hilarious!
Green (Net Zero) central banking was what Mark Carney was grifting off before it turned to shit, and he had to retreat to Canada as a rank politician.
Still on the grift though, through his Brookfield investments.
French nuclear power plants are becoming more important for the stability of the German electricity grid.
Since shutting down its last nuclear power plants in 2023, Germany has become a net importer of electricity. According to data from the Federal Network Agency, the country imported more than 60,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity from abroad last year. Nuclear power accounted for the largest share at 14,331 gigawatt-hours. France was by far the largest supplier of nuclear power to Germany, with around 9,500 gigawatt-hours, followed by Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Sweden.
The refreshing thing about MUR is his (or her) wonderful optimism. There may be a climate problem, but don’t worry, be happy. Solar is breaking out everywhere, wind is triumphing, both are way cheaper than gas, coal or nukes. EVs are on the rise, pretty soon they will dominate, all this is very effective in saving the climate. The demon Trump is losing, his struggle against righteous energy is visibly failing.
Underlying this is a very profound insight. You may wonder on reading these lines why bids on intermittent wind and solar in the UK come in so high. Why is compulsion needed in the form of the renewables obligation etc. You may wonder why EVs require such large subsidies to sell at all. Why did we need to legislate how many are made and sold if they are so great and doing so well?
Well, MUR has stumbled on the answer to this, though he (or she) has never explicitly named it. What is happening is that on green issues, and on those alone, subsidies raise prices and diminish the attractiveness of the product! Yes, that is the only explanation, and thanks to MUR for prompting the train of thought that gave rise to this insight. Not only that, but legislation compelling certain products to be made and sold actually diminishes the demand for them.
What we have to do is just repeal all this stuff, and then wind solar and EVs and heat pumps will naturally take over, and Trump will toss and turn as he has nightmares that his great plan for destroying the climate will never happen. Or maybe his great plan to thwart climate justice will run into the sand.
wonderful optimism
Or just plain old delusion.
or profit as he doesn’t say where his income comes from
“The refreshing thing about MUR is his (or her) wonderful optimism”
I think “It” is likely more appropriate.
[ “Solar is winning the energy race” ]
You are either a silly pillock or an ill-educated parrot.
From your link …
“Global solar energy capacity has skyrocketed over the last decade:”
Yes, indeed it has & it’s profited China immensely.
But …
Installed capacity doesn’t equal actual output
Overall, solar energy generally has one of the lowest capacity factors compared to other power generation methods.
The UK median load factor for solar photovoltaic (PV) decreased to 9.2 per cent in 2024/25.
In 2024/25, the median load factor for Wind was 18.7 per cent, a 1.4 percentage points decrease on 2023/24, due in part to a 2.5 per cent decrease in average wind speeds over the year.
( whatever happened to increased wind speeds due to the manmade glow-ball heating crisis/emergency ?? )
The median load factor for hydro in 2024/25 was 33.6 per cent, a decrease of 7.2 %
The median load factor for anaerobic digestion was 74.8 per cent in 2024/25.
from …
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/quarterly-and-annual-load-factors
And then there’s the intermittency problem:
~50% of the time they are not producing; ~25% of the time they give low output; ~ 25% of the time they deliver 85% of the nameplate output; & a passing cloud will knock 40% off in seconds.
Load factor is a misleading statistic. Did hydro decline for lack of water or was it forced to decline to make room for wind and solar? Did solar decline for lack of sun or for some other reason. Gas often has a moderate load factor because much of it is used to fill in the holes left by wind and solar, not because of limitations of the machines. Ditto all the others. The reason for less than 100% load factor must be known and stated to make sense of it.
The link …
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/quarterly-and-annual-load-factors
gives full details.
Neither a pillock (whatever that is) nor a parrot.
A troll. Having fun by provoking.
“Solar is winning the energy race”
Except at night and cloudy days.
And when buried under snow.
It is neither winning nor having any meaningful inpact on overall energy.
And the ‘renewables’ lobby never make the distinction between energy and electricity. Well, because they aim to electrify everything they consider it the same thing. And they ALWAYS go very quiet when nuclear power is mentioned..
HA! Do you have any solar!? I bet NOT! DO not be a hypocrite.
Mr. lametroll (userfakename): Above, a guy named Dibbel debunks your cult and exposes as farce your belief in CO2 magical powers. No surprise that you choose to avoid that, instead posting nonsense from your cult summer camp. Thanks for letting us know.
As a matter of fact, CO2 has magical powers. CO2 puts the sparkle in soda pop, beer and French champagne!
A public supported German mouthpiece isn’t the place to go for reliable energy news. The sub-head at the link: The world’s cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside.
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Deutsche Welle (DW), a German state-funded television network, published “The Climate Cover Up – Big Oil’s Campaign of Deception” (2018), having taken at face-value the false claim that oil companies have known the burning of fossil fuels impacts climate since 1957. I wonder if they ever get anything right.
Yes they do – the profound and unshakeable gullibility of characters like MyUserNameRetarded.
It is interesting to note that the alarmists consider the oil companies bigger experts in atmospheric physics than the physicists who worked on the issue.
It is also very clear that they use the analogy between smoking and cancer which the tobacco companies DID know about because the research had already been done.
Now, you can just imagine somebody mustve come up w the idea to use it for the oil companies and climate change. Well, they of course knew very well that extracting and burning oil products causes pollution. Nothing new there.
But CO2 and the climate change aspect?
I think not.
Wind and solar are a very verry minor, insignificant part of global energy.
Investment in Australia on grid solar has dried up almost completely, because there is no money to be made, because when solar is producing , grid prices are zero or negative..
Petrodollar is the way USA used to tax the rest of the world. Fiat money emission is a form of currency dilution, which inherently is a form of taxation of everyone owning said currency, therefore enforcing use of such a currency is enforcing taxation. One does not need to have a Ph.D. in economics to understand this (to not understand this, maybe).
It is under pressure now because the rest of the world is telling USA “We are not willing to pay for your morbidly obese blobs, junkies and perverts anymore, so the time is nigh for you to go neck yourselves” — repeatedly, and in the ways which even the last generation of the goons (jacked up to the point of being confused about their biological nature) will have no option but to heed.
Hence it should be obvious that any verbal contortion which as much as “seriously considers” attempts to somehow replace this with an industry subsisting entirely on embezzlement and producing nothing useful other than nonsensical reports by bureaucrats and smug talking points for semi-literate hipsters is not worth its hard copy on toilet paper.
Here is an interesting mystery. The U.S. has about four million EVs on the road. Most of them charge at the home or business that owns them so the electricity is just added to the building’s usage. Thus we have almost no data on how much the EVs are using or when. It could be a lot.
That is very interesting…a data black hole…Well done..!
We can make a VERY rough guess. The typical annual mileage for cars in the US is generally taken to be 13000 to 15000 miles per year. Assuming some amount of rationality in vehicle purchasing, EVs probably are driven a bit less because many folks who put a lot of miles on their car every day probably aren’t going to want to spend a lot of time sitting around waiting for a mid day charge up. Call it 10000 miles per year for EVs. Mileage figures for EVs tend to cluster around 3 miles per Kwh. So:
(4×10^6 vehicles * 10^4 miles) / (3 miles/Kwh) = 1.3*10^10 Kwh = 13Twh
Total US electrical consumption in 2025 was roughly 4100 Twh
So — roughly 0.32% of total US electrical power consumption. (Assuming I didn’t misplace a decimal point someplace in there.)
I know several people who charge their EVs w their own solar panels. It works pretty well. Obviously better on sunny days but still, if you already have solar panels on yr roof why not?
I am neither for or against EVs btw.
And, of course, for those promoting EVs it’s easy to count only the purpose built chargers. It’s thimblerig-friendly!
Researcher Finds Proof The Met Office is Inflating UK Maximum Temperature Records
The importance of Huxter’s work in bringing clarity and reality to the Met Office temperature claims should not be underestimated.
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/03/29/statistical-proof-the-met-office-is-inflating-uk-maximum-temperature-records/
I’ve followed DS (formerly Lockdown Sceptic) ever since the earliest days…That’s just the sort of hard evidence people need to swing them over to more scepticism..! BUT…it doesn’t break into their double-glazed minds…sadly…
It isn’t going to be too much of a problem for the ‘eco-establishment’ as long as they have a stranglehold over what people get to be informed on – or not, as the case may be.
I heard a report on the Iranian War the other day I found particularly irritating.
Jennifer Griffin, who reports on the Department of War for Fox News Channel did a report on U.S. Marines and the possibility of the Marines seizing Iran’s Karg Island, which controls nearly all Iranian oil exports.
Jennifer Griffin compared the invasion of Karg Island with the Marine attack on Okinawa Island during World War II, where she reported that Okinawa was an 8-square mile island and it took 70,000 Marines to secure Okinawa and then she said Karg Island was about 14 square miles and implied that to take Karg Island would require a minimum of 70,000 Marines and probably more.
Jennifer should know better. The battle for Karg Island will be much different than the battle for Okinawa. Today, the air power the U.S. has in the area is overwhelming. No ground force could stand up to the pounding the U.S. military could give them. There will be little opposition once the air campaign is over. A small number of Marines will be sufficient.
As I said, Jennifer should know this, yet she left millions of Fox News viewers thinking an invasion of Karg Island would require tens of thousands of U.S. Marines, just like Okinawa did.
Jennifer doesn’t like Trump. Maybe that’s why she slanted her story that way. Whatever the reason, the report did not give the viewers all the facts. It is the kind of report I would expect to see from someone who is against the war and is using their position to throw cold water on it.
I saw that…Jennifer Griffin has TDS…say no more…
Oh no, critique of the dear leader – must be tds.
What’s your opinion on Keith Stalin?
“Oh no, that’s another fine mess I’ve got into !!!”
He never wanted to do this in the first place.
He always wanted to be . . .
Yep, and he even keeps his pressed wild flower collection in the closet.
a lumberjack!
a lumberjack. Leaping from tree to tree….
Does TDS refer to
Three times a day, ( Sadly I can’t manage that any more !! )
Tax Deducted at Source.
The Total Dissolved Solids swirling around in Trump’s skull,
or
Trump’s Derangement Syndrome ( I hope there’s an institution that can cure him )
As i said many times: TDS runs both ways. Reality and facts take a backseat..
Most of it usually is, and you should know. There are justifiable criticisms and serious debates, but the vast majority is fake news and TDS stoked by the US party of violence, fake crises and saving American democracy through election fraud.
Also, by one of life’s interesting curiosities, I happen to be posting this from Okinawa Island (yes, I am indeed jet lagged at ~ 3:00 am local time). I think I can safely say that I saw more than 8-square miles on my taxi ride to the hotel. A quick check says 463-square miles for the main island, so I assume she was talking about Iwo Jima.
According to Sun Tzu, all warfare is based on deception. So, the purported interest in Kharg Island is at least possibly a ruse. I’d personally focus effort further down closer to the Straight. Of course, there likely are multiple strategic targets. In any case, we’ll find out soon.
We could always just seize all of the Iranian oil tankers and start knocking out the Iranian power grid. Lots of options. Rubio said it’s best to have a lot of options as plans must change from day to day.
And still no word from the cardboard Ayatollah. I’d compliment him by asking if he had lost weight.
Then start, why are you talking?
OK, I’ll get on the phone with Trump and tell him to proceed with my suggestions. 🙂
Everyone is straight in Islamia.
There’s no coming out around there.
The main issue is the delusion of the US that they will be able to control the strait and the ships in the area.
This will NEVER happen. It cannot happen. It is not just Hormuz, it’s the entire persian gulf including the oil states. They are getting hammered by missiles atm. Does anyone seriously believe that is all simply going to stop?
Again, the US pretends it can control…but it never does. Time ticks away and so does the US’s influence. Like…in EVERY war since WW2.
The US can only destroy and even that seems increasingly limited.
If the US doesnt wake up it will lose everything..
According to Clausewitz, warfare is but a continuation of politics by other means.
It follows that if warfare is politics plus shooting, politics is warfare minus shooting. :]
That is probably true. The important question is what will that campaign look like? I am not confident I know. What’s your take?
We know what it looks like now.
US carriers withdrew to 1000 km from Iran, US bases closer than this were made “uninhabitable” and their radar installations turned into smoking ruins, while the hospitals are dropping non-essential functions to handle casualties. US planes? Well, supposedly 3× F-15 at once got mistakenly hit by Kuwait SAM. And then two KC-135 refueling craft accidentally malfunctioned to death at once, in such a manner that others now avoid the part of Iraq where those accidental malfunctions accidentally happened, presumably fearing bad luck. Uh huh.
The sensible guess is that Iran possibly received a batch of Geran in air-to-air missile bus variant, and almost certainly was given an opportunity to backport their new hardware to the Shahed UAV from which Geran supposedly have descended. Those things had several F-16 confirmed kills IIRC. Then what we know of this from the Orange Revolution’s slow demise fully applies. At a long range and with planes being able to dive low and friendly EW helping, even Russian SAM proved not very deadly, sure. And a war plane can easily avoid a few slow UAV just in case, sure. But when small flocks of UAV pop up everywhere, and the pilots cannot identify them, either the entire area is avoided, or now and then air-to-air drones get an opportunity to launch missiles from ranges too short for countermeasures to be fully effective and score another mission kill.
If air power would be enough they could secure the strait.
Trump gave Iran an ultimatum to open the strait. Iran said no and trump bailed.
This is no 5D chess. There is a reason why no other president attacked Iran.
You, like western leaders, are terrified of islam.
They will look at you as a total weed.
I think the immigration statistics show they are positively enamoured.
I’m not sure they particularly care whether we are weeds or berserkers. In Iran especially, the theocrats embrace martyrdom for themselves and give less than not a stuff for the people. That is why other presidents opted for containment. They kept the dangerous loons in their box ‘cos nothing is bad enough for them.
Annihilation is the only way forward now. Which is going to test America’s squeamishness about committing war crimes. Marquess of Queensberry warfare ain’t gonna do it.
They are beginning to realise – post Gorton and Denton – that the Labour party has lost its once dependable bloc islamic vote to the Greens – who are way more islamophilic. Hence campaigning in Urdu.
They thought they could control it. They cannot. The islamo tendency is far more concerned with events thousands of miles away with the 5 MPs for Gaza (Birmingham).
When did you attend the War College?
Don’t make assertions about that which you know nothing about.
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Well Trump went to “bone spur” college. No wars were on his radar.
(snerk) You talk like a climatologist.
As to the matter at hand, you know the saying, “I don’t need to be a proctologist to recognize…”? Well, it’s clearly one of those, and it’s clear who is deep in it as well.
All the Iranian military assets on Karg Island have already been destroyed. It won’t take many marines to take the island- but- there won’t be any defenses for them as long as Iran can still fire off missiles. So I think the bombing or Iran will continue until there are no more missiles. On the other hand, it could be argued that Iran won’t hit their island with missiles as that would damage/destroy their oil processing and shipping assets. I’m confident that the American military has thought about this for many years.
Griffin needs to do a bit of thinking before she speaks. She’s off by a factor of 100 on the size of Okinawa. It’s over 800 square miles. You couldn’t possibly put 70,000Marines and all their equipment, and an even larger defending force and equipment on an island that is smaller than 3 miles by 3 miles.
Further, the purposes of the two outposts are entirely different. Okinawa was meant to be defended, Kharg Island is not of similar significance. About 95,000 Imperial Japanese Army troops were killed.
Also lots of vegetation, hills on Okinawa, plus a major population area at one end.
Kharg Island is essentially flat and treeless.
The issue is, as always, not the taking of Kharg island. I assume that with massive troop deployment the US WILL be able to take it. However, the issue is, as always what happens next. Now you have created a nearby target. Put ships around it..more targets. The US will run out of defensive missiles. They are already pulling recources out of other areas.
The US has put their war ships out of range atm. Move them closer and they become targets. Trump wants the EU( the coalition(!))to step in there. Nice try, Donald but..no thanks.
We will get attrition…and the US will eventually lose.
Unless it believes it has to use nukes. Israel is already a few steps ahead there. Will Trump be strong enough to resist? I have my doubts..
A foothold in short term only creates a great logistic demand, yes. Even if it was somehow done, it would mean having to somehow support those marines, by ships exposed to anything from micro-drones to mines to hand-me-down Soviet Shkval (as Fadavi hinted https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/iran-cows-us-navy-into-submission ). Never mind moving in more troops to reinforce. If this was possible, there would be no great value in taking that island to begin with. It seems to be no more than journalist level drama.
Mostly ran out already. Not counting Navy, the only USA made SAM missile system worth a damn seems to be THAAD. There were few, and in 12-Day War so many missiles were expended that it was already depleted at the start of this misadventure — as in, not enough of ammunition to fully load allevery launcher. And it would take years to replace. See for example: https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/bottom-of-the-barrel
THAAD radars are vastly more expensive and less replaceable, of course, and were a priority target for Iran.
At any rate, these are mainly against SRBM. There so far is nothing that proved very effective against large numbers of small to medium sized UAV anywhere in the world, and USA in the usual smug complacency were neglecting SHORAD other than naval point defenses. So… did the Shahed swarms really just fly over those bases unopposed and bomb whatever, while the troops could only stare and swear at this? Probably yes.
Trump is a negotiator first and foremost, his book is “Art of the Deal”. It’s hard to tell what he even tries to achieve this time, but you see what he deals with: environment of the Circus World (whether among the thin clowns or fat clowns) is choke full of air castles and other hallucinations. At least he got some explicit answers and cleared another shovelful of BS in these Augean stables. Which may be all that he could do.
Sounds like Jennifer Griffin was confusing Okinawa with Iwo Jima. Okinawa is much larger than 8 miles square. The energy related facilities on Karg can be mostly destroyed without needing an invasion.
It may surprise you Tom, but I don’t have the same confidence you have that this war is going smoothly for the US or Trump. And while he will tell you everything is going tickety-boo, there are some dark clouds circling here and they just don’t seem to want to lift.
Trump has many faults as a politician, and I think his main one is he appoints terrible people to positions of power.
He seems to have two criteria
Loyalty to himhow they appear (the way they look)
RFK a complete joke, single handedly destroying the health system. Bondi about to go down for lying… but, Pete Kegsbreath is the finest example. The guy may have been a soldier, but he has never run an organisation of any size or standing. He also has a serious alcohol problem to boot. His last job was a TV host. He is way out of his depth as evidenced by the poor decisions he has made so far re this war. He’s also a religious extremist which should worry all those who correctly say the same about the Iranian regime.
So while it is true the US has overwhelming fire power and has destroyed much of the Iranian forces, Iran hold a few key cards and they are playing them well. This war is far from over and anyone who thinks it is isn’t paying attention.
And…. Trump has one huge problem that is obviously weighing on him enormously. Every day the war drags on, is another day closer to the mid terms. If we get to November and gas prices are high and the war is still a mess, he is probably (at the very least at risk of) going to lose the house and the senate. His popularity is at an all time low (despite what he says) and is likely to fall further if this war drags on. Americans hate high gas prices, but they hate wars that drag on more….
Watch this space…..
Pete Kegsbreath
Name-calling, Simon?
November is still quite a long way away. I do expect Trump to back down at some stage. If he keeps escalating the oil price will keep going high. His big mistake is wanting to believe that he can get a decisive victory by using overwhelming force. He is certainly not the first president to believe in that myth with all known consequences in the past.
But he has surrounded himself w idiots like Hegseth.
If we dont get to the nuclear stage, either by the US or more likely Israel the escalation will have serious repercussions and Trump might not even make it to the mid terms.
Those who still believe in a quick american victory believe in a myth.
They will be in full denial and cope mode soon enough..Many will push the revenge ie destruct button. Mad cows..
While November is a way away, it is difficult to see an easy turn around for gas prices from here before then. From what I have read many of the wells have been shut down and will take some time to get up and running again.
Sunday Talks – SSCI Chairman Tom Cotton Discusses Ongoing Military Operation in IranMarch 29, 2026 | sundance | 6 Comments
Senator Tom Cotton is the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and in that position Cotton is an intelligence Gang of Eight member who receives regular updates and briefings at essentially the same level as the President.
Senator Cotton states that from everything he has seen and been briefed about, Operation Epic Fury continues to proceed on a timeline that he feels is confident to accomplish the task in weeks, not months.
Can we be confident of the truth in any public statements from high end officials? The majority of those officials have been careerists playing the game of sucking up to the ‘leaders’. This has been made abundantly clear by the likes of McGregor and Davis. The higher you get the more politics involved.
Compare the run up to the Iraq war ( where McGregor actually had a major role) to this one. It is so obvious a disaster in the making. I am beginning to suspect that even the taking of Kharg island might be very difficult.
I was puzzled by the size of Okinawa in this story. Its about 1,000 square miles in size. Its about 70 times the size of Kharg.
Kharg Island is a small coral island in the Persian Gulf, measuring approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) long and 4–5 kilometres (2.5–3 mi) wide, with a total surface area of around 20 sq km (approx. 8.1 sq miles). Located about 25–30 km off the Iranian coast, it acts as a critical oil export terminal, handling roughly 90% of Iran’s crude oil exports.
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What is she talking about?
Yeah, as I posted above, I’m actually vacationing on Okinawa right now. The main island is 463 squ miles. Other islands, some of which I can see over my left shoulder as I type, take that number up some.
Anyone ever try Okinawan sea grapes? I had some for breakfast this morning – best seaweed ever, although they don’t go too well with Espresso !!! I should have had a mimosa.
Hold on, Tom.
Not allowed to call it a “war“, dear boy.
“War” requires congressional approval.
Remember ‘The Constitution’ and what that was?
How many months did Obama bomb Syria ???
I agree with the above statement, if not with its self-congratulatory follow-up.
That one was the world’s #1 at the time industrial nation muscling its way into the province of one weaker by orders of magnitude and starving on resources.
This one would have a glorified safari force, armed by boutique style MIC and already demoralized, haul their meat parts into a shooting range for the forces of a country which proved its ability to destroy various military assets farther than this, whose loitering munitions USA is reverse-engineering now (to have something useful), and who is backed by 2 top actually working MICs of the world. It would be very, very different.
Ultimately, the whole point of such an operation would be to have a foothold, that is an improvised forward base… at a range closer than the adversary already have made some purpose-built bases uninhabitable, instead of degrading this capability first. In other words, the very objective is idiotic. Which is why, of course, it will not be done. It’s just talks and fake work.
The people who would have to actually deal with it (rather than cheerleading from behind) and got half a brain already see how deep down this mess is. And speaking of mess in the drains, consider the repeated internal sabotage on USS Gerald R. Ford. It’s almost like the US sailors really don’t want to be anywhere closer than 1000 km of Iran (which is where USS Lincoln sits).
I have to call BS on this.
Because, why won’t they “overwhelm” the way for their carriers through the Strait of Hormuz, hey? Or, you know, as much as allow moving the big ships closer than 700km of Iran’s shores… Since they don’t, «the air power the U.S. has in the area» must be either insignificant or irrelevant where it counts.
In the above phrase the second “could” definitely should not be confused with “can”. As was demonstrated by the latest show: “advisors” and “volunteers” sent to protect the achievements of Orange Revolution. They appear to have been only slightly more useful for the puppet junta than the Reddit Legion was, and a lot of them returned in gurneys or sealed boxes. So, in the observable reality nobody is very impressed.
I have read some interesting articles of late regarding solid state batteries and how they will be the savior of the EV market; 5-minute charging, lots of stored electricity. Unstated is that 800 volt service at very high amperage is needed to charge such devices in a few minutes. My utility does not provide 800 volt – high amperage service to homes, just 120/240 volts at 20 amps. How much would it cost to provide 800 volt high amp service for my home charger? I don’t think I want to know.
Seems like they will have significantly better performance at a higher cost. As you point out, currently, utilities will be a bottleneck.
If 5-to-7-minute charging becomes possible, the situation becomes more like going to a station for gasoline, so home charging would be unnecessary for the “real soon now” solid state batteries. Such will be necessary if apartment dwellers are expected to adopt EVs. But 10s of thousands of 800 volt chargers will not be easily accomplished.
I’d also think batteries would last longer if they were usually charged at a slower rate.
Above I posted on a story concerning the Met Office and how it, er, operates to get those records.
To get anywhere you have to resort to Freedom of Information legislation. Certainly in the case of the dear old Met Office this has – for the eco-establishment’ – been a bit of a disaster; they have to drag their feet in lieu of releasing nothing at all, a la Phil Jones. But the government is on it…
Labour is considering lowering the cost ceiling for processing Freedom of Information (FoI) requests, using ‘spiralling administrative costs’ as the latest excuse to limit government transparency. – Guido
We can afford to throw billions around on futile net zero but we cannot afford an information request.
Act in haste, repent at leisure..
Ministers told to use Post-it notes to avoid Freedom of Information requests
Tony Blair regarded the FoI Act as one of his greatest mistakes as prime minister. – Independent
They never think it through.
Australian EV Sales Have Exploded Since America Went To War With Iran
https://dmarge.com/cars/australian-ev-sales-war
Talking of exploding EVs…
Auto-starting is a feature.
Auto-ignition….
Choosing vehicles that use electricity we don’t have to replace vehicles that use oil we don’t have is just an expensive way of standing still.
I think there are solutions and they are fairly agreeable solutions. I know this because I have adapted my own lifestyle to minimize my vehicle use. But the difference between me and the zealots is I’m not pressing my solution on other people. Let the market decide. No subsidies. No incentives. No penalties. No protections.
The invisible hand works in the long run, but it doesn’t guarantee people won’t act like idiots along the way.
You’re so easily sucked in, old mate.
That article is all based on used-car salesmen talking about claimed % increases in “inquiries”, “interest in” and other flaky metrics.
Not one actual mention of QUANTITIES of EVs being sold.
The Great Chinese EV Hype: What the Media Isn’t Telling You | Newsmax.com
Exerpts from the article:
“For the past few years, a familiar narrative has been building across American automotive media.
Chinese electric vehicles, we’re told, are about to reshape the global car market. Reviewers praise their low prices, sleek interiors, and feature-packed dashboards. Commentators speculate about a coming wave of imports that could challenge American, European, and Japanese automakers alike.”
“In many cases, the conversation in the United States has focused almost entirely on price and novelty while ignoring deeper concerns about reliability, safety, and the financial stability of the companies producing these vehicles.”
“Cold-weather performance has become a particular point of concern. Electric vehicles in general lose efficiency when temperatures drop, but reports from regions with harsh winters suggest some Chinese models struggle more than expected. Range losses of 30% to 40% during freezing conditions have been widely documented in winter testing environments.
Batteries lose efficiency, charging times increase, and vehicle systems must consume additional power simply to maintain battery temperature and cabin comfort.
For drivers in northern climates, that matters. A vehicle rated for a certain range in ideal conditions may deliver far less in a real winter environment.”
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Fads come and go MUNR. I live in the northern U.S. with cold snowy winters. I doubt that the ICE motor vehicle is going anywhere in these parts.
Vote MUNR for the Bob Ward Grantham Research award for product placement on WUWT
Krishna Gans
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March 29, 2026 2:47 am
You are winning the BS Award.
There should be awards for various categories of naked pseudoscientific alarmism.
But who to name them after? Mann, Jones, Schneider, Gleick, Wadhams, Otto ad nauseam.
MUNR must be in the running for the Bob Ward Grantham Research award for product placement?
Could we emulate Hollywood & have the
‘Catastrophic Red Hot Globe Awards’
I could wear my gold-lamé catsuit with a fluorescent willy-warmer & pose on the red carpet.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latexclothinguk.co.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F02%2FLMB386-5-600×800.webp&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=185ef34e8c3522ccdf6e30aa4203627ec064cbe584bf5c708171f69aa64a23e5
We need something to mark their folly in a meaningful way- also to our merriment…
Where is the ENSO meter?
Did it fall down the back of the sofa or roll under the fridge ??
Climate Prediction Center: ENSO Diagnostic Discussion
Note the word “Discussion” that along with the images provide useful information.
Trump is desperately trying to negotiate the exact same Iran nuclear deal he ripped up in 2018.
https://rumble.com/v77ryg6-trump-is-desperately-trying-to-negotiate-the-exact-same-iran-nuclear-deal-h.html
People are dying because he wanted his name on it instead Obamas.
Mr. lametroll: I don’t recall the part of Obama’s Great Appeasement that allowed him to drop bunker busters on Iran’s nuke works. The article you cite is a pathetic lie, and the fact that you trust it tells us all about you. All.
Non sequitur.
See my current NewsLetter : https://cosy.com/y26/NL202603.html , particularly the section , https://cosy.com/y26/NL202603.html#278.7+-2.3 on the calculation of the radiative equilibrium temperature of our ball .
Also note the beginnings of an open implementation of planetary physics with an emphasis on temperature .
As I mentioned above, I’m in Japan right now (Okinawa currently). A few days ago, the flight from SFO into Narita took the usual Aleutian Island route and visibility was so excellent that I got some great pics using my iPhone. I thought WUWT readers might like to see a couple or three. This first one is a small Island that appears to be unnamed, at least on Google maps.
Pavlof Volcano:
The tallest volcano on the island chain – Mount Shishaldin.
Great pics
Thanks.
Open Thread.
I’ve noticed there’s a remake of the animated version of Animal Farm out there.
I watched the trailer. Horrible!
I searched for a link to the 1954 animated version of the book. (Except for the very end, it was a very good prtrayal of the book.)
This is the best I could find doing a quick search of that original animated version.
https://nortonsafe.search.ask.com/videos?ssdcat=321&installsource=client&source=client&year=2015&locale=en_us&geo=us&version=22.16.2.22&templatecat=sbu_w_1000_5039_nsbu_esd_3&schemacat=sbu_w&schemaver=1.0.0.0&olpchannel=sesd&osvers=6.1&oslocale=iso%3Ausa&oslang=iso%3Aeng&os=windows&showuninstallsurvey=1&installstatus=updated&vendorsrc=chrome&vendortesteligible=no&machinelocation=244&tb=0&sw=1&3in1=0&hp=1&dsp=1&annot=false&vendorConfigured=ask&o=APN12175&prt=ngc&ver=3.25.0.3&tpr=111&chn=1000&guid=056ea13e-e8f4-405b-a5a8-60d0d0b27266&q=Animal+Farm+animated+movie&geo=en_US&ctype=videos&darkMode=false&sameTabLaunch=false&browser=Chrome&prod=HP&installSource=client&cmpgn=medici&doi=2018-11-22&lang=en_us&videoId=CKJvwWyq2z0
It seems this new version has changed the main villain from being socialism becoming communist Stalin into a human capitalist (who looks a lot like Cruella Deville from 101 Dalmatians) corrupting Napoleon.
“Woke” from top to bottom!
The original book and animated version were based on history. This seems to be based on Disney.
Goonpeace trying to use the restriction of fossil fuel supply of the war in Iran to push shifting to ‘renewables’. Blaming oil companies as Marxists tend to.
Financial leaders pushing for new approaches amid geopolitical tensions – Victoria Times Colonist
Can they spell ‘blackout in Spain’?
While David Suzuki admits that climate activists have failed completely.
Suzuki was a fruit fly genetics guy. CBC went looking for a nerdy looking bookworm kind-of-guy who would work for cheap on their weekly national TV science show. They found the ratings soared for enviro crisis stories. Suzuki parlayed it into riches and fame for himself with speaking tours…but really he only became a celebrity host, and never did any science after his fruit fly days. He pushed global cooling for a while, population explosion for a while, global warming. There were good bucks in fear mongering lectures at universities and libraries back then. Today your tablet feed has you covered without having to drive to the guest lecture hall… saving greenhouse emissions….Suzuki probably could care less if activists failed or not with his multiple beachfront houses and all….
Hello everyone, I hope you are well.
Good news from France: the association QuotaClimat was put back in its place during one of the parliamentary hearings held as part of the inquiry into public broadcasting. This elegant clarification was delivered by journalist Géraldine Woessner from the magazine Le Point.
That feels good!
I’m attaching to this uplifting message a lovely song by Guy Béart, entitled “La Vérité”: