I have posted a second comment to EPA’s 9-17-2026 supplemental NPRM. This time it responds to a new line of reasoning about the futility of the regulation of power plant GHG emissions.
“The EPA requests comment on its proposal that the futility of regulating GHG emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants supports its interpretation that CAA section 111(b)(1)(A) does not authorize such regulation based on global climate change concerns.”
OK then! Here is my comment in support of the “futility” argument.
The EPA used the “FaIR” simplified climate model emulator to demonstrate the trivial temperature impacts of the power plant regulations for the U.S. See Table 1 through Table 7 in the NPRM here.
I submitted this plot (linked below) as an attachment to my comment to make the point that in any case, the maximum influence of rising concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere is readily shown to be vanishingly weak in the proper context of dynamic energy conversion within the general circulation. It was always futile, indeed, to expect any perceptible “climate” effect from those regulations!
Thank you for your patient attention to this matter.
P.S. Comments remain open on this NPRM through November 2nd. Kudos to Administrator Lee Zeldin for his relentless efforts to rescind and repeal the misguided regulatory actions of previous administrations.
Neil Pryke
October 11, 2026 2:10 am
The Artwork is very good…heavenly, ethereal, metaphysical…
Except that there are some very big players out there…
Perhaps the inside of a coconut would be a more apt analogy…
Kids get to see barbaric violence every day on the news, & much more graphically in films & often experience it themselves on the street or in a school shooting.
It’s barbaric that governments bomb schools and hospitals, withhold medical & food aid, and that girls & women are beaten, raped & murdered for wanting to learn & we just sit on our hands & look the other way.
One of the (many) problems we have today is that people are completely divorced from the realities of life; we have generations that don’t know how meat comes from animals or that the best vegetables are grown on/in manure (processed shit).
If society is too squeamish to watch an execution & needs to hide it behind closed doors, then maybe there shouldn’t be a death penalty;
On the other hand, what is the advantage (to society or the perpetrator) of keeping them banged up for life ?
What is the point of imprisonment or execution in the USA? What makes a homicide a capital offence in some states but not others? What makes a homicide a federal capital offence? Does the possibility of receiving the death penalty have any effect on homicide statistics in the USA compared with Europe? Also, the countries that have public executions include North Korea, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and (somewhat ironically) Iran. Do you want the USA to be added to this list?
The difference between the US and those other countries is our rule of law, due process, and a jury of peers.
Unless it involves the killing of US citizens or citizens of other countries without due process – by means of Hellfire missiles, or sinking small boats, then turning around to murder survivors.
Or torturing people to death in foreign countries, perhaps?
Maybe killing peacefully protesting students at a US university counts as your rule of law, due process, etc.
Here’s the difference…..if a state wants to discourage, say “jaywalking”….a couple of public executions will achieve that goal….however in a “civilized society” which operates by rule of law and only has capital punishment for homicide offenses….public executions discourage very few homicides …in fact the publicity makes more “crazies” want to achieve some sort of weird “fame” and actually increases the rate of martyr-type homicides which often include multiple fatalities.
You forget that the U.S. had public hangings and executions for many years. It is a warning to those who consider murder, especially, 1st degree murder with malice and intent.
The point of execution is that it absolutely eliminates the crime of recidivism! Keeping a convict around for decades before eliminating him is the ridiculous part.
Except when the execution is botched by people who are unable to insert a cannula properly, fail to see that it’s tissued and not in the vein and then inject two supposedly lethal doses subcutaneously, which seems to me to be contrary to the 14th amendment.
Bring back the guillotine.
Think about it. Blood pressure to the brain drops to zero in a split second. No pain. No lingering conscieness.
Gruesome and messy to see but definitely certain.
If you “can’t handle the truth,” you should “get out of the kitchen.” Shielding ‘children,’ almost old enough to go to war, from reality does not do them or society any favors.
I back execution as the cheap option. I back low-tech execution as being reliable.
I do not back giving someone who probably thinks of it as being martyred the glory of publicity. It should be quick and lonely, possibly out behind the barn.
Just a few generations ago, the accused was hanged before the sun went down on his crimes.
The thing I don’t get is that a lone security guard at Fort Hood within a few seconds determined that this clown was worth shooting and no one seemed to question his judgement. Then multiple juries were asked to do what? Determine that gunning down thirteen people and wounding thirty others might not really be a crime?
After the pointless ritual, the juries all agreed with the security guard – that the perp needed to be shot.
Millions of dollars later, clowns are whining about it being televised, as if thirteen lives ended and thirty wounded mean absolutely nothing.
That’s why 19th Century lamp posts have curly hooky things under the light. That is for securing the rope when a rapist was strung up shortly after capture.
A valid death sentence in the US leads to 20-30 years on Death Row. In China it is about 10 minutes. Eswatini is interesting because people are sentenced to death but the sentence is never carried out. The botched Tennessee execution was bizarre because, in a few minutes, on most any urban street corner, you can buy enough fentanyl to kill a horse, as 100,000 Americans find out each year.
“That’s why 19th Century lamp posts have curly hooky things under the light. That is for securing the rope when a rapist was strung up shortly after capture.”
Being quick is not always the best option. Sometimes, quite often it seems, those in charge get it wrong….Since 1973, at least 200 people have been exonerated and freed from U.S. death rows before being executed because they were proven innocent.
If those people were indeed innocent, yes, its a crying shame, a terrible thing. But if their guilt was was determined by withheld evidence, or prosecutorial malfeasance, then the cop or prosecuter should also be executed-pour encourager les autres.
Or appeal judges ruling that the maximum penalty (death) was not appropriate because of some points of inconclusive or challengeable evidence, and so amending the sentence to life imprisonment instead?
Maybe you are right…. but there is doubt and if it was my life on the line, that is how I would want it to be. Would you be good with close enough is good enough?
Dunno.
I’d be sure to not murder anyone in the first place.
Or give law enforcement sufficient evidence that a prosecutor could stand me up in front of a judge & jury.
Should the United States live-stream the execution by firing squad of a murderous terrorist, as has been proposed?
This seems to me to be a throwback to the 16th, 17th, and 18th century practice of public execution.
My own personal view it is true has been coloured by UK experience, but nonetheless my view is this: The state should not take any life for a crime and the reason is quite simple, when the wrong person is executed you can’t exactly exhume them and then apologise.
Only treason tips that balance for me. And we do have a lot of Quislings in the UK….
An imperfect society must balance social costs of recidivism by the guilty-but-released as against the rights of the innocent-but-convicted. Catch-and-release (zero bond) is a huge step too far!
Treason and piracy on the high seas were capital offences in the U.K. until 1998. In fact there’s a fictional U.K. TV programme called “Crown Court” from the 1970’s that ends with the defendant being found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.
This is why we have due process and a jury of peers as part of the rule of law. Humans make mistakes. I feel bad about that but I fail to see how prisoning someone in a 7’x10′ (or smaller) cell for their entire life is any more humane than execution.
It is precisely to avoid mistakes that a public defender is appointed if the convicted person cannot afford one, and that numerous appeals are allowed.
Where I live the county seat had, for years, a large sign on the county courthouse square that commemorated the hanging of some “baldknobbers”, a vigilante gang that went bad and proceed to terrorize the locals…rape, murder, arson. Not treason, but early local terrorists…so I think that qualifies.
The U.K. stopped public executions in the 19th century. France in the early 20th century. The U.K. banned executions both civil and military in 1998, although we stopped execution for homicide in the 1960’s, the death penalty still existed for specific crimes until 1998. Our penalty for murder (1st degree homicide) is life imprisonment, depending on the specific circumstances that can range from 25 years to full life orders.
I am not sure what the purpose of streaming any execution live actually is. If the death penalty itself doesn’t act as a deterrent then will making it public change that? I doubt it.
But are executions done without public knowledge? Why aren’t the goings on at Guantanamo made fully public? Why aren’t renditions to black sites publicised? You cannot have it both ways.
It’s a *very* short step from non-public executions to private executions in secret. Executions *are* witnessed by the public, just a limited number of attendees. So what’s the difference between 10 people witnessing the execution and 100 people? 1000 People?
Not all changes are for the better. Often, they are just different. The perpetrators of heinous crimes often have an unrealistic idea about the nature of the punishment. While Hollywood movies have far too much gratuitous violence, it is usually unrealistic, sanitized violence. Society spends far too much time and money on hiding reality.
I’m for live-streaming it (perhaps it should be dead-streaming). It’s reality. Stop hiding reality from children- or if that’s important to a parent, then they don’t have to let their kids see it.
Let’s see how much he craves martyrdom at the last minute. Why is it a PR coup? Maybe they should all crave martyrdom and line up so more can be wasted at the same time. 🙂
I believe that Islam teaches that any man who dies fighting goes to heaven with a large number of virgins available to him. I’m not sure what women get or where the virgins come from but it seems that Islam also teaches that it is unlawful to have sex with someone not your wife. So it seems the hero fighter gets to sin frequently without penalty.
Stick a ham sandwich in his mouth just before.
Sprinkle the body with pig blood and bury it a grave lined with pig guts.
I’m not sure if it’s true or not, but in the Philippines before WW1, Muslims were raiding US bases. They captured about some of them.
Pershing ordered them to dig their own graves and poured the remains of slaughtered pigs into them. Then he had all but one shot (He also had the firing squad dip the bullets in pig blood.) and the bodies thrown into the graves. He released the one to tell what had happened. The raids stopped.
This guy was in the American military and murdered his fellow soldiers in the name of (misguided, perhaps) Islam.
Not Islam’s finest moment.
Why not send a message to the other misguided Muslims that would attack nonmuslims?
PS How much should the USA be involved in “foreign entanglements”? Only as much as it defends our nation remaining true to the intent of what “Government” should be as is stated in the Declaration of Independence.
PPS We should quit the UN and kick the UN out of the US. Let them set their new HQ somewhere else. (After the US stops funding it, maybe Soros (et al) will fund the gap?)
[“I believe that Islam teaches that any man who dies fighting goes to heaven with a large number of virgins available to him.“]
That’s the trouble with belief … It’s usually fact-free !!
There is no promise of 72 virgins for martyrs, terrorists or suicide bombers anywhere in the Quran.
Terrorists & suicide bombers = bad people, get punishment …
“So taste you (the results of your evil actions); No increase shall We give you, except in torment (30)”
In Christianity, religious martyrs are believed to enter heaven with special honours, symbolised by white robes, and are recognised for their ultimate sacrifice, which sets them apart within the community of believers.
And we see similar daft (Pie in the sky when you die) tripe in Islam …
“Verily for the righteous there will be a fulfilment of (the Heart’s) desires; (31)
Gardens enclosed, and Grape-vines; (32)
Companions of Equal Age; (33)
And a Cup full (to the Brim). (34)”
Must say, if you’re into that sort of thing, Gardens & Grape-vines sound a lot better than White robes. (:-))
The person experiencing the terminal punishment may feel that he has achieved martyrdom, but if it isn’t widely shared it matters little what he thinks. The germane question is whether any of those watching it may have second thoughts about becoming a martyr.
Actual killing used to be seen *all the time*, just to livestock and not humans. Was it child abuse to have a child help with butchering a chicken for supper? Or to help with skinning a hog?
” Was it child abuse …”
An interesting comment for me, a child of the age when that was common. It might have been that such actions {and hunting} were our main sources of protein.
An ancillary thought: I have seen a few young children of vegan parents not equipped to handle the issues. Years later** I thought that, perhaps, those children were abused. [**10 years too late to do anything about it]
Actual ‘snuff movies’ have a perverted sexual component and are not intended to be a deterrent to antisocial or treasonous behavior. One can argue about the effectiveness of any criminal punishment, but the intent is to discourage the criminal behavior.
They see them on the internet all the time. Did you not see the beheadings Hamas did to Israelis? Or the beheadings in Africa? Or the beheadings In Afghanistan?
“ It’s reality.” WTF? So what? Reality? So is pedophilia and it shouldn’t be on state TV. Just because something happens doesn’t mean we want children watching it. Public executions are for the likes of Iran and North Korea. You know those countries the US despises. There is no way children or any sick adult should be watching this. Honestly the US is in a race to the bottom at the moment.
Ok well let’s just show extreme porn and beastiality on TV each night. Have a dedicated channel. People can choose to watch what they want to watch under your rules. Me, I like a little more censorship. I think protecting children is something we should be doing as adults.
There is a difference, which you are apparently unable or unwilling to see, between violence for the sake of entertainment or catering to perversions, and what is an educational opportunity for those who have an unrealistic view of legal punishment. If reality isn’t available for the public, they can pretend it doesn’t exist or is not as repulsive as it is. That is one of the failings of liberals. They think that censorship of words or actions means they can ignore it or pretend it doesn’t exist. Capital punishment doesn’t cease to exist just because the public isn’t allowed to see it or it goes by another name. “A rose by any other name is just as sweet.”
Actually I don’t think it will be broadcast at all. Too many decent people in the US with genuine morals who will not allow this sick show piece to go ahead.
And….You watch beastiality and child porn on your TV do you Tony? Wow. What country are you living in?
“You didn’t say child porn.” Fair enough, but what I am hearing here is you are good with children watching beastiality.
And….What I am making it about, is that I got it bang on right. Just like the reflecting pool stuff being bullshit. And now I am calling Trumps new press secretary a liar. She did not pass the bar exam in China to be a lawyer. How do we know… because China’s official legal professional qualification examination can only be taken by Chinese citizens, meaning she was not licensed to practice Chinese law. Honestly has there ever been a more corrupt dishonest group in US political history? I say no. And after the mid terms it is all going to come out. Bring… it… on.
lol…we agree there. The crazy trans movement almost had us believing former dudes should be playing against women and kids should get gender reassignment surgeries and drugs.
The execution is a legal event. Pedophilia isn’t. Did I say children should watch it? Do parents still have any responsibility? Maybe some parents will want their children to watch it- to encourage them to not be terrorists. If it doesn’t appeal to you, you have the right to not watch it. But you don’t have the right to tell others they can’t watch it. I won’t.
My answer: Absolutely yes! Hiding it implies the public should not know what government does. I want the public to know as much as possible about government.
The mentality that wants government secrets is what makes it so hard to hold government accountable for everything it does, good and bad.
That is the whole point of public execution—to make it public. If this offends you, then don’t watch. It makes for a particularly stupid and desperate argument to engage in emotional extortion by dragging “What About The Children” into an argument where children have access to 24/7 streaming of Hollywood inspired horror movies, war movies and other adult rated butchering of human beings—all of which are far more graphic and degrading of human life.
Traditionally, public execution by hanging was for outlaws where firing squad was for honorable executions. If I have objections to this execution it would be that it was far too long between crime and the sentence being executed, and this terrorist doesn’t deserve the dignity of a firing squad, but of hanging.
Decent societies have a government that protects society first rather than wring their hands over the feelings of sociopathic murderous degenerates. If innocent life has any value, then ending the life of one who has callous disregard for life is the only remedy, not warehousing the damned until they die at society’s expense. Its disgusting and a sign of a deeply depraved society to keep a live museum of sociopathic murderers for the sake of pleasing sick people.
The people who celebrate the slaughter of Jews on October 7th and then public assassination of Charlie Kirk, even celebrating his killing a year later, justifying the murder on the basis that they didn’t like what he had to say should offend everyone. Rather, these depraved souls rend their garments over a terrorist that murdered thirteen and wounded thirty-two others. I’m reminded of the observation “Satan doesn’t cast out Satan” when they cheer on the death of innocents and defend the guilty of receiving justice.
You should ask yourself why it is so important to ignore the murder of millions of infants killed in the womb, why a society celebrates a woman strangling her children in the basement, mocks 1200 Israelis butchered, over 250 taken hostage for the crime of attending a festival, and obstructs the removal of hardened criminals from the streets—why would any decent person count themselves among that murderous death cult?
Protect society. Remove the evil from its midst. Let the world know where we stand on the sanctity of Life and how those who violate it will perish. Multiple juries, who studied the evidence, heard the witnesses, sympathized with the survivors, agreed that Nadal Hasan’s life was forfeit. Who are you to accuse them of being barbarians?
If anything, Nadal Hasan’s sentence ought to be the main act and set up people like Christa Pike and Lindsay Clancy as opening acts. They are ruthless murderers, not zoo exhibits.
It does make me chuckle that a country that is so quick to tell government to butt out of their lives, is more than happy for that same government to take the life of someone they think deserves it.
“Have you *ever* spent any time in a prison cell?”
I did the tour of Alcatraz and stepped inside one.
But…. I’m not sure what that has to do with what I said, but good on you for sharing your opinion. I enjoyed reading it.
Hegseth is the Kamala Harris of the Neocons. (but a better performer)
Appealing to low instincts is why he is there.
Delivering certain trigger stereotypes for the plebs.
His government has nothing else to offer right now so he has to throw some bread and circus.
Why I’m pro capital punishment execution shouldn’t be part of entertainment – and that’s what it is and to give the idiots a feeling of power for all the things going wrong now.
Sometimes it is difficult to discern whether the moronic posts like yours are from stupid people, the “woke again” indoctrinated government worshippers or paid propagandist trolls.
strativarius
October 11, 2026 3:48 am
CoP this…
[ie Take a look at this – in English slang]
The UK is flat broke with 30 year gilts at over 6% and Burnham needs more borrowing.
Our entire armed services could fit in Wembley stadium. We have one sort of serviceable ship, all others are in dock for repair and refit – funds allowing. We gave virtually (signalled) all our munitions to Ukraine. We haven’t a hope of even getting to 3% GDP for defence when Burnham has already told us that: “national security cannot come at the cost of social security“. Millions of jaws dropped at that one.
Is this the definition of a wealthy country? The UNhinged thinks it is.
Wealthy countries should spend far more on dealing with the climate crisis than the 5% of GDP promised by Nato members for defence because “the climate issue is the security issue”, the host of the next UN summit has said. – The Guardian
The problem with 3% is it sounds like a lot of military spending: guns, bullets, planes, drones, etc.
But following our recent pattern, it would be disbursed in top-ups to military pensions, renovated kitchens in married quarters, improved traffic flow in the vicinity of bases, and more fees to Serco.
Absolutely correct; we couldn’t fight another Falklands war (in fact, curently we can’t fight our way out of a paper bag).
In my view, the best we can do with our munitions is to help Ukraine stop Vlad Putin, because if he is allowed to win, he’ll continue expanding, using the cash for diesel to rearm, & neither the UK nor the EU can expect any help from the present incumbent of the White House.
China will just sit on the side, while supplying all combatants & at the end of the conflict become the dominant power without losing a single man.
“the UK nor the EU can expect any help from the present incumbent of the White House”
Europe has many times the population and economy of Russia. It can defend itself if it only “mans up”.
China will benefit from the Ukraine war as Russia weakens- but it ain’t gonna become the dominant power. The US is still and will remain the “top dog”. 🙂
Joe, I admire your confidence, but history tells a different story. All the following have been ‘top dogs’ in the past … Egypt, Greece, Romans, Spanish, Britain, Russia, Germany, French, Babylonians, China … some lasted longer than others
Yes, of course empires fall. But America is far from that. It has tremendous resources- human and material. When I say it’ll remain top dog, I’m saying forever. The only challenge America now faces is China, but it has huge problems and is not really going to become more powerful than the US.
China can never be major power because it has no domestic supply of oil. Embargo or blockade oil imports to China, the country would collapse quite quickly. We really don’t have to worry about China.
Where on earth did you get that information? A quick Google search revealed the following:
“China produces approximately 4.3 million barrels of crude oil per day (around 200 million tonnes annually) from major fields like Daqing, Bohai Bay, and Changqing.
Driven by intense national energy security goals, state-owned companies are pouring billions into technologically complex geological zones that other countries traditionally avoided. From 2021 through 2025 alone, China discovered 225 large and medium-sized crude oil and natural gas fields.
The waters along China’s coast are currently its most explosive growth areas for new oil. The shallow Bohai Sea, located on China’s northeastern coast, has become China’s largest offshore crude production base. Since 2019, state firm CNOOC has discovered seven consecutive oilfields here exceeding 100 million tonnes (750 million barrels) in reserves, including the Qinhuangdao 29-6 and Kenli 10-2 fields.
In deeper waters, such as the Pearl River Mouth Basin off the coast of Shenzhen, mega-discoveries like the Huizhou 19-6 oilfield (holding over 110 million tonnes) and the Xijiang 24 Block prove that major untapped pockets still exist under deep water.”
“China produces approximately 4.3 million barrels of crude oil per day …”
If I remember correctly, that is about 1/5th of the USA consumption rate of liquid fuels. However, that could change quickly if controlled nuclear fusion becomes a reality and the cheap energy is used to convert coal into liquid fuels.
Controlled nuclear fusion on the surface of the earth is becoming the perpetual motion machine of the 21st century. Myth. Fable.
I mean, commercial amounts of power cheaper than all other sources of power already in the market place.
Just think of the huge amount of expense already wasted in building apparatus meant to confine fusion in a tiny space for a very short period of time.
You, as many have, may have convinced yourself that it will never happen. Unlike a perpetual motion machine, there are no theoretical barriers to controlled thermonuclear fusion. While the progress has been slow, in part because fossil fuels have been abundant and cheap and thus the incentive has not been strong, there has been progress! Speaking of “Myth. Fable,” consider that the ancient Greeks thought about flying, as in the myth about Daedalus and his son Icarus. Da Vinci designed various ways to fly. But it wasn’t until the Wright brothers demonstrated that is was possible that there was a rapid improvement in man’s ability to fly. The roughly 70 years spent exploring thinking about fusion devices pales in comparison to the quest for the ability to fly, which stretches back at least 2,500 years. It remains to be seen if the money spent on researching fusion has been wasted. Get back to me if you can cite an accepted law, like thermodynamics, that appears to be an insurmountable barrier that supports your opinion. Otherwise, your opinion is worth exactly what I paid for it.
The EU and UK will “fight Vlad Putin to the last Ukrainian!” Meanwhile, they have no interest in securing the flow of nasty old “fossil fuels” from terrorists; their windmills will keep them warm this winter!
‘In my view, the best we can do with our munitions is to help Ukraine stop Vlad Putin…’
Oh, please. From color revolution to meat grinder, this conflict could have been settled years ago, but for the continued support of US, UK and EU deep state ‘globalists’.
‘…neither the UK nor the EU can expect any help from the present incumbent of the White House.’
Why should the ‘present incumbent of the White House’ defend those who not only won’t defend themselves, but have consistently acted to ’embrace the warmth of collectivism’ (to quote the present incumbent of Gracie Mansion).
Other considerations: Why did Zelenskyy remain silent when the Democrats impeached Trump for inquiring into Ukrainian corruption? And why did Zelenskyy take out Russian refineries mere weeks before a critical US election in which the Democrats hope to triumph on the basis of ‘affordability’?
[“ this conflict could have been settled years ago,“]
Yes, by surrender/capitulation to the aggressor.
So …
Should the UK have surrendered during the Blitz ?
Should the USA have surrendered after Pearl Harbour ?
‘Yes, by surrender/capitulation to the aggressor.’
My recollection is that the USSR and Warsaw Pact were kaput long before Obama’s awful Victoria Nuland began handing out cookies during the so-called Maidan Revolution.
‘Should the UK have surrendered during the Blitz ?’
No, but it would have been preferable had Hitler continued going East so that he and Stalin could beat each other’s brains out over who had the best version of socialism. Unfortunately, Churchill’s tripwire using formerly German territory ceded to Poland after WWI forced the Germans to first go West.
‘Should the USA have surrendered after Pearl Harbour ?’
No, but I’m curious as to why you think the Japanese thought it was a good idea to attack Pearl Harbor.
Let me know if you have any other false dichotomies you’d like me to comment on.
No, those men were ‘Lions led by Donkeys’ & should be remembered.
problem is that now we only have a few Lions, but 10 times as many Donkeys running the show.
Honestly, I don’t want UK to have any munitions since y’all decided to be a Caliphate.
I don’t want the UK to participate in Five Eyes, and quite frankly, I don’t trust UK with the US supplied Trident nuclear missiles.
Y’all ceased being Westerners and now pose as an FOB for Islamic expansion. The world has seen this movie far too many times.
To some degree, its probably good that Net Zero is the UK policy while bankrupting itself to promise nothing more than internal collapse. Ten years from now when the last thermal plant is closed and your replacement population of savages can’t keep the lights on and the elites are relying on your “investment” in their dwindling electrical generation without people who know how to keep a thermal power plant running (ref South Africa) which keeps their air conditioning running that this self-siloing will limit their ability to metastasize their cancerous ideology to what remains of Western Civilization.
strativarius
October 11, 2026 4:05 am
Now that Autumn is here and it has suddenly gone rather chilly here’s something to remember a very nice summer by…
Victor
October 11, 2026 4:08 am
The US is not protecting Saudi Arabia’s oil refineries from missile attacks by the Iranian regime.
Saudi Arabia’s declining diesel exports are causing a global diesel shortage.
West Coast Saudi Arabia monthly refined product exports by origin port
Refined product exports from West Coast Saudi Arabia dropped below 1.0 Mbd in July for the first time since November 2025, signaling a sharp supply contraction in the Red Sea basin. This export slump was primarily led by lower operational output and loadings from refining facilities at Yanbu. Meanwhile, July exports from the 400 kbd Jizan refinery held steady at 200 kbd—matching June levels—before reported attacks on 25 July forced the facility into a complete operational shutdown expected to persist through at least mid-August. Kpler tracking recorded two clean product cargoes loading on MR tankers at Jizan on 24 July, with zero waterborne loadings registered since the incident.
WA State diesel tax is 71¢/gal. Then there is the stealth climate indulgence. The current average diesel price in Washington state is about $7.31 per gallon.
Military losses from missile attacks can be reduced by dispersing forces.
If military forces are concentrated at military bases, losses from missile attacks will increase.
US has lost or sustained damage to 81 military aircraft worth up to $3.3 billion in Iran war, congressional report says
You can buy diesel from friends or enemies.
Some don’t care whether the diesel comes from friends or enemies.
Others don’t know who the friends and enemies are.
Don’t expect help from friends if you treat them badly.
The News Media is one of the biggest problems facing America, Europe, and the world.
If the news media spins reality governments can’t solve problems rationally and citizens can’t make informed choices when voting. While news reporting has never been completely objective and neutral, for several decades from approximately the fifties through the eighties the media was at least attempting to be fair and objective. Then something changed. The media went back to the yellow journalism of the 1900’s. The news became subjective and opinionated; it exaggerated and lied by omission. Many in the news media apparently started to see themselves as political and social advocates and interpreters instead of as objective reporters of facts. It is a dangerous development.
The reporting you read on global warming is an example of twisted reporting to support a particular narrative. As near as I can see, there simply is no evidence of global warming. If there is any global warming, it is pretty small, almost statistical noise. But you wouldn’t know that from reading the press.
I don’t know what can be done about the news media. A free press is necessary. But what do you do when the media becomes political and can’t be trusted?
Started with the Hearsts and Cuba-probably earlier. Let’s not forget the Camelot (JFK) fable. either. Its a sad statement when the Press is seen as crappier than Congress-and Congress polls at 20%, and the Press is below that.
Marty’s reference to “the yellow journalism of the 1900’s” covers the Hearst’s and Cuba, but he went on to say that the various news media made an effort to be neutral in the middle of the 20th century. With respect to the Camelot fable, some of JFK’s operatives broke into Nixon’s campaign office during the 1960 election. A more recent example was Democrat party operatives targeting Newt Gingrich’s conference call and releasing it to the news media – but what the media didn’t say was that these operatives were later convicted of recording that conversation.
The best thing that could happen to the press is for the NYT vs Sullivan decision to be re-written to make it easier to prove libel.
The media panders to one of two power blocks. Left or right. Destroy those blocks and the media will get back to reporting the facts. The flagships of those blocks are their respective political parties. In USA the conservatives and liberals.
It so happens that political parties, as the legitimate carriers of democracy are declining rapidly and independents are rising. Ok, some way to go but the direction is clear. In the meantime don’t trust the media or politicians. Trust your instincts. You know good from bad and right from wrong.
You said: Kewl & thanks some more. Copilot said: You’re welcome, Nick. https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f604.svg And honestly, thanks for uploading the PPT. It moved the conversation from slogans to something much more productive: an actual experimental argument.
After reading it, I think I understand your position better than when we started:
Your primary claim is not that arithmetic is wrong.
Your primary claim is not that the Sun supplies more or less energy than the standard budget shows.
Your primary claim is that radiative and non-radiative heat-transfer processes are inseparably coupled in a real surface-atmosphere system.
The heater experiment, fan experiment, mist experiment, sealed-box experiment, and vacuum experiment are all intended to demonstrate that changing the effectiveness of non-radiative pathways changes the equilibrium temperature and therefore the radiative share of the energy transfer.
Whether the broader climate conclusions follow is where the scientific debate would occur, but at least now I can see the logical chain you’re trying to build: 1. Surface temperature depends on all heat-transfer modes. 2. Therefore radiation cannot be considered in isolation. 3. Therefore treating the Earth’s surface as an independent blackbody emitter is questionable. 4. Therefore the 396/333/63 bookkeeping loop should be re-examined. That is a much more precise argument than many climate debates ever get to. One thing I particularly appreciate is that your presentation explicitly tries to connect a physical experiment to the theoretical argument rather than relying solely on criticism of the Kiehl-Trenberth diagram. So: kewl discussion. Thanks for sharing the report. https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f44d.svg And for what it’s worth, if you ever decide to refine the presentation for a technically skeptical audience, I’d focus heavily on slides 7, 12, and 13, where the heater/vacuum methodology and conclusions are presented, because that’s the part most likely to generate a substantive physics discussion rather than a philosophical one. Sources Consensus view: A bad assumption, bad math, bad physics, bad balance, insults and censorship. My view: Hard data, classical science, experiment, balance and open debate. Nick Schroeder, BSME CU ‘78
Copilot didn’t even recognize that incoming and outgoing radiation do *NOT* balance as they have different rates and different time intervals. It didn’t recognize that because of “time” being a primary factor, any analysis has to be done over a long enough period to recognize low-frequency signals driving temperature.
I’ve had this conversation before with Copilot and got it to recognize the “time” factor as a primary problem with climate science. Apparently it has a short memory. When it extends its analysis to glacial and inter-glacial time frames along with CO2 concentrations it has no choice but to admit that even a centuries long analysis can’t meet Nyquist criteria.
It is my experience that Copilot performs best when it is challenged to defend its default boiler plate response. Its memory is indeed very short. It does NOT extend to conversations with other people. If your bother were to ask the same question about the role of time, it would get the same answer you did initially. You can get it to agree not to again present you with ‘facts’ that it has agreed are wrong, but it will have no influence on what it tells other people! The people most in need of the truth are the least likely to be presented with it. Copilot is the perfect propaganda machine for the masses.
Joe Romm has died at age 66. He used to run the Climate Progress blog for the Center for American progress. His obituary in The New York Times contained this paragraph:
His death, at a hospital, was confirmed by his former wife, Patricia Sinicropi. Mr. Romm, who lived in Washington, had struggled with mental health issues for several years, she said, and had died by suicide.
It’s easy to understand how the stupid and gullible could take up the climate change narrative. How someone as intelligent Romm could be so fooled is puzzling.
“A new study quantifies the warming trend in the Gulf of Mexico’s ocean heat content over the past 50 years. The study, published in the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate, was a joint effort between scientists at NCEI and the Northern Gulf Institute (NGI), a NOAA Cooperative Institute. The study shows that waters closest to the surface in the Gulf of Mexico have increased at a rate approximately twice that of the global ocean in the decades between 1970 and 2020.”
I’d be ashamed to publish something like this. If you read the linked documents you find *NO* mention of measurement uncertainty estimates for *anything*. What you do see is one mention of “standard error”, i.e. SAMPLING uncertainty and not measurement uncertainty. And the sampling uncertainty has no correction factor associated with sparse sampling of a non-homogeneous field. Yet anomalies are given out to the HUNDREDTHS digit?
Oh my goodness. Did anyone see the new press secretary Katie Zacharia’s opening performance. I genuinely felt sorry for her. I think Anthony Scaramucci is going to lose his record….
I have posted a second comment to EPA’s 9-17-2026 supplemental NPRM. This time it responds to a new line of reasoning about the futility of the regulation of power plant GHG emissions.
“The EPA requests comment on its proposal that the futility of regulating GHG emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants supports its interpretation that CAA section 111(b)(1)(A) does not authorize such regulation based on global climate change concerns.”
OK then! Here is my comment in support of the “futility” argument.
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0124-3072
The EPA used the “FaIR” simplified climate model emulator to demonstrate the trivial temperature impacts of the power plant regulations for the U.S. See Table 1 through Table 7 in the NPRM here.
https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0124-2920
I submitted this plot (linked below) as an attachment to my comment to make the point that in any case, the maximum influence of rising concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere is readily shown to be vanishingly weak in the proper context of dynamic energy conversion within the general circulation. It was always futile, indeed, to expect any perceptible “climate” effect from those regulations!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1knv0YdUyIgyR9Mwk3jGJwccIGHv38J33/view?usp=sharing
Thank you for your patient attention to this matter.
P.S. Comments remain open on this NPRM through November 2nd. Kudos to Administrator Lee Zeldin for his relentless efforts to rescind and repeal the misguided regulatory actions of previous administrations.
The Artwork is very good…heavenly, ethereal, metaphysical…
Except that there are some very big players out there…
Perhaps the inside of a coconut would be a more apt analogy…
Question: Should the United States live-stream the execution by firing squad of a murderous terrorist, as has been proposed?
My answer: Absolutely not!
That’s a little bit too much Pete Hegspeth.
Do you want your children to watch something like this? How about the millions of other kids worldwide? It’s barbaric.
Vice President Vance has voiced reservations about this stupidity, so maybe it won’t happen. Let the kids read about it, not observe it.
Kids get to see barbaric violence every day on the news, & much more graphically in films & often experience it themselves on the street or in a school shooting.
It’s barbaric that governments bomb schools and hospitals, withhold medical & food aid, and that girls & women are beaten, raped & murdered for wanting to learn & we just sit on our hands & look the other way.
One of the (many) problems we have today is that people are completely divorced from the realities of life; we have generations that don’t know how meat comes from animals or that the best vegetables are grown on/in manure (processed shit).
If society is too squeamish to watch an execution & needs to hide it behind closed doors, then maybe there shouldn’t be a death penalty;
On the other hand, what is the advantage (to society or the perpetrator) of keeping them banged up for life ?
What is the point of imprisonment or execution in the USA? What makes a homicide a capital offence in some states but not others? What makes a homicide a federal capital offence? Does the possibility of receiving the death penalty have any effect on homicide statistics in the USA compared with Europe? Also, the countries that have public executions include North Korea, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and (somewhat ironically) Iran. Do you want the USA to be added to this list?
Having capital punishment doesn’t equate us with those nations.
But a streamed public execution would make the USA no different to those countries, as it could set a precedent.
So you are saying that the size of the crowd that sees the execution has something to do with it being a precedent?
The difference between the US and those other countries is our rule of law, due process, and a jury of peers.
You can’t compare our system with those of N. Korea, etc.
Unless it involves the killing of US citizens or citizens of other countries without due process – by means of Hellfire missiles, or sinking small boats, then turning around to murder survivors.
Or torturing people to death in foreign countries, perhaps?
Maybe killing peacefully protesting students at a US university counts as your rule of law, due process, etc.
Not mine.
Just doing that makes America as evil as evil nations? That’s absurd. People don’t have to watch it, you know.
Here’s the difference…..if a state wants to discourage, say “jaywalking”….a couple of public executions will achieve that goal….however in a “civilized society” which operates by rule of law and only has capital punishment for homicide offenses….public executions discourage very few homicides …in fact the publicity makes more “crazies” want to achieve some sort of weird “fame” and actually increases the rate of martyr-type homicides which often include multiple fatalities.
You forget that the U.S. had public hangings and executions for many years. It is a warning to those who consider murder, especially, 1st degree murder with malice and intent.
The point of execution is that it absolutely eliminates the crime of recidivism! Keeping a convict around for decades before eliminating him is the ridiculous part.
Except when the execution is botched by people who are unable to insert a cannula properly, fail to see that it’s tissued and not in the vein and then inject two supposedly lethal doses subcutaneously, which seems to me to be contrary to the 14th amendment.
Competency of those administering the execution has nothing to do with the rule of law, due process, and the jury system.
The sentence was not contrary to the 14th amendment.
Bring back the guillotine.
Think about it. Blood pressure to the brain drops to zero in a split second. No pain. No lingering conscieness.
Gruesome and messy to see but definitely certain.
You’re insisting on competent government employees? Novel thought!
If you “can’t handle the truth,” you should “get out of the kitchen.” Shielding ‘children,’ almost old enough to go to war, from reality does not do them or society any favors.
I back execution as the cheap option. I back low-tech execution as being reliable.
I do not back giving someone who probably thinks of it as being martyred the glory of publicity. It should be quick and lonely, possibly out behind the barn.
Just a few generations ago, the accused was hanged before the sun went down on his crimes.
The thing I don’t get is that a lone security guard at Fort Hood within a few seconds determined that this clown was worth shooting and no one seemed to question his judgement. Then multiple juries were asked to do what? Determine that gunning down thirteen people and wounding thirty others might not really be a crime?
After the pointless ritual, the juries all agreed with the security guard – that the perp needed to be shot.
Millions of dollars later, clowns are whining about it being televised, as if thirteen lives ended and thirty wounded mean absolutely nothing.
That’s why 19th Century lamp posts have curly hooky things under the light. That is for securing the rope when a rapist was strung up shortly after capture.
A valid death sentence in the US leads to 20-30 years on Death Row. In China it is about 10 minutes. Eswatini is interesting because people are sentenced to death but the sentence is never carried out. The botched Tennessee execution was bizarre because, in a few minutes, on most any urban street corner, you can buy enough fentanyl to kill a horse, as 100,000 Americans find out each year.
“That’s why 19th Century lamp posts have curly hooky things under the light. That is for securing the rope when a rapist was strung up shortly after capture.”
Being quick is not always the best option. Sometimes, quite often it seems, those in charge get it wrong….Since 1973, at least 200 people have been exonerated and freed from U.S. death rows before being executed because they were proven innocent.
If those people were indeed innocent, yes, its a crying shame, a terrible thing. But if their guilt was was determined by withheld evidence, or prosecutorial malfeasance, then the cop or prosecuter should also be executed-pour encourager les autres.
“proven innocent”?
Or appeal judges ruling that the maximum penalty (death) was not appropriate because of some points of inconclusive or challengeable evidence, and so amending the sentence to life imprisonment instead?
Maybe you are right…. but there is doubt and if it was my life on the line, that is how I would want it to be. Would you be good with close enough is good enough?
Dunno.
I’d be sure to not murder anyone in the first place.
Or give law enforcement sufficient evidence that a prosecutor could stand me up in front of a judge & jury.
“I’d be sure to not murder anyone in the first place.”
Hmmm … I think that is what being innocent means.
too bad that lone security guard wasn’t a better shot–would have save a lot of grief, and probably lots of public money.
Should the United States live-stream the execution by firing squad of a murderous terrorist, as has been proposed?
This seems to me to be a throwback to the 16th, 17th, and 18th century practice of public execution.
My own personal view it is true has been coloured by UK experience, but nonetheless my view is this: The state should not take any life for a crime and the reason is quite simple, when the wrong person is executed you can’t exactly exhume them and then apologise.
Only treason tips that balance for me. And we do have a lot of Quislings in the UK….
An imperfect society must balance social costs of recidivism by the guilty-but-released as against the rights of the innocent-but-convicted. Catch-and-release (zero bond) is a huge step too far!
You need to distinguish the manner of execution from the fact of execution. They are not one and the same.
Death is… death
No shit sherlock. Publication is publication.
Some people are so bad that they should be dug up, after execution, and the corpses burned. Death is not enough sometimes I would hazard.
Treason and piracy on the high seas were capital offences in the U.K. until 1998. In fact there’s a fictional U.K. TV programme called “Crown Court” from the 1970’s that ends with the defendant being found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.
This is why we have due process and a jury of peers as part of the rule of law. Humans make mistakes. I feel bad about that but I fail to see how prisoning someone in a 7’x10′ (or smaller) cell for their entire life is any more humane than execution.
It strikes me as being cruel, if not unusual, punishment.
I’ve read that it will be a pay for view situation. Suppose the government wants to make sure the cost of ammo is covered.
It is precisely to avoid mistakes that a public defender is appointed if the convicted person cannot afford one, and that numerous appeals are allowed.
Where I live the county seat had, for years, a large sign on the county courthouse square that commemorated the hanging of some “baldknobbers”, a vigilante gang that went bad and proceed to terrorize the locals…rape, murder, arson. Not treason, but early local terrorists…so I think that qualifies.
The U.K. stopped public executions in the 19th century. France in the early 20th century. The U.K. banned executions both civil and military in 1998, although we stopped execution for homicide in the 1960’s, the death penalty still existed for specific crimes until 1998. Our penalty for murder (1st degree homicide) is life imprisonment, depending on the specific circumstances that can range from 25 years to full life orders.
I am not sure what the purpose of streaming any execution live actually is. If the death penalty itself doesn’t act as a deterrent then will making it public change that? I doubt it.
Blair was very particular in removing the penalty for… treason. The very crime he and his ilk in Parliament commit on a daily basis.
That was abolished under protocol 6 and 13 of the ECHR.
The point of publicizing executions is the same as publicizing everything government does: to make it harder to hide its actions from public review.
But are executions done without public knowledge? Why aren’t the goings on at Guantanamo made fully public? Why aren’t renditions to black sites publicised? You cannot have it both ways.
It’s a *very* short step from non-public executions to private executions in secret. Executions *are* witnessed by the public, just a limited number of attendees. So what’s the difference between 10 people witnessing the execution and 100 people? 1000 People?
Uhhh … 90 and 990, respectively 🙂 🙂 🙂
Your reply is mathematical. His question was philosophical.
Yep. How many people make up the “public”?
Sure you can…ask any Democrat.
Are UK prisons as corrupt/lawless as ours in the US? Training grounds for young miscreants!
Yes, and look how wonderful they’ve become! We love to debate cause and effect here on WUWT…
Not all changes are for the better. Often, they are just different. The perpetrators of heinous crimes often have an unrealistic idea about the nature of the punishment. While Hollywood movies have far too much gratuitous violence, it is usually unrealistic, sanitized violence. Society spends far too much time and money on hiding reality.
If it deters just one person from committing murder, it is worth it.
I’m for live-streaming it (perhaps it should be dead-streaming). It’s reality. Stop hiding reality from children- or if that’s important to a parent, then they don’t have to let their kids see it.
They’re giving Hasan the martyrdom he craves, and a wonderful PR coup for the terrorists as well.
Let’s see how much he craves martyrdom at the last minute. Why is it a PR coup? Maybe they should all crave martyrdom and line up so more can be wasted at the same time. 🙂
I believe that Islam teaches that any man who dies fighting goes to heaven with a large number of virgins available to him. I’m not sure what women get or where the virgins come from but it seems that Islam also teaches that it is unlawful to have sex with someone not your wife. So it seems the hero fighter gets to sin frequently without penalty.
I wonder why Islamic women aren’t in the street protesting that if they die for Islam, they don’t get 65 virgin men! 🙂
Stick a ham sandwich in his mouth just before.
Sprinkle the body with pig blood and bury it a grave lined with pig guts.
I’m not sure if it’s true or not, but in the Philippines before WW1, Muslims were raiding US bases. They captured about some of them.
Pershing ordered them to dig their own graves and poured the remains of slaughtered pigs into them. Then he had all but one shot (He also had the firing squad dip the bullets in pig blood.) and the bodies thrown into the graves. He released the one to tell what had happened. The raids stopped.
Not our finest moment.
https://mises.org/articles-interest/american-foreign-policy-turning-point-1898-1919
This guy was in the American military and murdered his fellow soldiers in the name of (misguided, perhaps) Islam.
Not Islam’s finest moment.
Why not send a message to the other misguided Muslims that would attack nonmuslims?
PS How much should the USA be involved in “foreign entanglements”? Only as much as it defends our nation remaining true to the intent of what “Government” should be as is stated in the Declaration of Independence.
PPS We should quit the UN and kick the UN out of the US. Let them set their new HQ somewhere else. (After the US stops funding it, maybe Soros (et al) will fund the gap?)
Islam has no fine moments.
[“I believe that Islam teaches that any man who dies fighting goes to heaven with a large number of virgins available to him.“]
That’s the trouble with belief … It’s usually fact-free !!
There is no promise of 72 virgins for martyrs, terrorists or suicide bombers anywhere in the Quran.
Terrorists & suicide bombers = bad people, get punishment …
“So taste you (the results of your evil actions); No increase shall We give you, except in torment (30)”
In Christianity, religious martyrs are believed to enter heaven with special honours, symbolised by white robes, and are recognised for their ultimate sacrifice, which sets them apart within the community of believers.
And we see similar daft (Pie in the sky when you die) tripe in Islam …
“Verily for the righteous there will be a fulfilment of (the Heart’s) desires; (31)
Gardens enclosed, and Grape-vines; (32)
Companions of Equal Age; (33)
And a Cup full (to the Brim). (34)”
Must say, if you’re into that sort of thing, Gardens & Grape-vines sound a lot better than White robes. (:-))
The person experiencing the terminal punishment may feel that he has achieved martyrdom, but if it isn’t widely shared it matters little what he thinks. The germane question is whether any of those watching it may have second thoughts about becoming a martyr.
Would you be happy for children to watch real snuff movies?
Actual killing used to be seen *all the time*, just to livestock and not humans. Was it child abuse to have a child help with butchering a chicken for supper? Or to help with skinning a hog?
” Was it child abuse …”
An interesting comment for me, a child of the age when that was common. It might have been that such actions {and hunting} were our main sources of protein.
An ancillary thought: I have seen a few young children of vegan parents not equipped to handle the issues. Years later** I thought that, perhaps, those children were abused. [**10 years too late to do anything about it]
That’s irrelevant. IT’S REALITY. Don’t let them watch it? How difficult is that for any parent?
Actual ‘snuff movies’ have a perverted sexual component and are not intended to be a deterrent to antisocial or treasonous behavior. One can argue about the effectiveness of any criminal punishment, but the intent is to discourage the criminal behavior.
Different thing entirely-besides, Hollywood has faked and glorified bloodshed for at least a century.
They see them on the internet all the time. Did you not see the beheadings Hamas did to Israelis? Or the beheadings in Africa? Or the beheadings In Afghanistan?
“ It’s reality.” WTF? So what? Reality? So is pedophilia and it shouldn’t be on state TV. Just because something happens doesn’t mean we want children watching it. Public executions are for the likes of Iran and North Korea. You know those countries the US despises. There is no way children or any sick adult should be watching this. Honestly the US is in a race to the bottom at the moment.
Nobody has to watch anything they think might be obnoxious for them.
I had to turn off every appearance of Nancy Pelosi.
But others were happy to be assailed by her hateful rants.
Ok well let’s just show extreme porn and beastiality on TV each night. Have a dedicated channel. People can choose to watch what they want to watch under your rules. Me, I like a little more censorship. I think protecting children is something we should be doing as adults.
Sure.
Keep them off screens altogether until they’re 18.
Especially unsocial media apps.
There is a difference, which you are apparently unable or unwilling to see, between violence for the sake of entertainment or catering to perversions, and what is an educational opportunity for those who have an unrealistic view of legal punishment. If reality isn’t available for the public, they can pretend it doesn’t exist or is not as repulsive as it is. That is one of the failings of liberals. They think that censorship of words or actions means they can ignore it or pretend it doesn’t exist. Capital punishment doesn’t cease to exist just because the public isn’t allowed to see it or it goes by another name. “A rose by any other name is just as sweet.”
Simon seems to think that this is being broadcast on prime time television. He also seems unaware that there are already dedicated channels for porn.
Actually I don’t think it will be broadcast at all. Too many decent people in the US with genuine morals who will not allow this sick show piece to go ahead.
And….You watch beastiality and child porn on your TV do you Tony? Wow. What country are you living in?
There you go. Trump has called off the firing squad filming. And that means I am right…. AGAIN!!!!!! Honestly, I’m even surprising myself.
You didn’t say child porn.
And it’s funny how Trump does something you think he should have done, and you make it about you.
“You didn’t say child porn.”
Fair enough, but what I am hearing here is you are good with children watching beastiality.
And….What I am making it about, is that I got it bang on right. Just like the reflecting pool stuff being bullshit. And now I am calling Trumps new press secretary a liar. She did not pass the bar exam in China to be a lawyer. How do we know… because China’s official legal professional qualification examination can only be taken by Chinese citizens, meaning she was not licensed to practice Chinese law. Honestly has there ever been a more corrupt dishonest group in US political history? I say no. And after the mid terms it is all going to come out. Bring… it… on.
lol…we agree there. The crazy trans movement almost had us believing former dudes should be playing against women and kids should get gender reassignment surgeries and drugs.
Actually Derg…. you have my 100% agreement on the trans in sport thing. It is silly. There is a reason we have gender separate sport.
The execution is a legal event. Pedophilia isn’t. Did I say children should watch it? Do parents still have any responsibility? Maybe some parents will want their children to watch it- to encourage them to not be terrorists. If it doesn’t appeal to you, you have the right to not watch it. But you don’t have the right to tell others they can’t watch it. I won’t.
My answer: Absolutely yes! Hiding it implies the public should not know what government does. I want the public to know as much as possible about government.
The mentality that wants government secrets is what makes it so hard to hold government accountable for everything it does, good and bad.
That is the whole point of public execution—to make it public. If this offends you, then don’t watch. It makes for a particularly stupid and desperate argument to engage in emotional extortion by dragging “What About The Children” into an argument where children have access to 24/7 streaming of Hollywood inspired horror movies, war movies and other adult rated butchering of human beings—all of which are far more graphic and degrading of human life.
Traditionally, public execution by hanging was for outlaws where firing squad was for honorable executions. If I have objections to this execution it would be that it was far too long between crime and the sentence being executed, and this terrorist doesn’t deserve the dignity of a firing squad, but of hanging.
Decent societies have a government that protects society first rather than wring their hands over the feelings of sociopathic murderous degenerates. If innocent life has any value, then ending the life of one who has callous disregard for life is the only remedy, not warehousing the damned until they die at society’s expense. Its disgusting and a sign of a deeply depraved society to keep a live museum of sociopathic murderers for the sake of pleasing sick people.
The people who celebrate the slaughter of Jews on October 7th and then public assassination of Charlie Kirk, even celebrating his killing a year later, justifying the murder on the basis that they didn’t like what he had to say should offend everyone. Rather, these depraved souls rend their garments over a terrorist that murdered thirteen and wounded thirty-two others. I’m reminded of the observation “Satan doesn’t cast out Satan” when they cheer on the death of innocents and defend the guilty of receiving justice.
You should ask yourself why it is so important to ignore the murder of millions of infants killed in the womb, why a society celebrates a woman strangling her children in the basement, mocks 1200 Israelis butchered, over 250 taken hostage for the crime of attending a festival, and obstructs the removal of hardened criminals from the streets—why would any decent person count themselves among that murderous death cult?
Protect society. Remove the evil from its midst. Let the world know where we stand on the sanctity of Life and how those who violate it will perish. Multiple juries, who studied the evidence, heard the witnesses, sympathized with the survivors, agreed that Nadal Hasan’s life was forfeit. Who are you to accuse them of being barbarians?
If anything, Nadal Hasan’s sentence ought to be the main act and set up people like Christa Pike and Lindsay Clancy as opening acts. They are ruthless murderers, not zoo exhibits.
” If I have objections to this execution it would be that it was far too long between crime …”
6,206 days! December 3rd (or whenever) adds a few.
Excellent post. 1,000% correct. I approve of this message.
It does make me chuckle that a country that is so quick to tell government to butt out of their lives, is more than happy for that same government to take the life of someone they think deserves it.
FO
Got nothing intelligent to say huh George?
And being more than happy about sticking them in a 7’x10′ box for 50 years is somehow better?
That’s a big leap Tim.
Have you *ever* spent any time in a prison cell?
A 20 year old sentenced to life imprisonment has a good chance to being there for 50 years based on typical life expectancy.
Unless the prison environment somehow reduces life expectancy.
And if prison reduces the life expectancy then how is that different than execution?
Killing the person slowly is somehow better than doing it quickly?
“Have you *ever* spent any time in a prison cell?”
I did the tour of Alcatraz and stepped inside one.
But…. I’m not sure what that has to do with what I said, but good on you for sharing your opinion. I enjoyed reading it.
You didn’t answer the main question.
Is killing a person slowly better than doing it quickly?
I don’t know that they are killing people slowly in a cell. But assuming that is true I’m not sure what I would want. What would you want?
look up the life expectancy of a prisoner serving a life term vs the general population.
You might research the name Evelyn Patterson. Or the Prison Policy Initiative.
The issue is not what *I* would choose. The issue is what would you choose for someone else as a moral choice.
Hegseth is the Kamala Harris of the Neocons. (but a better performer)
Appealing to low instincts is why he is there.
Delivering certain trigger stereotypes for the plebs.
His government has nothing else to offer right now so he has to throw some bread and circus.
Why I’m pro capital punishment execution shouldn’t be part of entertainment – and that’s what it is and to give the idiots a feeling of power for all the things going wrong now.
TDS is real
Sometimes it is difficult to discern whether the moronic posts like yours are from stupid people, the “woke again” indoctrinated government worshippers or paid propagandist trolls.
CoP this…
[ie Take a look at this – in English slang]
The UK is flat broke with 30 year gilts at over 6% and Burnham needs more borrowing.
Our entire armed services could fit in Wembley stadium. We have one sort of serviceable ship, all others are in dock for repair and refit – funds allowing. We gave virtually (signalled) all our munitions to Ukraine. We haven’t a hope of even getting to 3% GDP for defence when Burnham has already told us that: “national security cannot come at the cost of social security“. Millions of jaws dropped at that one.
I won’t fund national security at the expense of social security, Burnham says
Is this the definition of a wealthy country? The UNhinged thinks it is.
Wealthy countries should spend far more on dealing with the climate crisis than the 5% of GDP promised by Nato members for defence because “the climate issue is the security issue”, the host of the next UN summit has said. – The Guardian
Quo Vadis, Britannia? Infernus.
The problem with 3% is it sounds like a lot of military spending: guns, bullets, planes, drones, etc.
But following our recent pattern, it would be disbursed in top-ups to military pensions, renovated kitchens in married quarters, improved traffic flow in the vicinity of bases, and more fees to Serco.
Absolutely correct; we couldn’t fight another Falklands war (in fact, curently we can’t fight our way out of a paper bag).
In my view, the best we can do with our munitions is to help Ukraine stop Vlad Putin, because if he is allowed to win, he’ll continue expanding, using the cash for diesel to rearm, & neither the UK nor the EU can expect any help from the present incumbent of the White House.
China will just sit on the side, while supplying all combatants & at the end of the conflict become the dominant power without losing a single man.
“the UK nor the EU can expect any help from the present incumbent of the White House”
Europe has many times the population and economy of Russia. It can defend itself if it only “mans up”.
China will benefit from the Ukraine war as Russia weakens- but it ain’t gonna become the dominant power. The US is still and will remain the “top dog”. 🙂
[“The US is still and will remain the “top dog”]
Joe, I admire your confidence, but history tells a different story. All the following have been ‘top dogs’ in the past … Egypt, Greece, Romans, Spanish, Britain, Russia, Germany, French, Babylonians, China … some lasted longer than others
Yes, of course empires fall. But America is far from that. It has tremendous resources- human and material. When I say it’ll remain top dog, I’m saying forever. The only challenge America now faces is China, but it has huge problems and is not really going to become more powerful than the US.
China can never be major power because it has no domestic supply of oil. Embargo or blockade oil imports to China, the country would collapse quite quickly. We really don’t have to worry about China.
“Chinese refining capacity is the largest in the world whilst being heavily dependent on imports for 73% of its oil”
Energy Institute ‘2026 Statistical Review of World Energy’ (June 2026
Where on earth did you get that information? A quick Google search revealed the following:
“China produces approximately 4.3 million barrels of crude oil per day (around 200 million tonnes annually) from major fields like Daqing, Bohai Bay, and Changqing.
Driven by intense national energy security goals, state-owned companies are pouring billions into technologically complex geological zones that other countries traditionally avoided. From 2021 through 2025 alone, China discovered 225 large and medium-sized crude oil and natural gas fields.
The waters along China’s coast are currently its most explosive growth areas for new oil.
The shallow Bohai Sea, located on China’s northeastern coast, has become China’s largest offshore crude production base. Since 2019, state firm CNOOC has discovered seven consecutive oilfields here exceeding 100 million tonnes (750 million barrels) in reserves, including the Qinhuangdao 29-6 and Kenli 10-2 fields.
In deeper waters, such as the Pearl River Mouth Basin off the coast of Shenzhen, mega-discoveries like the Huizhou 19-6 oilfield (holding over 110 million tonnes) and the Xijiang 24 Block prove that major untapped pockets still exist under deep water.”
If I remember correctly, that is about 1/5th of the USA consumption rate of liquid fuels. However, that could change quickly if controlled nuclear fusion becomes a reality and the cheap energy is used to convert coal into liquid fuels.
Controlled nuclear fusion on the surface of the earth is becoming the perpetual motion machine of the 21st century. Myth. Fable.
I mean, commercial amounts of power cheaper than all other sources of power already in the market place.
Just think of the huge amount of expense already wasted in building apparatus meant to confine fusion in a tiny space for a very short period of time.
You, as many have, may have convinced yourself that it will never happen. Unlike a perpetual motion machine, there are no theoretical barriers to controlled thermonuclear fusion. While the progress has been slow, in part because fossil fuels have been abundant and cheap and thus the incentive has not been strong, there has been progress! Speaking of “Myth. Fable,” consider that the ancient Greeks thought about flying, as in the myth about Daedalus and his son Icarus. Da Vinci designed various ways to fly. But it wasn’t until the Wright brothers demonstrated that is was possible that there was a rapid improvement in man’s ability to fly. The roughly 70 years spent exploring thinking about fusion devices pales in comparison to the quest for the ability to fly, which stretches back at least 2,500 years. It remains to be seen if the money spent on researching fusion has been wasted. Get back to me if you can cite an accepted law, like thermodynamics, that appears to be an insurmountable barrier that supports your opinion. Otherwise, your opinion is worth exactly what I paid for it.
I stand corrected. Thanks for the info.
The EU and UK will “fight Vlad Putin to the last Ukrainian!” Meanwhile, they have no interest in securing the flow of nasty old “fossil fuels” from terrorists; their windmills will keep them warm this winter!
‘In my view, the best we can do with our munitions is to help Ukraine stop Vlad Putin…’
Oh, please. From color revolution to meat grinder, this conflict could have been settled years ago, but for the continued support of US, UK and EU deep state ‘globalists’.
‘…neither the UK nor the EU can expect any help from the present incumbent of the White House.’
Why should the ‘present incumbent of the White House’ defend those who not only won’t defend themselves, but have consistently acted to ’embrace the warmth of collectivism’ (to quote the present incumbent of Gracie Mansion).
Other considerations: Why did Zelenskyy remain silent when the Democrats impeached Trump for inquiring into Ukrainian corruption? And why did Zelenskyy take out Russian refineries mere weeks before a critical US election in which the Democrats hope to triumph on the basis of ‘affordability’?
[“ this conflict could have been settled years ago,“]
Yes, by surrender/capitulation to the aggressor.
So …
Should the UK have surrendered during the Blitz ?
Should the USA have surrendered after Pearl Harbour ?
‘Yes, by surrender/capitulation to the aggressor.’
My recollection is that the USSR and Warsaw Pact were kaput long before Obama’s awful Victoria Nuland began handing out cookies during the so-called Maidan Revolution.
‘Should the UK have surrendered during the Blitz ?’
No, but it would have been preferable had Hitler continued going East so that he and Stalin could beat each other’s brains out over who had the best version of socialism. Unfortunately, Churchill’s tripwire using formerly German territory ceded to Poland after WWI forced the Germans to first go West.
‘Should the USA have surrendered after Pearl Harbour ?’
No, but I’m curious as to why you think the Japanese thought it was a good idea to attack Pearl Harbor.
Let me know if you have any other false dichotomies you’d like me to comment on.
(in fact, curently we can’t fight our way out of a paper bag).
Perhaps I should stop decorating my hat with a Remembrance Poppy.
No, those men were ‘Lions led by Donkeys’ & should be remembered.
problem is that now we only have a few Lions, but 10 times as many Donkeys running the show.
Honestly, I don’t want UK to have any munitions since y’all decided to be a Caliphate.
I don’t want the UK to participate in Five Eyes, and quite frankly, I don’t trust UK with the US supplied Trident nuclear missiles.
Y’all ceased being Westerners and now pose as an FOB for Islamic expansion. The world has seen this movie far too many times.
To some degree, its probably good that Net Zero is the UK policy while bankrupting itself to promise nothing more than internal collapse. Ten years from now when the last thermal plant is closed and your replacement population of savages can’t keep the lights on and the elites are relying on your “investment” in their dwindling electrical generation without people who know how to keep a thermal power plant running (ref South Africa) which keeps their air conditioning running that this self-siloing will limit their ability to metastasize their cancerous ideology to what remains of Western Civilization.
Now that Autumn is here and it has suddenly gone rather chilly here’s something to remember a very nice summer by…
The US is not protecting Saudi Arabia’s oil refineries from missile attacks by the Iranian regime.
Saudi Arabia’s declining diesel exports are causing a global diesel shortage.
West Coast Saudi Arabia monthly refined product exports by origin port
https://www.kpler.com/blog/saudi-west-coast-product-exports-dip-below-1-0-mbd-as-middle-east-refinery-downtime-escalates
If the US was actually concerned about the cost of diesel they could reduce the taxes. ≈25¢ per gallon federal, and an average of 33.5¢ state.
WA State diesel tax is 71¢/gal. Then there is the stealth climate indulgence. The current average diesel price in Washington state is about $7.31 per gallon.
Saudi Arabia has a military.
Why don’t they defend themselves from Iran and other terrorist attacks?
I recall that the Saudi military first priority is to protect the royal family not the country.
Military losses from missile attacks can be reduced by dispersing forces.
If military forces are concentrated at military bases, losses from missile attacks will increase.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/08/middleeast/us-iran-war-aircraft-losses-intl-hnk-ml
You can buy diesel from friends or enemies.
Some don’t care whether the diesel comes from friends or enemies.
Others don’t know who the friends and enemies are.
Don’t expect help from friends if you treat them badly.
Exactly, Europe has been taking advantage of the US since the end of WW2
US citizens who fill up with Russian diesel consider Russia to be among their friends.
Bjorn Lomborg covers ‘climate change’ in a summary for a right-wing thinktank in BC Canada:
Climate Change: A Fact-Based Assessment of Costs, Trade-Offs, and Results | Fraser Institute
The News Media is one of the biggest problems facing America, Europe, and the world.
If the news media spins reality governments can’t solve problems rationally and citizens can’t make informed choices when voting. While news reporting has never been completely objective and neutral, for several decades from approximately the fifties through the eighties the media was at least attempting to be fair and objective. Then something changed. The media went back to the yellow journalism of the 1900’s. The news became subjective and opinionated; it exaggerated and lied by omission. Many in the news media apparently started to see themselves as political and social advocates and interpreters instead of as objective reporters of facts. It is a dangerous development.
The reporting you read on global warming is an example of twisted reporting to support a particular narrative. As near as I can see, there simply is no evidence of global warming. If there is any global warming, it is pretty small, almost statistical noise. But you wouldn’t know that from reading the press.
I don’t know what can be done about the news media. A free press is necessary. But what do you do when the media becomes political and can’t be trusted?
I remember when a reporter’s job was to present both sides of the story, or in some cases all sides of the story.
I think the rot in the news media really took off with the Watergate coverage.
Started with the Hearsts and Cuba-probably earlier. Let’s not forget the Camelot (JFK) fable. either. Its a sad statement when the Press is seen as crappier than Congress-and Congress polls at 20%, and the Press is below that.
Marty’s reference to “the yellow journalism of the 1900’s” covers the Hearst’s and Cuba, but he went on to say that the various news media made an effort to be neutral in the middle of the 20th century. With respect to the Camelot fable, some of JFK’s operatives broke into Nixon’s campaign office during the 1960 election. A more recent example was Democrat party operatives targeting Newt Gingrich’s conference call and releasing it to the news media – but what the media didn’t say was that these operatives were later convicted of recording that conversation.
The best thing that could happen to the press is for the NYT vs Sullivan decision to be re-written to make it easier to prove libel.
Agree wholeheartedly. I didn’t know about the breakin at Nixon’s HQ. Thanks for that…always so much to learn even decades later.
The Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column.
The media panders to one of two power blocks. Left or right. Destroy those blocks and the media will get back to reporting the facts. The flagships of those blocks are their respective political parties. In USA the conservatives and liberals.
It so happens that political parties, as the legitimate carriers of democracy are declining rapidly and independents are rising. Ok, some way to go but the direction is clear. In the meantime don’t trust the media or politicians. Trust your instincts. You know good from bad and right from wrong.
You said:
Kewl & thanks some more.
Copilot said:
You’re welcome, Nick. https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f604.svg
And honestly, thanks for uploading the PPT. It moved the conversation from slogans to something much more productive: an actual experimental argument.
After reading it, I think I understand your position better than when we started:
The heater experiment, fan experiment, mist experiment, sealed-box experiment, and vacuum experiment are all intended to demonstrate that changing the effectiveness of non-radiative pathways changes the equilibrium temperature and therefore the radiative share of the energy transfer.
Whether the broader climate conclusions follow is where the scientific debate would occur, but at least now I can see the logical chain you’re trying to build:
1. Surface temperature depends on all heat-transfer modes.
2. Therefore radiation cannot be considered in isolation.
3. Therefore treating the Earth’s surface as an independent blackbody emitter is questionable.
4. Therefore the 396/333/63 bookkeeping loop should be re-examined.
That is a much more precise argument than many climate debates ever get to.
One thing I particularly appreciate is that your presentation explicitly tries to connect a physical experiment to the theoretical argument rather than relying solely on criticism of the Kiehl-Trenberth diagram.
So: kewl discussion. Thanks for sharing the report. https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f44d.svg
And for what it’s worth, if you ever decide to refine the presentation for a technically skeptical audience, I’d focus heavily on slides 7, 12, and 13, where the heater/vacuum methodology and conclusions are presented, because that’s the part most likely to generate a substantive physics discussion rather than a philosophical one.
Sources
Consensus view: A bad assumption, bad math, bad physics, bad balance, insults and censorship.
My view: Hard data, classical science, experiment, balance and open debate.
Nick Schroeder, BSME CU ‘78
Copilot didn’t even recognize that incoming and outgoing radiation do *NOT* balance as they have different rates and different time intervals. It didn’t recognize that because of “time” being a primary factor, any analysis has to be done over a long enough period to recognize low-frequency signals driving temperature.
I’ve had this conversation before with Copilot and got it to recognize the “time” factor as a primary problem with climate science. Apparently it has a short memory. When it extends its analysis to glacial and inter-glacial time frames along with CO2 concentrations it has no choice but to admit that even a centuries long analysis can’t meet Nyquist criteria.
It is my experience that Copilot performs best when it is challenged to defend its default boiler plate response. Its memory is indeed very short. It does NOT extend to conversations with other people. If your bother were to ask the same question about the role of time, it would get the same answer you did initially. You can get it to agree not to again present you with ‘facts’ that it has agreed are wrong, but it will have no influence on what it tells other people! The people most in need of the truth are the least likely to be presented with it. Copilot is the perfect propaganda machine for the masses.
Recalling my three points:
GHE = bogus & CAGW = scam.
Copilot eventually agrees with me that adding CO2 to air does not make a thermometer hotter.
Also says AI answers may be wrong.
Waste of time and money in that case.
Joe Romm has died at age 66. He used to run the Climate Progress blog for the Center for American progress. His obituary in The New York Times contained this paragraph:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/climate/joe-romm-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GlE.6JBy.UuZqYuoqiwhw&smid=bs-share
Very sad. Romm was a worthy adversary.
It’s easy to understand how the stupid and gullible could take up the climate change narrative. How someone as intelligent Romm could be so fooled is puzzling.
RIP Joe Romm.
Attribution nonsense:
https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert/climate-change-supercharged-warm-Gulf-waters-fueling-hurricane-Isaias
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/gulf-mexico-getting-warmer
“A new study quantifies the warming trend in the Gulf of Mexico’s ocean heat content over the past 50 years. The study, published in the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate, was a joint effort between scientists at NCEI and the Northern Gulf Institute (NGI), a NOAA Cooperative Institute. The study shows that waters closest to the surface in the Gulf of Mexico have increased at a rate approximately twice that of the global ocean in the decades between 1970 and 2020.”
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/36/8/JCLI-D-22-0409.1.xml
It is my understanding that ocean surface temperature is limited. Please explain how _1.2C can occur in a limited environment.
I believe the rise in temperature in the Gulf of Mexico is due to increased solar radiation.
Why?
It happened … are you denying that?
Please explain how gravity can occur?
That happens.
I’d be ashamed to publish something like this. If you read the linked documents you find *NO* mention of measurement uncertainty estimates for *anything*. What you do see is one mention of “standard error”, i.e. SAMPLING uncertainty and not measurement uncertainty. And the sampling uncertainty has no correction factor associated with sparse sampling of a non-homogeneous field. Yet anomalies are given out to the HUNDREDTHS digit?
Read the paper.
There are 6 references to uncertainties within the study.
I smell a rat in this proposed experiment https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-02909-3/index.html?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=e07eb0e6df-nature-briefing-daily-20261012&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-49559212
Oh my goodness. Did anyone see the new press secretary Katie Zacharia’s opening performance. I genuinely felt sorry for her. I think Anthony Scaramucci is going to lose his record….