How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
The above graph is of sea level rise projected for the city of San Francisco for the period 2018-2100. Please note the following:
Projected sea level rise is as follows based on “anthropogenic forcing”, or human activity:
Level of rise Meters Millimeters (mm) mm per year
Extreme 2.5 2,500 30
High 2.0 2,000 24
Intermediate high 1.5 1,500 18
Intermediate 1.0 1,000 12
Low 0.3 300 3.6
1900-2018 historic 0.23 230 1.95
Continue reading “Sea level rise to begin soon. Be vewy vewy wowwied.”
We here in Colorado (at 7,900 feet) are in the midst of a cold snap, with temperatures in the below-zero range. Typically this time of year in our state we enjoy daytime temperatures in the thirties, though often with sub-freezing at night. This morning as I stepped outside our garage to deliver some recyclables to the bin, I was hit with what is called an “Artic blast”, and that is actually a correct label. Such cold air as we currently have is unnatural for our area, and does indeed originate in the Arctic.
As someone over 60, I find myself suddenly interested in browsing obituaries. However, with the decline of newspapers, my only source is the “Notable Deaths” page on Wikipedia. Inevitably, my curiosity leads me to uncover some surprising and unusual details, so I thought I’d share my recent discoveries here.
Continue reading “My Notable Death Dossier #1”
The above chart is a summary of various hurricane models predicting the future course of Hurricane Rafeal. I got it from an article at Watts Up With That by Kip Hansen, whose cv appears to be a Chaologist, or someone who studies chaos theory. The black spot above Cuba is the 24-hour point for the storm, and the diverging lines thereafter are predictions of its future course by the models.
As you can see, nobody knows. Why it seems almost … chaotic.
This is written for Substack, as it is all old news here. I don’t yet know what to make of that outlet, but time will tell. I linked to this piece on X (Twitter), so I might endure there, as with Facebook, another lifetime ban. Censorship is wild and unchained, not even hidden from us anymore.
Every day we hear new scare stories about climate change, most recently that our days are getting longer, and before that other nonsense tales, like the Great Barrier Reef going to hell, Siberia melting, Antarctica caving into the ocean, and polar bears (which are alive and well in such numbers that natives up there want them dead), are going extinct. It is as if Mrs. Olsen’s high school freshman creative writing class is now published on the front pages of the New York Times.
These are agreed upon lies told by fake scientists and blindly repeated by fake journalists. If you are reading this and cannot stick your head out your car window while driving your highly efficient and nonpolluting fossil fuel motorcar, and see that the climate is not (or just barely) changing, then leave now. You won’t like what I write. Do not, under any circumstances, subscribe. It does not get better.
Continue reading “Covid and climate change – a one-two punch against humanity”
This has been bubbling inside me for quite some time now. Maybe it started some years back when Dr. Michael Mann, the hockey stick guy, was on a TV panel show and someone suggested that climate affairs were so bad that it made her/him want to cry. As if on cue, Mann generated crocodile tears, pretending to lament the situation of our climate. It made me want to puke.
But I have a lot of impressions of Mann … perhaps foremost, that while his so-called Hockey Stick is pseudoscience at best, it is very detailed work that requires a great deal of intelligence and effort, even if he was probably exaggerating his case, perhaps even engaging in creative accounting. Steve McIntyre, the Canadian mining engineer who took apart the stick piece by piece, had to devote tremendous effort to replicate Mann’s efforts, not easily dissembled and beyond the reach of us mere mortals. What we found was that tree rings are a complicated science, and without a strong working knowledge of statistics cannot be assembled in a way that sends a “temperature signal” from the past to the present.
I ran across an article in the Powell (Wyoming) Tribune called Yellowstone Lake defies warming temperature – what’s its secret? I originally saw the article in the Billings Gazette, but it was paywalled. I went to its city of origin, and again, paywalled. Finally I saw it in the Powell newspaper, where I get four visits before the walls go up.
Continue reading “When bad journalism reports on bad science”
It offers a forum for more open debate on all aspects of climate change, especially better use of scientific information in public discussion and policy formation. By passing the hat we raised sufficient seed money to launch operations we will sustain through crowdfunding.
Above is a photo from last weekend at Dick’s Sporting Goods in Denver. As we walked in there was a display rack that must have had 300 jerseys on it, each with the number 3 and the name Wilson on it. For those who don’t follow football, the Denver Broncos signed Wilson two years ago to a monster deal that was supposed to last five years. He did not work out, and the Broncos just recently released him, taking a huge pay hit (cap ceiling, if your follow football). Some notes:
Continue reading “Poor Russ marked down, a Climate Emergency, and a conversation with AI”
Have you ever seen one of these dramatic courtroom presentations where, upon leaving the courthouse, the lawyers and defendants are swarmed by journalists and cameras? I can’t be sure, but I do not think that happens in real life. Journalists are kept not on leashes, but rather choke chains. As Ben Bagdakian (1920-2016) made clear in his book , The Media Monopoly (1983), young journalists are trained to rein in their curiosity, to not get emotionally involved, to get a quote from both sides and move on. TV drama would have them off the leash looking for stories, challenging powerful people, and in general, being a pain in the ass to the comfortable … doing their job. Ain’t so. Ain’t done. I know this from my own life experiences … journalists do not know how to do the one thing that one would think was their calling … to search for truth.
There’s a trial going on now in Washington, DC, and I will bet, dear reader, that you’ve not heard a word about it. It is Michael Mann versus Mark Steyn in a defamation suit brought my Mann twelve years ago, now finally coming to trial. If you wonder how bad our justice system is, twelve years says everything. Steyn has tried to get this case to trial and Mann has delayed every step of the way, as the suit was not brought in search of justice, but rather to silence critics by example. Mann is supported by unseen forces behind this group – [Climate Science Legal Defense Fund]. The group is obviously a front for the wealthy and powerful people who are backing the climate change psyop and Mann (he called them “our closeted friends” in the Climategate emails), so that he has never paid one thin dime for his efforts to silence his critics.
Continue reading “Hush, journalists! Michael Mann is on trial …”
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