How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
I took just a little foray this morning into the World of Wiki (WOW), and come away disheartened at the blatant lies and propaganda committed by our online encyclopedia.
WOW maintains that it is privately founded/funded, but I doubt it, and for good reason. It’s a confidence game, that is:
“…a fraudulent scheme where the perpetrator deceives a victim by gaining their trust..”
I refer you to an article, Missoula judge dismisses federal climate lawsuit, plaintiffs plan to appeal, which you will find in the Billings (Montana) Gazette, or any of the other related Lee Newspaper outlets. Unfortunately, the article is paywalled. At one time I subscribed to the Gazette, paying $1.00 for three months. I thought the price was a bit excessive, but only modestly so. More recently, I have subscribed for one year for $26.00, wildly overpriced, but still, affordable.
The article is centered on a lawsuit brought by “Our Children’s Trust”, a group of naive and poorly educated kids used as fronts in a cynical maneuver to bypass science and legislatures and make “Climate Change” an actionable offense. By that means misanthropic morons can take legal action against our society. The judge, U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen, bent the knee before the CC crowd, but said in conclusion that “… while this court is certainly troubled by the very real harms presented by climate change and the challenged [executive orders’] effect on carbon dioxide emissions, this concern does not automatically confer upon it the power to act.”
Continue reading “Lawsuit based on bad science … ain’t dead yet”
After writing and publishing this in a sleep-deprived state, I thought I ought to take it down and rework it. I slept from 8PM to 1:30AM, and then from 2AM to 4AM last night, which is 7-1/2 hours, so I ought to be rested. But I’m not. This aging thing, I don’t understand much of it. Some of it I like, as with never being expected to stay late at a gathering or participate in a family volleyball game. I’m never asked to pick up someone from the airport, 75 minutes away on the other side of Denver. It’s not all bad.
Anyway, here’s the piece, hopefully much shortened.
Note to readers: Fool me once, and on and on we go. Our friend Petra immediately saw this accident as a fake event, based on misspelling of names and failure to get the location right. It looked real to me, and more so, looked as though they were deliberately concealing a massive death scene caused by lithium-ion batteries. They led me to where I would go anyway. I disagreed with Petra, and was sure I was right and she was wrong, and then in one story saw the the accident happened at “mile marker 399” in Idaho. Mile markers begin and end at the beginning and end of a road within a state, and Idaho does not have 399 miles to use. I went to the road department and looked up mile markers on US highway 20. There are 47 of them total. “399”, which can be read as 33333, or a Masonic reference, is meant to indicate to Freemasons everywhere that the event is fake. The scene below was staged. Nobody died, including Isaiah.
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Out of respect for sensibilities, I ask only the curious to go to the NBC website that reports on this crash, near Henry’s Lake in Idaho, and 20 miles away from Yellowstone National Park. Seven died, eight were injured, and no doubt burn units all over Idaho and Wyoming are on call and extremely busy. (Note, the caption to the photo says that the accident happened in Idaho near Henry’s Fork, east of Yellowstone. Geographically, it can only be west.)
Very often in movies and TV shows, vehicles in accidents burst into flames, sometimes for no good reason. In real life, such fires are not the ordinary outcome of collisions. That is done for dramatic effect. How many times have you seen a car rolling down a hillside after an accident, and then Gadzooks! It bursts into flames.
Continue reading “Seven dead in tragic crash near Yellowstone”
I meant to include this with the last post, but forgot. It is a list of 33 reasons to rejoice that the Climate Change movement is on the ropes. Some of them strike me as significant, such as 1,6,9,11,16,19 and 32. The rest are marginal. The Mann v. Steyn outcome is cause for celebration, even schadenfreude, but is not over yet. Greta Thunberg is really just growing up some, moving on to new targets for her angst. Maybe someday she’ll be a conservative. The rest could be said to be retrenching, I fear. This ain’t over, not with all the money and power behind it, and we all know, here at least, that Trump is just a sock puppet. I like what I see coming from him on climate and energy, don’t understand tariffs or why he is moving on them, and deportations seemed designed to enrage the left. I know in my heart of hearts that he is as phony as Al Gore’s climate angst.
Each of the 33 is linked, so have fun if you have time.
Over 30 items here: Evidence that the climate scam is collapsing
We all take note here of the Trump executive orders since his inauguration, and while I am not optimistic about Trump, welcome them nonetheless. He has removed us from the Paris Accords once again, and this time has gone after the endangerment finding, that goofy piece of agitation propaganda that set the stage for a host of administrative rulings shutting down fossil fuel activities that benefit all of us. In brief, that ruling says that CO2 is a pollutant. Such a grievous outcropping was the result of years of stage-setting by the people behind the climate change hoax. It was set in stone when a sitting president told an outrageous lie as follows: Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: Climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.
Obama tweeted that.
Presidents lie all the time – it’s right there on the job application: “Are you prepared to use all of the status and prestige of high office to tell egregious lies? If the answer is “Yes,” you have just a shot. If the answer is “YES!!!”, and you are young and handsome and well-spoken and able to control a forum, we’ll make you president. We’ll even dummy up a fake education and change your place of birth to make it happen. The job requires at its very soul a complete lack of character. Only exceptional criminals need apply.
Continue reading “Is it a shifting tide, or signal from on high?”
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.”
I read the Manhattan Contrarian regularly. That blog is listed in our blogroll. I have never thought to plug his work, as it has never occurred to me that he is in need of help from a lesser blog. But today I want to offer him some kudos.
The post I am referring to is The Energy Storage Fiasco: How Soon Will It Be Abandoned?, dated January 17, 2025. The photo above, is of the Moss Landing battery storage facility, located in Monterey County, California. It is the largest battery storage facility in the world. Lithium ion batteries have a tendency to spontaneously combust, and this fire broke out on January 16, or two days ago from this writing. No one is yet revealing the amount of damage done by the fire, so I can only observe by the photo that it is substantial.
Continue reading “The Manhattan Contrarian continually puts out good and credible work”
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently announced that 2024 was the warmest year on record, the key being “on record.” When IPCC speaks it is treated in the media as an ex cathedra source (a Catholic expression meaning “from the chair”, or infallible). There are several reasons for this:
I put up a comment on Watts Up With That to the effect that Michael Mann’s PhD was premature, and also citing a paper by Nikolov and Zeller stating that there was no heat transfer within our atmosphere even as more CO2 accumulates, as the process is “adiabatic” which means that the process in our atmosphere and in all of our rocky planets occurring without loss or gain of heat. Global temperatures respond to many forces including insolation and increases and decreases in the planet albedo. I also concluded with the statement that many people, including scientists, “lead with their chin” when they start out their debate by conceding that there is “some” warming caused by CO2 and the GHG effect, that is, green house gases.
Piece of Mindful 