Scaring the shit out of people is a trillion-dollar industry.
Edit: Well, this blew up while I wasn't looking. Should have posted my global cooling/warming/climate change/climate crisis/climate catastrophe awakening here.
It's also leading to new heights in narcissistic exhibitionism, whereby young folks desecrate famous works of art, deface businesses, block highways, and do other things that only those suffering from the punishing handicaps posed by stupidity would do in protest of what they see as the degradation of planet earth.
To be sure, though, the desecration of the other guys' great artworks is standard operating procedure for every single colonizing movement--physical or otherwise--in history.
Climate alarmism is a fear-based religion just like COVIDism. The only salvation is to give governments and allied corporations more emergency powers, wealth, and taxes. Zealots worship the clergy like sheep following a shepherd, virtue signal adherence to their holy commandments, and evangelize others to comply - even if the rituals don't work. Perhaps they should lead by example by permanently removing their carbon emissions to boost their ESG scores.
I recall seeing a poster on a wall in a BC government building back in 2008. It was the Hanson (I think) warning about the 2m - 5m+ sea level rise by the end of the century. I believe he wrote that prediction in the early 90s or late 80s but there it was on the wall almost 20 years later. Doing some math I thought that the sea should be up at least 40-50cm in those 20 years, but it wasn't. Then I thought, well, maybe it'll happen suddenly in a "feedback loop" any year now. But here we are over 30 years later and I do not think anyone on Vancouver Island is migrating to higher ground. I wonder if that poster is still on the wall.
This topic is an excellent illustration of why Antonio Gramsci chose media, education, and entertainment as the Big Three. Control these, and you control the hearts and minds of the masses. Revolution without guns. Saves a fortune in bullets. No nasty, polluting gunsmoke, either. The best defense is learning how to think for yourself, a habit the left finds more abhorrent than just about everything but illegal abortions.
That's when you start over. Afewof the Old Guard will rally the new up-and-coming adherents and use them as a New Wave against their fellow Old Guard-competitors, and clean house.
Then they start the cycle anew, again and and again. Perpetual revolution, never getting anywhere.
Thanks for the link to the Gen Dread Substack. It did my heart good to go to a number of the posts and see how few likes the columns have received. Those poor people need something to fear. If it were suddenly proven that climate change was not going to end the world they would just move on to some other subject to focus their irrational fear on.
+28C/82F here right now. Feeling hot hot hot, so to speak.
People exposed to fear-mongering green grift-capitalists, climate cultists and perfidious political parasites predictably panicked. They talk and behave as if there's never been a drought before.
What's really fun for me, having asomewhat acidic sense of humour, is asking:
"So why not drop all taxes on domestic food-production, from farmer to market, so as to give the farmers a fighting chance to weather the problems and invest in redundancy and back-ups? While we're at it, why not repeal most if not all the climate-whatever hinders put in the way of domestic food production? I mean, it must be more environmentally friendly to grow ginger here in a greenhouse, than to ship it to Sweden from Costa Rica? Surely, in order to help the planet, we can do without fresh lychees imported from South-East Asia?"
The faces of the grifters, the believers and the politicians are nearly priceless:
"Wut? Me give up sumpin I njoy? Nuh, dats fascist! Jus race taxis so pipil donn buy so mush!"
Posers the lot of them. As always with anything worth doing, "If it doesn't hurt, it doesn't count".
Unseasonably cool for Mid-June in the Mid-Atlantic.
Going to the Beautiful Camden Yards to watch the Battle of the Birds, O's vs. Jays. They're calling for a high in low- to mid-80s (that's ~27 C, for those of us in the Metric System) but dry and a little breezy. We're often in the 90s (35 C) and 132% humidity - it's not the Heat, it's the Humidity - so I think we're in for a fine, fine day.
Why does your accounting for temperature and humidity make me think of Pvt Hudson (Bill Paxton) in 'Aliens'?
"Yeah, but it's a dry heat! Hur hur hur!"
132% humidity... shudder.
It's weird, this temperature stuff. I can easily spend half an hour in the sauna in +100C or so, no problem, and then roll in the snow or take a dip in a frozen lake (just remember three rules: never with a heart condition, never alone and never inebriated), but +25C or more outdoors and I start losing IQ fast.
Same with cold. A brisk -30C and I can merrily skate and ski cross country all day long - could even do a ski-march and rough it in a dug-out snow-shelter; if you buddy up, it quickly gets warm in there - just remember to have a proper air-hole so you don't suffocate in your sleep. +4C and foggy, misty, moist, clammy and I'm so cold my bones feel like iron.
Heh, an sudanese dude at my old gym used to wear a sweater, a hoodie and a Canadian goose jacket in summer, to him +25C was cold.
Because wet air can't absorb human sweat as easily, an important process for shedding out excess heat. So some people can get heatstroke etc al at lower temps when it's humid because they just kinda cool themselves.
Rapid evaporation is an interesting related topic whereby, when the air hit but very dry - say, Phoenix or Albuquerque in August just to throw in some rarified air - and, when you get out of a swimming pool cool quickly, sometimes uncomfortably so, as pretty much all your heat can be essentially sucked away because the air has so much "room," space to take on extra heat-carrying particles.
Humidity is a big factor in how we experience heat.
Thank you for "perfidious political parasites predictably panicked". I wish I had the drawing skills to create the meme this perfectly put phrase suggests.
always always always examine the data set. Saw this especially in Covid reports when they’d say one thing and the data set said the other. Same playbook.
Thank you for the lesson on statistics manipulation. The thing about this (similar to the Covid cult) is when you present people with simple questions on data or issues with the 'accepted' view, they won't engage with them. Ask anybody how they calculate mean global temperature and if, by miracle, they know then ask what possible meaning it has. They average out all (poorly) gathered world temperatures using a complex weighting system and then give people a mean global temperature...which is a literally useless datum used to scare people. Surely the people working with the data have asked these questions. Certainly the likes of Judith Curry and Richard Lindzen have...but they are well-known Deniers.
Noooooo.... if the incoming Parker Instability trips a micronova,and it in turns snatches the mantle off the superstructures that hold the mantle stable?
There will be a need to be above the incoming oceans as they slosh overland. Being subterranean would leave you to be covered with 10s of feet of mud 😒
I got excited fir a moment, until I finished reading what Beers-Lambert law is...as at first I thought you had referenced cherenkov radiations creation.
And what's the endgame of this fraud? Imprisoning the populace in 15-minute cities like the monstrous "Neom" development currently being built in Saudi Arabia. Save the Earth by giving up your car, your freedom, and your human rights! https://gomakeitreal.substack.com/p/building-the-city-of-tomorrow-by
But I don't think they need much distance between boundaries to imprison the populace in 15 minute cities.
They probably only need to imprison the 6 inch boundary between two ears in the executive branch of thought cages, by pressing the almond shaped buttons that represent a mere 0.3% of the cage volume, located very close to the reptilian parts at the bottom.
If the executive part is made to believe there's a tiger around every corner...well those buttons become very sensitive to over stimulation and eventually get stuck on scary tigers, lest you be eaten alive.
And you know what type of personalities will try to convince the populace there's tigers everywhere?
The anxiety and FEAR riddled brains that possess enlarged, highly connected amygdala's in the limbic system....or, ironically the "fearless" who have small/deformed amygdala's that have fundamental deficits in the limbic system (PSYCHOPATHS) .
In both cases, the abnormal limbic system causes the low/mid part of the executive region (ventromedial prefrontal cortex) to mismanage mediation of sensory data between the two, thereby affecting the executive regions ability to receive, monitor and process the data.
Regular people are easily put on "tiger tilt" when bombarded with "data" that rains tigers.
My writing super power is to leave out critical words combined with bad autocorrect then reread it six hours later and think, "What did I have in my cofveve this morning?"
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
In this case, the "unknown" is too technical, too complex and too time-consuming for most of us.
"Knowledge is power: hide it well"
Which is, pretty much, what the western school systems are doing. You simply don't need that may skilled and scientifically minded people if you value control more than other things, so on the large scale, it's no problem if schools churn out easily riled and scared semi-literate worker/consumer-drones, the small numbers needed to keep the upper crust in style can still be recruited off of the right side of the bell curve anyway.
And conditioned for loyalty to the system while we're at it.
And in an era where egotism, rational self-interest and personal profit is the holy trinity (to borrow a familiar image), those with what you call a deficiency have instead an advantage. After them, the deluge - is no problem to their way of feeling.
These "habitations" are something to watch. Trump talked about "Freedom Cities" where everyone has babies, and tent villages for the homeless and addicted, supposedly with legions of social workers and medics. My Twilight Zone favorite, though, is Telosa, the equity village in the Southwest created by the Walmart family https://cityoftelosa.com/ They would no doubt rule over it in robes and crowns in the Penthouse, with the equity being equal opportunity to be neuro-enslaved, with facial recognition and social credit scores lowered for littering. The only worse nightmare might be Jennifer Pritzger, fresh from an oligarchic celebrity version of Troll 2: Pride and Rainbows, reigning over her own city, where Pride celebrations take place every hour on the hour, mandated, on the balcony of one's cell, where the mealworm and cricket burgers arrive with the rainbow fentynal pills.
‘... you are really seeing is 0.6 degrees of change over 44 years. this is not actual temperature...’. nor is it actually direct temperature reading, but uses oxygen molecules (I think) in the atmosphere and the way they react to temperature as a proxy - so plenty of margin of error. The satellite record was calibrated against the corrupt near-surface temperature record - bloated with compound error margins. Truth is: global warming is taking place at a glacial pace (pun intended) in tiny increments so small (and non-linear) it cannot be observed and measured - like watching a plant grow. Where I am right now it is 26C but about 12 000 years ago it was 0C under an ice sheet. That’s how slowly ‘global temperatures’ are heating - and 99.999% of that warming took place prior to the end of the 20th Century when Mankind supposedly took over control of the Cosmos. Climate change can only sensibly be considered retrospectively over periods of thousands of years. We are in a recurrent cycle - ice/tropical/ice, and there is nothing Mankind can do or not do to alter it or, absurdly, ‘stop’ climate change.
Being in academia is like singing in a choir: you sing the same tune in the right vocal range, hitting all the notes correctly, or you're out out out.
It's not more mystical than that, really, and it's always been that way, everywhere. Only thing slightly different nowadays is, the range has been narrowed to "post-kick-in-the-ballls"-F-sharp falsetto only, so to speak.
Nothing personifies the current state of affairs more than this charlatan retaining his academic sinecure and cult following.
Well, with the possible exception of Paul Ehrlich.
"All States are governed by a ruling class that is a minority of the population, and which subsists as a parasitic and exploitative burden upon the rest of society. Since its rule is exploitative and parasitic, the State must purchase the alliance of a group of Court Intellectuals, whose task is to bamboozle the public into accepting and celebrating the rule of its particular State. The Court Intellectuals have their work cut out for them. In exchange for their continuing work of apologetics and bamboozlement, the Court Intellectuals win their place as junior partners in the power, prestige, and loot extracted by the State apparatus from the deluded public. The noble task of Revisionism is to de-bamboozle: to penetrate the fog of lies and deception of the State and its Court Intellectuals, and to present to the public the true history of the motivation, the nature, and the consequences of State activity. By working past the fog of State deception to penetrate to the truth, to the reality behind the false appearances, the Revisionist works to delegitimize, to desanctify, the State in the eyes of the previously deceived public."
Ah, Rothbard! Many years ago a colleague displayed several Rothbard quotes on his office wall. My favorite was, "Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects".
Given where we are economically and technologically, imagine what we could achieve as a species if we could finally, after some ten thousand years, break the mental and economic chains of the suffocating parasitical State.
Such an outbreak of liberty would lead to an era of prosperity unprecedented in history.
"It is the state that is robbing all classes, rich and poor, black and white, worker and businessman alike; it is the state that is ripping us all off; it is the state that is the common enemy of mankind."
Sitting in front of a winter fire, late in the evening, after a few too many drams, I oft speculate that we may have, already, for a few glorious decades, passed through that "era of prosperity unprecedented in history".
here in GA we had probably one of the coldest May months ever. Had to turn the heating on 2 times. Now it is June and the heating is still barely running. Older people tell me the weather is back to normal, like it used to be when they were young. May be we are going to a new ice age!
They usually name the Era with the name(s) of the scientist who discovers it ,and as there's some controversy over which one did...I say we take advantage of the power vacuum!
Currently convection creates currents among cumulus clouds - which causes thunderstorms. Rendering your confusion completely comprehend-able. Currants, on the other hand, currently contain copious quantities of vitamin C. Which is good for you.
I don’t even need the data to know the climate change hysterics is wrong. The moment the climate change movement shifted to using kids to wail about an CO2 levels being an existential threat to humanity, I knew we were no longer dealing with a legitimate scientific claim. Even under the worst case scenarios, this is not an existential crisis. In their stupidity and hubris, humans may be able to destroy the Earth and themselves, but it isn’t going to be due to C02.
John Kerry and Al Gore disagree as they're flying around in private jets and sipping martinis and eating filet mignon while touring on their yachts. You would think their beachside mansions might be threatened by rising ocean tide. Somehow, I don't think they're too concerned. But we better be!
Both. Laugh at the antics of the contemptible excuses for human beings, and cry at what they are doing to those of us they consider to be the great unwashed.
Thanks for the easily understood summary! I wish this was taught in school rather than climate nonsense they give these kids. My daughter teaches reading in public school and they spend a whole quarter reading climate extremist propaganda! By the way, University of Alabama Huntsville. (my son just graduated from there.)
Excellent article. I read John Dee's substack and he has just done a series on antarctic temperature data. It turns out that nearly all the substations containing the measuring equipment are on a small peninsular hence they are almost touching the ocean. There are around 3 substations in the interior but due to the extreme cold they are unable to get any measurement unless temperatures are relatively warm ie only in the summer months. Despite only getting 3 measurements or so from a potential of 365 'they' still average these 3 and show them as an annual mean average.
Pretty typical of normal government or academic data collection processes. I.E. Collect only information that is A) easy to collect, and B) supports the funders purpose or bureaucratic narrative of the day.
It’s most definitely both of those in BC. Having worked in forestry more than the past 30 years, I admit coming out of university I swallowed the climate tripe. Our government pushes it as does our professional association, and we ‘manage’ forests in light of what the climate models predict. I have walked over 1000s of hectares of forests, witnessed the mountain pine beetle devastation, been evacuated due to fires, and more and more see potential drought effects on the landscape. The easiest, and most lucrative scapegoat, is climate, and policies in BC are effected by the IPCC and the federal governments. And, why fixate on climate? Because it means more taxes and zero accountability for extremely poor management and management policies in regard of forests. Do you know we are actually implementing ‘assisted migration’ (i.e. moving tree species to higher latitudes and elevations in light of climate modelling in BC that predicts it’s going to become considerably warmer?). Yep. There’s a lot more than just that malarkey going on as well. It’s all just too damn convenient if you ask me, and it’s also a positive (?) feedback loop that exacerbates their carbon story. Lots of people making money from it, so it’s likely not going away any time soon. p.s. I am more inclined now to think as well that the drought effects I am witnessing are also directly related to poor ‘management’ practices rather than a warming climate. You can only remove so many trees before water systems start to change. This can even be extended to salvaging burned forests ‘before they lose their economic value.’ Forests are also burning due to poor ‘management’ practices, not climate change. Crappily planted nursery grown seedlings planted for carbon budgets are not going to fix that.
There is a very good assessment of the forest policy in California by el Gato on June 10th. If you use the same tools and logic you achieve the same results.
I always wondered who got the payback for removing the coastal land west of Sooke from the TFL and allowing the companies to sell the formerly crown land. I was working in Ontario for 4 years when the land was sold so missed any discussion. Now living in CVRD and having little luck in resisting the imposition of the WEF/UN/BMGF imposed Official Community Plans , 15-minute cities, Trudeau's bug protein farms, and suppression of agriculture and bovine flatulence.
One of the difficulties of Substack is that it protects users from direct contact. I could likely be identified in the CPSPC's "retired" section, having become disemployed by VIHA on Bonnie Day, Oct. 26, 2021.
If you’d like to discuss further, I’ll set up a proton account. I used to ‘believe’ the bovine flatulence, but rice paddies were also once part of that equation (where did that go, perchance?). I read el gato’s stack re: California already, and agree. This has been decades in the making, unfortunately. I’m now in the position of teaching periodically, and young people are so brainwashed as to not believe/hope in any future. My students, in fact, asked me last fall wherein their hope for the future lies. I looked at them for a moment and said ‘you are your future, and you have your work cut out for you.’ So much damage has already been done. Hope, vision, temerity (in some degree), astuteness, strength, courage, soul…all will be required of humanity working forward to rid ourselves of governments and corporations. The green agenda is anything but green, and those who purport to ‘save’ us with their policies, their dictates, and their dogma, whereby they are looking out for our ‘safety,’ are doing anything but. Just my opinion after having survived the corporate industrial forestry behemoth for 20 years. It was a small, but assuredly learning, taste of what now is occurring. Oh, and, BH can go take a triple F through a rolling doughnut. If you’re anywhere near my age, you’ll undoubtedly get that. This govt has immeasurably F’d up the healthcare system in BC, perhaps irreparably.
I'm old school. I'll stick to the potential of going to hell than creating yet another fake statistical hell and concerning myself about that for the rest of my life. It seems that many people require a fear of something bigger than them, and it's much easier to freak out about their climate god and appease it with ritual and sacrifice (that is, sacrificing others) than it is to try to clean up their lives--the latter with the cool, underrated benefit of avoiding eternal suffering. Climate fear has the added theoretical awesomeness of claiming to save the universe--by .0003 seconds--from the supposed entropy that will eventually be upon us and making all of "this" (including fearful climate graphs) lost eternally. I'll continue to be a throwback and cling to the hope that Bach's works won't be lost even after entropy--I like that better even if it's just a hope. I'm going to go outside with my hoodie on in this abnormally cold late spring.
Scaring the shit out of people is a trillion-dollar industry.
Edit: Well, this blew up while I wasn't looking. Should have posted my global cooling/warming/climate change/climate crisis/climate catastrophe awakening here.
https://argomend.substack.com/p/the-good-fight
It's also leading to new heights in narcissistic exhibitionism, whereby young folks desecrate famous works of art, deface businesses, block highways, and do other things that only those suffering from the punishing handicaps posed by stupidity would do in protest of what they see as the degradation of planet earth.
https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/much-brave-very-courage
To be sure, though, the desecration of the other guys' great artworks is standard operating procedure for every single colonizing movement--physical or otherwise--in history.
Take away their language by changing the commonly-understood meaning of words.
"You're bad for the environment! Stop being bad!"
"You first."
😆
The first quote can also read "Stop emitting CO2!"
Of course, breathing out does that, but the greenie doesn't know that.
Government marketing.
*rereads Constitution*
I don't see "PR" or "Marketing" or "Spin Doctor" in here anywhere.
that goes for all and everything
Fear sells
"If it bleeds, it leads" or in this politically correct era, "If it terrifies, its news"
Catastrophism is a growth industry!
What else could have made a brat like Greta Thunberg a global superstar?
https://michael796.substack.com/p/leftist-untruth-4-catastrophism
$4 trillion if you're talking about the modern stone age medical mafia.
If nobody's sick, the medicine seller goes bankrupt.
Climate alarmism is a fear-based religion just like COVIDism. The only salvation is to give governments and allied corporations more emergency powers, wealth, and taxes. Zealots worship the clergy like sheep following a shepherd, virtue signal adherence to their holy commandments, and evangelize others to comply - even if the rituals don't work. Perhaps they should lead by example by permanently removing their carbon emissions to boost their ESG scores.
Day 1000+ of 15 days to slow the spread, Year 50+ of 10 years to stop the climate catastrophe. By 2030 you'll own nothing and be happy. Follow the Science and Join the Resistance! https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-follow-the-science-join-the-resistanc
PS: Gen Dread's Substack is an example of mental illness driven by climate fearmongering. I responded to their article about a climate activist's suicide. Can we reason with demoralized people? https://gendread.substack.com/p/post-traumatic-growth-after-touching
I recall seeing a poster on a wall in a BC government building back in 2008. It was the Hanson (I think) warning about the 2m - 5m+ sea level rise by the end of the century. I believe he wrote that prediction in the early 90s or late 80s but there it was on the wall almost 20 years later. Doing some math I thought that the sea should be up at least 40-50cm in those 20 years, but it wasn't. Then I thought, well, maybe it'll happen suddenly in a "feedback loop" any year now. But here we are over 30 years later and I do not think anyone on Vancouver Island is migrating to higher ground. I wonder if that poster is still on the wall.
This topic is an excellent illustration of why Antonio Gramsci chose media, education, and entertainment as the Big Three. Control these, and you control the hearts and minds of the masses. Revolution without guns. Saves a fortune in bullets. No nasty, polluting gunsmoke, either. The best defense is learning how to think for yourself, a habit the left finds more abhorrent than just about everything but illegal abortions.
They're on The March her now, full speed.
Where are they marching to? It seems that they have not more institutions to conquer.
That's when you start over. Afewof the Old Guard will rally the new up-and-coming adherents and use them as a New Wave against their fellow Old Guard-competitors, and clean house.
Then they start the cycle anew, again and and again. Perpetual revolution, never getting anywhere.
"Perpetual revolution, never getting anywhere."
Do you count 'Final Stage of Totalitarianism" as somewhere?
Or are you saying that, say, Maoist communism was replaced by Deng-ist market-capitialism, to be replaced by Xi-ist communism?
Until the last of the whip-holders is cast down and we take it back.
you are 100% right Mickey!
Thanks for the link to the Gen Dread Substack. It did my heart good to go to a number of the posts and see how few likes the columns have received. Those poor people need something to fear. If it were suddenly proven that climate change was not going to end the world they would just move on to some other subject to focus their irrational fear on.
Oh my, that is a sad blog.
To be sure, Yuri, all religions are fear-based.
+28C/82F here right now. Feeling hot hot hot, so to speak.
People exposed to fear-mongering green grift-capitalists, climate cultists and perfidious political parasites predictably panicked. They talk and behave as if there's never been a drought before.
What's really fun for me, having asomewhat acidic sense of humour, is asking:
"So why not drop all taxes on domestic food-production, from farmer to market, so as to give the farmers a fighting chance to weather the problems and invest in redundancy and back-ups? While we're at it, why not repeal most if not all the climate-whatever hinders put in the way of domestic food production? I mean, it must be more environmentally friendly to grow ginger here in a greenhouse, than to ship it to Sweden from Costa Rica? Surely, in order to help the planet, we can do without fresh lychees imported from South-East Asia?"
The faces of the grifters, the believers and the politicians are nearly priceless:
"Wut? Me give up sumpin I njoy? Nuh, dats fascist! Jus race taxis so pipil donn buy so mush!"
Posers the lot of them. As always with anything worth doing, "If it doesn't hurt, it doesn't count".
Perfidious political parasites predictably panicked! Wow! Say that fast three times. Thanks
Unseasonably cool for Mid-June in the Mid-Atlantic.
Going to the Beautiful Camden Yards to watch the Battle of the Birds, O's vs. Jays. They're calling for a high in low- to mid-80s (that's ~27 C, for those of us in the Metric System) but dry and a little breezy. We're often in the 90s (35 C) and 132% humidity - it's not the Heat, it's the Humidity - so I think we're in for a fine, fine day.
Except that we'll be in Baltimore.
Making a breakfast stop here in about an hour: https://www.missshirleys.com/locations/main-locations
Why does your accounting for temperature and humidity make me think of Pvt Hudson (Bill Paxton) in 'Aliens'?
"Yeah, but it's a dry heat! Hur hur hur!"
132% humidity... shudder.
It's weird, this temperature stuff. I can easily spend half an hour in the sauna in +100C or so, no problem, and then roll in the snow or take a dip in a frozen lake (just remember three rules: never with a heart condition, never alone and never inebriated), but +25C or more outdoors and I start losing IQ fast.
Same with cold. A brisk -30C and I can merrily skate and ski cross country all day long - could even do a ski-march and rough it in a dug-out snow-shelter; if you buddy up, it quickly gets warm in there - just remember to have a proper air-hole so you don't suffocate in your sleep. +4C and foggy, misty, moist, clammy and I'm so cold my bones feel like iron.
Heh, an sudanese dude at my old gym used to wear a sweater, a hoodie and a Canadian goose jacket in summer, to him +25C was cold.
Because wet air can't absorb human sweat as easily, an important process for shedding out excess heat. So some people can get heatstroke etc al at lower temps when it's humid because they just kinda cool themselves.
Rapid evaporation is an interesting related topic whereby, when the air hit but very dry - say, Phoenix or Albuquerque in August just to throw in some rarified air - and, when you get out of a swimming pool cool quickly, sometimes uncomfortably so, as pretty much all your heat can be essentially sucked away because the air has so much "room," space to take on extra heat-carrying particles.
Humidity is a big factor in how we experience heat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporation
Thank you for "perfidious political parasites predictably panicked". I wish I had the drawing skills to create the meme this perfectly put phrase suggests.
always always always examine the data set. Saw this especially in Covid reports when they’d say one thing and the data set said the other. Same playbook.
Thank you for the lesson on statistics manipulation. The thing about this (similar to the Covid cult) is when you present people with simple questions on data or issues with the 'accepted' view, they won't engage with them. Ask anybody how they calculate mean global temperature and if, by miracle, they know then ask what possible meaning it has. They average out all (poorly) gathered world temperatures using a complex weighting system and then give people a mean global temperature...which is a literally useless datum used to scare people. Surely the people working with the data have asked these questions. Certainly the likes of Judith Curry and Richard Lindzen have...but they are well-known Deniers.
The war on energy, based on the climate scam, is very destructive.
The war on energy is just a proxy for the war on serfs and plebs.
I'm getting under the bed. Let me know when its safe to come out.
*sets Evans' alarm for 2047*
Then we'll do a quick check outside the shelter, just to be sure.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124298/
Wait...are we sheltering above 12000 elevation? In case the mantle unlatches?
I was thinking subterranean
Noooooo.... if the incoming Parker Instability trips a micronova,and it in turns snatches the mantle off the superstructures that hold the mantle stable?
There will be a need to be above the incoming oceans as they slosh overland. Being subterranean would leave you to be covered with 10s of feet of mud 😒
I'm with you - as soon as I figure how plasmas figure in here 🤔
I got excited fir a moment, until I finished reading what Beers-Lambert law is...as at first I thought you had referenced cherenkov radiations creation.
I'm derpy like that.
Plasmas figure in everywhere 🤣 it's a Plasma/Electric Universe,after all...
Another excellent summary. Thank you.
And what's the endgame of this fraud? Imprisoning the populace in 15-minute cities like the monstrous "Neom" development currently being built in Saudi Arabia. Save the Earth by giving up your car, your freedom, and your human rights! https://gomakeitreal.substack.com/p/building-the-city-of-tomorrow-by
Agree.
But I don't think they need much distance between boundaries to imprison the populace in 15 minute cities.
They probably only need to imprison the 6 inch boundary between two ears in the executive branch of thought cages, by pressing the almond shaped buttons that represent a mere 0.3% of the cage volume, located very close to the reptilian parts at the bottom.
If the executive part is made to believe there's a tiger around every corner...well those buttons become very sensitive to over stimulation and eventually get stuck on scary tigers, lest you be eaten alive.
And you know what type of personalities will try to convince the populace there's tigers everywhere?
The anxiety and FEAR riddled brains that possess enlarged, highly connected amygdala's in the limbic system....or, ironically the "fearless" who have small/deformed amygdala's that have fundamental deficits in the limbic system (PSYCHOPATHS) .
In both cases, the abnormal limbic system causes the low/mid part of the executive region (ventromedial prefrontal cortex) to mismanage mediation of sensory data between the two, thereby affecting the executive regions ability to receive, monitor and process the data.
Regular people are easily put on "tiger tilt" when bombarded with "data" that rains tigers.
Oldest trick in the book:
FEAR CONDITIONING
Brilliant, Ryan! You need to start a Substack.
Thx!
But my ratio of unedited post vs edited is on the far left side of the grammar bell curve....:)
I'll leave to the pro's like you and gato, Blair!
My grammer pretty much lacked curves. She was a very sharp lady. And would NEVER have been on the LEFT side - of anything!
But I completely understand ...
"left side of the grammar bell curve."
My writing super power is to leave out critical words combined with bad autocorrect then reread it six hours later and think, "What did I have in my cofveve this morning?"
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Can't fix tiger tilt 😆😆😀
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
In this case, the "unknown" is too technical, too complex and too time-consuming for most of us.
"Knowledge is power: hide it well"
Which is, pretty much, what the western school systems are doing. You simply don't need that may skilled and scientifically minded people if you value control more than other things, so on the large scale, it's no problem if schools churn out easily riled and scared semi-literate worker/consumer-drones, the small numbers needed to keep the upper crust in style can still be recruited off of the right side of the bell curve anyway.
And conditioned for loyalty to the system while we're at it.
And in an era where egotism, rational self-interest and personal profit is the holy trinity (to borrow a familiar image), those with what you call a deficiency have instead an advantage. After them, the deluge - is no problem to their way of feeling.
The Club of Rome was founded in 1968 at David Rockefeller’s estate in Bellagio, Italy. Rockefeller again. From the COR:
“The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself."
We are very close to a time where much fewer people will be needed. The war on man is designed to consolidate power, that's always the goal.
These "habitations" are something to watch. Trump talked about "Freedom Cities" where everyone has babies, and tent villages for the homeless and addicted, supposedly with legions of social workers and medics. My Twilight Zone favorite, though, is Telosa, the equity village in the Southwest created by the Walmart family https://cityoftelosa.com/ They would no doubt rule over it in robes and crowns in the Penthouse, with the equity being equal opportunity to be neuro-enslaved, with facial recognition and social credit scores lowered for littering. The only worse nightmare might be Jennifer Pritzger, fresh from an oligarchic celebrity version of Troll 2: Pride and Rainbows, reigning over her own city, where Pride celebrations take place every hour on the hour, mandated, on the balcony of one's cell, where the mealworm and cricket burgers arrive with the rainbow fentynal pills.
They don’t have human rights in Saudi so they don’t have to worry about giving them up.
After Covid it's pretty clear we don't have human rights in the West either.
‘... you are really seeing is 0.6 degrees of change over 44 years. this is not actual temperature...’. nor is it actually direct temperature reading, but uses oxygen molecules (I think) in the atmosphere and the way they react to temperature as a proxy - so plenty of margin of error. The satellite record was calibrated against the corrupt near-surface temperature record - bloated with compound error margins. Truth is: global warming is taking place at a glacial pace (pun intended) in tiny increments so small (and non-linear) it cannot be observed and measured - like watching a plant grow. Where I am right now it is 26C but about 12 000 years ago it was 0C under an ice sheet. That’s how slowly ‘global temperatures’ are heating - and 99.999% of that warming took place prior to the end of the 20th Century when Mankind supposedly took over control of the Cosmos. Climate change can only sensibly be considered retrospectively over periods of thousands of years. We are in a recurrent cycle - ice/tropical/ice, and there is nothing Mankind can do or not do to alter it or, absurdly, ‘stop’ climate change.
Finally someone get into this. Why nobody from academia or normal people do that before is still mystery to me.
No mystery.
Being in academia is like singing in a choir: you sing the same tune in the right vocal range, hitting all the notes correctly, or you're out out out.
It's not more mystical than that, really, and it's always been that way, everywhere. Only thing slightly different nowadays is, the range has been narrowed to "post-kick-in-the-ballls"-F-sharp falsetto only, so to speak.
Here’s a good book about it. Mark Steyn is still in court over a decade later being sued over calling out the climate researchers as liars.
https://www.steynstore.com/Climate-Change-The-Facts_moreinfo.html
Give me that Good Ol' Fashioned Hockey Stick!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Mann
Nothing personifies the current state of affairs more than this charlatan retaining his academic sinecure and cult following.
Well, with the possible exception of Paul Ehrlich.
"All States are governed by a ruling class that is a minority of the population, and which subsists as a parasitic and exploitative burden upon the rest of society. Since its rule is exploitative and parasitic, the State must purchase the alliance of a group of Court Intellectuals, whose task is to bamboozle the public into accepting and celebrating the rule of its particular State. The Court Intellectuals have their work cut out for them. In exchange for their continuing work of apologetics and bamboozlement, the Court Intellectuals win their place as junior partners in the power, prestige, and loot extracted by the State apparatus from the deluded public. The noble task of Revisionism is to de-bamboozle: to penetrate the fog of lies and deception of the State and its Court Intellectuals, and to present to the public the true history of the motivation, the nature, and the consequences of State activity. By working past the fog of State deception to penetrate to the truth, to the reality behind the false appearances, the Revisionist works to delegitimize, to desanctify, the State in the eyes of the previously deceived public."
~ Murray Rothbard
Ah, Rothbard! Many years ago a colleague displayed several Rothbard quotes on his office wall. My favorite was, "Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects".
Truly one of the great intellects of our species.
Given where we are economically and technologically, imagine what we could achieve as a species if we could finally, after some ten thousand years, break the mental and economic chains of the suffocating parasitical State.
Such an outbreak of liberty would lead to an era of prosperity unprecedented in history.
"It is the state that is robbing all classes, rich and poor, black and white, worker and businessman alike; it is the state that is ripping us all off; it is the state that is the common enemy of mankind."
~ Murray Rothbard
Sitting in front of a winter fire, late in the evening, after a few too many drams, I oft speculate that we may have, already, for a few glorious decades, passed through that "era of prosperity unprecedented in history".
Check out "A Disgrace to the Profession" on the same site. Great book.
here in GA we had probably one of the coldest May months ever. Had to turn the heating on 2 times. Now it is June and the heating is still barely running. Older people tell me the weather is back to normal, like it used to be when they were young. May be we are going to a new ice age!
It'll be explained away using the current narrative, "It's climate CHANGE!"
We are.
We should hold a contest to name the next Solar Minimum.
They usually name the Era with the name(s) of the scientist who discovers it ,and as there's some controversy over which one did...I say we take advantage of the power vacuum!
*plants π Flag*
"The Pi Minimum" I like it.
You should check out Martin Armstrong. He takes pi to a whole new level...
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/
Not sure I buy all he is selling, but definitely an interesting guy.
Bookmarked.
*scribbles * / I&K
If we just used the lettering, and shorten things,we could confuse future generations as to why we named the GSM after a failing pop singer...
Pi-nK
Warrant suggests cherry.
Cherry's a solid choice but I do like a good apple pie, when the crust is all flaky...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7575
...may be a doozy . Valentina Zharkova et al
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Andy, I know you won't be surprised when I tell you I'm confused...
It's that or the massive thunderstorm over my head currently. Or it's currents,currently?
Currently convection creates currents among cumulus clouds - which causes thunderstorms. Rendering your confusion completely comprehend-able. Currants, on the other hand, currently contain copious quantities of vitamin C. Which is good for you.
I don’t even need the data to know the climate change hysterics is wrong. The moment the climate change movement shifted to using kids to wail about an CO2 levels being an existential threat to humanity, I knew we were no longer dealing with a legitimate scientific claim. Even under the worst case scenarios, this is not an existential crisis. In their stupidity and hubris, humans may be able to destroy the Earth and themselves, but it isn’t going to be due to C02.
Exactly right. One also only need observe the breathtaking hypocrisy the climate grifters engage in to know that all of it is complete nonsense.
It is the same with covid.
John Kerry and Al Gore disagree as they're flying around in private jets and sipping martinis and eating filet mignon while touring on their yachts. You would think their beachside mansions might be threatened by rising ocean tide. Somehow, I don't think they're too concerned. But we better be!
Kerry flying his private jet to Iceland (!) to accept a "climate leadership" award is "the only choice for someone like me".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8kj3osRgNY
It is almost beyond comprehension how any adult person with an IQ larger than their shoe size could take any of these people seriously.
Exactly! Many must not have an IQ larger than their shoe size. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Both. Laugh at the antics of the contemptible excuses for human beings, and cry at what they are doing to those of us they consider to be the great unwashed.
Well said.
They take THEMSELVES very, very seriously!
Thanks for the easily understood summary! I wish this was taught in school rather than climate nonsense they give these kids. My daughter teaches reading in public school and they spend a whole quarter reading climate extremist propaganda! By the way, University of Alabama Huntsville. (my son just graduated from there.)
El Gato is really really good at doing this here analysis thing.
And even better, I think, at presenting it.
#LoveGraphs
Did your son get a good education there? I have a daughter thinking abou that university due to is proximity to various things related to NASA.
I guess you're not the boss.
Excellent article. I read John Dee's substack and he has just done a series on antarctic temperature data. It turns out that nearly all the substations containing the measuring equipment are on a small peninsular hence they are almost touching the ocean. There are around 3 substations in the interior but due to the extreme cold they are unable to get any measurement unless temperatures are relatively warm ie only in the summer months. Despite only getting 3 measurements or so from a potential of 365 'they' still average these 3 and show them as an annual mean average.
Pretty typical of normal government or academic data collection processes. I.E. Collect only information that is A) easy to collect, and B) supports the funders purpose or bureaucratic narrative of the day.
It’s most definitely both of those in BC. Having worked in forestry more than the past 30 years, I admit coming out of university I swallowed the climate tripe. Our government pushes it as does our professional association, and we ‘manage’ forests in light of what the climate models predict. I have walked over 1000s of hectares of forests, witnessed the mountain pine beetle devastation, been evacuated due to fires, and more and more see potential drought effects on the landscape. The easiest, and most lucrative scapegoat, is climate, and policies in BC are effected by the IPCC and the federal governments. And, why fixate on climate? Because it means more taxes and zero accountability for extremely poor management and management policies in regard of forests. Do you know we are actually implementing ‘assisted migration’ (i.e. moving tree species to higher latitudes and elevations in light of climate modelling in BC that predicts it’s going to become considerably warmer?). Yep. There’s a lot more than just that malarkey going on as well. It’s all just too damn convenient if you ask me, and it’s also a positive (?) feedback loop that exacerbates their carbon story. Lots of people making money from it, so it’s likely not going away any time soon. p.s. I am more inclined now to think as well that the drought effects I am witnessing are also directly related to poor ‘management’ practices rather than a warming climate. You can only remove so many trees before water systems start to change. This can even be extended to salvaging burned forests ‘before they lose their economic value.’ Forests are also burning due to poor ‘management’ practices, not climate change. Crappily planted nursery grown seedlings planted for carbon budgets are not going to fix that.
There is a very good assessment of the forest policy in California by el Gato on June 10th. If you use the same tools and logic you achieve the same results.
I always wondered who got the payback for removing the coastal land west of Sooke from the TFL and allowing the companies to sell the formerly crown land. I was working in Ontario for 4 years when the land was sold so missed any discussion. Now living in CVRD and having little luck in resisting the imposition of the WEF/UN/BMGF imposed Official Community Plans , 15-minute cities, Trudeau's bug protein farms, and suppression of agriculture and bovine flatulence.
One of the difficulties of Substack is that it protects users from direct contact. I could likely be identified in the CPSPC's "retired" section, having become disemployed by VIHA on Bonnie Day, Oct. 26, 2021.
If you’d like to discuss further, I’ll set up a proton account. I used to ‘believe’ the bovine flatulence, but rice paddies were also once part of that equation (where did that go, perchance?). I read el gato’s stack re: California already, and agree. This has been decades in the making, unfortunately. I’m now in the position of teaching periodically, and young people are so brainwashed as to not believe/hope in any future. My students, in fact, asked me last fall wherein their hope for the future lies. I looked at them for a moment and said ‘you are your future, and you have your work cut out for you.’ So much damage has already been done. Hope, vision, temerity (in some degree), astuteness, strength, courage, soul…all will be required of humanity working forward to rid ourselves of governments and corporations. The green agenda is anything but green, and those who purport to ‘save’ us with their policies, their dictates, and their dogma, whereby they are looking out for our ‘safety,’ are doing anything but. Just my opinion after having survived the corporate industrial forestry behemoth for 20 years. It was a small, but assuredly learning, taste of what now is occurring. Oh, and, BH can go take a triple F through a rolling doughnut. If you’re anywhere near my age, you’ll undoubtedly get that. This govt has immeasurably F’d up the healthcare system in BC, perhaps irreparably.
I'm old school. I'll stick to the potential of going to hell than creating yet another fake statistical hell and concerning myself about that for the rest of my life. It seems that many people require a fear of something bigger than them, and it's much easier to freak out about their climate god and appease it with ritual and sacrifice (that is, sacrificing others) than it is to try to clean up their lives--the latter with the cool, underrated benefit of avoiding eternal suffering. Climate fear has the added theoretical awesomeness of claiming to save the universe--by .0003 seconds--from the supposed entropy that will eventually be upon us and making all of "this" (including fearful climate graphs) lost eternally. I'll continue to be a throwback and cling to the hope that Bach's works won't be lost even after entropy--I like that better even if it's just a hope. I'm going to go outside with my hoodie on in this abnormally cold late spring.