Yeah, it’s pretty hard to fire a tenured Professor.
In the UK, I recall reading that “gross moral turpitude” was one clause that allowed it to happen.
But, as with impeachment of a President, it is ultimately a political decision taken by those in power at the time.
For a Professor who still wants to do things, there are other sanctions. Denial of funding, students, or lab facilities are things I have learned about, but I don’t think she is in that kind of position.
A tenures professor can be fired for being caught having s e x with his secretary on his desk, but ONLY if it can be proven that he was told that was forbidden when he was first hired by the university.
In California, course enrollments can be manipulated by the registrar, at the dean of instruction’s direction by closing class registrations early. Then, a story can be constructed that ‘declining enrollments’ require a tenured instructor be laid off. One other instructor can be given a one quarter sabbatical leave for three years to pursue their PhD, and preventing the laid off instructor from having preferential re-hire rights. Where there is a will, there is a way.
Governments can, as long as they are willing to inflict the high price, move their populations to EVs. That has never been the issue. They can and they are.
The issue is the collateral changes to society and economy.
And given the failure to show any significant CO2 emission reduction from EVs, there is an issue about the rationale for the move. I don’t even think they help with local city pollution, because of higher particulates from higher weights and tire wear.
How would you cycle, walk or use public transport if you have to move musical equipment – such as a Marshall stack?
See below, and no, that isn’t my stack…
Some people are just obsessed with inflicting what is essentially just their view point on others but in a physical way. I have visited some little towns that are “ natural 15 minute cities. And I like them. But that does not mean I want to be forced to give up my car or work van in the place.
These people have never wanted a solution to ‘climate change’ – the only thing they were interested in was making everybody else adopt their abstinent, vegetarian lifestyle and getting mass aprobation that they were right all along. It’s a mental illness that needs to be diagnosed and treated, not encouraged.
NY is not in the top 10 states for EV sales as a percentage of all auto sales, but why data mine?
Total US EV sales are expected to be up +23% in 2023, versus 2022, with a 9.0% market share estimated, versus 7.3% in 2022. Those percentages include a relatively small number of plug-in hybrids.
First of all half of those sales are in California, where there is a mandatory 35% EV sales enforcement in place, giving some buyers little choice. Secondly, I would hardly call 1/5th of all EV sales a ‘relatively small number’ of hybrids.
One 42-gallon barrel of oil creates 19.4 gallons of gasoline according to the LinkedIn article above. Over half of the barrel remains and is use make many or all of the remaining items in the list of 6000. You are living in a fantasy world if you think EV’s alone will end our dependence of crude oil. Think again.
You are NEVER going to get “facts” from Bloomberg.
Twisted far-left agenda-driven nonsense is their speciality.
wilpost
December 10, 2023 3:38 am
Levelized Cost of Energy by US-EIA
The wind/solar/battery bubble is in meltdown mode. This is not a surprise, because the US-EIA makes LCOE “evaluations” of W/S/B systems that purposely exclude major LCOE items.
The EIA deceptions reinforced the delusion W/S are competitive with fossil fuels, which is far from reality.
The excluded LOCE items are shifted to taxpayers, ratepayers, and added to government debts.
W/S would not exist without at least 50% subsidies
W/S output could not be physically fed into the grid, without the last four freebies.
1) Subsidies equivalent to about 50% of project owning and operations cost,
2) Grid extension/reinforcement to connect remote W/S to load centers
3) A fleet of quick-reacting power plants to counteract the W/S up/down output, on a less-than-minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365,
4) A fleet of power plants to provide electricity during low-W/S periods, and during high-W/S periods, when rotors are feathered and locked,
5) Output curtailments to prevent overloading the grid, i.e., paying owners for not producing what they could have produced
“”The climate law, the climate deal and all other climate measures will go straight into the shredder,” his PVV party’s election manifesto said. “No wasting billions on useless climate hobbies, but more money for our people,” Geert Wilders
You can see why they voted against Timmermans, who wants to shred Dutch life.
“He’s denying the urgency of the climate crisis and what we need to do in the Netherlands.”
And rightfully so. There is no climate crisis in the Netherlands, or anywhere else.
Meike Rijksen should probably seek counseling since it won’t get better. He started out being stressed about human-caused climate change, and now he is going to be stressed out knowing the new leader does not believe in his climate change delusions.
Two-thirds of Republicans under the age of 30 support finding alternative energy sources, and 42 percent of Republicans overall also support that, 90 percent of Democrats support it.
There’s a difference between research looking for something better and spending trillions on ineffective/destructive methods.
Windmills, solar panels, and batteries should never have gotten out of the testing stage of development. They are just not better than current technology.
I’m favorable to research into alternative energy too so I guess that poll would include me in the support group. That doesn’t mean I support flushing trillions of dollars into unicorn farts.
Polls can be manipulated into providing support for insane policies.
FJB
Another PEW poll ranks “Dealing with Climate Change 14th on a list of 18 problems in U.S.
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If the bar graph fails to appear here… it cites the “top priorities” of American adults today (Jan. 2022):
Strengthening the Econoy: 71 %
Reducing health care costs 61
Dealing with coronavirus outbreaak 60
Improving education 58
Securing Social Security 57
Defending against terrorism 55
Improving political System 52
Reducing Crime 52
Improving job situation 52
Dealing with immigration 49
Reducing budget deficit 45
Addressing criminal justice system 45
Dealing with problems of poor people 44
Dealing with climate change 42
Addressing issues around race 37
Strengthening military 37
Dealing with global trade 35
Dealing with drug addiction 31
I would like to say that PEW is not a reliable surveyor on the subject of “Climate Change”, by which they mean Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. The polling division of the company is funded by the “PEW Charitable trust”. The Trust states their unalloyed belief in and need to mitigate “Climate Change” through the use of “modernized energy sources”, which are the usual renewables.
How do pollers influence public opinion? They keep the issue uppermost in people’s minds. Were it not for the poll itself (a list to rank) “climate change” would not be on the radar of most Americans.
If the question is whether you support “finding alternative energy sources”, unless you have a big stake in current energy sources, (and even if you do), why would ANYONE oppose that motherhood and apple pie objective? It’s obvious that eventually mankind needs alternative energy sources. Good God, man! I support that.
It’s a totally different question from whether you support eliminating fossil fuels within a decade or eliminating all internal combustion engines, gas stoves, and heaters, Nut Zero, 15-minute cities, etc., &c.
That’s just a gaslighting bullshit statistic designed to convey a propaganda message.
“Urgency” and “crisis” are mandatory in this fantasy because extending the timeline for disaster would encourage the normals to concentrate on making a living and taking care of their families, leaving it up to the future fearul to solve this non-problem. Worst of all, the opportunities for government-subsidized profits in the renewable energy industry would be deferred beyond the lifespan of current entrepreneurs or, as science may well discover, forever. The conversion must happen now, before Gaia cools down and ruins everything.
Tom in Florida
December 10, 2023 4:22 am
This has nothing to do with climate, but since it is an open thread, here goes:
My biggest pet peeve is the pronunciation of mozzarella. It is pronounced “moats-a-rella” and you trill the “r”. Now, many of us pronounce it “mootz-a-rella” but it is definately NOT “motts-a-rella”
Motts is a brand name of apple sauce and there are no apples in mozzarella cheese.
Thank you for reading, now back to our regularly scheduled arguments.
Same here, at least for the pronunciation thing. I mean no offence by this but Americans do stress different syllables than Europeans in a lot of words, this may just be down to that.
The trunk of a car is called a trunk as some early cars (e.g. Stutz Bearcat) had an actual trunk behind the seats. In American usage, bonnet has connotations of frilly and feminine, whereas hood has connotations of being more functional.
Yankspeak tends to use more German, whereas Britspeak tends to use more French, e.g. slaughterhouse vs abattoir.
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The general set out to lead his troops to victory. But he led them down the wrong route and battle turned into a rout when his troops were pumped full of lead.
There are some parts of the US where root sounds closer to ruh’t than route.
Then there’s marry merry Mary. Correctly pronounced (as in Boston): mä ree with a hideous nasal a sound; meh ree; Mare ree. In some parts of the country those three words are homonyms.
Trying to produce a pronunciation in words is sometimes difficult. Perhaps I should have typed “moe tsa-REL-la”, and you must trill the r. The fact is that Italian is a lyrical language with the accent on the “rel” in this word. Putting the accent on the ‘mozz” is incorrect. The first syllable is quick and soft and you would hardly hear the difference if I said Mootz or Moats.
Now say “mozzarella in carrozza.” It is certainly not “mottsarella in carrottsa.”
One last comment, I realized the incorrectness is more about the “mo”. The “o” in Italian is always a long “o” and never “ah”.
Buono, pollo, anno, ragazzo, molto etc. So the “mo” at the beginning is “moe” and never “mah”.
Yesterday the wife and I bought our first real pizza in a year, rather than having a mediocre frozen pizza. It was so good we ate all 12 slices for lunch and dinner yesterday.
An Italian friend and a Michigan friend who speaks fluid Italian, correct our mispronunciations. I also say French words, Yiddish words and English words wrong.
I from NY say “Are-ange”
The wife from MI says “Or-ange”
The wife and I once sat in a Florence, Italy restaurent next to another couple (no one else there) who were speaking English (very strong UK accent) and we had no idea what they were speaking English.
“The wife and I once sat in a Florence, Italy restaurent next to another couple (no one else there) who were speaking English (very strong UK accent) and we had no idea what they were speaking English.”
As late as the first world war, the British army still used to place people in different regiments based upon language difference due to origin within England. People from, say, Newcastle, were almost totally unintelligible to people in southern England.
The variety of accents and language use within England is, unsurprisingly, large, but dissolving because of modern communication technology and migration.
In the 1980’s I went North to live/study/work in Lancashire. Having grown up in the Midlands, I was still easily able to tell the difference between the locals in Lancaster and my mother’s home town accent from Preston, twenty miles south.
There is a great scene in the marvellous movie “Hot Fuzz” where two consecutive translations were required from local West country accents into real English.
ThurstonBT
December 10, 2023 4:39 am
What is the best citation/set of citations attesting to the poor forecast (cf. hindcast) records of the climate models in current use?
The 1970s climate models using RCP4.5 with a 70 year forecast have been very accurate so far/
The same models using RCP 8.5 and a 400 year forecast double the 70 year RCP 4.5 warming rate … and those are the models that get publicized by the IPCC, and also criticized.
They are climate computer games.
Making an assumption that climate can be forecasted. Which may be impossible … And that imagines accurate forecast is impossible before the exact effects of perhaps 10 climate changes variables are known with great accuracy. We are not even close to having that knowledge.
An accurate model forecast is just a lucky guess
No one knows the climate in 100 years.
Except me.
It will be warmer, unless it is colder.
But you left out that this is not the result of ONE model. It is an average of 30 or so WRONG models. Except the Russian model that is pretty close to correct.
So ALL the models, RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 do not represent reality. They represent guesses.
All the models using RCP4.5 for a 70 year forecast, when averaged, have done a great job forecasting since the mid-1970s.
Maybe just a lucky guess.
The higher CO2 ECS’s of all models except the Russian INM model, mainly affect the longer term 400 year forecast, not so much the first 70 years.
Of course the Russian INM never gets any attention especially now that it’s current CO2 ECS of +1.8 degrees C. is below the IPCC wild guessed +2.5 to +4/0 degrees range.
I wonder if the IPCC will sanction the INM model and stop including in the CMIP calculations? Those pesky Russian scientists refuse to follow the IPCC marching orders.
What is the best citation/set of citations attesting to the poor forecast (cf. hindcast) records of the climate models in current use?
IPCC, AR6, Working Group 1 assessment report, “The Physical Science Basis”.
General comment about computer (climate) models in general, section 1.5.4, “Modelling techniques, comparisons and performance assessments”, on page 221 :
Numerical models, however complex, cannot be a perfect representation of the real world.
See also section 4.2.5, “Quantifying Various Sources of Uncertainty”, on page 566 :
… fitness-for-purpose of the climate models used for long-term projections is fundamentally difficult to ascertain and remains an epistemological challenge (Parker, 2009; Frisch, 2015; Baumberger et al., 2017).
…
However, the long-term perspective to the end of the 21st century or even out to 2300 takes us beyond what can be observed in time for a standard evaluation of model projections, and in this sense the assessment of long-term projections will remain fundamentally limited.
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Specific problems with the CMIP6 set of model runs used for the AR6 report were severe enough to make it into the SPM.
The “Box SPM.1.2” paragraph within Box SPM.1, “Scenarios, Climate Models and Projections”, on page 12 :
Some differences from observations remain, for example in regional precipitation patterns.
…
However, some CMIP6 models simulate a warming that is either above or below the assessed very likely range of observed warming.
For various “hindcast” comparisons against “observations”, both instrumental and proxy, see Figure 7.19, “Global mean temperature anomaly in models and observations from 5 time periods”, on page 1009.
Note particularly how many individual model runs fall outside the observational “likely ranges”.
NB : If I copied the URL correctly this graph should “auto-magically” get copied from the IPCC website and display here.
And all government bureaucrat “scientists” should be sedated.
I also demand that calculations of a global average temperature statistic be permanently banned … which would end the climate scaremongering immediately.
No he’d be a damn sight more bitchy than that; I was aiming more for Les Dawson.
Sailor76
December 10, 2023 4:53 am
Labor Day and the -40 C Record Revisited from another angle (no one knows that an Extreme Cold Event happened back then, I wonder why?). After discovering the West Antarctica Byrd Record for August 2023, by accident of -45.54 C, I wondered what else we might have missed in the Summer of 2023. I thought all of West Antarctica was melting faster than anywhere else? Devastating Sea Level Rise was not far behind, we were told.
I decided to Re-Construct the Entire Summer with Data from Sources that could not be questioned by reasonable people. My Go-To Source is the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s AMRDC Depository of AWS (Automatic Weather Stations) Data on Antarctica, there are many of them. Welcome – AMRDC Data Repository (wisc.edu)
(Check out the Interactive Data Map!)
But the AMRDC misses coverage of the Coast of East Antarctica, so I filled that in with the Australian 3 Stations: Mawson, Davis and Casey, as well as Cape Dennison. Antarctica – Daily Weather Observations (bom.gov.au)
I needed one more “Warm” Station, just to be fair, at the entrance of the Antarctic Peninsula to round it out, and thanks to the good people at the British Arctic System (BAS), they gave me a tool with which I could pull the Data for Fossil Bluff Base, the British re-fueling Station there.
That rounded out my new 18-Station Model, slightly different from my 20-Station Model. How does it compare you might ask,
Well, let’s look at Labor Day again from this new Model angle and sure enough we find the same -40 C temperatures showing up from Aug 30th => Sept 3rd. September 4th came in at -38.88 C, still beating the old August 10, 2010, Record of -38.06 C.
Ok, so it looks like we got close enough to have confidence in this new Data stream.
So, what about the rest of the Summer, that was Hotter than anytime in human history, so says NOAA and Copernicus. Especially July they say. That will be ALERT # 7.
Pay attention to the right most column, the “Too Warm” one, that is the suppression of COLD Temperatures mechanism, it is Rinse and Repeat that method all Summer long, you’ll see. Kind of like a one-trick Pony.
And I am not even close to being done with the Summer of 2023, more Reading and Weeping still to come.
You know Kasha Patel from the WAPO Heatwave fame of one Station in March of 2022 (Concordia – check out this year, 2023, July 24th at -79.58 C (maybe an All-Time Record?) and also, August 9th of this year at -78.30 C, it will be in one of the next Posts) and Jake Tapper from CNN also could have pulled all of this Data, it is totally Public Access, no secret password needed to get at it, it just takes time and a willingness to look at actual FACTS! More to come,,,,,,,,,,,,
There will be several more Posts today on Linked In about the summer of 2023 and how COLD it really was. Activity | Frits Buningh | LinkedIn
Check out my Expose of the Climate Change Institute on my Website: http://www.aaadts.com
Mr.
December 10, 2023 5:08 am
Moves by ideological governments to electrify everything via “renewables” are ignoring the basic laws of costs effects driven by demand / supply, scarcity / abundance.
Solar & wind electricity by their nature are weather dependent, regularly scarce.
Prices of electricity therefore MUST rise in response to constant increasing demand in the face of flakey, uncertain supply.
One solution proposed to this unavoidable problem is “demand management”.
Which is Newspeak for “blackouts”.]
How will consumers & markets respond?
Docile acceptance, or riotous rejection of imposed scarcity and imposed price increases?
“demand management”…which is Newspeak for “blackouts”
Yes. But hoping to be palatable by using smart meters to black out just selected circuits. Turning off your EV charger or your dryer say, while leaving your lights on.
So to answer your question I am sorry but docile acceptance seems more likely to me. Decline is usually gradual.
In the intended electric-only future world where EVs are the only allowed form of personal transport, what happens if “demand management” selectively turns off your EV charging, and you don’t have enough range next morning to get you to the clinic for your scheduled chemo treatment?
(or worse still, a session with your psychologist to help quell your “climate anxiety” condition?)
I agree, quelgeek. The Great Resetters likely won’t be so clumsy as to precipitate a revolt.
Some of the poor may need to get used to the new normal of unreliable power and riding the bus to work. But they’ll likely be given free power and free bus passes.
The middle class will get smart meters that implement self-rationing (turning off heavy-consumption circuits when the price signal is high, compensated by zero or even negative pricing at certain times of the day).
The upper-middle class and the wealthy will have partial- to full-backup battery systems, eliminating all real inconvenience and also taking maximum advantage of negative pricing.
These would be reasonable solutions if there were a real problem to be solved.
The Great Resetters likely won’t be so clumsy as to precipitate a revolt.
Which is why Democrats are trying to ban firearms, especially those that might be more useful in a revolt than single-shot, bolt-action rifles, despite being used in only about 1-2% of firearm homicides.
And August 2023 takes the Cake! It is utterly shameful, that the Climate Change Institute has been depressing their Average Temperatures for Antarctica to support the Gospel of Greta from Sweden and they are doing this consistently by up to and more then 13 C.
This 18 Station Model has August 12th at -46.40 C and there is a 19 Day stretch in Record Cold Territory (The Record stands at -38.06 C from August 10, 2010)
Note to the skeptics out there, I have been debating/emailing with the Climate Change Institute since the beginning of September and confronted them with my Observation Station Data from my Models and they have never ever challenged me on the validity of the Stations’ selection of my Models or the Temperature Data.
Actually, go to their website and you can see substantial changes were made on December 9th, 2023, as a result of me hounding them with inconvenient Data Tables since Labor Day. (Anthony has all the emails if you need proof) Climate Reanalyzer
The disagreement between two climate scientists that will decide our future
Published: December 8, 2023 11:37am EST
Getting to net zero emissions by mid-century is conventionally understood as humanity’s best hope for keeping Earth’s surface temperature (already 1.2°C above its pre-industrial level) from increasing well beyond 1.5°C – potentially reaching a point at which it could cause widespread societal breakdown.
At least one prominent climate scientist, however, disagrees.
James Hansen of Columbia University in the US published a paper with colleagues in November which claims temperatures are set to rise further and faster than the predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In his view, the 1.5°C target is dead.
He also claims net zero is no longer sufficient to prevent warming of more than 2°C. To regain some control over Earth’s rising temperature, Hansen supports accelerating the retirement of fossil fuels, greater cooperation between major polluters that accommodates the needs of the developing world and, controversially, intervening in Earth’s “radiation balance” (the difference between incoming and outgoing light and heat) to cool the planet’s surface.
There would probably be wide support for the first two prescriptions. But Hansen’s support for what amounts to the deliberate reduction of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface has brought into the open an idea that makes many uncomfortable.
Michael Mann from the University of Pennsylvania in the US and another titan of climate science, spoke for many when he dismissed solar radiation management as “potentially very dangerous” and a “desperate action” motivated by the “fallacy … that large-scale warming will be substantially greater than current-generation models project”.
Their positions are irreconcilable. So who is right – Hansen or Mann?”
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In this case that “titan” of climate science, Michael Mann is right.
But any fool ought to know you don’t mess with Earth’s sunlight.
Who does James Hansen want to put in charge of limiting our sunlight?
What about people who don’t want their sunlight limited? Some of those people have armies.
Penn also continues to host prominent world leaders for important engagement opportunities on campus. An excellent example is the September 13th Perry World House event featuring former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on the urgent challenges of climate change. The event also features new Penn faculty member and prominent environmental scientist Michael Mann, who is the inaugural director of Penn’s new Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media. https://secretary.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/2022-12/Status-Reports-220914.pdf
They never mention that the Earth is in a 2.56 million-year ice age and 20% of the land is frozen with glaciers or permafrost, or that about 10 times as many people die from the cold as from heat.
‘Incredibly profound’ evidence of nuclear fission discovered in the cosmos
19 hours ago
New research has unveiled a new piece of this cosmic puzzle, pointing towards the role of nuclear fission in the creation of heavy elements throughout the universe.
For decades, scientists have been intrigued by the origin of elements heavier than iron in the periodic table. The prevailing theory suggested these elements were born from cataclysmic stellar events such as supernovae or the merger of neutron stars. However, recent studies involving old stars have revealed intriguing data suggesting the presence of nuclear fission in the universe.
Matthew Mumpower, a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, emphasized the novelty of this discovery. “People have thought fission was happening in the cosmos, but to date, no one has been able to prove it,” Mumpower stated. His research indicates that superheavy nuclei, beyond the heaviest elements known, may be naturally produced.
Nuclear fission’s role in element formation
The researchers observed a positive correlation between light precision metals like silver and rare earth nuclei such as europium across different stars. “The only plausible way this can arise among different stars is if there is a consistent process operating during the formation of the heavy elements,” Mumpower explained. After exhaustive testing, fission emerged as the only viable explanation for this trend.
“This is incredibly profound and is the first evidence of fission operating in the cosmos, confirming a theory we proposed several years ago,” Mumpower declared.
The observations suggest that elements with an atomic mass of 260, heavier than any currently on the periodic table, might exist. These findings stem from fission models developed by Mumpower and observational leadership by Ian Roederer of North Carolina State University.
Traditionally, astrophysicists believed heavy elements beyond iron were formed in supernovae or neutron star mergers. These processes involve the rapid-neutron capture process, or r-process, where atomic nuclei capture neutrons to form heavier elements. The possibility of these elements undergoing fission, splitting into lighter elements while releasing energy, had been a mystery until now.
Observational evidence of nuclear fission
In a 2020 paper, Mumpower first predicted the distributions of fission fragments for r-process nuclei. A subsequent study predicted the co-production of light precision metals and rare earth nuclei. Roederer’s analysis of data from 42 stars found the precise correlation predicted, providing a clear signature of fission in the creation of these elements.
“The correlation is very robust in r-process enhanced stars where we have sufficient data,” Mumpower pointed out. He explained that the creation of an atom of silver is proportionally linked to the production of heavier rare earth nuclei. “We have shown that only one mechanism can be responsible — fission,” he added.
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We still have a lot to learn about the place we live in.
Krishna Gans
December 10, 2023 7:08 am
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The Sahara has greened due to increased CO2 they say. The greening is the size of France and Germany combined.
Sailor76
December 10, 2023 7:46 am
More Revelations from the Summer 2023 Temperature Reconstruction for Antarctica. Just finished pulling the Data yesterday afternoon, the result is much more shocking than I had expected.
Read the Data! up to almost 14 C too WARM (see Right Column July 01 in the Table below), kind of suppressing COLD temps as a regular occurrence, and then once in a while you can declare a Hottest Day on Earth when the Politics calls for that, it is easy. I coined it “Climate Surfing”, like the Boys of summer waiting for the Big Wave at Maui, or Nazare Portugal, they wait for the big wave to carry them to Victory and a Gold medal on the beach. Here they suppress the Cold Snap right before the Heatwave, to give them a leg up and then ride the Jul 01 => 06 Wave to the desired result.
The Political Boys of Summer, John Kerry and UN’s Antonio Gutieres now are hoping to ride that same wave one more time to Victory in Dubai. But it is all based on Phony nonexistent Data.
Read it and Weep!
Anyone out there with more clout and audience (The Heartland Institute, Glenn Greenwald, Sharyl Atkinson, Jesse Waters, Tucker Carlson, John Stossel, to name a few, or Elon Musk and Peter Thiel) could pick up this lose Football and run it into the End Zone for 7 points? It would make a difference in the outcome of the Game for sure!
I have done my 5 cents to contribute what I can, time and effort, I am 70 years old and retired with no resources.to take on the Climate Crazies, so that is it for me, I am signing off.
We just have to keep spreading the word at the grass roots level and donate to support the organizations many that you listed and many others out there too, even if only 5 bucks here and there.
Eventually ( I pray) these tyrants will be hold up in their castles under siege with more and more of us coming to our senses and joining the fight .
“I have done my 5 cents to contribute what I can, time and effort, I am 70 years old and retired with no resources.to take on the Climate Crazies,”
I am also 70 years old, retired since January 2005. In 2016 I decided to launch a climate and energy blog where I recommend the best articles I can find on those subjects.
These daily recommended reading lists include many articles from this website.
My recommended reading lists are an antidote for mainstream media climate scaremongering.
We Climate Realists have to learn enough about climate and energy to explain real science and engineering to leftists … in simple language (they are simpletons) … when they eventually start doubting the coming climate crisis predictions … maybe after the first Nut Zero related blackout hits.
My blogs have had over 669,000 page views. No money for me. No ads. This is my public service.
(1) There is no climate emergency (2) Nut zero is a waste of money and will fail (3) Fascism will not fix the climate, which happens to be just fine
I can’t sit back and do nothing while leftists ruin everything they touch, from the open borders, to their delusional Nut Zero plans.
Dell Bigtree and his team at the High wire have been doing some stellar reporting recently as well as their legal work At ICAN; really setting some great precedent .
They have been doing more and more push back against the morally /scientifically bankrupt and hypocritical globalist agenda and the propaganda wing the MSM. Dell played one of project Veritas undercover recordings of a CNN reporter that just totally spilled the beans about how everything reporting wise,from Covid BS to get Trump and then the pivot back to “ CAGW narrative has been entirely planned and concocted .
CD in Wisconsin
December 10, 2023 9:24 am
I’ll bet that you the reader didn’t know that the Israel-Hamas war is part of the climate change issue. That is what the guy in this video says.
Well like obviously , just like all these young people with identity problems transgender issues. All caused by climate change which is all the fault of big oil, totally, man.
Oh to be young, stupid and irresponsible, the frivolous life of the University student.
Peta of Newark
December 10, 2023 9:44 am
Point. Laugh. Cry. Lose the will.
story tip
Headline:“”Thousands of car dealerships are begging President Biden to “tap the breaks” on electric vehicle mandates. In a letter to the president, close to 4,000 dealers have asked the administration to repeal regulations that push electric vehicle adoption. Why? Because consumers aren’t buying them.
We Now Know How Our Ancient Ancestors Traveled From Africa
Rather than crossing arid desserts, a green corridor though the Sahara appeared at the right time.
Dr. Russell Moul
Science Writer
“We know that, around 2.1 million years ago, Homo erectus, the first humans, migrated out of Africa. But how did they make this epic journey across territory that is covered in expansive desert?
For a long time, researchers have puzzled over how H. erectus managed to cross through northeastern Africa and the Middle East, to make their way into Europe. The desert landscape in this region is merciless today, and food and water would have been scarce.
Now researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark, suggest the desert may not have been a problem for H. erectus as it may not have existed at the time.
“We know that there are recurring periods when the climate in the Sahara changes. We call the phenomenon ‘Green Sahara’ or ‘African Humid Periods’,” Rachel Lupien, one of the authors of the study explained in a statement.
“During a green period, the desert shrinks significantly and is transformed into a landscape that resembles the savannas we know from eastern Africa today.”
According to Lupien and her team’s work, the Sahara may have been much greener at precisely the time when H. erectus first migrated from Africa. In fact, the Sahara may have been greener than any other time in the 4.5 million year period they studied.
H. erectus was, Lupien said, “most likely able to walk through a green corridor out of Africa.”
The seafloor tells all
Today, the Sahara is experiencing one of its dry spells. How long these periods last for tends to vary, but it appears the region experiences a full cycle – between dry and wet periods – every 20,000 years. The rainy periods have been dubbed “African Humid Periods” by Lupien and colleagues.
“How wet the humid green periods become, varies. There are indeed two other cycles that also come into play. One lasts 100,000 years and the other 400,000 years. Over the course of 100,000 years, the wet periods will thus vary and become wetter or drier than usual. The same applies in intervals of 400,000 years,” Lupien explained.”
end excerpt
What do you know about that! Cycles!
But, but, but, how does CO2 figure into all this? Answer: It doesn’t look like CO2 figures in at all.
I guess that’s why climate change alarmists never talk about natural cycles. They want to pretend they don’t exist and blame every weather/climate event on CO2.
Rich Davis
December 10, 2023 11:31 am
Oh Lord have mercy! This smells like the Hildebeest is positioning to swoop in to replace Dementia Joe. A rematch, but a rematch of 2016 rather than 2020?
Mind of Mike: College Football as We Know it is Dead
Mike Farrell
Dec 3, 2023
“I became a college football fan in the early 1980s. My uncle and cousin were massive Boston College football fans, and a kid named Doug Flutie was emerging from fifth-string nobody to budding superstar. I wasn’t even in middle school yet, but I was hooked. I already liked professional sports and was enamored with the NBA (Larry Bird, Magic Johnson), MLB (Pops Stargell and those Pirates and more), NHL (kid named Gretzky was gonna be good), and of course the NFL with Danny White and my Dallas Cowboys. But college football had an innocence that matched mine at that age. It was magical. I just fell in love.
Flutie went on to beat teams like Alabama and Miami (in a miracle) and won the Heisman in 1984. College football became my obsession — so much so that I willed it to be my profession.
Fast forward to 2023, and I don’t know what the hell I’m looking at anymore. With NIL, the transfer portal, and the ridiculous money grab that has become college football, the sport with such innocence in the 1980s is now a shell of its former sense. Player loyalty is at an all-time low, movement on the coaching carousel is at an all-time high, NIL money dictates both commitments and recruiting classes, and TV money rules the world.”
end excerpt
Yeah, I think the Transfer Portal and paying college students to play football is ruining college football. And it’s a damn shame.
That, and the excessive player celebration that goes on after every play, whether it has any significance to the game or not (usually not). I guess they are excited about all that money they think they might make in the professional leagues.
Keep in mind that most college football players don’t get much money, it’s only the specail few. Which, imo, destroys team cohesion. And if you don’t have team cohesion and loyalty, then you are not going to be very successful.
Look at the Colorado college football team. Their star player wears a thick gold necklass around his neck while he plays. I didn’t see any of the other players wearing gold necklasses around their necks while they were playing the game. I did see the star player’s Dad, who is the coach of the team, wearing his thick gold necklace. I guess he’s trying to be a good example to his son.
Their star player wears a watch worth $70,000. I don’t think any of the other players on the team have such a watch. Their star player drives one of the most expensive cars in existance. None of the other players have such vehicles. Maybe the star player will give them a ride in it sometime.
The Star Player gets the focus on him and the rest of the guys are just stage hands. Welcome to modern-day college football.
I feel better now. 🙂
Mike
December 10, 2023 1:33 pm
The other day I heard a BBC ”climate reporter” say ”the arctic ocean is melting.”
If you are on a Windoze machine, go to the accessories and find a thing called “Character Map”
Check the font is Times new roman.. then go hunting for the characters you want..
select them one at a time, then copy. and paste into your comment where you want them.
Superscript 1, 2, 3 are on the 6th line.
Other number superscripts and subscripts (so you can type say, H₂O and CO₂ ) are 5 screens from the bottom (on my machine anyway, bit of hunting may be needed.)
A nearly four-decade moratorium on the construction of nuclear plants in Illinois will end next year under a measure signed Friday by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who vetoed an earlier version of the bill.
Legislators passed a new iteration of the bill last month that addressed concerns Pritzker raised in an August veto message about the size of nuclear plants that would be allowed under the initial legislation.
It’s curious to me how divergent the news reports are on EV sales. I’m not quite interested in it enough to follow it all the way to honest numbers explaining how it can be “slowing” as well as “soaring”.
I don’t care about the buyers of these things – although I’d wager they are in for some disillusionment down the road. But I do resent the cynicism of our government in its collaboration in another massive scam to fool people with useless products and services (such as mandated health and drug insurance) using tax dollars, and having no personal stake in the eventual success of said product. Maybe “I led the charge to bring electric vehicles to the American public and helped to save the Earth” will be their “legacy” from their time in office.
It pays (and probably costs) to have the media on your side.
rhb2
December 14, 2023 8:21 pm
My daughter just moved to Ft. Collins, CO. She has been informed she cannot run her clothes drier during certain hours of the day. Does anyone know how long this restriction has been in place and what caused it?
Can Liz Magill take Michael Mann with her?
Going down on an elevator, John Kerry joins them before delivering a reenactment of his keynote.
https://nypost.com/2023/12/09/opinion/windbag-john-kerrys-flatulence-was-the-perfect-keynote-for-un-climate-confab/
What? The chosen ones actually fart?
Shurely shome mishtake
He calls it “sounding the alarm bell.”
He’d probably just attended a talk on ocean outgassing.
Or was emphasizing a serious point he was making about methane emissions?
Surprised if anyone could tell which end it came from !!
Depends on whether he cracks a smile.
I think Magill is staying at Penn, she’s just resigning as president.
I think we have lost our colleges and universities to the radical Left.
You think?!
What? She’s still employed there?
THat’s insane.
She is a tenured professor.
She should have kept her mouth shut, and instead concentrate on being the best law school
If you don’t remove the tumour….
Yeah, it’s pretty hard to fire a tenured Professor.
In the UK, I recall reading that “gross moral turpitude” was one clause that allowed it to happen.
But, as with impeachment of a President, it is ultimately a political decision taken by those in power at the time.
For a Professor who still wants to do things, there are other sanctions. Denial of funding, students, or lab facilities are things I have learned about, but I don’t think she is in that kind of position.
A tenures professor can be fired for being caught having s e x with his secretary on his desk, but ONLY if it can be proven that he was told that was forbidden when he was first hired by the university.
In California, course enrollments can be manipulated by the registrar, at the dean of instruction’s direction by closing class registrations early. Then, a story can be constructed that ‘declining enrollments’ require a tenured instructor be laid off. One other instructor can be given a one quarter sabbatical leave for three years to pursue their PhD, and preventing the laid off instructor from having preferential re-hire rights. Where there is a will, there is a way.
Then it’s about time to find the will.
You misunderstand. This is about the administration finding loop holes around tenure. Some have already exercised their will.
There are enough up votes on this to make me wonder if this isn’t more common than I thought.
Zero-Emission Vehicle Factbook from BloombergNEF is here.
https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/2023-COP28-ZEV-Factbook.pdf
Enjoy…
That’s a heap big pile of bullshit right there.
Zero emissions…. that’s a real joke.
Governments can, as long as they are willing to inflict the high price, move their populations to EVs. That has never been the issue. They can and they are.
The issue is the collateral changes to society and economy.
And given the failure to show any significant CO2 emission reduction from EVs, there is an issue about the rationale for the move. I don’t even think they help with local city pollution, because of higher particulates from higher weights and tire wear.
That’s why a huge share of the modal split in cities needs to be walking, biking and public transport.
How would you cycle, walk or use public transport if you have to move musical equipment – such as a Marshall stack?
See below, and no, that isn’t my stack…
You know share doesn’t mean 100%?
I do, but I’d still like an answer.
Can a musician move outside the 15 minute city? Probably not. There is Zoom, after all.
Stupid is just stupid.
To paraphrase Mrs. Gump, “Stupid is as MyUsername posts.”
What are those, fireworks?
It does look that way. And having experienced Chinese New Year in China, I’d guess this was just for his personal use.
Why? What’s wrong with using a car? Just tell me that.
Some people are just obsessed with inflicting what is essentially just their view point on others but in a physical way. I have visited some little towns that are “ natural 15 minute cities. And I like them. But that does not mean I want to be forced to give up my car or work van in the place.
These people have never wanted a solution to ‘climate change’ – the only thing they were interested in was making everybody else adopt their abstinent, vegetarian lifestyle and getting mass aprobation that they were right all along. It’s a mental illness that needs to be diagnosed and treated, not encouraged.
Tell you what….
You use the form of transport you want to use.
And stop telling everyone else what they have to do.
Get the **** out of our lives !!
New Yorker’s Won’t Buy EVs… Why? – YouTube
NY is not in the top 10 states for EV sales as a percentage of all auto sales, but why data mine?
Total US EV sales are expected to be up +23% in 2023, versus 2022, with a 9.0% market share estimated, versus 7.3% in 2022. Those percentages include a relatively small number of plug-in hybrids.
First of all half of those sales are in California, where there is a mandatory 35% EV sales enforcement in place, giving some buyers little choice. Secondly, I would hardly call 1/5th of all EV sales a ‘relatively small number’ of hybrids.
Mislabeled. ZEHV – Zero Emission HERE Vehicle.
MUN:
A quotation from your linked Facebook page:
“Decarbonizing transport is key to ending dependence on oil, reducing emissions and improving local air quality.”
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Over 6000 products from crude oil base:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/partial-list-over-6000-products-made-from-one-barrel-oil-steve-pryor
One 42-gallon barrel of oil creates 19.4 gallons of gasoline according to the LinkedIn article above. Over half of the barrel remains and is use make many or all of the remaining items in the list of 6000. You are living in a fantasy world if you think EV’s alone will end our dependence of crude oil. Think again.
The volume of products from oil is greater than the volume of oil itself, sometimes by a lot depending on density.
You are NEVER going to get “facts” from Bloomberg.
Twisted far-left agenda-driven nonsense is their speciality.
Levelized Cost of Energy by US-EIA
The wind/solar/battery bubble is in meltdown mode. This is not a surprise, because the US-EIA makes LCOE “evaluations” of W/S/B systems that purposely exclude major LCOE items.
The EIA deceptions reinforced the delusion W/S are competitive with fossil fuels, which is far from reality.
The excluded LOCE items are shifted to taxpayers, ratepayers, and added to government debts.
W/S would not exist without at least 50% subsidies
W/S output could not be physically fed into the grid, without the last four freebies.
1) Subsidies equivalent to about 50% of project owning and operations cost,
2) Grid extension/reinforcement to connect remote W/S to load centers
3) A fleet of quick-reacting power plants to counteract the W/S up/down output, on a less-than-minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365,
4) A fleet of power plants to provide electricity during low-W/S periods, and during high-W/S periods, when rotors are feathered and locked,
5) Output curtailments to prevent overloading the grid, i.e., paying owners for not producing what they could have produced
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“”The climate law, the climate deal and all other climate measures will go straight into the shredder,” his PVV party’s election manifesto said. “No wasting billions on useless climate hobbies, but more money for our people,” Geert Wilders
You can see why they voted against Timmermans, who wants to shred Dutch life.
“”He is a climate denier,” said Greenpeace campaigner Meike Rijksen. “He wants to take all climate policy and put it through the shredder. That’s climate denial. He’s denying the urgency of the climate crisis and what we need to do in the Netherlands.””
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/geert-wilders-ap-mark-rutte-dutch-amsterdam-b2459366.html
And he won the vote.
“He’s denying the urgency of the climate crisis and what we need to do in the Netherlands.”
And rightfully so. There is no climate crisis in the Netherlands, or anywhere else.
Meike Rijksen should probably seek counseling since it won’t get better. He started out being stressed about human-caused climate change, and now he is going to be stressed out knowing the new leader does not believe in his climate change delusions.
“Run little piggies, run – the big bad wolf is coming.”
The sheer over-reaction and panic by the left is highly amusing.
Two-thirds of Republicans under the age of 30 support finding alternative energy sources, and 42 percent of Republicans overall also support that, 90 percent of Democrats support it.
The brainwashing isn’t limited to just the left.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/09/what-the-data-says-about-americans-views-of-climate-change/
Nuclear works.
It has been delayed for many decades by excessive regulation, built upon fear.
There’s a difference between research looking for something better and spending trillions on ineffective/destructive methods.
Windmills, solar panels, and batteries should never have gotten out of the testing stage of development. They are just not better than current technology.
I’m favorable to research into alternative energy too so I guess that poll would include me in the support group. That doesn’t mean I support flushing trillions of dollars into unicorn farts.
Polls can be manipulated into providing support for insane policies.
FJB
Another PEW poll ranks “Dealing with Climate Change 14th on a list of 18 problems in U.S.
If the bar graph fails to appear here… it cites the “top priorities” of American adults today (Jan. 2022):
Strengthening the Econoy: 71 %
Reducing health care costs 61
Dealing with coronavirus outbreaak 60
Improving education 58
Securing Social Security 57
Defending against terrorism 55
Improving political System 52
Reducing Crime 52
Improving job situation 52
Dealing with immigration 49
Reducing budget deficit 45
Addressing criminal justice system 45
Dealing with problems of poor people 44
Dealing with climate change 42
Addressing issues around race 37
Strengthening military 37
Dealing with global trade 35
Dealing with drug addiction 31
I would like to say that PEW is not a reliable surveyor on the subject of “Climate Change”, by which they mean Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. The polling division of the company is funded by the “PEW Charitable trust”. The Trust states their unalloyed belief in and need to mitigate “Climate Change” through the use of “modernized energy sources”, which are the usual renewables.
How do pollers influence public opinion? They keep the issue uppermost in people’s minds. Were it not for the poll itself (a list to rank) “climate change” would not be on the radar of most Americans.
Poll of “US Adults” was conducted in Jan, 2022
I wonder how many support apple pie?
If the question is whether you support “finding alternative energy sources”, unless you have a big stake in current energy sources, (and even if you do), why would ANYONE oppose that motherhood and apple pie objective? It’s obvious that eventually mankind needs alternative energy sources. Good God, man! I support that.
It’s a totally different question from whether you support eliminating fossil fuels within a decade or eliminating all internal combustion engines, gas stoves, and heaters, Nut Zero, 15-minute cities, etc., &c.
That’s just a gaslighting bullshit statistic designed to convey a propaganda message.
Pee-ew = stinks !!
A hard-left twisted survey/propaganda group .. results are totally meaningless.
He’s denying the urgency of the climate crisis
“Urgency” and “crisis” are mandatory in this fantasy because extending the timeline for disaster would encourage the normals to concentrate on making a living and taking care of their families, leaving it up to the future fearul to solve this non-problem. Worst of all, the opportunities for government-subsidized profits in the renewable energy industry would be deferred beyond the lifespan of current entrepreneurs or, as science may well discover, forever. The conversion must happen now, before Gaia cools down and ruins everything.
This has nothing to do with climate, but since it is an open thread, here goes:
My biggest pet peeve is the pronunciation of mozzarella. It is pronounced “moats-a-rella” and you trill the “r”. Now, many of us pronounce it “mootz-a-rella” but it is definately NOT “motts-a-rella”
Motts is a brand name of apple sauce and there are no apples in mozzarella cheese.
Thank you for reading, now back to our regularly scheduled arguments.
Tom, I have been hitched to an Italian for many moons and the moment I saw “moats-a-rella” I cringed.
Mozzarella is pronounced Mot – sa – rella – and that is one of the rules of the double z. Trilling the ‘r’ is optional depending on the locale..
Same here, at least for the pronunciation thing. I mean no offence by this but Americans do stress different syllables than Europeans in a lot of words, this may just be down to that.
Boot – Hood
Slay – Kill
Etc
They deviated in 1773+ and kept the biblical elements. That’s puritans for you
Boot – Trunk
See how confused they Er?!
That should be Hood – Bonnet
The trunk of a car is called a trunk as some early cars (e.g. Stutz Bearcat) had an actual trunk behind the seats. In American usage, bonnet has connotations of frilly and feminine, whereas hood has connotations of being more functional.
Yankspeak tends to use more German, whereas Britspeak tends to use more French, e.g. slaughterhouse vs abattoir.
I guess the Americans have never heard of the ‘steel bonnets’ of the border reivers then? Can’t get much less ‘frilly and feminine’ than that.
Something I never brought myself to ask my North American friends and colleagues was:
If you pronounce “route” the way you do, how do you pronounce “rout”?
They have different meanings. In my version of English, the former is pronounced “root”. (I suspect the French language at work.)
My question is genuine.
I believe they pronounce ‘rout’ as ‘French’.
Rout = defeat and cause to retreat in disorder.
Posted too soon.
In America they are homophones
Not to me they ahnt, but I was bonn in Bawstun.
Michael,
Route as rahwt (rout) is a regional pronunciation. In Boston (hub of the Universe) we pronounce it correctly as root.
😎
The general set out to lead his troops to victory. But he led them down the wrong route and battle turned into a rout when his troops were pumped full of lead.
And did the investigation ever find the root cause? 😎
There are some parts of the US where root sounds closer to ruh’t than route.
Then there’s marry merry Mary. Correctly pronounced (as in Boston): mä ree with a hideous nasal a sound; meh ree; Mare ree. In some parts of the country those three words are homonyms.
Both words are pronounced the same in the U.S., although there are probably some who say “root”.
Trying to produce a pronunciation in words is sometimes difficult. Perhaps I should have typed “moe tsa-REL-la”, and you must trill the r. The fact is that Italian is a lyrical language with the accent on the “rel” in this word. Putting the accent on the ‘mozz” is incorrect. The first syllable is quick and soft and you would hardly hear the difference if I said Mootz or Moats.
Now say “mozzarella in carrozza.” It is certainly not “mottsarella in carrottsa.”
I’m with Tom on this. MoetsahRELLuh.
And Google Translate agrees too
One last comment, I realized the incorrectness is more about the “mo”. The “o” in Italian is always a long “o” and never “ah”.
Buono, pollo, anno, ragazzo, molto etc. So the “mo” at the beginning is “moe” and never “mah”.
Yesterday the wife and I bought our first real pizza in a year, rather than having a mediocre frozen pizza. It was so good we ate all 12 slices for lunch and dinner yesterday.
An Italian friend and a Michigan friend who speaks fluid Italian, correct our mispronunciations. I also say French words, Yiddish words and English words wrong.
I from NY say “Are-ange”
The wife from MI says “Or-ange”
The wife and I once sat in a Florence, Italy restaurent next to another couple (no one else there) who were speaking English (very strong UK accent) and we had no idea what they were speaking English.
“The wife and I once sat in a Florence, Italy restaurent next to another couple (no one else there) who were speaking English (very strong UK accent) and we had no idea what they were speaking English.”
As late as the first world war, the British army still used to place people in different regiments based upon language difference due to origin within England. People from, say, Newcastle, were almost totally unintelligible to people in southern England.
The variety of accents and language use within England is, unsurprisingly, large, but dissolving because of modern communication technology and migration.
In the 1980’s I went North to live/study/work in Lancashire. Having grown up in the Midlands, I was still easily able to tell the difference between the locals in Lancaster and my mother’s home town accent from Preston, twenty miles south.
Once when I visited the Fawley Refinery near Southampton I don’t know what language the security guard was using.
Pompey? Could have been anything there mate.
Whups, ignore this comment completely, don’t know what I was thinking confusing Southampton and Portsmouth. Need more sleep, obviously.
Once when working at a mine in Alpine, Alabama, I went to the Hickry Hut for some pork barbeque and had no idea what the waitress was talking about.
Ah yew aw ah yew not tryin ta say awwringe the froot?
There is a great scene in the marvellous movie “Hot Fuzz” where two consecutive translations were required from local West country accents into real English.
What is the best citation/set of citations attesting to the poor forecast (cf. hindcast) records of the climate models in current use?
The 1970s climate models using RCP4.5 with a 70 year forecast have been very accurate so far/
The same models using RCP 8.5 and a 400 year forecast double the 70 year RCP 4.5 warming rate … and those are the models that get publicized by the IPCC, and also criticized.
They are climate computer games.
Making an assumption that climate can be forecasted. Which may be impossible … And that imagines accurate forecast is impossible before the exact effects of perhaps 10 climate changes variables are known with great accuracy. We are not even close to having that knowledge.
An accurate model forecast is just a lucky guess
No one knows the climate in 100 years.
Except me.
It will be warmer, unless it is colder.
They call medium-term weather, 30 years, the climate of a location now. I guess that all their models can even hope to forecast.
“It will be warmer, unless it is colder.”
Agreed.
The best, first order, guess of tomorrow’s stock price, is today’s stock price.
The best, second order, guess of the continuing price trend, is today’s price trend.
That means continuing, gentle, beneficial, warming.
But higher order effects can always cut you off at the pass.
But you left out that this is not the result of ONE model. It is an average of 30 or so WRONG models. Except the Russian model that is pretty close to correct.
So ALL the models, RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 do not represent reality. They represent guesses.
Bad guesses, based on poor data using faulty methodology.
Modern climate science described well in nine words.
All the models using RCP4.5 for a 70 year forecast, when averaged, have done a great job forecasting since the mid-1970s.
Maybe just a lucky guess.
The higher CO2 ECS’s of all models except the Russian INM model, mainly affect the longer term 400 year forecast, not so much the first 70 years.
Of course the Russian INM never gets any attention especially now that it’s current CO2 ECS of +1.8 degrees C. is below the IPCC wild guessed +2.5 to +4/0 degrees range.
I wonder if the IPCC will sanction the INM model and stop including in the CMIP calculations? Those pesky Russian scientists refuse to follow the IPCC marching orders.
IPCC, AR6, Working Group 1 assessment report, “The Physical Science Basis”.
General comment about computer (climate) models in general, section 1.5.4, “Modelling techniques, comparisons and performance assessments”, on page 221 :
See also section 4.2.5, “Quantifying Various Sources of Uncertainty”, on page 566 :
_ _ _ _ _
Specific problems with the CMIP6 set of model runs used for the AR6 report were severe enough to make it into the SPM.
The “Box SPM.1.2” paragraph within Box SPM.1, “Scenarios, Climate Models and Projections”, on page 12 :
For various “hindcast” comparisons against “observations”, both instrumental and proxy, see Figure 7.19, “Global mean temperature anomaly in models and observations from 5 time periods”, on page 1009.
Note particularly how many individual model runs fall outside the observational “likely ranges”.
NB : If I copied the URL correctly this graph should “auto-magically” get copied from the IPCC website and display here.
Thanks, Mark. You always provide useful information.
The climatereanalyzer.org page is now using ERA5 instead of GFS/CFSR. I look at this every day, for what it’s worth.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world
The medium-term weather is now called “climate”.
Bad weather event = climate change
Good weather event = just weather
Climate Science + Politics = Politics
The are the three most important climate equations.
Honest Climate Science and Energy Blog
I find that the ‘climate reanalyser’ is an absolute prime example of gigo, nothing but garbage spews forth from it’s orifice.
I demand a reanalysis of the reanalyser!
And all government bureaucrat “scientists” should be sedated.
I also demand that calculations of a global average temperature statistic be permanently banned … which would end the climate scaremongering immediately.
Calm yourself dear, you’ll do yourself a mischief.
Are you doing a Kenneth Williams impersonation?
No he’d be a damn sight more bitchy than that; I was aiming more for Les Dawson.
Labor Day and the -40 C Record Revisited from another angle (no one knows that an Extreme Cold Event happened back then, I wonder why?). After discovering the West Antarctica Byrd Record for August 2023, by accident of -45.54 C, I wondered what else we might have missed in the Summer of 2023. I thought all of West Antarctica was melting faster than anywhere else? Devastating Sea Level Rise was not far behind, we were told.
I decided to Re-Construct the Entire Summer with Data from Sources that could not be questioned by reasonable people. My Go-To Source is the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s AMRDC Depository of AWS (Automatic Weather Stations) Data on Antarctica, there are many of them.
Welcome – AMRDC Data Repository (wisc.edu)
(Check out the Interactive Data Map!)
But the AMRDC misses coverage of the Coast of East Antarctica, so I filled that in with the Australian 3 Stations: Mawson, Davis and Casey, as well as Cape Dennison.
Antarctica – Daily Weather Observations (bom.gov.au)
I needed one more “Warm” Station, just to be fair, at the entrance of the Antarctic Peninsula to round it out, and thanks to the good people at the British Arctic System (BAS), they gave me a tool with which I could pull the Data for Fossil Bluff Base, the British re-fueling Station there.
I was forced to eliminate Vostok (the Coldest Place on Earth) from this Model, the AMRDC Depository does not that Data.
Lowest temperature recorded on Earth – Wikipedia
That rounded out my new 18-Station Model, slightly different from my 20-Station Model. How does it compare you might ask,
Well, let’s look at Labor Day again from this new Model angle and sure enough we find the same -40 C temperatures showing up from Aug 30th => Sept 3rd. September 4th came in at -38.88 C, still beating the old August 10, 2010, Record of -38.06 C.
Ok, so it looks like we got close enough to have confidence in this new Data stream.
So, what about the rest of the Summer, that was Hotter than anytime in human history, so says NOAA and Copernicus. Especially July they say. That will be ALERT # 7.
Pay attention to the right most column, the “Too Warm” one, that is the suppression of COLD Temperatures mechanism, it is Rinse and Repeat that method all Summer long, you’ll see. Kind of like a one-trick Pony.
And I am not even close to being done with the Summer of 2023, more Reading and Weeping still to come.
You know Kasha Patel from the WAPO Heatwave fame of one Station in March of 2022 (Concordia – check out this year, 2023, July 24th at -79.58 C (maybe an All-Time Record?) and also, August 9th of this year at -78.30 C, it will be in one of the next Posts) and Jake Tapper from CNN also could have pulled all of this Data, it is totally Public Access, no secret password needed to get at it, it just takes time and a willingness to look at actual FACTS! More to come,,,,,,,,,,,,
There will be several more Posts today on Linked In about the summer of 2023 and how COLD it really was.
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Check out my Expose of the Climate Change Institute on my Website:
http://www.aaadts.com
Moves by ideological governments to electrify everything via “renewables” are ignoring the basic laws of costs effects driven by demand / supply, scarcity / abundance.
Solar & wind electricity by their nature are weather dependent, regularly scarce.
Prices of electricity therefore MUST rise in response to constant increasing demand in the face of flakey, uncertain supply.
One solution proposed to this unavoidable problem is “demand management”.
Which is Newspeak for “blackouts”.]
How will consumers & markets respond?
Docile acceptance, or riotous rejection of imposed scarcity and imposed price increases?
“demand management”…which is Newspeak for “blackouts”
Yes. But hoping to be palatable by using smart meters to black out just selected circuits. Turning off your EV charger or your dryer say, while leaving your lights on.
So to answer your question I am sorry but docile acceptance seems more likely to me. Decline is usually gradual.
You raise an interesting point.
In the intended electric-only future world where EVs are the only allowed form of personal transport, what happens if “demand management” selectively turns off your EV charging, and you don’t have enough range next morning to get you to the clinic for your scheduled chemo treatment?
(or worse still, a session with your psychologist to help quell your “climate anxiety” condition?)
Then they will have reduced the ‘burden’ on the planets’ limited resources. They feel no guilt or shame.
I agree, quelgeek. The Great Resetters likely won’t be so clumsy as to precipitate a revolt.
Some of the poor may need to get used to the new normal of unreliable power and riding the bus to work. But they’ll likely be given free power and free bus passes.
The middle class will get smart meters that implement self-rationing (turning off heavy-consumption circuits when the price signal is high, compensated by zero or even negative pricing at certain times of the day).
The upper-middle class and the wealthy will have partial- to full-backup battery systems, eliminating all real inconvenience and also taking maximum advantage of negative pricing.
These would be reasonable solutions if there were a real problem to be solved.
Which is why Democrats are trying to ban firearms, especially those that might be more useful in a revolt than single-shot, bolt-action rifles, despite being used in only about 1-2% of firearm homicides.
Decline is usually gradual then suddenly.
July was the Hottest. Month on Earth. Well, tell that to Antarctica!
The Data tells a different story there. from 7/21 => 7/31 in the -40 C Average Territory
And August 2023 takes the Cake! It is utterly shameful, that the Climate Change Institute has been depressing their Average Temperatures for Antarctica to support the Gospel of Greta from Sweden and they are doing this consistently by up to and more then 13 C.
This 18 Station Model has August 12th at -46.40 C and there is a 19 Day stretch in Record Cold Territory (The Record stands at -38.06 C from August 10, 2010)
Note to the skeptics out there, I have been debating/emailing with the Climate Change Institute since the beginning of September and confronted them with my Observation Station Data from my Models and they have never ever challenged me on the validity of the Stations’ selection of my Models or the Temperature Data.
Actually, go to their website and you can see substantial changes were made on December 9th, 2023, as a result of me hounding them with inconvenient Data Tables since Labor Day. (Anthony has all the emails if you need proof)
Climate Reanalyzer
https://theconversation.com/the-disagreement-between-two-climate-scientists-that-will-decide-our-future-217759
The disagreement between two climate scientists that will decide our future
Published: December 8, 2023 11:37am EST
Getting to net zero emissions by mid-century is conventionally understood as humanity’s best hope for keeping Earth’s surface temperature (already 1.2°C above its pre-industrial level) from increasing well beyond 1.5°C – potentially reaching a point at which it could cause widespread societal breakdown.
At least one prominent climate scientist, however, disagrees.
James Hansen of Columbia University in the US published a paper with colleagues in November which claims temperatures are set to rise further and faster than the predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In his view, the 1.5°C target is dead.
He also claims net zero is no longer sufficient to prevent warming of more than 2°C. To regain some control over Earth’s rising temperature, Hansen supports accelerating the retirement of fossil fuels, greater cooperation between major polluters that accommodates the needs of the developing world and, controversially, intervening in Earth’s “radiation balance” (the difference between incoming and outgoing light and heat) to cool the planet’s surface.
There would probably be wide support for the first two prescriptions. But Hansen’s support for what amounts to the deliberate reduction of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface has brought into the open an idea that makes many uncomfortable.
Michael Mann from the University of Pennsylvania in the US and another titan of climate science, spoke for many when he dismissed solar radiation management as “potentially very dangerous” and a “desperate action” motivated by the “fallacy … that large-scale warming will be substantially greater than current-generation models project”.
Their positions are irreconcilable. So who is right – Hansen or Mann?”
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In this case that “titan” of climate science, Michael Mann is right.
But any fool ought to know you don’t mess with Earth’s sunlight.
Who does James Hansen want to put in charge of limiting our sunlight?
What about people who don’t want their sunlight limited? Some of those people have armies.
Penn also continues to host prominent world leaders for important engagement
opportunities on campus. An excellent example is the September 13th Perry World House
event featuring former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on the urgent
challenges of climate change. The event also features new Penn faculty member and
prominent environmental scientist Michael Mann, who is the inaugural director of Penn’s
new Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media.
https://secretary.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/2022-12/Status-Reports-220914.pdf
These people are completely mental.
” Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media”
That should read: Center for Science, Sustainability and Climate Change Propaganda.
Alarmist climate change science is dead without a good dose of climate change propaganda to keep it going.
James Hansen doesn’t have ‘colleagues’ he has ‘accomplices’.
Agreed. 🙂
They never mention that the Earth is in a 2.56 million-year ice age and 20% of the land is frozen with glaciers or permafrost, or that about 10 times as many people die from the cold as from heat.
https://www.earth.com/news/incredibly-profound-evidence-of-nuclear-fission-discovered-in-the-cosmos/
‘Incredibly profound’ evidence of nuclear fission discovered in the cosmos
19 hours ago
New research has unveiled a new piece of this cosmic puzzle, pointing towards the role of nuclear fission in the creation of heavy elements throughout the universe.
For decades, scientists have been intrigued by the origin of elements heavier than iron in the periodic table. The prevailing theory suggested these elements were born from cataclysmic stellar events such as supernovae or the merger of neutron stars. However, recent studies involving old stars have revealed intriguing data suggesting the presence of nuclear fission in the universe.
Matthew Mumpower, a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, emphasized the novelty of this discovery. “People have thought fission was happening in the cosmos, but to date, no one has been able to prove it,” Mumpower stated. His research indicates that superheavy nuclei, beyond the heaviest elements known, may be naturally produced.
Nuclear fission’s role in element formation
The researchers observed a positive correlation between light precision metals like silver and rare earth nuclei such as europium across different stars. “The only plausible way this can arise among different stars is if there is a consistent process operating during the formation of the heavy elements,” Mumpower explained. After exhaustive testing, fission emerged as the only viable explanation for this trend.
“This is incredibly profound and is the first evidence of fission operating in the cosmos, confirming a theory we proposed several years ago,” Mumpower declared.
The observations suggest that elements with an atomic mass of 260, heavier than any currently on the periodic table, might exist. These findings stem from fission models developed by Mumpower and observational leadership by Ian Roederer of North Carolina State University.
Traditionally, astrophysicists believed heavy elements beyond iron were formed in supernovae or neutron star mergers. These processes involve the rapid-neutron capture process, or r-process, where atomic nuclei capture neutrons to form heavier elements. The possibility of these elements undergoing fission, splitting into lighter elements while releasing energy, had been a mystery until now.
Observational evidence of nuclear fission
In a 2020 paper, Mumpower first predicted the distributions of fission fragments for r-process nuclei. A subsequent study predicted the co-production of light precision metals and rare earth nuclei. Roederer’s analysis of data from 42 stars found the precise correlation predicted, providing a clear signature of fission in the creation of these elements.
“The correlation is very robust in r-process enhanced stars where we have sufficient data,” Mumpower pointed out. He explained that the creation of an atom of silver is proportionally linked to the production of heavier rare earth nuclei. “We have shown that only one mechanism can be responsible — fission,” he added.
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We still have a lot to learn about the place we live in.
Greening the desert
Our vision is to make the earth green again, by stopping and reversing desertification and soil degradation. With our unique product we want to turn degraded land and sand to fertile soil, and at the same time reduce the water usage for green ecosystems up to 50 percent.
Desert Control offers the solution that can revolutionise the war against desertification. Liquid Natural Clay (LNC), can turn desert sand into fertile soil in less than 7 hours. A process which previously has taken between 7 and 12 years. This is a game-changer, fueling our hope to make earth green again.
The Sahara has greened due to increased CO2 they say. The greening is the size of France and Germany combined.
More Revelations from the Summer 2023 Temperature Reconstruction for Antarctica. Just finished pulling the Data yesterday afternoon, the result is much more shocking than I had expected.
Read the Data! up to almost 14 C too WARM (see Right Column July 01 in the Table below), kind of suppressing COLD temps as a regular occurrence, and then once in a while you can declare a Hottest Day on Earth when the Politics calls for that, it is easy. I coined it “Climate Surfing”, like the Boys of summer waiting for the Big Wave at Maui, or Nazare Portugal, they wait for the big wave to carry them to Victory and a Gold medal on the beach. Here they suppress the Cold Snap right before the Heatwave, to give them a leg up and then ride the Jul 01 => 06 Wave to the desired result.
The Political Boys of Summer, John Kerry and UN’s Antonio Gutieres now are hoping to ride that same wave one more time to Victory in Dubai. But it is all based on Phony nonexistent Data.
Read it and Weep!
Anyone out there with more clout and audience (The Heartland Institute, Glenn Greenwald, Sharyl Atkinson, Jesse Waters, Tucker Carlson, John Stossel, to name a few, or Elon Musk and Peter Thiel) could pick up this lose Football and run it into the End Zone for 7 points? It would make a difference in the outcome of the Game for sure!
I have done my 5 cents to contribute what I can, time and effort, I am 70 years old and retired with no resources.to take on the Climate Crazies, so that is it for me, I am signing off.
Frits
Frits Buningh
Columbia, MD USA
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This is the Independence Day Table, the previous Post has the Labor Day Table attached, same method though, depressing Cold Temperatures, Always!
We just have to keep spreading the word at the grass roots level and donate to support the organizations many that you listed and many others out there too, even if only 5 bucks here and there.
Eventually ( I pray) these tyrants will be hold up in their castles under siege with more and more of us coming to our senses and joining the fight .
“I have done my 5 cents to contribute what I can, time and effort, I am 70 years old and retired with no resources.to take on the Climate Crazies,”
I am also 70 years old, retired since January 2005. In 2016 I decided to launch a climate and energy blog where I recommend the best articles I can find on those subjects.
These daily recommended reading lists include many articles from this website.
My recommended reading lists are an antidote for mainstream media climate scaremongering.
We Climate Realists have to learn enough about climate and energy to explain real science and engineering to leftists … in simple language (they are simpletons) … when they eventually start doubting the coming climate crisis predictions … maybe after the first Nut Zero related blackout hits.
My blogs have had over 669,000 page views. No money for me. No ads. This is my public service.
(1) There is no climate emergency
(2) Nut zero is a waste of money and will fail
(3) Fascism will not fix the climate, which happens to be just fine
I can’t sit back and do nothing while leftists ruin everything they touch, from the open borders, to their delusional Nut Zero plans.
Honest Climate Science and Energy Blog
Dell Bigtree and his team at the High wire have been doing some stellar reporting recently as well as their legal work At ICAN; really setting some great precedent .
They have been doing more and more push back against the morally /scientifically bankrupt and hypocritical globalist agenda and the propaganda wing the MSM. Dell played one of project Veritas undercover recordings of a CNN reporter that just totally spilled the beans about how everything reporting wise,from Covid BS to get Trump and then the pivot back to “ CAGW narrative has been entirely planned and concocted .
I’ll bet that you the reader didn’t know that the Israel-Hamas war is part of the climate change issue. That is what the guy in this video says.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fBYT-E-J1to
I learn something new every day. /sarc
Well like obviously , just like all these young people with identity problems transgender issues. All caused by climate change which is all the fault of big oil, totally, man.
Oh to be young, stupid and irresponsible, the frivolous life of the University student.
Point. Laugh. Cry. Lose the will.
story tip
Headline:“”Thousands of car dealerships are begging President Biden to “tap the breaks” on electric vehicle mandates. In a letter to the president, close to 4,000 dealers have asked the administration to repeal regulations that push electric vehicle adoption. Why? Because consumers aren’t buying them.
US EV sales in 2023 are expected to be +23% higher than in 2022. A 9.0% market share versus 7.3% in 2022.
Through November 2023, a record 1 million EV sales for the first time in a year (actually in 11 months)
A lot of people are buying EVs
They’ll be sorry later.
https://www.iflscience.com/we-now-know-how-our-ancient-ancestors-traveled-from-africa-71924
We Now Know How Our Ancient Ancestors Traveled From Africa
Rather than crossing arid desserts, a green corridor though the Sahara appeared at the right time.
Dr. Russell Moul
Science Writer
“We know that, around 2.1 million years ago, Homo erectus, the first humans, migrated out of Africa. But how did they make this epic journey across territory that is covered in expansive desert?
For a long time, researchers have puzzled over how H. erectus managed to cross through northeastern Africa and the Middle East, to make their way into Europe. The desert landscape in this region is merciless today, and food and water would have been scarce.
Now researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark, suggest the desert may not have been a problem for H. erectus as it may not have existed at the time.
“We know that there are recurring periods when the climate in the Sahara changes. We call the phenomenon ‘Green Sahara’ or ‘African Humid Periods’,” Rachel Lupien, one of the authors of the study explained in a statement.
“During a green period, the desert shrinks significantly and is transformed into a landscape that resembles the savannas we know from eastern Africa today.”
According to Lupien and her team’s work, the Sahara may have been much greener at precisely the time when H. erectus first migrated from Africa. In fact, the Sahara may have been greener than any other time in the 4.5 million year period they studied.
H. erectus was, Lupien said, “most likely able to walk through a green corridor out of Africa.”
The seafloor tells all
Today, the Sahara is experiencing one of its dry spells. How long these periods last for tends to vary, but it appears the region experiences a full cycle – between dry and wet periods – every 20,000 years. The rainy periods have been dubbed “African Humid Periods” by Lupien and colleagues.
“How wet the humid green periods become, varies. There are indeed two other cycles that also come into play. One lasts 100,000 years and the other 400,000 years. Over the course of 100,000 years, the wet periods will thus vary and become wetter or drier than usual. The same applies in intervals of 400,000 years,” Lupien explained.”
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What do you know about that! Cycles!
But, but, but, how does CO2 figure into all this? Answer: It doesn’t look like CO2 figures in at all.
I guess that’s why climate change alarmists never talk about natural cycles. They want to pretend they don’t exist and blame every weather/climate event on CO2.
Oh Lord have mercy! This smells like the Hildebeest is positioning to swoop in to replace Dementia Joe. A rematch, but a rematch of 2016 rather than 2020?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna128190
https://mikefarrellsports.com/mind-of-mike/mind-of-mike-college-football-as-we-know-it-is-dead
Mind of Mike: College Football as We Know it is Dead
Mike Farrell
Dec 3, 2023
“I became a college football fan in the early 1980s. My uncle and cousin were massive Boston College football fans, and a kid named Doug Flutie was emerging from fifth-string nobody to budding superstar. I wasn’t even in middle school yet, but I was hooked. I already liked professional sports and was enamored with the NBA (Larry Bird, Magic Johnson), MLB (Pops Stargell and those Pirates and more), NHL (kid named Gretzky was gonna be good), and of course the NFL with Danny White and my Dallas Cowboys. But college football had an innocence that matched mine at that age. It was magical. I just fell in love.
Flutie went on to beat teams like Alabama and Miami (in a miracle) and won the Heisman in 1984. College football became my obsession — so much so that I willed it to be my profession.
Fast forward to 2023, and I don’t know what the hell I’m looking at anymore. With NIL, the transfer portal, and the ridiculous money grab that has become college football, the sport with such innocence in the 1980s is now a shell of its former sense. Player loyalty is at an all-time low, movement on the coaching carousel is at an all-time high, NIL money dictates both commitments and recruiting classes, and TV money rules the world.”
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Yeah, I think the Transfer Portal and paying college students to play football is ruining college football. And it’s a damn shame.
That, and the excessive player celebration that goes on after every play, whether it has any significance to the game or not (usually not). I guess they are excited about all that money they think they might make in the professional leagues.
Keep in mind that most college football players don’t get much money, it’s only the specail few. Which, imo, destroys team cohesion. And if you don’t have team cohesion and loyalty, then you are not going to be very successful.
Look at the Colorado college football team. Their star player wears a thick gold necklass around his neck while he plays. I didn’t see any of the other players wearing gold necklasses around their necks while they were playing the game. I did see the star player’s Dad, who is the coach of the team, wearing his thick gold necklace. I guess he’s trying to be a good example to his son.
Their star player wears a watch worth $70,000. I don’t think any of the other players on the team have such a watch. Their star player drives one of the most expensive cars in existance. None of the other players have such vehicles. Maybe the star player will give them a ride in it sometime.
The Star Player gets the focus on him and the rest of the guys are just stage hands. Welcome to modern-day college football.
I feel better now. 🙂
The other day I heard a BBC ”climate reporter” say ”the arctic ocean is melting.”
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Please fix the edit function !
Did you try switching it off, then back on again? sarc
What are you trying to do ?? ¹¹ !
If you are on a Windoze machine, go to the accessories and find a thing called “Character Map”
Check the font is Times new roman.. then go hunting for the characters you want..
select them one at a time, then copy. and paste into your comment where you want them.
Superscript 1, 2, 3 are on the 6th line.
Other number superscripts and subscripts (so you can type say, H₂O and CO₂ ) are 5 screens from the bottom (on my machine anyway, bit of hunting may be needed.)
Have fun. 🙂
Story tip: Illinois lightens nuke regulations: https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-jb-pritzker-lifts-nuclear-moratorium-20231209-gphrmxr7lbedda7r4ynrcctq7u-story.html
Hmm. Significant shift or just window dressing?
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/12/california-clean-energy-industry-rocked-widespread-jobs-losses
Story tip.
It’s curious to me how divergent the news reports are on EV sales. I’m not quite interested in it enough to follow it all the way to honest numbers explaining how it can be “slowing” as well as “soaring”.
EV Sales Continue to Soar, But a Surge in Production …
InsideClimate News
https://insideclimatenews.org › News
Tesla bulls say electric vehicle demand is soaring. Here’s …
TheStreet
https://www.thestreet.com › Electric Vehicles
In a Down Market, EV Sales Soar to New Record
Cox Automotive
https://www.coxautoinc.com › Market Insights
I don’t care about the buyers of these things – although I’d wager they are in for some disillusionment down the road. But I do resent the cynicism of our government in its collaboration in another massive scam to fool people with useless products and services (such as mandated health and drug insurance) using tax dollars, and having no personal stake in the eventual success of said product. Maybe “I led the charge to bring electric vehicles to the American public and helped to save the Earth” will be their “legacy” from their time in office.
It pays (and probably costs) to have the media on your side.
My daughter just moved to Ft. Collins, CO. She has been informed she cannot run her clothes drier during certain hours of the day. Does anyone know how long this restriction has been in place and what caused it?