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     Ducbsa |
That is a chuckle-worthy sequence. First, it’s capitalism’ s fault, oops, government owns it. Then, those awful men caused it, oops, a babe runs things. But, the narrative! | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2021/07/0 1/norway_carbon_offset_deal_blows_up_rationale_for _bidens_trillions_to_fight_climate_change_783854.h tml | ||
| Aesquire |
https://9gag.com/gag/abVmx9p Canadian Space Program. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eus-climate-ch ange-targets-get-more-absurd-proposes-ban-gas-2035 If the Greenies can just get the cooperation of the CCP, then there won't be an overpopulation problem to interfere with the zero carbon agenda. I don't expect any reports on CO2 emissions from the mass graves of Pooh's Breath 2, Electric Boogaloo. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-wobble-moon-orbi t-record-flooding-earth-sea-level-rise-climate-cha nge/ The Neutrinos are Evolving! This could go in the Media/Agitprop thread as a prime example of both fear mongering and language to influence. The natural cycle of tides becomes "a wobble" to inspire terror that the clockwork of the Galaxy is collapsing, undoubtedly Trump's fault. I kinda doubt the writer knows the difference between a galaxy and a planetary moon system. Bet you a taco bell power bowl they don't have a clue of the orbital dynamics of elliptical orbits or what the 3 Body Problem is. And it's not like this is even a tiny surprise to the millions who make their living around coastal & tidal environments. Insurance companies certainly have tide tables. For a thousand year period. They've been refined, but a British Naval navigator in the 19th century would have no problem telling you when high tide is in any major port city tomorrow, and how high. Frigates in the 18th century had them too. But probably didn't have them complete into the 21st so would need a quill and paper to give you high tide to the minute. I know the GPS box on the dashboard on my neighbor's Bass boat can. So the premise that a sudden change is a major danger is utter bilge water. Although I suppose shacks in the dump on the sinking deltas places like Bangladesh are built with no care for tidal variations. https://bangladeshnetherlandsflood.weebly.com/bang ladesh-flood.html Land sinking because a huge population ( agriculture too ) is sucking the water out from under with many wells isn't new. And enormous areas in the area are under a yard above mean sea level. You can stand on a muddy road miles from the sea and be out of sight of land by dozens of miles depending on the tidal season. ( 18.6 year cycle ) | ||
| Tpehak |
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| Aesquire |
Yep. More people in coastal and floor plains, more casualties. Assuming ungood water management. Did they mention Typhoons? There's also some fear about the Uber-engineering 3 Gorges Dam and dire predictions which are mostly click bait. But I want to get in my "I told you so" early. Didn't find my own dire predictions In a quick search, so... 3 Gorges Dam is a time bomb and when it fails it will be a Biblical Scale Catastrophe. A Bad Idea to mess up the ecosystem that way, there. In Germany they're blaming the flood warning system which wasn't fast enough to pass the information around, & Mayors, etc. didn't call for evacuation in time. I am skeptical & it may be finger pointing? Holland has more experience in flooding and did better, but it's still a disaster. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://9gag.com/gag/aO3AjBR | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/abo ut-those-german-floods.php Condolences to the families and friends. Those claiming that the weather catastrophe came unexpectedly and that there was no way to be ready for it are no longer being taken very seriously, and are only confirming their historical ignorance. Dr. Karl August Seel provides a comprehensive history of the River Ahr flood events – going back to the year 1348. The Ahr River, the ground zero of last week’s flood disaster, is the northernmost tributary of the Rhine and has a length of 90 km and a catchment area of 900 square kilometers. As the chronicles show, flooding events happened dozens of times and the authorities were obviously comatose at the wheel. For too many years a crusty old bureaucracy focused on climate protection while ignoring protection from the whims of the weather. Their strategy, as unbelievable as it may sound, was to try to produce good weather by cutting CO2 emissions. It’s that stupid. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://9gag.com/gag/aK6noP6 Looks like a refinement of the Bussard electrostatic fusion experiment. ( the first to hit break even ) Makes sense that the fastest available commercial processing system is video card based. | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/ano ther-climate-alarm-loses-its-mojo.php | ||
| Aesquire |
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| Zac4mac |
I watched that very shortly after it happened. Sad I ran SETI from their beginning. Millions of work units. RIP Arecibo Z | ||
| Sami |
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| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/the -follow-the-science-clown-show.php Great chart, Sami! Zac, cool. I'm betting corrosion at Arecibo. I've done much smaller aircraft cable work. The failures showed the need for the whole overstressed rig to be taken down but safety rules... Lucky no one was killed. | ||
| Aesquire |
You know the first message from aliens SETI received? It was a complaint about the Pioneer probe, and a demand we quit sending them unsolicited nude pictures! | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/a-n ew-crisis-for-climate-science.php When your predictions are obviously wrong, since None have come to pass, and applying your assumptions to the past gives you wrong numbers than those literally written in stone, over a long enough time, the folk who are Not pathological liars start to question the Agitprop. Putting the many formerly "respected scientists" now in the Political Category of Denier. Everyone who's not evil would be far better off if the math and historical curves of Murders by Leftists was published a fraction as much as the wrong predictions have been since the Climate Con became Leftist Agenda. Admittedly, it's western civilization technology that enabled the lives to exist, ( through food production and life saving medicines ) that are murdered in ever increasing numbers by the Communists and other labelled Leftist Religious Authoritarian regimes. There'd be a tiny fraction of the wealth in the world if they'd been in charge before now. They'd be richer in comparison to their slaves, true. But we'd all be much poorer, including the New Aristocracy. ( formerly elected public servants ) | ||
| Blake |
Fake data? From NOAA and NASA? How could that possibly be?!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvuhxv1Ywd4 | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/get -ready-for-peak-climate-porn-today.php The good news is the UNIPCC predicts warmer weather by 2030! That will save countless lives with milder winters and more food. The bad news is, they are lying sacks and have no idea what the climate will be like in 8 years. They've already said the Climate Con has nothing to do with science and everything to do with changing the economic system. To one that takes all your wealth and gives it to them. ( they don't say that last to you, just their own Class. ) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/speak ing_of_science_which_data_show_that_humans_co2_and _fossil_fuels_cause_global_warming.html Climate change is real. Happy to discuss thousands of years of it. The late Rush L. often mocked those who claimed humans had the power to change weather. Rush, unfortunately was wrong, but mostly because he didn't ( that I heard ) explain that well. He wasn't much on science. The key missing word is "deliberately". Millions of people in heated houses change weather. That's why summer in big cities is more miserable than a dozen miles away in a park. Lots of square miles of baking asphalt makes a difference. Ditto the Sahara Forest. Sheep herding and agricultural habits older than written language have damaged N. Africa incredibly. Carthage, before it's destruction by Rome, is now ruins in a desert. It was a thriving community with farms and gardens. Man CAN ruin nature. Does. But deliberate change? The more radical environuts tell us a few ways. Like kill all the humans, ( except for them and their slaves to be ) or kill most of the humans by quitting fossil fuels, industrial farming, and living outside cities they rule. I'm not sure what the long term results of murdering 7-8 billion people would be, but I'd bet Ice Age. But Rush was right when it comes to rich people meeting in luxury resorts to plan stealing everything and enslaving you. That doesn't affect the climate. Just the size and locations of the mass graves Marxism leaves behind. | ||
| Aesquire |
Addendum... There are some planetary engineering ideas that might be effective at short term climate change. Most involve dumping pollution ( fits the definition ) like acids or particulates into the sky. And while the logic of these ideas seems sound to me, I'm worried that they might trigger the kind of runaway temperature shift that is the entire ACTUAL DANGER of Global Warming or Cooling. I don't think it cynical to believe we don't know enough to be sure we can't. Still, the geek in me wants to see a small scale test. I wanted to see the results of a proposed "throw soot on a glacier" experiment back in 1977, when we were supposed to panic about Global Cooling. The difference is the possibility of a cascade...positive feedback loop...chaos theory tipping point. In This case, do we dive into an Ice Age, civilization is erased, everyone dies except on some island... Doom Gloom Despair. Or. The Gore Heat Wave. Ditto on civilization... Soot on an iceberg wasn't going to end a world. Birds change the albedo sometimes that much. Ditto a small glacier. Volcanoes do it all the time. But thousands of square miles might. And the purpose of the experiment was to figure out the limits, because, of course, any megascale project needs mega funding. I'm leery of anything like catalysts like flourine, ( Freon, remember? ) that might cascade. I'm also frankly freaked a bit by some Carbon Sequestration schemes, like pressurized oil wells... Full of hot liquid CO2. That's asking for an artificial volcanic gas cloud to avalanche down & fill a valley full of homes.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster | ||
| Aesquire |
And for the aviation nerds. I always loved the F-20 Tigershark. It's a pity a Trainer stretch version, a T38"G" Super Talon, never was built. That'd be the ultimate hot rod. Mach 2 and super agile. I've got a book on all The Northrop projects, and they had a VIP transport version of the T38. Iirc The politics are interesting too. It's odd that "right wing" politicians in power are hard on some industries, as a side effect to their success in peace keeping or crime prevention. The F-20 is one example, as is the financial woes at Remington. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/c limate_scientists_admit_exaggerated_warming_.html Someday we can restart science studies on Climate and other now political frauds. It might be the civilization after ours. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://xkcd.com/2501/ | ||
| Hootowl |
Hahahaha | ||
| Aesquire |
The XKCD comic is spot on. Once upon a time, I worked for a company that did car shows. We had a couple of guys who really studied the factory trim books, ( dealer only publication with "all the specs") and had spent years with heads under hoods and chassis and dash and... Car show judging in the Purist category cares that the car is EXACTLY the way it rolled off the assembly line. "Over-restored" is a curse word there. If you strip an engine bay, clean and paint, put in a numbers matching perfect engine, you lose points. Back in 19xx the cars were bolted together on the line, and at a couple of stations a worker would lean in and spray paint a part just installed, very expertly with minimum overspray. Usually. Monday morning or Friday afternoon, a bit more sloppy. You could even tell the regular was on vacation by consistent quality changes from week to week, if you were doing a forensic QC study. I was the company QC & IT guy, also warehouse, shipping, sales, broom.... ( we started with one guy in a rented garage, I was hire #1 after the owner ) but only third or fourth in trivia expertise. Still, I learned a few things. It wasn't unusual for us to get called over when there was a question on some judging minutiae, like option codes and over-restoration. No proud car owner who spent years restoring a, say, Hemi Cuda, likes to hear he messed up by spray painting the fuel pump off the car, and lose a trophy because there's no overspray on the block. Heard lots of swearing. Funnier by far is the "expert judge" who is "gasp" wrong about something. I was called over to settle a dispute about a Very Nice '67 Satellite. I arrive at the car with a couple of ( coffee table picture sized ) thick trim books, and the argument was about some picky little detail... Some combination of details ( engine model and AC ) that were "impossible", thus a poor restoration. Owner was upset, judge was pontificating. I write down the Vin, sit down, and start flipping pages... yep... ok... hmm? after a few minutes I close one book and check another. Then walk to the back of the car & crawl underneath. Get back out & ask owner of that's the original rear end? Yes? Then I got to tell the judge the car was, indeed, correct, and was a fleet purchase. When you buy a bunch of cars, you get to spec stuff civilians can't get. The car probably was originally a Parole dept. or special order undercover car. Unless your next door neighbor owns the dealership... The judge insisted he was right. I told him I had a '72 Polara, 2 door hardtop with the police pursuit pkg. Fleet cars are variable, no matter what some collector book says. Judge insisted I was full of it, they never made a 2 door police interceptor! I told him to meet me back at the judging booth in 10 minutes. Yep. 2 door with black vinyl top, cop wheels, cop suspension, cop ...( Just play that scene from Blues Brothers ) The Other judges were thrilled to see the rare car. ( and see the know it all cut down a notch ) | ||
| Ducbsa |
I got a speeding ticket in 1978 on I65 just north of the Ohio from the State Police in a 2 door 2 tone Mopar. I remarked on it and the cop said, “Works, don’t it?” | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/08/the -disaster-of-green-energy.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/is_th ere_anything_less_green_than_the_lefts_beloved_can nabis.html Another reason we need more power plants to meet the ever rising needs of our "civilization". And you thought it was just Electric cars and stupidity that are collapsing our grid. I do notice a certain bias in the above article. ( really? ) There's no mention of the energy costs for beer, wine, or other recreational drugs. Will tomorrow's Greenie Scolds boycott Coors? Or will grow lights get taxed? ( bet on it! ) |
