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     Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/clima te_warriors_cringe_at_the_words_vermont_christmas_ _and_try_to_replace_it_with_climate_vacation.html Thanking other than the Holy State? Verbotten! Patriotism to your fellow Citizens and not Obedience to the Holy State? Verbotten. And Cancel Christmas! Let's go Brandon. | ||
| Blake |
Jeff: Good catch. LOL | ||
| Ceejay |
Hey Hoot, I used to work with some PhD types whose specialties would garner a bit of respect for their opinion on climate science. I used to ask them to explain the whole global warming thing and they would spout a lot of the normal crap we hear in the news so I quit asking as they couldn’t explain it either. Similar to you - That AT article with referenced paper is the best explanation I’ve heard. Many thanks for the inclusion. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/the -end-of-green-dreams.php Basically, China & India decides how much CO2 the planet has to absorb from human activities. The rest of the planet doesn't add up to as much. The brutal dictatorship of the Expanding CCP might choose to murder another billion peasants in the near future just to keep power and reward their loyalists with energy & food, but the trend is towards conquest to steal resources. And after the Chinese One Child mass murder/abortion policy resulted in extreme sex population disparity, with billion(s) of males with no possibility of getting laid, the unmentionable resources most urgently needed are girls. Unless China changes it's sex attitudes, encouraging multiple husbands for each wife, or homosexuality, There Will Be War for &%$$#. The first is highly unlikely, as it's a rare thing historically and a big propaganda push would be needed, simply a decree by the God King isn't enough for such a big cultural shift. The second is also ridiculous, as the CCP leaders know that's an aspect of the destruction of society. ( per their own diabolical plans ) So the upcoming conflict may be known to history as the Rape War. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://xkcd.com/2529/ | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/texas _governor_tells_the_un_to_go_pound_sand.html A single 3 mw wind turbine uses 335 tons of steel, 4.7 tons of copper, 3 tons of aluminum, 2 tons of rare earth elements, and 1,200 tons (2.4 million pounds!) of concrete. If we take seriously the idea of getting all of our electricity from wind and solar, where will all of those materials come from? For the entire history of man, the basic technology driver is energy density. How much power per cubic... Cubit. ( Or whatever ) Or power per ton/man hour/gallon of diesel/etc. For a long time, it was strictly human power. Tread wheels, hand cranks, pedals.. Then there were short term energy storage units, typically bending something that springs back, like a bow. ( don't laugh, that tech massively improved range of projectile weapons and efficiency in machinery, like lathes and mills ) But a human in peak physical conditions might crank out 1/3 horse power. Briefly. So, horses. Oxen, goats, etc. There's a lot of subtleties in harnessing that power, horse collars, wheel size... ( remember the first Arnie Conan movie? ) Fire! Chemical energy. Mostly long stored solar in plant based forms from wood to coal, and plant & animal oils/fats/grease. But to get Work out of fire took a longer time than recorded history. Full credit to Hero, but then more than a thousand years before steam cars and boats. THAT was huge. (Steam) Internal combustion, another big jump. Fission. Damn. More than a quantum leap. Fusion in daily "flip a switch" useful form isn't here, yet. I'm told just another 20 years. I've been told that from birth. In that time there have been a couple of practical roadable aircraft. ( Or flying cars, which unfortunately has been turned into a buzzword for scam artists selling electric drone taxis that have zero chance of legally flying you downtown. ) Also recreational hovercraft. No fusion power plants, so far. ( I'll ignore cool and over the top applications like Orion Drives or Verne Guns ) So the highest energy density is in the core of a nuclear reactor, or the burners turning a turbine. ( gas or steam ) Otoh, solar, wind, wave, tide, all are diffuse energy needing really big machines to gather and concentrate. ( a photovoltaic solar farm doesn't look like a machine in the steam engine sense, but can cover acres, and consume enormous amounts of resources ) I'm curious about the land use and sustainability, waste products, etc. comparison between two "Green" power sources in England ( for example ) today. Solar farms. Biofuel. Ironically they can provide their own solar power. Not every day, and with seasonal variation, and not possibly enough, without covering the entire Island with panels and batteries. ( at least in the U.S. we'd only have to put Texas and Oklahoma in permanent darkness under the Holy Collectors & Batteries ) And the biofuel is American wood. I'm really curious which is more insane. | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/musts ee_tv_sky_new_australia_takes_on_greta_thunberg.ht ml I've evolved my attitude on Global Warming over the 50+ YEARS this Scam has been tearing down western civilization as Designed. I thought, and still do, that the runaway snow cover alteration of the Northern Hemisphere albedo is a plausible explanation for the sudden crash into Ice Age Armageddon that has repeatedly erased human civilization and caused mass extinction events over and over the last Billion Years. It's not proven. It's plausible speculation. We won't have proof until it happens to us and our struggling survivors preserve some evidence for future generations. Bear in mind that has never happened, although carvings in ancient temples in India hint at previous Golden Ages there's little if any trace of. To be clear, unambiguous records never happened. The Ice Ages are undeniable in the geologic record. I have pointed out over the decades that the "Solution" to an imminent Ice Age and an imagined runaway Heat Doomsday are, with the notable exception of actually preparing for a Climate Disruption Event, ( by stockpiling food for the predicted Famine ) which is now deliberately forgotten, ( Because stealing those funds is too easy to trace ) is exactly the same, no matter if it's heat, cold, wet, dry, dark or light that we are instructed to fear. It Must be a most miraculous Strategy if it works to prevent the planet from both warming or cooling or changing. Most miraculous indeed to Halt astronomical and orbital and solar variability factors from affecting reality! The Ultimate Tonic! Cures cancer, baldness, and bad breath! Actually it's been utterly practical. Give a new unelected Elite your hard earned savings. Surrender all illusions of freedom and obey your Moral Superiors. ( they repeatedly so define themselves ) give up personal transportation, property, choice, and rights. They all slow the building of multiple mansions on the beach by the Elite. ( which you'd think must show awesome confidence that they can stop the Rise of the Seas that they've predicted! Unless you are cynically and undesirably remembering that those predictions have zero accuracy, since every deadline passes with more of the Rich Elite buying beach front mansions, like the Prophet Gore & the Lightbringer Obama, on both coasts. You might even commit the Heresy of pointing this out as evidence they knowingly lied to you. I certainly do. Two things I have changed my mind on. I'm now convinced that there is zero evidence that the runaway heat feedback has ever happened on the Earth. The feedback mechanisms to prevent that seems robust. I'm not certain it can't ever happen, but there's no way to bet on it and make money, so I'll settle for promising an apology if the Blue Ridge Parkway becomes a bridge pathway in the American Atlantic Archipelago. The second change is I'm now overwhelmingly in favor of Global Warming based on history, where cold equals suffering, starvation, plagues, and war. & warm equals abundant food, architectural and cultural renaissance, and generally Good times. Also I've acquired a conviction that those who refuse to admit the possibility of error are lying to me. I accept the remote possibility that the High Priests of ( your faith here ) really have records of Divine Purpose, but balance that with doubt that all faiths are correct in every contradictory detail. However, pretty much every organized religion says stealing your property and ruling without your consent, or at least Their consent, is Evil. Thus I remain, your Arch Heretic. | ||
| Chauly |
Careful Patrick, There are those who would raise your "Stake" in the game... it might get warm under your feet! | ||
| Crusty |
Hey; a hot stake is better than a cold chop. | ||
| Chauly |
We need to ask St. Joan and Marie Antoinette for their opinion... | ||
| Crusty |
You should have asked them sooner; "A Tisket, a Tasket A head in a basket Cannot reply To questions you ask it!" | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/i_hav e_never_met_or_seen_a_climate_change_denier_but_i_ have_seen_a_lot_of_climate_change_liars_spreading_ scary_propaganda.html I could say I was "triggered" by all this stake talk, because I have Wiccan friends. But I'm not, not in the sense the Snowflakes use, who's self image can melt at the merest touch of sunlight. Also I don't get upset at jokes at my expense, I'm well aware that pomposity deserves puncturing. Especially those jokes about my ancestors, where the raiding party leader cheers his men on with the promise of loot, pillage, and burning the Saxon village & admonishes them to get the order right this time! I'm especially find of that one since both maternal and paternal ancestors can be mocked by it. Both thought raiding a Saxon village great sport. But both also were pioneers in exploration, trade, technology and government. Both still are used to frighten children. A thousand years ago it was "behave or the Reavers will take you!" today it's ... actually the same but now instead of burning the village, I'm burning the planet. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.newsweek.com/elites-are-using-climate- hysteria-immiserate-working-class-opinion-1643962 Making you poorer and miserable is a Feature, not a Bug, in the Program for using weather as an excuse to steal your money. It's not even serious cold here in Upstate New York and I anticipate the price of energy will double by the time the hard freezes hit in Jan-Mar. I will point out that Jen Psaki's load of treadmills parked off the Chinese owned California ports are burning bunker oil only a little slower today than while actually crossing oceans with her exercise gear. Between Dr. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.theepochtimes.com/senior-us-general-sa ys-brutal-bureaucracy-preventing-military-from-cou ntering-china_4079557.html There's a paywall. So from Instapundit. BUREAUCRATS ARE SUFFOCATING U.S. MILITARY R&D: That’s according to the second-ranked general in the U.S. military who, according to The Epoch Times, pointed out to a recent gathering of defense writers that it currently takes four times as long to develop new weapons as it did during the Cold War. “We can go fast if we want to,” Lt. Gen. John Hyten said. “But the bureaucracy we’ve put in place is just brutal.” Hyten is the outgoing Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As an example, Hyten said the U.S. first tested a hypersonic missile like that recently disclosed by China in 2010. But risk-averse bureaucrats killed it before it had a chance to go through the research and development process. “We were developing hypersonics ahead of everybody in the world and the first test failed,” Hyten said. “The first test of everything fails. So the first test fails and we have two years of investigation into why it did fail. Two years. Then we launch again and it fails, and we failed. This time it was two fails and we canceled the program and we stopped.” 28Posted at 8:32 am by Mark Tapscott The Boeing hypersonic test vehicles were launched out over the ocean. Makes perfect sense, you don't want something doing Mach 5 to hit an apartment building. But they fired them off to crash in deep water to vanish. The only data you get is what the onboard radios and sensors send back in the few seconds before you throw away a multimillion dollar test vehicle. Was there a hot spot a few inches from thermocouple 17? No way to know, if you can't actually look at the broken airframe. I can understand the General's anger at wasting billions for nothing much. I can guess some manager at Boeing made the decision to save the money adding a parachute and inflatable flotation device would cost. ( bean counters and their short sighted stupid are not unknown to Buell owners ) But I have had a lot of interest in aviation and aviation history for a long time. Budget and time has kept me from being hands on with the cooler, newer toys, true. I've never flown a F-16 or a Gulfstream. But my log book shows air time in replicas of Lillienthal, Chanute, & 1902 Wright gliders. ( the last at Kill Devil Hill ) So I do claim some historical perspective. The first United States experiences with cruise missiles goes back to... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewitt-Sperry_Auto matic_Airplane https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettering_Bug And in WW2, we started testing... A V-1 knockoff. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic-Ford_JB-2 Which in turn, led to the Regulus missile. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSM-N-8_Regulus Regulus was basically a jet fighter without a cockpit and a radio control and ( autopilot ) navigation system. With a Bomb. State of the art in the 1940s! What makes it unusual was Vought chose to put landing gear on the prototypes so when something went wrong, they could have the chase plane direct it back to a landing to inspect the failure, fix it, and try again. This cost more up front, but saved millions in thrown away jet engines and airframes and saved years of development work. Thousands of man hours. And since the first flights had multiple problems to work out from unplugged modules ( yeah, better put a screw on that so vibration doesn't unplug the gyro, again ) and leaks, ( forgot one O ring in a fuel system as complex as a F-84 ) that had nothing to do with the core project. ( make a guidance system that can get a flying robot to an enemy airfield 2000 miles away ) The choice made the difference between a successful program and an over budget failure. Like a lot of things from the Cold War, I'm happy we never used it for real, but the existence of it helped keep the planet from being a radioactive hellscape during my youth. Plus it's a heck of an example of smart engineering choices. The current bean counter stupid approach used by Boeing to spend billions for a failed program is the Opposite of the philosophy of the Vought crew with Regulus, or the Musk crew over at SpaceX. Ditto the Boeing space capsule with leaky frozen valves in the horribly poisonous fuel rocket systems they think might be fixed in a few years. Maybe. Some bean counter there decided to tear down and rebuild the one at the Cape, that had been used for environmental testing, ( the airplane version of a flood car ) instead of the new one at the factory, to save time or money or face. I'm not sure which. So, yeah. I understand the General's unhappiness. Bureaucrats can ruin a wet dream. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/11/c op26_world_leaders_tell_us_do_as_we_say_or_well_le t_you_all_die.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/media _peddling_a_new_climate_change_lie.html | ||
| Ducbsa |
Doomed, I tell you! https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/05/climate-d erangement-syndrome/} | ||
| Aesquire |
Bet you a rack of ribs it won't be Global Warming that brings the Apocalypse. Coronal mass ejections are real, that's a good bet. ( AGW is unproven, and over hyped as sold ) If the Canary Islands volcano kicks off the tsunami that eats the East Coast, that's pretty big, but no civilization end. Comet/Asteroid Strike has a probability of 1, as does Supervolcano, but that's cosmic craps on timing. Biowar nigh extinction seems more likely every day. But like a Dr. Strangelove Doomsday machine, we can only hope, and not worry until it happens. Ditto Big Nuclear War. Wish us luck. Of all the probable dooms, only the Cosmic smackdowns would kill everyone. A few isolated tribes completely off the grid would live, even through Covid-x ( Captain Trips? Satan Bug. ) Or Carrington event. I miss Disaster Week on Discovery.  | ||
| 86129squids |
Local news says all the woolyworms seen around here are black. CRAP. I'll be testing out our generator soon. Oh well. | ||
| Aesquire |
I'd write down this date on a 2022 calendar,say, in May, so you can look back on the fuzzy prediction and tell if that is accurate. Seriously. It's classic Farmers Almanac/folk wisdom. Which is often better than Establishment Science. People are deliberately led to believe the Absolute Lie that "science is settled" and there's nothing left to learn. Not just these last 30 odd years of the Climate Con, it was a big deal in the 19th, 18th, & 17th centuries. Scientists mocked witches using willow bark few to treat pain. ( then they discovered aspirin, ( from willow bark ) ) I've read at least a half dozen papers over the last 50 years on the fuzzy caterpillar and WHY it's more accurate than the National Weather Service. What mechanisms are at play? Mineral content in leaves? Weather patterns? Adaptive camouflage? ( those last 2 were in papers over a decade apart, and together might be big clues. ) Afaik, we still don't have a good answer. I could be wrong! Please enlighten us if you know. Testing your generator is wise no matter the predictions, or where you get them. I have multiple power outages each year from wind and ice storms. They still sell nostalgia t shirts about the Big One. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/20 21/03/03/ice-storm-1991-rochester-ny-weather-histo ry-worst-storms-look-back/6900575002/ Friends took chain saws and helped neighbors. We lost power for 2 WEEKS. Heated the house with jugs of hot water around the beds ( the old gas water heater still worked without power ) and chairs in living room. I was on a 30+ mile mountain bike ride as the storm hit. We got back to my buddy's house with pounds of ice on our frames, passing cars on the shoulder. ( for miles, in a 55 zone ) And I actually SAW the transformer station explode, on my way home, I was on a high point in Rt.390 in my van when a huge purple flash came from the relay station where the mainline from Niagara Falls to Albany intersect with Rochester's South main feed. Simultaneously about a Quarter of the lights in view from the hill went out. I pulled over on the second flash and blackout, ( another quarter dark ) and watched 2 more, with the rest of the region darkening in rough quarters. ( a high school friend lived next to the intersection station and his father worked for the electric company. We used to sit and watch the plasma balls race down the Big high tension lines, and knew where the power went ) 2 weeks. https://www.etsy.com/listing/875205557/vintage-199 1-rochester-new-york-ice Test that generator!!!! From the Aussies. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/the_m adness_of_carbon_sequestration.html I'm of the opinion any scheme for pumping CO2 into the ground is a major safety stupid. Like the volcanic lakes that burp big, fast, fatal flows of CO2 & slaughter whole villages. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster But safety testing isn't that hard. Just pump CO2 into the basement of your State Legislature building and see the results. No need to trouble the Legislators with potential problems so don't tell them for a good double blind experiment.  | ||
| Aesquire |
Btw, the caterpillars are not Always right. That's well documented. I put it in "there might be something there" category. https://www.weather.gov/arx/woollybear https://www.almanac.com/woolly-bear-caterpillars-a nd-weather-prediction https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/wooly_worms_and_wint er_weather_predictions | ||
| Ratbuell |
I plan to have a chimney sweep visit my house soon and see if my fireplace (housing a gas log, appears to never have had a live fire in it) and chimney (appears complete, with flue, stack, and cap) can be converted over to wood. Just in case. I have acres of trees, and probably 2 dozen deadfalls at the moment, that should help create some good heat if needed (if the electric bills for the heat pump go too nuts). | ||
| Aesquire |
Wood stove insert gives better heat with less warm air sucked outside. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Chimney is free... But I get what you're saying. We'll see if the chimney is viable first. | ||
| Aesquire |
A neighbor of my bud finished his garage with pool table and bar. He'd just completed the drywall and fresh paint on walls and ceiling and had just lit the woodstove for the first time last early fall. A bunch of birds living in the chimney came flying out of the smoking stove, some rather smolder-y as the chimney was blocked by nesting... Smoking on fire birds frantically beating sooty wings on the freshly painted ceiling as the garage filled with smoke and panicked flying critters. Looks like modern art in charcoal on latex. Checking your chimney is a Good Idea. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/11/06/glasgow-the -stampede-to-mass-poverty120-billion-tonnes-of-mat erials-for-wind-turbines-by-2050/ I'm onboard with Saint Greta. Shove the Climate Crisis up... | ||
| Ebutch |
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| 86129squids |
How eloquent. And elucidated. Well informed, maybe not racist. Who knows, depends on where you get your information or your moonshine. Damn hard room here. Oh well. |
