Timothy Birdnow

Hmmm....

More Scientists Agree The Last Ice Age Was ~3-4°C Warmer Than Today

Multiple-degrees-warmer glacial temperatures pervaded both hemispheres.

The "long-standing view” is the current interglacial climate is distinctly warmer and more hospitable to plants, animals, and humans than at any time during the last Ice Age, or glaciation (from about 60,000 to 11,700 years ago).

This view "has undergone a major revision” during the last 20 years of geological study according to scientists publishing in the September (2021) edition of Quaternary International.

Vegetation and tree records with specific warmth thresholds and associated ice-free temperature requirements affirm the last glaciation needed to be "warmer than today by several degrees Celsius.” (Tarasov et al., 2021)

For example, these scientists document ~5°C warmer glacial climates (July) throughout Northern Asia (the study area):

"…reconstructed mean July temperatures above 12°C for most of the last cold stage [glacial] in the study area [throughout Northern Asia], where modern mean July temperatures are about 7°C”.

The widespread presence of grazing mammoths, horses, bison, deer, antelope, gazelle…in Siberia and Alaska and well north of the Arctic circle implies "year-round grazing grounds.”

This requires warmer temperatures and more pervasive ice-free grass-grazing ranges than exist today.

So, contrary to the long-standing view of a generally colder-than-present last glacial climate, there is a growing body of evidence that the distinction between interglacial and glacial climates may not be as stark as previously thought.

The CO2 concentration differential of ~180 to 200 PPM during the warmer glacial periods and 280 to 410 PPM during the colder modern period also contradict the long-standing view of higher CO2 levels accommodating warmer climates and vice versa.

Hat tip: Jim Church

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This from Joe Bastardi

Some Great quotes:
BIDEN: "We're going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers"
"NOT ABOUT FREEDOM'"
Can you imagine if Trump said this
Why did you get the vaccine if you are not protected. Makes no sense.. unless of course you are not protected, which is why we are not seeing the actual stats as we are seeing in Israel

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Courtesy of Chester McAteer

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Warner Todd Huston

Democrats: You can't force someone not to have an abortion or do all the illegal drugs they want, and healthcare is a human right. It's their body and their choice, man.

Also Democrats: You should be forced to take the COVID vaccine and you should be denied medical care if you don't.

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James Doogue

(I wrote this 7 years ago).

Lubos Motl the Czech string theory physicist who runs his Reference Frame blog, included some normal everyday CO2 concentration data that occurs in everybody’s natural, everyday surrounds like kitchens and etc.

150 ppm – the minimum concentration below which many plants may face problems to run photosynthesis and stop growing

180 ppm – the concentration during ice ages

280 ppm – the concentration during interglacials, i.e. also the pre-industrial concentration around 1750

391 ppm – the concentration today

500 ppm – the concentration around 2060-2070 (unlikely that before 2050 as they claim)

560 ppm – the concentration around 2080-2110 (the "doubled CO2″ relatively to the pre-industrial values) relevant for the calculations of climate sensitivity); a concentration routinely found outdoors today

700 ppm – the concentration in an average living room

900 ppm – concentration in an average kitchen

1,270 ppm – the concentration used to double the growth of Cowpea in a famous video

1,700 ppm – the average concentration in the Cretaceous 145-65 million years ago (early mammals came, plus figs, magnolias, birds, modern sharks)

4,500 ppm – the concentration 444-416 million years ago (the Silurian dominated by corals and mosses); see other values in geological epochs

10,000 ppm – sensitive people start to feel weaker

40,000 ppm – the concentration of CO2 in the air we breath out

50,000 ppm – toxic levels at which the animals like us get weaker in hours; the value is 5 percent of the volume

180,000 ppm – the concentration of CO2 in exhausts of a healthy motor; that’s 18 percent

1,000,000 ppm – pure CO2, just to make you sure what the units are

The warming induced by the increase from 391 ppm to 500 ppm is smaller (by about 20%) – because of the logarithmic law – than the warming by the same 109 ppm between 282 ppm and 391 ppm which was about 0.7 °C and pretty much unnoticeable without accurate gadgets and contrived statistical methods.

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James Doogue
In the UK they currently have 33,456 seven day average number of new daily Covid-19 infections, and a 7 day weighted average of 111 daily Covid-19 deaths.

The UK has a population of 68.3 million while Australia has 25.8 million. If we had the same ratio in Australia for our population that would be about 12,683 new daily Covid-19 cases on a 7 day weighted average, and 42 deaths per day on a 7 day average.

Australia's 7 day weighted average is currently running at less than 10% of the pro-rata numbers equal to the UK, at just 1,195 new cases and just 4 new daily deaths.

Sure that could rise, but it needs to rise 1,000% to equate to what the UK are currently experiencing.

The UK has quite rightly decided they are sick of destroying their economy and lives through lockdowns and restrictions. They have accepted that people will still become infected and die despite their very high vaccination rates. They will not go back to lockdowns.

About 10% of the entire UK population has been infected by Covid-19 and despite the media scare campaign they have concluded:

- Very few people become seriously ill when infected.

- A very small percentage die.

- Most of the seriously ill, and deaths are either very elderly, or have multiple co-morbidities.

- Costs of the lockdowns and restrictions are just not worth the lives saved.

Let's face it, if the average age of a Covid-19 death is around the average life expectancy, how many years of quality life is saved through lockdowns and restrictions, versus how many years of quality life they destroy for the entire population?

Only 58,210 Australians have been infected with COVID-19 in the the 20 months since the first infection. That's less than 0.23% of the population. That compares with 6.86 million in the UK or 10.4% of their population.

I would say the people in the UK have made an informed decision to open up their economy and society and accept the associated risks.

If Australia has to wait until we reach the same level of infections to come to the same conclusion, at the rate we are going, we will have lockdowns until the year 2096. That's 75 years before our politicians will make the same informed decision they have made in the UK.

When will sanity prevail? All we ever needed to do, and should have done, is isolate the vulnerable, take sensible precautions, boost our health care capacity, work on vaccines and treatments while learning to live with Covid-19.

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Dana Mathewson

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that while the Taliban promised to form an "inclusive" government upon taking control of Afghanistan, there does not appear to be any indication they are actually doing this.

Speaking to reporters during a visit to Kuwait, Austin referenced the Taliban's claim that they would work toward having an "open, inclusive Islamic government," unlike what they had when they controlled Afghanistan before U.S. forces landed in the country nearly 20 years ago.

"You know, I think the whole international community was hopeful that they would be inclusive as they kind of said they would be weeks and months ago, but we've not seen evidence of that early on," Austin said.

The Taliban recently announced members of their new government, and not a single woman was included. A Taliban spokesperson on Monday said positions within the government are now in an "acting capacity" but added that many members of the old guard are part of the new government.

The government, according to a report by the BBC, will be led by Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, with Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar as deputy. Other appointments include Mullah Yaqoob as acting defense minister and Mullah Abdul Salam Hanafi as a second deputy.

Sarajuddin Haqqani, the new acting interior minister, is the head of the militant group known as the Haqqani network. The FBI has a $10 million bounty on his head and it is believed he is holding at least one American hostage, the Associated Press reported.

Asked about the Haqqanis' involvement in the new government, Austin noted that "we don't get a choice" in who is involved but acknowledged that "certainly these are people that … I don't look favorably upon[.]"

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Warner Todd Huston

Virginia's Dem. Gov. Presided Over Destruction of Richmond's Statue to Gen. Robert E. Lee

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Chester McAteer

People think, or at least act as though they think that poverty is a money problem, it's not if that were the case we would not have poverty. Poverty is primarily an opportunity problem or at least a lack of access to opportunity. The lack of opportunity is almost invariably due to certain economically restrictive laws and regulations that impede open competition in the market.

Restrictive laws will always land us in the dilemma of the exacerbation of not only poverty, but also stratified class structures within society. It is that restrictive laws produce scarcity and in the process it inflicts economic and therefore social injury upon people who have been denied the possibility of taking advantage of opportunities that would be possible without the restrictions.

Remember, politicians don't have crystal balls to gaze into the future to judge the actions and consequences of their legislative acts. They legislate through a dark glass, either for what they perceive as present or past wrongs, most of those wrongs were due to past legislative actions taken by their predecessors, who like the current politicians did the same thing and thought it necessary to take action in economic and social areas that few understand.

The original state of humanity is destitution, until the early 1800s and the inception of a government that looked at life and the value of human potential differently, 98% of the world's population was destitute and would have remained so if the Enlightenment had not compelled a revolt against the accepted order of government. It is not the government nor has it ever been the government that raised the standard of living of humans. Today, less than 10% of the world's population live in abject poverty. Now, you can't thank the Government for that, nor can you thank Socialism of any stripe, but you can thank Capitalism.

Government can either facilitate or obstruct the market by which humans can rise above their current station in life, in most instances it hinders rather than helps and is currently hindering the advance through crony Corporatism. The sole intent of the government is to protect the property and life of people as they freely pursue their endeavors. It is not the place of government to act in any paternal manner, for it's never proven an adequate parent. It is between destitution and satisfaction, where all manner of obstacles naturally exist without the artificial political hindrances that humans can, given the open opportunity, and the will to labor, humans to the ability to overcome unbelievable problems. People have somehow come to believe that all these political obstacles both protect and provide a path to prosperity, nothing can be further from the truth and the history of the political economy of the last 150 years proves that fact.

In the gulf between destitution and universal affluence there's a multitude of obstacles and roadblocks, not the least of these are those that politicians erect, even with good intentions. Interestingly most people have come to believe that such obstacles are placed for our benefit and that they might, somehow, fuel general prosperity. Hope is found only in the ability of humans to affect the movement of their lives through voluntary cooperation within the market and through the market process gain the potential for increasing the standards of their lives and those of their families.

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This from Al Moscowitz

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Warner Todd Huston

Who wants to ban books in America? Liberals
Who wants to censor speech? Liberals.
Who wants to tear down historic statues? Liberals.
Who wants to control what people think and do? Liberals.
Who wants to disarm law-abiding people? Liberals.
So, WHO is the "American Taliban," again?

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Warner Todd Huston

I am starting to think Trump really will run for president again in 2024. For a long time I have been feeling that he won't really run. However, he may smell Biden's blood in the water and that may be just enough to get his gumption up to run again.

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Dana Mathewson

For your entire life, you’ve known that when you get vaccinated, you’re protected from a particular disease. You’ve probably been vaccinated for such diseases as polio, tetanus, measles, diphtheria, and others, and you no longer have to worry about them, because the whole reason your parents took you to the doctor to get those shots was to protect you from those diseases. Polio, in particular, has been completely wiped out in the United States thanks to the immunity created by vaccination.

This is why the CDC says that vaccines provide immunity, which means that we can be exposed to a disease without becoming infected by it.

At least they used to.

A recent change on the CDC website should disturb all of us because it appears that the CDC is trying to change how we understand vaccinations.

Here’s the "Definition of Terms” for Immunization as captured on August 26, 2021. I’ve highlighted the key points.

Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected.

Vaccine:  A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but can also be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.

Vaccination: The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to  produce immunity to a specific disease.

Immunization: A process by which a person becomes protected against a disease through vaccination. This term is often used interchangeably with vaccination or inoculation.

These definitions have been in place since at least May 16, 2018.

Here’s the "Definition of Terms” for immunizations now, which was updated on September 1, 2021, with changes highlighted.

Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected.

Vaccine:  A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but some can be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.

Vaccination: The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to  produce protection from a specific disease.

Immunization: A process by which a person becomes protected against a disease through vaccination. This term is often used interchangeably with vaccination or inoculation.

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From Frank Lasee

"Research shows corals can pass on their resilience to warming temperatures to their offspring.”

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From Lance Sjogren
Prominent intellectual Peter Boghossian resigns his faculty position at Portland State University because it no longer is a place of intellectual inquiry.

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This from Richard Cole

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This from Andrei Piriutko

https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2016/10/PeerReview.pdf

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This from Dr. Roy Spencer

Yes, we should "trust science", but the trouble is that science which impacts public policy is mostly performed by government-funded scientists, and is almost always politically influenced. Since science is almost always uncertain, it is prone to being bent in the direction of what politicians want.
Should We Trust Science?

Tim adds:

And what constitutes "Science"? Is it a consensus? Which scientists are defining what is Science? The way it works is the ones the media promote and the government employs are the ones determining what is Science and what is not.

I would point out that most scientists in the age of Galileo believed in the Ptolemaic view that the Earth was the center of the Universe. Copernicanism was not a slam dunk in terms of science at the time; it kept epicycles, for instance, although there were fewer needed. It wasn't until Tycho Brahe determined that planetary orbits were eliptical that Copernicanism was pretty much shown to be true.

The media and government funding of Science has a built-in bias. It would be like the Church being the sole determinant on the emerging science during the day. The Left so often cites Galileo as "proof" of the corruption of Christendom, but in reality it was Christendom that advanced the notion of Heliocentrism (Copernicus was a Catholic priest, after all.)

What we are seeing now is the triumph of the new Inquisition, unwilling to allow the heretical views of skeptics to be aired. It is exactly what the Left claimed the Church did, only they are more effective with electronic media to back them.

BTW What happened to Galileo was quite tame for the era. In fact, the Church was investigating the theory and was unwilling to blindly take Galileo's word for it. Galileo was a citizen of the Papal States and an employee of the Church and was asked to teach Copernicanism as a theory and not as fact. Galileo refused to do that, in violation of both the law of the land and his employer's orders. Normally he would have been burned at the stake as a hereetic but he was given a very light house arrest.

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Willis Eschenbach

I see that Zhou Bai-Den, our "President", wants carbon-free electricity by 2035. He plans to tax it into existence ... but here's reality:

2020 US fossil electricity use: 2,432 Terawatthours

Increased carbon-free gigawatts generation needed inc. peaks and downtime: 555 GW

Months to 2035: 160

hmmm ...

So we'd only need to do feasibility studies, identify sites, get permits, excavate, manufacture, install, test, and bring online 3 or more one-gigawatt nuclear power plants each and every month until 2035.

Build 3 nukes a month. Starting today. Until 2035.

Riiiight ...

Now, you can add expensive, intermittent, unreliable wind and solar to nuclear ... but you still need to have nukes for when the wind don't blow and the sun don't shine.

You prefer wind? For wind, you'd need no less than 1.5 MILLION one-megawatt wind turbines ...

So you'd have to do feasibility studies, identify sites, get permits, clear of all trees and brush, excavate, manufacture, install, test, and bring online 326 one-megawatt wind turbines EACH AND EVERY DAY UNTIL 2035.

Get real. That's gibbering madness.

How about solar?

Grid-scale solar provides the 24/7 equivalent of 8.3 watts per square meter of ground. We'll need 66,850 square km. of solar farms. That's three times the size of New Jersey.

So you'd have to do feasibility studies, identify sites, get permits, clear-cut all brush and trees, manufacture, install, test, and bring online 100 sq km (39 sq mi) of solar farm EACH AND EVERY WEEK UNTIL 2035.

Again, that's cloud-cuckoo-land ...

Simple math. Don't leave home without it.

w.

Here's an analysis of the plans to accomplish the impossible. They boil down to:

Tax cheap reliable energy and subsidize expensive unreliable energy.

Grrrr ...

https://www.csis.org/analysis/next-decade-us-power-sector-decarbonization?fbclid=IwAR2MoiCLfp38dh0zcB9jN7xxGj06jeec4OG0LzsWSx3WT_W13Sk0QxOUv74

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Selwyn Duke

https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/09/as-the-west-confuses-boys-with-girls-china-is-banning-sissy-men-from-tv.html

While Hillary Clinton and her supporters would insist that "the future is female,” this apparently isn’t going to be the case in China (or in Afghanistan). In fact, after unveiling a program earlier this year designed to enhance teen boys’ masculinity, Beijing has announced that broadcasters must "resolutely put an end to [showcasing] sissy men and other abnormal esthetics” on television.

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