July 02, 2022
Goldberg Beclowns Himself
C. Gregg Carroll
Jonah Goldberg over at The Dispatch might look beyond the immediate and sensational Jan. 6 Hollywood show at the Pelosi House. "Here's the problem with this,†he Tweets. "I don't care what the committee members say. It's the witnesses stupid. They've mostly been Republicans as well as Trump aides, Trump voters, and Trump relatives. Blather about the "Marxist Dems" all you like. What about Barr's testimony?â€
Goldberg would do well to remember that Joe McCarthy found plenty of alleged Communist sympathizers to demonize and serve as witnesses against their alleged fellow Communists in much the same way as the mainstream media and Democrats—but I repeat myself—are now using alleged conservatives to demonize their fellow conservative citizens no matter how tangentially those citizens might be associated with the riot.
To, adds:
And what of the witnesses they DIDN'T call? Does Goldberg not think they chose and managed that witness list carefully? They wouldn't let anyone on the committee except Trump haters. It's easy to find people who would be willing to testify against Trump - either disgruntled employees or ambitious people who figure this will promote the future in D.C. Like that aid who had a second cousin who had a girlfriend whose brother in law said Trump tried to grab the steering wheel...
Mr. Goldberg himself is proof of the folly of this. He led the NeverTrump attack squandron at National Review, and has done everything in his power to backstab and destroy the President. He is a Republican and ostensible conservative.
I don't know if he'd lie in the Committee, but he certainly bore Mr. Trump no good will.
How many Republicans turned on George W. Bush? I remember quite a few, and that in an era of far less acrimony and cutthroat politics.
Goldberg has thrown away any credibility he once had, if you ask me.
Jonah Goldberg over at The Dispatch might look beyond the immediate and sensational Jan. 6 Hollywood show at the Pelosi House. "Here's the problem with this,†he Tweets. "I don't care what the committee members say. It's the witnesses stupid. They've mostly been Republicans as well as Trump aides, Trump voters, and Trump relatives. Blather about the "Marxist Dems" all you like. What about Barr's testimony?â€
Goldberg would do well to remember that Joe McCarthy found plenty of alleged Communist sympathizers to demonize and serve as witnesses against their alleged fellow Communists in much the same way as the mainstream media and Democrats—but I repeat myself—are now using alleged conservatives to demonize their fellow conservative citizens no matter how tangentially those citizens might be associated with the riot.
To, adds:
And what of the witnesses they DIDN'T call? Does Goldberg not think they chose and managed that witness list carefully? They wouldn't let anyone on the committee except Trump haters. It's easy to find people who would be willing to testify against Trump - either disgruntled employees or ambitious people who figure this will promote the future in D.C. Like that aid who had a second cousin who had a girlfriend whose brother in law said Trump tried to grab the steering wheel...
Mr. Goldberg himself is proof of the folly of this. He led the NeverTrump attack squandron at National Review, and has done everything in his power to backstab and destroy the President. He is a Republican and ostensible conservative.
I don't know if he'd lie in the Committee, but he certainly bore Mr. Trump no good will.
How many Republicans turned on George W. Bush? I remember quite a few, and that in an era of far less acrimony and cutthroat politics.
Goldberg has thrown away any credibility he once had, if you ask me.
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Worst Heat Wave Ever? Hardly
Anthony Watts:
The next time somebody tries to tell you we are living in the "worst heat wave ever", show them this analysis where I take down the claims of Texas-sized "climate scientist."
The next time somebody tries to tell you we are living in the "worst heat wave ever", show them this analysis where I take down the claims of Texas-sized "climate scientist."
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Supervolcano in Antarctica?
Timothy Birdnow
Vedddy Eeenterestink!
Nasa Discovers Mantle Plume Almost as Hot as Yellowstone that's Melting Antarctica from Below
The absolutely destroys AGW claims that Antarctica is melting because of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
And if true it's a disturbing thought; a supervoclcanic event has largely wiped life from this planet before.
250 million years ago the "Great Dying" of the Permian Triassic saw most life wiped from the Earth. It was far worse than the asteroid strike which killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. It was caused not by a space rock but by a supervolcano erupting in Siberia over a period of years. It blotted the skies, poisoned the air and water, and made life nearly impossible.
It killed between 90 and 95% of all life on Earth.
So if we have a supervolcano in Antarctica melting the enormous ice sheet, and if it breaks out and erupts into the atmosphere, we are in big, big trouble. Not only is most of the worlds' ice tied up in the sheets of Antarctica, and thus sea levels will rise by an estimated 190 feet, completely inundating low-lying and even mid-lying land masses worldwide.
Of course, that is the absolute worst-case scenario. More likely this is a normal cyclical phenomenon and may lead to some ice melt in down there and maybe even some outgassing but little more than that.
Or not. It's happened in the past and it could happen again.
In the year 536 Icelandic volcanoes erupted, leading to the "year of darkness" in Europe and having lasting affects until 555. It destroyed the Irish civilization, which was as advanced as anybody at the time but wound up being a barbaric clan culture afterward. There was no tree ring growth at all in Ireland for three years - meaning near total darkness the entire time.
The affects could be seen as far away as Constantinople.
Is it any wonder the receding Roman empire completely fell apart by then? Or that barbarians were able to pillage at will?
That was a small eruption next to the one in Siberia at the Permian Triassic.
So who knows? It will probably not come to it, but at some point it will come to it. We live in a precarious world and are at the whims of fate much more than we realize. We like to think ourselves so powerful and wise, but one supervolcano, or major asteroid or comet strike, or giant solar flare, would lay us out flat.
That's when people turn to God. I would recommend we do that before Antarctica goes boom.
At any rate, the safest course of action is to settle the rest of the solar system, spreading out so a planetwide disaster doesn't strike everyone. But people are more interested in getting welfare checks and playing their stupid games (like Angry Birds or whatnot) than in planning for our fuure and pioneering new worlds. We aren't the same men who crossed the Atlantic.
A weak and corrupt Roman society was pushned into final extinction by one volcano in Iceland. How much worse will it be for us?
And we may help it along with nuclear weapons and biological agents and God only knows what else.
Maybe we've run our course? I'm sure the dinosaurs saw themselves as lords of creation too.
Or maybe God will just have had enough. If the Book of Genesis is any indicator, He did so once before.
Vedddy Eeenterestink!
Nasa Discovers Mantle Plume Almost as Hot as Yellowstone that's Melting Antarctica from Below
The absolutely destroys AGW claims that Antarctica is melting because of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
And if true it's a disturbing thought; a supervoclcanic event has largely wiped life from this planet before.
250 million years ago the "Great Dying" of the Permian Triassic saw most life wiped from the Earth. It was far worse than the asteroid strike which killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. It was caused not by a space rock but by a supervolcano erupting in Siberia over a period of years. It blotted the skies, poisoned the air and water, and made life nearly impossible.
It killed between 90 and 95% of all life on Earth.
So if we have a supervolcano in Antarctica melting the enormous ice sheet, and if it breaks out and erupts into the atmosphere, we are in big, big trouble. Not only is most of the worlds' ice tied up in the sheets of Antarctica, and thus sea levels will rise by an estimated 190 feet, completely inundating low-lying and even mid-lying land masses worldwide.
Of course, that is the absolute worst-case scenario. More likely this is a normal cyclical phenomenon and may lead to some ice melt in down there and maybe even some outgassing but little more than that.
Or not. It's happened in the past and it could happen again.
In the year 536 Icelandic volcanoes erupted, leading to the "year of darkness" in Europe and having lasting affects until 555. It destroyed the Irish civilization, which was as advanced as anybody at the time but wound up being a barbaric clan culture afterward. There was no tree ring growth at all in Ireland for three years - meaning near total darkness the entire time.
The affects could be seen as far away as Constantinople.
Is it any wonder the receding Roman empire completely fell apart by then? Or that barbarians were able to pillage at will?
That was a small eruption next to the one in Siberia at the Permian Triassic.
So who knows? It will probably not come to it, but at some point it will come to it. We live in a precarious world and are at the whims of fate much more than we realize. We like to think ourselves so powerful and wise, but one supervolcano, or major asteroid or comet strike, or giant solar flare, would lay us out flat.
That's when people turn to God. I would recommend we do that before Antarctica goes boom.
At any rate, the safest course of action is to settle the rest of the solar system, spreading out so a planetwide disaster doesn't strike everyone. But people are more interested in getting welfare checks and playing their stupid games (like Angry Birds or whatnot) than in planning for our fuure and pioneering new worlds. We aren't the same men who crossed the Atlantic.
A weak and corrupt Roman society was pushned into final extinction by one volcano in Iceland. How much worse will it be for us?
And we may help it along with nuclear weapons and biological agents and God only knows what else.
Maybe we've run our course? I'm sure the dinosaurs saw themselves as lords of creation too.
Or maybe God will just have had enough. If the Book of Genesis is any indicator, He did so once before.
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Inflation in Britain
John Lees
Tim adds:
In the last two years the U.S. Federal Reserve has exploded the money supply. Since everyone else tags their currency to the U.S. dollar everyone else's money has inflated too. It's basic economics (unless you are a Keynsian dingdong). I don't blame it on Joe Biden, although he wants to blow through trillions more yet. It's the Federal Reserve doing this. Yes, the pandemic was the justification, but the Fed had been expanding the money supply since the Bush Admiinistration and especially during the Obama years. It is exactly what they did in the 1920's. And, as in the '20's, they are now trying to cut the supply of money. That led to the Great Depression last time.
I buy whey
powder, and I've noticed a very sudden surge in prices during this era
of inflation. I just happened to be looking up a whey product and
chanced across this graph of the prices in Europe.
This is stunning. Over little more than a year the price has very nearly doubled.
But isn't this the impact of the war in Ukraine?
I've marked the start of the war in Ukraine with a red mark.
So, as with many other illustrations of post stimulus inflation, the inflation mostly preceded the invasion.
Therefore, it is very hard to explain how an invasion caused a phenomenon which began a year earlier.
Tim adds:
In the last two years the U.S. Federal Reserve has exploded the money supply. Since everyone else tags their currency to the U.S. dollar everyone else's money has inflated too. It's basic economics (unless you are a Keynsian dingdong). I don't blame it on Joe Biden, although he wants to blow through trillions more yet. It's the Federal Reserve doing this. Yes, the pandemic was the justification, but the Fed had been expanding the money supply since the Bush Admiinistration and especially during the Obama years. It is exactly what they did in the 1920's. And, as in the '20's, they are now trying to cut the supply of money. That led to the Great Depression last time.
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July 01, 2022
Baby Wooley Mammoth Found
Timothy Birdnow
An entire baby Wooly Mammoth was discovered recently in Canada. Found in permafrost in north-west Canada, in the Klondike area of the Yukon Territory, the elephantine icecycle is the first such found in north America, and is more than 30,000 years of age (even older than Joe Biden).
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/frozen-whole-baby-woolly-mammoth-yukon-gold-fields-1.6501128?fbclid=IwAR17cGl885NQxWpMx3x6Ud_xSd3qIz4cuO7OkUeDvmXkLQMRDtZigxrUS4A
An entire baby Wooly Mammoth was discovered recently in Canada. Found in permafrost in north-west Canada, in the Klondike area of the Yukon Territory, the elephantine icecycle is the first such found in north America, and is more than 30,000 years of age (even older than Joe Biden).
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/frozen-whole-baby-woolly-mammoth-yukon-gold-fields-1.6501128?fbclid=IwAR17cGl885NQxWpMx3x6Ud_xSd3qIz4cuO7OkUeDvmXkLQMRDtZigxrUS4A
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Another Food Processor Closes
Warner Todd Huston
Another Food Processing Plant Closes Amid Potential Food Shortages, Over 200 Jobs Gone
Another Food Processing Plant Closes Amid Potential Food Shortages, Over 200 Jobs Gone
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A Chill in the Air
Roy Spencer
UAH satellite-based global temperature update for June, 2022: +0.06 deg. C above the 30-year average. Tropics stand at -0.36 deg. C, the coolest month in over 10 years, and the coolest June in 22 years. https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/07/uah-global-temperature-update-for-june-2022-0-06-deg-c/
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UAH satellite-based global temperature update for June, 2022: +0.06 deg. C above the 30-year average. Tropics stand at -0.36 deg. C, the coolest month in over 10 years, and the coolest June in 22 years. https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/07/uah-global-temperature-update-for-june-2022-0-06-deg-c/
UAH satellite-based global temperature update for June, 2022: +0.06 deg. C above the 30-year average. Tropics stand at -0.36 deg. C, the coolest month in over 10 years, and the coolest June in 22 years. https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/07/uah-global-temperature-update-for-june-2022-0-06-deg-c/
Tim adds:
UAH satellite-based global temperature update for June, 2022: +0.06 deg. C above the 30-year average. Tropics stand at -0.36 deg. C, the coolest month in over 10 years, and the coolest June in 22 years. https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/07/uah-global-temperature-update-for-june-2022-0-06-deg-c/
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SCOTUS Reins in EPA
Timothy Birdnow
SCOTUS limits the EPA's power to squeeze energy.
Supreme Court Limits EPA's Power to Regulate Power Plants' Greenhouse Gas Emissions
SCOTUS limits the EPA's power to squeeze energy.
Supreme Court Limits EPA's Power to Regulate Power Plants' Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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Peak Oil Peaked
This from Gerry McGuire:
I think Freeman Dyson is correct. Oil is abiotic
Tim adds:
No question in my mind. Wells refil in many cases over time. I would add if Saturn's moon Titan is chock full of hydrocarbons, then why is it so strange to believe they are abiotic when found on Earth? https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20080213.html Seems to me this is something that should at least be explored by scientists. But many of them desperately cling to the "dead dynosaur' theory because it screws up a lot of what they have always believed - and want others to believe.
"By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil.â€
—Kenneth Watt, ecologist, 1970
David Ball throws in his 2c:I think Freeman Dyson is correct. Oil is abiotic
Tim adds:
No question in my mind. Wells refil in many cases over time. I would add if Saturn's moon Titan is chock full of hydrocarbons, then why is it so strange to believe they are abiotic when found on Earth? https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20080213.html Seems to me this is something that should at least be explored by scientists. But many of them desperately cling to the "dead dynosaur' theory because it screws up a lot of what they have always believed - and want others to believe.
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Stock Markets Nosediving
Nikki Grace
Tim adds:
This was inevitable when the Fed started cutting the money supply to control inflation. Inflation favors the stock market. Deflation favors bonds and other shelters.
We may well be entering a period of stagflation. IF inflation continues to rise and the market goes down we will have achieved equality with Jimmy Carter's economic malaise.
JUST IN - S&P 500 down 21% in H1, posts worst return since 1970.
Nasdaq 100 finished the first half down -30%, most since 2002
This was inevitable when the Fed started cutting the money supply to control inflation. Inflation favors the stock market. Deflation favors bonds and other shelters.
We may well be entering a period of stagflation. IF inflation continues to rise and the market goes down we will have achieved equality with Jimmy Carter's economic malaise.
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