September 19, 2026
Iran Losing China
Timothy Birdnow
If China is demanding Iran reopen the two oil straits then you know we are nearing the end.
China hasn't been able to afford this long an interruption of oil. And without Chinese support the Iranians are going to be strangled. They desperately need to cut a deal.
Of course Trump is equally desperate to do so before the election and the Iranians know that. It's a game of chicken with a country that has a death wish.
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Piker's Peak
Timothy Birdnow
Hasan bin Sober is dragging the Democrats down, all the way.
When a guy is too crazy for this current Democratic Party you know he's got to be bad.
Hasan Bin Sober you aren't great
even the Democrats
will give you the gate!
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Illinois Lets Crime Go, Plots to Penalize Gunmakers
Timothy Birdnow
How very liberal of them! Fail to enforce the law then try to use the law to squeeze money out of gunmakers.
The major gun manufacturers should agree to stop all sales to Illinois, to law enforcement, to government security, everybody. They want to virtue signal their disdain for firearms so let them face the gangbangers with illicit firearms sans weapons. See how well their social workers do against thugs with high powered weaponry.
This is like making car manufacturers pay the costs for drunk drivers or making stove makers pay the cost for home fires.
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Cruz-in for a Bruisin; Ted Tosses Media a Lifeline
Timothy Birdnow
Ted Cruz turns to the dark side.
Having just wasted the Senate's time pushing a college sports bill (when he should have been pushing the SAVE America Act) Mr. Cruz now wants to make it the law of the land to protect hate speech by the likes of Jimmy Kimmel, and to make it possible for any broadcast journalist, even if just a comedian, to sue President Trump for tweeting about things they say.
If anyone should understand the importance of a fair media it should be Cruz, but apparently he's positioning himself for a Presidential run as the anti-Trump.
I've always loved Cruz but this is inexcusable. He has to know this is just a tool to cement eternal power for the media, which means the Democrats as the two are the same thing. The media is just the Joseph Goebbles of the Democratic Party.
This will also probably kill off a lot of independent conservative media in the process.
From the Breitbart article:
But if the bill were to become law, overzealous Democrat state attorneys general, or even private citizens, could bring suits against Trump for remarking or posting about content decisions of broadcasters — which he has done many times previously, including in response to heinous personal attacks made on government-owned airwaves.
For example, after Kimmel, host of ABC’s the Jimmy Kimmel Show, described Second Lady Melania Trump as an expecting widow and Trump posted on TRUTH, "Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.” Trump would have been in legal jeopardy if JAWBONE was law.
Additionally, Trump’s calls for broadcasters’ licenses to be revoked due to their refusal to air presidential addresses — newsworthy events in the public interest to broadcast — or show skewed or inaccurate news could have him in hot water.
Right now, Trump fighting back against hostile public figures is constitutionally protected speech. If JAWBONE passed, lawfare operatives like New York Attorney General Letitia James, or Jimmy Kimmel himself, could bring a civil suit and seek monetary penalties against the President for incentivizing the broadcaster to take a content action.
So what does that mean? The Aviary could well wind up being sued for comments I make about these people. And by The Aviary I mean me.
Ted Cruz just lost my vote. If he can't see this is a dreadful idea he has no business running the country.
The political class always disappoints, does it not?
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Rep. Salazar Thinks Hispanics are Stupid
Timothy Birdnow
Does Rep. Salazar really believe Hispanics are this stupid?
According to the article:
"Salazar released a campaign advertisement Thursday warning Trump that some of his immigration enforcement efforts ''have gone too far'' and arguing that Hispanic voters who helped him win the 2024 election ''feel betrayed.''
Now Mr. Trump promised to deport all the illegal aliens who invaded the country under Biden, and in fact the pace of repatriation has been entirely too slow for many Americans. These Hispanics knew full well what it means to deport somebody. It means, uh, arresting them and kicking them out of the country. What part of that was unclear?
And in fact there is an overwhelming consensus on this issue with eight percent of Americans wanting these lawbreakers kicked out.
What Salazar is doing is trying to triangulate. She doesn't want to be a yes-woman to Trump but she also doesn't want to lose the support of Trump, so she's trashing him by saying his policies are alienating Hispanics, not her. It's the mark of a true coward.
And if they are her constituents, maybe she doesn't belong in Congress? Sounds to me like a lot of them are illegal aliens themselves.
Oh, and in Texas support for mass deportation has grown considerably. And in 2024 - during the election - 53% of Hispanics across America wanted mass deportations. So they knew exactly what they would be getting.
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Blaming the Victim
Timothy Birdnow
Agreed.
There is no limitation put forward in the language of the Second Amendment.
You know, given how many times these 18 to 20 year olds have used firearms against US the Democrats can hardly stand on principle here; we are the victims, not them. But this is about getting guns away from US and not their own private Brownshirts.
I rather doubt they are concerned about Trump almost getting his head blown off by a young leftist, nor much about Charlie Kirk GETTING his head blown off by a young leftist. That was for the great good in their minds. What they don't want is for Joe Sixpack to have a firearm when they come for him.
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Ingraham Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Timothy Birdnow
You listen to the little lady!
They do. They care less about immediate power but rather about their long-term power in the GOP and will gladly surrender power now if it means getting rid of the MAGA wing of the party. If we lose the midterms they will say "SEE!" and tell us we lost because we ran to the right and should shut up and listen to our betters.
The inside-the-beltway crowd does not see a crisis in America, but rather sees a crisis in Trump and in those in Middle America holding power. WE are the existential threat, not the ever-leftward drift of this country. They built an empire for themselves and do not intend to be stripped of it.
Trump's re-election was like a horrible nightmare returning for a second night and they just want to ride it out. Make Trump impotent and then return to business as usual once the American "temper tantrum" is over.
They don't understand that the American People are seeing the Republic slip away and we aren't going back. They may act as spoilers but the public will only grow angrier. The djihn is out of the bottle.
I loathe every filthy one of the RINO Republicans; they are traitors to kin and country. They know better too but they like their power and money and privilege and will fight to keep it at the expense of America. Democrats I get; they are scumbags from the get go. But the RINO wing is beyond a disgrace.
Laura is right in that the GOP still thinks like the minority party and has since the time of FDR. But I don't think it is just fear of having to make hard choices and do real work; it's ideological and personal. They went to Washington to be lauded and feted and wined and dined, and to make money for themselves. They sold out to the internationalists a long time ago. It's not just fear of doing what America wants, it's a disagreement with what America wants and a desire to circumvent the will of the People.
As Alfredo Arias-King, former aid to former Mexican President Vicente' Fox explained, the GOP wants open borders and lots of illegal aliens because they don't want to be answerable to the American People - they want instead to replace the American People with a more compliant people who will let them run things as long as they hand over the social welfare money. Arias-King had no reason one way or another to point this out. It was just what he was seeing when meeting with RINO Republicans.
Pretty much everything else they want is equally evil and self-serving. They want socialism as much as the Democrats, just want it to come more slowly. But their ships are sailing leftward on the map as surely as the Democrats, only they are sailing ships rather than nuclear vessels.
The sad thing about this is that this election was entirely winnable had the GOP just tried to enact the MAGA agenda, which polls extremely high. But they don't want to give Trump the win and so have foot dragged, especially where conservative candidates beat out the old carpetbaggers and shysters (like John Cornyn - the GOP has given Ken Paxton nothing).
There is only one reason to not pursue the MAGA vote, to get the base to turn out; it's that you don't WANT them to do so.
Quislings. The GOP deserves to die as much as does the Democratic Party. In some ways maybe more. The Democrats are just scorpions, the Republicans are hypocritical vipers.
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Trump Puts Warning Label on Woke Government Institutes
Timothy Birdnow
That's the way you do it!
He's also going to slap a warning sticker on the History Museum.
Considering how the Biden Administration made social media slap warnings on posts they didn't like, or just had them banned in the first place, I don't think these taxpayer-funded institutions have any grounds for complaint. It was THEIR woke abuses that caused the problem in the first place. If they got back to just teaching and not preaching then maybe this wouldn't happen.
From Just the News:
In a letter dated Sept. 3, to U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Jeff Merkley — who are top members of the Senate Appropriations Committee — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wrote that the administration is requiring a "commitment to transparency" and "academic honesty."
In line with that requirement, the administration will advise visitors that "the leadership of the Smithsonian and NMAH have altered the museum's role from accurately and coherently telling America's story to using the museum as a tool to advance personal, radical ideologies," NPR reported.
Burgum said the signs are temporary and will be placed on National Park Service land. The requirements were laid out in President Donald Trump's July executive order "Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution."
As the saying goes, don't start nothin' and there won't be nothin'. These institutions (mental institutions, it seems) are the ones picked the fight.
The public should be made aware of the dangers. We require warning labels on cigarettes or alcohol after all. This is worse - pure mindrot.
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Dem's Drink to Their Health!
Timothy Birdnow
Don't tell me the Democrats don't own Washington and the bureaucracy!
Fauci was a big wheel at NIH. Coincidence?
This is how the Democrats legally launder taxpayer money to fund their criminal enterprise.
I favor a law banning any Federal employee from making a political donation. Judges aren't allowed to do that - why should the bureaucracy be exempt?
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Trump Gets Military Control of Greenland
Timothy Birdnow
Trump just won!
The Monroe Doctrine is being observed in Greenland now, and that thanks to a deal the President just cut with Denmark.
We now have operational military control of Greenland even if Copenhagen retains sovereignty over the population.
Win one for the kipper (I assume they eat those in Greenland?)
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Trump to MSM "You're Fired!"
Timothy Birdnow
Too bad he won't be able to make it stick. I have no doubt the courts will force him to let them back in, just as they did Jim Acosta.
President Donald J. Trump on Truth Social:
I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico (The recipients of an illegal and ridiculous $8 Million Dollar subscription, an All Time Record, directly from the United States Government, under Crooked Joe Biden, in order to keep them "alive.” Seems like corruption to me!), from the White House as a result of their constant "reporting” FAKE NEWS! Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America. Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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The Climate Grift
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Timothy Birdnow
Actually this guy is wrong in saying there was no scientific consensus about global cooling. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347966094_The_1970s_Global_Cooling_Consensus_was_not_a_Myth]there was indeed a consensus and there were thousands of papers published on the subject at the time. But none made it into the digital age; who wants their failed predictions to be made immortal by translating them from paper to computer?
And it didn't start with the Seventies (although it got a big boost thanks to Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome study "Limits to Growth"). A commenter at the AT article gives a little bit of history:
100 years of climate hoaxes:
"Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coast cities uninhabitable.”
Washington Post, Nov. 2, 1922
"All glaciers in eastern Greenland are rapidly melting. Everything points to that fact that the climate in that region has been growing warmer in recent years. It may without exaggeration said that the glaciers – like those in Norway – fact the possibility of catastrophic collapse.”
Rochester Democrat, Dec. 17, 1939
"Polar Ice Thaw Increasing: The glaciers of Norway and Alaska are only half the size they were 50 years ago.”
The Cairns Post, Feb. 18, 1952
NOTE: There actually was an unprecedented heat wave in the 1930s-50s, but no one was swept away by rising oceans.
"Scientists agree: The world is getting colder.”
New York Times Jan. 30, 1961
"Scientists predict a new ice age by 21st century.”
The Boston Globe, April 16, 1970
"The time of famines is upon us and will be at its worst and most disastrous by 1975.”
The Salt Lake Tribune, Nov. 17, 1967
"We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.”
New York Times, Aug. 10, 1969
"The oceans will be as dead as Lake Erie in less than a decade.”
Redlands Daily Facts, Oct. 6. 1970
"The world could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a new ice age, a leading atmospheric scientist predicts.”
The Washington Post, Times Herald, Jul 9, 1971
Worldwide and rapid trends towards a mini-Ice Age are emerging from the first long term analysis of satellite weather pictures.”
The Guardian, Jan. 29. 1974
"No end in sight to 30-year cooling trend in Northern Hemisphere.”
New York Times, Jan. 5, 1978
*But the cooling trend abruptly ended:*
"More droughts likely as 1988 is on the way to be the hottest ever as world temperatures are up sharply.” (Hat tip: Didn’t happen)
The Miami News, June 24, 1988
"If we do nothing to cut down on pumping caron dioxide into the atmosphere, temperatures in 2050 will be 6-7 degrees hotter than today. Washington DC would go from its current 35 days a year over 90 degrees to 85 days year. The level of the ocean will rise between one to six feet.” (Hat tip: The number of hot days in DC peaked in 1911 and have been declining ever since.)
Lansing State Journal, Dec. 12, 1988
"Maldives: A gradual rise in average sea level is threatening to completely cover this Indian Ocean nation of 1196 small islands within the next 30 years.” (Hat tip: Didn’t happen.)
The Canberra Times, Sept. 26, 1988
"A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if the warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”
Associated Press, June 30, 1989
"The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water within 20-30 years.”
Salon.com Oct. 23, 2001
"Famine can only be avoided if the rich give up meat, fish and dairy.”
The Guardian, Dec. 23, 2002
"Britian will be ‘Siberian’ in less than 20 years.”
The Guardian, Feb. 21, 2004
There are more but they are later so less interesting.
The fact is there have been doomsday predictions involving the climate since the beginning of the twentieth century - a kind of Millenialism adopted from Christianity and placed in a secular context (and used to drive societal change towards internationalism and socialism).
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European Vacation - Canadian Style
Timothy Birdnow
Hee is a good article about how Canada is voluntarily re-colonizing itself, moving to restore it's historic role riding bitch for the European Vienna Sausages and their budding sprouts of Brussels.
I would like to add any such agreement would be a violation of the Monroe Doctrine, that old policy of the United States that said any incursion into the Western Hemisphere by a former colonial power will not be tolerated was what ultimately led to the de-colonization of this hemisphere and while Canada may have been exempted from this in times past mainly because we couldn't beat Britain in a war (we tried to take Canada in the War of 1812) but our demand was never revoked, and now we can beat Britain. But it's not even Britain that is trying to reassert colonial authority over Canada -it's the European Bunion, er, Union. That is a new colonial power and it must not be allowed to recolonize the Americas.
(This same is true about Greenland, a large body in North America dominated by a foreign colonial government (laughably a "power") that is wholly incapable of defending their claim on the giant frozen ice chunk.)
We need to reinvigorate the Monroe Doctrine - the "Trumproe Doctrine"? Whatever we call it we should make it clear Europe is not welcome here. If they want to recolonize some place try Africa - or Asia. Somehow I think the Indians and Chinese both wouldn't be such easy pickings...
The Europeans and their spawn - Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc. - ae akin to the Little Red Hen; they want no part of making the cake but when it is time to eat they tuck the napkin under their chin and reach for the pigslice with relish. They didn't want to help us protect them, insisting they were big boys who could take care of themselves, but then they want us to underwrite their whole civilization so they can enjoy themselves at our expense. Does that sound familiar? It's exactly what teenagers do.
Being an adult has it's privileges but also it's responsibilities. He who shall not work shall not eat. For far too long the elites of Europe wanted to feast while not carrying their own weight. That had to end sooner or later. If it had been later it would be when the U.S. collapsed from big spending. It's happening earlier now because President Trump and MAGA got fed up. That is actually a kindness; a whole continent cannot remain in childhood forever.
At any rate Carney is now cozying up to Europe and China in the hopes of leading the New World Order and it's international system of the Antichrist. But Canada is uniquely ill-suited to any serious leadership and I suspect most of them realize it. They only exist as a country because first Britain then the U.S. protected them, allowing them to not do the serious things necessary to be a truly independent nation. And they could barely get along with each-other; Quebec has always threatened to secede if they didn't get their way, and their way has always been to be far to the Left of the Anglos. So Canada developed this overly polite national character, afraid to offend anyone lest the fragile alliance shatter. That is not a nation capable of leading; Canadians are the ultimate yes men, true followers.
I have poking fun at Canada since they picked this fight with Trump and really do not intend to mock them so much as have a little fun with them; Canada has many wonderful qualities. But Canada is not the U.S. and they think differently than do we. We settled America individually, with pioneers who went out beyond the frontier and who built self-reliant homesteads. Canada was settled largely by government program, with the protection of the British military every step of the way. They are naturally more collectivist than are we as a result. And of course that is a large part of why Canada is under-populated; if Americans had taken Canada during the Revolution or the War of 1812 we'd have major cities all the way up deep into the Yukon, and the Great Slave Lake would be a major tourist attraction today. Canada could barely settle her own territory. Yes, part of that is that Canada is vast and cold, but part of it is that they just don't have the spunk, the pioneering spirit, as do we. We developed that through a history involving struggle and pain and determination. Grit. Canadians always had Britain to back them up - like toadies to a schoolyard bully.
So what does Mark Carney do when confronted with a strong American President who wants to renegotiate a trade deal? Does he act like a man? No - he runs off to find a big guy to help him bully America, Canada's traditional protector and prime trading partner.
At any rate Canada wants to be colonized again and Mark Carney is moving them toward it at breakneck speed. Trump should remind them of the Monroe Doctrine and make it clear he's not going to allow Europe or China to invade the Western Hemisphere and colonize the lands here. He's already doing that, applying financial pressures, but we should look at applying a whole lot more. In the end while trade with Canada is welcome it is far from critical to America, but it IS critical to Canada. Let's see how the Canadians do when they can't get shipping through to the St. Lawrence seaway.
The best outcome would be for Canada to toss out the tosser Carney. But Canada has always lacked good sense. Too much back bacon and donuts in their diets, I suspect.
One final word; Canada had for some time been letting their side of the border remain open, and allowed aliens to come to Canada for the express purpose of invading the United States. That was an act of war and we ignored it for a long time. That is not the act of a friend. If Canada wants all these aliens they have the right to accept them, but it is their responsibility to see to it their problem does not become our problem. But they did it on the theory that it should be our problem. I would go a step further and say they did it just to screw us over. They believe the U.S. should be brought down a peg or two. Pure jealousy on their parts (I mean, they made Canada Day July 1 solely so it coincided with the American Independence Day three days later, talk about an inauthentic country with a huge inferiority complex!) So Carney has no grounds for complaint. Canada needs to replace their quasi-socialist leadership now, while there still is a Canada. I predict Canada will collapse in the next couple of decades if they do not.
Not sure anyone will miss her, either.
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Feminist Icon Billie Jean King Needs A Man — Far More Than A Fish Needs A Bicycle
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eminist sports icon Billie Jean King is at it again, oblivious to economics and banging on about "equal pay” for female tennis players. It apparently never occurs to her that there’s one way to get the men’s money.
The same way the men do: Compete on the men’s tour and succeed.
Oh, that’s too much to ask? The women couldn’t cut it there?
Well, look at that: You just learned, Billie, why they’re not making the men’s money.
I know how the gals feel, too. A long-retired tennis pro, I also couldn’t cut it on the men’s tour (and in my day there was no such thing as donning a dress and identifying as Billie Jean Duke to cash in). So I didn’t get their money, either.
See how that works?
The story here is that ex-tennis champion King, 82, who is "married” (ahem) to another woman, needs a man — badly. In fact, she just recently criticized former men’s number one Roger Federer, 45, for not helping the women get prize money the market says they don’t deserve. Apparently, her cause is his obligation.
"‘I wish he would fight harder for equality, because I keep telling him: ‘You have two sons and two daughters. There is equality in your home,’” Tennis World quoted King as saying. "Do you think he would ever do something to create a stir? He doesn’t want to. I would like to earn more, too.”
Well, nothing proves you’re an "independent woman” like needing a man to help you make bank.
Really, though, how does King know there’s equality in Federer’s home? I mean, there isn't equality hardly anywhere else, as it’s not this world’s norm. If he’s like most parents, too, chores may be sex specific (even if servants perform them), with daughters more likely to load the dishwasher and sons to mow the lawn.
But King really, really cares about equality. That’s why she has highlighted how female fashion models are paid substantially more than their male counterparts, right?
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September 17, 2026
Suck on it Mr. Yuk's!
Mr. Yuk is green.)
Timothy Birdnow
Will carbon dioxide will not lead to thermogeddon.
This is an old explanation going back to 2010 but it's still valid. The logarithmic nature of carbon dioxide in absorbing and reradiating energy saturates the bandwidth and by two degrees the whole thing craps out. Suck on that warmiacs!
In other climate stuff, I had a Gang Green claim the seventies cooling scare was a minor thing and rebutted him with this. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347966094_The_1970s_Global_Cooling_Consensus_was_not_a_Myth
Abstract
There was an overwhelming scientific consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was heading into a period of significant cooling. The possibility of anthropogenic warming was relegated to a minority of the papers in the peer-reviewed literature.
So double suck Mr. Yuks! (Mr. Yuk is mean, and Mr. Yuk is green.)
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Kevin Warsh; the Empire Strikes Back
Timothy Birdnow
Kevin Warsh, a Keynsian "inflation hawk" just pushed through an interest rate hike, leading American Thinker to speculate that Warsh will be a thorn in Trump's side, a point you may remember I made when the Orange Peril nominated him in the first place.
Warsh, by raising interest rates, just killed home sales. Nobody is going to be able to afford big loans when they are paying less.
That is the trouble with Keynsian economics; it assumes government always knows what is best if they hire "experts" and that they can manipulate us all to wealth and prosperity and happiness. But government does not produce anything and any actions they take have consequences, often unseen, that restrict and repress.
These guys aren't half as smart as they think they are. Warsh believes in what every Fed chair and almost every Fed board member has always believed; that the economy is best run by people like themselves. You can't make the economy work by manipulating it in this way. The economy roars when it is unleashed.
As the author points out Warsh just raised interest rates before an election and this is leading to the stock market tanking. Coincidence? I suspect Warsh is just another D.C. Insider who is purposely undercutting Trump.
Trump has got to learn to appoint better people. There are dozens of guys who have the skills to do that job. No reason to get a guy like this.
And now the die are cast and this guy can't be removed.
So the Nicholas Biddle policy at the Federal Reserve continues and there isn't anything we can do about it.
I was feeling pretty good about the upcoming elections but not anymore. Between this and the Supreme Court not letting the Post Office screen mail-in ballots and I now think we are in big trouble. The Empire has struck back.
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We Really Don't Know Clouds at all
Timothy Birdnow
I really don't know clouds....at all.
Abstract
We briefly review the dominant role of clouds in Earth’s climate. The earliest observational
studies of heat transfer through Earth’s atmosphere, for example, those of John Leslie around
1800, showed that clouds have a large effect on radiative heat transfer from Earth’s surface to
space. Greenhouse gases also affect heat transfer, but much less than clouds. For example, "in
stantaneously doubling” CO2 concentrations, a 100% increase, only decreases radiation to space
by about 1%. To increase solar heating of the Earth by a few percent, low cloud cover only needs
to decrease by a few percent. The first half of this paper reviews observational facts about how
clouds affect heat transfer. The second half gives a brief summary of the new 2n-stream radiation
transfer theory for quantitatively analysing how clouds scatter radiation incident from outside the
cloud, and how they emit thermal radiation generated by their particulates.
Keywords: Pyranometer, Pyrgeometer, Radiative Transfer, Clouds
Submitted 2024-12-28, Accepted 2025-01-02. https://doi.org/10.53234/scc202501/02
Ruixue Li, Jiming Li, Bida Jian, Lijie Zhang, and Jiayi Li
Abstract
Persistent global warming is modulated by cloud changes, yet the specific contributions and associated controlling factors remain inadequately quantified. Using CERES radiation data with a surface energy-balance framework, we quantify the contribution of cloud radiative changes to decadal surface temperature trends over 2002–2023. Cloud changes exert a weak net effect on global mean warming due to near-cancellation between shortwave warming and longwave cooling, but strongly modulate the meridional pattern of zonal-mean warming. Specifically, clouds enhance warming in low- and mid-latitudes while mitigating warming at high latitudes. This pattern is associated with a systematic redistribution of cloud occurrence from low-/mid-level cloud types to high-level optically thin clouds, which reduce planetary albedo and weaken cloud longwave emission. These changes exhibit hemispheric difference. In 30–60° N, the region contributing most to global warming, the decline in the cloud-reflected solar radiation is mainly driven by decreased cloud fraction, linked to elevated sea surface temperatures, aerosol reductions, and mid-tropospheric drying. In 30–60° S, reduced cloud reflectivity resulting from decreased cloud optical thickness and increased liquid droplet radius dominates. However, at high latitudes in both hemispheres, increased mid-/high-clouds and enhanced cloud reflectivity, driven by enhanced moisture, upper-tropospheric static stability and increased cloud optical thickness, lead to greater reflected solar radiation and reduced downwelling longwave radiation, thereby attenuating local warming. Our results establish a direct observational link between cloud-type changes, planetary albedo decline, and contrasting warming across latitude zones, characterizing the cloud-radiative changes in recent climate change.
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The Earth has been seeing a reduction in cloud cover/planetary albedo for decades now. Gee; maybe Mr. Sun is what is warming the Earth after all and not our industrial emissions.
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September 16, 2026
Fat, Weak, and Stupid is no way to go through Life
Timothy Birdnow
When he's right he's right!
Rove, Bush's brain, as they called him (sheesh; if he was THAT guy's brain...) has always been a terrible political consultant who could barely carry Bush across the finish line twice, even though both should have been easy wins. Rove is a big believer in "moving on" and letting a lie stand rather than fight back. He was the kind of guy who, in grammar school, told on you to the teacher and who hid from bullies all the time.
It was this policy that gave us Barack Obama; he and the GOP simply refused to fight back and got their collective trousers pulled up over their heads and got stabbed with their compasses. Rove never met a fight he didn't run away from.
And, following his program, the Democrats leeched power away from the GOP through the Bush era simply by being aggressive, knowing Rove would counsel backpeddling. I would say he's a counterpuncher but you actually have to counter-punch to be one.
Now he sits on the board of Fox News and there is a reason why Fox has moved to the Left fo the last few years. He's ruining our network, turning it into the Bush Network (Rove is basically the Bush family lawyer).
He is a guy whose time has passed. Even if you cut him a lot of slack, his approach is all wrong for this bare-knuckle political era. Now is time for a fighter, not a guy who wears a propeller beanie and a pocket protector. The public doesn't see him as reasonable - they see him as weak and fat and foolish. He's a man for a gentler era, at best.
He needs to rove off somewhere else.
(The title is a variant of what Dean Wurmer told the frat guys in Animal House, btw.)
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Canadian Bacon
Timothy Birdnow
Outside of some nations with big ski resorts what is there anyone wants from Canada? Snow is their main product.
That and donuts and Back-bacon (which is really just ham). Their beer is skunk-water, their dairy products are all onion milk, and their hygiene is bad.
America largely bought stuff from them out of pity.
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Traitors
Timothy Birdnow
Another day, another War Powers Act Resolution passes the House.
Here ae the four Republican traitors who joined every Democrat in attempting to squander all the work we've done and make America vulnerable to Iranian attack:
Reps. Tom Barrett (R-Mich.), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), and Warren Davidson (R-Ohio)
Massie is gone, of course. The rest need to be removed as soon as humanly possible. Mike Johnson should pull committee assignments from them now. And he should assign them offices in the mens room.
This isn't reasoned disagreement it's treason, plain and simple.
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