Climatology basher Steve Milloy's K Street punch and judy show, Junk Science Judo has lost ground to energetic Danish climate policy discounter Jon Lomborg, who emphasizes global problems cheaper to fix than climate change.
Saturday, October 5, 2024
WHAT COMES AFTER HURRICANES ZELENSKY AND ZYLVIA?
today's disastrous political climate has rendered naming hurricanes after politicians redundant
MORANO MORAINES
SINGER SIMOONS & SPENCER CYCLONES |
Greenlanders aghast at their icecap going down the drain can blame
MONCKTON MOULINS
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
BE KIND TO YOUR FRIENDS IN THE SWAMP, FOR A DUCK
MAY BE SOMEBODY'S MOTHER
Imprimus :
• 1.” Science is not done by consensus. “
So he and noted historian Tucker Carlson keep telling us. However, even Fox viewers who break their backs generally prefer the diagnosis of a team of neurosurgeons to a chiropractor or a K Street hack.
• 2.” There is no evidence that the Earth's climate -- whatever that is -- is warming or at an unprecedented rate.”
How can Steve declare the non-existence of something he cannot define?
And what on Earth enables him understand its physical attributes?
Only a far gone solipsist would deny the physical existence, form and function of the instruments scientists and engineers have devised to reproducibly measure “whatever that is ?”
Not far from K Street Steve will find the Naval Observatory, where the Oceanographer of the Navy can tell him how many wars have been won by reliance on the cogency and coherence of the atmospheric sciences, and also how many have been lost by those refusing to do so.
• 3. “The Earth has many climates that are regional in nature. There is no evidence that any of these regional climate (sic) has changed in any meaningful or discernible way. “
That first idea is Aristotle’s, which Humboldt was made scientifically compelling by relating temperature and elevation in biogeography, and kickstarting the monumental compilation of data that led to the discovery of the physical causes of climate change.
While Steve is free to shun science in the interest of credible denial, lobbyists paid to wax counterfactual earn negative credibility as well.
He might as well tell us to reject the so-called theory of “plate tectonics” because it is an affront to the power of the pre-Socratic Gods that invites the wrath of earth-shaking Poseidon.
• 4. I'm not aware of any "scientist" who has correctly predicted anything about climate. So who exactly should we consider to be a "scientist" when it comes to climate? “
Here Steve indulges in a fallacy so infamous that has a name:
‘Ignoramus et ignoramibus’
Best Englished ad " I don’t know and I damn well refuse to find out."
Friday, September 27, 2024
Monday, September 23, 2024
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
WARREN HARDING'S CLIMATE HOROSCOPE
ASTROLOGERS TAKE ON PENDULUM DOWSERS
IN A KNOCK DOWN-DRAG OUT TAG TEAM DEBATE AT Judith CURRY'S CLIMATE, ETC:
On September 3rd Climate Etc. fan William Fabrizio posted a 103 year old newspaper clipping headlined
Evoking this explanation from climate skeptic Burl Henry:
Nonsense! responded Climate Etc, contributor C.R. Sant ( aka Melitamegalithic). He blames the1921 meltdown on the same forces that provoked the baleful supernova of 1604, and has let Lenin and President Harding off the hook for the body count by running his astrological climate model:"Your article had me wondering WHY it occurred.
It turns out that it was due to the confluence of several factors that always cause temperatures to rise:
One: There was a 42 month interval between VEI4 volcanic eruptions...
Two: There was an American business recession between Jan 1920 and May 1921, and temperatures always rise during a recession due to fewer SO2 aerosol emissions, because of idled foundries, factories, etc…
Nothing mysterious about the warming, just temporarily rising temperatures because of decreased atmospheric SO2 aerosol pollution... But the millions of deaths are a foretaste of where we are now heading, due to the”Net Zero” idiocy!"
"Checking the year 1921 on astro software indicated that year as one of deadly inferior planet conjunctions
(Kepler Trigon).
‘Inferior’ is the worst. "
Maurice Allais seeing something no one else could |
"Gravity vector change (see Allais effect) due to planetary close approaches (noted in similar in the past two years), besides seismic effects, affects air density which give rise to short term abnormal air/vapour changes – thermal hot spots-."
Mr. Sant is the author of several fine self-published books proposing that the deviation of the orientation of megalithic temples from the canonical signs of the zodiac is best explained by the undetected tectonic rotation of Sicily & Malta by some tens of degrees in the Dark Ages.
Sunday, September 15, 2024
FOSSIL CARBON : THE FUTURE ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE
Full discosure: As an occasional archaeologist, I have a dog in the climate fight:
Impact of fossil fuel emissions on atmospheric radiocarbon and various applications of radiocarbon over this century
Heather D. Graven h.graven@imperial.ac.ukAuthors Info & Affiliations
July 20, 2015 112 (31) 9542-9545 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504467112
Significance
A wide array of scientific disciplines and industries use radiocarbon analyses; for example, it is used in dating of archaeological specimens and in forensic identification of human and wildlife tissues, including traded ivory. Over the next century, fossil fuel emissions will produce a large amount of CO2 with no 14C because fossil fuels have lost all 14C over millions of years of radioactive decay. Atmospheric CO2, and therefore newly produced organic material, will appear as though it has “aged,” or lost 14C by decay.
By 2050, fresh organic material could have the same 14C/C ratio as samples from 1050, and thus be indistinguishable by radiocarbon dating.
Some current applications for 14C may cease to be viable, and other applications will be strongly affected
FANTASTIC CLIMATOLOGY
It goes on today, but its first century was chronicled by Peabody Museum Director Steve Williams in this cautionary book.
Nothing in it remains unrivaled by its lineal internet descendent,
Fantastic Climatology
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
ANIMAL SACRIFICES SOAR IN TRUMP'S SWAMPY BACK YARD
"In a little over a month… nine wounded animals or carcasses have been discovered in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge including a trio of piglets with their ears and tails cut off , a baby rat tied up in a bag, a decapitated chicken and a dead dog with its neck snapped… alongside statuettes of Hindu deities and a trio of prayer flags...
The US Supreme Court upheld the right to animal sacrifice on religious grounds in a 1993 ruling. "
Saturday, September 7, 2024
NO SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO
When General Gage and his Redcoat army landed to take over Boston in the aftermath of the Tea Party, John Adams did not greet him with a platter of macaroons and corn dodgers to declare:
"I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords."
Nor did the nation's Founders convene in 1787 to proclaim:
"As President Obama noted in his Executive Order 13707, behavioral science insights can support a wide range of national priorities including ... accelerating the transition to a low carbon economy.
That Executive Order, 13707, directs Federal agencies to apply behavioral science insights to their policies and programs, and it institutionalizes the Social and Behavioral Science Team...The adminstration is releasing new guidance to agencies that supports continued implementation of
The "new guidance" of Executive Order 13707 still applies to every department of government, and requires the Department of Defense to report back to the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team at regular intervals, as to how the armed forces are being remodeled in accord with the executive guidance of an order that remains one signed by the Commander In Chief.
No advocates of The Precautionary Principle at the National Academies -- and there are many , have so far stepped forward to ask if it applies to the warning given the 1787 Constitutional Convention by Yale Professor Roger Sherman ,of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence:
A fear General Washington astutely echoed in his 1796 farewell address, when he warned the nation to:“If the Executive can model the army, he may set up an absolute government.”
avoid the necessity of those overgrown... establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty.
Thursday, September 5, 2024
HAVEN'T WE SEEN THAT MUSTACHE BEFORE ?
The Heritage Foundation 2025 PROJECT has embraced the CO2 Coalition's NEW climate COLORING BOOK, THE WORK OF DR. WILL HAPPER & GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE
While this PRODUCTION has won applause from the American Petroleum Institute and The Federalist Society, some scientists born after the War of 1812 have expressed reservations about Happer & Wrightstone's pitch
NEXT ON FOX NEWS,THE SCANDAL OF PHLOGISTON DENIAL
13 Years before asking in
James Delingpole told Royal Society President Sir Paul Nurse
“It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven’t got the time"
That presumably includes the vastly larger literature confirming CO2 warming since Queen Victoria's science advisor Sir William Tyndall demonstrated it experimentally five generations ago, and which has since generated a peer-reviewed consensus even a committed ignoramus like Dellers can understand:
Untroubled by his lack of reading, Delingpole went on to assure Daily Telegraph readers:
“…the Warmist faith so fervently held and promulgated by the Met Office is exactly the same faith so passionately, unswervingly followed by ( Prime Minister) David Cameron, Chris Huhne, Greg Barker, the Coalition’s energy spokesman in the Lords Lord Marland, and all but five members of the last parliament.