THE TAO OF CLIMATE DENIAL :

Tai Chi & Qigong… don't entirely repulse the monkey, but manage the monkey while nourishing the tortoise… 

The slide above labelled “Climate” illustrates better than anything else  I’ve  written ... the difference between the  IPCC / UNFCCC   ( yin ) approach and my own interpretation which has a much larger frame (yang approach)."

Long after Reverend Moon  founded The Washington Times, and made Fred Singer its science monthly Editor, Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi  launched The Epoch Times, a newspaper of strong views pro ( Antivaxxer & QAnon ) and con ( evolution & climate change) which parrots Patrick Moore.  Now that Qigong has outcropped in the climate wars, will Li's acolytes enter the fray like the Moonies before them?   Will politicization threaten a Kung Fu movie showdown between Master Judy's  Inner Mongolian World Taiji Science Forum and The Five Postures School denounced as Heretical and exiled to upstate New York by Chairman Xi?

Hopefully, confrontation will be avoided, with Curry, Scafetta, Soon & Varenholt left in peace to reframe anthropogenic climate change by  focusing their Ch'i energy to deflect attention from the crack-up of every excuse the energy PR industry has so far paid to adduce, from solar effects to volcanoes and galactic cosmic rays. 

Wherever the ClimateBall drops or the  Wheel of Dharma stops, Fox News, The Epoch Times and The American Thinker  will  go on connecting the dots between evil CAGWA Yin and transformational Antivaxx Yang. It's what they do for a living.

It will be interesting to see if mention of Falun Gong  [ see the uncensored Falun logo on this Wiki link ] gets this blog canceled in China 

WAS PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE A 5-YEAR PLAN ALL ALONG?

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OUR NEW ALIEN OVERLORDS

 

IN REPARATION FOR DEPLORABLY EARTHIST & ASTROPHOBIC TABLOID HEADLINES LIKE: 

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LOOK! UP IN THE SKY - IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S A GEOENGINEERING CULT

A 100 cubic meter Baby Trump balloon filled with 
sulfur dioxide could earn three million dollars in Make Sunsets credits

By James Temple  December 24, 2022

A startup claims it has launched weather balloons that may have released reflective sulfur particles in the stratosphere, potentially crossing a controversial barrier in the field of solar geoengineering.

That refers to deliberate efforts to manipulate the climate by reflecting more sunlight back into space, mimicking a natural process that occurs in the aftermath of large volcanic eruptions. In theory, spraying sulfur and similar particles in sufficient quantities could potentially ease global warming… Some researchers who have long studied the technology are deeply troubled that the company, Make Sunsets is already attempting to sell “cooling credits” for future balloon flights that could carry larger payloads...

Luke Iseman, the co-founder and CEO of Make Sunsets, acknowledges the effort is part entrepreneurial and part provocation, an act of geoengineering activism...

“We joke slash not joke that this is partly

 a company and partly a cult,” he says.

Iseman, previously a director of hardware at Y Combinator, says he expects to be pilloried by both geoengineering critics and researchers in the field for taking such a step...

Balloon launches

By Iseman’s own description, the first two balloon launches were very rudimentary. He says they occurred in April somewhere in the Baja peninsula, months before Make Sunsets was incorporated in October. Iseman says he pumped a few grams of sulfur dioxide into weather balloons and added what he estimated would be the right amount of helium to carry them into the stratosphere...

The company is already attempting to earn revenue from the cooling effects of future flights. It is offering to sell $10 “cooling credits” on its site, for releasing one gram of particles in the stratosphere — enough, it asserts, to offset the warming effect of one ton of carbon for one year.

: MIT Technology Review

CELEBRATE THE SOLSTICE WITH THE CLIMATE MODEL THAT DOUBLES AS A CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT!

 FORGET THE BIG CHILL !

THE HEARTLAND GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

MONCKTONIAN EQUIFACTOIDAL PROJECTION

  CLIMATE GLOBE  

 ELIMINATES UNSIGHTLY ISLANDS AND  SHATTERS

THE 'POLAR ICE CAP' MYTH 

Cartography by intrepid explorer Sterling Burnett routs maps that tout CAGW geographic hoaxes like 'Antarctica', 'Panama', 'Greenland', 'Florida', 'Scandinavia', the 'Black Sea' and 'Great Britain'.

THE IDEAL GIFT 

for grade K though 4 homeschool teachers &

American Thinker  readers of all ages.

FROM THE CREATOR OF 

IT'S ONE HILL OVER FROM THE FREE RANGE ACORN-FED VEGAN HAM CO-OPERATIVE

Connecticut 

 

 PETA asks Connecticut town to rename street 

‘Roast Vegan Hill Road’

Animal rights group sends letter asking town to rename its oddly monikered Roast Meat Hill Road.

In a letter sent to Killingworth town official Nancy Gorski, a representative of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals offered to pay for the sign change and “hold a giveaway of tasty vegan ham sandwiches in town if you agree!”

Tracy Reiman, Peta’s executive vice-president, added in the letter: “By renaming the road, you would spread goodwill to all sentient beings and promote compassionate traditions this holiday season.”

Gorski told the New Haven Register that she was happy to discuss the matter at the next town council meeting in January, but she – and other local officials – expressed some doubt as to whether the idea would be welcomed.

“Personally, I’m a traditionalist,” Gorski said “The name Roast Meat Hill – the name of that road dates back to even before Killingworth was founded.”

CAN CLIMATE ART NFT'S PUT MONET IN THE BANKSY?

Postpointillism arose in the aftermath of the FTX collapse, as climate activists in the arts connected the burgeoning carbon footprint of Non-Fungible Token mining  to boiler-room NFT marketers and computer block-chain gangs powered by coal.

 

Bitcoin mining already generates as much CO2 as all the SUV’s in suburbia, and NFTS are just as ravenous in their energy demand. What is worse, their contribution to the climate crisis will grow as population burgeons, and art distribution moves down market.

Yet this problem may hold its own solution. NFT's may encompass  portfolios of images that take decade to create and sell for eight figures at auction, but the value of all the works in today's blockchain queues pales in comparison to the vastly more valuable inventory of pixels embedded in the great art of the past.

 

Contemporary art faces little danger of mass tokenization, for even digital masterpieces like Trump trading cards languish in FIAT files until actually sold.  In contrast, demand for iconic paintings outstrips supply guaranteeing price inflation and providing a business model for art share investment schemes like Masterworks. 

This unfortunately creates a temptation to tokenize since subdividing art can increase fungibility and amplify future profits.

 

Little climate impact risk arises from thousands investing in shares of a solitary Monet or Basquiat masterpiece sitting in a vault awaiting its next inflationary appearance at auction. 

 

Turning a Suerat  into NFT's is a very different matter. Forging a NFT blockchain to distribute millions of pointilles to millions of investors entails raising enough power station steam to run server farms the size of the Gare Du Nord!

 

While Banksy has pointed the way to ticker tape as a new medium for equitable division in post-modern art Popullist  Art, some may object that impressionism is not amenable to subdivision.  

This is not the case with the pointillists. Far from being an exercise in minimalism, extracting four million  discrete two-millimeter dots from a pointillist work to enrich the lives of every aspirant  entry level art collector  creates a rich and strange new medium. Popping out the pointilles leaves behind a perforated canvass that maps the original as faithfully as a 3-D printing scan of a slice of Swiss cheese.

The former Suerat, minus its painty bits, can be mounted on high-tech elastomer film, and stretched into monumental Warholian silk screens that turn pointillism into a fit medium not just for casual graffiti, but enriching public art. 

When the time comes for Christo's heirs to re-wrap the Arc De Triomphe, they can elevate the Seine to new heights by enrobing the arch in  supersized rendering of La Grande Jatte  tall enough for Parisians to admire from all points of the compass.

 

Far from being another sterile exercis in conceptual art, the marriage of post-pointillism and monumentality can produce hectares of material artworks, saturating the market and so sparing impressionist works from conversion into confetti as investors stage runs on the art banks to get wall-value for their money. Instead , concern for climate equity  can be reified as art for the masses in the great tradition of  socialist realism, as single recycled Seurat pointilles are set like Memling jewels aglow on square meter panels of recycled Christo burlap, that mounted on  buses and Metro cars will set the stage for the 21st century graffiti renaissance. 

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ADVANCES IN CLIMATE COMMUNICATION

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WITH VEGAN TOMATO SOUP

Bloomberg Green  December 15, 2022, 12:00 AM EST

The past few months have seen… only the beginning of what climate activists need to do in order to be effective, says Andreas Malm, associate professor of human ecology at Lund University and author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline...

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NEW CLIMATE GLOBE BY INTREPID HEARTLAND GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY  EXPLORER USES THE

 TO  SHATTER

THE 'POLAR ICE CAP' MYTH 

Sterling Burnett's cartographic bombshell blows away MSM , UN and SNL maps touting hoax continents & states like: 'Antarctica', 'Norway', and ' Florida'

Heartland's breakthrough equifactoidal map is invaluable in convincing  grades K though 6  &  American Thinker  readers of all ages

 that the South Atlantic and South Pacific are a single sea and South America is the continuation of Baja California by other means. Heartland's new globe opens the Southwest Passage to international trade, and the door to peace in the Ukraine by eliminating major sources of regional conflict, like The Black Sea and  NATO's belligerent Northern nations, Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

It also makes life far simpler for alternative oceanographers.

     

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CLIMATE BLAMED ON BARBECUE AT THE END OF HISTORY

    CBS NEWS  CLIMATE WATCH      Barbecue-bashing 'eco-feminist' French politician riles carnivores by labeling meat macho 

Paris — Are barbecues "a symbol of virility"? 

A prominent French green MP has sparked a national debate by suggesting that red meat is macho and grilled ribs are a gender issue.

Sandrine Rousseau, a leading figure in the Europe Ecologie Les Verts party ( EELV)  and self-declared "eco-feminist,"... cited work by French writer Nora Bouazzouni, author of the 2021 book "Steaksisme," which explored attitudes to food consumption.

Bouazzouni argues that eating habits are not gendered — or driven by protein requirements — but are instead learned cultural behaviours…

Far-right lawmaker Julien Odoul asserted that "since the dawn of time, the muscular mass of men means they eat more meat (protein) than women. It's not 'virilism', it's nature."

He vowed to continue his "Cro-Magnon diet based on French meat," referring to carnivorous cave-dwelling early humans found in southwest France.

"CECI N'EST PAS UN DINOSAUR"

Rousseau has emerged as a leading face in the EELV party since seeking the party's nomination for April's presidential elections by promising "punk ecology," 

Though EELV fared poorly in the presidential and parliamentary elections this year, they won control of a host of major towns and cities at the local level in 2020, including Lyon.Lyon's Mayor Gregory Doucet caused another food-related scandal last year by taking meat off the menu in school canteens to simplify the feeding of children during the Covid-19 epidemic.Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin attacked that move as an "unacceptable insult" to French farmers and butchers. 

Rousseau's view of the causal hierarchy of climate change coincides with Jane Fonda's:  

"If there was no racism, there’d be no climate crisis. If there was no misogyny, there’d be no climate crisis. It’s part of a mindset."

ISOTOPIC SYSTEMICS JUST GOT REALLY COMPLICATED

 “We’re going to double the number of known isotopes,” says Artemis Spyrou, an experimental nuclear physicist at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) in the US. “It’s crazy. We know more than 3000 isotopes at the moment. And we going to double that.”

It’s a bold mission statement, akin to the greatest single expansion of our known chemical universe in history. But that’s the lofty goal that Spyrou and others like her hope to achieve when their next-generation particle accelerator – the $730m Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) – comes online at Michigan State University in 2022.

These halo nuclei make the radius of the nucleus far larger than would be predicted by simple nuclear models, although they are relatively short-lived, with half-lives measured in milliseconds. “Lithium-11 [which has four more neutrons than its most common isotope] has the size equivalent of a lead nucleus,” Spyrou says. “There are really basic properties of nuclei that we would never discover if we didn’t have facilities like here, and who knows what we’re going to discover.”

APS/Alan Stonebraker

Figure 1: Segrè chart showing bound isotopes for elements between nitrogen and phosphorous. Ahn and colleagues have discovered sodium-39, which is likely the dripline isotope for sodium [1]. Crawford and co-workers have measured five previously unknown isotop... Show more

1 FRIB targets isotopes new and old FRIB will generate isotopes that have predicted but previously undetected ratios of protons to neutrons. It will provide researchers with more than 1000 new isotopes never before produced on Earth. (Courtesy: Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

Typically, all known isotopes are represented on the chart of nuclides: a plot with the number of neutrons as its x axis, protons as its y axis (figure 1). All the known, stable isotopes form a long, snaking diagonal line: any isotope above the line has too few neutrons to be stable (it’s “proton rich”), while any isotope below the line has too many to be stable (it’s “neutron rich”). Many of the expected proton-rich isotopes have been discovered, but the area of potential neutron-rich nuclides has barely been scratched.

APRES MOI LA MODERNITE'

Where do we touch down?

Jeremy Harding   LRB Vol. 44 No. 24 · 15 December 2022

On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo 

by  Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz, translated by Julie Rose.      Polity, 80 pp., £9.99,

After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis 

by  Bruno Latour, translated by Julie Rose.       Polity, 180 pp., £14.99, September 2021

Bruno Latour​ died in October, aged 75, without a proper species classification. L’Obs described him as a sociologist; Le Monde praised his distinguished career in sociology, anthropology and philosophy. To some, political theory was another of his accomplishments, though he wasn’t so sure…

Latour... can be perfectly clear as he leads you through a complicated exposition, yet opaque when the argument seems plain sailing... His last works are elusive and magnificent by turns, as he tries to get his bearings in the fog of climate change...

‘What processes operate,’ Latour wondered, ‘to remove the social and historical circumstances on which the construction of a fact depends?’ 

None of this was ‘history of science’, or even ‘philosophy of science’, which was mostly a matter of indifference to the postwar generation of French thinkers. Foucault was preoccupied by the ‘human sciences’, but less as a philosopher than as a historian of systems of thought who came at them with a radical libertarian parti pris.

This Actor Network Theory exercise involves the interaction of a ball, two species of experimenters and the Sciences Po polo field.

Latour ...was already involved in Actor Network Theory (ANT), an open-ended way of thinking that redistributes agency to all the players in the drama of the sciences. As well as the people conducting the study, this includes the disciplines involved (e.g. sociology, biology, ethnology) and the more or less complex technologies to hand (from scribbled field notes to intricate laboratory equipment).

All are bound in a skein of relations that we may as well regard as social, except that the social is no longer the proprietary realm of human beings... For laypeople in an age of species extinction this feels like a crucial shift, yet it’s more often systems and technologies that ANT likes to explore, and it’s difficult to form an accurate picture of the networks if you’re not on the team. I think vaguely of Hegel’s dialectic being the wrong way up and Marx announcing that he had stood it on its feet. But in the ANT model there are so many feet for a dialectic to stand on that it could easily trip over itself. Or run amok. I think next of the sorcerer’s apprentice scene in Disney’s Fantasia (1940), where ‘things’, animated by the science of magic, rapidly get out of control.

Bipeds can get off on the wrong foot if they take Latour too literally. In We Have Never Been Modern (1991), it turns out that we were indeed modern, by dint of aspiration, but that modernity had many unforeseen consequences. Then, too, the riot of agency that ANT whisks into life may only be a way of telling us that the hard sciences and their objects must come to a rapprochement with the humanities and their objects – politics, art, philosophy – in a ‘non-modern’ or ‘a-modern’ truce that makes no firm distinction between the two regimes...odernity cut the epistemological knot, establishing a crude division between the knowledge of things and the study of human activities (politics, for instance). Postmodernism had no issue with the split. The next step – après-postmodern – was to pick up the severed parts and weave them back into a complex ensemble.

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Dread Pirate Trump's Guests of Honor Include Cannibal King & Admiral Fuentes

Hearing Fuentes call America "a vast mideastern bazaar with nothing on sale but cockroaches on sticks', Trump asked Ye, the performance artist formerly known as Skull Island Chief Executive King Kangye, if he'd brought Fuentes along as his apprentice or his lunch?

       

                             THE  PIRATE  SHIPPING  NEWS
Many an Aarrrgh!  has been heard  in  the Port O'New York of  late, as the  China Trade be run hard Aground by bo'suns too poxy with Covid to swing a cat and Shanghai able-bodied  Heathens to man the container ship yards. 

Pilots' Club sources say the Great Wall  & Kraken Moat Trump erected to extirpate the Palm Beach Bath & Tennis Club has amplified the coastwise shortage of seamen from Commodore Biden's ban on trans-shipping Gulf Coast washashores to Martha's Vineyard, as  Trump's policy  prevents Barbarees, Levanters & Lascaradoes  from coming ashore to be Shanghaid. A Port of New York bilge-barrister is scanning Ye Black Book of Admiralty to see if  this be contrary to the Code, as idle press gangs mean whaling 

ships lie idle as whale oil inflation soars! New-Captured Logs    FOREIGN  PIRACY    Al Qaeda's been Codswalloped , but ISIS has come ashore in Sinai The Council On Foreign Pirations reports some  Sallee marabouts have landed their poxy Sinbad  Jihad  in Sharm El Sheikh, to help the Corsair caliphate hold the UN hostage for Alternative Energy subsidies on xebec careenage & peg-leg repair. Ye Pyrate Law Review  Former  Harvard Law Review President interviews  Bofun Watts  USE IT TO READ THE SCIENCE  LITERATURE ?  SINK ME, NO ! IT BE ME THERMOMETER  READING EYE.     THE PIRACY WARMING POLICY FOUNDATION           Avast, Ye  Warmin'  Earthers!  No loss of gross dubloon product can be found to justify the squally monsoon' n'mega-drought  scuttlebutt abroad in Davos. Vice Admiral  Monckton sayeth that if it be hot in Madagascar, juft, wear ship, tack through  the Northwest Passage and plunder the sea otter harvest to sell to the Siberian fur trade    BELAY YOUR JUNK SCIENCE  AND  STOP YER  PRESSES! Cap'n Ken Haapala the Flying Finn wants Coverin Climate Now to keelhaul, draw & quarter all those found guilty of disinforming Tucker Carlson's audience with videos of his beach house going under like Port Royal during Hurricane Ian, as he was safely inland in Maine at the time and the waters will recede completely in time for him to winter in Florida. Piracy Has A Long & Brutal Ahoystory.   Admiralty   law   contains   useful precedents  for counterterrorism. Due  process  is  paramount, as in how  it  deals with Somali sea  dogs:  If  they  wear  the  Red  Sea  rig, We make'em dance th'hempen jig Pirate Equity & Democracy Continue To Evolve   That chase be  making full sail, but good  Governance  before the  mast now  includes write-in votes for the Black Spot»    Essays & Affadavys PIRENVIRONMENT MAKING JACOBIN  PIRACY SUSTAINABLE SINCE THE YEAR TWO The Institute for Advanced Filibustering  suggests sensitivity training could help reduce the carbon footprint. of corsair coastal raids. JOURNAL OF  THE  MODERN   PIRACY  ASSOCIATION A  double blind study using Tunis arrack as a Demerara rum placebo revealeth  hands whats  given  extra  grog  tend  to  Rape, Pillage  & Loot  all  the  more, and sure as perdition are thus difposed to Burn  less in the Infernal Regions in the Long Run The Paris Pirate Review Them Frenchy Anthropocene Semioticians be askin' if quotation marks around Obituaries for Admiral Latour  be the new boldface?  Arrh, and  Cap'n Koonin's WSJ op-ed  be old & lame as  the smoked rats in  the  lobscouse  o'a  grog  shop  what  runs up  a  "Fine Food" burgee.  Don’t expect such usage to overhaul Bristol fashion English ... more»  Available in better grog shops coastwise Th’ doxy was dazzled  by Cap'n  Sartre’s  brilliance  as  a scuttlebut  philosopher.  For Simone  de Beauvoir, smart as paint  terms  like 'essence' , or  'contin'ency'  were like a  chest  O’gold pistoles' or a  carton  of  Habana  Disque Bleu  segarilloes ...  Booty can’t buy happiness.  Yet there be a strong correlation between the clime o' a country 'n its general level o' happiness, accordin to  Captain Morano O' the K-Street pirate fleet.  But it's hard to believe hotter is better when the tar on yer hat starts to run…more» NEW GEAR FOR DAVY"S LOCKER: GUNNERS  RAVE OVER REVOLUTIONARY  METALLIC HYDROGEN CANNONBALLS  “ Sink me, n'I have felt it meself,” Freeman Dyson said.  “The glitter o' nuclear weapons.  It be  irresistible if ye come t' 'em as a scientist: an illusion o' illimitable   power.” Arrrh, Tis time for another broadside-- hail the powder monkey  to fetch 10 more kilotons from the magazine ..more»    Monkeypox Ahoy ! Forget the Big Easy;  history be littered  with “eternal” cities brought low by flood or plague, and if the armpit of Africa gets any steamier Lagos may be next:                     Copyright MMXXII