BEYOND BRAINS LAUNCH TESTS VEGAN ZOMBIE MARKET

Beyond Beef has bounced back from its Faux Foi  Mardi Gras fiasco with a Halloween launch party at  Manhattan'a A -list  meat easy, Madison Park .

On the menu is the latest Certified Vegan printed protein product from its organic Organ Meats division, Beyond Brains, 

The corporation says its soy printing process has  been re-engineered to avoid the DNA staining and dry cleaning issues that arose when its Beyond Liverwurst  faux foi products were regurgitated or thrown at paintings.

BB's publicists were mute on reports that Martha Stewart would also launch her new Soylent Night holiday product line, at Madison Park, with her new Vegan Certified marzipan boar's head platter

BUT WHAT DO POST-AHUMANISTZ WEAR ON HALLOWEEN?

Anglia Ruskin University professor Patricia MacCormack author of  

The Ahuman Manifesto:

Activism for the End of the Anthropocene

celebrates Halloween by assuring us that we can survive the  Climate Crisis by dismantling our humanity.

" the “ahuman” will avoid ecological collapse by “going beyond binaries of human and not human. In order to dismantle the human, I have sought to no longer argue like a human, with other humans,” 

"If we no longer reproduce, we can care for all inhabitants already here, human and non-human, as well as care for the Earth itself by mitigating the damage already caused. It’s an activism of care… are humans really the ‘best’ forms of life, or should we dismantle our understanding of life as a hierarchy for a more ecological, interconnected scheme of living things?"

The occult rave DJ , performance artist, and binge watcher of Avatar is noted for prefiguring Extinction Rebellion with an Arts Council England-funded  “queer spell”  event that conjured “punk witches, camp vampires and queer zombies” to rise from their graves and dismantle capitalism. 

Her contributionz to the intellectual climate framing  Gynthropocene  discourse include :

Perversion: Transgressive Sexuality and Becoming-Monster (2004),

Becoming-Vulva (2010),

The Ecstatic Olfactory Face (2014)

Queer Posthumanizm (2015)

Rebuilding the Fabulated Bodies of the Hoard-Warriors (2016), and

 Tortured Spectators: Massacred and Mucosal (2017).

ANNALS OF CLIMATE ACTIVISM: THE GOLDEN BOUGH

High and Dry        Sicily 1893 James G. Frazer All the most approved methods of procuring rain had been tried without effect.  Men, women, and children, telling their beads, had lain whole nights before the holy images. Consecrated candles had burned day and night in the churches. Palm branches, blessed on Palm Sunday, had been hung on the trees.  At Salaparuta, in accordance with a very old custom, the dust swept from the churches on Palm Sunday had been spread on the fields. In ordinary years these holy sweepings preserve the crops; but that year, if you will believe me, they had no effect whatever. At Nicosia the inhabitants, bareheaded and barefoot, carried the crucifixes through all the wards of the town and scourged each other with iron whips. It was all in vain. Even the great Saint Francis of Paola himself, who annually performs the miracle of rain and is carried every spring through the market gardens, either could not or would not help. Masses, vespers, concerts, illuminations, fireworks—nothing could move him. At last the peasants began to lose patience. Most of the saints were banished. At Palermo they dumped Saint Joseph in a garden to see the state of things for himself, and they swore to leave him there in the sun till rain fell.  Other saints were turned, like naughty children, with their faces to the wall. Others again, stripped of their beautiful robes, were exiled far from their parishes, threatened, grossly insulted, ducked in horse ponds. At Licata the patron saint, Saint Angelo, was left without any garments at all; he was reviled, he was put in irons, he was threatened with drowning or hanging.  “Rain or the rope!” roared the angry people at him, as they shook their fists in his face.

EXCERPT FROM

SUN LEAVES GATES OF HELL METAPHOR OUT IN THE COLD

The new Daniel Inouye solar observatory has delivered images of superb resolution. 

 This 789nm ( yellow)  image sequence resolves convective features as small as 30km (18 miles) . The cell-like structures – each about the size of Texas – transport heat from the inside of the sun to its surface. Hot plasma rises in the bright centers , then cools off and then sinks below the surface in the dark lanes, in which  bright areas of intense magnetic fields channel energy to the hotter corona above.

This image covers an area 36,500 × 36,500 km (22,600 × 22,600 miles or 51 × 51 arcseconds).

THE CLIMATE SPECTATOR

ANOTHER GOOD YEAR AT THE MINISTRY OF FEAR

The secret of generating faster & scarier climate news is finding 

500 Twitter followers who are opinion leaders to begin with:

Find out how to cover climate change as a fundamental matter of racial, economic, and environmental justice in our Climate Justice Guide.

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IT APPEARS THAT FOUR YEARS OF HEADLINE SATURATION HAVE ONLY ATTRACTED  2,000 BOILING EARTHLINGS TO FOLLOW THE CCN CLIMATARIAT ON A DAILY BASIS

VEGAN REBELLION IS HUNTING RASCALLY PISCAVORES

THE OSLO PALACE GUARD HAS BEEN  ALERTED TO PROTESTS AGAINST ROYAL DUTCH SHELL NORTH SEA OIL  EXECUTIVES AT THE ENERGY PR OSCARS IN LONDON

UNLEASH THE CARBON OFFSETS !

 

LRB  Vol.38  No. 21  2016 

Naomi Klein

"Edward Said​ was no tree-hugger... he once described environmentalism as ‘the indulgence of spoiled tree-huggers who lack a proper cause’. 

In the Middle East… trees specifically, have been among the most potent weapons... of what some call ‘green colonialism’. But the phenomenon is hardly new, nor is it unique to Israel. 

There is a long and painful history in the Americas of beautiful pieces of wilderness being turned into conservation parks… and used to prevent Indigenous people from accessing their ancestral territories to hunt and fish, or simply to live.  

It has happened again and again. A contemporary version of this phenomenon is the carbon offset. "

THAT'S SOMEWHAT LESS THAN ONE CLICK PER SECOND

A Monumental Milestone: Celebrating

 500 Million Pageviews on Watts Up With That

NOTED WUWT CONTENT PROVIDER CHARLES ROTTER WRITES::

We missed this story twelve days ago but this is still something worth noting and celebrating.

We can celebrate a remarkable milestone for a slough of despond in the world of climate grifting  beacon of reason in the climate debate: Watts Up With That (WUWT) has surpassed a  gobsmacking  an astounding 500 million pageviews!

WUWT has long provided a platform for such leading lights of science as :

                                                  Jay Lehr Ph.D.

Heartland Institute Science Director who speaks  with   great  authority  on the hockey stick fraud and global warming hoax,  having been convicted and jailed for defrauding the EPA of $200,000 of the taxpayer's money.

Piers Corbyn

Labor  Party  supremo  Jeremy Corbyn's  less  intelligent  older brother, a global cooling  prognosticator  whose publications  include a survey of  the size  of the pebbles on  Chesil Beach,  and DIY instructions  for a  brine-filled  barometer.  He believes the sun causes earthquakes.

Prof. Oliver K. Manuel

Cold fusion chemist who celebrated his theory that the sun is a ball of iron in Watts' blog and  frequented Heartland Institute  conferences until his arrest for child molestation.

                                  The Sky Dragons

Editorial  Collective formed to praise the  Lord for  CO2  and  deny the reality of atmospheric radiative equilibrium.  Claes Johnson stirs the  pseudoscience pot,  while  pseudo-lawyer John O’Sullivan touts the CD on Dominionist evangelical TV. Acolytes include Tim Ball PhD.

Harry Dale Huffman

Adiabat hobbyist whose efforts to dismiss the greenhouse effect by eliding lapse rate data from Venus and Earth  has been eclipsed by his theory that space aliens altered the shape of the Australian continent.

William Hunt Author of  'Global Warming Challenged,  whichWUWT  endorsed until Watts actually read it and discovered it claims:

“Prior to the Little Ice Age, most of the areas where today’s core samples are taken, were not covered with ice. The ice that scientists have stated is hundreds of thousands of years old can be no more than a maximum of 650 years in age“ 

 Doug Cotton 

Monomaniac whose  non-GHG-based warming theory , merchandised by Prinicipia Scientific International, claims reconstructed Victorian lab gear proves CO2 isn't a greenhouse gas.

Dr.  James Wanliss of

In  Resisting  the  Green  Dragon: Dominion, Not Death the 'Christian physicist ...explores and  corrects the religious and scientific errors of the radical Green movement'

Stefan “The Denier” Mikitch

Australian gulag survivor who denies the geochemical cycle of carbon , believing methane must stay underground,because its molecular weight is greater than  atomic nitrogen or oxygen. His 'METHANEGATE' website advocates jailing those who disagree.

 Arno Arrack

Whose self-published book “What Warming?” whines about his  rejection by Nature and Science while citing the good and great Trofim Lysenko in support of his work.

David Legates, Ph.D., Author of  Putting Out the Dragon’s Fire on Global Warming. Appointed as Delaware State Climatologist  by noted climate guru Gov. Pete DuPont. 

Herman A. Pope

Retired NASA scientist turned epigrammatic bore:

When the Arctic is liquid, Earth is cooling 

When the Arctic is ice, Earth is warming 

This is the Thermostat of Earth

who shares Roy Spencer's view that excess CO2 in the atmosphere can't be from human activity.

Joachim Seifert                                  

Untelligible eastern European crank whose secret theory of climate change may or may not  relate to solar variations. Those wishing  find out must purchase his pamphlet in the original German from Amazon at $50 a pop.

Girma Orssengo

Obsessively reposts a horizontal line graph that uses 50 : 1  scale compression to render global warming invisible, or at least illegible.

   

Mike Haseler

Author of highly original theory that photons are an elitist hoax:                            “Over time I realised that: 

 1. There is no need for the idea of a “photon”. 

 2. That none of the raw evidence requires “photons”. 

 3. That the wave-particle theory of light is anti-scientific "

Professor Nicola Scafetta

Duke physicist who asks: “Does the Sun work as a nuclear fusion amplifier of planetary tidal forcing? ” No, Nicola, it really, really does not.

Spartacusisfree (AKA  mydogsgotnonose)

Engineer who claims that the radiative properties of CO2 don’t apply to the atmosphere:

“There is absolutely no experimental proof of any CO2…I became a ‘denier’ after I concluded there were 5 errors in IPCC physics. 

I may be mad, bad and deluded, but I want a second option because I’m a scientist who believes no-one.”

 The Usual Suspects
Posse of paid Watts contributors seen here demanding their paychecks at the Paris debut of Climate Hustle

CLIMATE AS CRYPTO

In order to broaden the political base of climate mitigation, the authoritarian propensity of climate activists must be curbed by promoting  ungovernable currencies. Since the climate policy debate is model-dominated, this can be accomplished by turning the pixels CGM models generate into Non-Fungible Tokens, to create a cybercurrency artfully denominated in  units of temperature change per pixel.

How small could this unit be? Cybercurrencies need liquidity at all scales of transaction, so a conservative denomination process might emulate the SIU system  by defining the quantum limit of model sensitivity , and creating a scalar analog of Plank's Constant for planetary modeling.   

With real world  temperatures rising  at rates of nanodegrees per second this quantity- let us call it  Arrhenius's Constant,  ( 'Å' )  might  be comfortably scaled in analogy to Planck's constant, to be around one over 10 to the 45 ˚K per cubic Meter.

This would be  consilliant with human comfort , since people are about  2 meters long, and can hardly differentiate  microclimates on smaller scales, as it is hard to establish room temperature if you simultaneously feel that your head is warm and your feet are cold.

Once Å has been established, M scale modeling can commence, and the translation of Arrennius scale pixels into NFT's will self-defines economic climate sensitivity by entangling climate modeling and crypto mining at the limit of quantum sensitivity

This Å-list cryptocurrency should be immune to hyperinflation, as the number of unit coins is denominated the object modeled, and the Earths surface area is a paltry 508,000,000,000,000 square Å. In praxis this may enable every  smartphone owner to mine their own climate, as billions of crypto subscribers will only have to micromanage the microclimate of a few hundred kilopixels of surface

WHO NEEDS VINELAND?

              NORWAY'S  NORTHERNMOST  VINEYARD

WELCOMES POLAR WARMING

Who needs Vineland anyway?

Two degrees below the Arctic Circle in Gvav, Telemark's Lerkekasa vineyard slopes south toward the idyllic Nordsjo Lake at Latitude 59° 24' north.

 

The County of Telemark is famous for skiing and roe deer stalking in winter.  If you work up a thirst shooting in Scotland in August, try 

Vitifera Trollingeri

Poly Croft Vineyard Latitude

58° 28' North

WHERE ARCTIC AGW AMPLIFICATION ON 

THE ISLE OF LEWIS HELPS

THE  BLACK TROLLINGER WINES 

    OF THE NORTHERNMOST VINEYARD ON THE OUTERMOST OF THE HEBRIDES

   PAIR WELL WITH PARTRIDGE & POLAR BEAR PATE'

The Medieval Warm Period isn't what it used to be.
Just ask Mark Steyn

SUDDEN VIOLENT TERRIBLE AND MISCHIEVOUS

 THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

In the Nineteenth Century, Scientists Set Out to Solve the “Problem of American Storms”

The exact mechanism by which storms formed was once a subject of fierce debate among American scientists.

  ―Albert Bierstadt, A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie. detail (1866), Wikimedia

"To fully appreciate the modern-day marvel that is the National Weather Service, it’s useful to start with numbers. There’s 6.3 billion. (The number of observations the agency collects and analyzes every day.) There’s 1.5 million. (The number of forecasts it issues each year… There’s also zero. That’s the approximate number of minutes a typical American like you or me spends wondering about the weather information we access..

This blasé attitude would have astounded the colonists who... found North American weather to be, in a word, hellish. They sent letters home describing the climate in apocalyptic terms. 

When it rained, wrote one colonist in New Sweden, on the Delaware River, “the whole sky seems to be on fire, and nothing can be seen but smoke and flames.” “Intemperate” was how a missionary from Rhode Island described it. “Excessive heat and cold, sudden violent changes of weather, terrible and mischievous thunder and lightning, and unwholesome air” created an environment that was “destructive to human bodies.”    

The harshness of the weather… wasn’t just an unpleasant surprise. It was also confusing. Among the various, sketchy assumptions that the Europeans had brought with them to their new home was the idea that a location’s climate was directly correlated to its latitude. 

By the colonists’ logic, the seasons in Newfoundland should resemble those in Paris, and crops grown in Spain should thrive in Virginia. Instead, the olive trees imported from the Mediterranean died in the frozen ground during the mid-Atlantic winters, and the beer went sour in the summer heat. American settlers could have consulted with the resident experts—the Native Americans who had lived in the eastern part of the continent for thousands of years and knew more about the local climate than anyone else. But they generally didn’t. (“Descriptions of local indigenous knowledge in early colonial narratives,” the historian Sam White noted in his book A Cold Welcome, “are mostly conspicuous by their absence.”) 

BRAZILIAN GREENS COLLIDE WITH OLD RED DEAL

 Given the career of former  Brazilian Science Minister and true-blue Red State Red Aldo Rebelo, Lenin ought to have observed that  you can't make an omelet without breaking some watermelons. 

The New York Times Rio stringer writes: 

"Calling Aldo Rebelo a climate-change skeptic would be putting it mildly. In his days as a fiery legislator in the Communist Party of Brazil, he railed against those who say human activity is warming the globe and called the international environmental movement “nothing less, in its geopolitical essence, than the bridgehead of imperialism.”

“At first I thought this was some sort of mistake, that he was playing musical chairs and landed in the wrong chair,” said Márcio Santilli, a founder of Instituto Socioambiental, one of Brazil’s leading environmental groups. “Unfortunately, there he is, overseeing Brazilian science at a very delicate juncture when Brazil’s carbon emissions are on the rise again.”

Environmental  Defense  Fund   Tropical Forest Policy Director Steve Schwartzman styles him an 

"old-line Communist fan of Marx and Engels,... on exactly the same page on climate science as the hardest of the hard-core tea  partiers  in  the  United  States : it’s  all  speculation  – ‘scientism’ – not real science.”

GATES OF HELL GOBSMACK GUARDIAN LEDE WRITERS

MODELS : CONSIDERABLY OLDER & POSSIBLY WISER

 REALCLIMATE REPORTS :

The 5th International Conference on Regional Climate

4 OCT 2023 BY RASMUS 

The fifth international conference on regional climate (ICRC 2023), organised by World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP) coordinated downscaling experiment (CORDEX), has just completed. It was a hybrid on-site/online conference with hubs in both Trieste/Italy (hosted by the International Centre on Theoretical Physics, ICTP) and Pune/India. The hybrid set-up, with video links between the two … Read Full Article

Provision of climate information to society

One session was devoted to the interaction with society. To me, it seems that CORDEX is not yet ready to provide society with robust and actionable information, despite the initiative from the WCRP called regional information for society (RIfS).

RIfS has taken a long time since it was conceived in 2020 (my impression is that it’s still not ready). There is an urgency underscored by the numerous reports of weather-related calamities around the world – we are not even adapted to the current climate and a newsreport from Washington Post reveals that 2023 September month global mean temperature was probably about 1.7°C above the preindustrial level.

There is a WCRP Open Science Conference (OSC 2023) in Kigali October 23-27 where RIfS probably will be discussed further, but it’s not clear to me what it’s all about or who is involved. My impression is that the WCRP and RIfS have closer links to more academic university communities than for instance more applied and operational national meteorological services.

Many national meteorological services have already established routines and are experienced in providing regional weather and climate information to society.

For instance, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute collaborates with various institutions and authorities, such as the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection, power production (StatKraft) and grid (Statnett), road authorities, aviation, rail, and defense. Our experience is that relevant information flows quite well within such a professional network.

Climate services in Norway differ from weather forecasting as they aim at the municipalities and need to reach local engineers and policymakers. There are other hurdles that need to be overcome when establishing new routines compared to state authorities.

For instance, small municipalities typically lack resources, the know how and incentives. They often have set protocols and routines that are not designed to accommodate climate change adaptation.

Typical topics include water management and area planning. A unique approach in Norway is to channel climate information through the trade union for civil engineers, Tekna (which is both a professional society and a trade union), e.g. through professional courses.

The meteorological service also has some experience with impact studies and we have collaborated on e.g. toxicology (SETAC), health, biology, national heritage, indigenous people (reindeer herders), and disaster risk reduction (e.g. flooding, earth-slides). So even if the progress is slow with RIfS, there is plenty of activities on applied research relevant for society.

Some self criticism

A remark made during the ICRC made me wonder about the question: Would our regional climate modelling community benefit from more critical reflections and discussion about what we should avoid?

My impression is that there are some cases of flawed use of downscaling that we don’t call out often enough. Nevertheless, it’s necessary to be extra critical and quizzical when our results are used for climate change adaptation and impact studies in order to avoid maladaptation and misleading impact studies.

One message that I tried to remind my colleagues is that everybody, who downscales global climate model output for use as regional and local climate projections, must read Deser et al. (2012) and account for random regional climate variations on scales up to decades.

There are too many examples of regional and local climate projections based on one or a small number of global climate model simulations. The “law of small numbers” implies a minimum number of independent simulations in an ensemble (Rabin, 2002).

If one picks the results from one climate model one gets a projection, but if one were to chose another computation from the very same model, then the projection would look quite different.

The difference is due to the chaotic nature of natural regional climate variations. But if we estimate statistics (e.g mean or probability distribution/histogram) on say 100 simulations, then such statistics won’t be much affected if we were to change one or some of the model simulations. This is what we mean by robust results and it’s also useful that statistical properties often are more predictable than individual outcomes.

CLIMATE COMMUNICATORS : EMBRACE YOUR INNER BORE!

 Position Papers

Boredom and the politics of climate change

Ben Anderson

Pages 133-141 | Received 28 Mar 2023, Accepted 29 Mar 2023, Published online: 16 Apr 2023

https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2197869

ABSTRACT
In this position paper, I speculate on what we 

might learn about the politics of climate change

if we stay with the possibility that boredom 

might be part of how subjects encounter and 

make sense of climate change.

I argue that boredom enacts an ethically and 

politically ambivalent detachment from the 

demand to act that accompanies urgency-

imbued vocabularies of crisis and emergency.

Whether boredom is a refusal to face climate 

change, or a way of coping with and inhabiting

 the overwhelming, being bored with climate 

change allows existing attachments to fossil-

fuelled lives and futures to continue.

The event of climate change is ‘suspended, in

the sense that it is no longer affectively present.

I distinguish this relation of ‘climate change 

suspension’ from two other ways of detaching

 from the event of climate change – ‘climate 

change denial’ and ‘climate change delay’. 

Unlike in denial or delay, in suspension the 

demand of climate change is held in abeyance, 

not ended. It returns in ways that blur the line

between boredom and other affects. 

In conclusion, I reflect on the affective politics

 of climate change, and wonder about how 

boredom could become part of a progressive

politics of climate change