The article about heavy winter coats being a psychological prop is indeed very funny. However, the True Believers will simply come back with "It's not global warming, it's global climate change!" which is a figleaf for anything contrary to their narrative.
As a former True Believer, I am entitled to say this.
The climate is constantly changing, in many different cycles, short and long. This is the nature of the climate on earth.
The illusion of the True Believers is that this can be changed, and somehow we can fix the climate into a specific state. The True Believers are the True Climate Change Deniers.
Well of course, everyone knows that Mother Nature checks the buying patterns of all humans in all clothing stores all over the world before she decides the temperature at which to set Earth's thermostat.
what a beautiful place you live in. i am fortunate too. unlikely to ever have my own little house but from my windows i can see the river just outside and the mountains nearby, and we've already had a very light snowfall and can expect the river to freeze over sometime between now and spring. i am very grateful god invented polyester fleece and that our fabulous local thrift store gets lotsa lotsa returns from the l. l. bean mall store and i own a significant percentage of 'em now.
I'm jealous. I want to go to your thrift store! I wait for sales to buy my LLB clothes, but the sales are skimpy now - 10% off instead of what used to be 15-25% off.
That is my habit. I feel blessed every day. It's so easy to focus on the bad and not see the good. That provides some energy to give to making our world a bit better. Like Eugyppius I am amazed at the incompetence of our governments yet also accept I am not solely responsible for changing that. I remind myself that I am nobody special except to my family & friends. We are not that important even to planet Earth let alone the vast Universe.
Well, I do like to remember that my most important role in life is that of father. But I do like to think I'm a little more important in the grand scheme of things! On a beautiful, sunny Thanksgiving Day on a hike in a marsh wildlife refuge, I met a Persian-American Ph.D. in Geography who said that every morning he rises and gives thanks for being alive in this wonderful world. What a great approach. I've been trying to do the same every morning myself, with some success.
This morning's Bloomberg editorial featured the same claim: 2023 is the hottest on record. The "proof" offered was worse than lame. Perhaps this is a coordinated campaign from the Warmistas.
Every new year will be the hottest year on record, because they manipulate the record to erase the past.
Even in legitimate, non-political science, we are seeing claims with "16 sigma" certainty (roughly one chance in a hundred billion that they are wrong) quickly countered by papers re-examining the data and claiming the opposite with smaller, but still outrageous sigma values. And when you look at the data, you find that there isn't enough there to conclude anything at all with any certainty. The whole practice of science is corrupted and untrustworthy.
"Perhaps this is a coordinated campaign from the Warmistas." - Of course it is - coinciding with COP28 being held in Dubai just in case the world is paying attention.
Not unless they're prepared to address all their failed long ago predictions of how these phenomena would no longer exist today. In 2000, the UK experts announced children would no longer experience snow in their lifetime - today half the country's blanketed with snow/freezing cold with the energy supplies barely coping. As for places like Tuvalu sinking from sight, it appears the territory has grown and the authorities built a number of new airports for tourists.
Thanks for your reply. I am so glad the children of UK get to see snow, their parents must be ecstatic. Somehow I doubt the "experts" will admit their error. It may fall to us to remind each other of yesterday's weather that contradicts the experts. How else will we learn to scoff at experts?
I've lived in South Texas most of my life and am used to very very hot summers. But this one was the worst - almost 3 months of 100+ degrees and nearly no rain. Nothing in my memory like it.
Yes, but across the northern border, southern Ontario and the Great Lakes basin had a cooler and wetter summer than normal. Grass that often goes dormant in late July stayed green through most of August. Signs of climate change perhaps, but not global boiling.
I should add that the cooler, wetter weather in the Great Lakes region where I live makes it hard for me to understand the wildfires (a few hundred km to the north) in June that were apparently caused by climate change.
have a wonderful First Advent yourself! Munich broke the snow record (measured since 1933) for December. On the 2nd day of the month. The members of the new Globalist religion (Covidians, Climatologists, Sexual Perverts, etc.) are never merely wrong, they are always Dumb-and-Dumber wrong...
I wish you good tidings of great joy. Civilized life is still awesome and well worth protecting. Images such as these should get more attention than paid protesters rampaging through our cities.
If Greta the gargoyle really cared about saving the planet then she’d stay home and stop running up her carbon footprint travelling here there and everywhere.
Although not a fan of cold/snow/ice/winter, it's quite picturesque. In due course, I'm likely to see similar views out my window in southern New England.
Oh, you bet. They are beyond awful. The over the top insanity of these pompous assholes flying on their private jets to Dubai to yap about carbon is beyond absurd. Where would the idiot Left be without Hypocrisy and an utter lack of their own irony?
God is such an artist. He gives us beautiful scenery. " For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made." - Paul, Romans 1
LOL. I spent the entirety of October and almost all of November 1995 in Germany- I was able to wear a t-shirt outside during the day pretty much the entire time.
Gorgeous photos!
There are few things more beautiful than a sunny day after a snowfall.
So happy about this - going skiing at Kitzbuhel over Christmas.
The article about heavy winter coats being a psychological prop is indeed very funny. However, the True Believers will simply come back with "It's not global warming, it's global climate change!" which is a figleaf for anything contrary to their narrative.
As a former True Believer, I am entitled to say this.
There are not wrong.
The climate is constantly changing, in many different cycles, short and long. This is the nature of the climate on earth.
The illusion of the True Believers is that this can be changed, and somehow we can fix the climate into a specific state. The True Believers are the True Climate Change Deniers.
Maybe they'll claim that people getting proper winter clothing caused it to snow?
Well of course, everyone knows that Mother Nature checks the buying patterns of all humans in all clothing stores all over the world before she decides the temperature at which to set Earth's thermostat.
Well, she /is/ a mother so of course she wants her children to be properly dressed in winter.
Good point.
Honorable to admit your brainwashing. Admirable to embrace the facts.
And a holy Christmas season to you!
wishing everyone a joyous christmas season too.
what a beautiful place you live in. i am fortunate too. unlikely to ever have my own little house but from my windows i can see the river just outside and the mountains nearby, and we've already had a very light snowfall and can expect the river to freeze over sometime between now and spring. i am very grateful god invented polyester fleece and that our fabulous local thrift store gets lotsa lotsa returns from the l. l. bean mall store and i own a significant percentage of 'em now.
I'm jealous. I want to go to your thrift store! I wait for sales to buy my LLB clothes, but the sales are skimpy now - 10% off instead of what used to be 15-25% off.
so you don't want to know about the lands end stadium squall coat i got a decade ago for $10. in a lovely tasteful plum with gray fleece lining.
How cool you have it.
We can see the ocean dancing in front of us from our apt. The wind rang the doorbell before dawn. An wild and wonderful Winter
Wishing you a lovely one
snow has just begun falling. what tempers my love of snow is loved ones needing to drive in it. otherwise i feel happy when i see the first flakes.
and i am very very lucky. it was a long strange road indeed, getting here. but i ended up a little bit more than ok.
a beautiful winter season to you and yours, too.
❤️
Beautiful pics!
Beautiful photos. What a wonderful world.
"What a wonderful world."
It is so important to stop and take time each day to remember that!
That is my habit. I feel blessed every day. It's so easy to focus on the bad and not see the good. That provides some energy to give to making our world a bit better. Like Eugyppius I am amazed at the incompetence of our governments yet also accept I am not solely responsible for changing that. I remind myself that I am nobody special except to my family & friends. We are not that important even to planet Earth let alone the vast Universe.
Well, I do like to remember that my most important role in life is that of father. But I do like to think I'm a little more important in the grand scheme of things! On a beautiful, sunny Thanksgiving Day on a hike in a marsh wildlife refuge, I met a Persian-American Ph.D. in Geography who said that every morning he rises and gives thanks for being alive in this wonderful world. What a great approach. I've been trying to do the same every morning myself, with some success.
This morning's Bloomberg editorial featured the same claim: 2023 is the hottest on record. The "proof" offered was worse than lame. Perhaps this is a coordinated campaign from the Warmistas.
Every new year will be the hottest year on record, because they manipulate the record to erase the past.
Even in legitimate, non-political science, we are seeing claims with "16 sigma" certainty (roughly one chance in a hundred billion that they are wrong) quickly countered by papers re-examining the data and claiming the opposite with smaller, but still outrageous sigma values. And when you look at the data, you find that there isn't enough there to conclude anything at all with any certainty. The whole practice of science is corrupted and untrustworthy.
Now I see the reason for the COVID jabs to kill people: fewer people to remember real weather statistics.
You are sooo right. Broken knowledge systems everywhere.
"Perhaps this is a coordinated campaign from the Warmistas." - Of course it is - coinciding with COP28 being held in Dubai just in case the world is paying attention.
Good point. People in a hot climate in a country whose economy is powered by the production and sale of petroleum. Just the right place for COP28.
Do you think they will ever hold it in a snowbound nation in the winter? Or a low elevation island in the ocean?
Not unless they're prepared to address all their failed long ago predictions of how these phenomena would no longer exist today. In 2000, the UK experts announced children would no longer experience snow in their lifetime - today half the country's blanketed with snow/freezing cold with the energy supplies barely coping. As for places like Tuvalu sinking from sight, it appears the territory has grown and the authorities built a number of new airports for tourists.
Thanks for your reply. I am so glad the children of UK get to see snow, their parents must be ecstatic. Somehow I doubt the "experts" will admit their error. It may fall to us to remind each other of yesterday's weather that contradicts the experts. How else will we learn to scoff at experts?
I've lived in South Texas most of my life and am used to very very hot summers. But this one was the worst - almost 3 months of 100+ degrees and nearly no rain. Nothing in my memory like it.
Yes, but across the northern border, southern Ontario and the Great Lakes basin had a cooler and wetter summer than normal. Grass that often goes dormant in late July stayed green through most of August. Signs of climate change perhaps, but not global boiling.
I should add that the cooler, wetter weather in the Great Lakes region where I live makes it hard for me to understand the wildfires (a few hundred km to the north) in June that were apparently caused by climate change.
Texas really got blasted last summer, but the rest of north America not so much. Rather on the cool side mostly.
Mother nature balances out ... not always how we expect...
have a wonderful First Advent yourself! Munich broke the snow record (measured since 1933) for December. On the 2nd day of the month. The members of the new Globalist religion (Covidians, Climatologists, Sexual Perverts, etc.) are never merely wrong, they are always Dumb-and-Dumber wrong...
I wish you good tidings of great joy. Civilized life is still awesome and well worth protecting. Images such as these should get more attention than paid protesters rampaging through our cities.
Amen
Season's greetings Eugyppius. Thanks again for all that you do.
the old "global boiling" at work. call greta! the apocalypse is at hand!! she'll be so pleased.
If Greta the gargoyle really cared about saving the planet then she’d stay home and stop running up her carbon footprint travelling here there and everywhere.
i thought she took sail boats or swam
Thanks for the photos.
Although not a fan of cold/snow/ice/winter, it's quite picturesque. In due course, I'm likely to see similar views out my window in southern New England.
Note: "out my window." I prefer to stay INSIDE.
Time for more needlework.
Hilarious. Just wonderful to read. These Climate Clowns are the ridiculous gift that keeps on giving.
But unfortunately, also taking: The financial and psychological damage they do to people at this point is probably unquantifiably enormous.
Oh, you bet. They are beyond awful. The over the top insanity of these pompous assholes flying on their private jets to Dubai to yap about carbon is beyond absurd. Where would the idiot Left be without Hypocrisy and an utter lack of their own irony?
God is such an artist. He gives us beautiful scenery. " For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made." - Paul, Romans 1
A joyous season to you too, Eugyppius! I take the snow as a sign of divine favour.
LOL. I spent the entirety of October and almost all of November 1995 in Germany- I was able to wear a t-shirt outside during the day pretty much the entire time.
In the south of Germany that happens sometimes. This year, it was warm and sunny all of October. Now, it is unusually cold, indeed.