How the climatoids spent the summer lecturing us on the permanent drought that climate change has brought to Central Europe, and how they have earned nothing but rain for their hubris
How the climatoids spent the summer lecturing us on the permanent drought that climate change has brought to Central Europe, and how they have earned nothing but rain for their hubris
June headlines: "Germany is facing permanent drought." August headlines after a rainy summer: "Rain is no help against drought." December headlines after still more rain: "There is no more drought."
If not for the ruination they are bringing to everyone's life, it would save us the expense of buying comic literature and tickets to funny movies. [Used copies of vintage comic literature and tickets to classic movie marathons, of course.]
I'm sure I've seen helpful advice by the usual gang of idiots that pretty much parallels this. From the "to save the planet launder your jeans once a year" crowd.
Not too long ago, the progressives of the 1960s and 1970s decades imagined a future where everyone wore either drab unisex coveralls, or dungarees.
As did their spiritual forebears of the 1920s.
And 1880s.
Something in the mind of idealists makes them take a cookie-cutter approach to things, it seems.
(If you don't launder your jeans, and if they weren't made in the PRC, they become waterproof in about three months. And smelly. I know from experience.)
During this my Adventure of the Wrist, a pair of mine were well on the way to becoming oilcloth. They were very grateful to have recently become re-acquainted with the washing machine.
It's wonderful how propaganda has convinced the average person that Shakers and Quakers were not actually batshit crazy.
love that quote. it shows that we dealing with literal morons that should be able to easily silenced. The only thing these nihlist activists can do is shout loudly and cement themselves in front of highways or destroy works of art.
I will note with sorrow that literal morons may be found on every political side and in every community that regards itself as one of faith--which is a very expansive category.
These guys are joyless. There may be some importance to being earnest in the execution of one's professional responsibilities but these seem to be the type to whom one can try to explain a joke until one dies of exhaustion.
GCC is the biggest hustle of all time. These doomsdayers wish to feast on our flesh. They are the parasitical plutocrats of our time.
"When you see that in order to produce you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you
see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice-You may know that your society is
I don't know what the big deal is. Clearly they'll soon blame the rain on climate change and spend untold amounts of money figuring out a solution to a non-existent problem. It's the only way they can legitimize their existence. 🤡
In NZ the rain is blamed on climate change. Storms are blamed on climate change. Floods are blamed on climate change. Droughts are blamed on climate change. Poor performance of students in school is blamed on climate change. Sudden deaths are blamed on climate change.
We already had Jacinda and she made a mess of the country and put us in enormous debt. And we still have Te Pati Māori, so we don’t need any more problems.
It still amazes me that there are people gullible enough to give the government money so they can change the weather. The same government that cannot do anything right.
I think it should´ve been clear "in which direction the rabbit is running" no later than when the "officially approved expression" became "climate change" rather than "global warming", because now absolutely every phenomenon (or lack thereof) could be left-splained as "ackshually" being a symptom of "climate change".
I read somewhere earlier this week that climate change ”science” will no longer be based on actual temp trends & data but on “models”...where have we heard THAT phony, “follow the science”, wildly-overly-estimated-cow-shit before????
The idea is AI/machine learning and neural-nets have been fed all "climate data" from the entire planet - every record since date X - and that it from there will extrapolate the "correct" climate.
Yearly data will be continously fed into it, making it more and more correct and give it better predictive ability.
Based on this, political-economical-societal policy will be based and the model be used as justification for it, in a wonderful example of recursion. The idea is, long-term, to have everything so fine-tuned that society will no longer affect climate and therefore climate will stop changing.
The above is, I must stress, my personal extrapolation of what I've been told so take it with a hefty amount of NaCl.
Just repeating what I've heard, in bits and pieces. I don't have the tech-savvy to really wrigh in on the feasability in regards to hardware/software-thinggummies.
I do know this however, that the ideal striven for is effectively what can only be called stasis, or equilibrium. Extensive use of perpetually self-refining AI-modelling in all aspects of our lives will allow us to reach a global equilibrium between resources used/consumed.
For clarity's sake - that is not something I want to see happen.
Having dabbled in programming and worked with computers enough so my level of knowledge is probably just enough to be dangerous, I can grasp the theory there. I can see that it might actually even work out well.
However, we should never ignore the law of unintended consequences. As a lifelong science-fiction fan, I can imagine any number of those.
Because when you use a model, you control what the outcome will be, before any data are collected.
When you just collect empirical data, you can't really do that.
Up until now playing fast and loose with definitions of words have been sufficient but it's starting to fail at an increasing pace; the solution to this is to use models and AI:, thereby silencing all criticism in advance. To analyse and criticise models/AI will be too complex and complicated for most of us, and any criticism can therefore be waived away as unfounded.
(For a real-life tangential example, look at how criciticsms of the Lissabon treaty was handled. It was in excess of 60 000 pages, so no single person could have read it, and if you haven't read it, how can you criticise it?)
Also, access to the actual workings of an AI/model can be hidden behind NDAs, trademarks, patents and so on, further obscuring and obfuscating things.
The most horrible aspect is, even if everyone involved for real had the most noble intentions, the above is how it would turn out anyway - sooner or later someone would "need" to tweak something to someone's advantage, and once something's happened once, the probability of it happening again jumps to almost 1:1.
I continue to search for the motive of these people. The climate change narrative is as insidious and broad in scope as is the evidence that proves they are lying about it. But why do they keep lying about it?
My Dad first took me on a one week fishing trip to southeastern Ontario, Canada in 1973. I remember days when we would get rained on while fishing at least once or twice during that week, and the shoreline typically had no visible high water marks (the lake was full). We have continued our annual sojourn to that lake every summer since (except for the Covid years). I remember things changed in 1978 or 1979 when a drought hit and the lake level visibly droppped about 8 feet. Hot, dry summers with no rain during our week of fishing in July became the norm, to the point where the local farmers at Sunday mass were literally praying for rain (with the priest invoking the prayers). This continued for a stretch of ten years, without a break, until 1990 when the previous pattern of rain returned, and after a few years the water level returned to where it was pre-1978. It remains at that level today, with no high water marks visible. The farmers, somehow, survived ten+ years of drought and now they no longer pray for rain at Sunday mass. I love the land and lakes in that area; it is in many ways, the "land that time forgot." While some development has occurred over the past 50 years, much of it has remained exactly as it always was. I am continually amazed that no government bureaucrat has screwed things up there.
it is in fact quite simple. they have WAY too much time on their hands. If they all started farming, doing all the work themselves preferably without any mechanical help (only oxen or horses) they would not have time to think about this crap, they would fall in bed dead tired at night and have to get up at 5 again to hand milk the cows.
The Puritans put their dining room chairs on wall pegs when not being used for meals.
If things are this bad because people have too much time on their hands, we are in big trouble with continued workforce automation and universal basic income.
I think California is the playbook here. They literally got funding to build reservoirs, but never built them, nor do they maintain the ones they have. Then they pour billions of gallons out for some also died out fish (smelt apparently). And they keep building in new areas. Then, when it finally rains, and it does rain massively with El Niño, it makes up for the drought (as the cycle has always been), they pour all the excess water out to the ocean and start over again.
The big ramp up to the 2-4 year drought before El Niño saves the day is the drumbeat to : raise water prices and consumption taxes. It’s all about control.
Charlotte, you are so right! I live in California and they haven’t done one thing to solve our ‘water crises’ since we passed the bill to build more water storage! I wonder if it’s so bad why don’t they use the
Money for the stupid bullet train and start building desalination plants?! This stupid climate change narrative is ridiculous. Last year we had a ton of rain. It filled up the Tulare lakes which hadn’t been full for 40 years and no one says a word about why that is. The narrative has put wedges between friends of mine. They can’t resist to
Why? They dont want the masses to know the realities that they are being targeted for extinction--all of these programs are designed to kill billions of us. The youth and the naive will simply vote for their own self-extermination so the satanic globalists wont have to get their hands dirtied.
Total control. But more specifically: controlling what you eat crops or meat. Of course they've tied these to CC. controlling how you get around (or not), junk electric cars with little range and long recharge times, oh and limit flights. And keep raising MPG requirements until it becomes near impossible to achieve. No gas stoves or heating systems because if you have ALL electric, they can shut you off with that digital meter if you disobey them. No wood stoves, independence from them is verboten(sp?) That's essentially why they are tying EVERYTHING to climate change. --- And one thing that has always been a complaint is how "climate change" now automatically means 'man-made' climate change without any distinctions made. Natural, always been here, always present, with wide variations 'climate change' isn't even acknowledged.
These same people you reference also no doubt believe that the hordes of young Muslim and African males will culturally enrich your country and the rest of Europe, too.
I like Martin's blog, but a better source for all things sun related is Suspicious0bservers(dot)org. Daily YT news usually includes some of the latest science papers out, playlists to catch up on specific topics (check out the climate change playlist), and much more.
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We are now witnessing the middle stages of the Credibility Death Spiral™ for the Experts and mainstream media (and the governmental and NGO outfits that enrich them). It's getting harder and harder for even average normies not to "see what they see," and to notice that the reality around them is increasingly at odds with what they are being told. A gradual process, to be sure, but one that only moves in one direction. No one ever "unsees" the truth, or "unnotices" the liars.
I dunno. People seem pretty willing to be told what to think. At the Christmas lunch I attended yesterday just outside London, several people bemoaned how it "never snows on Christmas anymore". Someone said it was "crazy" that we were experiencing highs of 13 in December, because "we should be seeing frost and single-digit temperatures".
Having lived in the southeast of England for 20+ years now, yesterday struck me as a not untypical day for this time of year. It was overcast, drizzly at times, and mildly cool. Sure, the air temperature was a few degrees warmer than average. But guess what? Today we're back to highs of 8, which is basically average for the season. The fact is, it has always been rare to see snow or long spells of biting cold in December.
And yet everyone yesterday seemed in agreement that having a slightly mild Christmas was a sign of climate change and indicative of warming temperatures which will only spell trouble for humanity.
I must say, about 30 years ago, the winters in Holland were almost always quite cold. We could skate on nature's ice almost every winter and for prolonged periods when I was a kid. The renowned 'elfstedentocht' in Friesland (an ice skating marathon through eleven cities) was an almost yearly occurrence. This hasn't been the case for many years. It's become rare for the lakes to freeze over in the first place, let alone for weeks on end.
So long story short: I would say by my own experience, yes some warming has occurred. Enough to get me to notice. And I'm not that old yet. Further back in time, like 50 to 60 years and the winters were even colder. The discussion should not be about warming versus no warning. The discussion should be on the fact no-one really knows humans are at fault. I'd say no. Or at least only very marginal at best (and to our benefit, as the cold kills many many more people than the heat)
You make a fair point. There is some legitimate warming. But it started a while back, right? It's not a new thing. There's a difference between winters having been considerably colder 30, 40, or 50 years ago vs pretending that a milder-than-usual Christmas Day in 2023 is somehow novel or extraordinary.
And what exactly are the consequences of having winters get a bit milder? Given that this warming is not as new or urgent a phenomenon as people like to pretend, we should have some evidence by now proving these supposedly terrible impacts...
The impact is positive, as the cold takes many more lives than the warmth does. Of course it will have some negatives also, but to my mind the effect is positive if taken on average
To supplement my prior post, I'll simply observe that it won't take "full awakening" of the populace or even anything near that to effect change. How many support the trans agenda? Really fear climate change? Still mask up against COVID? 20% or less, I'd say. Most of those who took the jab (regardless of whether they can admit it to themselves) intuitively know they got suckered.
The point is, 20% or so will forever be hardcore believers; and 30-40% will mindlessly go along with whatever, without objecting--so that if the awakened number reaches somewhere between 30-40%, the power dynamic changes drastically. That is where we are heading.
Yeah, but that keeps them from seeing the truth in the first place. As Bret Weinstein likes to say, zero is a special number (or one). Once you've come to understand one truth, and accept it, it keeps nagging until all the others come rushing down. I guess. It was for me. No stone left unturned, I can't keep myself from digging further
I can make a climate guess as well as any global warming expert. When these clowns have data covering every year for the last 10 million years, then whatever computations they come up with, I will give them half a look. But it doesn't matter since the data will be whatever they want it to be. There is no truth in the world except whatever you come by in your personal daily living environment.
What is amazing is that there are four different major ice-core studies, performed in various parts of the earth (most notably Greenland and Antarctica) and all of them show surface temperatures spiking at the end of the last ice-age and then proceeding in a long-term downtrend ever since - a downtrend defined as a series of lower highs and lower lows. When you look at those trendlines, the first thought that comes to mind is, "I hope this downtrend stops or at least slows down!"
But you are right, the Climatistas look at the same data and come to the opposite thought.
A year or so, ago, prognosticators at the NOAA/NWS foretold that reservoirs in Califonia would "Never Recover, even if the atmospheric river were to remain for 10 years" from drought.
It took about six months, and all of California's public water reservoirs were at full pool.
These are the same folks who are generally mostly wrong on a forecast 3 days out.
I don't know. The last published dam failure in CA was in Jan of 2023. The next previous failure was 2017.
Casual internet searching shows that most (all except 1) of California's reservoirs are full above their historical average levels. One reservoir is below average, but fuller than the same time last year.
I am no longer surprised by much, be it the masturbatory climate-fantasies of anal-retentive closeted petty dictators or people thinking the position of Uranus influence your personality, but this stupidity with "ground water levels"... oh me oh my.
Go ask an actual hydrogeologist about it and he'll start by asking "Where exactly?". No guesses as to why.
But when you /succesfully/ can charge people €10 for a small bag of thumb-nail sized sawdust to throw on the grill/barbeque to "add flavour", what else can you expect?
"Rain is no help against drought."
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And soap don't get you clean in the bath. I was wrong to say most of these guys are still 12-year-old boys at heart.
They're five.
it’s really unbelievable.
If not for the ruination they are bringing to everyone's life, it would save us the expense of buying comic literature and tickets to funny movies. [Used copies of vintage comic literature and tickets to classic movie marathons, of course.]
Reminds me of an old Dilbert-strip, does the climate-change logic.
After a shower, you are the cleanest thing in your house.
Therefore, using a towel to dry out means you transfer dirt /from/ the towel, however miniscule, to you.
Therefore, you need never wash your towel since it only gets cleaner from you using it.
I'm sure I've seen helpful advice by the usual gang of idiots that pretty much parallels this. From the "to save the planet launder your jeans once a year" crowd.
Not too long ago, the progressives of the 1960s and 1970s decades imagined a future where everyone wore either drab unisex coveralls, or dungarees.
As did their spiritual forebears of the 1920s.
And 1880s.
Something in the mind of idealists makes them take a cookie-cutter approach to things, it seems.
(If you don't launder your jeans, and if they weren't made in the PRC, they become waterproof in about three months. And smelly. I know from experience.)
During this my Adventure of the Wrist, a pair of mine were well on the way to becoming oilcloth. They were very grateful to have recently become re-acquainted with the washing machine.
It's wonderful how propaganda has convinced the average person that Shakers and Quakers were not actually batshit crazy.
That's because the "drought" they're talking about is a drought of rational thought and common sense.
To be sure that sort of drought is pretty common throughout human history. It's just the craze of the times that changes.
love that quote. it shows that we dealing with literal morons that should be able to easily silenced. The only thing these nihlist activists can do is shout loudly and cement themselves in front of highways or destroy works of art.
I will note with sorrow that literal morons may be found on every political side and in every community that regards itself as one of faith--which is a very expansive category.
They are putting the Mad Hatter to shame...≥
Well. The Mad Hatter had his own charm.
These guys are joyless. There may be some importance to being earnest in the execution of one's professional responsibilities but these seem to be the type to whom one can try to explain a joke until one dies of exhaustion.
GCC is the biggest hustle of all time. These doomsdayers wish to feast on our flesh. They are the parasitical plutocrats of our time.
"When you see that in order to produce you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you
see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice-You may know that your society is
doomed."
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
That should be put onto business cards for easy distribution!
I don't know what the big deal is. Clearly they'll soon blame the rain on climate change and spend untold amounts of money figuring out a solution to a non-existent problem. It's the only way they can legitimize their existence. 🤡
In NZ the rain is blamed on climate change. Storms are blamed on climate change. Floods are blamed on climate change. Droughts are blamed on climate change. Poor performance of students in school is blamed on climate change. Sudden deaths are blamed on climate change.
Now all you need are Russians and MAGA Republicans. 🤣🤣🤣
We already had Jacinda and she made a mess of the country and put us in enormous debt. And we still have Te Pati Māori, so we don’t need any more problems.
Its too cold this summer... its manmade climate change
Its too dry this winter... its manmade climate change
cui bono...
It still amazes me that there are people gullible enough to give the government money so they can change the weather. The same government that cannot do anything right.
I think it should´ve been clear "in which direction the rabbit is running" no later than when the "officially approved expression" became "climate change" rather than "global warming", because now absolutely every phenomenon (or lack thereof) could be left-splained as "ackshually" being a symptom of "climate change".
I read somewhere earlier this week that climate change ”science” will no longer be based on actual temp trends & data but on “models”...where have we heard THAT phony, “follow the science”, wildly-overly-estimated-cow-shit before????
It's always been based on models. The models are ostensibly created out of actual temp trends and data, but you can make a model do whatever you want.
Apparently now it will no longer be based on actual temp trends & data
Was it ever, really?
😵💫
I know a little about this from my brother.
The idea is AI/machine learning and neural-nets have been fed all "climate data" from the entire planet - every record since date X - and that it from there will extrapolate the "correct" climate.
Yearly data will be continously fed into it, making it more and more correct and give it better predictive ability.
Based on this, political-economical-societal policy will be based and the model be used as justification for it, in a wonderful example of recursion. The idea is, long-term, to have everything so fine-tuned that society will no longer affect climate and therefore climate will stop changing.
The above is, I must stress, my personal extrapolation of what I've been told so take it with a hefty amount of NaCl.
“…to have everything so fine-tuned that society will no longer affect climate…”
What a load of crap. As well as being extremely vague.
Just repeating what I've heard, in bits and pieces. I don't have the tech-savvy to really wrigh in on the feasability in regards to hardware/software-thinggummies.
I do know this however, that the ideal striven for is effectively what can only be called stasis, or equilibrium. Extensive use of perpetually self-refining AI-modelling in all aspects of our lives will allow us to reach a global equilibrium between resources used/consumed.
For clarity's sake - that is not something I want to see happen.
A.I. Not good. Very bad.
Having dabbled in programming and worked with computers enough so my level of knowledge is probably just enough to be dangerous, I can grasp the theory there. I can see that it might actually even work out well.
However, we should never ignore the law of unintended consequences. As a lifelong science-fiction fan, I can imagine any number of those.
Not to mention human greed, desire for power, $$, & all around man’s inhumanity to man….
Of course if geoengineering is really a thing (which I do), they’re messing w/ everything for ill intent
Why do folks think they can use models to predict the future of apparently stochastic systems?
Because when you use a model, you control what the outcome will be, before any data are collected.
When you just collect empirical data, you can't really do that.
Up until now playing fast and loose with definitions of words have been sufficient but it's starting to fail at an increasing pace; the solution to this is to use models and AI:, thereby silencing all criticism in advance. To analyse and criticise models/AI will be too complex and complicated for most of us, and any criticism can therefore be waived away as unfounded.
(For a real-life tangential example, look at how criciticsms of the Lissabon treaty was handled. It was in excess of 60 000 pages, so no single person could have read it, and if you haven't read it, how can you criticise it?)
Also, access to the actual workings of an AI/model can be hidden behind NDAs, trademarks, patents and so on, further obscuring and obfuscating things.
The most horrible aspect is, even if everyone involved for real had the most noble intentions, the above is how it would turn out anyway - sooner or later someone would "need" to tweak something to someone's advantage, and once something's happened once, the probability of it happening again jumps to almost 1:1.
I continue to search for the motive of these people. The climate change narrative is as insidious and broad in scope as is the evidence that proves they are lying about it. But why do they keep lying about it?
the goal is power and control; weather, inequalities, or pandemics, are just excuses to wrap the noose tighter and tighter
aj - yep. It’s all about fear. To make folks more compliant and thus easier to control.
They want to tax us more, and reduce free movement.
My Dad first took me on a one week fishing trip to southeastern Ontario, Canada in 1973. I remember days when we would get rained on while fishing at least once or twice during that week, and the shoreline typically had no visible high water marks (the lake was full). We have continued our annual sojourn to that lake every summer since (except for the Covid years). I remember things changed in 1978 or 1979 when a drought hit and the lake level visibly droppped about 8 feet. Hot, dry summers with no rain during our week of fishing in July became the norm, to the point where the local farmers at Sunday mass were literally praying for rain (with the priest invoking the prayers). This continued for a stretch of ten years, without a break, until 1990 when the previous pattern of rain returned, and after a few years the water level returned to where it was pre-1978. It remains at that level today, with no high water marks visible. The farmers, somehow, survived ten+ years of drought and now they no longer pray for rain at Sunday mass. I love the land and lakes in that area; it is in many ways, the "land that time forgot." While some development has occurred over the past 50 years, much of it has remained exactly as it always was. I am continually amazed that no government bureaucrat has screwed things up there.
Every climate crisis cultist should be given old Farmers Almanacs to read about the history of climate.
Yep. It’s called ‘weather patterns’. Our human lives aren’t even a fraction of a blip in time.
it is in fact quite simple. they have WAY too much time on their hands. If they all started farming, doing all the work themselves preferably without any mechanical help (only oxen or horses) they would not have time to think about this crap, they would fall in bed dead tired at night and have to get up at 5 again to hand milk the cows.
The Puritans put their dining room chairs on wall pegs when not being used for meals.
If things are this bad because people have too much time on their hands, we are in big trouble with continued workforce automation and universal basic income.
Its all about control Frank.....over you.
I think California is the playbook here. They literally got funding to build reservoirs, but never built them, nor do they maintain the ones they have. Then they pour billions of gallons out for some also died out fish (smelt apparently). And they keep building in new areas. Then, when it finally rains, and it does rain massively with El Niño, it makes up for the drought (as the cycle has always been), they pour all the excess water out to the ocean and start over again.
The big ramp up to the 2-4 year drought before El Niño saves the day is the drumbeat to : raise water prices and consumption taxes. It’s all about control.
Charlotte, you are so right! I live in California and they haven’t done one thing to solve our ‘water crises’ since we passed the bill to build more water storage! I wonder if it’s so bad why don’t they use the
Money for the stupid bullet train and start building desalination plants?! This stupid climate change narrative is ridiculous. Last year we had a ton of rain. It filled up the Tulare lakes which hadn’t been full for 40 years and no one says a word about why that is. The narrative has put wedges between friends of mine. They can’t resist to
Put in a dig about climate change any time they get a chance.
Stephanie, you can click on the three dots to the right, to edit your comment.
Follow the money, I always say.
Power. Control. Wealth. Fearmongering so they can get yet more. I don’t think they even think in terms of ‘truth’ and ‘lies’.
Bingo. It is irrelevant to them.
What matters is what people believe.
Why? They dont want the masses to know the realities that they are being targeted for extinction--all of these programs are designed to kill billions of us. The youth and the naive will simply vote for their own self-extermination so the satanic globalists wont have to get their hands dirtied.
Total control. But more specifically: controlling what you eat crops or meat. Of course they've tied these to CC. controlling how you get around (or not), junk electric cars with little range and long recharge times, oh and limit flights. And keep raising MPG requirements until it becomes near impossible to achieve. No gas stoves or heating systems because if you have ALL electric, they can shut you off with that digital meter if you disobey them. No wood stoves, independence from them is verboten(sp?) That's essentially why they are tying EVERYTHING to climate change. --- And one thing that has always been a complaint is how "climate change" now automatically means 'man-made' climate change without any distinctions made. Natural, always been here, always present, with wide variations 'climate change' isn't even acknowledged.
If only Chicken Little had been slaughtered, plucked and roasted the minute she first opened her mouth.
These same people you reference also no doubt believe that the hordes of young Muslim and African males will culturally enrich your country and the rest of Europe, too.
Danny Huckabee
For about 3-5 years now, they've been trying to launch and market the notion of the invaders being "climate refugees", a real triple whopper of a lie.
They aren't refugees at all.
It's got nothing to do with climate.
And it's not due to us they "have to" come here.
the entire climate refugee narrative is one of the most infuriating lies in all of history.
Martin Armstrong has a new article on the primary source of earth's weather. The SUN!
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/dark-hole-opens-in-the-sun-we-are-in-a-solar-minimum/?
Uh-oh. I just posted this same link before reading the comments, UD. Too eager to share it…Sorry ‘bout that.
I like Martin's blog, but a better source for all things sun related is Suspicious0bservers(dot)org. Daily YT news usually includes some of the latest science papers out, playlists to catch up on specific topics (check out the climate change playlist), and much more.
I watched that doc about him on Amazon, he's a fascinating guy!
We are now witnessing the middle stages of the Credibility Death Spiral™ for the Experts and mainstream media (and the governmental and NGO outfits that enrich them). It's getting harder and harder for even average normies not to "see what they see," and to notice that the reality around them is increasingly at odds with what they are being told. A gradual process, to be sure, but one that only moves in one direction. No one ever "unsees" the truth, or "unnotices" the liars.
I dunno. People seem pretty willing to be told what to think. At the Christmas lunch I attended yesterday just outside London, several people bemoaned how it "never snows on Christmas anymore". Someone said it was "crazy" that we were experiencing highs of 13 in December, because "we should be seeing frost and single-digit temperatures".
Having lived in the southeast of England for 20+ years now, yesterday struck me as a not untypical day for this time of year. It was overcast, drizzly at times, and mildly cool. Sure, the air temperature was a few degrees warmer than average. But guess what? Today we're back to highs of 8, which is basically average for the season. The fact is, it has always been rare to see snow or long spells of biting cold in December.
And yet everyone yesterday seemed in agreement that having a slightly mild Christmas was a sign of climate change and indicative of warming temperatures which will only spell trouble for humanity.
I must say, about 30 years ago, the winters in Holland were almost always quite cold. We could skate on nature's ice almost every winter and for prolonged periods when I was a kid. The renowned 'elfstedentocht' in Friesland (an ice skating marathon through eleven cities) was an almost yearly occurrence. This hasn't been the case for many years. It's become rare for the lakes to freeze over in the first place, let alone for weeks on end.
So long story short: I would say by my own experience, yes some warming has occurred. Enough to get me to notice. And I'm not that old yet. Further back in time, like 50 to 60 years and the winters were even colder. The discussion should not be about warming versus no warning. The discussion should be on the fact no-one really knows humans are at fault. I'd say no. Or at least only very marginal at best (and to our benefit, as the cold kills many many more people than the heat)
You make a fair point. There is some legitimate warming. But it started a while back, right? It's not a new thing. There's a difference between winters having been considerably colder 30, 40, or 50 years ago vs pretending that a milder-than-usual Christmas Day in 2023 is somehow novel or extraordinary.
And what exactly are the consequences of having winters get a bit milder? Given that this warming is not as new or urgent a phenomenon as people like to pretend, we should have some evidence by now proving these supposedly terrible impacts...
The impact is positive, as the cold takes many more lives than the warmth does. Of course it will have some negatives also, but to my mind the effect is positive if taken on average
We're living a trope.
To supplement my prior post, I'll simply observe that it won't take "full awakening" of the populace or even anything near that to effect change. How many support the trans agenda? Really fear climate change? Still mask up against COVID? 20% or less, I'd say. Most of those who took the jab (regardless of whether they can admit it to themselves) intuitively know they got suckered.
The point is, 20% or so will forever be hardcore believers; and 30-40% will mindlessly go along with whatever, without objecting--so that if the awakened number reaches somewhere between 30-40%, the power dynamic changes drastically. That is where we are heading.
'No one ever "unsees" the truth, or "unnotices" the liars.'
People have an amazing capacity for cognitive dissonance.
Yeah, but that keeps them from seeing the truth in the first place. As Bret Weinstein likes to say, zero is a special number (or one). Once you've come to understand one truth, and accept it, it keeps nagging until all the others come rushing down. I guess. It was for me. No stone left unturned, I can't keep myself from digging further
For some people that’s certainly true. Hopefully not all.
everyone is always talking about "truth" but no one has ever seen it
The pestilence of government officials and "experts" never abates, however. No drought of dim/mid/half wits.
I can make a climate guess as well as any global warming expert. When these clowns have data covering every year for the last 10 million years, then whatever computations they come up with, I will give them half a look. But it doesn't matter since the data will be whatever they want it to be. There is no truth in the world except whatever you come by in your personal daily living environment.
What is amazing is that there are four different major ice-core studies, performed in various parts of the earth (most notably Greenland and Antarctica) and all of them show surface temperatures spiking at the end of the last ice-age and then proceeding in a long-term downtrend ever since - a downtrend defined as a series of lower highs and lower lows. When you look at those trendlines, the first thought that comes to mind is, "I hope this downtrend stops or at least slows down!"
But you are right, the Climatistas look at the same data and come to the opposite thought.
"There is no truth in the world except whatever you come by in your personal daily living environment."
Exactly. It's high time that people start believing what's under their own nose; there is no "climate crisis." Trust your own eyes.
"Science" is a big part of our mythology
It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry.
The sun so hot I froze to death.
Global warming is the reason why.
Every time I think I can't hate these people enough - I learn I have untapped reserves. Merry Christmas and I hope for much Plague poasting in 2024
A year or so, ago, prognosticators at the NOAA/NWS foretold that reservoirs in Califonia would "Never Recover, even if the atmospheric river were to remain for 10 years" from drought.
It took about six months, and all of California's public water reservoirs were at full pool.
These are the same folks who are generally mostly wrong on a forecast 3 days out.
How close are some of the dams in California from breaking? I know this has been a problem in the past.
I don't know. The last published dam failure in CA was in Jan of 2023. The next previous failure was 2017.
Casual internet searching shows that most (all except 1) of California's reservoirs are full above their historical average levels. One reservoir is below average, but fuller than the same time last year.
I am no longer surprised by much, be it the masturbatory climate-fantasies of anal-retentive closeted petty dictators or people thinking the position of Uranus influence your personality, but this stupidity with "ground water levels"... oh me oh my.
Go ask an actual hydrogeologist about it and he'll start by asking "Where exactly?". No guesses as to why.
But when you /succesfully/ can charge people €10 for a small bag of thumb-nail sized sawdust to throw on the grill/barbeque to "add flavour", what else can you expect?