Wednesday, April 15, 2026

The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kNvSu93P9Q&t=1153s

This guy says many of the same things I’ve been saying, such as pointing out how changes in the Earth’s orbit can cause ice ages.  He talks about the massive CO2 decline over Earth's history and how it got dangerously low 20,000 years ago, where if it had been any lower, all terrestrial plant life would have died.

However, he denies any relationship between man-made emissions and rising temperatures.

The average global atmospheric temperature has risen by about 1 to 1.1 degrees since 1880. Some of the temperature records are controversial because the government has adjusted past measurements, claiming that earlier methods were not consistent with modern ones. Nevertheless, we know that temperatures have increased, albeit rather slowly.

It seems very likely that man-made emissions have been at least partially responsible for this increase. However, we also came out of the Little Ice Age around 1850, so there was already an upward trend.

The temperature and CO₂ data suggest that the rate of change is gradual and that temperature sensitivity to CO₂ is relatively low. I have no reason to believe that we are in a climate crisis, at least not in the near future.

Reportedly, out of the 100+ models that the IPCC uses, the only model that accurately predicts actual climate is the less extreme Russian model.  However,  the IPCC likes to average all the models, including the more extreme ones.  They make their predictions with huge error bars, indicating a wide range of possible outcomes, because they really don't know.  However, the focus tends to be on the more extreme predictions.

Almost all of the disagreement is about the degree of positive feedback, also known as Climate Sensitivity.  Although this seems mild now, I can't rule out some significant effect in the future.  However, if there were, we would have plenty of warning.  These changes happen very slowly.

All of the really bad scenarios would require us to raise the temperature by 4 to 5 degrees.   We just aren't getting there very fast, and we are running out of fossil fuels.




Tuesday, April 14, 2026

You are being misled about renewable energy technology


@john2001plus
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I am almost convinced, but...

Reportedly, China has massively subsidized solar panel construction in order to dominate the world market, leading to an oversupply, driving solar panel cost down by 90%.   Is this a sustainable economic situation?

Given that, I think that the free market will use the most economic source of energy, which could change depending upon a combination of economics and politics.

There is much concern about the reliability of renewable energy.  The counter argument is that you need massive backup sources of energy, but it seems to me that we already have that.

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Roald Dahl

His works for children include James and the Giant Peach; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Matilda;  Fantastic Mr Fox; The BFG;

Dahl made repeated antisemitic comments throughout his life,[101] and ultimately stated he was antisemitic in his late life.[102] In August 1983, Dahl reviewed Australian author Tony Clifton's God Cried, a picture book about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War.[103] The article, in which Dahl stated the Jews had never "switched so rapidly from much-pitied victims to barbarous murderers", appeared in the Literary Review and was the subject of media comment and criticism at the time.[104] Dahl wrote that Clifton's book would make readers "violently anti-Israeli", at the time saying, "I am not anti-Semitic. I am anti-Israel."[105] In 1990, Dahl spoke again on the Lebanon invasion, stating "they killed 22,000 civilians when they bombed Beirut. It was very much hushed up in the newspapers because they are primarily Jewish-owned. I'm certainly anti-Israeli and I've become antisemitic in as much as that you get a Jewish person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism. I think they should see both sides. It's the same old thing: we all know about Jews and the rest of it. There aren't any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they control the media—jolly clever thing to do".[106] His comments invoked responses from Jewish colleagues and friends, with the philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin, stating, "I thought he might say anything. Could have been pro-Arab or pro-Jew. There was no consistent line. He was a man who followed whims, which meant he would blow up in one direction, so to speak",[105] while Amelia Foster, Jewish director of the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, said, "He had a childish reaction to what was going on in Israel. Dahl wanted to provoke, as he always provoked at dinner."[107] As a consequence of his comments, in 2014, the Royal Mint decided not to produce a coin to commemorate the centenary of Dahl's birth.[108] In 2020, Dahl's family published a statement on the official Roald Dahl website apologising for his antisemitism.[109]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Why Marxism Is Incoherent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UEJKhrt-aM

Political theories often obscure what is really going on. At its core, the issue comes down to whether individuals or the government should make decisions—and, consequently, whether individuals or the government should pay for services. When the government pays for a service, it reduces individual choice.

For example, if the government provided refrigerators, you might not like the ones it offers. However, your taxes would still go toward funding those refrigerators, regardless of whether you choose to buy a different one. This argument can be applied to education, yet few people believe that education should be entirely private.

A case can be made for many public services. Likewise, some burdens are easier to manage when they are shared collectively.




Saturday, March 21, 2026

I Don't Look Like a Navy SEAL

Diego Garcia

Iran sent two missiles toward Diego Garcia.  It is a joint British and American military base in the Indian Ocean, 2500 miles from Iran.  Reportedly, Iran's missiles only have a range of 2000 miles.  The news speculates that Iran has more missile capability than we thought.

One missile failed and the other was shot down.


https://www.google.com/maps/place/Diego+Garcia/@-7.3501716,72.386672,30040m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x249273fe6d69b0ad:0x3b3c07570eb0d1c5!8m2!3d-7.3195005!4d72.4228556!16zL20vMDJkZHY?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMxOC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Thursday, March 19, 2026

The nation is accelerating its self-assassination

Thomas Jefferson said spending money to be repaid by posterity is "swindling futurity on a large scale." There is, however, no injustice in borrowing from the future to fund public goods — those from which all citizens, present and future, will benefit. Such goods — physical (roads, dams, harbors, defense) and intellectual (education, scientific research) — are the infrastructure enabling society's dynamism. The swindle that has become normal is perpetrated by generations in power funding their consumption of government goods by burdening — borrowing from — future generations.

This practice stores up risk. The higher the national debt as a percentage of GDP, the less leeway government has to respond to recessions or other economic shocks. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the government entered the last two recessions with the national debt at 35 percent and 80 percent of GDP, respectively. Today it is 100 percent.

If we have banished the business cycle, relax. If not … "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself," said the physicist Richard Feynman, "and you are the easiest person to fool."

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

CIA agent reveals why torture fails

Jesus’s Last Supper In America

Although I don't agree with the politcal message, the video is very amusing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmQUDu2l5jg

This reminds me of a joke I heard a long time ago:

A Cardinal rushes in to see the Pope.  He says, "I have good news and bad news."  The Pope asks, "What is the good news?"  The Cardinal says, "Jesus has returned to Earth and is on the phone for you!!".  The Pope says, "Wonderful!!  What is the bad news?"   The Cardinal syas, "He is calling from Salt Lake City!". 




The Grenade EXPLODED and TORE Through Me

Saturday, March 7, 2026

My Comment on Facebook.

In response to...




John Coffey
Paranoid. I'm sorry, but every anti-vax person I have talked to is a conspiracy-theorist. Some of these are my closest friends, but they believe things like, "Bill Gates wants to kill us all.", and "Billionaires want to kill 90% of the human race." I would like to say that I have no idea where they get these ideas, but I have some ideas: First, I see many people online who fan the flames of paranoia. Second, almost 60 years ago, one of the Rockefeller's said that he would like to see the population decrease. I've seen some twisted logic that tries to apply this to all billionaires, like they want to commit mass extermination. As if Bill Gates wants the same things as the Rockefellers. Finally, there is a great resentment toward wealth: Someone commented to me that people in the medical field live in mansions so they can't be trusted.  The argument is that the medical field is not interested in our welfare but only in profit.

I am repeatedly told that you have to "read between the lines" to get to the real truth.  The problem with that idea is that it is open to wild interpretations not based on evidence.