Tag: Carbon Cult
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New thought on an old subject
Or at least a new emphasis. From the start of this blog in 2005 I’ve been hammering on the superstition of “climate”. Before 1975, people who thought they could influence the weather by prayer and ritual were superstitious primitives. Before 1975, people who treated the weather as a complex pattern of natural cycles were scientists.…
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Fuck the “informed citizen”.
Lately some folks on both “sides” are complaining that nobody worries about conditions in other parts of the world, or conditions in other social classes. Everyone is focusing on our own “lived experience” and ignoring Ukraine and Israel and Yemen and Elections and The Soul Of Democracy and The Environment and Official Economic Statistics. Lived…
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Reminds me of
Another of those Natl Assn of Mfrs films. This one is mainly about uses of ultrasonics. Many of them are familiar now, detecting flaws in aluminum or embryos, and cleaning surfaces. Here’s a use that didn’t seem to go anywhere, but the experiment is dramatically effective: Ultrasonic sound breaks up fog and smog. Reminds me…
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70 years in reverse 2
Continued from previous. The New Deal had three purposes: 1. Smash Wall Street. 2. Restore Main Street. 3. Restore farms. Henry Wallace was in charge of restoring farms, and the TVA and REA worked on the same goal. REA news in 1936 quoted a speech by the head of the New Hampshire Farm Bureau….. =…
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Human centered enviro
Senator Norris, the godfather of TVA, was also a strong patron of rural electrification and cooperatives. Here’s part of a letter he wrote to an REA coop. = = = = = START NORRIS: One of the greatest things, it seems to me, that has ever been done for the happiness and welfare of the…
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70 years in reverse
Here’s a much more serious early adopter from the same 1954 REA news. = = = = = START QUOTE: The Chairman, General Manager, and staff members of the Atomic Energy Commission met recently with the Administrator and staff members of the Rural Electrification Administration, the Administrator’s policy advisory committee and the committee on atomic…
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Metrology lesson
The Pew Center has some graphs on the decline of newspapers. They broke a basic rule of metrology. Always put measurements into context. Know the baseline and measure in proportion to the baseline. Pew’s graph of newspaper total circulation (brown line) seems to show that newspapers were starting to lose in 1990, when digital media…
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Useful timeline and landmark
Denyse points to this article about peer review. It’s headlined as a call for transformation, but it starts from a fake premise. The authors are puzzled that peer review doesn’t do what it was “supposed to do”. They do show a beautifully exponential timeline of the tenure fraud, and they bring out an important landmark…
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50th anniversary
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Enid flood. If the weather had waited two more years to pull such a crime, it could have shifted the blame to global warming. Unfortunately the Innovative Disruptive Gaian theology hadn’t been invented yet, so primitive dumb savages blamed the weather itself.
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Writers aren’t auto workers
The Ankler writes about the aftermath of the writers strike: = = = = = START QUOTE: Downstream financial harm to adjacent businesses generates social and political pressures that further enhance that negotiating leverage — as long as striking workers can capture the hearts and minds of those affected third parties, and of the public…
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Return to Trinity House
MindMatters is pointing to the latest Carbon Craziness from a major “science” journal. Not new. This is the permanent norm in academia. Science is Dillinger. Science goes where the money is. The major magazines have been screeching about Carbon for 15 years, interrupted only by their louder and more genocidal screeching about “virus”. Pointing won’t…
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Statusometer
Curbside Classic features a 1969 Motor Trend article comparing the three luxury brands. As always, MT tested everything from braking to G-force to suspension characteristics. They concluded that Lincoln was the best by car guy standards, but they also recognized that luxury buyers aren’t car guys. So they found a way to test STATUS, which…
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There will always be an England
CODE RED CLIMATE BURNING EMERGENCY! headline in Daily Express: UK hot weather: Indian Summer brings 22C heat as new map shows when it will blast Britain 22C is 72 FUCKING DEGREES in real numbers. That’s not HEAT, that’s goddamn ROOM TEMPERATURE. That’s the ideal goal of air conditioning in actual hot weather. You’re getting “blasted”…
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The turnaround man
RFK has his own Substack now, and he’s using it enthusiastically. He met with Oliver Anthony, the working-class singer. RFK empathized lyrically and accurately with the plight of working MEN. And then he turned the solution toward Organic Non-GMO farming. We envision regenerative agriculture and greenhouses where residents will grow wholesome organic food, learn skills,…
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One promising note
The philosophers and Intelligent Design folks are still handling the wrong end of the AI question, trying to knock its competence and credibility and HumanPersonNess. Those qualities are IRRELEVANT to the Tech Tyrants who are mobilizing and implementing AI. The Hollywood strikers, who were formerly on the wrong side of nearly all questions, are hitting…
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