Curry on Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change.

Every time there is a major hurricane landfall WAPO and CNN rush forward experts to blame global warming. Curry provides and exhaustive look at what is known and what is not. What is not known is what is most important.

Attribution of any storm or its intensity is speculative nonsense. We do not have the data to claim to know. Continue reading “Everything You Wanted to Know about Tropical Cyclones *” →

WSJ 39 year nurse fired for refusing to confess racism

Elon Musk is right, Wokeness destroys the brain as surely as Mad Cow disease.

Confess and be punished or be punished anyway.

First it was in academia and government, and now it is spreading into medicine.

And the world laughs at us.

I used to look forward to seeing what had been said when I got back from fishing or watching the grandkids sports, but now I find myself cringing when I open my browser. This is supposed to be entertaining and intellectually stimulating, and a respectful exchange of ideas between people of differing world views.

But the discussion has turned poisoned and ugly. It started with a couple of posters who could not express an idea without prefacing it with personal insults, but it has proven contagious, and looking back, I see some of my own posts that got excessively personal.

Perhaps I should have nipped it in the bud by placing the original offenders on moderation, but once you start that, it blocks the flow of the discussion, and WordPress does not provide a means for marking an account for moderation without turning off AUTHOR status, and I am reluctant to censor anyone.

So, my choices are limited, I could just tolerate the nastiness, but then why have this forum at all?

I could follow Facebook’s lead and block offending posters for a limited period of time, but it is hard to avoid the appearance of bias. I don’t like that choice, but the alternative is to shut down the forum entirely.

So, fair warning,

It is OK to criticize an idea, but it is not OK to call another poster names.

Different opinions, or differing interpretations of facts are not lies.

Guilt by association and ad hominem argument are not allowed.

If anyone has a better idea of how to address this issue, I’ll be glad to hear it but if we can’t return this forum to civility, I will have to shut it down.

Every Tomboy is Transgender?

The number of youths now considered “transgender” is 20 to 40 times what it was a decade ago. It is highly unlikely that the genome has changed that much, so are we just redefining the meaning? More importantly, are we overtreating these youths because the definition has changed even if the underlying reality has not?

My sister was, and is, by any reasonable standard, a Tomboy. She was always happiest pursing frogs and snakes and beating my brother and I in sports. She is also spectacularly heterosexual, once breaking her foot in intercourse.

The world would be a sadder place had someone pounced on her with puberty blockers and hormones to help her be a boy.

Run down and killed over politics

Everyone knows who Heather Heyer was, as there were hours of coverage for weeks when she was run down in Charlottesville. But the MSM has not covered the death of Cayler Ellingson even one minute. 

Ellingson was deliberately chased down and run over because he was at a Republican event. His murderer, Shannon Brandt echoed Biden’s words at arraignment and then tried to justify the murder by claiming he saw Ellingson making a phone call which he thought was to bring others to attack him. He was calling his mother to tell her a guy in a car was following him.

Apparently running down Trump supporters isn’t newsworthy.

Interview of Freeman Dyson

Dyson’s unique perspective on what we know and what we don’t, and what we can do and what we can’t, and how the costs and benefits balance is very different from the binary “chicken little/denier” approach is the right way to approach climate.

And no, he isn’t bought by big oil.

WUWT Hydrogen for transportation.

Fuel cells powered by Hydrogen may be a safer and more efficient alternative to batteries for EVs. No CO2 is emitted.

Hydrogen, at the quantities needed for transportation, can be obtained from natural gas by pyrolysis, splitting methane into hydrogen and carbon black, which is useful for lightweight construction, like fishing rods and airplanes.

The process requires energy but no more so than that to charge batteries, and it is not necessary to strip mine the world to get battery materials.

WSJ freelink Student stands up to CRT

This Marxist crap is pervasive.

PM FBI seizes Mike Lindell’s phone

Now there’s a warrant I want to see. What probable cause could there be? Selling overpriced slippers? Continue reading “Biden is starting to look a lot like Putin(just less competent)” →