Climate Wild Card

Tonga eruption

Initially, because of the large amount of water vapor injected into the atmosphere, the Tonga eruption was seen as a warming event, but now it appears because of the aerosols in the stratosphere, there will be net cooling.

This happened in the Southern Hemosphere so it will take time for the effects to reach here.

I don’t know how this will shake out, and I doubt anyone else does either. It will depend on which lasts longer, the water vapor or the aerosols. In the long run, oceans are cooled or warmed by changes in radiation, not air temperature, so in the long run I suspect this will reset us downward, dwarfing CO2 effects, for decades.

But the effects on clouds are the real wild card.

Biden Judicial appointments

Biden nominee ignorant of Constitution

Of Biden’s 97 judicial appointments, only 5 have been white men.

Perhaps knowing enough about the Constitution to pass a citizenship test would be a better basis for choosing judges than race and gender.

Connect the dots and they spell corruption

Hunter Biden’s use of classified documents

The more we learn, the worse it gets. Now we ae supposed to believe that drug addled Hunter who had never been to Ukraine emerged from his stupor just long enough to demonstrate his expertise on the strategic situation in Eastern Europe.

Circular firing squad on R&D

WSJ Europe drives out pharma R&D

The world has been coasting on US support for Pharma R&D, if we copy them, who is left?

The next step is government theft of intellectual property and the cessation of R&D.

Year of the Rabbit off to a bad start

Well, what did they think would happen?

A good idea that won’t happen

WSJ Freelink FairTax Masochism

I was the Virginia State Director for the FairTax 20 years ago. I know the plan in detail, and briefed Congressmen on the plan. I will state outright, that it is a better way to finance government and brings transparency and good governance to Congress, but sadly, because our voter base is so ill informed, it is too easy to demagogue and has become a political loser.

But if the public were as well informed on civics and government as the average 1800 farmer, it could fix a loe of wha is wrong with Congress and the country.