Deep Ocean heating and climate

The heat capacity of the atmosphere is insignificant compared to the heat capacity of the ocean.

Heating of the ocean by the atmosphere is also insignificant. Imagine trying to warm a bathtub full of 80 degree water by warming the room to 90 degrees. Evaporation from the water in the tub would cool it faster than the heat conduction could warm it. Yet we are told recent increases in ocean heat content are proof that CO2 is warming the planet.

The physics don’t work, but though the estimates of ocean heat content may be exaggerated, there has been an increase that warmer air cannot explain. So, where does the warming come from?

Continue reading “Something to keep you up at night.” →

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I’d call this a news tidbit. We’ll have to wait and see if the story has legs.

The basic allegation is that then Vice President Joe Biden steered taxpayer funded technical support to Ukrainian energy giant Burisma once his son Hunter joined the company’s board of directors. An interesting speculation is that this allegation is connected to last week’s revelation of leaked intelligence outlining Ukraine’s failing war effort. Is Stumble Joe under fire?

https://tinyurl.com/yxkphpcp

So the GOP wants to pull funding from STATE prosecutors who are attempting to uphold the rule of law, if the rule of law calls for a President, Vice President, former office holders or candidates to be investigated, and if evidence leads to it, indictment thereof.

If I were Bragg, I would have his office cut a check for the $5,000 used in the Trump investigation and invite Rep. Biggs to stash it somewhere to help provide bail money for any further charges.

I heard repeatedly through the 2020 campaign that Democrats wanted to defund law enforcement. Turns out, and to no surprise, that was a lie.

And here it is, GOP representatives calling for defunding of prosecutors who are doing their job. Sorry if the former President acted in a criminal manner. Side effect. Joe Biden would be off the hook for any allegations concerning his “criminal behavior”. (Hint: There AIN’T none.)

No one is above the law. Unless it is a politician we support. Then they have free reign.

https://www.vox.com/23142734/louisville-downtown-mass-shootings

“No other high-income country has suffered such a high death toll from gun violence. Every day, 120 Americans die at the end of a gun, including suicides and homicides, an average of 43,475 per year. Since 2009, there has been an annual average of 19 shootings in which at least four people are killed. The US gun homicide rate is as much as 26 times that of other high-income countries; its gun suicide rate is nearly 12 times higher.”

“Gun control opponents have typically framed the gun violence epidemic in the US as a symptom of a broader mental health crisis. But every country has people with mental health issues and extremists; those problems aren’t unique. What is unique is the US’s expansive view of civilian gun ownership, ingrained in politics, in culture, and in the law since the nation’s founding, and a national political process that has so far proved incapable of changing that norm.”

The numbers are astounding. Boy, I sure hope all these lives lost to bullets were worth it.

“I have to say, I learned a lot during the pandemic. I learned that people who are most resistant to the government telling them what to do also happen to be the people who most need the government to tell them what to do and ironically are the same people who are most supportive of the government telling other people what to do.” — JIMMY KIMMEL

Seems a legitimate assessment of things.

Freedom for me, but not for thee comes to mind. Just sayin’.

https://theweek.com/political-satire/1022599/those-who-cant

If you don’t see how accurate this is, you need glasses. Or to get out of your news silo.

Article SHOULD be gifted.

Ms. Cotton lives and teaches in North Carolina. Her observations on the South make for an interesting read.

“We like to look to the horizon instead of to the soil because we bury the people we do not care about in the South. It is where we have put migrants and poor people and sick people. It is where we put the social problems we are willing to accept in exchange for the promise of individual opportunity in places that sound more sophisticated. But the South is still a laboratory for the political disenfranchisement that works just as well in Wisconsin as it does in Florida. Americans are never as far from the graves we dig for other people as we hope.”

Sounds accurate.

“More than 20 years ago, a top Republican Party communications adviser wrote a memo that essentially told the GOP how to make Democrats look like fearmongers.

The adviser was Frank Luntz, the topic was global climate change, and the problem was to keep Republicans from looking like they didn’t care about the environment. Luntz advised the GOP to create doubt about climate science and say, “we must not rush to judgment before all the facts are in.””

And so the politicization of climate science began.

Yet now, the same adviser is singing a different tune. “In 2019, Frank Luntz acknowledged, “I was wrong in 2001,” and his advice then is “not accurate today.” He said that the American people want the federal government to do more about climate change, and they want to know not just the consequences of doing nothing but also the benefits of action.”

And the GOP is playing another game. Vote NO, but take the dough.

The article points out several red states who benefit greatly from the climate portion of the IRA. Why does the GOP want to cut off its nose to spite its face?

https://news.yahoo.com/1-5-adults-theyve-had-090008777.html

“People of color were more likely to report witnessing gun violence or having family members who were killed by guns. More than one-third of Black adults said they had a family member who was killed by a gun, compared with 17% of White respondents and 18% of Hispanic adults who participated in the study.“

For those who dismiss gun violence to the urban minorities, note that 17% of Whites, one out of six, is no bragging point. Of course the damage that random shootings affect scores more than just those killed, maimed or survived a horrific attack.

This is insane by any measure. I believe the gun lobby may need to rethink their position before voters do. That the shooters have a variety of reasons is eclipsed by the common denominator of unfettered access to high powered weapons. What good is keeping imaginary tyrants at bay if we just keep killing each other at wartime rates?