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Saturday, November 11. 2017

Thanks to all US military veterans, living and dead

Can you make a 10-year malt whisky in weeks? The chemistry says yes

A splash is best

The biggest week in Jewish baseball history

Video guide to Italian hand gestures

Regeneration of the entire human epidermis using transgenic stem cells

Occidental Professor Warns: Be 'Suspicious of Males Who Strongly Identify as Men'

Professor draws rage for telling students to work hard and avoid partying

Good grief

At Oberlin, a remarkable story about a black shoplifter and the school's seeming effort to shut down the store

Good grief, again

How Vanderleun fell in and then out of love with New York

Climate Song and Dance - Two years after Paris, the UN enviro-crats continue their charade.

Good news is hard to find at this year’s United Nations climate conference in Bonn, Germany. Diplomats from nearly 200 countries have gathered to review progress made on the “historic” Paris climate accords, signed two years ago. But as the champagne-fueled self-congratulation of Paris recedes into memory, the agreement’s underlying fraud is becoming obvious.

$58 Trillion – 290 Apollo Programs – to ‘Combat’ Climate Change. This Is Beyond a Joke…

Freeman Dyson on ‘heretical’ thoughts about global warmimg

Those Who Mock Prayer During Tragedies Flaunt Their Rebellion Against God

How to stop pseudoscientific scares backed by big money?

"Communism capitalizes on envy, which is why it’s largely sustained by intellectuals..."

What Kind of a Leftist Are You? h/t Vanderleun

China: "They call him 'Donald the Strong.' They heap praise on his family. They fawn over his rapid-fire tweets...."

US politics: As there are two Americas, there are two Virginias.

The Fusion GPS Dossier Was One Of The Dirtiest Political Tricks In U.S. History

Former Asst. FBI Director: Clinton Crimes 20 Times Bigger than Watergate

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Ref: Suspicious of Males Who Strongly Identify as Men'

Back to the old 'socially constructed' BS. Don't these people understand: We are mammals. We are primates. Mammals (and certainly primates) have substantial gender specific behaviors. It's simple evolution, two complementary strategies that optimize genetic success.

To anyone in the 'socially constructed' crowd, I issue the following challenge. Go out into the farmer's field and bring in the bull. I will go and round up the cows.

#1 JAY on 2017-11-11 08:17 (Reply)

QUOTE:

$58 Trillion – 290 Apollo Programs – to ‘Combat’ Climate Change. This Is Beyond a Joke…

$58 trillion over 25 years is about $2.3 trillion per year. Current energy investment is about $1.7 trillion per year, so that would represent an increase of about $0.5 trillion in an economy of about $80 trillion, most of which will be for increases in energy efficiency in buildings and equipment. Also, keep in mind that global energy needs will continue to increase, so investment will have to increase in any case.

#2 Zachriel on 2017-11-11 10:29 (Reply)

The biggest scam in history.

It is of course possible and reasonable to build more energy efficient buildings and equipment. Typically the efficiency improvement is from obvious improvements and not the complicated and expensive high tech solutions pushed by the warmies. Wind and solar power has been promising huge efficiencies and breakthroughs for decades with little actual improvements in either efficiency or costs. The ONLY reason we have so many wind farms and PV solar farms today is a huge government subsidiy. In all cases the goal of the energy companies installing these systems is to mine the subsidies not to provide efficient energy solutions. Worse, for whatever inexplicable reason, many of these companies are foreign and the direct cash subsidies go directly to other countries with little benefit to our own country and taxpayers.

This scam (global warming) is a massive wealth transfer mostly from American taxpayers to the scam artists, politicians, and foreign interests. It is based on lies, it has always been a lie and now that the lie is becoming obvious to everyone the scammers have doubled down in a hope that they can lock the scam in with a binding treaty that would be difficult to unwind. They were Trumped.

#2.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-11-11 10:56 (Reply)

GoneWithTheWind: The biggest scam in history.

The point of our comment was to note that the original headline was misleading. Most of the investment in the energy sector is already going to occur. Infrastructure has to be replaced and upgraded every few decades. It makes sense to buy green when making those investments.

GoneWithTheWind: Typically the efficiency improvement is from obvious improvements and not the complicated and expensive high tech solutions pushed by the warmies.

To which conservation improvements are you referring?

GoneWithTheWind: Wind and solar power has been promising huge efficiencies and breakthroughs for decades with little actual improvements in either efficiency or costs.

Solar costs have dropped dramatically, and efficiency improved.

#2.1.1 Zachriel on 2017-11-11 11:17 (Reply)

Z: Solar costs have dropped dramatically, and efficiency improved.

Good! Then we can end subsidies for it.

#2.1.1.1 mudbug on 2017-11-11 11:40 (Reply)

Global warming and more CO2 for plants to thrive is a public good for the US and the world generally.

But a global cooling from diminished sun output is starting now. The expected diminished sun output may be so substantial that "mini ice age" from a Maunder Minimum of sun output is a possible outcome. Further, diminished sun proton flux output can increase gamma rays reaching the earth, which increases cloud cover, which further reduces sunlight warming the earth.

Many people, and other animal and plant species will die in ice age, which the so-called "settled science" scare-porn-mongers were trying to scam us with to get funding about 20-30 years ago. They don't care whether they scam money from an alleged "global ice age" or alleged "global warming" schemes. That is why they now trumpet "global climate change". They need a treaty before the next natural cooling cycle, starting now, becomes apparent.

Let Europe freeze!!!!

Exposing the global warming scam is one of the prime activators ("triggers" is such a loaded word) for the zachbot troll.

The zachbot have no interest in the relatively inexpensive greening of the African, MENA and/or Australian deserts, which I have demonstrated here before.

#2.1.2 jaybird on 2017-11-11 11:51 (Reply)

observation - the exact same posting with the phrase "true dat" in the first line was rejected as "spam" by the Maggie's spam filter.
I removed the offending first line, and the comment was accepted.

#2.1.2.1 jaybird on 2017-11-11 11:55 (Reply)

jaybird: Global warming and more CO2 for plants to thrive is a public good for the US and the world generally.

There are certainly positive benefits due to CO2 and warming, however, the climate instability is deleterious overall.

jaybird: But a global cooling from diminished sun output is starting now. The expected diminished sun output may be so substantial that "mini ice age" from a Maunder Minimum of sun output is a possible outcome.

Very unlikely. Radiative forcing from a doubling of CO2 is about 3.7±0.4 W/m2. Radiative forcing from a Maunder Minimum event would be about -0.24 W/m2. The anthropogenic signal overwhelms the natural signal.

#2.1.2.2 Zachriel on 2017-11-11 12:15 (Reply)

What climate instability? Hot, cold, wet dry, seems to be an on going thing, for millions and millions of years. It seems that the climate is very stable. Such a complex system, with so many variables, yet it runs along very smooth. Oh sure, there are freak storms, but by and large, they are a minor inconvenience. People living in the known danger zones, should accept the risks, which most do, and be willing to pay the price for it. A lot don't though. They want to be subsidized.

Here in Denver, it is a rare day indeed that the weather forecast is correct. Especially when it comes to predicting precipitation. Why should I believe any of the long range forecasts? Especially since the forecasters have been caught fudging data, more than once.

Is the Zachbot farm run 100% from solar and wind farms? If not, why not? I mean, this is a crises of epic proportions! You should notify your programmers immediately.

#2.1.2.2.1 B.Hammer on 2017-11-11 13:29 (Reply)

B.Hammer: What climate instability? Hot, cold, wet dry, seems to be an on going thing, for millions and millions of years. It seems that the climate is very stable.

Can't make sense of your statement. You point to climate variability then follow by saying the climate is very stable.

Anthropogenic warming is much faster and higher than expected from any natural climate variability.

B.Hammer: Why should I believe any of the long range forecasts?

Because long-term anthropogenic warming is strongly supported, even though how that warming will be distributed through the climate system is still obscure.

#2.1.2.2.1.1 Zachriel on 2017-11-11 14:01 (Reply)

Of course you can't make sense of hot, cold, wet, dry. That would mean admitting hot, cold, wet, dry, is normal weather patterns. I'll ask again, what climate instability?

You didn't answer the question regarding if the Zachbot Farm is powered from 100% renewable? Can you query your programmer about that? Or would that result in a code error? Robot questioning program. Error. Error.

I also love how the climate change is always long term, ever since Al Gore, and his dooms day prophecy was found to be junk science. Twelve years ago, he claimed we only have ten years left! Now we have until 2100. We must be making progress.

#2.1.2.2.1.1.1 B.Hammer on 2017-11-11 14:29 (Reply)

B.Hammer: Of course you can't make sense of hot, cold, wet, dry.

Well, it was your comment that was self-contradictory.

B.Hammer: That would mean admitting hot, cold, wet, dry, is normal weather patterns.

Now, you're conflating weather with climate.

What will those crazy climate scientists come up with next?! Climate has, indeed, changed radically over time. The difference between the previous ice age and the current global mean temperature is about 5°C, a change which occurred over thousands of years. Without mitigation, anthropogenic climate change is expected to be about 2-4°C over a century.

B.Hammer: You didn't answer the question regarding if the Zachbot Farm is powered from 100% renewable?

Primarily celestial hand-crank.

#2.1.2.2.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2017-11-11 15:41 (Reply)

"Because long-term anthropogenic warming is strongly supported,"

Sigh.
Again.

What is the perfect temperature of the Earth?

When did it happen?

#2.1.2.2.1.1.2 jimg on 2017-11-11 16:19 (Reply)

jimg: What is the perfect temperature of the Earth?

Perfect for whom? That's rather a nonsense question.

Human civilization evolved in a relatively stable climate over the last few thousand years. Too rapid of change will be bad human civilization, as well as to the ecosystem upon which they depend which takes time to adapt and evolve to a changing climate.

#2.1.2.2.1.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2017-11-12 09:15 (Reply)

Things are already getting bad with the onset of the next mini Ice Age. Boston is going through its coldest temperatures ever recorded for this date:

"Boston is experiencing record-breaking cold temperatures
Record lows for the second day in a row."

https://www.boston.com/weather/weather/2017/11/11/boston-is-experiencing-record-breaking-cold-temperatures

The outlook for humanity is grim if we don't do something about global cooling. I'm especially concerned about the spread of plague as people are forced to move to warmer climates which would be more likely to spread the epidemic.

#2.1.2.3 Jim on 2017-11-11 12:32 (Reply)

Ratio of record warm to record cold for the 48 states since 2000 is about 2:1.

#2.1.2.3.1 Zachriel on 2017-11-11 14:05 (Reply)

Wind and solar power has been promising huge efficiencies and breakthroughs for decades with little actual improvements in either efficiency or costs.
In the case of wind, there has been a substantial reduction in cost since 1980.The Cost of Wind Energy in the U.S.

QUOTE:

Declining Cost of Wind Energy Over Time

Advanced technology, improved siting techniques, and learning across all sectors as the industry scales up have all influenced the cost of wind energy over time. The Department of Energy, below, depicts the cost reduction in wind energy alongside U.S. wind energy deployment, showing a decrease in cost of more than 90% since the early 1980's.

. Reading off the graph, cost in 1980 of ~ $550 per 2013 $/MWH fell to to ~50 in 2014.

Check out Wind power in Texas. Interesting that the Permian Basin in West Texas is a leader in both fracking and in wind power.

#2.1.3 Gringo on 2017-11-12 15:44 (Reply)

"Communism capitalizes on envy, which is why it’s largely sustained by intellectuals..."

Only "intellectuals" in terms of people who talk out their backside and fancy themselves as "educated". They are mostly of the educated strata, just not very disciplined thinkers.

QUOTE:

The fading of the critical sense is a serious menace to the preservation of our civilization. It makes it easy for quacks to fool the people. It is remarkable that the educated strata are more gullible than the less educated. The most enthusiastic supporters of Marxism, Nazism, and Fascism were the intellectuals, not the boors. The intellectuals were never keen enough to see the manifest contradictions of their creeds. It did not in the least impair the popularity of Fascism that Mussolini in the same speech praised the Italians as the representatives of the oldest Western civilization and as the youngest among the civilized nations. No German nationalist minded it when dark-haired Hitler, corpulent Goering, and lame Goebbels were praised as the shining representatives of the tall, slim, fair-haired, heroic Aryan master race. Is it not amazing that many millions of non-Russians are firmly convinced that the Soviet regime is democratic, even more democratic than America?

von Mises, Ludwig (1945). Bureaucracy

#3 JK Brown on 2017-11-11 10:30 (Reply)

Re: Guide to Italian Hand Gestures:

Few people realize that Italian sign language is one of the easiest languages to learn.
https://www.sadanduseless.com/2017/11/italian-hand-signs/

#4 Jerryskids on 2017-11-11 11:01 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Climate Song and Dance - Two years after Paris, the UN enviro-crats continue their charade... A country unhappy with its pledge can simply change it.

Yet the U.S. couldn't even handle that level of commitment, but has said it would withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

QUOTE:

UN’s projection for emissions this century pointed toward a planetary warming of 3.4°C by 2100.

Actually, a median expected value of of 3.2°C compared to a median of 3.6°C under current policies (which already include green technology investments), or about half a degree. Additional protocols (the Kigali amendment to Montreal, and expected reductions in black carbon) are expected to further reduce the expected warming by about another degree. That still leaves the world a bit short of the 2°C goal.

#5 Zachriel on 2017-11-11 12:08 (Reply)

Seems like the US has done its part already: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/11/on-global-warming-the-us-leads-the-way.php

#5.1 B.Hammer on 2017-11-11 14:32 (Reply)

B.Hammer: Seems like the US has done its part already: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/11/on-global-warming-the-us-leads-the-way.php

Notably, your chart doesn't account for total emissions or GDP. The U.S. has a much larger economy and much higher emissions than any other country on the list. As for doing its part, the U.S. has made significant strides, but still has a lot of work to do to meet its original commitments.

USA Climate Action Tracker

#5.1.1 Zachriel on 2017-11-11 15:46 (Reply)

"What Happened?"
LOL

The Paris agreement/scam was Trumped!

#6 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-11-11 13:00 (Reply)

Veterans Day comment: My wife and I flew back from England today, 11 November, Remembrance Day in Britain, and in Manchester Airport (a major international air hub, thronged with people), at exactly 11 a.m. local time, there was a public announcement that there would be a two-minute silence throughout the airport in observance of the event, and by God, the entire airport - staff, passengers, sales people, you name them - fell silent for two minutes. Not a sound heard from the thousands of people in the buildings for two full minutes. A most moving event.

#7 David Graeme on 2017-11-11 17:31 (Reply)

The neo-Malthusian "scientists" are getting angry that they are being weaned from the taxpayer trough.

#8 indyjonesouthere on 2017-11-11 18:59 (Reply)

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