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Tuesday, May 5. 2026A few Tuesday morning linksIt's Official: The Climate Scam Was a Scam All Along New Research Shows How the Earliest Humans Got Their Meat What Will The Future Look Like After Louisiana v. Callais? DC Judge 'Apologizes' To Alleged Trump Assassin Alberta Separatists Call on Premier To Trigger Referendum, as Oil-Rich Province Moves To Leave Woke Canada Trackbacks
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re It's Official: The Climate Scam Was a Scam All Along
Perhaps algore got a heads up on this report and so did a 180 to global cooling? If this becomes common knowledge, does it not put the the politicians, particularly in Europe in the awkward position of advocating/building toward "net zero" when such draconian solutions are not needed? One wonders how the electorates in those countries will react? Or, does this report give them the cover they need to back away from wind & solar projects? Can California use this to step back from renewables or will this report just be dismissed/ignored? Having to admit you are wrong after the causing economic damage on a devastating scale will be a hard thing to do. The spin from the True Believers will be interesting. re What Will The Future Look Like After Louisiana v. Callais?
related: 262 Republicans to 173 Democrats -- according to leftist FiveThirtyEight. If both parties MAXXED OUT on gerrymandering, the House would end up with 262 Republicans to 173 Democrats -- according to leftist FiveThirtyEight. That's because Republicans control more state governments with multiple districts, and Democrat voters congregate in cities. This makes it easy-peazy to pack Dem voters into fewer districts. https://x.com/BenHart_Freedom/status/2050337190996000963 QUOTE: What Will The Future Look Like After Louisiana v. Callais? Many fewer Blacks from the South in Congress. feeblemind: That's because Republicans control more state governments with multiple districts, and Democrat voters congregate in cities. This makes it easy-peazy to pack Dem voters into fewer districts. So, more "safe seats that turn into lifetime sinecures for the incumbents." re Alberta Separatists Call on Premier To Trigger Referendum
I would be very surprised if the leftists in Canada ever let this happen. It is an ironic twist that those who claim to fight against racism object to race free voting districts. Even a child could see and understand that the weird shape of a gerrymandered congressional district is wrong and unconstitutional. I do understand the angst among black leaders not dissimilar to the angst among the Democrat leaders in the South in the 50's. I also understand that the BLM and Antifa were/are the new Democrat KKK. In both cases it is wrong it is racist and it is unconstitutional.
My advice to black leaders and politicians would be to be less racist, be more inclusive, don't alienate half of the voters and you can still get enough votes to win office. But you will have to actually walk the walk and equally represent your constituency without regard to race, gender and social status. Imagine that! Become anti-racist and fair and unbiased to get elected. Kind of proves the Supremes were right on this one. Well 6 of them were the others are wallowing in their racism. Damn! That pesky constitution strikes again. Who FUNDED the climate scam?
That should tell you all you need to know!!! QUOTE: It's Official: The Climate Scam Was a Scam All Along The article offers no scientific evidence. The RCP8.5 was the "business as usual" scenario, a "what if", not a prediction. It was based on humans not responding to the problem of anthropogenic global warming. While anthropogenic greenhouse gases continue to accumulate, humans have significantly changed the trajectory of "business as usual" emissions, so that scenario is no longer likely.
Old Curmudgeon: Quit with the racket. Boy: Help us put out the fire before the town burns down! Old Curmudgeon: Town never burned down before. {Sits on his rocker watching as the townsfolk put out the fire.} Old Curmudgeon: Told you so. Quit pretending... when democratic communists declared that CO2 was a toxic gas it simply revealed that they had become a religious cult, science bedamned and rational thought ignored.
Degenerate bolshevik “There’s a fire! Give me a trillion dollars and I’ll put it out”
*Normal person*”There is no fire. Did someone pay you to say that?” *Degenerate bolshevik*”Yes” Normal person “Why are you doing this?” *Degenerate bolshevik*”Because I am a self-loathing godless freak who despises humanity and I want to burn Western Civilization to the ground.” Mark Matis: Who FUNDED them???
The original claim was "It's Official: The Climate Scam Was a Scam All Along", which was based on the IPCC moving away from the RCP8.5 scenario. We showed that the claim is not supported. The article was apparently just meant to tell people what they wanted to hear. As for funding, there are various sources of funding for the IPCC, including government funding. However, most of the scientists involved are not paid by the IPCC, but work for universities or research institutes around the world. Rusty: There is no fire. The scientific evidence strongly supports anthropogenic global warming. Non-replicable publications in Nature and Science are 300 times more likely to be cited than replicable ones. I wonder why that would be. Furthermore, only 12% publicly acknowledge the reproducibility failure.
Occams razor says your climate science is a big bullshit money grift. And since you continue to push the bullshit on people when you know that few of these cited studies are even replicable then that makes you a disingenuous fraud. Rusty: few of these cited studies are even replicable
The land temperature record is supported by independent statistical analyses, satellite observations, ocean heat content observations, and observations of the cryosphere. So, we have multiple lines of evidence supporting the warming of the Earth's surface, which is stronger than mere replication. Greenhouse gas warming is supported by basic physics as has been known for over a century. The sign and magnitude of observed warming is consistent with the observed increase in greenhouse gases. Or do you think basic physics are not "replicable"? If everything you say is true then replicability in the science journals should be near 100%.
It's not even close. Even more disturbing is the papers that are not replicable get way more citations than the replicable ones. This is because the incentives for publishing papers that conform to the false but extremely profitable narrative of global warming are greater than than the incentives for publishing pure replicable science. The fact is, if it was real you wouldn't have to fake things like the hockey stick, the surface temperature stations, the constantly revising the past downwards to create temperature trends where they didn't exist. You could just do hard replicable science. It should be easy. ("Basic physics" like you said.) But you don't. Instead you create "science" that can't be replicated, you fudge data, revise past records and discard raw data. And when honest scientists attempt to check your work, you fight them tooth and nail to prevent them from doing so. You make hyperbolic fear mongering proclamations only to deny them when your doomsday predictions fail. And for these unscrupulous "services" you demand trillions of our hard earned dollars. So we don't believe you anymore. Begone, foul demon. Back to the father of lies whom you serve.
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Rusty
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2026-05-07 16:28
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Rusty: If everything you say is true then replicability in the science journals should be near 100%.
That doesn’t follow. Just because some findings are not replicable doesn’t mean all findings are not replicable. Regarding the increase in the Earth’s mean surface temperature, not only are the findings replicable, but independent observations support the warming trend, strengthening the confidence in any one finding. Otherwise you have to explain why satellite observations, ocean heat content observations, and ground station observations, show the same warming trend. And that the findings are consistent with the fundamental physics of greenhouse warming, so much so that the basic effect was identified more than a century ago. See Arrhenius, On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air Upon the Temperature of the Ground, Philosophical Magazine 1896.
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Zachriel
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2026-05-07 20:39
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So all temperature data is reliable and the physics has been understood for 100 years, yet you have a serious replicability crisis in your major publications. That certainly doesnt follow.
Unless you are lying. Teehee.
R: Study finds all studies are wrong. Your claim seems to be that because some studies are unreliable that all studies are unreliable, a statement replete with a number of fallacies all wrapped up in one, among them the Fallacy of Composition and the Nirvana fallacy. Keep in mind that the original point is still uncontested, and that you haven't actually responded to our answers to your own queries. The replication crisis is a real phenomenon. It is strongest in psychology, social sciences, and medical research; often due to small sample sizes and research biases. So, how do we determine which results are reliable? One way is by actual replication. But replication may import some of the same problems as the original study. A stronger means is to use independent methodologies to study the same phenomenon—a much stronger confirmation than mere replication. (Consider Halley's observation of the retardation of the pendulum, a great use of hypothetico-deduction: If the Earth spins, and given Newton's laws, the Earth will bulge, and because the Earth is wider near the equator gravity is lower, so the pendulum will slow near the equator when compared to the same pendulum in England.) Z "The replication crisis is a real phenomenon. It is strongest in psychology, social sciences, and medical research"
As I said previously, the most egregious thing is not that the research is not replicable, it is that the non-replicable research is what overwhelmingly gets cited and amplified. The amplification in Nature and Science are profoundly higher than in the fields you reference. And just as egregious is the fact that few papers even acknowledge the failed replications. As for replication, global warming has been repeatedly tested and the results have withstood repeated attempts at invalidation. A good example is the land station data. Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project (BEST) initially intended to demonstrate the surface data didn't show significant warming, that it was biased due to imperfect stations, and an artifact of the statistical means of interpretation. So, BEST used the raw data and applied a different statistical method. Contrary to their intention, they confirmed the original warming trend in sign and degree.
Replication is fine. But better is using an entirely different method. Satellite observations have been conducted by different scientists, using different methods, even measuring a different phenomenon (atmospheric heat radiation rather than temperature). They confirm the same warming trend.
I've pointed this out before (not that you ever learn) but if the satellite data is in total agreement with faulty surface station data that is overwhelmingly poorly maintained and or near urban heat islands, this is not something to be trumpeted as "multiple lines of evidence in agreement". It is a strong indication that your temperature data has been fudged, manipulated, revised and tortured until it produced the desired result.
Then scientists launched robotic buoys to measure ocean heat content. Again, they confirm the same warming trend.
Then there's the fundamental science. As Arrhenius showed, greenhouse gases warm the Earth's surface. Without greenhouse gases, the Earth would be a chilly -18°C rather than the balmy +15°C that it is. A doubling of CO2 will warm the Earth's surface about 2-4°C. Indeed, explaining Earth's glacial periods requires accounting for changes in atmospheric greenhouse gases, which (along with albedo) act to amplify the cyclical changes due to Milankovitch cycles. Sorry. Had troubles with the spam filter due to the links, so had to break the comment apart.
ocean heat content ncei.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-07/heat_content_cdr_img.png Moving to the cryosphere, Arctic summer sea ice extent has been on a downward slope for decades. This acts as a positive feedback as sea water absorbs more sunlight than sea ice.
Sidenote on the spam filter: Apparently, this is the errant url. Even using "dot" didn't resolve it. Here it is broken up as a test:
a r g o dot ucsd dot edu Rusty: the most egregious thing is not that the research is not replicable
As already pointed out, the research showing the Earth's surface is warming has been replicated and confirmed across multiple disciplines, including land station records, satellite radiation observations, ocean heat content measurements, and Arctic sea ice extent, not to mention the fundamental physics of energy. Rusty: I've pointed this out before (not that you ever learn) but if the satellite data is in total agreement with faulty surface station data that is overwhelmingly poorly maintained and or near urban heat islands, this is not something to be trumpeted as "multiple lines of evidence in agreement". In fact, that is the best way to verify a finding—different scientists using different methods in different disciplines reaching the same conclusion. What's interesting is when different fields reach different conclusions. Physicists had determined, based on the Sun starting as a hot ball of gas, gaining heat as it contracted, but losing heat radiatively, could only be a few millions of years old. Geologists, based on the sedimentary record, found the Earth must be hundreds of millions if not billions of years old. Evolutionary biologists, who also studied rocks (fossils), needed hundreds of millions of years for their theories to make sense. The discovery of radiation showed that the physicists were wrong, but that the geologists and biologists were right. (So much for physics being a hard science and biology just butterfly collecting.)
Wrong. 96% of surface stations don't meet acceptable standards. It is actually an embarrassment to claim to be in agreement with them.
But you satanic idiots always choose consensus over truth. Rusty: 96% of surface stations don't meet acceptable standards.
As already pointed out, independent statistical analysis shows that the warming trend is a real phenomenon. However, feel free to ignore the land surface station record. Here is the UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for April, 2026. I forgot you satanic freaks are incapable of embarrassment. You always just double down.
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