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FalconInMS retweeted
We live in one of the coldest epochs in the history of life; and the world is not facing runaway warming. Here is why.
Temperatures are currently 'historically low' at 15°C, which includes a rise of only 1.4°C over two centuries. It's 9°C 'colder' than the global average during the entire rise of life on Earth; calculated at 24°C over the 542 million years of the Phanerozoic Eon (Judd et al, Science 2024).
Carbon is not a rising toxic cloud. It's astonishingly low compared with almost all past epochs - and vital for biological life. At 420 parts per million, it's amongst the lowest ever measured across geological history. Ideally, carbon dioxide should be around 1,000 ppm.
The real story of Earth lies in the oceans; undisputed heavyweights of all regional climates (all 11 of them). Yet even the might of the oceans is not the trigger for ice ages or interglacial cycles; these are guided by the celestial physics of Earth's orbital cycles (the Milankovitch cycles).
Among the most influential forces for environmental change are the ponderous movements of tectonic crustal plates, which endlessly grind against one another. Paleontologists have shown how supercontinents have already emerged several times in world history, the most recent being Pangaea.
The world's deep oceans are also the planet's air conditioners, which otherwise would be frozen empty wastes of ice and mountains. Earth's five great oceans cover 71% of the world's surface area to an average depth of 2.3 miles. They contain 96.5% of all water and consequently, they hold overwhelming influence over planetary heat distribution, atmospheric moisture and regional climate zones.
The oceans have more than 1,000 times the heat capacity of the atmosphere, and they absorb 91% to 93% of all the world's retained heat energy (the atmosphere retains just 1%). They are also the primary source of atmospheric water vapour - which reaches 4% in tropical and subtropical regions - and the principal source of clouds, storms, rainfall and snow. Water vapour is responsible for up to 75% of all atmospheric radiative heat retention, many times higher than carbon dioxide.
Oceanic thermohaline currents are the world's planetary conveyor belt for warmth, taking roughly 1,000 years to recirculate warm tropical currents and returning cold, dense deep waters. Without this system - including permanent gyres like the Sargasso Sea and regional eddies - places like Northern Europe would share the frigid fate of Greenland.
These ancient ocean patterns have operated continuously for billions of years, stabilising and redistributing energy across the globe. When evaluating the carbon cycle, the ocean's role remains utterly supreme, while atmospheric carbon represents a remarkably small fraction of the active reservoir. The oceans hold 86% of the world’s active carbon reservoir, the atmosphere retains only 1%.
There is no global warming crisis. Call it hysteria; call it ideology; or call it a wealth transfer or just purely political. And you would be right. Mankind is not facing a runaway warming crisis; and the rise of turbines and solar panels is a terrible dead end for the natural world. We have better solutions.
We should be grateful that we are safely within a warm interglacial period that is likely to continue for tens of thousands of years. We are still in an ice age, which has already lasted for 34 million years. Any warming might see oceans rising by a few millimetres, indistinguishable from temperature variations affecting water volume.
But coastal residents would never notice this in their lifetimes, just as no one can see it happening today.
FalconInMS retweeted
Thomas Sowell – The Man Who Asked for the Evidence 📚
He was born in 1930 in North Carolina, in a house without running water. His father died before he was born. He grew up in Harlem, left school at sixteen, delivered telegrams, worked in a machine shop and served in the Marines. Then he went to Harvard, Columbia and Chicago.
He started as a Marxist. Books did not cure him. A summer job did.
In 1960, at the U.S. Department of Labor, he studied the minimum wage in Puerto Rico's sugar industry. Each time the wage was raised, employment fell. He proposed a simple test to find out why. Nobody in the building wanted it run. The department's budget depended on the law being good; whether the law was good was not its business. That summer, he understood that an institution has interests of its own, and that the truth is rarely among them.
Everything else followed from there. For sixty years, he has asked the three questions that no ideology survives: compared to what, at what cost, and what hard evidence do you have?
He put the whole of economics in one line, observing that there are no solutions, only trade-offs. And he put the whole of politics in another, noting that it is hard to imagine a more dangerous way of making decisions than putting them in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
He gave the planners their true name: the anointed. People who judge themselves by their intentions and everyone else by results, and for whom every failure of their policy is proof that it was not tried hard enough.
He was a black man from Harlem who said that culture matters more than grievance, and that the policies made to help the poor had hurt them most. For that, the people who claim to speak for the poor never forgave him. He kept writing anyway – more than forty books, without a single slogan in them.
He is ninety-six. He has never held power, never led a movement, never raised his voice.
He only asked for the evidence. In the age of the Lie, that turned out to be the most radical thing a man could do.
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America has one honor that fits: the Presidential Medal of Freedom, its highest civilian award. 🏅🇺🇸
He should receive it now, while he can still walk up and collect it. 🗽
Hayek finished the job of obliterating the entire socialist project in 1945 with one devastating insight: the knowledge needed to run an economy does not exist in any one place.
It is scattered across millions of minds – the farmer who knows his field, the shopkeeper who knows his street, the engineer who knows his machine – and only prices can gather it. No planner can collect it, because most of it cannot even be written down. The socialists spent the next eighty years building bigger ministries to collect it anyway.
And yet here we are, watching politicians explain that this time it will work, because now they have data, experts and algorithms. They cannot tell you how many nurses a single hospital will need next winter – how exactly are they going to know what three hundred million people want, need and can make, every day, in every town?
Every Soviet shop with left shoes only, every empty Venezuelan shelf, every five-year plan fulfilled on paper was just Hayek being proven right. He left the planners one sentence to hang over their desks: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." But sure, let's give the committee a supercomputer. What could go wrong?
FalconInMS retweeted
You used your phone to film your Theater Kid friend reading her talking points off her phone.
As she protested data centers and permit reform.
Data centers were used to store both her talking points and your video.
And a data center made it possible for you to post her performance for the rest of us to shake our heads at.
But yeah Theater Kids - you keep protesting those data centers.
FalconInMS retweeted
Amazing article here by @iamlisalogan.
lisalogan.substack.com/p/the…
FalconInMS retweeted
Dear TPUSA, Erika Kirk, and anyone else with a hand in outreach…
Honest question: why aren’t you recruiting guys like myself who aren’t polished, are blue collar types, have calloused hands and rough knuckles, and might not look like “All-America,” but can connect with people who are also sorta politically homeless.
I mean, it also wouldn’t hurt to have someone representing you who has the gift of gab and the gift of jab if necessary, knaa’mean? Can’t put a message out if some lavender haired they/them is flipping your table on a whim.
I mean, think about it… I might not be the guy wearing a Versace belt with a $2,000 suit, but I like my jeans and Timberlands and I think more Americans can identify with that than anything else.
@FrontlinesTPUSA @TPUSA
Hugs,
Zeek
FalconInMS retweeted
This is the Democratic playbook every time so nobody should be surprised. Say whatever you need to get elected and then push forward on your actual agenda.
Democrats have no plan to lower the price of anything. Their partners in the Republican Party handed them the issue with the highest Election Day gas prices on record, and that is what allowed the ass kicking last Tuesday. In the NBC exit poll 87% of voters said they were concerned about gas prices. Gallup had climate change last of 11 issues. A week later Kerry calls it a vote for climate policy.
This is the product of a culture that has given up thinking for itself. Voters are educated by the government and then offered two parties that share the same moral code, the one that says your life and property belong to the public. Until that code is challenged the two parties will keep trading turns until they finally bankrupt us.
FalconInMS retweeted
Finish the job.
FalconInMS retweeted
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
FalconInMS retweeted
For Veteran's Day, let your heart be filled with gratitude for the brave men and women upon whose deeds and sacrifices we stand today. Let that gratitude lead you to defend what they sought to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic: the Constitution of the United States
FalconInMS retweeted
God bless all who served the greatest country in history. Today we recommit ourselves to become worthy of your sacrifices. Because I fear we no longer are.
Globalist regulation is an insidious depressor of the US economy. It's worse than tariffs because its not visible to everyone. Forestry products is a huge industry in the US -- Per Google's AI 4-5% of total annual US manufacturing GDP and a $435 billion industry that employees thousands of people (See @ForestandPaper @forestservice).
Yet, the EU through the EUDR (EU Deforestation Regulation) is exerting control over the industry in the United States by telling companies that use forest products and that sell in the EU market that they must legally prove their products do not originate from land deforested or subject to forest degradation. They have to establish that the landowners they purchase timber from do not repurpose their lands to non-forest uses. The EU wants data tracking this down to the GPS coordinates of the lands from which timber is cut.
In practice, this means that landowners who plant pine with the intent to harvest cannot, for example, repurpose their lands for pasture, for food crops, a data center, or other non-forest uses after harvesting. If they plan to repurpose the land and the company who would buy the timber knows the plan, the company cannot buy the timber or it risks losing its contracts in the EU marketplace.
How silly does this seem? The EU can tell a US business owner who it can and cannot buy from and dictate to a US landowner how he or she can use the land?
A huge industry of consultants is being stood up to provide the very data that will kill this industry, much like the Sarbanes-Oxley consultant industrial complex after the 2001 meltdown. Rather than fight this idiocy, @USCongress is kowtowing to the EU and businesses are collecting the information that sows their own destruction. @USCongress @scott_colom @SenatorWicker stand up to this idiocy before it destroys the timber industry in our state. @jcoatestimber can tell you more about the impact to MS timber growers.
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FalconInMS retweeted
Climate and history:
since UN Secretary General is talking about supersized El Niño， let's revisit the most extreme El Niño event in the last 800 years. The multi-year drought famine in the late 1870s.
The worst hit countries of the 1870s Great Droughts were India, China, Egypt, Morocco, Ethiopia, southern Africa, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. In China alone， a staggering estimation of 9.5-13 million people perished because of starvation. Global deaths were estimated to be around 50 million.
As a serious student about climate， I don't buy the net zero narrative because I know climate history including cases like this.
The world in late 1870s was almost net zero. Green house gas emissions caused by fossil fuel burning was less than 2% of today's value， the CO2 concentration was around 290 ppm. Yet， all these didn't prevent the worst weather disaster in the last 800 years. Climate has always been changing， and nature sometimes can be brutal， simply because of natural variations of the climate. Net zero today will not prevent similar natural variance from happening again.
Industrialization and innovation are the best and most important measures to build civilizational resilience, regardless whether climate change is driven by natural variance or man made. Yet net zero frenzy is driving industrialized countries towards de-industrialization (the UK and Germany are the most salient examples), and preventing least developed countries from industrializing. They are exactly the wrong measures to deal with climate change.
Long form article with scientific references is linked in reply.
We've entered a new age of climate extremes:
A supersized El Niño is colliding with a planet already superheated by climate change.
The latest @WMO report shows once again that leaders must get serious by cutting emissions faster, accelerating a just transition from fossil fuels & delivering the finance & protection vulnerable countries need.
wmo.int/news/media-centre/st…
FalconInMS retweeted
The fact UN climate conferences are not held on Zoom meetings is all the proof that you need that the “climate crisis” is a government-sponsored scam.
FalconInMS retweeted
You have to laugh at how ridiculous it is that this is true. Earn it, taxed. Spend it, taxed. Invest it, taxed. Die, taxed. The one activity the government performs flawlessly, and then it asks for more because it ran out. There is a word for taking a cut of every exchange. Racket.
FalconInMS retweeted
"The reason why a lot of right-wing people get upset and angry about the Charlie Kirk jokes is, unironically, many of us are Charlie Kirk. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is Charlie Kirk was not a violent person, he was not an evil person, he was a family man, and he wanted to have open conversations with people he disagreed with. He was just an average guy.
So whenever they're saying they're happy that Charlie Kirk is dead, what they're really saying is that they would be happy if YOU were dead. They would be happy if you were the one that got killed. And everybody instinctively knows that.
That's the reason why people take the Charlie Kirk jokes so seriously. Because they know that they're not really jokes and they know that Charlie Kirk is just a stand-in for what this ideology is. So to the extent that you agree with Charlie Kirk, they would also agree with your death, too."—asmongold
FalconInMS retweeted
There was little excuse for falling for socialism even before it was tried. Its failures were predictable from its principles.
After a century of evidence, there's even less excuse.
Yet the ideas keep resurfacing because blaming capitalism, scapegoating the successful, and demanding someone else's wealth is easier than admitting your own failures and taking responsibility for improving your life.