Don't Go Being Politically Insane You Climate Change Skeptics

[Ivanhoe]

The question in my mind is, should genetic engineers be trying to recreate woolly mammoths or mastodons?

 

[rmgill]

30 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said:

The question in my mind is, should genetic engineers be trying to recreate woolly mammoths or mastodons?

 

Yes. Wooly Mammoth, Columbian Mammoth and Mastodons. 

 Some other North American Mega Fauna would be nice to see as well.  And I'm sure some folks would love to hunt them, THOUGH I'd note that I think elephants might be at that point of intelligence that perhaps would be too cruel to pursue in such capacities. Other things like Pleistocene elk and the like would probably make a lot of big game hunters QUITE interested in controlled hunts.

 We should re-create the European species as well and release them into the Wilds of Europe for the Diversity of the Euros. 

[Tim Sielbeck]

30 minutes ago, rmgill said:

We should re-create the European species as well and release them into the Wilds of Europe for the Diversity of the Euros. 

What wilds of Europe?

[Ivanhoe]

2 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

What wilds of Europe?

If we release enough velociraptors on the Continent, they'll clean house and western Europe will revert to a primordial state in a few decades.

[rmgill]

2 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

What wilds of Europe?

Exactly. 

[Detonable]

 Velociraptors ranging over the heather will turn the Volksmarchers into Volks sprinters and Volks snacks until the drones or Leopards show up. 

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[Ivanhoe]

Flashback to my freshman year in college!

I accidentally took the wrong Philosophy class my first quarter on campus, and the prof was all into epistemology. We read Kuhn as one of the main texts. Sometimes mistakes are for the best. 

 

[Ivanhoe]

EVs may be replaced by EBs;

 

[lucklucky]

[rmgill]

Where do you plug it in? 

[Ivanhoe]

Lift up the tail, you'll figure it out. 

 

[Ivanhoe]

I just realized the bonus humor in that pic is that the burro decided to nap-in-place right in front of a Tesla charging station, which are hard to access in cities. 

Could be the burro decided to camp out there to get attention, sort of like how dogs lay down in the middle of the kitchen floor when Mom is cooking. 

[Ivanhoe]

Wow, Judith Curry goes gloves-off;

https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/climatologist-dr-judith-curry-says-climate-science-has-become-pseudo-science/

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I mean, what the students are getting their PhDs in—they analyze the output of these climate models, looking for some sort of catastrophe that they can identify and write a paper on, without ever even, you know, critically evaluating these models or how they should be used. I mean, it’s just sort of nonsense, and it’s received so much funding. And also, the journalism has been—you know, like 15 years ago, there were only a handful of journalists who specialized in climate or even the environmental beat, so to speak.

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/wind-turbine-blade-blocks-traffic-on-interstate-70-near-hagerstown/3947054/
 

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The blade of a wind turbine fell over multiple lanes of Interstate 70 near Hagerstown, Maryland, bringing traffic to a halt early Monday morning.

Video shows the moment the blade separated from a truck overnight. The headlights of several vehicles were seen as drivers moved to avoid the giant hunk of metal. No crashes or injuries were reported.

The blade landed across one westbound lane, a grassy median and two eastbound lanes. The blade appeared to be near a truck. Traffic was blocked at exit 26 near the intersection with Interstate 81.

Crews were seen pulling the turbine back onto westbound lanes before a truck towed it away. The Maryland State Highway Administration said all lanes reopened later Monday morning.

 

I believe "giant hunk of composite" would be more accurate. 

Moving those blades around is a hassle. The Burlington Northern freights that pass through my cowtown used to carry blades westward on special flatbeds. 

 

[lucklucky]

Protected areas increase significantly the fire hazard.

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  We assessed differences between burned area, fire severity and population exposure across protected and unprotected areas.
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  Burned area was largest in protected areas in Temperate biomes.
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  Fire severity was ∼20 % higher in protected areas in Temperate and Mediterranean biomes.
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  Population exposure to fire was to 16 times higher when living in the periphery of protected forests.
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  Wildfire risk prevention and mitigation must be central goals in the establishment of protected areas.

The European Union has recently passed the Nature Restoration Law which, among others, seeks to increase the cover of forest reserves protected for biodiversity and, globally, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework similarly seeks to expand protected areas. Here we test whether a trade-off exists between protected areas expansion and fire activity, leading to a higher exposure to fire for the population in protected areas, because they often harbor more biomass and occur in remote areas.

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479725016457

[lucklucky]

Global cooling coming?

 

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://freebeacon.com/policy/im-a-young-meteorologist-who-questioned-the-idea-of-man-made-climate-change-the-climate-zealots-wanted-me-punished-silenced-and-expelled/
 

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Over the weekend, Sam Zeff, a reporter for KCUR, Kansas City’s NPR affiliate, told me over X that "you wasted your money on your degree."

I am a recent college graduate with a degree in meteorology. Zeff was replying to my post on social media, pointing out that he, and other climate activists, were ignoring basic scientific facts when they blamed man-made climate change for the tragic flooding in Texas. The truth is that the rainfall and flooding along the Guadalupe River were not historically unprecedented and had little, if anything, to do with climate change. Neither heavy rainfall nor river flooding has increased in the Texas Hill Country over the last six decades.

 

 

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I was taught that the scientific method is used to test hypotheses and theories against data to seek out truth. But many youth have been captured by the belief that mankind is bringing about the end of the world through man-made carbon dioxide emissions and that every weather event is the result of it, regardless of what the data and historical records actually show. This narrative of man-made climate change causing cataclysmic destruction is taught as fact in schools. Leading news organizations invest in "climate teams" that keep filling the news hole with one-sided reports.

 

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It’s an interesting perch from which to witness—and participate in—the climate debate. On one hand, climate alarmists feel threatened by the fact that I used to be on their side, but now, based on study and research, reject their position. They don’t like that I’m good at chart making and data analysis, and can use humor to encourage people to take another look at the data and catastrophe-predicting models that, when run backwards across historical weather data, consistently get it wrong.

I am following Martz on FB, he's a breath of sanity in that insane space. 

[Stargrunt6]

On 6/30/2025 at 4:26 PM, Ivanhoe said:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/wind-turbine-blade-blocks-traffic-on-interstate-70-near-hagerstown/3947054/
 

I believe "giant hunk of composite" would be more accurate. 

Moving those blades around is a hassle. The Burlington Northern freights that pass through my cowtown used to carry blades westward on special flatbeds. 

 

I used to live in Martinsburg, WV. Yikes.

[Ol Paint]

Yet another example of both government intrusiveness, as well as green idiocy:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/ai-is-coming-to-your-trash-truck-to-make-sure-youve-sorted-the-recycling-right

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https://www.thedrive.com/news/ai-is-coming-to-your-trash-truck-to-make-sure-youve-sorted-the-recycling-right

The city of Centerville, Ohio’s Public Works department rolled out a fleet of recycling rigs this week, equipped with artificial intelligence-powered sorting capabilities. These bots scan through citizens’ refuse to ensure they aren’t tossing food waste and batteries into the wrong bins. Never mind the other, more personal items one might throw out.

“Reducing contamination in our recycling system lowers processing costs and improves the overall efficiency of our collection,” explained City Manager Wayne Davis in a statement. “This technology allows us to target problem areas, educate residents, and make better use of city resources.”

Amusingly, the trash trucks’ findings will then be sent back to residents on a personal-sized postcard. No, I’m not kidding. It will tell residents what they should leave out of their recycling cans next time around, whether it be plastic bags, Styrofoam, or used paper towels.

The story includes this sample postcard:

Ironically, scrap metal is one of the more easily sorted and recycled materials and many of the tanks or car parts would be steel, cast iron, and aluminum.    Most of the rest of the stuff going in the recycle truck is headed to the landfill, anyway.

My local transfer station doesn't bother recycling anything except cardboard.  Everything else (glass, aluminum cans, steel cans, paper, plastic) all gets baled together and hauled to the landfill.

Doug

[rmgill]

A friend's wife was a teacher in the local school district. She tried to get a class room tour of the recycling sorting facility. She was rather put out when she learned that it wasn't being sorted it all. 

"where's it going?"
"the land fill"
"why am I sorting at home?"

Our response was "to feel like you're doing something!"

[sunday]

 

[Ivanhoe]

So as you'd expect, the warmists are claiming that the flooding in central Texas is due to anthropogenic climate change. But they're also claiming that central Texas has always been prone to major flooding.

For example;

Photo album staged next to a "child's chair."

[Ivanhoe]

And this;

 

[Stargrunt6]

On 7/11/2025 at 11:46 AM, rmgill said:

A friend's wife was a teacher in the local school district. She tried to get a class room tour of the recycling sorting facility. She was rather put out when she learned that it wasn't being sorted it all. 

"where's it going?"
"the land fill"
"why am I sorting at home?"

Our response was "to feel like you're doing something!"

I heard a Russian joke that goes "what is reform? Dumping a bucket of rocks into another bucket.  It makes lots of noise but nothing changes."