- Hinkley Point C in Somerset is under construction. When completed it will provide around 7 per cent of the UK’s electricity ( ~3.5 Gigawatts). It is set to be the most expensive nuclear power station ever built... more than 4 X more expensive than an average South Korean or Chinese nuclear power plant . A French plant that uses the same reactor (EPR-1750) and built by the same company (EDF), is set to cost 25 per cent less.
Saturday, May 11, 2024
MINIONS OF CLIMATE LEVIATHAN WHACK MAGNA CARTA
In an act of Hobbesian brutality, two elderly ladies tried to shatter the foundation of English liberty and the American Constitution yesterday, but were betrayed by a chisel- monger whose wares proved unable to break ion-exchanged gorilla
glass, and so were reduced to gluing themselves to the great charter's intact case.
glass, and so were reduced to gluing themselves to the great charter's intact case.
IS A HALF MILLION A TON A HIGH ENOUGH CARBON TAX ?
WHILE CLIMATE DENIERS HAVE SAID SOME MEMORABLY DUMB THINGS ABOUT THE MEDIEVAL WINE TRADE, thE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION has in its infinite wisdom imposed a POSTMODERN tax in excess of a half million dollars a tonne on carbon contained as CO2 in some alcoholic beverages.
"Under the federal code, alcoholic cider is taxed as either hard cider, still wine, or sparkling wine, and the implications of which category applies are not insignificant. Hard cider is taxed at a modest $0.226 per gallon, while sparkling wine is taxed at a whopping $3.40 per gallon—a staggering 1,400 percent increase. For every 100 gallons of cider produced, Uncle Sam either takes $22 in taxes or $340 in taxes.
What determines how cider is categorized and taxed? A ridiculous three-part formula ...To avoid the $3.40 per gallon tax rate. cider must contain under 8.5 percent alcohol by volume (ABV), and have less than 0.64 grams of carbon dioxide (CO2) per 100mL. "
This translates into a roughly one dollar a liter tax NOT JUST ON HARD cider containing > 6.4 grams per liter of CO2, BUT EVERYTHING FROM CAVA, PROSECCO , AND CRACKLING PORTUGUESE ROSE' TO CHANDON'S NAPA VALLEY BRUT AND VINTAGE FRENCH CHAMPAGNE.
as CO2 is ~ 27% CARBON BY WEIGHT, THATS ABOUT $510,000 per tonne of dissolved CO2 carbon in beverages subject to taxation as sparkling wine.
THE PARIS SPECIAL CLIMATE OLYMPICS
To make the climate wars more exciting and accessible, the Non-International Pseudo-Climatology Committee (NIPCC) has organized a special olympiad for climate think tank creatives.
Dr. Soon Clara the Climate Clown Rev. Beisner The Organizing Committee |
In the ecumenical spirit of eliding climate and religion, these carbon-offset events for the Differently Science Facted are open to all, Dominionist and Evangelical Climate Scientists, Former Fox NewsAnchors, Vouduns Vertes, and eternal flame worshipers of all denominations, including the Tulsa Temple of Doom.
TV sponsorship is sought for the following events:
Great Isotherm Race.
In this signature event Ontologically Deep and Terminally Othered contestants will try to unicycle Poleward faster than global isotherms from CO2 forcing can move,The Never Too Soon Rising Sun Challenge
Challenge contestants will attempt to avoid incineration by solar variability as the focus of the rising sun ascends a vertical glass solar collector wall. The event is open to all alternative Astrophysicists and Anti-Alternative energy lobbyists ,and starting positions are handicapped in proportion to moral stature.
The Moulin Blues
This extreme ice water sport features two water polo teams vying to score goals before they are sucked into the blue maelstrom draining a melt water lake atop the Greenland icecap.
The Chariots Of Fire Prius Pentathelon
In this arduous paramilitary challenge, pentatheletes race to recharge an electric vehicle stranded on an Atlantic iceberg while carrying rifles and wearing skis
1. Swim from the French island of St. Pierre to Newfoundland with the vehicle's power cable
2. Run to St. John's to order an extension cord
3. Wrestle the order clerk who says the plug is out of stock into submission
4.Ski across the sea ice to a Labrador Walmart and buy one.
5. Harness the completed EV charging cable reel to a polar bear, and ride it to the iceberg.
In this arduous paramilitary challenge, pentatheletes race to recharge an electric vehicle stranded on an Atlantic iceberg while carrying rifles and wearing skis
1. Swim from the French island of St. Pierre to Newfoundland with the vehicle's power cable
2. Run to St. John's to order an extension cord
3. Wrestle the order clerk who says the plug is out of stock into submission
4.Ski across the sea ice to a Labrador Walmart and buy one.
5. Harness the completed EV charging cable reel to a polar bear, and ride it to the iceberg.
The Hockey Stick High Vault
In this exciting variant on an old Native American sport, a 5-meter octagon of rubber graph paper is stretched between hockey sticks to create a high jump trampoline . The first contestant to touch the tropopause or asphyxiate wins.
The Dryathelon
Biatheletes face the future tactical problem of sand skiing from center of The Greenland Dune Cap to shoot a polar bear on its coast. The largest rug wins.
The Endangered Javelin Throw
This ambitious beach sport combines the ever popular dwarf caber toss and quadriplegic harpooning, as swimmers strive to fling a norwhal out of the water towards a sandy bullseye to stick upright on its unicorn-like horn.Venues
After the Paris events, the games will adjourn to Francophone Africa, for the traditional pre-Paris Prime Meridian Climate Tug of War in the underwater East Pole Olympic Village,( EPOV) at Longitude Zulu on Ghana’s Gold Coast.
Directions to EPOV for Climate Lobbyists:
From K-Street head East and turn your amphibious vehicle south on the Prime Meridian until you arrive at the Equator, a venue chosen to show participants the absence of the hot spot that proves the falsity of bedwetting watermelon CAGWist views.
Directions to EPOV for Climate Lobbyists:
From K-Street head East and turn your amphibious vehicle south on the Prime Meridian until you arrive at the Equator, a venue chosen to show participants the absence of the hot spot that proves the falsity of bedwetting watermelon CAGWist views.
To reduce energy costs and avoid framing issues, the Special Winter Climate Olympics will be held in midsummer on the Greenland Icecap, or the adjacent Arctic sea ice, if there is any.
ConcessionsTo promote a high carbon capture lifestyle, food concessions at this Olympiad will feature salt and sugar-free fossil foods, like fresh-fracked anthracite, and lignite smoothies,
Bernstein’s Fossil Fuel Amber Ale, brewed from real Baltic amber , will be available on tap in the delegates lounge.
Thursday, May 9, 2024
NASA FINDS PERFECT CLIMATE DENIER VACATION PLANET
PLANET JANSSEN :
FOSSIL FUEL FREE AND 1200ºF COOLER THAN MODELS PREDICT!
Finding few attractions on Mars, BP, EXXON, CFACT, CEI and American Petroleum Institute climate advertising creatives are studying Nature 's report of the Webb Space Telescope on the hot, rocky exoplanet 55 Cancri e, AKA Janssen where greenhouse gas climate forcing puts even Venus to shame.
one of five known planets orbiting the Sun-like star 55 Cancri. With a diameter nearly twice that of Earth and slightly denser the planet is classified as a super-Earth:
The "rocky" in 55 Cancri e comes with air quotes because it orbits the star at one-twenty-fifth the distance between Mercury and the Sun. Its surface is accordingly likely to be a thousand or so degrees hotter than ordinary lava, its tidally locked dayside a bubbling ocean of magma. tidally locked and a nightside less in perpetual darkness than glowing with the sullen heat of atmospheric transport
Cooler than Expected
The first indication of a substantial atmosphere came from temperature measurements based on its massive infrared thermal emission (see figure above). If the planet were covered in dark molten rock with a thin veil of vaporized rock or no atmosphere at all, the dayside would equilibrate around 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit (~2,200 degrees Celsius).
“Instead, the MIRI data showed a relatively low temperature of about 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit [~1540 degrees Celsius],” said JPL astrophysics spokesman Hu. “This is a very strong indication that energy is being distributed from the dayside to the nightside, most likely by a volatile-rich atmosphere.” While a lava gulfstream could carry some heat around to the dark side, only atmospheric transport is efficient enough to explain the cooling effect.
When the team looked at the NIRCam data, they saw patterns consistent with a volatile-rich atmosphere. “We see evidence of a dip in the spectrum between 4 and 5 microns — less of this light is reaching the telescope,” explained co-author Aaron Bello-Arufe, also from NASA JPL. “This suggests the presence of an atmosphere containing carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide, which absorb these wavelengths of light.” A planet with no atmosphere or an atmosphere consisting only of vaporized rock would not have this specific spectral feature.
“We’ve spent the last ten years modelling different scenarios, trying to imagine what this world might look like,” said co-author Yamila Miguel from the Leiden Observatory and the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON). “Finally getting some confirmation of our work is priceless!”
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
DO CHEMTRAILS CAUSE INSECT WARFARE?
GLOBAL WARMING BLAMED AS UKRAINIAN BUTTERFLY FIFTH COLUMNISTS ATTACK RUSSIA ACROSS THE STEPPES
Camouflage Butterfly 🦋 pic.twitter.com/q4PQmMOT99
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 7, 2024
Sunday, May 5, 2024
SUSTAINABILITY : THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE ROOM
MIZUNO-SAN'S WORK IS CUTTING EDGE, BUT THE SENDAI BLADES I BOUGHT IN THE 1980'S ARE STILL GOING STRONG,AND , ABSENT GRANITE COUNTER ENCOUNTERS, I DOUBT I'LL NEED MORE
Saturday, May 4, 2024
CLIMATE CRISIS : THE FONT:
HOT TYPEFACE IS NOW IN COLD PRINT
A New Era in Semantic Aggression !
This is your brain on
Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis Display Font is a modern display font created by Daniel Coull andEino Korkala with geometric style that will make your design looks modern and futuristic. The font’s weight varies according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s (NSIDC) data from 1979 to 2019 and continues with IPCC’s projection³ until 2050. In other words, every headline, comment or article written with the font will exemplify the real impact of climate change to the arctic sea ice extent.
On systems that support variable fonts, you can select a specific year from 1979 to 2050 to show the percentual situation of the Arctic ice pack. In case a variable font is not supported, you can use a collection of regular font weights from heavy to thin represented by the years 1979, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2019, 2030, 2040 and 2050.
The font supports the standard of Latin Extended-A. It works for almost all languages based in Latin alphabet from Spanish to Northern Sami.
The font is intended to be used by anyone who wishes to visualize the urgency of climate change. Especially the media can use it to enhance its climate-related storytelling through illustrations and dramatizations. Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat is at the moment using the font to draw attention to its climate-related stories.
Thanks Daniel Coull and Eino Korkala for creating such a great font!
In other words:
Climate Crisis Display Font is a modern display font created by Daniel Coull andEino Korkala with geometric style that will make your design looks modern and futuristic. The font’s weight varies according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s (NSIDC) data from 1979 to 2019 and continues with IPCC’s projection³ until 2050. In other words, every headline, comment or article written with the font will exemplify the real impact of climate change to the arctic sea ice extent.
On systems that support variable fonts, you can select a specific year from 1979 to 2050 to show the percentual situation of the Arctic ice pack. In case a variable font is not supported, you can use a collection of regular font weights from heavy to thin represented by the years 1979, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2019, 2030, 2040 and 2050.
The font supports the standard of Latin Extended-A. It works for almost all languages based in Latin alphabet from Spanish to Northern Sami.
The font is intended to be used by anyone who wishes to visualize the urgency of climate change. Especially the media can use it to enhance its climate-related storytelling through illustrations and dramatizations. Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat is at the moment using the font to draw attention to its climate-related stories.
Thanks Daniel Coull and Eino Korkala for creating such a great font!
It is clearly ideal for captioning PoMo Climatespeak programs :
Friday, May 3, 2024
Thursday, May 2, 2024
A PAPER NOT EVEN ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT WOULD RUN!
Tired of blaming climate change on cosmic rays?
try blaming NUCLEAR proliferation on THE egyptian BOOK OF THE DEAD
The Pharaoh’s Curse:
New Evidence of Unusual Deaths Associated With Ancient Egyptian Tombs.
Ross Fellowes
A survey of modern-era field Egyptologists reveals a very high incidence of unusual deaths consistent with… radiation sickness caused by exposure to abnormally high radiation previously reported in ancient tombs. However, the high radiation in tombs is not explained by the ‘natural’ background, which is rare in limestone bedrock.
Here, re-examination of Egyptian funerary literature reveals reference to saffron cake in portions of 2-3-5 (yellowcake U-235), giving power by means of an invisible ‘efflux’, and leaving a legacy of hazardous ‘excrements’ (wastes) which were buried in an underground ‘tomb’ called the per D’jet (house of millions of years). The ancient curse warned that those who break this tomb shall meet death by a disease that no doctor can diagnose.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER
IS THIS THE END OF DAYS?
A PRO-GEOENGINEERING editorial
in the Washington post has
driven MARK MORANO to embrace AL GORE as A comrade in arms with
a Climate depot LINK to al's 2010 ANTI-GEOENGINEERING sermon on THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW :
... Climate engineering scholars David Keith at the University of Chicago and Wake Smith at Yale think it would take no more than 15 souped-up Gulfstream jets to send up, say, 100,000 tons of sulfur per year into the lower stratosphere to block solar rays, at an annual cost of some $500 million. This could happen in as little as five years |
Monday, April 29, 2024
THAT SOUNDS VAGUELY FAMILIAR!
How can co-production of knowledge accelerate climate action? NASEM CLIMATE 3 hours ago
Co-production of knowledge can help us address climate challenges more effectively by integrating traditional ecological knowledge with scientific expertise…
Cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and scientific communities is among the fastest methods for responding to climate change.
We further examine what equitable co-production of knowledge looks like through… the committee on Co-Production of Environmental Knowledge, Methods, and Approaches.
This recalls the ice-breaking 2019 anthropology manifesto:
GLACIERS, GENDER and SCIENCE:
A FEMINIST GLACIOLOGY FRAMEWORK FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE RESEARCH
Mark Carey, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change… indigenous accounts do not portray the ice as passive… science and knowledge have historically been linked to imperial and hegemonic capitalist agendas…
if the intersecting forces of colonialism, neoliberalism, and patriarchy have historically silenced and marginalized certain ways of knowing…then feminist glaciology - drawing from feminist political ecology and feminist postcolonial science studies - seeks to expose those more-than-science voices and offer a diversity of representations of cryoscapes.
‘The glaciers these women speak of’, explains Cruikshank (2005: 51–3), ‘ are willful, capricious, easily excited by human intemperance, but equally placated by quick-witted human responses.
Proper behavior is deferential. I was warned, for instance, about firm taboos against ‘‘cooking with grease’’ near glaciers that are offended by such smells. . . . Cooked food, especially fat, might grow into a glacier overnight if improperly handled."
--Cruikshank J Do Glaciers Listen?
Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 2005
Cruikshank J Are glaciers ‘good to think with’?
Recognising indigenous environmental knowledge. Anthropological Forum 22: 239–250. 2012
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
DID SPACE ALIENS EAT HIS SCIENCE HOMEWORK?
On April 19, Tucker Carlson informed Joe Rogan that aliens good and bad are supernatural entities that transgress:
'the laws of nature as we understand them”
He warned Rogan that killer UFO’s are plunging in and out of the Seven Seas at will, tearing around:
“at 500 knots as measured by sonar, much faster than any object can actually go.”
Tuck reassured Rogan his views were based not on the investigations of the quack journalist who sold Walter Cronkite on the reality of the Pyramids of Mars, but those of well-credentialed Stanford immunologist Gary Nolan M.D.,
who though lacking Earthly experience in materials science or engineering, has re-invented himself as the premier authority on "alien materials" which are scientifically defined as materials neither he or Tuck have ever seen before.
Tuck went on to add:
"There is a spiritual component here for sure. People will worship A.I. as a god. A.I., Ted Kaczynski was likely right, will get away from us. We will be controlled by the thing that we made …
We have a moral obligation to murder it immediately, and since it’s not alive we don’t need to feel bad about that…”
TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
The Wegener Medal has been awarded to Stefan Ramsdorf. Here he reports on the state of the real, as opposed to the Hollywood Atlantic Meridonla Overtunring Circulation has been doing and what Argo submersibles have learned in the course of cruisng more than 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Potsdam
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
THE END OF THE WORLD ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE
PLIOCENE BLUE ICE BUBBLE AIR IS UNDER 300 PPM CO2
om an ancient warm climate.JULIA MARKS PETERSON
SCIENCE 24 APRIL 2024 Goudschmit conference report
VIENNA—Samples of eerie blue glacial ice from Antarctica are a staggering 6 million years old, scientists announced last week, doubling the previous record for Earth’s oldest ice. The ice opens a new window on Earth’s ancient climate—one that isn’t exactly what scientists expected.
Bubbles in the ice trap air from the Pliocene epoch, a time before the ice ages when the planet was several degrees warmer than today and carbon dioxide (CO2) levels may have been just as high as they are now. But an initial analysis of the bubbles suggests CO2 levels were rather low in the late Pliocene and only sank slightly between 2.7 million and 1 million years ago as the Pliocene ended, the ice ages began, and Earth headed toward a dramatic climate shift that caused ice ages to grow longer and deeper.
The results are preliminary, stresses Ed Brook, a geochemist at Oregon State University (OSU) and leader of the U.S. Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX), which presented the discovery last week here in multiple talks at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly. But if even a tiny drop in CO2can kick off a major climate change, Brook adds, “you know, we probably care about that.”
Finding ice this old is “fantastic,” says Eric Wolff, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Cambridge who wasn’t involved in the work... Wolff adds. “Nothing’s quite as direct as actually taking a bubble, snapping it open, and putting it straight into a mass spectrometer.”...
To date the ice, Sarah Shackleton, a paleoclimatologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and colleagues at Princeton University analyzed the argon isotopes contained in its air bubbles. But the technique consumes a lot of the ice, leaving little of a standard 8-centimeter core left over for other analyses of the same ice layer. For now, the team has only drilled small cores of the 6-million-year-old ice, so its age is all they know, Brook says. They’re heading back to Antarctica next austral summer to retrieve larger samples.
But last season, Brook and his colleagues did manage to drill jumbo-size cores of ice as old as 3 million years. These cores, as wide as a dinner plate, yielded hundreds of samples of ancient air—including the first ever from the Pliocene, which ended about 2.6 million years ago with the start of the ice ages
Scientists think high levels of CO2 were responsible for the Pliocene’s warmth. Proxy data from sediment cores, such as the chemical compositions of the shells of tiny marine algae and plant leaf waxes, suggest CO2 was probably about as high as today’s unnaturally elevated level, 425 parts per million (ppm). But not one blue ice sample older than 1 million years exceeded 300 ppm, says Julia Marks Peterson, a paleoclimatologist at OSU who performed the greenhouse gas analysis.
The greenhouse gas data also raise questions about a mysterious climate shift that began about 1.2 million years ago. At this time, something caused the ice ages to grow longer and more intense, stretching out from mild 40,000-year cycles to deeper 100,000-year cycles. The leading theory for this flip is that CO2levels dropped, allowing ice sheets to grow too thick to melt away on a 40,000-year cycle. A new climate record from clues preserved in sediment cores, reported in February, supports that picture. But the snapshots across the transition found in the blue ice suggest CO2 levels held steady between about 220 ppm and 250 ppm. “We don’t see much change in CO2,” Marks Peterson says. “That doesn’t mean there wasn’t one. But it might be smaller than we expected.”
Sunday, April 21, 2024
ALBANIA PROMISES NET-ZERO ART BY EARTH DAY 2025
Sailing to Venice for the Biennale? Put in to Putin's favorite cruising ground and check out the Heads of Heads Of State scene in Albania's contemporary art capital, Fushë-Krujë!
Wonders await along the Côte Concrèt of Nato's 28th nation! the pillbox studded cultured pearl of the Adriatic hosts monumental cat paintings by Xhorxh H. Busj
in a venue overlooked by a colossal bronze of the former President on a plinth formerly occupied by heroic statues of Fearless Peoples Republic of Sqip Leader Enver Hoxa, and his predecessor King Zog .
Albania's Illyrian Coast has sucked tourists ashore like Charybdis by turning a phalanx of iron-clad coastal bunkers into a pantheon of bronze colossi honoring both Chief Executives and Vice-Presidential Chiefs Of Staff like Agnew mentor Artur Smër, Loyal Cheney lieutenant Skotor Libbë and Dan Quayle Brain Trust head Vlym Xristol
The Post-Palladian architecture of this Albanian New Atlantis eclipses even Skagway & Atlantic City, drawing National Review, New Republic and Nation seminar cruise patrons to admire the ancestral home of John Belushi, Mother Teresa International Airport, and Fushë-Krujë where Bush's whirlwind Balkans tour ended in 2007
While crushing revisionist rumors that bronze colossus of Bush celebrates NATO ridding Albanians of Kosovo or Kosovo of Albanians, Fushë-Krujënes admit masterpiece was cast ex voto in apology for local fans removing wristwatch from Presidential wrist as he worked welcoming crowd in 2007.
THERE IS ALWAYS BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS
On January 9 the BBC reported on the plastic nurdle crisis , as a spill lashed the Iberian coast with the force of a thousand pool noodles
"More than 1,000 sacks of pellets known as nurdles ... have fallen from the Liberian flagged freighter Toconao, some 50 miles west of VigoThe tiny plastic balls used to make water bottles ... are less than 5mm wide, making cleaning up extremely difficult. Volunteers… combing through sand and sieving water to find the plastic pellets... accused Spain's Socialist-led national government of failing to inform local authorities. The crisis is reminiscent of Spain's worst ever… "
While the BBC valiantly strove to persuade viewers that pellets EU approved for food container must be as bad as a crude oil spill, an article entitled
The water footprint of tourism in Spain
in the flagship journal of plastic bottle & spork studies :
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REVEALED THE NURDLE TSUNAMI CONTAINED LESS PLASTIC THAN THE WATER BOTTLES SPANISH TOURISTS DISCARD IN DAY.
Now comes word of an intelligent spin-off from well publicized but largely unsuccessful efforts to find and recover plastic trash on the high seas. It has long been noted that rivers run down to the sea, and that the flotsam chucked into them often outweighs the jetsam jettisoned by coastal vessels plying the seas into which they flow. How much more?
Here's a days catch by a modestly sized but cleverly located boom in the delta of one of the many tropical rivers that drain the hinterlands of the Spanish Main: 1,421,000 kg of plastic bottles, enough to yield a thousand tonnes of recycled nurdles and assure the sustainability of the tourist water bottle ecosystem for generations to come.
A solution to the more difficult problem of Central America being a lee shore downwind of all the thirsty tourists in the Caribbean remains to be discovered.
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