In the aftermath of horror, we need political leaders with the ability to facilitate de-escalation and peace. Instead, their thirst for war is endangering us all.

My piece for the The Guardian.

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Why Does God Allow Evil to Exist?
Theists get twisted up in knots trying to answer this question.
A far simpler answer is that there is no God so nothing is being allowed, disallowed, justified, caused, or anything else.
It's up to us to attenuate evil.
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Limits to Growth was published in 1972, exploring what happens when you try and grow an economy indefinitely on a finite planet.

We’ve been tracking these lines spookily closely.

Look what’s predicted to happen to food and population.

If your first instinct is to try and deny or downplay the dire implications for our civilization clearly laid out in this graph, then you’re either profiting from the exploitation & decimation of life on this planet, or you’ve believed the lies of someone who is.

This 'man' has 1 million followers and does not allow his wife to speak. He 'allows' her to communicate by writing her questions.
He also wants Sharia law in the UK.
Religion is poison.

Wordt de klimaatinvloed van aerosolen onderschat? klimaatveranda.nl/2024/04/22/wor…

Billy Bishop icarus62 Chris Martz If you really want to understand homogenization, read this: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/…. The algorithm detects both jump & trend outliers.

And again, I processed GHCNv4 raw & adjusted data. Only small raw vs. adjusted differences. For global temps, adjustments largely cancel out.

Billy Bishop icarus62 Chris Martz The NOAA software that computes the adjustments has been on line since 2012. The software package includes all source code + build/run instructions.

Skeptics have had 11+ years to audit the code and identify any questionable adjustment calculations.

Why haven’t they done so?

Chris Martz icarus62 It’s very difficult to rebut your intuition, which isn’t even in the form of an argument. You’ve made a lot of claims without doing any analysis, while many groups have published their methodology, code, uncertainty estimates, etc. These are not equivalent.

Pretty much

Omnia Munda Mundis Religious belief is wishful and fearful thinking.
If reason alone were involved, theists would not exist.

As I *also* discuss in #OurFragileMoment (amazon.com/Our-Fragile-Mo…), assessments of 'cold climate' sensitivity (such as derived from the Last Glacial Maximum) may be a misleading guide to how much future warming we can expect:

The privatisation of water has been a total and utter disaster.

Stop bailing out greedy private companies and bring our water into public ownership instead.

Part of the insensitivity to adding additional stations and choices for dealing with non-climatic signals is because the temperature anomaly field is quite smooth… uniform with just a factor of a few change from e.g. pole to equator or land to ocean and a large correlation

The Berkeley Earth team was worried about many things and then did their analysis and found the same answer. No one is colluding to agree on anything. The global temperature record just doesn’t move much no matter what choices people make for various issues. Like the existence of

Agreed.

Denial on stilts.

Mitchel now tells a lie frequently told by fossil fuel industry shills. Those who value the truth should watch out for it.
The '850mb' and '500mb' pressure levels are 1.3 and 5.5 kilometers above surface level. The CO2 Greenhouse warms the surface, and cools the upper atmosphere.

Stratospheric cooling, tropospheric warming.

How much of global warming is human-caused?

MORE THAN 100%

That’s right: according to natural factors, including the sun and natural cycles, the Earth should be slowly, gradually cooling right now. Instead, it’s warming.

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