Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

This whole thing is funny. MS releases a product before it is ready (ya!), and Googs panics. I read in some SF, that these things would need regular dream sequences to stop creeping insanity, and then diminish the dreams like humans do.

**Just salting the atmosphere with sulfur**

#earthquake **OK, no more comments**

**Just Funny**

#physics #weather **Ottawa ice used as climate defence**

Everybody in Canada loves the mild winter. The physics is that extreme cold spilling out of the Arctic has created and pushed down Pacific storms, giving us that nice, dry Pacific air. In Huntsville, there are no snowmobiles on the ice.

*That view was echoed by Canada’s environment minister, Steven Guilbeault, who said Tuesday, “This is yet another example of how our climate is changing in Canada.”*

**Climate efforts tailing off**

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/14/is-the-eco-bubble-about-to-burst/

This is not rightwinger stuff, it's economics. Great quote:

*Economist Herbert Stein once said that ‘if something cannot go on forever, it will stop’. Today, there is growing evidence that ‘Stein’s law’ is coming for the renewables industry, particularly for wind and solar power.*

It could have used some physics....

#physics #weather **Erratic weather** Extreme cold coming down for 1 day at Toronto. Then the Pacific air pushes it out.

**Severe wind shear** Western states get cold, Toronto gets summer. What will the media report?

@SypherNight fine, solar cells and windmills use a lot of carbon to get built, and a lot of rare earths which are horrible to extract. No morals here.

@TheOldGuy Yes, women should subsidize my underwear.

**Physics Phable - A story of terrible pollution** written by ChatFizz
Once upon a time, long ago, there was a new world. It had an atmosphere of nitrogen, co2 and some methane, with lots of water. It cooled rapidly using convection through the atmosphere (they knew how to do things in those days).
Soon bacteria popped up all over the place. They were happy and built huge bacteria cities. But, they they just ate sulphur and methane, which was very low energy, so they were slooooow. No internet.
Then some very bright engineers said "We can do better than this." They used quantum mechanics and found a way to zap co2 with sun photons, and split the molecule. That gave carbon which they combined with water, and ate it. The waste O2, they just poured into the atmosphere with giant chimneys -- Out of Sight, Out of Mind.
Oh, the horror! One o2 could fry a happy anaerobic bacterium. Soon, there were massive protests - **Stop the Oxygen!** Some correlated the rise of o2 with temperature - ha.
The big Oxygen companies didn't care, they kept pouring it out, and enjoyed 10 times the energy. When it came to their own lives, they used something called 'evolution' and put on layers to stop the ox burn.
The world changed. Plants sucked in the bacteria and went wild with ox. The earth was at 20% ox, but many plants on land wanted more. When they got to 25%, one lightning stroke would burn an entire forest in a poof. They went back to 20%. Soon, animals ate the plants, and humans ate the animals.
The End.

@SypherNight Yes, I add co2 to my fish tank, and I like fizzy water. I am a 'Fan of CO2" :)
Windmills and solar are all built with slave labour, and they take up a lot of space where we could grow drugs. The lithium for electric cars is deadlier than coal.

@SypherNight Burning coal is air pollution. Rotten cars are air pollution, but co2 is not. The world has had huge spikes in it, and all the little critters lived. I would be happy, from physics, that if we burned fossil fuel to pure co2, then we are happy. Electric cars are not happy. windmills not happy. solar cells not happy. All have hidden nasties.
I push cars running on methanol, with super-capacitors for acceleration and braking. This is happy. :) Thank you for listening.

@diverzija Are you enjoying 'All Musk, all the time' ??

@Lunatech Lots of guys rushing out of Costco with roses. One guy had 3 bouquets. Is he fooling around? :)

@SypherNight The best graph is the actual temperature plot, posted just before. Every month, NOAA releases the average of the month from around the world. This is done by satellite, like those 'no touch' forehead thermometers. It's all calibrated, and must be considered accurate.
If the temps are rising, they splash it on the headlines, and if the temps go down, they bury it. From about 2000 to 2010, the world temperatures were rising rapidly. This was the heyday of the 'hockey stick' rise. The UN based all it's predictions on this rise, and we would all bake in 2050. It was blamed on carbon dioxide, because it was also rising. This broke all the laws of physics.
Now, we can see that the temperatures are not rising in a straight line. But they do not change the prediction. Using physics, we are entering a cooler phase of world temperatures, following earlier cycles. That implies that co2 has nothing to do with anything, but I'm not saying that....
The Haywood plot is just another way to show the monthly temps over each year, which is its own line.

#physics #weather **NOAA Haywood plot** This plot continues to go down.

#physics #weather **NOAA World temp plot** Remember that all the predictions of doom came from putting a straight line on that first rise. Each one of those other peaks came from some action in the Pacific. I don't see anything there now, so the temperatures will continue to go down.

#physics #earthquake **PGV from Turkey** My contention with convention is that PGV has all the importance with respect to damage. You can see incredible PGV at quite a distance. The only way you can survive this is a stiff building with deep helical piles. Convention would state the use of flexible structures.