Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

#physics **The power of exponential growth**

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-evidence-covid-19-was-spreading-around-the-world-in-late-2019/

Covid was piddling around the world from the late summer of 2019. I got one of the first cases in Jan. 2020, from my brother-in-law who started the Bracebridge cluster. :) It was just a flu then. The article says that other viruses had a physics effect, but covid was under the noise. No philosophers in the media get the concept. The Chinese were just smart enough to type it first, as it blew up.

**Super-Gig Economy** Companies will fire all those working from home, and go for super-short gigs for 'skills'. This won't help them hire the 'brilliants' and they will all go down the tubes. :)

#physics #weather Last time, extreme weather was caused by a 'dancing jet stream' Now, they are into 'straight'. This is the Wednesday dance. On the physics side, the Arctic headpond still builds up, and all the ocean plumes are low and flat. At least the polar vortex fairies are quiet.

**Poor Sweden** Having been in the nuclear industry, and glad to be retired, I'd only buy reactors from South Korea, and poach all their people. :)

**No Canadians to China** Canadians should not visit China right now. Who knows what they will do?

The noaa tide gauge plots correlate well with this plot, but they are all very late now.

#physics #weather **Spencer world temperature plot down** Sat plots work like a 'no touch' thermometer. They read infra-red and microwave energy from warm air or the surface. The Spencer plot follows most of the other plots that come later in the month.

#physics #weather **Nothing much going on**
The cold spill continues into the Pacific. The Arctic headpond of very cold air builds up, and it looks like a weak spot about to spill on NA. Europe continues to get plumes. We are waiting for another burst.

#physics **Dinosaurs with Physics** This is a great boring story, that I've done in my blog. It's the dinosaur story with physics. Nothing to do with the influencer story, I'm not even including charts.
You can get a chart of the Earth's temperature for the last 2 billion years. It goes up and down in a sinusoid with a cycle of about 300 million years. Nobody puts the plate tectonics 'Shmoosh Factor' on top of that.
Yes, Virginia, continental shmooshing is in perfect sync with that. When the continents are flung apart, we get cold, when they are together we get heat, and jungles on the poles.
The physics for that is beyond this discussion, but be assured that the same game physics has been operating since the beginning. During the last cycle, the Earth was cold and giant 'mammally' creatures roamed -- warm blooded. Then the big shmoosh of the Mesozoic. Those creatures all cow-tipped with heat stroke because of another physics thing - heat dissipation.
Although the biomass of mammals was as great as ever, only tiny, all attention was on giant dinosaurs. Then the continents did their thing again. The big Arctic air glaciers knocked down the dinosaurs like iguanas falling from trees in a Florida chill. The mammals ate them. Circle of life.
Don't get me started with giant mammals.

#physics **Goognoculars** A brilliant idea to keep Google from the trash heap of history. I was reading about mechanical stabilized binoculars. They used a liquid prism that probably wasn't good at 40 below. Then I thought a successor to the famous creepy Google glasses. Make stabilized binoculars, all electronic. We'd call them 'prismless' Hook them into the Pixel 7-8-9.
I'd look at a bird from the cottage deck and it would recreate a beautiful AI image. Then I would move the slider from 'dull reality' to 'AI happiness'.
I would say - 'Darn, that's a common house sparrow. I want a Greater Spotted Tit'. And poof! Take a picture.
Now AI would put everybody out of a job. And then, why need goognoculars? Just make up pictures. Life is good. :)

#physics #weather **Trickle Becomes a Flood** This is just pouring through the Bering Str. but no big flow on the continent. However, we are getting standard cold.

**A fine raqulet dinner for New Years Day** You can see it's Teflon. :) Very Canadian.

#climatechange **Insulation allows you to get a hot-tub**
There are no words for this.

I added some more with my blog, but I think nobody could get funding for this, since it is unpopular.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/01/brilliantitis.html

**Hershey House** from the kit. By the 30-something kids. Lots of cursing, and not recommended for kids.

There's a problem that this condition isn't recognized until it becomes depression. I will call it 'brilliantitis' It should be treated earlier with trace Paxil. If you wait until depression, you can't shed the booze. Our medical friends here should find the dna marker. :)

**Intervention for 2023** I wrote about the 'Great Brain Defect' that conquered the world, but we should talk about what to do about it. This is a northern Europe defect that cuts down on brain serotonin. I blame the Vikings.
I'm seeing it in people again, and the #1 response is 'I don't need no pills!'. The defect allows you to be super-brilliant, but burns out your brain at 40. You can see it in brain scans.
For those who self-medicate, they either suicide, or become drunks. It is up to those around them to 'intervene' and get them to a doctor who knows about this. This hits both male and female. We know about the billionaires who go funny at 40. They aren't taking the Paxil.

**Canada in the news** Although I hate the concept of lithium cars, this can be used for my methanol hybrid cars. :) We just need that whole groupthink thing to explode. The biggest crime of that, is not building a million windmills for battery cars (Ha!), but in the elimination of >all< funding for atmospheric physics. :(