Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

#physics #weather **State of the Oceans** No great change.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/02/state-of-oceans-feb-15-2023.html

I love doomer pronouncements that break the laws of physics. However, you can't convince anybody of that.

Turns out that Bing Crazy, the famous singer, is quite sad about constantly being sucked into the doomer shtick.

#physics #weather **Biblical**

Yeah, new doomer thing, after littering. The physics shows that 'Absolute sea level" has not changed, and all the doomers do is look at places that are sinking...

When the truth conflicts with the legend, print the legend....

#physics #weather **Pacific Pattern Continues** Cold spills down by Alaska and through Siberia. The rest of us are spared. The press just lists the warm spots.

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?

**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.

#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.

#physics #weather **Weather Balloons** Lots sent every day, but they burst after 2 hours, and the radio package drifts down. Some people think they can sneak in their stuff, in the crowd.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/weather-balloons-hundreds-turns/story?id=97082985

Weather balloons showed long ago that all significant heat energy is transferred from the surface to the stratosphere by convection, but nasa said differently and everybody just shut the heck up.