The green religion versus Christian religion. The first is collectivist the second is individualist because the second is concerned with individual salvation. Hence the left can advocate or tolerate the murder of tens of millions in the name of a higher truth or moral good. The greens--some of them--even want that ideal virus to come along and wipe out seven billion men, women and children. Of course they don't say it that way; they just say "people" or x (ideal) number or "virus." Never "men, women and children."

--Brant           

[Updated at 11:22] Video of Brown's press conference regarding the wildfires currently devastating California ... I haven't caught the two phrases cited in the Bridget Johnson article at PJMedia. 

[This is the wrong briefing video. Will post in the correct one after Family Time]

The Woolsey fire is edging east from Calabasas, which made me think of our departed Greg Mamishian, who lives just east of Topanga (which is now under mandatory evacuation); this Google map has a lot of detail on the Woolsey fire: https://google.org/crisismap/google.com/2018-Woolsey-fire

The video I posted was the wrong briefing; it also no longer embeds (at least in Chrome).

On 11/12/2018 at 10:29 AM, william.scherk said:

[This is the wrong briefing video. Will post in the correct one after Family Time]

Here's a brief extract from Brown's response to questions on the 11th, from Global News:

In an earlier round of wildfires in California, President Trump laid some of the blame on Canada, which seems only right in the circumstances:

So, how is Trump sharing out the blame for the current horrific wildfires in northern and southern California?

52 minutes ago, william.scherk said:

The video I posted was the wrong briefing; it also no longer embeds (at least in Chrome).

Here's a brief extract from Brown's response to questions on the 11th, from Global News:

In an earlier round of wildfires in California, President Trump laid some of the blame on Canada, which seems only right in the circumstances

Deniers dunnit! It's settled science. And we could've stopped it if the deniers weren't using their denying powers. End freedom now! Punish the deniers! Our very existence is at stake! Just ask the scientists and firefighters. They all say that we should start doing some killing now. We used to be able to prevent all bad things until the deniers came along and started denying! Kill the deniers!

Oh noes! Muh, muh climate doom!

Muh settled science!

Muh alarm! Muh, muh, muh panic!

https://reason.com/blog/2018/11/14/widely-reported-ocean-warming-study-is-w

Widely Reported Alarming Ocean Warming Study Is Wrong

Skeptic of catastrophic climate change projections is right about significant errors in alarming new study...

On 11/13/2018 at 2:48 PM, Jonathan said:

Deniers dunnit! It's settled science. And we could've stopped it if the deniers weren't using their denying powers. End freedom now! Punish the deniers! Our very existence is at stake! Just ask the scientists and firefighters. They all say that we should start doing some killing now. We used to be able to prevent all bad things until the deniers came along and started denying! Kill the deniers!

How typical of Governor Moonbeam, the Lord of the Medflies.

We have to start punishing people now in order to avoid extinction.

It's settle science. If you're a Denier, then you are causing our extinction, and we therefore have the right to stop you with any means necessary. We've tried to do it legally, and we've tried to do it only slightly violently. You didn't listen, so the next step is blood. Damn, it's going to be fun and gloriously righteous to punish the Deniers/Nonbelievers/Infidels! 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/17/thousands-gather-to-block-london-bridges-in-climate-rebellion

Don't build at the beach. Don't build on a cliff. Don't build where wild fires happen. Don't put a Qwicky Mart in a ghetto.  Don't build on a filled in swamp or basin in case an earthquake occurs. Sheesh. Do we always need to be evolutionary? But then again, evolution won't happen if we save idiots from their mistakes.  Oh, oh. Starting to sound all Eugenic-kee.

Hey. it worked. I typed in Windows and cut and pasted here without melting my computer! I liked these quotes the best. [WSS added: Dozens arrested after climate protest blocks five London bridges ]

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The move is part of a campaign of mass civil disobedience organised by a new group, Extinction Rebellion, which wants to force governments to treat the threats of climate breakdown and extinction as a crisis. “The ‘social contract’ has been broken … [and] it is therefore not only our right but our moral duty to bypass the government’s inaction and flagrant dereliction of duty and to rebel to defend life itself,” said Gail Bradbrook, one of the organisers . . . . In a letter published in the Guardian they said: “While our academic perspectives and expertise may differ, we are united on this one point: we will not tolerate the failure of this or any other government to take robust and emergency action in respect of the worsening ecological crisis. The science is clear, the facts are incontrovertible, and it is unconscionable to us that our children and grandchildren should have to bear the terrifying brunt of an unprecedented disaster of our own making.”

Soooo. It sounds like a Monty Python sketch. They want a totalitarian dictatorship to save us from ourselves? The billions of humans we keep adding to the planet every generation who use fossil fuels to survive is bad?  Kind of like a comet coming to hit the earth? But guys! Have a heart or more accurately have a brain. Look for real evidence of global catastrophe. If people are thriving and reproducing . . . . As Carl Sagan so wisely did not say, “Camp fires are not destroying the planet.” Peter

Peter, I am going to add in a URL from Jonathan's comment and format your post.

While I am here, here's something tangentially-related to the topic: Mick West's Metabunk has a few QAnon posts, and in one thread various posters comment on the conspiracy theory that the current California wildfires were ignited by space-based laser or 'directed energy' weapons. In some QAnon-inflected imaginings, it was Jerry Brown who commanded the lasers -- so that the fires would trigger federal aid.

This one is fun for all ...

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Explained: House "Cut in Half", Tubbs Fire, Santa Rosa, Coffey Park

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   Mick West Administrator Staff Member

   
   
   With the recent interest in the Camp Fire, the above image is being recycled as "evidence" that fires in California were aided by energy beams from space. The house upper middle is described as being "cut in half". A video by flat earther "aplanetruth.info" has nearly half a million views:

   
   Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEqaeNWkSDg
   
   
   Close up reveals more detail
   
   (Image Source: https://www.ocregister.com/2017/10/12/photos-northern-california-is-devastated-by-wildfires/)
   
   If we use Google Earth to do a before and after, we can see that what remains is only a small part of a larger house. The roof is a bit lower than the main structure.

    

 

If we take a wider view, we can get an idea of what happened:

Source: Duncan Sinfield)

The "half house" lot is on the edge of the fire region, this is looking South. What we are seeing here is the line where the firefighters stopped the advance of the fire. Here's an even wider view (still looking south)

As you can see the lot is just on the edge of the burnt area.

So what happened? Firefighters sprayed that bit of the house with water to stop it spreading to the next house. This was at the leading edge of a very fast-moving fire. Any building already burning was going to keep burning, the best they could do was to try to stop the fire spreading.

The best way of understanding this is to watch this video by Kent Porter:

 

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2kk7RJdKjE


The video opens with the reasons the fires spread - high winds blowing flames and embers:


We then see a firefighter directing the firehose on the left side of a burning house. He's not trying to save the house from the fire, he's just trying to stop it spreading.


Later he switches to the other side of the house, to try to save the unburnt house on that side.


So in the case of the "half" house, all that happened was firefighters were hosing down that smaller side structure of the house. The main house burnt and collapsed, and they were able to douse the flames, stopping the forward progress of the fire. The "half" house just shows where they held the line.

 

This probably belongs elsewhere, but hey.

I really miss this guy but I guess he did a lot of puzzles before he died so his widow could “carry on” the tradition. I started around dinner time and I just finished it. This Sunday Crossword by the late Merle Reagle is titled “Light Opera.”

Clue: “Der Ring des Nibelungen” translated: Answer: I want a donut.

Clue: “Tristen and Isolde” translated: Answer: I used to sell nasal spray.

Clue: “Der Rosenkavalier” translated: Answer: The cowboy is Jewish.

Clue: “Parsifal” translated: Answer: You dropped your garnish.

Clue: “Die Gotterdammerung” translated: Answer: Who broke the ladder?

Clue: “Die Fledermaus” translated: Answer: Your Disneyland balloon is losing air.

Judy the fucking science denier is dumping cold water on the climate doom money grab again:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/27/judith-curry-sea-level-study-disputes-climate-disa/?fbclid=IwAR13JHSjwAnjj3SlNjzKx8JhVp0oTEe3FBlr4X68_vGI6fwQQq6YS7YuSMw

No, I didn't call her a denier, I really didn't. I wouldn't do that. I'm a true scientist, not someone who uses intimidation tactics. Huh? My having falsely accused her of science denial is in my written testimony? Hey, look over there! What's that? Yeah, over there. Behind the thing. Hmmm, I thought that I saw something. Anyway. Um, what were we talking about? Oh, yeah, have you seen the Gaga version of A Star is Born?

Heh.

J

Climate change expert Aaron Doering charged with choking his fiancée

A well-known climate change expert and professor at the University of Minnesota choked and brutally assaulted his fiancée, who told cops she fears he will kill her, according to a criminal complaint...

“Aaron has received millions of dollars in grants; has published more than 80 journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference proceedings; and is the coauthor of two books, The New Landscape of Mobile Learning: Redesigning Education in an App-based World and Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching...”

https://nypost.com/2018/12/28/climate-change-expert-aaron-doering-charged-with-choking-his-fiance/

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I wonder what triggered it. Did she express some minor skepticism of or disagreement with his settled science? Disrespected his authoritay?

Millions in grants. And he's just one of the thousands of climate douches on the dole.

J

6 hours ago, Jonathan said:

Judy the fucking science denier is dumping cold water on the climate doom money grab again:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/27/judith-curry-sea-level-study-disputes-climate-disa/?fbclid=IwAR13JHSjwAnjj3SlNjzKx8JhVp0oTEe3FBlr4X68_vGI6fwQQq6YS7YuSMw

No, I didn't call her a denier, I really didn't. I wouldn't do that. I'm a true scientist, not someone who uses intimidation tactics. Huh? My having falsely accused her of science denial is in my written testimony? Hey, look over there! What's that? Yeah, over there. Behind the thing. Hmmm, I thought that I saw something. Anyway. Um, what were we talking about? Oh, yeah, have you seen the Gaga version of A Star is Born?

Heh.

J

I don't know if this has been posted on OL yet:

Until now it's been beyond rare to see such people share a stage.  On the downside, there's virtually no interaction between the opposing sides. 

This next one has more actual debate, but is marred by Lawrence Krauss's slimeball tactics and a lack of oratorical skill on the part of two of the members of the opposition.  I wish they'd have ceded their time to Lindzen.

The new Scott Adams challenge:

I gather this is the video he's referring to:

Or maybe it's this one (same guy, shorter video):

Polar vortices!

It's settled science, so shut the fuck up!

No coverage for anyone who disagrees.

It's right to silence dissenting opinion. Real science is consensus followed by shutting dissenters the fuck up. Science is about not tolerating criticism. It's about refusing to hear it. Plug your ears.

http://www.climatedepot.com/2018/12/31/watch-chuck-todd-bans-climate-deniers-from-nbc-news-meet-the-press/

1 hour ago, william.scherk said:

Polar vortices!

Muh climate doom!

Everything is proof of the doom!

J

2 hours ago, william.scherk said:

Polar vortices!

So there's going to be an unusually cold winter because of global warming.

Thankfully, there's only 1 day to go (it was 10 days, 9 days ago when this was posted):

2 minutes ago, 9thdoctor said:

So there's going to be an unusually cold winter because of global warming.

That Arctic warming and the Arctic Oscillation may lead to a "loose" vortex or spawn several vortices is a hypothesis.  Not a new idea or finding, and not 'settled' or without skeptical attention and cautions. What was new in the post above was that particular kind of animation.  It modeled how the Arctic vortex may spawn separate vortices.

A reconstruction of today's charted Climate Reanalyzer "Jet Stream" with the angle on the northern pole:

And the anomalies:

This video combines visuals to explain the idea.  The most interesting part (for me) is the translation of the stratospheric conditions down to the troposphere.

Yeah yeah, they used to say global cooling was going to cause the same problem with the polar vortices. 

Scott Adams wants to host a debate!  Good breakdown of the issues:

Pro-manmade climate change people don't want facts.

They want power over all humans and the appearance of facts to justify the power grab.

I'll see Scott's video later, but I don't see such a debate shaping up, ever. On one side, you would have people like him. On the other, you would have propagandists for power-grabbers funded with millions and millions of dollars and gobs of backroom crony government-corporation arrangements.

Where could a debate like that ever happen and mean something rational?

Michael

The best part of good faith disagreements is being portrayed as an immoral propagandist from the get-go.  It's slightly more appealing than being called a pedophile boyfucker, but that might just be me.

"They" say a lot of things, I am told.

Climate changes in the Arctic can be ...  interesting (in at least a few details), and scientific efforts to understand, model and forecast complicated processes in our atmosphere will continue; my opinion and five bucks will buy you a lottery ticket. 

I hereby declare 2019 to be Year of the Arctic in this topic.  A robust argument or review of 'what I know' about Arctic climate would result in a fifty buck donation to OL (in honour of it's continuing on-sufferance hosting of Friends and Foes). 

Judges for the prize-winning comment are Brant, Jonathan, Ninth and Michael. You four nominate a fifth and Majority Rules.

3 hours ago, 9thdoctor said:

Yeah yeah, they used to say global cooling was going to cause the same problem with the polar vortices.

1 hour ago, william.scherk said:

The best part of good faith disagreements is being portrayed as an immoral propagandist from the get-go. 

I haven't gotten around to portraying that way yet.  You must must be referring to MSK's post, you fraud-enabler you! 

2 hours ago, william.scherk said:

I hereby declare 2019 to be Year of the Arctic in this topic.  A robust argument or review of 'what I know' about Arctic climate would result in a fifty buck donation to OL (in honour of it's continuing on-sufferance hosting of Friends and Foes). 

Judges for the prize-winning comment are Brant, Jonathan, Ninth and Michael. You four nominate a fifth and Majority Rules.

I heard a lecture recently by Willie Soon on the topic.  I've had some free time lately.  If I hunt it down, will that suffice?  Or do I have to put it in my own words?  That would take time, and alas, free time is about to become much more scarce for your friendly neighborhood Time Lord.