Excellent post Richard and some thought provoking comments and links.
I’d like to modify slightly the quote you took from Meno’s powrrful essay:
“It’s not necessarily about how smart you are, how moral you are, or how qualified you are to lead a community or a nation. Instead, it’s about how well you can be perceived, if you can tell people what they want to hear, and ultimately, if you can convince a majority to vote for you. Why Plato Hated Democracy by Meno”
A politician that is a truly gifted orator is one who not only tells the people what they want to hear, but also convinces the people what they should want to hear.
Methinks you misjudge Trump, like many before you. What you should be looking at is how he treats his employees, many love working for him, those he meets in the street (never talking down unless given good reason by their behavior towards him) and the majority of his family. Not so long ago Powerful Democrats, the MSM and Hollywood fawned on him, now, within the space of a few years he is another Hitler? I have no time for what he says, but his actions are far superior to any left wing leader.
GHE theory fails because of two erroneous assumptions: 1. near Earth space is cold & w/o GHE would become 255 K, -18 C, ball of ice & 2. radiating as a 16 C BB the surface produces “extra” GHE energy aka radiative forcing (caloric).
Without the atmosphere, water vapor and its 30% albedo Earth would become much like the Moon, a barren rock, hot^3 400 K on the lit side, cold^3 100 K on the dark.
“TFK_bams09” GHE heat balance graphic & its legion of clones uses bad math and badder physics. 63 W/m^2 appears twice (once from Sun & second from a BB calculation) violating both LoT 1 and GAAP. 396 W/m^2 upwelling is a BB calc for a 16 C surface for denominator of the emissivity ratio, 63/396=0.16, “extra” & not real. 333 W/m^2 “back” radiating from cold to warm violates LoT 1 & 2. Remove 396/333/63 from the graphic and the solar balance still works.
Kinetic heat transfer processes of the contiguous atmospheric molecules (60%) render a terrestrial BB (100%) impossible as demonstrated by experiment, the gold standard of classical science.
Since both GHE & CAGW climate “science” are indefensible rubbish alarmists must resort to fear mongering, lies, lawsuits, censorship and violence.
The lying, race baiting, science illiterate, fake news MSM talking heads of the evening news, am talk shows and morning papers were so humiliated by Trump’s democratic 2016 win that they poisoned the 2020 electorate with fake news fear mongering deposing Trump an anti-democratic media coup d’etat.
Democracy is majority rule by mobs manipulated by the lying, race baiting, science illiterate, fake news pretentious MSM talking heads of the evening news, am talk shows and morning papers.
Which is why the US is a constitutional republic not a democracy.
Excellent post Richard and some thought provoking comments and links.
I’d like to modify slightly the quote you took from Meno’s powrrful essay:
“It’s not necessarily about how smart you are, how moral you are, or how qualified you are to lead a community or a nation. Instead, it’s about how well you can be perceived, if you can tell people what they want to hear, and ultimately, if you can convince a majority to vote for you. Why Plato Hated Democracy by Meno”
A politician that is a truly gifted orator is one who not only tells the people what they want to hear, but also convinces the people what they should want to hear.
An excellent appraisal of today’s climate and energy politics. Spot on
Methinks you misjudge Trump, like many before you. What you should be looking at is how he treats his employees, many love working for him, those he meets in the street (never talking down unless given good reason by their behavior towards him) and the majority of his family. Not so long ago Powerful Democrats, the MSM and Hollywood fawned on him, now, within the space of a few years he is another Hitler? I have no time for what he says, but his actions are far superior to any left wing leader.
Very well written and spot on with my Sunday coffee ☕
"fur-and-horns wearing fringe" 😳😂 Classic
Many interesting observations, thanks.
GHE theory fails because of two erroneous assumptions: 1. near Earth space is cold & w/o GHE would become 255 K, -18 C, ball of ice & 2. radiating as a 16 C BB the surface produces “extra” GHE energy aka radiative forcing (caloric).
Without the atmosphere, water vapor and its 30% albedo Earth would become much like the Moon, a barren rock, hot^3 400 K on the lit side, cold^3 100 K on the dark.
“TFK_bams09” GHE heat balance graphic & its legion of clones uses bad math and badder physics. 63 W/m^2 appears twice (once from Sun & second from a BB calculation) violating both LoT 1 and GAAP. 396 W/m^2 upwelling is a BB calc for a 16 C surface for denominator of the emissivity ratio, 63/396=0.16, “extra” & not real. 333 W/m^2 “back” radiating from cold to warm violates LoT 1 & 2. Remove 396/333/63 from the graphic and the solar balance still works.
Kinetic heat transfer processes of the contiguous atmospheric molecules (60%) render a terrestrial BB (100%) impossible as demonstrated by experiment, the gold standard of classical science.
Since both GHE & CAGW climate “science” are indefensible rubbish alarmists must resort to fear mongering, lies, lawsuits, censorship and violence.
The lying, race baiting, science illiterate, fake news MSM talking heads of the evening news, am talk shows and morning papers were so humiliated by Trump’s democratic 2016 win that they poisoned the 2020 electorate with fake news fear mongering deposing Trump an anti-democratic media coup d’etat.
Democracy is majority rule by mobs manipulated by the lying, race baiting, science illiterate, fake news pretentious MSM talking heads of the evening news, am talk shows and morning papers.
Which is why the US is a constitutional republic not a democracy.
Fifth grade civics.
Oh, right, no longer taught.
Is banning offshore wind in Florida, and even the mention of the phrase “climate change”, pragmatic?