Archive for January, 2023

Global Warming on Earth and Other Planets

2023-01-27

Earth’s climate is changing quite rapidly, and many people have allowed themselves to be convinced that this is due to something called “anthropogenic global warming” and that the culprit is carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels, farming, land clearing and other human activities. This isn’t so much a theory as a hypothesis—an unproven one. It is based on computer models, and the problem with those is that they generally show what people who pay for the research want them to show; if not, they pay somebody else to get the results they want.

And the reason these particular results were desirable was because they could be used to justify giant money-making schemes, such as taxing carbon emitters, trading carbon credits and, of course, building out wind and solar generation capacity that is expensive, intermittent, unreliable, short-lived and compromises the integrity of electric grids. Promulgating this hypothesis as a God-given truth also made it possible to riddle many people with guilt, causing them to voluntarily curtail their energy consumption, in turn allowing the rich to continue to get richer even as energy availability in the formerly rich countries starts to decline. Al Gore, Clinton’s VP and great big climate alarmist, grew obscenely rich by exploiting climate hysteria. He was last seen at the Davos conference spouting more of his climate alarmism; luckily, few people in the world still listen to him.

But now comes an important piece of news that blows up the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis clear out of the water: it is not just our globe that’s warming but also all the other globes in the solar system. What?! Well, yes, the evidence is in, and it is most puzzling. Nobody knows what the cause is, but the effect is definitely measurable and significant.

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More Weapons for the Ukrainians as a Way to Peace

2023-01-22

“Weapons are the way to peace,” quoth NATO secretary general Stoltenberg at the Davos conference, advocating for more weapons to be sent to the rapidly failing Nazi dictatorship in Kiev. Those who know and love old Jens probably heard this and clapped their hands in joy—”Yay, more weapons!”—whereas I, having long ago concluded that he is a cross between a Doltenberg and a Stultenberg, was loathe to admit that for once he spoke the absolute, unadulterated truth: funneling all of NATO’s weapons (except the nuclear ones, of course) to the hapless Ukrainians would be most conducive to not just ridding the world of these terrible weapons but also eliminating the remnants of Ukrainian Nazis and whatever foreign mercenaries and NATO special forces are embedded in their midst.

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The West vs. the rest: it’s divorce time!

2023-01-22

I interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a newsflash from the Davos conference that is currently underway. More than 2700 participants are on hand, with nary a single Russian, or a Chinese, or an Iranian, and although delegations from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are present, their numbers are nowhere near those of their delegations in previous years—in short, this is an economic forum for, of and by the West.

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The Last Crusade, Part III

2023-01-22

The current, ongoing crusade against Russia, in which the combined West is using the Ukraine’s living corpse as a battering ram against it, is a very odd one: instead of losing territory and population, as would be expected in the course of any regular, normal crusade, Russia is gaining lands and people—by the million! These are lands it had lost in the aftermath of the failed Bolshevik experiment. Along the way, Russia is ridding itself of economic dependence on the hostile nations to its west. This crusade is also odd because, unlike all previous crusades against Russia, Napoleon and Hitler included, which were launched by European nations, this one features the United States as its centerpiece, and the United States is on a different continent entirely.

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The Christmas Truce that was not to be

2023-01-09

Four days ago, on January 4, Putin announced a Christmas Truce in the Ukrainian conflict. Orthodox Christmas is held on January 7th, according to the Julian calendar, in effect since the year 45BC rather than the more commonly used and the more astronomically accurate the Gregorian calendar introduced 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII. The slippage between them is now 13 days, but it is in the nature of Orthodoxy to not change no matter what, especially what the Pope says. Putin made the decision to announce the truth based on a request by Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox church. Most Russians thought that this was a dumb idea, thinking that this would just give the Ukrainians an opportunity to regroup and resupply. The question is, was it really dumb, or was it actually quite clever? Let’s take a closer look…