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Did we learn anything from the first global warming debate?
Gabriël Moens and John McRobert
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/02/did-we-learn-anything-from-the-first-global-warming-debate/
Sensible Spectator article which gives a brief but rational view of alarmism hopefully sufficient to convince the fearful laity.
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Ganteför: Climate research has forgotten the waves
There are other texts too
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Krishna – seems also that any rainfall will be cooler than the ocean at the point it drops into it, and will thus have absorbed more CO2 on the way down than the equilibrium for ocean surface temperature. Depends on how fast water temperatures equilibriate and diffusion rates to the surface, but seems to me that after rainfall more CO2 than normal will be dissolved near the surface. Also likely very hard to calculate, and you’d need to measure it. Similarly, the rain would reduce the atmospheric CO2 temporarily.
Probably measurable, could be a significant quantity too.
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Ocean rain cools the surface about 1 degree for about a day. A cyclone cools the ocean surface up to about 3C and that can take days to recover or may not even recover if it is an end of season cyclone.
There is a lots of real time data available from moored buoys. This compares the SST with 20C depth in the western Pacific:
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/cache-tao/sy1/jsdisplay/stack5s180w_20070120_20260208_hf__tt_eps281t_eps61t_2026020916.png
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Is it coming down to the wire?
Is The Donald still bull shirting?
Will Iran give up its non- nuclear missiles?
Silly questions?
No idea
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/oman-talks-just-a-fig-leaf-for-total
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Not silly questions at all.
It may be amount to nothing … or it may amount to something.
Three things are certain though:
1. Appeasement through Obama’s Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) made Iran stronger.
2. Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ policy made Iran a lot weaker and the regime is now teetering on the precipice of a cliff edge.
3. No negotiated peace has ever been accomplished without talking, and nobody is willing to put boots on the ground to achieve an unconditional total victory.
Regardless of whether the talks bear fruit, talking is always a good thing. The Iranian people are being slaughtered at the hands of their despotic government, that government’s ineptitude has led to a massive man-made drought where cities are being evacuated due to mismanaged water infrastructure no longer being able to support the population, and an economic policy that has impoverished the nation for decades while funding regional proxies has been exposed as a farce after Israel swatted those proxies aside with little more effort than swatting a fly. Any chance at change that doesn’t come from the business end of a gun is worth pursuing.
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Three non-certainties, for further consideration:-
1. hypersonic missiles in no way weaken Iran.
1a.Nuclear powered desalination similarly in no way weakens Iran
2.The “regime “ is not Iran: Iran is the Persian people.
3.The worth of a negotiated , signed and sealed “peace deal” is unclear.
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Hypersonic missiles are a double-edged sword. If Iran uses them to start hitting Israeli targets, that would absolutely change the calculus on whether Israel was willing to put boots on the ground and warheads on foreheads. Thus far, the only skirmishes that have taken place on Iranian soil have been tactical operations to achieve an objective (assassinations, taking out nuclear facilities and air defenses, etc.). They have yet to see what a vengeful and pissed off Israel is capable of. Iranian state enforcers would find IDF soldiers a lot more dangerous targets than a bunch of unarmed civilians at a protest.
Splitting hairs between a regime and it’s people is a distinction without a difference. We didn’t go to war with Germany and Japan’s citizens in WWII, but that didn’t stop us from killing them by the truckload. As we have seen in the post-WWII era, German and Japanese people can be wonderful when not suppressed/indoctrinated by a totalitarian regime, but their parents and grandparents enabled, if not participated in, the atrocities of their former governments. Ending a brutal regime through violence will ALWAYS result in lots and lots of civilian deaths. There is no avoiding it (except through a negotiated peace).
Agreed on the worth of peace deals. Some last forever (Moroccan-American Treaty of Friendship), while others are merely a pause between hostilities (Treaty of Versailles). All we can do hope for the former and not the latter. I’m generally a fan of stopping the killing today and worrying about what happens tomorrow … tomorrow. If it all goes to crap, well, at least you stopped the killing for a little while. But if it lasts, you have a chance of buttressing it and making it stronger as time passes.
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Mmmmm both sides military seem to have some experience targetting civilians….allegedly of course
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Israel doesn’t ‘target’ civilians. They kill quite a few of then as collateral damage in military strikes, but they don’t target them. They would kill a lot fewer if their enemies didn’t hide behind women/children and underneath hospitals/schools.
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Why should Americans pay out of their own pockets for another Middle East war?
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They shouldn’t.
But ending conflict in the middle east through other means (negotiated peace) would be good for American business, American security, American citizens, and America’s allies in the region.
Much of the Arab world is done with Israel-Palestine nonsense and just wants to get on with modernizing their economies and expanding their trade with the most advanced economy in the region. They lost all sympathy for the Palestinians in the 1960s and 1970s when they granted them asylum and the Palestinians promptly tried to overthrow their governments as a ‘thank you’. That’s why none of them will accept Palestinian refugees today. Been there, done that, have the revolutionary T-shirt.
That’s what the Abraham Accords were all about. Setting aside the past and getting on with the business of making money and raising the living standard of their citizens through increased national wealth. But the Palestinian cause and Iran’s funding of it won’t let go of the past.
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Have you read “The Ethnic Cleansing of Pa1estıne” by Ilan Pappe?
It was published in 2007, reprinted 23 times since then. Nine of those times in just he last 2 years.
So there’s growing interest in genuine scholarship on the issue. Any lack of sympathy out there is due to legacy media propaganda… Which isn’t working BTW, hence the worldwide collapse of support for I-ÆL’s actions.
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Jordanian, Lebanese, Egyptian,etc. lack of sympathy has NOTHING to do with legacy media. It has to do with regional history from the 1940s-1980s that most know-nothing legacy media reporters have any clue about. They despise the PLO and it’s various splinter groups and rivals because they have institutional memory of how they were burned by them.
Ben Rhodes said it best when building his media ‘echo chamber’ to promote JCPOA.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html?_r=0
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Custer Van Cleef,
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine you say. It doesn’t look like that project has been going very well does it?
Population has grown 5.5× over 75 years, and it looks to have been a pretty steady climb since your man’s book was published in 2007.
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400 Arab villages wiped off the map.
750,000 Arabs forbidden to return, (another 200,000 expelled in 1967.)
The belongings left behind were looted. Everything else destroyed with explosives and bulldozers so that there’d be nothing to return to.
If not Ethnic Cleansing, what would you call it?
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Custer. I’d probably call it war.
From the 20’s and through the 30’s Arab attacks on Jewish communities became more common. There was an exodus of Jews from Europe as Europe became more hostile toward Jews. The Arabs didn’t like the increased Jewish immigration.
Then WW2.
After WW2 the UN recommended to partition “Palestine”. The subsequent Arab – Israeli war involved expulsions but also many left because of the war.
Jews were expelled from Arab areas and went to Israel. These Jews lost their homes / possessions too.
The Jews won the war and in receiving Jewish “refugees” in Israel, the Palestinians who fled the war were not allowed back. Probably due to an incompatibility with the establishment of Israel.
But a number of Palestinians were not expelled and did not leave during the war. Some suggest about 150,000. There’s now 2 million Arabs with Israeli citizenship.
So, the Jews are really bad at ethnic cleansing.
Ilan Pappe claims that since 2005 the Jews have been undertaking “incremental Genocide” of Palestinians. (think I have that phrase correct). I’m not sure we can take too much of what he says as an accurate depiction.
Only one side actively states the desire to wipe out the other.
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“Only one side actively states the desire to wipe out the other.”
The other side actively pursues it…
How many Israelis and how many Arabs have died in the last 6months?
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One very important reason why is the brotherhood of terrorist organisations worldwide supported from Iran and the Islamic regime that has been waging war via terrorist activities on all peoples and countries that are not true believers in their faction or church.
Israel is not the only targeted perceived to be enemies.
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An unpleasant fact : about 100k Mischlinge fought in Wehrmacht.
Who cares about few hundred Australian Jews hating their roots and their country
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I recall reading something by simplicius and thinking that it seemed reasonably objective. So I read this piece with interest.
The bile vented by simplicius in this article reverses my earlier thinking. I got as far as “terrorist aggressor-colony”.
As the Who once sang, we won’t get fooled again. Well not by simplicius anyway.
Pity. The world could do with more objectivity.
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‘ … it is essentially calling for Iran’s complete surrender to Israel ,,,’
That would solve the problem, everyone could live in peace, but Iran is a harsh theocratic state and won’t be backing down.
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I don’t know that it would ‘solve’ the problem. You still have the Shia-Sunni issue and the Middle Eastern tendency to reject democracy in favor of monarchies/theocracies. The Pahlavi monarchy had it’s own issues, which led to the 1979 theocratic revolution. Brits/Americans liked the Shah just fine since he was our puppet, but his people, not so much. Will the Iranians be able to create a stable government that represents the interests of the people and can get along with it’s Sunni and Jewish neighbors? Only time will tell.
Sadly, I think you are dead on about the regime not backing down. Unlike Assad in Syria, who was content to escape with his head and start a new life in Russia, the Iranian regime is full of honest to God zealots who may choose their own deaths over giving up their Caliphate.
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That is the problem, cutting off the head of the snake is not the answer.
Better to smuggle in small arms to help those in the uprising, then wait and see what happens.
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And to fund far left Marxist organisations and individuals to protest and demonstrate against whatever can be utilised to create anarchy.
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Fair enough, the people want democracy, so we’ll assume that the Marxists won’t get a foot hold.
‘Iranians overwhelmingly support a “democratic political system” – with 89% in favour. Support for political liberalism, however, is weaker. In 2024, 43% agreed with having “a strong leader who does not have to bother with parliament and elections”. This view is significantly higher among those without higher education – among monarchists, it is 49%.’ (The Conversation)
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Apparently a lot of people can’t answer this basic physics question:
https://youtu.be/AS8MnNBkHYE
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Strings and springs can be interesting topics for enquiring minds.
And climbing onto my soapbox the key to education is teaching children to read as early as possible and then engaging their curiosity on a wide range of topics.
Being excessively critical by nature though I don’t understand why the video felt the need to delve into Hooke’s law or Newton’s second law. To me those are distractions from effective reasoning about this problem. Nor do I understand why the title of the video refers to physics “literacy” rather than “reasoning”.
And of course there are many whose curiosity does not extend to strings, springs, science or mathematics. I learned long ago that other areas such as history, geography, art and english expression are just as worthy of study for those whose curiosity takes them in those directions.
Sorry to digress.
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Knowledge is free. You pay for ignorance. 😁
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I had to think about that problem for a while.
I had the right answer but it was not immediately obvious.
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Japanese researchers are developing a drug to regrow teeth by disinhibiting the teeth growth buds that already exist in adults but are suppressed once adult teeth have emerged.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a69878870/human-new-tooth-regrowth-trials-japan-timeline/
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Gah!
I always took comfort in the fact that the Candle Cove tooth monster and vagina dentata like in the horror movie Teeth weren’t real. But this sounds like a recipe for making them real
https://wearecult.rocks/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/channel-zero-candle-cove-tooth-child1.jpg
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780622/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_teeth
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Nature article
The dark side of green technology: what do electric vehicles really cost?
…the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00385-3
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It never pays to look too closely at how sausages are made either.
Unless of course you want to put people off sausages.
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Much more directly and indirectly than most EV buyers appear to realise
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Bald Eagle’s Grizzly Death at Obama‑Funded Wind Project Site Triggers Federal Fine
Wind power may be branded as “clean,” but that label rings hollow when turbines are shredding apex raptors that anchor entire ecosystems.
Photos show the moment a University of Minnesota wind turbine struck the bald eagle.
From Legal Insurrection
Posted by Leslie Eastman
Legal Insurrection has previously reported on the growing record of eagle deaths at wind facilities nationwide, where spinning blades have been tied to dozens of documented bald and golden eagle fatalities and multimillion‑dollar settlements with major wind operators.
Now an Obama-era University of Minnesota wind‑energy research project is under fire after a campus turbine struck and killed a bald eagle, leaving the national symbol gruesomely dismembered beneath the tower.
The University of Minnesota is facing a proposed penalty of over $14,000 after it was discovered that a green energy initiative funded by a grant from the Obama administration was responsible for the gruesome death of an American bald eagle.
The incident occurred at the University of Minnesota’s Eolos Wind Energy Research Field Station in Dakota County, Minnesota.
Photos obtained by Fox News Digital show the moment a University of Minnesota wind turbine struck the bald eagle, dismembering it into three pieces and leaving a bloodied carcass on the floor below.
The violation notice says the university violated the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act by killing the eagles without what is called an “incidental take permit.”
The photos and more at –
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/09/bald-eagles-grizzly-death-at-obama-funded-wind-project-site-triggers-federal-fine/
The USA’s National Symbol murdered by ‘Clean Energy’.
Until regulators and policymakers confront the reality that these projects are wiping out key predators in the natural food chain, it is dishonest to market this form of power as environmentally benign.
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They get permits to kill eagles because there is a bogus Obama era program that claims to offset every wind eagle kill with saving at least one eagle life from electrocution.
See my https://www.cfact.org/2025/06/29/cfact-report-feds-fail-to-offset-wind-turbine-eagle-kills/
So the bogus offset program must be stopped.
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Bird mincers are truly disgusting. Talk about unintended consequences.
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I would have thought by now that all the wind tower blades would have been painted in whatever the colour of the day might be.
At least there was research reported some paint did reduce the bird toll.
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“My report: Severe climate act impacts threaten New York State”
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2026/02/09/my-report-severe-climate-act-impacts-threaten-new-york-state/
The beginning”
“The Net Zero Reality Coalition has published my research report on the looming devastation from New York’s Climate Act. It is here.
The full title is: “Severe Climate Act Impacts Threaten New York State
Massive price hikes and fuel shortages will hit unless the law is changed”
Here is the Executive Summary: “The threat is stark. The Climate Act requires the administration to promulgate regulations that ‘ensure’ that the 2030 emissions reduction target is met. Governor Hochul has said her administration does not want to do so because the regulations are infeasible and ruinously expensive for New Yorkers. The court has ruled that either the law must be changed or the regulations must be issued. The ruling has been appealed, but the threat remains.
Clearly, the legislature must act on this threat. Our brief report outlines some of the most pressing issues lawmakers should consider. First and foremost is the fact that the regulatory mechanism includes rationing fuel use for transportation and heating. Such rationing is likely to create unacceptable shortages, including the possibility of homes running out of heat during winter months.
The so-called ‘cap and invest’ regulations also include taxing the rations. In practice, this means raising the cost of fuel so high that its use is sharply curtailed. This severe cost impact is also unacceptable.
The situation is unfortunately complicated by the fact that Governor Hochul has failed to disclose the proposed regulations and their detailed costs. As a result, neither the legislature nor the people of New York State have access to the basic facts needed to evaluate the policy. This, too, is unacceptable.”
The report then looks at several specific issues and analyzes some of the likely worst cases.”
Lots more in the article including a comment request from New York State’s utility regulator on pausing the Climate Act’s 2030 renewables target.
Please share this. It should be an election issue.
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With Companies (and their Jobs) along with citizens (who object to the consequences of freezing) it might be that there will be enough electricity for the remaining gullible.
If not, taxes and charges will have to rise until the population ‘stabilises’.
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Woken by 6am news this morning reporting Optus communications problems. Looked for a lengthy Jo Nova blog comment I penned last night in the post about different thermometer screen sizes. Nothing there. Sad. Geoff S
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FWIW
“World Hijab Day”
“You want to wear it for whatever reason? Cool, but let’s not kid ourselves that there isn’t a big difference in outcomes between your lovely self wearing it in New York City, versus you not-wearing it in Kabul.”
More at
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/world-hijab-day
Via https://instapundit.com/775033/#disqus_thread
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It’s enlightening to see how the UN’s Hobgoblin Heat Crisis is going now-and-then: here’s a few random samples from the past 24 hours worldwide –
-50°C Vostok Dome, Antarctica
-42 C South Pole, Antarctica
-35 C Summit Camp, Greenland
-35 C summit of Mt Everest, Nepal/T!bet
-22 C Arctic / North Pole
(no update since 2/2/26, probably -30 today)
40°C Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
(QLD & WA had a few 39s while Kal’s was the warmest I could find: anyone know of anywhere more warmer?)
44°C northern Argentina with a roaring westerly foehn howling off the Andes mountain chain
Therefore, it’s colder than it’s warmer. I rest my case.
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Cheery weather in the UK.
Somewhere has had rain everyday so far this year.
Lots of places have had no recordable sunshine every day for 2 weeks or so, Aberdeen is up to 19 days on the trot so far.
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Here is SE Melbourne, we had rain yesterday. First time for 2026.
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Happy to be corrected, it should be called shower.
I have seen enough of mid-Australia to be very glad to return to East Board or even to Melbourne.
Even today I think all the care and water invested in my own 1/8 acre patch of dirt was worth it.
As for tomorrow – I let all those non-natives be free to stay or to go.
May be watermelons are right: Australia coming back to pre-Cook times with only camels and rabbits as invasive species…
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Yep – it wet the ground. Nothing made it to the water tank.
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Another “green drought” underway
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And the solar panel output was?
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What time were you thinking about?
sarc
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Kyiv
-17°C
Tuesday 2:59 am Mostly cloudy
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-35 C Yakutsk, Siberia
“Extremely cold” today
as cold as Greenland & Mt Everest.
If anywhere needs a little ‘warming’
these folk would enjoy a few degrees
dah dah dah.
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Its miserable for everyone in the Northern Hemisphere.
‘New forecast data has confirmed a Stratospheric Warming event set to unfold in mid-February. This high-energy event will heavily destabilize the Polar Vortex, disrupting the northern circulation.
‘While these events typically signal an Arctic outbreak period, the 2026 transition is facing an atmospheric interference that is complicating the late-winter outlook for the United States, Canada, and Europe.’ (Severe Weather . EU)
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EG, I’m amused you got a red thumb for a weather report… You must be approaching Simon’s status!
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Yesterday the computer said no about road intersections. Today the computer said no about tension in a string.
If only I could get my mind right.
I console myself knowing that the same computer does not decide whether I have a bikkie with my cup of tea.
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Little Britain was the 1st thing that came to mind after your 1st 5 words.
You brightened my day without even trying.
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And then the next thought was, “We now live in a world where Little Britain is not allowed on television.”
Darkness and misery surround us.
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As a follow up on :greenhouse gas” story from yesterday.
A better term is EMR absorbing gasses. They play a role in the lower atmosphere but the vast majority of EMR emitted to space comes from ice.
Ice has up to twice the long wave absorption and emissivity of water over the range of Earth’s enission temperature. Just 1mm of water equivalent in ice will absorb greater than 90% of the long wave and re-emit to a cooler absorber. So it does not take long for any water vapour above the emission level to lose heat and turn to ice. On average, there is 6 times more water mass than CO2 in the atmosphere and it only takes 1mm of that water as ice to control 90+% of the OLR. 2mm of ice and almost 100% of OLR is coming off the ice.
And if it is not only ice in the atmosphere, it will be ice on the surface. This is a view of the NH today:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-350.68,96.98,372/loc=24.956,48.802
All that land is mostly below freezing and covered in solid water.
But the role of ice is even greater in limiting the thermalisation of solar EMR than its role in releasing OLR. Ice in the atmosphere prevents 30% of the incoming solar from thermalising.
Ice is a solid not a gas. And Ice controls Earth’s energy balance. That is why the climate on Earth is so stable over now billions of years.
The “greenhouse gasses” fairy tale is just a fairy tale. No model of the atmosphere is useful unless it has ice forming processes included. I have looked at the thermodynamics of actual ice forming in a single column over a warm pool:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/17/toward-a-deterministic-model-of-cloud-development-over-ocean-warm-pools/
The article shows much detail but one interesting aspect is that no ocean water has an average emission temperature above 273K. That means the emissions have to be coming predominantly off ice – solid not a gas – refer chart 6. Sometimes the emission temperature over the Sahara will exceed 273K because the humidity can be very low.
Chaert 8 is based on Beer’s Law of absorption that Graeme 3 mentioned yesterday.
That article focuses on oceans because oceans dominate global climate. Land is where most of us live and the daily temperature something we live with but the climate botherers major proof of Climate Change™ is ocean heat content going up. So it is the atmosphere over oceans that matter. The capacity of land to store solid water from oceans is an important climate variable. Currently up a bit in the NH compared with yearly average.
The CERES project started this century and shows that OLR has increased on average this century rather than decrease as the “greenhouse gas” fairy tale suggests it should.
I acknowledge that the ocean heat content is rising because it is something that is predictable by looking at changes in solar intensity across the globe. In fact, CERES shows that short wave reflection is down more than OLR is up. The instruments have been calibrated to give a net increase that corresponds with ocean heat content. But the heat content is not aligned with the radiative imbalance. The heat content increase is greatest where the the radiation balance is negative.
So my answer to the question on Happer’s story is that the absorption spectrum of various atmospheric gasses is essential but trivial compared to what is going on in Eath’s climate. Understanding ice forming processes is key. Convective overshoot is VERY important to life on Earth. Less than 200K at 70hPa over WA today indicates there is convective overshoot there:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/70hPa/overlay=temp/orthographic=-232.94,-28.45,1734/loc=114.947,-26.746
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FWIW
“Bernie’s Green Transit Busses are Struggling with Winter Fire Safety Issues”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/09/bernies-green-transit-busses-are-struggling-with-winter-fire-safety-issues/
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FWIW – a culinary suggestion –
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi70plpwtwPwXioNz-p2P9PtjA7gSe0-Iwa-h9D8PAqprVYR8jFBxySJ-tZXnF1lyMxiB4SPuE4V3OB9eqeb4T48xleb2UiI2d5yaty9KRAuNuxBRSL_njXsGNchSuSl8s-QDW5j1hFFbWDiZheftneiAjr1_QOolKtnmgVO-JzUR0CCjiVuugIm9Ri9po/w270-h400/Meme%20-%20how%20to%20cook%20kale.png
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AI…..that man is the funniest politician I have ever seen or heard !!!!!!!…..he has a million one liners and stories….pretty sure my Mum used to call that “silver beet” (memory test)……Kale is much more woke though !!
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Two different vegetables in Australia
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FWIW
“Travel Alert: Thousands of Feminist Climate Activists are Gathering in Melbourne”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/07/thousands-of-feminist-climate-activists-are-gathering-in-melbourne/
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Watch out for signage and even drums with old slogans underneath the latest protest material
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There was about 50 shouting slogans waving placards and Palestine flags as they marched down Mitchell Street Bendigo at dinnertime last night.
They were headed for the fountain from the direction of the train station but I don’t know where they ended up.
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Should be at home waiting for the kids and getting dinner ready.
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Some alphabet kid from abc* Joshua Boscaini (?) knows his numbers kind of yeah nah:
“Anika Wells … spent nearly $100,00 on last-minute flights to [ ] New York”.
One hundred dollars sounded like a bargain to me, until, oh that’s a comma not a full-stop (period) so either there’s a zero missing or their ABC* need to send their reporters, and subs/editors, back to school to learn their 1, 2, 3s.
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FWIW – Epstein files bag another one in UK
“British Government is Crumbling: After Chief of Staff McSweeney, Now Director of Communications Allan Also Quits, Upping Pressure on Failing Prime Minister Starmer To Resign”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/british-government-is-crumbling-after-chief-staff-mcsweeney/
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I’m not surprised in the least, because it’s what Labour and Labor do, but it’s quite unseemly watching the Prime Minister cling onto his position by his torn and bloodied fingernails, way beyond the point when a conservative PM would have fallen on his sword. He has no honour and no respect for citizens.
Boris Johnson (Conservative) resigned after committing the grievous sin of eating cake in Downing Street garden during lockdown …
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Test
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FWIW
“Europe’s Triumvirate of Lame Stooges Faces Moment of Truth”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/europes-triumvirate-of-lame-stooges
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“This is why civilizations like China are now winning, because their planning is executed with generational breadth in mind. European countries are trapped in this zugzwang of inextricable problems that can only be “patched” over because, as stated earlier, truly fixing them at the first-principle level would require peering into uncomfortable closets where the elites have stashed their secrets. ”
True, true.. no Govt likes to tackle the real problems in society, they would rather rush censorship through so the problems cannot be discussed at all.
“No doubt, a slew of deleterious ideas disguised as ‘promising’ quick-fixes will again be pitched by the intellectually bankrupt nomenklatura. We were offered an early whiff of this recently from the unqualified DEI-hireling Kaja Kallas, who attempted to twist Mark Carney’s recent Davos speech into a call for the elimination of European sovereignty, and the greater centralization of the EU’s totalitarian power: ”
She must have been promised a choice position in the EU instead of PM of a Baltic chihuahua…
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Hastie was wise to keep his head down.
‘Another Ley supporter, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Guardian Australia that “cowardice cannot be tolerated”.
“Those that want to support the greatest act of misogyny in recent times cannot be allowed to hide in the shadows of the party room,” they said.
‘The MP said colleagues were “bemused” that Taylor and fellow frontbenchers James Paterson and Jonno Duniam hadn’t resigned from Ley’s senior leadership team, given the trio of right-wingers attended secret talks last month to discuss if Taylor or Andrew Hastie would challenge Ley.’ (Guardian)
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Good grief, “greatest act of misogyny” ??? No woman can ever be challenged it seems. Was Ley’s arrival an act of misandry? goodness no.
A bit comical that they think anyone who has met to discuss leadership should stand down. Who would be left of either side? A little group of sycophants
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Yep, this lot believe in Net Zero and support Ley because they are terrified of losing their seats.
Moderates on the frontbench include Anne Ruston, Andrew Bragg, Maria Kovacic, Kerrynne Liddle, Angie Bell, Dave Sharma, Tim Wilson, Melissa Price and Julian Leeser.
Career politicians are pathetic, but Wilson might quit the moderate faction at a later date.
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My reason for thinking he can be swayed.
‘During Tim Wilson’s tenure as a policy director at the IPA, the group called for the closing of the Climate Change Authority, the ending of the Renewable Energy Target and defunding of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.’ (wiki)
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Clear evidence that the Met rainfall data is corrupted.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/met-offices-n-ireland-rainfall-dataset-is-worthless/#more-90664
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https://www.drroyspencer.com/
Dr. Roy Spencer posts UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update often.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/
Note the rapid cooling of the last two years. When next year the climate cabal declare that 2026 was the third warmest, just realise that it is the third year of a rapid cooling.
The link below shows the trend that the sun has been on for the past 5 solar cycles, a sequence of reduced sunspots one cycle after the other.
https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/48/2020/02/Screenshot-2020-02-25-at-08.39.36-7d4423e.png
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