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From your islam is now protected link Robbo, "So what now for Britiain?".
Well...every day I am flabbergasted by just how morally corrupt this Labour Government is and every day is a new low for this scum! I'm at a loss as to who they view as the people they are governing? Are they in this for the greater good of the country or are they in this to only prop up a major block of votes to keep them sweet and Labour in power?
Maklman
Bonus for the weekend: how the tables are turning between GM and it's (once weaker) Chinese partner.
Robert Swan
tomo,
Another tactic is to demand you give us your model. They used this with Steve McIntyre, choosing not to understand his contention that tree rings weren't thermometers, so modelling temperature with tree rings is never going to work.
I have developed very strong reservations about temperature reconstructions from ice cores too. It's much the same as the tree rings. Sure, you can do a linear regression against temperature alone, but only by ignoring obvious confounding factors. Tree rings are probably influenced more strongly by rainfall than temperature. Ice core Oxygen-18 content is probably influenced more strongly by wind than temperature. But the researchers *really* want a temperature reconstruction, so just ignore everything else and regress away.
Similar process lets us blame it all on CO2. All very neat and suits the politicians and activists who, as you say, constantly recite the mantras.
Good point on phlogiston. Being more recent and more pertinent, it deserves a larger share of the spotlight than Galileo when trying to beat down the consensus mantra.
PJ Media article on the UK's new blasphemy laws by the back door judgement. Madness.
Robert Swan
You mean phlogiston gets the oxygen of publicity?
It doesn't add up...
Robert
on computer models...
A hypothesis that is shown unequivocally to be utterly incorrect, with zero skill to predict, rarely seems to get called out and / or discussed - lauded as a heroic failure even :-)
I'm reminded of GISS-NASA CO2 GCM (Global Circulation Model) - flawed beyond defence or even explanation, it is *still* invoked but not explicitly .... since that would invove erm... problematic comparisons, easily done by eye / a glance....
- yet the catechisms and mantras of the faithful are slavishly repeated along every avenue to public sentiment.
Thankfully Phlogiston does get an occasional airing ..... there are others out there
tomo
Daily Sceptic article on a new paper criticising COVID epidemic measures. It quotes recommendations from the paper. Recommdation 6 doesn't strike me as very COVID-related, but covers nicely how I want my doctor to deal with me:
Recommendation 6: Hippocrates proposed that the combating of disease should involve an individual collaboration between physician and patient. While pharmaceutical companies produce products for mass usage and national health services often design policies at a national level, it is of paramount importance that patients and physicians are allowed to work together to develop personal healthcare pathways designed for the circumstances of each individual patient.
The underlying paper is also well worth a read. A bit long winded, as academic things tend to be, but I liked the little quotes they used to introduce each section. First was my favourite:
"If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no one dares criticize it.” — Pierre Gallois
If you were to drop the word pharmaceutical, this paper would generally cover the global warming nonsense too. Absurd projections from computer models leading to very poorly evidenced interventions aimed at reducing the imaginary harms.
Robert Swan
tomo,
Civilisation has been ebbing in our countries for quite a long time, but it is grim to think of Islamic blasphemy laws being enforced in Britain with the blessing of the state. Perhaps a reminder of General Napier's views on cultural relativism would be in order.
In hindsight, I suppose it should have been obvious that the natural successor to the nanny state would be the police state, but maybe the Victorian machete ban (talk about idiotic!) is a last hurrah for the nanny. She'll hand over to the police quickly enough now she's seen the language they use!
I'm sure Mr Obama was *sitting* at some stage during his visit, so that's ok. No slip of the tongue. It's just a word after all.
Another article at Judith Curry's by Planning Engineer, on electricity markets. There's something in what he says, but IMO he doesn't put enough blame on the sheer phoniness of these markets.
Easier to agree with John Stoffel's talk on why government is not competent to build anything.
(Bishop Hill seems a bit temperamental at the moment.)
Robert Swan
https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/1928809836587704475
I noticed some chracteristic Aussie bluntness in action
https://x.com/Real_Comfyfren/status/1928987027430846534
- looks like the Met Police are tooling up for an outbreak of something similar in London
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1928866030496907759
tomo
Robert
the courts and a menagerie of insane barristers are doing a fine job of dragging UK law systems into a level of public contempt that is only exceeded by that shown towards the legacy party politicians...
The partisan judgements and perversity of outcome is now so everyday and humdrum that people are now I reckon numbed by it - unless you are an unfortunate who's fallen into the gears....
When people feel their public institutions are abjectly failing them they will take "the law" into their own hands to mete out justice to wrongdoers.
It's already the case that quangos with delegated prosecutorial authority are wildly overstepping common sense and rational enforcement policies - yes, they've given CPS style prosecution powers to random bureaucrats like The Environment Agency - and it seems they are falling over themselves to give crazy Muslims the power to go after people for blasphemy as it might be defined by a rando "Muslim scholar". The head of the CPS is just an unhinged nasty twerp.
I wonder what 4th Century Romans thought about the disintegration of the Western Empire...
tomo
idau
ba-boom...tish! :-)
Robert
- It certainly ain't the be-all end-all but Erik Swenson's sterling work on OCO-2 data was something of an epiphany for me as I had trodden some of the same path albeit without the decoding skill/effort he put in....
He remarks:
is diplomatic enough to be - in hindsight - seen as dripping sarcasm - NASA plainly lied for months about the location of the data archives Mr. Swanson was careful not to tread on more toes than necessary - cancellation being a real thing ....Islam has always been something of a moveable feast, a malleable mass religion with no central authority - some in the west seem to think it'd e a useful vehicle and seek to become control adjacent.... After 4 decades working in and around Moslem countries my scalp prickles at the scale of delusion in action there I have seen people of the left lauding the "dignity of Halal slaughter" on the shallowest, most ignorant level - unaware of the precepts that a large proportion of the faith's followers adhere to - which would have them treated in the same way as a sheep / goat ... I have not come across in any other area the visceral, murderous intent as that I've winessed between different sects of Islam - sure, for some - it's The Religion of Peace - and, actually - good on them. For many, many others it's absolutely anything but....playing strongly to unpleasant themes that litter the history of all religions....
I doubt Mark Carney and Starmer et al envisage mass hangings from cranes or burning alive of unbelievers in local supermarket car parks - these clowns know not of what they speak - they think they can manage Islam to their benefit....