Thursday, 14 November 2024

The 2024 Spanish floods

 The media and politicians, as usual, jumped on the November 2024 floods in Southern Spain as some sort of freak events, while it took me a few minutes to find they were totally normal, proving both the media provably tell lies and the people blindly accept them. Firstly here are the historic figures for Spanish floods.


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And European floods.


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Tell me, how can anyone say with a straight face the current floods are special?

Meanwhile let's look at the general and specific reasons for these floods. The first is the most obvious, greedy human beings build on flood planes. Therefore they guarantee when the nearby river overflows, which they always will, they will be flooded. Just stop doing it. As for any changes, look at the land use. Flood prevention, such as dams and other protection methods, have been reduced by 'green' regulations. EU laws such as considering the environmental impacts of reducing flood damage before creating it. If you protect the fish and plants then the victims will be the people who are flooded by protecting the environment. There are no other places to protect flood planes (which should never have been built on in the first place) except between the sources of the water and the land. So ban one and the consequences will be guaranteed. These rules also deter dredging, meaning the flow of water is greatly speeded up as it has less space to flow more slowly. The EU Water Framework Directive makes these obvious safeguards very hard to carry out, meaning typical floods where such actions have not been carried out will be guaranteed to be worse than they would have done, yet all the authorities do is blame us every time it happens despite the frequency being no different to what it ever was. Also the funnel effect, where roads are built in a river valley, such as Lynmouth in the 1950s Source and Valencia in 2024, means the roads and surrounding buildings force the water along a narrow passage far higher than on an open area, causing water levels of many feet high purely due to creating a channel to direct a flooding river directly through the centre of a town. These consequences are clearly a product of human greed and stupidity rather than anything sinister happening in the climate. If it was illegal to build on flood plains, or impossible to insure houses on them things would soon improve.




It is also WEF policy to remove dams, the main reason the rainfall was not held back and caused so much damage. Dam removal


Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Figures on the creation of Israel, wars and Gazan casualties

 As the internet is currently alight with myths and mysteries about Israel and Gaza I was offered a few typical statements and offered to address them all with reliable and confirmable sources.

The answers to the questions are in italic. More may follow if requested.

That's exactly what happened. Palestine was given to Israel by the uk.

The United Nations General Assembly on 15 May 1947 created the Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) in response to a United Kingdom government request that the General Assembly "make recommendations under article 10 of the Charter, concerning the future government of Palestine"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_United_Nations

However, by the time of the UN vote Britain had gone cold on the idea, led by the anti-Israel Foreign Office, while the British troops in Palestine did all they could stop a Jewish state and hand control  of the whole area to the Arabs. https://www.palestinehome.org/history-of-palestine-annotated-1/history-1949-israels-empty-promises-joining-un

 

https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/conflict-Palestine  

 

They displaced almost a million people.

 

250-300,000 Arabs fled in the 1947 civil war, the remainder were ordered to leave by Israel’s Arab neighbours who were going to wipe them out. 700,000 left voluntarily and were given six months to return by Israel. Those who didn’t were kept in refugee camps and not allowed to become citizens of Jordan or the other countries they stayed in. So yes, that is the correct figure but they all left by their own means and not by Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_expulsion_and_flight

 

The plo tried to make a two state agreement multiple times that the whole world wanted except Israel and the USA. Now Israel ethnically cleansing Gaza in a land grab

 

You are very close here, but it was Israel who made five offers and the PLO who turned all of them down. Right formula but wrong names.

 

https://lawandsocietymagazine.com/how-palestine-rejected-offer-to-have-its-own-state-5-times-in-the-past/

 

The land existed dipshit... doesn't matter if it was a internationally recognized country. Families had been living there for generations only to be killed or pushed out

 

See the figures on expulsions

 

I don't know where ur trying to go with this post. If anything the death toll is way more than anything reported.

 

The 34,000 figure is from Hamas and does not distinguish between terrorists, citizens and children. However currently no international news service is able to confirm these figures.

Monday, 22 April 2024

Climate the Movie - debunked?

 Well not surprisingly the great boffins at Skeptical Science (sic) have published their debunking of Martin Durkin's recent film Climate the Movie, which took on the claims of the climate establishment by top scientists and appeared to emasculate them. Their main list (followed by more paragraphs of disapproval) was 25 points which I'll post here and then test each one as a judge would, with absolutely no bias either way.

Skeptical Science article

Code

Myth

Quick rebuttal

56

mwp

Medieval Warm Period was warmer

Globally averaged temperature now is higher than global temperature in medieval times.

31

lia

We're coming out of the Little Ice-age

Scientists have determined that the factors which caused the Little Ice Age cooling are not currently causing global warming.

15

cold

It's freaking cold!

A local cold day has nothing to do with the long-term trend of increasing global temperatures.

6

temp

Temp record is unreliable

The warming trend is the same in rural and urban areas, measured by thermometers and satellites.

20

uhi

It's Urban Heat Island effect

Urban and rural regions show the same warming trend.

38

troposphere

Satellites show no warming in the troposphere

The most recent satellite data show that the earth as a whole is warming.

45

pastco2

CO2 was higher in the past

Climate has changed along with CO2 levels through geological time.

120

plant

CO2 is plant food

The effects of enhanced CO2 on terrestrial plants are variable and complex and dependent on numerous factors

127

trace

CO2 is just a trace gas

Many substances are dangerous even in trace amounts; what really matters is the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

11

lag

CO2 lags temperature

CO2 didn't initiate warming from past ice ages but it did amplify the warming.

31

greenhouse

Increasing CO2 has little to no effect

The strong CO2 effect has been observed by many different measurements.

43

correlate

There's no correlation between CO2 and temperature

There is long-term correlation between CO2 and global temperature; other effects are short-term.

8

1970s

Ice age predicted in the 70s

The vast majority of climate papers in the 1970s predicted warming.

5

model

Models are unreliable

Models successfully reproduce temperatures since 1900 globally, by land, in the air and the ocean.

2

past

Climate's changed before

Climate reacts to whatever forces it to change at the time; humans are now the dominant forcing.

207

uah

UAH atmospheric temperatures prove climate models are wrong

The most likely explanation for UAH data warming less than expected is that the UAH data set is biased low.

143

cloud

Clouds provide negative feedback

Evidence is building that net cloud feedback is likely positive and unlikely to be strongly negative.

14

cosmic

It's cosmic rays

Cosmic rays show no trend over the last 30 years & have had little impact on recent global warming.

191

cern

CERN CLOUD experiment proved cosmic rays are causing global warming

of one out of four requirements necessary to blame global warming on cosmic rays, and two of the other requirements have already failed.

1

sun

It's the sun

In the last 35 years of global warming, sun and climate have been going in opposite directions

17

1934

1934 - hottest year on record

1934 was one of the hottest years in the US, not globally.

240

wildfires

Wildfires are not caused by global warming

Global warming worsens wildfires by creating drier conditions with more fuel for fires to spread further and faster.

16

hurricane

Hurricanes aren't linked to global warming

There is increasing evidence that hurricanes are getting stronger due to global warming.

37

bear

Polar bear numbers are increasing

Polar bears are in danger of extinction as well as many other species.

185

gbr

Great Barrier Reef is in good shape

Evidence clearly shows that both ocean warming and acidification due to human CO2 emissions are damaging the Great Barrier Reef


1) Medieval Warm Period was warmer Until 1999 it was. There was no doubt until then, the consensus was that it was warmer. Then came the hockey stick chart, one of a number offered to the UN IPCC, two similar and one different. This meant they had if nothing else been confused about the proxy records, using ice cores, tree rings, vegetation and other possibly contradictory methods to join together to form a reasonably credible representation of the last 1000 year's temperatures. The official line is it is still controversial and uncertain, which is definitely the case as otherwise more than two official diagrams could not stand for the same period. Some say it has been improved, others, using evidence such as vegetation unearthed around the Arctic Circle showing plants there which needed a far higher temperature to survive, while the southern hemisphere had so few records before the 20th century it had very little to begin with directly. So to be fair to both sides the jury is out on this one.

This is Michael Mann's hockey stick, currently used by the UN.

Here is a northern hemisphere graph, followed by the world graph used prior to the hockey stick and still used in some scientific circles.

This is vital to current climate policy, as if it can be proved, even on a balance of probabilities, that the MWP was warmer worldwide it confirms such warming is not only harmless but beneficial.


This is based on both the earlier temperatures (which so far have not been as widely disputed, as they were far more recent in the 18th century and correspond with many pictures and records of ice or frozen rivers much further from the poles than today) and the glacier sizes. These can be relatively easily measured from past records by geologists, and they did indeed start melting before the CO2 rose in the mid-19th century. However there appears to be no dispute whether the LIA actually existed as outside Skeptical Science it's part of official climate history. 


Global warming morphed into climate change, and the jetstream issue means when the jetstreams become unstable they draw more cold away from the poles. As some scientists blame this on man (the evidence is far from convincing) it means they are saying man made warming, sorry, climate change, can indeed cause colder weather as well as warm. This point was not used by the film to dismiss global warming, it was used by those who claim there is.


If you look up temperature records for virtually any period (raw, adjusted and anomalies) they do indeed differ. If any professional engineer, architect or doctor produced differing data you'd find another one, so climate scientists can't get a pass on this one. Easily demonstrated.





I can provide these till the cows come home, and virtually all the adjustments make the present warmer or the past cooler. That means they are not prima facie reliable using the dictionary definition.


Well it is real. Urban heat islands




They do generally, but not everywhere or always.
 See Troposhere graph Roy Spencer graphs for all UAH records.


7) 

CO2 was higher in the past


Yes it was.




9) 

CO2 is just a trace gas


It makes up around 0.04% of the air. If rising heat goes through the air it has a 99.96% chance of missing a CO2 molecule.



It always has before the recent graphs beginning around 1850, until you enlarge them enough and find they still do. 





The experiment always raised to prove this is wrong uses either a tube or a tank, both closed, to add CO2 and watch the temperature rise. As warmer air can't rise out of a closed vessel this experiment can't represent the air. Equations using spectral analysis make up most of the gap, and relies on sensitivity rates (temperature rise per CO2 molecule) set by the experimenters in advance rather than be found by the experiment. Also they can't model feedback, which increases increasing temperatures (positive) or reduces them (negative). The main two are aerosols (negative) and humidity (positive). The hypothesis is that warmer air is more humid which in turn does trap heat as water vapour is easy to measure. In fact the humidity has fallen in all three levels of the atmosphere, meaning the major element of feedback is absent.






The third element from rising water is clouds. As it's nigh on impossible to model cloud formation as it is not predictable enough, they will mean more water evaporating will actually form clouds which in their thicker forms block the sun. 



13) 

Ice age predicted in the 70s




14) 

This is a blanket statement and depends on the model and what they are trying to model. Rather than write an entire paper I'll simply quote the IPCC:

The value of long-term climate predictions was dismissed by the IPCC directly in 2001, saying exactly what its opposition had always said: "The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible"

14.2.2 Predictability in a Chaotic System The climate system is particularly challenging since it is known that components in the system are inherently chaotic; there are feedbacks that could potentially switch sign, and there are central processes that affect the system in a complicated, non-linear manner. These complex, chaotic, non-linear dynamics are an inherent aspect of the climate system. As the IPCC WGI Second Assessment Report (IPCC, 1996) (hereafter SAR) has previously noted, “future unexpected, large and rapid climate system changes (as have occurred in the past) are, by their nature, difficult to predict. This implies that future climate changes may also involve ‘surprises’. In particular, these arise from the non-linear, chaotic nature of the climate system

14.4 The elimination of models because they are in conflict with climate-relevant data is particularly important.

15) Climate's changed before Climate reacts to whatever forces it to change at the time; humans are now the dominant forcing.


I would read the summary of this article and draw your own conclusions.

16) Clouds provide negative feedback

It's called shade. Temperatures are always taken in the shade or the thermometer may melt on a hot day. What causes the shade which blocks so much heat from reaching the surface?


17)

It's cosmic rays


The UN do not recognised solar changes as affecting the temperature in any significant way, but more research suggests it does, based on sunspots, solar output and other cycles which mean the magnetic output of the sun forms more aerosols in the atmosphere which allow more clouds to form, blocking out the sun.



There are more and more articles showing a very close correlation between solar activity and temperature so I suggest Skeptical Science goes back to school on this one.

18) CERN CLOUD experiment proved cosmic rays are causing global warming

"The CLOUD experiment studies how ions produced by high-energy particles called cosmic rays affect aerosol particles, clouds and the climate. It uses a special cloud chamber and a beam of particles from the Proton Synchrotron to provide an artificial source of cosmic rays. For this run, however, the cosmic rays are instead natural high-energy particles from cosmic objects such as exploding stars.

“Cosmic rays, whether natural or artificial, leave a trail of ions in the chamber,” explains CLOUD spokesperson Jasper Kirkby, “but the Proton Synchrotron provides cosmic rays that can be adjusted over the full range of ionisation rates occurring in the troposphere, which comprises the lowest ten kilometres of the atmosphere. That said, we can also make progress with the steady flux of natural cosmic rays that make it into our chamber, and this is what we’re doing now.”"

CERN experiment


19)

It's the sun

 see points 17 and 18, this just merges the two.

20) 

1934 - hottest year on record

1934 was one of the hottest years in the US, not globally.


Well it was in America yes. 1934 heatwave

And Britain, apparently 1934 heatwave Britain

However, it is a red herring as whether it was or not it doesn't change any of the other points.


Well if they were they would be increasing as it warms.




This is correct. There is no trend in hurricanes.






 
24) Polar bear numbers are increasing

Populations of polar bears have tripled in 50 years and shown no connection with ice levels.









They are referring to coral, one of the oldest forms of life on earth, which has both thrived during ice ages and warm periods. An average temperature change of a few degrees does not affect coral in all but the shortest term where it may bleach for a while, which will then recover with new growth.





Acidification is an alleged symptom of rising CO2 but in fact the oceans remain alkaline. As it's not related to warming I'll leave that to the specialists.

Monday, 15 April 2024

How close are the BBC connections with the World Economic Forum?

 Having seen the officially impartial BBC promote more and more WEF policies I wanted to find out if there were any known connections to explain the similarities between their views. It didn't take long. Their current chairman Tim Davie is one of their young leaders Tim Davie as well as two more connected high ranking officers, the World Service editor Dawood Azami while their top reporter Evan Davies appeared at  WEF Forum event as one of the speakers BBC World debate 2015

The BBC also writes very complimentary pieces on their WEF sustainable development goals. Economic Forum

Tuesday, 12 March 2024

Evidence that Hamas use human shields

human shield is a non-combatant (or a group of non-combatants) who either volunteers or is forced to shield a legitimate military target in order to deter the enemy from attacking it.

  1.  Gordon, NevePerugini, Nicola (2020). Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520301849.

Despite the recent EU statement condemning the use of human shields by Hamas, many people don't believe they use them. It's certainly barely mentioned in the media, which explains much of the ignorance, so here is as much corroborative evidence I can find proving beyond any doubt that Hamas deliberately use their own citizens as martyrs, forcing children to sit on the rooves of buildings after Israel warn that they will be demolished, and deliberately make sure their own side's casualties are as high as possible as that grows the hatred of Israel. Martyrdom in Palestinian society

I am fully aware many people do not trust Israeli reports, but that is their problem not mine. Yet the same people accept casualty figures in Gaza entirely from Hamas reports. Here is the official Israeli government list of how Hamas use human shields.

Human shields from Israel

Using child soldiers is also against international law but are standard practice by Hamas, which in itself should tell its supporters they are backing the wrong people. Child soldiers

Mothers are brought up to believe the greatest honour to their family is to sacrifice a child through a suicide attack, and as an added incentive are paid for life by Hamas (using international aid payments) if they do so. Hamas pay to slay This is part of their culture, a fact their western supporters find impossible to accept. Mother of three suicide bombers elected to parliament

The core of the genocide story is the apparent numbers of civilians killed by Israel while cleansing Gaza of Hamas. Unlike normal armies, Hamas want as many civilian casualties as possible, deliberately using schools, hospitals and police stations to store weapons and fight from, as well as the 300 miles of tunnels (paid by international aid) where actual terrorists can hide from the Israeli forces. Unfortunately few on the left understand a people who can actually sacrifice their own civilians to win their single plan of wiping out every last Jew, starting with the middle east. Human shields

But ultimately the best form of evidence is a direct confession, which are scattered around the internet, and may change the general sentiment if actually shown on TV. Here is a two minute video showing how a typical setup is built right in the middle of a city and how they kill their own citizens firing missiles into Israel which fall short. Military video

Of course Hamas aren't the only Islamic terrorists to use human shields, but they are clearly the best. Here are some studies explaining how they are part of their culture. Human Shields in modern Jihad

Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire

Hezbollah's use of Lebanese civilians as human shields

How Hamas Uses People As Human Shields (video)

 Journalist Recalls When Hamas Used Him as a Human Shield (video)

And finally here it is from the leader of Hamas's son

‘Enough of this’: Hamas co-founder’s son speaks out

Saturday, 26 August 2023

The greenhouse effect

 

I have taken all the theory and demonstrations of the greenhouse effect in all three mediums, solid, liquid and gas to explain the mechanism and present its physical processes. Click the image to enlarge.