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heartbroken that John Clauser seems to have joined climate change denial.
AndyBeez:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 06, 2023, 09:10:49 am ---No promotion of vitamin D, locking people inside without exercise or outdoor exposure etc. Disgusting.
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Agreed, the fuse of a future health emergency is slowly burning away.
Here in the UK, working from home became known as drinking from home. Many a Zoom or Teams call was made under the influence of a gin with no tonic. And why not? There was no one from Human Resources to check the specific gravity of an employee's coffee mug. At the height of lockdown number one, I was shopping in my local mini mart and noted I was the only one not buying hard spirits. Or liquor as you yanks call it. The pandemic was a disaster for the hospitality industry but a bonanza for the drinks industry. Fuelled by the income effect of furlough payments and not having to pay over half of ones disposable income on extortionate train fares, the online delivery industry expanded. Drivers delivering booze became key workers, just like nurses. Britain might be thought of a nation of middle class alcoholics, but it's all done behind closed doors and as such, is a very respectable form of substance abuse. Anyway, middle class people always place their emptied prosceco bottles in the correct coloured recycling bin. Then came the order to sober up and return to the office. Many have remained working from home.
On a Climate change note, Greta Thunberg has cancelled a special VIP guest appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 'protest' at one of the sponsors having a link to fossilised fuels. Cancel culture or she just doesn't fancy rowing across the North Sea to Scotland from her homeland in Westeros? Waste a few milliamps if you wish by clicking this > https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23701413.greta-thunberg-quits-edinburgh-festival-row-baillie-gifford/
vad:
--- Quote from: AndyBeez on August 06, 2023, 02:37:07 pm ---Cancel culture or she just doesn't fancy rowing across the North Sea to Scotland from her homeland in Westeros?
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Maybe she finally decided to finish high school and needs to sit in class?
coppice:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 06, 2023, 09:10:49 am ---
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on August 06, 2023, 03:08:48 am ---Similarly, they should have phased out a whole lot of food additives, such as artificial colors and high fructose corn syrup. It would help improve health in general, which helps reduce severe Covid cases.
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No promotion of vitamin D, locking people inside without exercise or outdoor exposure etc. Disgusting.
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That's the same in the UK, and seems to be tied to the "everything's racist" industry. Until the late 1960s almost everyone in the UK was white. Some Caribbean people came to the UK in the 1950s, but that's about all. In the late 60s an influx of Indian and Pakistani people occurred. A few years later those people had small children. The muslim ones started turning up at doctors and hospitals with rickets, a disease that had pretty much disappeared from the UK. As more cases turned up, specialist clinics reopened. A public awareness campaign about vitamin D deficiency for brown skinned people in northern climates, especially those with a culture of completely covering their children, began. The problem subsided. Now its being realised that all brown skinned people in northern climates are somewhat low on vitamin D, especially through the winter, unless they supplement natural vitamin D. Even many white people are having problems because they spend so much time inside. Do we see a public health campaign about this? Nope. People are so afraid to point out that people have differences they try to ignore the problem.
Wallace Gasiewicz:
Perhaps we need a govmint decree for Vit D enriched booze?
I am working on another idea for the non drinking Moslems.
bezzada:
--- Quote from: snarkysparky on August 06, 2023, 11:45:21 am ---
So if the handlers of the people have decided to "push" a global warming alarmist theme on us what is the benefit to them.
They want to limit fossil fuel use. And this is to "control" the people? What do they get from causing us to freeze to death in the winter?
If ya think about the global elite make out the very best when society is functioning and everyone is working and paying their taxes.
Please elaborate on the supposed motives to enslave us by taking our fossil fuels.
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I don't think it is necessarily about "enslavement" or any other "big reset" conspiracy theories. I think it is more like "fear driven marketing". What would you do if you invested billions of dollars in the green energy technologies? Wouldn't fear mongering be beneficial to promote your products? Sounds like a very practical approach. And it is very easy to back up one's doomsday agenda by all kinds of "scientific reports". Then there are also climate change grifters like Al Gore who made millions on fear mongering and doomsday predictions that never came true.
Here is a "confession of a climate scientist" by Mototaka Nakamura.
https://c-c-netzwerk.ch/images/ccn-blog_articles/717/Confessions-Nakamura.pdf
tl;dr:
He doesn't question the "global warming" hypothesis but only the "catastrophic" part of it.
There are serious flaws in climate "forecasting" models that makes it possible to get any desired results based on arbitrary input parameters.
None of the climate simulation models used for predictions can reproduce the current climate accurately despite the heavy tuning efforts by climate researchers.
It has not been proven that the warming effect actually results in a rise in the global mean surface temperature, because of the extremely complex processes operating in the real climate system that cannot be accurately predicted due the flaws in the grossly oversimplified models and lack of computational power required for better accuracy. For example the solar energy output is modeled as a constant(!). A quasi-global observation system has been operating only for 50 years or so. Temperature data before then were collected over extremely small areas and, thus, have severe spatial bias. So we basically cannot rely on the pre-1980's data on the temperature trend.
And most importantly, a lot of the research is privately funded including by the "green energy" corporations with a clear conflict of interest. Considering the uncertainty of the models based on the arbitrary tuning parameters, it is very easy to produce the desired results based on the sponsor's agenda.
And finally, even if you didn't know or understand any of these claims, this is all you need to know about these climate activists:
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