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The bar you can’t see is the % of CO2 in air, in comparison to the amount of water-vapor, under varying conditions.

@CaptainAdvance1 @PeterDClack Make the metaphor make sense, please!

@CaptainAdvance1 @PeterDClack So CO2 is like a blanket? Or is cold air like outer space? How do I make sense of this metaphor? While on metaphors, what thaws a chicken faster - circulating air or running water?

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has frequently said the Earth is 'out of balance' due to heat trapped in the atmosphere. This ignores basic thermodynamics. Guterres says the planet is experiencing an era of 'global boiling'. This is not possible. The atmosphere cannot act as a permanent heat vault. It's a low-density medium with negligible mass and it sheds thermal energy to space every night. The true thermal engine of the planet is the ocean - a 1.3 billion cubic km body of water with 1,000 times the heat capacity of the air. On a clear night, that energy escapes into the vacuum of space at the speed of light. Every molecule in the air radiates infrared energy and without the sun’s shortwave input at night, the atmosphere sheds heat upward. The residence time of atmospheric heat is fleeting. We see this every day. Once the sun sets, air temperatures can drop 10°C to 20°C in hours. The atmosphere has almost no memory of heat. If the sun turned off, the air would lose its warmth in weeks, but the oceans would take millennia. Wind and convection further speed this up, carrying warm air to higher altitudes where the atmospheric blanket is thinnest. This makes it even easier to radiate away. To focus on heat 'trapped' in the air is a fundamental error in scale. #Thermodynamics or #ClimateNuance

@Utahdesert @HistoryBoomer Crime is perceived as “in my neighborhood”. So even with per capita stat going down, it can be perceived as having gone up.

@whataboutrandom @HistoryBoomer I think everyone (except the anti-immigration ideologues) would agree that we need an orderly immigration process with vetting. As for the per capita question: No, murder affects people, not land. Do you want to reduce the birth rate to reduce the total number of crimes?

For the statistically illiterate. A million people in a state with 50 murders every year, your murder rate is 50 per million. Add a million immigrants who do 1 murder a year, total murders goes up to 51, but that's among TWO million people. Your rate is 25.5 per million. The number of murders goes up, but each person in the city is actually safer. More murders does not automatically mean more danger. Population size matters. If we kidnapped the entire population of Japan and brought them to America, our number of murders would go up (Japanese people commit about 250 murders a year), but we'd become a much safer country (the Japanese murder RATE is far lower). Oilfield Rando's argument (more murders automatically means more danger) is bad math.

@veternium @simongerman600 Thanks for the Wikipedia link. My point still stands. *Lately* liberals don’t care about democracy. They’re more concerned about imposing the “will of the shrillest” on everyone else.

@whataboutrandom @simongerman600 For fuck's sake man, it took 3 seconds to look this up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_d…

Well, the US was promised back the good old days. The Liberal Democracy Index now shows the US is back to the 1960s. All the impressive gains from the 60s and 70s wiped out. A sad phase in history. Likely more decline in the pipeline.

Social Security has been raided by politicians to pay for their pet projects & not just current retirees. It won’t stay solvent unless we block that access.

@ButtsoupBill @PeterDClack It means there is an energy storage (vault) on earth that retains the incoming energy. If there were none, or it goes out of whack because some climate-maniac decided we need to get colder, we’ll end up as a ball of ice. That’s the default state of the earth when “in balance”.

@PeterDClack The earth is warming. This says there is more energy entering than leaving. This is like the deffinition of out of balance.

Oxford University researchers have discovered the densest element yet known to science... The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass. When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.

@RepThomasMassie Imagine a House & a Senate that actually work for the people!

Imagine a world where hard work is rewarded, truth and justice prevail in courtrooms, the government doesn’t steal your labor by debasing the currency, bureaucrats aren’t captured by corporations, and our taxes go toward critical infrastructure instead of wars overseas.

@CUgoesky @PeterDClack @Nature Water is foremost. Trees are like the fins / radiators of this air-conditioner… transpiration is how water is evaporated without needing to boil water.

@PeterDClack @Nature Foremost global air conditioner isn't the trees. It's the ocean. Trees come second

Earth is increasingly ‘out of balance’, as more heat is trapped in the atmosphere, driving global warming go.nature.com/4uU83Bc

@rookwood52 @PeterDClack @Nature Gets bigger if you also add the latent-heat capacity of water-vapor.

Specific heat ratio water to air at standard air, say its 4000x bagger, so that's the actual "immense" buffer Peter is referring to. So in terms of heat capacity, the atmosphere is just a rounding error. (Duckgo it: Specific heat water conditions 4184 J/kg/K at 20°C. The specific heat of air at 20°C is approximately 1.006 kJ/kg/K at constant pressure. That's a 4184 : 1.006 ratio)

@Khadijahsez @SteveInmanClips If you have to fire once at something, keep firing till it stops moving.

@SteveInmanClips How many shots after he went down?

Update on this FAFO clip: A grand jury declined to file criminal charges against the customer who shot and killed a robber at the El Ranchito #4 taqueria in southwest Houston, Texas, in January 2023. Incident

@SallyMayweather Everyone always gets confused between “access to …” & “having …”. The “access…” is a human right. But nobody who wants to pass a resolution would ever word it like that; it would defeat their narrative.

Food and water are NOT human rights. You don’t have a right to anything that requires the labor of others. The word for that is slavery..

The Senate is just an outright shitshow! Unanimous Consent is a fraud!! @SenateGOP @SenateDems

@stillKT @ScottJenningsKY @jimmykimmel You’ll be hard-pressed to find 100 of both categories!

@ScottJenningsKY @jimmykimmel *Ask yourself this question: If you had to be governed by 100 bootlicking plumbers or 100 insightful comedians like @jimmykimmel - which would you choose? I know what I'd choose.

🚨 Ask yourself this question: If you had to be governed by 100 working-class plumbers or 100 sneering, elitist, know-nothing, hack liberal comedians like @jimmykimmel - which would you choose? I know what I'd choose.

@karelpopper @PeterDClack Humans may be the cause, but the mechanism is not CO2. Humans have changed how land treats water; they’ve destroyed forests (cools land by transpiration) & built urban heat islands - over millennia. Still holding on to CO2 is beyond stupid; it’s suicidal.

@PeterDClack Misinfo alert 🚨 Oceans and water vapor matter, but CO₂ is the climate’s control knob. Water vapor is feedback—not a driver. CO₂ traps heat for centuries, while water vapor responds to warming. Science shows humans are the cause.

To understand the climate, look at the scale: The world's oceans cover 71% of the global surface area to an average depth of 2.3 miles. Water is 1,000 times denser than air, granting the oceans a heat retention capacity that the atmosphere simply cannot match. Water vapour dominates the world's atmosphere, reaching up to 4% of atmospheric volume over temperate and tropical regions. It's responsible for up to 75 percent of all atmospheric warming, making carbon dioxide a distant second. Water vapour, winds, ocean currents and clouds are overwhelmingly responsible for earth's regional weather patterns. These are the true global drivers of all weather, all the cloud cover, storms, rain, humidity and snowfall.

@ButtsoupBill @PeterDClack No gas reflects like a glass greenhouse. The “greenhouse gases” don’t actually use the “greenhouse effect” (total-internal-reflection of IR). Yes, this is middle-school shit that people have forgotten due to the Asch Effect.

@PeterDClack This dude doesn’t understand the greenhouse effect. We learn this in middle school. If you listen to him then you aren't that smart.

The Earth's great ocean currents have carried warm waters up from the tropics to Northern Europe for hundreds of millions of years. They are the eternal thermal engines that drive climate variability around the world. The oceans are key to the world's variable climate. They contain 91-93% of all retained heat energy, which drives the major tropical currents to the world's northern hemisphere. This prevents most of Europe freezing in a climate similar to Greenland. It makes little sense to attribute global climate to a trace gas CO2, which is 420 ppm, or 0.042% of the atmosphere. Water vapour is at least 100 times more influential for heat retention, particularly in tropical areas where it provides up to 75% of regional warming capacity. The major currents are large-scale, continuous movements of seawater driven by wind, tides, and density differences (thermohaline circulation). These are organised into five major subtropical gyres. A round trip for thermohaline circulation takes 1,000 years for a single parcel of water. While the atmosphere changes by the day, the oceans provide the thermal memory of the planet. The two key currents are the Gulf Stream (Atlantic) and the Kuroshio (Pacific) and they transport heat poleward, influencing the global climate. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current moves the largest volume of water.

@JaggaJesse @American68028 @RenaudCamus All countries were active in slavery, even before the west became a thing.

@American68028 @RenaudCamus No countries were active in slavery like the west. And tho abolished slavery is still being practiced in different forms and guise's till this day.

“The weapon that has done the most for the conquest of Europe, for its colonization by Africa, for its Islamization, for the destruction of Europeans in Europe, for genocide by substitution, more than family reunification, more than widespread nocence, more than the migratory submersion itself, is the accusation of racism. It has paralyzed three hundred million people and made them accept the unacceptable, the worst that could happen to them: their own annihilation, their erasure as a civilization.” [March 25, 2019]

@pdstone @jarvis_best Wrong straight?

@jarvis_best like this lie?

@angusproud @LarsonKellie @simongerman600 That’s easily verifiable as false… it has gone up 10% just from 2009

@whataboutrandom @LarsonKellie @simongerman600 The bottom 40% have seen virtually no progress in real terms, accounting for inflation.