David Opsahl

A new study analyzed daily temperatures from 992 long-running weather stations across 29 countries covering the years 1899 to 2024. Then it compared those temperatures to cumulative human CO2 emissions. They don't match. From 1899 to 1940, the planet warmed at a rate of 0.022 C per year, even though emissions were low. Then from 1941 to 1982, temperatures cooled, despite CO2 emissions more than tripling. From 1983 to 2024, warming returned, but slower than before, at a rate of 0.017 C per year, even as emissions rose 8.6 times higher than during the earlier warming phase. As the author concludes, "These findings challenge the conventional assumption that human-induced CO2 is the primary driver of global warming."

@DLompoc @The_Cling_On @CynicalPublius @laurenboebert What you stated is self-evidently true. Those that attempt to convince people otherwise are either: stupid, naive or lying. As I stated, if a publication doesn't like a candidate there will be ZERO positive Op-Eds about that candidate.

@DLOpsahl @The_Cling_On @CynicalPublius @laurenboebert Right. And every ad the publication runs is a tacit endorsement of the product being advertised. 🙄

Yes, I saw the President’s post. No, I’m not mad or offended. I knew the risks when I agreed to stand by my friend Thomas Massie. I was, and will be, America First, America Always, and MAGA. Onward 🇺🇸

@The_Cling_On @CynicalPublius @laurenboebert Those are the pages used to endorse a candidate. If the publication does not endorse a candidate then no amount of Op-Eds that do endorse that candidate will ever see publication.

@CynicalPublius @laurenboebert Mother Jones and NYT were OpEds. Do you know what those are?

@Patri0tTeaParty @TRHLofficial That is a question for the VA. Carple Tunnel Syndrome IS compensable under the VA, but I don't know the metrics that determine qualification. I know that surgical scars are compensable at 10%.

@DLOpsahl @TRHLofficial What service connected diagnosis can an 0600 get? Carpal tunnel syndrome?

Shortly before Aaron Bushnell self immolated at the Israeli embassy, his therapist had reported that he was depressed and at a mild to moderate risk of suicide. This was all found to be the case by the Air Force investigator. But in likely an attempt to take away the $500k death benefits Aaron left to his brother, a senior leader overturned the Air Force investigating officer’s conclusion that Aaron Bushnell’s final act was brought on by psychiatric problems. “Instead, the commander wrote, Bushnell’s death was due to his own “misconduct” and “Not In the Line of Duty,” a rare reversal of an investigating officer’s findings. Under Air Force regulations, investigators must maintain “a strong presumption” that suicides are “In the Line of Duty,” a classification that can have consequences for death benefits. However, Col. Celina Noyes said the guidance could be overcome in this case. “SrA Bushnell’s statements and actions indicate that he understood the ramifications of his conduct,” Noyes wrote in her finding.”

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere." Farmer: "Where did they get it?" Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere." Activist: "From... eating?" Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it." Activist: "The soil?" Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from." Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere." Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it." Activist: "Then just don't have the cow." Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle." Activist: "It's not that simple." Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

@TheBrancaShow @DanOvercast You present yet another reason for all Americans to be educated about the full powers of the jury. I honestly don't give a flying rats ass what the judges instructions are. If I conclude based on evidence and my conscience not guilty, then the accused is NOT guilty.

It would have to be a denial of the self-defense jury instruction based purely on a finding of law--for example the defense simply failed to present ANY evidence for the jury to consider on some required element of self-defense. Once there is even a scintilla of evidence presented on a legal issue, the judge is no longer free to prevent the jury from exercising its authority to make that finding of fact.

"But from the way I'm reading things, if the judge finds that Chud provoked the incident, he can disallow the self-defense justification, and the jury will never even hear it." No, the question of provocation is inherently a question of fact for the jury, not a question of law for the judge. Unless, I suppose, Chud CONCEDES the issue of provocation, but then you'd still be left with the question of fact of regaining Innocence via withdrawal and communication. Unless, I suppose, Chud CONCEDES that issue, TOO, in which case, what's there to do with him?

@Patri0tTeaParty @TRHLofficial The enlistment contract stipulates that servicemembers receive such considerations in exchange for their service in the armed forces.

@TRHLofficial I hate working with Linux too, but I don't think that's enough to get a pension rating or death benefits for PTSD. Dude was an IT airman. He was peak chairforce. How could the airforce possibly be on the hook for death benefits for a suicide from this guy? Overturn that crap.

Rewind... nearly a year ago this post went out explaining the VISA scam, at the time it was not widely accepted yet had resistance from people who thought it was too outrageous to accept.. then ITServe Alliance started inviting folks such as Vivek Ramaswamy and other prominent politicians to speak - then the fraud investigations went into overdrive.. Hall of Shame: The H-1B Kickback Machine This isn’t about “cheap labor.” It’s about a giant money-laundering scheme disguised as staffing. • Fake jobs. Body shops file for H-1Bs by the thousands. Many of the jobs don’t exist or are inflated. Workers are benched, shuffled around, or assigned to “clients” that are just shells. This is the part folks do not understand: What is a fake job? A) A position within a company that is not needed and only exists to hire someone into that will bill the company and kickback to the executive that created it. That Executive may be kicking back to his superior all the way to the Board of Directors and beyond. B) A contract put out by the government for a service or product that is not needed and only created to kick back tax dollars to lobbyists, body shops, and others. C) A contract with either entity that is not needed and serves simply to drain money from consumers, shareholders, and taxpayers. • Kickbacks. Once here, workers are trapped. To keep their visa, they quietly pay cash back to the sponsor or “training fees” to keep a fake paycheck moving. The firm takes a cut off both ends. Staffing will proceed to source specific personnel from specific areas ensuring no one comes forward to the authorities. • Fake billing. American clients get billed through layers of vendors. Each layer siphons off more money. What looks like IT support is actually a skimmed contract padded for kickbacks. • Money laundering. The profits get cleaned through shell companies and shipped offshore. It looks like “consulting” or “marketing,” but it’s really kickbacks being washed into tax havens. And here’s the part they never tell you: lobbyists are paid millions to keep this pipeline open. They wine and dine Congress to make sure federal and state contracts funnel back to the same H-1B-heavy body shops. Taxpayer money and corporate budgets alike are drained to feed a system that costs more than it saves. The companies responsible get million dollar fines that are a fraction of the margins of continuing the business and continue to lobby as if nothing can touch them. This isn’t “immigration policy.” It’s organized wage suppression and white-collar racketeering with political protection. The worker gets trapped. The American gets locked out. The middleman gets rich. America First means cutting off the kickback pipeline. No more fake jobs. No more shell vendors. No more lobbyists buying laws that keep the scam alive. Our High Trust society had made it so that people were confused at to what was happening. No more, we see it, we know it. Share this so people understand: the H-1B system isn’t just broken, it’s corrupt by design. We had confessions, cases, trials, and stories that backed it up and this went viral. more recently... Sources (real documented cases): Texas AG Ken Paxton investigation into nearly 30 North Texas firms for “ghost offices” and H-1B fraud (April 2026) Recent guilty pleas in California H-1B ghost job scheme using fake University of California positions (DOJ, April 2026) Bloomberg investigations into staffing firms gaming the H-1B lottery and wage suppression Multiple federal cases involving benching, kickbacks, and layered billing by body shops (Cognizant, Tata, Infosys, and smaller operators)

@Derpsyderp @_The_Prophet__ If I felt that society in the middle east was more ideal than in the USA I would move there. It is clearly inferior and therefore I have no interest in any further residency there. Nor am I interested in importing their society to the USA.

@DLOpsahl @_The_Prophet__ I have also lived in the middle East. And I definitely support them disciplining their wives. It *should* be difficult to obtain birth control - a nation needs a healthy birth rate in any event. Otherwise, you cease to be a nation. A strong moral code helps to maintain this.

⚡️The real answer: society dismantled the machinery that made early marriage rational, then acted surprised when people stopped marrying early. Marriage before 30 used to be supported by an entire civilizational stack: affordable adulthood, early stable work, churches, families, neighborhoods, local reputation, gender roles, sexual restraint, social pressure, and a clear life script. That stack pushed people toward pairing, commitment, children, and household formation before they had infinite optionality. That stack is gone. The economic layer broke first. Housing became expensive. Education took longer. Student debt rose. Entry-level careers became more unstable. Men took longer to feel economically viable. Women had more reason to delay because education and career investment raised the cost of choosing wrong. The age of “adult readiness” moved later. Then the sexual layer broke. Birth control, porn, dating apps, casual sex, divorce risk, and social media separated sex, attention, validation, and companionship from marriage. Once those things are unbundled, marriage loses its position as the necessary gateway into adult intimacy. Then the institutional layer collapsed. Churches weakened. Local communities thinned out. Extended families lost authority. Reputation enforcement disappeared. People stopped being matched by thick social networks and started being sorted by apps, status signals, and endless comparison. The old village disappeared. The algorithm replaced it. That changed male and female incentives in opposite but mutually destructive ways. Men delay marriage because commitment feels financially dangerous, legally risky, and less immediately necessary. A lot of men also fail to reach the economic or emotional threshold women want. Women delay marriage because they have more independence, more standards, more options, more career stakes, and more downside from binding themselves to the wrong man early. Both sides are responding rationally to a broken structure. The aggregate outcome is brutal: later marriage, fewer children, more loneliness, more sexual inequality, more resentment, more atomization, more people aging out of the family-formation window while telling themselves they still have time. The deepest piece is metaphysical. Marriage used to sit inside a sacred and social order larger than individual preference. Now it has been reduced to a lifestyle upgrade chosen only after self-optimization feels complete. That makes marriage fragile because the self is never finished optimizing. Modernity taught people to maximize autonomy. Marriage requires surrender of autonomy. That contradiction is the core. The old world made family formation the center of adulthood. The new world made personal optionality the center of adulthood. Once optionality becomes sacred, marriage becomes delayed by design. The real truth: Early marriage collapsed because adulthood itself was delayed, sex was deregulated, community dissolved, and the sacred weight of family was replaced by the endless optimization of the self.

@Derpsyderp @_The_Prophet__ When the government engages in 'charity', redistribution of wealth, that will result in incentives that undermine the social and religious "governing" of society. If ALL government welfare is eliminated then western society will course correct. Because of society and religion.

@DLOpsahl @_The_Prophet__ Eh I think that's still not quite accurate, but you do have a good point in that this is all inter-related. I think you put a bit too much emphasis on JUST the govt aspect - "governing" occurs in different paradigms - eg social, religious, political. It's not always a direct 1-1

@ruudvz @PeterDClack That's bug or fungal infestation. Trade with countries that have pests and fungi that your oaks are not able to defend against is the most likely cause, not "climate change ".

@PeterDClack I live on the Dutch border with Germany; large woods, tree's (Oak) are collapsing massively due to climate, take pictures of a tree near you and ask ChatGTP to analyze why the tree died. Europe foresters are massively planting Southern Trees in northern areas. Talk with farmers

Earth is greening at a rate never seen before in all recorded history. It should be an inspiring moment, a phenomenon driven by the CO₂ they want to eradicate, a trace gas at 420 ppm (or 0.04%). Even at this trace amount, it is still the fundamental building block of life on Earth. NASA satellite records reveal a trend supported by research showing world crop yields have risen 15–20% since 1960. This is almost entirely attributable to the CO₂ fertilisation effect (Idso, 2013). A green revolution from irrigation, synthetic fertilisers, and high-yield crop varieties gives extra depth to this result. It's a renaissance of greenness, an outcome largely unexpected by an ideology of gloomy predictions. It also has a secondary benefit of contributing to baseline levels of warmth, along with water vapour and other trace gases with similar properties. There's been a more than 18% increase in the global leaf area in 40 years, the largest gains occurring in India and China (from CO₂ fertilisation and agricultural planting). More balmy temperatures are becoming more familiar, lengthening the growing seasons. Famine deaths have plunged at a time when world population has doubled and CO₂ deserves much of the credit. Increased CO₂ over the past century is behind this exploding plant life and available crops from booming agriculture. Reality matters. Every 100 ppm increase in CO₂ typically boosts plant growth by 25–50% in all non-water limited conditions. This analysis draws on 776 studies from 1993–2019, showing an ideal average CO₂ level of 550 ppm would deliver a 38% increase in global biomass. Lengthening the growing seasons is a reality that stands in stark contrast to the narrative used to justify restrictions. Water vapor and cloud formations are primary drivers of the hydrologic cycle around the world, returning precipitation to rivers and lakes, and maintaining the oceans (where 78% of rain ends up). Commercial greenhouses pump CO₂ to 1000–1500 ppm, ensuring yields jump by 20–70% depending on the crop. If 1000 ppm is good for tomatoes, then CO₂ at 420 ppm is not an 'emergency'. It's empirical evidence of a time of plenty.

“When one observes the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe, to escape over barbed-wire fences, under machine-gun fire, one can no longer believe that socialism, in any of its forms, is motivated by benevolence and by the desire to achieve men's welfare.” — Ayn Rand

@SamaHoole I REALLY must overcome the brainwashing that hinders me from trying cow tongue.

An appreciation post for the 1.5 billion cattle currently on Earth, quietly holding the whole thing together while receiving nothing but criticism in return. Consider, for a moment, what these animals actually do: - They turn grass, a thing no human can digest, into steak, a thing every human thrives on - They graze the two-thirds of farmland that grows nothing else, asking for no thanks and receiving none - They carry the most bioavailable iron, B12, and zinc on the planet, and deliver it on the hoof - They produce butter, which on its own would justify the entire arrangement - They fertilise the soil for free, through a process we are all too polite to describe in detail - They build topsoil and sequester carbon into pasture, while being blamed, somehow, for the reverse - They give us tallow, leather, marrow, suet, and gelatine, with no waste and no complaints - They restore land that crops have exhausted, turning the worn-out and the marginal back into something living - They stand in the rain for years on end and never once bring it up Ten thousand years of domestication. Ten thousand years of being the most useful animal in the field, the foundation of the food system, and a keystone of every landscape lucky enough to hold them. They are not the problem with the planet's future. They are, quite plainly, the shape of it. We repaid all of this by putting them on the front of climate reports. Magnificent animals. Owed an apology.

@Derpsyderp @_The_Prophet__ Without the government incentives the remaining incentives fall like dominoes on an inclined plane. The other incentives are in fact 2nd and 3rd order effects of the original government programs.

@DLOpsahl @_The_Prophet__ This is one of those things that doesn't have a single root cause - rather it's a bunch of things that have tradeoffs and neg/pos reinforcement loops. Incentives are not just govt based. 2/2

@Derpsyderp @_The_Prophet__ I have lived in the middle east. Birth control is very difficult for women to obtain and the husband gets intimacy OR the wife receives Corporal punishment and then the husband gets his intimacy. A high welfare country that does not encourage disciplining the wife is required.

@DLOpsahl @_The_Prophet__ Govt welfare is a big problem, definitely. However, look at nations with massive government welfare and where porn is illegal - many Middle Eastern countries pay their ppl massive oil subsidies and don't have the birth rate issue. A strong moral system helps mitigate that decay.

@Derpsyderp @_The_Prophet__ I am not sure if you could be more wrong. The underlying factor that is rotting society is government welfare. Until women no longer get paid to not have husbands American society will continue the downward spiral to destruction.

@DLOpsahl @_The_Prophet__ True. Porn is just a symptom of a decayed society bc it's a degenerate society. However, porn does cause a social self-reinforcement loop that degrades society further bc degeneracy becomes public and normalized. Without porn, sex redirects more to couples who have children.

@brianeharrison @TexasGOP I pray that God will take @Burrows4TX from this earth. Sadly my Texas representative, @BradBuckleyDVM , backed him. I wish both of them were taken from this world.

Reminder: Talarico’s choice for Speaker…was “Republican” Burrows. And Burrows hired an OBAMA WHITE HOUSE LAWYER as House Parlimentarian, who’s spent years stopping conservative legislation. And no, I will NOT shut up or stop reminding Texans about this betrayal! Cc: @TexasGOP

@DanBurmawy There should be no such thing as "illegal tint" gives the corrupt cops WAY too much vague leeway to collect money from law abiding citizens.

LA City Council just told LAPD they can't pull anyone over anymore for expired tags, dead tail lights, cracked windshields, busted mirrors, illegal tint, loud exhaust, or missing plates. Why? Because out of 72,000 stops in three years, 86% were Black or Latino drivers. So if your car is busted, you're now invisible to the LAPD. Congratulations. This rule is intended to reduce discriminatory policing and build community trust.