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NBC’s 1983 report predicted “catastrophic warming” by the 1990s.

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365 years of temperature data from central England, the world's longest running climate record, show no trend. Despite a six-fold rise in population and a surge in CO2, January temperatures have barely shifted since 1600. Likewise for July, the hottest month of the year, temperatures are virtually unchanged. Even during the coal-fired Industrial Revolution there was no sudden spike. The warmest winters on record occurred in the 1700s, the 1800s, and the early 1900s, long before modern emissions. Any warming appears slow and natural, with the slight modern uptick likely linked to two factors: 1) the urban heat island effect, and 2) Earth's gradual recovery from the Little Ice Age. If carbon dioxide truly controlled the climate, the CET record would shoot upward on the right. It does not.

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815. Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did. Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

At 95, I'm still smokin'! 😝 I’ve learned two things: Never waste a good cigar. Never trust anyone who says you should ‘act your age.’ 😉👍🏻

William Shatner is 95 today! Bill’s Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (1963) remains one of TV’s most iconic moments. Shatner captures sheer terror and unravelling paranoia locked in a metal tube miles high, seeing something no one believes. Just brilliant.

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@oelma__ We are mostly whiners unfortunately.

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@CityofVancouver hello, I am wondering if we could look into banning loud lawnmowers please? So many in my neighborhood, mostly contractors, it’s as loud as a jet plane, and so intrusive in what should be a relaxing evening. Battery mowers are widely available now. Thx.

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@80s_Kidz And our parents still don’t know where we are either.

This is very accurate 😂

Antarctica is colder and more icebound today than at any point in the past 5,000 years. Research by Hall (2023) found that West Antarctica cooled by more than 1.8 C between 1999 and 2018. Satellite data confirm continent-wide cooling, as do multiple glacier studies. Pacini (2024) found the Collins Glacier was 1 km farther back 6,000 years ago and began re-advancing about 1,000 years ago, which is clear evidence of cooling since the medieval warm period. Even the biology of the continent documents this shift. A millennium ago, the Ross Sea hosted around 200,000 elephant seals as far south as 78 degrees. Today, those colonies are gone. They disappeared as the region froze over, too cold and ice-choked for breeding or foraging. As the Hall paper concludes: the last few centuries, including the present, represent the coldest, iciest conditions in the post-glacial period. Modern Antarctica is not warming, it's freezing.

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