John Cech

@shallit43 @mattwridley @DailyMail @theCCCuk Pointing out what you consider a conflict as some equivalency is so typical of the alarmists. Unfortunately it doesn't address the very valid and extensive points he raised about the severely flawed model used by alarmists.

@mattwridley @DailyMail @theCCCuk As opposed to coal-mine-owner Matt Ridley, who clearly has no vested interests at all! The lack of self-awareness is truly astonishing here.

In my @DailyMail essay on the @theCCCuk's new report, I point out that they have a vested interest in exaggeration. "Between the moment when these climatecrats wake in the morning and the moment they lay their overworked brains to rest on feather pillows at night, they have one all-consuming ambition: to maximise their own budget. They achieve this goal by being as alarmist as possible. Imagine if they found evidence that climate change was no big deal or even good news: would they want to publish this? Of course not. It would be disastrous for their (taxpayer-funded) income. The committee has never produced a report on global greening: the remarkable 15-20 per cent increase in green vegetation on the planet over the past four decades, caused mostly by carbon dioxide emissions. Nor do its members talk about falling deaths from cold weather anywhere near as much as they do about the smaller number of deaths from hot weather. Good news for us, in short, is no news for them.

@jj691102 @illiquid__ @paulg Last I looked that was nowhere. The urban areas that meet that population requirement have too much built up in between to make the right of ways and collision safety cost effective

@illiquid__ @paulg The technical "sweet spot" for HSR competitiveness is a corridor of 400–600 km connecting two metropolitan areas with a combined population exceeding 5–10 million, where the terrain allows for sustained speeds 300 km/h to maintain travel time below 3 hours.

There's never been an investment like the investment in railroads. (This graph has a log scale!)

@mattwridley There is far more than a smidgen of doubt about a source other than lab release. Yet that hasn't deterred those (like Fauci and government agencies who want this to go away) from endorsing it.

Various angry people don't like this lecture. Some think any smidgen of doubt is enough to rule out a lab leak. Others are cross that I don't endorse speculative theories that it was a bioweapon, or made in America. A lab leak is highly likely but of course I don't know exactly how it happened and don't think it much helps to speculate about that.

@DrEliDavid Interesting that CBS didn't share the results of that poll on the evening news. Thought they had new more balanced leader.

🚨 Breaking – New CBS poll among Republicans shows majority demand regime change in Iran: 🔸Unacceptable to end war with current regime in power: 71% 🔸Change Iran's leaders to pro-US ones: 80% 🔸Make sure Iran's people are safe & free: 90% 🔸Approve of military action: 84%

@jamzefish @mattwridley Its called virtue signaling to the environmental left

@mattwridley The US is energy independent...but I see messages like this regularly? How come?

Remember this is exactly the opposite of what all polite opinion expected. In the early 2010s I was almost alone at least in the UK in saying the shale revolution was big news. Flash in the pan said all the energy “experts” and energy editors. Some flash, some pan.

@peter_berghmans @mattwridley Hahahaha Needed a good laugh this morning.

@mattwridley Khamenei was the main reason why Iran didn't have nukes because he opposed that. The US killed him. The US is the only country to have used nukes. Medvedev: "A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads."

Yes. Nuclear weapons are especially dangerous in the hands of apocalyptic religious leaders who believe martyrdom brings heavenly rewards.

@handre No, they got the message right. Doing nothing gives them no credit. Doing something even if it fails shows empathy and effort. That wins elections because you can blame others for the problem and take credit for trying to fix it.

The 1920-21 depression was arguably more severe than 1929's initial crash - unemployment hit 19%, industrial production collapsed 32%, and wholesale prices plummeted 37%. Yet this economic catastrophe has been virtually erased from mainstream economic education because it demolishes the British pedophile John Maynard Keynes' narrative that government must intervene to save capitalism from itself. President Harding did the unthinkable by modern standards: absolutely nothing. No stimulus packages, no bailouts, no monetary expansion, no public works programs. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon even advocated letting failing businesses liquidate, arguing that inefficient capital allocation needed to be purged from the system. The Federal Reserve, still learning its role, largely stayed out of the way. The result? Complete recovery in just 18 months - one of the fastest economic recoveries in American history. Markets cleared, prices adjusted, inefficient businesses failed, and productive capital found new uses. Compare this to the 1930s when Roosevelt's alphabet soup of interventions turned a correction into a decade-long depression, or 2008 when bailouts preserved zombie banks and malinvestment. The 1920-21 episode proves that free markets self-correct rapidly when government doesn't interfere with the natural healing process. Politicians learned the wrong lesson though - they concluded that doing nothing doesn't win elections, even when it works perfectly.

@daveweisberger @RonDeSantis Elections have consequences. And the people who voted her in aren't the ones funding this either.

@RonDeSantis It is amazing how NJ voters don’t realize the state is spending their tax dollars to build systems to help the state spend even more taxpayer dollars “helping” illegal immigrants….

When Biden refused to enforce immigration law, we were told that states couldn’t enforce those laws because it was a federal function. Now, when Trump is trying to enforce federal immigration law, these same people say it’s fine for states to obstruct and sabotage the carrying out of this same federal function.

@WSJ Well Mr Huang, i gather you don't have opportunities to continue to invest the $8B that would be your tax. Too bad but maybe others do. Who will create more prosperity for more people with that? CA or entrepreneurs? So why wait. Write the check now and be done with it!

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he wasn’t worried about a potential tax on billionaires in California, breaking from a cadre of ultrawealthy residents who have spoken out against the proposal. on.wsj.com/4sujE8Q

@TonyClimate Catnip Tony? Stick to man made climate debunking

Katie Miller is wife of the White House chief of staff. Denmark is a member of NATO

@mattvanswol And how is it going to get fixed? Fraud has followed federal funded social and health programs like bees to honey. The common ingredient is these are all local issues being funded by federal money and managed by local officials whose goal is to expand it. Get the feds out!

@RARohde @MatthewWielicki Interesting to see the density of reporting stations over heavily populated areas. That means that reports on the temp changes of the planet and comparing it to temperatures going back 1000s of years heavily weighs urban areas vs unpopulated open space. Bias anywhere here?

@MatthewWielicki In 2024, this region recorded 6,165,398 temperature observations from ships & buoys. The region also had 246 active weather stations on Pacific Islands, and a further 7,398 stations in North America, Asia, & Australia. Lastly, this area is ~1/3 of the Earth's surface, not half.

How many temperature measurements are made on this half of the planet? Food for thought.

@skankhunt817 @FoxNews What fact? A company saying they think tariffs will add to their cost and plan maybe to raise prices next year? So what. Here's facts: Trump took over with inflation at 2.9%. Its now 3.0% after 9 months of tariffs. Meanwhile we are collecting over $30B/month vs $3B

@FoxNews Here is real factual data:

NEW: Karoline Leavitt clashes with CNN's Kaitlan Collins over inflation in America: "My predecessor stood up at this podium and she said, 'Inflation doesn't exist.' She said 'The border was secure.'" "People like you just took her at her word and those were two utter lies." "Everything I'm telling you is the truth backed by real, factual data and you just don't want to report on it because you want to push untrue narratives about the president."

@FoxNews One can only hope

BREAKING: Minnesota squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar under fire as new details connect her to individuals involved in massive fraud scheme.

@TonyClimate You forget that companies set their own prices and when faced with competition or higher costs they look at ways to lower those prices. So while an importer may pay a higher duty, the company may and often does, lower the price to offset this effectively paying the duty.

Tariffs are paid by the US importer at the US border. They are not paid by foreign countries. If you want to run a centrally planned economy, it might be a good idea to understand how it works.

@TonyClimate No Tony, that's not what he said. And yes his policies ARE unleashing terrific growth and improvements for all, despite the assurance that just the opposite will occur. Better stick to climate topics. This arena is not for you.

The treasury secretary is claiming that a reduction in government spending over the past two weeks is stifling an otherwise booming economy.

@ChrisMartzWX @krassenstein And that was before the urban heat effect we have now.

@krassenstein False. Records from the U.S. Army Bureau show that Tampa (Fort Brooke) hit 100° on August 23, 1848. This predates the NWS data (1890-present), which you cite, but these records are stored on NOAA's NCEI archive. 🔗ncei.noaa.gov/nerms/api/docu…

Breaking: Tampa, Florida has just hit 100 degrees for the first time in recorded history. Climate change is REAL. WAKE UP!

@TonyClimate Yet people there will accept these and rail against golf courses over the same land. Something of beauty and economic value to locals. Go figure

Windmills in Scotland are a mess now, and they will be much worse in the future when they are defunct and falling into disrepair.

@MatthewWielicki Evs might make sense in a small country like Norway. Range anxiety is not a factor like elsewhere. That doesn't make it proof for mandates elsewhere. Let the market decide. Full stop.

I promise you that once everything is taken into account... the environmental cost of these electric cars will be equal to or greater than internal combustion engines. Cheers to virtue signaling.

@ClareCraigPath The full application is available from the NEJM, and it shows that neither Pfizer and Moderna planned to offer only a single dose, even when doing their phase 1 and 2 studies. The results in phase 3 clearly showed that after the initial shot, there was NO advantage for 2.

Pfizer EUA documents from FDA show 1 in 184 had grade 3 adverse event 1 in 2000 had to drop out because of adverse event.