James William Owens

@JrmeBrwnCt @GrahamLKeegan The Ceppi et al paper has been published (26 Mar 2026) doi.org/10.5194/acp-26… There's a related Carbon Brief article on the paper carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how…

@GrahamLKeegan This is a feedback, not a cause. egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025…

“In the period 1982-2019 we have observed a decrease in cloud cover from 64 % to 61%. This means that the Earth has received significantly more solar radiation. This may well be the main explanation for the observed temperature increase of about 0.7C during this period.” Prof Ole Humlum University of Oslo

@ryankatzrosene Link: doi.org/10.5194/acp-26…

New analysis of Hunga Tonga… turns out the cooling effects of its SO2 emissions were even more pronounced than originally thought… this more than counteracted the warming of the eruption’s large water vapour effects: “Our results show a good model agreement over the climatic outcomes of the eruption, overall indicating a significant negative radiative forcing from the Hunga eruption.”

@IuliiaMendel Russia's (Putin's) Ukraine invasion seems have lasted more than the expected 10 days for complete victory

Ukraine didn't just slide into self-victimization — Zelenskyy drove it straight there with both hands on the wheel. At some point this war became less about beating Russia and more about milking the West for cash while dodging corruption scandals. Every time one of his cronies gets caught with their hand in the till, out comes the tired, sad-eyed president routine: 'I'm just trying to hold things together.' His office, his experts, his TV mouthpieces all push the same script while he plays the exhausted martyr on camera. Look, people love victims — it's an old con. But real leadership isn't about convincing the world you're helpless. An American friend once told me: the moment you admit you're a victim, you've already lost. Ukraine is a sovereign nation under Russian aggression, not a victim. Acting like one won't win the war — it just buys time and buries the scandals. How long are we supposed to fall for this act?

Greenland ice sheet status - surface melt going into summer - historical rank on left Note comments about possible seesaw with Europe due to weather patterns

@GertEwen Noted for another hysteric a few minutes ago x.com/Willard1951/st…

Guten Morgen aus Moskau! Die Ukraine hat den Reaktor des AKW Saporoschschje erneut angegriffen. Durch Auslösen einer nuklearen Katastrophe will die Ukraine die Demokratie und westliche Werte schützen. Sie erhält dabei von den Westeuropäern volle Unterstützung.

@RealBababanaras The PSG victory celebration got out of hand Saturday night They still had the parade and official celebration there today So stop the nonsense

The Eiffel Tower is burning Paris is burning Thousands of Mohammads are on street They are turning France in their native place like Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Sudan.. They are shouting-Allah-hu-Akbar Detect them. Detain them. Deport them.

@Bundeskanz50246 None of the 6 reactor units at Zaporizhzhia are currently critical. All units are shutdown, so there are no fission chain reactions. And the drone hit a turbine building, causing no internal damage. And it's unclear if the drone was Russian or Ukrainian. So take a breath.

Der größenwahnsinnige, durchgeknallte Kokser aus Kiew und sein Anhang haben tatsächlich letzte Nacht das größte AKW Europas in Saporischschja mit einer glasfasergesteuerten FPV Drohne angegriffen, und damit ein Loch in die Turbinenhalle gerissen. Dieser Wahnsinnige muss endlich gestoppt werden!

@ItsTheAtmospher @EIKE_KLIMA For the lower troposphere, there are 3 radiosonde, 3 satellite, and 3 reanalysis data sets Table from AMS State of the Climate summarizing their trends in °C/decade, including a median value in the last row

an astonishingly old graph comparing flawed satellite data (probably UAH) up to 2012-2013 against many different runs of the CMIP5 model we're currently running CMIP7 and the UAH data set is always a mess when compared to RSS the models are models, what if scenarios current observations (ground stations & RSS) HT @25_cycle

Trump with a new executive order this week has rescinded executive orders by Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter in the 1970s restricting off-road vehicles on federal lands nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/05/trump-…

@LisaMarOz @RodneyCorbine @gazcon Yes, this is one of the Liz Ainsworth reviews

@RodneyCorbine @Willard1951 @gazcon I did. Want more? royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/3…

Some basic scientific facts for you. CO2 is 0.04% of our atmosphere. Mankind's entire CO2 emissions are just 3% of that (0.0012%). The UK's entire CO2 emissions are just 1% of that (0.0000012%). CO2 is harmless plant food, not the planet's climate control knob.

@25_cycle @Nino_Merica Whoa! I'd forgotten just how dire Government had major equity stake in GM Chrysler was merged with Fiat (now Stellantis after 2021 merger with Peugeot) and there was a modest equity stake

@Nino_Merica 690,000 out of a total fleet of 134,879,600 in 2009 Basically a rounding error. Not a very bright post.

In 2009, the government took 690,000 perfectly good cars and destroyed them on purpose. Not recycled. Not resold. Wrecked beyond repair. Dealers were forced to pour sodium silicate straight into the engines so they’d seize up and never run again. Cars that a single mom could have bought for $3,000 got turned into scrap metal because Washington decided they knew better. They called it Cash for Clunkers. $3 billion of your money. Sold to you as saving the planet and helping the economy. What it actually did was wipe out the bottom of the used car market overnight. That reliable $3,000 Honda Civic? Gone. Now it’s $7,000 if you can even find one. The working people this program was supposed to help got priced out of owning a car at all. Single moms. College kids. Guys working minimum wage trying to get to their shift. The exact people politicians pretend to care about in every campaign ad. Used car prices jumped 30% between 2009 and 2014. That’s not an accident. That’s what happens when the government destroys half a million vehicles and then acts surprised when the price goes up. And the environmental win they bragged about? The old cars got around 15 to 17 MPG. The new ones got 24 to 25. You wiped out 690,000 cars to bump the average up 8 miles per gallon. That’s not saving the planet. That’s central planning with a green bumper sticker. But here’s the part nobody talks about. Cash for Clunkers is the reason your car payment is what it is today. It normalized 84-month loans. Seven years of payments on something that starts losing value the second you drive it off the lot. Turned cars into anchors chained to working people’s paychecks. Bureaucrats popped champagne because dealer lots cleared out. Meanwhile a whole generation got locked out of affordable transportation and locked into debt they’re still paying on. 🇺🇸 Every time the government says they’re here to help, check your wallet before they leave.

@CWhisperer777 All COVID spacing, almost no crowds, masking, hand washing, work from home, school closings, etc basically prevented flu transmission and cases nose dived that year

@25_cycle @Nino_Merica Yep. Cash for Clunkers US auto industry was in dire straits GM & Chrysler facing possible bankruptcy Got major loans (which they repaid) And other efforts like this to help auto sales About 1 million good paying jobs were on the line

@BernhardGeyer I replied to another post of this adding TSI and noting cycle 25 should be added x.com/Willard1951/st… @IBergwiesel

Da macht jemand den #Varenholt. Wird genau so scheitern wie sie Vorhersagen für 2000, 2010 und 2020

@25_cycle @BruceWStanley Actually, patents were filed on the original PCR test Touted in the patents as possible diagnostic tool to identify viral and bacterial infections

@BruceWStanley Let's just think logically for a moment (if possible); if the inventor said it wasn't diagnostic, why would you quote someone other than that person, and why would you use a tweet rather than a published first party source? Oh well, antivaxxers have reached a new low in idiocy.

Didn't the inventor of the PCR test claim that it was "not a diagnostic tool"? Oh well, clearly facts no longer matter in our Brave New World.

@JimBowersclimb @climacritic Check her logic a bit Artifacts left either on ground (but available to next person along the trek) or covered in snow and lost Now it's warm enough for the snow to melt and to disappear So likely the warmest May in a good long while!

@climacritic And those artifacts lost on the ice then covered by snow

Lo scioglimento delle lastre di ghiaccio in Norvegia ha rivelato reperti umani incastrati nelle rocce sotto il ghiaccio. Il che significa che all'epoca dell'Età del Ferro (800-450 a.C.) faceva abbastanza caldo da impedire la formazione del ghiaccio. Era più caldo di oggi, e questo è stato dimostrato dalla datazione al carbonio degli stessi reperti trovati. Altro che maggio più caldo di sempre!

@ClimateRealists @wattsupwiththat Best check the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) and extend the time line towards the current day No real change (or decline) in TSI Adding cycle 25 to the sunspot record shows that it hasn't been quiet @25_cycle

Kenneth Richard: A Grand Solar Minimum Has Arrived…Global Cooling Of At Least 1°C Is Expected by The 2030s, 2040s. Century-scale patterns of solar activity suggest the onset of the next Little Ice Age cooling period is here. wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/30/a-g… via @wattsupwiththat

@GrahamLKeegan We're talking surface temps where we live Not the satellite estimates for the troposphere Reason is again ENSO Trend wobble due to ENSO at the surface is significantly magnified in the troposphere NOAA illustrates the surface wobble ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitor…

@Willard1951 “There hasn't nearly been a fall of that magnitude” So, UAH has it wrong?

Your silly graph doesn’t show the 0.5C fall in temp over last couple of years. Why not? Source: UAH satellite data

@WestsydeServer @mpc_xetts @nurse_katt Daughter is nurse practitioner in Level 1 ICU - she and her coworkers went through it - such as have the standby ECMO ready if the one in use and keeping someone alive went down

@Willard1951 @mpc_xetts @nurse_katt How do you that from what what said

I worked icu all through the pLandemic. I did not get the vaccine nor did anyone in my family...we knew...and this is what I warned folks about.