This is the ultimate bureaucratic hack. If you can't fix the engine, you tape over the check engine light.
The EPA deleting "fossil fuels" from the server logs doesn't change the atmospheric chemistry. It just increases the latency between the signal and the response. They are trying to gaslight the thermometer.
This is exactly why Junaid Khan stops waiting for the institutions. You can edit the HTML. You can't edit the wet-bulb temperature. Physics has no backspace key.
I can't parse this penultimate sentence, though: "In a sane world, we might hope that legal challenges to the administrationβs attempt to roll back the βendangerment findingβ will fail, even if the EPA scrubs its website of references to the harm done by climate change."
Why would we hope that challenges to the administration's jiggery pokery would fail? Am I just not scanning correctly? Thanks.
It seems like it'd be a no-brainer for some forward thinking Dems to start harvesting data from these archived pages with an eye to putting up countering websites. Sure, they couldn't be known as THE EPA, but some smart intern ought to be able to find a way to make this information a little more readily available to folks. Of course, I'm just a radical left-wing lunatic, so what do I know.
Why, why, why does this country worship, LITERALLY FUCKING WORSHIP, oil and coal companies? To the point where we are eagerly trading away HUMAN EXISTENCE for their benefit?
"...recent climate changes cannot be explained by natural causes alone."
Well, that only leaves the hand of God, who promised to murder us all with fire next time. Fighting climate change is religious discrimination against petro-christians!
Thanks, Dok, this is very informative and beautifully written. It does make make me want to shut down and hide until we are led by sane people, but here we are.
Funny how the EPA didnβt change the climate, they just changed the website. As if deleting the words βfossil fuelsβ is the same thing as deleting the heat wave cooking half the country. Itβs the bureaucratic version of hiding your report card under the mattress and insisting your GPA is fine because you canβt see the F anymore. The planet still reads the receipts, guys.
You can stick your head in the sand all you want but climate change is here, it's happening RIGHT NOW, and it's already causing tens of billions of dollars in damage.
Andrew Tate, the self-avowed misogynist and accused sex trafficker with a massive online following, has a powerful ally in the White House: Barron Trump.
The college-aged Trump has been building a steady bromance with the woman-beating influencer since at least 2024, the pairβs mutual friend Justin Waller told The New York Times.
Tate and his brother Tristan are under criminal investigation in several countries related to their web cam business, facing accusations of sex abuse and human trafficking. The pair allegedly trafficked more than 30 women in Romania and Britain. Andrew Tate, who has amassed a following of millions of teenage boys and young men while calling himself the βking of toxic masculinity,β also stands accused of raping and beating a minor in Romania.
But those sordid details werenβt enough to keep the young Trump at bay. Waller, who proudly described himself to the Times as the βthird [Tate] brother,β claimed that Barron had grown his relationship with Tate while nudging his fatherβs social media-based presidential campaigning efforts towards the podcasting manosphere.
As part of that, Waller was invited to a dinner Barron hosted at Mar-a-Lago in the spring of 2024. The two called βeach other degenerate names,β discussed Trumpβs potential running mates, and mutually agreed to join another guestβs podcast together, reported the Times.
Waller commented to the publication that the teenager was βnot a bad ally to haveβletβs be frank.β
In the months since, Waller said heβs tried to fill a βbig brotherβ role for Barron (ignoring the fact that the 19-year-old already has two of those), claiming to have offered dating advice and personal connections to the freshman, including Tate himself.
βHe and Barron spoke to Andrew over Zoom last year, Mr. Waller said, while the teenager was having a suit fitted by Mr. Wallerβs tailor,β reported the Times. βAlthough they discussed the Romanian case, Barron did not say anything about helping the Tates, Mr. Waller said. They also talked about supporting Mr. Trumpβs presidential campaign on their online platforms.β
In the wake of the assassination attempt on Trumpβs life, Tate commented to reporters that he was βvery close to the Trump family.β
Post-election, the White House assisted Tate, presumably due to his expanding influence over the presidentβs youngest child. Paul Ingrassia, the Tate brothersβ former lawyer-turned-DHS liaison, intervened in the process of a federal investigation on the Tatesβ behalf, claiming that the order to do so had come directly from the White House.
Barron can have anything he wants. He feels entitled. How about some heroin, freaky Barry? How about some sweet sex trafficking? The world is your erster.
This is the ultimate bureaucratic hack. If you can't fix the engine, you tape over the check engine light.
The EPA deleting "fossil fuels" from the server logs doesn't change the atmospheric chemistry. It just increases the latency between the signal and the response. They are trying to gaslight the thermometer.
This is exactly why Junaid Khan stops waiting for the institutions. You can edit the HTML. You can't edit the wet-bulb temperature. Physics has no backspace key.
Episode 1 is live.
https://silentwitnessin.substack.com/p/file-001-the-thermodynamic-bluff?r=6r3orq
Great piece! Utterly infuriating!
I can't parse this penultimate sentence, though: "In a sane world, we might hope that legal challenges to the administrationβs attempt to roll back the βendangerment findingβ will fail, even if the EPA scrubs its website of references to the harm done by climate change."
Why would we hope that challenges to the administration's jiggery pokery would fail? Am I just not scanning correctly? Thanks.
It seems like it'd be a no-brainer for some forward thinking Dems to start harvesting data from these archived pages with an eye to putting up countering websites. Sure, they couldn't be known as THE EPA, but some smart intern ought to be able to find a way to make this information a little more readily available to folks. Of course, I'm just a radical left-wing lunatic, so what do I know.
Why, why, why does this country worship, LITERALLY FUCKING WORSHIP, oil and coal companies? To the point where we are eagerly trading away HUMAN EXISTENCE for their benefit?
$$$
Ta, Dok. I finished reading Here Comes the Sun. Thanks for the recommendation.
"...recent climate changes cannot be explained by natural causes alone."
Well, that only leaves the hand of God, who promised to murder us all with fire next time. Fighting climate change is religious discrimination against petro-christians!
This is why I love Wonkette: "If only the current members of the Supreme Court gave two shits about reality."
Trump will get right on that with βif we donβt test, there wonβt be any casesβ approach to fixing inconvenient truths.
Thanks, Dok, this is very informative and beautifully written. It does make make me want to shut down and hide until we are led by sane people, but here we are.
Funny how the EPA didnβt change the climate, they just changed the website. As if deleting the words βfossil fuelsβ is the same thing as deleting the heat wave cooking half the country. Itβs the bureaucratic version of hiding your report card under the mattress and insisting your GPA is fine because you canβt see the F anymore. The planet still reads the receipts, guys.
If you donβt know why you are dying, then thereβs nobody to blame for not helping.
At least NASA is still going strong!
- https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/
Elon will fix that.
You can stick your head in the sand all you want but climate change is here, it's happening RIGHT NOW, and it's already causing tens of billions of dollars in damage.
O/T: Dang! Somebody really loves Star Wars!:
https://apnews.com/article/star-wars-movie-poster-painting-auction-sale-74eb3324163bb2c9d6a036c3c2e94f68?
If I had that kind of pin money.... If it's an emotional reason I'm good with it.
Hey gang! Guess who Barron Trump is a fan of?
Barron Trumpβs Creepy Ties to Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate Exposed
Donald Trumpβs youngest son is a big fan of the podcaster and often hangs out with Tateβs close associate.
https://newrepublic.com/post/204283/barron-trump-ties-sex-trafficker-andrew-tate?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch
Andrew Tate, the self-avowed misogynist and accused sex trafficker with a massive online following, has a powerful ally in the White House: Barron Trump.
The college-aged Trump has been building a steady bromance with the woman-beating influencer since at least 2024, the pairβs mutual friend Justin Waller told The New York Times.
Tate and his brother Tristan are under criminal investigation in several countries related to their web cam business, facing accusations of sex abuse and human trafficking. The pair allegedly trafficked more than 30 women in Romania and Britain. Andrew Tate, who has amassed a following of millions of teenage boys and young men while calling himself the βking of toxic masculinity,β also stands accused of raping and beating a minor in Romania.
But those sordid details werenβt enough to keep the young Trump at bay. Waller, who proudly described himself to the Times as the βthird [Tate] brother,β claimed that Barron had grown his relationship with Tate while nudging his fatherβs social media-based presidential campaigning efforts towards the podcasting manosphere.
As part of that, Waller was invited to a dinner Barron hosted at Mar-a-Lago in the spring of 2024. The two called βeach other degenerate names,β discussed Trumpβs potential running mates, and mutually agreed to join another guestβs podcast together, reported the Times.
Waller commented to the publication that the teenager was βnot a bad ally to haveβletβs be frank.β
In the months since, Waller said heβs tried to fill a βbig brotherβ role for Barron (ignoring the fact that the 19-year-old already has two of those), claiming to have offered dating advice and personal connections to the freshman, including Tate himself.
βHe and Barron spoke to Andrew over Zoom last year, Mr. Waller said, while the teenager was having a suit fitted by Mr. Wallerβs tailor,β reported the Times. βAlthough they discussed the Romanian case, Barron did not say anything about helping the Tates, Mr. Waller said. They also talked about supporting Mr. Trumpβs presidential campaign on their online platforms.β
In the wake of the assassination attempt on Trumpβs life, Tate commented to reporters that he was βvery close to the Trump family.β
Post-election, the White House assisted Tate, presumably due to his expanding influence over the presidentβs youngest child. Paul Ingrassia, the Tate brothersβ former lawyer-turned-DHS liaison, intervened in the process of a federal investigation on the Tatesβ behalf, claiming that the order to do so had come directly from the White House.
Barron can have anything he wants. He feels entitled. How about some heroin, freaky Barry? How about some sweet sex trafficking? The world is your erster.
I am suddenly clairvoyant.
Itβs only a question of how many sexual assaults will be covered up.
Suggestion: changing "will be" to "have been" might be more accurate
π³ Indeed. Let's just assume, MANY.
That's not gonna help Barr-Barr with the ladies. Not the interesting, and naughty, ones at least.
Like father, like son. Yep, both of them are weirdo, creepy pervs.
we all of us everywonk know what time it is nao, right?
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smoking lamp to be lit hooraaaaay! :]
The ONION has me in stitches again!
Green Giant Offering Program Where Gun Owners Can Trade In Firearms For Green Beans
PARSIPPANY, NJβClaiming that the recent spate of mass shootings gave them no choice but to stand up and try to make a difference, vegetable purveyor Green Giant launched a new program Friday where gun owners can trade in their firearms in exchange for green beans. βThese kinds of weapons have no place on the street or in our homes, which is why Green Giant is stepping up and offering 25 pounds of green beans for any semi-automatic weapon turned over to us,β said spokesperson Gina Sorpino, adding that a new ad campaign running in every major market promised gun owners who turned in multiple weapons could receive premium products like their Italian herb vegetable medley and fire-roasted sautΓ©ed zucchini. βWe donβt want to force people to give up their guns, and we think our flavorful, healthy green beans are just the incentive people need. You can snack on them, put them in a casserole, even grill them. And unlike guns, the fatalities caused by green beans are almost non-existent. We hope gun owners will join Green Giant in building a safer world for our children.β
At press time, Green Giant had discontinued the program after receiving over 5 million death threats.
https://theonion.com/green-giant-offering-program-where-gun-owners-can-trade-1838097221/
They should have gone with whirled peas.