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New interview with Nate Hagens.
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/seeing-the-big-picture-nate-hagens
The latest limerick from BenjaminTheDonkey.
http://benjaminthedonkey-limericksofdoom.blogspot.com/2021/12/status-update-dont-know-how-much-longer.html
Rob your comment on diesel is bang on. I recently talked to a guy with an older Cummins diesel pickup. He drove from Vancouver Island towing a 29 foot trailer and 2 quads in the back on a hunting trip. He tracked his mileage -19 mpg. I had a more recent Ford F250 Company truck that uses the diesel additive, running empty my average mileage was 12-13 mpg.
Growing up we had a 1973 Toyota Corolla 1.6 carburated motor averaged about 32 mpg highway. I currently have a Toyota Matrix 1.8 average 34 mpg highway. The reason for the lack of efficiency gains is the new car is heavier and has a more powerful engine.
The manufacturing of a 1973 Corolla would also have a much lower carbon and energy footprint.
With future supply chain shortages older technology vehicles may be worth more.
Figuring out a way to eat cars might prolong the dominance of our hyper mobile species.
Only in Blondie songs …
And then you’re in the man from mars.
You go out at night eating cars.
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too.
Mercurys and Subaru.
And you don’t stop.
You keep on eating cars.
Then when there’s no more cars you go out at night
And eat up bars where the people meet.
Face to face.
Dance cheek to cheek.
Yep. If you really want to be green you should own an old beater and drive it as little as possible.
Came across this headline yesterday explaining the aetiology of the AZ blood clots.
New information may explain why the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine caused blood clots
Understanding the trigger for this rare condition may help prevent future cases.
BY HANNAH SEO | PUBLISHED DEC 2, 2021
Excerpt:
“AstraZeneca’s vaccine adenovirus sometimes binds to a protein in the blood named “platelet factor 4.” That binding can trigger a reaction in which immune cells start to attack the protein, causing clotting, or what clinicians call vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT).”
https://www.popsci.com/science/potential-causes-astrazeneca-vaccine-blood-clots/
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abl8213
Nice plausible explanation for the extra special insanity associated with covid.
In summary, too many rats in a cage without friends and declining resources causes irrational behavior.
This makes me crazy.
On top of all the other issues, the morons don’t even know how to properly inject it.
There is also a skill to injecting properly – different methods for types of injections, e.g.: https://www.verywellhealth.com/z-track-method-of-injection-4587589
Apparently this isn’t done in New Zealand because it’s too difficult to train all the vaccinators.
If they do not have the skills and knowledge to administer it properly they should not administer it.
Many people sort of “calling the top” these days…
Gail’s newest article
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/12/03/is-it-possible-that-the-world-is-approaching-end-times/
Even the often snoozeable guys on the eurodollar front noted an inversion, with historical precedents:
Some of the most sober voices I know in the last few weeks are raising alarm.
At this time of year I always become hopeful collapse won’t come until spring. I do so hate being cold.
I better increase my alcohol stash.
Gail discusses our genetic tendency to deny unpleasant realities, and advises us to pray instead of buying an extra bag of rice.
I like Gail but she kinda lost me when she invoked Revelations and the Antichrist.
h/t Steve Ludlum
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-03/diesel-crisis-adblue-shortage-supply-china/100673482
This is seriously worrying
Shaking head. We took a simple and reliable diesel engine that produces and delivers all of our essentials, added significant electronic and mechanical cost and complexity, and made it dependent on natural gas (transformed by a complex factory into DEF) to reduce (non-CO2) emissions which made climate change worse in the short term by removing soot from the atmosphere.
We are intelligent but unwise fire apes that deny reality.
A civilization founded upon detonations and explosions and greed is a short-lived civilization indeed. Even a fool such as I can acknowledge and lament that indisputable fact. Hunker down friends.
If JFK is going to come back from the dead he better hurry up and not keep people waiting.
Magic Dirt. Thank you Lord, I now have an excuse for not washing the floor. Building my immunity up.
So, I keep Arctic News on my bookmarks and occasionally look to see what “Sam” has to say. http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/
Needless to say the blog was very depressing. Kinda like Paul Beckwith and McPherson. Don’t know what to say. Are they all looking at the most pessimistic data and extrapolating from that? I realize that the IPCC doesn’t consider quite a few positive feedback loops and is really more a consensus on what the worst parties will sign off on. I also realize that it might not be so bad as NTHE in 2022. I know that McPherson has been saying NTHE in 6 months for years now. But, Sam seems to be saying a good chance for 3 degrees C by the end of next year and that is probably NTHE. Is this another area of “science” where there is no reasoned, rational, best guess?
Maybe I should start drinking again??
AJ
If I recall Sam was unmasked a few years ago as a credible female climate scientist who wishes to remain anonymous. I definitely trust her more than McPherson who seems more interested in building a cult rather than discovering the truth. I don’t have much time for Beckwith who rarely (never?) mentions the larger overshoot issues and the need for population reduction, and who has no problem flying around to attend climate conferences.
I don’t have an opinion about a 3 C rise next year but it does seem like the climate has shifted a gear given that this year had the hottest summer and the wettest November I can remember.
I quit drinking a long time ago but I have a nice cache waiting for me when it becomes clear the end is near. 🙂
Any excuse for a party eh? Join Rob at the Wasteland Bar for a pint of Doomsy Bitter. Cocktails at 4:00 pm. Black tie required. Saving the Champs for the very last so we can make a proper toast to the old lady.
After reading your reply I googled Sam Carana. Opinion is all over as to who this is. Some think it’s McPherson, others Beckwith with a few thinking it’s multiple people (similar to Zero Hedge). The Sam person has never talked to anyone as far as the web knows (doesn’t do interviews or podcasts). But Arctic News does seem to have a serious NTHE bent. Maybe they are right/wrong.
AJ
I’m pretty sure it’s not McPherson or Beckwith. I remember that the source and evidence they presented was credible.
BC newspaper reporting on climate change and the destruction to our infrastructure this year.
https://www.straight.com/news/climate-stability-becomes-a-relic-of-past-in-bc-due-to-loss-of-hydrologic-stationarity
More evidence of the validity of Varki’s MORT theory.
Today el gato malo rants about closed mindedness to taboo topics, except human overshoot, which apparently is totally ok to deny.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/taking-away-words-is-taking-away
Tim Garrett gave a very good talk today once again showing that economists are idiots and their discipline is a disgrace that should be banned from universities.