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New paper shows vastly increased CO2 only adds 0.1C to temperature
https://notrickszone.com/2026/07/12/experimental-lab-research-the-climate-sensitivity-to-a-400-fold-increase-in-co2-is-0-1c/
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Did you read the original paper? It sets up an experiment in a heated tube, uses an artificial gas to simulate the atmosphere, does not include any other artefacts like clouds, and comes to the unsurprising conclusion that in that experiment CO2 is not a major factor
Filed under cognitive bias
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Peter remind me again how Tyndall came to the conclusion that CO2 density increased global temps.?
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You have described the way in which the co2 theory also came about.
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Will it become impossible to differentiate between AI communications/articles/photos and the real thing?
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/07/14/ai-scams-are-becoming-a-big-problem/
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The Canadian truckers who led the Anti Covid Freedom convoy are still being hounded. They now face many years in jail
https://thepostmillennial.com/ontario-government-seeking-prison-sentences-for-freedom-convoy-organizers-chris-barber-and-tamara-lich#google_vignette
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I don’t understand what they were convicted of. Where was the criminality?
Australian courts sometimes defer to Canadian court decisions so this is a serious matter.
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FWIW
“CAPITALISM, THE UNKNOWN IDEAL: Capitalism Gets a Bum Rap.”
“Capitalism has been getting a bad rap. According to one 2025 Gallup poll, only 54% of Americans have a positive view of capitalism. More Democrats think highly of socialism than capitalism. Another survey, from 2019, found that younger Americans were the least likely to have positive feelings about capitalism.
Why is this happening? One underrated factor may be that many Americans don’t have a strictly economic definition of capitalism. When I hear “capitalism,” I think of an economic system where goods are distributed by markets rather than governments. That, I’ve now realized when talking about economics online and in person, is an unusual perspective.
As Matthew Yglesias argued recently, when many people say “capitalism,” they mean “the status quo,” even if that status quo involves a lot of problems caused not by free markets, but by government regulation and cronyist intervention. The housing market, he notes, is the most obvious example of this: “Younger people’s lived experience of ‘capitalism’ is of central planning and massive shortages of the single most important item they consume.”
The result is that anything that seems to be going wrong in American life, no matter how large or small, no matter how unrelated to free markets, will pretty reliably be blamed on capitalism.”
https://wsjfreeexpression.substack.com/p/capitalism-gets-a-bum-rap
“Which brings me to a vintage refrigerator:”
More at
https://instapundit.com/809936/#disqus_thread
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From the comments at your second link:
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Here is an excellent video discussing conflicts between quantum mechanics and specisl relativity.
https://youtu.be/NIk_0AW5hFU
I asked Grok to write a summary:
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Thought experiment.
What if the US had one Phalanx CIWS (close-in weapon system) at Pearl Harbor in 1941?
(The CIWS is a modern defensive weapon that wasn’t deployed until 1980.)
https://youtu.be/1pf06jPHPM4
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Some US cities (local councils) are putting AI cameras on garbage trucks to examine each house they visit for code violations like having grass which is too long.
Very disturbing and Orwellian.
No doubt it will come to Australia as all the bad ideas do.
https://youtu.be/0gq55XOTfS0
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