Some History, Including About Cyclones

#Global Warming #Science

When it comes to extreme weather, cyclones are top of my list.   The most extreme cyclone to hit Queensland, Tropical Cyclone Mahina, was arguably the world’s most intense with a central pressure recorded at 880 hectopascals, a 12-metre storm surge, and 300 kilometre per hour winds.…

Jacques Bopp

Climate Misinformation from the United Nations

#Global Warming #Science

Lapses of scientific integrity in climate science have become normalized. I no longer expect the community to care about obvious and egregious problems in climate science, even when documented in the peer reviewed literature.…

Jacques Bopp

Putins Ukraine-Feldzug: Es geht auch um Bodenschätze

#Ukraine #Trump #Russia

In seinem Ukraine-Feldzug geht es Putin um Macht und Ideologie, aber auch um die überreichen Bodenschätze. Erst seit Donald Trump die Welt nach wertvollen Rohstoffvorkommen durchscannt, wird vollends klar, dass es auch Russland um deren reichhaltige Bodenschätze zu tun ist.…

Jacques Bopp

Niall Ferguson: J.D. Vance’s Fighting Words—Against Me and Ukraine

#U.S.A. #Trump

It is not every day I am accused by the vice president of the United States of purveying “moralistic garbage” and “historical illiteracy,” and of being a “globalist.” But those were the charges leveled against me by J.D. Vance this morning.…

Jacques Bopp

Trump’s Constitutional Cleanup

#Trump #U.S.A. #Politics

Franklin D. Roosevelt fundamentally redefined the purpose of the federal government, setting off an era of ever-expanding Washington scope and reach. Nearly a century later, Donald Trump’s White House is taking it on itself to challenge the legitimacy of some foundations of that expansion.…

Jacques Bopp

Die Gewalt des Kremls: Russland hat die Ukraine schon immer unterdrückt

#Ukraine #Russia #Economy

Die Ukraine gehöre zu Russland: Das ist Wladimir Putins Mantra. Er werde davon nicht abrücken, ist der US-Historiker Eugene Finkel überzeugt.…

Jacques Bopp

USAID staff will be put on leave starting on Friday

#U.S.A. #Trump

USAID turns out to be lining coffers for Dems who are between jobs, kind of like the MyPillow of the left.…

Jacques Bopp

Shut Down the Department of Education

#U.S.A. #Trump #Education

Since its creation in 1979, the Department of Education has sent well more than $1 trillion to schools with the express purpose of closing the gaps between the highest and lowest performers. Today, those gaps are as wide as they have ever been, and by many measures, even wider.…

Jacques Bopp

Climate Change Did Not Cause the L.A. Fires

#Global Warming

While climate might be playing a minor role, by far the greatest factor affecting how much damage results from a fire is the fuel available to it. Have you cleared the brush and other vegetation or not? Also, there’s the infrastructure that you’ve built.…

Jacques Bopp