The big oscillation: Ocean heat crossing the equator explains global warming « Tallbloke's Talkshop

1) ‘Global warming’ was a hemispheric phenomenon caused by the transfer of ocean heat content from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere plus a reduction in cloud cover under a highly active Sun.

2) As I’ve been saying for the last four years; now that the cloud amount is increasing again, the quiet sun won’t recharge the ocean heat content as much during la Nina, and further El Ninos will deplete the OHC further. La Nina ‘recharged’ OHC while cloud  fraction was reduced, but the party is over.

3) The solar activity/cloud link is obvious, whether due to the Svensmark effect or Stephen Wilde’s latitudinal climate zone shifts. It was identified years ago by Nir Shaviv, who nailed it with his JGR paper.

The Reformation of Environmentalism – Part 2 » Climate Resistance

As argued here often, environmentalism, to the extent that it has been absorbed by the political establishment, is much more a response to the political climate than it is a response to a crisis developing in the atmosphere. The crisis is in politics, not in the skies.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Glendale Follies

One of the reasons I think that city officials like those in Glendale like to dabble in real estate and sports stadiums is what I call the “bigshot effect.”  They don’t have any capital of their own, and they don’t have the skills such that anyone else would (voluntarily) trust them to invest other people’s money, but with a poll of tax money they get to play Donald Trump and act like they are big wheels.  The Glendale city council did this for years, and when their incompetence inevitably led to things starting to fall apart, they have simply thrown more money at it to try to protect their personal prestige.