Arctic Melting | Musings from the Chiefio

First off, it has had long periods without ice. Times with forests and even enough to make coal up there. Then, in the Holocene Optimum, it was a few degrees C warmer than now. That was just a few thousand years ago. Yup, Polar Bears did fine…

In fact, what Milankovich figured out was that “persistent ice” at the North Pole is THE signature event that puts us into a new Glacial cycle. We only exit from the Ice Age Glacial during that brief period of time when the North Pole is pointed right at the sun (enough) during the right time of year during the right circularity of the orbit. ( Axial tilt or obliquity, precession, eccentricity). For a brief period of time (about 12,000 years) we exit from the grip of the Ice Age Glacial and have an interglacial. We’ve been at it for somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 years now…

At this point in the orbital mechanics cycle, to be cheering for multi-year ice at the pole is like the dog trying to sink his teeth into a tire on a car doing 30 mph down the street. Just pray he doesn’t get what he wants… (whop whop whop…)

This appalling decline in productivity | Adam Smith Institute

[Tim Worstall] Green energy will produce more jobs for the same amount of power. We are told this is a good thing.

Yet greater jobs intensity is exactly the same thing as falling labour productivity. If it takes 10 people to make a unit of electricity one way and 20 people another then the productivity of labour in producing electricity in the second method is half that in the first.
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They really are campaigning that we must all work harder in order to have less.

This is neither happenstance nor coincidence: this is enemy action.

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So Now I hear an after the fact explanation for it. Why not before?