Amazing what can be learned by reading. In 2021 John Robson did a series of posts on his Climate Discussion Nexus blog analyzing the max temps from several dozen canadian towns titled “1920 or 2020”.
Of course, in all cases you can’t guess which trace is which because of course there is no rise in max temps.
Of course, there is a rise in minimum/night time temps but only the truly climate/insane could be bothered by a slightly warmer evening, or a canadian winter day that is -30 instead of -32c.
The entirety of “Canada’s north warming 4x faster than the globe”.
Decision based evidence making, once again.
Nonsense on top of BS, climate alarmism.
But I repeat myself.
Great year in 2023, massive numbers of narrative balloons to puncture in 2024.
The decision only applied to naturalization since that law specified “free white persons” as being eligible. Ozawa argued that his skin was whiter than other ‘white persons’ but the court (unanimously) decided that white person referred strictly to members of the Caucasian race. He also claimed to be descended from Ainu people (indigenous to Hokkaido in Japan). An editorial in the Sacramento Bee argued for a constitutional amendment to limit birth right citizenship only to children of citizens who meet the naturalization test, but thankfully this never happened.
It's neat that the items are all technical optimist ("We can have electricity, cars, natural gas & fly over the water!") Even the downers (lots of fire deaths relative to our era) were just a product of the times.
I fear that the people looking back at us from 2123 will be thinking "Why did they give up on electricity, nuclear power, natural gas, cars & flying over the water? The world wasn't really on fire."
Just 10 short years after the 16th amendment, the federal income tax that was promised to be levied at a non significant rate had risen to 65%. Not many wealthy paid that rate but it sure bought votes and help usher in the tax profession. I always told my clients, my job was just to total up and minimize the pillage.
In the late 1940s my pregnant mother had to get up in the middle of the night to stoke the coal burning furnace because my father was out of town traveling for his job. We have come a long way from those days thankfully! However, there are still places in the world that would be grateful for coal heat, because they still use wood or dung.
There used to be a phrase, "Now you're cookin' with gas!" which meant you finally had your act together and were sailing through life in clean, clever, efficient style. Anyone who ever had to haul the ashes out of a coal-or wood-burning stove understood immediately. Today, our befuddled government is trying to ban gas stoves and appliances out of a hysterical fear of CO2 emissions. Change is not always progress.
In 1923, the cities were delighted to welcome cars onto the streets because automobiles solved one of the nastiest pollution problems they faced; the tons and tons of horse manure dropped on the streets every day by horse-drawn wagons and carriages. At the turn of the 20th century, New York City had manure piles 60 feet high and blocks long in places, with all the consequences of swarming flies, diseases, and smell. People who hyperventilate today about the CO2 emitted by gasoline cars have never had to clean the streets after 100,000 horses.
I assume that the adjustment of fire losses to present day is based on a dollar inflation index, but it would also be interesting to compare as a percent of GDP.
This really is the key point, isn't it. Looking at the world 50 or 100 years from now, and thinking that we today have the information that we need to fully understand what that world will look like, is just silly. My grandfather farmed with horses and lived through the Depression; my kids are commuting home for Christmas from around the world. That's about 100 years of change, with no signs of it slowing up now.
Amazing what can be learned by reading. In 2021 John Robson did a series of posts on his Climate Discussion Nexus blog analyzing the max temps from several dozen canadian towns titled “1920 or 2020”.
Of course, in all cases you can’t guess which trace is which because of course there is no rise in max temps.
Of course, there is a rise in minimum/night time temps but only the truly climate/insane could be bothered by a slightly warmer evening, or a canadian winter day that is -30 instead of -32c.
The entirety of “Canada’s north warming 4x faster than the globe”.
Decision based evidence making, once again.
Nonsense on top of BS, climate alarmism.
But I repeat myself.
Great year in 2023, massive numbers of narrative balloons to puncture in 2024.
Rest up, all the best Roger.
We already know about 2133 from Star Trek. Just imagine: they had these amazing handheld voice communication devices called “transponders.”
I’m waiting for the “enhanced” holodeck.
"The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people of Japanese ancestry were ineligible to become U.S. citizens on account of race."
Never heard that before. This includes children born in the USA of Japanese immigrant parents? What a travesty.
The decision only applied to naturalization since that law specified “free white persons” as being eligible. Ozawa argued that his skin was whiter than other ‘white persons’ but the court (unanimously) decided that white person referred strictly to members of the Caucasian race. He also claimed to be descended from Ainu people (indigenous to Hokkaido in Japan). An editorial in the Sacramento Bee argued for a constitutional amendment to limit birth right citizenship only to children of citizens who meet the naturalization test, but thankfully this never happened.
https://www.americanheritage.com/1922-seventy-five-years-ago-3
It's neat that the items are all technical optimist ("We can have electricity, cars, natural gas & fly over the water!") Even the downers (lots of fire deaths relative to our era) were just a product of the times.
I fear that the people looking back at us from 2123 will be thinking "Why did they give up on electricity, nuclear power, natural gas, cars & flying over the water? The world wasn't really on fire."
Just 10 short years after the 16th amendment, the federal income tax that was promised to be levied at a non significant rate had risen to 65%. Not many wealthy paid that rate but it sure bought votes and help usher in the tax profession. I always told my clients, my job was just to total up and minimize the pillage.
In the late 1940s my pregnant mother had to get up in the middle of the night to stoke the coal burning furnace because my father was out of town traveling for his job. We have come a long way from those days thankfully! However, there are still places in the world that would be grateful for coal heat, because they still use wood or dung.
There used to be a phrase, "Now you're cookin' with gas!" which meant you finally had your act together and were sailing through life in clean, clever, efficient style. Anyone who ever had to haul the ashes out of a coal-or wood-burning stove understood immediately. Today, our befuddled government is trying to ban gas stoves and appliances out of a hysterical fear of CO2 emissions. Change is not always progress.
In 1923, the cities were delighted to welcome cars onto the streets because automobiles solved one of the nastiest pollution problems they faced; the tons and tons of horse manure dropped on the streets every day by horse-drawn wagons and carriages. At the turn of the 20th century, New York City had manure piles 60 feet high and blocks long in places, with all the consequences of swarming flies, diseases, and smell. People who hyperventilate today about the CO2 emitted by gasoline cars have never had to clean the streets after 100,000 horses.
It’ll be a while before we get net-zero manure from the climate movement.
Considering it’s pegged at 100% now, we will never get there.
I assume that the adjustment of fire losses to present day is based on a dollar inflation index, but it would also be interesting to compare as a percent of GDP.
Dropped like a stone, such graphs are all over the internet
Same for tornados, hurricanes, etc.
This really is the key point, isn't it. Looking at the world 50 or 100 years from now, and thinking that we today have the information that we need to fully understand what that world will look like, is just silly. My grandfather farmed with horses and lived through the Depression; my kids are commuting home for Christmas from around the world. That's about 100 years of change, with no signs of it slowing up now.
Yes, exactly. But this blog and most of Substack is here BECAUSE of those who wish to bring that to a stop.