Fish sorry for pushing hybrids

 

I'm sorry for saying that this is the only thing that makes sense in terms of physics, and that my two hybrids are great.

Ontario is now pushing hydrogen, and that should be a BOOM!  I'm sure Carney doesn't have more physics on the election platform.

The only thing that will work for cars in the future is a hybrid with supercapacitors, and a methanol fuel cell, or micro-engine.  The energy will still go down pipelines, with a methanol natgas slurry.

And we could ask how the electrons are working out over in Kingston?  

These are just things that will get shaken out with our Deep Depression.  Or will Trump blink again?  Does anybody lose sleep over his phoney threats?

You are allowed to buy US products at fire-sale prices

 

Not buying any US crap at full price.  That's getting quite high now, with the tariffs.

On the other hand the local Asian supermarket had giant tubs of fresh Arugula at a really low price.  Didn't look at the origin, those stores never put up signs for it, and I don't bring my reading glasses.  However, this was a tub for restaurants.  We are eating Arugula day in day out.  Whew!

The alternative is that all the US stuff fills up Canadian landfills.  What an insult to the landfill!

Quantifying CO2's Warming Effect: Field Physics Experiments

 Quantifying carbon dioxide's warming effect necessitates a multifaceted approach involving various physics-based field experiments. Atmospheric spectroscopy, using ground-based and satellite instruments, measures the specific infrared radiation absorbed and emitted by CO2. Radiative flux measurements track the Earth's energy balance by monitoring incoming and outgoing radiation at the surface and from space. Global monitoring networks and isotopic analysis precisely measure atmospheric CO2 concentrations and identify its sources. These diverse measurements collectively provide evidence of enhanced heat trapping due to increasing CO2, which, when combined with laboratory physics and climate models, allows scientists to estimate its contribution to global warming.

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ps I have decided to go respectacle.  I have reduced myself to prompt engineering, and will only put out things that are politically acceptable.

Gemini 2.5 reasoning.

 What sort of field physics experiment would be required to quantify the actual effect of carbon dioxide on earth warming

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Okay, let's break down what kind of physics-based field experiments are used to understand and quantify the warming effect of carbon dioxide (CO2).

It's crucial to understand upfront that isolating the exact warming effect of CO2 alone in a single, simple field experiment covering the entire, complex Earth system is practically impossible. The climate is influenced by many interacting factors (water vapor, clouds, aerosols, ocean currents, solar variations, other greenhouse gases).

However, scientists use a combination of sophisticated field measurements, remote sensing, and laboratory physics, which together allow them to quantify CO2's role. Here are the key types of physics-based field observations and measurements involved:

Atmospheric Spectroscopy (Measuring Absorption and Emission):

Principle: CO2 molecules absorb and re-emit infrared (longwave) radiation at specific wavelengths. This is the fundamental mechanism of the greenhouse effect.   

Field Experiment/Measurement:

Ground-Based Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometers (FTIR): Instruments located at monitoring stations around the world (like those in the Baseline Surface Radiation Network - BSRN, or the Total Carbon Column Observing Network - TCCON) continuously measure the spectrum of infrared radiation coming down from the atmosphere towards the surface (downwelling longwave radiation). By analyzing the intensity of radiation at the specific wavelengths absorbed and emitted by CO2, scientists can directly measure the increase in radiation reaching the surface due to CO2 (and other greenhouse gases). Comparing measurements over years, as CO2 concentrations rise, shows a quantifiable increase in this downwelling radiation, consistent with theoretical predictions.

Satellite-Based Spectrometers: Instruments on satellites (like AIRS on Aqua, IASI on MetOp, CrIS on Suomi NPP/JPSS) look down and measure the spectrum of infrared radiation leaving the Earth's atmosphere for space (outgoing longwave radiation). As CO2 concentrations increase, these instruments detect less radiation escaping to space specifically at the wavelengths CO2 absorbs. This provides direct, global evidence that CO2 is trapping more heat.   

Radiative Flux Measurements (Measuring Energy Flow):

Principle: The greenhouse effect changes the overall energy balance of the Earth. Increased CO2 reduces the amount of heat escaping to space and increases the amount radiated back towards the surface.   

Field Experiment/Measurement:

Surface Radiation Budget Stations (e.g., BSRN): These sites use instruments like pyrgeometers (measuring total infrared radiation) and pyranometers (measuring solar radiation) to carefully monitor the upward and downward flows of both shortwave (solar) and longwave (infrared) radiation. Long-term measurements show an increase in downwelling longwave radiation at the surface that correlates with rising greenhouse gas concentrations, providing a measure of the enhanced greenhouse forcing.

Satellite Measurements of Earth's Energy Imbalance (EEI): Satellites like CERES (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System) measure the difference between incoming solar radiation absorbed by Earth and the outgoing longwave radiation emitted to space. An increasing positive imbalance (more energy coming in/staying in than leaving) is observed, consistent with the heat being trapped by increasing greenhouse gases. While this measures the total imbalance, analysis combined with spectral data helps attribute portions of it to specific factors like CO2.   

Atmospheric Composition Monitoring:

Principle: To quantify the effect of CO2, you need precise measurements of how much CO2 is actually in the atmosphere, where it is, and how it's changing.

Field Experiment/Measurement:

Global Monitoring Networks: Ground-based stations (like the iconic Mauna Loa Observatory), ships, and aircraft collect air samples that are precisely analyzed for CO2 concentrations (e.g., using non-dispersive infrared sensors or cavity ring-down spectroscopy). This provides the data showing the steady rise in global CO2 levels. Vertical profiling using aircraft or balloons helps understand CO2 distribution with altitude.

Isotopic Analysis: Measuring the ratios of carbon isotopes (¹³C/¹²C and ¹⁴C) in atmospheric CO2 helps confirm that the increase is primarily due to burning fossil fuels (which have a distinct isotopic signature). While not directly measuring temperature, this confirms the source of the added CO2 being measured by the radiative experiments.

Synthesizing the Quantification:

No single experiment listed above alone definitively quantifies the exact degree of warming solely from CO2 across the whole planet in isolation from feedbacks. Instead:

Lab measurements establish the fundamental absorption properties of CO2.   

Field spectroscopic measurements (ground and satellite) directly observe CO2 absorbing and emitting radiation in the real atmosphere, confirming less heat escapes and more returns to the surface at CO2-specific wavelengths. These changes are quantifiable over time.   

Field radiative flux measurements quantify the total change in the Earth's energy balance at the surface and top of the atmosphere.

Atmospheric composition measurements track the increase in CO2, linking it to the observed radiative changes.

Climate models, constrained and validated by these physical measurements, are then used to disentangle the contributions of CO2 from other factors (like water vapor feedback, clouds, aerosols) and estimate the resulting global temperature change (climate sensitivity).

Therefore, quantifying the actual effect of CO2 relies on the convergence of evidence from these diverse, physics-based field measurements combined with fundamental physics and sophisticated modeling. The field experiments provide the real-world data demonstrating the enhanced trapping of heat consistent with the measured increase in atmospheric CO2.   

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This should have been done a long time ago.  However, there is the tiny problem that it would show zero impact of the imaginary 'greenhouse gases'.  Therefore, never done.

Nothing stopping the cold

 

The cold has done more than merely 'suppress' the Pacific plumes.  It has stomped, and run over the poor things.  

 

I am out of words to say 'cold'.  And I haven't seen a good 'Polar Vortex Fairy Story' in ages.

I have become boring.

ps natgas starting up again

Burma earthquake - one more day of 1% M9 chance

 

This is progressing nicely to be a foreshock, but the odds are still very remote.  I'm amazed how far Bangkok is.  An M9 would take care of all the buildings weakened by this one, The more realistic hazard are smaller M7's activated by this one.  A fine earthquake that nobody will learn anything from.  I call that a waste.

Canada's Economic Revival: A Radical Proposal

This is the more acceptable version of my previous post.

 The provided text expresses a highly opinionated and provocative view on how Canada can supposedly improve. The author advocates for radical societal and economic changes, suggesting a need for a severe economic downturn to reset national priorities. This involves marginalizing certain professional and political groups and prioritizing a class of "brights" to drive innovation. The author proposes transforming Toronto into a tax haven and utilizing empty buildings for new purposes, alongside revisiting national unity and technological infrastructure. Ultimately, the text presents a dystopian yet purportedly revitalizing vision for Canada's future, driven by a rejection of current norms and a focus on individual brilliance.

Also, this is the podcast which I haven't listened to.

Link to crazy-talk

ps I like 'dystopian'.  We are headed for that.

How Canada can get out of the hole

 Ha.  This is addressed to Freeland, who is our only politician with brains.  However, none of this is possible until we re-enact the Great Depression of the 30's, and have to eat our socks.  We are all obsessed with 'fairness'.

We must acknowledge the fact that some people are smarter than others.  We have a special class of people I call 'brights'.  These are the people who can actually make a pony out of shit.  However, they are destroyed in our corporate culture, just like I was.  Any brights who created wealth, did so in California.

With our new post-depression attitude, we will line up all the lawyers, lefties, ndp, and windows pushers up against the wall and shoot them.  Of course, being Canadians we will just send them up north to Huntsville.

With the depression, our economic heart of the country, Toronto, will crater.  Then we must rise.  We will use the empty office buildings for beach volleyball, and start-ups.  We will abandon all the junk that kills us, like French Nationalism.  Cut them off from welfare!  Even the French-French hate them!  Of course, they hate everybody.

For the outer regions, we will grow pharmaceuticals in greenhouses.  The US right-wing hates us anyway.  What, will a few coca leaves do to that?  Seal the border.

We must have a national program getting rid of all windows, so we can have computer systems that work again.  Worried about a 'kill switch' on the F35?  We got US Imperialism in all our computers, with dozens of kill switches that anybody and their dog can use.  Ask the CRA!  All our big monopolies run that junk, and it is so bad they don't know they've been hacked until somebody tells them.  Even then, like Auroacle, they don't believe it.

What's fun is that nobody in Canada reads any more.  

Anyway, we need 'animal spirits' and a tax haven in Toronto.  Hopefully all the big banks will die with the housing going to zero.  We need people to be energized by worrying about failure, and then allowing them to pick up again.  Not happening right now.  One business failure with a bank and it's 'Soup Naxi', with money.

Forget fairness for non-brains.  Replace them with AI!  That stuff should kill all doctors, lawyers, and airplane pilots.  No more unions, they suck up wealth like a big plastic straw, which the lefties have banned.

I'm willing to head up 'Wealth Creation Division' under Freeland.  No meetings, whining, etc, and I only work 2 hours a day.  No trying to get 'consensus'.  We will be better than musk, by actually getting results.  It will be full of brights and it will be like herding cats.  I'll have to put in my 'no hierarchy' system, which is probably impossible.  I haven't thought about it for years.

(In reality, I don't work at all)

ps this is 'politically unacceptable' and I write it to insult everybody.  The Google Groupthinker has written something more acceptable, with a podcast.  It's a curve, the more acceptable, the less chance it will work.  That's what I have always specialized in.  As the curve goes into the 'not a chance in hell' region, I get a nervous breakdown, and go the funny farm.

Say No to Influencer Science

 

We can't afford them.  Influencer Science never raised a speck of wealth for Society.  It's just a big leftie parasite.

When I saw this, I was thinking of Brights returning from California.  They should be thinking of coming back, since Trump has gotten rid of the USGS.  That means a big earthquake is coming (ha).  But what we they find if they come back?

CARNEY FIX THIS!

We need wealth creation because of closed US borders.  All Canadian business is geared to creating internal monopolies.  My Callie Kids are consulting in Canada, and the question is "Why does everybody in Canada get a voluntary lobotomy?'.  Why do we run windoze, so that the tax system is down?

We need a tax system that creates wealth, and that can't be screwed by gifters.  I'm thinking of no tax on shares, for world-class exports, for 5 years, until the company goes all Blackberry drunk.  

A tax haven would be great, but then we get all the lefties complaining about how 'unfair' this is, and we need leftie 'progressive' tax that ensures we all wallow in the dirt with Mud Guy.  Can we shoot them?

Can we survive the next Trump Depression without a speck of wealth generation?  

Bangkok tower a pile of dust

 

This is a crime, but it's all over the world.  Not a speck of steel in shoddy concrete.  No slab remains intact.  Probably built on a swamp.  

This most likely failed at 10 cm/s.  Perhaps the ground conditions amplified it more.  We can be sure that this far from the fault, the rock ground motion was less than 5 cm/s.  The big question will be the hundreds of other buildings that didn't quite collapse.

This fault is slowly working up to an M9.  Maybe not in our lifetimes, but certainly in the lifetimes of these buildings.  We need to spread the 2-buck accelerometers everywhere.  We need to get solid foundations.  But, we won't.

The cold is stuck at the border again

 

As much as I would like to share our cold pain with our wonderful US brothers, they have the advantage of low-striking Pacific plumes.

There's a bit of cold air trying to sneak around the last plume, but it will soon be smashed by the next Pacific plume.  

So, they get storms instead.

And the UK dam has broke, and no mention of polar vortex fairies casting down their disdain.

Just wistful messages asking the pagan gods for some warmth.

Will it get warmer?  Nope.

ps. shiny ice on car

Fun Fusion Hype

 

I had to read this for a while.  It came up the next day after I said we need to wait for some new physics.  And here it is, ready to put electricity on the grid in a year.  600 million neutrons.  Is that a lot?  Can they fit in my shot glass?  I don't know.

This is a pulse compression system.  I've said I can't see this running in a commercial reactor.  The vibrations are too much.  You need a nice continuous process.  I would be surprised if this generated more than 1 Watt of power.  We have to scale up to 1000 MW.  

And I wonder about those neutrons.  Remember the neutron bomb?  You'd have to put heavy water around this, and try to warm it up with neutron slowing.  

Raspberry pi pico

 It has become obvious that the new pi5 cannot do what the old pi's did.  More complaints of the exact same nature that I did, are showing up.  Nobody can get it to work, and nobody is saying they'll fix it.  A general disaster!

So, I also got a pico, and I am starting it up.  Darn thing needs a lot of soldering for the pins.

I do some and then take a break from the rosin fumes.  Kill everything growing on old men, but can cause cancer with young people, used over 20 years.  I remember they got mad at me at the old company when they were soldering in the office space.

ps ha ha.  rp zero 2 w!  Gotta know these things!

Musk to declare victory and go home

 

When he hits 1 trillion dollars saved, he will go home.  Of course, he'' be doing the calculating.  Poor guy has lost all his brain cells because of self-medication.  Nothing is working for him any more, and he should retire.  

CRA totally bonkered this year

 Autofill is empty, and on reddit they say that even if you fill out everything manually, they don't do anything with it.  They are probably operating windoze, and you can find all your tax info on the darky web.

Cold blob tries to descend and wipe out US natgas

 

It's trying and making some progress.  A low Pacific plume may bring up more Gulf air.  These things cross the mountains at lower California, and stir up an Atlantic plume.  It is really one plume all the way to Europe.

We must accept black as the new white this time of year.

The anomaly plot is cute.

Toronto radar has the big storm just north of us.  

The Battle of Britain is most interesting.  As long as the plumes come up, the cold is beaten back by monster storms.  The bbc just stays that the polar vortex fairies are bowling.

I suspect it will descend soon.

Say what you really think

 

For some reason, I just had to put this up.  Don't have a clue why.

Europe to take in all Influencer Science

 

Phew, I was really worried for these people!  I'm glad to report that Europe is taking them in, like Canadian soccer players.  

State of the Oceans - March 28, 2025

 I have had success forecasting the weather, using a physics approach.  An important part of physics is estimating the uncertainties.  Since they don't do physics, the uncertainties are huge.  No uncertainties with Influencer Science, that would be boring.

The total heat energy of the world always goes up and down.  We can have a 'best estimate' of the weather by calculating this, and looking up times at the same energy level.  All heat energy (to significance) is gathered and spread by ocean currents.  The warmies like to look at the dead butterflies in the water.

These are the two main maps for the oceans.  We've only had these since 1980.  The anomaly map is rather arbitrary, but it used to be the big star for warmies.  Now, it is ignored, because it does not conform with their beliefs.

The Pacific equatorial belt is the main engine for the Earth's weather.  It is back to a cold stream now.  It was disrupted the last few weeks, due to the Southern Summer, but that's gone now.

The Atlantic is the most interesting right now, but it is not carrying any heat.  It was charged up by the Great Pacific Heating Event last year, but has drained out.

It is so bad, it might as well be frozen over.

However, I enjoy the patterns, and it only affects Europe, and who cares?  The whole current ends with the Gulf Stream, and that has been wobbling up and down.  It is carrying enough heat to steer the tropical plumes to the UK, but that only gives them big storms caused by the Polar Vortex Fairies.

The end result is that we are very cold up North.  It looks like the US will finally run out of energy when we get some southern movement of the cold.  Europe thinks they can turn off their heaters.

Fusion continues to be hopeless

 

Fusion hype continues to be as 'magical' as polar vortex fairies.  Now, they are trying to inject the fuel into a plasma.  Good luck with that.

I laid out the physics a while ago.  One fusion atom blows the whole thing apart.  Basically, two tritium atoms have to glue together to form helium.  This is a ridiculously energetic process.  They have only done it with 'fusion bombs' or tiny specks blowing up under intense pressure from lasers, etc.  This cannot scale.  You cannot cannot have little bombs going uff, and again, one reaction, one bomb.

The good old Sun achieves fusion by severe convection.  The hydrogen dives down, and fuses in a 'quasi state'.  Then it comes up again, and completes the reaction.  This is done near the surface.  This is my theory, and mine alone.  Nobody does anything here.  Too much money in the phoney fusion quest.

We have to duplicate this for fusion at scale.  Not happening, since we don't do the basic physics.  I still envision some sort of massive compression, and then a release in a jet.  Wake me up from my 'Big Sleep' when they get somewhere on this.

ps. I think 20 years from now, we will have a trick of 'entrapment' with a molecular diamond casing around hydrogen.  This will allow the slight delay needed for a fusion torch.

Polar Vortex big neon sign blinking on and off

 I remember the scene in old movies with a bad hotel room and a big blinking neon sign keeping people awake at night.  Only this time, it is the polar vortex fairies dying on and off.

This is a funny headline.  The PVF can never 'predict' anything, they are capricious gods.  They are just used as an excuse, like the 'gods bowling' for thunder.  

It is sad that we have reverted to mystical explanations for the weather.  There is no mechanism for the near-vacuum of the PVF to affect the lower atmosphere.  It is like a hummingbird pushing a car up a hill.  It can only be done with magic.

There is no lovely Pacific air coming for us.  The Pacific plumes go right through and form the Atlantic plumes for the UK.  No Atlantic plumes and they get the Arctic spill.

Everything is stagnant.  

The Arctic spill is a tiger on a leash, wanting the claw the UK.  It's coming.  

Toronto may get freezing rain, but I give it a low chance.  Ottawa, on the other hand.....

M7.7 Shallow Strike-Slip Earthquake Burma

 

Looks like we shall ignore the stupid name the military came up with, and just go with Burma.  

This is a classic 'San Andreas-type' slip on a huge straight fault.  It should be noted to some, that tyrannies are not good at disaster recovery.

This is expected to have the usual mess.  I would guess 1 m/s along the fault.  We also have the usual 1% chance of an M9 follow-up.

We've been chewing gum forever

 

Much like the warmies, the doomers pick things out of a hat.  The success rate of doomers is zero.  The odds of a real doom being predicted by doomers is zero.  However, they are a persistent bunch, because there is so much money in it.

The point of 'noble' chemicals is that they don't react with anything.  Just like noble metals such as gold.  Would you go on about gold particles in your soup?  The doomers do.  Since the beginning of microscopes, we have noticed 'specks' in cells.  Most likely carbon, and maybe quartz.  Who cares.

However, analyze these specks with a super-duper thing, and you get micro-plastics.  Remember the nano-particle scare?  This is the same, except it's 'plastic'.  I played with liquid mercury as a kid, it's inert, but can form compounds in a pulp mill.  Big deal.  Workers bathed in transformer oil, and it became a big scare.  Even poor asbestos got a bad rap.  Only was bad when people smoked like chimneys, and maybe cut off a year.

The point being that if people have been saturated in something since the beginning of time, then it is not a doomer story.  It is best to compare these things to the effect of sniffing a puff of ciggie smoke every Sunday afternoon.  No doomer story is close.

Prepare for an ice-cycle summer

 We are in an ice cycle, which means that it's that 70's show again.  This is determined by calculating the total heat energy in the world, and comparing it to past years at the same level.  We can't go back very far because of the lack of modern data.  

Our summer will be 'short and sweet'.  That comes from a lack of Pacific breezes which moderate our weather.  We will have stagnant air that you can eat with a spoon.  But why eat air, when you can have ice cream?

The kids got this and I tested the output.  I've had many horrible ice cream makers over the years, but this is different physics.  Instead of freezing while stirring to stop big ice crystals, this gets to to freeze the ingredients to a solid brick first.  Then, a huge motor grinds the brick, and makes the ice crystals super-small.  Works for fro-yo, and many other things.

Link to product

This is the one the kids got.  It has two main containers, but you can get more.  It's best just to scoop the final product into another deli container.  It sounds like a lawn mower in the house, since it is really grinding.  I would put it in the laundry room when you are drying the kids sneakers.  Or sing very loud "I scream for ice cream!"  Perfect for our grandson who doesn't like milk.

Garden Stuff

Yeah, I had one hour in the garden, lovely sun, warmth, etc.  And then reality hit, with clouds and cold.  We will have an ice storm soon.  However, this year we will have an intense, short summer, so you better make the most of it with your Victory Garden.

Hose Link

Soaker hose!  I went to buy my usual US stuff, and crust, it was 3 times more expensive than the bulk Chinese stuff.  All made in the same factory.  This stuff lasts for years, just lying on top of the garden, but when it is time to replace, do all of it.  Because one piece of newer hose will take all the water.

This year I'm going to be smart enough to put solid sections where I don't want water.  Also, put valves at all the segments.  You design it like a nuclear reactor, with a header hose, and all the feeds out of it.

This summer will be so intense that one day without water will fry everything.  On dry days, I crack the hose bib just a little, to barely hear the water.  That's enough.  When we are at the cottage, it is fine.  It is essential to use this for raspberries.  

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Dry Guy could've used this last year in the drought, but now he is up to his neck in mud.

Finally, the darn, cute baby rabbits.  They melt through our chain link fence, but we can keep the big mommas out.  

I was using a US product last year, but that is now 3 times more expensive than this.

Product Link

What you want is 'stretched plastic'.  You know when you try and tear a plastic covering, and then it stretches and becomes so hard, it cuts your fingers?  Darn Costco packaging.  Anyway, this fencing is made like that, and the plastic is like glass.  Baby rabbits can chew all day.  I'm putting this around the peas and beans.  Last year they wiped us out.  This year we have bands of coyote-wolves wandering the streets.  I pay them to clean up the rabbits.  My dog loves the cute little buggers.

(ha ha, made all that up, sort of)

ps.  hybrid tomatoes have just popped up, along with the brocc.  Neat.

ps just bought a creami for myself.  It's a physics, tikytoky sensation!

ps wow, that's better than Kawartha, with just almond milk and some leftover cream, and a vanilla bean.

Stay away from tourist submarines

 

They are built like cheap condos.  Every minute they build, they think of making money.  We will probably find that it is fatigue again.

ps  it used to be that the porn industry led all tech innovation, now it is the scam industry.

I can't imagine that total AI porn is far away.  Poor ladies unemployed.  Maybe we just don't hear about it when doom scrolling.

US becomes the King of Fentytill

 

Will we even break 1% of US fenty imports?  Nope.  But we get hammered anyway.  Just seal the border, and we grow nice pure heroin, as the defence against the elephant drugs.  And coca leaves, I love those.

Our excess cannabis greenhouses are going to lettuce.  As the volume grows, it will be cheaper and better.  Forget the US edible paper lettuce.   We must grow 'pharmaceuticals'.  That's the best.

Irregular cold hangs around

 

The Pacific air has abandoned us.  Now, we have polarized weather, like US politics.  Hot and cold.

The Gulf air will just fight with the Arctic air.  

Can't wait to see how the warmies will spin this.

ps and the Polar Vortex has come back to life, just like Superman.

Collapse, rebirth, collapse.  Very busy.

Travel water purifier is essential

This thing is great.

When you travel, the great thing about airports is that they don't provide water fountains.  They label all water as 'non-potable' to cover their rears.  They expect you to buy the water.  You are buying water water water, and you leave a giant empty water bottle mountain behind you.  They don't do much with the bottles.

Get this at Amazon before you go.  You can walk in the jungle and fill up at a stream.  You can take the boat and airport water.  You just fold your hands on the top, and take a snooze.  It needs about 40 pounds of pressure.  It makes Toronto tap water taste good.  You can sprinkle electrolyte crystals in the top, if you are an insane brain-eating runner.

Too cold to prune the fruit trees

 I have never not pruned in March.  I was trying to take down the remaining Christmas decorations down today, and for 5 minutes, it was pleasant.  No wind, full sun, felt like Spring.  Then clouds, snow and wind, and I was forced inside.  My ears are still tingling.

Hopefully, I'll get the chance to prune in April.  Can't even pick up the dog poops because they are frozen to the ground.  People might think I enjoy this cold, but I don't.  I also don't make any money talking about physics, it's just a compulsion.

As long as I have my 3 readers, I am happy, or addicted, or whatever....

April snows, means May blows.

Google's AI continues to ignore physics

 It's a simple question.  What is the ratio of convection vs. radiation for the heat loss from the surface of the earth to outer space.  This is one half of the warming issue.  The solar flux (input) is always steady to 0.1%, despite the crazy talk of sun spots and orbital variations.

Qwen gave 80% overall convection.  I think it is higher.  Gemini won't give an answer.  Then I asked about cloudy vs. clear nights.  Both gave a correct answer that the clouds act as a true greenhouse by reflecting back infrared heat.  You can see this when you go camping.

CO2 can never act the same as clouds because it absorbs and immediately emits infrared.  None of this is directional, so the overall effect is zero.  All could be confirmed by the Scientific Method and simple measurements.  None of this is being done.

Global Warming is now religious faith.  I can't see that any evidence of cold could change it.  There will always be a forest fire somewhere.  So, let's get ready for our short, sweet summer.

The next warm plume has been waylaid by cold pirates

 

The next plume is running away from us.  Not good for Spring-lovers.  

We can see fuzzy Arctic blobs coming down on us.  The Gulf air may sneak up along the mountains.

This is the time of 'Broken Blobs' because of seasonal heat, but not broken enough.  We won't get 20 below, but cold enough.

A 'long cold winter' is defined by the months of snow, and the heating bill.  Not headlines of 'warmest February ever'.  This is a long, cold winter.

ps we have our rather goulish confirmation of carbon warming -- a forest fire.  Any forest fire is touted out by the media.

No other proofs hanging around.

ps  as with the California fires, these are driven by strong cold Arctic winds.

Oh, the irony!

ps I am now buying garden supplies.  A lot of soaker hose, and rabbit fence.  American stuff is now 3 times more expensive with the duties.  I'm buying the Chinese stuff.  We must expect a fine 70's summer of stagnant air, no rain, intense sun heat.  Soaker hose is essential.  Coyotes are wandering out streets in packs in the daytime.  I hope they take care of the rabbits.