[yor_on]

Those night time temperatures are rising faster than the day time temperatures, and it's not only us wanting some sleep that gets hit by it. Crops gets hit by it too. All eco and biodiversity should respond to it, as a guess. Interactions.

2016   https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160310080530.htm

[alancalverd]

it is an excellent approximation to assume that whenever e rises above es vapor condenses to bring the relative humidity back to unity. In much of the atmosphere it is the saturation pressure over ice, rather than water, that is relevant,

Both statements are obviously wrong.  But as you say, that would be nitpicking, boring and scientific. Or what aviators call "life and death".

[yor_on]

In that case Alan, you have a excellent chance to correct it. You got the study, the author, and the site. Just instruct him in where he goes wrong.

[yor_on]

Alan, that made me smile a little but you shouldn't abuse those moderator rights, putting words in my mouth inside my post.

That's worse than trolling

<   I'll link it again Alan. Myself, I think it's worth reading

" Supersaturation of a few percent does occur in the atmosphere, especially when there is a shortage of condensation nuclei on which drops can form, but for large-scale climate studies it is an excellent approximation to assume that whenever e rises above e_s vapor condenses to bring the relative humidity back to unity. In much of the atmosphere it is the saturation pressure over ice, rather than water, that is relevant, but we will not refer explicitly to this distinction "

->  Both statements are obviously wrong. <-

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237726750_Water_Vapor_Feedback_and_Global_Warming


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ah well, got irritated on it losing syntax, when copying the text.

[yor_on]

Yeah, makes me wonder about those posts disappearing too? Why not make it simple for you and ban it?

[yor_on]

It's becoming a joke, this too.

[Colin2B]

 

It's easier handling trolling

That’s because we’ve been helping you out by sending warnings to the trollers and removing some of their inappropriate posts, some you might not have seen.

You don't want this essay here, it's pretty controversial, am I correct? Then just say it.

That’s a strange statement considering the efforts we’ve made to keep you from being banned, despite your best efforts to the contrary. As long as you respect the spirit of the rules there is no problem.
I don’t see anything controversial here, most is quoted information or opinions of others.
If I had time I would make comments on your views around superposition and decoherence, but I think you’ve found some references that help you see what is really happening - I’ll check.
Anyway, I will look back and see if there are points I can contribute to and keep your thread a discussion as per rules, and I’m sure Alan will do the same.

[yor_on]

Hmm. I will state from my point of view, which is fairly simple. Moderators deleting my posts, moderators putting words in my mouth inside my own posts. Only the last one obvious, the other one impossible for me to prove, but considering the behavior shown here not impossible to have happened. TNS policies seems to have changed. Taking credit for things one can't prove becomes empty promises, such as stating that TNS have stopped, deleting 'trolling attempts', before me noticing.


And that's that

[Colin2B]

Hmm. I will state from my point of view, which is fairly simple…

I have never altered anyone’s posts to change the meaning.
I can only speak to actions I have taken, whether you choose to believe or not is entirely up to you.

[alancalverd]

" Supersaturation of a few percent does occur in the atmosphere, especially when there is a shortage of condensation nuclei on which drops can form, but for large-scale climate studies it is an excellent approximation to assume that whenever e rises above es vapor condenses to bring the relative humidity back to unity. In much of the atmosphere it is the saturation pressure over ice, rather than water, that is relevant, but we will not refer explicitly to this distinction "

Still wrong.

[Colin2B]



If Mr Putin has expressed it that way, I would say he's correct. It reminds me very much of a gang of bullies in the schoolyard, fighting and threatening, and then onlookers, unsure of whom to cheer.

When I was at school the bullies were often the bigger, older boys who would pick on the weaker newcomers. Either you had something they wanted or just didn’t like the way you looked, talked etc.
Generally this tactic of aggression worked, but occasionally they misjudged the strength of an assumed weaker opponent and got a bloody nose. Or friends of the victim rallied round to provide a defence.
These defenders were never considered bullies, but protectors of the weak. The thing that defined the bully was that they used violence first.

[yor_on]

Well, I like TNS. And being a moderator isn't the easiest thing there is. But don't get into my post Alan, if you want to reply, do it outside mine.

[yor_on]

Wars

Iran USA, Israel ,The Middle East, and as its European extension. The UK and NATO

Top military officials from Israel and Saudi Arabia have met in secret US-brokered talks to discuss defence coordination against Iran, according to a report. Delegations from Riyadh, as well as Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt, met the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) chief of staff in the Egyptian town of Sharm el-Sheikh in March, the Wall Street Journal revealed on Sunday, citing US and regional officials.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/27/israel-and-saudi-arabia-in-talks-over-joint-defence-against-iran

Iranian and US officials, with the EU acting as mediators, held two days of talks in Doha in a bid to break a months-long impasse, but no progress was made on Iran’s central demand that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps be removed from US sanctions and its list of foreign terrorist organisations.

“Not only has Iran not taken up the offer on the table, but it also added yet more issues which fall outside the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] with maximalist and unrealistic demands,” the French ambassador to the UN, Nicolas de Rivière, said on Thursday.  The broader talks have been stalled since March, but the recent fresh restrictions placed on UN weapons inspectors – as well as Iran’s speeding up of uranium enrichment – has injected a sudden urgency into the crisis. Western leaders will have to take decisive steps including reimposing UN sanctions in weeks if the nuclear inspectorate continues to be unable to carry out its monitoring duties. During the special session of the UN security council, Barbara Woodward, the UK envoy, warned Iran that no better deal was going to be offered.

The Iranian ambassador, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, said an agreement was “not out of reach” but that success required significant changes in US policy, specifically regarding the imposition of sanctions. He also said guarantees were needed that the US would not leave the deal again as they had under Donald Trump in 2018.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/30/iran-accused-of-making-maximalist-demands-in-nuclear-deal-talks

And it seems as if my pointy hat will get another feather into it.

[yor_on]

South Korea, North Korea, USA, China and as its extension Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and NATO. I don't mention the EU because, as far as I know, the EU has no military of its own. It doesn't state that the EU is being left outside it, or 'innocent', though.

South Korea and the US have fired eight surface-to-surface missiles into the sea in response to North Korea’s launch of a similar number of ballistic missiles the previous day, a South Korea defence ministry official said.  South Korea said Monday’s tit-for-tat launch off its east coast was a demonstration of Seoul’s “capability and readiness to carry out precision strikes” against the source of North Korea’s missile launches or the command and support centres, the Yonhap news agency cited the South Korean military as saying.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/06/south-korea-and-us-fire-eight-missiles-into-sea-in-show-of-force-to-north-korea

Pyongyang has reacted angrily to plans by the US, Japan and South Korea to conduct a combined missile detection and missile tracking exercise near Hawaii in August. The regime routinely denounces joint military drills between US and South Korean forces as rehearsals for an invasion, and uses them to justify its development of nuclear weapons.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/north-korea-accuses-us-of-building-an-asian-nato-ahead-of-security-talks
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And then the funds for it

If confirmed, last week’s attack would be the eighth this year – involving $1bn in stolen funds – that could be confidently attributed to North Korea, Chainalysis said. The thefts account for 60% of all funds stolen so far this year, it added. The regime has poured resources into stealing cryptocurrencies in recent years and was responsible for one of the largest cryptocurrency heists on record in March, in which almost $615m was stolen, according to the US Treasury.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/30/north-korean-hackers-thought-to-be-behind-100m-cryptocurrency-heist

We already know the approximate funds for the rest of those involved, or getting to become involved. China and North Korea should be the exceptions.

[yor_on]

And from that to cryptocurrencies and banking  A digital game inside a digital game. Because all banking is already 'digital', as is your bank account, and card.

"The beginnings of the latest crypto boom held all the hallmarks of being another instance of the “Robinhood economy”, named after the popular American stock trading app.....

The terra collapse has also heightened regulatory concerns about stablecoins, because they are backed by traditional assets and therefore could pose a risk to the wider financial system. In the UK, the Treasury wants a regime in place for dealing with a stablecoin collapse, saying in May that a terra-like failure could endanger the “continuity of services critical to the operation of the economy and access of individuals to their funds or assets”.

Even just the top three stablecoins hold reserves totalling $140bn in traditional assets, much of this being in commercial paper and US treasuries. A run on redemptions of the largest coin (tether) could destabilise the entire crypto asset system and spill over into other markets,” says Carol Alexander, the professor of finance at University of Sussex Business School.

Elsewhere, the EU is drawing up a regulatory framework for crypto assets with the aim of introducing it by 2024, while in the US Joe Biden has signed an executive order directing the federal government to coordinate a regulatory plan for cryptocurrencies including ensuring “sufficient oversight and safeguard against any systemic financial risks posed by digital assets”. The Federal Trade Commission, the US consumer watchdog, says 46,000 people have lost more than $1bn to crypto scams since the start of 2021.

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/29/crypto-crisis-digital-currencies-boom-collapse-bitcoin-terra

and  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/22/techscape-celsius-cryptocurrency-bank-freeze-withdrawals

[yor_on]

And there are no safe bets there. Stating that this game of official banking is built on assets is just bs to me. There are counterexamples of it everywhere.

[yor_on]

And then Finland, Sweden. And Russia, USA/ NATO.

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, immediately started to reap the rewards for lifting the block on allowing Sweden and Finland to join Nato when the Biden administration said it backed the potential sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. Speaking at a briefing call on Wednesday, Celeste Wallander, the assistant secretary for defence for international security affairs at the Pentagon, told reporters that strong Turkish defence capabilities would reinforce Nato’s defences.
Biden met Erdoğan at the Nato summit in Madrid the day after a last-minute agreement between Turkey, Finland and Sweden was sealed, in which the two Nordic countries vow to take steps to control support for Kurdish terrorism in their countries.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/erdogan-gains-from-lifting-sweden-and-finland-nato-veto-with-us-fighter-jet-promise

The accession of the two countries into Nato would mean the end of a decades-long status quo that saw Finland, in particular, maintain a degree of neutrality during the cold war in order to avoid a direct confrontation with the Soviet Union. In the week before the decision, Russia’s foreign ministry announced that it would cut ties with a Finnish NGO and banned two Swedish organisations, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and the Swedish Institute. In a statement, the ministry accused the organisations of “focusing on efforts to destabilise Russian society”.

Tensions have risen between Russia and countries in the Baltic region, which are members of Nato, raising concerns of a direct clash between Moscow and members of the security alliance. ‘There will be no way back’: will war change Finland’s pragmatic approach to Russia? Vladimir Dzhabarov, another senior lawmaker, told a Russian radio station on Wednesday that a blockade of Russia’s Kaliningrad region could lead to an “armed conflict” with Lithuania.

“If we feel that this security is being violated and it threatens us with the loss of our territory, of course, we will take extreme measures and nothing will stop us,” he said. Russian officials have disregarded arguments that they are to blame for the Nato enlargement prompted by the invasion, as well as Nato’s decision to “deploy additional robust in-place combat-ready forces on our eastern flank”. ...

“In the end, [Finland and Sweden] will delegate some of their foreign political and defence sovereignty to Washington and other so-called senior Nato partners,” said Ryabkov, calling it “cover” for the alliance’s “aggressive intentions” toward Russia. “A new strategic concept will be adopted, and Russia will be designated as a threat to the alliance. “

A new strategic concept will be adopted, and Russia will be designated as a threat to the alliance. This has nothing to do with real life; it’s the alliance that poses a threat to us.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/russia-condemns-nato-invitation-finland-sweden

[yor_on]

Assets are food, water, groundwater, eco and biodiversity. Not you betting on some 'New Tech'.

[yor_on]

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 500 days into his presidency, Joe Biden’s hope for saving the Earth from the most devastating effects of climate change may not be dead.

But it’s not far from it.

A Supreme Court ruling Thursday not only limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate climate pollution by power plants, but also suggests the court is poised to block other efforts by Biden and federal agencies to limit the climate-wrecking fumes emitted by oil, gas and coal.

https://apnews.com/article/climate-biden-us-supreme-court-science-technology-56b0fd73cfc1d633f01c9f75115ec312

[yor_on]

" Amos Hochstein, President Joe Biden’s point man for global energy problems, says he knows that transitioning away from the climate-wrecking pollution of fossil fuels is the only way to go. He advocates urgently for renewable energy, for energy-smart thermostats and heat pumps. But when it comes to tackling the pressing energy challenges presented by Russia’s war on Ukraine, Hochstein also can sound like nothing as much as the West’s oilfield roustabout, taking a giant pipe wrench to the world’s near-crisis-level energy shortfalls.

Appearing before a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee this month on U.S. help in Europe’s Russian-fueled energy problems, Hochstein spoke enthusiastically of prospects for a new floating natural gas terminal in Albania, new gas connections elsewhere in the Balkans, bumping up the flow of gas from Central Asia and getting gas out of Spain to the rest of Europe. "

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-climate-biden-and-environment-158ddc67a7e52cc47f818ad965291093