The Post-Partisan Emporium

  By   Kenneth Richard   on   28. March 2024 Modern relative sea levels are near the lowest in the last 7,000 years. Two studies, independently published, identify Mid-Holocene sea levels in northern Norway (north of the Arctic circle) as 7 to 9 meters higher than today before declining to the present ( Balascio et al., 2024 ,   Nielsen et al., 2024 ). This region of the Arctic was warm enough to support human settlements and boat harbors during the Medieval Warm Period. As the climate deteriorated into the Little Ice Age cooling centuries after the Medieval warmth, the accompanying sea level fall led to abandoned residences, ships, and harbors. The seas had become to shallow to sail in. Image Source:  Balascio et al., 2024 Image Source:  Nielsen et al., 2024 It is sometimes assumed that these much higher Holocene relative sea levels are merely a function of tectonics, or post-glacial uplift. But sea levels in the tropics (for example the Malaysia-Thailand region), unaffected by ice-lo

  All Their Stupid Ideas Can be Reversed and We Will Make the Deserts Bloom We will restore the very ground of our being ELIZABETH NICKSON Did none of the Masters of the Universe take Marketing 101? I know it’s a quasi-discipline, much  déclassé , for the peons in flyover country who sell widgets to live, but it does determine the world. What do you want to buy with your disposable income? What food, what house, what car, what do your children lust after?  Shopping decisions determine the shape of the real world, where real things happen. For some people, it’s their only opportunity for self-determination, and take it they will. This fundamental human characteristic is described perfectly by a graph, a chart. The  Marketing Curve  has been around for fifty years, and its one assumption is that human desire is the primary driver of the economy. We are divided into forerunners, innovators, early adopters and late adopters and it holds true for digital products, politics, vacations, and h

  A Climate Of Fear The real story behind climate change RADIO FAR SIDE Let’s play Cosmic Surfer today! First, take a round sheet and spread it on a flat surface. Good! Now take a grapefruit and place it in the center of the sheet. Excellent! Now twist the grapefruit until the sheet twists and wrinkles like a Chinese fan. Perfect! Finally, place a spec of dust about 2/3rds of the way out from the grapefruit. Outstanding! We now have a model of the Milky Way galaxy! Now imagine the sheet is electrically neutral, while above it is positively charged, and below it is negatively charged, so that plasma “ropes” flow out from the grapefruit along the surface of the sheet. This is how our section of the Universe works. Bonus: you can shrink the same model down to the size of the aforementioned spec of dust, and you have a model of our Solar System. OK, so now we can start to understand REAL climate change. This is an important discussion, because the crap that is pedalled by the hypocritical