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September 18, 2023
THAT’S BECAUSE “CLIMATE CHANGE” IS AN OBSESSION OF SHELTERED WHITE WOMEN: Vanderbilt professor: Climate change stories ‘cater to the white consciousness.’
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The Marines Need Help Finding A Lost Stealth Fighter and Nobody Can Stop Laughing.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: New Harvard, UPenn law prof has anti-police history, blames cops for the ‘devaluation of black life.’
YOU DON’T SAY: Reflecting sunlight to cool the planet will cause other global changes.
Now scientists at MIT have found that solar geoengineering would significantly change extratropical storm tracks — the zones in the middle and high latitudes where storms form year-round and are steered by the jet stream across the oceans and land. Extratropical storm tracks give rise to extratropical cyclones, and not their tropical cousins, hurricanes. The strength of extratropical storm tracks determines the severity and frequency of storms such as nor’easters in the United States.
The team considered an idealized scenario in which solar radiation was reflected enough to offset the warming that would occur if carbon dioxide were to quadruple in concentration. In a number of global climate models under this scenario, the strength of storm tracks in both the northern and southern hemispheres weakened significantly in response.
Weakened storm tracks would mean less powerful winter storms, but the team cautions that weaker storm tracks also lead to stagnant conditions, particularly in summer, and less wind to clear away air pollution. Changes in winds could also affect the circulation of ocean waters and, in turn, the stability of ice sheets.
“About half the world’s population lives in the extratropical regions where storm tracks dominate weather,” says Charles Gertler, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). “Our results show that solar geoengineering will not simply reverse climate change. Instead, it has the potential itself to induce novel changes in climate.”
It’s only a matter of time before some over-eager world-saving progressive suggests Congress pass a law against unintended consquences.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Biden’s Border Blow-Up Is the Mess That Just Gets Messier. “The numbers we hear about coming over here illegally are getting to be like the federal spending numbers from the last couple of decades: they’re so big and so frequent that the news has a numbing effect after a while.”
I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP: I am reviewing the Freedom of Information Act response I recently received from Michigan State University College of Law. One of the documents briefly describes the ways an assistant dean modified MSU’s marketing materials in order to show the school’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. In an apparent effort to be “mindful of potential triggers for survivors of sexual assault,” the deanlet removed the MSU helmet from at least some of those materials. Unless, I am mistaken, that means this was removed:
It’s MSU’s Spartan helmet logo. Is anyone seriously triggered by MSU’s Spartan helmet? If they are, maybe MSU is not the school for them. Moreover, regardless of the reason for one’s anxiety, is it a good idea to go to law school if one is so easily triggered? Lawyers are supposed to be champions for their clients. That’s what lawyers do. Is it fair to wish a lawyer who gets triggered by a university logo on a client who is in trouble and needs help?
DEMOCRATS. NEXT QUESTION? What happened to the great West Coast cities?
America’s urban woes aren’t limited to the West Coast, of course. But the decline there has generally been steeper than elsewhere. Why? How did such golden cities get so tarnished, so quickly? Unlike in the tragic case of the Midwest, the answer is not reliance on declining industries: tech, space, entertainment continue to show promise and could propel growth for decades. Instead, the damage has been remarkably self-inflicted, reflecting the reckless growth of a set of progressive dogmas, tough on police and permissive toward criminals and vagrants while imposing ever more burdens on what is left of the middle class.
The results of these policies are particularly evident in tech-rich San Francisco, where decades of tolerance for even extreme deviant behavior has helped create a city with more drug addicts than high school students; little wonder it ranked last in the US for efficiency in a recent WalletHub survey. In Southern California’s far more proletarian city of Los Angeles, a UN official last year compared conditions on downtown’s Skid Row to those in Syrian refugee camps. Like Los Angeles and San Francisco, Oakland, Portland and Seattle show some of the highest per capita rates of homelessness in the country.
This is Joel Kotkin so read the whole thing.
WELL, TO BE FAIR, YOU CAN SEE WHY SHE’S IN FAVOR OF UNEARNED ACCOMPLISHMENT: WATCH: Kamala Harris Says Government Must Enforce ‘Equal Outcomes.’
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: The world is struggling to make enough diesel.
The restricted supply has economic consequences. The surge in US futures has been driven in part by truckers snapping up the fuel.
“Diesel is the fuel of the 18-wheeler truck that moves products from factory to market, so when prices spike, those higher transportation costs get passed on to businesses and consumers,” said Clay Seigle, director of global oil service at Rapidan Energy Group.
While there has been growing hope that the US economy can avoid recession, “an energy price spike – whether in gasoline or diesel fuel prices – could undermine much of that progress,” he added. “This risk is not lost on anyone in Washington as election campaign season approaches.”
Soaring diesel prices may also push refineries to prioritize the fuel at the expense of making gasoline, he said.
We need more refinery capacity but we still haven’t recovered to pre-lockdown levels.
ROGER KIMBALL: What is “The Right Way To Lead Life”? When a philosopher goes wrong, he can go really wrong.
I grew up among philosophers, some of them quite eminent. In general, I would not recommend them as models for a life well-lived.
ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS: Book Promo and Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
THIS IS TERRIBLE:
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DEAL OF THE DAY: Sperry Men’s Authentic Original 2-Eye Boat Shoe. #CommissionEarned
I LIKE MY MEMES LIKE I LIKE MY COFFEE: BITTER! Let’s Meme Like we Mean It.
GOES WITH THE SMELL IN THE SUBWAYS. SEAMLESS MELDING: Dove’s #FreeThePits ads expose NYC subway riders to women’s hairy armpits.
PLAYING DIRTY POOL: FAA confirms: No Starship/Superheavy launch license until Interior approves.
SOON DIRT WILL BE TOO EXPENSIVE: Behold the glory of Bidenomics.
PHILOSOPHERS ALWAYS BEND THE KNEE: What is “The Right Way To Lead Life”?
THE LEFT THINKS THEY’RE BUILDING AN ARMY. IF THESE INVADERS HAD HALF A BRAIN THEY’D SNIFF THE AIR AND RUN: Biden Admin Randomly Dropping Off Illegal Border Crossers as the Invasion Continues.