Traditional estimates pegged global GPP at around 120 petagrams of carbon (PgC) per year since the 1980s. This figure, derived from remote sensing and other indirect methods, has been widely used to model Earth’s carbon cycle. However, recent research challenges this estimate, suggesting that plants globally absorb as much as 157 PgC annually—a 31% increase over previous calculations.
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The revised GPP estimate has far-reaching implications for climate science. As a primary determinant of terrestrial carbon sinks, GPP shapes how ecosystems respond to rising CO2 levels and climate change.
I wonder… Will they update their models and tell us that the destruction of the planet has been postponed by 31% from the previous estimates?*
Or will they double down on their warnings and requests for government grants to prevent the death of the planet?
To help you predict the answer to the question, note that the date of the article I quoted above was six weeks ago. The paper in Nature was published four months ago on October 16, 2024.
By searching with Bing and Google, I was unable to find any major media outlet linking to the paper in Nature. I asked Copilot and they reported:
I couldn’t find any major media outlets referencing that specific paper in Nature.
So… I wonder why that is. You would think this would be a really big deal. Could it be that it does not fit the narrative and thus it can’t be true?
I continued the conversation by asked how much this would change the predicted increase in temperature over the next decade. I had to ask four times to get an answer. It kept telling me:
While increased CO2 absorption by plants is beneficial, it is not a substitute for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Comprehensive climate action is still necessary to address the broader impacts of climate change.
After insisting I wanted a number and suggesting numbers (which it told me were wrong), I finally got this answer:
If plants are absorbing 30% more CO2, it could potentially reduce the projected temperature rise by about 0.02°C to 0.05°C over the next decade.
For comparison:
Currently, the global average temperature is projected to increase by about 0.2°C per decade.
It isn’t 30%, but it could be as much as 25%. And even if it were 10%, that would be significant.
Another thing I learned from poking around on this topic is that while more CO2 results in more plant growth. It also results in less water usage. The plants are more drought resistant when they have more CO2.
The CO2 benefits have diminishing returns. Even at the current levels the plants are being limited by access to nitrogen in a form they can use. The full potential of increased crop yields from the extra CO2 requires more nitrogen fertilization. That is something we know how to do.
Yes, I know. The question does not even make sense. And the actual result could be, “Nevermind, everything is good. We were just kidding about the end of the ice caps and flooded coastlines. No hard feelings, right?”
The Oregon Department of Emergency Management (OEM) states there is about a 37 percent chance that the Cascadia Subduction Zone will produce an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 or greater within the next 50 years.
Robert Ezelle, the director of Washington state‘s emergency management division, said: ‘It’s going to be the worst natural disaster in our country’s history.’
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Large earthquakes produced by these faults would likely cause mass property destruction, cut off access to certain neighborhoods and lead to numerous injuries and even deaths.
‘One would expect the power to be down, natural gas lines to be broken, maybe water and sewer lines to be broken,’ Tobin said.
He told NBC News that if a major quake were to hit the Cascadia shaking would last five minutes, but tsunami waves would batter the coast for 10 hours.
Roads and bridges would be destroyed, along with some 620,000 buildings and about 100 hospitals and 2,000 schools.
‘We’re unprepared,’ Ezelle said, noting that residents would have to take care of each other due to Washington officials say they’d have to fend for themselves for at least two weeks.
As seen in the map above, Barb and I live on the edge of the red and solidly in the orange.
Tsunamis will form in the lakes in the area too. The quakes encourage the steep hills to provide the dirt to slide into the water and create large waves. And, of course, all those hills with lake views are covered with expensive homes.
When President Biden launched what he called the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, he adopted one of the key assertions of the gun control movement: our nation’s gun-related crime problem is an “epidemic” that must be solved by increased gun control. But if “gun violence” is an epidemic, then it is certainly not one felt by the whole population equally.
Of course, there is no doubt people of all races have been murdered with guns. Similarly, the scourge of mass shootings, while still a very statistically unlikely threat, has not discriminated in who it harms when such crimes do happen. There is also no doubt that far too many Americans succumb to suicide, a large proportion of which are completed with firearms.
But when it comes to what most people mean when they say “gun violence” – violent crimes committed by a person (or people) against another person (or people) using firearms – there is simply no way to beat around the bush: Black Americans are far and away the most affected, and it isn’t even close. Addressing the root causes of why is the riddle we must solve as a country. But to do so, we first have to identify the problem with as much specificity as possible, and reject those who try to shut down this debate.
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.
They hate their own residents owning guns, and make it hell to exercise your rights freely. They hate non-residents even more, making it impossible to defend yourself while in the state.
These men and their fellow scum are the enemy. Never forget that.
With such a crude insult and threat, it should come as no surprise the account has been suspended.
It will be interesting to see how interested JAY is in those toys after he has attempted a few seizures. I suspect there be a burning need to plug some newly created holes.
It’s been slow coming, and far overshadowed by the rise of Trump. But one movement that’s finally seeing a bit of a breakthrough is “tax the rich.”
The landslide win this past week of a tax on millionaire pay in Seattle is the latest sign the public is agitated by massive wealth inequality — and finally willing to do something about it.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
I give up on these people. They deserve what is coming.
The people who understand things have no power but to scream at the people who don’t understand them, and they never listen, because stupid people don’t know they’re stupid.
They will try communism again.
“DON’T DO THAT, YOU’LL KILL EVERYONE.”
“I didn’t know that would happen!”
They will open the borders and let in millions of hostile people.
“DON’T DO THAT, THEY WILL TAKE OVER ONCE THEY OUTNUMBER YOU.
“I didn’t know that would happen!”
Speaking to the stupid is a waste of time and giving them power is suicide.
While this applies to a sizable portion of the population. Those with the power and creating the disasters know what are doing. While some of them are stupid, most are not. Their motives are unrelated to the needs of their constituents.
Part of the problem is that “the people who understand” are totally outclassed when it comes to persuasion. Those who have power are at the top of the persuasion game.
As Trump and Musk’s DOGE continue to drain the DC swamp—and begin dismantling the “off-the-books” shadow government (read: here)—internet search trends for “Criminal Defense Lawyer” and “RICO Laws” have erupted in the DC metro area and surrounding counties, including Northern Virginia and Maryland, according to new internet search trends uncovered by Rasmussen Reports head pollster Mark Mitchell. These spikes strongly suggest that federal workers in the area are scrambling to secure legal counsel.
“Over three times more people in DC are googling “Criminal Defense Lawyer” than anywhere else in the US!” Mitchell wrote on X.
James Carville suggested there could be a “plant” in progressive Democratic politics during his podcast on Thursday to see how many “stupid things” the party could embrace while discussing the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair race.
The political consultant read a description of former DNC Chair Jamie Harrison’s announcement during the elections that they must be “gender balanced.” Harrison said during the election process, “Our rules specify that when we have a non-binary candidate or officer, the non-binary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six offices must be gender balanced with the results of the previous four elections.”
The permanent bureaucracy built their administrative state over decades, brick by bureaucratic brick. They thought it would last forever. They thought it was too big to map, too complex to understand, too entrenched to change.
They were wrong.
Four young coders with laptops proved that. One thousand pre-positioned personnel proved that. A president counting weeks proved that.
The sun continues rising over Washington. Classical columns still cast their shadows. But inside those buildings, everything has changed. The administrative state finally met its match: preparation plus presidential will plus technological precision.
This isn’t the end of the story. This is just the beginning.
The revolution isn’t just continuing. It’s becoming the new normal.
And for those who thought the D E E P S T A T E would rule forever?
They’re about to learn what happens when smart strategic minds meet determination. When preparation meets opportunity. When a new generation decides it’s time for change.
The storm isn’t just gathering. It’s here to stay.
The sun continues rising over Washington. But now, for the first time in generations, it illuminates something new:
If you are a little bit of a geek, read the whole thing. It is absolutely AWESOME!
The following was pointed out to me by Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras. Almost for certain this is what the “mapping” referred to in the article is talking about.
That is why it is important to keep improving and expanding our gun culture. Take someone to the range and teach them to shoot. Bring a newbie or even a non-gun person to Boomershoot this year.
Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.
When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!!
This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.
Interesting. That probably explains why I have had so many people tell me stuff that I am shocked they tell anyone. I let people talk and don’t interrupt them. I also probably don’t react as much to unusual things as most other people.
I’ve had the most racist, homophobic, sexist, anti-Semitic person I have ever heard of rant for many minutes, multiple times. A far-left woman told me that she and I were one of the new humans, superior to ordinary people. One person, who spent considerable time in a psych ward, told me about the CIA reading our minds. One guy raved about extreme conservative stuff and repeatedly told me that he thought I was a conservative, just like him. Multiple women have told me about their “body count” being in the multiple hundreds.
A federal judge in Mississippi has just dismissed a machine gun possession charge, marking the second time in recent history that such a case has been thrown out. Chris Eger of Guns.com first reported on the case, U.S. vs. Justin Bryce Brown, explaining that Judge Carlton W. Reeves ruled the federal charge was inconsistent with American history and tradition regarding firearm regulations.
The case is yet another test of the 2022 Supreme Court ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which established that gun laws must align with the nation’s historical precedent.
This is a really far-out alternative hypothesis, but I’ll throw it out anyway. Twitter moderators did not see anything controversial with statements like this one.
No. That’s just too far out there. The time travel explanation makes more sense.
To imagine a world with no guns is to imagine a world in which the strong rule the weak, in which women are dominated by men, and in which minorities are easily abused or mass-murdered by majorities. Practically speaking, a firearm is the only weapon that allows a weaker person to defend himself from a larger, stronger group of attackers, and to do so at a distance. As George Orwell observed, a weapon like a rifle “gives claws to the weak.”
The failure of imagination among people who yearn for a gun-free world is their naive assumption that getting rid of claws will get rid of the desire to dominate and kill. They fail to acknowledge the undeniable fact that when the weak are deprived of claws (or firearms), the strong will have access to other weapons, including sheer muscle power. A gun-free world would be much more dangerous for women, and much safer for brutes and tyrants.
I believe the people active in the anti-gun movement know this. I believe they try to tell the truth as much as they can to create the illusion of morality.
Read and or listen carefully to their words. They speak of reducing “gun violence”. They do not speak of reducing violent crime. This is because they know eliminating private gun ownership does not reduce violent crime.
They know the death by gun numbers they offer as evidence for gun control include legitimate self-defense and police shootings. Some of them act from a belief in moral superiority tied to passivism. They may think that “all lives have value.” But the majority engage in the distortions, deceptions and lies to preserve and/or enhance their power and/or bank account.
One has to wonder what type of mental deficiency is responsible for believing such a statement would be true. My model of human psychology predicts a white-hot rage in a narcissist. More normal people will be very unhappy and welcome an opportunity to repay the insult, with interest, even years later.
To be fair, democrats are seldom accused of understanding the true nature of humans (or even animals). They are more likely to assert human nature can be changed to match their beliefs.
