In hot ancient Rome, it’s not the heat but the cold times that align with plagues
By Jo Nova

The Roman Climate Optimum lives
Quietly hidden in a paper about ancient pandemics is the most detailed estimate of Roman temperatures I’ve ever seen. For 800 years temperatures gyrated over a three degree range. The Climate Alarmists of Rome could have run the whole warming-cooling-warming-scare back to back for 400 years. But make no mistake, the good times, Pax Romana — were the warmest and wettest ones. The colder times are associated with aridity, plagues and collapse.

Two thousand years ago plankton bloomed and died, and the different ratios of warm and cool species left thick layers on the ocean floor just off the heel of the boot of Italy. Every ten years another centimeter thick layer of dead dinocysts collected on the sea floor, which makes for a remarkably detailed record. They report a jaw dropping “three year resolution”. The record was so rich they could pick out the seasons, and wow, by golly, they could compare it with modern air temperatures. (See graph A below) Though, for some reason they don’t make that easy, or say much about how those ancient temperatures compare to today. (Presumably, if they found things were hotter today, they’d have got a Nobel Prize.)

Cold times don’t guarantee a pandemic, but warm times do seem to discourage them:

Despite the expert predictions of doom in hot weather, the ancient Roman records don’t suggest mass outbreaks of malaria, flesh eating bugs, or viral pandemics.

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/04/ancient-rome-was-hotter-than-today-and-cold-times-align-with-plagues/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ancient-rome-was-hotter-than-today-and-cold-times-align-with-plagues

EV And AI Power Demands Will Only Fuel More Electric Rate Shocks
by Larry Bell  5 hours ago in Electric Vehicles, Green Energy, News Opinion   

Don’t believe “your lyin’ eyes” when the White House knows better, informing you that saving the planet from millions of years of climate change with windmills, sunbeams, electric vehicles (EVs), and super-smart technology will also reduce inflationary energy costs. [emphasis, links added]

Just be patient, even though it’s not working out quite that way so far.


Following relatively flat electricity prices over the seven years before President Joe Biden took office, they have since increased 13 times faster, soaring by 29.4%.

This is about 50% more than the overall inflation they contributed to causing.

And whereas President Biden has claimed “wages are rising faster than prices,” average hourly wages since he took office in January of 2021 are instead down 2.54%.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/ev-and-ai-power-demands-will-only-fuel-more-electric-rate-shocks/

Biden WH Weighs Invoking Climate Emergency To Hamper Oil Production, Garner Youth Votes
by Jennifer A Dlouhy and Jennifer Jacobs  9 hours ago in News 
 

White House officials have renewed discussions about potentially declaring a national climate emergency, an unprecedented step that could unlock federal powers to stifle oil development. [emphasis, links added]

Top advisers to President Joe Biden have recently resumed talks about the merits of such a move, which could be used to curtail crude exports, suspend offshore drilling, and curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because a final decision has not been made.


White House advisers are divided over the idea of declaring a climate emergency, with some saying it wouldn’t provide Biden with enough newfound authority to make substantial changes, the people said.

Others, however, argue such an announcement would galvanize climate-minded voters.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/biden-wh-weighs-invoking-climate-emergency-to-hamper-oil-production-garner-youth-votes/

 
Antarctica Is Colder, Icier Now Than Any Time In 5000 Years. The Last Warm Period Was 1000 Years Ago.
By Kenneth Richard on 15. April 2024

More evidence emerges that Antarctica has undergone rapid glacier and sea ice expansion in recent centuries, in line with the long-term and recent Antarctic cooling trend.
West Antarctica’s mean annual surface temperatures cooled by more than -1.8°C (-0.93°C per decade) from 1999-2018 (Zhang et al., 2023).

Not just West Antarctica, but most of the continent also has cooled by more than 1°C in the 21st century. See, for example, the ~1°C per decade cooling trend for East Antarctica (2000 to 2018) shown in Fig. ES1 (right).
 
According to a new study, about 6000 years ago Antarctica’s Collins Glacier’s frontline was a full 1 km southwest of its current extent. The frontline advanced to today’s extent ~5000 years ago.

https://notrickszone.com/2024/04/15/antarctica-is-colder-icier-now-than-any-time-in-5000-years-the-last-warm-period-was-1000-years-ago/

The Insane World of Intersectional Climate Change
BY STEVEN TUCKER 18 APRIL 2024 3:00 PM

Once upon a time, linking climate change directly back to homosexuality was almost enough to get you sectioned. Remember 10 years ago, during the floods of 2014, when UKIP local councillor David Silvester was widely mocked after writing a letter to then-PM David Cameron, warning that the bad weather of the day was due to Dismal Dave’s acting “arrogantly against the Gospel” by planning to legalise gay marriage, thereby angering God Almighty and causing Him to unleash “storms, disease, pestilence and war” upon us all?

Today, the situation is kind of the reverse, and we are now exhorted to propitiate the angry climate-gods after all – otherwise they will punish those homosexuals who walk amongst us with terrible deluges and inundations of a new kind, as shown by the Daily Sceptic reporting last week on a quite pathetic story in the Independent, headlined ‘How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers’. As the DS wrote, “Street-walking in a Muslim majority country undoubtedly has perils”, but bad weather is not chief amongst them.

Rain of Terror

According to the Independent, the problem was that “the rainy season was lasting longer” and “winds were stronger”, causing clients to stay nice and dry at home and use prostitutes there instead. Even worse, 72% of transsexual escorts in the affected region “had increased expenses” when it rained – how much do umbrellas cost in Java these days? Therefore, it was argued, “climate change makes the vulnerable even more vulnerable”. But does it really? If you bother to read the whole report beyond its absolutely mental headline, you will see that most of the ladyboys involved actually enjoyed a, um, happy ending.   

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/18/the-insane-world-of-intersectional-climate-change/