Climate Change Weekly #506: Climate at a Glance Videos: Climate Fact Checks for Youths
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The Heartland Institute has been a leading voice promoting sound science, economics, and policies concerning the issue of supposed human-caused climate change, in print, on radio and television, online, and at conferences and hearings.

Both independently and in conjunction with other experts and groups, we have published thorough peer-reviewed scientific studies and short booklets, like Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming, and lengthy, copiously referenced multi-authored, tomes in the multi-volume Climate Change Reconsidered  series produced by the Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change. We’ve also published original research demonstrating the flawed nature of the existing ground-based temperature measuring system which supplies biased temperature data for the United States and is incorporated into larger data sets and used to claim humans are causing unnatural rapid global warming.

Daily we published items at Climate Realism which refute the climate disaster du jour  hyped by the mainstream media as further proof humans are causing a climate crisis. With this issue, we have now published 506 issues of Climate Change Weekly  discussing climate science, economic, and policy matters that are being ignored by the mainstream media, politicians, and in many respects by academia. Often the scientific studies discussed in CCW indicate that much less is known about the causes and consequences of climate change than the purveyors and mongers of climate doom would have the world believe. These studies often suggest that climate change is driven by factors other than human energy use, that the Earth has experienced warming and cooling before, and that there is no climate catastrophe in the offing.

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How we know that the sun changes climate (II). The present
Posted on May 17, 2024 by curryja | 42 Comments
by Javier Vinós

Part 2 of a 3-part series. Part I is here.

The effect of the Sun on climate has been debated for 200 years. The basic problem is that when we study the past, we observe strong climatic changes associated with prolonged periods of low solar activity, but when we observe the present, we are able to detect only small effects due to the 11-year solar cycle. There are several possible explanations for this discrepancy. But the main question is how the Sun affects climate.

In this article we examine the effects on climate caused by the 11-year solar cycle over the last few cycles and their relation to recent climate change.


The IPCC Says…
In its 5th Assessment Report, the IPCC used climate models to calculate the Sun’s contribution to warming. These models only take into account changes in the total energy coming from the Sun, which is known to vary by only 0.1%. Therefore, the IPCC’s answer is that the Sun has contributed nothing to the warming. This is absurd given our knowledge of past climate and the fact that we passed through a 70-year solar maximum in the 2nd half of the 20th century, one of the most active periods of solar activity in thousands of years.

https://judithcurry.com/2024/05/17/how-we-know-that-the-sun-changes-climate-ii-the-present/#more-31234

F-35 Lightning II: Advanced Capabilities Marred by Readiness Challenges
Story by Mia Lee • 1w
 
The F-35 Lightning II stands as a testament to modern engineering, a multirole fifth-generation fighter jet that has claimed its place in the skies as the pinnacle of airborne combat technology.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/f-35-lightning-ii-advanced-capabilities-marred-by-readiness-challenges/ss-BB1lXXtq?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=d5fa028690aa479b897a8a7d7ba98535&ei=118

Interest costs on the national debt just surpassed spending on defense, Medicare
Story by Megan Henney •



US debt will be an ‘important election issue,’ Brenda O’Connor Juanas says: These numbers are ‘scary’
 
Interest payments on the nation’s ballooning debt just eclipsed spending on defense and Medicare, worrying policy experts who have warned this threatens to undermine U.S. economic stability.

In the first seven months of fiscal year 2024, which began in October, spending on net interest surged to $514 billion, surpassing spending on both national defense ($498 billion) and Medicare ($465 billion). In fact, interest costs have topped spending on veterans, education and transportation combined.
 
"Rising debt will continue to put upward pressure on interest rates," the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a nonpartisan group that advocates for lowering the national deficit, said in a statement. "Without reforms to reduce the debt and interest, interest costs will keep rising, crowd out spending on other priorities and burden future generations."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/interest-costs-on-the-national-debt-just-surpassed-spending-on-defense-medicare/ar-BB1mzXyR?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=d5fa028690aa479b897a8a7d7ba98535&ei=57

Police Deliver Blow to Protesters, Raise American Flag
Story by Bo Beard • 10h
Commissioner Kaz Daughtry
© Source: Youtube

New York City Police Department officers reinstated the American flag at the City College of New York campus, which had been replaced with a Palestinian flag by individuals protesting against Israel.
 

NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry praised this action on X, previously known as Twitter, at approximately 12:39 a.m. on Wednesday, shortly after the officers regained control of the campus.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-deliver-blow-to-protesters-raise-american-flag/ss-BB1mALHw?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=d5fa028690aa479b897a8a7d7ba98535&ei=43#image=1