We have proposed that other planetary forces and phenomena, such as albedo, play a much larger role than CO2 in global warming or temperature variations.
The basic laws of physics and thermodynamics are not in support of efficient processing of CO2 using DAC. This is because dilute molecules of CO2 in air prefer to randomly mix and achieve maximum disorder or entropy per The Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Per Sherwood, trace amounts of CO2 molecules in an air mixture are difficult and costly to separate.
Capturing CO2 by DAC takes at least as much energy as that is contained in the fossil fuels that produced the carbon dioxide in the first place, per Keynumbers. //
Extra Thoughts: What Might Happen if CO₂ is Removed from the Air ?
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If CO₂ is removed from the air in some significant quantity, CO₂ may outgas from the other sinks (land, oceans, lakes) to replace the removed CO₂. The reverse is true as well: when CO₂ is increased in the air, land/oceans/lakes) will uptake more CO₂ until a new quasi-equilibrium state is possibly reached over time.
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A recent Nature Climate Change paper discusses the possible effect of CO₂ removal on the global carbon cycle. The paper notes that removing tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere might not be effective, because the shifting atmospheric chemistry could, in turn, affect how readily land and oceans release their CO₂, aka Le Chatelier’s principle. Another reference discusses the same concepts, and it is noted that both rely on synthetic models, like most climate change theory.
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Handwaving synthetic climate models: a general rule that has been propagated is that for every tonne that ends up being emitted from fossil fuels or “land use changes”, a quarter gets absorbed by trees, another quarter by the ocean and the remaining half gets left in the atmosphere. I have not seen any hard data that backs this up. It basically says half the CO₂ emitted by man is left over and can’t be absorbed or re-equilibrated.
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NEW: After latest mass shooting, Pres. Trump is asked if he would support any new gun control legislation
"The gun doesn't do the shooting, the people do," Trump said. "I have an obligation to protect the Second Amendment."
5:47 PM · Apr 17, 2025 //
SESummers
13 hours ago
A better answer: "Yes, the gun control laws in this country need to change. 'Gun Free Zones' need to be made illegal, and constitutional carry implemented nationwide. That way, these crazy leftist monsters doing most of these mass shootings will get their birth certificates revoked before they can pull the trigger a second time, long before the cops would get there."
Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy
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The U.S. commercial space industry is an inspiring project which showcases American ingenuity and exceptionalism. But the last FAA guidelines under the Commercial Space Astronaut Wings Program were clear: Crewmembers who travel into space must have “demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety.”
The crew who flew to space this week on an automated flight by Blue Origin were brave and glam, but you cannot identify as an astronaut. They do not meet the FAA astronaut criteria.
Blue Origin @blueorigin
We just completed our 11th human spaceflight and the 31st flight of the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez.
To date, New Shepard has flown 58 people to space. Read more:
6:55 PM · Apr 17, 2025. //
The Trump administration has ordered the Internal Revenue Service to revoke Harvard University's tax-exempt status. This status allows Harvard to avoid paying income and property taxes, and donations to Harvard provide leftist billionaires with massive tax deductions for charitable contributions. //
As that action gathers steam, the Department of Homeland Security is considering withdrawing Harvard's ability to matriculate foreign students. The concern here is the number of foreign students at Harvard who seem as interested in pro-Hamas demonstrations as they are in attending classes. //
Harvard was told that it had to eradicate the DEI filters it uses in admissions to bring its processes into compliance with federal law and Supreme Court rulings. It was also told to take positive action to suppress what appears to be an official policy of antisemitism, or at least pro-terrorism, by Harvard's administration. Fair dealing and protecting Jewish students from harassment and discrimination were just a bridge too far for Harvard President Alan Garber. "The administration’s prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government," he huffed. "It violates Harvard’s First Amendment rights and exceeds the statutory limits of the government’s authority under Title VI. And it threatens our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge. No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
He's missing the point. No one is requiring Harvard to do anything differently. The government is not threatening to take control. It is simply saying that if you wish to receive government benefits, you must comply with the same rules as any other educational institution and with federal law. Harvard's obeisance to DEI, for instance, runs up against two Supreme Court precedents. In Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard, the Supreme Court ruled that race was an impermissible factor in college admissions; see BREAKING: Supreme Court Rejects Race-Based College Admissions – RedState. The 1983 decision, Bob Jones University vs. United States, established that "The Government's fundamental, overriding interest in eradicating racial discrimination in education substantially outweighs whatever burden denial of tax benefits places on petitioners' exercise of their religious beliefs." //
DaveM
3 hours ago
This really isn't that difficult. Harvard allows Jewish students to be harassed on the basis of their religion- which is
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Illegal at every level of government anywhere in the US. Those4 harassing Jewish students are committing prosecutable acts
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By failing to provide a safe learning environment Harvard itself is in direct violation of multiple laws at both the Federal and State levels.
Keep a close eye on the trajectory of these two stories. They haven’t met in the middle yet, but when they do, the old Democratic Party will be dead — and AOC will be its next leader.
David Hogg wouldn’t have it any other way.
Thousands of complicated legal cases go on every day, and many are resolved in ways that are deeply unsatisfying because complicated legal cases are rarely as cut and dried as they appear on TV. When you get into high-stakes, politically charged cases, they never are perfect.
This one, in an immigration case, should be a slam dunk.
To me, the interesting thing about this case is not how it is resolved--after all, if Garcia somehow is sprung from prison in El Salvador he is still deportable and will just wind up somewhere else. He will never return home as a "Maryland man" because he is an illegal alien who is set to be deported by court order. //
Still, in a world where Nigerian Christians are being massacred by the thousands, hundreds of thousands of Americans are overdosing on fentanyl, children are being raped and murdered by illegal immigrants, and politicians are forcing women and girls to undress in front of men, the entire liberal establishment is in a tizzy over this one ever so barely ambiguous case. //
Why are they fighting so hard on this likely losing issue? Whatever they say, it isn't about what they claim. There are between 20-30 million illegal immigrants in the United States--Joe Biden let in over 10 million through illegal means--and Americans want them gone. Democrats do not. //
Winning Garcia's case is so important because they want to establish that every single deportation case should go to a trial, basically, where the standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt." He appears to be an MS 13 gang member? Prove it in court! He is accused of beating his wife? Well, she never pressed charges!
As if these are the standards for deporting an illegal alien with a deportation order. //
Not only is that not the legal standard, but as a practical matter, they are demanding that once an illegal alien sets foot in the United States, they get what amounts to a trial before they get deported. That is, logistically, impossible. 30 million trials? Not going to happen. It is logistically impossible for it to happen. Nobody wants it to happen, not even Democrats.
What they want is as few deportations as humanly possible, so demanding an impossible standard is about stopping deportations. //
The passion isn't about justice. This case is just another tool to use to get ignorant people riled up against deportations. //
This is about thwarting Trump's policies, not due process or anything else.
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. from the Crime Prevention Research Center and Dr. Carlisle E. Moody, Professor of Economics, Emeritus from College of William and Mary, aggregated the data. Their paper, “Do Armed Civilians Stop Active Shooters More Effectively Than Uniformed Police?” was released on April 3. //
“The first takeaway is, assuming our count is complete, that armed citizens have stopped more active shooter incidents than the police have, although the difference is not significantly different from zero,” Lott and Moody noted. “Also, armed citizens do not appear to interfere with the police or blunder so badly as to get their weapon taken away by the shooter or kill the wrong person.” //
This study by Lott and Moody has uncovered several important developments. Holistically, they found that a civilian response is more effective than uniformed police officers when it comes to stopping mass shooting events. That being said, the pair is quick to point out that the “result isn’t a criticism of law enforcement, it simply reflects the tactical realities they face.” They cite the high visibility of uniformed officers making them more of a target.
https://download.ssrn.com/2025/4/4/5205768.pdf.
Larry Arnold
19 hours ago
“The first takeaway is, assuming our count is complete, that armed citizens have stopped more active shooter incidents than the police have, although the difference is not significantly different from zero,”
Unless the study corrected for anti-gun laws, given that most mass shootings happen in "Gun-Free Zones" where civilians are prohibited from being armed, the finding is significant. Civilians are stopping as many mass shootings in the small subset of places where they are allowed to carry as the police are everywhere. //
SecondOpinionz Frontierjeanne
11 hours ago
A shooter is ready to attack the prey or the uniformed 'enemy'.
A shooter falls apart (psychologically) when the prey defend themselves.
Consider that Joe Biden allowed approximately 20 million illegal aliens into our country. This placed extraordinary burdens on our country--our schools, hospitals, housing, and other essential services were overwhelmed. On top of that, many of these illegal aliens committed violent crimes, or facilitated fentanyl and sex trafficking. That is the situation we inherited.
There's a reason they did that, of course, and a lot of it has to do with the census and the apportionment of House districts. Don't think it's about compassion or anything like that; illegal aliens living in a city are counted by the census just as are citizens, which is patently ridiculous, but that's the hand we are dealt - for the moment - and that's why Democrats are so determined to bring these people in and keep them here. No matter who they are.
When the media and the far left obsess over an MS-13 gang member and demand that he be returned to the United States for a third deportation hearing, what they're really saying is they want the vast majority of illegal aliens to stay here permanently. //
Here's a useful test: ask the people weeping over the lack of due process what precisely they propose for dealing with Biden's millions and millions of illegals. And with reasonable resource and administrative judge constraints, does their solution allow us to deport at least a few million people per year?
If the answer is no, they've given their game away. They don't want border security. They don't want us to deport the people who've come into our country illegally. They want to accomplish through fake legal process what they failed to accomplish politically:
The ratification of Biden's illegal migrant invasion. //
Adam Selene / Simon Jester
7 hours ago
Counting non-citizens for representation in the census makes about as much sense as allowing me to claim anybody who spends time in my house on Dec 31 as a dependent on my taxes. //
idalily
7 hours ago
Tweet of the Day (from the thread): "This isn’t about due process—it’s about using bureaucracy as a weapon to erase our borders. The same people who’d audit your grandmother for a $600 Venmo want MS-13 protected like endangered species. Trump was elected to stop this madness, not manage it politely."
AMEN.
A classified analysis from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), prepared in mid-2020 and only recently brought to light, lays out in scientific detail why the virus that upended the world may not have emerged through natural spillover at all—but instead through a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The analysis doesn’t claim to have proof, but what it offers is a structured, evidence-based argument for why the genome of SARS-CoV-2 fits with known genetic engineering practices, including specific methods used in coronavirus research. From unusual genomic features, like the presence of a furin cleavage site not seen in close relatives, to the possibility that sections of the spike protein were spliced together from different sources, the report builds a case that’s far more technical and comprehensive than most public government statements have admitted.
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/dia-analysis-covid-may-have-come-from-wuhan-lab/
This isn’t just about virology or the politics of a pandemic that’s reshaped the world. It’s about whether we still believe in the kind of transparency and accountability that democracy depends on. For too long, the “lab leak” question was framed as dangerous to even ask. But if our own intelligence agencies were raising red flags early on—only to see those warnings sidelined or silenced—we need to ask harder questions about who decides what counts as truth in a crisis.
Because if we can't get honest answers about how this started, what hope do we have of preventing the next one?
Curiously, Martin is interested in another episode in Zelinsky's life. "We would also like to speak with you about your 2012 service to the Peking University Transnational School of Law, including what Chinese national contacts you made during that period and those you remained in contact with during the Mueller investigation and since."
We must assume that Martin knows much about Zelinsky's ties to China, otherwise he wouldn't have asked the question. //
Martin is going after Zelinsky because his goose is cooked. He submitted a false statement to try to get Roger Stone a 7-to-9-year sentence for being less than candid with Congress. It was a petty and vindictive act, much like lying to a judge to get Papadopoulos thrown in the slammer. Maybe we will eventually unravel the origins of Russiagate and take righteous vengeance on the perpetrators. //
If the Chinese were embedded in Mueller's investigation, it potentially invalidates the Russiagate narrative as we know it, introduces another foreign player, and possibly leads in directions that Hillary Clinton and her cronies would rather not see it go.
Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47
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.@PressSec: "It's appalling and sad that Senator @ChrisVanHollen and the Democrats applauding his trip to El Salvador today are incapable of having any shred of common sense or empathy for their own constituents and our citizens. Nobody knows this more than the woman standing to Show more
5:01 PM · Apr 16, 2025.
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Patty Morin — whose daughter, Rachel, was brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant in Maryland:
"To have a senator from Maryland ... fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that's not even an American citizen ... I don't understand this."
5:08 PM · Apr 16, 2025
Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien from El Salvador with ties to MS-13 who was recently returned to his homeland by the Trump administration, even more news surfaces that doesn't paint the "Maryland man" in a very good light.
It turns out that Abrego Garcia had not one, but two, protective orders taken out against him by his wife, Jennifer Vasquez, for domestic violence. This is the same wife who appeared in front of TV cameras Tuesday to dramatically tell the media, "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive" -- oh, and please donate to my GoFundMe when you get the chance. //
The Trump White House was quick to note that Van Hollen had tweeted at least 10 times in support of the violent illegal while not once ever mentioning Rachel Morin, the Maryland mom-of-five who was brutally raped and murdered by yet another illegal Salvadoran.
To recap, Chris Van Hollen and the Democrat Party are going all-in on "protecting" the "rights" of illegals, consequences to actual Americans like Rachel Morin be damned.
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In George Orwell’s prescient novel, 1984, the slogan of the Party is
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
The idea is both simple and profound. By eradicating and reinventing history, it is possible to completely reframe reality for future generations. This is routinely done by leftwing academics searching for penumbras and emanations of the US Constitution. //
Salon runs one of these epic falsehoods titled Sorry, NRA: The U.S. was actually founded on gun control. //
This is simply nutbaggery. Madison’s draft amendment is only intended to protect Quakers and Mennonites from being compelled to provide military service. It’s pretty simple.
Ed-squared also turn the logic of the Second Amendment upon its head. If the Founders had, indeed, harbored fear of an armed populace then they went to great lengths to hide it. Take a look at the militia laws extant in the colonies at the signing of the Constitution.
Connecticut required every male over sixteen to keep a musket, powder and shot.
Virginia declared that all free men were required to possess a musket, four pounds of lead and one pound of powder. If a free man was not financially able to afford a weapon, the county had to provide one.
New York dictated a fine of five shillings to any male, sixteen to sixty, who could not arm himself.
Similar statutes are in all colonies. The clear intent of these laws is not that they link firearms ownership to militia membership, rather they are aimed at people who don’t have firearms in order to ensure the colony has a militia. Think of these laws in the same way that you’s think of laws requiring kids to be immunized before they can go to school. The laws aren’t aimed at people who voluntarily immunize and the purpose isn’t to further public education. Rather mandatory immunizations are on the books as a way of coercing people who would not immunize voluntarily. //
A free and an independent people are a direct threat to the progressive experiment. The only way they will achieve that goal is to lie and lie relentlessly and shamelessly until they control the past. We can’t allow that to happen.
A few years ago, online sleuths found an image of a B-2 stealth bomber in flight over Missouri. The aircraft is smeared in the image because it was in motion, while the farm fields below appear as crisp as any other view on Google Earth. https://petapixel.com/2021/12/28/stealth-bomber-caught-mid-flight-in-a-google-maps-photo/
There's something else that now appears on Google Earth. Zoom in over rural North Texas, and you'll find a satellite. It appears five times in different colors, each projected over wooded bottomlands in a remote wildlife refuge about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of Dallas.
What do you do most mornings at 2:17 a.m.?
Safe to say, I am almost always sound asleep in deep darkness and brisk mountain air.
But nights are quite a bit different for the current commander in chief and leader of the free world. //
Four to five hours of sleep a night is said to be the norm for the 78-year-old Trump. And his doctor says Trump handles such little sleep quite well.
This is ridiculous.
The non-stop No. 47 president has now been caught doing game-film study in the wee hours of the morning. He was watching reruns of the day's political events on C-SPAN. In the middle of the night. It's true.
The world discovered this by accident.
During last week's Cabinet meeting in the White House, Trump was overheard telling U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer that he had watched his testimony to Congress. And that he had come across it two nights in a row.
Well, actually, two very early mornings in a row.
"You were on every night, at 3 o’clock in the morning!” the president said, sounding impressed. //
For a very long time, almost from its beginning 46 years ago last month, I have regarded nonprofit C-SPAN as a national treasure, especially since I am an admitted political junkie. And someone who was often writing for work about events that the network carried without advertising or pontificating.
It's as if the network thinks that, given access to events and facts free of shading, Americans can think for themselves. //
C-SPAN's video archives and transcripts now contain almost 300,000 hours of its event coverage from today, yesterday, last weekend, and all the way back comprehensively to 1987.
The archives are even searchable.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has sent a criminal referral to the DOJ, accusing James of mortgage fraud. In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Director Bill Pulte says James appears to have falsified records in order to meet certain lending requirements and receive favorable loan terms. He cited a property in Virginia, that she has allegedly claimed as her principal residence and a property in New York that she claimed as a four-unit structure...instead of a five, which Pulte says means she was able to get a different type and more favorable loan. //
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...The referral also claims that James listed her father as her husband and represented a five-unit dwelling as a four-unit dwelling to allegedly secure an advantage on loans...
7:27 PM · Apr 15, 2025. //
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I've been clear: if President Bukele doesn't want to meet here in D.C., then I intend to go to El Salvador this week to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's condition and discuss his release.
Kilmar was illegally ABDUCTED and deported by the Trump Admin. He must be brought home NOW.
9:59 PM · Apr 14, 2025. //
For comparison, Van Hollen never showed one-tenth this amount of energy when Rachel Morin, one of his constituents, was murdered by an illegal alien in 2023. Let a Salvadoran be sent back to El Salvador, though, and he's ready to board an international flight and beat down someone's door.
The senator wasn't the only one with that idea, though. As I type this, House Democrats are organizing a congressional delegation to go to the Central American nation. Oh yeah, and you get to pay for it. //
What exactly is the end goal here? Kilmar Abrego Garcia is from El Salvador. The United States has no mechanism by which to somehow return him to Maryland to resume his position as an illegal immigrant. Further, El Salvador's president has already said he won't facilitate that. Democrats going down there and shouting for the cameras isn't going to change that.
All of this is just so stupid. Where was this outrage when 13 American service members were murdered due to the Biden administration's rank incompetence and politicization of the Afghanistan withdrawal? Where was this outrage when Laken Riley was murdered in cold blood? But let an illegal immigrant be deported to his country of origin, and they are ready to invade El Salvador over it, and I'm not sure I mean that figuratively. //
JGS772
14 hours ago
So in El Salvador Bukele does something very simple, he denies entry to these clowns. Picture this, they fly down to El Salvador (actually the city of San Salvador) and get off the plane and go to customs and when they get there the customs official tells them that their entry is denied. What do they do then? Try to go through customs anyway and get arrested? Maybe Bukele puts them in the same prison as as Abrego Garcia?
It would make for terrific theater!