Miljenko's Blog

The US Presidential election was not about whether America is great today so much as it was about the suggestion that we could all go back to some better, simpler time. While few have actual memories of the 50s, most have an idea in their heads of what it was like when things were much simpler. A simple candidate, one so simple to border on a simpleton, came along after a long line of lifelong politicians. Whether slick political operators like Bill Clinton and Obama or the political dynasty of the Bush family. Trump is simply not difficult to understand for most people. Almost everybody knows somebody who has some of his characteristics, both the good and the bad. He is bigoted while genuinely thinking that he isn't. He is believable in his denials because he is Archie Bunker with a private plane. He may be disagreeable but he is understandable. There is nothing we don't understand about him - eating KFC on your plane is something everyone can understand. The KFC part ...

The article linked to here is just one example of what I have been following for decades now and something is "off" and people appear to be lying and doing so knowingly. IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) was created about 30 years ago and developed 100 different computer models to predict future climate. On the basis of those computer model projections, they issued some dire warnings in their first report, which then they cut in half (forecasts of global warming and sea level change and the like) in their most recent report. But, because their first predictions have now been out for decades, one can compare forecast data with actual observations and the real world is refusing to cooperate with their models. The actual observed changes are much much less than any projections and hugely different than the average of all of their models put together. This appears to be unacceptable to the main entities participating in this (the UN and the meteorological of...