"Stupid is as stupid does."
The phrase carries the meaning of someone identified as stupid through their actions rather than their appearance.
The phrase means that stupid people will do silly things, and you can single them out by looking at their methodology and results with handling tasks.
Rolling back the odometer to the 1930s.
send him back to South Africa
Venezuela might also be nice at this time of year.
I would assume he would just defund the state law enforcement agencies premptively using DOGE.
Why did they warn him first? How stupid was that?
Scientists at NASA\GISS calculate that a reduction in albedo of just -1% produces a warming effect equal to a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Uh-oh.
This really is a pretty wild article. Its scary all the big moving pieces of the climate system that we still didn't understand. The story about how much SO2 was dimming the atmosphere is so weird. As he says, nobody actually directly measured anything, they kind of started from the perspective of how politically unthinkable it would be if there was a lot of dimming and just bet on the idea that discounted the effect. This is all too human and not evidence based.
And now we are in very big trouble. Nature bats last.
Just as an aside... https://printablelistipecacs.z13.web.core.windows.net/maslows-hierarchy-of-needs-printable-handout.html
It is interesting to think about how, in Maslow's hierarchy, "acceptance of the facts" is at the top of the pyramid, above fitting in socially, having social esteem, having a job etc. It makes you wonder if a lot of scientists are doing what allows them to succeed in society, rather than just to face truth.
When I was starting off in science, I remember one of the first university chemistry labs I did and we had this simple exothermic reaction and we were supposed to take temperature of some test tube over time intervals and get a curve of the cooling.
Well, in the real world you dont get an ideal smooth curve. Its actually bumpy and it goes up and down.
I faithfully did my measurements and drew my line and submitted it and got a really low mark because although my data was real it didn't agree with the theory of steady consistent cooling.
This was an early scientists' lesson that you are expected to fabricate the data to support the human theory and totally hide it. You have to be successful in navigating this system of lying about the data to actually get somewhere with your career.
"And you can’t let it happen, and you are letting it happen," Trump said. "You know, I mean, I’m notifying you that you’re letting it happen. So, look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state."
It was a VERY specific number. Oddly exact. So precise he absolutely could not have been asking for an honest double check of the results.
"Increasing risks of multiple breadbasket failure under 1.5 and 2 °C global warming."
https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2019.05.010
This is a paper that relates to this topic. They are looking at multiple breadbasket crop failures that happen in multiple regions and different staple crops at the exact same time.
Under 2° of warming, for example corn crops go from failures eveey 15 years to a failed crop frequency once every 2 or 3 years. Rain and temperature issues also can reduce wheat and soybean and rice crops. Eventually these uncorrelated events have a 100% chance of lining up and all landing on the same year across multiple regions.
I guess the big idea of the paper is that a warming planet won't be this even dependable reduction in crop yields but a series of major unpredictable crop failure and food shocks.
I think that means that withi a 45% reduction (as in the main article) we should think of that as a rolling average. Some years could be very bad and others less dire. But expect major instability.
The USA national debt is a good proxy measure.
The world outside the USA needed us dollars for petroleum and international trade. One of the major us enterprises has been to supply these funds in exchange for goods and services.
It is currently running at $1T every 100 days.
This means the world is selling more to the USA than equal exchange. They take those dollars away and buy oil and other international trade, or they hold the money. The us is being paid to create the currency that is used.
Frankly, the growing national debt is not as big a problem as the alternatives.
Drink a covfefe.