JamesB

Delights in life & clever humour still hunting the real meaning of life, indulges in inappropriateness!

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

I have never said that the climate hasn’t changed, stupid.

But when has it not?

We don’t live on a magical planet that’s supposed to stay static.

Things change. They change with or without our help.

Get a grip, put your big boy pants on, and adapt.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: Conservative MP Nick Timothy has lambasted West Midlands Police for asking non-Muslim staff to fast during Ramadan

“This is wholly inappropriate”

It's vile that Islamic practices are being pressured on non-Muslims

[Tulip 💐 @cutelipssx]

"Hold Back" 🤛 🤣
A young lady boarded a train and saw a man sitting in her seat. She politely checked her ticket and said, “Sir, I think you’re in my seat.” The man pulled out his ticket and shouted, “Look closely! This is my seat! Are you blind?!” The girl carefully checked his ticket and stopped arguing. She quietly stood beside him. After the train started moving, the girl leaned over and softly said, “Sir, you’re not in the wrong seat, but you’re on the wrong train.

[NEASA @NeasaNews]

Starlink, the world's largest satellite internet network, remains excluded from South Africa.

Not because it fails to deliver. Because it does not meet government's ownership requirements.

Instead, government appears ready to open the door to a competitor with zero commercial satellite customers anywhere in the world.

Gerhard Papenfus, Chief Executive of NEASA, explains why this decision has nothing to do with empowerment and everything to do with ideology beating common sense.

The cost falls on rural communities, schools, farmers and businesses who are denied access to world-class connectivity for no good reason.

[Dave @DaveKent101]

People sometimes ask me why I detest Labour?

Much of that goes back to their destruction of Private Sector Final Salary Pension schemes in 1997.
In 2008, 10 years after Gordon Brown carried out his disastrous ACT Pensions grand larceny by removing tax relief paid to pension funds.
This was found by the Taxpayers Alliance to had cost an average of £17K on every person's pension pot.

In just 10 years, this had cost Private Sector Final Salary schemes £175 BILLION. Hence their closures ever since.

Had this grotesque theft of peoples' pensions not taken place, then the pension system in the UK would be much healthier, without people having to work into their late 60s.🤨

As a final insult, this tax does not raise any money these days anyway because many UK pension funds stopped investing in UK companies, so as to avoid this tax.

All the while Public Sector worked continue to enjoy Final Salary Pensions, paid for by Private Sector workers on smaller DC pensions.
Absolutely obscene.

[JamesB @JamesBotch]

If true .. a vital wake up call!

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

There is a hint of delicious irony to all this.

China currently manufactures 80% of the world’s solar panels, 75–80% of all batteries, 60–65% of wind turbine parts and 55% of global crude steel.

This staggering modern-day success story represents the largest, quietest transfer of industrial might and power in human history.

China's manufacturing grunt is more than the next 15 countries combined—larger than the US, EU and Japan together. To power this industrial onslaught, China commissions around six state-of-the-art coal plants a month (50–80 GW a year).

It operates over 1,200 coal plants totaling 1,271 GW—more than half the world’s total capacity. Its coal mining fleet is four times larger than second-place India.

As a result, China’s share of global manufacturing grew from 6% to 30% since 2000. Meanwhile, America’s plunged like a lead balloon from 25% to around 12%, and Europe’s collapsed from 25% to around 14%.

How? China uses abundant, reliable coal power, refuses to bind itself to net-zero, and has leadership that treats factories and steel mills as critical assets—unlike the West.

In geopolitical terms, this should be a lightning rod across the decaying West. But the job on the West is just about done, and the Western green transition is now almost entirely dependent on hardware manufactured by China.

This rise to dizzy heights was only made possible by using the same demonised dense fossil fuel energy that has already sent the Western world spiralling into a brackish, foul-tasting, latter-day mediaeval backwater.

It should be the biggest, loudest, and most outrageous news story in the Western world—but it hardly rates a mention.

[Men's Humor @MensHumor]

Professor wasn't dealing with any more BS.

[Jonathan Cohler @cohler]

There is no “global temperature.”

It is a statistical construct, not a physical quantity. You cannot average intensive thermodynamic variables across a non-equilibrium system and call the result a temperature.

So there is no “global warming” either.
What exists is LOCAL warming. And the majority of it over the past 150 years traces to three anthropogenic mechanisms that have nothing to do with CO2:

1. Urban heat island. Waste heat, albedo loss, reduced evapotranspiration, boundary layer trapping. Directly under and around the very thermometers that define the “record.”

2.Sulfates and carbonaceous particles. Black carbon absorbs. Soot on snow and ice drops albedo. Nocturnal haze suppresses outgoing longwave. Semi-direct effects burn off low cloud.

3. Contrails and contrail cirrus. High, cold ice crystals trap outgoing longwave. Warmer nights under flight corridors. The 9/11 grounding measured it.

Strip these out and there is nothing left that requires a trace gas.

[Joan of nark @pendleposy]

Fantastic woman.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

That graph is fake.

It is not an accurate representation and has been debunked many times.

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Dear Stephanie White,

Since you said you weren't "educated enough from a scientific standpoint" to say whether men should compete in women's sports or not, let me "educate" you.

- Males have significantly more lean muscle mass.
- On average, men have 30-40% more upper-body strength.
- After puberty, men have up to 20x more testosterone, which leads to greater muscle development, higher power output, & faster strength gains.
- Males have higher bone density, wider shoulders, & typically longer reach.
- Men produce more fast-twitch muscle fibers, which helps with explosive movements
- Males generally have larger hearts & lungs, contributing to higher aerobic capacity.
- Men have, on average, a 10–12% higher hemoglobin concentration, allowing the blood to carry more oxygen during exercise, which is why WNBA games & seasons are shorter than the NBA
- Males typically have a 15–20% higher VO₂ max than similarly trained females, improving endurance performance.
- Men have larger & stronger tendons & ligaments, allowing them to tolerate higher force production.
- Males typically possess larger skeletal frames, including bigger hands and feet, which can improve leverage & force generation in sports.
- Men generally recover quicker between maximal power efforts because of greater absolute muscle mass & anaerobic power.

Now you have no excuse to not say "men don't belong in women's sports," I'm looking forward to you standing with Sophie Cunningham on this issue 🤝

[JamesB @JamesBotch]

Stella Creasy must be an alien 👽?
Seriously? Has she ever looked?

[G @TheGNPE]

How does a Member of Parliament not understand basic biology?

[HerTribeVibe @hertribevibe]

Doctor refused to treat a transgender woman, sparking major backlash. The gynecologist declined to examine the 26-year-old patient, saying he only treats “real women.” He later added that “a cavity is not a vagina” and claimed he was neither trained nor qualified to treat transgender women. The patient was turned away, and the doctor later doubled down on his comments online. His remarks triggered national outrage and reignited the debate over medical ethics, patient rights, and discrimination. Good for that doctor.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

It must now be seen as the greatest blunder in human history. And it was all done on purpose. No public relations campaign can change that.

Yes, the world is still a bit warmer. CO₂ is still a bit higher. But NASA satellites have revealed the recent rise in carbon dioxide has sparked the greatest expansion of green leaf area 'in recorded history'.

The entire human story has been about our dogged survival in a harsh, dangerous world, thanks mainly to sheer luck. Our species is thriving in today's warmer Holocene interglacial cycle, which has lasted 11,700 years. This covers the entire rise of all human civilisation, every single empire, every invention and everything that makes us modern, from razor blades to spaceships.

The observable data throughout geological history suggests that today's cooler temperatures lie mostly within natural variability. The natural world invented the miracles of multicellular life and DNA on its own. It doesn't need human intervention. The Earth will run its course despite our interference.

However, many are unaware that we still are living in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, beginning 33.9 million years ago when permanent ice sheets formed on Antarctica. Ice ages may be rare, but we are in one, whether we like it or not. Earth has seen just five major ice ages in its long history - the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, Karoo, and today's Late Cenozoic Ice Age.

Today's global average temperature is estimated at 15°C, but this is not hot in geological terms. Our modern era sits deep within a major cold trough. It is up to 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average range of 18–26°C.

It was the Industrial Revolution though, that kicked off the modern world, beginning around 1750. And the discovery of coal, oil and gas created the most successful period in human history. We have medical miracles and the astonishing technology to prove it.

CO₂ levels over 250 years from 290 ppm to 426 ppm have created a massive spreading green canopy. Agriculture has exploded beyond anything ever seen before. It has not caused a global disaster.

And Net Zero, by the way, has never been fully explained - other than swapping promissory notes at annual summits worth trillions of dollars. There is every likelihood it will not change a thing. It's nothing more than a throw of the dice. Yet the error strewn 'transition' to wind-solar is expected to cost $275 trillion - equal to 2.5 times global GDP.

This could have built up to 27,500 nuclear power stations worldwide, ending any doubts about pure energy.

Global temperatures have risen by around 1.4°C since the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This came after the end of the 500-year Little Ice Age in Europe, the coldest spell in 10,000 years. Cold usually brings famine, misery and an early death.

Until the past few decades, most people only learned about CO₂ in biology classes at school. It is where we discovered this trace gas is the building block of complex life, the engine of photosynthesis and the oxygen we breathe.

The CO₂ miracle isn't taking a bank holiday.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🤔 Louise Haigh is still not being honest.

“I made a mistake 13 years ago… I was mugged and mistakenly said my work phone was stolen.”

No. You did not “mistakenly” say it. You pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation. You deliberately reported your work phone as stolen to Aviva so they would issue you a new one. That is what the court record says. That is what you admitted to. Calling it a simple mistake after all these years is just another version of the same dishonesty.

A spent conviction does not rewrite what happened. It does not turn a deliberate false representation into an innocent error. And it certainly does not entitle you to demand a “second chance” at the highest levels of government while you continue to soft-pedal the facts.

You resigned as Transport Secretary in 2024 when this became public. Andy Burnham then brought you straight back as First Secretary of State. That is not accountability.

If after more than a decade you still cannot be honest and describe your own fraud without watering it down, you have no business anywhere near the levers of power.

[Cassándrā "Cassy" Coelho R.🪬 @IDontCareBear]

@jk_rowling

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Arrest Zack Polanski now.

You two tier fuckers threw @LucyTCWife in jail over a far less mean tweet for a year.

What the hell are you waiting for?

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

Zack Polanski should be removed as leader of the Green Party for inciting violence.

Who else agrees he should go?

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

On Newsnight just now Zack Polanski REFUSED to apologise to @Nigel_Farage for the guillotine post. Instead he selfishly reframed the incident as putting HIM in danger. Victoria Derbyshire’s shocked pause speaks for all of us.