Brent Walker

IT Pro, Pickleball Player, Outdoor Enthusiast, Believe in Free Speech, Strive to be Ethical, Respect Civil Discourse

[Brent Walker @CBrentWalker]

@azetice @MajorLeaguePB @PickleKeyStats Definitely surprised about Nico/Eric having a better record than the five teams below them. Think that will hold?

[Brent Walker @CBrentWalker]

@iowahawkblog What bout the fact that heat index is used only in the summer and wind chill only in the winter? We only want to amplify our misery, apparently

[Brent Walker @CBrentWalker]

@Hurricanetblack You and CJ will be 🔥

[Brent Walker @CBrentWalker]

@SARAHANSBOURY1 @MajorLeaguePB @parkplacetech How so?

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

#BREAK: CBS NEWS has terminated Scott Pelley's contract.

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

An American doctor ran the same bloodwork through two prices.

Same tests. Same lab.
With insurance? $1,086.75. Patient pays $252.12.

Pay cash?
That EXACT same bloodwork costs $44 — over 20x CHEAPER.

That’s not healthcare. It’s a rigged pricing machine bleeding taxpayers dry.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

How to manufacture a crisis:

A WHO commission wants to declare climate change a “global health emergency.”

Their big evidence? Rising heat deaths in Europe.

But once you adjust for an ageing society, the “crisis” essentially disappears.

Even more dishonestly, the report conceals that cold deaths have declined by approximately 250 times as much as heat deaths have risen.

https://t.co/8T5c9Hmesh

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Anyone else who’s trying to do bird noises should give it up

This kid is already the GOAT

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Since the 1980s, the Sahara has shrunk by roughly 8%. Satellite data show widespread greening, a pattern that is playing out across the planet.

Around 50% of Earth's vegetated land has become significantly greener, an area roughly three times the size of the United States.

The dominant driver is not rainfall or land use change, it is rising atmospheric CO2.

Higher CO2 lets plants photosynthesize more efficiently, they lose less water, they tolerate heat and dryness better.

The effect is strongest along desert margins, across the Sahel, the Middle East, Australia's interior and the southern edge of the Sahara.

Rising CO2 is making the deserts, and the planet as a whole, greener.

[Randall Carlson @randallwcarlson]

Professor Jones, whose work sits at the center of the climate change modeling apparatus, stated plainly that he would not share his data even if the World Meteorological Organization requested it. His reasoning was that 25 years of work had gone into the research, and he saw no obligation to hand it over to people whose aim was to find something wrong with it. That statement is worth reading slowly, because it is a precise inversion of how science is supposed to work. The whole point of publishing a scientific claim is that other researchers can examine the underlying data, attempt to replicate the result, and either confirm or challenge the conclusion. That is not a hostile process. That is the process.

Replication is the mechanism by which a scientific claim earns the right to be called scientific. When a researcher withholds the data behind conclusions that are being used to drive policy affecting hundreds of millions of people, the enterprise has left the domain of science and entered the domain of politics. The 25 years invested in the work is not a justification for withholding it. If anything, the scale of that investment makes independent scrutiny more important, not less. You do not get to claim scientific authority while simultaneously blocking the one process that confers it.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

An Inconvenient Truth for climate alarmists:

Al Gore’s dramatic climate warnings shaped a generation — but 20 years later, the data tell a very different story.

Climate-related deaths are down 97% over the past century, polar bears more than doubled since the 1960s, and global burned area has decreased by more than 25% over the past quarter century.

That's hardly a success of climate policy though: fossil fuels still provide 81% of world energy, emissions keep rising, and $16 trillion+ spent on green policies since Gore's movie came out hasn’t changed the trajectory.

A good reminder that panic is a terrible policy adviser.

https://t.co/PHVlqFB3Zg

[Brent Walker @CBrentWalker]

@StephanBreuer1 @wonderofscience 🤣🤣🤣

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

20 years ago today, Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” was released.

So, I decided to watch it to commemorate the occasion.

Here is my reaction.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Meteorologist Chris Martz used the North American Drought Atlas (built from tree-ring data) to track Great Plains drought across the past 1,500 years.

It shows severe drought regularly hit the plains long before industrial CO2.

The 1818 to 1825 drought stands out. So too does the 1855 to 1865 Civil War drought. The little mentioned 1950s drought is also clear, which followed the devastating Dust Bowl.

Further back, the worst known plains drought came during the Medieval Warm Period. It lasted around 400 years with only brief breaks.

That dwarfs anything post-1950. Today's droughts can of course damage farms and local communities, but they are far from unprecedented, and are not proof of a CO2 driven crisis.

The Great Plains have always been drought-prone.
The 1,500 year record destroys The Narrative.

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

The Hepatitis B vaccine is mandated for children to attend public school in 46 states.

Hepatitis B is transmitted via needles or sexual contact, yet this vaccine is pushed on babies on their first day of life.

Why?

Here’s the real reason every newborn is forced to get it—and why that could finally be changing. 🧵

[Brent Walker @CBrentWalker]

Correction…Kuala Lumpur Open

[Brent Walker @CBrentWalker]

@ppatourasia
Loving the pacing of this broadcast of The Hanoi Open on PBTV. Kind of shows “less is more” when broadcasting live pickle. You can watch a game and not dread it going to 8-8. No offense to Fleming who is an astute analyst and great promoter. 😬 kitschy sound bites

[JT @jiratickets]

boomers sending DMs to AI-generated women on instagram

[Katy Talento @KatyTalento]

I kept @RobertKennedyJr out of the West Wing.
Now I owe him an apology. The journey from there to here is live. https://t.co/I2Vohl0vZx

[Brent Walker @CBrentWalker]

@TheKitchenPB Not confusing at all and the point is clear. It is essential to having a NVZ and the NVZ is what makes pickleball a great game