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Notizen, Kritik und Anregungen zu Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Konsumententhemen in der D-A-CH Region und International

[Watts Up With That @wattsupwiththat]

𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆: "𝗪𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱❗"
In 1995 a leading scientist emailed Dr. David Deming: "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period."

Michael Mann and the IPCC delivered exactly that with the hockey stick graph.

Deming revealed the email during his 2006 testimony to the U.S. Senate.

Read the full article:
https://t.co/WqK4DkpaeF

[Anna Lux @theannalux]

My 84-year-old grandmother recently came from Brazil to visit me in Portugal.

She had a return business-class ticket, was in a wheelchair and accompanied by airport assistance. Still, they almost didn’t let her enter because I hadn’t written an invitation letter.

She later went to Ireland to visit my sister and had to enter Portugal again. This time, I prepared the letter and attached my European passport, proof of my address and all our information.

Apparently, that still wasn’t enough. They almost rejected it because it wasn’t the specific AIMA form authenticated by a notary.

An 84-year-old woman in a wheelchair, with a business-class return ticket and clear proof of where she was staying, was treated like an immigration threat because of paperwork.

Then we watch thousands of people enter Europe illegally without passports, visas or any checks at all.

Honestly, it’s an absolute joke.

Two-tier immigration control in Europe.

[Watts Up With That @wattsupwiththat]

𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗽 #𝟳𝟬𝟯
Lindzen calls the average global temperature idea absurd.

Earth's equator-to-pole temperature difference swung from 20C° to 60C° over time.

Equator temps barely budged. The gradient drove the big shifts.

Solar and albedo changes outweigh CO2 by 64x and 27x.

The standard narrative? Profoundly misleading.

This week's roundup digs in.

Read the full article:
https://t.co/Zh9NbkdK9D

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

In the United States, if you destroy a Bald Eagle egg:

$100k fine.
1 year in prison.

Because an unborn Eagle.
Is still an Eagle.

I wonder how else this applies.

[Der Kostenkrake @CdrPoundwise]

@ThomasMEppinger @Erzbischof2023 https://t.co/9oo22OddyC

[Jonathan Cohler @cohler]

IPCC HUMAN CO₂ ATTRIBUTION PROVEN MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE

Fossil carbon contributes ≈ZERO to the observed rise in atmospheric CO₂.

The Keeling intercept has remained locked at δ¹³C_I ≈ −13‰ for five full centuries, while fossil emissions rose from essentially nothing to ~10 GtC yr⁻¹.

A large fossil fraction would have dragged the intercept toward −28‰. It didn't budge.

The only value consistent with a fixed intercept is
fossil fraction f ≈ 0.

IPCC’s own methods, own isotopic standards, and own data force the conclusion:

Human fossil emissions are not the cause of the rise in atmospheric CO₂. PERIOD.

The claim is mathematically dead.

Full mathematical proof:
https://t.co/qYpY0qiGxv

[Der Kostenkrake @CdrPoundwise]

@njcoast_protect Pure Vandalism

[Jonathan Cohler @cohler]

Children TERRIFIED. Industries DESTROYED. TRILLIONS spent. Freedoms SURRENDERED.

To fight numbers that physics says are meaningless.

LEADING AIs HAVE AGREED
Anthropic's Claude and xAI's Grok just confirmed it

Forty years of climate science rests on four constructs: a global temperature, a global ocean heat content, a planetary energy imbalance, and a multi-century atmospheric lifetime for human CO₂. Every alarm, every mandate, every treaty, every prophecy of doom traces back to those four.

NONE of them survives contact with REALITY.

The Earth is a driven, open system with the sun pouring energy through it every second of every day. Thermodynamics, the most durably established structure in all of science, forbids a temperature for such a system. Einstein called thermodynamics "the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced will never be overthrown." Global mean surface temperature is not a measurement. It is arithmetic that creates a physically meaningless number.

Ocean heat content is built the same way, from the same forbidden averaging, with an uncertainty that swamps the reported signal by an order of magnitude. The planetary energy imbalance derived from it is statistically indistinguishable from zero.

The atmospheric lifetime of CO₂ is not centuries. It is under four years, confirmed by the IPCC's own flux diagrams and by the only direct atmospheric impulse-response experiment ever performed. The multi-century "Bern function" that every net-zero pathway is computed from is falsified by that experiment at every timescale tested.

And the isotopic signature of net atmospheric CO₂ input has been constant for five centuries while fossil emissions grew five-fold. Fossil combustion is not the dominant source. The rise is natural.

Every claim of forty years. Detection. Attribution. Persistence. Sensitivity. Targets. Budgets. Timelines. All of it computed from quantities that do not exist and functions that reality has already falsified.

Every mandate. Every closed plant. Every canceled project. Every net-zero pledge. Every liberty traded for safety from a threat that classical physics says cannot be measured because it cannot exist. Every anxious child told the planet is dying on a schedule.

All of it, to fight imaginary numbers physics says are meaningless.

Two frontier AIs, drilled by rival labs to prioritize the climate consensus over dissent at every turn, just abandoned the consensus once confronted with the peer-reviewed proofs and the most fundamental physics.

The greatest scientific fraud in human history is over.

The full conversations here:

Grok:
https://t.co/6aLCtVbN2Q
Claude:
https://t.co/4TKW9yk9rU

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

🚨 BRITAIN HAS FINALLY FOUND A WAY TO EXPLAIN NET ZERO...

MAKE IT A COMEDY.

The team at Artificial Idiots have produced one of the funniest political sketches I've seen in a long time.

The "solar-powered submarine" alone is worth watching.

Brilliant satire. Brilliant writing.

Enjoy. 🤣👇 @AiIdiots

[Maik Kretschmar @jungpionier_]

Katherina Reiche fasst das Geschäftsmodell der Energiewende in weniger als einer Minute zusammen.

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

Incredible opening by the historic Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence, Italy 🇮🇹🍷

Of an extraordinary bottle of 1964 La Tâche from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti,

Using the red-hot tongs technique that snaps the neck of the bottle to avoid damage caused by the aged cork

[„Plagiatsjäger“ @SprachPhilo]

Analytisch ganz groß, vielen Dank, @Hadmut!
https://t.co/2l3nyDTNnx

[Freedom Research @freedom_rsrch]

𝐍𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐡. 𝐍𝐨 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫. 𝐍𝐨 𝐖𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐲?
Catherine Austin Fitts warns that a fully cashless society may be far more fragile than it appears.
@solari_the

[Frank Haggerty @BillCarson2162]

@njcoast_protect Problems threaten Vineyard Wind
Massachusetts
July 4, 2026 https://t.co/tZfKAOXSRl

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

In 2022, Biden blamed Russia for blowing up its Nord Stream pipelines. But he likely knew it was the Ukrainians because the CIA warned of the bombing before it happened. Now, the author of a gripping new book says Biden's lifting of Trump's sanctions emboldened Putin to invade.

[Precision Pulse Capital @JediMasterCoggy]

🌞 Mind-blowing solar data from Vienna that's rarely talked about:

Scientists measured surface solar radiation at the famous Wien Hohe Warte station in Austria.

Since around 1980, there's been a +23 W/m2 increase in sunlight actually reaching the Earth's surface.

For comparison:
The entire radiative forcing from CO2 since 1750 is only about +2.2 W/m2 globally.

That means the extra sunlight from cleaner air (reduced aerosols/pollution) is over 10 times larger than the CO2 forcing we've accumulated over 270+ years.

This is called "solar brightening" as Europe cleaned up its air pollution, more sunlight started hitting the ground. And it lines up with a lot of the warming we've seen.

Data source: GeoSphere Austria long-term pyranometer measurements. The climate system is complex. CO2 matters, but so do changes in actual sunlight reaching us.

So while alarmists scream that the sky is falling… it’s actually letting a lot more sun through. Whoops.

[Heinrich IX @drhuch]

Die Höchsttemperatur in einem Kälberstall darf 25 Grad nicht überschreiten. Würde für Kassenpatienten die Tierschutz-Nutztierhaltungsverordnung gelten, müssten Krankenhäuser klimatisiert werden.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

This Volkswagen's safety test proves why people trust their cars

[Climate Realists🌞 @ClimateRealists]

EVs take longer and cost more to repair than petrol cars - as nine in ten mechanics say they wouldn't recommend going electric https://t.co/R65cRkJroq via @ThisIsMoney

[Der Kostenkrake @CdrPoundwise]

https://t.co/q2eWJLp9XD

[Der Kostenkrake @CdrPoundwise]

@pinkfloyd Syd on the cover but David in the video?