@CoachDanGo Mine were silent and odourless, so I saw the doctor.
He gave me some pills and they became loud, but were still odourless.
He said “right, now we’ve fixed your hearing, let’s try these other pills to get your sense of smell back”.
@KimDotcom Shall we pause to take a look at how your 2026 predictions are going so far?
Zelenskyy gone: No
Ursula gone: No
Russia wins in Ukraine: No
Gold and Silver up: No
US dollar down: No
AI bubble burst: No
US markets crash: No
Thiel removes Trump: No
https://t.co/MPp7rJjaMt
My predictions for 2026;
Zelenskyy gone
Ursula gone
Russia wins in Ukraine
Gold and Silver up
US dollar down
AI bubble burst
US markets crash
Thiel removes Trump
Feel free to add what you think
Happy New Year
Mid-year, so let’s see how we’re getting on:
Zelenskyy gone: No
Ursula gone: No
Russia wins in Ukraine: No
Gold and Silver up: No
US dollar down: No
AI bubble burst: No
US markets crash: No
Thiel removes Trump: No
My predictions for 2026;
Zelenskyy gone
Ursula gone
Russia wins in Ukraine
Gold and Silver up
US dollar down
AI bubble burst
US markets crash
Thiel removes Trump
Feel free to add what you think
Happy New Year
@Benpagelondon When you see people posting a Greenpeace meme confounding a localised heatwave with global temperature anomalies based on an arbitrarily defined “normal” which wholly post-dates one of the years, show them this
https://t.co/OWyyoYxAwF
Why is it hot in Europe this week?
Well, it has to do with the “omega block” in the jet stream. Omega blocks get their name because they resemble the Greek uppercase letter omega, Ω.
You can see that in the synoptic setup. The map below on the left shows the 500 mb geopotential height anomaly at 18z. The contour lines resemble the Ω shape due to an enormous high-pressure ridge in the mid-troposphere that is sandwiched between two low-pressure systems to its east and west.
Hot Saharan air has been advected—that is, horizontally transported—northward into western Europe due to anticyclonic (clockwise) airflow, and as that air mass moves north, it is compressed adiabatically beneath the ridge where air is sinking.
This process is natural and has nothing whatsoever to do with climate change or greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, there are quite a few studies suggesting that reduced latitudinal baroclinicity (north-to-south temperature gradient) caused by Arctic amplification could reduce the frequency of mid- and high-latitude blocking events (e.g., Hassanzadeh et al., 2014; Woollings et al., 2018).
🔗 https://t.co/NGsFsRKpEt
🔗 https://t.co/M7h3vg232H
There is, however, debate about this.
Europe has seen an unusual amount of these extreme heat events since 2019, but most other areas of the globe have not. The notable exception was the June–July 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave in North America, but even that wasn’t as rare as previously thought.
🔗 https://t.co/rNRFfJohs4
The most likely explanation for this boils down to a combination of two things:
1️⃣ Undiagnosed changes in atmospheric circulation patterns.
2️⃣ Increased absorbed solar radiation at the surface due to reduced stratiform low- and mid-level cloud cover (increased sunniness), some of which is likely due to reduced atmospheric aerosol concentrations from the EU’s strict pollution regulations.
The overall increase in the “global mean temperature” (which mostly affects overnight lows) has very little to do with this event. Even in a “pre-industrialized” climate, a record-breaking heatwave would still be happening. Heck, the “global mean temperature” fell today despite the heat cranking up in Europe.
This is mostly weather systems moving around. When you have a chaotic system with two turbulent fluids interacting with each other (the atmosphere and ocean), wild things can happen.
Get your weather information from real meteorologists, not sensationalistic clickbait news outlets like BBC News or the Daily Mail.
@AuriePhantom@STVNews They are men and they will drop their pathetic ‘ooh I’m a woman just look at my pouty lips and absurdly performative walk’ act on approximately day one of their transfer, because there will be no women there to antagonise and intimidate with it.
@AriDrennen Fun fact: If all of the wealthiest people in the world became obsessed with enabling other people to change their sex, they would fail.
Because we can no more change our sex than we can change our species.
@lewis_goodall The UK Government collects over a trillion pounds each and every year.
This is a grotesque economic, moral and political problem.
We cannot have governments, who hold the monopoly on violence, with that level of power, whatever they might have achieved.
@CurtisDaly_ He didn’t though.
Zack’s likes to comments are 31k/5k = 6.2
Elon’s are 10k/672 = 14.8
So to the extent
anyone has “ratioed” anyone, Elon’s ratioed Zack by a factor of 2.4.
Which, incidentally, is the same factor by which Zack thinks he can increase women’s tits by hypnosis.