Satguy 141

Commenting on politics, current events, and storytelling | No DMs please. Truth told with a sarcastic edge.

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6/7/2026 all temperatures in fahrenheit.
City Temperature Data.
High: 78° Low: 61°
Last year.
High: 79° Low: 56°
Personal CO2 monitor.
Calibrated 5/29/2026, 399 ppm at 4,450 ft
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station 🥶🥶
2026 -56°, wind chill -88°

Peter Clack
@PeterDClack

Claims that 'CO₂ is a pollutant that poisons crops' are being used to criticise a global expansion of plants and food crops.

However, any claims of 'nutrient deficiency' in quickly expanding green growth soon dissolve under biological scrutiny. Nutrient lag is a well studied short-term side effect of rapid plant growth, which biologists call the 'dilution effect.'

When plants are exposed to sudden elevated CO₂ levels - such as in commercial greenhouses - the photosynthetic rate rises quickly. It builds carbohydrates (sugars and starches) faster than the root systems can respond absorb trace minerals, like zinc and iron.

Rising CO₂ levels have been credited with the majority of fresh areas of global greening, particularly in arid or desert regions. This has been detected by NASA satellites, delivering a massive global agricultural payoff via rising crops and vegetables.

The nutrients aren't just disappearing; the plants are just growing larger and faster. This delivers an immediate luxury of abundance. If a grain of wheat has 10% less zinc but the crop yields 30% more total grain, the total pool of nutrients produced per acre has actually increased. Framing this global expansion in food biomass as a net negative is a bizarre inversion of agricultural reality.

This argument relies heavily on the Harvard FACE (Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment) experiments, where pipes spray pure CO₂ over open fields. These studies are notorious for creating artificial conditions, by suddenly blasting plants with high CO₂ concentrations in isolation. In the real world, atmospheric changes happen over decades, giving wild plants and agricultural products ample time to adapt.

Commercial greenhouse operators worldwide already deliberately pump CO₂ levels up to 1,000 or 1,500 ppm - nearly quadruple outdoor ambient levels - precisely because it supercharges growth, water-use efficiency and yield.

If higher CO₂ levels truly ruined the structural and nutritional integrity of crops, the multi-billion-dollar global greenhouse industry wouldn't exist. Chefs, consumers and regulators would have noticed decades ago if greenhouse-grown produce was fundamentally nutrient-depleted 'junk food.

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BREAKING NEWS

Iran has launched multiple barrages of missiles at Israel, marking the first direct bombardment since a fragile ceasefire took effect in early April. The strikes have shattered weeks of relative calm and threaten to reignite an all-out regional conflict.

Air defense sirens sounded across Israel, sending millions of residents scrambling for safety in reinforced shelters. The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that interceptors were launched to counter the incoming threats, and multiple explosions were reported in the northern part of the country.

The missile assault follows an unannounced Israeli airstrike on suspected Hezbollah positions in the southern suburbs of Beirut earlier in the day. Tehran had previously warned that any escalation in Lebanon would trigger immediate retaliation, a stance punctuated by statements from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatening wider action against regional targets if military operations do not cease.

In Washington, President Donald Trump stated that the escalation complicates ongoing peace negotiations aimed at permanently ending the hostilities. Following the attack, neighboring countries including Iraq and Syria announced the immediate closure of their airspace to commercial aviation as regional forces brace for potential counter-strikes.

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@PopcornPost_ The French Connection

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@lippyent Tiptoe through the tulips

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@khnh80044 That's what fathers are supposed to do

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@EmilySm43 No

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@lippyent Burning trash

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@WhiteGirl1776 Play stupid game when stupid prizes.

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Trump storms off 'Meet the Press' interview, rips Welker, ABC, CBS, CNN as 'crooked'

Good for him I can't stand that show. https://t.co/xgy2TWZ31K #FoxNews

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@RadioGenoa @profdans Where?

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Trump official reveals where California gets much of its oil — and calls it a national security threat
Do you think California liberals will listen to anything Trump has to say? https://t.co/XBshovz2px #FoxBusiness

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@cutiieepie6 Merry Christmas

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@christywhy9 Only by artificial insemination

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@Sofia50020Sofia I see a dog.

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To everyone who said I was wrong.

Polymarket is projecting Nithya Raman is going to progress to the LA mayoral runoff in November after the latest drop of ballots put her within 1% of Spencer Pratt, sparking fury from the right.

With roughly 78% of ballots counted as of Sunday morning, Karen Bass remains comfortably in first place with 34.8% of the vote. But the battle for second place has tightened considerably. At the end, she will overtake Pratt.

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The California reality, with 20 to 30% of the vote still to count.

LOS ANGELES — Days after California's June 2 primary election, ballot counting continues across the state, bringing clearer shape to the high-stakes matchups for the general election in November. Fresh updates from county election officials have locked in top contenders while leaving one major local race in a dead heat.
The Guardian

In the race for California Governor, the Associated Press officially projected that Democrat Xavier Becerra, the former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary and state Attorney General, will advance to the November ballot. With approximately 68% of the statewide vote counted, Becerra leads the crowded field with 26.8%.

The battle for the second slot remains uncalled, though Republican Steve Hilton is currently holding the runner-up position with 26.4% of the vote. Close on his heels is progressive Democrat Tom Steyer, who sits at 21.1%. Because California utilizes a top-two primary system, election officials note that with more than three million late-arriving mail-in ballots still being processed statewide—which historically trend Democratic—the final matchup between Hilton and Steyer remains fluid.

Meanwhile, the race for Mayor of Los Angeles has tightened dramatically. Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass easily secured her spot in the November runoff, leading the pack with 34.8% of the vote.

However, the counting of late mail-in and provisional ballots over the weekend has nearly erased the gap for the second general election spot. Reality television personality Spencer Pratt, who held a comfortable seven-point lead on election night, has watched his advantage dwindle to just over 1%. As of the latest figures from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder, Pratt holds 27.3% of the vote, while progressive City council member Nithya Raman has surged to 26.2%. With an estimated 78% of the total vote now tabulated in Los Angeles, thousands of provisional and conditional ballots are still being verified to determine who will face Bass in the fall.

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@ThomSulliv50648 No and No.

[Satguy 141 @satguy01]

6/6/2026 all temperatures in fahrenheit.
City Temperature Data.
High: 92° Low: 69°
Last year.
High: 79° Low: 56°
Personal CO2 monitor.
Calibrated 5/29/2026, 399 ppm at 4,450 ft
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station 🥶🥶
2026 -43°, wind chill -77°

Peter Clack
@PeterDClack
We should be exploring AI to develop clearer data on climate feedbacks — rather than relying on bureaucratic top-down restrictions alone.

Regional chaos, albedo effects, and ocean circulation patterns all remind us that climate computer models remain imperfect. Yet when they have been applied to long-term climate predictions, these models have often overstated warming or struggled with key localised feedbacks more than they have reliably guided policy.

There is no doubt that energy abundance and technological progress remain humanity’s strongest tools. The oceans’ massive buffering capacity is still underappreciated, because climate is a deeply coupled, chaotic system where CO₂ is one influence among many. Solar variability, volcanic activities, orbital cycles and other natural factors all matter profoundly.

Climate policies should therefore prioritise seeking resilience, adaptation, and innovation over fear-based centralised agendas. That means rapidly expanding nuclear power, advanced geothermal, more efficient grids and enlisting the rising power of AI thinking.