Those estimates are super low frequency though. I mean, hundreds of years between samples kind of low frequency.

Treating proxy data as if it is as useful as high frequency measurements in the modern satellite era is a category error.

Of course ENSO is a natural variation, and that it's not driven by human activity - it's literally circulation patterns of ocean heat that are hundreds of years long, untouched by industrialization.

I understand that the contention might be "well, our tiny fraction of human impact is going to be the straw that broke the camel's back on top of much more significant natural variation", but the truth is we don't have any really well supported evidence against natural variation - at best we have smoothed proxies that have lost resolution, and an otherwise very short observational period.

Now, I see being pissed at the boomers because of them building a welfare state that transfers all the wealth to themselves, stealing from the upcoming generations with inflation, taxation, unsustainable debt, and destructive social engineering against our shared american christian heritage. Even the natural climate change denial of the boomers is part of this selfishness.

The "New Deal" and "Great Society" and all the other socialist programs, including the "green new deal" were never a solution - they were a selfish programs that willfully cloaked themselves in faux compassion and charity, and destroyed communities, and virtue. Continuing the communist takeover only means that we're the ones giving the fuck you to the future, and pulling the ladder up after ourselves - there is no sustainable, involuntary application of "charity". Charity must be voluntary for it to work, and the failure of government interventions to force wealth transfers over the past 100 years has demonstrated that clearly.

The fact that the boomers have us focused on "climate change" is what lets them continue to extract wealth from future generations.

Check out J.D. Beck & Domi, or Ren, or for something a little more out there, Angine de Poitrine. Unbelievable raw talent is there in abundance for all three. Angine in particular give a first reaction as WTF? then it grows on you and you wonder why everyone else has too few frets on their instruments :-)

Averages destroy important details in the data.

In a world where temperatures and local weather conditions vary wildly across ranges that have real world impact for those people experiencing them, averages destroy the exact information you would need to actually make decisions.

If you dial the average phone number in the USA, you will not get connected with the average person.

ENSO is a natural phenomenon.

The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6, 2021) concluded with high confidence that human influence has not affected the principal tropical modes of interannual climate variability, including ENSO, beyond the range of internal variability. It assigned low confidence that anthropogenic forcing has caused the observed or paleo-inferred changes in ENSO variability.

These observations should give us a greater appreciation for just how significant natural variation is, compared to any possible anthropogenic impact.

Hrm. It seems like they overlooked a lot of crucial qualifications in the candidate.

I believe the argument is that the due diligence was skipped in the name of DEI.

Ah, the "no true scotsman" :)

How would you strictly define "DEI hire"? Does it require a confession, or can we recognize it through any indirect observation?

You seem to be arguing that racist policies are acceptable if they have only a 1% affect against the discriminated against population.

This is the same argument made back in the day regarding pollution - as long as it is diluted, it's not important enough to pay attention to. 500000 ppm of CO2 is a real danger. 500 ppm of CO2 is a really small number, and we can safely discount it.

It's perhaps an uncharitable way of characterizing your observation, and maybe that's all you're doing - making an observation without a moral judgement.

Dilution is the solution to pollution.

Remember that oldie, but goodie?

So long as we dump our toxic waste into a big enough body of water, and mix it thoroughly, we can ignore it because it's a trivial fraction.

Isn't the implication that they were willfully unaware of it? That they hired him because they skipped the usual due diligence that would have been applied to other more pale people?

Sorta like putting a stab victim into handcuffs because you've been following a narrative that foreigner good, british bad, and don't bother actually checking for stab wounds once someone was accused of using racist words.

Arday was too good to be true, fit all their priors, and their prejudices made them behave in a naive manner. That's the toxicity of DEI, and the death of meritocracy (if it ever existed in the first place).

The imagination can be more powerful than any reality. The proper attitude can create a hell out of any paradise.

And it does.

Two movies on one screen.

The problem is that you can write that list slanted in the other direction just as adroitly.

I think the problem is we don't even believe in the same base reality. There are people who honestly, with all their heart, mind, body and soul, believe that communism will work, and that people can change sex simply by asserting it. And there are people who honestly, with all their heart, mind, body and soul, believe that the only proper family formation is heterosexual, monogamous, dedicated, and producing children.

There is no amount of discussion left to be had - it's time to move to the places where they adopt your personal politics, and live out the consequences. If you want to kill your baby 30 seconds before birth, you have a number of states you can move to. If you want to protect your hearing when practicing with firearms, you have a different choice of states. We have to let people get what they vote for, good and hard, even if that includes voting for allowing people to cheat while voting.

There is no logical reason DEI is bad, no argument that can be made against it that will actually persuade a true believer. They need to live out their convictions, and suffer for it. The best we can do is hope to isolate them in bubbles where they suffer the consequences, and others can make their own free will choices for the better.

Phones should identify base stations that move around and blacklist them - refuse to connect to them or respond to them in any way. Base stations should be stationary - any cell station that moves is a bad actor. It could be a user option - allow connections to mobile base stations?

From a socialist point of view, the vitamins and minerals are now better distributed for the masses - back in the day, only one person got to have one apple, and got all the vitamins and minerals. Now there are apples for two people, and they both get half of the micronutrient content.

Right?

You're right. The paper is not broken. It just used broken parts.

In other news, skim milk is less nutritious because there are less nutrients per unit volume.

So is anything you add ice to. Or beat into a froth. Or otherwise increase its volume through cooking.

Because everybody knows, there is a human right to have a specific concentration of vitamins and minerals per cubic foot of plant material. It never varied before humans came along, and any change is because reasons.