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Ocean warming ‘coming out of the sea floor like a firehose’

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“This is an unusual pattern (50 days of exceptional ocean warming) – an extreme event at a global scale, [not] merely an El Nino,” said Princeton University climate scientist Gabe Vecchi. “That is a huge, huge signal.”

The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore (to Our Peril)

“The University of Colorado’s Karnauskas took global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past several weeks and subtracted the average temperature anomalies from earlier in the year to see where the sudden burst of warming is highest. He found a long stretch across the equator from South America to Africa, including both the Pacific and Indian oceans, responsible for much of the global temperature spike.”

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1653432248757100545

What could precipitate this?:

❌Solar irradiance
❌Man’s greenhouse gas activity
❌Milankovitch cycling
❌Natural greenhouse gas emission
❌Lack of volcanic suspended carbon
❌Suspended methane or water vapor

✅Heat plume from Earth’s exothermic core

“They explored in that direction, and what they saw was not just methane bubbles, but [~9 degree hotter] water coming out of the seafloor like a firehose. That’s something I’ve never seen and, to my knowledge, has not been observed before.”

https://www.techexplorist.com/scientists-discovered-chemically-distinct-liquid-shooting-up-from-the-seafloor/58706/

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1653439246114385920

Originally tweeted by Ethical Skeptic ☀ (@EthicalSkeptic) on May 2, 2023.

What Causes Water to Move Inside the Body?

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Fluid circulations are necessary for life, but poorly understood and easily disrupted by things like the vaccine.

One of the fascinating things about science is that while it is an excellent tool for discerning the nature of reality, it will simultaneously refuse to look at data with implications that challenge the existing scientific orthodoxy. So an unfortunate situation is created where science advances knowledge to a point but then reverses polarities and paradoxically becomes a barrier to that advancement.

An excellent illustration of this dynamic can be seen with water, and as a result, many of its properties are relatively unknown. One of the most important properties is that provided ambient infrared energy is present in the environment and a polar surface exists, water can assume a semi-solid state where it behaves like a liquid crystalline structure. Since a significant portion of the water within the body is in the liquid crystalline state, the biological consequences of this water, in my eyes, represent a key forgotten side of medicine.

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Good read. ABN

In Search of Climate Crisis in Greece Using Hydrological Data: 404 Not Found

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In the context of implementing the European Flood Directive in Greece, a large set of rainfall data was compiled with the principal aim of constructing rainfall intensity–timescale–return period relationships for the entire country. This set included ground rainfall data as well as non-conventional data from reanalyses and satellites. Given the European declaration of climate emergency, along with the establishment of a ministry of climate crisis in Greece, this dataset was also investigated from a climatic perspective using the longest of the data records to assess whether or not they support the climate crisis doctrine. Monte Carlo simulations, along with stationary Hurst–Kolmogorov (HK) stochastic dynamics, were also employed to compare data with theoretical expectations. Rainfall extremes are proven to conform with the statistical expectations under stationarity. The only notable climatic events found are the clustering (reflecting HK dynamics) of water abundance in the 1960s and dry years around 1990, followed by a recovery from drought conditions in recent years.

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Exothermic (Cyclic) Core Theory of Climate Change

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1.  The Earth’s core undergoes extreme exothermic change – sloughing high-latent-energy hexagonal closepack (HCP) iron from its H-layer and into the mantle where it converts to face centered cubic (FCC) iron plus kinetic energy (heat). Core magnetic permeability weakens and its geographic dipole wanders. Earth’s rotation slows from the mass exchange from core to mantle.

2.  The exothermic heat content from this eventually reaches Earth’s asthenosphere. Deep crude acyclic alkane pockets are heated and accelerate methane release into atmosphere. Methane ppms far outpace model predictions. Carbon-rich oceans and now-warmer tundra each spring solar warming, both release proportionally more carbon.

3.  Abyssal ocean conveyance belts pull novel heat content from small-footprint yet now much hotter contribution points exposed to the asthenosphere – and convey (not conduct, convect, nor radiate) this novel heat content through oceanic advection and upwelling systems to the surface of the ocean. Abyssal ocean currents (and consequently surface ones as well) speed up from the discrete addition of kinetic energy. Arctic and Antarctic polar ice sheets melt from the bottom up.

4.  Ocean heats atmosphere (or fails to cool it as well as it once did) much more readily than atmosphere heats ocean. This exothermic core-to-mantle equilibrium is cyclic, and can and will eventually reverse.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? — Stephen Wolfram

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That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does it do it? And why does it work? My purpose here is to give a rough outline of what’s going on inside ChatGPT—and then to explore why it is that it can do so well in producing what we might consider to be meaningful text. I should say at the outset that I’m going to focus on the big picture of what’s going on—and while I’ll mention some engineering details, I won’t get deeply into them. (And the essence of what I’ll say applies just as well to other current “large language models” [LLMs] as to ChatGPT.)

The first thing to explain is that what ChatGPT is always fundamentally trying to do is to produce a “reasonable continuation” of whatever text it’s got so far, where by “reasonable” we mean “what one might expect someone to write after seeing what people have written on billions of webpages, etc.”

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A part of Western civilization produced a culture of men who created the entire modern world

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I personally do not descend from that part of Europe. I am descended from the slaves/serfs of Northeastern Europe. How can anyone deny that the modern world was created by a culture of men from that region on the map? Why should I feel ashamed of my ancestry? Why would I not admire the men who created the modern world? To me, it’s asinine for slave societies, which is virtually all the rest of the world, to boast of their meagre accomplishments or pretend their ancestors did anything we still value today. I loved my peasant grandma and her pagan ways. She was very clever, very low education, but an absolute delight to be around. I don’t feel ashamed of her. To speak dishonestly about her is to shame her and myself. I can love my ancestry without making up stories about it. And I can understand and appreciate who created the wonders of the world we live in today. Those men could have concealed their inventions and kept them from the rest of the world. More on this topic: The Faustian impulse and European exploration. ABN

Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age Menorca (Western Mediterranean) from human hair analysis

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Human hair dated to Late Prehistory is exceedingly rare in the Western Mediterranean. Archaeological excavations in the Bronze Age burial and cult cave of Es Càrritx, in Menorca (Balearic Islands) provided some human hair strands involved in a singular funerary rite. This finding offered the opportunity to explore the possible use of drug plants by Late Bronze Age people. Here we show the results of the chemical analyses of a sample of such hair using Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS). The alkaloids ephedrine, atropine and scopolamine were detected, and their concentrations estimated. These results confirm the use of different alkaloid-bearing plants by local communities of this Western Mediterranean island by the beginning of the first millennium cal BCE.

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