so many lockdowns
so many test for entry
so many school closures
so mutch fear
masking 1.5 years
teleworking 1.5 years
alcohol bans
months of curfew
police beating demonstrators
QR fundamentalism
2/ NL will now punish the unvaxxed with 2G to protect them.
Those are mainly below 35. The healthy young future of NL. Do you see how they need to be protected?
3/ Therefore the young and children need to "urgently" be vaccinated, although this data should make you wonder why.
4/ But NL was rewarded for all this or not?
I fail to see it. I don't read news nor watch TV. I read data. That's my destiny as scientist. I fail to understand what people are thinking around me.
5/ But SWE must have failed totally?
Without lockdowns, everything should have collapsed. 10x deaths forecast!
I fail to see it. NL is worse.
2020 SWE (left) versus 2020 NL (right). Age adjusted mortality rate by age group.
15-64y top
65-74
75-84
85+ bottom
6/ NL: It was the worst pandemic since 100 years. We needed to lock down the children and the healthy to protect them. Is this plausible?
7/ But Sweden killed people. Their neighbours did much better. No they did not.
The neighbours like DNK need to ask themselves: why do "kill" people 3 years earlier on average?
8/ But Finland. See above. 2 years worse life expectancy. You need to have people in the elderly bin in order to make the all age excess possible with the Simpson's illusion (btw. the reason for most panic). Even worse, use z-scores to compare countries.
1/ NL data. We now plot the total forcing 🔴, including the measured SSR and CO₂ contribution 🟢. The black curve ⚫ shows the temperature response, the blue curve 🔵 shows the upper physics estimate (dry Stefan–Boltzmann) for the expected temperature response.
2/ NL data. We now plot the total forcing 🔴, including the measured SSR and CO₂ contribution 🟢. The black curve ⚫ shows the temperature response, the blue curve 🔵 shows the upper physics estimate (dry Stefan–Boltzmann) for the expected temperature response.
3/ NL data. We now plot the total forcing 🔴, including the measured SSR and CO₂ contribution 🟢. The black curve ⚫ shows the temperature response, the blue curve 🔵 shows the upper physics estimate (dry Stefan–Boltzmann) for the expected temperature response. .
1/ A famous @BerkeleyEarth paper found no rural–urban difference despite the well known UHI impacting most historical stations. How is this paradox possible?
They used MODIS=🚮. At 10 m Sentinel-2, their “rural” stations light up urban.
2/ MODIS uses a binary classification with a high threshold to flip to “urban,” so many urban sites are labeled “rural.” That compares urban to urban. BE also uses fragmented records and a changing station ensemble = 🚮. Apply one basic filter—data must exist ≥9 months/year👇
3/ Using a quantitative urbanization metric (with units) from S2-GHSL at ~2000× higher resolution, the curves split as expected. BE paper should have raised ALL red flags in peer review: no units, no Q criteria, no methods, implausible results. Yet it passed. Still no retraction.
1/ Can you actually find a hockey stick in truly rural stations?
Not in a stitched statistical construct — in a real, coherent station record.
Here’s a tool to test it yourself.
2/ This map shows all stations with 100 years of data and at least 9 valid months per year.
That leaves about 500
🌎 🌎
Stations are colored by the level of built-up area around the site. Click any station to view its details and temperature curve. orwell2024.github.io/builtmap/
3/ Low built-up ≠ high-quality station. It’s a mandatory condition, not a guarantee.
Switch to sat view and inspect the site closely— the problems often shows up immediately. Like here.
Coastal locations
commonly have this issue. Water makes them appear rural. They aren’t.
2/ The analysis is already done. DWD and peer-reviewed literature.
It matches what we saw from JMA and KNMI raw data:
a +10–20 W/m² increase in surface solar radiation.
So the question:
How did they get away with knowing this and selling the story of ~1.4 W from CO₂ instead?
3/ What does the literature say?
“...dimming/brightening not only occurred when clouds are considered, but also under cloud-free conditions when cloud effects are absent.”
A remarkably way to say:
It’s not clouds. Not CO₂. Not climate. Pollution.