The Weekly Flail — October 5, 2024

OVERVIEW

Our climate disaster solutions, such as they are, will never solve our problems. However, those solutions are beginning to have consequences, and those are not always what was planned.

The officially defined and outlined Climate Disaster is far worse and faster than expected. It is also becoming evident that the effort to minimize climate disasters using a slow model with minimal ratios between equatorial and polar heating was wrong. The ratio is not 2:1 but more like 4:1, with polar heating at least four times faster than the rest of the planet. This has growing consequences, but like everything else, it is politicized now. Facts no longer matter to the fascist wave, and they will eventually become violent.

China is the world leader in EVs, but the American Empire will not allow domestic access to them to save the old-fashioned domestic manufacturers. China is also facing the issue of the rapid growth of wind and solar power disrupting large electric grids. This is not surprising, but massive grid-level battery storage is required to stabilize the situation, and that slows things down.

AI is both a failure and a huge success, depending on who you listen to. The new OpenAI thinking systems may or may not ‘think’ depending on how you define that word. Nuclear plants are being restarted (Three…