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Readers! A November fund-raising drive!

 

It is unfortunately time for another November fund-raising campaign to support my work here at Behind the Black. I really dislike doing these, but 2025 is so far turning out to be a very poor year for donations and subscriptions, the worst since 2020. I very much need your support for this webpage to survive.

 

And I think I provide real value. Fifteen years ago I said SLS was garbage and should be cancelled. Almost a decade ago I said Orion was a lie and a bad idea. As early as 1998, long before almost anyone else, I predicted in my first book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, that private enterprise and freedom would conquer the solar system, not government. Very early in the COVID panic and continuing throughout I noted that every policy put forth by the government (masks, social distancing, lockdowns, jab mandates) was wrong, misguided, and did more harm than good. In planetary science, while everyone else in the media still thinks Mars has no water, I have been reporting the real results from the orbiters now for more than five years, that Mars is in fact a planet largely covered with ice.

 

I could continue with numerous other examples. If you want to know what others will discover a decade hence, read what I write here at Behind the Black. And if you read my most recent book, Conscious Choice, you will find out what is going to happen in space in the next century.

 

 

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An analysis of the climate models used by global warming advocates to illustrate the consequences of climate change finds them to be totally useless.

Climate fraud: An analysis of the climate models used by global warming advocates to illustrate the consequences of climate change finds them to be totally useless.

These models have crucial flaws that make them close to useless as tools for policy analysis: certain inputs (e.g. the discount rate) are arbitrary, but have huge effects on the SCC estimates the models produce; the models’ descriptions of the impact of climate change are completely ad hoc, with no theoretical or empirical foundation; and the models can tell us nothing about the most important driver of the SCC, the possibility of a catastrophic climate outcome. IAM-based analyses of climate policy create a perception of knowledge and precision, but that perception is illusory and misleading. [emphasis added]

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

3 comments

  • Garbage in, garbage out. I have made a living preparing, reviewing, completing, presenting statistic analysis of data for several years. Even the most unbiased review of data and projections into the future often leads to incorrect conclusions. But that doesn’t mean we reject analysis as a tool of predicting the future.

    The key here is that the climate data models of the globalclimatewarmingchange crowd is that these models are designed to produce a desired political and economic outcome (emphasis on political).

    Now we have actual climate data for the past 12-13+ years showing the models don’t work (carbon dioxide up and temperatures flat to down) and it is now apparent these models should be heavily criticized as wrong, their authors called out as biased ‘scientists’.

    Now, we will see if the current actual climate data is fed back into these models and if the political ‘scientists’ adjust their models to more closely match reality. I suspect these religious zealots will innovate a new way to sell and impose their moral view of the world’s climate and political systems on the rest of us.

    The Earth and life will go on. I choose to put my money elsewhere.

  • Rene,

    You wrote: “I suspect these religious zealots will innovate a new way to sell and impose their moral view of the world’s climate and political systems on the rest of us.”

    You are correct, and the “new way” they have come up with to impose their politics on us is “extreme weather”. See my essay, The fantasy of extreme weather, from April 11, 2013.

  • Jeffrey

    In your recap, you say the models are “totally useless”. The scientists in the linked article say “close to useless”. So, as long as they aren’t “totally” useless, they need to scare us all into become true believers. I’m sure that some day they will be recognized for their total uselessness. But, right now, there’s too much money/politics invested in climate change.

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