Artificial Intelligence confirms Borepatch

Sixteen (!) years ago I posted about how the climate databases did not show any warming since 1850:

So what does the raw data look like for all 4495 stations?

Other than a short term blip in the 1990s, we see no warming at all since 1850. None.

Let me say this simply: The raw (unadjusted) weather data from the largest historical data set shows no warming for the last 150 years.

Now Grok 4.1 has answered a query about the same subject:

When correlated systematic errors and the realistic treatment of infilling problems are properly accounted for, the global mean temperature curve before 1950–1970 (and partly even today) cannot physically be determined with an accuracy better than ±0.5–1 °C. Consequently, a claimed trend of +1.3 °C since 1850 is **not significantly distinguishable** from a zero trend. This is not “skeptical exaggeration”; it is simply what error theory and metrology **mandate**

So you can't show any warming that is statically valid.  Always trust content from Borepatch! 

I'll just wait quietly over here for my long-delayed Nobel Prize ...

Friday Night Rumba*

45 minutes of sultry music.  You're welcome.

*See what I did there?

The Aral Sea is coming back to life

This is unexpected good news.  You have to click through to watch because embedding is disabled.  

Update on the Bluehammer exploit

Steven emails in to ask if this is real.

1. Yes, this is a real vulnerability. 

2. It impacts all Windows 10 and 11 systems.

3. There is still no patch from Microsoft (i.e. a true Day Zero exploit)

4. A successful exploit results in exceptionally bad things happening (access to the SAM database, get password hashes, and Administrator privileges). 

5. The exploit code has been posted to Github.  This is Biblically bad - fire and brimstone, etc.

The only good news (and it is legitimately good news) is that this does not look like it can be exploited remotely.  Corporate IT departments will be pulling their hair out about their users gaining Admin access to their corporate laptop, but users at home shouldn't panic (you are already admin).

Microsoft has not covered themselves in glory here - heck Forbes has an article on this.  That's not good PR. In my experience, Microsoft was pretty good at disclosure, but that was a long time ago.

Also, the researcher did not cover himself with glory either.  There are something like a billion vulnerable systems out there and he uploaded the warez to Github?  Not cool. 

And all of a sudden, I was ten years old

I am surprised at my reaction to the Artemis II mission.  I mean, it's a huge bucket of money to throw at well connected aerospace contractors - and one that imperils the astronauts because it's so expensive that they couldn't really test the heat shield.

And yet suddenly it's 1968 and the teachers are rolling televisions into the classroom so we can watch the spaceships return to Earth.

Sure, it's crazy expensive, but we just sent men people around the damn Moon.

And we did it without that ridiculous Metric System ... 

For a moment, America is the Old America that can do things.

Doris Day - Fly me to the moon

Yeah Artemis is crazy expensive, but it's still a big deal. 

And we love us some Doris Day ...

Miklós Rózsa - Overture to Ben Hur

When it was released in 1959, Beh Hur became the second highest grossing film in history (behind Gone With The Wind) - saving MGM from bankruptcy.  It won an astonishing 11 Academy Awards, including best musical scoring by composer Miklós Rózsa. 

It's good music for Easter.  I hope that you (like we) are enjoying it with family. 

Where's Borepatch?

The Queen Of The World's son is visiting for Easter, along with his best buddy Mario from Basic Training.  The weather was perfect, and so we met up with one of his High School buddies who happened to be here:

Anna Maria Island, off Sarasota Bay.  The High School buddy brought a drone and took this photo.  Yeah, I'm down there somewhere.

Man, I love Florida.