Ken Jensen describes his background in environmental toxicology and medical devices, then argues morality can be grounded without religion. He traces a “true, good, beautiful” triad from Plato through Vitruvius and maps it to objective reality, reciprocity/voluntary exchange, and beauty/grace, contrasting it with a destructive “DOI” (destruction, opposition, inversion) force. He critiques management tactics like permanent crisis, “red dot” diversions, and misuse of Romans 13, citing Katrina clergy response teams. He promotes a “dartboard” model over left-right politics, says ethics and morality are inseparable (Nuremberg vs Nazi view), warns about EU-style centralization, CBDCs, and praises ridicule as a defense. He discusses sound money and presents his books The Enemies of Reason and The Memo.

00:00 Meet Ken Jensen

01:02 Morality Without God

02:23 Early Doubts and Clues

05:13 Climate Debate and First Principles

06:15 Entropy Uppers and Downers

09:02 Religion as Binding Core

10:46 Words Shape Thought

13:38 Plato Truth Good Beauty

17:47 Rome Constantine and Control

20:26 Katrina Clergy Response Teams

23:12 Triad Mapped to Trinity

29:02 Dorothy Model and Inversion

30:43 Universities and Private Property

34:57 Aesthetics vs Brutalism

35:35 Destruction Opposition Inversion

36:04 Parasitic Tactics Explained

36:59 Inverting the Trinity

37:27 Defining What We Defend

38:12 Two Books Overview

38:57 Dartboard Not Left Right

41:04 Morality vs Legal Positivism

43:13 Takeaways Recalibration

46:37 Studying Evil and Pride

49:34 Red Dot Diversions

51:17 Wizard of Oz Q and A

51:48 CBDCs and EU Centralization

56:57 Permanent Crisis and Elites

58:33 Ressentiment and Ridicule

01:01:20 Sound Money Fixes Society

01:04:17 Wrap Up and Contacts

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kpjensen/

https://www.contactauthorkpj.com/

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In a Paris heatwave (33–40°C), Hügo Krüger says France suffers more indoors because only about 25% of homes have AC, unlike near-universal AC in the US/Japan. He describes ideological and regulatory resistance to AC from ecologists and left-wing politicians, despite AC being a reversible heat pump and France’s electricity being largely nuclear. Apartment rules, aesthetic objections, and energy ratings discourage installation; subsidies favor air-to-water heat pumps that can’t cool. Demand for fans and AC is surging, and politicians propose easing restrictions. He expects fewer deaths than 2003 due to heat alerts, but argues AC would reduce vulnerability.

00:00 Paris Heatwave Check In

01:00 Why France Lacks AC

01:33 Myths About Air Conditioning

03:00 Hospitals Trains And Culture

03:42 Politics And Nuclear Power Angle

07:20 Heat Deaths And Public Response

14:47 Regulations Blocking Reversible AC

16:44 How Rare Is This Heat

17:54 2003 Heatwave Lessons

20:31 Hardliners And Building Lobby

22:14 Insulation Fans And Daily Life

24:11 Bigger Pattern And Nuclear Future

29:04 Wrap Up And GoFundMe Plug

https://x.com/hkrugertjie

“fundraiser to buy an AC for the French Heat Wave!”: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-not-melt-in-paris-2026-heatwave?lang=en_US&ts=1782483248

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Erich Schaffer critiques the “super greenhouse effect” and argues that tropical outgoing longwave radiation stays flat mainly because tropospheric temperature is sluggish relative to surface temperature, not because water vapor amplifies greenhouse trapping. He says regional and seasonal proxies for water vapor feedback are invalid (citing admissions by Ramanathan/Inamdar and Dessler et al.) and claims interannual proxy results are distorted by aspect-ratio choices and improper OLS regression, advocating TLS or rotated-benchmark methods. Reanalyzing published plots (Spencer, Lindzen-Choi, Chung, Andy May), he concludes water vapor plus lapse rate implies strong negative feedback and low ECS (~1 K). He also alleges data “fudging” and broader scientific incompetence.

00:00 Super Greenhouse Effect

02:20 OLR Calculations Explained

03:28 Troposphere Sluggishness

05:32 Ramanathan Admission

10:23 Feedback Breakdown Math

12:37 Two Proxies Debunked

14:05 Revisiting Interannual Proxy

16:02 Bad Regression Plotting

17:16 Aspect Ratio Distortion

23:45 OLS vs TLS Regression

30:53 Negative Feedback Emerges

33:22 Spencer Regression Mystery

37:45 Lindzen Choi Critique

41:03 Fixing Lindzen Plot

51:17 Recent Andy May Example

53:21 Rotate Plot Method

55:19 Benchmark Slope Trick

57:38 Questionable Outliers

01:01:26 Proxies Fall Apart

01:02:22 Lapse Rate Physics

01:05:45 Tropical Hotspot Feedback

01:11:10 AR6 Codependency Critique

01:14:24 MODTRAN Water Vapor Test

01:19:44 Emission Altitudes Explained

01:25:22 Net Feedback and ECS

01:27:17 Blunders and Sociology

01:40:54 Q&A and Takeaway

01:44:44 Bonus Coal Math Error

01:47:42 Wrap Up

Erich Schaffer: “Water Vapor Feedback, Part One”: https://youtu.be/2O4mOf9gk-s

https://x.com/erich_schaffer

https://greenhousedefect.com/

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