With all the leftist concern about income inequality, I became a bit suspicious when I read somewhere that 80% of those below the poverty line in the US had air conditioners. This book talk is interesting because the book looks at various ways that income is estimated and analyzes actual inequality considering all taxes, income and transfers. In this analysis there is about 4-fold difference between the lowest and highest quintiles. As the authors point out in the question period, the absolute value of some transfers can be argued but this does not change the fact that the incomes between highest and lowest are not the 17-fold claimed by the census bureau.
How should we measure wealth? We often say that the money belongs to the people not the govt who taxed them to get it.
By that criteria as the US has a 30 trillion dollar debt does that mean that people’s wealth is hugely exaggerated and in fact they have minus incomes?
America’s poorest people spend more per year than does the average resident in the rest of the world’s developed nations. Where do they get all that money? Well, a lot of it is from taxpayers.
I lived the economy of a student until I was mid 40’s. I know a thing or two about living with little money, much more than “muh single mum housing commission wah wah” Albo, or Chris Bowen, that’s for sure. I’m the real deal.
But the bottom line of my life was no different to today, because of cheap energy. I could stay warm, keep cool, cook, refrigerate, freeze, use tools, have hot water on tap, travelled Australia in a car, even went overseas for a few weeks. Buddhist philosophies worked because it was true, my life was good, because of that cheap energy and that cheap energy alone. Without that, like would be tough.
I still don’t look back and think I was poor, it didn’t seem that way to me. Because I wasn’t, I had energy. This is the best gift you can give the poor that genuinely changes their lives, that provides genuine equity.
The left want to destroy that, in the name of equity.
Yeah but thats all a bit dated isn’t it? Things were on the mend during Bretton Woods. So scholars like Tom Sowell used to investigate these matters and would dispel some poor leftist arguments. But in the modern era of central banking computerised fractional reserve looting we have to understand that the argument has moved on.
“With all the leftist concern about income inequality,…..” We should all be concerned. Did it escape your attention that the elite are now looting everything through the central banking system? Did you not notice this? Or do you imagine that Mr FINK is some kind of Randian superhero. Do you think his Momma was better than yours? These people are parasites. They couldn’t be parasites in a well-balanced Misean economy but we don’t have that economy.
So you watch the video and you hear within the first few seconds “the myth of American inequality….” and already you can see he’s talking the most idiotic garbage. This isn’t any sound libertarian deep thought. This is libertarian happy-talk for small babies.
If you look at the people doing well now … They may be trading on the basis of trends, which is skimming off the top since there is no wealth creation function to this trading. Or perhaps they have one of Graebar’s BS jobs that pay a lot but that are useless in the big picture. Or they will be in a protected and rigged labour market, like those possessing an MD license who have been getting us killed these last two years and even before that.
Its only low-paid workers that compete in a free market these days. There is an inversion of value going on and its not easy to explain how it came about shorthand. I don’t know why any of you would want to get bogged down in an whole set of free enterprise arguments that haven’t been relevant since the late 80’s. When I see people going for outdated arguments of this sort I think I’m seeing overpaid public servants, bankers, professional people, or trust babies who can get a financial advisor to double their money while they sleep. In other words people who are worse than useless to the rest of us.
Weekend council elections threw out Jacinda-worshipping mayors in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and a bunch of smaller towns. Wellingtonians, however, voted in a Greenie who wants MORE bike lanes, MORE bus lanes, MORE pedestrian lanes because… ‘climate change’. Which is hilarious because it was freezing and snowing there last week. These people need to get outdoors a little more often.
These people need to get outdoors a little more often.
Indeed.
It’s rare to see someone who pretends to care for the environment that actually spends any time in it, or actually does anything useful for the environment such as invasive weed removal in national parks or other sensitive areas or rubbish removal in those or other sensitive coastal areas, for example.
Likewise, it’s rare to see Leftists actually participate in charity work by giving time, money or services.
“Weekend council elections threw out Jacinda-worshipping mayors in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and a bunch of smaller towns. ”
Its at least a start G i NZ.meanwhile, here in the low part of the high country October 10th, temperature over night minus 1. Hard frost on the vehicles windscreens and grassed areas, dog didn’t want to go outside. Its climate change Jim, but not as we know it!
On the mainland they have noticed a blocking high pressure.
‘Whilst the east of the country is facing significant rainfall and flooding, further west clear skies are bringing a late taste of winter.
‘A broad high-pressure system moving in behind the cold front and low that has plagued the eastern states has led to the perfect conditions for overnight temperatures to drop.’ (Weatherzone)
Here it is 10 October on the Mid North Coast and I put the heat on because it is cold. The Bureau of Meteorology must be working overtime adjusting and homogenising so 2022 can be the hottest year ever. Where are the honest scientists and where is the MSM letting the people know about the dishonest scientists who are keeping the climate scam going when nature is telling them it is bunkum?
Three times in my life I have seen snow fall, all in October. Once on the tail end of a heavy fall in the NSW Northern Tablelands, and twice in a squall. One I could see coming and expected to freeze, but did not because the sago snow just bounced off and didn’t wet me, and in the other I saw dry hail for the only time in my life. that was at Orange.
Here it is, 10th October in Southern NSW, and the snow from Sunday nights snowfall hasn’t finished melting yet. We had about 4 inches of snow on everything Monday morning, including the power lines, which fell down and so the power was out until after 7pm. I could start yelling about “unprecedented” but in my experience of 15 years October is about the most likely month to snow as the spring storms come in. It is sooo wet, but the landscape shows signs that it has been this wet before. Nothing is new under the sun.
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorlogical Propaganda has issued their summary for September 2022.
Obviously, given their record of tampering with data to prove the narrative with regard to the anthropogenic global warming fraud, nothing they say can be trusted.
-For Australia as a whole, September rainfall was the fifth-highest on record.
-Australia’s national area-average mean temperature was 0.69 °C above average for September.
-Both mean maximum and mean minimum temperatures were above to very much above average for the northern tropics, with mean maxima warmest on record for September for some areas.
Strangely, the satellite record, (Roy Spencer and team), have Australia at negative 0.29 for the month compared to their long term average.
Strange how they can be so different, maybe the BOM average has been adjusted down by the difference (0.29+0.69). That’s one hell of an adjustment, or do the BOM set their data point averages from the little ice age in their data, using some proxy of course.
And if we want to see the raw data to compare against the satellite data, can we get a copy, or has it been lost forever following one wild night of being blended and dangled from the ceiling at an all night communal, student house party?
And if we want to see the raw data to compare against the satellite data, can we get a copy, or has it been lost forever
The BoM routinely destroy raw data, in contravention of any scientific principle I ever learned, or indeed any scientist learned, back in the day when they used to teach real science in schools and universties, both institutions of which no longer teach real science, just woke nonsense.
I use electrical heating via heat pumps. I am in Melbournistan in the southern fiefdom of Vicdanistan, Australia.
I noticed that my electricity consumption is up by 31% compared to the same period last year. Since I keep the house heated to 22C/72F 24/7, this implies that overall, the winter was considerably colder than last year.
this implies that overall, the winter was considerably colder than last year.
My wife would go nuts if the house was heated to 22C. Anything over 20C requires cooling to be comfortable for her. Her preferred sleeping temperature is below 16C.
And there are many factors that change heating requirement for maintaining a constant temperature inside a house based on electricity consumption in a heat pump. The performance of the heat pump is a factor and that depends on many variables including deterioration. Wind is factor for both the house cooling and the performance of the heat pump. Relative humidity is another for both evaporator and condenser.
Generally Melbourne has experienced high moisture on the ground this year – plants have thrived. That will increase the average RH and that means more work to heat the internal air. More moisture means more cloud with surface sunlight in both August and September in Melbourne down by 10% this year compared with the last four years. We do not even start the fire on sunny days in September because we can get the house warm enough through the day and then lock it in through the evening. There were not many of those sunny days this year in our part of Melbourne.
Despite all the notes you have provided, consider this. The air in a house, (especially in winter), is generally sealed within the house, there are unlikely to be windows wide open. Based on this, the air inside the house is not going to be exchanged in any great extent with the outside air, so a change in seasonal relative humidity outdoors has little to do with the energy requirements to heat the air indoors.
Now back to the wind, a heat pump that is supplying heat to the inside of a house is trying to chill the outside air. The more wind, (outdoors), the less of that chilled air remains around the HP, hence warmer air that is available for stripping heat from, this is a bonus.
And the cloud cover, as you note the more there is, the less sunlight entering a house. Remember, in winter there are more hours of darkness than daylight, and clouds at night keep the ground warmer than under clear skies. So, cloud cover, if mixed around the clock, would provide a mixed result, in daytime it would result in more heating required but at night, would require less heating. So I’m a little at a loss to say if clouds can change the heating requirements in a house, (unless they only appeared during the day).
I think the important point is the magnitude of the change, 31%. I consider that a large step change. I’d be looking for another HP, that one could be on the way out. Either that, or the weather really was colder.
My assessment, based on the amount of fire wood that I had to cut and carry, was that winter was indeed colder than last year. But that is my opinion and my assessment, my neighbour could see things differently, especially if he has been taking from my wood store.
To account for the urban heat affect, they homogenise all country sites to match urban temperatures, then cool the past, while infilling the massive amounts of missing data to match their climate models.
It is the total opposite of any reality. A complete SHAM.
As well as that, they delete any temperatures before 1910.. while it just happens that the late 1880, early 1900s recorded higher temperature (in proper screens) than any other time in the Australian temperature record.
UAH matches the only pristine data in the world (USCRN) so it is far more valid than any of the underhanded agenda driven manipulations that BOM does.
UAH shows very little, if any, warming this century for Australia. Just a slight peak in 2018/19 because they were very dry years.
UAH is an atmospheric measurement looking at changes at altitude around 273K. It lags the surface temperature by up to a month depending on the amount of moisture in the atmosphere.
In the wet tropics, a comparison between surface and UAH would be best done by comparing the current month UAH anomaly with the previous month surface anomaly.
B’Cold and Wet here in Sydney – Grandkids have not been in Pool or Spa sof far this Season – usually at least one day in August and a number of times in September
‘It was the warmest September on record for Greenland, with exceptional heat, more than 8°C above the monthly average in places.’ (WMO)
This is why the use of anomalies is such a powerful tool if you want to create a false emergency.
Greenland is essentially a giant ice block. It is very difficult to get the surface above 0C. A tiny bit of melter might survive through a few days to get a temperature at the level.
So the average temperature is only se by the minimum, which is around MINUS 26C. Average annual around MINUS 13C.
The only reason the minimum can be higher when there is no sunlight it because there is more latent heat transfer from the neighbouring ocean. If you have not figured it out, that means more snowfall. And who knew that snowfall in Greenland has been steadily rising.
So higher average temperature of the ice block Greenland is purely indicating more snowfall – no other meaning than that.
Well, its not called Iceland or Whiteland or.. so it must have been a lot warmer when people lived there previously.
Another possible reason could be-
“A team of researchers understands more about the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. They discovered a flow of hot rocks, known as a mantle plume, rising from the core-mantle boundary beneath central Greenland that melts the ice from below. ” https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201207102105.htm
meh- All propaganda from the Warmists, those “hottest ever” reports should be ignored.
nah… why this keeps coming up is known only by the like of you
“It actually got its name from Erik The Red, an Icelandic murderer who was exiled to the island. He called it “Greenland” in hopes that the name would attract settlers. But according to scientists, Greenland was actually quite green more than 2.5 million years ago.”
re Erik the Red, it is not even known whether he was the one to name the place. Supposition on every level.
Madsen carefully radiocarbon dated organic remains like wood from the ruins of 1308 Norse farms. The dates show that Gardar, like other rich farms, was established early. But they also suggest that when the first hints of the Little Ice Age appeared around 1250, dozens of outlying farms were abandoned, and sometimes reestablished closer to the central manors.
The bones in middens help explain why: As temperatures fell, people in the large farms continued to eat beef and other livestock whereas those in smaller farms turned to seal and caribou, as Diamond had suggested. To maintain their diet, Greenland’s powerful had to expand labor-intensive practices like storing winter fodder and sheltering cows. He thinks that larger farms got the additional labor by establishing tenant farms.
The stresses mounted as the weather worsened, Madsen suspects. He notes that the average Norse farmer had to balance the spring- and summertime demands of his own farm with annual communal walrus and migratory seal hunts. “It was all happening at once, every year,” Madsen says. Deprivation in lower societal strata “could eventually have cascaded up through the system,” destabilizing large farms dependent on tithes and labor from small ones. The disrupted ivory trade, and perhaps losses at sea, couldn’t have helped. The Greenland Norse simply could not hold on.
Deprivation in lower societal strata “could eventually have cascaded up through the system,” destabilizing large farms dependent on tithes and labor from small ones
And so be it!
We are having the exact same experience. The destruction of small business is beginning to work its way through. The difference is that like France before the Revolution, the taxes and tithes were ultimately supporting an administrative class who were of the opinion they could continue to increase the fines and tolls to enjoy the lifestyle they had become accustomed to.
Erik the Red didn’t just call it Greenland to attract others. There really was a period of relative warmth corresponding to Viking settlement and that of Erik.
Medieval warmth confirmed at the Norse Eastern Settlement in Greenland
We test for a hypothesized positive NAO mode and associated cool conditions during the MCA in South Greenland within the Norse Eastern Settlement by reconstructing δ18O values of precipitation at subcentennial resolution over the past 3000 yr using aquatic insect subfossils preserved in lake sediments. More positive δ18O values are found between 900 and 1400 CE, indicating a period of warmth in South Greenland superimposed on late Holocene insolation-forced Neoglacial cooling, and thus not supporting a positive NAO anomaly during the MCA.
*Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
It maybe more than a weather patch, blocking has been happening for 30 years so its climate.
‘Blocking over Greenland is known to lead to strong surface impacts, such as ice sheet melting, and a change in its future frequency can have important consequences. However, as previous studies demonstrated, climate models underestimate the blocking frequency for the historical period.’ (Copernicus)
Interesting that we are wrecking the energy economies of the Western world in pursuit of an undefinable ‘normal’.
While on the other hand trashing Western culture for daring to define ‘normal’ gender identity, or normalcy in general.
If it were trending cooler, would that be ‘normal’.
I guess we must strive, at all cost, to make the glaciers stand still.
I pledge to block roads until all H2O on the planet stops transitioning, and gender transition surgery is provided free to children without parental consent.
I have food products made from ‘all natural’ ingredients.
Were I to consume ‘normal’ food, I may be subject to shaming by either a dietician or a vegetarian.
Oh and don’t forget, a ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ immune system is anti-social and requires repeated and mandated anthropogenic intervention.
I’m focussed on Lake Mungo 47,000 years BP, it was full to the brim with fresh water and an abundance of food.
Temperature and evaporation were lower than now, being semi glacial, but over thousands of years this was the dream time.
Jumping to the chase, a geomagnetic excursion around 42,000 years BP brought the curtain down. As we approach the LGM sand dunes have reached the Blue mountains, a cold and desolate place and its a wonder humans survived.
el+gordo
” …its a wonder humans survived.”
Ahhh
Might that be a tribute to the human adaptability, which, it now seems is schientifically conshenschussally voted down on us being able to survive another, what, 0.4C increase in Global Average Temperature.
However that might be guessed, estimated, homogenised.
The tropics are warmer than usual, there is a reason for that.
This is the crux of the matter. The southern half of the continent has been cooler for longer, its a climate change signal in the midlatitude which they blithely ignore.
‘The national mean temperature for September was 0.69 °C warmer than the 1961–1990 average for Australia as a whole.
‘Area-average mean maximum temperature for September was 0.02 °C above average nationally, while the mean minimum temperature was 1.36 °C above average — the tenth-highest on record for September since national records began in 1910.’ (BoM)
In Belgium “doctors” are killing 23 year olds just because they are “depressed”.
This article was a little hard to find. I know about it because of the conservative media I watch. Not so easy to find via Goolag search engine. This is because the Left are trying to normalise euthanasia for lesser and lesser reasons.
I am not saying the girl didn’t suffer, but since evidently she didn’t have an organic brain disorder, since she was OK before the incident that triggered her depression, perhaps she just needed the right people to talk to. After all, people do survive and often get over PTSD from wars.
I don’t think enough was done to try to help her. Killing her was the easy way out for her and her supposed support workers.
A 23-year-old woman in Belgium who survived an ISIS terrorist attack at the Brussels airport in 2016 was granted her request to be “euthanized” after suffering from depression for years.
. Shanti De Corte opted to be euthanised amid enduring mental health struggles after Brussels attacks in 2016
. She was 17 when she narrowly escaped the Brussels terror attacks in 2016 and left psychologically scarred
. Shanti emerged physically unhurt but suffered with significant depression and PTSD, twice attempting suicide
. The 23-year-old was euthanised earlier this year, a procedure legal in Belgium under strict conditions
I would posit that either the “social workers” messed her up, or she was “damaged goods” before the event, or BOTH.
Harsh?
Not really. “Modern” life has successfully “insulated” vast swathes of the population from the “grittier” aspects of life. This of course includes PERSONALLY dealing with disgusting diseases and DEATH in the home, on a regular basis.
How many “modern, civilized” folk:
Kill and dress their own animals for food and hides?
In my world, beheading and “dressing” poultry was a regular event.
Standing ankle-deep in the blood and guts of a freshly-killed deer, feral buffalo or domestic bovine, as you cut it up and bag it? DO NOT slip; proper boning knives are razor-sharp for a reason.
Field-shot goats? MMMMM…Low-Fat Lamb!! REALLY good when slow-roasted with a bit of the fat from the last bunch of ducks that transited the kitchen.
Then, there are other “non-culinary” events:
Have a succession of elderly relatives expire in the family house?
Have a succession of CHILDREN expire from injuries or nasty diseases, in the same house?
REGULAR “reality checks”. Without them, some folk end up with a very odd perspective on the world.
I dont understand the death in the home thing you’re talking about.
Otherwise yes, I agree with what you’re saying, people are so out of touch with reality that the mind goes.
But not everyone can slaughter their own meat. Though they can deal better with the emotions of a cat catching a bird. That’s a dose of reality right there, that most react badly to because they are out of touch with reality. In reality there is no problem with it.
It’s a good mind exercise to challenge yourself in accepting it, because it’s not easy to do.
Until recently most elderly died at home.
Now you get to die in a hospital, often with a tube down your throat and your hands tied to the bed to keep you from pulling it out.
And your relatives can’t visit you so you don’t catch COVID.
And the children and the sensitive are protected from the realities of life.
And the medical economy is productive.
It is science based and much more civilized.
That’s been quite big news here in the UK. One article confirmed that this death wasn’t the first time this had happened in Belgium? One version of the story is that she had severe existing mental problems before the attack.
. Whist such instances of euthanasia are not frequent it is a worrying trend
Lawsuit claims Amazon is No. 1 seller of deadly chemical used in suicides.
Lawyers, who are representing parents suing Amazon for selling “suicide kits” to teenagers who died by suicide, say they have reached a “breaking point.”
Amazon lawyers have allegedly told parents that the online retailer had a right to sell these so-called “suicide kits.” The kits are described in the lawsuit as bundled items that Amazon suggests buyers purchase together, including a potentially lethal chemical called sodium nitrite, a scale to measure a lethal dose, a drug to prevent vomiting, and a book with instructions on how to use the chemical to attempt suicide. The online retailer’s lawyers also allegedly said that it would be “unfair and inhumane” to hold Amazon liable for the teens’ deaths.
Amazon appears to bundle items into “suicide kits”
This case of PTSD was treated by psychologists who admit there is no cure for it.However, it is a spiritual problem and needs to be treated with spiritual ministry. The trick cyclists don’t go along with this
I’m a bit undecided at which end of the spectrum of managing someone elses life for them I am on. Probably if someone doesnt want their life after an extended period of time, I dont think “saving” them because it somehow aligns with my values/beliefs is a good thing. Having known a couple people also traumatised long term by dealing with the outcomes of desperate people ending their lives messily (they usually arent in any state to think about the consequences for others) the path this young woman took seems the lesser of the available evils.
The modern way of treating trauma is one of the problems – “councillors” encouraging clients to go over and over the events, stamping them into memory. When I was 16, I was pillion on a motor bike when a 5 y/o ran into the side of the bike. It was messy and I held her in the truck that took her to the nearest hospital where she died. When I got home, Mum got me hot milk and a stiff dose of phenobarbital. This was the procedure in WWI. And it got the troups back on the field rahter than suffering PTSD.
From a pharmacological perspective, a strong sedative (alcohol, barbiturates, more recently benzos) interfere with memory processing, particularly processing of emotions.
I am not saying that there were not invalids from WWI, rather that physical injury was more likely to produce post war deficits. When culture insists that a man gets over it and functions, by and large they do. In contemporary fiction, Dorothy Sayers’ Peter Whimsy’s aristocratic breeding made him more “sensitive” than his batman-later butler.
The Left are trying to destroy Matt Walsh, a US conservative with a particular interest in fighting the hormonal and surgical mutilation of children via transgender procedures, with a campaign of slander.
On Saturday, Florida’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, made waves by becoming the first major health official in the country to recommend against males 18-39 getting the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. That came after an extensive, multi-year study showed an 84 percent rise in cardiac-related deaths among the age group. That backed up prior studies which had also pointed to an increased risk of heart issues.
Ladapo’s job is to make those determinations and give his recommendations to the general public. That would be the same general public that chose to elect Ron DeSantis, who appointed the surgeon general, as governor of Florida.
Unfortunately, Twitter has long shown it is a ward of the politicized CDC and quickly moved to censor Ladapo’s announcement. As far as I can tell, it was an unprecedented move to silence a duly-appointed health official of a major state.
Think about how Orwellian and perhaps dangerous Twitter’s move was. They chose, supposedly of their own volition (but likely with a wink and nod from the Biden administration), to directly interfere in the public health decision of a US state. Again, a massive social media company decided it should have the power to override and ignore the recommendation of a duly-elected administration, dictating to the public instead.
Political cartoonist Michael Ramirez has won two Pulitzer Prizes – an achievement only a handful of others in his category have achieved – as well as countless other awards for his unmatched mastery of his craft. His cartoons, syndicated by Creators, run in publications around the world.
Yet, to Google’s content police, Ramirez’s cartoons are “shocking content” and it is restricting ads on a page where a catalog of them appears.
How do we know this? Because it’s against our site that Google has taken this action.
Google’s AdSense network – which is used by some 3.5 million websites to generate revenue – defines “shocking content” as content that:
. contains gruesome, graphic, or disgusting accounts or imagery.
. depicts acts of violence.
. contains a significant amount of or prominently features obscene or profane language.
We appealed this ruling with Google and were denied. No explanation was offered, of course. And there’s no possible way to know what would constitute a “fix” that would satisfy Google.
See for yourself here. Ramirez’s cartoons can be provocative. They can be hilarious. They can be deadly serious. But they are works of art. There’s a reason we label him “World’s Greatest Cartoonist.”
This isn’t the only content Google is attacking. Every day we get alerts from Google AdSense of “policy violations” by one of our editorials or op-eds. Some are even more idiotic than the label they’re slapping on Ramirez cartoons.
. An I&I/TIPP poll asked registered voters if they were worried about President Joe Biden’s mental health. Google labeled our report on the poll’s findings as “dangerous and derogatory.” How, exactly, are we supposed to “fix” this to Google’s satisfaction? Change the poll results? It’s worth pointing out that our polling partner, TIPP, is a highly respected firm that has had the most accurate forecasts for every presidential election since 2000.
Too many in business journalism only see black and white on coal, just as the Greens have only been able to see gas as a negative despite a clear understanding when they signed a deal with Labor PM Julia Gillard in 2010.
Media reporting of corporate activism in Australia needs to be balanced by clear-eyed business journalism that recognises the financial interests of shareholders and superannuation investors.
Uncritical reporting of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) commitments by business has created a climate in which the social policies of companies and superannuation funds often receive inordinate publicity, but ESG decisions that reduce profitability and therefore dividends and superannuation returns receive little journalistic attention.
Divestment of thermal coal assets is a case in point. Journalists and shareholder activists should be demanding to know why some boards have unloaded coal investments when many listed coal stocks are at record highs, the coal price is almost five times what it was a decade ago, and total global coal-fired power generation has never been higher.
Sky News Australia host and News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt last Monday revealed a letter sent by super fund HESTA, which represents 950,000 workers mainly in the health sector. HESTA, with $68bn under management, is chaired by former Labor attorney-general Nicola Roxon. On Sky News, Bolt read from a letter sent by HESTA to the largest 300 companies on the Australian Stock Exchange.
The letter, Bolt said, warned companies HESTA would be investing in businesses taking action on global warming and fighting for gender equality, for those appointing more female directors and those addressing the gender pay gap, and against social inequality. It was looking at companies that rely less on casual workers, offer flexible work practices and help stop the loss of nature. Bolt argued this was a left wing agenda that spoke nothing about support for free speech or “divestment from the Chinese dictatorship”.
HESTA should ‘get back to doing what they have to’ amid climate push
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says health super fund HESTA’s recent letter to ASX 300 companies demanding… they take action on climate change is a pattern of behaviour being seen “across the corporate sector”. “Where the corporate state, if you like, is trying to become the entire state,”
In February 2022, Israeli government data showed a nearly 3% drop in birth rate from the previous year; Israel is one of the most jabbed countries.
In June 2022, Japan reported its largest natural population decline in history as birthrates fall lower than ever before.
In July, Sweden showed a significant drop in birth rates, but health officials seem dumbfounded as to the reason.
Birth rates across the globe are dropping: Taiwan (>23%), Germany (11%) and the UK (~8%), among many others.
Data from Public Health Scotland shows ovarian cancer at an all-time high and critical levels of newborn deaths. Their own VAERS system shows a whopping 1,517% increased risk of miscarriage post-jab.
First, I want to post a video I found on Twitter (original here) which shows what kind of explosion took place on the Crimean bridge.
From what I have read, a truck filled with explosives blew up, killing three people in a car nearby, and then the flames took over a train also crossing the bridge. That train was full of fuel. It is only thanks to the amazing speed at which the bridge crews reacted that the damage was limited to only 9 wagons and, therefore, to a much shorter segment of the rail tracks.
Looking at the video, one would imagine that the bridge is in ruins. In fact, traffic was reestablished on both rail tracks and the road in less than 24 hours (with the exception of heavy trucks). In other words, this is yet another case of “it is humiliating, but not dangerous” (обидно но не опасно).
But that is an increasingly mistaken notion: this time is also VERY dangerous.
. It is self-evident that the Kiev regime would never have had the means, technical and political, to execute such an attack without being told to do so by its masters in the West.
. Such an attack, right on the heels of the attacks on of NS1/NS2 shows beyond any doubt that West has now set a course on total terrorist warfare.
. This makes sense, since for all the so-called “victories” of the NATO forces in the Ukraine, the reality is that they reconquered a few villages and towns while Russia liberated and then incorporated entire regions.
. And Russia did that while always being at a numerical disadvantage
. And while inflicting 10:1 KIA ratios.
. In other words the West’s “redirection” towards terrorism is an admission of military, economic and political defeat.
While this is hardly a surprise, the West *always* uses terrorism against sovereign governments, this is still a very negative development for Russia.
Simply put, there are always more targets than cops/guards.
Furthermore, terrorists can always chose the time and location of their attacks.
In the meantime, it is simply shocking for me to observe the collective orgasm felt by the leaders of the West each time some horror befalls Russia. Truth be told, the fact that they hate us does not surprise me. What surprises me much more is how unapologetically hate-filled and “in your face” these cries of joy are.
I don’t see it was the truck, the truck was just caught in the explosion.
There’s not the blackened firemarks on the concrete & asphalt, no hole in the roadway, the explosion starts off the bridge over the non-railway side and goes across the truck to the railway, and the slabs of road fail to hold together. The Kherson bridge that has been hit by many missiles looks completely different too.
It seems far more likely someone detonated a charge where the road segments of the bridge are joined together, so the segments separated, fell off their columns and into the sea. The expansion joints between the road segments are their weakest points.
More photos will show it better, at the moment we are just lucky to have social media reports of it. I certainly wouldn’t believe ANY Govt’s reports on it.
For most Russians, however, the early 1990s was a time of despair, uncertainty and hardship. During that period, real power laid entirely in the hands of local oligarchs. As noted by Orlando Figes, a British historian best known for his outstanding books on Russian history, those oligarchs “behaved as if they were the government”, demanding posts from the then-president Boris Yeltsin, who was barely able to carry out his job due to heart attacks and heavy drinking. “The state was in danger of breaking into fiefdoms controlled by the oligarchs”, Figes says.[2]
By the end of the 1990s the Russians were desperately hoping for someone who could save their nation, someone who would be healthy, patriotic and … sober. It is in this context that a former intelligence officer was manoeuvred into power in the mid-1990s.
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Putin was a candidate in that year’s presidential election. He campaigned with the promise of a “dictatorship of the rule of law”, thus appealing to everyone tired of the lawlessness of the past decade.[4] As a result, Putin duly won in the first round of that election with 53 per cent of the vote.[5] Ordinary Russians, desperate for an end to their misery, believed they had found in their new president an energetic politician who could lead the nation towards a brighter future.
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The 2004 presidential election in Russia was held on March 14 and Putin won in a landslide with more than 71 per cent of the popular vote.
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Augusto Zimmermann is Professor and Head of Law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education in Perth. He is also President of the Western Australian Legal Theory Association (WALTA) and Editor-in-Chief of the Western Australian Jurist law journal. From 2012 to 2017, he served as a Law Reform Commissioner in Western Australia.
Augusto Zimmermann is Professor and Head of Law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education in Perth.
For most Russians, however, the early 1990s was a time of despair, uncertainty and hardship. During that period, real power laid entirely in the hands of local oligarchs. As noted by Orlando Figes, a British historian best known for his outstanding books on Russian history, those oligarchs “behaved as if they were the government”, demanding posts from the then-president Boris Yeltsin, who was barely able to carry out his job due to heart attacks and heavy drinking. “The state was in danger of breaking into fiefdoms controlled by the oligarchs”,
Vladimir Putin had just returned from Germany to his hometown of St. Petersburg. In due course, he became the city’s deputy mayor, and, in 1996, he moved to Moscow. On 9 August 1999, he was appointed first deputy prime minister and later that year Yeltsin resigned. Then Putin became Russia’s acting president.
Putin was a candidate in that year’s presidential election. He campaigned with the promise of a “dictatorship of the rule of law”, thus appealing to everyone tired of the lawlessness of the past decade.[4] As a result, Putin duly won in the first round of that election with 53 per cent of the vote.[5] Ordinary Russians, desperate for an end to their misery, believed they had found in their new president an energetic politician who could lead the nation towards a brighter future. Indeed, the early 2000s were marked by a remarkable recovery of the Russian economy, which allowed ordinary Russians to enjoy unprecedented levels of comfort and security.[6]
The 2004 presidential election in Russia was held on March 14 and Putin won in a landslide with more than 71 per cent of the popular vote. In 2008, as the Russian Constitution did not allow a third consecutive term, Putin’s prime minister, Dmitry Medveded, was elected as the new president for a four-year term. When his term was nearing its end, he endorsed Putin’s presidential candidature again, in 2012.
In reality, however, Putin’s approval rating among his people has remained well above 71 per cent since the beginning of the war and Western economic sanctions, according to the Levada Analytical Center His public approval rating rose to 83 per cent in September, one of the highest levels of his presidency. High global energy prices have helped him follow through on his pledge to reduce poverty and inequality despite the sanctions.
The Australian Energy Market Operator chief will call for a “mature conversation” among governments, industry and customers to thrash out a workable version of the controversial “capacity mechanism” to spur investment in firm generation needed to keep the lights on amid an accelerating energy transition.
Industry bosses are worried that the market is running out of time to build the replacement capacity, but AEMO’s Daniel Westerman will tell The Australian Financial Review Energy & Climate Summit in Sydney on Monday that energy ministers and officials are “leaning in to this strongly”.
However, he will warn that the firmed renewable capacity required to replace coal power plants set to shut down at an accelerating rate will not be built under the existing market design.
Mr Westerman says that is why the Energy Security Board recommended a so-called capacity mechanism to drive investment in “firming” capacity such as pumped hydro to back up weather-dependent wind and solar power.
Federal and state energy ministers in August threw out the ESB’s preferred option for the market reform amid worries by several governments that the mechanism could prolong the life of coal power stations.
They took back control of the work on the market redesign from the ESB, which has worried bosses of traditional power generators because of the inevitable further delay.
Alinta Energy’s Jeff Dimery said last week he feared the energy transition was “headed for failure” amid the delays, given the quickening pace that coal power stations were closing. EnergyAustralia’s Mark Collette said on Friday he was more concerned than 12 months ago that the transition to low-carbon energy might be rocky.
Origin Energy chief executive Frank Calabria, who will appear with Mr Dimery and Mr Collette at the Summit, will call for a twin focus on keeping existing plants reliable and fast-tracking the build-out of new cleaner capacity.
Make certain you have a means of running important things like fridge and freezer independent of the power grid.
I live in leafy outer suburban Melbourne and am beginning to see a need for a fire plan. I already do things like clear gutters annually but I consider there is value in having a decent source of pressurised water on site. I have a 1000l tank that I can keep full through fire season and electric pump attached but I have never checked if my off-grid inverter will power it. A portable generator would be handy.
Summer 22/23 should be still moist but 23/24 could be the opposite.
I am hopeful that the grid operator is ahead of the game with contingency plans such that the whole place does not go dark but increasing likelihood of rolling “demand management” crudely referred to as rolling blackouts.
Solar does not “generate” at night. Wind does not generate on windless days
Batteries? Get real! In the unlikely event that these fruitcakes are actually serious about “stable, reliable electricity supply”, could someone point me to a ten thousand MWH “battery” and the THREE_PHASE inverter to convert the DC to “dispatchable” AC? Somewhat larger than your basic PC UPS and many orders of magnitude more expensive.
And, given the continuing self-immolation of sparky cars after recent US wet weather, could there be “unforeseen events” in store?
The solar panel “cold callers” are back on the job. I field several per week. There must be some “loose” cash in the offing, somewhere.
“….to spur investment in firm generation needed to keep the lights on amid an accelerating energy transition.”
This statement shows how disconnected from reality they are. Its like ensuring that Thelma and Louise have enough fuel to drive off the cliff. What an amazing string of suicidal management weasel words.
Monday morning & Courier mail article reports Defence cost blow outs……….
That of course is code for Labor to cut defence spending as usual in the hope that China
Will suddenly become our biggest chum and that fool, President Joe Frau, will fall DOWN the airforce steps and forget to get up again.
“Defence cost blow outs……….” …from giving too much away to Ukraine.. The whole industry needs a massive review and a lot of heads to roll. We need to determine our place in the world, what we are aiming for in the future and how expensive and flexible our approach can be.
Buying highly overpriced hardware from America so it can be used as cannon fodder in the front of their forces is not the way to go!
A successful bidder in Victoria’s latest renewable energy auction that plans a 77-megawatt solar farm is optimistic that enough renewable energy will be built to replace coal-fired power stations as they are decommissioned at an accelerating rate.
The Victorian government committed to underwrite another six large-scale solar farms and several big batteries on Friday in its second big renewable energy auction.
“There’s a very healthy pipeline of renewable energy projects,” said Baifu Du, project manager at South Energy, one of the six successful bidders with its Fraser project in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.
“There is also a good pool of labour. As we are close to various power plants and power stations, there won’t be a shortage of local workers, electricians, or mechanics to help work on the project.”
The six new projects to emerge from Victoria’s second renewable auction aim to provide a combined 623 megawatts of renewable capacity and four big batteries to help meet the state’s target of 100 per cent renewable electricity for government operations by 2025.
Together, the projects will generate nearly 1460 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of renewable energy per year, enough to power 300,000 homes.
Construction on the Fraser project will begin in mid-2023 and it will bring on 77 megawatts of power when commissioned around mid-2024. It will cost more than $100 million to build.
Auctions such as those of the Victorian government add significantly to the growing pipeline of renewable energy and storage projects.
But some in the industry worry that the sheer number of workers and the quantity of new equipment needed to support the $US5 trillion investment, which the International Energy Agency estimates will be needed globally between now and 2030, will hamper Australia’s efforts.
Victoria’s first major renewable energy auctions in 2018 underwrote an initial 928 megawatts of large-scale wind and solar energy projects.
The numbers sound impressive until you dig deeper – 623 MW of renewable capacity to produce 1,460 GWh annually to power 300,000 houses! This works out as an annual capacity factor of 26.8%, which is about right.
Now compare this with the output from one of Loy Yang A’s turbines rated at 560 MW capacity. If we assume an annual capacity factor of 80% for this unit, it will produce 3,924 GWh annually, enough to power 806,300 houses! Add the other 3 Loy Yang A turbines to the equation and it produces enough energy to power 3,225,200 houses annually.
So based on these figures, Vic. only has to install another 6,700 MW of renewable capacity, or about 10 times more just to cover the planned closure of Loy Yang A in 2035.
And, I’d like to see a solar or wind subsidy farm power even one house.
You cannot power anything that is constantly and randomly varying between nothing and maximum and anything in between depending on the vagaries of the wind and sun.
A successful bidder in Victoria’s latest renewable energy auction that plans a 77-megawatt solar farm is optimistic that enough renewable energy will be built to replace coal-fired power stations as they are decommissioned at an accelerating rate.
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Together, the projects will generate nearly 1460 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of renewable energy per year, enough to power 300,000 homes.
Loy Yang A – last year – 15,555GWH total generated power.
Victoria’s first major renewable energy auctions in 2018 underwrote an initial 928 megawatts of large-scale wind and solar energy projects.
Is is statements like this that are so misleading. The guaranteed output of that 928MW is ZERO. All that capacity actually has negative value because it floods the market with unused potential and offers nothing when the demand is high. The States are in a race to see which one can collapse their region next and Albo is cheering them on. If Victoria goes then SA will as well. So far only SA has gone dark.
They either do not understand, or choose to ignor, the scale of the issue and ammount of RE generation , and storage, that will be needed just to compensate for the closure of existing fossil fueled generators.
You do not need to be a genius to realise that 77 MW , or 623 MW of RE installed …giving 1460 GWh annually,..is simply PATHETIC !
That is not even a small fraction of the capacity of a single coal generator unit !
everyone seems to be stepping over the line that says “….to help meet the state’s target of 100 per cent renewable electricity for government operations by 2025.”
the target is actually a modest one, a non critical one, one backed up by the real grid and one they can trumpet success about while actually delivering very little.
Geert Vandeen Bossche says it’s five minutes past twelve, that the coming epidemic of severe disease for the vaccinated is unavoidable if we continue to follow our current covid19 management policies. He explains why he believes this and the only way to avoid it. If he is correct, then with the current mindset of our medical authorities, it will come.
I greatly respect Geert. But he is such an immunology wonk that much of his valuable advice gets lost. But I see no evidence that is wrong in his argument and predictions. In this particular entry he is very pessimistic and almost distraught.
America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.
LOS ANGELES — Building the nation’s first bullet train, which would connect Los Angeles and San Francisco, was always going to be a formidable technical challenge, pushing through the steep mountains and treacherous seismic faults of Southern California with a series of long tunnels and towering viaducts.
But the design for the nation’s most ambitious infrastructure project was never based on the easiest or most direct route. Instead, the train’s path out of Los Angeles was diverted across a second mountain range to the rapidly growing suburbs of the Mojave Desert — a route whose most salient advantage appeared to be that it ran through the district of a powerful Los Angeles county supervisor.
The dogleg through the desert was only one of several times over the years when the project fell victim to political forces that have added billions of dollars in costs and called into question whether the project can ever be finished.
Now, as the nation embarks on a historic, $1 trillion infrastructure building spree, the tortured effort to build the country’s first high-speed rail system is a case study in how ambitious public works projects can become perilously encumbered by political compromise, unrealistic cost estimates, flawed engineering and a determination to persist on projects that have become, like the crippled financial institutions of 2008, too big to fail.
Although it comes more than a half century after Asia and Europe were running successful high-speed rail systems, the bullet train project when it was first proposed in the 1980s was new to America, larger than any single transportation project before it and more costly than even the nation’s biggest state could finance in one step.
The state was warned repeatedly that its plans were too complex. SNCF, the French national railroad, was among bullet train operators from Europe and Japan that came to California in the early 2000s with hopes of getting a contract to help develop the system.
The company’s recommendations for a direct route out of Los Angeles and a focus on moving people between Los Angeles and San Francisco were cast aside, said Dan McNamara, a career project manager for SNCF.
The company pulled out in 2011.
“There were so many things that went wrong,” Mr. McNamara said. “SNCF was very angry. They told the state they were leaving for North Africa, which was less politically dysfunctional. They went to Morocco and helped them build a rail system.”
When the high-speed line was built in Germany between Frankfurt Airport and Cologne, they basically chose a direct route and put in an entirely new line. It even goes straight through small hillocks with small metal tunnels.
Scientists say: Time Vortices Caused By Carbon – We Must Decarbonise NOW Or Perish!
As poster #2, being 4 or 5 hours ahead of Perth and 2 or 3 ahead of Sydney (some states do/not have Daylight Robbery / Saving) and almost a whole day ahead of the USA, I can tell you the future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses. Let’s do the time-warp again.
And to add insult to massive injury, as reported front page in the Australian, Queensland is considering a ‘$4bn to $8bn’ desalination plant because of increased population and Climate Change predictions.
How many floods will a desalination plant prevent?
And where are they going to get the electricity to power it? Hydro? Windmills? Solar Panels?
Australia has effectively banned the construction of power plants (nuclear, coal, gas) and dams.
It is a land of ‘drought and flooding rains’. Desalination is a joke as the East Coast of Australia is awash with wasted water and devastation far exceeding any predictions of ‘Climate Change’. And did those same models predict the last year of floods?
The only prediction which is certain is that there is a flood after every drought. And people go from drought relief to flood relief to drought relief.
Another good waste of water is that flushed down the dunny and pumped out to sea. In Victoria the Cardinia dam recieves desalinated water pumped uphill for about 70 kilometres, while the Carrum sewerage farm raises waste water to potable levels and runs it down hill at about the same distance, then lets it flow into the sea.The distance between these two places,Cardinia dam and Carrum as the crow flies is about 30 kilometres. Every time using recycled water is mentioned the press always claim “who wants to drink recycled sewage” while in fact it is the water content that is recycled and understanding really simple chemistry can explain that this water can be a higher level of purity than what currently runs out of the tap.
It’s not just the waste, but that the money is being directed to buying overseas desalination plants. Surely they could buy ours from Victoria, or South Australia’s. Unused. Or perhaps build a dam? Or two.
And as for the idea that the necessity is based on Climate Change predictions, how much trust are they putting on predicitions which have been eternally wrong? Where were the Climate Change predictions for the massive rains in Australia? The last I heard, we had never ending drought but still these failed Climate Change models are being used to set Government policy.
Surely we could just get some voodoo witch doctors on loan from Papua or the Carribbean or Africa? Or start slaughtering goats and examining the auspices. In a very professional scientific manner. Like Climate Change Models which have never, ever been right.
Or has the govenment had to move from Queensland because of the rapid sea rise on the coast? Or the demise of the Great Barrier Reef on which billions have been spent for nothing at all?
It is so infuriating to read that Climate Change predictions are being used to set Government policy. And necessitate the purchase of even more desalination plants? Are the French salesmen back in town?
I had to laugh at some reporter’s maths skills back in 2020 when they calculated that Bloomberg could’ve paid every US citizen 1 million $ and still had change left over.
That’s after he spent (?) 500 million $ on his dud 2020 intervention in the DEMs run up before the Biden choice to face Trump.
In fact if you gave 330 million US citizens 1 million dollars each the cost would be a staggering 330 trillion $.
And even the 21 (?) trillion $ US economy would take about 15.7 years to repay that handout. Of course leaving nothing left to pay for anything else to run the world’s largest economy.
Then you wonder why do some people actually BELIEVE some of the junk theories about their so called Climate CRISIS or EMERGENCY or even an EXISTENTIAL THREAT for Humans?
Again the theories just ignore the actual data and evidence, but who cares?
Joseph Toomey looks at the latest and self inflicted energy crisis to face the so called wealthy Western countries. And many more relevant recent stories from the Manhattan Contrarian.
A local bakery must have felt the necessity to explain to customers why they were raising prices by posting about how much their costs had gone up since January 2021 (when Joe Biden came in). The Wall Street Silver account that has posted a lot of interesting things about inflation posted the bakery’s whiteboard explanation and it’s pretty jarring when you look at just how much it has increased.
Arrgh, I see the plan here. Bread, the good old “staff of life” if people can’t afford bread, well, let them eat cake.
I seem to recall a certain Middle East dictator that had bakers “baked” in their ovens when they tried to raise the price of this most staple of all food stuffs. Didn’t matter that all of the bakers cost inputs had spiralled out of control, it was just clearly the bakers fault. Joe Biden economics is so easy.
Rummaging around the web, I see Dehmlow has a BA in Political Science .. isn’t that a reliable indicator of someone devoted to Leftism? (and probably looking for advancement in the Deep State or the Democrat Party).
She also has an MA in Public Administration.
So… she was well qualified for a career in Left-wing Activism .. ummm .. but what about Law Enforcement?
Personally, if I were hiring Federal agents, I would bin a CV from anyone with a Political Science degree.
Dear Leader, Stabcinda Ardern, has a BA in Political Science & Communication and watch her go (!) communicating politricks & nonsense / non-science.
From La Presidente of the Socialist Yoof to Propaganda Minister (PM) of Aotearoa (aka New Zealand) and who knows where to next, her ‘learnings’ sure have catapulted her onto the world stage… albeit in my books, a D-minus B-grade actress.
Funny how, during her trip to New York on other business, she made time to drop in to Blackrock for ‘tea and bikkies’.
I just assumed she was collecting further instructions from the WΕF .. hence her recent advocacy for internet censorship — SHE didn’t think of that! .. it was in the scented love-note from Dävos.
The Left claim solar and wind is the cheapest of all electricity.
So, consumers should be allowed to select solar and wind with Big Battery storage or electricity from traditional proper power stations.
It is possible to do this with smart electricity meters with the right software.
A condition would be that whichever system a consumer chooses, it can’t be backed up by the other. So if a consumer chose unreliables and it was dark and windless and the battery went flat then they would be without electricity.
This is the only way to bring a reality check to the situation.
Maybe a PWM system like a basic solar contfler. Subcribe to renewable power and the meter will calculate how many minutes you get in the next hour based on what renewables are actually delivering that day. Sounds fair to me.
(Temporary COVID-19 Provisions) Bill 2022 – 42 Page PDF
77M. Powers to control and use property and related powers
(1) For the purposes of COVID-19 management while a
COVID-19 declaration is in force, an authorised
COVID-19 officer may take control of or make use of
any place, vehicle or other thing.
(2) The place, vehicle or other thing may be in, or outside,
the declaration area.
(3) For the purposes of exercising a power under
subsection (1), an authorised COVID-19 officer may
enter, or if necessary break into and enter, any place or
vehicle.
(4) An authorised COVID-19 officer may direct the owner
or occupier, or the person apparently in charge, of a
place, vehicle or other thing to give the authorised
COVID-19 officer reasonable assistance to exercise the
officer’s powers under this section.
(5) An authorised COVID-19 officer may exercise the
powers under this section without a warrant or the
consent of the owner or occupier, or the person
apparently in charge, of the place, vehicle or other
thing.
(6) If an authorised COVID-19 officer takes control of or
makes use of any place, vehicle or other thing under
this section, the authorised COVID-19 officer must
ensure that, as soon as is reasonably practicable in the
circumstances and no later than 7 days after the place,
vehicle or thing is taken control of or made use of, a
notice is given to the owner or occupier, or the person
formerly in charge, of the place, vehicle or thing
stating —
(a) that the place, vehicle or thing has been taken
control of or made use of under this section;
and
(b) the name of the authorised COVID-19 officer
who has taken control of or made use of the
place, vehicle or thing.
Nobody has ever accused First Lady Jill Biden of having the best taste when it comes to how she dresses.
Sorry, DOCTOR Jill Biden.
Either the woman needs to fire the stylist who keeps dressing her like a piece of furniture from an old Sears catalog OR she needs to actually hire one because WOOF. Time and time again people have shown photos of Jill in her latest bizarre dress and compared them to old sofas and curtains … but Twitter user Rondalee Iowa has made a ‘hobby’ of it and wow, the thread she put together is spectacular and hilarious.
Nothing to see here: Coal plant extensions not needed, Energy Security Board says
“The rapid fire exit of coal power plants this decade will require 45 gigawatts of new power supply by 2030, nearly the entire capacity of the current national electricity market, the Australian Energy Market Operator said.”
“The 45GW of supply needed by 2030 will be dominated by 36GW of renewable generation through solar and wind with 9GW from new firming capacity like batteries, pumped hydro and gas.”
But, but, but, that 9GW is not additional to the 36GW, rather it must be subtracted. And that 36 GW nameplate is really only about 10GW.
In the rural shire where I live the local council is formulating a plan to “reduce methane emissions from farming”. What does this mean? Well certainly farmers will be restriced as to what they are allowed to farm. Graziers will be forced to either reduce herd size or pay a tax levied on every head of livestock to “meet emissions requirements”.
What is the impact of these measures, thats easy to answer. Increased costs of production means increased costs at supermarkets, farmers credits will probably be awarded to properties that “rewild” areas and of course the ultimate aim I am sure is the total destruction of privately owned farms. Local rates continue to rise year on year and as old blokes die off young people will not be able to afford to get into farming, even if you inherit the family property.
Our council has a diversity officer, a reconciliation officer, a climate change officer and an inclusions officer it does not have an officer whose job is to look at rates reduction.
Real industries are discouraged or banned ( logging mining ) but the feel good industry of tourism is pushed relentlessly. This industry is so sustainable that if some one sneezes in China the entire industry is wiped out overnight.
‘Coal plant extensions not needed, Energy Security Board says…’
Fair enough, they’re the “experts”! And since our obsequious, unenquiring populace believes anything it’s told by “experts” (the more ludicrous the better), we should just “believe”…
But, we’re going to need insurance. I propose each of the “experts” wear an explosive collar, which remains inert UNTIL the power goes out. After all, we are gambling with peoples’ lives here.
So, are we still playing the “Coal plant extensions not needed” game, or might there be a sudden reconsideration of the “expert” position?
“The 45GW of supply needed by 2030 will be dominated by 36GW of renewable generation through solar and wind with 9GW from new firming capacity like batteries, pumped hydro and gas.”
But, but, but, that 9GW is not additional to the 36GW, rather it must be subtracted. And that 36 GW nameplate is really only about 10GW.
You are right … but at least at the moment of peak usage it is possible to add the storage output capacity to the generation output capacity to get peak output.
It won’t work with averages of course because the average power produced by any storage system is negative.
Typically any science or engineering turns to mush when processed through a journalist … therefore it’s worth going at least back to the original document and bypass as much of that digestive process.
The ISP’s optimal development path recognises and guides the significant investment needed in the physical infrastructure and intellectual capital of the NEM. That investment is needed to:
• Meet significantly increased demand as homes, vehicles and industrial applications switch to electricity from existing energy sources. Without coal, this will require a nine-fold increase in utility-scale variable renewable energy (VRE) capacity, and a near five-fold increase in distributed solar photovoltaics (PV),
• Treble the firming capacity from alternative sources to coal that can respond to a dispatch signal, including utility-scale batteries, hydro storage, gas-fired generation, and smart behind-the-meter “virtual power plants” (VPPs),
• Adapt complex networks and markets for two-way electricity flow, while leveraging AEMO’s Engineering Framework to prepare the power system for 100% instantaneous penetration of renewables, and
• Efficiently install more than 10,000 km of new transmission, to connect geographically and technologically diverse, low-cost generation and firming with the consumers who rely on it, on a pathway that is low cost and low regrets for consumers, with project work commencing on their earliest planned schedule.
I’m not entirely sure what they mean by investing in “intellectual capital” … possibly they would like to buy a vowel, or phone a friend.
A nine-fold increase in utility-scale variable renewable energy by 2030 simply ain’t gonna happen … Australia doesn’t have the money, and this would be crazy expensive.
Same applies to massive “utility-scale” batteries, which could be built, but they are extremely costly and not particularly reliable. No idea who would pay for this or how it could possibly compare to coal or nuclear in terms of affordability.
I closed my PayPal account today. Better late than never. I didn’t seem to have anywhere to tell them why, but hopefully they are starting to work that out now.
One of the violations listed, according to the agreement, is that … “[users] may not use the PayPal service for activities that … involve the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials that, in PayPal’s sole discretion … promote misinformation.”
But it appears that the policy continues to be in effect for other speech, according to PayPal’s official Acceptable Use Policy, last updated Sept. 20, 2021:
Violation of this Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a violation of the PayPal User Agreement and may subject you to damages, including liquidated damages of $2,500.00 U.S. dollars per violation, which may be debited directly from your PayPal account(s) as outlined in the User Agreement (see “Restricted Activities and Holds” section of the PayPal User Agreement).
Prohibited activities
And the cited “Restricted Activities and Holds” policy makes clear that “Actions We May Take if You Engage in Any Restricted Activities” are determined based on PayPal making the decision “in our sole discretion,” if Paypal “believe[s] that you’ve engaged in any of these activities.”
So if PayPal “in [its] sole discretion” concludes that you’re using PayPal “for activities that … relate to transactions involving … promotion of” “discriminatory” “intolerance”—presumably including distributing publications, or for that matter buying publications (since that’s an activity related to transactions involving the promotion of certain views)—it can just take $2500 straight from your account.
Might you, for instance, be sharply criticizing a religion? Or saying things that sharply condemn, say, government officials (police, FBI, etc.) in ways that some might say involve “promotion of hate”? Or praising people who have acted violently (e.g., in what you think is justifiable self-defense, or defense of others, or even war or revolution)? If PayPal thinks it’s bad, it’ll just take your money.
Green policies have crippled Europe. They will do the same to America
But are the high prices really Putin’s fault? He didn’t sanction himself, after all. It’s the West that chose to cut itself off from the Russian fossil fuels upon which it had come to rely. Moreover, the sanctions have failed — Russia’s corporate profits leapt 25 percent between the imposition of the sanctions and the end of August.
So what are the origins of the current energy crisis? When did it really begin?
Let’s play a game. Guess which year these headlines are from: “Curtailed ammonia production in Antwerp and Ludwigshafen.” “High natural gas prices lead to a shutdown of British fertilizer plants.” “Diesel Shortage Amid Soaring Prices: Truck Stops Resort To Rationing.” If you guessed 2022, you’d be wrong. Those are all from September 2021.
The truth is that the energy crisis began to take effect late last year. A combination of post-Covid demand rebound, a wind drought in Europe and depleted fossil fuel storage on the continent all collided to put serious pressure on the world’s industrial systems. Add the longstanding overinvestment in unreliable renewables, nuclear plant closures across the world in the wake of the Fukushima disaster and a global drop of more than 50 percent in oil and gas investment — from $700 billion to $300 billion — between 2014 and last year, and you have everything you need to kick off a global energy crunch. Russian tank treads running from the Donbas to Kyiv just made it all worse.
When politicians blame Putin, they’re deflecting from their own failures. It’s hard to blame them, especially if they’re European. Aluminum smelters in the EU have had to shutter operations, as have fertilizer plants, glass factories and various other manufacturers. Germany, the continent’s largest economy, is about to lose much of its manufacturing base to high energy prices. Industry and union leaders have been sounding the alarm for months, warning that Germany’s manufacturing sector could collapse without enough energy.
Fun with language.
Say the same thing twice, only the second time it’s different.
An acronym makes for better marketing.
Perhaps MAPs can draw the map to social acceptance.
(Australian) Retail electricity prices tipped to rise at least 35pc in 2023.
Oct 10, 2022 – 2.19pm, Australian Financial Review reports:
Retail electricity prices could soar by at least 35 per cent in 2023 due to the soaring cost of wholesale energy, as the system grapples with the transition to clean energy amid a global supply crisis, power company bosses have told The Australian Financial Review’s Energy & Climate Summit.
“Next year, using the current market prices, tariffs are going up a minimum 35 per cent,” Alinta Energy chief executive Jeff Dimery told the summit in Sydney. He said rising costs have forced the so-called “gentailers” – which generate electricity and also sell it to consumers – to write off $11.7 billion of shareholder funds over the past five years.
What Alinta’s margin call from Macquarie says about energy crisis
Broken markets. Soaring prices on futures markets. Bill shock. Construction pain. Australia’s top energy CEOs are not optimistic about what’s coming.
At 4:27pm AEST
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‘Game changer’ needed to protect consumers from soaring energy bills
“The Australian Energy Regulator will call for a new approach to dealing with customers in hardship to ensure low-income households can survive an era of record commodity prices and big spending on the infrastructure needed to transition to clean energy.
AER chairwoman Clare Savage will next week publish a report into vulnerable customers in the energy market. She told The Australian Financial Review Energy and Climate Summit the report would call for systems that identified struggling consumers before their debts spiralled out of control.”
Hmm… Might need to store some wood in my backyard shed.
“What cost $1 billion to acquire is going to cost me $8 billion to replace. So let’s talk about that and still explain to me how energy prices come down, I don’t get it.”
Referring to another costly symptom of the faltering energy transition, Mr Dimery said the cash collateral that Alinta needed to cover its wholesale energy position on the futures exchange had already increased to $700 million from $200 million and “our view is it’s heading to a billion [dollars] and beyond”.
“Every time we write a futures contract off our power station, I have to put more collateral into the market,” he said. “It’s starting to impact liquidity.”
Just today, the 2025 futures price had increased $7 a megawatt hour, while the 2024 price increased $12 a megawatt hour, he said. “So I’m looking forward to a margin call from Macquarie Bank later today on our margin position, which will go up.”
While Australia was in a “luxurious” position compared to the UK, a 35 per cent minimum tariff increase would be “horrendous,” Mr Dimery acknowledged.
The scale of investment needed to build renewables infrastructure is “enormous,” he stressed.
“What’s been done over the past 20 years – we’re probably talking about two or three times that, or more, and to be done over the next seven years to hit the 2030 targets,” Mr Collette said. “It is a critical phase … there’s been more announcements of closures than there have been announcements of acceleration of new projects.”
Alinta’s Mr Dimery said that he was “quite pessimistic” about a smooth transition to renewables given the tens of billions of dollars of development needed during a period of intense labour shortages.
“What’s been done over the past 20 years – we’re probably talking about two or three times that, or more, and to be done over the next seven years to hit the 2030 targets………,”
Whilst much of what he said was true,….that part was way off the mark,..by orders of magnitude !
“The mass of batteries required is enormous. The estimated mass is 2.78 billion tonnes of Li-Ion
batteries (where stationary power buffer storage makes up most of this). This estimate is so enormous,
it becomes now appropriate to ask is it even possible in context of mineral reserves available, as this
far exceeds global reserves and is not practical. However, it is not clear how this power buffered could be
delivered with an alternative system at this scale. If no alternative system is developed, the wind and solar
power generation may not be able to be scaled up to the proposed global scope.”
My comment:
Geological Survey of Finland is a leading European competence center on the assessment and sustainable use of geological resources.
They believe in AGW. They believe in renewables, AND.. they also report that they can’t be built at scale to replace the fossil fuels in the near future (a decade or two).
Do any of our politicians actually consult the real experts?
Do any of them read the reports?
To understand what is going on now you should be taking as analogous the “Mouse Utopia Experiments.”
You will know what I am driving at if you go and investigate what happened in these experiments. But I can give you a spoiler alert; All the mice ALWAYS die. Its a repeatable and repeated experiment. They all die. And they always die every time. So we need to understand how this works. Or else we won’t be able to act against our elites in time.
Its not a theory, its an observation. You always end up with no mice. And its the way they end up with no mice, that looks to have parallels. Yes of course we all die. Is this the language police getting in our shit?
Its not a theory, its an observation. We always end up with no mice. I did understand already that mice were not immortal, before you breathed some sense into my tired brain.
What was the point of your link gordo? Just some arbitrary distraction, so that people SHOULD NOT look into the parallels? There was no point to it was there? No there wasn’t. You are just sending people down wild goose chases for no good reason. The link was less relevant than your deep revelation that none of us are both immortal and invincible at the same time.
The general feeling is that mice and humans stop having babies through over crowding, this I generally agree with. The optimum number for a hunter gatherer group is around 40.
In a modern society millions live in close proximity without any problem, but the middle class stop having children (beyond replacement value) because of the economic impost.
‘Much of Asia has now caught up with or overtaken it. Japan’s fertility rate of 1.3 in 2020, the latest year for which comparable figures are available, puts it on a par with mainland China, according to the Population Research Bureau, an American outfit.
‘China’s birth rate is likely already to have fallen behind Japan’s: there were 10.6m Chinese births last year, down from 12m in 2020, a decline of 11%. The number of births fell only 3% in Japan.’ (The Economist)
Question …
if there were a two years long highly infectious respiratory viral outbreak of historically epic deadliness …
how is it that homeless encampments in major metropolitan areas were not out wiped out…
either from the deadly infection or the lockdown police?
Its not something to be proud of. These Russians could knock out London Bridge Monday, Sydney Harbour bridge Tuesday, Golden Gate Bridge Wednesday, and take out the Hunter Valley power generation on the Thursday to better suit their mood. The leadership of the Ukraine, who are NOT Ukrainian, are terrorists. The terrorists now have over 300 children on their international kill list. Adults too but these people are particularly keen on murdering other peoples children.
If we allow their sickening human sacrifice and barbarism to continue, these behaviours may become bipartisan, and thats a fast track to the end of civilisation.
It’s presentation of fact nothing more.
People have posted speculation about the guilty party and method of attack.
It’s you and others apparently enjoying the slaughter of innocent civilians.
There’s only one criminal barbaric regime acting here, Putin’s war crimes far exceed any possible claim of proportionality.
The response to the bridge attack was entirely predictable. But Putin’s justification in verbal response was risible, crying terrorism, when there could not possibly be a more legitimate military target, and there is only him targeting civilians in pure vengeance.
Cole was put on puberty blockers and testosterone at just 13 years old, which caused a ripple of negative side effects including unbearable hot flashes and what she describes as an endless feeling of boredom.
I demand global temperature equity.
Weather is unfairly distributed.
Too many are climate disadvantaged.
Probably caused buy structural hemispheric inequality.
Although striking effects of vaccination strategy against COVID-19 world-wide, a long-term influence by sequential viral mRNA injections are unknown. We analysed biological alterations by total RNA sequencing in Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinated normal healthy volunteers and cancer patients, with or without adjuvant Huaier therapy. A significant destruction in ribosomal RNA structures was identified, enhanced by serial shots. Unlike the destruction caused by chemotherapy with platinum (II) complex, progressive destruction in 18S ribosome was identified even at 6 months after vaccination. The influence resulted in massive inhibition of translation and transcription, significantly in intra/inter neural signaling transfer and in lipid metabolism, related to ageing process. Huaier compensated these dysfunctions by miRNA-mediated transcriptional control, by typical activation in PI3K/AKT signaling pathway. Gene Ontology analysis revealed spontaneous virion production in number even after 3 months of the first vaccination. Present study indicated that the adjuvant therapy like Huaier compensates accelerated ageing process by mRNA vaccination.
Have you ever read the vaccine insert that offers warnings about side effects, adverse events and allergic reactions? Doctors and nurses are supposed to be sure the patient reviews this before being injected, but how often does this ever happen? What if you found out there’s a history of people needing cancer tumors surgically removed that developed at the vaccine injection site, some within weeks of the shot? Whether a vaccine is injected into your shoulder, thigh, lower back, flank (side) or buttocks, it is NOT UNCOMMON for sarcoma cancer tumors to develop at the site of injection, and that goes for humans and their pets (dogs and cats), according to pediatricians, military doctors and veterinarians.
“Now doctors are saying that COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer, and not just at the site of injection, but throughout the body due to toxic spike proteins that travel to cleansing organs.”
There is much more information in the one-hour and eight-minute interview.
Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes one-on-one with pathologists Dr. Ryan Cole, as he exposes the covid lies that will cost millions their lives for 6.4.22.
More BS and fra-d about Indian Monsoons, but they’re still calling for more lies and nonsense to feed their alarmist propaganda.
But I’m sure our blog donkeys will still BELIEVE it.
Also no difference in rainfall data trends for the UK and Ireland since the start of the Ind Revolution.
So where is their so called climate EMERGENCY or CRISIS or EXISTENTIAL threat?
But regrettably plenty more of their BS and fra-d.
Going back a little further there is a connection between the sub continent and the North Atlantic.
‘A clear feature is a persistent southward shift of the ITCZ during the Little Ice Age until the beginning of the 19th Century. Strong covariation between our new composite ITCZ-stack and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) records reveals a tight coupling between these two synoptic weather and climate phenomena over decadal-to-centennial timescales.’ (Lechleitner et al. 2017)
Let’s hope the German Greens are belted in the Lower Saxony elections and continue to suffer more heavy losses from now on.
These left wing extremists deserve everything that’s coming to them and just a pity that voters were stupid enough to vote for them at the last election.
And ditto Labor, Greens and Teal voters who left their brains at home in the recent Aussie FED election.
We should never forget the Holgate SE Aussie rainfall study 1839 to 2017 that showed extreme rainfall events in the earlier decades for Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
But overall there doesn’t seem to be any extreme trends over that period of 178 years.
CO2 has had no discernible impact on precipitation rates over the UK and Ireland.
‘The Rainfall Rescue project used volunteers to digitize 66,000 pages containing 5.28 million hand-written monthly rainfall observations from all over the UK and Ireland between 1677 and 1960, which is the “largest climate-related citizen science data rescue project ever completed”
(Notrickszone)
With all the leftist concern about income inequality, I became a bit suspicious when I read somewhere that 80% of those below the poverty line in the US had air conditioners. This book talk is interesting because the book looks at various ways that income is estimated and analyzes actual inequality considering all taxes, income and transfers. In this analysis there is about 4-fold difference between the lowest and highest quintiles. As the authors point out in the question period, the absolute value of some transfers can be argued but this does not change the fact that the incomes between highest and lowest are not the 17-fold claimed by the census bureau.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL1DSo_gvK4&t=8s
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How should we measure wealth? We often say that the money belongs to the people not the govt who taxed them to get it.
By that criteria as the US has a 30 trillion dollar debt does that mean that people’s wealth is hugely exaggerated and in fact they have minus incomes?
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https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/26/analysis-americas-poor-nation-theyd-among-worlds-richest/
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Best value thing for the poor is cheap energy.
I lived the economy of a student until I was mid 40’s. I know a thing or two about living with little money, much more than “muh single mum housing commission wah wah” Albo, or Chris Bowen, that’s for sure. I’m the real deal.
But the bottom line of my life was no different to today, because of cheap energy. I could stay warm, keep cool, cook, refrigerate, freeze, use tools, have hot water on tap, travelled Australia in a car, even went overseas for a few weeks. Buddhist philosophies worked because it was true, my life was good, because of that cheap energy and that cheap energy alone. Without that, like would be tough.
I still don’t look back and think I was poor, it didn’t seem that way to me. Because I wasn’t, I had energy. This is the best gift you can give the poor that genuinely changes their lives, that provides genuine equity.
The left want to destroy that, in the name of equity.
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Well said! Dynamite. Energy is life.
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Yeah but thats all a bit dated isn’t it? Things were on the mend during Bretton Woods. So scholars like Tom Sowell used to investigate these matters and would dispel some poor leftist arguments. But in the modern era of central banking computerised fractional reserve looting we have to understand that the argument has moved on.
“With all the leftist concern about income inequality,…..” We should all be concerned. Did it escape your attention that the elite are now looting everything through the central banking system? Did you not notice this? Or do you imagine that Mr FINK is some kind of Randian superhero. Do you think his Momma was better than yours? These people are parasites. They couldn’t be parasites in a well-balanced Misean economy but we don’t have that economy.
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So you watch the video and you hear within the first few seconds “the myth of American inequality….” and already you can see he’s talking the most idiotic garbage. This isn’t any sound libertarian deep thought. This is libertarian happy-talk for small babies.
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If you look at the people doing well now … They may be trading on the basis of trends, which is skimming off the top since there is no wealth creation function to this trading. Or perhaps they have one of Graebar’s BS jobs that pay a lot but that are useless in the big picture. Or they will be in a protected and rigged labour market, like those possessing an MD license who have been getting us killed these last two years and even before that.
Its only low-paid workers that compete in a free market these days. There is an inversion of value going on and its not easy to explain how it came about shorthand. I don’t know why any of you would want to get bogged down in an whole set of free enterprise arguments that haven’t been relevant since the late 80’s. When I see people going for outdated arguments of this sort I think I’m seeing overpaid public servants, bankers, professional people, or trust babies who can get a financial advisor to double their money while they sleep. In other words people who are worse than useless to the rest of us.
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Sunday… Monday… Wednesday…
Weekend council elections threw out Jacinda-worshipping mayors in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and a bunch of smaller towns. Wellingtonians, however, voted in a Greenie who wants MORE bike lanes, MORE bus lanes, MORE pedestrian lanes because… ‘climate change’. Which is hilarious because it was freezing and snowing there last week. These people need to get outdoors a little more often.
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Indeed.
It’s rare to see someone who pretends to care for the environment that actually spends any time in it, or actually does anything useful for the environment such as invasive weed removal in national parks or other sensitive areas or rubbish removal in those or other sensitive coastal areas, for example.
Likewise, it’s rare to see Leftists actually participate in charity work by giving time, money or services.
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Greg. Nature tends to have a bigger Bill Board than the UN and other communist misfits wearing good suits and lab coats.
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“Weekend council elections threw out Jacinda-worshipping mayors in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and a bunch of smaller towns. ”
Its at least a start G i NZ.meanwhile, here in the low part of the high country October 10th, temperature over night minus 1. Hard frost on the vehicles windscreens and grassed areas, dog didn’t want to go outside. Its climate change Jim, but not as we know it!
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Au contraire. These people need to be kept indoors, in rooms made with rubber walls, especially on election days.
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On the mainland they have noticed a blocking high pressure.
‘Whilst the east of the country is facing significant rainfall and flooding, further west clear skies are bringing a late taste of winter.
‘A broad high-pressure system moving in behind the cold front and low that has plagued the eastern states has led to the perfect conditions for overnight temperatures to drop.’ (Weatherzone)
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Greens live in their own greenhouse! Things grow from nothing. Water, nutrition and light just ‘happens’.
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Is it generally known that he is a transvestite?
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Here it is 10 October on the Mid North Coast and I put the heat on because it is cold. The Bureau of Meteorology must be working overtime adjusting and homogenising so 2022 can be the hottest year ever. Where are the honest scientists and where is the MSM letting the people know about the dishonest scientists who are keeping the climate scam going when nature is telling them it is bunkum?
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Because every time we vote we end up with politicians.
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Three times in my life I have seen snow fall, all in October. Once on the tail end of a heavy fall in the NSW Northern Tablelands, and twice in a squall. One I could see coming and expected to freeze, but did not because the sago snow just bounced off and didn’t wet me, and in the other I saw dry hail for the only time in my life. that was at Orange.
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Because minimum temperatures are not as low as usual when it’s so wet, the unadjusted daily mean will not be that low. Wouldn’t take much adjusting.
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Here it is, 10th October in Southern NSW, and the snow from Sunday nights snowfall hasn’t finished melting yet. We had about 4 inches of snow on everything Monday morning, including the power lines, which fell down and so the power was out until after 7pm. I could start yelling about “unprecedented” but in my experience of 15 years October is about the most likely month to snow as the spring storms come in. It is sooo wet, but the landscape shows signs that it has been this wet before. Nothing is new under the sun.
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Australia’s Bureau of Meteorlogical Propaganda has issued their summary for September 2022.
Obviously, given their record of tampering with data to prove the narrative with regard to the anthropogenic global warming fraud, nothing they say can be trusted.
Data fraud at the BoM has been reported by Jennifer Marohasy and Jo. See e.g. https://joannenova.com.au/2017/08/scandal-australian-bureau-of-meteorology-caught-erasing-cold-temperatures/
Some highlights:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/month/aus/summary.shtml
-For Australia as a whole, September rainfall was the fifth-highest on record.
-Australia’s national area-average mean temperature was 0.69 °C above average for September.
-Both mean maximum and mean minimum temperatures were above to very much above average for the northern tropics, with mean maxima warmest on record for September for some areas.
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Strangely, the satellite record, (Roy Spencer and team), have Australia at negative 0.29 for the month compared to their long term average.
Strange how they can be so different, maybe the BOM average has been adjusted down by the difference (0.29+0.69). That’s one hell of an adjustment, or do the BOM set their data point averages from the little ice age in their data, using some proxy of course.
And if we want to see the raw data to compare against the satellite data, can we get a copy, or has it been lost forever following one wild night of being blended and dangled from the ceiling at an all night communal, student house party?
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The BoM routinely destroy raw data, in contravention of any scientific principle I ever learned, or indeed any scientist learned, back in the day when they used to teach real science in schools and universties, both institutions of which no longer teach real science, just woke nonsense.
Jo has reported this. See, for example:
https://joannenova.com.au/2017/08/another-bom-scandal-australian-climate-data-is-being-destroyed-as-routine-practice/
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I use electrical heating via heat pumps. I am in Melbournistan in the southern fiefdom of Vicdanistan, Australia.
I noticed that my electricity consumption is up by 31% compared to the same period last year. Since I keep the house heated to 22C/72F 24/7, this implies that overall, the winter was considerably colder than last year.
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My wife would go nuts if the house was heated to 22C. Anything over 20C requires cooling to be comfortable for her. Her preferred sleeping temperature is below 16C.
And there are many factors that change heating requirement for maintaining a constant temperature inside a house based on electricity consumption in a heat pump. The performance of the heat pump is a factor and that depends on many variables including deterioration. Wind is factor for both the house cooling and the performance of the heat pump. Relative humidity is another for both evaporator and condenser.
Generally Melbourne has experienced high moisture on the ground this year – plants have thrived. That will increase the average RH and that means more work to heat the internal air. More moisture means more cloud with surface sunlight in both August and September in Melbourne down by 10% this year compared with the last four years. We do not even start the fire on sunny days in September because we can get the house warm enough through the day and then lock it in through the evening. There were not many of those sunny days this year in our part of Melbourne.
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Despite all the notes you have provided, consider this. The air in a house, (especially in winter), is generally sealed within the house, there are unlikely to be windows wide open. Based on this, the air inside the house is not going to be exchanged in any great extent with the outside air, so a change in seasonal relative humidity outdoors has little to do with the energy requirements to heat the air indoors.
Now back to the wind, a heat pump that is supplying heat to the inside of a house is trying to chill the outside air. The more wind, (outdoors), the less of that chilled air remains around the HP, hence warmer air that is available for stripping heat from, this is a bonus.
And the cloud cover, as you note the more there is, the less sunlight entering a house. Remember, in winter there are more hours of darkness than daylight, and clouds at night keep the ground warmer than under clear skies. So, cloud cover, if mixed around the clock, would provide a mixed result, in daytime it would result in more heating required but at night, would require less heating. So I’m a little at a loss to say if clouds can change the heating requirements in a house, (unless they only appeared during the day).
I think the important point is the magnitude of the change, 31%. I consider that a large step change. I’d be looking for another HP, that one could be on the way out. Either that, or the weather really was colder.
My assessment, based on the amount of fire wood that I had to cut and carry, was that winter was indeed colder than last year. But that is my opinion and my assessment, my neighbour could see things differently, especially if he has been taking from my wood store.
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My hearing system is only about 3 years old therefore lack of efficiency due to wear is not likely to be an issue
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To account for the urban heat affect, they homogenise all country sites to match urban temperatures, then cool the past, while infilling the massive amounts of missing data to match their climate models.
It is the total opposite of any reality. A complete SHAM.
As well as that, they delete any temperatures before 1910.. while it just happens that the late 1880, early 1900s recorded higher temperature (in proper screens) than any other time in the Australian temperature record.
UAH matches the only pristine data in the world (USCRN) so it is far more valid than any of the underhanded agenda driven manipulations that BOM does.
UAH shows very little, if any, warming this century for Australia. Just a slight peak in 2018/19 because they were very dry years.
UAH shows September 2022 as 28th warmest in 44 years. No September warming since 1995.
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UAH is an atmospheric measurement looking at changes at altitude around 273K. It lags the surface temperature by up to a month depending on the amount of moisture in the atmosphere.
In the wet tropics, a comparison between surface and UAH would be best done by comparing the current month UAH anomaly with the previous month surface anomaly.
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Trends should not differ, though.
Trouble is , all the data manipulation by BOM et al. gets rid of all meaningful data…
… and so is bound to produce a meaningless straight line of their desired outcome.
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B’Cold and Wet here in Sydney – Grandkids have not been in Pool or Spa sof far this Season – usually at least one day in August and a number of times in September
BOm badly corrupted organisation.
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Over the other side of the Great Divide on the plateau its chilly, but further afield its another story.
‘Last month was the 4th warmest September (tied) on record globally, per @CopernicusECMWF
‘It was the warmest September on record for Greenland, with exceptional heat, more than 8°C above the monthly average in places.’ (WMO)
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This is why the use of anomalies is such a powerful tool if you want to create a false emergency.
Greenland is essentially a giant ice block. It is very difficult to get the surface above 0C. A tiny bit of melter might survive through a few days to get a temperature at the level.
So the average temperature is only se by the minimum, which is around MINUS 26C. Average annual around MINUS 13C.
The only reason the minimum can be higher when there is no sunlight it because there is more latent heat transfer from the neighbouring ocean. If you have not figured it out, that means more snowfall. And who knew that snowfall in Greenland has been steadily rising.
So higher average temperature of the ice block Greenland is purely indicating more snowfall – no other meaning than that.
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Well, its not called Iceland or Whiteland or.. so it must have been a lot warmer when people lived there previously.
Another possible reason could be-
“A team of researchers understands more about the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. They discovered a flow of hot rocks, known as a mantle plume, rising from the core-mantle boundary beneath central Greenland that melts the ice from below. ”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201207102105.htm
meh- All propaganda from the Warmists, those “hottest ever” reports should be ignored.
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nah… why this keeps coming up is known only by the like of you
“It actually got its name from Erik The Red, an Icelandic murderer who was exiled to the island. He called it “Greenland” in hopes that the name would attract settlers. But according to scientists, Greenland was actually quite green more than 2.5 million years ago.”
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Also a lot less ice during and for all the preceding 7000 or so years. before the MWP.
https://i.ibb.co/8bytsCK/Greenland-Ice-Sheet-Briner.jpg
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It is significant that geothermal heat plays a big part the ice melt.
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re Erik the Red, it is not even known whether he was the one to name the place. Supposition on every level.
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-did-greenland-s-vikings-disappear
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And so be it!
We are having the exact same experience. The destruction of small business is beginning to work its way through. The difference is that like France before the Revolution, the taxes and tithes were ultimately supporting an administrative class who were of the opinion they could continue to increase the fines and tolls to enjoy the lifestyle they had become accustomed to.
I say,
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‘ … the origin of these activities and their interconnectedness has largely been unexplored.’
Because the AGW meme is the only show in town.
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Erik the Red didn’t just call it Greenland to attract others. There really was a period of relative warmth corresponding to Viking settlement and that of Erik.
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/47/3/267/568708/Medieval-warmth-confirmed-at-the-Norse-Eastern
Medieval warmth confirmed at the Norse Eastern Settlement in Greenland
We test for a hypothesized positive NAO mode and associated cool conditions during the MCA in South Greenland within the Norse Eastern Settlement by reconstructing δ18O values of precipitation at subcentennial resolution over the past 3000 yr using aquatic insect subfossils preserved in lake sediments. More positive δ18O values are found between 900 and 1400 CE, indicating a period of warmth in South Greenland superimposed on late Holocene insolation-forced Neoglacial cooling, and thus not supporting a positive NAO anomaly during the MCA.
*Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
SEE LINK FOR REST
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I don’t know why warmists think the climate has never changed in historic times.
Perhaps because they have written the Medieval Warm Period put of history.
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UAH map for September shows Greenland in very localised “less below freezing than normal” patch…. a WEATHER patch.
Northern Russia/China a bit warmer than their average “very cold” September ..
Scandinavia rather colder.
Rest of the world a big load of nothing much happening
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It maybe more than a weather patch, blocking has been happening for 30 years so its climate.
‘Blocking over Greenland is known to lead to strong surface impacts, such as ice sheet melting, and a change in its future frequency can have important consequences. However, as previous studies demonstrated, climate models underestimate the blocking frequency for the historical period.’ (Copernicus)
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“less below freezing than normal”
Interesting that we are wrecking the energy economies of the Western world in pursuit of an undefinable ‘normal’.
While on the other hand trashing Western culture for daring to define ‘normal’ gender identity, or normalcy in general.
If it were trending cooler, would that be ‘normal’.
I guess we must strive, at all cost, to make the glaciers stand still.
I pledge to block roads until all H2O on the planet stops transitioning, and gender transition surgery is provided free to children without parental consent.
I have food products made from ‘all natural’ ingredients.
Were I to consume ‘normal’ food, I may be subject to shaming by either a dietician or a vegetarian.
Oh and don’t forget, a ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ immune system is anti-social and requires repeated and mandated anthropogenic intervention.
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If the data can be corrupted enough, the past, present, and future can be “whatever we say it was/is/will be”.
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Not an indigenous historian are you?
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Actually, I am 😛
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I’m focussed on Lake Mungo 47,000 years BP, it was full to the brim with fresh water and an abundance of food.
Temperature and evaporation were lower than now, being semi glacial, but over thousands of years this was the dream time.
Jumping to the chase, a geomagnetic excursion around 42,000 years BP brought the curtain down. As we approach the LGM sand dunes have reached the Blue mountains, a cold and desolate place and its a wonder humans survived.
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el+gordo
” …its a wonder humans survived.”
Ahhh
Might that be a tribute to the human adaptability, which, it now seems is schientifically conshenschussally voted down on us being able to survive another, what, 0.4C increase in Global Average Temperature.
However that might be guessed, estimated, homogenised.
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Colour me a tad unconvinced. A BIG tad ….
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They sought out well watered niches for refuge.
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2013/09/ice-age-struck-indigenous-australians-hard/
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The tropics are warmer than usual, there is a reason for that.
This is the crux of the matter. The southern half of the continent has been cooler for longer, its a climate change signal in the midlatitude which they blithely ignore.
‘The national mean temperature for September was 0.69 °C warmer than the 1961–1990 average for Australia as a whole.
‘Area-average mean maximum temperature for September was 0.02 °C above average nationally, while the mean minimum temperature was 1.36 °C above average — the tenth-highest on record for September since national records began in 1910.’ (BoM)
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In Belgium “doctors” are killing 23 year olds just because they are “depressed”.
This article was a little hard to find. I know about it because of the conservative media I watch. Not so easy to find via Goolag search engine. This is because the Left are trying to normalise euthanasia for lesser and lesser reasons.
I am not saying the girl didn’t suffer, but since evidently she didn’t have an organic brain disorder, since she was OK before the incident that triggered her depression, perhaps she just needed the right people to talk to. After all, people do survive and often get over PTSD from wars.
I don’t think enough was done to try to help her. Killing her was the easy way out for her and her supposed support workers.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/10/08/23-year-old-who-survived-2016-isis-airport-attack-euthanized-after-mental-health-struggles-n1635522
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11291995/Woman-23-survived-2016-Brussels-airport-ISIS-bomb-euthanised-Belgium.html
. Shanti De Corte opted to be euthanised amid enduring mental health struggles after Brussels attacks in 2016
. She was 17 when she narrowly escaped the Brussels terror attacks in 2016 and left psychologically scarred
. Shanti emerged physically unhurt but suffered with significant depression and PTSD, twice attempting suicide
. The 23-year-old was euthanised earlier this year, a procedure legal in Belgium under strict conditions
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I would posit that either the “social workers” messed her up, or she was “damaged goods” before the event, or BOTH.
Harsh?
Not really. “Modern” life has successfully “insulated” vast swathes of the population from the “grittier” aspects of life. This of course includes PERSONALLY dealing with disgusting diseases and DEATH in the home, on a regular basis.
How many “modern, civilized” folk:
Kill and dress their own animals for food and hides?
In my world, beheading and “dressing” poultry was a regular event.
Standing ankle-deep in the blood and guts of a freshly-killed deer, feral buffalo or domestic bovine, as you cut it up and bag it? DO NOT slip; proper boning knives are razor-sharp for a reason.
Field-shot goats? MMMMM…Low-Fat Lamb!! REALLY good when slow-roasted with a bit of the fat from the last bunch of ducks that transited the kitchen.
Then, there are other “non-culinary” events:
Have a succession of elderly relatives expire in the family house?
Have a succession of CHILDREN expire from injuries or nasty diseases, in the same house?
REGULAR “reality checks”. Without them, some folk end up with a very odd perspective on the world.
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‘Modern, civilised’ whatevers they are don’t even like to get their hands dirty. They are non-survivors.
I’ve done a few of your list, don’t enjoy it, but if the supermarkets get empty the rifle comes out again.
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I dont understand the death in the home thing you’re talking about.
Otherwise yes, I agree with what you’re saying, people are so out of touch with reality that the mind goes.
But not everyone can slaughter their own meat. Though they can deal better with the emotions of a cat catching a bird. That’s a dose of reality right there, that most react badly to because they are out of touch with reality. In reality there is no problem with it.
It’s a good mind exercise to challenge yourself in accepting it, because it’s not easy to do.
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Until recently most elderly died at home.
Now you get to die in a hospital, often with a tube down your throat and your hands tied to the bed to keep you from pulling it out.
And your relatives can’t visit you so you don’t catch COVID.
And the children and the sensitive are protected from the realities of life.
And the medical economy is productive.
It is science based and much more civilized.
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That’s been quite big news here in the UK. One article confirmed that this death wasn’t the first time this had happened in Belgium? One version of the story is that she had severe existing mental problems before the attack.
. Whist such instances of euthanasia are not frequent it is a worrying trend
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Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths, according to new lawsuit
Lawsuit claims Amazon is No. 1 seller of deadly chemical used in suicides.
Lawyers, who are representing parents suing Amazon for selling “suicide kits” to teenagers who died by suicide, say they have reached a “breaking point.”
Amazon lawyers have allegedly told parents that the online retailer had a right to sell these so-called “suicide kits.” The kits are described in the lawsuit as bundled items that Amazon suggests buyers purchase together, including a potentially lethal chemical called sodium nitrite, a scale to measure a lethal dose, a drug to prevent vomiting, and a book with instructions on how to use the chemical to attempt suicide. The online retailer’s lawyers also allegedly said that it would be “unfair and inhumane” to hold Amazon liable for the teens’ deaths.
Amazon appears to bundle items into “suicide kits”
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“The online retailer’s lawyers also allegedly said that it would be “unfair and inhumane” to hold Amazon liable for the teens’ deaths.”
…but if someone gets shot its fine to sue the gun manufacturer and/or the gun dealer!
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This case of PTSD was treated by psychologists who admit there is no cure for it.However, it is a spiritual problem and needs to be treated with spiritual ministry. The trick cyclists don’t go along with this
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I’m a bit undecided at which end of the spectrum of managing someone elses life for them I am on. Probably if someone doesnt want their life after an extended period of time, I dont think “saving” them because it somehow aligns with my values/beliefs is a good thing. Having known a couple people also traumatised long term by dealing with the outcomes of desperate people ending their lives messily (they usually arent in any state to think about the consequences for others) the path this young woman took seems the lesser of the available evils.
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The modern way of treating trauma is one of the problems – “councillors” encouraging clients to go over and over the events, stamping them into memory. When I was 16, I was pillion on a motor bike when a 5 y/o ran into the side of the bike. It was messy and I held her in the truck that took her to the nearest hospital where she died. When I got home, Mum got me hot milk and a stiff dose of phenobarbital. This was the procedure in WWI. And it got the troups back on the field rahter than suffering PTSD.
From a pharmacological perspective, a strong sedative (alcohol, barbiturates, more recently benzos) interfere with memory processing, particularly processing of emotions.
I am not saying that there were not invalids from WWI, rather that physical injury was more likely to produce post war deficits. When culture insists that a man gets over it and functions, by and large they do. In contemporary fiction, Dorothy Sayers’ Peter Whimsy’s aristocratic breeding made him more “sensitive” than his batman-later butler.
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Fran,
Thanks,
A useful, perhaps lifesaving, bit of experience or advice!
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The Left are trying to destroy Matt Walsh, a US conservative with a particular interest in fighting the hormonal and surgical mutilation of children via transgender procedures, with a campaign of slander.
In this video he responds. (15 mins)
https://youtu.be/WGW0o0fj7uk
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“What is a Woman?” is his video that is a must see.
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Twitter Crosses Red-Line, Censors Florida Surgeon General’s Recommendation
On Saturday, Florida’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, made waves by becoming the first major health official in the country to recommend against males 18-39 getting the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. That came after an extensive, multi-year study showed an 84 percent rise in cardiac-related deaths among the age group. That backed up prior studies which had also pointed to an increased risk of heart issues.
Ladapo’s job is to make those determinations and give his recommendations to the general public. That would be the same general public that chose to elect Ron DeSantis, who appointed the surgeon general, as governor of Florida.
Unfortunately, Twitter has long shown it is a ward of the politicized CDC and quickly moved to censor Ladapo’s announcement. As far as I can tell, it was an unprecedented move to silence a duly-appointed health official of a major state.
Think about how Orwellian and perhaps dangerous Twitter’s move was. They chose, supposedly of their own volition (but likely with a wink and nod from the Biden administration), to directly interfere in the public health decision of a US state. Again, a massive social media company decided it should have the power to override and ignore the recommendation of a duly-elected administration, dictating to the public instead.
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Google Is a Disgrace
Google Targets 2-Time Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Cartoonist, Calls Our Poll ‘Dangerous,’ And More
I & I Editorial Board – October 7, 2022
Political cartoonist Michael Ramirez has won two Pulitzer Prizes – an achievement only a handful of others in his category have achieved – as well as countless other awards for his unmatched mastery of his craft. His cartoons, syndicated by Creators, run in publications around the world.
Yet, to Google’s content police, Ramirez’s cartoons are “shocking content” and it is restricting ads on a page where a catalog of them appears.
How do we know this? Because it’s against our site that Google has taken this action.
Google’s AdSense network – which is used by some 3.5 million websites to generate revenue – defines “shocking content” as content that:
. contains gruesome, graphic, or disgusting accounts or imagery.
. depicts acts of violence.
. contains a significant amount of or prominently features obscene or profane language.
We appealed this ruling with Google and were denied. No explanation was offered, of course. And there’s no possible way to know what would constitute a “fix” that would satisfy Google.
See for yourself here. Ramirez’s cartoons can be provocative. They can be hilarious. They can be deadly serious. But they are works of art. There’s a reason we label him “World’s Greatest Cartoonist.”
This isn’t the only content Google is attacking. Every day we get alerts from Google AdSense of “policy violations” by one of our editorials or op-eds. Some are even more idiotic than the label they’re slapping on Ramirez cartoons.
. An I&I/TIPP poll asked registered voters if they were worried about President Joe Biden’s mental health. Google labeled our report on the poll’s findings as “dangerous and derogatory.” How, exactly, are we supposed to “fix” this to Google’s satisfaction? Change the poll results? It’s worth pointing out that our polling partner, TIPP, is a highly respected firm that has had the most accurate forecasts for every presidential election since 2000.
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Offense?
Last time I looked; “offence” cannot be given, only TAKEN.
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Actually there are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those that don’t.
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Binary should be banned as its not inclusive enough
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Yarpos,
Is Octocento-quartodeci-pentary inclusive enough?
Fir you?
For the Terminally woke???
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In the short term, probably OK.
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Cassie of Sydneysays:
October 10, 2022 at 7:09 am
A very good piece in today’s Oz by Chris Mitchell about sinister corporate activism and “ESG”…
“Journalists duped by corporate activism
CHRIS MITCHELL
Too many in business journalism only see black and white on coal, just as the Greens have only been able to see gas as a negative despite a clear understanding when they signed a deal with Labor PM Julia Gillard in 2010.
Media reporting of corporate activism in Australia needs to be balanced by clear-eyed business journalism that recognises the financial interests of shareholders and superannuation investors.
Uncritical reporting of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) commitments by business has created a climate in which the social policies of companies and superannuation funds often receive inordinate publicity, but ESG decisions that reduce profitability and therefore dividends and superannuation returns receive little journalistic attention.
Divestment of thermal coal assets is a case in point. Journalists and shareholder activists should be demanding to know why some boards have unloaded coal investments when many listed coal stocks are at record highs, the coal price is almost five times what it was a decade ago, and total global coal-fired power generation has never been higher.
Sky News Australia host and News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt last Monday revealed a letter sent by super fund HESTA, which represents 950,000 workers mainly in the health sector. HESTA, with $68bn under management, is chaired by former Labor attorney-general Nicola Roxon. On Sky News, Bolt read from a letter sent by HESTA to the largest 300 companies on the Australian Stock Exchange.
The letter, Bolt said, warned companies HESTA would be investing in businesses taking action on global warming and fighting for gender equality, for those appointing more female directors and those addressing the gender pay gap, and against social inequality. It was looking at companies that rely less on casual workers, offer flexible work practices and help stop the loss of nature. Bolt argued this was a left wing agenda that spoke nothing about support for free speech or “divestment from the Chinese dictatorship”.
HESTA should ‘get back to doing what they have to’ amid climate push
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says health super fund HESTA’s recent letter to ASX 300 companies demanding… they take action on climate change is a pattern of behaviour being seen “across the corporate sector”. “Where the corporate state, if you like, is trying to become the entire state,”
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It’s never wrong to take a profit.
Though, sometimes, more money can be made by holding.
I’ve made both mistakes!
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“Twitter Removes, Then Reinstates Florida Surgeon General’s Covid Vaccine Warning Tweet”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/florida-surgeon-general-recommends-against-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-males-aged-18-39
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Twitter is censoring official government warnings.
That will be one of their last acts of censoring truth.
The Left are out and it will be in Elon Musk’s hands soon.
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I notice the Florida Surgeon General is an African American.
The Left especially hate black conservatives, hence Larry Elder feeling it necessary to make a documentary film about the subject, “Uncle Tom”.
It is now on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/Bef-2FUbQcI
Can you believe that Leftist YouTube gives a warning before watching the movie as it may be “inappropriate or offensive to some audiences”.
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Florida again stands up for truth and transparency.
https://www.westernjournal.com/will-not-silent-truth-florida-just-found-government-not-want-know-vaccine/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-WJ&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=western-journal&ats_es=%5B-MD5-%5D
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Are experimental mRNA covid “vaccine” injections causing infertility or lesser fertility?
Obviously there could be other reasons but this needs to be investigated thoroughly by authorities but that is not likely to happen.
E.g. Just looking at birth rates alone, not miscarriage or failure to conceive:
https://vaxxter.com/covid-jabs-and-infertility/
SEE LINK FOR REST
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You would think that with all those lock-ups, birth rates would increase ! 😉
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There is the expression “As sure as babies follow blackouts”
– maybe the power needed to go off too?
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“– maybe the power needed to go off to”
They are working hard on that..
…. but also taking counter-measures by promoting same sex partners and gender fluidity. !
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(Paywalled, but you can listen to a 3.5min audio of the article at the link.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/10-percent-americans-regret-taking-covid-vaccine-15-percent-have-a-new-medical-condition-after-it-poll_4645743.html
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West has now set a course on total terrorist warfare
First, I want to post a video I found on Twitter (original here) which shows what kind of explosion took place on the Crimean bridge.
From what I have read, a truck filled with explosives blew up, killing three people in a car nearby, and then the flames took over a train also crossing the bridge. That train was full of fuel. It is only thanks to the amazing speed at which the bridge crews reacted that the damage was limited to only 9 wagons and, therefore, to a much shorter segment of the rail tracks.
Looking at the video, one would imagine that the bridge is in ruins. In fact, traffic was reestablished on both rail tracks and the road in less than 24 hours (with the exception of heavy trucks). In other words, this is yet another case of “it is humiliating, but not dangerous” (обидно но не опасно).
But that is an increasingly mistaken notion: this time is also VERY dangerous.
. It is self-evident that the Kiev regime would never have had the means, technical and political, to execute such an attack without being told to do so by its masters in the West.
. Such an attack, right on the heels of the attacks on of NS1/NS2 shows beyond any doubt that West has now set a course on total terrorist warfare.
. This makes sense, since for all the so-called “victories” of the NATO forces in the Ukraine, the reality is that they reconquered a few villages and towns while Russia liberated and then incorporated entire regions.
. And Russia did that while always being at a numerical disadvantage
. And while inflicting 10:1 KIA ratios.
. In other words the West’s “redirection” towards terrorism is an admission of military, economic and political defeat.
While this is hardly a surprise, the West *always* uses terrorism against sovereign governments, this is still a very negative development for Russia.
Simply put, there are always more targets than cops/guards.
Furthermore, terrorists can always chose the time and location of their attacks.
In the meantime, it is simply shocking for me to observe the collective orgasm felt by the leaders of the West each time some horror befalls Russia. Truth be told, the fact that they hate us does not surprise me. What surprises me much more is how unapologetically hate-filled and “in your face” these cries of joy are.
And I wonder
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And another question, was the truck driven by a suicide bomber? Suicide operations are not a tradition of the Russians or Ukrainians.
And was it a truck at all?
Was it a drone strike?
Was it explosives manually planted on the bridge?
It was good timing to get a fuel train as it was driving by.
And looking at which side the Left are supporting, it is difficult to think that the Ukrainians are the correct side to be on.
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I don’t see it was the truck, the truck was just caught in the explosion.
There’s not the blackened firemarks on the concrete & asphalt, no hole in the roadway, the explosion starts off the bridge over the non-railway side and goes across the truck to the railway, and the slabs of road fail to hold together. The Kherson bridge that has been hit by many missiles looks completely different too.
It seems far more likely someone detonated a charge where the road segments of the bridge are joined together, so the segments separated, fell off their columns and into the sea. The expansion joints between the road segments are their weakest points.
More photos will show it better, at the moment we are just lucky to have social media reports of it. I certainly wouldn’t believe ANY Govt’s reports on it.
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FWIW
https://youtu.be/1HYbQ8XFKpE
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Delusional and offensive.
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What is?? The West’s reaction or Kiev claiming responsibility for something way beyond their means?
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Its entirely possible that Putin has orchestrated this bridge explosion and the earlier Nordstream event as a pretext to kick start WW3.
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How and Why Vladimir Putin Survives
For most Russians, however, the early 1990s was a time of despair, uncertainty and hardship. During that period, real power laid entirely in the hands of local oligarchs. As noted by Orlando Figes, a British historian best known for his outstanding books on Russian history, those oligarchs “behaved as if they were the government”, demanding posts from the then-president Boris Yeltsin, who was barely able to carry out his job due to heart attacks and heavy drinking. “The state was in danger of breaking into fiefdoms controlled by the oligarchs”, Figes says.[2]
By the end of the 1990s the Russians were desperately hoping for someone who could save their nation, someone who would be healthy, patriotic and … sober. It is in this context that a former intelligence officer was manoeuvred into power in the mid-1990s.
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Putin was a candidate in that year’s presidential election. He campaigned with the promise of a “dictatorship of the rule of law”, thus appealing to everyone tired of the lawlessness of the past decade.[4] As a result, Putin duly won in the first round of that election with 53 per cent of the vote.[5] Ordinary Russians, desperate for an end to their misery, believed they had found in their new president an energetic politician who could lead the nation towards a brighter future.
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The 2004 presidential election in Russia was held on March 14 and Putin won in a landslide with more than 71 per cent of the popular vote.
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Augusto Zimmermann is Professor and Head of Law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education in Perth. He is also President of the Western Australian Legal Theory Association (WALTA) and Editor-in-Chief of the Western Australian Jurist law journal. From 2012 to 2017, he served as a Law Reform Commissioner in Western Australia.
[Augusto is also a really nice guy – Jo]
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How and Why Vladimir Putin Survives
Augusto Zimmermann is Professor and Head of Law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education in Perth.
For most Russians, however, the early 1990s was a time of despair, uncertainty and hardship. During that period, real power laid entirely in the hands of local oligarchs. As noted by Orlando Figes, a British historian best known for his outstanding books on Russian history, those oligarchs “behaved as if they were the government”, demanding posts from the then-president Boris Yeltsin, who was barely able to carry out his job due to heart attacks and heavy drinking. “The state was in danger of breaking into fiefdoms controlled by the oligarchs”,
Vladimir Putin had just returned from Germany to his hometown of St. Petersburg. In due course, he became the city’s deputy mayor, and, in 1996, he moved to Moscow. On 9 August 1999, he was appointed first deputy prime minister and later that year Yeltsin resigned. Then Putin became Russia’s acting president.
Putin was a candidate in that year’s presidential election. He campaigned with the promise of a “dictatorship of the rule of law”, thus appealing to everyone tired of the lawlessness of the past decade.[4] As a result, Putin duly won in the first round of that election with 53 per cent of the vote.[5] Ordinary Russians, desperate for an end to their misery, believed they had found in their new president an energetic politician who could lead the nation towards a brighter future. Indeed, the early 2000s were marked by a remarkable recovery of the Russian economy, which allowed ordinary Russians to enjoy unprecedented levels of comfort and security.[6]
The 2004 presidential election in Russia was held on March 14 and Putin won in a landslide with more than 71 per cent of the popular vote. In 2008, as the Russian Constitution did not allow a third consecutive term, Putin’s prime minister, Dmitry Medveded, was elected as the new president for a four-year term. When his term was nearing its end, he endorsed Putin’s presidential candidature again, in 2012.
In reality, however, Putin’s approval rating among his people has remained well above 71 per cent since the beginning of the war and Western economic sanctions, according to the Levada Analytical Center His public approval rating rose to 83 per cent in September, one of the highest levels of his presidency. High global energy prices have helped him follow through on his pledge to reduce poverty and inequality despite the sanctions.
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OldOzziesays:
October 10, 2022 at 8:59 am
AEMO warns reliable power is at risk
Angela Macdonald-Smith – Senior resources writer
The Australian Energy Market Operator chief will call for a “mature conversation” among governments, industry and customers to thrash out a workable version of the controversial “capacity mechanism” to spur investment in firm generation needed to keep the lights on amid an accelerating energy transition.
Industry bosses are worried that the market is running out of time to build the replacement capacity, but AEMO’s Daniel Westerman will tell The Australian Financial Review Energy & Climate Summit in Sydney on Monday that energy ministers and officials are “leaning in to this strongly”.
However, he will warn that the firmed renewable capacity required to replace coal power plants set to shut down at an accelerating rate will not be built under the existing market design.
Mr Westerman says that is why the Energy Security Board recommended a so-called capacity mechanism to drive investment in “firming” capacity such as pumped hydro to back up weather-dependent wind and solar power.
Federal and state energy ministers in August threw out the ESB’s preferred option for the market reform amid worries by several governments that the mechanism could prolong the life of coal power stations.
They took back control of the work on the market redesign from the ESB, which has worried bosses of traditional power generators because of the inevitable further delay.
Alinta Energy’s Jeff Dimery said last week he feared the energy transition was “headed for failure” amid the delays, given the quickening pace that coal power stations were closing. EnergyAustralia’s Mark Collette said on Friday he was more concerned than 12 months ago that the transition to low-carbon energy might be rocky.
Origin Energy chief executive Frank Calabria, who will appear with Mr Dimery and Mr Collette at the Summit, will call for a twin focus on keeping existing plants reliable and fast-tracking the build-out of new cleaner capacity.
Accelerate the pipeline
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Make certain you have a means of running important things like fridge and freezer independent of the power grid.
I live in leafy outer suburban Melbourne and am beginning to see a need for a fire plan. I already do things like clear gutters annually but I consider there is value in having a decent source of pressurised water on site. I have a 1000l tank that I can keep full through fire season and electric pump attached but I have never checked if my off-grid inverter will power it. A portable generator would be handy.
Summer 22/23 should be still moist but 23/24 could be the opposite.
I am hopeful that the grid operator is ahead of the game with contingency plans such that the whole place does not go dark but increasing likelihood of rolling “demand management” crudely referred to as rolling blackouts.
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Ruinables?
Solar does not “generate” at night. Wind does not generate on windless days
Batteries? Get real! In the unlikely event that these fruitcakes are actually serious about “stable, reliable electricity supply”, could someone point me to a ten thousand MWH “battery” and the THREE_PHASE inverter to convert the DC to “dispatchable” AC? Somewhat larger than your basic PC UPS and many orders of magnitude more expensive.
And, given the continuing self-immolation of sparky cars after recent US wet weather, could there be “unforeseen events” in store?
The solar panel “cold callers” are back on the job. I field several per week. There must be some “loose” cash in the offing, somewhere.
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“….to spur investment in firm generation needed to keep the lights on amid an accelerating energy transition.”
This statement shows how disconnected from reality they are. Its like ensuring that Thelma and Louise have enough fuel to drive off the cliff. What an amazing string of suicidal management weasel words.
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“AEMO warns reliable power is at risk”
Of course it is, the plan is proceeding apace.
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Monday morning & Courier mail article reports Defence cost blow outs……….
That of course is code for Labor to cut defence spending as usual in the hope that China
Will suddenly become our biggest chum and that fool, President Joe Frau, will fall DOWN the airforce steps and forget to get up again.
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“Defence cost blow outs……….” …from giving too much away to Ukraine.. The whole industry needs a massive review and a lot of heads to roll. We need to determine our place in the world, what we are aiming for in the future and how expensive and flexible our approach can be.
Buying highly overpriced hardware from America so it can be used as cannon fodder in the front of their forces is not the way to go!
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OldOzziesays:
October 10, 2022 at 9:11 am
Victorian solar winner confident renewables supply can replace coal
A successful bidder in Victoria’s latest renewable energy auction that plans a 77-megawatt solar farm is optimistic that enough renewable energy will be built to replace coal-fired power stations as they are decommissioned at an accelerating rate.
The Victorian government committed to underwrite another six large-scale solar farms and several big batteries on Friday in its second big renewable energy auction.
“There’s a very healthy pipeline of renewable energy projects,” said Baifu Du, project manager at South Energy, one of the six successful bidders with its Fraser project in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.
“There is also a good pool of labour. As we are close to various power plants and power stations, there won’t be a shortage of local workers, electricians, or mechanics to help work on the project.”
The six new projects to emerge from Victoria’s second renewable auction aim to provide a combined 623 megawatts of renewable capacity and four big batteries to help meet the state’s target of 100 per cent renewable electricity for government operations by 2025.
Together, the projects will generate nearly 1460 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of renewable energy per year, enough to power 300,000 homes.
Construction on the Fraser project will begin in mid-2023 and it will bring on 77 megawatts of power when commissioned around mid-2024. It will cost more than $100 million to build.
Auctions such as those of the Victorian government add significantly to the growing pipeline of renewable energy and storage projects.
But some in the industry worry that the sheer number of workers and the quantity of new equipment needed to support the $US5 trillion investment, which the International Energy Agency estimates will be needed globally between now and 2030, will hamper Australia’s efforts.
Victoria’s first major renewable energy auctions in 2018 underwrote an initial 928 megawatts of large-scale wind and solar energy projects.
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And with that “77MW” solar subsidy farm, it should be only stated as about 23MW of useless, random electricity given the capacity factor of about 30%.
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The numbers sound impressive until you dig deeper – 623 MW of renewable capacity to produce 1,460 GWh annually to power 300,000 houses! This works out as an annual capacity factor of 26.8%, which is about right.
Now compare this with the output from one of Loy Yang A’s turbines rated at 560 MW capacity. If we assume an annual capacity factor of 80% for this unit, it will produce 3,924 GWh annually, enough to power 806,300 houses! Add the other 3 Loy Yang A turbines to the equation and it produces enough energy to power 3,225,200 houses annually.
So based on these figures, Vic. only has to install another 6,700 MW of renewable capacity, or about 10 times more just to cover the planned closure of Loy Yang A in 2035.
They better get cracking.
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And, I’d like to see a solar or wind subsidy farm power even one house.
You cannot power anything that is constantly and randomly varying between nothing and maximum and anything in between depending on the vagaries of the wind and sun.
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Loy Yang A – last year – 15,555GWH total generated power.
Yep!
That sounds like a full replacement to me.
Good job you guys!
Tony.
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But Tony is that the capacity factor solar number or the delusional inflated number that they always love to quote? Just asking?
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Is is statements like this that are so misleading. The guaranteed output of that 928MW is ZERO. All that capacity actually has negative value because it floods the market with unused potential and offers nothing when the demand is high. The States are in a race to see which one can collapse their region next and Albo is cheering them on. If Victoria goes then SA will as well. So far only SA has gone dark.
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They either do not understand, or choose to ignor, the scale of the issue and ammount of RE generation , and storage, that will be needed just to compensate for the closure of existing fossil fueled generators.
You do not need to be a genius to realise that 77 MW , or 623 MW of RE installed …giving 1460 GWh annually,..is simply PATHETIC !
That is not even a small fraction of the capacity of a single coal generator unit !
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everyone seems to be stepping over the line that says “….to help meet the state’s target of 100 per cent renewable electricity for government operations by 2025.”
the target is actually a modest one, a non critical one, one backed up by the real grid and one they can trumpet success about while actually delivering very little.
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Geert Vandeen Bossche says it’s five minutes past twelve, that the coming epidemic of severe disease for the vaccinated is unavoidable if we continue to follow our current covid19 management policies. He explains why he believes this and the only way to avoid it. If he is correct, then with the current mindset of our medical authorities, it will come.
Very technical explanation from Geert.
https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/videos-and-interviews/it-is-5-past-12?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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I greatly respect Geert. But he is such an immunology wonk that much of his valuable advice gets lost. But I see no evidence that is wrong in his argument and predictions. In this particular entry he is very pessimistic and almost distraught.
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How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails
America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.
LOS ANGELES — Building the nation’s first bullet train, which would connect Los Angeles and San Francisco, was always going to be a formidable technical challenge, pushing through the steep mountains and treacherous seismic faults of Southern California with a series of long tunnels and towering viaducts.
But the design for the nation’s most ambitious infrastructure project was never based on the easiest or most direct route. Instead, the train’s path out of Los Angeles was diverted across a second mountain range to the rapidly growing suburbs of the Mojave Desert — a route whose most salient advantage appeared to be that it ran through the district of a powerful Los Angeles county supervisor.
The dogleg through the desert was only one of several times over the years when the project fell victim to political forces that have added billions of dollars in costs and called into question whether the project can ever be finished.
Now, as the nation embarks on a historic, $1 trillion infrastructure building spree, the tortured effort to build the country’s first high-speed rail system is a case study in how ambitious public works projects can become perilously encumbered by political compromise, unrealistic cost estimates, flawed engineering and a determination to persist on projects that have become, like the crippled financial institutions of 2008, too big to fail.
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The 2-hour, 40-minute Dream
Although it comes more than a half century after Asia and Europe were running successful high-speed rail systems, the bullet train project when it was first proposed in the 1980s was new to America, larger than any single transportation project before it and more costly than even the nation’s biggest state could finance in one step.
The state was warned repeatedly that its plans were too complex. SNCF, the French national railroad, was among bullet train operators from Europe and Japan that came to California in the early 2000s with hopes of getting a contract to help develop the system.
The company’s recommendations for a direct route out of Los Angeles and a focus on moving people between Los Angeles and San Francisco were cast aside, said Dan McNamara, a career project manager for SNCF.
The company pulled out in 2011.
“There were so many things that went wrong,” Mr. McNamara said. “SNCF was very angry. They told the state they were leaving for North Africa, which was less politically dysfunctional. They went to Morocco and helped them build a rail system.”
Morocco’s bullet train started service in 2018.
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Casablanca to Tangier, mostly government funded.
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When the high-speed line was built in Germany between Frankfurt Airport and Cologne, they basically chose a direct route and put in an entirely new line. It even goes straight through small hillocks with small metal tunnels.
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Australia now has its own equivalent to Biden in W.A.
Get your needle now to stay safe.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JLrz8Ft-GNI
How utterly condescending, laughable and embarrassing.
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Given the first post was 5:11am Monday, I suspect everyone’s in bed or WA is experiencing a CERN related temporal distortion. 😅
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Scientists say: Time Vortices Caused By Carbon – We Must Decarbonise NOW Or Perish!
As poster #2, being 4 or 5 hours ahead of Perth and 2 or 3 ahead of Sydney (some states do/not have Daylight Robbery / Saving) and almost a whole day ahead of the USA, I can tell you the future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses. Let’s do the time-warp again.
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And to add insult to massive injury, as reported front page in the Australian, Queensland is considering a ‘$4bn to $8bn’ desalination plant because of increased population and Climate Change predictions.
How many floods will a desalination plant prevent?
And where are they going to get the electricity to power it? Hydro? Windmills? Solar Panels?
Australia has effectively banned the construction of power plants (nuclear, coal, gas) and dams.
It is a land of ‘drought and flooding rains’. Desalination is a joke as the East Coast of Australia is awash with wasted water and devastation far exceeding any predictions of ‘Climate Change’. And did those same models predict the last year of floods?
The only prediction which is certain is that there is a flood after every drought. And people go from drought relief to flood relief to drought relief.
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Another good waste of water is that flushed down the dunny and pumped out to sea. In Victoria the Cardinia dam recieves desalinated water pumped uphill for about 70 kilometres, while the Carrum sewerage farm raises waste water to potable levels and runs it down hill at about the same distance, then lets it flow into the sea.The distance between these two places,Cardinia dam and Carrum as the crow flies is about 30 kilometres. Every time using recycled water is mentioned the press always claim “who wants to drink recycled sewage” while in fact it is the water content that is recycled and understanding really simple chemistry can explain that this water can be a higher level of purity than what currently runs out of the tap.
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It’s not just the waste, but that the money is being directed to buying overseas desalination plants. Surely they could buy ours from Victoria, or South Australia’s. Unused. Or perhaps build a dam? Or two.
And as for the idea that the necessity is based on Climate Change predictions, how much trust are they putting on predicitions which have been eternally wrong? Where were the Climate Change predictions for the massive rains in Australia? The last I heard, we had never ending drought but still these failed Climate Change models are being used to set Government policy.
Surely we could just get some voodoo witch doctors on loan from Papua or the Carribbean or Africa? Or start slaughtering goats and examining the auspices. In a very professional scientific manner. Like Climate Change Models which have never, ever been right.
Or has the govenment had to move from Queensland because of the rapid sea rise on the coast? Or the demise of the Great Barrier Reef on which billions have been spent for nothing at all?
It is so infuriating to read that Climate Change predictions are being used to set Government policy. And necessitate the purchase of even more desalination plants? Are the French salesmen back in town?
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I had to laugh at some reporter’s maths skills back in 2020 when they calculated that Bloomberg could’ve paid every US citizen 1 million $ and still had change left over.
That’s after he spent (?) 500 million $ on his dud 2020 intervention in the DEMs run up before the Biden choice to face Trump.
In fact if you gave 330 million US citizens 1 million dollars each the cost would be a staggering 330 trillion $.
And even the 21 (?) trillion $ US economy would take about 15.7 years to repay that handout. Of course leaving nothing left to pay for anything else to run the world’s largest economy.
Then you wonder why do some people actually BELIEVE some of the junk theories about their so called Climate CRISIS or EMERGENCY or even an EXISTENTIAL THREAT for Humans?
Again the theories just ignore the actual data and evidence, but who cares?
https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-bloomberg-couldnt-give-every-american-1-million-2020-3?op=1
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You misunderstand. Back in 2020 the cabal had much higher hopes for post-pandemic population numbers…
The maths is fine, the morality…not so much.
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Antony Fauci never saw a virus he didn’t like.
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Especially the ones he had a hand in “engineering”.
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Joseph Toomey looks at the latest and self inflicted energy crisis to face the so called wealthy Western countries. And many more relevant recent stories from the Manhattan Contrarian.
https://assets.realclear.com/files/2022/10/2058_energyinflationwasbydesign.pdf
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/
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Inflation causing higher prices at the local bakery, explaining all of the price changes for his ingredients.
A local bakery must have felt the necessity to explain to customers why they were raising prices by posting about how much their costs had gone up since January 2021 (when Joe Biden came in). The Wall Street Silver account that has posted a lot of interesting things about inflation posted the bakery’s whiteboard explanation and it’s pretty jarring when you look at just how much it has increased.
As many pointed out, these prices are not just up 8.3 percent — the last inflation number announced, in some cases, they’re paying more than double what they were paying before Biden came in. If you look at it, and you realize that inflation is continuing to rise, you know that this is not a sustainable situation when costs go up this much.
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Arrgh, I see the plan here. Bread, the good old “staff of life” if people can’t afford bread, well, let them eat cake.
I seem to recall a certain Middle East dictator that had bakers “baked” in their ovens when they tried to raise the price of this most staple of all food stuffs. Didn’t matter that all of the bakers cost inputs had spiralled out of control, it was just clearly the bakers fault. Joe Biden economics is so easy.
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Here are the names of two federal agents who were leading the charge to censor the Hunter’s Laptop Story:
(1) Laura Dehmlow.
(2) Elvis Chan.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-team-involved-in-censorship-of-hunter-biden-laptop-story-identified_4781643.html
Rummaging around the web, I see Dehmlow has a BA in Political Science .. isn’t that a reliable indicator of someone devoted to Leftism? (and probably looking for advancement in the Deep State or the Democrat Party).
She also has an MA in Public Administration.
So… she was well qualified for a career in Left-wing Activism .. ummm .. but what about Law Enforcement?
Personally, if I were hiring Federal agents, I would bin a CV from anyone with a Political Science degree.
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Dear Leader, Stabcinda Ardern, has a BA in Political Science & Communication and watch her go (!) communicating politricks & nonsense / non-science.
From La Presidente of the Socialist Yoof to Propaganda Minister (PM) of Aotearoa (aka New Zealand) and who knows where to next, her ‘learnings’ sure have catapulted her onto the world stage… albeit in my books, a D-minus B-grade actress.
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Funny how, during her trip to New York on other business, she made time to drop in to Blackrock for ‘tea and bikkies’.
I just assumed she was collecting further instructions from the WΕF .. hence her recent advocacy for internet censorship — SHE didn’t think of that! .. it was in the scented love-note from Dävos.
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Now this is my sort of thread. Sunday October the 10th 2022 is my sort of Sunday.
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Dennis Prager: This Is The Single Most Important Thing in Life
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The Left claim solar and wind is the cheapest of all electricity.
So, consumers should be allowed to select solar and wind with Big Battery storage or electricity from traditional proper power stations.
It is possible to do this with smart electricity meters with the right software.
A condition would be that whichever system a consumer chooses, it can’t be backed up by the other. So if a consumer chose unreliables and it was dark and windless and the battery went flat then they would be without electricity.
This is the only way to bring a reality check to the situation.
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Maybe a PWM system like a basic solar contfler. Subcribe to renewable power and the meter will calculate how many minutes you get in the next hour based on what renewables are actually delivering that day. Sounds fair to me.
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Western Australia – Emergency Management Amendment
(Temporary COVID-19 Provisions) Bill 2022 – 42 Page PDF
77M. Powers to control and use property and related powers
(1) For the purposes of COVID-19 management while a
COVID-19 declaration is in force, an authorised
COVID-19 officer may take control of or make use of
any place, vehicle or other thing.
(2) The place, vehicle or other thing may be in, or outside,
the declaration area.
(3) For the purposes of exercising a power under
subsection (1), an authorised COVID-19 officer may
enter, or if necessary break into and enter, any place or
vehicle.
(4) An authorised COVID-19 officer may direct the owner
or occupier, or the person apparently in charge, of a
place, vehicle or other thing to give the authorised
COVID-19 officer reasonable assistance to exercise the
officer’s powers under this section.
(5) An authorised COVID-19 officer may exercise the
powers under this section without a warrant or the
consent of the owner or occupier, or the person
apparently in charge, of the place, vehicle or other
thing.
(6) If an authorised COVID-19 officer takes control of or
makes use of any place, vehicle or other thing under
this section, the authorised COVID-19 officer must
ensure that, as soon as is reasonably practicable in the
circumstances and no later than 7 days after the place,
vehicle or thing is taken control of or made use of, a
notice is given to the owner or occupier, or the person
formerly in charge, of the place, vehicle or thing
stating —
(a) that the place, vehicle or thing has been taken
control of or made use of under this section;
and
(b) the name of the authorised COVID-19 officer
who has taken control of or made use of the
place, vehicle or thing.
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…Signed- V Putin.
Oh wait… wrong side of the newspaper!
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Tweep’s ‘hobby’ of finding sofas and other objects that Jill Biden’s dresses are ‘MADE from’ results in spectacularly HILARIOUS thread
Nobody has ever accused First Lady Jill Biden of having the best taste when it comes to how she dresses.
Sorry, DOCTOR Jill Biden.
Either the woman needs to fire the stylist who keeps dressing her like a piece of furniture from an old Sears catalog OR she needs to actually hire one because WOOF. Time and time again people have shown photos of Jill in her latest bizarre dress and compared them to old sofas and curtains … but Twitter user Rondalee Iowa has made a ‘hobby’ of it and wow, the thread she put together is spectacular and hilarious.
Making it spectacularly hilarious.
Take a look:
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Nothing to see here: Coal plant extensions not needed, Energy Security Board says
“The rapid fire exit of coal power plants this decade will require 45 gigawatts of new power supply by 2030, nearly the entire capacity of the current national electricity market, the Australian Energy Market Operator said.”
“The 45GW of supply needed by 2030 will be dominated by 36GW of renewable generation through solar and wind with 9GW from new firming capacity like batteries, pumped hydro and gas.”
But, but, but, that 9GW is not additional to the 36GW, rather it must be subtracted. And that 36 GW nameplate is really only about 10GW.
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It is unbelievable that no one in the decision making process seems to comprehend that we are headed for disaster.
Or maybe they do. Disaster is part of the plan, after all.
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“Disaster is part of the plan, after all.”
In the rural shire where I live the local council is formulating a plan to “reduce methane emissions from farming”. What does this mean? Well certainly farmers will be restriced as to what they are allowed to farm. Graziers will be forced to either reduce herd size or pay a tax levied on every head of livestock to “meet emissions requirements”.
What is the impact of these measures, thats easy to answer. Increased costs of production means increased costs at supermarkets, farmers credits will probably be awarded to properties that “rewild” areas and of course the ultimate aim I am sure is the total destruction of privately owned farms. Local rates continue to rise year on year and as old blokes die off young people will not be able to afford to get into farming, even if you inherit the family property.
Our council has a diversity officer, a reconciliation officer, a climate change officer and an inclusions officer it does not have an officer whose job is to look at rates reduction.
Real industries are discouraged or banned ( logging mining ) but the feel good industry of tourism is pushed relentlessly. This industry is so sustainable that if some one sneezes in China the entire industry is wiped out overnight.
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A CEO with 3 reports, each of those with only 3 reports. All “earning” over $150k+. Only in the public service.
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Fair enough, they’re the “experts”! And since our obsequious, unenquiring populace believes anything it’s told by “experts” (the more ludicrous the better), we should just “believe”…
But, we’re going to need insurance. I propose each of the “experts” wear an explosive collar, which remains inert UNTIL the power goes out. After all, we are gambling with peoples’ lives here.
So, are we still playing the “Coal plant extensions not needed” game, or might there be a sudden reconsideration of the “expert” position?
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You are right … but at least at the moment of peak usage it is possible to add the storage output capacity to the generation output capacity to get peak output.
It won’t work with averages of course because the average power produced by any storage system is negative.
Typically any science or engineering turns to mush when processed through a journalist … therefore it’s worth going at least back to the original document and bypass as much of that digestive process.
https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/isp/2022/2022-documents/2022-integrated-system-plan-isp.pdf?la=en
I’m not entirely sure what they mean by investing in “intellectual capital” … possibly they would like to buy a vowel, or phone a friend.
A nine-fold increase in utility-scale variable renewable energy by 2030 simply ain’t gonna happen … Australia doesn’t have the money, and this would be crazy expensive.
Same applies to massive “utility-scale” batteries, which could be built, but they are extremely costly and not particularly reliable. No idea who would pay for this or how it could possibly compare to coal or nuclear in terms of affordability.
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Incoming!
😈
Slams hatch on bunker…
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Er Ok. I guess you had to be there.
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Revelling in sick war crimes and the wholesale slaughter of innocent people seems to be about the level of at least 2 posters on here.
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Not me, but every western government and news service…
Already hitting the internet, but most get their news too late.
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…and today we see why I said Incoming!
😉
The strikes on Kyiv were coming and believe it or not necessary, to stave off even worse events.
Tactical nukes are highly likely at this stage.
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mmmm a real soothsayer
who would have thought there would be any reaction?
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BBC – ‘World Service’ radio: millions of £’s cut from budget.
No announcement in re antisemitic nor climate propaganda.
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I closed my PayPal account today. Better late than never. I didn’t seem to have anywhere to tell them why, but hopefully they are starting to work that out now.
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Yes Cancelled PayPal account as well
FREE SPEECH
PayPal Still Threatens $2500 Fines for Promoting “Discriminatory” “Intolerance” (Even if Not “Misinformation”)
EUGENE VOLOKH
One of the violations listed, according to the agreement, is that … “[users] may not use the PayPal service for activities that … involve the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials that, in PayPal’s sole discretion … promote misinformation.”
But it appears that the policy continues to be in effect for other speech, according to PayPal’s official Acceptable Use Policy, last updated Sept. 20, 2021:
Violation of this Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a violation of the PayPal User Agreement and may subject you to damages, including liquidated damages of $2,500.00 U.S. dollars per violation, which may be debited directly from your PayPal account(s) as outlined in the User Agreement (see “Restricted Activities and Holds” section of the PayPal User Agreement).
Prohibited activities
And the cited “Restricted Activities and Holds” policy makes clear that “Actions We May Take if You Engage in Any Restricted Activities” are determined based on PayPal making the decision “in our sole discretion,” if Paypal “believe[s] that you’ve engaged in any of these activities.”
So if PayPal “in [its] sole discretion” concludes that you’re using PayPal “for activities that … relate to transactions involving … promotion of” “discriminatory” “intolerance”—presumably including distributing publications, or for that matter buying publications (since that’s an activity related to transactions involving the promotion of certain views)—it can just take $2500 straight from your account.
Might you, for instance, be sharply criticizing a religion? Or saying things that sharply condemn, say, government officials (police, FBI, etc.) in ways that some might say involve “promotion of hate”? Or praising people who have acted violently (e.g., in what you think is justifiable self-defense, or defense of others, or even war or revolution)? If PayPal thinks it’s bad, it’ll just take your money.
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Think i might buy chocolates by direct bank deposit in future
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The West is on the road to energy ruin
Green policies have crippled Europe. They will do the same to America
But are the high prices really Putin’s fault? He didn’t sanction himself, after all. It’s the West that chose to cut itself off from the Russian fossil fuels upon which it had come to rely. Moreover, the sanctions have failed — Russia’s corporate profits leapt 25 percent between the imposition of the sanctions and the end of August.
So what are the origins of the current energy crisis? When did it really begin?
Let’s play a game. Guess which year these headlines are from: “Curtailed ammonia production in Antwerp and Ludwigshafen.” “High natural gas prices lead to a shutdown of British fertilizer plants.” “Diesel Shortage Amid Soaring Prices: Truck Stops Resort To Rationing.” If you guessed 2022, you’d be wrong. Those are all from September 2021.
The truth is that the energy crisis began to take effect late last year. A combination of post-Covid demand rebound, a wind drought in Europe and depleted fossil fuel storage on the continent all collided to put serious pressure on the world’s industrial systems. Add the longstanding overinvestment in unreliable renewables, nuclear plant closures across the world in the wake of the Fukushima disaster and a global drop of more than 50 percent in oil and gas investment — from $700 billion to $300 billion — between 2014 and last year, and you have everything you need to kick off a global energy crunch. Russian tank treads running from the Donbas to Kyiv just made it all worse.
When politicians blame Putin, they’re deflecting from their own failures. It’s hard to blame them, especially if they’re European. Aluminum smelters in the EU have had to shutter operations, as have fertilizer plants, glass factories and various other manufacturers. Germany, the continent’s largest economy, is about to lose much of its manufacturing base to high energy prices. Industry and union leaders have been sounding the alarm for months, warning that Germany’s manufacturing sector could collapse without enough energy.
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Hey you! Get with the program!
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When a ‘pedophile’ becomes a ‘minor attracted person’you realise how far we’ve come
down the Ingsoc Newspeak road.
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Fun with language.
Say the same thing twice, only the second time it’s different.
An acronym makes for better marketing.
Perhaps MAPs can draw the map to social acceptance.
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Breaking News At this moment.
(Australian) Retail electricity prices tipped to rise at least 35pc in 2023.
Oct 10, 2022 – 2.19pm, Australian Financial Review reports:
Retail electricity prices could soar by at least 35 per cent in 2023 due to the soaring cost of wholesale energy, as the system grapples with the transition to clean energy amid a global supply crisis, power company bosses have told The Australian Financial Review’s Energy & Climate Summit.
“Next year, using the current market prices, tariffs are going up a minimum 35 per cent,” Alinta Energy chief executive Jeff Dimery told the summit in Sydney. He said rising costs have forced the so-called “gentailers” – which generate electricity and also sell it to consumers – to write off $11.7 billion of shareholder funds over the past five years.
Link is paywall.
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/electricity-prices-tipped-to-rise-at-least-35pc-in-2023-20221010-p5boif
If you have an AFR subscription go there now.
At 4:28pm AEST.
Header:
What Alinta’s margin call from Macquarie says about energy crisis
Broken markets. Soaring prices on futures markets. Bill shock. Construction pain. Australia’s top energy CEOs are not optimistic about what’s coming.
At 4:27pm AEST
Header:
‘Game changer’ needed to protect consumers from soaring energy bills
“The Australian Energy Regulator will call for a new approach to dealing with customers in hardship to ensure low-income households can survive an era of record commodity prices and big spending on the infrastructure needed to transition to clean energy.
AER chairwoman Clare Savage will next week publish a report into vulnerable customers in the energy market. She told The Australian Financial Review Energy and Climate Summit the report would call for systems that identified struggling consumers before their debts spiralled out of control.”
Hmm… Might need to store some wood in my backyard shed.
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Mr Dimery warned Australia was “out of time” and needed to deal with the commercial reality of investing in new wind farms and hydropower.
“What cost $1 billion to acquire is going to cost me $8 billion to replace. So let’s talk about that and still explain to me how energy prices come down, I don’t get it.”
Referring to another costly symptom of the faltering energy transition, Mr Dimery said the cash collateral that Alinta needed to cover its wholesale energy position on the futures exchange had already increased to $700 million from $200 million and “our view is it’s heading to a billion [dollars] and beyond”.
“Every time we write a futures contract off our power station, I have to put more collateral into the market,” he said. “It’s starting to impact liquidity.”
Just today, the 2025 futures price had increased $7 a megawatt hour, while the 2024 price increased $12 a megawatt hour, he said. “So I’m looking forward to a margin call from Macquarie Bank later today on our margin position, which will go up.”
While Australia was in a “luxurious” position compared to the UK, a 35 per cent minimum tariff increase would be “horrendous,” Mr Dimery acknowledged.
The scale of investment needed to build renewables infrastructure is “enormous,” he stressed.
“What’s been done over the past 20 years – we’re probably talking about two or three times that, or more, and to be done over the next seven years to hit the 2030 targets,” Mr Collette said. “It is a critical phase … there’s been more announcements of closures than there have been announcements of acceleration of new projects.”
Alinta’s Mr Dimery said that he was “quite pessimistic” about a smooth transition to renewables given the tens of billions of dollars of development needed during a period of intense labour shortages.
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They keep talking about a “transition to renewable energy” as if its real and going to happen.
How many failed examples do the need? Does not the absence of one working example after decades tell them anything?
There will be no so called transition with the current technology set.
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Whilst much of what he said was true,….that part was way off the mark,..by orders of magnitude !
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I do not know if this has been previously posted on this site.
It is a Study by GTK Finland,
Geological Survey of Finland
Circular Economy Solutions KTR Unit.
Header:
Assessment of the Extra Capacity Required of
Alternative Energy Electrical Power Systems
to Completely Replace Fossil Fuels
Link:
https://mcusercontent.com/72459de8ffe7657f347608c49/files/be87ecb0-46b0-9c31-886a-6202ba5a9b63/Assessment_to_phase_out_fossil_fuels_Summary.pdf
A quote from the paper:
“The mass of batteries required is enormous. The estimated mass is 2.78 billion tonnes of Li-Ion
batteries (where stationary power buffer storage makes up most of this). This estimate is so enormous,
it becomes now appropriate to ask is it even possible in context of mineral reserves available, as this
far exceeds global reserves and is not practical. However, it is not clear how this power buffered could be
delivered with an alternative system at this scale. If no alternative system is developed, the wind and solar
power generation may not be able to be scaled up to the proposed global scope.”
My comment:
Geological Survey of Finland is a leading European competence center on the assessment and sustainable use of geological resources.
They believe in AGW. They believe in renewables, AND.. they also report that they can’t be built at scale to replace the fossil fuels in the near future (a decade or two).
Do any of our politicians actually consult the real experts?
Do any of them read the reports?
It seems not.
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To understand what is going on now you should be taking as analogous the “Mouse Utopia Experiments.”
You will know what I am driving at if you go and investigate what happened in these experiments. But I can give you a spoiler alert; All the mice ALWAYS die. Its a repeatable and repeated experiment. They all die. And they always die every time. So we need to understand how this works. Or else we won’t be able to act against our elites in time.
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We are all going to die, get over it.
Here is a critique of the Mouse Utopia theory.
https://www.gwern.net/Mouse-Utopia
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Its not a theory, its an observation. You always end up with no mice. And its the way they end up with no mice, that looks to have parallels. Yes of course we all die. Is this the language police getting in our shit?
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Its not a theory, its an observation. We always end up with no mice. I did understand already that mice were not immortal, before you breathed some sense into my tired brain.
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What was the point of your link gordo? Just some arbitrary distraction, so that people SHOULD NOT look into the parallels? There was no point to it was there? No there wasn’t. You are just sending people down wild goose chases for no good reason. The link was less relevant than your deep revelation that none of us are both immortal and invincible at the same time.
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The general feeling is that mice and humans stop having babies through over crowding, this I generally agree with. The optimum number for a hunter gatherer group is around 40.
In a modern society millions live in close proximity without any problem, but the middle class stop having children (beyond replacement value) because of the economic impost.
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Easter Island might support Calhoun’s theory.
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Low fertility rates due to affluence.
‘Much of Asia has now caught up with or overtaken it. Japan’s fertility rate of 1.3 in 2020, the latest year for which comparable figures are available, puts it on a par with mainland China, according to the Population Research Bureau, an American outfit.
‘China’s birth rate is likely already to have fallen behind Japan’s: there were 10.6m Chinese births last year, down from 12m in 2020, a decline of 11%. The number of births fell only 3% in Japan.’ (The Economist)
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“Lacking Evidence of Merit”
https://img.patriotpost.us/01GEPTRH8QYY61YM4NN792JP1W.jpeg?w=1024&dpr=1&q=75
https://patriotpost.us/memes/91872-lacking-evidence-of-merit-2022-10-08
Via SDA
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Question …
if there were a two years long highly infectious respiratory viral outbreak of historically epic deadliness …
how is it that homeless encampments in major metropolitan areas were not out wiped out…
either from the deadly infection or the lockdown police?
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Ukraine drone likely used for bridge attack.
It’s clear the explosion propagated from under the road section, one camera appeared to pick up a bow wave just prior.
https://www.coffeeordie.com/ukraine-kamikaze-drone-boats
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Its not something to be proud of. These Russians could knock out London Bridge Monday, Sydney Harbour bridge Tuesday, Golden Gate Bridge Wednesday, and take out the Hunter Valley power generation on the Thursday to better suit their mood. The leadership of the Ukraine, who are NOT Ukrainian, are terrorists. The terrorists now have over 300 children on their international kill list. Adults too but these people are particularly keen on murdering other peoples children.
If we allow their sickening human sacrifice and barbarism to continue, these behaviours may become bipartisan, and thats a fast track to the end of civilisation.
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It’s presentation of fact nothing more.
People have posted speculation about the guilty party and method of attack.
It’s you and others apparently enjoying the slaughter of innocent civilians.
There’s only one criminal barbaric regime acting here, Putin’s war crimes far exceed any possible claim of proportionality.
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The Ukrainian leadership are freedom fighters and Putin is a deluded Fascist dictator.
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Watch out for MSM propaganda and don’t poke the bear – i.e. Bridge attack.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/10/russia-having-run-out-of-missiles-launches-barrage-on-ukraine.html
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The response to the bridge attack was entirely predictable. But Putin’s justification in verbal response was risible, crying terrorism, when there could not possibly be a more legitimate military target, and there is only him targeting civilians in pure vengeance.
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Well…not exactly right. Those behind Putin pushed the attack.
If Putin goes you’ll wish he hadn’t. 😈
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Chloe Cole: The 18-Year-Old Leading the Fight to Protect Children From Transgender Surgeries
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I demand global temperature equity.
Weather is unfairly distributed.
Too many are climate disadvantaged.
Probably caused buy structural hemispheric inequality.
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Huaier Effects on Functional Compensation with Destructive Ribosomal RNA Structure after Anti-SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination
VACCINES need NEW WARNING: Sarcoma cancer tumor may develop at vaccine injection site
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Another ‘Vaccine’ Side Effect: Cancerous Tumors at Injection Site
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Global CV19 Vax Absolute Insanity – Dr. Ryan Cole – video interview
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More BS and fra-d about Indian Monsoons, but they’re still calling for more lies and nonsense to feed their alarmist propaganda.
But I’m sure our blog donkeys will still BELIEVE it.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/10/the-southwest-monsoon-more-erratic/
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Also no difference in rainfall data trends for the UK and Ireland since the start of the Ind Revolution.
So where is their so called climate EMERGENCY or CRISIS or EXISTENTIAL threat?
But regrettably plenty more of their BS and fra-d.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/10/10/the-most-reliable-uk-and-ireland-instrumental-records-indicate-no-discernable-post-1800s-rainfall-trends/
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Going back a little further there is a connection between the sub continent and the North Atlantic.
‘A clear feature is a persistent southward shift of the ITCZ during the Little Ice Age until the beginning of the 19th Century. Strong covariation between our new composite ITCZ-stack and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) records reveals a tight coupling between these two synoptic weather and climate phenomena over decadal-to-centennial timescales.’ (Lechleitner et al. 2017)
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Let’s hope the German Greens are belted in the Lower Saxony elections and continue to suffer more heavy losses from now on.
These left wing extremists deserve everything that’s coming to them and just a pity that voters were stupid enough to vote for them at the last election.
And ditto Labor, Greens and Teal voters who left their brains at home in the recent Aussie FED election.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/10/08/germanys-green-party-in-die-straits-isolates-its-hapless-leader-in-run-up-to-lower-saxony-elections/#comments
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More interesting data from Kirye showing no warming trend for Japanese rural island since 1930.
Also Tokyo shows no September warming for 34 years.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/10/07/tokyo-mean-september-temperatures-have-seen-no-warming-in-34-years-jma-data-show/
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We should never forget the Holgate SE Aussie rainfall study 1839 to 2017 that showed extreme rainfall events in the earlier decades for Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
But overall there doesn’t seem to be any extreme trends over that period of 178 years.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221209471930009X
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And now you know – maybe
“Lost in Translation”
https://youtu.be/JLrz8Ft-GNI
Via http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/10/10/lost-in-translation/#comments
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CO2 has had no discernible impact on precipitation rates over the UK and Ireland.
‘The Rainfall Rescue project used volunteers to digitize 66,000 pages containing 5.28 million hand-written monthly rainfall observations from all over the UK and Ireland between 1677 and 1960, which is the “largest climate-related citizen science data rescue project ever completed”
(Notrickszone)
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Australia’s future happening ‘before our eyes’ in the UK
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