Tuesday Open Thread

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    OldOzzie

    COP27 attendees are like ‘truffle hogs’ sniffing out the money – 4 Mins 42 Secs

    Sky News host Gary Hardgrave says the people attending the COP27 are following the money there like “truffle hogs they are sniffing it out” and Australians are going to pay for it.

    A new climate policy will be brought in for first-world countries to pay for climate change damage to developing countries.

    “We are simply going to be paying more for electricity – no doubt we are going to be paying more taxes and charges,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

    “This is just complete madness.”

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      Ronin

      Our ‘UN compliant’ wackers will be only too happy to send squillions of our hardearned to the unfortunates.

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      Simon

      There are only two options, adaption and mitigation. The less mitigation, the more adaption is required and poorer countries tend to be in the least resilient parts of the world. Morally, we have a duty to help pay for that.

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        el+gordo

        There is only one option, adaptation, we can forget mitigation because CO2 doesn’t cause global warming. Adaptation to global cooling is unthinkable from your perspective, you need to get out more.

        Australia has generally supported the poor islanders in our neighbourhood, can’t do better than that.

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        yarpos

        How about just living and improving and stop pretending anything unusual is going on.

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        GlenM

        No, we don’t have a moral duty to help pay for something that is not happening. If you think that feathering the nests of a few who do benefit in these countries you pay for it. Moral duty! Bah!

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        Ronin

        How many can you fit in your backyard. ?

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        Leo G

        Morally, we have a duty to help pay for that.

        What’s the basis for this moral obligation? A natural right for equality of climate resilience?

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          paul courtney

          Mr. G: Good pick up, when the lefty says “morally”, he forgets that “moral” is some sort of white construct, to be pitched with all the other “bigotry” perceived by lefties. Simon is free to answer your question, what is the root of left wing morality?

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        Peter Fitzroy

        Simon, there is one other option, and it mostly promoted on sites like this one. It is not supported by science, but does have a lot of adherents

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          Peter
          So what “science” do you profess to here? We have the alarmist cause, propped up by “garbage in garbage out” climate models, which attacks and demonises any who question its inherently questionable theses, or we have those here and elsewhere who actually look at the data past and present and simply cannot see the “climate catastrophy” at all. I would far rather look at the actual temperatures and listen to real scientists, prepared to risk reputation to tell the truth, rather than those who push data homogenised out of existence, fraudulent graphs which do not represent the base data they come from, and feel they have to follow the “in crowd” and are driven solely by rivers of grant money made available to any who adhere to the alarmist clause.

          Yes it is comfortable repeating “safe and effective” because a bureaucrat with no evidence at all to base this on told you, but it does not make it right.

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          R.B.

          What do you mean by “science”?

          The people who get the jobs because they will keep pushing the propaganda even if they get things wrong?

          That is a cult.

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          yarpos

          Ah yes , only PF standing on his high moral ground understands “the science” 🙂

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            el+gordo

            Mr Fitzroy doesn’t understand the science, but genuinely feels he is right in accepting the status quo even though misguided.

            ‘More heat, more bushfires, more droughts.

            ‘Australians are facing a future of hotter summers, longer bushfire seasons, less rain and more droughts.’ (Oz)

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              b.nice

              Late Nov, and I’m still wearing a flanny shirt !

              Last couple of summers have been mild and very wet.

              Basically every dam in Eastern Australia full to overflowing.

              And there hasn’t been a decent bushfire since 2019.

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                el+gordo

                I’m on the Central Tablelands and still in full winter gear, but it should warm up by the weekend as the blocking high pressure moves slowly east.

                The people understand its wet because of three consecutive La Nina, but they can’t figure out why its so cold in late November? The MSM doesn’t elaborate because its only a weather anomaly.

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            b.nice

            “understands “the science””

            Yet is totally incapable of producing any when asked.

            Funny about that 😉

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        b.nice

        “It is not supported by science”

        You are of course talking about warming by human CO2.

        You know.. that thing you have NEVER been able to produce one single scrap of real science in support of it !!

        You are right, CAGW is certainly not supported by science.. but it does have a lot of troughers and hangers-on, and other sorts of cult members.

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        b.nice

        “There are only two options, adaption and mitigation”

        Yes, we should always adapt to the natural variability of climate.

        As you are well aware, there is NO human caused global climate change.

        Urban living, brings urban warming.. by its very nature… yes we need to adapt to it.

        And you know that financial “assistance” to third world countries never gets past the despots in charge.

        We should be helping them develop solid reliable electricity supplies.. ie COAL and GAS..

        But we are not, because of the greenie anti-CO2 agenda that people like you worship.

        That agenda has held back development in third world countries for a long time…

        I’m so glad that you agree that … it has to stop !!

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        David Maddison

        You can do whatever you like WITH YOUR OWN MONEY, Simon. You have no right to force others to give up their hard-earned money for this non-issue.

        How much have you donated lately to families in Third World countries that you think are sinking beneath the ocean waves?

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        There is already a fund for adaptation. The proposed “loss and damage” fund is for damages.

        The loss and damage camel’s nose is so fuzzy at this point there may not even be a camel. Nothing has been agreed to except that a committee will consider what might be agreed to.

        But it could be great fun to watch. The developing countries fighting over nothing. China refusing to pay. Be still my heart. Okay do not be still.

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        Hanrahan

        So I’m a descendent of a first fleet convict [you can’t prove I’m not], where do I go for my reparations for the whippings?

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        Philip

        “Poorer”. Listen, the best thing for poorer people is cheap energy, it is the great equalizer of society, so shove your sanctimony and the hypocrisy of your faux socialism. How do I know? I am poor and always have been.

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      David Maddison

      How many parasites did Australia send to COP27?

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    OldOzzie

    Vic voters have to decide if they want another four years of ‘an incompetent government’ i Min 59 Secs

    Sky News host Peta Credlin says Victorian voters have to decide “whether they really want another four years of incompetent and unprincipled government” in this week’s state election.

    “Or whether they want to give the opposition a chance to clean up the mess and get Victoria back on track before it’s too late,” she said.

    “Voting a Bad Government out, rather than Voting an Opposition in, that to me is a No Brainer”

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      Ronin

      Vote the bad one out and hope the new one isn’t as bad.

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        Memoryvault

        Vote the bad one out and hope the new one isn’t as bad.

        Australians have been doing this for over 50 years at both federal and state level, and look where we are.
        One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

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          Saighdear

          Well? Time to change the OPTIONS then ? No use just remaining in the same kindergarten Play Park with its Swings and Roundabouts. Maybe some other Park has a Helterskelter or Ice Rink – still going at this time of year ? Anything different will be as good as a change.

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          Hanrahan

          It is said we get the government we deserve. You, absolutely, deserve labor bustardry.

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      for those interested
      a rational on what the Victorian parties are running on from turning point Australia
      https://www.tpaust.com.au/vicelec/about-the-parties/

      and a how to vote for freedom parties in your area of Victoria
      https://www.tpaust.com.au/vicelec/vote/

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        Hanrahan

        How does wasting your vote ensure your freedom?

        All it ensures is labor remaining in power and Melbournians are revelling in their freedoms.

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          Gee Aye

          Back down H, he said it was rational so clearly he’s correct.

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          yarpos

          You do realize H that the preferential voting system doesnt operate the same way in all States?

          Some care in filling out all the boxes on both ballots is required to ensure no flow to the ALP. Your one size fits all , totally adamant, position is actually quite wrong in VIC.

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            Hanrahan

            If you are going to waste a vote on a candidate who can’t win and then give your preference to the conservative, how have you ensured your freedom?

            You are being conned.

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    OldOzzie

    No ‘political mandate’ or ‘economic justification’ for IR bill: Credlin – 2 Mins 52 Secs

    Sky News host Peta Credlin says the trouble with the government’s industrial relations bill is there is no “political mandate” or “economic justification” for it.

    “Labor said nothing about this industry-wide bargaining push prior to the election. In fact, it denied it had such plans,” Ms Credlin said.

    “But now, it’s ‘absolutely essential’ Labor says, to ‘get wages moving’.

    “And sure, Labor did promise to increase real wages, just like it promised to cut power bills by $275 – but never specified how it would be done.”

    Ms Credlin said this government was always going to have a “heavy union-led agenda”.

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      Ross

      Wow, Labor influenced by the unions – know me down with a feather.

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      yarpos

      $275 off for voting Fed ALP, now Dan is going to lower costs by socializing VIC power generation just as it’s reaching the peak of self inflicted “RE” chaos. Bless their hearts, I didn’t realize I was going to have it so good on the energy front.

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    OldOzzie

    OldOzziesays:

    November 22, 2022 at 1:02 pm

    memsays:
    November 22, 2022 at 12:36 pm

    Does anyone know if the Sack Dan Andrews, Restore Democracy Party, is not what it purports to be, but is funded by Andrews with preferences to labor? I read this on Adem Somyurek’s twitter account. https://twitter.com/AdemSomyurek/status/1594807332416155648?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

    Surely this is deceptive conduct if true?

    If you read this web site then Victoria is a mess – https://viclabor.org/ – Que? is all I can say!

    plus

    Calls for Victorian electoral reform after ‘preference whisperer’ recorded boasting of influence – https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-17/calls-for-group-voting-ticket-reform-victoria/101663588

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    John Connor II

    Staying warm: What does an unheated room do to your body?

    Mention deadly cold and I think of polar explorers with icicles dangling from their beards and mountaineers tackling the heights of Everest; of fingers turning black with frostbite and the chilling clutch of hypothermia.

    So I was sceptical when I was asked to take part in a cold experiment that took place at just 10 degrees Celsius. Yes, 10C.

    To me that’s mild, nowhere near freezing and certainly no Arctic blast. Surely we’d have to go much colder before putting a strain on the body? I was wrong.

    “It sounds mild, but it is a real physiological challenge,” Prof Damian Bailey, from the University of South Wales, tells me.

    He’s invited me to his laboratory to explore the impact of cold homes on our bodies and why such seemingly mild temperatures can become deadly.

    “Ten degrees is the average temperature that people will be living in, if they can’t afford to heat their homes,” said Prof Bailey.

    And as I was about to find out, 10C has a profound impact on the heart, lungs and brain.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63602501

    Meh. I’ve been on a mountain at -19C (wind chill factor) with 100km/h winds with 300mm+ ice stalagtites formed, in shorts and tshirt for 3 hours. Mind you, I took the very steep track up and didn’t drive. Those were the fun days…
    Everyone else there thought I was crazy.😅

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    RobB

    How Blackrock is creating the global energy crisis:

    “Most people are bewildered by what is a global energy crisis, with prices for oil, gas and coal simultaneously soaring and even forcing closure of major industrial plants such as chemicals or aluminum or steel. The Brandon Administration and EU have insisted that all is because of Putin and Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. This is not the case. The energy crisis is a long-planned strategy of western corporate and political circles to dismantle industrial economies in the name of a dystopian Green plan. That has its roots in the period years well before February 2022, when Russia launched its military action in Ukraine.”

    https://ussanews.com/2022/11/21/how-blackrocks-larry-fink-created-the-global-energy-crisis/

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    John Connor II

    Swiss Scientists Find Breakthrough Cure for Paralysis

    Swiss scientists have made a breakthrough discovery in the quest to cure paralysis and help paralysed patients walk again.

    Researchers at Swiss group NeuroRestore say that they’ve correctly identified which neurons can reverse the paralysis of people with severe chronic spinal injuries.

    The neuroscientists have pinpointed the exact location in the spine after testing on mice and successfully restoring their ability to walk.

    It turns out that the area that orchestrates walking comes from the nerve cells at the lower back. Having trauma there can disrupt the chain of signals between the spinal cord and the brain, causing the relevant neurons to lose their “walking” function even if they’re all present.

    https://designtaxi.com/news/421100/Completely-Paralyzed-People-Walk-Again-After-The-Right-Nerves-Are-Stimulated/

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    John Connor II

    Brazil Begins Snatching Kids Away From Parents Who Question Election Results

    Brazilian President Lula da Silva has instructed child services to begin taking children away from parents who deny the election results.

    Since October millions of disenfranchised Brazilians have taken to the streets to protest what they claim was a stolen election from former President Jair Bolsonaro.

    From the tweet below: (translated) Around 22:00 hours (11/18/22) the Tutelary Council tried to remove children from their parents, in front of the Army Battalion on Av.Fernandes Lima – Maceió-AL

    The protesters were not having it.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/brazil-lula-minister-signs-order-allowing-child-services-take-children-away-free-election-protesters/

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    John Connor II

    Died suddenly – the 2022 documentary

    https://rumble.com/v1wac7i-world-premier-died-suddenly.html
    Or:
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=2iSk_I0Dils

    Source live link:
    https://www.stewpeters.com/live/

    Nothing revolutionary, but consolidated.

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    John Connor II

    Children’s charity The Smith Family hit by cyberattack

    Children’s charity The Smith Family has been hit with a cyberattack, with some personal information of donors potentially stolen.
    CEO Doug Taylor said in a statement the hack was an attempt to steal money from the charity, but that the attempt was “unsuccessful”.
    “We immediately took steps to secure our systems,” Taylor said.

    https://www.9news.com.au/national/smith-family-cyber-attack-attempted-robbery-charity-funds/e00f150f-9798-47cf-bfe2-b9edd75ba68b

    “Immediately took steps to secure…” 🙄

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    John Connor II

    Hybrid ultracap battery promises 72-second city EV charging

    An electric car that can charge in as little time as it takes to pump a gas vehicle has long been the dream of existing and would-be EV drivers. But what if it could charge even more quickly? The average gas fill-up takes two minutes, according to the American Petroleum Institute, with other estimates coming in higher. A new electric energy storage technology being developed by Swiss tech startup Morand could offer electric city car charging times in slightly more than half that two-minute time. A cross between traditional batteries and ultracapacitors, the company’s eTechnology units offer potential game-changing charging rates, coupled with the possibility of much longer lifespans than lithium-ion batteries.

    Morand has been hard at work developing what it calls eTechnology, describing it as an energy storage solution that combines characteristics of an ultracapacitor with those of a chemical battery. In part of its test and evaluation program, the company says a 7.2-kWh eTechnology prototype was able to recharge to 80 percent in just 72 seconds, 98 percent in 120 seconds, and 100 percent in 2.5 minutes at up to 900 A/360 kW. It says independent testing was performed by Geo Technology.

    https://www.morandetech.com/

    I love supercaps and can’t wait for them to come of age.😁

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      Philip

      Ive been hearng of battery breakthroughs for many years now. They dont arrive though. One day it will, perhaps.

      I hope so, all I want is cheap energy. If they can give me that Im all for it and crossing fingers. I somehow doubt it though.

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      Geoffrey Williams

      The Morand link is not worth much . .

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      yarpos

      “900 A/360 kW” forgive me if I take a few steps back while you recharge. I’ll just stand over there.

      The infrastructure supporting multiples of these at a charging facility would be impressive

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      Graeme#4

      You might be waiting some time if you are expecting supercaps to replace batteries for storage John. While they have their uses such as rail guns and short-term storage, I don’t believe they are candidates for replacing batteries.

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    James Murphy

    The “Global cooksafe coalition” – using a misleading name to find solutions to problems that dont exist… they just hate gas.
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-22/doctors-climate-scientists-chefs-push-for-end-to-gas-in-kitchens/101678140

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    John Connor II

    The Cause of Alzheimer’s Could Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth

    In recent years, a growing number of scientific studies have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer’s disease isn’t just a disease, it’s an infection.

    While the exact mechanisms of this infection are something researchers are still trying to isolate, numerous studies suggest the deadly spread of Alzheimer’s goes way beyond what we used to think.

    One such study, published in 2019, suggested what could be one of the most definitive leads yet for a bacterial culprit behind Alzheimer’s, and it comes from a somewhat unexpected quarter: gum disease.

    In a paper led by senior author Jan Potempa, a microbiologist from the University of Louisville, researchers reported the discovery of Porphyromonas gingivalis – the pathogen behind chronic periodontitis (aka gum disease) – in the brains of deceased Alzheimer’s patients.

    “Now, for the first time, we have solid evidence connecting the intracellular, Gram-negative pathogen, P. gingivalis, and Alzheimer’s pathogenesis.”

    In addition, the team identified toxic enzymes called gingipains secreted by the bacteria in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, which correlated with two separate markers of the disease: the tau protein, and a protein tag called ubiquitin.

    But even more compellingly, the team identified these toxic gingipains in the brains of deceased people who were never diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

    That’s important, because while P. gingivalis and the disease have been linked before, it’s never been known – to put it simply – whether gum disease causes Alzheimers, or whether dementia leads to poor oral care.

    The fact that low levels of gingipains were evident even in people who were never diagnosed with Alzheimer’s could be a smoking gun – suggesting they might have developed the condition if they had lived longer.

    https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau3333

    A healthy gut microbiome (as I’ve covered before) and a healthy oral microbiome is the way to go. There are probiotic mouthwashes (which is what I use now) on the market which are way better than the typical antibiotic alcohol types.

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      Ross

      “probiotic mouthwashes” – do you have a brand name JC??

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      MrGrimNasty

      Google gum disease linked to….
      Safe to say everything!

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      KP

      Now you know what a root canal leads to..

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      Hanrahan

      Antibiotic mouthwashes are exactly what NOT to do, nothing to do with Az.

      But every time I read of a new cause of Az, it just doesn’t fit my lady’s profile.

      Mrs H was diagnosed 8 yrs ago, her oral health has been good but I see evidence of OCD in her shopping patterns going much further back. I am constantly finding colourful things around the house unopened. Today it was six pencil sharpeners all different colours in a pack.

      There is no point in early diagnosis, but if you insist, OCD will show before memory loss.

      OK I have been up all night because my Lady won’t settle. Sorry if I’m off topic.

      Does anyone know, or have experienced, if Az sufferer’s have difficulty maintaining body temperature? I suspect that running fans and aircons may be counterproductive. Tonight I found her in an unconditioned room under a heavy doona, no fan. She is unable to communicate if she feels cold.

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    We are under dire threat. My email messages to Australian politicians are being censored because they contain the information shown below. That is, as an Australian citizen I am being denied the right to express my views in what was once a sovereign, democratic nation that valued freedom of expression.
    Set out below is the object of the censorship which presumably is the truth if it warrants such censorship:

    The deceptively named Greenhouse Gases are molecules in the atmosphere that have a simple structure. This enables the constituent atoms to vibrate about each other in various modes which arise when the molecule absorbs the electromagnetic energy required to produce that vibration. As freely floating molecules in the atmosphere, they can absorb and release the energy in any direction. Since the molecules are above the Earth’s surface, more that half of any absorbed radiation must, on release, be directed out into space, away from the Earth.

    This applies to all sources of radiation, either from the hot Sun or from the much cooler Earth. Thus more than half of the radiation from the Sun within the spectral bands of the radiative gases is directed out into space before reaching the surface, making the Earth cooler than it would be if the radiative gases were absent. However the UN IPCC failed to report this fact.

    Similarly more than half of the radiation from the cooler Earth’s surface within the radiative absorption bands is also directed out into space thereby decreasing the heat energy within the Earth/Atmosphere volume, resulting in cooling of the Earth. Again a fact not mentioned by the UN IPCC.

    The residual energy from the Earth’s surface absorbed by the radiative gases and directed towards the surface is already part of the Earth’s energy budget received from the Sun so it cannot increase that energy. The radiative gases do not generate any heat energy, they are inert molecules that merely pass on the energy present via conduction, convection or radiation as does any entity within the Earth/Atmosphere volume warmed by the Sun. Thus, contrary to the claim by the UN IPCC that this warms the Earth, there is no additional energy whatsoever produced by the radiative gases, so they do not warm the Earth’s surface.

    Conclusion: the action of the radiative gases is to cool the Earth, not heat it as claimed by the UN IPCC.

    Maurice Strong, millionaire and Canadian representative to the UN, was instrumental in setting up the UN IPCC in order to destroy capitalism. His aim was to demonize fossil fuels, the source of cheap and reliable energy, which allowed capitalism to flourish, thereby bringing about the collapse of the World economy and setting the stage for a “One World Government” by the UN and World Economic Forum. He was a member of the World Economic Forum and spent his later years living in an apartment in Beijing under the Communist regime.

    The UN and the World Economic Forum have continued with their aim of destroying our life-style, society, democracy and freedom by propaganda and education that promotes the false narrative that atmospheric CO2 is warming the Earth, causing catastrophic climate events, setting up fear in the World population by this deception all aimed at creating ‘One World Government’, by them, of course.

    Details of my climate studies may be seen on my web page https://www.climateauditor.com

    Wishing You Well,
    Bevan Dockery, B.Sc.(Hons-Maths), Grad. Dip. Computing, retired geophysicist.
    formerly: Fellow of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists,
    Member of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
    Member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
    Member of the European Association of Exploration Geophysicists,
    Member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
    currently: Member of the Clintel Foundation.

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      Ross

      Unfortunately Bevan, our federal politicians use CSIRO as their main policy drivers and information source. That organisation is so far into climate alarmism it’s not funny. It seems every departments activity within that organisation is framed by the mantra of ” the earth is warming alarmingly and our weather will be more variable”. There appears to be no balancing force within CSIRO at all. There was once, but I think most have now retired. Under Larry Marshall it has got much worse with the production of the GENCOST analysis the most egregious. There’s a huge conflict of interest. They are the main group advising government but then also the main recipients of grants. At the moment they are pro-active on methane reduction in agriculture and hydrogen as a viable alternative fuel source. They have been given money to do this by both LNP and now ALP governments.

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      Hanrahan

      Welcome to the fold Bevan, but you will need to keep working outside this wonderful, but limited range, blog.

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      John Hultquist

      ” … email messages to Australian politicians are being censored because …”

      In the USA, politicians appear to have a filter on email that block any input if the sender is not a resident of the district the person represents. I suspect there are other sorts of filters for state-wide and federal officials that prevent contact from unknown (registered, accepted, ?) people. Some officials likely get hundreds or thousands of messages each week.

      Many years ago — I think it was 1984 when Ronald Reagan’s 2nd campaign was underway — tort reform was an issue, and I sent a letter addressed to the President at the White House. I offered to give the campaign a 1980s Chevy truck (saddle-bag gas tank issues) if tort reform was included in the Republican platform.
      Two weeks later I got a solicitation for a donation from the Republican National Committee. Ronnie never got in touch.😒

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      Gee Aye

      This applies to all sources of radiation, either from the hot Sun or from the much cooler Earth.

      is where you are wrong. Maybe read up about the different EM frequencies and from where they emanate.

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        Please Gee Aye, give up the garbage. As a retired geophysicist who undertook exploration for radioactive minerals and used electromagnetic methods to detect electrically conductive minerals in the Earth’s rocks, I am well versed in the physics of EM.

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      Graeme#4

      You’re right about the charlatan Maurice Strong Bevan. When he organised the first Earth Summit in 1992, which later became IPCC, conference in Rio with Bert Bolin, he deliberately invited a large range of activists to the conference without the knowledge of the scientists attending, who mistakenly thought it was going to be a scientific conference. Strong also made the statement:
      “What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? …In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialised civilisations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring this about?”
      He was finally convicted in 2006 of conspiring to bribe UN officials, stripped of his 53 international awards and honours, and fled to Canada then China.
      A side note is that Strong was a major player in setting up the Montreal Protocol.

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    another ian

    “Covid in November” – in Oz

    “The Australian Government has given up on covid vaccination and is conducting a staged retreat. It is now recommending booster shots only for those over 50, the same as Denmark. Those under 30 will not be approved for further doses due to the risk of myocarditis. Myocarditis? What does that remind us of? It reminds us that Ralph Baric, the evil genius behind covid, wrote a paper in 1992 with this title:”

    More at

    https://richardsonpost.com/david-archibald/29447/covid-in-november/

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    KP

    The push to get rid of Zelensky is starting, I’ve heard rumbles in several articles. Saying the missile that hit Poland was Russian is so standard for him it hardly counts, yet he is being hung out to dry on it-

    “A fierce attack against the president of Ukraine, V. Zelensky, is launched by American media using heavy expressions, a sign that the climate has started to reverse.

    Fox News’ Carlson Tucker publicly blasted the Ukrainian president, accusing him of lying to get millions of Americans killed for him.

    “Zelensky continued to lie on TV. So when you run a country where free press is banned, like in Ukraine, you may not realize that the rest of the world is not forced to believe you. You can’t put them all in jail.

    That’s why he kept saying what he knew wasn’t true! It’s a lie that could kill millions of Americans. So you have to ask yourself: “Is it time to stop supporting this guy? Can the risk be that high?” He lies on purpose to get us into a war””

    Also in there is the New York Times reporting on the killing of Russian POWs by Ukraine, something quite amazing for a mainstream propaganda machine.

    https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/oi-amerikanoi-teleiosan-ton-v-zelenski-afto-to-psema-tou-tha-borouse-na-skotosei-ekatommyria-amerikanon-poios-einai-to-favori-gia-tin-diadochi-tou/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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      Hanrahan

      The republicans are the anti-war party today and it is they who object to the multi billions being piped into Ukraine.

      Tucker is not pro Russian just pro America.

      Personally, with no skin in the game, i think the US is getting value for money IF all arms are getting the front.

      Russia cannot survive this craziness, will likely be unable to maintain their nuclear arsenal and there will be another “peace dividend” similar to Reagan and Gorby.

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    Neville

    Their ABC have ben yapping about the latest “state of the climate report” and I’m sure there are enough silly fools who’ll lap it up.
    Amazing that these same donkeys played dumb when the Flannery con merchant told the MSM that we “wouldn’t have enough future rainfall to fill our dams and rivers”. And that was about 15 years ago.
    Unbelievable but TRUE and ditto their CSIRO.

    http://www.bom.gov.au/state-of-the-climate/

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      Graeme#4

      When you read this report, you might note that it repeats the alarmist lie about SLR but noticeably does not include any data to backup that assertion. Surely any scientific body should not be making claims that they cannot verify with data.

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    robert rosicka

    Just watching sky news – weather report and theve now drunk the ABC coolaide and going all out with climate change , climate change , climate change .
    Some of it is laughable, unscientific rubbish and the rest is propaganda straight from the UN playbook . So apart from being the hottest year evaaahhh and cyclones will cause more flooding but there will be less of them and it’s going to get hotter but it’s going to rain more . My favourite was the map of Oz highlighting the select areas of coast that are suffering from sea level rise , noted the whole of the Gulf of Carpentaria is already seeing sea level rise and soon it will be inundated . Anyone remember the story recently of the mangroves that died in the same area because the sea level dropped and the mangroves died of thirst . As for hottest year evaahhh I can’t remember a year where we’ve had the wood heater going into November.

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      KP

      Yeah, listening to it this morning, just rubbish that no sane person would believe… Not only will we be flooded every year from now on but our bushfire seasons will be longer and bigger. Australia is getting hotter and hotter, yet anyone alive could tell you this year has been distinctly colder than before.

      Far too many arts graduates involved, no-one seems to be able to reason out the consequences of so much humidity in the atmosphere and so much rain on the ground. It ends up as pure Govt propaganda alongside “Putin bad” and “Covid will kill you but vaccines save you”.

      I suppose the best bit of propaganda this morning was the Reserve Bank saying wage rises will add to the inflation that is causing the need for wage rises… No mention of the truth, that Govt money printing is the cause of inflation, or the other side of the coin that employers profits cause wage demands.

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      Gee Aye

      RR- was it a weather report? Even the ABC doesn’t editorialise a plain old report.

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        Graeme#4

        If you are referring to the recently-released BOM/CSIRO Report, which is also being discussed in The Australian today, Neville provided a link to that report in #18.

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        robert rosicka

        Part of the weather report yes and was a reference to a CSIRO / BOM report .

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    Bartender UK

    The Biden administration the promoters of the man-made global warming agenda, depopulation, the big bang theory and the black hole hoopla that stands behind the censorship of the Orion’s live stream footage of the moon mission, saying to society in essence, “The truth be damned! Close your mind. We tell you what the truth is. We own your science. We control what science is. We use this control to prove to you what we want you to believe. Your place is to simply believe. We even supply your opinions for you, that we want you to imagine are real. We own you, by imprisoning you into dreams. You have no means to escape from this trap, because you lack the scientific power to discern what the actual truth – based on real science and real evidence – is. We dazzle you with sparkling dreams, so that you will never reach out for your potential in real science and develop your power as human beings.”

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      Gee Aye

      Geez, why the new conspiracies. Is this for the nextgen to tilt at?

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        b.nice

        “why the new conspiracies”

        Its been advertised by them.

        They have actually said things like “we own the science”..

        Pay more attention to your masters, or you get ostrichised by your fellow AGW cult members.

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    Neville

    Dr Steve Koonin has completed three debates about their so called dangerous climate change and he has easily won all three. BIG SURPRISE NOT.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/18/three-climate-debates-three-wins/

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    another ian

    “OIL RIG WORKERS vs TWITTER WORK / Timcast Crew, Tim Pool & Rudkowski Commentary”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF9ogU7-Bic

    Via

    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/11/22/past-twitter-employees-vs-oil-rig-workers/

    where comments could be interesting

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    Hanrahan

    Another pilot has heart attack while flying, American flight ENY 3556. He later died in hospital.

    Time airlines rostered a pure blood on the flight deck at all times.

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