UPDATE: This post will remain a sticky post for a few days. New posts will appear below.
We’re in an information war against the financial monsters of the world. They’re swimming in an ocean of money. But thanks to all the independent spirits who have kept me going for years without a regular income, we fight on. Together we can expose the grifters, the sad culti, and mock their holy idols. It’s a dangerous moment in history, but as those in the gulags would have surely said, we have so many tools, and it’s a time where their sacred cows are coming undone. The pagan witchdoctors have overplayed their hand, they are vulnerable.
It is not just about the dollars, it’s an honor, and incredibly motivating to get help, big or small, from like minded souls all corners of the globe. It’s been an absolute delight to connect with so many good people who think for themselves, who will not submit, and who recognize the threat from the parasites in the system.
Never surrender
Please hit the tip jar, buy me a beer, a steak, server space or a new hard drive.
Thanks for your contribution, no matter how big or small.
Please send supplies via Paypal, or through direct deposit, or by snail-mail instead.
Due to ridiculous legal froufrou, donors can buy as many “units of emergency chocolate” as they can spare in AUD, CAD, EUR, GBP, NZD or USD. Or send help via NAB Account BSB: 086420 Number:563148308 and International transfer.
Suggestions welcome for other supply routes.
The false prophets who pose as heroes while they try to trap us in a fifteen minute city, ban life saving drugs, inject our children and destroy our grids deserve nothing.
Merry Christmas and best wishes to everyone here.
Special thanks to Bryant, Margaret, Keith, M.A., J.S., David H, Andre, Caroline K, Graham C, Joan S, Robert S, David P, Neil S, Janet S, Gavin T, William B, Barry S, Eddie G, Peter R, Robert C and Garry B!’
Photo by Desalb.
Happy to help Jo. Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a prosperous and safe new year. Thank you for all your hard work.
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NAB Account BSB: 086420 Number:563148308
Ok will do.
This will be our agreement.
“Jo understands that I am not paying cash for comment.
and I understand that I will be rightly modded if my comments are off topic, offensive to another blogger or not relevant to this site.”
I think both parties will agree.
That done, Thankyou Jo and team/contributers for providing a scientific blog that allows voices to be heard and for others like me to discuss, think and learn.
I have truly enjoyed JoNova 2022..
I Look forward to JoNova in 2023!
[Thank you so much William x! — Jo]
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Incidentally, I once looked into the issue of whether malicious parties can do anything bad if they know your bank account number and BSB, which you obviously have to give out if you want someone to transfer money to you, and the answer is NO. It is perfect safe to have this information “in the open”. At least, that’s what the bank told me.
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They can’t withdraw, but they could deposit, say, $1,000,000 into your account, in small amounts over time.
That would be devastating. 😉
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Just be very careful using the bank on your phone – I got caught once, it was the usual phone number my bank used and came up on my phone as the bank name!
I had to scrub my phone, lost half my contacts and a hell load of photos – the bank could not explain how they had or could come up as the bank number??
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Don’t ya love it.😁
Being the heretic you are, $66.66 and $666.66 seem appropriate donations. 😉
Must be quality Belgian choccy…
[John! Wow, thank you. You are most generous! Your dry wit was being misinterpreted, so forgive me for a small edit to save you from misplaced wrath. – Jo]
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Edit as you see fit Jo.
My sense of humour gets misunderstood at times.
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Glad to help Jo and a Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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Heres a Parma on me.
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What is the name on the NAB account?
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See here:
https://joannenova.com.au/about/donations/prefer-a-different-option/
Un ,,,,,,,,
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Thanks Mark, and everyone here. It’s such a relief and endorsement to see help arriving.
It’s Joanne Nova on the account thank you! Or Unqwerty Pty Ltd. But I suspect that only the numbers matter. Thanks for paying attention to those. 🙂
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More chocolate for you Jo. Please keep up the good work. And may I wish you, David and family all the best for the festive season.
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My OH sent some chocolates earlier today; it was already planned!
Merry Christmas to you and yours Jo.
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Hi Jo, I’ve just sent some British chocolate to you. I hope it arrives this time – I tried last year but somewhere the system fell over.
Happy Christmas.
Regards, John.
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Jo is doing some fantastic work.
Her blog has world wide reach.
Have a look at the statistics button on the right side of the screen.
Well worth supporting if you want to spread the word.
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Keep up the good work Jo.
Best wishes
Mike from Moe Vic//
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Jo, some chocolates are headed your way!
Thank you for all that you do; as I have often said, this site is an island of sanity in a sea of craziness.
Also, thank you to all of the contributors that make this such an interesting blog.
Merry Christmas to all!
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Happy Christmas, and a merry New Year!
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I seem to have ordered chocolates from Ms Codling.
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Jo,
More chocolate for you, with my gratitude. You’re one of the top blogs on my reading list: I appreciate everything you do, and realize it’s an almost thankless task.
Thanks for being on the side of rationality and transparency. And for attracting a well-informed commenting community.
All the best to everyone here for a happy, healthy new year and a Merry Christmas
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Warms my heart. Thanks so much to everyone for chipping in, I’m struggling to keep up with thank you emails.
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Jo,
When are you getting a regular spot on Sky News Channel??
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Sounds like a good idea.
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Merry Christmas to everyone and let’s hope the lights stay on.
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Actually, it would be better if they didn’t.
It might be an effective wake up call.
But they probably will stay on as a lot of power has been liberated due to Australia’s shut down of industry plus the fact that domestic consumers are using a lot less due to the high cost of unreliables and the massive cross-subsidisation required to support them and their subsidy-harvester owners.
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“Actually, it would be better if they didn’t.”
Maybe after Christmas David.
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We had a power hiccup yesterday. Clear warm day, no wind.
I shudder to think what will happen on a scorcher with no wind.
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It is worth the Chocolates.
Witty and Intelligent Host, excellent commentary and repartee, lots of quality information.
Thank you for your hard work in hosting the blog, writing and curating the articles and comments.
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Thanks for all your hard work Jo.
And much of the content here simply can’t be discussed on legacy social(ist) media platforms because to do so will have one censored or banned. The one exception recently is on Musk’s Twitter since he has implemented a free speech policy. But that isn’t a technical or scientific blog like this.
The very process of science has been corrupted. You allow the free expression and discussion of science as it is meant to be, without the fraudulent imposition of false claims about science including:
1) Scientific fact is decided by “consensus”. FALSE
2) There is such a thing as “settled science”. FALSE
3) Dissenting opinions must be repressed. FALSE
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Also DM, science is never done at “warp speed”. Very often it’s 2 steps forward, 3 steps back.
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A Blessed & Peaceful Christmas to you and yours, Jo…
And to everyone on here who provides witty commentary and worthwhile information.
Always a great read.
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Never Surrender – and enjoy some Christmas cheer on me.
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Well done! Another year on the twin fronts of carbon madness and man made viruses always involving big government and big business.
Real science truth will always be on this blog. Thank you again.
And a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in 2023 to all.
And do not forget today to celebrate our summer solstice and the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. It used to be a day of celebration long before there was a Christmas. Mid summer and Mid winter.
It would be nice for the hatred of the element carbon to stop next year. And the civil war in Ukraine.
The UN was created to promote peace. And the EU to promote trade. It would be wonderful if they stuck to their jobs.
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Twin fronts? Make it three.
A fraud investigation into CAGW and COVID19 should extend to The Hole in the Ozone Layer.
All three constructed on public ignorance of science.
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And going back to the 1960’s, what about false claims about DDT causing it to be banned in most applications, which cost millions of lives due to malaria, I have seen an estimate of 50 million.
https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/the-rise-fall-rise-and-imminent-fall-of-ddt/
https://21sci-tech.com/articles/summ02/Carson.html
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Then there’s Piltdown man.
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As a former user of chlorinated hydrocarbons I say that they were not well managed. Initially they were marvellous, but over time the insects developed resistance and they didn’t work so well.
There were different formulations with different trade names. Mum used to dust the tomatoes with DDT. It was Dieldrin for the sheep blowfly, Aldrin for the plague locusts, Gammahex for the fleas on the dogs, and Chlordane for termites. And there is your connection.
In much of Australia termites are a big problem. Chlordane worked very well for treating and preventing termite damage. So much so that in some areas at least it was a requirement that new house sites should be treated with chlordane to give very long term protection against termites.
DDT was the most used CHC around the world, used for spraying mosquitoes, and it got the most publicity. From memory it was in the 1970s that the CHCs were banned because they were fat soluble and not water soluble, as a result of which chronic exposure could accumulate the chemical in fat tissue. But when the ban went on, they made an exception for Chlordane for termites, because Australia had the particular need and it was so effective.
Then in the 1990s they banned Chlordane too, at the insistence of the United Nations.
That was then. Now we have the internet with all the pros and cons of Wikipedia. We have cockroaches in our kitchen, and the pest people have failed to eradicate them. I looked up their chemical on the internet. It looked on Wiki like a very close cousin of Chlordane. Which reminded me that when they banned CFC refrigerants thirty plus years ago they told us that the replacement chemical was still a CFC, but it was a less bad CFC. Incidentally they now tell us that it too, must be banned.
All of which raises the questions, 1. Is the defining feature of a chemical the availability of regulations which enable the supplier to control the market? and 2. Is the United Nations being used by big corporations to corrupt the market?
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Okay then ….. Summer/Winter Solstice.
The Solstice day is the official start to the Winter in the U.S. unlike here in Oz where it’s the first day of the (Seasonal) Month.
My blog site is located in Harrisburg in Pennsylvania, and I’m in regular daily contact with Ed who owns the site. I’m just the lowly old Editor/Contributor. Just an hour ago, he tells me it snowed all day with a high of 32F, (Zero C) (22nd December, 15 hours behind us) and for the next two days the highs are expected to be 12F and 15F, so, that’s Minus 11C, and Minus 9C.
As an exercise, I did the comparison for Solstice days.
Where I live in Beenleigh Queensland Australia (Summer Solstice) – Sunrise – 4.48AM. Sunset – 6.42PM Hours of daylight – 13 hours 54 Mins.
Where he lives in Harrisburg Pennsylvania (Winter Solstice) – Sunrise – 7.27AM. Sunset – 4.45PM. Hours of daylight – 9 hours 18 Mins.
So, I’m effectively getting an extra (almost) five hours of daylight when compared to him.
I also noticed that it starts to get light on the Eastern Horizon about 4.15AM, and last light is around 7.15PM.
To highlight the Latitude thing, I also did the exercise for the Winter Solstice here (22nd June)
Sunrise – 6.37AM. Sunset – 5.00PM. Hours of daylight – 10 hours 23 Minutes
So, on our Winter Solstice here, I get an hour extra daylight here than he does there for his Winter Solstice.
An equivalent Northern latitude in the U.S. for Beenleigh is a little South of Tampa in Florida.
(Geography, almost as incomprehensible as Maths, but both of them just so much fun, eh!)
Tony.
(Chocolates sent)
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It does explain why Santa Claus was invented in the far North Latitudes in terrible winters. Hardly makes sense in the tropics or Queensland. So it’s just the New Year then. Merry New Year.
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Way back in July 2015 my wife and I were fortunate enough to be on a Rotary exchange with a Rotary district in Southern Alberta. Our first week or so we spent in Victoria BC. We could not get over the fact that at 2200 people were still out walking their dogs with the snowy mountains of Washington in the background. We also stayed in Lethbridge AB which is as far North of the equator as a spot 400 kilometers South of the Southern tip of New Zealand. It gets to 40 C in the summer. I guess that big Southern Ocean is a great refrigerator.
BTW Jo without your blog I would be less informed but much calmer. Every time you release another expose of scientific absurdity I want to scream but I am pleased to add that in reading what might be called the alternate media, Gateway Pundit and War Room among others I see a glimmer of hope for the sane as well as much fear from the elites as they are being exposed. The Gateway Pundit gets as many views these days as does CNN and that is a real concern for those who want to control our lives. I have given up on our Australian news services although Sky after dark does have some solid discussions and allows the “silenced ones” a voice; Jacinta Price, Matt Canavan and Senator Antic come to mind.
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I always find it hard to comprehend that the only part of the US that is in the tropics is Hawaii and in terms of distance from the equator Canada starts where Tasmania finishes.
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Tony says “Geography, almost as incomprehensible”
Harrisburg, PA 40°N
Me in Washington State, 47°N
That’s almost 500 miles. I’m north of the big cities of Eastern Canada, or what was Upper Canada — the area up-river (The St. Lawrence). Draw a line from London UK to Toronto CA to get the Brit’s view.
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“The NSW government will turbocharge the state’s transition to net zero by embracing a major new goal of slashing pollution by 70 per cent in just over a decade.”
It’s over, waste of time and money trying to change the climate alarmists minds, Australia is going to become extremely expensive to live in ,in the next couple of years. The next generation of voters are further left than the Greens blob. Expensive energy, expensive everything. Enjoy your self inflicted expensive utopia kids.
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I wish politicians and the Sheeple would understand that carbon dioxide, or what they call “carbon” (sic) is not pollution. It’s just an important life-giving trace gas, of predominantly natural origin and the more we have the better.
It was the anti-scientist Obama who declared CO2 a pollutant and “public danger” which enabled the US EPA to reclassify carbon dioxide as a pollutant and other nations followed.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/dec/07/us-climate-carbon-emissions-danger
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Entirely natural origin.
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I thought about 4% was attributable to human emissions but that was rapidly absorbed within the carbon cycle.
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Depends on your philosophy – some would contend that humans are part of nature. Hence, what TdeF states is true. But the usual figure for humans emissions in the Carbon cycle is no more than 3%. (sweet FA)
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Funny climate activists don’t mention they, as well as every other air breathing living organism expire CO2. They don’t worry about their own bit of inflammable methane either, but the world population has gone from around 4Billion to 8billion units in about 50years. Then there’s all those other life forms ‘saved’ eg check ‘roo, camel and cattle numbers.
While I package chocolates and ruminate further, I wonder whether the passage of euthanasia these days, along with knocking off our means of heating and cooling arent’ simply backdoor methods to solve these apparent weaknesses in the AGW theory. Haven’t heard comment from them either on the release of energy in the Ukraine war, but I put that down to Russia being officially beyond their radar.
On that note, a happy Christmas to Jo and everyone. Thanks for making this blog such a rich source of education for those of us that are learners rather than teachers.
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Happy to give some chocolate to the “moth”.
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“A new hard drive”.
I bought one lately at Officeworks. Compact external 5 TB for $169.
Moore’s law seems to be still holding, far, far beyond what anybody could surely have imagined.
Maybe the current turmoil in world events will see it finally hit the wall.
I’ve been predicting that for 25 years. Must get it right some day!
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Nice to see a classmate still keeping his mind active and a brilliant mind it was too. Merry Christmas Ted1.
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2U2. Thanks.
Can’t help wondering what I might have achieved had I not loved farming.
You would probably have found me now buried in the bowels of some Physics department, unwashed, unshaven, building a Better Bomb. i.e trying to crack Fusion. Nobody else has done it, and I will never know if I might have been able.
Incidentally, did you see Professor Clancy’s recent essay on Quadrant, addressed to “the class of ’65”. An exquisite challenge to the cancellers.
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More chocolates enroute Jo. Thank you for your hard work.
Merry Christmas to All – hoping for a return to sanity in 2023.
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Thanks for your great work, Jo.
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With the current inflation I’ve managed to up my help a little, to help with a Merry Christmas.
Thanks for all your efforts Jo, keep up the good work, we need you.
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Your timing is impeccable 😊, can you wait until some time in JAN for a donation?
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Crackar, any time is a good time and I’m grateful all year.
I should, really must, mention it more often.
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I’m not suggesting you do it Jo, but several other blogs and ‘news’ sites I frequent use a subscription model. In one case, readers are able to see posts and stories but only subscribers are allowed to comment. There are many ways to operate a subscription model. This would mean you don’t have to organise infrequent fundraising efforts.
Just a thought and I’m sure there are downsides.
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Jo, a special thanks for your excellent and tireless work.
I have just bought some of your chocolates for Christmas!
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Aaargh Happy Xmas Josie sent some doublooms.
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Jo – thanks for continuing to provide excellent data related to covid, climate change and other related subjects. Contrary to reneweconomy and other warmist sites you actually provide data rather than politics and ideology, and fraud. Have kicked into the tip jar…
The coming year is going to be an enormous challenge and hopefully the appalling energy price rises, and closures of many businesses and loss of livelihoods (whilst temperatures remain within the range seen for the last 1000 years) may wake up many who are asleep.
I personally have severe issues with the politicising of medicine and the covid disaster shows what happens when people outsource their thinking to incompetent and politically aligned bureaucrats. I would like to hope that the vaxxes are banned in the new year and we start to allow those injured and the families of those killed by the poison shots to be heard and measures taken to ensure this calamity does not to happen ever again.
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Some xmas choccy coming your way Jo even if you did delete my tongue-in-cheek comment.
I’m sure you’ll recognise it!
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Jo, Thanks for the long hours of dedication to the climate and anti woke / anti democracy cause. Best wishes for Christmas and 2023.
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Done.
I used direct bank transfer as I closed my Paypal account months ago. Jo’s readers won’t need to ask why!
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Steve, you are not the only one, and I completely understand. I’m looking for alternatives, especially for overseas payments.
But rest assured I’ve already forwarded most of the Paypal donations through to another account. It’s only wise in the current climate…
And thank you!
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Merry Christmas Joanne
Thanks for all the work you do.
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Jo, how can I refuse. You are one of the few people who give me any hope in this hopeless world we are living in at the moment. Chocolates on their way.
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Done, and a merry Xmas to all!
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Merry Christmas Jo and all the best for the New Year.
Your service is invaluable and I feel there is a great benefit in continued contact with your blog family.
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Merry Xmas Jo.
Thank you for the chocolates and I hope many more chocolates to come in the New Year.
I love your work.
Cheers
Diane
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Just sent you and David a few dollars. Wish it could be more.
Keep up the good work guys, I sense that the tide is turning against the climate zealots as more and more is revealed about the deadly cobalt mines and the mining of other rare earths essential for the impossible and utterly impractical ‘green’ dream of zero emissions.
More and more people are becoming aware that CO2 is not a pollutant and the utter hypocrisy of most climate activists. At least Greta sailed once!
The big challenge for us Aussies is to keep a tight rein on the Left which controls too many States and the Federal government right now. Held to account must they be.
Compliments of the Season from the East.
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Merry Xmas Jo. Enjoy the chocolates.
Hope they keep you strong to continue the good work for the new year.
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Thanks for your energy, persistence and determination.
I am currently reading one of Saul Griffith’s books “The Big Switch”
Gotta keep up with what the Climatists and RE missionaries are pushing.
Hope you have a Joyful Christmas.
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Keep up the good work Jo. Battling the Absurdists it a task seemingly without end.
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We have got lots of chocolate baubles on our Christmas tree but I daresay they would arrive squashed. Its only Christmas eve hereand I have a stinking cold, but after Christmas day is over I will try to send you something. It doesn’t always seem to work in the UK
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My donation is the money I used to give to WIKI.
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Happy Xmas to Jo and her family, and of course, to denizens of Jo’s blog.
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I love your stuff! And thanks also to hubby. I’ve had immense enjoyment reading your content and that of most of your contributors. Now I get to enjoy the chocolates I’ve just bought.
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Thanks skepticynic, and thanks to all the commenters here. I’ve so enjoyed reading this thread!
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Keep up the good work Jo!!
Here’s a little somethin’ for all your hard work! Thanks!!
Merry Xmas from The Netherlands.
Wijnand
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Hey Jo, A little something via paypal. Sorry it’s not more but on a pension and not much spare. Love your work. Keep it up and enjoy the ‘chocolates’.
Regards, Stuart.
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Not the financial monsters but the governments world-wide
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A little something has been sent . I feel quite groggy and confused the last few days as I’ve had a bad cold. I was correct in making out the funding to Michael Mann wasn’t I?
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Lol… Get well soon tony, climate historian.
– Just the facts, ma’ám,
From bts,
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Ping.
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Thanks for your tireless work on Covid science Jo (as opposed to “The Science”).
Would that more than a small handful of my medical colleagues show just a little of your curiosity and acumen.
Enjoy the chocolates!
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I have now sent you some money for beers or a steak. You should get the money tomorrow.
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Oh. And a Very Happy New Year to you and yours.
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