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The blatant hypocrisy is there for all to see.
‘Germany’s online BILD daily crunched the numbers on the number of flights and the CO2 emitted by the different ministries and the people who head them.
‘According to the official government data, most of the 11,234 tonnes of CO2 for flights by government ministries so far in the current legislative period are attributable to the Greens: 6900 tonnes of CO2. That is over 60 percent of the CO2 emissions of all ministerial flights.’ (Notrickszone)
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Leftists love flying either in their own private jets such as flying into WEF Davos meetings or when other people such as taxpayers are paying for it, like Greens.
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Did any sane person think this would be otherwise?
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I’m assuming it’s comment 1.2
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The Left are now censoring or rewriting Roald DAHL books.
This is a direct consequence of the thinking community remaining silent when the Left started censoring and altering books and records. They are emboldened now. They have no limits.
I wonder if the altered books carry a warning that the original words of the author have been altered?
Orwell warned about this in Nineteen Eighty Four:
Paul Joseph Watson discusses:
https://youtu.be/aWF4uSjEKW8
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I hear Penguin have relented and will keep the traditional books in print.
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Thanks for that info. Hanrahan.
It’s Puffin but apparently they will now offer two versions of the books, the original ones and the rewritten ones.
It’s still inappropriate.
Get woke, go broke.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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They should NOT edit his work and release it under his name. It is no longer his work.
Maybe use the pseudonym “Ronald MacDonald”?
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Copyright breach?
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Is ivermectin considered by some to be the most effective anti shingles drug? Well waddayano! I have it.
I expected a scrip for iv but got another well regarded traditional treatment. My question is whether I am mistaken or the doctors are cowed.
A search on valaciclovir says it should be taken with Zn and D3 [logical], which I take normally but the Dr did not mention it.
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Are you in Australia Hanrahan? I see no reference to that being an approved shingles treatment here.
The Australian Government supports expensive vaccines, Zostavax (51% effective) and Shingrix (97% effective).
https://www.health.gov.au/topics/immunisation/vaccines/shingles-herpes-zoster-immunisation-service
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15 years ago My wife had a mastectomy, and has had ongoing problems since, including an arm swollen with lymphoedema and associated problems.
A few years back she was diagnosed with “lupus”, which seems to be an amorphous, poorly understood condition, blamed for lots of things. Her elder sister had already been diagnosed with lupus.
In mid 2001 she started to develop a rash, with red spots that slowly spread and filled in, more aggressive where the skin had been tanned from working outdoors, arms and back of neck, but spreading well beyond that. I think this condition was called Lichen Planus.
For six months or more despite many consultations with doctors, it continued to fill out, and I was worried that it would go all over and maybe become painful. Had it been myself I would have tried a dab of the Ivermectin cattle pour on on one of the spots. I didn’t dare suggest it for her in case it caused the rash to become painful.
Then she saw a specialist who prescribed Hydroxychloroquine. The rash stopped advancing and slowly faded away.
I think they don’t know what causes the rash, how it works. The spots that slowly spread reminded me of a grass fire with no wind, slowly spreading and leaving scorched earth behind. It would seem feasible that there might be a microbe working away under the skin, and these drugs can kill it.
When we were younger she used to get mouth ulcers. and they used to spread like that, very painfully. The medics said there was no effective treatment, but later there was, associated with the discovery of the treatable heliobacter causing stomach ulcers, and I haven’t seen any mouth ulcers for a long time.
I am wondering just how many more benefits we might get from these drugs if proper research is allowed.
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treatment reduces the symptoms of shingles
This is not a vaccine to prevent it.
https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/first-med-inc-is-researching-how-to-combat-shingles-with-ivermectin-as-cases-rise-globally
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John, that article simply says As cases of shingles have increased…... Has anyone addressed WHY the increase? Is it correlated with the Wu flu?
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or the wuflu vax.
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“Is it correlated with the Wu flu?”
“or the wuflu vax”
Wu Flu effects are correlations.
Vax effects are coincidences.
‘Science’ is the stuff of correlations.*
Coincidence is the stuff Conspiracy Theory and has all the hallmarks of Russian Disinformation.
Like Hunter’s laptop.
If I take a nude picture of myself with a Russian girl while reading JoNova, it is a coincidence.
A CCP billionaire once gave me $75.
It was a coincidence.
I contributed the $75 dollars to Ukraine.
The Ukraine contributed it to the Biden campaign.
Build Back Better.
As soon as the radioactivity subsides.
It is a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated.
*(Anthropogenic un-sequestering of CO2 is correlated with rising global temperatures. Any ‘hiatus’ or cooling associated with rising CO2 is coincidence. We will return to normal correlation after this brief coincidence.)
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“…or the wuflu vax.”
How about the shingles vax?
A mate’s partner got the shingles, She had been vaxed. Only after she got the shingles was she told about the 60% effective.
I had the shot a few year back, not knowing anything about less than 100%
I think I should take more care of that bottle of Ivermectin pour on that has been on the shelf ever since we got rid of the cattle.
We got rid of the cattle because I couldn’t afford the bruises any more with my warfarin. I got kicked in the thigh, which was not unusual, but this time it bruised me from the hip to the ankle, except that my wife put a kilo pack of frozen vegies on the thigh and the bruise was much less severe where the kick landed. Ice packs work!
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Or the wuflu jab?
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Thanks John,
Interesting. Covid gets a mention as do zinc and vitamin D.
Cheers
Dave B
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A two minute video implicating Obama in the establishment of USA connected bioweapons labs in Ukraine.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/81PCCzYWj2bB/
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Page 3 of today’s Telegraph – Australian of the Year – Taryn Brumfitt will not be silenced. “We should not care what size women are.”
Hidden away in two paragraphs on Page 17 – New research shows that “Excess weight or obesity boosts risk of death anywhere from 22% to 91%.”
Perhaps someone should tell our AOTY yo follow the science, eh?
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She must be part of the fat acceptance/ body positivity movement whereby morbid obesity is seen as something to be celebrated.
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Gets my vote… Like politicians pushing vaccines, they should all indulge themselves in what they are pushing as hard as they can.
Once we clear the fat chicks genes out of the population the remainder will be better looking!
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Let’s see how it goes after 12 months.There are some women who should be offered help.Maybe blokes too, but I don’t notice them as much.
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Anybody else noticed that the ‘fat is OK’ movement seems to apply only to women? Anybody seen a similar story advocating for fat men?
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In Melbournistan, a young mother has been denied a heart transplant because she refuses the experimental covid vaccine, even though she has a medical exemption.
Unbelievably, compulsory covid vaccination still exists in Australia.
They prefer her to die.
Incredibly cruel.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Umm,
I have placed a tentative foot in the water, sparked by Joanne saying that we should be taking them on more, getting the truth out there, rather than just sitting back and waiting for the single most redundant saying in this whole renewables debate ….. “I told you so, many many years ago.”
For years now, I have been attempting to get the point across at the ‘green believer’ sites that renewables are not what they are made out to be, the answer to all our electrical power problems. I was just ‘flamed’ and abused roundly, so I just stopped doing it.
Even though the situation is still basically the same ….. ‘I have the proof’, I always came back to the point ….. “really, what’s the point? They don’t believe it anyway.”
Now, hey, I’m 72, and there’s nothing to lose, and I’m right, so why not just put it out there ….. expl0de a few heads.
So, I went to RenewEconomy and mentioned wind Capacity Factor, at one of their articles.
Maybe a few extras might support me, and let’s see if the truth might actually get seen.
Link to Post at RenewEconomy with my comment at the bottom.
Tony.
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I notice no one has bothered to address your comment Tony, but we’ll done.
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Its doing well to get published there, in times past anything that wasn’t basically “renewables” cheer squadding never got a look in.
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We could go there and support him? A sort of flash mob.
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I guess Tony that you will blow a few heads. In fact,I find it hard to see how they will refute that. You could be abused – or deleted under misinformation clause.
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Done.
I’m 70 with nothing to lose so I gave it a shot, my comment’s just above yours if it hasn’t been ‘cancelled’.
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Hi Tony, they wanted my name and email address so I pulled away.
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Tony …
your comment has MATH in it.
You might as well wear a crucifix to a vampire party.
🙂
This is why there a no responses.
https://youtu.be/_JF0Jys5ITc
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I would like to support your comment Tony,…but i was barred from RE a few years ago for daring to question some of their statements !
I hope they will let you and others continue to comment.
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A couple more thumbs up there and you will have the top comment.
I have managed to not get banned even though my comments ask some awkward questions at times.
Been a few days since I “opted in”
Even manage a few “ups” occasionally
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You’ve got 5 plus votes, the most of the commentators but I couldn’t add another. I see from Chad (8.7) that might be the reason.
Incidentally they (separately) claim that Tesla batteries are being reduced in price in SA. Usually a response to falling sales.
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Some funny stuff on a so called fact checker, re the Nordstream bombing.
For some context a shaped charge is an explosive charge where the energy is controlled directionally. Say to blow through a door without destroying the charge side room or into a pipeline maybe so you dont waste any.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/worlds-most-ridiculous-fact-checker
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The “fact checkers” (sic) must be using AI bots now. Or just continuing to use stupid people.
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There is a great sign at my shooting club at a small footbridge that leads to one of the ranges.
“NO STUPID PEOPLE BEYOND THIS POINT”
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Taxpayers getting screwed in the USA.. President Confusion is putting higher tariffs on Russian minerals, but not banning them as would be the moral path, he’s just shaking down the public for more money in the Govt coffers.
I expect Russian minerals will still be imported as things like aluminium take more electricity to make than a wind farm can supply..
” President Joe Biden will also impose tariffs on “more than 100 Russian metals, minerals, and chemical products,” whose imports are valued at $2.8 billion. ”
https://www.rt.com/news/572022-new-us-sanctions-russia/
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Over at Tallbloke’s Talkshop there is a new paper by Ned Nikolov, which supports his hypothesis on the 1970s ice age scare. Found this TOA graph, which might come in handy.
https://tallbloke.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/tsi_1960-2019.png
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It’s interesting and alarming how the Hollyweirdos and the Elites use movies to peddle Leftist propaganda.
I just watched “The Arrival” (1996).
It was about an alien invasion of earth.
Early on in the movie it is established that there is global warming due to anthropogenic CO2.
It is later established that aliens are terraforming the earth by adding more CO2 because the false idea is that more CO2 will make the earth even hotter to suit the needs of the aliens.
One of the aliens tells a human that if the humans aren’t prepared to look after their planet then they will.
Incidentally, I saw it on DVD. The recording looked luke a transfer from video, and it was a genuine DVD. If you buy it, maybe the Blu-ray is better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrival_%281996_film%29?wprov=sfla1
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Talking of Hollywood, it is my confident prediction that Alec Baldwin, Trump-hater extroardinaire who ‘somehow’ managed to shoot dead a camerawoman filming him, will get off scot-free.
Payday. The Left looks after its own.
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I came across a brilliant quote today: If Earth is ever invaded by Mars, it will be us coming back.
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Sounds nothing like the film I remembered, which is because the film I was recalling was just called ‘Arrival’! More aliens, but a much more sophisticated plot it seems.
Incidentally, the premise for the film Snowpiercer is that a Bill Gates style attempt at climate modification plunged the globe into an ice age. At least someone is awake to the danger.
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“Arrival” is a good sci fi movie. You can watch it free on the pirate site watchseries.id
https://watchseries.id/movie/arrival-023y7/1-full
However, don’t attempt it until you have installed Adblock Plus.
https://adblockplus.org/download
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Up until a couple of years ago, so across more than 60 years, I knew of only one person in my circle of family, friends and acquiantaces who suffered seizures. In that one case, it was due to longstanding epilepsy. In just the past two years however, and additional four people in my circle of contacts have had seizures, including two subsequently diagnosed with cancer or pre-cancerous growths. One other died ‘riddled with cancer’ and the third has so far had no investigations, being too old to waste money on.
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FWIW
Way back in BC
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Tarpeian_Rock
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My latest:
https://www.cfact.org/2023/02/24/how-ferc-can-protect-the-grid-from-wind-and-solar/
A modest proposal.
“Proposed FERC rule: In order to be approved for interconnection an intermittent generator must have sufficient backup.”
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Spot on David. The intermittents have been given privileged access to our previously reliable grids and have caused headaches for the managers.
Evening peak generation GW supplied by intermittents during 2022 for the SE Australian grid are summarised in this graph.
The intermittents marketing claim – “I can supply a guaranteed 3 GW at the evening peak + 4GW -2.5 GW at random times, depending on the weather.”
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Mmmmm I dunno, sometimes its just that we and our circle of friends is getting older and our mortality is catching up with us.
To your point I have been noticing a couple of our friends who were very vigorous social people people and very active in hospitality related fields and groups and events in our region. Over the last 2 years they had a string of medical issues, had falls and are now winding back all activities rapidly and arranging to have a caretaker on their small property. They are mad vaccinators and where just lining up for #5 when they both got Covid as icing on the cake. I wonder if their issues are just age or if injecting “stuff” on a regular basis has had an effect. They fact they have both gone downhill simultaneously is what stands out. We will never know I guess.
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meant to be a response to Steve at #13
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Good morning world – here’s to another day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQetemT1sWc
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FWIW on the chances of a covid “vaccine” working
“We’re going to sort viruses into two classes: Those groups for which vaccination works (produces stable and durable immunity) and those for which it does not, either failing entirely or producing only temporary and extremely ineffective protection.
In the first group are viruses such as measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, polio and a few others.
In the second are coronaviruses (four of which commonly circulation plus, now, Sars-Cov2), influenza (several subtypes), RSV and a few others.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248184
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This is a most ingenious explanation, and at the same time, simple.
Thus likely to be correct.
There cannot be a successful vaccine against a coronavirus.
Thanks Karl Denninger and another ian for the link.
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Ping
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There’s a push on in the lamestream media for women to feel happy when they end up childless. Some sort of rationalisation from the career-focussed when they find they’ve missed the bus.
I saw a couple recently and SMH has another today-
“I adore children but I’m happy to never have any of my own”
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/i-adore-children-but-i-m-happy-to-never-have-any-of-my-own-20230210-p5cjmv.html
..On the other side of the coin, another step towards the ‘men can have children’ as society gets more and more queer-
“First Australian uterus transplant changes future of infertility treatment”
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/first-australian-uterus-transplant-changes-future-of-infertility-treatment-20230225-p5cnkr.html
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5pm Monday Sydney time for SpaceX Dragon taking 6 crew up to the ISS. Always great to watch, they’ve had over 200 launches now and are launching two rockets tomorrow.
As well as the Dragon crew module going up there’s 51 Starlink satellites being launched on another Falcon 9.
Try that with solar and wind power!
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..and don’t expect the Yanks to be any better for Aussie than for Syria- When they want someone they take them!
The Dan Duggan case joins the Assange case, Australians being dragged off to America to made examples of, with no protest from our Govt.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-holding-former-top-gun-pilot-in-inhumane-conditions-un-told-20230223-p5cn0x.html
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No protest ?…. I believe the Gov actually facilitated the extradition !
But, charged with arms dealing ? ..i hope our authorities reviewed the evidence before agreeing.
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Macron the peacemaker.
‘French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday he will visit China in early April, in part to seek Chinese help with ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
‘China called for a comprehensive ceasefire in Ukraine on Friday and has put forward a 12-point peace plan.’ (Reuters)
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A positive North Atlantic Oscillation throughout the Northern Hemisphere winter was a godsend for the Europeans.
https://chaac.meteo.plus/en/climate/nao.png
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FWIW
Compare Biden-speak on Ukraine and what the likes of Colonel MacGregor and others are saying on the realities of the supply chain problems .
So is that also propelled by a further dose of pixie dust and unicorn farts left over from the solar and wind electricity cheers squad?
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No comparison.
Biden’s mob seek to relive the Cuban Missile Crisis but with unlimited recourse to nuclear and biological weapons and without the fallback of detente.
MacGregor appears to be sane.
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Climate reality:
Poland signs agreement for preliminary work on nuclear power plant with U.S. Westinghouse
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The greenhouse gas concept is a narrative based on models that are sourced in conjecture.
As with all narratives when the story fails to match the data the story adjusts, so we have the switch from “back-radiation heating” to “reduced surface cooling by insulation.” The insulation back-stop story fails to acknowledge that the primary reason for the greenhouse gas conjecture is to raise the planetary surface temperature in the first place. The Greenhouse Gas Effect (GCE) concept is based on a model that creates a low average planetary surface temperature. It is not based on primary data, it is instead based on derived data (the warm planetary surface) and so in essence the GHE concept relies on a form of inverse modelling.
Stephen Wilde and I are currently studying the atmosphere of Mars and applying our DAET modelling concept to MY29 annual atmospheric profile data.
Here is a brief synopsis of what we have found thus far:
1. The areal weighted global annual average air temperature at the 636 Pascal average surface pressure of Mars is 211.8 Kelvin.
2. The black body (ε =1) Vacuum Planet Equation thermal emission temperature for Mars is 209.8 Kelvin. Therefore, the Atmospheric Thermal Effect (ATE) for Mars is +2 Kelvin.
3. The grey body (ε =0.87) Vacuum Planet Equation surface thermal emission temperature for Mars is 202.5 Kelvin. Therefore, the Greenhouse Gas Effect (GHE) for Mars is +9.3 Kelvin. (We are already deep in the weeds of moveable definitions based on parameter variations).
4. In a comparison with the similar gas content atmosphere of Venus, we find that the thermal emission pressure level for Venus is 1,868 Pascal. This pressure is higher than the surface pressure of Mars and is in the radiatively transparent stratosphere of Venus at an elevation of 71.06 Km.
5. Therefore the low pressure Carbon Dioxide gas atmosphere of Mars is thermally radiatively transparent with no Greenhouse Gas Effect possible. The surface Atmospheric Widow for low pressure Mars is completely open at night.
6. The only possible mechanisms that can explain the +2 Kelvin ATE on Mars are dust haze absorption of insolation during the day and adiabatic convection that accounts for the surface diurnal temperature change.
The model driven greenhouse gas conjecture is not based on data and therefore is not Science. It must be discarded for the moveable feast of nonsense that it so obviously is.
The Application of the Dynamic Atmosphere Energy Transport Climate Model (DAET) to Earth’s Semi-Opaque Troposphere
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A clear blast from the past by Stephen;
https://joannenova.com.au/2018/11/climate-models-are-a-joke/#comment-2069821
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Glancing at those 2018 comments I am reminded that locally in farm dams and the deeper holes in our rivers, in hot weather it is only the water at the surface which gets warmer, A metre down, or maybe only half a metre, I never attempted to measure it, undisturbed water is always cool.
I haven’t tried the ocean.
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Would Zoe agree with that?
https://phzoe.com/author/phzoe/
Yes, CO2 may absorb PW-IR at surface level but will divest itself of this energy when it reaches about 11000 metres and a temperature of 243K or minus 30°C.
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Ref #27
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