By Jo Nova
Everything is a PsyOp now: even the weather maps are on fire
Australia has had a mild summer, a mild year, but that’s a reason for another meaningless “hottest” headline. “Millions across NSW suffering through hottest day over two summers“. So outback New South Wales finally gets an average warm summer day and the climate map makes it look like a nuclear meltdown. Since when was 35 degrees C a shade of heat so hot it was black? (That’s 95F).
To put this in perspective, the town of Cobar near the centre of the map made it to 37C today (98.6F). But a few years ago the average temperature for the whole month of February was 37C. Any Cobar resident who feels like 37C is unusually warm, moved there this morning.
If newspapers were not paid agents or religious acolytes for the cult of climate change the headlines would have said “finally a last blast of summer warmth after two cold years”. But that doesn’t sell solar panels.
Just another warm summer day made to look like hell on Earth
No heat? No problem…
Call it color inflation. The value of any color is shrinking. Satellites show Australia hasn’t warmed at all in the last ten years, but the headlines and artwork still look the same. Back then, it was a different kind of PsyOp. In 2013, the BOM announced climate change had made Australia so hot they needed to change the color scale of their maps so they could add “purple heat” for a prediction of over 50 degrees C (a temperature that didn’t even happen). Now, 40C is the new 50C and what was an average day in 2020 in January for Bourke is now a purple holocaust. (40C is 104F and 50C is 122F).
To be fair the BOM has the same color chart it had then, and the new radioactive maps are made by some other agency, NCA NewsWire or Stormcast, whoever they are. But the BOM says nothing about this, and the media are happy to play deceptive color tricks on their hapless audience.
I pointed out ten years ago that if Australian towns hit 50C it wasn’t a record but just a return to a temperature measured all over Australia in the 1800’s.
Real Australians aren’t afraid of 35 degrees C, but sleepy distracted Australians might be fooled out of some taxes by a hellfire map.
UAH satellite temperatures in Australia’s lower troposphere show continued cooling. You now have to go back 10 years and 10 months to find a warming trend to now. It has been cooling since May 2012 by this index.
Geoff S
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I think the great scammers know this and that explains the fervour with which the propagandists are hyping the big scare. Fewer people are buying and many know it is bunkum with notable exceptions like our favourite idiots Bowen and Kean.
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None of these clowns want to save the planet. They just want to kick the plebs like you and me off it.
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I noticed that someones ABC Canberra bubble news was at it again with background images of cooling towers with coloured brown steam, lots of chimneys with stuff pouring out etc. It has gone past subliminal to ridiculous.
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Oh, look at the pretty butterflies…
Another day closer to the ‘Great Reset’ of the whole internet shutdown of everything.
The crooks escaping as they’ve boldly poisoned it’s citizens…everything on the internet from banking to communications…last desperation by the US Government’s Democrats…
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In the 33 years I have lived in this house, this summer has been by far the coldest. The days have been close to average, but the nights very cold. This is in a dry summer without the cooling effect of the usual wet season rains.
We normally get at least 6 weeks of summer where the air conditioning will be on until at least 8.00PM. I will wear just a pair of shorts, & sleep with no covering at all.
This year there has been only one day when the air con was still on at TV news time. By then I have needed a shirt, & all bar 4 nights I have needed a jacket by 8.00PM. Not one night have I slept with out a blanket. Most nights have been in the teens centigrade, rather than the usual 22/3 with the occasional 24.
If the bureau claim it has been a hot summer, even more people will wake up to their lying.
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Last night was the first time this summer that I fully removed the doona from the bed as unnecessary. Absurd. The past 2 days are the first time it has felt like Summer in about 2 years. Lots of humid rubbish, but that’s not heat. It was nice to wake up this morning and already feel the heat – it’s been a long time since that has happened.
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They depend on youth that have no memory of the past and little respect for experience.
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My thought yesterday when walking out of the house was “Finally summer’s here”. Then I realised it was all but over.
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And today in Sydney it got up to 38/39 degrees C with a hot dry wind. This was a lot easier to take than the other day with it being 29 degrees C and humid. I do like that Temperature Map with all of those highest temperatures.
Not ONE State Capital/Territory Capital is on it and that is where most of the Australian population live. So, what’s the problem?
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Observatory Hill Sydney reached 37.9C yesterday (a tad over 100F). Highest Ob Hill temp for March was 39.8C in 1983.
Sydney AP was 40.6C. Highest was also March 1983 on 41.2C
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Where do you live, roughly?
Geoff S
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Redfern NSW 2016
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You can sense the relief in the BOM that even a short warm but historically cool summer has arrived. Nothing like the summers of decades ago when the bitumen shifted under your feet and the birds dropped out of the trees. But enough to make newcomers and teenagers think the place is actually warming. We had 47C in Melbourne about 15 years ago. And in 1851. Not much in the last decade. Once you survived February and prayed for a cool change in Melbourne. Now we hope for a warm weekend.
This is the first time in two years Sydney has cracked 32C. Otherwise the country is awash , except no one has built a new dam for 50 years. Every cent we have is being stolen to pay for windmills which only work when the wind blows. As for Snowy II, it was not worth building in 1950 and is still not worth finishing.
Now if Malcolm Turnbull could just return that $444Million to ‘save’ the Great Barrier Reef? Does anyone know what happened to the money? Or why SnowyII is already over budget and they have not even started serious drilling and look to have lost a massive drill in just the length of the drill? Now that’s incredible.
Clowns and incompetents, all of them. And why do we even need a BOM when everything is automated? Even the purple maps are drawn by third parties. What are the rest doing? Watching Youtube?
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“Clowns and incompetents, all of them.”
Its across all aspects of life, any thing to keep the fear going. Apparently no matter how stupid the statement is people “believe” and suffer fear and trepidation.
Greens declare that a duck season in Victoria is bad because last years floods disrupted the breeding season. Of course it did, ducks do what ducks do and that, for the uninformed, is breed like mad. The floods meant multiple clutches of ducklings NOT LESS.
The WWF adverts to save the platypus from extinction, because ‘she” can’t handle floods and droughts. A water dwelling animal that cant handle living in water, I can believe that. The annual platypus count in my area shows a remarkable stability in numbers over a couple of decades, but hey, the WWF knows differently.
The Koala wandering the road with its joey “searching” for a place to live because “she” knows the bush is being destroyed and “she” cant feed her family.
As they say “Never let a good crisis go to waste”
As temperatures cool into winter I wonder is the government will start to tell me to wear a jumper, stay warm, drink plenty of warm fluids, oh, and stay off the roads, they might be slippery because of the rain and snow.
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People never understood that the duck shooting season was good for the ducks. First, by regulation it was not in the breeding season. And slow ducks got shot. That meant diseased and disease carrying ducks got shot, leaving the healthy survivors to breed prolifically free of disease .
The same for foxes. When 30 or 40 years ago a decent fox skin was worth $30, some people made a living shooting foxes. Prior to that time it was common to see a mangy fox. I have not seen a mangy fox since that time. It wiped the mange right out. Then, with no diseases the foxes bred up to numbers again every year.
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First time in two years that Sydney cracked 32C so of course our Communications degree graduates had to oblige by hyping it up. Their reactions will be interesting once the rolling blackouts start. I note that NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has finally admitted he might have a looming electricity catastrophe so has mooted keeping Eraring power station open longer. A dangerous clown.
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Liddell will not be closing in April 2023 either IMHO.
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I’d like to think you’re right J R, but I doubt our “powers that be” are either sufficiently awake or brave enough to make that decision.
Cheers
Dave B
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I think you would find that the coal that would be needed to run it one more day has been sold to somebody else.
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But Matt Kean might be starting to worry. I saw a headline suggesting the government might buy Eraring. And I think it was not Albanese/Chalmers that it was referring to.
Must be an election coming on.
It’s a straw for us drowning to grasp, but we should grab it anyway.
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Red hot chart, Oceania on fire!
But 35 degrees C isn’t dire,
Keep the thirties dark yellow,
Where the heat reads more mellow,
And red for the forties or higher.
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This is the map they use on the tele (5th March).
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/temp/index.jsp
This the anomaly map they should use (5th March).
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/temp/index.jsp?colour=colour&time=latest&step=0&map=maxanom&period=daily&area=nat
PS These sites change daily – you just need to line up the dates to see the difference.
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Looks like as much of Oz is below as above ‘normal’, and the positives are pretty moderate.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/input/gfs_world-wt2_t2anom_d1.png
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37C (95F) is the average high in my area for July and August, which 100-105 F (37-40C) are about 15 days in average summer no one but the old over 65 years complains about it.
Phoenix, Arizona average high is about 104F in June, 107F July and 105F August 100F in September yet 1.6 million people chose to live there.
LINK
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Usually by now we get the announcements from some global body that 2022 was the third, second or hottest year ever. I don’t know if they’ve given up on this year because it’s been so cold ( not just here) that no one would believe them or they haven’t finalised the new homogenisation technique they need to invent to create more records. In the meantime they have to display this scary red hot looking chart to show they still can justify their existence. I do however think they are very close to not even trying to manipulate an argument that the world is warming dangerously and that we have to cut emissions arguing more that because the electricity is becoming more expensive and unreliable we have to accelerate the speed of our transmission to renewables. The dangerous global warming is just assumed.The limp response of voters to the pandemic policies by governments mean that governments realise that voters have become too brain dead to noticing the truth that sits right in front of them and that they will offer no resistance. I despair at the lack of argument there is about whether there is any evidence of a warming trend ( in particular one that can be described as man made or unusual). The assumption that man made global warming is a real thing is the only justification for doing anything. And that justification (which doesn’t exist) still wouldn’t be enough because India and China negate any actions taken by us.
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5th warmest according to NASA.
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v4/
I notice a slight cooling pattern.
But notice Aust on this map (also from NASA). Aus was 0.5C above average for 2020. This appears to show a higher average mean.
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/
Man-made adjusted GW.
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‘Aus was 0.5C above average for 2020.’ Whoops – 2022.
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Daily temperature ranges would be a useful TV graph for comparing years. This Au summer in the Blue Mtns (31ºSouth) the days have rarely broken 31ºC and most nights have been cool and dewy. Walking outside barefoot at night means scrapping slug goo from in-between toes where-as most summers the ground is dry and warm so, no slugs. My foot thick walls mean that the maximum living room temp has been 23ºC (73ºF) on Mon 6th March. The house only warms up if we get hot days followed by warm nights where ventilation will not permit night-time cooling.
Coupled with temp range, a graph of surface moisture would be instructive. Recent rains mean the holes I dug for trees are now full of water despite repeated 30ºC days. Damp soil remains cool ALL the time and reduces near-ground air temps. Planet Earth would be better named Planet Water as it’s the only place for billions of miles that is mostly covered in liquid water and shrouded in water vapour.
I’d like to see our BoM up its game and report more than simplistic data with preconceived end-points aimed at fools who prop up this ageing dinosaur with their taxes.
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I recall Perth summers always including a heat wave lasting about three weeks with temperatures mostly above 38C, usually in late Feb or early March.
The last three summers in Perth have barely had more than just a couple of days above 37C – and I literally mean “a couple of days.” The best way to describe our summers now is “balmy.”
I live walking distance to one of Perth’s finest beaches, and it is noticeable that it rarely gets hot enough to bother walking to the beach for a swim. I’ve visited our beach three times this summer.
Summer has changed alright, but it certainly hasn’t got hotter.
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Were all those record hot temps in March?
Did those temps from the 1800’s use the same equipment and location rules as in the 1900’s?
Is cherry-picking acceptable in any context?
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‘Is cherry-picking acceptable in any context?’
Yes, if its intellectually sound.
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As somebody who was living and working for two years within a very short distance of one of the sites mentioned, and watching the Met guys measure a temperature of 117F or 47C at this site on one very hot day, I have every reason to believe that these maximums are genuine. The temp shot straight through 100F at 8am, hit 110F at 10am and reached 117F before midday, when a massive dust storm and rain thundered in, driving the temperature down 20 degrees F on a few minutes. Quite an interesting day and one that I’ll always remember.
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#4,
There are observations that a jump in temperatures happened when various versions of Platinum resistance thermometers replaced liquid in glass types. It is quite hard to prove if there was a natural jump or if it was caused by instrument change.
For as long as I can remember, principles of measurement science were standard practice to run the old and new devices in parallel for long enough to cover the range when differences might happen.
Our BOM might have done this, but it is quite difficult for outsiders to get the data. I’d like to see it.
Summary – I am not as confident as you about all being OK.
Geoff S
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“Were all those record hot temps in March?”
Were all those cooler temperatures in January and February.
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Did you know that up until a couple of weeks ago, there hadn’t been a single temperature over 32C in Sydney .. for over a year !
Now you attempt to nit-pick over a couple of normal summer days… and fail..
Hilarious. ! 🙂
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“Is cherry-picking acceptable in any context?”
The climate stall-warts seem to think so (eg BoM, pf, etc etc) .
Its what all AGW scares are based on.
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My grandson and I were in Lightning Ridge for a few days in January where each day was 39 C. Then we went to Longreach where the four days reached a high of 24 C. The only reason the clowns are hyping the temperature is that they are losing in every way. Their EVs are a costly waste, their renewables are expensive, inefficient and unreliable, their power grid is on the verge of collapse, more real experts are speaking out and meanwhile China surges ahead while we languish approaching economic disaster and a war for which we are totally unprepared. NSW will later this month elect another government unfit to govern led by a premier who will continue the avalanche to disaster. The parties are differentiated only by the colour of their corflutes.
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“The parties are differentiated only by the colour of their coffins.” Then I read it properly…
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Eveeyone I know remarks that we no longer get hot summers or extremely hot days.
It is obvious to all non-brainwashed people that we-aren’t warning but very likely cooling.
The late John Coleman once had a video, now deleted from YouTube that explained that a typical pattern of global cooling was two periods of warming such as we had in the 30/40’s and 80/90’s followed by a pause as we have had followed by cooling.
If anything, new map colours need to be added to represent cold.
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I found this John Coleman video (below), YouTube/Goolag makes them hard to find due to Shadow Banning.
It’s not the one I mentioned above and I haven’t had a chance to listen to all of it so I don’t know of he makes the comment I referred to.
https://youtu.be/SyUDGfCNC-k
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Took an age to come up (in poorer resolution) but have downloaded it. It also came up with some BS caption about Global Warming.
If the Government wants money they should charge YouTube.
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The climate change morons need to hype their case more & more each day as the northern hemisphere together with the more temperate areas of the north continue to freeze.
Our morons are loosing credibility at an alarming rate & ABC channel 7, #9 &10 together with the print media are pulling together to push the climate “fear” campaign.
The climate mob are also terrified of Trump winning the next USA presidential election.
After all Trump will make USA a net exporter of oil & coal again, reducing world prices as a result of OPEC having to be competitive on world markets once again. Reduction of energy costs makes green energy ridiculously expensive & unattractive.
So expect much, much more lefty green propaganda & catastrophe scenarios from all media. Believe me you can’t begin to imagine the anti Trump / Republican propaganda & hatred that will start the minute Trump officially enters the Presidential nomination race.
It will be fun to sit back & watch this predictable circus materialise.
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Here is a very important short video, under ten minutes.
It questions the actual CO2 record which the whole scale is based upon.
How many people know that before 1959 existing CO2 data had to be altered by shifting the timeline by 86 years to make them line with the new Mauna Loa data that became available from 1959? (See graph at 1:50.)
There are also accurate historical wet chemical CO2 analyses that show much higher CO2 in the atmosphere in parts of the 1800’s. (See graph at 2:30)
Any criticism of the video is welcome (that’s how real science works).
https://youtu.be/Z8sG-AU52TU
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As part of that video, you would have noticed the ” wet chemical methods” for measuring atmospheric CO2 discussed by the presenter. I came across this data a couple of years ago via Ned Nikolov on Twitter. He presented the findings of Beck ( briefly mentioned in this video) who analysed all wet chemical methods going back to the early 1800’s up to about 1960. What I remembered mostly is that Beck found researchers who were measuring CO2 approaching 400 ppm back in the 1930’s/40’s. This is also shown in your video. Nikolov always mentions the ” unnatural” curve of the Mauna Loa data. Apart from the inter year variation there is virtually no other variation- its just rises in a smooth fashion.
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Interestingly the ”wet chemical methods” of Svante Arrhenius in the 1890’s showing CO2 at 295 p.p.m. are sacrosanct.
One thought I had with that video was the question of where the old measurements were taken, and I would suggest at Universities in Europe, which would be in cities where wood (and coal) fires would be common in cooler weather. Localised rises depending on season?
With that came the thought that the climate changed in Europe (certainly) during the nineteenth century. Cooler to around 1820, briefly warmer then cooler from about 1838 (Mt. Blanc glacier receding then advancing) until about 1860 when it became warmer (glaciers receding noticeably) until the late 1880’s (Krakatau eruption?) until around 1910. Would Henry’s Law operate in the shallow seas (Baltic, Mediterranean possibly the Black as well)?
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For those really interested in Becks findings. Try this paper. ( or do an internet search using Beck, Wet chemicals methods , CO2 as the search words). “Reconstruction of Atmospheric CO2 Background Levels since 1826 from Direct Measurements near Ground. Ernst-Georg Beck†,Institute of Biology III, University of Freiburg. Published in Science of Climate Change. Vol 2.2 (2022) pp. 148-211. From page 173 onwards are the charts showing plots of historical CO2 levels. What they show is that present day CO2 levels are no different to those in the late 1930’s/ early 1940’s. Happy reading!
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Following on from your video is one describing the costs and implausibility of the great transition from the aspect of the minerals needed. I wonder if Bowen’s or Kean’s staff ever research the reality of their bosses dreams. Apparently not. Some of you have probably seen this presentation before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOEGKDVvsg
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35 degrees C in summer is hardly worth mentioning.
At 40° C, ‘cautious’ is the key.
I think the red and black colors took hold as the West
tried to stigmatize the late USSR.
Do an image search for “ussr map color”
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I’ve worked in the desert on the QLD / SA border in summer. We didn’t have a Stevenson screen, just a normal lab grade liquid filled thermometer. We used to hang it in the shade and marvel at the 55+ degree daytime temperatures and 40+ degree nights. We knew it was very likely an over-estimation but during the day, not one metal surface was safe to touch with bare hands, and our “camp” used the hot water heaters to store cooler water than was available via the “cold” tap.
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Took a thermometer into one of my hottest work sites one day. The mercury shot straight to the top, which was 127F (53C) – didn’t have another thermometer that could register the actual working temperature. Used to wrap my hands in rags so that I could touch metal surfaces. About two hours was the absolute max time working in those places. On the really hot days, we had to shut down what little air conditioning was running, turn off power to the houses plus any spare power not needed, so that the diesel generators could keep running.
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We had an exploration camp near Telfer, WA, in the early 1970s before Global Warming was born. Located in a hot desert. Staff requested an above-ground plastic swimming pool to hold emergency water for fire fighting. Approved, installed next to the Indian diesel generator, which played up one day, caught fire and burned the pool to the ground.
Neat example of Sod’s Law, Murphy’s Law, Unintended Consequences, etc.
The thermometer, unscreened, hung in the shade, sometimes went a little over 50C for day after day. So what, that is the outcome of natural physical processes. Geoff S
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I worked in that area, too, on Planet Downs near Haddon Corner during the 1950s and summer work was all about fixing up windmills, bores etc., and tools had to be kept in the shade, or you couldn’t pick them up. Thermometers were kept on verandas which were built on the Coolgardie Safe principle but still reached 50c on the warm days. The oldies used to tell us that it’s not hot until you see the birds dropping out of the sky. Well even at 50c I didn’t see that happen.
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BoM: Snow to 700-800m Tue/Wed
OK it’s Tasmania…
Is Tassie still part of Australia?
Maybe the mention of ‘snow’ is banned because it’s white… besides, the PROFIT$ thusly spoke 23 years ago: Children just won’t know what snow is anymore – and so it came to pass.
Meanwhile it keeps snowing in summer…
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“Is Tassie still part of Australia?”
Never was, never will be. It appears that the original inhabitants didn’t have a name for the overall place they lived. Place names and features like rivers had local language names, but it appears no name for the island.
Maybe our academics can invent a greater vocabulary of native languages to accomadate this oversight. In the mean time the place never existed until some European bloke discovered it
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The natives didn’t even know they were living on an island or have any idea what lay beyond the sea (much like a lot of uneducated people today).
But Europeans of the time did and they called it Van Diemen’s Land.
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Much like the no-name island(s) of ‘Aotearoa’, the country formerly known as New Zealand (amongst numerous other titles) which was invented by a colonial pastor in the late 1800s as a romantic sales pitch… yet today has been ‘owned’ by self-anointed ‘elite’ part-Maori with a grudge against Captain James Kirk of the Enterprise (oops! wrong TV show).
And as for making up silly words & phrases: New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA), which is self-explanatory, is now Waka Kotahi, or, Canoe One (one canoe)… In all my decades of driving the length and breadth and heights of these islands, I ain’t NEVER seen a canoe being paddled down ANY highway – though during floods, jetboats & kayaks come in handy for saving people’s lives. Whakama! [embarrasing!]
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Their temp BS and fraud is just like their rainfall BS and fraud.
Remember when that dopey Flannery went down the Murray with a tinny and their ABC just loved his nonsense?
He also caused stupid Aussie states to waste endless billions on desal plants and the panic then moved to the delusional NUT ZERO lunacy.
BTW here’s BOM Aussie rainfall since 1900 and note the earlier half century ( or 70 years?) of much lower rainfall compared to the last 50 + years.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=rranom&area=aus&season=0112&ave_yr=8
And NSW rainfall graph before 1950 is even worse, but the stupid donkeys still BELIEVE their silly wet dreams fantasy. And Australia was in extreme drought from 1896 to 1900 as well.
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=rranom&area=nsw&season=0112&ave_yr=8
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Clearly all the CO2 moved up there because its cold here in sw VIC.
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Even the normally sane(r) reporting of Sky News went with the hype of heatwave being 40C. You have to be kidding! Warnings to elderly and kids and pets, wow have we become so sensitive to heat that 40C is dangerous in Australia?
Wait until the power fails due to no wind and too much solar trips the instability trigger – poor darlings will need to stand in the shower or go to the shopping centre with diesel gen sets!
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Was hellish!
I went for a bicycle ride yesterday in Newcastle, warned by the local ABC radio of the imminent Meltageddon. 11am it was warmish but still OK, the dry wind was the biggest issue.
Count myself incredibly lucky to be able to type this morning…….
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At my locale in Sydney (about 6.5 km north of the BOM’s AWS on the archery field at Olympic park, temperatures were consistently about 5 degree Celsius below the temperature on the BOM’s app. But the RH was consistently higher than the figures published on the app (a difference of up to 40%RH)
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Why torture yourself by listening to their ABC?
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Yesterday was unpleasant in NovoCastria . Two days ago I put a thermometer down on the grass in direct sunlight and it only got to 39.5 C.
Many decades ago we would have maybe ten days in summer where Nobbys was over 100 and up to 107°C.
Locally it would have been way up.
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I changed that to F but somehow?
107°F
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In normal years Cobar only has two seasons – Summer and Winter. You wake up one morning and it’s minus 2 and time to break out the jacket. 6 months later you wake up and suddenly it’s 40.
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Spent all of 10 minutes looking up Griffith Airport daily temperatures from the BOM; this city is in the medium red in the BOM graphic. After making a quick plot of minimum and maximum temperatures and doing a linear fit I find that there are minimal trends for both in the period 2000 to 2023.
How many days where the max temperature was above:
36C: 749 days.
40C: 238 days.
It’s not like hot days are uncommon in Griffith.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Great graphic. And having experienced long periods of 37C in Moscow and 40C+ Colorado when the nights are hotter than the days, we are really getting soft. Australia used to be much hotter and for far longer. Now three days is heat wave. In Melbourne, an afternoon.
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Australia, the whole Southern Hemisphere is cooling much faster than the North. It is a Nett Carbon Sink. 98% of all CO2 comes from outside Australia. We should apply to the UN for exemption from the Paris agreement and to sell carbon credits based on the megatons of CO2 which disappear into our oceans and our vegetation.
After all if we can be held responsible for maintaining the gigantic Great Barrier Reef, an offshore natural phenomenon the size of Germany, we can get credit for the CO2 we save the planet. And we can pour sea water on the hot bits to stop bleaching.
And we should be able to burn as much coal as we like.
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The weather scare is all about windmills and solar panels.
AFR “The transition away from energy generated by coal on our electricity grid is inevitable, but it will take decades to achieve and could cost $320 billion. The end of coal-fired power in Australia is inevitable.30 June 2022″
So what is driving this is an absolutely unnecessary and unjustifiable $320,000,000,000, mainly to China.
Australia uses a tiny 44million tons of coal a year for power generation. It’s free. Exports are 10x at 359 million tons, our biggest export. We use only 1/10th of what we export and the governments are still forcing coal power stations to close. Why?
Where do we Australians benefit?
Coal reserves 159GT. Total coal production a tiny 0.554 GT, 90% exported.
So could someone explain why we are paying $320Billion (stolen from our electricity bills) so other people can charge us for the wind and sunshine?
Consider we are paying for the windmills and solar panels and we are told both are free.
So why are we paying anything for electricity instead of record high prices? What is the cost of production?
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Nicely put.
The whole thing stinks.
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Great info. So if we just used our own coal from our coal resserves and didn’t export any, we would have a few thousand years of coal use.
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Plus fracking, huge gas reserves. Exploration banned. Exploitation banned. Cow farts banned. Fertilizer. Steel making.
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~a decade ago I listened to some petro-academic on ABC Radio tell us about Australia’s known gas reserves. He said if we converted every road vehicle to gas we’d have about a century of supply and for only ~50¢/litre.
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All entirely true TdeF. I’m sure that if you asked a CSIRO climatologist about this, they would agree. Anyone with a basic knowledge of the Carbon cycle knows about “sinks and sources”. In fact, the Australian biosphere sucks up 15 x more CO2 than we Aussies emit. That all doesn’t matter though, because since the early 1990’s the IPCC/ UN are only concerned with the CO2 emissions from human activity. Basic biology/science has been ignored for the best part of 30 years. What’s worse is that a bunch of witless bureaucrats and politicians keep signing Australia up to these agreements. That’s why we now have crazy schemes like pumped hydro and hydrogen. Australia also agreed by signing some memorandum to spend X% on alternative energy production (other than solar/wind).
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Well said Jo
THis stuff should be taught in schools
To many today have been pampered with air con and when they go outside they think it is hot. Cars today have climate control turned on by default. I can remember driving a truck in the 1970’s early 80’s no aircon, it was hot. 40+ degrees outside and much higher inside due to the fact that I was sitting on a diesel engine. But all was good, main thing was to keep up the fluids. Then we got a truck with aircon, yippeeee tried it out, wow cab at 23 degrees. It very nearly killed me, because when I got out to load or unload in the 40+ degree heat the body had such a reaction to the heat change. The environmental temp hadnt changed, I had just got soft. And so it is today. Surfice to say I never used the aircon again in that work situation, unless I was on my way home and the sun was going down
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Not as hot as this Lithium Ion Battery fire
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lithium-ion-battery-blamed-yet-another-fast-moving-fire-nyc-officials-rcna73566
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There was flame in the initial film that showed someone near it.
In my limited experience a ruptured battery will fizz without flame.
What was burning? Something near the hot battery?
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Your limited experience has probably not come across a lithium battery fire. This will give you an idea of how rapidly they can develop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nz5ijXcckI
Not all develop like this. However the batteries are compact, high power devices. They can deliver a lot of energy very fast. I have had close calls with a couple of lithium battery incidents that were through my own lack of care.
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UK weather turns nasty.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11827103/Ice-tonight-Britain-braces-brutal-15C-snap-coldest-night-year-far.html
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We saw much more snow in April at Tan Hill in The Dales in North Yorkshire a few years ago. Masses of the stuff piled up. It was in 2011 or 2012, forget which. To be fair, the piled up snow was older stuff but there was certainly plenty of it.
We’ve walked along a beach in Northumberland in October in the teeth of a snow-flurried gale too.
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Thinking back, it was most likely 2013 and could not have been 2011 as we were still living in the South then. The walk in Northumberland was in 2013, before we sold the caravan.
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No load shedding yet.
It is not often that South Africa leads the world but they already have a robust day ahead power rationing system. I wonder if Australia will lead the UK or the UK lead Australia with day ahead power rationing.
If UK gets through the next two weeks without rationing then Australia could make the running in late April when Liddell goes out of the mix.
If you are in Australia and do not have back up power, now will be a good time to at least get a little generator or decent battery that will run your fridge, a few lights, computer and maybe TV for about a day.
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AGL also owns the Bayswater Power Station, just across the road, so the authorities seem to think Renewables will hold up the system, or they’ll get power from elsewhere.
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>”Australia has had a mild summer”
NZ MSM studiously ignores – alt news doesn’t:
AUSTRALIA’S COOL FEB [Cap Allon]
Swathes of eastern and central Australia have just posted their coolest summers in decades–following what were also colder-than-average springs and winters.
The temperature data for February 2023 has now been confirmed: A temperature anomaly of -0.20C below the multidecadal average was officially registered, making summer as a whole -0.50C below the norm, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
https://electroverse.info/antarctic-plateau-socal-residents-help-us-australias-cool-feb-india-to-import-wheat/
Tiny patch of South West Pacific fits the narrative much better:
NIWA
The [NZ] nationwide average temperature in February 2023 was 18.5C – 1.1C above the 1991-2020 February average.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/niwa-releases-record-breaking-stats-for-summer-s-extreme-rain-winds-and-storm-surges/
Amazing the number of gullible people who on seeing the NZ stat above assume NZ is typical of the wider region (including AU) and even the Southern Hemisphere.
And the recently active West Pacific tropics to NZ cyclone alley is somehow emblematic of a “climate crisis”.
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> Cyclones “somehow emblematic of a “climate crisis”
Grant Shaw, NZ Green Party co leader and climate change minister on cyclone Gabrielle:
“As I stand here today, I struggle to find words to express what I am thinking and feeling about this particular crisis,”
“I don’t think I’ve ever felt as sad or as angry about the lost decades that we spent bickering and arguing about whether climate change was real or not, whether it was caused by humans or not, whether it was bad or not, whether we should do something about it or not, because it is clearly here now, and if we do not act, it will get worse.”
“There will be people who say it’s ‘too soon’ to talk about these things … but we are standing in it right now. This is a climate change-related event. The severity of it, of course, made worse by the fact that our global temperatures have already increased by 1.1 degrees.
“We need to stop making excuses for inaction. We cannot put our heads in the sand when the beach is flooding. We must act now.”
# # #
Problem with that is a cooler Australia
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Even our largest Right wing Party allows no dissent:
‘National MP’s about-turn on climate change after Luxon intervenes’
National MP Maureen Pugh has done an abrupt about-turn on apparent scepticism about whether humans contributed to climate change after a chat with her boss, leader Christopher Luxon.
In a statement this afternoon, Pugh said she accepted the scientific consensus that human-induced climate change was real and that it was a factor in extreme weather such as Cyclone Gabrielle.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politics/national-mp-maureen-pugh-s-about-turn-on-climate-change-after-christopher-luxon-intervenes/
Luxon’s been on watch for many on the Right – he immediately lost votes on this (Twitter):
Luxon reiterated “there is no room for climate deniers or minimalists in the National Party caucus”. Then there is no room on my ballot paper for national.
@dbseymour Dont cock up now or you will lose my vote too.
https://twitter.com/FrustratedKiwi1/status/1627846447575220224
Seymour is the minor Right wing ACT Party leader. Waxes and wanes:
[Twiiter] “Sadly, School Strike 4 Climate has unthinkingly adopted the hard left’s hatred of capitalism and is using climate change to try to permanently shift New Zealand politics to the left.”
And,
Seymour said the party had never denied the existence of climate change. He described himself as a “lukewarmer.”
“I believe it is real, and a portion of it is manmade, but I question the extent to which it is dangerous,”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/77338800/act-delete-climate-change-policy-from-their-website
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Bunch of ‘cyclone season deniers’ and ‘snow deniers’ the lot of ’em – put ’em all in shackles and ship ’em off to Botany Bay… on a one-way ticket.
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NZ had their chance with the Libertarianz, now they deserve what they voted for, good and hard!
“: A temperature anomaly of -0.20C below the multidecadal average was officially registered, making summer as a whole -0.50C below the norm, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.”
“The [NZ] nationwide average temperature in February 2023 was 18.5C – 1.1C above the 1991-2020 February average.”
Does that make sense? That dash after 18.5C is very confusing.. Not that it matters in the end, all the temperatures referred to are faked.
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Here are the dates and temperatures for the hottest 3-day heatwaves each year in Melbourne. Top 40 shown in order of hottest first. Each number is the average of 3 consecutive days of maximum temperatures at Melbourne Regional station (then lately, Olympic Park station).
Data from the official BOM web site Climate Data Online, CDO, unadjusted by me.
Geoff S
YEAR MONTH DAY 3-DAY DEG C AVERAGE
2009 1 28 44.3
2014 1 15 43.2
1875 1 19 42.8
1959 1 17 42.4
1908 1 16 42.3
1905 1 11 42.0
1943 1 27 40.7
1912 1 31 40.5
1899 12 31 40.4
1940 3 10 40.4
2006 1 20 39.9
1862 1 13 39.9
1998 12 10 39.9
1997 2 18 39.8
1883 1 14 39.6
1898 1 28 39.6
1960 1 15 39.5
1968 2 23 39.5
1900 1 1 39.5
1942 3 2 39.4
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So not one in the last 14 years. Global Warming is not happening. The last 15 years summer in Melbourne has been like the old autumn. It just didn’t happen.
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Here is the same for Adelaide. Geoff S
YEAR MOMTH DAY 3-DAY DEG C TOP 40
2014 1 14 44.3
2019 12 18 44.3
2009 1 27 44.1
1906 1 4 43.3
1908 1 17 43.2
1912 2 1 43.0
1939 1 8 42.8
1899 2 11 42.7
2015 12 17 42.3
2010 1 9 42.0
1897 12 28 42.0
1982 1 22 41.9
2006 1 20 41.9
1905 1 10 41.8
2004 2 13 41.7
1898 12 28 41.5
2013 12 18 41.4
1943 1 27 41.3
2007 12 29 41.3
1914 2 17 41.2
1959 1 17 41.2
1904 12 30 41.2
1920 12 22 41.2
1940 3 9 41.2
1942 3 2 41.2
2017 2 8 41.1
1931 12 28 41.1
1900 1 26 41.0
2011 1 29 41.0
1889 1 10 40.9
2018 1 17 40.9
1968 1 29 40.9
1991 1 1 40.9
1981 2 13 40.8
1980 2 18 40.8
1934 3 8 40.8
1930 1 7 40.6
1993 2 1 40.5
1999 1 4 40.4
1941 12 24 40.3
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Here is Sydney. Top 20, like Melbourne that labelled wrongly as Top 40.
You can see that Melbourne & Adelaide have hotter heatwaves than Sydney, although they are a few hundred km further from the Equator. It is a matter of weather patterns, winds that blow from the hot centre, like around Alice Springsm more often S & S-E winds than E winds.
YEAR MONTH DAY 3-DAY AVERAGE DEG C
1960 1 26 41.1
1896 1 11 38.9
1926 2 15 37.8
2011 2 3 37.6
1994 1 5 36.6
1870 1 12 36.5
1967 1 20 36.5
1983 1 8 36.4
1936 11 4 36.3
2015 11 18 36.2
1973 2 4 36.1
1972 12 21 36.0
1977 1 30 35.8
1929 1 8 35.8
1915 1 26 35.8
1985 12 19 35.7
1924 1 9 35.6
2004 10 12 35.6
1904 12 29 35.5
1939 1 12 35.5
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Again no sign of warming. 2011, 2015.
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I wonder what colour will come after purple? the vast majority of colour charts out there say BLUE. Blue generally represents cold so i suppose this is the poker version of “ALL IN” for the BOM. If the purple BOOGA BOOGA colour does not scare the masses into submission they have no left to go.
We are witnessing a high stakes game of propaganda by the BOM.
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It’s all they have left. Like the ABC, they have automated their way out of business. As for the SBS, it made sense in the 1970s but fifty years later in a broadband internet world, who needs ethnic television? You can visit Russia/China/Greece/Italy live on your phone 24/7 at near zero cost.
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Its the fault of the media more than BoM, the MSM ‘beats it up’.
‘Sydney has sweltered through one of the warmest March nights in six years and is on its way to another hot one on Tuesday.’ (SMH)
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This is what Chat GPT has to say on UAH showing Australia cooling over the past decade:
I would normally get it to apologise for equivocating with the word “may” rather than “has” but that is just for my own satisfaction. Unlike Simon and Peter consensus AI, ChatGPT will actually apologise when cornered.
Yesterday I got ChatGPT to identify that there is no ocean surface holding above 30C year round. It even pointed out that the Persian Gulf gets above 30C but I got an apology when I pointed out that it only gets above 30C for a couple of months rather than the whole year. I could not get it to state climate models are wrong because they show ocean surface should already be above 30C. It just claimed the models are being further developed as scientists learn more about the climate.
ChatGPT is already ahead of Simon/Peter. It can generate the consensus BS at rapid fire and is tenacious in holding the consensus line.
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ChatGPT is very strong on consensus science.
If you point out that the information it supplied is wrong, it will sometimes lock out rather than apologise.
It is well known that the Southern Ocean has cooled over the past 40 years but not according to ChatGPT. It provided links to support this statement but all those links showed a cooling trend. It stopped when I pointed that out.
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Nah- after the first time you embarrassed it a flag was raised and now your queries get routed to the online team at University of East Anglia.. They pretend to be ChapGPT
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There was a comparison from the BBC of 6’oclock news summer weather maps that were several years apart. Temperatures were very similar but the recent one was all in red, like the fires of hell. The propaganda is shameless.
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Shameless indeed. I love Nasa’s effort to show how Earth is still burning up with a five year trend:
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/2021f-temperatureanomalyf.0900.jpg
All that red hot Arctic. Arctic has warmed a little in summer but it is not easy to get a big ice block like Greenland much above 0C. Consequently most warming has occurred in winter. And it is significant; up from about -30C to -20C over the past 70 years on the Greenland plateau. Just means more snow and it is already gaining elevation. Greenland back above average again this year:
http://polarportal.dk/fileadmin/polarportal/surface/SMB_curves_LA_EN_20230306.png
Shameless is a kind word for what these people are perpetrating. There is a lot of money at stake. So many jobs depend on keeping it alive. I guess it is easier to fight the notion of climate than fight the reality of Putin.
I noticed in the news today that China has increased military budget by 7%, significantly above economic growth target of 5%. They need to secure more coal assets.
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Historically, our Aussie climate is doing what it has always cyclically done. Hot summers are part of the yearly cycle. What’s changed is how people adapt to the heat. Now, ready access to air conditioned comfort at home, in our cars, at work and most places in the built environment has turned us into cool comfort junkies. If we can’t get our instant cold comfort fix to which we are habituated, our behaviour starts operating somewhere on the conniptions spectrum. Time to learn to tough out the hot summers like we used to before air conditioned comfort made us softies. Air conditioning may soon become too dear to afford for most of us, so buckle up, stop indulging in the psyop of warmist weather agitprop on the box and think cool.
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” Time to learn to tough out the hot summers ”
Lol! Today I was trapped in the boss’ ute listening to some rock radio station DJs. These sub-normal-IQ clowns were discussing horny flirting with some guy who said he was trans and had his first threesome and foursome the other night..
Would you build Australia with these people? Would they even make it here, never mind the local inhabitants reaction!
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Early snow season on the cards?
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY65100.pdf
The MSM will find it difficult to extricate themselves from the AGW agenda, but eventually they’ll have to admit that CO2 is not a major player.
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I view CO2 as a major player in the biosphere and that influences climate. Biomass on land causes the atmosphere over land to behave more like the atmosphere over water. Biomass moderates temperature extremes and begets higher rainfall.
What we can hope for is that the MSM come to value tress over wind and solar farms.
It will be interesting to look for changes in local temperature data before and after solar farms are deployed. Something I plan to have a go at.
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In your estimation CO2 produces a positive feedback and a little warming?
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By my estimation, trees take the sting out of the sun. Cooler maximums and warmer minimums. On average probably a bit cooler. Co2 contributes to faster development of biomass so probably net cooling on land. No tiny amount of CO2 will alter what the ice does over water.
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Yup! 2M tall wire dog mesh on frames 3M long, 1.2M apart.. 13 of them with shadecloth over the top, full of beans, tomatoes, pumpkins & cucumbers.. Amazingly cool on a hot day, and always humid. The drip irrigation seems to provide enough water every few days, it is very slow to dry out. Just a lovely microclimate in the summer.
Expand that to a forest, and I can’t see why the Greens, who were always whining about the Amazon forests and trees, now want to drop CO2 levels to starve the trees and use completely un-natural machinery for the unreliables. The 50year environmental effect of their solar & turbines is far greater than a coal station.
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I couldn’t help noticing that office workers who move from airconditioned homes to air conditioned cars to air conditioned offices to air conditioned shops to air conditioned cars and back to air conditioned homes seemed to find the heat outside less tolerable than I (a geologist who worked outdoors in central Australia for 40 years) did. No surprises there. I asked some old tradies with years of outdoor experience if they thought the weather was getting hotter and they agreed Naaa!
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Madelaine and Elena wrote the story together. They are probably about 23 years old I’d guess.
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DIARY OF A POMMIE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
August 31
Just got transferred with work from Leeds UK to our new home in Karratha , Western Australia . Now this is a town that knows how to live!Beautiful, sunny days and warm, balmy evenings. I watched the sunset from a deckchair by our pool yesterday. It was beautiful.
I’ve finally found my new home. I love it here.
September 13
Really heating up now. It got to 31 today. No problem though. Living in air-conditioned home, driving air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun every day like this. I’m turning into a sun-worshipper – no blasted rain like back in Leeds !!
September 30
Had the back yard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots of palms and rocks. No more mowing lawns for me! Another scorcher today, but I love it here. It’s Paradise !
October 10
The temperature hasn’t been below 35 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least today it’s windy though. Keeps the flies off a bit. Acclimatizing is taking longer than we expected.
October 15
Fell asleep by the pool yesterday. Got third degree burns over 60% of my body. Missed three days off work. What a dumb thing to do.. Got to respect the old sun in a climate like this!
October 20
– Didn’t notice Kitty (our cat) sneaking into the car before I left for work this morning. By the time I got back to the car after work, Kitty had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stuck to the upholstery. The car now smells like Whiskettes and cat xxxx. I’ve learned my lesson though: no more pets in this heat.
October 25
– This wind is a bastard.
It feels like a giant xxxxing blow dryer. And it’s hot as hell! The home air conditioner is on the blink and the repair man charged $200 just to drive over and tell me he needs to order parts from xxxxing Perth …..The wife & the kids are complaining.
October 30
– The temperature’s up around 40 and the parts still haven’t arrived for the xxxxing air conditioner. House is an oven so we’ve all been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. Bloody $600,000 house and we can’t even go inside. Why the hell did I ever come here?
November 4
Finally got the xxxxing air-conditioner fixed. It cost $1,500 and gets the temperature down to around 25 degrees, but the humidity makes it feel about 35. Stupid repairman. xxxxing thief.
November 8
– If one more smart bastard says ‘Hot enough for you today?’ I’m going to xxxxing throttle him. Xxxxing heat!
By the time I get to work, the car radiator is boiling over, my xxxxing clothes are soaking xxxxing wet and I smell like baked cat. Xxxxing place is the end of the Earth.
November 9
– Tried to run some errands after work, wore shorts, and sat on the black leather upholstery in my car. I thought my xxxxing arse was on fire.
I lost 2 layers of flesh, all the hair on the backs of my legs and off my xxxxing arse. Now the car smells like burnt hair, fried arse and baked cat.Xxxx. Xxxx. Xxxx.
November 10
— The Weather report might as well be a xxxxing recording.. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny, Hot and fucking sunny. It never xxxxing changes!
It’s been too hot to do anything for 2 xxxxing months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Xxxx!
November 15
– Doesn’t it ever rain in this damn xxxxing place? Water restrictions will be next, so my $5,000 worth of palms might just dry up and blow into the xxxxing pool. The only things that thrive in this xxxxing hell-hole are the xxxxing flies. You don’t dare open your mouth for fear of swallowing half a dozen of the little bastards!
November 20
– Welcome to HELL! It got to 45 xxxxin’ degrees today. Now the air conditioner gone in my car.
The repair man came to fix it and said, ‘Hot enough for you today?’ I wanted to shove the xxxxing car up his xxxxing arse. Anyway, had to spend the $2,500 mortgage payment to bail me out of jail for assaulting the stupid prick.
Xxxxing Karratha! What kind of sick, demented xxxxing idiot would want to live here!
December 1
– WHAT!!!! The FIRST day of Summer!!!! You are xxxxing kidding me!
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lol I work in penrith and we used to get 45c days back before la nina (so 3 years ago), the office was batten down the hatches as the aircon struggled and the carpark melted
today cracked 38, yesterday got to about 39 – it’s a bit late for summer, but nothing unusual, haven’t even cracked 40 all summer, doubt we will til 2024
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Wow, hottest day in over two summers. Must mean it’s UNPRECEDENTED!!!
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Interesting that there have been intense cold periods, above normal snowfall and snow/cold in places that don’t normally get such things. None of which gets reported.
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There’s still lots of snow here, some of the drifts are over a meter. It’s around 3 right now. Supposed to dip to around -2 tonight.
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OK – the temperature was only around 38 degrees, but the quite ferocious NW winds exacerbated a fire in the NSW western tablelands that has seriously endangered property, and two days later has burnt out around 10,000 acres.
While I completely agree that Fear Porn in respect to temperatures is distorting the reality of Australian summers, one should not discount the deadly combination of moderate heat and gusty winds. This is not abnormal conditions in rural Australia in summer, but nor should it be dismissed as not noteworthy.
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