Now rice controls the weather too:
Meat, dairy and rice production will bust 1.5C climate target, shows study
Damien Carrington, The Guardian
Emissions from food system alone will drive the world past target, unless high-methane foods are tackled. The study showed that 75% of this food-related heating was driven by foods that are high sources of methane, ie those coming from ruminant livestock such as cattle, and rice paddy fields.
The research, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, treated each greenhouse gas separately for 94 key types of food, enabling their impact on climate over time to be better understood.
Rice is the primary staple of half the world’s population, and mostly the poorer half. They are not normally the target of the do-gooder set, but as Marc Morano argues below, it’s all about creating a technocratic superclass of elite managers — both bureaucratic and business types who decide the winners and losers, who control the purse strings and the profits with regulations. They cannot handle a decentralized world. They need to control the means of production, the distribution of food, and control of the movement of people.
“Self-appointed earth saviors seek to manage every aspect of our lives”
by Marc Morano Climate Depot:
The big picture is this: This isn’t about necessarily about shutting down rice production. This is about the climate agenda coming from the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, academia, the corporate world, identifying every facet of modern society as being a climate ‘problem’ that needs managing and thus a takeover. So whether we’re talking about transportation, whether it’s airlines, whether it’s gas-powered cars, whether it’s eating meat, whether it’s high-yield agriculture, it’s all allegedly creating a ‘climate emergency’ and thus global elites want to take over and ‘manage’ them. They are looking for a managerial revolution. They want to put themselves in charge of saving the planet and thus put themselves in charge of all aspects of modern society.
Self-appointed earth saviors seek to manage every aspect of our lives to save us from the ‘climate catastrophe.’ So it’s not that they want to ban rice eating, but they’re claiming that rice production contributes to the ‘climate crisis’. The climate agenda demand that rice production has to be forever altered and turned over to a corporate government collusion to ‘fix’ the problems with rice agriculture. Of course, these globalist plans mean that you need big agribusiness corporations which have sold out to the climate agenda to manage rice production, and this means small farmers and agrarian countries are going to be at the mercy of corporate agriculture, taking over more and more of food production.
Every aspect of modern society is untenable due to our ‘climate crisis.’ It includes limiting freedom of travel, home thermostat controls, restrictions on your appliances, limiting the ability to eat meat, and bans on gas-powered cars. They’re doing all of this without a vote of democracy. A corporate government collusion that uses the climate agenda to manage every aspect of modern society.
They’re collapsing our current system, they’re collapsing our energy, our food, our transportation, and they’re collapsing our free speech, and they’re putting themselves in charge because they are claiming we can’t leave rice production as is, or that we need to radically alter livestock practices and agriculture and transportation or we are doomed.
If we don’t hand over the keys of modern society over to this small group of managers, we are led to believe that people left to their own devices will literally create a climate crisis, create inequity and racism, and in order to save the Earth, climate bureaucrats need to be in charge of everything because they believe we live in a finite world, and everything has to be managed.
We are told we must consent to live in a technocracy where we will be ruled by experts who know better than us. So they’re going to tell nations where rice is a fundamental food that they can’t have agriculture the way they’ve done it for thousands of years because the climate can’t handle it. And therefore, big corporate agribusiness, in collusion with governments and international organizations, are going to come over and basically regulate the small and medium-sized farms out of existence. We’re seeing this attempt happening in real-time in the Netherlands. They’re killing up to 12,000 family-run, generational farms with net zero climate rules on on fertilizers. And big agribusiness will inevitably take over in this big corporate takeover of farms.
John Lewis-Stempel, Unherd:
About 70% of global farmland is owned by 1% of “farmers”. Agri-business now rules the roost.
Four companies — Cargill, Archer Daniel Midland, Bunge and Louis Dreyfus — control 90% of the global grain trade. Similarly, four companies — ChemChina, Corteva, Bayer and BASF — control 66% of the world’s agricultural chemicals. These businesses are hardly renowned for their care of the environment. Likewise, politicians. The post-Second World War intensification of agriculture, promoted in the West by national governments and the nascent EU as a path to food security, has starved the soil and exhausted crops.
It’s basically what the ruling classes have done for generations: Those in charge always come up with a reason why the rest of us cannot be free, why the rest of us cannot make these choices for ourselves. And the reason du jour is the climate crisis is forcing them to literally transform our modern way of life.
They are actively collapsing our energy, food, and transportation. They’re pushing insect-eating as an alternative source of protein. And this is the United Nations doing this. It’s the World Economic Forum doing government. Bill Gates, America’s number one farmland owner in the U.S. has publicly stated that his goal is to get the entire Western world off of eating livestock meat and instead eating his billions of dollars invested in lab-grown meat made in steel vats and literally printed from 3d printer.
Morano: This is our future — if we allow it. First, they came for your energy, then your transportation, then your meat and high-yield agriculture, and now they’re coming after rice production. The climate agenda just keeps expanding its reach and is moving rapidly to gain control of global food production so that they can manage it in a ‘climate friendly’ way. And many of the people pushing these policies believe they are altruistic. They actually think they’re saving the planet by doing this, and they are preventing the rest of us — the unwashed masses from destroying the planet.
It’s so much easier if they concentrate power in the hands of a few. There are fewer people to buy off, fewer to protest, and fewer people who own tractors or trucks to make trouble.
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About Marc Morano
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Marc Morano manages CFACT’s award-winning ClimateDepot.com news and information service. He is the award-winning producer, writer and host of CFACT’s Climate Hustle feature films. Marc served as a reporter for “Rush Limbaugh the Television Show” and as a senior advisor to Senator James Inhofe. He is author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change,” “Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse than You Think,” and “The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown.”
This World is just nuts right now. It’s if the Alien Invaders have introduced a lunatic gene into some of the Human Race. Thank goodness for me that I missed out on that.
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a) The wavelength bands absorbed by methane are small, even compared to CO2, not to mention water vapor; and, they are partially the same wavelength bands absorbed by water vapor.
b) CO2 in the atmosphere is 200 times greater than that of methane.
c) The claim that methane is 80 times more powerful than CO2 has to be misinformation, disinformation, or possibly even a lie.
d) Eat more rice.
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Will Happer, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Princeton University, and Willian van Wijngaarden have modeled radiation in the atmosphere and demonstrated the accuracy of their model. They calculate that a doubling of methane – which will take about 400 years at the current rate of increase – will cause less than 0.2 C warming.
Methane is not a problem. The problem is the liars and scam artists at UN agencies who claim that it is, and the gullible politicians who go along with it, probably after seeking advice from people employed organizations with vested interests in supporting the scam (e.g. research funding).
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“The problem is the liars and scam artists at UN agencies who claim that it is,”
And that is why we will have more wars.
It’s time to start repeating until they get sick of it: “Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does more good than harm”.
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Please read the paper because Marc Morano is being hysterical. They key point is that big reductions in greenhouse emissions are possible through reducing wastage, improvement of production practices, and adopting a healthier diet.
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So, you don’t like rice? Then eat the paper.
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Simon always comes across as someone who is happy to let others manage his life. He seems to look to justify those papers or reports that he believes in rather than taking a more personal critical response. I say this as my observation only as I only know him from his posts. My lived experience is question everything and manage your own life. Last year I disclosed on this very site that I had developed oesophageal cancer. I still harbour doubts as to the possibility of a link to one of the mRNA vaccines I agreed to take. Those two injections were the only times I accepted someone else’s request to take an unproven drug. I did that on the basis that my wife was a cancer survivor and I was encouraged very early in the rollout to take the “vaccine” on the basis it was supposed to protect her. I of course would do anything to protect the ones I love. That being said, I also disclosed that my oncologist had indicated I has 12 months from October last year. He indicated disease progression by March this year with serious impact upon my health. He told me my cancer was chemotherapy resistant but wanted to give chemo another go. Instead I took control and began my own research. I located studies on immunotherapies and an indication that Nivolumab was a drug that was showing good results for longevity quality of life in patients with metastatic oesophageal cancer. It took a lot of convincing including seeking a second opinion and threatening to travel interstate for treatment to get him to agree, but I have start immunotherapy. Instead of being bed ridden or feeling serious effects of the disease. I am now feeling the best I have felt since diagnosis. I walk up to 10 km or run 5 km. I remain independent, driving cars and riding motorcycles. I would say I feel about 80 to 90 % of my pre diagnosis health. Imagine if big pharma or someone else controlled data. If the several studies I showed my doctor were restricted or removed from the internet because of a group of elites controlling our lives. Sorry my life is mine and I will determine my existence. I will never allow anyone to make my decisions for me ever again.
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What an inspiring story Matt. Best wishes and do keep us posted.
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Thank you Jo. Of course the other good self treatment is to keep your sense of humour. Tomorrow is 12 months since initial diagnosis and I’ll throw a small party. Might even have a glass of Shiraz.
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End of May last year I had a spot on each lung that turned out to be secondary melanoma A petscan showed spread in both lungs, my liver, breast bone and right humerus.
.The oncologist prescribed 2 types of immunolgy at each of 6 x 3 hour sittings.
A few days before my 4th sitting i was hospitalised quite unwell and many tests resulted early Dec. I was to have a petscan 23 Jan 2023 to check progress.
it was only early Dec. I was going for a premature petscan?
The next morning the doctor came into my bed and asked what I wanted first good or bad.. Bad was some chemical imbalances but they’ll adjust with help
The good news is the cancer has completelly gone. You are a miricle. GOOD LUCK MattM RJ..
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Why would you want to reduce these supposed “greenhouse gases”? They do no harm, and CO2 is what plants breathe, it’s good for them and present atmospheric levels are way below optimum. They would be better at around 800ppm. Why starve the plants? We are barely above the minimum CO2 required for plant life (about 150-200ppm). Had CO2 not started to naturally increase, we were heading for a mass extinction event.
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If atmospheric CO2 starts to drop, and the self-anointed “powers” get their way with reduction of other fertilisers…
.. there will most likely be a REAL mass “decimation” event… of humans. !
No matter which way you look at it, the whole aim of basically every leftist agenda, seems to be the destruction of human society and prosperity !
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“ The climate agenda cannot handle a decentralized world. They need to control the means of production, the distribution of food, and control of the movement of people. “
This is straight out Communism. More terrifying than the prospect of them winning, is the fact that in Western economies they ARE WINNING!
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When Hawke’s CSIRO climate change department was new they announced by way of a full front page tabloid headline that “Cows are Australia’s biggest source of greenhouse gases”.
This was a bare faced lie. I don’t believe that any self respecting scientist ever said it. But so little research had been done that it was impossible to refute the lie, and it stood for years, taught in our schools and universities.
I still haven’t seen that useful research has been done into how much ” greenhouse gas” would be produced on an acre that never saw a cow.
I suspect that it might be not much different.
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Some small-minded people will relish the prospect of having someone “important” controlling every aspect of their life.
Even if that life is one of poverty, locked away in your 15 minute goolag, owning nothing, eating insects and rodents.
We already know that CO2 cannot cause warming… its all the about the control agenda…
Some people just can’t cope with having personal freedom… they desperately need someone “better” to control their lives.
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The paper itself is littered with scientifically unsupportable claims of “heat trapping” gases.
Then uses these superstitions built into “climate models” and pretend that its all “sciency”… LOL
It is built on a base of mantra, NOT SCIENCE, as is all too common for junk science from the Nature climate change propaganda rag.
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On the question of heat trapping gases you can see where they are coming from.
The argument is whether methane is worse than CO2.
‘Due to the chemical bonds within its molecule methane is much more efficient at absorbing heat than carbon dioxide (as much as 86 times more), making it a very potent greenhouse gas.’
(treehugger.com)
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“more efficient at absorbing heat than carbon dioxide”
ahh.. so it takes “heat” out of the atmosphere… Ok 😉
Ummm.. that is called “cooling”
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Actually the IR absorbing properties of methane have been measured by John Tyndall in 1861 and found to be 4.5 times that of CO2. And since CO2 has little effect (as he also said) on the Climate, that 86 times is rubbish.
I wish my bank balance would increase at the same rate as these claims about methane (12 times in 1990 – see the first IPCC report). Talk about inflation.
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No argument. Black horses eat more than white horses.
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If methane is more efficient at trapping heat that means that its more effective at being a filter that stops the suns radiation lodging joules in the ocean. The trick with the bad guys is to only get us looking at one side of the balance sheet.
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Eat paddy for healthier diet, you won’t get beriberi f.e.
The very old Chinese meds knew that by research.
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What’s paddy?
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Should be unshelled rice.
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accidental duplicate please remove
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A lot is possible, but not neccessary, as reducing CO2 or methane (rice growing).
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Wake up Simon and understand that the whole Climate Change story has morphed from a few scientists genuinely concerned about the environment to a giant money making scam controlled by the rich to make themselves even richer. Who even gives a toss if they are right and the world gets 1.5 degrees warmer? I have just come back from freezing cold Europe and I assure you if it got 15 degrees warmer over there they’d all be much better off.
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Exactly!
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Production practices in farming are not more ‘efficient’ when the farm is run by big business. Yes, there are economies of scale with costs but the sheer size of the corporates creates other problems.
On a small family farm, the farmer will use chemicals and fertilisers when needed. They are able to inspect their crops for pests, then take action. They are able to test their soil, then take action.
The corporates do not have that luxury. They must work in continuous cycles to cover the large amount of ground they have to cover. They cannot for example wait to identify a pest or disease then spray, as it takes too long to cover their thousands of acres and the pests will have taken hold.. Therefore they use far more fertiliser and chemicals than family farms do. Family farms also tend to be more attuned to their environment as they seek to continue forever providing a legacy for future generations, and taking care of their water is part of that. For corporates it is all and only about dollars.
I was raised on a family farm and have worked for a large agribusiness, specifically vineyards. I have seen it from both sides.
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Farmers don’t destroy their environment because if they did that it would devalue their farm.
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I was a small farmer. On our 170 acres I had beef, hay and chaff operations. My daughter dabbled in free range pigs and ducks at one stage. Judging by the large numbers of brown snakes and multitudes of birds, egrets, magpies, crows, starlings, ibis, quail, kites and swallows I would say our farm was a haven for wildlife and was an ecological wonderland. Much more so than the uni-culture on some of the big farms. We used virtually no insecticide and were rather miserly with fertilizer. We were however very productive and I did it on my own with some help from my wife. Small farms beget communities and very strong ones at that. Large farms beget large towns and less local facilities like tennis courts and RFS.
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Dianeh,
Agribusiness often uses hi tech to run its operations and its all run by GPS and drone tech . The farmers do it by living there . In the long term both are motivated to look after the land as not doing so will make it unprofitable (fertilizer and other inputs are not cheap) . Having said that I think farmers are some of the bravest people – getting periodically wiped out by nature and attacked by radical activists and just keep going .
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Do you recall the case in Victoria when radical animal “rights” activists “freed” 200 chickens which all got killed by predators?
SEE LINK FOR REST
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It’s simple, Simon, GO to the fare.
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But shew me first your money.
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Aaah – Simple Simon 🙂
There is NO such thing as human induced global warming produced by human “greenhouse emissions”.
You’ve obviously NEVER been to Alice Springs, for instance, where it can be 40+ degrees centigrade in the daytime and drop to below FREEZING during the night.
This PROVES CO2 is NOT a greenhouse gas “blanket” – never was, never will be – it’s puely water vapour doing it’s job as it’s done for BILLIONS of years!!
CO2, beautiful, wonderful plant food 97% of which is dissolved in the ocean.
You’re welcome – cheers
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It bugs the hell out of me when i hear ” warmer than otherwise” argument. As if the theoretical, hypothetical, 0.3C or 1.3C more will be noticed on top of +40C or 0C.
Despite that, the real CO2 that varies so much at surface level, where we actually live, goes largely unreported.
Highly variable CO2 at near surface.
https://notrickszone.com/2023/03/30/real-world-observation-increasing-co2-by-7000-ppm-has-a-0-3c-temperature-differential/
More Data.
https://meteo.lcd.lu/today_01.html
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First link returns “critical error”.
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NTZ returning that from home page too. !
Seems to be a “WordPress error”…
It is pretty easy to stuff things up in WordPress. 😉
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Outstanding.
High reproducible.
Needs framing.
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‘We find that global food consumption alone could add nearly 1 °C to warming by 2100.’
Lacks credibility, the authors have given no consideration to the possibility that there maybe less humans in 2100. This is foreseeable, wars, pandemics and a burgeoning middle class worldwide should put an end to growth.
Anyway its all nonsense, greenhouse gases don’t cause global warming.
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What multiple of current CH4 emissions would be required to provide that warming?
Is there sufficient land area to run the additional ruminants and sufficient arable land area and available water to flood irrigate the additional rice, soybeans, etc?
Also, will the 15% population increase be able to eat it all?
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Hmmm.
25% population increase
90% increase in ruminant meat production
70% increase in animal product production
No details on increase for rice, mutton or milk, so assume 25% in line with population growth.
OOh, isn’t the SI interesting?
Rice – 0.11kg CH4/kg
Beef – 1.2 kg CH4/kg
mutton/goat – 0.55 kg CH4/kg
milk – 0.084 kg CH4/kg
There was no mention in the paper of switching from beef to mutton, or mutton to lamb.
Also no nothing I could see about the nutritional value of red meat vs rice.
Anyway, from the SI:
Current total MT CH4
Rice – 66.5
Beef – 87.5
Mutton – 8
Milk – 51.5
Total – 213.5
Projecting to 2100
Rice – 83
Beef – 166
Mutton – 10
Milk – 64.5
Total – 323.5
Now, substituting mutton for beef removes 166 MT from beef and add 76 for mutton, an overall reduction of 90.
So, a 2100 total of 233.5, which is a 20 MT increase over 2020.
This is a vast improvement over the proposals in the paper.
Can I have my Nobel prize now, please?
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Pork is even better than mutton, at 0.083 kg CH4/kg, or chooks at 0.014 kg CH4/kg
Switching from beef to pork will save 81.5 MT of CH4 in 2100, or switching to poultry will save 86 MT.
I didn’t really want to bring these up just yet, preferring to save them until next year to get a second Nobel.
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If the changes in the level of CH4 reaches above where water vapor taps out, then we have to assume its having a cooling effect in all areas, and a warming effect only in some. We are talking about the color of gasses. Its a very strange thing to be assuming that a color filter increases warmth rather than blocks it. Or at least that both sides of the ledger aren’t being taken into account.
These questions all came up in the 90’s and that we are still running in circles means that its the media we need to deal with. Or governance. Or something other than a fair competition in the “market of ideas”.
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And if you think they are NOT going to come after food supplies because of “CLIMATE™⸘”…
… you haven’t been paying attention.
Sri Lanka, Netherlands, now New York
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/18/nyc-mayor-to-cut-carbon-emissions-by-cutting-off-food/
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Simon >”Please read the paper”
Ok, under Results I see this section:
“Projected warming from business-as-usual food consumption”
“Projected” being the output of a GHG-forced climate model to 2100 i.e. divining the future by computer aided circular reasoning.
Other methods of divining the future:
Divination by laughter and cats
Numerology, phrenology & palmistry
Dream interpretation
Also,
“The agriculture sector is responsible for …. 3% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activities worldwide”
3% is negligible so where’s the problem? Oh…methane:
“We find that global food consumption alone could add nearly 1 °C to warming by 2100. Seventy five percent of this warming is driven by foods that are high sources of methane (ruminant meat, dairy and rice)”
Except there’s a problem with that:
‘Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought’
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/methane-warm-earth-atmosphere-radiation
Lots of “suggests” “could” and “may” in the paper too i.e. just wild speculation using a computer.
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So basically the paper is the result of some people, I won’t call them scientists, playing computer games rather than leaving their ivory towers and actually doing some actual measurements in the field. I assume those writing the paper didn’t do that because rice fields can be wet.
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Clearly the problem of methane can be easily resolved with some lateral thinking.
‘Methanotrophs (sometimes called methanophiles) are prokaryotes that metabolize methane as their source of carbon and chemical energy. They are bacteria or archaea, can grow aerobically or anaerobically, and require single-carbon compounds to survive.
‘Methanotrophs are especially common in or near environments where methane is produced,’ (wiki)
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Simon, are you a botanophobe? You must be if you hate CO2.
And I agree we should eat a healthier diet.
People need to eat more meat and animal products and fewer plants.
Plants are my food’s food.
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Simon >”adopting a healthier diet” [Ivanovich et al]
Avoided warming from mitigation methods
“We used dietary recommendations provided by the Harvard Medical School, which focus on reduced meat intake, promoting a protein-rich diet with less saturated fat and cholesterol27. These recommendations specifically prescribe the sparing consumption of red meat (beef and pork; about one serving per week) and the limited consumption of fish, poultry and eggs (up to two servings each per day)”
My age 67. Pre inflation and changed egg regs in NZ my diet was 3x red meat (230gm/8oz), 2x chicken breast, and 2x salmon + 6 free range eggs. Now 3x red meat, 2x pork, 2x chicken. No eggs or salmon post inflation for a while.
Followed by steamed potato, beetroot, carrot, onion, celery, and silverbeet or brocolli depending on season (cruciferous and leafy greens preferably). Plus cereal, fruit, berries, whole grain bead etc.
No rice.
Is that “healthy”? Not according to Harvard and Ivanovich et al in terms of meat. But I have reasons for my diet (see next comment).
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Reasons for my diet structure previous:
1) Nutraceuticals
2) Exercise driven demand
For 1): Beetroot (nitrates) for athletic performance. Celery for vascular dilation (Amish grow and eat a lot). Blueberries for anti-oxidant property (wild variety 2x domestic). Persimmons for anti-inflammatory property.
For 2) my exercise routine Sept-April whittled down from my track and field days long ago (73.5 kg Sept, 69.5 kg April – morning pre breakfast weight i.e. I’m fighting weight loss but able to train faster with less injury by April):
Sunday: 3x 100m rolling starts 60-80% am, stretching floor exercises and weights pm.
Monday: 1x 20m, 40m, 60m, 80m standing starts 70-90% am.
Tuesday: as for Sunday.
Wednesday: as for Monday.
Thursday: as for Sunday.
Friday and Saturday: rest and recovery.
There is no way I could do that without my protein/energy/fat/iron intake from the meat component.
No covid, no flu, no cancer, no heart disease indicators. I may die prematurely from my efforts or my diet but at least I will be fit, mobile, strong and probably in better health than my peers until then. Finish strong is an adage of mine.
And I’m sure I will not have contributed to any theoretical planetary warming either – given the observations are not tracking theory.
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Tell that to the thousands of farmers in the Netherlands.
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Very, very sneaky way for the self proclaimed ‘elites’ to gain full control. It is a pity no one reads a certain book that tells where this is leading but its accuracy is amazing. If these self appointed mega rich people think they will rule the world, they are in for a shock. Now we should be standing up to the UN instead of falling over ourselves to follow every communistic dictatorial edict.
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…any clues?
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Not sure what certain book Dave is referring to, but sounds like “The Gulag Archipelago” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Should be a mandatory reading text for all senior high school students.
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The Bible?
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Did you know they use a model called “MAGICC”? (a reduced-complexity climate model)
Seriously, yes they do !
How’s that for “science”! 😉
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And very close to the spelling “magick”. And certainly not science.
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Control the energy supply, the food supply, the medical system and the Lamestream and social(ist) media and you control the people.
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Australia and its voters, being among the world’s most fanatical and ill-informed believers in the anthropogenic global warming fraud (judged by their voting patterns) seem ripe to participate in this.
There is already a war against our conventional food supply and agricultural production. E.g.:
* E.g. The Left now have kids eating insects in at least 1000 Aussie schools.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/1000-australian-schools-are-fed-insects/
* The Left who promote human consumption of insects (for non-Elites) lie about the supposed productivity of insects. I looked into this and determined that they are no more efficient at converting feed into protein than chickens are. And the Left also lie about the supposed destructive effect on the environment of traditional farm animals.
* Australia has literally thrown to the wind, billions of dollars on wind subsidy farms and solar subsidy farms. There is nothing useful to show for this massive waste of money. It should have been spent on something useful like building dams and irrigation systems to drought proof and flood proof Australian farms and towns. Now Australia’s national debt is so massive that there is no chance or money to fund useful projects in future, and no willingness to do so anyway.
* Agriculture in Australia is now highly over-regulated making the life and business practices of farmers very difficult. Commercial agricultural decisions are more in the hands of the government than farmers are. This was even the subject of a government inquiry in 2016.
https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/agriculture#report
(EDITED by DM, quote removed from report to reduce length.)
* The world’s most strict covid lockups and overseas visitor restrictions stopped the supply of seasonal labourers coming to Australian farms leaving fruit to rot on trees. This now seems to be a permanent pattern as seasonal overseas pickers are not returning to what they perceive as a dictatorship and fruit picking work seems to be too hard for most unemployed Australians who are more content on the dole (unemployment welfare payment) than hard work fruit picking.
* Australia’s “premier” taxpayer funded “scientific” agency is promoting insect consumption by humans. Their focus should be on controlling insect and animal pests that impede agricultural production as was their traditional role.
https://research.csiro.au/edibleinsects/
* Some of the world’s most expensive electricity imposes huge costs on farmers and agricultural production.
* Agricultural decisions are being interfered with by false predictions of anthropogenic global warming and lack of rain.
Australia seems to be a willing and highly subservient model to the wicked plans of the Leftist Elites of the WEF, UN etc.. Made all the more easier because of globalist, anti-free enterprise, socialist, anti-freedom Labor regimes in all mainland states and federally.
And on top of all that, a vast majority of Australians have absolutely no clue where their food comes from or how it’s produced, beyond picking it up at a supermarket.
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The Australian government takes its advice from the likes of the CSIRO and the Climate Clownsil. When asked FOUR times for evidence that mankind was causing significant warming the CSIRO was unable to do so. At the same time it is well-funded by the government for research that supports the IPCC’s beliefs. Read the biennial (?) “State of the Climate” reports and you’ll find loads of assertions that mankind is causing warming but nothing that even vaguely could be evidence to support the claim.
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A lot of folk are aware of the importance of rice in Asia. There are several rice strains cultivated in a relatively narrow band of climatic and water-availability.
However, in China, wheat and barley are cultivated in the more northerly regions; different climatic / water circumstances.
Then there is the rest of the works. Italy and Spain have been big rice producers and consumers for a VERY long time. Try making Risotto or Paella without rice.
Is rice an “invasive” species? The Japanese have a “cultural” (and economic) obsession with rice. I have worked with Viets who would complain about getting “cravings” for rice after a couple of days without it.
Perhaps there is something to the old rumour that it was the rice “cultivating” humans to enhance the greater production of rice. Does the long-term consumption of a food alter brain chemistry in favour of that food? Any food scientists out there feel like chiming in?
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So in my land of NZ we are being encouraged by “Industry leaders” to retire land back into wetlands and even create new and marvelous swamps out of productive pasture. No mention is ever made that these swamps are natures methane gas factories! My searches on Goolag fail to come up with methane output from bogs but do get redirected to “methane emission from arctic permafrost melting”. Methane from cow burps and paddy fields; bad. Methane from swamps; awesome! A job for Jo?
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Why not recreate the moa, breed it up and then hunt it to extinction again, just like the Maori who supposedly cared for the land of NZ? Then you would have an “environmentally friendly” food supply, at least until you starved or started eating other people, also like the Maori (see bottom link).
https://phys.org/news/2009-07-scientists-rebuild-giant-moa-ancient.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5441981/Scientists-closer-reviving-extinct-bird.html
https://i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/national/565544/Maori-cannibalism-widespread-but-ignored-academic-says
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Cannabalism and infanticide also practised by Australias aborigines and not talked about. The First nations just lived in Nirvana. I know this to be true because Lidia told me.
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Marc Morano is on the money.
This is not the only place I have read this warning. The WEF is the villain and the UN agencies are their weapons.
We are in serious trouble.
I don’t see a way forward at present unless people every where wake up very fast.
Thanks for publishing this Jo. That is a starting point.
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ClimateDepot unmasking ClimateDespots.
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Seems that the aim of the megalomaniacal globalist man-hating cabal is to kill as many people as they can by hunger and famine.
Cows, rice, cheap energy, cheap transport, land farming, fertilisers, fuels for farm machinery etc etc,. These are all basic for the production of nourishing food and transportation. They want us all dead so that we won’t die of global warming.
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I can’t find current figures but it used to be that Australia was the world’s most efficient producer of rice. I was aware of this figure in the late 1970’s.
Now I believe Australian rice farmers have problems getting water allocations.
Most Australian rice production is exported.
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I love it David how you lead with those open questions and keep conversations ticking along. Yes, Australian Rice farming is probably one of the most efficient producers in the world. Without too much mansplaining I’ll attempt to briefly summarise the industry here in Oz. Our forefathers ( and mothers!)in government/public service were seemingly a much smarter bunch than we are. They recognised the Australian climate as a succession of wet periods followed by dry periods, particularly in the South/South East corner of the continent. So they built dams and reservoirs to capture the surplus water in the wet cycle to sustain populations and agriculture during the dry times. In the 1950’s there was so much surplus water sloshing around in the catchments that it was suggested that some of that excess water could be used to grow rice. Fantastic idea!. Rice had been grown in Australia on an adhoc basis for a long time, probably initiated by some of our Asian immigrants. The first commercial crop was grown near Swan Hill, Victoria maybe late 1800’s/early 1900’s. Because Australian agriculture is always very efficient, the industry was/is highly mechanised and also had the advantage of oodles of cheap water. Irrigation systems had to be set up, but this was no biggie. There were lots of amenable areas suitable for growing it, particularly in the Southern Riverina, relatively close to big catchments. It produces fantastic yields when all the agronomy is done correctly and is very profitable. More so than other cereal crops grown in the area. You can even sow it by air! But yes, in those dry times, water allocations get restricted and areas in production plummet. Because of our low population the domestic market was filled very quickly and so export markets were then needed.
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DM – data like this?
https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/research-topics/agricultural-outlook/rice
https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/about-us/publications/pdi/2021/rice
https://www.statista.com/statistics/631788/australia-rice-yield/
That took 15 seconds of my time.
That’ll be $400 please. 😁
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Thanks JC II, but I didn’t see anything in those links about comparative efficiency which is what I was looking for.
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In general DM, Australian agriculture is super efficient and in a lot of industries probably the most efficient and productive. Something about being isolated as 4 dots in the southern hemisphere somewhere between the Indian and Pacific oceans creates independent resilience. Australian ag per se, is also non-subsidised and so there are no market distortions or inefficiencies that are built in. We are highly mechanised and usually big uptakers of any new tech going around. We produce high quality food types of all sorts, comparatively cheaply and in quantity. I have talked to many farmers who do those world tours where they will go visit similar producers in other countries. US/Europe is a prime example. They usually go to the likes of the US/Europe thinking they will learn something from their American/European neighbours. But very often they come back with the realisation that in fact they themselves are way ahead in a lot of production metrics. But of course, what is happening now? Our idiot leaders are making electricity and water much dearer, so like other industries we are losing some of those advantages.
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“That’ll be $400 please.”
Can we pay in “carbon” credits, please. ! 😉
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AGAIN you won’t change the really big co2 or methane emitters after the recent Sri Lankan disaster.
The idea that big govts and big farming ,plus big finance, plus billionaire investors know better than us will cause a massive backlash from the voters. Just wait and now the Bowen loony wants to make the basic and popular + affordable Aussie ICE cars far more expensive so that their TOXIC, very expensive EVs can catch up.
None of these donkeys really care about the environment, but they are very committed to control us and ASAP.
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Another link:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/04/climate-change-activists-now-going-after-rice-a-staple-that-feeds-billions/
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I’ve observed comments like that for over 20 years now.
Always missing is HOW the “we” can disallow it. In Aus, there has been no political choice on these issues for voting on since 2013.
The Dutch farmers have put up a struggle, but as usual the police act as armed militia to smother it. The Canadian truckers and their supporters demonstrated the raw power of the State.
There are people (on this website as well) who harbour fantasies about some mass uprising. The Aus middle class will never do that, never. They will simply turn on each other, as they do now.
The only circumstance I can see for a large dump of sand in the gearbox is the advent of a black start in either Vic or NSW. This is possible as a result of Bowen’s vindinctiveness but if one watches the current ongoing grid management closely, it will be seen that AEMO and the other word salad bureaucracies are doing quite well at wriggling around it. There is a very deliberate strategy here.
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Your core issue is THE core issue and it’s nothing less than frightening. Like you, I see no way there shall be any kind of revolution in the interests of a return to a sane method of governance, not here, not anywhere. The odds are overwhelmingly against it – the dumbing down of western people being the key, along with the (related) demographic collapse. I do not relish the fact that I am no longer young, but equally, I am happy to have lived my life in far better days.
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It never ceases to amaze me that Leftists refer to carbon dioxide, CO2, as “carbon” and nitrogenous compounds such as from fertilisers and manure as “nitrogen”.
FFS, if they don’t even know the chemical formula or the name of a substance (or class thereof), they shouldn’t be involved in attempting to control it.
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Ignorance is strength – in some circles.
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LOL, they heard something about the the carbon and nitrogen cycles in junior highschool. But never studied any chemistry after that.
Love the way ABC/SBS show images of water vapour clouds coming from cooling towers, or smoke from smokestacks, whenever they mention carbon (dioxide).
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“Squealer justified the pigs taking all the milks and apples by saying “milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contains substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed? Jones would come back!””
Its been a 70-year game of whack-a-mole. You get rid of one scare that is trying to take over your life to make you do what someone else wants, then another immediately pops up.
Having a Govt, especially at Australia’s 4 levels, means concentrating power into a smaller number of hands each time. Those hands become the targets for anyone wanting to get rich, just subvert the hands of power. Hmm.. maybe 5 levels of Govt above us, if you count the WEF above the UN.
Anarchy has a lot of good points you know…
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Anyone who wants to starve plants of life-giving CO2 must be scared of them and should be considered a botanophobe, or a dendrophobe if they just hate trees.
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… aghhhh.. invasion of the Dendritics !!
Surely we are doomed !!
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dendrophobes are no very good at maths…
they can only count up to tree. ! 😉
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Never forget that our clueless Labor/ Greens donkeys want to wreck our electricity grids ASAP and infest our environment with TOXIC W & S because they BELIEVE that will somehow change the climate.
But the TOXIC W & S disasters can’t even generate enough power to serve the small King Island community in the daylight hours and are a complete disaster at night.
Check it out for yourselves and AGAIN here’s the link.
Only 2000 people to cater for but they still BELIEVE they can cater for 26 million people? Is that barking mad or what?
IOW their TOXIC experiment has failed.
https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/hybrid-energy-solutions/success-stories/king-island
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I’m sure there’s some interesting psychology to study with regard to the terror of CO2 the Left feel. It relates to a primordial fear of suffocation triggered by the amygdala which can sense CO2, the fear centre of the brain.
Of course, there is no possibility of CO2 suffocation at anything like present CO2 levels, but somehow their neural net has become mis-wired. Maybe they should try deep breathing exercises?
SEE LINK FOR REST
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I had a local council executive on about there believe in CC as an answer to pressure I got an answer that carbon dioxide will suffocate us all after I counted all the crap about storms and rising sea level
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“I got an answer that carbon dioxide will suffocate us all”
Thats why its added to medical gases, like, you know, oxygen. Pump a patient full of oxygen and they DIE. No CO2, no trigger to breathing.
This gas is so deadly that without it YOU DIE.
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And you breathe out some 40,000 ppm !
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I saw a very accurate and witty comment the other day that went like this. If you believe in the magic insulating properties of CO2 ( you know, the Al Gore/ Pink batt fantasy that higher atmospheric CO2 levels lead to catastrophic global warming) then remove all the insulation from you house, drill a hole in the wall and blow into the cavity. Because based on AGW theory you should be able to insulate your house with trapped CO2.
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A study was done using different gasses in a sealed double glazed window.
Argon did better than standard air. a vacuum did well, but hard to maintain, …
but CO2 conducted more energy from one side to the other, than normal air.
Radiative gases do that… they are a conduit for energy.
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Sure EU/UN/WEF/Gates/Soros etc.
It’s all about the money..
“Australia’s first public trading market for carbon credits has begun and its owner has predicted a shake-up of the nation’s $4.5bn carbon market as demand surges from big polluters offsetting their emissions.”
The sale of carbon indulgences, especially with Albanese’s ‘Safeguard Mechanism’
Every time you talk Carbon in Canberra or the Stock exchange, you are talking in billions.
Who cares if it’s all made up. The super wealthy are stampeding. And most of Canberra, thousands of people whose lives now depend on the evil which is carbon dioxide. When most would not know what it was. And those who do know say nothing.
The alignment of big money and big government used to be called Fascism. Now it’s ESG.
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In fact they say so
“Xpansiv was formed in 2019 through the merger of Sydney-based CBL, a commodity spot exchange, and San Francisco-based Xpansiv, a data-led ESG commodities platform.”
“Xpansiv’s CBL platform already handles other products such as Renewable Energy Certificates and Energy Efficiency Certificates, as well as a raft of other carbon, water, gas and renewable energy products.”
Renewable Energy Certificates are buried in your current electricity bills and the raw cash goes to windmill operators and owners of solar panels under the RET scheme started in 2001 as the Renewable Energy(Electricity) Act. It’s unconsitutional raw theft, but hey, who knows?
Saving the planet is a huge money business. And what effect does it all have on CO2? Absolutely zero, but who cares?
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TdeF, a question:
Is it true to say that the difference between what we should be paying for electricity, i.e. the low free market price for coal or gas electricity production, and the highly inflated price we actually pay, is due to the hiding of the REC in electricity bills?
Is it that simple? In that case there should be a law that the REC is stated on all bills. E.g. a bill might read:
Cost of electricity $10
REC $20
Amount due $30.
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Yes. And it’s far worse.
The cash stolen by government order (not taxation) and enforced by government fines inflates everything.
And forces reliable fossil fuel power to be the supplier of last choice, so they only get leftovers, which hits their profitabilility and pushes up prices because everything is running and no one is being paid.
It also enables the wind and solar companies to be paid for the fact of generation, even if their output is not sold. Which is your money for nothing at all.
And they can charge double because they have a price advantage, knowing the retailers have to pay a fine for buying carbon dioxide electricity.
The end results, as desired, is to force all fossil fuel power plants into loss and closure. Which is particularly egregious when you consider these were sold to private investors. Hazelwood was sold for $2.5Billion and the new owners spent another $1Billion improving it, only to find they were penalized and forced to close and negotiate on the billions in ‘remediation’, something I am sure windmill devastators will not have to do.
However there is still not enough wind and solar anyway, so carbon fines/compulsory certificates hit everyone. (not taxes, that would be illegal) You can get the amount of money from the total volume or Large Scale Renewable Certificates and the cost of each. This is supposed to be a ‘free’ public market, but what sort of market is the purchase compulsory?
Coal is free and coal electricity used to be 4c kw/hr before this started. Apart from maintenance all those power plants Hazelwood, Pelican Point, Liddell would still be running so I doubt prices would be much different. This is far lower than the cost of generation for wind.
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And I still read that wind generation is cheaper. It isn’t. Certainly if you remove the massive subsidies, even on profits which use depreciation on what was a publicly funded asset to avoid paying profits. It’s no wonder AGL wanted to get into wind and shut Liddell.
Labor and the Greens turned privatization around so they could destroy what were public assets. I think Liddell was sold for a handshake and then AGL refused a cash offer of $250Million. There would have been an outcry if it had remained public.
It will take 20 years to rebuild what we had as unlike Germany, Labor governments have forced the complete demolition of the evil generators which in hindsight occupied almost zero land. And the icing on the cake was to force the new owners to clean and restore the site.
None of this was done because people voted for it. The RET is the biggest carbon tax scheme in the world, in Australia returning $6Billion a year in taxes on CO2 generated power.
But I do not want to do all the calculations. It will soon come to tears before bedtime but in a country which thinks $360Billion for nuclear submarines is a real thing, there is nothing you can say. Obviously the government has infinite money, more than the people in fact.
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David:
Not really.
Firstly, renewables have priority access so their generation (when they work) reduces the output from reliable suppliers (largely coal). This reduces the reliables income so they have to charge more (or shut down). On top of that they have to buy a REC for each MWh, currently about $35). So $40 has risen to ($60 +$35) $95 a MWh. This should make wind somewhat profitable.
Then there is the question of frequency stabliisation which large coal-fired (and gas-fired CCGTs) provide free of charge but under renewables have to be supplied by other means (batteries etc.) as South Australia has found out. The cost of that big battery (Hornsdale) is reported as having been paid for in 2 years ($160 million) by frequency control.
Then there is the retailer’s “mite” which is increased because it is a percentage, as is the GST. It all adds up.
The effect is shown in the UK where there is little coal fired but much gas burning CCGTs. Theoretically these emit less CO2** but they have to run at variable rates to accomodate wind generation but still supply frequency stabilisation. This makes them marginally profitable, but no-one in their right mind is going to build a new one because they wouldn’t recover the cost as the amount of wind goes up according to the Government’s delusions, but variable output raises CO2 emissions and maintenance costs. The net effect of Government ‘policy’ is higher costs (than coal), higher CO2 emissions (possibly higher that the latest coal-fired plants) and more chances of blackouts. Germany lost most (if not all) of it CCGTs some years ago (before the rise in gas prices) and 2 nearly new plants were disassembled and moved to other countries.
If delusional bureaucrats & politicians got out of the way we would go back to coal with at least a 22% reduction in emissions and cheaper, much cheaper electricity.
**And Drax burns imported wood chips in 4 of its 6 plants at vast profit and around 33% more CO2 emissions than their 2 remaining coal plants would emit if they were running, but aren’t because of penalties. And the source of coal was directly below Drax. So much for “reducing CO2”.
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The trading of “carbon” was tested in Australia by the Howard government when it allowed the purchase of irrigation water by people / companies that had absolutely NO requirements for water licenses but had the money to buy these licenses and then start “trading”. First thing that happened was people who required the water to, you know, produce wealth generating food or commodities, suddenly couldnt afford to. First reaction in the general population was simply inflation, everything that depended on water went up in cost. The water trading companies, some overseas owned, simply sat back and watched the profits roll in. No risk for these “money generating” schemes. No skin in the game, no risk to income by fire, flood or drought, no mortgage to pay just a way of grabbing the country by the throat and making billions. They do not create jobs, personal financial security or wealth they simply suck whatever funds are available into their own coffers and damn the consequences.
Carbon trading is just the next extension.
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The same in the US. The Greens biggest supporters are in the Public Service in Canberra and Washington and in the role of doing what is best for the country, they are fighting to punish coal users, farmers, workers, miners, everyone but themselves while they enjoy the highest wages and best conditions in the country. Just like Brussels.
And big government is joining forces with big business to control the people. It’s called Fascism. It cannot be communism as they have closed the factories.
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Apart from his views on Pacific atomic testing by the French, I viewed JHoward as benign.
Then the deal with China on our gas.
Now I hear he had a big finger in selling off our native water rights which do not belong to him.
Farmers who bought riverside land paid a premium for that water; and then he dismissed that and charged them again.
Evul.
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“THEY” have been pushing us along for too long.
There’s a cliff looking.
It’s Time to turn to face these creeps and Push Them Back.
PTB
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Yes, there’s a cliff lurking.
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Looming?
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Yes, that’s a better fit for what the AI bot worked from.
AI, it’s everywhere.
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And with my aging mainframe I don’t have much concern about emissions, it’s principally short term memory that’s the problem.
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“And with my aging mainframe”
There are a few of us at that point K.K. Just got back from walking the dog, couple of big hills, a couple of creek crossings and a bloody awful pain in a hip.
Been putting off the medicos for about 18 months now but maybe a “medical opinion” is required. Of course this comes at a time when a certain Ozzie comedian is hospitalised for complications due to hip replacement surgery, I’m not keen to “do a Barry” after all he’s not much older older than me
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The assertions regarding rice (and agriculture generally) take us back to starting point of the climate caper: the Club of Rome. This held that the world was grossly overpopulated. “Climate change” has nothing to do with the environment; it is about ridding the world of several billion persons.
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You can download a free copy of the Club O’ Rome’s 1972 book “The Limits to Growth”, here.
https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/
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Sometimes in scientific and technical discussions you have to remember and present the basics. You measure atmospheric CH4 (methane) in parts per billion (ppb) whereas CO2 is in ppm. Anyone with a basic grasp of maths would then know that even if the molecule can absorb 80x more radiation (not trap heat) its irrelevant, when atmospheric levels are approaching x1000 less. The total atmospheric methane amounts to single digit ppm. It’s completely insignificant. Plus, over a short time that CH4 in the atmosphere all oxidises to CO2 anyway.
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There’s your problem.
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Trying to starve people will inevitably mean that the next war will be about food. China and Russia will not take this nonsense lying down, so they will have a choice: surrender or fight. China and Russia are both very aware of the dangers of the western billionaires: China and Russia have one thing in common, the billionaires are forced to be subservient to the government. There is no way that either China or Russia will let the western billionaires take over their countries or blackmail them. If they try that game, we will start to see western billionaires disappearing as we already do here in China when the local billionaires get too cozy with the west. It is, after all, about who has the most power.
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Aspnaz,
Who do you think caused the rash of suicides in the Russian oligarchs ? FSB or CIA ? Geopolitics is all about power . Power corrupts……
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The Dutch March 2023 election was a big win to the BBB farmer’s party and the present minority govt is also a centre right govt, although they’ve lost more seats to BBB in 2023.
If they choose to try and appease Labour and the Greens to assist them to pass legislation they’ll probably annoy even more of their own supporters.
We’ll know more in a few more months but Caroline Van der Plas’ BBB farmer’s party has come a long way at their first attempt.
Good luck to them for the future.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/20/netherlands-elections-bbb-rutte/
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A sign of Hope, Neville.
We need voters here to think the same way.
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Maybe it’s been bought up before, and I missed it; and it’s not directly on topic, but I could say it’s a juicy spit in the eye of the elite’s narrative? Peter Ridd’s excellent great barrier reef site.
https://www.youtube.com/@reefrebels/videos
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New York City to Track Personal Food Choices Using Credit Card Data
Remember the crazy right-wing conspiracy theory alleging that our food purchases will be tracked to reduce our CO2 consumption?
That one is turning out to be true!
Yesterday, New York City announced its plan to track the “food choices” of New Yorkers using credit card data from individual store purchases. According to the mayor, tracking individual food choices is a step towards “reducing the CO2 output” of New Yorkers.
The Adams administration has announced a plan to begin tracking the carbon footprint created by household food consumption as well as a new target for New York City agencies to reduce their food-based emissions by 33% by the year 2032.
New York City, in partnership with American Express, a credit card company, will track purchases to calculate New Yorkers’ carbon footprints:
The new plan puts the city on par with London and 13 other cities to incorporate food consumption into its greenhouse gas emission metrics. The effort to examine the environmental effects of eating foods like meat and dairy was first announced about a year ago as part of a collaboration among major cities across the globe.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/new-york-city-to-track-personal-food
NYC is a totally corrupt basket case now.
“Escape from New York” the film just got real.
However:
The Electric Everything Push Will Collapse The Grid By 2030, Research Suggests
PJM Interconnection, one of seven regional electricity transmission groups in the United States that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity across 13 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.), published a report recently that highlights the risks involved with this electric everything push.
If trends continue, the report warns, then the reliability of bulk electricity will certainly deteriorate to the point that rolling blackouts and other grid problems will become the norm.
The report explains that there is a “timing mismatch between resource retirements, load growth, and the pace of new generation entry.” This is just a fancy way of saying that power generation overall is declining at the very same time that governments are pushing a “green” energy platform that relies almost exclusively on electricity.
http://www.womensystems.com/2023/04/the-electric-everything-push-will.html
A few years ago the American society of engineers reported in a documentary that the USA’s infrastructure were decrepit and would cost trillions to repair. Roads, bridges, rail, power lines, power stations. Take your pick. It’s all falling apart (while money is thrown at Zelensky & other idiotic things).
Where goes the USA goes any country stupid enough to copy them. Forget 2030 and 2032. 2028 is the target date as I’ve said. No, I still won’t explain, not just yet anyway, although you’ve no doubt all seen more and more events line up with that date. 😎
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NYC’s Vegan Mayor Eric Adams to Limit Amount of Meat People Can Eat to Combat Climate Change
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/nycs-vegan-mayor-eric-adams-to-limit-amount-of-meat-people-can-eat-to-combat-climate-change/
“Meatless Mondays” and “Vegan Fridays” already in schools.
Twitter pic: NYCMayor new vegan option for Fridays. Most of the kids dumped this in the garbage or just ate the cookies. It smelled like armpits & it was completely unappetizing.
“I’ve got to get New Yorkers to eat a plant-based centered life,” Adams.
Steakhouses in New York City
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g60763-c37-New_York_City_New_York.html
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New York Mayor Goes To War Against Meat And Dairy As Climate Agenda Escalates
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-york-mayor-goes-war-against-meat-and-dairy-climate-agenda-escalates
“There are multiple studies [hotlink, see BBC below] which suggest that veganism can lead to reduced cognitive function and lower intelligence, especially when such diets are forced onto children. The human brain requires several nutrients that simply cannot be found in plants. In most cases, vegans are required to take regular supplements to offset these missing elements that the brain needs. Maybe the establishment’s goal in the future is to keep the average person as stupid as possible? Or perhaps they want to keep the population dependent on vital supplements that are manufactured?”
How a vegan diet could affect your intelligence
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200127-how-a-vegan-diet-could-affect-your-intelligence
The Vegan Brain
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/201709/the-vegan-brain
“The science is clear on this point: unsupplemented vegan diets pose great danger to brain health.”
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On vegan diets and brain nutrients—some unsettling research reports in a (surprisingly) still murky research area
https://www.ilri.org/news/vegan-diets-and-brain-nutrients-some-unsettling-research-reports-surprisingly-still-murky
“‘Up to two billion people are thought to have a shortage of [iron] worldwide, making it the most common nutritional inadequacy. Vegans are particularly prone, because the form that’s most readily absorbed by the body is “haem iron”, which is only found in animal proteins. One German study found that 40% of the vegans they looked at were consuming less than the recommended daily amount.
‘Other common deficiencies among vegans include D3, omega-3, selenium, folate and iodine. . . . Of course, some of these things can easily be acquired from supplements. But others are so obscure, vegans are unlikely to have even heard of them—let alone realise they could be missing out. . . .
‘. . . Take choline: in the brain, it’s used to make acetylcholine, which is involved in a number of tasks, including relaying messages between nerve cells. It’s fundamental to our ability to think—even insects have it in their tiny brains—and the body can’t produce enough of it on its own.
‘And yet: “It’s a very understudied nutrient,” says Wallace. “I believe we’ve only considered it essential [something you have to get from your diet] since the late 1990s.”
‘There are small amounts of choline in lots of vegan staples, but among the richest sources are eggs, beef and seafood. . . . Wallace points to a 2018 study, which found that the babies of women who consumed twice the amount considered “adequate”—around 930mg each day—in the last third of pregnancy enjoyed a lasting cognitive edge. For comparison, the average vegetarian gets roughly a fifth of that amount.”
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” Eggs, beef and seafood”.
If the green nutters get their way, we’ll be having none of that.
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Elon Musk has told FOX News that he hopes to start Truth GPT to rival Open A I and Google and probably Bill Gates as well.
And the biggest Rocket Ship ever built is due to blast off tomorrow our time. Boy he is a very busy bloke and he must burn through billions $ in faster time than I’d spend a hundred bucks. But then again I’m a mean sort of joker.
https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/elon-musk-says-he-wants-to-start-truthgpt-to-rival-openai-and-google-014938539.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIN0OYH6wLTWEGl9KcDqVkuDJaF7ykXAdIIo5zqeb6WAFAnT5U8SPZ_WggdeJf_OGnB0vQpbPCYBaADjD7NSI8Dk3D4wXqBFP3OfsxL0HfaSQKaA-pTkb8DKxXIqvLYkHFGws8wqHTycB3OelUYFopH66j-4KbVvLXGKiu8oOenL
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We already know how this playbook works. For example, India has more cows than any other country, but they won’t be asked to shed a single head of cattle. The same will apply to rice, which will be consumed in ever growing amounts by both China and India without criticism. This propaganda is all about killing the west, literally.
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If the planet has a problem it’s overpopulation, and these two are the biggest offenders, followed closely by Africa.
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What the fascist elite ignore is that they are small in number and we are large. Back in the feudal days the population was smaller and the rulers had the monopoly on weapons. Even when Britain ran India where any British element was vastly outnumbered, ruling by involving the locals and making trade and life better, as the Romans did when they came here, allowed there to be consent. Step out of line though and a strong military response of fire power, cannons, the famous gunboat etc ensued. Fast forward to Afghanistan and Iraq, and with the invention of explosives, fuels and modern weapons, keeping control was a much harder proposition, pretty much resulting in failure.
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For them, it’s grand villas to dine,
On truffles, sweet meats and rare wine,
For us, not so good,
It’s queueing for ‘food’,
And told protein in bugs is just fine.
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Well summarised Ruairi. It is amazing the way you can do that in the tidy form of a limerick! 🙂
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Interesting. What is hardly perceptible, amongst the endless chitter-chatter; Analyses and nostrums. It may not matter. The world works in mysterious ways. My view, which does change as I get older; There is a mass of people who all differ in many respects. Say, the level of where people are in terms of overall development. Democracy can be said to be wasted on many of the occupants in those countries which were democracies. Democracy cannot survive if a majority cannot think for themselves. One has to make an effort to help people who are unable to help themselves, morally speaking. To make an effort to help people who will not help themselves, however, is unwise.
There is no causeless cause (Buddha Gautama). The current malaise in the West is of our own making, collectively speaking. Being obsessed with the exponentially growing multiplication of effects is a waste of time. What are the causes? Natural decay and increased corruption. What is the remedy? A combination of initiatives, many of which are already underway. Study human functioning in all its manifestations and at as many levels as you can manage. There is a lot to learn. More than anyone can poke a stick at. Don’t take my word for it. Start taking notice, widen your horizons and deepen your understanding of how it works. All is connected.
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A Technocratic superclass?
It is composed of lawyers and social “scientists”, with an occasional English or Geography major, and, of course Greta the Great who majored in Truancy.
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Greta majored in Truancy,
Lewandowsky majored in Lunacy,
Michael Mann’s major was Ingenuity.
N’ Rajendra Parchauri majored in Vacuity.
et-cet-er-ah …
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These technocrats are only interested in creating utopia for themselves at our expense. Now methane is the whipping dog for the daily two minutes of hate and we must all denounce methane and hate anything that produces methane. Tomorrow these technocrats will invent somthing else for us to hate and fall into line whilst denying ourselves freedom. Technocrats:a very small group of nutjob megalomaniacs lording it over the rest of us. Why do we let that happen?
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Mothers Wisdom,which will solve this problem.
“Eat your Greens”.
Which is what will happen if those with Delusions Of Adequacy are left unchecked.
Banishment from the society they so hate,our society,would of course,be a more civilized solution.
But if the “Can’t Does” and “know nothings” are permitted to continue their assault upon civilization,they will become part of the “Geoffery Dalmar Urban Diet”.
For starvation will sweep the cities first.
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