Monday

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    My latest whale expose:

    NOAA proposes hammering 208% of vanishing Right Whales

    https://www.cfact.org/2023/04/24/noaa-proposes-hammering-208-of-vanishing-right-whales/

    The beginning:
    “Okay it is a trick headline because they can only hammer 100% of the severely endangered North Atlantic Right Whale population. The point is that NOAA is proposing, for offshore wind development, to authorize a horrific 706 cases of physical harassment of Right Whales, whose dwindling population is down to just 340 magnificent critters.

    The average whale will get hammered roughly twice. The Right Whales migrate along the coast twice a year. Migration requires repeatedly running a gauntlet of dangerous offshore wind projects. Most likely some whales will be hit many times.”

    A lot more in the article.

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    James Murphy

    Now we are allowed to call it a debt trap…?

    France, Japan, India team up to rescue Sri Lanka from China debt trap
    https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20230423-france-japan-india-team-up-to-rescue-sri-lanka-from-china-debt-trap

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    RickWill

    Liddell unit 4 was shut down permanently today.

    Wind up the wind turbines!

    Who volunteers to advise Minister Bowen that the sun don’t shine at night!

    Wholesale price average now $299/MWh.

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      James Murphy

      First you’d have to explain to Bowen that the Earth revolves around the sun, and some other fundamental scientific principles, perhaps some basic arithmetic too.

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      Sambar

      Bowen on last nights news announcing that he would oversea electric car charging stations being installed at 150km intervals on every major Australian highway right around the country. Charging stations every 150 k’s across the Nullarbor to Perth, all the way up the west coast to Darwin, all the way up the centre from Adelaide to Darwin.
      Now this raises a few questions
      1/ How will these stations be powered? Solar might work sometime but last time I drove across the Nullarbor certainly NO power lines to operate the stations.
      2/ So you pull up in the middle of the night, in the middle of the Nullarbor at the charging station and its out of power. What happens, do you start the diesel generator? Do you wait till the sun comes up?
      3/ Will there be a road house at every charge point? What sort of security will be offered?
      The list is quite extensive, but hey like reducing household power bills by $250.00 of course it will happen coz Bowen told me so.
      Oh did I mention all these tousands of charging stations will all be built in the next two (2) years.
      Do I smell another NBN rollout or is it possibly a Snowy 2 aroma.

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        Graeme No.3

        Here’s the answer.
        https://joannenova.com.au/2019/08/the-diesel-generator-behind-the-electric-car-charging-point/

        Separately on U-tube but I didn’t save that reference.

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        Destroyer D69

        Where will these “Charging Stations” stand on any “Hierarchy of Precedence” list when the available power supply tanks?

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        Graeme#4

        Most sites along the Eyre Highway are about 150 kms apart. The longest might be Eucla to Nullarbor Homestead, at 196 kms – not sure if there is a refuelling site between. I believe that no storage batteries were proposed, so the diesel would have to be run every time for recharging.
        One claim was that instead of usual diesel, they could use cooking fat from their fryers. But I doubt that would provide sufficient fuel.
        Used to have a refuelling problem when driving all night on the Eyre Highway in the 1960s, as many sites closed at night. So carried a 44 drum and a double-action pump. Jerry Cans were insufficient for those 24-hour drives.

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          Graeme#4

          Just checked – the longest leg between refuelling sites is Norseman to Balladonia at 190 kms. Border Village to Nullarbor Homestead only slightly less at 184 kms.

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    James Murphy

    An interview with Freeman Dyson about C02 from approximately 7 years ago.

    https://youtu.be/BQHhDxRuTkI

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    RicDre

    Australia-wide assessment: climate change or instrument change?

    From Jennifer Marohasy’s Blog

    In the five years following the installation of probes in automatic weather stations (AWS) as they replaced mercury thermometers across Australia, the annual frequency of extremely hot days increased by an average 18.7%.

    This new analysis by Perth journalist and climate researcher Chris Gillham makes a mockery of claims by the Bureau that the transition from mercury thermometers to automatic weather stations has had no effect on temperatures, and so there is no need to transcribe or make public the parallel data.

    Chris has found that a majority of these AWS stations had an average 62.8% increase in their 99th percentile observations. These are the hottest 1 per cent of days calculated since the start year of each station.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/23/australia-wide-assessment-climate-change-or-instrument-change/

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    Reader

    How liberal politicians steer trillions of public funds via ESG
    https://nypost.com/2023/04/22/how-liberal-politicians-maneuver-trillions-via-esg/

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    environment sceptic

    Very concerning analysis and more.

    “Streamed on: Apr 22, 4:29 pm EDT”
    C19 Vax Miscarriages | Dr. Jim Thorp (TPC #1,195)

    https://rumble.com/v2jukcw-c19-vax-miscarriages-dr.-jim-thorp-tpc-1195.html

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    Tuesday and ANZAC Day.

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    KP

    War drums are beating to get Aussies ready for China.. We are off to destroy our best trading partner!

    “Rejecting vague language about rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific, the former defence chief and defence minister call out just one nation – China – for threatening Australia’s core interests.
    “China’s assertion of sovereignty over the South China Sea threatens the global rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific in a way that adversely impacts Australia’s national interests.”

    ‘Rules based order’ is a translation of ‘Do what America tell you or else’

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/defence-review-pulls-no-punches-china-is-the-biggest-threat-we-face-20230424-p5d2r7.html

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    el+gordo

    For anyone interested in a solar connection to climate.

    ‘In this work, we provide an overview of the many empirical facts that would support a planetary hypothesis of the variability of solar activity and emphasize their importance for climate research.

    ‘We show that the frequencies produced by the complex interactions of all of the planets are coherent with the major solar activity and climate cycles, from monthly to multimillennial timescales, including the well-known Schwabe 11-year solar cycle. We provide some persuasive theoretical and empirical support for the planetary hypothesis of solar and climate variability.’ (Scafetta et al 2023)

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    Google Archipelago

    It’s 2023 and not 2005. We really must send the greenhouse gas concept to the ash heap of history once and for all. It comes out of a model which is explicitly about surface temperature on a flat earth and then says “look over there” and pretends it’s said something meaningful about gas temperature and oceanic joule retention. We have to kill it so we can get some real science done. It draws faux-legitimacy from a temperature anomaly that does not exist. A temperature anomaly based around unacceptable and anti-scientific denial.

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