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Carbon dioxide in the air does more good than harm.
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Wrong, it does no harm.
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Total human CO2 in the air is 3.0% and new CO2 vanishes quickly, 98% into the ocean. If there was a problem, we can do nothing anyway.
We cannot control CO2 as the Chinese are demonstrating. A new coal power plant a week in China has no effect on CO2. Shutting down all the world’s cars and planes had no effect on CO2. Giant fires have no effect on CO2.
Carbon credits are fraudulent. Nett Zero is disastrous fake science. And there is no chemical difference between old CO2 and new CO2.
The CO2 level is set by simple physics as vapour pressure of the 98% of CO2 which is dissolved in the vast ocean like soda water. More heat means more CO2, not the other way around.
The whole Chicken Little business is based on the idea that CO2 levels are man made which is provably untrue. And if direct proof is not enough, then consider that even NASA and the CSIRO agree the world has greened massively with more CO2, billions more trees the size of Brazil. And CO2 levels have not gone down, destroying the idea of carbon credits, carbon farms, carbon sequestration and nett zero.
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You can measure fossil fuel CO2 and there is almost none in the air, so that’s an end to it.
But I do get frustrated with scientists who all want to talk about the situation from the angle of their own specialization. Models and their arguments. But it means they make the story complex and people believe science fakes like Flannery and Gore and the voice of authority.
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And it is a scare like the Wuhan Flu which gives politicians absolute power and licence and don’t they love it!
No politicians were elected to blow up our working electricity system. Or save the Great Barrier Reef. Or lock people in their homes. So now we have these hundreds of politicians pronouncing on every aspect of our lives, like gender changing operations on children. And throwing around hundreds of billions of dollars which are not theirs.
No one has any idea what the Voice is about. It’s another cover story like Climate Change, Wuhan Flu and Aboriginal justice but what is being done does not make sense.
And yes I still want to know what Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull and friends did with the $444Million in cash by edict, a massive gift of Malcolm as a Renaissance Medici. No one even asked for the money or said what it was to do. Plus the only figure I have seen is that it was estimated the cost of ‘administering’ the cash by the six people would be $135Million. Why isn’t everyone asking for the money back and a full accounting for any money missing? Especially as there is obviously no problem at all. Which makes you ask why Tanya Plibersek is stopping coal mines to save the Great Barrier Reef. We live in a world where politicians are not accountable to the public in any way and declare emergencies at every chance at absolute power.
As Adam Bandt said, “we tell you what you want to hear and when we get power, we do what we like”. It seems to be universal.
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TP saving the Barrier Reef?
Without CO2 there would be no coral, no barrier reef.
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Without CO2 there would be no life on earth.
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I don’t believe that we should merely accept the IPCC statement of 3%, as this amount does not include any CO2 from natural sources since (when? 1800?). And one natural source surely has to be the out-gassing of the oceans as they warm slightly. This is a discussion that I would have liked to follow up from Saturday’s comment, but we have already moved on…
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The basic argument has been the 50% increase in CO2 since 1850 is due to fossil fuels. Man made rapid tipping point Global Warming.
So what IPCC statement of 3%? I would love to see it.
More like 33%.
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That’s a Magic summary.
I’m sure that neither O’Bama nor O’Biden would accept that though; it hasn’t been approved by the approved “fact checkers”.
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Serious question: where does the 3% come from for human released carbon?
Do you mean 3% per year, or mean 3% of all carbon in air at the moment?
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3% of all CO2 in the air is from fossil fuels. Not 3% per year, 3% for all time. And that is 3% of the 0.04% or 3% of the 420parts per million of CO2.
As for where it comes from, the villain is prehistoric fuel from coal, oil, gas. No one is counting CO2 from breathing or trees or natural processes.
As fossil fuel is at least 100 million years old, it has no radioactive carbon caused by cosmic rays. So you can detect fossil fuel CO2 as distinct from CO2 in circulation through life on earth. The allegation is that this fossil fuel CO2 which has been locked up for millions of years is adding subsantially to aerial CO2, increasing it by 50% since 1750 and that is causing Global Warming.
Except you can measure fossil fuel, CO2, Gas and Oil based CO2 in the air and it is 3.0% of total CO2 in the air.
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Given how soluble the gas CO2 is, 98% of all of all CO2 ends up in the oceans which cover 72% of the earth to a depth of 3.5km. So with any CO2, 98% ends up in the ocean and that includes 98% of coal, oil and gas produced CO2.
The ONLY question is how fast that happens and the answer is that CO2 is quickly absorbed. In fact half of ALL the CO2 in the air goes into the ocean every 5 years, much more than all output from cars and machines. All our machinery output is of little consequence and cannot build up. And besides coal, oil and gas are simply the end product of old leaves and trees, 100% organic.
So not only is organic CO2 invisible and not ‘dirty’, the amount in the air is not able to be changed by humans. The insane description of CO2 as pollution and dirty makes all life on earth filthy pollution by filthy polluters. And that includes bacteria to blue whales, major polluters all. If you believe that, you are a major victim of misinformation.
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The extra greening must have lead to increased transpiration and therefore higher global moisture right?
Has this. Blog discussed this b4?
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What harm?
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US Navy reports on the air quality inside submerged submarines indicate that up to 5,000 ppm of CO2 is average and can be as high as 8,000 ppm, with no harm to crew members.
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Note 5,000ppm is 0.005 or 0.5% to 0.8% against the current 0.04%. A factor of 12 to 20 higher.
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breathing is bad?
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And carbon monoxide from fossil fuels can poison you.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/4-billion-year-path-human-evolution-visualized
Human Evolution…see chart above.
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I watched the Main Stream Media and Medical Convention with Dr Malhotra last night.
This was the last event of his Australian tour. The venue holds 2500 people. There are only a few empty seats. I estimate about 2300 attended the event live. I was one of those who watched on Zoom. I don’t know how many watched on Zoom.
The evening featured John Shipton (father of Julian Assange), Ed Dowd, Naomi Wolfe, a person who had been injured by the vaccine (twice) and Malhotra.
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I was most disturbed and upset by John Shipton’s account of the suffering that Julian Assange has endured. He is still in prison awaiting extradition to the USA, even though he has served his sentence for avoiding arrest.
I have written to our Prime Minister requesting his immediate personal intervention to a
bring Julian back to Australia,
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Julian Assanges problem is he isn’t an illegal immigrant from a third world country. That way he could be found by three court cases to be an illegal person in Australia and Albo could then grant him a permanent visa or even local hero status
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Subject: Julian Assange
Comment:
Dear Prime Minister,,
What are you doing to bring Julian Assange safely back to Australia?
His continued incarceraton in the UK is intolerable. He must not be abandoned. His treatment has been inhumane.
Please use every personal and diplomatic avenue to secure his release.
Yours Sincerely
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do not bring him back!
He is of the type who would bring down the current legal system that has served us so well for centuries.
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Interesting?
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How so?
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I couldn’t see it in person as I was in the wrong places at the wrong times and didn’t realise it could be seen on Zoom.
Could you please let the group know when and if the video is put online?
The United Australia Party covid conference videos were put online so I hope to see the same here.
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Check out TheAussieWire for $17.99 it maybe available.
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It’s available for 30 days after the event but someone will need to shell out the $17 and SAVE the video, or give me the link and I’ll do it…
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We watched online too, Aseem Maholtra was brilliant!
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I was at the convention centre. It was an excellent event and the huge audience got right into it. Lots of cheering, clapping, laughter, and oohs and aahs when one of the speakers made their comments about the disasters that have been visited upon communities by the nefariousness of governments, big Pharma, and the pathetic weakness of the medical fraternity. I hope too that it gets put out online soon. There was a bit of a hiccup with Naomi Wolf’s link, but that problem was solved pretty quickly. Each speaker aimed at a different target among the overlords’ categories. Assange’s dad took aim at governments, Ed Dowd at the refusal of all parties to see the blindingly obvious data, Naomi at big Pharma and the coverups there, and finally, the brilliant Aseem at the medical fraternity. Thoroughly enjoyable evening and very reassuring to see these incredibly smart people confirming what most of us in the room last night had held since the start of this nonsense.
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‘We will not close Turów coal mine,’ Polish PM insists despite court order.
Excerpt:
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has insisted the Turów coal mine located on the country’s southwest border with Czechia and Germany will remain open, defying a recent ruling made by the administrative court in Warsaw.
In a visit to the facility on Wednesday, the Polish leader vowed to resist any order to close the mine which is estimated to account for 8 percent of Poland’s energy supply.
Environmental groups including the Frank Bold Foundation, Greenpeace, and the EKO-UNIA Ecological Association, hailed their success earlier this week in acquiring a court order for mining operations at the facility to be suspended due to adverse impacts on the environment.
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Why would any sane person want to shut down their energy supply?
It doesn’t make sense.
That’s something only stupid countries do, like Australia, for instance
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On that tangent –
Remember The Travelling Wilburys and the song “Last Night” and chorus
“Talking about last night”?
Familiar with the word
“blatherskite” ?
So a re-wording with verses of notable achievements of a list of your favourite politicians and the refrain modified to
“Talking about blatherskites”
could make for a nearly endless song.
Just thinking.
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Just thinking? Well, this might be something to think about.
The original proposal for an Emissions Trading Scheme in Howard’s day contained a gross inequity. So gross that it should have been easy to discredit it in the public eye. Curiously it escaped notice until Barnaby Joyce came along, whereupon it wasn’t rectified, it was sidelined by putting the whole Agricultural sector in the “too hard” basket. Whence I expected it would be brought back in toto when the ALP ever had the ability to get it through the senate.
Which is now. I haven’t seen it yet, but I haven’t been paying close attention. I expect to see it soon.
And when it does come up it should be attacked, not on the basis that they have made an error, but that this egregious inequity proves that they are the thieves and robbers that they are.
This Polish case, if it goes without support for the challenge, will be the first of many. Maybe we should make it the trigger for a campaign. It might be a good platform, along with Dutch misbehaviour.
I say we. Who are “we”?. I am old and tired and I don’t speak or even read Polish. Is there somebody with a grasp of Law who reads Polish and can tell us how this court was persuaded?
Just thinking.
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Everyone Knows – Ukraine Blew Up the Dam
“Ukraine is so dishonest a government and it is always seeking unlimited money from the West, we really need to overthrow all Western leaders who support Ukraine. There are so many who KNOW that Ukraine blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam because it would cut off the water supply for Crimea. Just like Nord Stream, when that was blown up, they claimed Russia did it, when in fact all Russia had to do was turn off the valve.
Every single source I have said the same thing – UKRAINE did it! There is nobody in that government that will EVER tell the truth. Now Turkey is proposing an international investigation into the action. Of course, Ukraine rejects any investigation into anything including where the money is going or the fact that American weapons are all over the place in the black market.
All my sources have said from inside Ukraine that the Ukrainian losses have exceeded 200,000 troops. Biden finally admits that Ukrainian forces have suffered “significant” casualties as they battle to break through Russia’s defensive lines.
Ukraine has launched a land grab and pretending that the Donbas should be theirs when they hate Russians, and outlaw their language and their religion, is just shocking. Everything East of the Dnieper River was the old Russian Empire of the Tzars. That is why there are Russians living there for centuries. This would be like Mexico invading Texas and ordering everyone to speak only Spanish. The border was simply drawn by Khruschev for administrative purposes during the Soviet Union. It was NEVER Ukrainian people in that region. They never had their own country.
This entire nonsense is a proxy war against Russia and the Russian people. This will only end in World War III and as I have said, ALL of the neighbors of Ukraine do not trust Ukrainians who have always been a ethnic group of pure-blood elitists.
The West is using this as a cover because the monetary system is collapsing. They borrow year after year and have ZERO intention of ever paying off the debt. They are deliberately creating WWIII so they can all default, and shift to this one-world digital currency by the IMF which was announced on the precise day of the Economic Confidence Model confirming that is a major agenda.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/everyone-knows-ukraine-blew-up-the-dam/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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No one knows except the people that did it.
What is the point of pages of half-baked conjecture, hearsay, and obvious propaganda?
The Russian intercepts, which no one has claimed are faked; the Russians sent a sabotage team to do a small amount of damage to scare the Ukrainians/West as to what disaster they might unleash, as they have done constantly with the Nuclear Power Station they control, but as usual, they were incompetent. That is the most likely.
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Your selection of sources is highly biased. Granted, Ukraine is very corrupt, almost as corrupt as Russia.
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“Your selection of sources is highly biased.”
Talking about Western media?? Russian ‘intercepts’?? Lol!
There will be quite a few people who know who did it, but its such a minor event they don’t think its worth talking about. If the Russians published a completely true account of what happened we would never see it!
We might find out what happened when the West runs out of Ukies to send to the meat grinder and Russia finally forces Zelensky to the negotiating table. However if America can push Poland to get involved with troops we will have bigger things to worry about.
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The Ukraine borders and their independence was agreed by Russia in 1991 and their sovereignty guaranteed via the treaty of Bucharest in 1994 where the Uk and the Us amongst others were the guarantors. In return for Russia guaranteeing their borders, which included Crimea, Ukraine agreed to give up their nuclear weapons.
Ukraine is a fully functioning bona fide country which was invaded by Russia whose president putin stated that he wanted to restore the Russian empire which includes large parts of Europe.
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“Ukraine is a fully functioning bona fide country”
Uh-huh.. like Yugoslavia all over, except it was the poorest country in Europe once cut off from the USSR and the most corrupt! It was President ‘Fallover’ Biden’s little cash cow for him and his coke-sniffing son for years, and your ‘guarantors’ have said they signed the Minske agreement to buy time to arm Ukraine and never intended to abide by it.
The details of the Maidan coup tend to go against the ‘sweetness and light’ propaganda portrayed by the West too, and anyone could see the illegal coup just put the guys with the Waffen tattoos in power so they could shell the Russian-speaking half of Ukraine at will. Putin moved to save his countrymen from oblivion and his country from dismemberment by the American Empire. That’s all done and dusted now, lets redraw the map of Eurasia, Oceania and Eastasia and get out the gold to use as currency.
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Russia pillaged the country and in past centuries has committed genocide, deliberately starved the population to feed Moscow, and moved large numbers of Russians into the territory to affect its makeup . I think your hatred of Biden has allowed your judgement to be affected. Ukraine is a legitimate country and let us not forget Russia annexed Crimea itself in previous times and other large swaths of territory. ST Petersburg used to be part of the SwEedish empire.
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I don’t like second hand sarcasm any better than first hand sarcasm. Trouble is, it seems Martin Armstrong means it.
I suggested maybe the failure was not intentional, the dam failed because it was overfilled.
I was then told that two days before the breach Russia moved its headquarters onto high ground. Go figure. That wasn’t the only finger pointing to Russia.
I note that all of Martin Armstrong’s acquaintances know that Ukraine did it. That goes part way to explaining why so many non Ukrainians have forgotten The Holodomor, when 90 years ago Stalin sent a Russian army to exterminate the people of Ukraine by seizing or destroying all their stored food, thus starving millions of them to death.
It’s for sure and certain that Ukrainians have not forgotten.
And I won’t be looking to Martin Armstrong for useful information.
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“I was then told that two days before the breach Russia moved its headquarters onto high ground.”
That would be as Ukraine opened the gates on the dam further upstream and sent water cascading down to make sure the flood was as big as possible.
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just to add to what Johnny has written
a quote from anti Russian Washinton post from 29/12/2022:
“The two bridges were targeted with U.S.-supplied M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems — or HIMARS launchers, which have a range of 50 miles — and were quickly rendered impassable.
“There were moments when we turned off their supply lines completely, and they still managed to build crossings,” Kovalchuk said. “They managed to replenish ammunition. … It was very difficult.”
Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages.
The test was a success, Kovalchuk said, but the step remained a last resort. He held off.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offensive-kharkiv-kherson-donetsk/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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It would be an interesting exercise in ecology to consider what the most ecologically trashed country on earth, Australia, would look like if the pre-European inhabitants hadn’t constantly burned it for 60,000 years.
They weren’t “caring for the environment” as claimed. The environment doesn’t need “caring for” other than to be left alone. Burning was a food harvesting strategy only, and a highly destructive one at that, nothing whatsoever to do with the “care” of the environment which we are being constantly told.
Unfortunately, the cessation of these destructive practices with European settlement didn’t return the environment to its natural state because the previous inhabitants rendered nearly all non-fire resistant plant species and megafauna extinct.
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That burning malarky will be memory-holed soon, as aboriginal history is constantly revised. Already, it now transpires that early Australians were farmers, and that they lived in organised settlements. Further, they were technological leaders who constantly innovated. We already know that they didn’t eat each other after all, nor did they club each other to death when a bit miffed. The tribes weren’t disparate, like the English, French and German, but a cohesive singular owner of the entire continent.
Give it a few more years of ‘academic study’ and we’ll be repatriating the Elgin Marbles and Book of Kells to Wongabingadong, from where they originated.
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Before they arrived the gum tree was already here to greet them.
It was like stepping onto another planet with kerosene trees, they managed it the best they could under the circumstances. On walkabout the women gathered wood and carried it on their heads until they camped for the night, over 60,000 years the dead wood along these tracks was cleared away through necessity.
Megafauna became extinct in Australia because of a geomagnetic excursion around 42,000 BP.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14142
Published: 20 January 2017
Humans rather than climate the primary cause of Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in Australia
Abstract
Environmental histories that span the last full glacial cycle and are representative of regional change in Australia are scarce, hampering assessment of environmental change preceding and concurrent with human dispersal on the continent ca. 47,000 years ago. Here we present a continuous 150,000-year record offshore south-western Australia and identify the timing of two critical late Pleistocene events: wide-scale ecosystem change and regional megafaunal population collapse. We establish that substantial changes in vegetation and fire regime occurred ∼70,000 years ago under a climate much drier than today. We record high levels of the dung fungus Sporormiella, a proxy for herbivore biomass, from 150,000 to 45,000 years ago, then a marked decline indicating megafaunal population collapse, from 45,000 to 43,100 years ago, placing the extinctions within 4,000 years of human dispersal across Australia. These findings rule out climate change, and implicate humans, as the primary extinction cause.
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They hunted smaller game to feed an extended family group, tell me what you make of this?
‘The record shows how warming periods such as the onset of the present and last interglacial periods are associated with increases in C4 plants, while cooling events such as Last Glacial Maximum are associated with increased C3 plants.
‘However, the most prominent drop in C4 plants between 44,000-42,000 yr BP does not match any climate event. This drastic vegetation transformation is accompanied by high fire activity and occurs right after the interval of disappearance of mega fauna. Similarly, the authors argue for a large-scale ecological transformation caused by the disappearance of large browsers.’ (AQUA)
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You didn’t give a reference but I found the blog post at:
https://aqua.org.au/blog-3-environmental-transformation-of-australia-linked-to-the-late-quaternary-demise-of-the-megafauna/
The paper I posted comes well after what you posted and its references and I assume the authors of the paper I cited took that data into account.
Where do all these fires come from? Presumably they were lit by humans.
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Humans may have inadvertently started bushfires, but lightning would have been a major player.
The excursion lasted 440 years, plenty of time for the vegetation transformation. Keep in mind that Australian megafauna survived glacial and interglacial conditions over eons of time, but the Laschamp excursion was the end.
Humans are innocent .
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Interesting Debate.
Not yet convinced either way.
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Fair enough, it would be terrific to prove the Flannery hypothesis wrong.
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David M:
The claim is that aborigines (if I can use that term) were here 80,000 years ago, so why did it take them 37,000 years to exterminate the megafauna in a twinkling of an eye? And where the first to arrive the same as the current people?
Nothing is known about the physical appearance of the first humans that entered the continent about 50,000 years ago. Molecular clock estimates, genetic studies and archaeological data all suggest the initial colonisation of Sahul and Australia by modern humans occurred around 48,000–50,000 years ago. What is clear is that Aboriginal people living in Australia between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago had much larger bodies and more robust skeletons than they do today and showed a wide range of physical variation. The Coobool Creek collection remains date from 9000 to 13,000 years old and are significant because of their large size when compared with Aboriginal people who appeared within the last 6000 years. They are physically similar to Kow Swamp people with whom they shared the cultural practice of artificial cranial deformation. The human skeletons discovered at Kow Swamp were extremely significant because they were accurately dated between 9500 to 14,000 years ago and demonstrated substantial differences between ancient and more recent Aboriginal people.
https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/the-spread-of-people-to-australia/
And the extinction of the megafauna in North America was about 12,000 years ago. This was supposedly established by the disappearance of the Clovis spear points which were assumed to be made by the first humans entering North America. Now there is a lot of evidence that humans arrived a long while before that.
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Thanks for that outline.
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Well not all that accurate. In fact there is a lot of uncertainty.
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I am not agreeing that they were the cause,….but it may well ahve taken many thousands of years for the population to grow to a level that would be required to have any significant impact.
I suspect that the rate of population growth was much slower than any rate seen in civilisations elseware
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Without fire-stick farming* I doubt our open plains would be dominated by eucalyptus.
We have a volunteer native nursery here where there are a wide variety of indigenous trees so if you want to plant a native it doesn’t have to be a eucalyptus.
^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming
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Hanrahan
IIRC it is the swelling and cracking soils of the mitchell grass plains that keeps the eucs out. Mitchell grass itself has a duplicated root system – a mainly surface part and a second below the cracking. So long as you don’t graze it below the first three nodes.
Wasn’t until we got prickly acacia (Acacia nilotica) as an import that we got a tree suited to those soils.
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I read Tim Flannery’s “The Future Eaters” before he became a climate warrior and before the climate scam really got under way. In it he lays the blame for megafauna extinction firmly at the feet of the original inhabitants. His reasoning is sound. The megafauna did not know that the two legged animals were dangerous because they had not grown up together and had not learned to be wary. Egrets will ride on a cows back yet flap away when a human comes anywhere near; they have learnt to be wary. Flannery also states that Australia once had forests that were predominately conifer. It was Aboriginal firestick hunting that allowed the rise of the eucalypts and according to Flannery may have changed the climate in inland Australia by destroying the continuous forests from Darwin to Alice. His premise was that storms in the gulf would act in a similar way to that of the Amazon. The rain falls evaporates moves south and falls again. Did the Aborigines give us the deserts that cover much of the mainland? Was the centre once bountiful such that the tribes that inhabited it remained even as it dried out? Why did they not migrate to better territory? Whites managed to settle and prosper on lands the Blacks found daunting. Why is that? The Whites had few advantages other than a desire to succeed.
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When Sturt discovered the Darling River it was a chain of waterholes unfit to drink. The aborigines were dying of starvation.
Prior to that time that would have been a regular occurrence.
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I’d put my money on lightning way ahead of any alleged systemic burning
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A story in the Daily Mail earlier today concerned the next general election, specifically how the Conservative Party might fare. In the story, a table was reproduced showing what the general public believe are the main issues facing the nation, to ascertain what policies they are looking for.
There were seventeen issues in total, ranked from the most important to the least. The economy rated highest.
But guess what did NOT appear anywhere in the table of issues deemed important to ordinary voters? Go on, guess!!
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Environment is there, not a massive priority though.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12174075/Its-economy-stupid-Rishi-Sunaks-vow-halve-inflation-swing-election.html
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German hydrology as seen through tree rings.
‘Driest and wettest summers common to the tree-ring proxy and instrumental target data are 1934, 1959, 1996 and 1958, 1966, 1967, respectively.’ (Buntgen et al 2010)
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When the AMO is positive there is a tendency toward drought.
https://chaac.meteo.plus/en/climate/amo-index.png
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I have just had a session on Bing via its AI.
After many questions I challenged it with this:
Science says CO2 is in fact rapidly turned over (after it had said: logarithmic reduction in CO2 greenhouse effect never falls to zero but is cumulative and ‘does not capture the complexity and variability of the climate system, not the cumulative and irreversible impact of CO2 emissions over time….)in a matter of a couple of years, being in equilibrium with dissolution into the oceans. Cold oceans hold more and warming releases more. How do you explain the rising CO2 concentrations as due to human activity when there is this dynamic permanently at work. Also, CO2 is constantly released from undersea volcanism which you totally ignore. Is your knowledge limited to the data fed into you such that you in fact reflect opinions, not facts?
The reply: ‘I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. I’m still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience (hands clasped emoji)
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The other day I asked AI what will ENSO do over the next six months?
AI said it didn’t have enough data to say what is going to happen.
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Which is why it’s not real AI, but lefty programmed crapola
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The XB-70, designed in the days when people had deep knowledge of things.
Few people today have heard of this.
https://youtu.be/cEd9rN_K9p0
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Where were the bombs supposed to go?
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Climate change ruled out in Canadian wildfires
‘According to Canada’s Department of Natural Resources, fires have been occurring for thousands of years in the boreal forests of eastern Canada – not exactly unprecedented. In addition, they call fire a primary change agent that is as crucial to forest renewal as the sun and rain -perhaps not a calamity either.
‘It appears that 2023 is on pace to be a year with unusually high numbers of fires. Yet the previous year was one of historically low numbers. The Canadian National Fire Database (2023) provides facts to dispute the idea of climate change-driven increases in fires in Canadian fires. According the CNFD, there has been a significant and continuing decline in the number of fires and no discernible trend in the area burned.’ (Climate Depot)
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Sunday wtf: tyre distortion on dragsters
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rw1li6NBM21w5pr9j.mp4
Amazing…
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Top fuel dragsters do a pass in about 4 secs reaching about 6,000 rpm. Assuming it was doing those revs for the whole 4 secs, it would only do 400 revolutions under full power – then get rebuilt for the next run.
They reach speeds of over 300 mph and drink nitro faster than you can pour it out of a gas can.
You must ask: WHY?
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Boyz ‘n their toyz…
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I can’t watch the vid right now, but I imagine it’s like others I’ve seen and pretty amazing.
But drag cars, particularly the Top Fuel category cars, are comprised almost entirely of mind-boggling numbers, some of which I will relate here. But before doing that, I must encourage anybody with the tiniest appreciation of motor sport, but who hasn’t yet been to a drag race, to go along and get their ribs massaged – literally. I occasionally play a prank on car nut friends by taking them along to a Top Fuel race. Even though I never tire of the spectacle, I always watch them, not the drag strip, when the first Top Fuel competition takes place in front of them. It always, always leaves them open-mouthed and wide-eyed. Even those who have been up close and personal with the old V10 Formula 1 cars. When two Top Fuel cars take off in front of you, the air around you seems to solidify. It batters your senses, and your body. The noise is somehow physical in the same way that Godzilla is ‘physical’. Imagine standing 300ft away from the impact of a bunker-busting bomb and you’re close. Awesome, and I always get a giggle out of my drag virgin friends’ reactions.
But back to the numbers.
0-160kph takes one second. 2.6 secs later, you’re doing 540kph …
See that accelerator pedal? It wakes up 11,000 horsepower. A 747 engine has 60,000 …
The forces inside the combustion chamber are so incredibly high, the engineers attach high-tensile straps to the cylinder heads and supercharger sitting above them, so that they don’t fly into the crowd when they get blown clear off the engine …
Each cylinder requires two spark plugs to maintain combustion, both of which have usually melted by the end of a single run …
When tossing the melted plugs into the bin after one run, don’t forget to do likewise with the pistons …
At peak acceleration, the driver will experience 5g, or five times his own body weight cramming him into the seat …
On a run, a Top Fuel dragster consumes fuel at around 2.6 litres per second. This requires a fuel pump that is more powerful than many family cars …
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Well you’ve got to test the envelope – This is from a post at Red Power way back when –
“Read this before, thought you might find it interesting.
What 10,000 horsepower does to a top fuel tire at launch.
TOP FUEL ACCELERATION PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE
* One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower (10,000 HP) than the first 5 rows at the Daytona 500.
* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1.2-1.5 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.
* A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to merely drive the dragster’s supercharger.
* With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.
* At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F.
* Nitromethane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.
* Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug.
This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow.
* If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.
* Dragsters reach over 300 MPH before you have completed reading this sentence.
* In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4 G’s. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acce leration approaches 8 G’s.
* Top Fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light!
* Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.
* The redline is actually quite high at 9500 RPM.
* THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, & for once, NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000 per second.
0 to 100 MPH in .8 seconds (the first 60 feet of the run)
0 to 200 MPH in 2.2 seconds (the first 350 feet of the run)
6 g-forces at the starting line (nothing accelerates faster on land)
6 negative g-forces upon deployment of twin ‘chutes at 300 MPH An NHRA Top Fuel Dragster accelerates quicker than any other land vehicle on earth . . quicker than a jet fighter plane . . . quicker than the space shuttle.
The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.420 seconds for the quarter-mile (2004, Doug Kalitta). The top speed record is 337.58 MPH as measured over the last 66′ of the run (2005, Tony Schumacher).
Putting this all into perspective:
You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter twin-turbo powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged & ready to launch down a quarter-mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the ‘Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line & pass the dragster at an honest 200 MPH. The ‘tree’ goes green for both of you at that moment.
The dragster launches & starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums & within 3 seconds the dragster catches & passes you.
He beats you to the finish line, a quarter-mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it – from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 MPH & not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race!
That’s acceleration! “
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Record update
“Brittany Force recorded the fastest run in Top Fuel history during qualifying at the 2022 NHRA Finals in Pomona – beating her own record of 338.48 mph, set just a month earlier at the NHRA Midwest Nationals in St Louis, Missouri. Her elapsed time was 3.641 seconds. Force went on to win the Top Fuel championship for the second time.”
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/496795-fastest-speed-in-an-nhra-drag-racing-top-fuel-race-1-000-ft/
Might be a bit of trouble trying to woke and letter her?
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The new record are for a 1000ft. A few years ago they change from full qtr mile (1320ft) back to 1000ft as it was too dangerous, braking areas weren’t coping and the spectre of insurance was looming.
Not much changes after 1000ft anyway as there is so much drag and downforce happening, so the spectacle isnt diminished that much , as evidenced by the speeds going back up into the 330mphs despite 1000ft and also not running on straight Nitromethane any more.
I went to a couple of NHRA events in the US and it is quite a show, on the scale of the F1 circus when it comes to town. In Australia we struggle to field 8 cars at a Nationals but over there you can see 20+ cars fighting to get into a 16 car field. You actually see more action if you go to qualifying 🙂
Its a total sensory overload experience which can really be described compared with other motorsports.
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I got this from the Super Coupe Club of Iowa. I think it is quite old and the record is less now.
TOP FUEL DRAGSTER FAST FACTS
ACCELERATION PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE
One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500.
* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 11.2 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.
* A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to merely drive the dragster’s supercharger.
* With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.
* At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F.
* Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.
* Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow.
* If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.
* Dragsters reach over 300 MPH before you have completed reading this sentence.
* In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4 G’s. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8 G’s.
* Top Fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light!
* Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.
* The redline is actually quite high at 9500 RPM.
* THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, & for once, NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000 per second.
The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter-mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher). The top speed record is 333.00 MPH (533 km/h) as measured over the last 66′ of the run (09/28/03, Doug Kalitta).
Putting this all into perspective:
Lets say the you are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter twin-turbo powered Corvette Z06.
Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged & ready to launch down a quarter-mile strip as you pass by it. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the ‘Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line & pass the dragster at an honest 200 MPH. Just as you pass the Top Fuel Dragster the ‘tree’ goes green for both of you.
The dragster launches & starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums & within 3 seconds the dragster catches & passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter-mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it – from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 MPH & not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race!
That’s acceleration!
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Hmm ?
Its not easy to compare piston engine power (hp) vs aero turbofan engine thrust(lbf) ,..but the fixed. static RB 211 turbines (as used for gas line pumping) , are rated at 25,000 hp. Which is somewhat detuned from the aero equivalent on the 747s.
So if a 747 had 4 of those itwould be capable of 100,000 hp. !
…and if they fueled it with that Nitro .. !! 😳😱
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They could prevent that if they wanted, by using low profile tyres …BUT,.
….That distortion is intentional .. very flexible side walls .
Note how it reduces the effective tire to track radius,…increasing the effective torque and initial accelleration
And more important at higher wheel rpm, the tyre diameter will expand dramatically to produce higher track speed for any specific motor rpm.
In effect the tyres act as an automatic gear ratio change.
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Most of the magic in top fuel is in the multi stage clutch systems that maximises the power to the tyres without overpowering the track for the specific conditions they have that run. No electronic controls are allowed, its quite an art. The have masses of sensors to track what is happening but no electronic traction control, clutch control or ignition control.
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Global Elites Dust Off Al Gore’s Stunningly Inaccurate Arctic Ice Lie and Start Pushing It Again 15 Years Later
Gore made the prediction to a German audience on December 13, 2008. Al warned them that “the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.”
This wasn’t the only time Al Gore made his ice-free prediction. Gore had been predicting the dire scenario since 2007. That means that the North Pole should have melted completely over a decade ago by now
But old media conspiracy theories NEVER die.
The legacy media dusted off this old conspiracy and pushed the same line again last week. According to “scientists” the arctic will now be completely ice free by the summer of 2030.
http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2023/06/global-elites-dust-off-al-gores.html
Well, the looming nuclear war would cause a temperature DROP, so it’s even more unlikely…
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According to DMI ice extent is the highest in the last few years but volume is lowest!
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Sunday teaser: a trick or science?
5G phones open a champagne bottle.
https://imgur.io/ee5erAJ
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Trick.
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FWIW – Biden’s “Rocky Horror Show” if true
“Rudy Giuliani DROPS A BOMB: I Have a Witness, Former Chief Accountant of Burisma Willing to Give Up All the Offshore Bank Accounts, INCLUDING THE BIDENS’ ACCOUNTS – HAS ACCESS TO A LOT MORE” ”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/rudy-giuliani-drops-bomb-newsmax-i-have-witness/
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You ought to need only one guess at the source –
“Dylan Mulvaney Now Blackmailing Corporations By Threatening To Endorse Their Products”
Yep –
https://babylonbee.com/news/dylan-mulvaney-now-blackmailing-corporations-by-threatening-to-endorse-their-products
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WEF Calls For AI To Rewrite Bible, Create ‘Religions That Are Actually Correct’
A top official with the World Economic Forum (WEF) has called for religious scripture to be “rewritten” by artificial intelligence (AI) to create a globalized “new Bible.”
Yuval Noah Harari, the senior advisor to the WEF and its chairman Nazi Son, Klaus Schwab, argues that using AI to replace scriptures will create unified “religions that are actually correct.”
Harari, an influential author and professor, made the call while giving a talk on the “future of humanity.”
According to Harari, the power of AI can be harnessed and used to reshape spirituality into the WEF’s globalist vision of “equity” and inclusivism.
https://ussanews.com/2023/06/10/wef-calls-for-ai-to-rewrite-bible-create-religions-that-are-actually-correct/
The bible is “fake news” then?
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A new PB for VIC in my morning AEMO observations. 1.136MW on tne interconnector north.
QLD seems to be taking a break or maybe just generously sharing the plunder. I wonder what running a GW under capacity a lot of the time actually costs NSW after all the accounting games are played?
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Wow! Bud Light on super special!
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1667629111509131264
24 cans – become an alcoholic for cheap! 😆
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Why are all those racehorses dropping dead at Churchill Downs? Because, since April 29, they’ve all been wearing powerful WIRELESS monitors (called “STRIDESafe”)
Racehorses are among the most finely tuned, exquisitely sensitive creatures on earth. So what happens when you give them all cell phones to wear during a race? They start dropping like… well, horses.
That is exactly what started happening this spring at Churchill Downs in Louisville, home of the world-famous Kentucky Derby. Churchill Downs hosts three “meets” every year during which there are horse races four to five days a week — a spring meet lasting all of May and June; a September meet; and a fall meet throughout November. The spring meet this year at the Downs began on April 29 and was to continue until July 3. And beginning on April 29, and in every race on every day thereafter, every horse was fitted with a device they had never worn before. It is a wireless device, shaped like an iPhone, that fits into the cloth underneath the saddle on the horse’s back. Horses also began wearing these devices this spring during morning workouts.
This STRIDESafe device monitors the horse’s movements 2,400 times per second throughout the race, sending 2,400 pulses of radio frequency (RF) radiation every second through the body of the horse. It also contains a GPS component that communicates with global positioning satellites. It also communicates with the RFID chip implanted in the left side of every horse’s neck, ensuring that the chip also emits radiation throughout the race. And because every racehorse wears horseshoes made of aluminum, which is one of the best conductors, the frequencies that are conducted from both the STRIDESafe device and the RFID chip throughout the horse’s body are absorbed and reradiated by its four shoes. Each horse, then, carries not one but six continuously radiating antennas throughout each race at Churchill Downs. So with 14 horses normally competing in each race, there are 84 antennas among animals in close proximity to one another running around the track.
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/why-are-all-those-racehorses-dropping
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Fascinating! Maybe we can get a breakout in a non-human scenario that pushes people into realising RF is behind a lot of maladies they have experienced.
Arthur Firstenberg had a lot of examples in his book ‘The Invisible Rainbow’, both human and insects, especially honey bees, but it just hasn’t got traction in society.
..or we wait for 6G.
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Here is a graph I composed today from the official Climate Data Online daily numbers for temperatures in 8 of our main cities. (Canberra is excluded because it is a plastic unreal illusion.)
We see that the hottest heataves each year, on averge in each city, do not simply get cooler as the city is placed further from the Equator.
This is a complication for the “experts” who bleat the mantra that heatwaves are getting longer,hotter and more frequent as time passes.
I cannot see that oft-quoted belief in Australian data.
Now, think of our cricket team thrashing India at The Oval, south London.
The BBC has been bleating about their 30 deg C “heatwaves”. Look at the numbers circled on the graph to see a real Aussie 3-day heatwave level.
Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/hotlats.jpg
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Didn’t the BoM change the definition from five consecutive days over +5C mean down to three days over ‘unusually warm temp’ (including night temps)?
An interesting trivia question. If you match the hottest temp recorded for each Aust capital city, which city has the lowest?
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The ‘Green’ Movement: Endemic Sorrow and Permanent Fear
And btw, the smoke you are inhaling? Those fires were set.
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/the-green-movement-endemic-sorrow
Whatever happened to saving the whales?
Twenty years from now we are going to look back at the early years of green energy seeing it as the apex predator in the Madness of Crowds sweepstakes. The wealth transfer from the poor to the rich, as taxpayers subsidize green energy projects in every country, is shocking. That money winds its way into hedge funds that promote new green energy projects accompanied by yet more taxpayer subsidy. At the same time, the money that could be used to lift up an increasingly miserable lower 50 percent is accompanied by a shutting down of fossil fuel supply, thus raising energy costs for the working poor and middle class, which then skyrockets the price of food. It is a pincer movement, a classic play by the rich to milk the poor, a driving of tens of millions into poverty and serfdom. I can read the face of the older woman who checks out my groceries, it’s a combination of endemic sorrow and permanent fear. That is what green does to the less advantaged…
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On the ground intel for understanding current American politics for interested Ozitarians.
You’re welcome.
Went into my local Caffeination Facility this AM.
On the menu blackboard was a large colored chalk declaration … “F**k SCOTUS”.
I of course, in my small business, have to be very carful to avoid political declarations, because I have the ‘wrong’ politics.
I suppose if some of us expressed the same reaction to an anti-2nd Amendment SCOTUS decision, JOE POTUS will send the F-15s.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XDWahYWpQAD4
(Link provided for scientific research purposes only.)
Once again, the Diversity and Inclusiveness of Diversity and Inclusiveness.
BTW, the tatted, nose pierced, blue haired employees of said facility are quite often incapable of calculating change.
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More dolts from the blue?
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More covid and “who dun it”
“One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/06/11/one-flu-out-of-the-wuhan-nest-92/
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“…two weeks after becoming New Zealand’s 41st Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins announced that Labour’s proposed hate speech legislation would be withdrawn and the matter referred to the Law Commission. He explained the Law Commission had “a good track record of developing guidance on difficult issues.” The real reason the legislation was dumped was, of course, its unpopularity with voters. For a new PM desperately trying to win an election, abandoning it was the only sensible thing to do.
Immediately described as ‘hate speech by the back door’, their new regulations will not only cover the New Zealand public, social media companies, on-line platforms, films, and gaming, but the mainstream media as well. It involves the establishment of a new Government regulator – already dubbed ‘Big Brother’ – with the power to control what can and cannot be discussed online by all media organisations that have an annual audience of more than 100,000 New Zealanders or a mailing list that reaches 25,000 or more subscribers. Codes of practice for media organisations will be developed by the industry, community groups and academics – without the scrutiny of Parliament or input from the public. Once approved by the regulator, any non-compliance will be punished through fines of up to $200,000 and orders to take-down offending content.
As if this is not frightening enough, the regulator would also be under the influence of Labour’s racist agenda – as the consultation paper explains: “It is important that the new regulatory framework reflects New Zealand’s unique cultural and social perspectives, and that it is grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The new regulatory framework would aim to achieve outcomes that reflect Maori perspectives, needs, and aspirations.” They expect “a significant Maori presence on the Board of the regulator” and recommend a “formal Maori advisory structure”. They also suggest Maori should be involved in creating codes of conduct that reflect cultural values and include cultural competency requirements.”
Well, we can look forward to that happening in Oz within a few years.. Its been great getting to know you all!
..and quite as expected- “New Zealand Transport Agency to introduce almost 100 bilingual traffic signs…(with) Maori is displayed as the dominant language in the signs, with English in a smaller secondary position”
https://www.nzcpr.com/media-freedom-to-be-muzzled/
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“For a new PM desperately trying to win an election, abandoning it was the only sensible thing to do.”
But in the usual style of the Left, it won’t be abandoned really, just postponed till after the election when, should they win, it WILL become policy whether the citizens want it or not.
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So to clarify,…. The legislation has been scrapped ?
……but may resurface and be implimented via a law change ..without legislation ??
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With or without legislation.
Also known as “bifurcation”.
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“The legislation has been scrapped ?”
No no, not ‘scrapped’ its been ‘referred to a committee’… It will be sitting there until after the election, like NZ’s gun confiscation laws were written by some Left-wing Communist nutcase in the 80’s but buried as too unpopular until the time came right.
I’m waiting for Australasia to take up the Omnibus Bill system the Americans use, where unpopular legislation is buried in 700pages of law that senators only have overnight to read.
Currently we wait until 2am Saturday morning on a public holiday weekend to slip unpopular stuff through. The option is to not debate & pass it, but make it a policy of some other Govt Dept under existing legislation.
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Some gems from the Aldi catalogue , describing two Shiraz offerings
“Very fresh an bright in aroma. Lashings of fruit backed by slightly gritty but well-balanced tannins”
a bright aroma? gritty tannins?
“High-toned violets into redcurrant and dark fruits, with a fine dusting of regional spice, too. The palate is jube-like, brambly and intense with bright acid and fine long tannins.”
High toned violets? a fine dusting of what spice?
I wont even start on the apparently random use of hyphens
You have to wonder what the average Aldi catalogue reader takes away from that word salad.
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The thing is, to review a wine you have to taste it. Some reviewers can describe a wine after just a sip, while others need a few more sips. I think the above are best described as ‘one and a half bottle reviews’.
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The thing about wine, or food, is that it’s a very individual thing.
One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
Reviews are a product of the reviewer’s palate.
Apparently most people can’t even tell red from white, if blindfolded.
Grandiloquent flowing prose on the nose and taste of a wine are no doubt lost on anyone buying $5 plonk to get ratted on Friday night. 😁
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I keep it a secret but I drink a cheap fruity [I can taste fruit] red on lashings of ice and shandied with a little lemon, lime & bitters.
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Ditto here, …one particular cheap red is the only wine i actually like,.(.and i have tasted some of the “best” !), …and on a hot day mixed with well chilled lemonade. !
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I grossed-out a foodie friend years ago when he caught me eating chocolate with white wine.
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one should do that which makes one happy 🙂
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In younger years I had the chance, or better opportunity to be part of a team in the purchasing departement were most of these team mates were self declared wine connoisseurs – a world very strange to me. But what these guys spread as vocabulary about wines, not believable. But, to be fair, drinking an unknown wine was the rule to find out, where the wine came from, in details, even the special locality – and they did, more more often than less.
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It is currently the peak of solar activity in the 25th solar cycle. It can be seen that it is no higher than in cycle 24, which was much weaker than the previous few cycles.
https://i.ibb.co/6vhby4H/353614541-733611445432501-7402278709732241978-n.jpg
https://solen.info/solar/polarfields/polarfields.png
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Temperature recovery during MM
https://i.ibb.co/pQvLG0W/Zrzut-ekranu-2023-06-12-124532.png
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Were the Canadian Fires Deliberately Set?
https://the-pipeline.org/were-the-canadian-fires-deliberately-set/
A Google Earth satellite video is making the rounds on twitter. it shows the moment an arc of fires began in northern Quebec, the smoke rising. It looks like people calculated the prevailing winds so that the smoke would blow south. Then connected via sat phone, they lit them. It’s another psy-op from our gracious overlords. We aren’t afraid enough, despite every nasty limiting idiotic play they have visited upon us in the last four years. Monkey Pox failed, more plague warnings were greeted by a shrug. But this one, the world bursting into flame? Be very very afraid.
Justin Trudeau lost no time in announcing that the fires were from “climate change” and the carbon tax, which is impoverishing everyone not in government or on lush pensions, is just the beginning of the restrictions he must institute or we are all gonna die. …
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The largest temperature drops will be approaching during the local minima between cycles 25 − 26 and cycles 26–27 when the lowest solar activity level is achieved using the estimations in Figure 2 (bottom plot) and Figure 3. Therefore, the average temperature in the Northern hemisphere can be reduced by up to 1.0°C from the current temperature, which was increased by 1.4°C since Maunder minimum. This will result in the average temperature to become lower than the current one to be only 0.4°C higher than the temperature measured in 1710. Then, after the modern grand solar minimum 1 is over, the solar activity in cycle 28 will be restored to normal in the rather short but powerful grand solar cycle lasting between 2053 and 2370, as shown in Figure 3, before it approaches the next grand solar minimum 2 in 2370.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23328940.2020.1796243
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FWIW
“Notes From The Memory Hole: The Great Double-Talking Vaccine Scientist”
“How could you not believe him? He’s in a lab coat! But fear not: “I’m strongly recommending for adolescents to get their two doses of vaccine,” he said. “Two doses of vaccine are fully immunized.” ”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/notes-memory-hole-great-double-talking-vaccine-scientist
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FWIW – the US economy
“11 Signs That Our Economic Problems Are Accelerating A Lot Faster Than Most People Were Anticipating”
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/11-signs-our-economic-problems-are-accelerating-lot-faster-most-people-were
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A touch of reality get stomped out at NZ Govt propaganda center-
“..more than a dozen wire stories on the Ukraine war were found to have been altered. Most of the stories, which date back more than a year, were written by the Reuters news agency and were changed at Radio New Zealand to include Russian propaganda.
“It is so disappointing. I’m gutted. It’s painful. It’s shocking,” Thompson said on RNZ’s Nine to Noon show. “We have to get to the bottom of how it happened.” Some of the changes were just a few words and would have been hard to spot by casual readers. Changes included the addition of pro-Kremlin narratives such as “Russia annexed Crimea after a referendum” and that “neo-Nazis had created a threat” to Russia’s borders.”
https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/new-zealand-public-broadcaster-apologises-for-publishing-pro-kremlin-garbage-20230612-p5dfxn.html
I’m sure there will be a massive witch-hunt as the Left try to find the traitor in their midst. While their public persona is one of “balanced reporting’, this shows they can’t stand having anything but propaganda in their media.
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