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We need to get a # trend going. During COVID apparently our Australian government ( or is it their ?) decided there were some offensive tweets that needed cancelling. So this was pre Elon. One was ” Daniel Andrews is a d**k”. I’ve tidied it up a bit so as to not offend anyone on this blog. Could anyone on social media now push the hashtag – #danielandrewsisadick. For those not in the know, Daniel Andrews is the Premier of the Australian state of Victoria. He was the commissar or dictator that held the record for the longest COVID lockdowns in the western world. Self appointed health expert with an Arts degree and no other worldly experience than being a political advisor/ politician. Also, occasionally suffers from selective amnesia.
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Didn’t Elon say he was going to publish all government censorship requests? I hope he includes Australia’s WEF/WHO compliant government.
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I think he was going to publish those requests going forward- some of these Australian government requests (including the Dictator Dan ones) date back a couple of years.
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Trouble is, Twitter is in big financial trouble (and of course, so is Elon Musk), so control is not likely to remain in his hands for long, no matter how much he values free speech. See Conservative Treehouse’s article at https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/05/new-york-times-gains-insider-information-on-twitter-revenue-expanded-financials-look-worse-than-former-estimates/
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The original information came from the New York Times via a supposed insider.
The NYT is of a Leftist, anti-free-speech-for-conservatives orientation so how do we know they aren’t just making it up to make investors and advertisers panic?
The Left are devious and will stop at nothing to achieve their objectives.
Never, ever, believe a Leftist.
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Tidying it up to not offend would have been more like D** A****** and leaving the other words intact. 😉
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Dan is the symptom more than the disease. Australians are extremely accepting of authority and most liked what he did with his severe lockdowns. His comfortable and predictable re-election was perfectly legit. That is democracy in action.
I am not in approval of his actions or him at all, but that is my objective take on it. I’m also not all in on democracy either. A flawed system should fools make up a populace. The idea the majority makes the most sensible decision all the time is fundamentally absurd. But most believe it.
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Dan is the beneficiary of an insipid opposition.
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Philip…. What makes your judgement “objective” ?
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Exactly. It id merely my attempt at being objective. I’m not sure being objective is possible. But, my simple point is I loathe Andrews but outside my emotion I can see why he was re-elected
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A man’s car registration is in jeopardy, after his personalised number plate “DANOUT” was deemed “inappropriate” by VicRoads
3AW
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Whenever a leftist government anywhere in the western world implements measures that are extremist, antidemocratic, punitive or similar, and gets away with it, you can bet that other leftist governments will copy it eventually. With that in mind, I pay attention to this kind of thing around the world and currently, I am watching the fight between the House Oversight Committee (i.e. elected Congressional Republicans) and the Democrat-controlled FBI over some documents alleged to show that the Biden family was involved in some sort of ‘cash for policy’ activity. The FBI initially denied two or more requests to see the documents, including a subpoena, then claimed they didn’t exist, then admitted they did, then said the allegations were disproven, then admitted the so-called investigation was ongoing and then, finally, refused once again to release them to the committee. The FBI is blatantly running protection for the Bidens.
I’m not very familiar with the American law and justice system, but given the outrage on display, it would appear that the gloves have well and truly come off and the FBI is refusing to abide by the law and/or convention by failing to comply with the request from Congress for sight of the documents.
If true, this represents another escalation in the Left’s war on democracy and their shameless disdain for their political opponents. It sends echos of the period leading up to the fall of democracy in pre-WW2 Germany. As I said at the beginning, this kind of behaviour will be copied by leftist governments elsewhere and I’m sure Albanese and co. are paying attention.
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Did the character of Sir Arnold Robinson identify one of the contributing causes of the problem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwFDvMiBKeM
Nobody wants to kick away the ladder that put them where they are…while they’re still standing on it.
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It should be noted also that the document in question is unclassified; therefore the FBI has no valid reason to withhold the document from the Congressional Oversight Committee. Indeed, Director Wray’s actions in this matter virtually make the GOP’s (and Trump’s) case that the FBI, or at least its higher echelons are both biased and corrupt.
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As Australia and the Western World deindustrialises to supposedly “save the planet” and shifts production to China, did it not occur to the anti-energy lobby that the CO2 from this industrial production doesn’t go away, it just gets shifted to China?
(Not that CO2 matters, but that is the premise for shutting down industry.)
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I’m not sure practicalities do occur to the lobby. Hence the flaw in “carbon” (CO2) offsets. Paying money to someone else to not emit so the payer can continue to emit CO2 in the same quantity.
Ok, so the argument is that paying money makes that business uncompetitive because the cost to produce the product has gone up due to the cost of ofsetting. Competition will force them to ultimately reduce CO2 emissions to become competitive. But that doesn’t work if every similar business just pays an offset.
Or, if technology adopted to reduce emissions by one company is costly then the competition argument goes out the window. Plus any reduction in emissions resulting from this just allows the offset payee to start emitting again under the concession of being a “developing country”. Such as that low emitting backwards developing country China that puts satellites into orbit but is considered third world for the purposes of CO2.
But, it’s not about emissions. It’s about wealth transfer.
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Only till China runs out of coal. That could be this century. And my bet is that they will not want to pay for any of the coal being preserved in the ground in the western world. They will expand their regime and manufacturing into new regions that have the coal.
This may be a welcome change because the Chinese regime is actually improving standard of living while the western world has declining standard.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?end=2021&locations=CN&name_desc=true&start=1981
The only disadavanteg is that those who do not have Chinese descent will be second or third class citizens.
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“The only disadavanteg is that those who do not have Chinese descent will be second or third class citizens.”
Ah- like not having Western European descent now?
The worm turns…
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Yes, lefties do acknowledge that production is just off shored to China. If you argue with a lefty that the USA has reduced its emissions a great deal, they will quickly tell you they just off shored it as they promote evil consumption based capitalism.
But if it is an argument only on current emissions within the nation, they will not mention it. Instead they will state how evil coal is and how much we use and our highest per capita standing.
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I heard an interesting idea the other day about how to get people to understand why net zero is imposible and undesirable. It’s sort of a nuclear option. Just turn off the taps to fossil fuels-all of them- all at once. No coal for the grid. No nat gas. No gasoline or diesel. No diesel for AG tractors. No jet fuel. No DFM. No lubricating oils. None of the thousands of non-fuel products that come from hydocarbons. No plastics. No coatings. Not at any price.
It’s not realistic, of course, and people will die I countered. But the person told me it’s a slow angonizing death ride our governments have us on now, anyway. They are just doing it slowly so the people will go along with it. The end result is the same. A quick death followed by a reformation, and the spell finally broken, might be better the person reasoned.
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What a way to look st your life in an era were mankind has never had more and lved as long, “a slow agonising death ride”
Some people cannot be made happy and need misery and drama (even if imaginary) in their lives. If it wasnt that boogey man , they would find another.
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Absolutely. Great idea. Ive stated this many times myself. I was once an active anti feminist and I always suggested men should just not work for one week, and see them come pleading for help.
Problem is, people externalize a lot, and they expect “society” to do the work for them, that “society” must transition, not some abrupt change.
Im always hassling local hippies driving their 30 year old Nissan Patrols far up the valleys where they live. But they always off shore it to society. What can they do until society changes? And the End Oil Now sticker remains on the rear window.
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Thermosphere happenings.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/05/thermosphere-is-cooling-bad-for-satellites-thermosphere-is-heating-bad-for-satellites/
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I think that on historical scales we are going through upheavals not unlike other civilisations that preceded this one. Rome transitioned between various forms of government – some authoritarian were better than the so called democracy of the Senate. So I can perceive the shudders of a decadent West in its internecine bitterness but a hope for a renewal – a Renaissance. We have lived through the best of times; could it last?
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Former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern Becomes A Dame
New Zealands ex Prime Minister Jacinda Arden was awarded the title as part of King Charles III’s birthday honours for her service during the pandemic and Christchurch terror attacks.
Ennobled by the King, Arden now bears the title “Dame Grand Companion”, one of New Zealand’s highest awards, for her part in imposing draconian covid rules across the nation.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/jacinda-ardern-dame-new-zealand-honors-service-shooting-covid-rcna87673
2023 deaths are 25% above normal – but are hidden from the public.
The award was given for “leading the country through the Covid pandemic.”
Who gave Jacinda this highest honor? Her new Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins. Mr. Hipkins was Jacinda’s Health Minister during the pandemic, so by giving her the highest honor for handling the pandemic, he also implicitly “honored” himself.
New Zealand’s government awarded “damehood” – the second-highest honor in the country – to its former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
The award was given for “leading the country through the Covid pandemic.”
A successful pandemic policy would not result in roughly 25% excess mortality in the fourth year of the pandemic. The officials insist that Covid is not responsible for most of these deaths, leaving the actual cause an unspoken mystery.
Most New Zealanders are unaware that their chances of dying increased by a quarter because their country’s press is silent on excess deaths. The silence and lack of public awareness are not accidental: the government is intensifying its crackdown on social networks and the media.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/jacinda-ardern-awarded-damehood-for
She should be facing criminal proceedings.
Oh hang on…
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich joins Maria Zeee to announce the groundbreaking news that Crimes Against Humanity trials are scheduled to begin in New Zealand through the truly independent Maori people.
https://rumble.com/v2rka62-dr.-reiner-fuellmich-breaking-crimes-against-humanity-trials-begin-in-new-z.html
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I thought as she looked like a horse and she was not in any dreams of mine then she was – A Night Mare……………..lol
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I don’t like criminals: I love anagrams
Dame Grand =
Mad Danger
Am Dang Red
Ma Nag Dr Ed
A Red And GM
Nag Madder
d’ Aged mRNA
Dr Game DNA
Damned Rag
Feel free to add more
before they’re illegal.
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Doom All Military Exercise Accepters to Receive Dna Experiment Right Now
😆😁
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Jabcinda accepting a Royal Honour makes her a typical Leftist hypocrite. She is a self-proclaimed communist and has done nothing worthwhile. Her only “achievements” are to be trained/programmed by the WEF and to have destroyed New Zimbabwe.
https://youtu.be/5RM9Q7XW72U
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We’re not dead yet… oops hang on—
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A collective sigh.
‘For the 97 percent plus of Australians to go along with this kind of maudlin claptrap is beyond all reason. Quite simply we have a very small subset of the population with varying hereditary connections to a defunct primitive culture which made no material progress over centuries and would still be making no progress had it been left alone.
‘Was this envisaged when terra nullius was effectively overturned by the High Court in the Mabo case in 1992, and when the Native Title Act was passed in 1993? It should have been. Watch out when the ignoble Left is complicit.’ (Peter Smith/Quadrant)
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Was terra nullius effectively overturned by the High Court? Or only specifically to a portion of the Torres Strait? I have the impression it was limited to the Torres only and not applicable to mainland broadly other than acknowledging the principle.
I think the native title act just gives a pathway to claims and does not guarantee any claim or extinguish terra nullius.
Just my layman interpretation.
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That ‘primitive’ culture managed to live sustainably in Australia for over 40,000 years.
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So did the flora and fauna, so did most of mankind for long periods. Most evolved from just surviving.
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They first came here over 60,000 years ago and the mob eventually reached Lake Mungo 47,000 years BP.
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They did live sustainability. But didn’t flourish.
The supposed world’s oldest continuous culture is not a bragging point. It’s simply a consequence of a lack of evolving.
Australia was / is harsh and survival was tough. Some like to pretend Australia was some sort of utopia spoiled by European arrival. Far from it.
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Sustainably.
No, they and their dogs and their fire wiped out many species which had lived happily for millions of years, principally the mega marsupials. They even changed the vegetation, eliminating more species and leaving mainly pyrophytic trees. That’s the exact opposite of sustainably. Even Tim Flannery would agree as this is his real specialization, extinct mega marsupials. And it wasn’t the climate but that too may have changed with the massive changes in vegetation and coverage in critical areas. And as top predator, they managed to keep their own numbers incredibly low with hunting parties for other humans.
If success is a measure of sustainabiliy, the 26 million gain in just 200 years looks more reasonable for the carrying capacity of an agriculturual society, not very basic hunter gatherer with no cloth, buildings, flint, arrows, pottery, writing. Prehistoric and less than neanderthal.
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Monkeys and other apes managed to live sustainably in Africa, Asia, Central America, and South America.
They didn’t become civilised, either.
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A rock can do as well. There was no progress Simon. In another 60000 years they would not have changed one iota.
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Simon, they utterly destroyed the environment with their constant burning, destroying virtually all plants that weren’t fire resistant and also killed off the megafauna.
Captain Cook remarked that along the entire east coast they saw endless fires.
Hardly “sustainable”.
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There was the megafauna that became extinct. So didn’t sustain biodiversity!
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And in that time, Simon, they managed to invent the Boomerang and the Woomera.
Anything else, or is that the sum total of 40,000 + years of sustainability?
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And did they really invent the boomerang? Or did there ancestors pick up knowledge on their travels to Australia? Or were they an independent invention? Who knows?
Much archeology is difficult or illegal in Australia due to “cultural sensitivity”. (Look at the fiasco with the Mungo remains.)
Boomerangs have been found in Egypt, Americas and Europe.
I can’t wait until history is further rewritten to tell us Aborigines invented computational fluid dynamics, supercomputers and solved the Navier-Stoles equations in three dimensions to help them invent the boomerang.
Egyptian boomerangs:
https://zenodo.org/record/1717077
Paleolithic boomerang in Europe:
Nature 329, 436 – 438 (01 October 1987); doi:10.1038/329436a0
Upper Palaeolithic boomerang made of a mammoth tusk in south Poland
https://web.archive.org/web/20160206074214/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v329/n6138/abs/329436a0.html
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Well, that one came back and whacked me behind the ears.
OK. So no Boomerang. Just the Woomera – presumably that didn’t need the solving of the Navier-Stoles equations in three dimensions.
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Not famine or earthquake or disease, but we ourselves are humanity’s worst enemy, said Jung.
Here’s an account of mass psychosis such as the 16/17th century witch hunts and the Totalitarian Movements
of the 20th century. Note how power-corrupted elites use isolation to hasten the masses panic- descent into dependency…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M&ab_channel=AfterSkool
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“logic can be met with logic, illogic cannot”
Yep, that pretty much where we are.
Speaking of historical rock and hard places.
Eisenhower’s MIC warning …
https://youtu.be/SEGpTu8sVKI
When the US MIC was birthed, it was it was ideological (anti-Communist) and National (US).
It is now post/trans-ideological and post/trans national … and way bigger and richer.
Illogic now professionalized weaponized and globally deployed, and the enemy is everyone except the MIC itself.
(Epstein’s clients have learned this the hard way.)
And we thought nukes were scary.
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Plandemic 3: The Great Awakening
I extracted the direct link:
https://live.arkengine.com/out/v1/0e5a4f0bbcb44eb0a7b76e813e0210a1/index_5.m3u8?start=1685833339
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The Reserve Bank has raised the cash rate to 4.1%, a level not seen since early 2012.
The bank’s board decided to lift the cash rate target by 0.25 of a percentage point for the second month in a row, amid concerns inflation is taking too long to come down.
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Now we’re getting somewhere. Those who over-leveraged for homes, cars, boats and business loans will feel some pain, but the fact is that capital should have a cost, and economies must include a fair cost of capital in order to function properly. This also encourages sensible borrowing, realistic investment decisions and forces businesses (and governments) to be prudent. A fair return to lenders also ensures that good ideas can find financiers.
My gut says 5-7%.
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During the Labor created 1990 start recession, the worst in sixty years (Great Depression), the late founder of FAI Insurance, Larry Adler, was reported commenting that in his opinion bank interest rate to lenders should not fall below 5.0 per cent, which would put mortgage interest rate at around 8.0 per cent.
He said investors must be encouraged to deposit their savings and help economic development and prosperity.
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“He said investors must be encouraged to deposit their savings and help economic development and prosperity.”
Pfft! Old, male and stale.. Such dinosaur thinking would be from an Austrian School, while world-wide, Govts have shown the superiority of Keyensian Economics, where velocity of money is all, you never save you just spend as quickly as you can. Debt doesn’t matter..
..and people VOTE for them!
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Arabian Sea has gone BANG – looks like monsoon coming with bells on:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/level/overlay=sea_surface_temp/orthographic=-293.07,5.66,956/loc=64.936,14.563
I expect surface temperature will drop 3C by the weekend. In those couple of days the heat loss/transfer from this region will amount to about 2 years worth of the pretend total global warming from CO2.
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No wonder Stabcinda gave him the ‘Science Communicater of the Year’ award a few years back:
Prof James Renwick, Victoria University of Wellington climate paranoiac, was interviewed on Red Radio NZ an hour ago. He began by saying 1973 had the country’s hottest day when a roaring nor’wester foehn maxed-out Christchurch’s temperature… fifty years ago!
He spent the next 20 minutes spewing **** (fibs, to be kind) on how 0.04% CO2 is going to ruin us all by ‘changing the weather’. My submitted question, by text, was naturally thrown in the den!ers pile – only believers are allowed to prop-up the propagandists. He was a Lead Author on the IPCCCC’s 4th, 5th and 6th toilet roll.
The man is in need of some serious psychological help (he’s twisted the minds of a number of friends’ children who were indoctrinated by him). Guess he’ll be awarded a knighthood soon.
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James Renwick knows far more about the climate than you or I. He’s not a doomster and is optimistic about the future. We solved the problem about CFCs diminishing the ozone hole through global coordination, so it can happen.
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Solved “problem”? seriously?
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Oh Simon Simon, the climate propagandists have been trying to sell that lie for years, yet it is so easily discredited – the ozone thinning has been the worst ever in recent years, and spread to Arctic and other zones. Is it even a problem, or something scientists noticed, then started worrying it was man-made and dangerous just because they had become aware of it? And the Chinese cheated on the agreement anyway – which is the biggest lesson we should take away.
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Ozone hole is still there.
He didn’t “solve” anything, because it is a purely natural occurrence.!
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It did push the cost of CFCs from $8 a litre to $800 with taxes. It is now cheaper to buy a new airconditioner than to regas the old. And the low efficiency of the new refrigerants means a huge waste of energy.
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NOBODY has yet explained how the giant, dense and incredibly stable and robust CFC molecules “migrated” to Antarctica, (the VAST bulk of their use was in the NORTHERN Hemisphere) .and, at serious sub-zero temperatures, ascended to the upper atmosphere.
Nor has there been any vaguely plausible explanation as to how such molecules; so stable that they are used to extinguish magnesium and aluminium fires, can have the chlorine atom ripped off by UV light entering the atmosphere at an an extremely low angle.
The Ozone is a material in constant flux. The Ozone ONLY exists because of the action of sunlight on the scant amount of Oxygen in the upper atmosphere. .
Ozone is TOXIC. Ask an electrical engineer. Political Science is very much in play in this caper.
“Free Chlorine” in the Antarctic?
Talk to a REAL rock-doctor about the SEVEN (or more) ACTIVE Antarctic volcanoes, merrily spewing all manner of “interesting” stuff, including Chlorine and other nasties like Radon and Xenon, into the atmosphere. The dreaded Carbon Dioxide, too. What, “nobody” cares about the CO2 in the Antarctic atmosphere? Mot entirely surprising given the “political” nature of the gas AND the fact that ANYWHERE on the plant, it is increasingly scarce on the atmosphere above 12,000 feet. Hence the phenomenon known as the “tree-line”.
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Simon,
Simply go to the NASA Ozone page and report back on the difference between the June 1987 Ozone hole data, the year when the Treaty was signed, and June 2023.
Please keep and eye on this site and report back when you see a reduction in size of the hole / thinning due to circumpolar vortex.
While you at it here is a expert report where the failure of evidence of one hypothesis (Arctic melting) is linked to the success of another hypothetical remedy (Montreal Protocol) for which there is also an absence of evidence of any prophesised outcome (Montreal Protocol).
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There is a difference between real precipitation and the modelled precipitation in climate models. You might say – doh. But my point is that real precipitation that comes down from the sky requires water from the surface to go up. Climate models can create precipitation without it going up. This leads to some really silly results.
Taking the estimated annual precipitation as 5.22E17kg, it is not difficult to determine that the latent heat required for that is about 77W/m^2 (it depends on the surface temperature you choose for the average).
Now water vapour does not travel alone. It is part of the air mass. So to get that latent heat up the atmospheric column requires sensible heat. I determine the sensible heat to be around 1.7 times the latent heat giving 131W/m^2 sensible heat. For sure some of the heat input could come from short wave and long wave radiation thermalisation in the air column but I figure most is coming from the surface directly as sensible heat.
Figure 7.1 in AR6 shows surface latent heat at 80W/m^2 and sensible heat as 21W/m^2. I believe that can only happen in climate phiisics, not the real world.
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USA Watchdog & Dr. Martin: will 75-100 million Americans die by 2028?
https://twitter.com/DrDMartinWorld/status/1665503919303188480
2028 you say…😎
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I’m near certain that the various assessments made as to ev’s carbon footprint underestimate it.
The usual way to assess the CO2 emitted in generation is the percentage of the fuels used to generate X amount of power.
However, in principle, as demand increases, CO2 emissions from generation increases as fossil fuel generators ramp up their output, renewables and nuclear are usually at maximum available so cannot react.
The large extra load by evs and heat pumps increase demand and consequently increase CO2 emissions from generation in proportion to that extra demand.
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Scientists Beam Solar Power From Space to Earth in World First
The main limiting factor for solar power is intermittency, meaning it can only collect power when sufficient sunlight is available. To address this, scientists have spent decades researching space-based solar power (SBSP), where satellites in orbit would collect power 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, without interruption.
To develop the technology, researchers with the Space Solar Power Project (SSPP) at Caltech recently completed the first successful wireless power transfer using the Microwave Array for Power-transfer Low-orbit Experiment (MAPLE).
This platform consists of an array of flexible, lightweight microwave transmitters controlled by custom electronic chips. The demonstrator was built using low-cost silicon technologies designed to harvest solar energy and beam it to desired receiving stations worldwide.
https://www.universetoday.com/161759/new-satellite-successfully-beams-power-from-space/
Icarus anyone? 😁
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What’s Icarus mean?
These type of stories and studies have been appearing in New Scientist et al magazines for a long time. They just never seem to come to fruition.
But ignore my cynicism, I once said the internet is stupid.
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Icarus was a character in Greek mythology who made wings from feathers and wax so he could fly. Didn’t take notice of warnings and flew too close to the sun melting the wax and dissolving his wings. That’s the gist as I remember it.
Anyway, if they could gather solar rays and bean them to earth. I wonder if some cheeky bugger would get control of it and use it on us like a kid with a magnifying glass and ants.
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What happens when a reasonable cloud-cover / actual rainstorm occurs?
As was discovered DECADES ago by actual electronic engineers and scientists, rain droplets and even heavy (monsoonal) clouds seriously attenuate microwave signals.
MORE political science in play?
FOLLOW THE MONEY!
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ABC radio (Australia) continues to lose listeners and ratings are now less than half what they were nearly two years ago.
Have people grown tired of woke messaging? Or simply woken up to the ABC no longer being the trusted and impartial media organisation they thought legislation would ensure it to be.
The ABC income is guaranteed. No reliance on ratings and sponsors to exist. If operating under a commercial model the board and management would be out the door.
A properly run ABC fulfilling its obligation can be an important part of our media landscape and service to the community. Unfortunately that horse has bolted. Govt and the board has repeatedly shown no appetite to ensure the ABC meets its obligation.
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Wow! Half? Of only two years ago?
I was once an avid ABC radio listener, particularly Radio National. I stopped in 2013 during the feminism domestic violence programming phase.
The one thing that still grates me is the universal claim that ABC radio is crucial for rural areas. NO it’s not. I don’t know any farmers who listen to it. IT once was I will grant that, but that was a long time ago now.
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Yes. It’s no longer crucial to rural areas with the reach of satellite, internet and streaming services and a big range of choice for rural and remote people.
The ABC charter states:
While they once were the only option for rural and remote they are now a bit player. They should take account of broadcasting services offered by other players and that could even be to appropriately self reflect and consider their own redundancy. Or adhere to their obligations to maintain their intended relevance.
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this is false
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That is what the charter states. Obviously just an extract and not the entire document.
Here is the charter as listed on teh ABC web site, if you’d like to check.
https://about.abc.net.au/how-the-abc-is-run/what-guides-us/legislative-framework/
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This is not news to conservatives who have been following the Ukraine situation but it is something that the Leftist legacy media outlets have been hiding and kudos to the Leftist NYT for not suppressing this particular story. Even the Left occasionally gets something right by accident.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Equally as strange is the actual neo national socialists of western countries generally support Russia.
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yes I think when Russia took that city was it Mariopul? – something along those phonetic lines – the Ruskies made those captured take off their shirts to show all the tattoos of nat soc symbols.
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Ive been hearing for a few years now that salt batteries are about to replace lithium. Any update on this? I haven’t seen it entering the market yet.
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I believe, salt batteries cannot be used commercially in an ev, or home battery for energy usage.
Their lower energy density means that the battery could be as large as 3% of your house.
I am am tired of this “New”, 200 year old technolgy being the next big thing.
Yet, I really do need a subsidy to pay for my next electrity bill.
So I am going to lobby the Australian government for a part of it’s $2 Billion green energy giveaways.
I would like $1.2 million for for my research.
So I propose the “Lemon Battery”, and the “Potato battery”. I have scientifically proved that both produce electricity, are sustainable and are CO2 emission free.
..and just as commercially useless as a salt battery.
And a further note to all….. A recent history lesson.
Despite government grants, salt battery manufacturer Aquion, a company that raised significant funding from Bill Gates and other impressive investors collapsed into bankruptcy in 2017.
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Similar story with flow batteries.
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Excellent reply William. A fine update.
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FWIW Ukraine
“BREAKING: Hell Breaks Loose as Kakhovka Dam Completely Destroyed”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/breaking-hell-breaks-loose-as-khakovka
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Someone’s brilliant idea. Neither Russian nor Ukraine benefit. Like the Norstream pipeline. Maybe a third party. Not counting lives lost it’s really the first mass destruction of what is a civil war. And like all civil wars, there is no end of interested parties and potential players.
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This bit made a good point-
“I’ve been doubting Ukraine would really have the guts to go all out with their new Western gear. It’s all they have, so if they fail and lose most of it, it could be over for them. On top of which, what Western country would want to send them MORE of their precious arms if Ukraine proves that these prestige weapons don’t work on the real battlefield, and humiliates them by getting them destroyed by Russia? I doubt Germany would want to send more Leopards, or France Leclercs, UK Challengers, etc., once they see these tanks destroyed. It would be too embarrassing to keep sending them and proving their inefficacy on the world stage.
So my point is, the new idea for their ‘offensive’ I came up with, is it seems to me they want to probe Russian lines as much as possible with their ‘fodder’ and expendable brigades. And if they should find a weak spot that they can push through, they’ll pour in as much of their secondary units as possible. And only then, if the victory looks clearly tangible, and they’ve pushed Russian troops very far back, they’ll allow the special brigades with the Western armor to roll into the captured towns to basically take the credit, steal the limelight, and sell the victory as one achieved by the ‘miraculous’ wunderwaffen of Western armor.
This will allow them to lobby for much more arms, as they will have definitive “proof” for the Western Eurocrats that their tanks and arms are so special and effective…
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Is destroying dams like that considered a war crime?
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The eco-nazis would actually approve.
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I have noticed quite a shortage of Australian canned vegetables but no shortage of canned vegetables from China.
I guess the Australian Government’s war against the Aussie farmer is succeeding.
For example, today in Coles and Woolworths I tried to get baby corn in a can and Australian brands were absent but Chinese not.
China is one of the most polluted places on the planet and they use human excrement for fertiliser. Food from there is not something most Aussies find acceptable. But unlike Australian farmers, they have cheap energy due to planty of coal power and cheap Australian natural gas and no anti-agriculture policies like Australia.
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You can’t be serious David. There is no way Australia imports corn in cans from China. 😉
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Video talking about the culture war whereby conservatives have finally done something and boycotted Bud Light and Target (USA) for their inappropriate promotion of LGBTIQA+ issues causing them to lose billions of dollars of market cap. and sales.
Get woke, go broke!
https://youtu.be/6PZmfcYARQI
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Woke Bud Light ad.
https://youtube.com/shorts/m6k4pxfAhbg?feature=share
(Humour.)
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“President Biden The Wanderer”
https://youtu.be/qX-vYsXC7cM
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Short comment by Melanie Phillips about how The Left have destroyed education and how “truth” is now considered an evil right wing concept.
https://youtube.com/shorts/LX92fiaR0BE?feature=share
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Never exercise when there’s a full moon.
https://youtu.be/M26k3FzmT8o
https://youtu.be/TqHk1biIgE4
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Transgender activism in Australian schools.
Why are the Left doing this?
What proportion of the population do they think are transgender?
They are sterilising and mutilating children.
Surgery to treat psychiatric disorders (or no disorder at all) hasn’t been acceptable since the prefrontal lobotomy.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBnaVQjLXfY
I went to Canada and I was SHOCKED!
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“Lockdowns= “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions” ”
“The data are in and it’s about as ugly as it gets.
This paper should be mandatory reading for every politician, bureaucrat, health care worker, media pundit and wanna be tinpot dictator out there. We should never, NEVER go through anything like this again.
Institute of Economic Affairs- Did lockdowns work? The verdict on Covid restrictions
COVID-19 lockdowns were “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions,” according to this peer-reviewed new academic study. The draconian policy failed to significantly reduce deaths while imposing substantial social, cultural, and economic costs.”
More at
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/06/06/lockdowns-a-global-policy-failure-of-gigantic-proportions/
And
“The Security State Turns Inward”
“this was not “the russians.” it was us.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/06/06/the-security-state-turns-inward/
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If Oxfam isn’t already on your “Do not donate” list –
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/06/06/oxfail/#comments
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I stopped donating to the organised crime syndicates, a.k.a. charities, some time ago, because I lost faith in their honesty and integrity. They are all just huge employment/get rich schemes primarily. I had been feeling this way for a while before boarding a flight one day, from Perth to Sydney, where I grumpily watched, from my economy seat, a representative from a well-known charity sat up front in business class. That was it for me. Our TVs are frequently given over to tragic footage of starving kids or mistreated animals, accompanied by pleas for donations, but I think it’s clear now that very little of the cash they get ever makes it to the ‘frontline’ but is soaked up by executive salaries, company cars, swanky accommodations in city centres and yes, business class flights.
But of course i can’t just stop giving, so instead I give that cash to homeless people I come across – the ones who look genuine at least (not the professional beggars). So what if he/she just walks over to the nearest bottle shop. At least they forgot their troubles for an hour or two. Better that than top up the travel budget of some overpaid charity exec.
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