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Statistics
Unchartered territory.
‘Global climate records are being rewritten this month, with Earth just registering its warmest week in recorded history and Antarctic sea ice anomalies plunging to their lowest levels ever observed.’ (Weatherzone)
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Antarctic extent is certainly anomalous for this time of year:
https://portal.nccs.nasa.gov/datashare/polar/CSIC/SH_decadal_plot.png
Will be interesting to see if it stays below average when the sun eventually gets to it.
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Probably worth noting that observations started in 1979 and 2013-2104 saw record high levels with even as recent as 2020-2021 having levels mostly above and well above the median for the period of observation. The timing of the higher levels and record high is not consistent with what’s “meant to happen” with global warming.
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Antarctic Sea Ice Extent chart with observations November – March. (credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center)
https://nsidc.org/images/bkg/bkg15.jpg
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Here’s the link for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent chart with observations November – March. (credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center)
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2023/02/2023-02-21_asina_S_iqr_timeseries.png
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that link at #1.2 is returning a “page not found”
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Yes, from 1979. How about 1910-11 when Mawson’s ship was able to get further south by 110km. than the “ship of fools” in 2013.
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Convection has done its thing off Mexico taking most of the the hot spot below 30C.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/level/overlay=sea_surface_temp/orthographic=-120.45,2.84,317/loc=-115.011,10.994
This may even put the El Nino genie back in the bottle because there is a lot of cooler water coming down the west coast of North America hit the Equator mid Pacific:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2023/07/11/0000Z/ocean/surface/level/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-144.32,3.22,317/loc=-149.480,-0.232
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Rick >”This may even put the El Nino genie back in the bottle because there is a lot of cooler water coming down the west coast of North America hit the Equator mid Pacific”
I’ve been thinking some of the El Nino fizz might be a bit premature too.
There’s a lot of missattribution around. Yes El Nino is building but it has a way to go and doesn’t seem to be “super” category potential i.e. enough to elevate global temperatures above 2015/16 levels. An event like you see would be quite a dampener.
Plenty of climate scientists (and activists) running with this. For example scroll down to comment thread #3 and Kevin Trenberth (article linked at #3):
‘Global temperature rises in steps – here’s why we can expect a steep climb this year and next’ – By Kevin Trenberth
We’ll see.
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Hang on a second, if temps rise in steps then CO2 is not the cause right?…..Right?
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That is what I have always thought.
And it has been obvious ever since Bob Carter and David Evans called the science out around 2005. The stepped temperature variation proves that there is an unknown factor far greater than CO2 causing the temperature variation.
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It could be a La Nina Modoki, where cold water is in the middle and warm at the ends.
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Here is a close up.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2023/07/11/0000Z/ocean/surface/level/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-144.32,3.22,2536/loc=-148.640,0.906
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so about our bet? Do you still hold to your original position – that in 5 years from the start of the bet, cooling will be obvious
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define obvious
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El+gordo defined it, ask him
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‘cooling will be obvious’
If the UAH stays on this plateau then my argument sinks, we should know in a couple of years.
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Yes we are only half way through.
There is this worrying trend, that after three years of La Nina the temps failed to fall.
During the Little Ice Age La Nina like conditions prevailed, so a negative PDO over the coming decade should bring temps down.
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My argument is that the PDO is a major driver and we are returning to the 1947-1976 cool phase.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pdoindex_1900_present.png
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A question for ChatJoNova – Where does the deep (about 300 m down) warm water that seems to kick off El Ninos come from?
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Rowjay, I’m glad you asked. The best explanation is from William Kininmonth and I wrote it up a long time ago.
https://joannenova.com.au/2010/06/the-deep-oceans-drive-the-atmosphere/
The heat comes from the sun. In an El Nino the trade winds slow, and the top layer of water just sits still and collects the heat. In a La Nina, the oceans are stirred by the winds, so the top layer is churned and takes the heat down, and gets replaced with cold water from below that sucks the heat energy out of the sky.
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And the sun has been in an active phase recently.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/blackouts-hit-earth-as-8-m-class-solar-flares-erupt-in-24-hours-says-nasa-solar-storm-threat-rises/ar-AA1dNx8t
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Hmm? That is a convienient explanation, …
..but how does the warm water defy the law of gravity and convection ….just because the wind is blowing ?
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Does the heat come from submarine volcanos?
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James Taylor debunks the ‘hottest evah’ meme.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/12/heartland-institute-president-knocked-it-out-of-the-park-on-hottest-days-last-night-on-the-ingraham-angle/
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Kevin Trenbeth has seized on the “hottest day” record to push his El Nino step thesis:
Global temperature rises in steps – here’s why we can expect a steep climb this year and next – By Kevin Trenberth
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/493626/global-temperature-rises-in-steps-here-s-why-we-can-expect-a-steep-climb-this-year-and-next
He shows the CFSV2/CFSR graphs but despite the graphs revealing an Antarctic spike driving the record and University of Maine explicitly stating on the Daily 2m-T page that “much of the elevated global mean temperature signal in recent days can be attribute to weather patterns in the Southern Hemisphere that have brought warmer-than-usual air over portions of the Antarctic”, Kevin makes no mention of this and goes off on several tangents.
Daily 2-meter Air Temperature
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/
Warmer humid air encroaching south to Antarctica has a huge influence on the dry air temperature there. Kevin makes no mention of that – Joe Bastardi does
Surviving the hottest ever propaganda by showing the total picture
By Joe Bastardi
https://iowaclimate.org/2023/07/12/surviving-the-hottest-ever-propaganda-by-showing-the-total-picture/
Thing is, the latest Antarctic spike occurred in the middle of the NH summer so has the maximum effect on GL temperature. NH overwhelms the GL curve. The NH graph is convex, as is GL. But SH is concave.
Except the latest Antarctic spike was nowhere near the largest spike occurring there. That occurred Sun Aug 25 1996. You can see on the Antarctic page:
Antarctica: Hide All – switch on 2023 – hover over 1996.
2023 July spike about 5.5C. 1996 August spike about 10C.
But although the massive 1996 Antarctic spike pushed GL T up it wasn’t enough to create a record because the NH summer was past peak (other factors but this is a big one).
To see this view 1996 on both World and Antarctica grpahs:
Hide All – switch and/or hover over 1996.
Obviously these spikes regress back to mean almost as fast (hence “spike”). So a problem is looming for Climatistas like Keven Trenberth because El Nino conditions are not yet having an impact beyond the local Nino 1+2 and Nino 3 areas.
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>”El Nino conditions are not yet having an impact beyond the local Nino 1+2 and Nino 3 areas”
View Nino 1+2, 3, 4, 3.4 at Climate Reanalyzer and areas below graph on map:
Monthly Reanalysis Timeseries
https://climatereanalyzer.org/reanalysis/monthly_tseries/
Select – Region e.g. Nino 1+2 first – Plot
Nino 3 next – Plot, then Nino 4 – Plot
Then – Anomaly Values + All Months for each zone – Plot
Compare with – All Months (absolute) for each zone – Plot
Although Nino 1+2 is elevated above 2C anomaly there is not yet the same large elevation going west to Nino 4. Absolute provides a different picture.
It’s building but has nothing to do with the “hottest day”.
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Secret ‘Identity Features’ Being Written into CBDC Not a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Any More
The Bank of England has instructed the software coders to ‘hard-bake’ identity features into the digital currency.
The central bank has entrusted Nuggets, a digital payments platform, with the task of “incorporating identity features into the digital pound”, according to Nuggets CEO Alastair Johnson.
The technology, Johnson explains, could facilitate not only the verification of age for purchasing age-restricted items like alcohol and cigarettes, but also citizenship status.
This, he goes on to say, ‘could open new avenues for the Bank of England to persuade the general public to use the digital currency, an aspect of a larger global trend of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).’
The technology is exactly what those dubbed ‘conspiracy theorists’ have been warning since CBDCs first emerged. The government are effectively creating programmable money and will pre-programme that money to only be spent on commodities the government state. The technology will fundamentally change the relationship it has with the public and the relationship the public has with money.
The integration of such potentially invasive features has confirmed everything that so-called ‘conspiracy theorists’ said all along.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/secret-identity-features-being-written-into-cbdc-not-a-conspiracy-theory-any-more
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Ethiopia to make digital ID obligatory for banking operations
The use of Ethiopia’s national digital ID, Fayda, for all transactions with financial institutions will soon be mandatory.
According to an announcement of the joint initiative by the National Bank of Ethiopia, the country’s central bank, and the National ID Program, the plan is to get all bank customers enrolled for the digital ID in the course of the 2023/2024 financial year in a move that seeks to accelerate government’s financial inclusion ambition. Bank customers will then use Fayda as their bank ID to carry out KYC checks and complete remote onboarding.
Using the Fayda will ease identity verification for bank users in a system which according to the announcement guarantees data privacy and security. The central bank has also assured that the plan to use the Fayda as primary ID for banking operations will significantly improve transparency, stability and security in Ethiopia’s financial sector.
The approach contrasts somewhat with that of Nigeria, where banks can issue cards for use both as national ID and for financial transactions.
Ethiopia is implementing a World Bank-supported MOSIP-based digital ID project which intends to have all eligible citizens enrolled by 2025. The country also recently contracted IrisGuard to support benefits payments to citizens with iris biometrics.
https://mobileidworld.com/ethiopias-digital-id-to-become-primary-bank-id/
The walls are closing in…
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MNOs Join EU’s ‘Potential’ Digital ID Pilot
Deutsche Telekom, o2 Telefónica, and Vodafone are participating in the largest of the European Union’s digital ID pilots, the mobile operators have revealed. Deutsche Telekom says that the “Potential” project is the largest of the EU’s four field tests, and that Telekom and its MNO partners are involved in enabling consumers to use their digital IDs to activate SIM cards while fighting potential fraud.
While the Potential project spans 19 countries, the MNOs’ tests are taking place across a handful of nations: Germany, Austria, France, Poland, Greece, the Netherlands, and Ukraine.
“Anyone who identifies themselves uniquely online creates trust,” commented Deutsche Telekom board member and T-Systems CEO Adel Al-Saleh. “Almost all areas of life can benefit from this. At the same time, we are clearing our daily jungle of usernames and passwords. That’s why we are involved in the European Union’s field tests.”
The news comes after the digital identity and security technologies giant IDEMIA announced its own participation in the Potential consortium near the start of this year. At the time, IDEMIA explained that its pilot would be focused on six particular use cases of the EU Digital Identity Wallet: “Electronic Government services”, “Account opening”, “SIM registration”, “Mobile Driving Licence”, “Remote Qualified Electronic Signature”, and “Electronic Prescription”.
https://mobileidworld.com/mnos-join-eus-potential-digital-id-pilot/
In reality it means when the government goes under, you do too, as you won’t be able to move your digital money, because they will have locked your accounts.
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The Bank of Russia’s CBDC is officially Russia’s third form of currency
The Bank of Russia’s centralized, programmable digital token officially received the State Duma’s blessing on Tuesday.
The approved legislation designates the Bank of Russia as the sole operator of the digital ruble platform. The Central Bank will be responsible for all aspects of “Russia’s” CBDC, including functionality, safety, and “the correct accounting” of transactions.
https://www.interfax.ru/russia/911132
…and another one..
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The more ‘secure’ they make these Govt IDs, the more they demand you put into them, and the more you lose when they get hacked, which they always do!
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Replying to something John Connor II said yesterday, July 12, 2023 at 4:26 pm
I’m surprised so many people voluntarily sign up to such an Orwellian system.
Perhaps the place has become a front line again, but now of a digital sort.
https://www.speakingofspain.com/spain-blog/has-orwell-got-something-to-tell-us-about-spain
I only need to prove ownership of an account so that controls and information that should be available only to me are not permitted to someone else. That in no way implies I have to prove that I am human. Certainly not by the digitisation of a biometric which can never be changed but which, if leaked, could be replayed into an authorisation system by an attacker pretending to be me. The only way to prevent this is to require the biometric to be either encrypted with a shared secret key or salted and hashed and signed with a private key, and if you can keep either of those keys secret then why not just use them for authentication instead of going through the whole biometric rigmarole? At least a secret key can be changed if needed.
One also has to question why users have to be verified as human online. Any authorisation decision has to be made on actual individual identity, so that’s not the reason. All that is left is situations where anonymous reading and commenting is allowed, but scraping data out and flooding surveys with automated responses is not.
It really boils down to who gets sued for online actions – bot or not. People will have to register and log in to make a contribution, there is nothing new in that and that is fair, and does not require a World ID. At most it may need a photo of a government-issued ID document.
That none of this World ID and coin scheme is required leads one to doubt the real motives. Will the Spanish volunteers who thought World ID would be fighting alongside them one day find it fighting against them?
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95% Vaccination Rate and your surprised?
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You are assuming an analogy between the World ID and the Covid19 vaccinations.
Instead of assuming that analogy, I would like to see you make the analogy.
Yes I’m surprised that in the absence of any clear problem to solve and without any massive worldwide co-ordinated campaign of disinformation and soft-power coercion to sign onto it, that so many people would nonetheless freely sign on to a combination World ID and World Coin system.
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Andrew,
They will do whatever they are told to do by their phones . The world wide web is just that and we are trapped in it. Digital ID and currency makes it impossible to escape and if its destroyed it will take a large toll going out . With Covid we accepted incarceration “for our own good” when no crime had been committed other than being alive . No phone = no money and no ID and no rights.
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Good summary.
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What the Old Goat say’s
And you answered your own question.
“in the absence of any clear problem to solve and without any massive worldwide co-ordinated campaign of disinformation and soft-power coercion to sign onto it, that so many people would nonetheless freely sign on”
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You can’t take information only uncovered after November 2021 and transport it back in time and pretend everybody already knew it in February 2020. With Covid19 there were clearly problems to solve (acute illness, 0.3%+ death rate, long covid, lost productivity, all based on what was published by medical science at the time). The same agencies that had rubberstamped every previous jab had supposedly done their duty on the new technology too (we didn’t discover the reality until later). There was a co-ordinated international campaign of misinformation and pressure. We were deceived into the solutions, but until the deception was uncovered all the reports indicated a genuine problem.
Totally unlike the situation with World Coin/ID – something I had never heard about until yesterday and which is obviously a solution in search of a problem.
Why would you agree with Old Goat when he says things which are obviously untrue. e.g. “No phone = no money and no ID and no rights” which is obviously false. My ability to spend money, identify myself, and exercise rights has not depended on my phone, though all of the above were infringed across Australia by threat of law enforcement. The QR codes were supplemented by manual forms, and businesses would refuse service again because of the threat of law enforcement. The phones and QR codes were a convenience, but not the ultimate requirement.
You have not made the analogy because nobody can. The important differences between the two situations (and why your analogy fails) are in the deception about the severity of the problems and the threats from government for non-compliance. Neither of those exist in the WCID, which is Orwellian because of the extent of surveillance and trade intervention enabled by the ID – which did not occur during Covid.
No new ID was allocated to you and the trade or movement inhibitions were not based on your identity or any social credit score system. That doesn’t mean they were justified but it does mean the two situations are not analogous.
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Maybe there’s something missing.
I’ve had a lot of banking interaction, mortgages, theft, small, from abuse of my credit card over recent years.
The banks want to digitised everything.
The staff are stressed out of their minds and the banks have no concerns about customer security.
It’s been such a big issue that it’s painful to sit down.
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CEO slammed for replacing 90% of his company’s support staff with an A.I. chatbot—then bragging about it on Twitter
Here’s a story from the Department of Massive and Terrifying Irony: a startup Indian software developer struggled to afford its customer support team, so outsourced it – to an AI chatbot that was more efficient and cheaper.
The developer is called Dukaan and offers a platform it promises allows rapid deployment of online stores.
Founder Suumit Shah took to Twitter to reveal that the change saw time to first response fall – from a minute and 44 seconds to zero. Resolution time plunged as well – from two hours and 13 minutes when humans were doing it, down to three minutes and 12 seconds with AI on the job. Overall customer support costs dropped by around 85 percent.
Shah detailed how Dukaan struggled to hire people with the skills to work as support agents. “It’s like – Lionel Messi doing a full time job at Decathlon, though the theory has some merit, but is ultimately flawed,” he wrote.
The founder explained his startup developed its own AI, and linked to Dukaan’s AI lead Ojasvi Yadav who shared scant details of the build. Yadav wrote: “As an AI practitioner, I consider this a LLM-library equivalent of working with React devs on your company’s own fork, when React was new. Or working with PostGres devs on your company’s fork when it was in its initial phases.”
Shah’s tweets have not gone down well. He described laying off 90 percent of his support team as: “Tough? Yes. Necessary? Absolutely.”
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/13/dukaan_ai_support_replacement/
Can we replace the ABC oxygen wasters too? 😁
Hopefully, the chatbot will actually be intelligible, unlike Indian call center operators now.
I can never understand them…
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Re the call centre callers – I very crossly told one of them that ‘no, you are wrong, you are definitely not my mother’ the other day, and they hung up on me. I’ve also been ‘I’m 82 and I haven’t got any clothes on’ and sobbed ‘I’m not allowed to speak to people’. They still ring but at least I get some fun out of it if I mistakenly answer my phone without looking.
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Dr. Peter McCullough: UK Government Disability Claims Skyrocket
Ed Dowd just sent me a Tweet as I was walking into a coffee shop and it prompted me to do a jaw-dropping double take. It’s amazing to me how much our world has changed for the worst in the last three years. Prior to 2020, I only experienced such double takes at the sight of beautiful and delightful things. Now every day brings a steady train of disaster stories and images.
What is causing this dramatic spike of disability payments in the UK since 2021?
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/uk-government-disability-claims-skyrocket
Climate change strikes again…
Excess deaths were above baseline and linear, but now…the trend emerges and accelerates.😎
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Apparently, every opportunity he gets, Andrew Bridgen proposes the question about UK excess deaths in parliament and every time the question is not listed or rejected. Then next week he tries again.
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NSW’s Hunter Valley named offshore wind zone
Energy Minister Chris Bowen said the declared area could generate up to 5 gigawatts of wind energy, enough to power an estimated 4.2 million homes.
Wow, sounds impressive, there can’t be that many homes in all of NSW.
And 5 GW, that’s almost as much as the combined capacity of Eraring and Bayswater coal stations, and more than half of NSW’s average electricity demand.
Add NSW solar that delivers 4.5 GW and NSW will be fully supplied by “renewables”.
Except for the “misinformation”.
5 GW nameplate capacity means it will really deliver 1.5 GW on average, with variations from 0-3 GW.
No information is provided on costs, or how surplus generation will be stored to make up the shortfall when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.
But Minister Bowen won’t let facts get in the way of a press release: “Today’s declaration opens the door for a new industry in the Hunter, which could create over 3000 construction jobs and another 1560 ongoing jobs.” Hmm, and how many coal jobs will disappear?
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Up to 5 gigawatts, that’s maximum, on a good day, not too much wind, just right, more importantly what are the minimums expected, you know, when there is a big high, or not much wind or way too much wind.
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As a long time reader but rarely a contributor, I will offer a side track to ascertain reader opinion. There are many learned and well read science based commentators on this blog but I would like to ask if there are any equally studious Historians in the ranks. My father used to have three volumes (I think) of Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (sic). He was not specific to my childhood enquiries but referred vaguely to “moral decline”. I did not study History at school and now find that this failure in the curriculum was a mistake. We should all learn from history but rarely do and I wonder if the Western world is rapidly declining into devasting collapse similar to that of the Roman empire 1500 odd years ago. I hope this does not offend Jo and her magnificent team of proof readers but if there are historians amongst us as learned as the scientists there is a thread to follow. What caused the Roman empire to collapse and are we on a similar path?
Is there a leader in the Western world capable of directing us out of this mire or are we destined to serfdom under the crushing weight of Communism and One World Government? Following that, The Dark Ages.
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Necessary perspective. 🙂
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Too many people vying for the top job to ever have a “one” world government, we could easily end up with say a 3 world government though
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There wasn’t a One World Guv’ment in 1984 which means that a One World Guv’ment will never happen.
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There were three nations in Nineteen Eighty Four: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia.
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IMHO the ‘Dark Ages’ were about the explosion of Krakatoa in 535 AD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Key
The anthropogenic attribution to the collapse of 6th century global social order is largely myth.
Ours is entirely anthropogenic and the result of converging myths.
The Great CarbonTrumpPan Myth Convergence.
From the first emerged a new Age of Warlords.
Our is producing a new Age of Tech Lords.
https://i.insider.com/5bed3c39110d4c1e971b25b2?width=1320
https://i1.wp.com/pagesix.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/03/gettyimages-499413584.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&ssl=1
Heroic statue production will be unlikely due to the final solution of toxic masculinity.
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Agricola;
I see from your name that you have some familiarity with Rome. There are a number of similarities with Rome of yesteryear and today.
Rome’s citizens became complacent and wanted the good life-provided by cheap slaves. they didn’t like paying taxes and as much of the wealth of the Roman Empire came from plundering the people they conquered, a combination of declining plunder as the empire stopped expanding and loss of taxes, had an impact on the size of the army. (in the 6th century it reduced from 650,000 to 150,000.
Rome’s enemies were always trying to push into the empire but were deterred by the army and navy. As these declined so more ‘barbarians’ moved in. Rome tried to accommodate them within their borders but the Goths Vandals and Huns overrun areas (such as Rome’s breadbasket Carthage) and in turn demanded money from Rome to stop their incursions.
Rome’s citizens got quite decadent and the emperors became decadent AND complacent, and with many executions of Emperors, consuls and generals, Rome ran out of competent people that could command troops and fight battles and rule wisely
The Roman of 410AD was a different and inferior beast to the one 200 years earlier, this is when they left Britain as attacks on the empire coincided with an upsurge in enemies such as the Scythians and the Persians who had learnt tactics from Rome and for example were able to besiege Roman cities, previously beyond them.
Constantine arguably caused the ultimate problem by splitting territory into the Western and Eastern Empire. This was partly because the upsurge in trade and ideas was coming from the East and also because communications were so difficult. Whilst key cities in Italy could communicate in minutes with the emperor by way of beacons, unfortunately it took many months to give instructions to troops thousands hundreds of miles away.
Eventually the Barbarians overwhelmed Rome helped by very poor emperors, a sharply diminished Army and Navy (who hadn’t innovated) and indolent citizens. With better emperors conceivably the Empire might have continued another hundred years in the west.
The eastern empire in the shape of Byzantium continued until 1452 when it was destroyed by the Ottomans who had been making incursions for hundreds of years, gradually slicing off parts of the territories of Byzantium bit by bit, not helped by the Crusaders who ransacked the city and weakened it.
. It is awesome to think that the Vikings fought alongside Romans and that the empire just about lasted until America was discovered! I would recommend ‘Byzantium’ by John Julius Norwich which goes into the 1100 year history of Byzantium and as Rome had already existed for 800 years prior to Constantinople being established, the Roman Empire lasted for 2000 years.
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Also JJ Norwich’s ‘The Vikings in the South’ – although it’s probably over thirty years old now, so perhaps some things may have been re-interpreted.
Gives a whole new idea of the success of the Vikings [Northmen].
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L Sprague de Camp goes into this in “The Ancient Engineers”
He mentions the transformation of the guardians of the borders from legions of Roman population to barbarians trained by Romans. These acquired equal or better battle skills while the central Roman population was waxing in peace and unwarlike.
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It’s all blowing in the wind. The trouble is, Evil never stops trying. And Evil doesn’t fear the consequences of its actions.
And what is there to work with? Look at Democracy, which we here believe in as the best representation for everybody. In the system we use, government is won by winning half the seats in the parliament plus one. So government can be won without even nominating in the other half less one of the seats.
But hang on! In each of those seats it is only necessary to gain half of the votes plus one. So that means 26% of the votes can win government.
But hang on! Do away with compulsory voting and the preferential system, and a well organised minority can win. Maybe 10% or even less. Democracy is in for a hiding.
Look now at our election of 2013. At that time all around the world CAGW was doing a balancig act, on a knife edge. Had Tony Abbott been able to carry through his policy of doing away with CAWG legislation and mad spending, CAGW would have come crashing down all around the world. But, despite Tony Abbott’s apparent majority in the parliament, it was Al Gore who won the Australian election in 2013, and he was’t even a citizen. How did he do it?
It’s called Democracy.
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Nothing to see here. 🤣🤣
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/weather-extremes-are-thrashing-the-world-and-it-s-just-a-taste-of-what-s-to-come-20230712-p5dnor.html
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United Nations CANCEL Net Zero Targets As Businesses REBEL
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China Opens Bomb Shelters for People to Escape Heatwave
Cities around China opened bomb shelters to provide citizens with refuge from the heat, as exceptionally high temperatures across the country has begun to claim lives.
Northern China is suffering record-breaking heat, which is exacerbated by drought. According to the National Climate Centre, Beijing had more than nine consecutive days with temperatures surpassing 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit), a record since 1961.
Over the last week, cities such as Hangzhou on China’s east coast, Wuhan in the country’s centre, and Shijiazhuang in Hebei province, which borders Beijing, have announced the opening of air raid shelters to citizens seeking to escape the heat.
Authorities have issued health warnings and have banned outdoor work in the city and elsewhere.
So far, the blazing heat has been blamed for two deaths in Beijing.
https://www.chiangraitimes.com/news/china-opens-bomb-shelters-for-people-to-escape-heatwave/
Heat escapees must be vaxxed and a good social credit rating. 😁
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New research puts the age of the universe at 26.7 — not 13.7 — billion years
A new study challenges the dominant cosmological model, suggesting that our universe could be twice as old as current estimates. The study sheds new light on the so-called “impossible early galaxy problem.
Author Rajendra Gupta, adjunct professor of physics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa, said, “Our newly-devised model stretches the galaxy formation time by several billion years, making the universe 26.7 billion years old, and not 13.7 as previously estimated.”
According to Zwicky’s tired light theory, the progressive energy loss by photons over enormous cosmic distances causes the redshift of light from distant galaxies. It appeared to contradict observations, though. However, Gupta discovered that “it becomes possible to reinterpret the redshift as a hybrid phenomenon, rather than solely due to expansion, by allowing this theory to coexist with the expanding universe.”
Gupta also introduced the idea of evolving “coupling constants,” as hypothesized by Paul Dirac. Fundamental physical constants, known as coupling constants, control how particles interact with one another. These constants might have changed throughout time, according to Dirac.
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2032/7221343
But…but…but…the science is settled.
Until it’s not! 😁
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“But…but…but…the science is settled.
Until it’s not!”
I guess phlogiston, ether etc all supported their trough feeders for quite a while though
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Phoenix Arizona temps to maybe get to 47 deg, so what , it’s July, it’s the desert, get over it.
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It was 55C on my gravel driveway in outer eastern Melbourne one day in 2009. I believe about 4 million people survived, although a few possums did fall out of trees that day.
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Anatidaephobia is the fear of swans, ducks or geese.
Just sayin’.
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Sounds like post-modernism, the dominant ideology of the modern Left.
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Whatever happened to anserine referring to geese? That is to say, anserophobia would be the term for goose fear and loathing.
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FWIW
“Nuclear Power’s Next Big Event”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/nuclear-powers-next-big-event
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This could upset your windmill plans!
“Revenge of the birds!”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/07/revenge-of-birds.html
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From the Conversation, written by Dr Douglas Bardsley, Associate Professor in Geography, Environment and Population within the School of Social Sciences at Adelaide University. Someone who has made a career in cherry picking what “scientists say” and putting a big dollop of Mayo on it.
The modelling is pretty hopeless in just predicting how much temperatures would go up on average, rainfall or winds. There was no blind spot. There was just a missing bit of code that probably has no relation to reality.
This caters to the to thick who have no appreciation that what’s rare is a year where there is no drought ridden region somewhere on the globe, or a flood. There are 26 major agricultural regions, and many more important ones to individual countries. That means, on average, a one in a hundred year flood every four years in one of these regions will make the news – wrongly described as a one in a 1000 year event. And some part of a country in a bad drought in the years in between.
He’ll look like a genius
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Use of the Stefan-Boltzmann Law to calculate OLR at earth’s surface is illegitimate. This is the real reason why the climate mafia are so wrong.
Blog | Tom Shula
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🙂 🙂
When they misuse S-B, they expose themselves as being either incompetent in science or deceitful.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l6Q2r5VWLo
Western Australian Vaccine Safety Surveillance – Annual Report 2021
https://www.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/Corp/Documents/Health-for/Immunisation/Western-Australia-Vaccine-Safety-Surveillance-Annual-Report-2021.pdf
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Well put Mark.
I’ve been saying essentially that for some time.
Many simply take the equation, put in figures, and bang, turn the handle,
WRONG!
And, this confirms that they have no idea what they are doing.
In ref to #20
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l6Q2r5VWLo
Western Australian Vaccine Safety Surveillance – Annual Report 2021
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Extraordinary.
An honest report? That’s something that we certainly aren’t used to from any Australian Government. How did this one slip through?
I hope whoever was responsible for releasing that honest information from the WA Government doesn’t get sacked/fired or their job doesn’t get relocated to a remote region in the Gibson Desert.
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There are still ads on You Tube from WA Health still advocating people to get the latest Covid shot
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Quite incredible data when you consider that WA was virtually COVID free during 2021. Therefore, virtually none of these adverse reactions can be attributed to the actual virus infection. In other countries, most notably the US and Europe, those adverse reactions are being partly blamed on COVID to add confusion. This data reveals probably nearly all adverse reactions during the COVID waves/ Vaccination period was solely due to vaccines. 24X compared to non COVID vaccine shots. Extraordinary.
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Try this classification!
“Keeping it simple, for the idiots.”
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02c1a6cd7a2b200b-800wi
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/07/keeping-it-simple-for-the-idiots.html
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Report: Shell may ditch renewable energy investments as company returns to fossil fuel roots
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/report-shell-may-ditch-renewable-energy-investments-company-returns-fossil
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FWIW – would you believe?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F03SPImXsAAwkej?format=jpg&name=small
Via http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/07/13/let-that-sink-in-48/
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FWIW
“Roseanne Barr Bravely Answers The Burning Question, ‘What Is A Woman?’ Her Answer Is Too Funny”
https://pjmedia.com/culture/michaelcantrell/2023/07/13/roseanne-barr-bravely-answers-the-burning-question-what-is-a-woman-her-answer-is-too-funny-n1710406
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Hmmm!
“Biden Orders 3,000 Reservists Activated for European Command Deployment
July 13, 2023 | Sundance | 19 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/13/biden-orders-3000-reservists-activated-for-european-command-deployment/
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I thought this was an interesting read (long). Its a bit Sydney centric but after all , Sydney is what matters.
https://www.ainsliebullion.com.au/gold-silver-bullion-news/the-great-australian-scream-e2-80-93-essential-reading/tabid/88/a/3176/default.aspx
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