Thursday

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    BrianTheEngineer

    Minns the little tank engine that can’t

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      Ross

      Please explain!!

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        Kalm Keith

        The Little Engine That Could

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        BrianTheEngineer

        Reference is from Thomas the tank engine going up a hill “I think I can I think I can…..goes over the hill I know I can, I know I can.
        Minns is the Premier who is about to cancel a $25B Metro project in Sydney that is already in construction………. so ergo he can’t.

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      Jojodogfacedboy

      Add Hydrogen tanks man…
      Just don’t go onto a boat catching fire.

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    HeyLookOverThere

    I think there was an experiment with an elephant to prove electricity was unsafe that looked more legit than the EV nonsense that’s going on right now. The real threat to transportation and EVs is authoritarian control over electricity usage.
    Don’t be distracted by “near an EV” is proof enough for me! science!!!
    Keep your eyes on the REAL problem.

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    Richard C (NZ)

    Mea Culpa

    I’ve been using the incorrect term re jet streams. For example “meridional” in this comment:

    Study says nothing whatsoever about the change from meridional to wavy jet streams so no actual attribution of the heat waves.

    Should be ZONAL

    Meridional and wavy or meandering are all the same thing basically.

    Breakdown in synaptic communication. Probably caused by riotous living in my youth.

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    Richard C (NZ)

    Solar Panels Are Three Times More Carbon-Intensive Than IPCC Claims

    https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/solar-panels-are-three-times-more-carbon-intensive-ipcc-claims

    “A Lone And Obstinate Italian Data Crusader”

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    Richard C (NZ)

    Climate Change Writing 101: How to cram “tipping point” four times into five sentences:

    WaPo’s ‘Journalism’ Has Surpassed The B.S. Tipping Point

    Between this summer’s biblical floods, apocalyptic fires, and life-threatening heat domes, people are starting to wonder whether we’ve lurched over some sort of climate tipping point.

    Climate scientists and ecologists who study tipping points say what we’re seeing are merely extreme events amplified by global warming. But they’ve been warning about the risk of climate tipping points for years. Now people are listening.

    Research published last year in Science suggests the risk of a global tipping point that triggers accelerated climate warming starts to become significant once average worldwide temperatures rise 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. That’s likely to happen in the 2030s.

    https://climatechangedispatch.com/wapos-journalism-has-surpassed-the-b-s-tipping-point/

    Must be hard to top that – but I’m sure they will try.

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      Richard C (NZ)

      Anthony Watts:

      It is important to note that the 1.5°C threshold is an arbitrary number, and it is not defined by science. It was defined by political negotiations in the Paris Accord Agreement of 2015.

      An Associated Press article, The magic 1.5: What’s behind climate talks’ key elusive goal, admits this stating, “…in a way both the ‘1.5 and 2 degree C thresholds are somewhat arbitrary,’ Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson said in an email. ‘Every tenth of a degree matters!’ ”

      I had a chuckle at Watts using Berkeley Earth to show the lack of tipping points in Europe already:

      It [see graph] shows that not just 1.5°C, but 2.0°C of warming has already occurred. Yet, despite that warming, catastrophic tipping points have not occurred.

      Climate scientists/alarmists are not always the sharpest tools in the shed.

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        Richard C (NZ)

        Compare the Berkeley Earth anomaly for Europe previous with absolute from 1940:

        Berkeley Earth Europe
        https://i0.wp.com/climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/image-20.png?w=624&ssl=1

        Monthly Reanalysis Time Series
        https://climatereanalyzer.org/research_tools/monthly_tseries/

        Defaults except:
        Region: Western Europe
        Anomaly: N
        Sequential Months: Y
        Plot

        The anomaly (on the face of it) hikes up 1C continuously after 1980.

        The absolute exhibits a discernible step change from 1988 to 1990. After that there’s really not much going on.

        Possible that BEST is skewed by Eastern Europe but who knows?

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          Richard C (NZ)

          >”Possible that BEST is skewed by Eastern Europe but who knows?”

          Just had a look at Eastern Europe absolute in Monthly Reanalysis Time Series previous.

          Yes the graph rises continuously after about 1980 similar to Berkeley Earth Europe (East+West).

          But around 1945 to 1960ish was about the same as present – BEST does not exhibit this. The graph then goes DOWN to 1980.

          Berkeley Earth just doesn’t reconcile with unhomogenized datasets.

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        Simon

        It’s very odd for Anthony to argue that warming is higher than actually observed. Unfortunately, neither he nor you understand the concept of a baseline or that regional change may differ from global.
        Even though we haven’t yet reached +1.5, there is evidence off teetering topping points, e.g. AMOC shutdown, ice loss albedo change, and methane permafrost release.

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          Forrest Gardener

          Simon, this will not come easily to you, but imagine there are people who are not afraid of the facts.

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          Philip

          Relax Simon. It’s going to be ok.

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          James Murphy

          “…Unfortunately, neither he nor you understand the concept of a baseline…”

          The problem is not of understanding what a baseline is, rather it’s why you and your ilk think it’s legitimate to claim that the climate started warming up precisely with the start of the Industrial Revolution.

          On top of the ridiculous idea that the climate started changing at the merest hint of man made CO2 emissions, there’s also the bizarre idea that the climate was perfect then, and should be maintained at any cost (literally, it seems).

          Perhaps you could enlighten us?

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          Richard C (NZ)

          Simon

          >”It’s very odd for Anthony to argue that warming is higher than actually observed”

          No he doesn’t argue that. He just points out, using one of the accepted homogenized anomaly datasets (not necessarily the best option – see absolute at #5.1.1), that 2C has already occurred in Europe. This has apparently gone unnoticed by the WaPo author and climate scientist Timothy Lenton.

          >”Unfortunately, neither he nor you understand the concept of a baseline

          I think we do:

          Calculating Climatologies

          The climatology of a variable, for example 2m air temperature, is the variable’s condition averaged over a period of time.

          Climatologies can be computed based on different terms. For example we can compute climatological averages, which are the mean of monthly values of a climate variable over a specified period of time. The period will vary depending on the availability of data, but is typically in the range of 2-20 years.

          Climatological normals are monthly averages computed for a prolonged period of at least 30 consecutive years. The current default climatological standard normal is the average of the period from 01 January 1981 to 31 December 2010.

          https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/toolbox/doc/how-to/13_how_to_calculate_climatologies_and_anomalies/13_how_to_calculate_climatologies_and_anomalies.html

          >”or that regional change may differ from global”

          Of course it does. You have just demonstrated how absurd the 2C/1.5C “limit” concept is – thank you. It just gets silly in application (and see next comment re actual application), even Phil Jones knew that.

          >”Even though we haven’t yet reached +1.5″

          Actually, on an anomaly basis from 1981-2010 baseline, the 1.5C “limit” has been breached at least twice a year for the last decade. Absent a published value from WMO or IPCC, the anomaly limit is 0.77. You can apply that to Global, Northern Hemisphere, and Southern Hemisphere Here:

          GFS 2m-T
          http://karstenhaustein.com/climate

          But on a sustained basis, by recent trends, it will take decades to cross the “limit” (and see next comment).

          >”there is evidence off teetering topping points

          I assume there’s a couple of typos in there. If there isn’t you’re either just making stuff up, maybe a little tipsy too, or the planet’s about to fall into the abyss.

          And see next comment – “Applying the IPCC’s 1.5 C limit

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            Richard C (NZ)

            Applying the IPCC’s 1.5 C limit to absolute GMST

            Assumptions using NOAA’s WRIT
            Default dataset: NCEP/NCAR R1 (monthly)
            01-06-2023 NZ time, dataset updated since
            Means are 2013 – 2023.42 unless stated
            https://psl.noaa.gov/data/atmoswrit/timeseries/index.html

            IPCC human attribution begins 1951
            1948 – 1958 Global Mean: 14 C (287.095 K)
            IPCC “limit” pre-industrial year base: 1880
            2013 – 2023.42 Global Mean: 14.4 C (287.549 K)
            1.1 C (K) rise since 1880 (NASA GISS)
            1880 Global Mean: 14.4 – 1.1 = 13.3 C (286.449 K)
            IPCC 1.5 C (K) “limit”: 13.3 + 1.5 = 14.8 C (287.949 K)
            Some rounding to simplify,

            Northern Mid 35 39 Mean: 14.4 C (287.534 K) 0.4 C under
            Global Mean: 14.4 C (287.549 K) 0.4 C under
            Southern Mid -35 -43 Mean: 14.5 C (287.701 K) 0.3 C under

            Northern Polar 60 90 Mean: -8.8 C (264.317 K) 24 C under
            Tropics -20 20 Mean: 25.7 C (298.843 K) 11 C over
            Southern Polar -60 -90 Mean: -18.7 (254.419 K) 34 C under
            ———————————————————
            Applying the IPCC’s 1.5 C limit to GMST Anomaly

            Anomaly Baseline 1981-2010 Mean: 14.032 C

            2013 – 2023.42 Global Mean: 14.4 C

            1880 Global Mean: 14.4 – 1.1 = 13.3 C

            14.032 – 13.3 = 0.732
            Anomaly “Limit”: 1.5 – 0.732 = 0.768 or 0.77 C

            Absolute “Limit” = 14.032 + 0.768 = 14.8 C

            2013-2023.56 Decadal Mean: 14.417 C , 0.383 C below “limit”

            Decadal Trend: 0.005 C/year, 76.6 years to cross Anomaly “limit” on annual basis.

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          Richard C (NZ)

          Simon >”there is evidence off teetering topping points”

          UN Secretary-general Antonio Guterres appears to be undergoing one of those:

          Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning,” he told reporters, adding “the era of global boiling has arrived“.

          https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/494631/climate-change-july-2023-set-to-be-world-s-hottest-month-on-record

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      Philip

      Climate scientists and ecologists who study tipping points…

      LOL

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      Don B

      Anyone who has looked at proxy recreations of Holocene or Phanerozoic Eon temperatures knows that assertions of 1.5 or 2.0 degree tipping points are just fantasy.

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    David Maddison

    Don’t forget to make a submission to the Australian Government ‘s so-called misinformation bill.

    “Misinformation” will be anything that doesn’t follow the Official Narrative such as content on your favourite website, this one.

    Also, note that the fundamental premise of the bill is also wrong.

    Misinformation and disinformation pose a threat to the safety and wellbeing of Australians, as well as to our democracy, society and economy.

    It’s always been up to people, not government to decide what the truth is. In fact, the covid and climate scams both show that government misinformation is what is dangerous, when it is combined with government suppression of the truth along with their partners in the legacy and social(ist) media.

    You have until 20th August to make a submission.

    See:

    https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/have-your-say/new-acma-powers-combat-misinformation-and-disinformation

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    Ross

    This is the bloke who is now going to be the chief wrecker of our energy supply grid in Australia :-
    https://esdnews.com.au/spotlight-on-csiro-energy-director-dr-dietmar-tourbier/

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      David Maddison

      It’s insanity.

      “We need 10 times the amount of PV installed that we currently have today. The largest amount of solar installed in Australia in a single year was about 7GW in 2021. We need 20GW of solar PV installed per year for the next 20 years to make this happen. The biggest challenge is going to be making sure we have the components and the people required to install the PV.

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        Earl

        …and it would seem the expert has not taken into account the question of replacement as existing panels fail. Just had ours cleaned and inspected and some are showing signs of nearing end of life after 8 years. We should reach the 10 year guarantee period but probably not much after that. For an early system it has performed well.

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      Steve of Cornubia

      I was intrigued to read, in that article about Tourbier, “During Larry Marshall’s time as chief executive, CSIRO has more than doubled its benefit to the nation.”

      By what measure? Sounds like the usual CSIRO spin and nonsense.

      Remember folks, two times bugger all is still bugger all.

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        Ross

        When you consider that if you undertake any contract work for the “government”, they are red hot on any conflicts of interest etc. But for the CSIRO, nup, they can both advise government and then usually be the first recipients of any grant money. If that’s not a COI violation, I’ll go he.

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        Graeme No.3

        Many years ago the laboratory cleaner asked what the CSIRO did. He worked a second job (as supervisor) cleaning some of their Laboratories. One chemist then volunteered to be a cleaner there. After a week he reported “stuff all”. He seen a flask in a fume hood being stirred endless without any change, except one day when some big wigs were coming, a touch of phenolphthalein was added – giving it a temporary pink colour that soon faded as they watched.

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          Ted1

          That’s a vergy sinngular story. One lab, one, or was it two cleaners. In an organisation employing how many thousands?

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            Graeme No.3

            I’ve forgotten most of the details. There were 6 or 7 cleaners (hence a supervisor). Possibly more laboratories & offices.
            The point being that a qualified (& experienced) chemist decided after a week that there was little evidence of much work being done there.
            I might add that the few occasions I had anything to do with the CSIRO their ideas weren’t practical. In one case they wanted to “revolutionise” our production method with microwaves not heat. They set up in our lab and it took approximately 20 seconds for all their tubing to be blocked solid.

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        Barry

        Methodology described here.

        An embarrassment of tortured figures full of magic numbers without provenance modulated by discount rates that bear no relationship to reality.
        Kind of like their Climate Change predictions.

        As you’d expect.

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          Ted1

          Can’t allow this.

          In December 1986, not long beeffore the establishnment of the IPCC, the Hawke government changed the management of the CSIRO, appointing a new board with Neville Wran, national presiident of the ALP as chairman. He was the first non scientist to. Hold that position.

          They put their own brand of “social scientists” in charge of the real scientists.

          Prior to that time in our industry, and I am shure every other legitimmate industry, the CSIRO.held thhe position of Fairy Godmother. Many were the scientific problems that the CSIRO sorted out for us. Furthermore, it kept Australia in the forefront of world science. And still does.

          The trouble is that while Hawke was hijacking the CSIRO, the whole of world science wss beng hijacked by the Marxist movement.

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      David Maddison

      Strangely, he doesn’t appear to be a quota hire.

      Unusually he appears to be that most endangered of species, a white, heterosexual male.

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    From USA today’s Dr Mercola web page, …now we can see what is ahead of us all.

    “Chase Shuts Down Bank Accounts of Mercola and Key Employees
    Story at-a-glance

    July 13, 2023, JP Morgan Chase Bank informed me they are closing all of my business accounts, along with the personal accounts of my CEO, my CFO and their respective spouses and children
    My CEO was informed his young children also will never be allowed to bank with Chase in the future
    No reason for the decision was given, other than there was “unexpected activity” on an unspecified account ………..”

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      StephenP

      If Politically Exposed Persons can be cancelled from having a bank account (such as Nigel Farage) then it is interesting to read the Law Society’s definition of a PEP:

      Identifying a PEP

      PEPs can be:

      heads of state, heads of government, ministers, and deputy or assistant ministers
      members of parliament (MPs)
      members of courts of auditors or of the boards of central banks
      ambassadors, chargés d’affaires and high-ranking officers in the armed forces
      members of the administrative, management or supervisory bodies of state-owned enterprises
      members of supreme courts, constitutional courts or other high-level judicial bodies whose decisions are not generally subject to further appeal, except in exceptional circumstances
      PEPs also include:

      the person’s family members
      close business associates
      beneficial owners of the person’s property (someone who enjoys the benefits of ownership even though the title of the property is in another person’s name)

      If this is the case then most of the senior officials in government and banks, and their families, shouldn’t be allowed bank accounts.

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        Ted1.

        If I have read the headlines right, big heads are already rolling.

        It seems that the bank had weightier clients than Nigel Farage, and they notified their displeasure at what had been done.

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      James Murphy

      That is just depressing.

      I guess as a commenter here, I am already on a list of people who should not be allowed to participate in society.

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    David Maddison

    In Commieforniastan they are banning petrol/gasoline powered lawnmower, leaf blowers, etc. threatening 50,000 landscaper jobs.

    The expectation is to use electric ones.

    Ban starts 2024.

    I hope Australia’s Uniparty politicians don’t hear about this because they’ll copy the idea.

    https://youtu.be/7JV2bszOT-g

    https://www.turnto23.com/news/state/california-to-ban-sale-of-gas-leaf-blowers-lawn-mowers-in-small-engine-ban

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      Ross

      David, just safely assume that all idiotic policies regarding energy production/distribution and any measure associated with CO2 emissions abatement will eventually be adopted here in Australia. There’s already a range of electric mowers out there. You can buy a top of the range ZTR ride-on mower RYOBI for about $6k from Bunnings. I have a large ZTR petrol mower and the belt keeps coming off (rough ground under trees, so lots of sticks etc). The electric version – no belts and super quiet. Very tempting.

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        yarpos

        either that or stop mowing sticks, if that is the problem

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        Philip

        You actually need a Cox. They’re tough, cheaper and last forever, and Australian. Sticks dont bother them.

        Many mowers are made for manicured american style lawns, not rough Aus conditions like Cox.

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          Annie

          Our petrol zero-turn ride-on Cox is as tough as old boots. It needs to be!
          We took our original Cox Stockman to England when we went back for a few years, as we knew there was a large garden to look after. A local handyman couldn’t wait to buy it off us when we left. He was very impressed by its basic strength and straightforward build.

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          David of Cooyal in Oz

          I wore out my first one. It didn’t like mowing up the rocks that sprang out and attacked it.

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          greggg

          Cox mowers are made in China now. The only Australian made mowers left appear to be Deutscher mowers, and the Honda Buffalo and some Victa models are assembled here. No ride on mowers.

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      Honk R Smith

      Ban lawnmowers, hah!
      I see your CA lunacy and I raise you crime.

      California passes law making it illegal for store employees to confront shoplifters.
      https://scrippsnews.com/stories/calif-senate-passes-bill-to-stop-employees-confronting-shoplifters/

      We are no longer in Kansas my friends.
      We must contemplate the possibility that AGW was merely the preliminary symptom of terminal human mind viral infection.
      (Fun note: the current Gov of CA is likely to be the next POTUS installee.)
      https://youtu.be/NzbhbetwYFU

      I’m figuring the next ban is gender specific underwear.

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    David Maddison

    This is the former partner of a former Australian Prime Minister who claimed to support women’s rights.

    https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102654276

    Lawyers for Tim Mathieson, the ex-partner of former prime minister Julia Gillard, say he will plead guilty to a charge of sexual assault.

    Mr Mathieson, whose name was listed as Raymond Timothy Mathieson, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court this morning for a mention hearing.

    Mr Mathieson is being prosecuted by Victoria Police’s sexual offences and child abuse investigation team (SOCIT).

    Magistrate Roslyn Porter confirmed Mr Mathieson is facing a charge of sexual assault. Details of two other charges — which will be dropped by prosecutors — are yet to be released.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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      Ross

      Yikes!! How the mighty have fallen .

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        A happy little debunker

        I almost feel sorry for him.
        He wasn’t ever great and he was only ever a place holder – because Labor were not prepared to alienate their working class voters by having a probable Lesbian as Prime Minister…

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          KP

          “Labor were not prepared to alienate their working class voters by having a probable Lesbian as Prime Minister…”

          That obviously never worried Labor in NZ!

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          Simon Thompson ᵐᵇ ᵇˢ

          Given the nature of her sudden departure from Slater and Gordon , Bisexual may be the appropriate appellation. Tim was a long term contracted escort.

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      Philip

      Was he a White Ribbon boy? They have a good track record.

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      Graeme#4

      Good riddance. Very much a DYKWIA person, liked to throw his weight around.

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    David Maddison

    Albanese (Australian PM for foreign readers) is caught plagiarising.

    1) Ronald Reagan

    2) Jeremy Corbyn

    3) Michael Douglas in “The American President”

    https://fb.watch/m1LaM9nyyy/?mibextid=NnVzG8

    Please let me know if that Farcebook link works, I can’t find that particular video elsewhere.

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      yarpos

      Maybe I have low expectations, but I wouldn’t look toward Albanese for anything like original and relevant thoughts

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      Philip

      I hear he had that strange speech impediment back in the day as well. Not as pronounced as today’s version but there.

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      BrianTheEngineer

      If he plagiarises Reagan you think he would be much funnier.

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    John Connor II

    Not an EV fire, but a 45 storey crane fire in NYC

    https://youtu.be/-dk3Ht5a8LQ?si=7YQ9W1HVvNEDoiQ6

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    John Connor II

    China shames citizens, who are on the blacklist of Social Credit System, by displaying their faces, ID, addresses…on every government-run billboard in the town for all to see.

    https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1684215950403305474

    Someone needs to hack that system and post about the CCP corruption, Covid truths, environmental and innovation lies and fraud, bussing homeless out of cities and dumping them in the country (the exact opposite of the USA 😄), child slave labour, religious persecutions and executions. 😎

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    David Maddison

    Can you see how we’re being lied to? One headline claims a wholesale price decrease and the other claims a price rise.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/27/australian-energy-prices-down-emissions-record-low-prices

    Wholesale electricity prices down almost 60% a year on from Australia’s short-lived energy crisis

    Wed 26 Jul 2023 11.00 EDT

    https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/power-prices-rise-31pc-despite-wind-and-solar-glut-20230726-p5drct

    Power prices rise 31pc despite wind and solar glut

    Mark Ludlow

    Jul 27, 2023 – 12.00am

    Power prices surged to their second-highest March quarter in 18 years, despite a glut of solar and wind production that sent prices into the negative during the middle of the day, according to a new report.

    One thing is certain though. The more wind, solar and Big Batteries we get, the more expensive electricity becomes for the consumer.

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      yarpos

      wholesale vs retail, different topics

      although the last line is remains certainly true

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        yarpos
        July 27, 2023 at 5:28 pm · Reply
        wholesale vs retail, different topics

        Actually it is more than just that..
        The “wholesale” price reduction..108 $/MWh.. referred to is simply the generation cost paid to the generators.
        The (retail) “power” price increase $/kWh, or $/MWh, .. includes all the add-ons such as distribution, Transmission, storage, adjustments, margins, and all other costs the wholesale market and retailers wish to include.
        I am sure most politicians and much of the public do not realise the difference….
        ..or maybe it is just convenient for the authorities not to explain it ?

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          I should add.. to emphasize the difference ,…
          The retail price increase of 31% quoted , is in reality for me an increase from $0.31 c/kWh to $0.40 c/kWh .
          Or $310 – $410 $/MWh in the same units as the wholesale price
          In other words, the Wholesale price represents only 25% of the Retail costs !
          Changes in retail costs are unrelated to Wholesale electricity costs.
          Someone should be made to explain.

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            Kalm Keith

            As you show, they are practicing misdirection.

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            Further clarification…
            That “60% decrease to $108 /MWh” (presumably from $173 ?)…. Should have reduced the (25%) portion of my retail cost , by $16.3 /MWh.. instead of it increasing by $100 ?
            So, that suggests the real retail price increase is more like $116 $/MWh ! ..or 37.5% !

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    John Connor II

    ‘Climate Death Risk’ DOWN 96% in Last 100 Years

    Over the past hundred years, annual climate-related deaths have declined by 96%. In the 1920s, the death count from climate-related disasters was 485,000 on average every year. In the last full decade, 2010-2019, the average was 18,357 dead per year or 96% lower. In the first year of the new decade, 2020, the preliminary number of dead was even lower at 8,086 — 98% lower than the 1920s average.

    But wait, the facts are even more exciting: because the world’s population quadrupled over the same time, the climate-related *death risk* has dropped even more sharply.

    https://www.visionnews.online/post/fact-climate-death-risk-down-96-in-last-100-years

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    Jojodogfacedboy

    In Canada you say…

    As in our Canadian Politicians on purpose crashing our economy.

    https://www.howestreet.com/2023/07/the-bank-of-canada-goal-is-to-crash-the-economy-danielle-park/

    But we’re all family now as Trudeau struts out his new cabinet of economic mosquitoes…sucking the economy dry.

    Pity.

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      Fran

      My son just paid $10+tax each for 9′ 2×6 for his house. The gubmint has declared that building in warm coastal areas need the same insulation as in northern Alberta, so all walls 2×6. These prices make doing anything about the housing shortage impossible. Add to that 500,000 immigrants + 500,000 – odd “refugees” last year.

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    John Connor II

    Thursday entertainment: extreme heat weather forecast

    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ry8scdezFS1w5pr9j.mp4

    😆

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    John Connor II

    The $500 million ATO fraud highlights flaws in the myGov ID system. Here’s how to keep your data safe

    The Australian Tax Office (ATO) paid out more than half a billion dollars to cyber criminals between July 2021 and February 2023, according to an ABC report.

    Most of the payments were for small amounts (less than A$5,000) and were not flagged by the ATO’s own monitoring systems.

    The fraudsters exploited a weakness in the identification system used by the myGov online portal to redirect other people’s tax refunds to their own bank accounts.

    The good news is there’s plenty the federal government can do to crack down on this kind of fraud – and that you can do to keep your own payments secure.

    Once a myGov account is created, linking it to your tax records requires two of the following: an ATO assessment, bank account details, a payslip, a Centrelink payment, or a super account.

    These documents were precisely the ones targeted in three large data breaches in the past year: at Optus, at Medibank, and at Latitude Financial.

    In this scam, the cyber criminal creates a fake myGov account using the stolen documents. If they can also get enough information to link to the ATO or your Tax File Number, they can then change bank account details to have your tax rebate paid to their account.

    It is a sadly simple scam.

    https://theconversation.com/the-500-million-ato-fraud-highlights-flaws-in-the-mygov-id-system-heres-how-to-keep-your-data-safe-210459

    Pseudo AI based scams are increasing markedly so everyone should be extremely distrustful of unexpected emails and SMS’s requiring information disclosure.

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    John Connor II

    Australian GP sues Pfizer and Moderna over unapproved GMOs in mRNA Covid vaccines

    The human genome could be permanently altered.

    A Victorian doctor and pharmacist is seeking an injunction from the Federal Court of Australia to stop Pfizer and Moderna from distributing their mRNA Covid vaccines.

    Dr Julian Fidge alleges that both the monovalent and bivalent vaccines contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs), for which Pfizer and Moderna did not obtain the appropriate licence.

    It is a serious criminal offence under the Gene Technology Act 2000 to sell or distribute GMO products in Australia without approval from the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR). However, Pfizer and Moderna only sought approvals for their Covid vaccine products from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), which is not authorised to approve GMO products in Australia.

    The TGA did not require tests for genotoxicity or carcinogenicity before providing provisional approval and, in the case of Moderna’s SPIKEVAX, full registration. These tests would be required for GMO product approval by the OGTR.

    This has significant safety implications, says legal counsel on the court case, Julian Gillespie.

    https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/australian-gp-sues-pfizer-and-moderna

    FINALLY, some integrity from the medical “profession”.

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      Fran

      This would be due to the recent report that the E coli used to make the RNA contaminate the injectables? I gather the “vaccine” used in the “clinical trials” was made the expensive way by adding polymerase templates while the plebs got a version where engineered E coli made the stuff.

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    John Connor II

    Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it.

    The @Twitter handle officially changed to @X.

    But, what about its original owner? Mashable interviewed Gene X. Hwang, co-founder of event photo company Orange Photography and the person who originally registered the @x handle on the platform more than 16 years ago, earlier that same day. Hwang told us at the time that he had yet to hear from Musk and company, but was hoping they could work something out when the inevitable happened.

    So, Musk now has the @x handle. What happened? Did Musk reach out to Hwang? Did Hwang cash in and get a paycheck from the company for the handle as some on social media have speculated?

    No, the company just took it from him.

    “[I] got an email basically saying they are taking it,” Hwang told Mashable in an email exchange.

    https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-take-x-handle-from-original-user

    I want it. It’s mine. X

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    KP

    Caitlin Johnstone gives the navy a well-deserved bash over their star-spangled kangaroo on the new ship..

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/07/27/the-star-spangled-kangaroo/

    She didn’t mention that the ships are duds and are already being retired in the USA…

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/05/20/the-littoral-combat-ship-cant-fight-the-us-navy-is-finally-coming-to-terms-with-it/?sh=27db62192587

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    David Maddison

    Copied from elsewhere:

    Just a thought….

    RFK Jr: Totalitarians Will Always Have a Good Excuse for Infringing Upon Your Freedoms

    “During COVID … the government established a new precedent, which is that if it has a good enough excuse, the government can now take away all of our freedoms,” relayed RFK Jr.

    “And guess what?” he asked. “There is always a good excuse, whether it’s to stop a new disease, the next pandemic, to protect us from misinformation, to prevent domestic terrorism, to stop hate speech, to prosecute a war, or to fight climate change.”

    “But all of these reasons can easily turn into pretext,” he emphasized. “Control over the public starts perhaps as a means, but it always becomes an end.”

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    David Maddison

    Apparently “Aborigine” is considered a “racist” term now.

    Well, what isn’t?

    https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/08/why-saying-aborigine-isnt-ok-8-facts-about-indigenous-people-in-australia/

    Is it OK to call Indigenous Australians ‘Aborigines’?

    ‘Aborigine’ is generally perceived as insensitive, because it has racist connotations from Australia’s colonial past, and lumps people with diverse backgrounds into a single group. You’re more likely to make friends by saying ‘Aboriginal person’, ‘Aboriginal’ or ‘Torres Strait Islander’.

    If you can, try using the person’s clan or tribe name. And if you are talking about both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, it’s best to say either ‘Indigenous Australians’ or ‘Indigenous people’.

    Without a capital “a”, “aboriginal” can refer to an Indigenous person from anywhere in the world. The word means “original inhabitant” in Latin.

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    David Maddison

    CLOSED MINDS STOP THOUGHT CRIMES

    SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL THOUGHT POLICE

    Don’t speak out out question.

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    David Maddison

    Why don’t the 99% of us who aren’t offended by everything, quit catering to the 1% who are?

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    David Maddison

    The donkey told the tiger: The grass is blue.

    The tiger replied: No, the grass is green​.

    The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, and to do so they approached the lion.

    Before reaching the clearing in the forest where the lion was sitting on his throne, the donkey started screaming: ′′Your Highness, isn’t it true that the grass is blue?”​

    The lion replied: “True, the grass is blue”​.

    The donkey rushed forward and continued: ′′The tiger disagrees with me and contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him”​.

    The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 5 years of silence”​.

    The donkey jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating: ′′The grass is blue”​..

    The tiger accepted his punishment, but he asked the lion: ′′Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?”​

    The lion replied: ′′In fact, the grass is green”​.

    The tiger asked: ′′So why do you punish me?”​

    The lion replied:

    That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is not possible for a brave, intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with a donkey, and on top of that to come and bother me with that question.

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    Ronin

    The UN declares ” The world has exited the Era of Global Warming and entered the Era of Global Boiling “, well have you ever heard such a load of unscientific twaddle, last time I looked water boils at 100c not 42c.
    Give them a handful of weeks and the clowns will be bleating about the cold freezing conditions and all the snow on the solar panels playing havoc with the grid.
    Honestly.

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      David of Cooyal in Oz

      I guess the author had heard that 38 something was the same as 100 some other thing and water boils at 100 so at 42 it must already be boiling…

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Michael Anton recently published an article titled “The Pessimistic Case for the Future”. It really is pessimistic, but it’s hard to argue with his analysis.

    Recently, I was asked to make the “pessimistic case for the future.” I present instead more of a “pessimistic take on the present.” The future, while imminent, is obscure. The present, by contrast, is knowable. This is also not so much a “case” replete with exhaustive evidence—there isn’t space for that, nor is there a need—as a quick tour through our present hell. No one who thinks “everything is fine” will be persuaded otherwise. Those who see the seriousness of our problems hardly need proof. Nor have I made any attempt to be evenhanded, much less philosophically detached. My account is perforce one-sided. I hope it is wrong.”

    More at https://compactmag.com/article/the-pessimistic-case-for-the-future

    Via https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/07/i-fear-he-may-be-right.html

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    Graeme#4

    Claire Lehmann has raised the question of the faulty CSIRO GenCost report this morning in The Australian. Should be an interesting day.

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    farmerbraun

    Blatant censorship at work IN NZ .

    IPCC AR6 stated that the GWP of methane has been overstated by a factor of 3-4.
    Try searching this

    Owen Jennings: Are we taking IPCC advice on methane emissions or not?

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      Graeme No.3

      John Tyndall measured the infrared absorption of methane compared with carbon dioxide as 4.5 times.
      That was in 1860/61.
      Since then the ration has gone up and up. It was, I’m told, at 12 times in the first IPCC report (1990) but the last figure being banded about by alarmists is about 85 times.

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        farmerbraun

        Rural News group has two articles on the overstatement turn up via google , but neither will load .
        Funny that.

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      Thanks Kim,
      Russel Brand used to be a real dik head, but has evolved into an excellent critic of the current breed of governing dik heads !.
      Very entertaining.

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    MP

    Malcolm Roberts explaining which political party got us here. And the fools want to put the traitors back in.
    Both are the same and not just in the video links.

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/4xWIJr2oQKY9/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZFQLdeRzg

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