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Now that the boomers have largely retired, who will the younger generations blame for their ills now? Power generation, for example, has been out of our hands for decades now.
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So. As soon as you retire you are no longer to blame? I better start my pillaging now while I still have time.
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We blame the retired politicians as they caused it all, but they jumped ship before it fell on their heads.
Pitchforks and rope…
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Tar and feathers.
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Every ill that has befallen the countries I have lived in and their people have been caused by politicians and their stupid, ill-informed, vain decisions.
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mawm. They get PAID for their p*ss-poor efforts, so what else do you really expect from politicians? They have UNLIMITED ACCESS to other people’s money, with barely any accountability.
Example: Maybe Brittany Higgins was given three million bucks as suspected, or maybe three HUNDRED million bucks.. or three BILLION, or even three hundred billion. Who knows? It’s a secret how much the govt gives to drunken sheilas disappointed by their “date”, so suck it up!
Will Malcolm Turnbull hand over any of his massive fortune to re-imburse us for the Snowy 2.0 fiasco? Will any investigative journalist dig into up-front and trailing commissions to the foreign bank accounts of politicians making monumental payments for white elephants?
Answers : No, No, No , No…..and always No. We ALL already know what the go is, do we not?
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GA he meant the younger generations no longer have the power of critical thought they just see what is in front of them (its all that staring at devices, Myopic vision) or if you like “out of sight out of mind”
Therefore now that the baby boomers are no longer in charge someone else must be in charge and thus they must be blamed.
And i know what you are thinking……….who do the younger generation blame when they are in charge? Well by that time every system that was meticulously created to support these little treasures would have crumbled and decayed long ago through woke diversity employment policies, the policies that you support.
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Youngest boomers are 59.
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BS Gee Aye. Boomers were born from about 1945 to 1950 following the return of the vast number of young blokes who’d put family-creation on hold in WWII while they were away soldiering etc.the youngest is now about 73 or so.
The next actual increase in babies born was in the late 50s to late 60s when MIGRANTS arrived en masse. These were “immigrant kids” and not Boomers.
Here’s how I “know”…. When I was in school in the late 60s our text books (still at my mum’s place in a cupboard) had been first published (called Social Studies) in the early 60s. These text books describe Boomers as the children of returned servicemen, which are all “now” (ie then) teenagers.
You’ve been fooled again, Gee Aye.
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err no.
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The Boomers were the young adults of the 60s and 70s who protested against nuclear power, dams and The Man.
Yep. Retirement is not going to garner any forgiveness from me.
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Boom!
I don’t remember being in any of those stupid protests but I do remember working to pay tax for the reforms, voice part 1, instituted by the Whitlam government.
Go Khemlani.
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Mea Culpa. At least I matured and started to consider matters in a more critical light. I now think I”m the wisest person on the planet!
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For many others of my era I can’t speak for. Some acquaintances can’t discuss anything without getting emotional- finally declaring “I don’t want to talk about it”.
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Only the second wisest Glen. Sorry ’bout that. 🙂
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Very good of you to remember me, here in the UK.
Thanks!
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Wrong.
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The antinuclear movement was strongest in the late 1940s, and was led by many of the scientists whose research led to the development of nuclear weapons.
Opposition to nuclear power in the 60s and 70s was more about the perceived risks of nuclear accidents. The boomers activism was justified and prompted new approaches to system reliability and maintainability in the industry.
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Ex-USSR KGB and similar army officials have said how much money and effort the Russians put into anti-nuclear idiots in the west. I’ll leave you to imagine why they might have done that.
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As a kid, I remember seeing ‘Ban the Bomb’ stencilled on concrete structure all over the place.
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There was also a rash of “Nuclear Power – No Thanks ” slogans painted all over bridges, buildings etc. There is still one on a quarry face by the A38 near Bristol.
Nick Clegg has a lot to answer for by preventing new nuclear power stations from being built – on the basis that they would take 10 years to build.
They would be coming on stream now, just when we need them, providing efficient and reliable base load power.
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Stephen,
Yes.
And, for the plant-haters, those nuclear power stations emit no CO2.
Not much use for feeding 8 billion, though….
But Cleggie is fine – Ethics Supremo at one of the big tech outfits, I gather, which looks to me a bit like up-market prostitution for a Dim Leb ..
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RB – so our protests might have been because of the ofttimes shakey safety of the nuclear industry starting with a nuclear reactor meltdown at Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, Canada in 1952 and then all the nuclear submarine accidents -the K-19 (1961), K-11 (1965), K-27 (1968), K-140 (1968), K-429 (1970), etc. Then there was Cuban missile crisis (1962) where the US and the USSR were minutes away from launching nuclear missiles at each other, followed by the arms race between the two superpowers. All before I was out of my teens. Scary times! Add to it that our parents had experienced the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs and the memories were fresh in their minds.
Why aren’t you out protesting the upcoming ZNPP (Ukraine) false flag nuclear incident that the US (and their media lap dogs) so desperately wants to give them the excuse to launch a nuclear assault on the Russian Federation? We are probably closer to an all out nuclear war than at any previous time.
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Looks like I struck a nerve with Baby Boomers – the comment was more about how stupid the pigeon holing is.
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As for the Ukraine idiots, there is not much that can be done when even Dutton and Sky want you to believe it’s the Russians.
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Haven’t you started your “PILL”aging already?
Vitamin pills, blood pressure pills, this pill, that pill. . .
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Lets see, Boomers will have:
– not gotten out of the way soon enough
– held back the benefits of diversity
– set them up to fail
– not trained them properly
– run the system down
– absconded with the profits
– if all else fails, its a “perfect storm of events” that the boomers couldn’t have dealt with either
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I intend to sit back with the popcorn and an ale and watch the show for free.
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Yes, sadly we have run out of steam.
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“Now that the boomers have largely retired”
I click JoNova this AM and behold the first topic.
The anchor coffee shop in my little Uni Hipster urban village just ceased operations yesterday after 36 years.
Now the village, already hit by lockdowns, has another empty storefront.
Apparently, the Woke Gen workforce threatened to unionize and the management just threw in the towel and shut down.
I think maybe a problem we haven’t been paying attention to, is the social and psychological damage done to the generations now beginning to populate the workforce.
We may not be able to maintain an advanced society with a workforce of aspiring Communist revolutionaries, that demand tattoo and face piercing affirmative care, consider words to equal violence, and insist men are capable of birthing children.
Supposing Rebels Without a Cause has reached its’ terminal apex.
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BoM is waiting for the SST and atmosphere to fall into sync.
‘The Bureau of Meteorology will refrain from declaring El Niño this week as the atmosphere stubbornly refuses to respond to lingering warm water in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
‘Murmurs of a potential El Niño have been circulating since the start of this year, when forecast models began hinting at a swift transition from La Niña to El Niño in 2023.
‘Since then, the tropical Pacific Ocean has indeed shifted into a clear El Niño pattern, with a large tongue of abnormally warm water currently sitting at the surface of the central and eastern equatorial Pacific.’ (Weatherzone)
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The failure of El Nino to make its grand entrance at the behest of the all knowing band of morons identifying as various experts and/or politicians will obviously be blamed on…………………. Wait for it………..CLIMATE CHANGE and or the lack of it!!
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‘Band Of Morons’, luv it, BOM.
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Don’t know about all of that. All I know is that at our farm in the Central West of NSW we had virtually no rain to speak of in the whole of June. It is an ominous start to winter with little feed on the ground as winter begins. Certainly looks like the start of another El Nino. Fortunately, we still have considerable ground water and reasonable amounts in dams.
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I’m also in the Central West and its raining steadily.
This rain band is of interest because its being shunted down from the north by a meandering jet stream.
BoM is being prudent in not calling El Nino, it may turn out to be a Modoki.
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Large areas of QLD have received great winter rains. Around my turf on the coast near Townsvile – nothing. Models were bullish for a long time and expected rain failed. No matter.
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Larger areas of WA, SA and Vic have had a lot of autumn and early winter rainfall (eg: up to 350mm in some Adelaide Hills towns just in June) despite BoM’s never-ending predictions of “warmer and drier than average” for most of the country.
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Warm Modoki.
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El Nino Modoki is Central Pacific warming, however for that to happen the hot water tap off Peru has to shut down.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-140.53,2.13,269
My money is on that cold expanse of water to the north dropping down to cool the equatorial SST, a La Nina Modoki.
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It feels like the good old days have returned.
‘British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has received a stump-splaying delivery from our PM Anthony Albanese, who says Australia remains “right behind” the national cricket teams.
‘Mr Sunak on Monday accused the Australians of breaching the spirit of cricket, adding to the national pile-on over the controversial stumping of Jonny Bairstow in the second Ashes Test at Lord’s.’ (ABC)
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I think it was a disgusting display from Australia, at least he threw it underarm, kept the standard we have become accustomed too.
Australians, reminding the world why we were put on this floating desert.
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Whose side does your monarch take in all of this? The English have a hide when it comes to cricket “ethics” with all of that mid pitch deliveries. At least we let Stokes have a go.
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Whose side does your monarch take in all of this?
You spelt morals wrong.
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MP. Member of Parliament??
Probably a green one from the tone of your comment!
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Great point, bet that took you hours to come up with. Where did you wring the green bit out of…….oops my bad, same place you got the rest of your logic from.
Just like the underarm ball, not illegal, just immoral.
Society has reached the bottom rung in morals, good to see you stepping down off that rung.
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There is no place for morality in cricket, rules are rules.
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Cricket is a game, a tradition, part of our culture. The gentlemans game.Thats just not cricket.
I shall inform the lad above, he is not alone at the bottom.
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I don’t see it as disgusting. It’s a legit stumping.
If you have seen the video you will note that Carey threw the ball at the stumps while Bairstow was still in his crease. There was no delay from Carey receiving the ball to throwing the ball. It was a very smart and instant action. So while there is a ball on its way to hitting Bairstow’s stumps Bairstow foolishly, and completely lacking awareness, walks out of his crease while the ball is live and seals his own dismissal. He probably did leave his crease thinking it was a dead ball. His reason for leaving the crease is his own fault. You don’t get called back for being dumb. Most batsmen get themselves out by being dumb in some way. Walking out of your crease just before the ball in transit hits your stumps is just another dumb way for a batsmen to get out.
Australia’s purpose is to dismiss Bairstow. Bairstow’s purpose is to stay in and score runs or support his partner scoring runs. It’s not Australia’s job to ensure the opposition don’t get themselves out. There wasn’t any special trickery or deceit. Bairstow was the architect of his own demise.
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yeah but you know, when things don’t go the way you want clearly the rules/laws are wrong or its “not in the spirit” of whatever.
People dont mind preferential voting until a government with 30 something % primary support gets in
People dont mind the electoral college in the US till it turns up the “wrong” President
People like the Supreme Court until it disagrees with “the narrative”
An old codger in our car club thinks certain cars shouldn’t be allowed club registration because they arent “in the spirit” of the scheme. This spirit only exists in his head.
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It is obvious that Bairstow was doing the same thing in the Australian First Innings (except he missed the stumps).
And I point out that the On-Ground Umpire nor the one in the stands referring the action were both agreed that he was out.
And my father remembered that Bodyline was thought OK by the British until Larwood & others were back in England doing the same thing to Englishmen, so it was promptly banned (but only then).
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The one on the field at square leg (or point) would not have known. The replay from side-on (behind the umpire) shows the umpire square of the wicket stopped looking after the ball passed Bairstow. He became pre-occupied with something in his hand and suddenly looked up when hearing the commotion near the pitch.
The umpire at the bowlers end wouldn’t have known given he only had a front on view.
I expect it was referred because neither umpire on the ground knew.
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Baisrstow tried the same thing when Australia was batting and McCullum, who was critical of the Aussies, has done it twice himself:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-03/mccullum-hits-out-over-bairstow-dismissal-during-ashes-at-lords/102553634
https://wwos.nine.com.au/cricket/the-ashes-news-2023-australia-vs-england-brendon-mccullum-on-jonny-bairstow-stumping-run-out-controvery/9ed61eea-9d56-47ed-a491-5b748b1cf094
Bairstow was still in his crease when Carey released the ball so it was a brain fade on Bairstow’s part – such an arrogant twerp to to not assess the ball was dead before he wandered off. Just because he is a bad aim does not mean other keepers are as bad as he.
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LOL Rick,
That display by Australia was pathetic, what it also showed is the Australian captain is as spineless as the last captain we had when he ordered a pleb to use sand paper on the ball. The sooner messrs Warner and Smith leave the team the better.
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Bairstow did practically the same thing years ago. Standing up behind the stumps, he caught the ball – the batsmen lifted his back foot, which was behind the crease, and Bairstow stumped him.
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Here’s the video of Bairstow effecting that stumping and Bairstow saying “it’s within the rules”
https://youtu.be/18YXVml-SlY
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Many years ago I was dismissed in same fashion at a small country ground. I still maintain I didn’t hear over called. I was 5 runs short of a ton.
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If you didn’t hear over called why did you leave your crease?
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If over had been called the ball would have been dead and you wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) have been given out.
If you didn’t hear over called then you should not have been out of your crease or you risk being stumped or run out.
Did you mean to say you maintain you did hear “over” called.
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Poor judgement on my part.
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Hope this helps
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sorry to hear that, shows how desperate they were to get you out
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I was 18. I could have been a contender.
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How was that disallowed catch, give us that and you can have your fairly stumped idiot back.
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I have a question about the unprecedented and appalling forced acquisition of the Calvary Hospital in Canberra. Who is paying for it? What is a council forcibly acquiring a hospital? Let alone why in a democratic country? Or is Canberra now a Marxist state?
My question related to the illegal theft administered by the Commonwealth Clean Energy Authority of tens of billions from everyone in their electricity bills. This has been going on for over 20 years with LGCs and STCs. The Renewable Energy(Electricity) Act 2001 avoided using the word carbon and also avoided the word tax, but that’s what it is. Except it is government endorsed and administered theft. Governments have not had that power since Magna Carta.
And I noted that the City of Canberra owned their own windmills and at one stage had an embarrassing $36Million in cashable LGCs in their accounts, raw profit from generating wind. Like all the other windmill owners, except this $36 Million has no home. It was not a lawful tax, but unearned cash for the simple fact of generating, not even selling green electrons. From publicly owned windmills. What is a government body doing profiteering? And potentially public servants who cannot, dare not explain the origin of the money. Are they running a private business?
It has not been mentioned since, but it must be well over $100 Million by now. Stolen money. What happened to the cash?
And are they now laundering the government organized stealth windfall by compulsorily acquiring the Calvary Hospital, a privately owned and run business? That’s theft and laundering not seen before in Australia. This is government out of control doing things which in law should be criminal.
So does anyone know where they are getting the cash?
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Albanese promised to reduce household electricity bills which are now skyrocketing. If Canberra is profiteering with publicly owned windmills, the heart of the Federal government is being run as a criminal enterprise. For all the best reasons, of course.
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Who is paying for it? The ACT.
What is a council forcibly acquiring a hospital?
It is not a council and it runs the health service. Calvary was paid to run a branch of the public system. Calvary private in Bruce and John James (private) in south Canberra are untouched.
Let alone why in a democratic country?
It is a territory not a country.
Or is Canberra now a Marxist state?
Maybe
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There is no council.
‘paid to run’? The government does not own you just because you provide services.
And it is Australia which is democratic, clearly not Canberra where the council has now passed a law to compulsorily acquire a service provider. Because they can.
What I want to know is who is paying? And where do they get their money?
“Established in 1885 by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary, Calvary is a not-for-profit Catholic health care organisation.”
Like the LGCs, this is more legalized robbery. And what happened to those LGCs? As a government body Canberra is a not-for-profit as well. So what did they do with the money? And all the rest?
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Calvary is an organisation that was paid to run a part of the public system. They have had that role removed.
Did you actually think that what you wrote refuted what I wrote?
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No such entity exists
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So what is the capital city of Oz then?
Canberra IS a city.
Not only that, but there are TWO City of Canberra’s 🙃
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburbs_of_Canberra
Most suburbs of the Australian Capital Territory are designed around local shops, centrally located within walking distance of the outer parts of the suburb. Consequently, they are generally smaller in size to the suburbs of other cities. A typical Australian Capital Territory suburb is bounded on all sides by major roads, and at the centre, contains local shops, or at least a local store. Some also contain a petrol station, a church, or other community facilities. Many also contain a primary school and a preschool.
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Facinating
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Canberra is a city but that is not what I was disputing.
There is no entity called “The City of Canberra” that owns things. There is no city council, no mayor and no money. The ACT government is the only tier of government below the federal government in the ACT.
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That’s wrong. Canberra is a city in the Territory of the ACT. Who cares about entities?
Is Canberra a town or city?
Canberra is the capital city of Australia and with a population of just over 325,000, is Australia’s largest inland city.
The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory, 300 kilometres (190 mi) southwest of Sydney, and 650 kilometres (400 mi) north-east of Melbourne.
This is another silly game like oxygen is not combustible. Sophistry and wrong. Canberra is a city. It does not have a council. Which is my point. The government of Canberra is a runaway Marxist council, answerable to itself. Which has become a problem for accountability.
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Glad you are not drawing up any legal documents for me.
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So am I. This is pedantry taken to a new level. It’s a city state. And provides all the municipal services.
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Canberra is well over 400k in population now. Also, those distances are by road – because Sydney controls this country, to get out of Canberra towards Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, you must first drove NW to Yass. As a crow flies, it is only about 460kms to Australia’s biggest city.
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I like the line from “Aliens” when Ripley says ” I say nuke the entire site from orbit – it’s the only way to be sure “. Just saying.
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Some perspicacious individual called it a waste of a good sheep paddock. Billy Hughes ridiculed the putative name Myola for the capital. ” Myola, Myola – he taunted , it sounds like the dying wails of an Italian prostitute”. You can’t get away with that sort of stuff today. Then, you could.
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The site was chosen by NSW Government Surveyor Charles Scrivener. Apparently the local Ngunnawal people used a meeting place with a name that colloquially translates as “where the boobs meet”.
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Canberra is a bit like a farm.
There’s a lot of sheep wandering around aimlessly, probably trying to keep warm.
Then you’ve got a big building with a massive amount of pigs inside, all with their snouts in the trough.
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“So does anyone know where they are getting the cash?”
China ??
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An interesting extract from a National Maritime Museum exhibit on wharfs;
In 2017, Thomas was part of the foundational moment at Uluru that conceived the Uluru Statement from the Heart, having been elected from the Darwin Dialogue on Constitutional reform to participate in the culmination of 13 regional constitutional dialogues. Following the Convention, Thomas was entrusted with carrying the sacred canvas of the Uluru statement across the country on an 18-month journey to garner support for a constitutionally enshrined First Nations voice and a Makaratta Commission for truth telling and agreement-making or treaties.
The campaign for the Uluru Statement from the Heart to form the basis of constitutional recognition of the voice to parliament is a turning point in the history of Australia’s relationship with First Nations Australia. It is already inspiring many other communities across Australia such as those of the Torres Strait who are seeking self-determination and regional sovereignty, outlined in a four-point plan called ‘The Masig Statement – Malungu Yangu Wakay (Voice from the Deep)’.
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NYT Warns Readers: ‘Our SUN Is Causing Cancers To Suddenly Spike’
In an article entitled, “How to Get Absolutely No Sun This Summer,”1 the author states that there is “no such thing as a safe exposure to the sun,” warning that should you expose yourself to the sunlight, you’re setting yourself up for an aggressive form of cancer.
But that’s not all. A full face mask that covers your face up to your eyes — or one that goes completely over your head — is also recommended, along with sun capes, gloves, sunglasses and visors. Or, you could simply avoid going outside altogether. Dr. Maressa C. Criscito, an assistant professor of dermatology at New York University Langone Health, told the Times.
https://discernreport.com/why-the-new-york-times-advises-complete-avoidance-of-sunshine/
Quite right. Fresh air, sunshine and vitamin D are bad.
Everyone knows that.
The sun is also suddenly producing way more harmful radiation than it was 3 years ago.
Stay inside. It’s safe.
The turbo cancers will stop if everyone goes inside.
Don’t ya just love science. 😆
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I bet all my possessions that she votes Democrat & is a fully paid up member of the “ I love Joe Biden” club!!
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The three main types of skin cancer are BCC, SCC and Melanoma.
2/3 of melanoma are NOT sun related.
BCC and SCC are sun related, and SCC is also related to repeated trauma.
I would argue that exposure to sun is healthy. There are some risks but
they can be mitigated. This zealot dermatologist is misguiding people.
The people with more melanin are prone to rickets and other sequelae
of Vit D deficiency.
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How many thirds of melanoma from the radioactive dust blowing over the East coast from South Australia’s atomic tests?? The odd speck of invisible but highly radioactive dust must create havoc on the skin and in the lungs. There was thousands of tons of it.
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I suspect the turbo cancers she speaks of have something to do with an untested drug most people lined up willingly to take
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as do the very high number of sudden, aggressive cancers being reported almost daily in the UK press amongst late 20 to 50 year olds
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Perhaps even in more general terms, the alteration of the human immune system in response to the introduction of the “spike protein”. Whatever its source. Though one vector seems more productive thatn others
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It Was All a Scam! Charging Electric Cars Now Costs More Than Gas
Oil giant Shell, which oversees the majority of the charging networks in the UK, now charges 85p per kWh for its ultra-rapid chargers. BP, the country’s largest provider, charges 79p per kWh.
For drivers of the UK’s best-selling affordable electric car, Kia e-Niro, a full recharge would cost up to £54.40, which amounts to around 23p per mile on a battery offering an average real-world range of around 230 miles.
By contrast, the best-selling petrol model last year, Ford Puma, would cost approximately £60 ($115 AUD)to refill, based on latest unleaded prices, which means with its range of around 400 miles (640km), it is 8p cheaper per mile than the Kia e-Niro.
There are similar results when comparing petrol models and electric models from the same brand. The VW Golf 1.5L petrol car would cost around £71.85 to fill, amounting to around £13p per mile with its 550 mile range.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12257239/Recharging-electric-cars-expensive-petrol-refill-amid-surging-electricity-costs.html
When will people wake up?
It was NEVER about saving the planet.
The green products are just carefully planned traps.
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It is forgotten the billions of dollars spent globally for Greens demand to remove lead from petrol/gas and sulphur from distillate/diesel, the oil refinery processing costs, the fuel station pumps and tanks and the internal combustion engine modifications required.
Mission accomplished so onto electric vehicles and banning fossil fuels.
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And here was I thinking it was going to be free… Bloomin bunch of fools who swallowed the cool-aid. Why did they think we are being forced to switch to everything electrical?
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A Swiss Company is mounting solar panels on old wind turbine blades.
Replacing one useless technology with another.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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That’s good thinking.
Put solar panels on turbine blades so when it’s not windy but is sunny, the panels can power the turbine.
Isn’t that how the green movement works?
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And with no wind at night, it’s no worse.
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Tuesday entertainment: how to launch a ship
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rx5yqfNf3D1w5pr9j.mp4
Sooooo lucky…
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I noticed windmills on the side of the ship
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My mother launched a ship but I am not game to try because I am much stronger than she was.
lol
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Well, Helen – later of Troy, had a face that launched a thousand ships. That’s some rescue party.
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Penny Wong is similar, except it might sink those ships
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Hence the beauty rating unit of a milli-Hellen
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Ignore safety 101. Never stand within a cable length of any cable under load. They were luck the wharf bollard gave and the cable went out into the water. Had the cable failed at the other ends very likely fatalities.
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Hollywoodland over explored the subject of cable tension in the movie Ghost Ship. Not for the faint of heart. Various clips from the movie are on general view on Youtube but you should still
Proceed with caution.
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And it was very surprising to launch in this way on this very narrow canal. The ship is nearly as long as the canal is wide? A sideways launch is usual.
So I have no idea how they planned to stop it. Launched like this a ship will go out a kilometer with tugboats to steer until the momentum is halted by the rear.10,000+ tons falling at speed?
Nothing would hold that. It was a terrible and accidental mistake which could have killed many people. Those lines should never be left running free. There must have been something else to stop it crashing into the opposite bank. Whatever it was, it wasn’t enough. There was a miscalculation.
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Tuesday cooking corner: vegan special
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rx5ybcQM1o1w5pr9j.mp4
That’s pretty much what I do.😆
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Vegan is an ancient tribal language word meaning incompetent hunter.
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thats funny
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The military undertakes exchange programmes in which selected service personnel are sent to serve in a foreign (usually allied) country’s forces. They serve for two years, gaining valuable insight into how those forces operate, and return with additional expertise.
I reckon Australia should institute an exchange programme with Sweden, wherein they get Chris Bowen in exchange for their energy minister. Of course, Bowen is so deficient in learning that the duration of the exchange will need to be much longer – either until Sweden’s tolerance evaporates, or, preferably, indefinite!
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Crikey
who writes for Crikey? Are they asking for a bitumen highway network through National Parks?
And how truthful is that last sentence? As if that is the reason. Who’s side do they think the ABC is on?
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/dan-andrews-parks-choke-towns-divide-communities-and-favour-white-men/ar-AA1dlqLD?ocid=BingHp01&cvid=ecffaa8835794368f43417ce69de6eed&ei=25
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And with only 70 years of experience doing all these things I have noticed that men of all colours and creeds do these things.
Some women of varying backgrounds have also been observed, however I have noticed that many of the female sex PREFER the comforts of soft beds warm houses and showers on demand. Winching a 4 wheel drive through 100’s of metres of mud and snow or lumping a deer or pig out of the scrub just isn’t everones cup of tea. Doing so implies nothing more than wanting to do it. I personally don’t like going to the football, everyone that does is clearly racist.
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North Atlantic SST exceedingly warm.
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-02-at-9.31.07-AM.webp?ssl=1
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More accurately, it is anomalously warm. The warm patch off Spain is 19C. About what Bass Strait gets to in summer
Only the Gulf of Mexico is warm:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp/orthographic=-75.70,22.50,340/loc=-92.476,28.100
Just above 31C. Still a few weeks away from convective instability taking control to pull the temperature back under 30C. Convective instability has control in the Arabian Sea.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/level/overlay=sea_surface_temp/orthographic=-278.67,4.66,340/loc=63.428,22.451
The point circled will be the nadir of the midday sun at this time of year but water now cooler than it was before the monsoon set in. Mumbai recording impressive rainfall in the past week or so.
https://mausam.imd.gov.in/mumbai/rainfall_info.php
Think how much energy went into the surface to get this water above 10km in the atmosphere then how much was required to condense it. And some ignorant soles actually believe CO2 can alter Earth’s energy balance.
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Unprecedented June temperatures.
‘The hottest June on record has caused the deaths of thousands of fish, with climate change to blame.
‘The Met Office said yesterday the average temperature for June this year hit 15.8C. This is 0.9C hotter than the joint previous record of 14.9C in 1940 and 1976, according to the forecaster’s provisional figures.
‘In total, 72 counties saw the hottest June since records began in 1884.’ (UK Mail)
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meh
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Reading between the lines, stuck weather is caused by blocking, but you already knew that.
‘Dr Richard Hodgkins, senior lecturer in physical geography at University of Loughborough says it is notable how the warm weather “fits expectations of a changing climate in the UK”.
‘He said researchers have been predicting patterns where weather appears to get “stuck”, which would mean longer heatwaves.’ (BBC)
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And yet nowhere in the UK has exceeded 32.2C 90F so far this year!
What we had was a statistical quirk, highest MEAN temperatures, extreme uniformity of warm but not exceptional temperatures across the whole UK and throughout June.
July is not following the same script at all.
The fish story is just more climate BS that doesn’t stand up to the slightest intelligent scrutiny.
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https://www.reuters.com/legal/jpmorgan-agrees-settle-with-epstein-victim-class-action-suit-2023-06-12/
NEW YORK, June 12 (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) agreed to pay about $290 million to settle a class action lawsuit by Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, resolving a large part of litigation over the bank’s relationship with the disgraced financier.
Banks, our moral saviours. Do they play cricket?
Reuters take on Epsteins crimes.
Epstein was a JPMorgan client from 1998 to 2013 and was kept on even after being arrested in 2006 on prostitution-related charges and pleading guilty two years later.
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Last night in the AEMO network, solar zero, wind 4.6%.
How’s that renewable energy target of 82 per cent by 2030 going? And at what cost?
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Mission Impossible 101
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But Coles will be powered by 100% renewables by 2025?
So…they’re closing down or only operating on sunny/windy days?
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I wonder how many times the same so called “renewable energy” is sold to these companies and residential fanboys?
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Farmers ‘absolutely ambushed’ by WA’s Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act
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And this is pre Voice. This is what all governments will turn to once this Voice nonsense gets rejected.
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Stability AI CEO: There Will Be No (Human) Programmers in Five Years
Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of Stability AI, has a provocative prediction as artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly transforms our world: “There will be no programmers in five years.” Indeed, the futuristic CEO seems to envision a near-future shaped by the capabilities of AI.
Data from GitHub reveals that “41% of all code right now is AI generated,” Mostaque remarked. More interestingly, “In three months we overtook Bitcoin and Ethereum (in Github) and developed a popularity (there),” a testament to AI’s growing popularity over cryptocurrency.
Stability AI is the company behind Stable Diffusion, the world’s most popular open-source image generator. The company’s ambitions, however, include a wide range of projects, spanning multiple sectors, from building models for protein folding, DNA analysis, and chemical reactions to language models and audio-visual data processing.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stability-ai-ceo-no-human-193413248.html
It’s amazing how much can be produced by fake AI now.
Python, the #1 programming language, can construct pretty much anything you want. Vast open source code libraries and DLL’s make coding easy.
In a few decades real AI will run everything and the creators (us) will have no understanding of how anything works, let alone the ability to fix anything, just as it is now.
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Texas Christian University now offers ‘The Queer Art of Drag’ as an ACADEMIC course
First it was reading books to children. Then it was dressing in religious garb. Now it’s become a subject worthy of academic study.
If you’re a student at TCU, you can earn actual college credit for taking a class titled “The Queer Art of Drag,” which is, unsurprisingly, offered by the Department of Women and Gender Studies.
In this class, students create their own drag persona and explore how such personas “contribute to queer world making.”
http://www.stationgossip.com/2023/07/texas-christian-university-now-offers.html
Job interviewer: “What are your qualifications?”
Candidate: ” I’m from a disadvantaged, repressed race, failed all my exams but graduated anyway and I have a certificate in queer studies”
Interviewer: ” You’re hired! Your first job will be to design an EV” 😆😆
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Senator David Fawcett: Why I don’t support the Voice to Parliament — There is a better way
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Clear, concise, well presented. Avoided all of the emotional pleading, just the facts. Why are these articulate people so often hidden from general view by the msm?
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Latest (Govt) media release from the Australian “Minister for Climate Change and Energy” Chris Bowen. Dated today 4th July 2023.
Quote by Bowen:
“Energy policy chaos saw 4GW of dispatchable power leave the grid over the past decade, with only 1GW to replace it – we need to ensure we have the energy infrastructure to keep the lights on today and into the future.”
https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/bowen/media-releases/community-consultation-key-developing-renewable-energy-infrastructure
Ok.. So Bowen admits (in his government media release) that Australian government energy policy,, has resulted in a loss of 4GW of dispatchable power,
and have only replaced that loss with 1GW. (Nameplate only I fear)
Also an ABC report related to the transmission lines policies was published today, 4th July 2023.
Titled:
Federal Government Launches Transmission line review
(Farmers/landowners are voicing serious concern.)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-04/federal-government-launches-transmission-line-review/102559232
Quotes (re article) from the Minister:
“I certainly understand that transmission lines are in your face, if you like,” Mr Bowen said.
“They’re a big piece of infrastructure in very beautiful parts of Australia.
“So I certainly understand community concerns.
“They are also absolutely vital to our energy grid and absolutely vital to making our energy grid, in time, zero emissions.”
“There’s no transition without transmission,” Mr Bowen said.
Make of that what you will.
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Blackout Bowen who is effectively in charge of Australia’s Electricity Grid and who has NO experience in Electrical Engineering or how an Electricity Grid should be set up and maintained to provide reliable power at a reasonable cost to the Consumer.
Blackout Bowen has NFI.
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Joe Biden behaving as he usually does
https://youtu.be/iz19y9a9bsQ
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More costs coming?
“Reinsurance Rates for Catastrophic Coverage Jump as High as 50% to Insurance Companies Effective July 1st
July 3, 2023 | Sundance | 64 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/03/reinsurance-rates-for-catastrophic-coverage-jump-as-high-as-50-to-insurance-companies-effective-july-1st/
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A definite first in books –
I’m reading Geoffrey Blainey’s “A short history of the 20th century” by “Viking an imprint of Penguin Books”
At page 324 it suddenly reverts to page 309, runs to page 324 and then page 341 – missing the actual pages 325 – 340.
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He must’ve been studying history with a time machine.
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Greens in Germany move to ban meat.
https://youtu.be/645mCo-GZYI
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First outcome, the Law of Unintended Consequences. Ban meat and overnight a blackmarket will jump into being. All the gains in animal welfare over the last hundred years will vanish. People will go back to keeping pigeons in their loft, rabbits in a little hutch, chickens in the back yard etc, all for one purpose, it will be a great money spinner.
The unregulated raising and processing of these small critters, well who cares.
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I’ve been trying, rather unsuccessfully, to find out the amount of TIME that a CO2 molecule allegedly “traps” heat for. A guy named Gary Novak claims that it is 83 femtoseconds, or quadrillionths of a second.
But, then I came across this paper and wondered if anyone here would like to comment on it (as I’m trying to write a series of articles aimed at school kids, offering them questions to ask their science teacher, with regards to ‘climate change’):
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https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14240
Observational determination of surface radiative forcing by CO2 from 2000 to 2010
… However, despite widespread scientific discussion and modelling of the climate impacts of well-mixed greenhouse gases, there is little direct observational evidence of the radiative impact of increasing atmospheric CO2. Here we present observationally based evidence of clear-sky CO2 surface radiative forcing that is directly attributable to the increase, between 2000 and 2010, of 22 parts per million atmospheric CO2. The time series of this forcing at the two locations—the Southern Great Plains and the North Slope of Alaska—are derived from Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer spectra3 together with ancillary measurements and thoroughly corroborated radiative transfer calculations4. The time series both show statistically significant trends of 0.2 W m−2 per decade (with respective uncertainties of ±0.06 W m−2 per decade and ±0.07 W m−2 per decade) and have seasonal ranges of 0.1–0.2 W m−2. …
[Or .0186 W/square foot—per DECADE—if I’ve done the math right. The bulb in my night light is 4 watts.]
Oh, and when they talk about watts per square meter, where is that measured? On the surface of the Earth, or at the upper boundary of the atmosphere? Thanks!
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The important question is this;
IF a CO2 molecule “traps” heat, where did that heat come from and then where is that heat going to.
Basically, that CO2 molecule is surrounded, surrounded I tells you, by The Atmosphere which is at constant temperature and pressure and volume for the situation.
Variations of T, P and V may occur at the boundaries.
Basically, CO2 is simply an atmospheric gas, but when confined in a laboratory by cruel Climate Change Scientists it can do things out of the ordinary.
Always look at the bigger, macro picture first.
Discussing micro effects can be irrelevant and misleading.
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Yes, duh! I wrote extensively about that in my Part-2 article. Where does the heat come from to heat those trace molecules on a winter day in Minnesota when the thermometer outside reads 10 below and the wind is blowing the snow at your feet into drifts!
I believe I have a fair amount of common sense.
And Gee Aye, if it’s not the Earth’s surface then it must be the upper edge of the atmosphere—where none of us live.
I will check out Happer. Thanks everyone!
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Keith asks — “IF a CO2 molecule “traps” heat, where did that heat come from and then where is that heat going to.”
The River of Energy flows Sun > Earth > Atmosphere > Space.
That is the Big Macro picture.
Perhaps you missed my reply to the last repeat round of this? Sigh.
It’s genuinely frustrating Keith. https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/thursday-11/#comment-2680699
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Thanks for responding Jo, and no I didn’t miss that previous comment.
And yes, it is frustrating when we have so much expertise here on this blog which is being shut down.
I have read comments here by many who give an impression of competence in the area of atomic physics, atmospheric physics, thermodynamics and top down analysis of complex systems.
Unfortunately I agree that even if we worked together to put a solid group effort together to get the correct picture, we could do nothing with it.
The Truth has been canned, swamped and deep sixed by the likes of the ABCCC, the UNIPCCC and their appendages here in Australia who pretend to be politicians and public servants.
The larger issue is that our democracy has been taken from us and we are flailing around getting nowhere.
It is highly frustrating.
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JB, when you read all that “stuff” it sounds very sciency, but in fact is just assumption piled on top of assumption.
They use that term “forcing” to cover the fact that they have no idea what’s going on and then compound their deceit by claiming to have “models” of something or other.
It’s all advertising, certainly not science.
Years ago they got caught out on the lack of capacity of CO2: just one small detail and they covered up by saying, “we knew that, what we meant was that it accelerates water in the atmosphere”.
As for measuring watts per square metre, doesn’t matter where you measure it because it’s irrelevant because they have No Idea of the full range of inputs and sinks.
Dodge, squirm, turn about, obfuscate and avoid the truth because the whole money making thing would collapse.
Basically, during their education?, climate scientists are taught to accept that CO2 traps heat and once they’ve done that everything else falls into place.
It’s not CO2 that drives this rubbish, it’s the Money, The power and the glory of being a Klimate Professor.
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JB, look for info from the world’s leading atmospheric scientist, Prof. William Happer. I consider that his very good answer to David Burton on 12 Nov 2014 provided an excellent answer.
As Happer explains, when a CO2 molecule absorbs a 15 micron photon from CO2 or H2O, about 99.9999999% of the time it will give up its energy by collision with another gas molecule, NOT by re-emission of another photon. He postulates that the CO2 decay time is around 0.2 to 0.43 secs, during which time it is bombarded by other gas molecules, stealing the energy with kinetic collisions. (He provides a more detailed explanation, but surely the number above should suffice.)
Happer and Wijngaarden produced a very good paper on the subject around Oct 2020.
There is also a very good video put out by PragerU on the subject, and more recently, Jim Steele’s presentation (WUWT 9 April 2023).
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One way I like to think about this is to consider a mouse, trying to protect his small chunk of cheese, in a room full of hungry stampeding elephants. Will the mouse be able to eat his cheese? There is a tiny, remote possibility that he will be able to, but in reality, the elephants will predominate.
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Graeme#4 — good answer — thank you.
JB — the reason its probably hard to answer your question is that — especially in the lower atmosphere, collisions are so common, and a better question (which depends on pressure) is how long before one molecule hits another.
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I love real Ementaller cheese.
Unfortunately most packets labeled that are poor copies and just cashing in on the name.
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I see no one tried to answer your question JB but instead gave patronising generalisations about stuff that interests them.
I’m not sure where the square metre is observed in the atmosphere but it is not the earth’s surface. Maybe someone else can help.
The delay between absorption and emission is not as important as what happens upon emission as this is what sets a GHG apart from just any old excited molecule. SO have a look at direction of emission and the properties of the emission (ie wavelength)
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Patronising.
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The following is copied from elsewhere. Apparently the government will be stopping fire ant eradication, an invasive species, but continues to waste vast amounts of money on “climate change” nonsense. It shows you what the true priorities are.
SEE WEBSITE https://invasives.org.au/how-to-help/take-action/sign-the-petition-killer-ants-gf/
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Just released video about lab leak of covid-19.
Who was patient zero and were they doing gain-of-function research?
https://youtu.be/UiGALVrYEG0
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World’s hottest day evah! Over 17C apparently.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66104822
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And predicted to not last very long as “even higher” average temperatures are expected in the near future.
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Current temperature at McMurdo in Antarctia is minus 30.5 c Current temperature in Dubai is plus 32 c for an average temperature of 1.5 c, We clearly are all DOOMED to die of COLD at this rate
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CO2 absorption vs H2O. This graph tells us the relative importance molecule for molecule. CO2 is a very weak greenhouse gas compared to H2O.
Generally there is vastly more invisible H2O in the air than CO2, not counting clouds. On this water world almost all places are 1% H2O. Not fog or mist or clouds. And it means you do not have to keep drinking water because your 400m2 of thin lung surface does not dry out. Even in the Australian desert, it is generally 1% humidity. Some deserts like the Sahara though have 0% and nothing rots, so mummification. In tropical areas, humidity can be 4%.
But for the rest of the planet 1% is 25x more than CO2. And as you can see from the graph the amount of absorption by CO2 is far less. And there are few places where CO2 absorbs where H2O does not already absorb. It is H2O which keeps this planet from being a frozen ball of ice.
What it means is that CO2 is almost completely irrelevant as the other ocean gas, H2O, also evaporates and is rapidly absorbed continuously in 25x the concentration and maybe 10x the effect. And increase of 50% in a tiny gas which has a fraction of the effect is irrelevant.
Scientists knew this, so the proposal of CO2 dramatic warming required CO2 not to heat the planet but to produce slightly more H2O on average and this heated the planet. Except that we could measure this extra CO2 as a band of water vapour over the equator and it is not there.
So tiny CO2 cannot of itself heat the planet because it is totally masked by H2O. And the only mechanism proposed to allow it to happen has been proven wrong.
There is no mechanism for CO2 to produce significant warming. And certainly no mechanism for CO2 to heat the oceans, as is now openly claimed to explain obvious ocean heating.
Dr Judith Curry was once the darling of the death by coal crowd because she wrongly connected increased hurricane activity with higher CO2. Something she later retracted. The current evidence is that hurricane activity has gone down, as predicted by all meteorologists. Dr Curry has now left the university and does professional climate consulting for large firms like insurance companies.
Dr Judith Curry now states openly and based on the IPCC reports that the two dominant factors in climate variation are direct Solar activity and oscillations in ocean currents.
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To cool the human body we sweat, evaporate water. Fur covered dogs can only do this with their tongues, but can live at -50C. We naked apes would suffer hypothermia even at 20C. Clearly we can handle much hotter weather than most animals except reptiles.
Like all living things our energy is supplied by carbohydrates from photosynthesis, generally further processed. We cannot however process cellulose and leave that to ruminants, termites and fungi. We are carbon creatures.
And we rapidly exchange CO2 at 7%-14% for more O2 in our wet lungs, which is why they have to be wet. The idea that highly soluble CO2 cannot rapidly leave water or enter water is nonsense. This exchange is incredibly fast with every breath and increases rapidly with gas velocity, as in wind over water.
What this means is that CO2 and H2O are the essential gases for all life. And the reason CO2 is being taxed is because of the money. It was always the dreams of governments to control everything and tax everything. And now they can.
There is no Science in Man Made Global Warming. No man made CO2. No Global. And not any warming.
But we are now in Albanese’s Safeguard Mechanism where 5% of all CO2 is taxed. Increasing by 5% a year for 7 years. And already it is causing real problems as companies point out it is going to force complete shutdown, which is being quietly negotiated behind closed doors.
The steel and concrete industries, the ‘biggest polluters’ have negotiated 1%. Others are fighting. Otherwise no more glass making, fertilizer, sewage processing, mining.
It’s a bizzaro world where the government, we the people, is trying to shut down all manufacturing, farming, trucking, shipping across the country or force everyone to buy government carbon certificates. It is all happening now.
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Very true TdeF
“And the appalling “Safeguard Mechanism” is the most appalling legislation in Australia’s history. All based the crazy idea that a 50% increase in CO2 over 250 years is heating the planet. But the money and power this gives is unprecedented. Goodbye Magna Carta. Hello slavery. And the wealthiest city in Australia is going to get a lot richer and more powerful”.
Activists have always focussed on this 50% increase in CO2 in 250 years to wrongly conclude this has caused climate change CAGW etc, without applying it to the almost unmeasurable, tiny amount of atmospheric CO2 to get a realistic appreciation of it’s impact.
The present CO2 concentration is some 420 ppm which is the same as ONE CO2 molecule in any 2,380 random sample of air – this proportion equates to 0.66 molecule of CO2 250 years ago.
Now look at a CO2 picture, which now does not promote end of the world hysteria.
Now atmospheric CO2 includes ONE CO2 molecules in 2,380, while 250 years ago atmospheric CO2 included only 0.66 molecules in 2,380
This comparison does not lend itself to activist manipulation especially when 97% is from natural sources
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And there are more forces at work given that most Nationalities are actually Federations. In Federations like Australia, America and Canada and now the EU, the only thing people wanted at a Federal level were currency, immigration, defence. Not health, police, education, mining, agriculture.
So as the Washington/Ottawa/Canberra/Brussels grew, what to do? The story of Canberra is to use a clause in the Constitution which allows ‘gifts’ so highly conditional gifts are used to control education and health and more. Meanwhile the Federal minions have the novel payroll tax and now a GST and no authority.
A contentious and very significant area is power, electrical power. And Climate Change enabled the Federal government minions in Canberra to seize control. Most power in the world by far is fossil fuel which are state controlled property, but if everyone can be force to use electricity and minerals like coal and gas and oil can be vilified, the Federal government will literally control and can tax all power. They can also turn electrical power on and off at will. Say turn off all the airconditioners or electric cars in an instant in just Victoria. Smart meters? Ball and chain.
I might point out that forcibly buying hospitals by the Federal government is another grab for power, big businesses run by public servants when in fact since the invention of monasteries hospitals, education, tending the sick and poor was a Christian function often run by devout Christians for free. That’s insane, so Canberra is going to run the hospitals too by compulsory acquisition.
It was only a few years ago that power mad Daniel Andrews wanted to move St. Vincents hospital, until someone pointed out that the government did not own it. So expect more compulsory acquisition.
And the aim is power and cash, not the benefit of the people as governments move to control and tax everyone. Starting with electricity. And there is no evidence at all that public servants are best equipped to run electricity, mining, hospitals, education
or anything else. But plenty of evidence that costs go through the roof. As in Snowy II which was supposed to be self funding and finished by now but is heading into the never ever and costs over $20Billion.
There is no real problem with coal, gas, oil. We are rich. But there is a huge problem with a massive Federal drive to control and tax everything we do. And the appalling “Safeguard Mechanism” is the most appalling legislation in Australia’s history. All based the crazy idea that a 50% increase in CO2 over 250 years is heating the planet. But the money and power this gives is unprecedented. Goodbye Magna Carta. Hello slavery. And the wealthiest city in Australia is going to get a lot richer and more powerful.
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I also find it ironic and appalling that Australia’s coal income has absolutely boomed, making WA, NSW, QLD and the Federal government coffers boom with taxes, budgets in surplus. Hooray! Such clever treasurers. And preventing Global Warming of course. But the overwhelming reason for the boom is the terrible war in Ukraine, good vs evil all over again. And our military stand off with China, our largest trading partner. And we are riding the tidal wave of vastly increased incomes in everything from coal to gas to wheat. What a wonderful war which we fully support? And a cold war with China. Meanwhile the EU wants to prolong and intensify the Ukraine war by promising to rapidly make Ukraine part of the EU and NATO alliance against Russia. And they think the Joe Biden’s Americans will protect them? They should look at what Joe did to Afghanistan in just 24 hours.
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“And there is no evidence at all that public servants are best equipped to run electricity, mining, hospitals, educationor anything else. ”
That reminds me, Utopia Australia tonight! See the world as it really is…!
The most appalling legislation in Australia was allowing the formation of a Federal Govt that could demand taxes. The stupidity of the people of the time who put the Federal Govt above the States instead of having them beg the States for money is only matched by the stupidity of the current peoples who think Labor is different to the Coalition.
They should represent Australia internationally and do nothing else, getting their finances by asking the States for money each year. Let the States compete on everything else and may the best State win!
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It’s all like Yes Minister. Governments come and go. But I see Canberra as a Labour/Green city where the public servants run the government and write the laws. And what they are up to with the “Safeguard Mechanism” let alone “The Voice” would be a shock if properly explained by the people responsible. It puzzles me that Albanese acts so emotional instead of explaining the point of the legislation and how it will help anyone other than the minions.
I have to add that I do not see anyone as evil or conspiratorial, although that could be true. Rather I see them as all acting in their own best interests and not that of the people they serve. Even the politicians are supposed to be minstering to the people, not looking after themselves.
Worse we see the Medici complex, that they are the powerful and successful ones even though despite its 400,000 people, Canberra does nothing.
And for example the games played with the Higgins affair are surreal and symptomatic of a malaise in Canberra where the rule of law is subject to the whims of the media and prominent people.
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FWIW
“SITREP 7/4/23: Final Hour of Zelensky’s Terror Ploy”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-7423-final-hour-of-zelenskys
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This video compares the massive depreciation after only two years on an EV Golf compared to a petrol VW Golf
What will the value of an EV be once the battery warranty runs out after 8 years?
How many EV buyers today are aware of the massive depreciation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqYI_vLYDk0&ab_channel=GeoffBuysCars
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At long last Gillard Labor’s “cash for clunkers” might be useful?
sarc.
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Again, reminded of Dean.
Sing to us man.
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Immoderata
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Jo, you probably didn’t notice the content of my posts on the subject of Covid19 were never about the very complex biology of the matter.
I have no expertise at that level.
I did however make strong statements about the “CV19 Statistics” being poorly/deliberately set up to mislead.
Having expertise in statistics enabled me to see the deliberate mixing of nursing home deaths with the Covid19 deaths and deduce that someone was directing this pandemic from above.
The New York nursing homes and the specific Italian were two locations that were missreported.
I realise that stepping outside of my areas of expertise might not be useful.
So I look to the true experts.
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