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Floods in India due to AGW and the worst in 40 years…….huh?
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They say its unprecedented because ‘Delhi’s residents who lived through that experience say that this time around, not only is the intensity of flooding higher but the waters have come rushing in much more quickly than what had happened 45 years ago.’ (India Today)
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They can actually remember that far back?
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More concrete and sealed roads will do that.
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So will deforestation and damming water sources.
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In the last thread on Germany we saw how manufacturing businesses were leaving for cheaper and less controlling environments.
We see what’s going on, we know that we’re trapped in the same downward spiral.
The question is; what do we have to do now as the ultimate victims of this mess.
Voting is useless, debate is controlled and “guided”, our legal system is fluffy, expensive and increasingly irrelevant.
What do we do now.
[Why not ask this question on the relevant thread? It’s a good one? – Jo]
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Joanne,
You raise a good question too. Nearly every day you post an interesting article on an important subject; discussion grows and subsides and is usually dead in a day or two. That’s a pity, and poor reward for the work you put into the articles, but that is the way it seems to be here, and I think that is why Kalm Keith chose to post to the newest open thread instead.
Why is it that discussions can span weeks at Judith Curry’s, but peter out so quickly here? I don’t know, but my hunch is that a major factor is the relentless march of daily open threads which push “proper” subjects down the page and out of sight. Things might be improved if you made a permanent open *unthreaded*, with comments listed newest to oldest and users able to page back as far as they want to pick up where they left off the day before. Put this under a fixed button and the front page will then *only* contain real articles.
Admittedly, having no threads, unthreaded would make following people’s arguments harder, but then that might encourage longer-lasting discussions in article comments. It might also reduce the echo chamber effect we have now of the same comment being posted to each new daily thread to make sure it’s seen.
IMO your articles deserve to be on a higher footing.
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We have half a dozen major topics, each with sub-topics inside, one being the global warming hoax and inside that are arguments on the sun, the planets, the physics, the atmosphere etc. Every day or two something relevant comes up around the globe and it gets added somewhere here.
I’m a great fan of the open topics as I can slip in bits from the mainstream media as they embarrass themselves with some stupidity that may not line up with the article Jo has running that day.
Like you say, it is hard to track one subject over a couple of years as the new knowledge gets added to other topics, but I’m not sure of the best way to solve this. As a database for convincing the rest of society this blog is superb, but gathering the data in a coherent summary is the difficult bit.
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The reason is simple: JC has a huge and diverse readership that make considered and supported comments thus sustaining engagement.
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Gee Aye >”JC has a huge and diverse readership ”
But no Open Threads.
Also posts can be 2 days or a week apart. And not all posts garner a great amount of engagement. It’s the controversial ones that do that, for example:
CLINTEL’s critical evaluation of the IPCC AR6
– 520 comments
https://judithcurry.com/2023/05/13/clintels-critical-evaluation-of-the-ipcc-ar6/
How the Disinformation Industrial Complex is destroying trust in science
– 594 comments
https://judithcurry.com/2023/04/23/how-the-disinformation-industrial-complex-is-destroying-trust-in-science/
I’ve engaged in threads at Climate Etc that were over 1000 comments long – that is a real mission. Not any more for me but it has been a long time since there were threads that long there. Used to be similar at JoNova too. Don’t remember you here at that time.
Seems to me that the herd moves on rapidly to where the greatest opportunity is to air what is off-topic in the current post and to move on to the NEXT BIG THING – where interest quickly wanes.
I too find that a bit frustrating when trying to pursue a topic but engagement has vanished but it is what it is.
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I note that Warmy blogs are either spluttering or defunct.
Open Minds (Grant Foster/Tamino) – Defunct
Hot Topic (Gareth Renowden/NZ) – Defunct
Real Climate – (Gavin Schmidt et al) – Spluttering
Tim Flannery – Defunct
It’s a disaster! Where do we go for Warmisms?
I checked in at Real Climate for the first time in yonks to see what Gavin wrote re “hottest day”- unreal:
Back to basics – Gavin Schmidt
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2023/07/back-to-basics/
Total missattribution, truncated data series. To give him credit he did note the import of peak NH summer. But that’s another story.
Scroll down through comments – cheer squad nodding along, zero critical thinking.
Then devolves into Leftist rambling of stunning proportions.
I thought my comments were Verbosity Level: [Max]
Not any more. Check out the comment screeds at Real Climate – Verbosity Level off the scale.
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>”I note that Warmy blogs are either spluttering or defunct.”
Forgot Skeptical Science: https://skepticalscience.com/
Last 2 posts 0 comments, max last 10 posts was 12 comments.
Verdict: Spluttering
I used to engage there – hostile environment is an understatement.
They edited the comment threads to suit their narrative. So I had to save the link to each comment in order to re-establish the original thread from the comment database.
It’s all too easy now.
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Skeptical Science Spluttering
Sad!
This is what we miss now:
You’ve been “told” Ms. Nova – repeatedly.
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>”Skeptical Science: Last 2 posts 0 comments, max last 10 posts was 12 comments.”
Turns out there are more comments, just that they are all in one thread and commenting on posts from years ago mostly:
Recent Comments https://skepticalscience.com/comments.php
‘How big is the “carbon fertilization effect”?‘ seems most popular.
One way to stay afloat I suppose.
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Deltoid (Tim Lambert) – Defunct
Ironically last Open Threads featured cheering for closure of Climate Debate Daily and Open Atmospheric Society.
Also this:
Good riddance to that.
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>”Used to be similar at JoNova too.” [long comment threads]
See side bar – Most commented
A discussion of the Slaying the Sky Dragon science: Is the Greenhouse Effect a Sky Dragon Myth? (1265)
October 21st, 2012
https://joannenova.com.au/2012/10/a-discussion-of-the-slaying-the-sky-dragon-science-is-the-greenhouse-effect-a-sky-dragon-myth/
Before my (engagement) time here and the only current names I see is KinkyKeith – who has since undergone a personality do-over. Also Graeme No.3, Neville, Geoff Sherrington.
There’s some highly reasoned, high verbosity comments there – times have changed.
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>”Before my (engagement) time here”
Was a Lurker for years before engaging in comments.
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andthentheresphysics is going but spluttering
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It may also solve climate change.
The blog has the data, which goes down well with a cookie.
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Debate is controlled and guided.
Everywhere.
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I feel humbled to know that my opinion is so carefully “checked.”
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It is a privilege for the site elites.
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It appears that David at #1 was also scrutinized.
My comment is apparently in the wong place.
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You’ll grow to embrace it.
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Kalm Keith,
As I say at 2.1, I don’t think your comment was breaking any rules, Jo was just lamenting that the “proper” thread was dying an early death.
In any case, you surely have been posting here long enough and often enough to understand that the moderation is largely automated and generally shouldn’t be taken personally. Some inscrutable algorithm sidelines your comment until a human can check that it isn’t spam/abuse/trolling/off-topic or whatever. They then wave it through, or bin it. How many comments here would suffer from being delayed by an hour or two? Contrast with having to hunt for worthwhile comments amongst “make money fast” ones.
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🙂
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It’s baaaaaaaaccccckkkkk!
Sun Cable
Apart from Australia, what country is going to be stupid enough to buy this?
Note, this article is from YESTERDAY.
SEE LINK FIT REST
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Another ‘sunbeam dream’ that someone else will have to pay for.
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Make sure there is (require?) a connection to Mt Isa (copperlink) and Broome/Dampier (and on to SWIS)
At least then there will be some benefit to the Aussie economy.
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What possible benefit to the economy would a solar and wind installation be?
It would be better to spend the money on a power station.
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Much more useful. Transmission costs are huge.
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Hmm, not that bad. I calculated the end-to-end total loss at 14%, including the 700+ kms of transmission line and end converters. HVDC systems have losses <half HVAC systems.
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Yeah; but the “cost” of the extra infrastructure.
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The NT already has two large solar installations that haven’t been able to connect to the grid. They don’t need much power.
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Why would the SWIS grid want to be connected? It already has plentiful supplies of cheap gas.
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A- keep Greenies happier
B- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-15/wa-gas-supply-warning/101772760
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This whole project is simply utter insanity. One small modular reactor built in Singapore wouyld probably achieve the same result, given the unreliability of solar and wind this end, and the transmission losses and cabling cost.
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No one in Singapore has even asked for this.
And why would they? Who wants their country’s power supply hanging off the end of a 5000km cable?
It’s just a woke billionaire’s fantasy.
And he’s hoping taxpayers are going to forced to subsidise it, I’m guessing.
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I thought the reason for not adding wind in the first place was its unreliability. You could never have sufficient battery storage backup to keep supplying power with Dunkelflautes of up to 48 hours with almost total loss of wind energy, like occurred recently in WA.
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The article states
This not just a gross exaggeration, but can be shown to be empirically false. The UNEP Emissions GAP Report 2022 estimates that 2030 GHG Emissions will be up to 58 GtCO2e, up from 53.5 GtCO2e in 2017. The 2018 Report (Executive Summary major point 2) states that for the 1.5C target emissions need to reduce by 55% and the 2C target by 25% by 2030. This “saving the planet” thing has been a colossal and expensive failure by the UN’s own measure.
To “have global emissions-busting significance” this project would have to be significantly higher than Australia’s 0.64 GtCO2e of emissions in 2017 (from EGR 2018 Table 2.1)
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I wouldn’t worry. Climate exploitation 101 shows that the climate sharks will move in with their fantasy technology and extract all the subsidies available and will then f*ck off with their fortunes and leave the mess for the government (ie. the tax payer) to sort out. If this gets okayed you can expect the gravy train to start loading up with the corrupt: politicians, civil servants and foreign companies.
All you can do is ensure your personal finances are safe. Maybe a box under the bed !
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I see that Chairman Andrews has dumped the 2026 Commonwealth Games, perhaps the smartest thing the jug eared clown has ever done, time for our chunky Premier Palletjack to consider doing the same to our Olympics.
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We don’t need more mentally ill men in women’s clothes competing unfairly…
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Not good at all. The Commonwealth itself is a great thing — something the WEF the EU and China don’t want. It could be a major trading block again if only Commonwealth nations decided to make it happen.
Since when does Dan care about spending? This decision suits the CCP/WEF/EU — it works to destroy heritage events that remind us of our natural allegiances and history. It’s terrible for the athletes who are already working towards it.
These kinds of public competitions are exactly the kind of thing that destroys the ideology that says women are men, and men are women. Sporting codes are waking up as people see the absurdity of former male athletes getting the women’s gold medal. Just yesterday Worlds Cycling body banned trans men from competing against women.
What a joke Victoria has become, so poor they break commitments. Banana-Republic stuff.
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You might be right. Andrews has apparently said that even though the games won’t go ahead in Vic a good amount of the infrastructure is still going to be built.
Still spending without the games income to offset it.
Australian Govt has created the ministerial portfolio Minister for the Republic. What republic?
No support for commonwealth?
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The infrastructure is still being mostly built because it will be by CFMEU union members. We cant have their incomes reduced can we Danny boy? Funny, how no-one in the media has picked up on this.
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Minister for the Republic? Is that true?
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You think I could make that up? 😉
Matt Thistlethwaite is an Assistant Minister for a few portfolios and he has been given a new one, As Minister for the Republic.
Responsibilities are:
Undertake initial work on an Australian republic as a constitutional reform.
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Hmmmmm. Presumably to follow on from the current constitutional reform.
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Jo
Totally agree re a commonwealth trading block. It would be the largest in the world, have many common interests and enable the rich and poor to trade more easily with each other
As for Victoria, they should be ashamed of themselves, perhaps they spent all their money on covid restrictions and police brutality.
The premier perhaps needs to make a phone call to his friends in China if his state has gone broke
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Jo,
Never leave the UN off the list of those that would destroy all heritage of the western world.
I wonder if this repudiation of the Commonwealth Games was conjured up by Andrews alone or was it on the agenda of his last visit to CHINA,
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Apparently, the estimated cost of this junket has increased by 400%.
Sane financial management says don’t throw good money after bad, as such killing it makes sense financially. There is no magic money tree, although Covid says differently …
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Or wildly inflated costs are used as an excuse to cut something down that is on the good side of culture wars.
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Very suspicious that he has suddenly discovered prudence in relation to public treasure – that was my first reaction to the news. Something definitely stinks.
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‘Very suspicious that he has suddenly discovered prudence in relation to public treasure’
Yes, in the last 60years all that I can remember is that every set of international games was heavily propagandised as a magnificent boon to the city and country hosting, and would earn billions..billions I tell you! of dollars.
Afterwards there was NEVER an accounting of how the finances went. All the new infrastructure was behind time and way over budget, no matter the country. The stadia and bicycle tracks grew weeds and accumulated rubbish, even though they were going to be a great and much-needed vital addition to the city-scape!
To me its just bread and circuses for the dumb while the corrupt class and their mates steal as much taxpayer money as they can.
The best thing for the Commonwealth to do would be to joint the BRICS as a bloc and have international games within there. Those are the up-and-coming young cultures with energy and vitality.
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Agreed. Joining the BRICs would also be the best way to influence China’s ambitions. However we must remember that politicians drift with the current, and they are the last people you would call leaders. It will be up to private enterprise and private citizens to opt out of hegemonic globalism and into a different future. Not an easy transition, but it will probably happen in time (although not in our time). Politics will be dragged along kicking and screaming.
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It’s good news, it will save $2 billion.
Although that’s nothing in comparison to state debt.
Chairman Dan, like most commies, has never been averse to wasting other people’s money, so I don’t understand his motivation for this- unless no one, including his beloved Chicomms will lend the state any more money.
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Interesting platitudes from the premier, “we will invest the money in the regions anyway”. All spin and no grip. Just like “We will build a 5000 bed Corona virus hospital”.
Didn’t happen and when challenged on this, he straight out lied that he ever said it, then handed the press over to the health minister to explain. The premier says many things knowing that few journalists will ever challenge him when thing just never happen. Seven billion for the Commonwealth games is too expensive yet massive blowouts on every major infrastructure construction contiunue to be unaddressed.
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Saving $2billion is how it stands at present ….the blowout on the Tunnel Project will likely sop it all up like a thick slice of bread sops up the gravy. No saving then ….. and watch what happens when votes are at risk ….the money WILL BE FOUND …..!!
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“and watch what happens when votes are at risk ….the money WILL BE FOUND …..!!”
Well the promises will be Gerry. Lets look at More police (fail) reduced hospital waiting times (fail) improved ambulance response times ( fail ) money for country roads (fail). The list of promised money and outcomes is only exceeded by the list of non delivered promises.
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Sorry David, it’s terrible news. Basically makes us ( cos I know you’re a Vic) an absolute laughing stock. Gold Coast did the CG for about $1.5 b, and somehow our costs blow out to $6b and more??? What a complete schemozzle and what a complete tool Dan ( or is it Daniel ) Andrews is. Notice how he would never cancel the Suburban Rail Link which is uncosted/ unjustified and will blow out even more? That’s because, if he did, the CFMEU would send the boys around. There’s been rumours abound that DA is about to resign because his recent attitude appears so nonchalant. We can only hope. There’s that rumour going around that Mark Mc Gowan resigned because his former advisor is in the family way- and it’s his. We can only hope something similar might happen to the dictator. Had a mate the other day say that after his AZ vaccine injury, he would happily run over the dictator if he stepped in front of his car. Wouldn’t even touch the brakes. ( End of rant ).
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The costs, and how they’ve increased, of this is a fair indicator of associated corruption. One sees this everywhere with big events: the olympics, football, etc. How much of the money is going to executives and politicians ? Time to get off the crazy train.
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This from the clown who cost his state $1.5B by not building a road.
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The Australian state of Victoria has canceled plans to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games after the predicted cost of the international sporting event blew out three times original estimates, state authorities said Tuesday.
How the worm turns from Joan Kirner to Chairman Dan the China Man. They both should have had an Abacus and basic education in Accounting 101.
Which reminds me of that old Joke which is now more appropriate than ever from those 1990 to 1992 Joan Kirner Sictoria Premiership years –
Q. What is the Capital of Victoria?
A. One Australian Dollar.
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I’m from Vic and I heard that joke over 30 years ago – it wasn’t funny then and it’s not funny now. This state bashing based on politics need to stop – the country is now wall to wall socialist governments. Some worse than others, granted, but almost same ideology.
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Ouch !!!!!!
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Part of my clam migrated from Victoria in the early 1900’s. I grew up with them telling the ones that didn’t that
“You can tell a Victorian but you can’t tell them very much”
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now now
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A look inside scammer hq’s and some payback!
I don’t normally post topics in this realm but thought people would like a look at how scammer operations work and the people taking them down, working in conjunction with law enforcement.
Scammer Payback is a better known uselesstube channel and entertaining.
Here’s a few to get you started:
Indian operation exposed: https://youtu.be/VK_IG9pHPNc
USA operation exposed: https://youtu.be/9offPL5Zp_g
Scammers arrested: https://youtu.be/OAdKguOigHE
** Language (censored) warning.😆
There are more dedicated channels for those interested, if you want me to post more.
These vids are a lot more entertaining than season 2 of Hunted which is the same predictable junk as season 1.
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Germany To Discard $4.5 BILLION Of Unused COVID-19 Vaccines
Germany is set to discard up to 120 million doses of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine, costing around €4 billion ($4.5 billion), as the number of people willing to get “boosters” has dropped.
Berlin already threw away 54 million doses by the end of 2022 and discarded an additional 29 million doses in the first quarter of 2023. This amounted to a total of 83 million doses, though the number is likely to be higher.
The German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) did not provide the total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses discarded in the second quarter of 2023. It told POLITICO in an email: “Accordingly, a total volume of total disposed COVID-19 vaccine doses acquired by the Federal Republic of Germany cannot be quantified.” The BMG also mentioned that private healthcare providers and state-level health authorities are not mandated to report vaccine waste.
The news outlet also disclosed the BMG’s breakdown of the 29 million vaccines that expired and were discarded by the end of the first quarter of 2023. The Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine comprised 18 million doses of that number, while Moderna’s mRNA vaccine made up five million. Six million doses, meanwhile, were from Novavax.
While Germany has an additional 120 million vaccine doses in this stock, it appears that those will also be thrown away. The country has one of the highest vaccination rates in Europe – 228.68 per 100 people – but now, the tables have turned. Germans willing to get COVID-19 boosters have dropped to a low 268 per week, with no signs of that number increasing.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/07/13/germany-to-scrap-up-to-200-million-covid-19-vaccines/
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You should not have mentioned this at all. You’ll have our Canberra mob wanting to purchase the vaccines to poison more of our population.
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Totally unrelated are Pfizers Net Income figures
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/PFE/pfizer/net-income
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Neil Oliver: “Fear-mongering” over high temperatures is an ‘incessant attempt to keep us frightened’
‘All of this is part of an incessant attempt to keep us frightened of one thing after another!’ Neil Oliver joins Dan Wootton to discuss the “fear-mongering” news coverage of high temperatures and the hypocrisy of eco-zealots like Just Stop Oil.
https://youtu.be/8vkpcBMmvP0
Seventeen Techniques of Propaganda
We are in a world where propaganda has not just infiltrated, but dominated all media, and it has therefore invaded even our personal private relationships. Those who are not familiar with the techniques of propaganda are doomed to manipulation, control, financial exploitation and disempowerment.
This video is a practical and valuable guide to the methods and techniques of propaganda as we face it today.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VHNSCYjGbQh7/
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Thank you for the link to the propaganda guide. It’s very succinct and brings home how much we are being influenced in so many ways. Knowing these techniques does at least give one a chance to resist outside influences, malign or otherwise.
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Interesting how Sound of Freedom has hit $100 million in ticket sales and Indiana Jones Dial of Destiny woke garbage is losing money.
The masses are NOT in favour of child abuse or woke rubbish.
Bye bye pedo/woke Hollywood. Your time is up.😁
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Even more interesting is the stunts some of the movie theatres are pulling to discourage viewing. Seems to be becoming a real theme. A/C not working, sound levels really low, fire alarm evacuations. If you believe social media, it would seem it’s an organised campaign. Is that film coming to Australia? My guess- no, because our governments might find it offensive.
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Re your “it would seem it’s an organised campaign.”
This is not about that film but how about this for an “entirely spontaneous set of headlines”?
“Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/07/17/your-moral-and-intellectual-superiors-406/
Convince me that it is not possible
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All these “men” having babies, the testosterone these humans are or have been taking must be really messing up their babies.
Testosterone is a teratogen (causes birth defects) and masculinisation of female fetuses.
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The increase in Antarctic temperatures is due to the weakening of the polar vortex in the lower stratosphere (it is strong in the upper stratosphere). The influx of water vapor over Antarctica means a loss of energy to the stratosphere, which sinks almost to the surface above the pole in winter. This is evidenced by temperatures below -60 C.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2023/07/17/2000Z/wind/isobaric/500hPa/orthographic=-327.25,-82.36,490
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2023/07/17/2000Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=-327.25,-82.36,490/loc=118.227,-75.527
https://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/clisys/STRAT/gif/zt_sh.gif
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_HGT_ANOM_JAS_SH_2023.png
Satellites detect more water vapor radiation over the southern polar circle.
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Ireneusz
>”The increase in Antarctic temperatures”
Back down to the 1979-2000 mean now:
Daily 2-meter Air Temperature
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/
>”This is evidenced by temperatures below -60 C.”
On July 14, the JASE2007 AWS in Antarctica reached a new 2023 world low of -80.5C
https://electroverse.info/record-cold-siberia-antarctica-80-5c-swings-between-extremes-s-america/
JASE2007 is in the interior on the opposite side of Antarctica to the side adjacent Australia.
Automatic Weather Stations – Antarctica
https://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/aws/index.html
Dome C II is in the interior adjacent Australia:
Dome C II latest text data
https://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/data/view-data.php?action=view_text_file&product=surface/awstext/8989.txt
Julian Date, Time, T(C)
2023198, 202336, -70.4
2023198, 203402, -70.4
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Ireneusz, re wind animation at 500 hPa.
The coldest temperatures at the surface (JASE2007, Dome C II) correspond with wind speed at 500 hPa. Greater speed above JASE2007 than Dome C II (see upthread).
I assume the stratosphere is lowest over JASE2007 but can’t figure it out from your links – thoughts?
Great links – thanks.
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Eastern Circulation in the Western Pacific. Lack of atmospheric interaction on surface temperature rise in the equatorial Pacific.
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mtpw2/webAnims/tpw_nrl_colors/wpac/mimictpw_wpac_latest.gif
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Does this mean the Indo Pacific Warm Pool will not be spreading eastward?
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https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/cdas-sflux_sst_global_1.png
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Methinks that stream of cold water will stop the pool expanding.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-195.49,8.02,1060/loc=-118.213,-6.306
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Tuesday weirdness: woman hit by meteorite while drinking coffee
In a rare and extraordinary event, a French woman was struck by a meteorite while sipping coffee on the terrace. This incident, which occurred in a small town in western France, has sparked interest and intrigue among scientists and the general public alike.
Describing the incident, the woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, recounted, “I heard a big ‘Poom’ coming from the roof next to us. In the second that followed, I felt a shock on the ribs. I thought it was an animal, a bat! We thought it was a piece of cement, the one we apply to the ridge tiles. But it didn’t have the color.”
Following the incident, the woman, a resident of the commune of Schirmeck in northeast France, took the rock to a roofer for examination. The roofer confirmed that it was not made of cement and suggested it resembled a meteorite. The woman then sought the expertise of geologist Thierry Rebmann.
This event has caused quite a stir in the scientific community.
https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/unbelievable-french-woman-hit-by-meteorite-while-having-coffee-2407801-2023-07-17
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Perhaps the sky really is falling.
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Russia: The Gamaleya Center is developing mRNA “canned food” for future injections
The Gamaleya Center—the alleged mastermind behind Sputnik V—announced last week that it would begin Phase I trials for FiloPan, a new Ebola “vaccine”.
“The FiloPan vaccine uses a defective adenovirus. It is safe for humans, as it is not able to multiply in the body. It inserts a gene that codes for the Ebola protein, or Marburg. Here, the same principle is applied that was used for vaccination against COVID-19,” Anatoly Altshtein, professor at the Gamaleya Center, told Izvestia.
TASS: Are African countries interested in these vaccine preparations now?
Logunov: Now we are on the way to creating the so-called canned food—the basis for future vaccines. There are especially dangerous pathogens that can pose a threat both in Africa and in the Russian Federation. We must have a set of vaccine preparations, not necessarily brought to mass production, but passed the first and second phases of clinical trials, which can be quickly translated into medical practice if necessary.
TASS, citing Gamaleya director Alexander Gintsburg, reported in December 2020 that “the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, based on the same platform used to develop the Ebola drug, is likely to be able to protect the body for two years.” (Gintsburg quickly changed his tune, explaining that Russians would need “infinite” biannual booster shots to protect themselves from the Virus.)
Of course, we have to ask: If Russia’s original Ebola injection was so amazing, and if it really was a “proven” platform that gave birth to Sputnik V, why would you need to create a new Ebola vaccine? WHY?
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/a-new-low-for-vax-depravity-in-russia
Why indeed!
Ebola is a low level event, and has been since 2016.
Why such an interest now???
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Why indeed!
Ebola is a low level event, and has been since 2016.
Why such an interest now???
Biowarfare.
Which is what the whole gain-of-function research, that gave us covid, was all about. The Russians are expecting more of the same, given that they found a whole lot of bio-labs in the Ukraine. And the USA, China, Russia etc are all doing it in self-defence, of course.
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To all,
Media Release and final report from CSIRO and AEMO, dated 18th July 2023.
Title : “GenCost: annual electricity cost estimates for Australia”… (Final report (PDF) 14th July 2023).
Quote/ excerpt:
“Each year, Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), work with industry to give an updated cost estimate for large-scale electricity generation in Australia.”
Link: https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/energy/Energy-data-modelling/GenCost
Ok also,
The Media release:
“GenCost: Wind and solar remain the lowest cost new build electricity generation sources despite inflationary pressures”
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/News/2023/July/GenCost
Ok… the CSIRO and AEMO state that wind and solar is the cheapest energy source.
Yet they also state this in the report:
“To avoid introducing too many variables and losing that common basis, the levelised costs used in the GenCost report do not take into account any potential externalities, such as bird strikes at a wind farm, site remediation, or nuclear waste storage costs. But to calculate the most accurate cost of wind and solar, they do include the additional storage and transmission costs that are an essential part of supporting those variable renewables.”
WOW, so wind and solar are cheaper…. if and if we don’t the count the tens’ of billion dollar additional storage and transmission costs associated with said wind and solar.
I have only taken a cursory view of the full report.
Yet even a simple engineer like me can see that this is so biased.
What have our AEMO and CSIRO become?
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Thanks William.
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But to calculate the most accurate cost of wind and solar, they do include the additional storage and transmission costs that are an essential part of supporting those variable renewables.”
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Hanrahan, yes you are correct.
The term “do include” is used in the report.
It seems I was clumsy in articulation and prose. I should have not have used the bold tag.
Read on further in my post and you will see that I comment:
“So wind and solar are cheaper…. if and if we don’t count the tens’ of billion dollar additional storage and transmission costs associated with said wind and solar”
Note that in that line I authored, I had some intentional sarc included.
I humbly ask that you re-read my post in full so it is not taken out of context.
Hope this helps.
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That aside, this may be of interest to you.
the CSIRO reported this on their website, May 11, 2023:
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2023/May/Nuclear-explainer
Look to the subject title “GenCost 2022-2023: the cost of electricity generation”
Seek 9th paragraph down and one will find:
“Using the standard formula for levelised costs plus the additional calculations specific to storage and transmission, wind and solar come in at a maximum of $83 per megawatt hour in 2030.”
Wow!!.. I need to take a breath..This is amazing!!!… So a maximum cost of $83.00 MWh in 2030 for wind, solar, transmission and storage!
The experts from the CSIRO tell us so. It is there for all to see, stated on their webpage. So it must be true!!
No wonder the Australian Energy Minister runs excitedly from press conference to another and states what he states.
Yet..Sigh…Imho.. Even if the CSIRO’s predicted $83 is indexed to cpi…. It is imho fairy dust.
What do you think?
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The moment the LCOE costing method is mentioned, you know they are not comparing apples to apples. When the full costing method, or FCOE, is used to correctly compare energy costs over the longer lifetimes of coal, gas and nuclear, then wind and solar come in at over twice the cost.
And I’m willing to bet that, although I haven’t looked at the latest GenCost yet, that the backup storage period chosen is far short of that required, I.e., a minimum of 48 hours.
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It’s amazing how these GENCOST lies keep getting repeated. I follow the CSIRO twitter feed because I thought there might be some real science ( yeah, fat chance of that). Anyway, yesterday they issued a tweet claiming all those dodgy low costs attributed to solar and wind. Larry Marshall goes on ABC Q&A and repeats those lies. Bowen has repeatedly told those lies as well as Albanese. It’s now turning into one of those zombie statistics that wont die. For a lot of the media the CSIRO are some sort of sacred cow.
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Everyone knows the exponential increases in generation costs are Russia’s fault.
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William, even allowing for poor prose and articulation etc, i have no idea what you are trying to say or implying by that. “if and if “ phrase ?
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The ABC and The Guardian are palpable with anticipation over increased global warming under the expected El Nino.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-18/no-el-nino-call-from-bom-amid-northern-hemisphere-heatwaves/102612176
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2023/jul/18/extreme-heat-and-weather-around-the-world-in-pictures
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I wouldn’t expect a sudden change from La Nina to El Nino after the Tongan eruption broke the drought, it will be several years of lower rainfall but much cloud before we go back to fortnights of ‘frost then sunny’.
“Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes chief investigator Andréa Taschetto said..”
..there’s a disparity between the oceans and the atmosphere and we really don’t know what’s going on! I wonder what value we get for the taxpayer’s dollars in that organisation?? How do we measure it’s excellence? Maybe Kevin Long at $200/yr would be money better spent, although I expect the Centre for Excellence of Climate Extremes probably reads his forecasts for their predictions anyway!
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>”The ABC and The Guardian are palpable with anticipation over increased global warming under the expected El Nino”
The 2015 major El Nino was predicted years in advance using a lunar cycle
https://judithcurry.com/2023/07/18/the-2015-major-el-nino-was-predicted-years-in-advance-using-a-lunar-cycle/
Kicked off by Charles Keeling no less.
So how to spin it? “Human emissions make lunar driven EL Nino worse” perhaps.
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Is the CDC totally blind to all the adverse events from the COVID vaccines?
A comparison of adverse events for vaccines by medical condition as a function of time. Pretty damning really.
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/is-the-cdc-totally-blind-to-all-the
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This Steve Kirsch newsletter is very good.
In the graphs, different colors are used for data pertaining to the different vaccines, perhaps using the same colors codes would help understanding.
Commentators make two conclusions-
1. that the covid vaccines are really bad, a claim well shown by the data, and
2. that all vaccines are to be avoided, it may be my eyesight but this I do not see.
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The US war cycle:
https://media2.locals.com/images/posts/originals/2023-07-18/1461955/1461955_t7ujiks7micjg5s.jpeg
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That’s the one Biden fell off?
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BoM defies the CPC and WMO over El Nino.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/bom-retains-el-nino-alert-defying-wmo/1394539
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“In its latest climate driver update issued on Tuesday afternoon, the Bureau stated that “the Pacific Ocean and atmosphere have yet to become fully coupled”, and “the ENSO Outlook remains at El Niño Alert.”
The Bureau reluctance to declare El Niño stems from the atmosphere refusing to respond to the abnormally warm waters sitting at the surface of the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. This ‘coupling’ of the tropical Pacific Ocean and the overlying atmosphere are a critical part of El Niño and its associated
impacts.”
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mtpw2/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&prod=global2×pan=24hrs&anim=html5
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Didn’t they do this last time? Be reluctant to commit, presumably to look like they are independently drawing their own conclusions – they will come around, after some weighty deliberations, of course!
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BOM Climate Driver Update page has a Month-to-date change on the Nino 3.4 graph:
Nino 3.4 SST Anomalies
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/wrap-up/archive/20230718.sstOutlooks_nino34.png
July Month-to-date (15th) is only 1.0 so now there is a sharp inflexion down in the graph that wasn’t there before. They’ve left the projections as-is though, which looks odd.
Tropics Daily 2-meter Air Temperature has taken a hike which is lifting the World near record again – strap in for a round of angst.
Daily 2-meter Air Temperature
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/
The recent Antarctic spike is now back down to the 1979-2000 mean, so no assist from that.
Tropics elevation doesn’t seem to be from Nino zones. Seems to be from equatorial Sth America, Africa, and Sth East Asia combined, but that’s just my impression.
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Tropics and NH going up and Antarctica and SH going down shows up in the GFS 2m-T:
GFS 2m-T Anomalies
http://www.karstenhaustein.com/reanalysis/gfs0p5/GFS_anomaly_timeseries_global.html
So even though the NH is melting down, the entire planet has survived a near miss on the 1.5C “limit” – again.
Whew! That was close.
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On July 14, the JASE2007 AWS in Antarctica reached a new 2023 world low of -80.5C
https://electroverse.info/record-cold-siberia-antarctica-80-5c-swings-between-extremes-s-america/
Who knew?
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Record surface temperatures in Iceland today.
The rocks are melting.
LIVE: Fagradalsfjall 2023 Volcanic Eruption (Cam A)
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Spectacular…I could watch that for ages.
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FWIW
“Kerch Bridge Déjà Vu – Breakdown”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/kerch-bridge-deja-vu-breakdown
Note where the grain goes
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..and I see the “Ranting Russian Sergeant” has become famous enough to be interviewed by their National TV, explaining how life is at the front and once again telling the Ukies they are being erased from the world by the West.
Simplicious is very thorough.
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Senator Rennick talks to Dr. John Campbell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR1X9O2lMlA
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The Global Warming alarmists must be getting desperate – depending on a strong El Nino to prove their ridiculous conclusions about AGW.
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Nigel Farage obtains a document and discusses the real reason banks cancelled him.
And it could happen to anyone, and is.
https://youtu.be/NRk9rjNsO1A
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Can Australia host the games using the combined efforts of all our city and regional stadiums. Rather than build things just so it’s all in one place?
Plus volunteers.
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You’d think we would have all the facilities, new facilities were already built for previous events.
But politicians only want excuses to spend vast amounts of borrowed taxpayer money.
In Vicdanistan’s case the money gets spent on Dan’s beloved vastly overpaid CFMEU union thugs and with Chinese owned construction companies like John Holland Group (owned by China Communications Construction Company).
I agree with Jo’s comments that a reason for cancelling it may be to do with globalist objectives of cancelling cultural uniqueness and identity of the Commonwealth event.
Because when has Dan or any Australian Government restrained themselves from spending or overspending borrowed taxpayer money?
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There’s plenty of evidence that new facilities built for big events, like the Olympics, have no purpose once the events are over and fall into disrepair and neglect. There is therefore a strong case for using what you already have. After all it’s only a poxy two week sports event: running, jumping, swimming, etc. Any major city or state should already have these facilities ! The only ‘potential’ new spend would be on athletes accommodation, and this would have uses for the host population after the event, so would be a valid spend, ie. new housing.
But of course common sense and corruption don’t go together.
And, re. ‘Borrowed taxpayer money’. It ain’t borrowed, you won’t ever see it again …
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Indicative was the announcement last year that Montreal had finally paid off the 1976 Olympics. Buried on page umpteenth, as Dan n Anna talked up their vanity proposals. Did not suit the narrative.
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Re Sun Cable
I guess the promoters are disappointed that Heath Robinson is not around to do the promotional diagrams?
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Thanks for nothing Minister Bowen.
Received advice from my electricity retailer that my electricity prices are going up Aug 1 in regional Victoria.
Current: peak/offpeak 26.8/17.5 c/kWh
New: peak/offpeak 35.2/26.2 c/kWh (35% and 50% increases).
Daily charge increasing from 108.9 to 109.5 cents/day.
The maximum prices set by the Essential Services Commission from July 1 are 42.6/27.7 c/kWh and 130 cents/day.
Arrgghhh!!
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According to Bumbling Blackout W n S are free!! He wouldn’t lie to us, would he?
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Can’t argue against, as W & S are indeed free.
The cost of collecting a small portion of the free stuff, well that’s expensive.
One thing I have learnt over the last three years is there is no limit to the amount you need to spend on free stuff.
Now I’m off to get my flu shot, it’s safe, effective and free!
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Coal, oil and gas are also free….
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There are substantial costs to get those products to the generator, W & S are delivered free.
That’s how they come up with the cheapest “fuel” I’m sure, free shipping.
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The cost of mining and transport Vs the cost of collection, power conversion and cabling from reuseless farms to the grid connection point plus connection hard/software and potential storage/smoothing. So isn’t free is it ?
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That’s right we just get a lump of coal and shake the electrons out and they float into your computer, has always been a silly argument.
To the point of generation W & S are free, unless you have a costing on how much it costs to turn the sun on?
The debate is energy density, W & S have extremely variable density and largely unpredictable.
Everything you write is from the point of generation, downstream. My point and the governments is, it’s free to the point of conversion whereas C & G have a large cost to get it to the point of conversion. This is how the Governments win the free debate, cost of getting it to the point of conversion, disregard everything downstream.
While I am at it, how do you feel about nuclear power, this is another of my bitches?
We all claim CO2 is not an issue and demand that the government look into nuclear power, thereby admitting CO2 must be an issue as we need a non-carbon solution. There is no middle ground with these people, no tradeoffs.
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Yes, whilst i am totallt against W & S , you cannot avoid the fact that there is always a “fuel” cost component in every kWh generated by Coal and gas.
But, What we can argue is that the fuel component is only a very minor fraction of the actual cost to the consumer ( < 5c for each kWh at 35-40c retail cost), whilst a much larger fraction of the retail cost is comprised of “Transmission and Distribution” costs which are dramatically influenced by the uptake of W & S.
Wholesale market prices are also much higher due to the unpredictability of W & S
There will also be hidden costs for storage and system stabilisation with increasing levels og W & S.
The simplest response to anyone arguing that W&S will be cheaper due to zero fuel cost, …..is to point out the change in electricity cost in EVERY country that has a significant proportion of W&S in their generation mix. !
But , be prepared, most discussions i have had along those lines eventually change from logical /factual debates , and decend into emotional rants about caring for the planet and the future for the children !!
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FWIW
Flying in Canada
https://twitter.com/i/status/1681326411121041408
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/07/18/what-they-say-what-they-do/#comments
In comments there
“H.R.
July 18, 2023 at 3:19 pm
I looked at that board and, in all fairness, about half of the flights were not delayed. They were cancelled.
So there. Take that, you scoffers.”
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FWIW
Not only us getting fed
“an invented term with a bogus pedigree”
“The ‘two-spirit’ identity is based on a crackpot rewriting of Native American history.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/07/18/an-invented-term-with-a-bogus-pedigree/
And comments
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Old wisdom: never mix the spirits of the grape and the grain.
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More “medical nobbling”?
“What’s in the placebo?”
https://maryannedemasi.substack.com/p/whats-in-the-placebo
Via http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/07/18/good-question-6/
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Hmmm! TGA gets a mention in the quoted article
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Kalm Keith said “The question is; what do we have to do now as the ultimate victims of this mess.”
EV drivers might want to look into used tires
https://www.thebuzzevnews.com/champtires-ev-used-tires/?oly_enc_id=1138E7788801I2V
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““Anyone who is making purchase decisions with an environmentally conscious mindset should really consider used tires because high-quality used tires with 90%, 80% of the tire’s tread life left is a great way to prevent that tire from ending up in a landfill,”
Awww… they never mentioned why the original owner got rid of the almost-new tyres with 90% of the tread left. I expect they are quite hard to find, certainly our local wrecker has 50% worn as the norm.
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I Know that too, but that’s IMHO how modern WOKE eco journalism and the faithfull (Archaic spelling of faithful !!! .) work. Just about sums up the City society compared with the rural society (living in the REAL world) .
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I hope no one takes this very dangerous advice seriously. Tyre “rubber” hardens with age, & in Oz temperatures that means that they are no longer fit for use after 6 years & should definitely be discarded before they reach 7 years age. Tyres that are in the sun all day are worse, & should be discarded before reaching their 6 year since manufacture.
Tyres can sit for some time in warehouses & tyre shops. Car owners should check the age stamp on any tyres they buy. Some could be almost unfit for purpose when first fitted. This is not a problem on a high mileage car, but can be deadly on a low use car.
I have a set of expensive performance tyres less than 15% worn that I will be throwing out this year as they are too old at 5 years for my sports car in wet weather.
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Not hard to figure out !..
…from .accident damaged write offs of near new cars etc.
Even new , unused , wheels and tyres are a regular item on local private sales sites.
..but ,..buyer beware, privare sales are risky, so a commercial operation that can test and warranty a used tyre is a good idea .
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FWIW
“Social media, not in a nutshell…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/07/social-media-not-in-nutshell.html
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A spot of climate change? – World’s First Map of Ancient Africa Should Not Exist…
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FWIW
“Situational Awareness”
““All across the board, illness, disability, cancer, heart, autism, fertility…WeFkdUp !!!” —The Ethical Skeptic on Twitter”
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/situational-awareness/
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I think the picture he has at the top of his webpage is a fair expectation of our future after the ‘Great Reset’.
Not the one the WEF wants, the extremely violent & destructive one as we change the political system completely..
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To build it back you must first destroy it. What they want is chaos and destruction, and it is what they will get.
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