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An Ice Age Is Coming And It’s Not Milankovic Who Says It, But The Sun!
I have no idea if it has been linked before, but it worth looking
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As the world cools, how does the civilised world survive without power stations?
Oh, that’s right. It doesn’t. That’s the plan.
But good news. Rational thinkers have been elected in Argentina and Netherlands. Let’s hope the pro-reason, pro-science, pro-freedom movement continues.
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According to scientists the climate by 2100 will be
1. cooler or even very cold
2. much the same as currently
3. very hot with climate refugees in Antarctica etc.
Those with actual science quailifications are cluster in the first two categories.
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Scientists?
1. Would love to see something that is not a youtube video
2. Who says this?
3. No one says this
4. What is actually happening. Having no scientific qualifications is what gets you published in the top journals these days?
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Settle down professor, its only an op-ed.
Climate science is a mixture of disciplines relying on models to support a particular bias, those papers published accepting the AGW theory are untenable no matter how they spin it.
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But if you make unsupported claims of the opposite, no science is needed so long as you can produce some graphics on a youtube?
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As far as CO2 being a “greenhouse – heat trapping” gas:
if you understand P.V = n R T then you know that the CAGW thing is a bad joke.
CO2 MUST equilibrate with all other atmospheric gases in its vicinity.
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Good point KK, but I think it is lost on Gee Aye. His specialty is evol biol, or so he said.
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Thanks Peter, but I don’t think he’s that dumb.
I suspect that his presence here is just to prove to his employer that he fits in with the current university dogma and that keeps his job safe.
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I am profoundly ignorant. And that’s okay because I try to fix it.
I DON’T understand PV = NRT, and I would like to. Also, could you please explain to me what is meant by the turn of phrase “CO2 MUST Equilibrate with all other gasses in its vicinity”?
And why such equilibriation would mean CO2 doesn’t reflect energy?
I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m saying I can’t tell if you’re right.
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Did everyone see what Leo admitted to ?
He said: “I am profoundly ignorant”.
Sorry to hear that Leo.
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Leo,
“CO2 MUST Equilibrate with all other gasses in its vicinity”? just means you can go out in the open air without feeling a sudden pain every short time when a (heat storing) CO2 molecules hits your skin.
The basis of global warming is that CO2 stores the heat then releases it at a suitable time. Ian Plimer pointed out that 2 towns in QLD on the same latitude (with the same CO2) but one on the coast and the other in the outback had different temperature profiles i.e. the inland site was hotter during the day but the temperature plummeted rapidly at night, “so where was the heat stored in the CO2”.
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Thanks Graeme. 🙂
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‘ … unsupported claims …’
Peer review on climate change is a one way street, unfalsifiable.
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Actually the same ‘this’ was forecast by your scientists in the 1970’s.
Hope you enjoy the youtube video. Otherwise here is a compilation on Anthony Watts site
Quite difficult to find the ‘scientist say’ articles of the seventies as the memory hole appears to swallow all but the re-writing of history links.
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Yes. A youtube video (nope, I’m not going to start watching them now) and a compilation of scary newspaper stories and the youtubes of the 70s, headlined by an article about the dire predictions made by a “legal expert”.
Thanks for backing me up.
As for your conspiracy theory; please just add it to the pile.
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YT is only a platform, not more, not less.
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Gee Aye, the common thread of people who don’t like you is not money from Big Oil. It’s that you are from the school that says that science is what is acceptable talk around the water cooler.
YouTube, or even toilet paper, should not take away from the presented argument.
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That should be shown in ALL schools followed by an open discussion about climate, without bias – with little pink elephants circling overhead!! Lovely dream!!
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Excellent video.
As for Milankovich Cycles and Ice Ages, I remember learning about them in grade 6, back in the day.
But I went to an education-oriented school, a rarity these days.
How many kids today have heard of Milankovich Cycles? None I would say. But they WILL be able to tell you all 138 supposed genders or whatever they’re up to now.
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You must be referring to Stefan Milankovich who ran a great bicycle shop in Morley, near the Galleria. He closed down a few years ago when on-line sales cruelled his trade. The store was replaced by Krispy Kreme. Enjoy POETS day or Blak Friday.
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Again with the moaning about how the present is no match for the past instead of adding anything to the comment. Have a great weekend.
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Have a great weekend too Gee.
https://qofficial.net/en-aud/password
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Following the suns AP index, it decreasing strongly, what ever that may mean ..
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They give a good explanation of the orbit but it lacks depth to appreciate how the orbit cycles really work.
They also make the mistake that a cooling Earth initiates glaciation. They show an image of sea ice when talking about glaciation. This is indicative of their confusion. In fact, it is becoming increasingly evident that warmer northern oceans are leading to increasing snowfall and wider surface extent of snow. This year is close to overall record high for snow cover:
https://globalcryospherewatch.org/state_of_cryo/snow/track-2023-nh.png
So record September NH temperature leads to record snowfall in November. Even climate modellers are starting to wake up to this fact. They will soon be reporting that they predicted more snow rather than less. Once this happens, the logical question is how much more hotter will the oceans get and how much more snow. The answer to both is lots. There is a lot more ocean in the NH that can hit the 30C limit. There is enough summer sunlight at the North Pole to take ocean surface to 30C if it starts out warm enough. The Black Sea at 42N is already hitting 30C and can go higher than 30C because it is near land locked and that interferes with convective instability. The Med at 35N is already hitting the 30C limit with associated monsoon.
So orbit adequately explains the observed trends. The confounding factors are the changing solar intensity in relationship to oceans and land and the response times of ocean and land. The Earth’s surface is actually warmest in July when the peak solar intensity is just past its lowest value. Land and oceans respond differently to solar input. The Southern Hemisphere currently gets considerably higher peak solar intensity than the NH but the SH is cooler. The response of land to temperature depends on the amount of water and its form. We can observe that not much of Antarctica ever gets much above 0C despite it getting the highest daily sunshine because it is an ice block. It would take a million or more years to melt this block so it will never get much above 0C for a long time. Retreating or expanding glaciers have a big impact on the temperature range of the land. So ice on land can imbue incredibly long thermal lags. Abyssal ocean water can take up to 2,000 years to complete a circuit so it has time constants of the order of hundreds to thousands of years. The meridinal currents overturn in decades up to 300 years. Ocean surface currents take years ti decades to make a circuit and are connected through the Southern Ocean providing any source of variability that is not understood.
And in latest news, New England has record snowfall:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/weather-roundup-heavy-rain-and-some-record-snowfall-make-for-stressful-thanksgiving-eve/ar-AA1kn4eO
People looking for the NH to develop a cooling trend in the near future will be disappointed. The orbit guarantees the ocean surface will continue to warm for more than 9,000 years. But all land north of 40N will eventually store ice again and that will cause the land to cool down. I expect we are at least 200 years away from the permafrost advancing south again.
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Rick, In the late ’70s I was taught met by one A.M Baker BSc(Oxford I think) and he made a strong argument for a period of deep ocean warming prior to a glaciation on-set event. It’s pretty straight forward. Year on year ice accumulation can only take place if there is a steady source of water vapour. Ocean thermal inertia means there could easily be quarter of a century of residual warmth feeding the glacial on-set, by which time surface albedo would perpetuate the ice-sheet and cool the high latitudes and high mountains.
Even in December I’ve found 6ft of snow in gullies of Australia’s Kosciusko hills. It is easy to imagine the Polar Front meandering further N from the Antarctic and causing extra snow-fall around Kosciusko. Once tripped into ice-sheet mode the glaciation is “protected” by albedo and state change physics.
Of course, we’re never going to see much press hype about a period of global warming causing a glaciation event.
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John,
The climate modellers are beginning to recognise that they have snowfall wrong. The evidence for what you were taught is now much clearer than back in the 1970s although there was concern for a new ice age then. For example:
https://phys.org/news/2022-02-depth-trends-revealed-cmip6-conflict.html
There are many examples where the climate models fail to replicate snowfall observations.
The longest year for snow piles in Edmonton, Canada was in 2011. The winter “officially” ended on September 13th when the last snow pile melted. The northern oceans are still anomalously warm this year so make for impressive snowfall. I will be interest to see how long the snow piles last in Edmonton this year.
So far, permafrost is still receding northward. Only Greenland is showing higher elevation and greater extent of permanent ice. Greeland and Iceland are the canaries for re-glaciation of the NH.
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Maybe when they’ve finished modelling clouds and have a hand on snowfall they can set some of these 97% scientists to think about the effect of the molten mass under our feet.
Orbital physics and sun cycles are only part of the equation, volcanoes and hotspots that let the heat leak out from under us are still uncounted. There’s much more to this than CO2..
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Could we sensibly model cloud cover? Computers are good at performing the task of resolving x, y and z where each has only one numeric value but it appears to me that cloud-cover has to be inputted as a range of possibilities. How do they program a model when all the parameters are vague, variable and interactive. Some factors cause a positive feed-back while others are frequently negative.
Around here a slight increase in humidity with adiabatic cooling caused by on-shore breezes sliding up the 1000m hills, causes us to be in a pea-soup for a few days (definitely to-day). It generates its own surface layer of climate which is self-perpetuating until the weather system shifts to more north-westerly winds off the interior. Simultaneously, inland from Perth it could be a smokey 37º. How can a mathematical model represent such variations ?
It would be pointless to enter data for a square region of Planet Earth. We are a mountain range of definite size and shape which generates local climate and is highly wind-direction dependent. Every part of the land-mass is different and interactive. A good model would have to be continuously updated and rerun. By the time the results were in, the situation would have altered and the model would then need to be run again and so on and so forth. You’d never get there.
The meaning of life, the universe and everything is not 32 but might be more like a perpetually recurring pattern (Mandelbrot set).
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Rick, Are those snow-piles the fields on the outskirts of town where they dump excess snow ?
I have little concept of real snow here in Oz tho’ one October I did come across a low circular “seat” sort-of-thing poking up out of the snow below Kosciusko and it turned out to be the skylight tube to the National Park’s new toilet block.
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The AMO is behaving badly, probably unprecedented because of Hunga Tonga-Hunga, so I agree the NH won’t be cooling anytime soon.
https://weather.plus/amo-index.html
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Thank you Krishna for that link. Very informative.
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Liberal economic update vows fight against “environmental racism”
https://tnc.news/2023/11/22/economic-update-fight-against-environmental-racism/
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It’s so farcical how many Leftist governments are creating financial suicide.
How the lame stream media aren’t calling them out at the top of their mast heads. It’s so blatant that you would think it’s a conspiracy to create a world wide depression, turmoil and a one world government.
Hang on I’ll just put on my tinfoil hat that’ll protect me.
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Financial suicide was always their objective
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Yep.
Basically:
Break EVERYTHING, then play “God” and rebuild in their own vile image. (filling the mass graves with the “Skeptics” in the process).
Politics 101.
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OK, but WHY?
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No answers yet about Winnipeg virus lab and firing of China-linked scientists
https://tnc.news/2023/11/22/no-answers-about-winnipeg-virus-lab/
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JFK to 911, Everything is a rich mans trick.
Bit of a long documentary, and while I dont agree with everything, and I think some key participants are left out, the gist of it is that we are ruled by the mega rich, who are often criminal. They own all sides of politics, all over the world, which is why it seems we are governed by a uniparty. Democracy in the USA basically died with the assassination of JFK.
This movie blames the Military Industrial Complex for last centuries wars. So while we may think we are fighting for freedom and democracy, the criminal rich laugh all the way to the bank, as we are just fighting for their bank accounts.
Since this movie was made, we have had covid, more war in Europe, threats of war with China, and the on-going Climate change scam. Why is it that every country in the West has bought into all these scams? Could it be that they are all “owned”? Its not even a left-right thing. In Australia the lefties are all in on climate change while in Britain its the Tories. And governments around the West demanded our vaccination. It all points to the oligarchs, running the uniparty, pulling the strings of power for their own ends.
Not covered in the movie is the WEF. But its pretty obvious that this is the meeting ground of the oligarchs, and the WEF Young Globals Leaders are just the training and selection ground for their future puppets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oVpt_I9iQQ&t=6s
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Trudeau government moving to create UN treaty banning ‘plastic pollution’ by 2024
https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeau-government-moving-to-create-un-treaty-banning-plastic-pollution-by-2024
It’s time to stop all this pollution from using so many plastic items only once, like syringes, catheters, nephrostomy bags and colostomy bags!
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To stop plastic pollution you just need to stop China, India and SE Asian countries disposing of their rubbish in rivers.
Why should the West continue to be punished by having their convenience products removed for something they don’t do?
Plus, plastics can be valuable hydrocarbon fuels. They are disposed of by burning to make electricity in low emissions incinerators in proper countries although Australia refuses to do so. They even do it in the most woke nations of Europe, it’s beyond me why Australia won’t.
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“To stop plastic pollution you just need to stop China, India and SE Asian countries disposing of their rubbish in rivers.”
I don’t see any pollution there. Since scientists started investigating the claims of ‘plastic islands’ in the sea they have found over 30 species of bacteria that break plastics down. Lets see how the ‘microplastics in cells’ claims turn out under further investigations.
While there no doubt burning it in a furnace is better, we usually just store it in ‘dry cells’ in landfills for use by our descendants.
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A few years ago I spent hours trying to find these plastic seas/islands. The way they were written was that you could almost walk on them so clearly they are a menace to maritime navigation – they would, quite likely, choke engine cooling systems so I checked NOtice To Mariners. Nothing. Eventually I heard about “micro plastic”. Not the same thing.
It is all designed as a guilt trip for the gullible – No more plastic straws, or cotton buds, but an email uses measurable power to send and store “forever” but you are unlikely to get the kids on board if tell them using social media will kill the polar bears.
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Absolutely. And these countries also consign other products to their furnaces, such as dry sewage. The burn process is used to generate additional power, and the resultant small amount of non-toxic ash can be easily disposed of in landfills. I’ve never yet found out where the plastics, so carefully and expensively sorted by my local council, actually ends up. I’m left with the impression that the council doesn’t want to know.
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We should commence by eliminating the most dangerous waste, such as Trudeau, Biden, most of the EU politicians, and Ozzie ones too.
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So. A violent uprising? Or was that meant to be funny in some way?
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Alex is suggesting a democratic transition from left to right, which I applaud.
Imagine spud head replacing Elbo and the renewable juggernaut coming to a dead stop.
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No he didn’t actually.
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It depends on how you interpret ‘eliminate’.
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GA would intemperate “Go peacefully to the Capitol” as “Go riot and burn the place down and overthrow the government”.
It’s just how you use words.
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Get yer dicktionery out GA.
Eliminate yer confusion.
Eliminate don’t mean assassinate yer know.
Doh!
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More EV/hybrid spontaneous combustion. “The SUVs affected by the recall can still be driven until they are fixed, but Stellantis is recommending they be parked away from buildings and not be charged until they can be repaired.”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/11/23/stellantis-recalls-32000-hybrid-jeep-wrangler-suvs-after-several-catch-fire-while-parked/
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SoC
“The SUVs affected by the recall can still be driven until they are fixed, but Stellantis is recommending they be parked away from buildings and not be charged until they can be repaired.”
“The SUVs affected by the recall can still be driven until they are fixed, but … not be charged …”
Stellantis have EVs that cannot be charged.
Hybrids – well, yes; work like an ICE car, but with an added dead weight of battery …
EVs – ahhh – not so much without charging.
Auto
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Offshore Wind cannot be justified
By David Wojick, Ph.D.
https://www.cfact.org/2023/11/22/offshore-wind-cannot-be-justified/
Paul Driessen and I just finished a study on the impact of offshore wind developments on CO2 emissions, since emission reduction is their primary justification. Turns out global emissions from mining, processing, manufacturing and transportation offset any reductions from power production.
How Offshore Wind Drives Up Global Carbon Emissions
By David Wojick, PhD, Paul Driessen, JD
The full report is here: http://www.cfact.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Wojick-Driessen-How-Offshore-Wind-Drives-Up-Global-Carbon-Emissions-FINAL.pdf
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Bank of America’s Global Research department did this report which destroys the LCOE claim that wind and solar are the cheapest ways to produce electricity.
On page 12 the exhibits illustrate that wind and solar are the most expensive ways to create electricity if all of the costs are included, and subsidies are ignored.
https://advisoranalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/bofa-the-ric-report-the-nuclear-necessity-20230509.pdf
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Biden Admin Gave $3 Billion Loan to Solar Company Accused of Scamming Elderly
https://freebeacon.com/energy/biden-admin-gave-3-billion-loan-to-solar-company-accused-of-scamming-elderly/
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Not to give anyone false hope and this is not medical advice but this is a very interesting interview with a scientific authority about treating or moderating cancer with a keto diet and certain medications.
Video: https://youtu.be/1ebPZP9hBPA
Website is at: https://tomseyfried.com/
His basic approach is as follows:
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From Wikipedia:
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Dramatic rooftop rescue by crane from blazing high rise brand new building
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12784767/Reading-Fire-Terrifying-moment-worker-trapped-16-storey-burning-tower-desperately-waves-help-coat-flames-roar-just-inches-feet-modest-crane-driver-winched-safety-plays-heroics.html
Fire chiefs reckon it was the cladding and insulation. This block is currently being built to exacting modern standards yet, like the Luton airport building a few months ago there was a serious fire
It beggars the question as to how safe modern cladding and insulation is. The UK govt is continually exhorting us to improve home insulation in walls and the roof but is it safe?
Oz has a warmer climate so I don’t know if you insulate your roof space against either heat or cold. If so what material do you use?
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Ah, I love the arguments that capitalism brings, and the insulation industry is a classic!
Asbestos was labelled as too dangerous back in the 60s, so it was replaced by mascerated paper. You hammer-mill old magazines and newspaper while mixing them with boron salts, but it attracts water dampness so fibreglass was pushed. No no, fibreglass is a lung irritant, remember asbestos, so they went to rockwool. Rockwool is full of sand and uncontrolled fibre diameters, so while they battled over the market synthetic fibre insulation came out. Nylon insulation? No, it can burn, this wool insulation is much better! Wool?? The rats love living in it, you’re better off with fibreglass.. Commercially, rolls of fibreglass stuck onto aluminium foil do most of it.
I reckon fibreglass dominates the Australian insulation market now, all new houses are insulated both ceilings and walls, and foil underfloor for the few houses that are not on concrete slabs. Locally we range from -5 to 35deg, not as cold as UK but keeping the heat out is just as important.
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Yes, everything that is good is ultimately bad for us. Most things can be irritants so I wonder how many more insulation types will fall out of fashion. Solid foam blocks are popular for new apartment buildings, usually lined in foil. For domestic use its rolls of fibre glass or rockwool or stuff spun put of old plastic bottles. That is a non irritant but expensive
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KP, I thought I’d be a good little conservationist and use sheeps’ wool needled to foil and use up some of the surplus wool in Oz. It’s pleasantly robust and does not give you itchy forearms or cause you to cough up grit at night but try inserting a typical 50mm long type 17 roofing screw through it and you don’t get very far. The cutting tip wraps wool around itself until you get a “candy floss” ball wound so tightly that it jambs up and the DC motor of the cordless drill snaps the screw in half. These days I use wool / polyester for convenience.
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Hi Tonyb, in Australia/ New Zealand we use ” pink bats” . These are 70 -80% recycled glass spun into a fibre with natural stuff such a wool or cotton fibre added along with sand or limestone. They don’t burn. They have an energy rating ie the higher the number the warmer/ cooler your home will be and the less energy you will use to achieve that level of comfort.
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My goodness! Well done that crane driver.
I knew that part of Reading very well, though it’s changed over the years. My old stamping ground, so to speak.
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At one time I used to live close to Reading as well. It has a great position on the Thames but has had a lot of development in recent years.
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Great news. Right after a conservative/Libertarian wins in Argentina another wins in Netherlands.
It’s fight back against the Left time. The Left have awoken a sleeping giant of the pro-reason, pro-freedom, pro-science community.
Don’t forgive. Don’t forget. Prosecute.
We are yet to see such sanity in Australia or the United States.
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“We are yet to see such sanity in Australia or the United States.”
We had/have it in America, so they started “Fortifying” elections. Where there is election integrity, or if the vote is so lop sided that fraud can’t overcome it you see this, and more will come.
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Indeed Dave.
I am also wondering if the DemocRATs also “fortified” the 2016 election but the vote for Trump was so overwhelming that the fraud couldn’t overcome it. They made sure their fraud was more robust in 2020.
Killary could never accept she didn’t win because her puppeteers told her the fraud would work.
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They have been fortifying since at least 2006 me thinks. Maybe since 2004 after Gore lost. Can you imagine what a nightmarish dystopian state the world would be in, if Gore had became the leader of the free world, and with 911 right around the corner?
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Here is CNN’s hilarious headline:
“A ‘Trump moment’ in the Netherlands shows that Europe still has a populist problem”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/23/europe/geert-wilders-dutch-election-analysis-intl/index.html
A problem for the left for sure. Happy days for us. But he only got 37 out of 150 seats so needs a Coalition.
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Who is Australia’s Geert Wilders?
Malcolm Roberts has a suitable outlook but he has charisma of a bulldog. Pauline Hansen started the party but is not fast on her feet – the word dull comes to mind.
Alex Antic is one of the LNP who could be a winner. His law degree gives him some speaking ability. I would vote him in just for his stance on their ABC:
https://www.alexantic.com.au/abc-petition
Maybe Dutton will grow a pair. He may be doing ground work now. The climate fraud is gradually being exposed and weather dependent electricity is collapsing. Dutton strikes me as a hard nut with a soft edge. He could be a good leader with the right support.
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Only about another 6000 signatures required.
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Try “Sarah” Jane Halton
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Ironically, the only people scared of Covid-19 (or should that be Covid-14?) are those vaccinated against it. 😉
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Signed. But after the farce that was the inquiry into the Victorian hotel detention disaster, I’m not sure a Royal Commission would yield much result.
Think about just one question: what are the names of the federal and state employees that made the messaging decision to claim that the jabs were safe for use in pregnancy? Documents obtained via FOIA, show that at the time these claims were made, the TGA was in possession of manufacturers data that no reproductive toxicology or safety in pregnancy testing had been done. Do you think anyone in government would dare answer that question honestly?
These are dark times, and the societal damage from the failed Machiavellian plans of the parasites continues apace. If those in government actually had any brains, they would realise that an open and honest RC might be one of Australia’s slim chances to avoid societal breakdown.
Sounds like Hyperbole? How many are up to date with their “boosters”? 5% maybe? That means 95% no longer trust government or doctors. Let’s add in the jab death toll. Even though most have stopped getting jabbed, the jab deaths won’t PEAK until 2027. Just in time for all childhood vaccination to be switched to the mRNA platform via the Moderna facility being built at RMIT. A perfect storm.
Sadly a perfect storm that the self serving goverment/medical marfia/establishment misledia mediocrity cannot see coming. They still think that flapping their hands and gums with mealy-mouthed “mistakes were made” excuses will work, when 95% of the population have woken up to the the hideous reality that “plans were made”. And that those plans had nothing to do with public health.
Will a RC avert social disaster for Australia? Only if the guilty realise that that President Ronald Reagan was right: “nowhere left to run to”.
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Thanks to the Left, the West has never seen such an assault on the values bought to us by The Renaissance, The Scientific Revolution, The Enlightenment or Judeo-Christian moral values.
As I mentioned above, however, as seen in the recent elections of Netherlands and Argentina, there is now fight back from the pro-reason, pro-science, pro-freedom community.
Let’s hope it continues. We haven’t yet seen much evidence in Australia or the United States.
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Expert scientists [read: high priests] threatened us with Old Testament-style parched throats, heat, burning, snakes, frogs and fiery doom if we didn’t kowtow to their (UN) enlightened prophecies…
Nature laughed so hard she began crying – all over eastern Australia and the length of New Zealand where, in the deep south, her tears turned to SNOW, draping hills and peaks with manna of a frozen, snowflake-like quality, plunging temperatures and, as a bonus, filling up dams and lakes to overflowing. Meanwhile in Western Aus, nothing’s changed: hot, dry and sunny.
Today’s snowfall down south is the fourth (4th) this month of SNOVEMBER and if the chicken entrails are correct as per high priests’ prognostications, your sub-tropical depression bringing soothing rain [from the split rock of the desert outback] drifts southeastwards next week to create our fifth (5th!) snowstorm of the eleventh month. El Niño’s transitioning? Or Tonga Hunga Ha’apai blew all the models away?
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Ha, ha, ha. Those pesky Volcanoes.
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Because of all the talk of El Nino and a long dry summer, the price of feed for farm livestock went sky high. Prices are starting to come back a bit with all the rain we are having. Very few are aware that the eruption could have affected the weather.
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Opposite in Oz. Cow & sheep live prices at rock bottom. Yet, the supermarket prices for the products are sky high! Somebody making money – & it isn’t the farmers.
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Video.
Dr John Campbell interviews Prof. David Anderson about Vitamin D.
It’s amazing that there’s so little consciousness about this hormone and correcting its deficiency.
Correction of deficiency prevents so many diseases at almost no cost. Oh. That is indeed the problem with it.
https://youtu.be/rLl-SilwQ4g
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It gets more interesting (and damning of the medical profession) when you factor in Statins , cholesterol, and the effects on vitamin D and health…
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“Build more wind, they say. Well Alberta did, and still got next to zip”
“And in case you missed it, Ottawa can take its journalism subsidies and shove them. Maybe that’s why I’m the only reporter I know of who’s not singing the praises of wind and solar? Will reporters whose salaries are 35% subsidized by the federal government do the same, and question the narrative?”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/11/23/build-more-wind-they-say-well-alberta-did-and-still-got-next-to-zip/
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In comments –
“At this very moment in Alberta:
Wind is producing 79 out of 4420 MW installed for a whopping 1.8%
Solar is producing 14 out of 1470 MW installed for an astounding 0.95%
Current hourly pool price is 53.3 ¢/kWh.
Anyone who thinks we can run our society on “renewable” energy is an idiot.
As an engineer I am ashamed that our so called engineering society supports this lunacy.”
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And
“On the same topic= insanity, I watched a YouTube video of “Uncle Tony’s garage” where he covers the upcoming new Ram Ramcharger electric truck that will have a standard “extended mileage battery charger built in” : A 3.6 litre gas powered V6 engine under the hood…No you can’t charge the battery while driving, you must stop to charge and you can’t move using the gas engine as there are no transmission/driveshaft…you read that right, a 600 lbs 3.6 litre V6 engine that you tag along to charge your battery in case you can’t reach a charge station…Pure F’ing MADNESS!”
I suppose you could argue that it is slightly more useful than tail fins though?
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Tail fins were a beautiful design feature of the era and far more useful than wind, solar or EV trucks.
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Silence S04 Spanish micro car 2 seat with 2 removable batteries
The small S04 “cars” use offset seating, fitting two passengers in the short 2.33 meter (7’7″) long vehicle. The minimalistic design allows two cars to fit in a typical car parking spot, according to the company.
The L6e version will have a top speed of 45 km/h (28 mph), a 6 kW motor. The L7e version has a higher top speed of 90 km/h (56 mph) and a larger 14 kW motor.
The models also offer different battery sizes, with a smaller 5.6 kWh trolley-style wheeled battery in the lower power version and a larger 11.2 kWh battery in the higher power version. Silence rates the cars at 149 km (92 miles) of range on the WMTC standard.
The batteries can be removed (with handle and 2 trolley wheels) and taken indoors to be recharged from the home electricity, at least for the shorter range. Cost $12,500 in Europe but don’t know how much out here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFzl8Tp0Xw0
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Ian, Solar hot water and solar PV have their places but not hooked up to a national grid. They just create instability, inconvenience and higher consumer prices.
I run a few separate items on sunshine but as part of their own micro-grid with the ability to recharge the battery from off-peak at night if needs be.
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And, in the “Least Bang for the Buck” competition –
“A similar scenario plays out here in the Pacific NW. 2800 MW of installed wind that has produced nil for much of the past week: https://transmission.bpa.gov/Business/Operations/Wind/baltwg.aspx“
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And there’s always the King Island success story. As I type at 9:00am KI time 16% wind power, 0% solar, 0% battery and 84% diesel.
https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/hybrid-energy-solutions/success-stories/king-island
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Got it in one.
Also, from You Tube:
“Currently, around 60% of Ontario’s daily power usage comes from nuclear plants. The government says nuclear power will be the “backbone” of Ontario electricity in years to come as the province looks to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050”.
And from Peter Zeihan also You Tube: Germany has 150% renewables capacity but averages only 7% of their annual power supply.
That is approx 20 to 1 ratio.
How much of their taxes and welfare state money is lost due to woke green politics.
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Without more storage, Australia’s wind generators are flatlining. They compete with each other and rooftops for market share. And rooftops have market priority because they are not easy to control.
Last quarter, wind generation capacity went up by 203MW but wind energy generation dropped by 9MW. When they produce, they mostly all produce. At lunchtime, they are wound back because rooftops risk grid instability if wind stays producing. In the evening, when the rooftops stop, the wind usually stops and the coal and gas cranks up. As does prices. So rooftops are eroding market share of wind.
If Bowen continues with his fantasy, he will encourage more people to defect or partially defect from the grid. Q3 2023 had 23% higher average rooftop output than in Q3 2022. It is the onlyt growing segment in terms of generation.
https://aemo.com.au/-/media/files/major-publications/qed/2023/qed-q3-2023-report.pdf
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I’ll just leave this here:
“New oil and gas investments will still be needed for the world to hit net zero emissions goals, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has conceded, with the fossil fuels required to ensure global energy security.”[1]
So oil is the great evil that caused global warming but it will also help stop global warming.
1. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/fossil-fuel-spending-needed-to-hit-net-zero-says-international-energy-agency/news-story/9edfd191e5126cec02b1cdfdd9b88a84
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Climate “scientist” consensus is, that, if it’s cooling, that’s because of global warming, if I remember well 😀
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FWIW
“Washington Post Attack on Nobel Prize-Winning Climate Sceptic Backfires Spectacularly”
“Unfortunately, the WaPo stunt turned into a spectacular own goal since it called on the services of the science influencer Michael Mann to attack Clauser’s view as “pure garbage”. This has led the CO2 Coalition, a body that lobbies for better understanding of the role of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and where Dr. Clauser is now a Director, to note: “Bottom line: a fake Nobel Laureate (Mann) criticised a real one (Clauser).” ”
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/11/23/washington-post-attack-on-nobel-prize-winning-climate-sceptic-backfires-spectacularly/
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“North German Green Hydrogen Project Halted Due To Lack Of Economy…”Major Economic Risks” ”
“Never-ending green energy woes: high construction costs… uneconomical…”associated major economic risks” ”
“Hydrogen will be the technology that will ultimately solve all the world’s energy woes, so claim those who are finally realizing that a lithium battery powered economy is a pipe dream after all. And, so must the green economy show go on.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/22/north-german-green-hydrogen-project-halted-due-to-lack-of-economy-major-economic-risks/
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In comments
“Go figure, that crappy green energy Germany is so fond of is inefficient enough to be unable to generate an economy sufficient enough to allow them to produce more crappy green energy. Nothing like Renewables High Energy Prices to make everything unaffordable… even construction.”
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And
““Those who can’t do become teachers and politicians. If you can’t do then you have no idea of how things work and it leads to the delusion that every thing you can dream of is feasible…”
That pretty well sums it up. We/They have been dumbing-down our education system for years and now have produced several generations that “can’t do.” Sure got a lot of teachers and politicians though.”
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The facts of this ‘Algerian national’ stabbing attack are yet to be confirmed but the BBC etc. has already labelled the reaction ‘far right’ thugs etc. whilst the area has constant simmering tensions and it could kick off at the slightest provocation of any kind.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12785095/Get-Furious-Dubliners-drive-police-City-Centre-five-people-including-three-children-stabbed-unverified-rumours-swirl-suspect-foreign-national.html
Back in the UK they just revised 2022 NET immigration up to 3/4 million and 2023 won’t be far behind. Additionally they know 5 or 6 Iranian Islamic terrorists have recently crossed in the small boats and they’ve lost 3 of them already.
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The UK Immigration Revision was
PLUS 139,000 – the same as adding an EXTRA St Albans or Preston to the tally of those admitted in 2022.
2023 provisional figure is 10% Higher than 2022’s [which was revised up by a St. Albans].
How does the UK’s ‘Rolls Royce’ of a Civil Service make an error of that magnitude – not a football team, or even a boat-load or three, but more than 20%, a tolerably large town?
These links may, perhaps, give an indication: –
https://www.cityam.com/how-well-spend-money-autumn-statement/
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/11/22/why-the-technocrats-keep-failing/
We p155 money against the wall because we believe in ‘experts’ [or “tossers 250 miles from home” as they should be defined]; and we then don’t even half-heartedly try to see if we are getting hemi-demi-semi-decent results from that money, let alone decent value.
It’s the taxpayers’ money – so is almost limitless… until they run out of OUR money.
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.. and to think this is the same country that criticises Russia-
“Despite the fact that public spending now equates to 46.5 per cent of GDP, up from just over a third in 1990, public services are crumbling. In other words, given we appear to have little to show for this historic level of peacetime spending, you would think we’d be more interested in understanding why.”
Surely they can see that even when Govt controlled 100% of the economy they still couldn’t make a country run?
The more Govt you have, the less efficient the country is.
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The newspaper/authorities judge and jury are out regarding the perp.
The newspaper/authorities judge and jury are in regarding the protestors who are ALL hooligans and right wing miscreants that deserve to be locked up.
The newspaper/authorities judge and jury are (huge sigh of relief) in regarding the true “hero” of the incident bcause he just happens to be Brazilian.
The obvious counter hooligan right wing demonstrators logic if the perp is an immigrant therefore will be along the lines of it was an immigrant, the people that those nasty hooligan right wingers don’t want that stopped the perp. Isn’t immigration great. No sorry, don’t see the need to discuss the perps circumstances.
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Finally, someone in the media calls out the Tories on immigration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIOej4lE4c0
(4m 32s video featuring Poppy Coburn of the UK Telegraph)
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“Long live the rural veterinarian”
https://www.farmprogress.com/commentary/long-live-the-rural-veterinarian
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This is what happens when the woke run a city council; They pay $50,000 to an Aboriginal artist for a dead log.
A spokesperson said “This was for the artists to pay homage to the Wiradjuri traditional values.”
https://www.bordermail.com.au/story/8432953/new-murray-river-sculpture-divides-opinions-in-albury/
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An aside. Was at that park recently, pre log, and they have spent a lot of money on developing that area into a great local facility. I recommend the park, and the nearby cafe BBB (Barrista, Baker, Brewer)
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“the Wiradjuri traditional values”
That would be “money longa finger” then?
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I can’t get behind the paywall, does the log have particular significance?
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Of Particular Significance is the fact that those woke pushing “Net Zero” have Net Zero public consultation with those who end up paying for it. In this case the Albury ratepayers are being treated like mushrooms. Many residents are struggling to put food on the table and lining up for food handouts.
Just like yesterdays federal announcement of the taxpayer funded Capacity Investment Scheme. The massive cost, hundreds of billions of dollars, will be hidden until after the event.
All levels of government in Australia are now on track following the World Economic Forum’s plan. “You will own nothing” by 2030.
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Its causing division because of economic hardship, the ratepayers are not amused.
River Red gums buried under sand for thousands of years, only resurrected because of sand mining operations. The log is totally woke, but the artist seems capable.
‘Marley Dawson is an internationally recognised local artist, raised in Albury and who currently lives in Canberra. He is of Scottish, English, Irish, Mauritian (African, French) and Jewish descent with his ancestors first arriving in Australia as convicts. Dawson has exhibited extensively across Australia and the United States.’
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Paywall is a problem. But, from elsewhere, it seems the log is “between 6,400 and 12,000 years old”. Don’t know if that makes it significant.
It may have been significant habitat for the red-bellied sap-sucking arch-backed triple-lipped diamond-crusted camel-toed Skink, for the last 3 months of the 6,000 or 12,000 years. Don’t know how they got approval to move it. Can’t lift a twig in most places these days without copping a fine.
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Probably too gutted to get any tree ring data.
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A proud member of the Rorta Rorta tribe!!!
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Marley Dawson has won awards.
Marley Dawson’s works obviously appeal to some. Try Gargle Images ‘Marley Dawson art’.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder – not necessarily the tax payer.
He [or she or Ze or Xe or They] [etc.; I know there are {or were, who knows now?} some 306 other genders, per a London Borough Council last year, IIRC] who pays the piper calls the tune.
Except it goes through the local authorities.
And they’re running out of other people’s money here in the UK.
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FWIW
“Lithium Crash Deepens With Battery Metal Now Down 78% From Peak ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/lithium-crash-deepens-battery-metal-now-down-78-peak
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If GM Ford VW and others are no longer willing to bet $billons on an EV market that might never eventuate its time for a reality check
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It is easing supply chain issues.
Makes Rio Tinto’s transition out of coal and into lithium looking a bit lacking in proper analysis. No doubt The Australian Mining Council is pressing Bowen to get on with weather dependent electricity so Australia can go to COP showing serious ambition and embarrass other western nations into getting more wind turbines. solar panels and lithium batteries from China. China is the gift that keeps giving for Australia – probably until they don’t.
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OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The previously unreported letter and AI algorithm were key developments before the board’s ouster of Altman, the poster child of generative AI, the two sources said.
Some at OpenAI believe Q* (pronounced Q-Star) could be a breakthrough in the startup’s search for what’s known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), one of the people told Reuters. OpenAI defines AGI as autonomous systems that surpass humans in most economically valuable tasks.
Researchers consider math to be a frontier of generative AI development. Currently, generative AI is good at writing and language translation by statistically predicting the next word, and answers to the same question can vary widely. But conquering the ability to do math — where there is only one right answer — implies AI would have greater reasoning capabilities resembling human intelligence. This could be applied to novel scientific research, for instance, AI researchers believe.
Unlike a calculator that can solve a limited number of operations, AGI can generalize, learn and comprehend.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/
Wonder what the Pentagoons missing $trillions are being used for…
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Re. the US border crash/explosion with the Bentley driver on the way to a Kiss concert; the Destroyer album track Detroit Rock City ends “I know I’m gonna die” and the sounds of a violent car crash!
https://youtu.be/gWb2LIaWKhc
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Black women most likely to die in medieval plague, Museum of London says
Black women of African descent were more likely to die of the medieval plague in London, academics at the Museum of London have found.
The study is the first archaeological exploration showing how race may have influenced a person’s risk of death during what was known as the Great Pestilence or Great Mortality.
The research is based on 145 individuals from three cemeteries.
The outbreak is believed to have claimed the lives of 35,000 Londoners.
The research concluded that higher death rates amongst people of colour and those of black African descent was a result of the “devastating effects” of “premodern structural racism” in the medieval world.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67472933
Gotta get that white racism narrative in there somewhere…
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Low vitamin D levels perhaps?
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/11/friday-32/#comment-2715115
Cheers
Dave B
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In the UK prostate cancer ads they say 1 in 8 men will get it, but 1 in 4 black men.
I guess that is the fault of racism.
Of course it was well publicised that different Covid prospects according to ethnicity was the fault of racism.
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Per the BBC Article, the paper – not yet published – has been ‘peer-reviewed’.
I base my comments on the BBC Article.
My thoughts – as the BBC says “The report also acknowledges the sample size is small and that it has been careful to avoid what it termed as “the incorrect and harmful implication that there is a biological basis of race and we actively oppose the incorrect inference that there is something inherent to people assigned to a certain racial category that makes them more vulnerable to disease”.”
Small sample – 145 individuals from three cemeteries.
London at the time had a population of [very roughly] 70,000 [as 35,000 – representing ‘half the population’ died [per the BBC]in the Black Death].
The BBC adds – “The paper said that from 1336 to 1584 “nearly 18,000 ‘foreigners’ had come to London from India, Greece, Iceland, and mainland Europe”.”
So 18,000 over almost a quarter of a millennium – a rate of 73 a year.
73 – enough for two rugby matches [with ref and linesmen, and a couple of subs] – from, well, almost all over, although Africa is not mentioned.
And the BBC article doesn’t particularly highlight that: –
“While no population figures for black women in London have been recorded the paper added during this period mercantile and richer migrants who regularly stayed in London, accompanied by entire households, often had servants who were free or enslaved people originating from Sub-Saharan and northern Africa or Eastern Europe.”
Could it be that those who died were a little more likely to die if they were poor – servants, etc. – regardless of race?
It does not say how many were assigned [scientifically, six hundred years after the event] to “estimated African population affinity”, but if that number is quite small – as a proportion of a fairly small sample – then one or two mis-assignments could shift the numbers appreciably.
And, note, per the BBC –
“Dr Rebecca Redfern, from the Museum of London, said: “We have no primary written sources from people of colour and those of black African descent during the Great Pestilence of the 14th Century, so archaeological research is essential to understanding more about their lives and experiences.””
That suggests that ‘people of colour and those of black African descent’ were more likely to be unusual in the population, and – perhaps – also more likely to be ‘poor’.
David of Cooyal in Oz says [@27.1]
“Low vitamin D levels perhaps?” – certainly possible at 51 degrees North; even in summer, clothes are generally needed for comfort in London.
And if the deceased was a servant, possibly working largely indoors – cooking, cleaning, or making – very plausible. That is especially if their nutrition [and treatment] may have been sub-optimal.
Others will, I am sure, have a closer take on this report of a paper.
To me, however, it looks as if they may have been influenced in what they were asked to look for – and found.
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PS – the nice picture at the head of the BBC Article is accredited to Amédée Forestier – “London in 1400 by Amédée Forestier, a French artist who specialised in historical landscapes”; there is a credit to the Museum of London.
Wiki [gosh, I know ….] – at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amédée_Forestier#External_links – says: –
“Charles Amédée Forestier (1854 – 18 November 1930) was an Anglo-French artist and illustrator who specialised in historical and prehistoric scenes, and landscapes.” [downloaded 1700z, 25 Nov 2023].
So, the nice picture is not a picture from the 14th century.
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Friday tech corner
An old fashioned crystal radio:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/beca253ce290dfb6c4c07f9633688eed/d3213d7689d9173f-f7/s1280x1920/6b2cb48ef4721f3709baec273bf39139ad0fb5c6.jpg
Very stylish too!
One for the ham radio and rf guys. This is a rather nice spectrum analyser with a lot of uses. The Tiny SA Ultra:
https://youtu.be/ypqJMcVC-z8?si=ZA2b39ldih4cdg2e
I feel the urge to buy one.
1977 Cadillac Eldorado:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/f64b003c37304c990f9191508f9ff655/18df1ca2a3e2ad5e-91/s1280x1920/a5d93355a8b956bc97713eea34175640f748a8ec.jpg
Drugs are bad, m’kay.
Retro ad promoting the benefits of tv:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/f0765769e94f6ca50ef23f7220191815/807e75ff1701fac0-7c/s500x750/0842a0bc6ca00f1e05e7c88ba55ef5383ee48f05.jpg
1970’s talking robot:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/4cfc00e2255e10069d3db9bbf6c4c646/dccd282a292fc2f7-5c/s540x810/450bf56ba4263fb78d561ebe51c84f9c7e015385.jpg
Scary!😁
Back in the day, kids playsets had real radioactive compounds:
https://thebulletin.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-06-at-12.32.13-PM-1024×855.png
An old miner’s lamp:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s4hfx0fQ4b1vjc24o.mp4
Sing along!
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…and I just bought a Tiny SA.
That’s my xmas present. 😁
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Most hams have them these days; enjoy!!
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From 100kHz to 6GHz, it has a lot of uses.😉
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That’s a lovely crystal radio. A thing of beauty and a joy to behold…
And perhaps you could your new SA to monitor transmissions from the 5G towers?
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Natural CO2 emissions six times higher than humanity creates, all emissions should be treated equally.
https://notrickszone.com/2023/11/23/new-study-co2-emission-rates-from-natural-sources-are-up-to-6-times-larger-than-from-humans/
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No active volcanoes in Australia but elsewhere.
There are more than 1500 active volcanoes on Earth. Around 50–70 volcanoes erupt every year. There are 82 volcanoes in Europe and 32 of these are in Iceland.
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But Gee comes in as a close second. 😆😆
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“Natural CO2 emissions six times higher than humanity creates, all emissions should be treated equally.”
Indeed, yes!
And – if they did that – how many of the woke college/uni geeks, finding climate change and racism [#27 above!] in every place they look, might be out of a job?
And Civil Serpents, shovelling taxpayers’ money to dudes with silver tongues and a ‘Vision’ … might some of them be redundant, too?
And the pollies, who have shamelessly pushed this civilisation-destroying religion – can they be held to account for their innumeracy and cupidity?
Just askin’.
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NOT BABYLON BEE: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Is Pushing a Campaign To Do “Free” COVID Testing for animals/pets
On their testing page, they ACTUALLY say: “It is possible that new variants may emerge from that could infect humans. Therefore, it is important to continue to test animals for the virus in LA County, including wildlife and pets.” What kind of backward science (or lack thereof) is this?!
They go on to say they’ve already tested 251 animals, including (I am not making this up) 11 coyotes, 17 opossums, 17 raccoons, 9 skunks, 1 dolphin, 1 sea lion, and 5 zoo chimpanzees, and found FOUR cases, 1 dog, 1 hamster (sent to a USDA lab for confirmation!), 1 rabbit, and 1 coyote.
Thank goodness that poor DOLPHIN wasn’t infected because a human needing to give it CPR in the middle of the ocean could contract the virus and get a bad cold or just the sniffles.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/not-babylon-bee-los-angeles-county
A dolphin!? What craziness doth science embrace?
Shades of NASA?
(If you don’t understand the reference, feel free to research it 😉)
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“So, Sir, tell me what happens with the Covid testing of animals..’
“Well, we take a nasal sample and send it off to the Covid approved lab where they run a PCR analysis for 38cycles and tell us if its positive.”
“…and if it is positive?”
“Well, we can give it a highly effective RNA vaccine or just destroy it.”
“Thankyou for your time Sir. Well, there you have it folks, bring in your cat and dogs and other family pets so they can be tested for Covid. Keep us all safe!”
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Here’s their ABC’s load of BS covering Wilder’s win in the Dutch election.
The left and far left hate the idea of people changing their vote to try and bring back some sanity on the extreme levels of immigration.
I’ll also vote for any party that wants to limit Aussie levels of immigration to more sane numbers.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-23/geert-wilders-wins-massive-victory-in-dutch-elections/103140464
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Sounds about right –
“Earlier this week, Patrick Vallance — the United Kingdom’s Chief Scientific Advisor from 2018 to 2023 — gave testimony to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry. Vallance’s testimony drew headlines because in his 2020 diary entries, he wrote that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been “bamboozled” by the science presented to him by his advisors.”
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/bamboozled
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/11/23/what-would-we-do-without-experts-16/
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In comments there –
” “…the purpose of these visual aids is not to make a phenomenon more understandable, but to bombard the public with so much eye-catching fear…”
Aye, indeed. With apologies to Tennyson:
Hockey sticks to right of them,
Hockey sticks to left of them,
Hockey sticks in front of them
So they faltered and blundered…”
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The Man Who Modernized China
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Not sure if this vid has been played here before but this guy bought a second hand Tesla only to find out it needed a new battery after he had it for a year , angry at the cost of a new battery he arranged for it to be blown up . Well worth watching .
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/12/30/tesla-exploded-dynamite-repair-costs-22k-moos-pkg-vpx.cnn
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He could have just towed a trailer with a generator in it.
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Why EV Repair and Insurance is a Nightmare
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How many times has your car bottomed out on a speed bump?????I have lost count.
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Not mine. I drive a diesel 4WD SUV. 😁️
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‘Worried about blackouts’: Government focuses on taxpayers to ‘bail out’ energy market.”
It just gets better.
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Andrew Bolt expertly tells us why the latest so called GREEN ENERGY BS and FRAUD from Labor and GREENS is a TOTAL DISASTER.
He only takes 5 minutes to tell us the TRUTH and yet the Bowen parasite wants to WASTE even more taxpayer’s money on the greatest con and fraud in history.
This Labor/ Greens govt should be sacked ASAP and Aussies should only build RELIABLE, long lasting BASE-LOAD power for our future and jobs and our security.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXAxT9LVjls
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Agreed ,
Now all we have to do is persuade about another 10 million voters to think the same way !
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Absolutely no good replacing them with the Coalition! Known as Labor-lite for very good reasons…
The only party worth voting for is one that promises to amend the constitution to say “No Govt may borrow money”
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Australia: the Covid propaganda war continues
In the latest salvo in the Covid propaganda war, the Australian government seems to be claiming that the Covid “vaccines” will protect you against dying from anything.
The Australian government and the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) have consistently said that the Covid gene-based “vaccines” were “safe and effective”. This claim was originally based on deeply flawed clinical trial safety and efficacy data wherein hundreds of patients who should have been monitored for side effects simply disappeared in the data sets and the placebo group of patients, which served as a logical baseline to assess safety, was simply destroyed by injecting this group with the Covid “vaccines” after a few short months of observation.
The authors seem to have taken a leaf out of the “climate change” playbook by selectively analysing data, “adjusting” data without any detailed explanation and drawing conclusions which simply are not supported by the analysis. Dr. Sy states:
“As it stands, the paper has serious deficiencies in data integrity, data selection bias, flawed methods of analysis, undisclosed adjustments of results, selective reporting of findings and the drawing of invalid conclusions.
The Australian Government has chosen to take this paper as authoritative evidence to justify its health policy, which has been associated with many excess deaths particularly in older Australians, but those deaths have been brushed off without investigation as coincidental, unrelated to vaccination.
The paper, in its currently published form, has serious methodological and analytical defects, resulting in errors and misleading conclusions.”
You can make up your own mind. The Australian government has continued to disseminate disinformation and misinformation about the Covid “vaccines” for more than 3 years.
https://phillipaltman.substack.com/p/the-covid-propaganda-war-continues
You can run but you can’t hide from a planet full of very angry people when the reality becomes totally undeniable.
Maybe the “quit suddenly and jumped ship” pollies could try Mars.
It’s nice this time of year.
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FWIW
“The CDC Wants You To ‘Keep Your Holiday Plans’ Under One Condition”
Paywalled but the gist shows through –
“It’s Thanksgiving Day, and it’s officially ok to begin the holiday season. It’s finally okay to watch Christmas movies, hear Christmas music, and see Christmas decorations in stores.
But, according to the CDC, if you’re planning a big get-together with family, you better “get vaccinated.” ”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2023/11/23/the-cdc-wants-you-to-keep-your-holiday-plans-under-one-condition-n4924174
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Senator Gerard Rennick spoke about this in parliament last week. In the video link below filmed in Australia’s parliament house, there are very few senators present.
Have all the government and opposition senators left the room, not willing to hear about excess deaths, doctors statistics about vaccine injuries or statistics about the failure of the vaccines to give protection from catching Covid?
If the Labor government really cared about your health there would be a royal commission, but these are the same people who want to pass laws to ban “misinformation & disinformation.”
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1458055174694681?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&mibextid=0NULKw
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Would love to hear the leafs interpretation of this , absolutely scandalous and truly explains why a Royal Commission is needed into Covid and the response .
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“but these are the same people who want to pass laws to ban “misinformation & disinformation.” ”
By this email from One Nation they blinked –
“In a significant win for supporters of freedom of speech in Australia, last week the Albanese Labor government backed down and withdrew its controversial ‘misinformation and disinformation’ bill from Parliament.”
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Lets hope the “misinformation and disinformation” bill stays permanently withdrawn but the government has promised the ‘misinformation’ bill will return to Parliament after it’s gone back to the drawing board. This is one political promise I am looking forward to them breaking. If it returns most likely next year they will be hoping no-one notices.
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EVs are the next Edsel.
The Ford Edsel was the result extensive market research but was still a huge failure.
The “early adopters” (ie wealthy woke) rushed out and bought Teslas as a second car.
Great to takes the kids to school and go shopping with a backup BMW or Merc for longer trips.
But this is just a small % of the car market
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A small redesign would have cured the Edsels ills, unlike an EV.
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Maybe – but
“10 reasons why the Ford Edsel floundered”
https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/ford-edsel-floundered/
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I suspect Tesla are about to repeat the “Edsel” experience with their “Cybertruck” ?
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Climate models are only models afterall, not the real event. Models are also susceptable to outcome fiddling. Maybe that’s a possible reason why they’re flawed.
From Climate Change Dispatch:
Flawed Climate Models
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Anyone know where I can get one of these models so I can have a play?
Something so important to the future and can’t easily get hold of the basis……
Apologies if this has been asked previously.
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That might be quite an exercise even if you could get the bits of code.
Years agone it was decreed that NASA had to release the code for GISTEMP
This is the saga that Chiefio went through to to get it running on a desk top –
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/gistemp/
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“had to release the code for GISTEMP”
I should have added that it wasn’t in runnable form, with modules requirinjg “little endian” and “big endian” computing for example.
This should become apparent in that Chiefio link.
IIRC others got it going in Python – maybe
https://github.com/svuletich/GISTEMP
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Yesterday evening we realised that one of our kitchen LED downlights had failed. Today saw a trip to the local town to find a new one and get a few items from the supermarket and chemist. We had been pondering the purchase of new devices as our old ones had started to misfunction and we had already previously been into the local store concerned to talk about them. We have never ever given thought to the Black Friday stuff so were taken aback to discover that the local store were taking part in this for the first time ever! We ordered our new devices for very good prices…completely by accident!
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We get some door knockers every year wanting to replace the globes to energy efficient LED varieties, and every year they nearly all need replacing .
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BF is pretty much a marketing con in the UK, in 2022 Which found only 2% of supposed offers were cheaper than any time in the previous year. I’ve even noticed price hikes for BF.
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More –
“Follow The Science”
“The dossier was so unsettling, one neurologist revealed, that he couldn’t sleep after reading it. It contained allegations that an experimental drug meant to curb damage from stroke — and eyed up for regulatory fast-tracking for fulfilling an unmet medical need — might instead have raised the risk of death among patients receiving it.
The dossier, assembled by whistleblowers and obtained by an investigative journalist, was recently submitted to the US National Institutes of Health, which is finalising a $30mn clinical trial into the medicine. The whistleblowers allege that the star neuroscientist driving the research, Berislav Zlokovic from the University of Southern California, pressured colleagues to alter laboratory notebooks and co-authored papers containing doctored data. The university is investigating; Zlokovic is, according to his attorney, co-operating with the inquiry and disputes at least some of the claims.”
More at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/11/23/follow-the-science-10/#comments
Financial Times link is paywalled
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It’s happening in NZ too.
https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/politics/petroleum-industry-welcomes-end-of-offshore-exploration-ban
When does OZ get the next chance to heave the incumbents out?
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Remember that most of th Liberals are woke. Probably need to go somewhere else.
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The great climate fight
Channel 4 has launched its latest climate change series, The Great Climate Fight. Even by their standards, this has to be one the most one-sided, untruthful documentaries I have seen on TV.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/11/23/channel-4-biased-whatever-next/
Part1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iB3s_yi9VzE
Part2: https://youtu.be/TKm-LuTce7A?si=x-p2781MPaXgk83-
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18 homes now confirmed as lost in totally normal and not early bushfire in Perth’s North (WA Today)
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You are right for once Peter ! It is normal and it is bushfire season , climate change doesn’t have opposable thumbs or fingers required to flick a match in the bush . However if the bush was burnt as it was for thousands of years in a patchwork manner it would stop the ferocity of a fire .
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Personally, i dont believe in the ….“ managed patchwork cool burn for thousands of years”.. theory. Fires are natural in our land, most commonly started bt “dry lightening” at random in the dry seasons and no amount of “native management” would have been able to prevent or control those events.
Remember Cook reported smoke for many days as he sailed up the East coast….would that have been a coordinated “cool burn” ?
I believe the fires have always been just as large and widespread ,..more so than today…but as there were few inhabitants , and no established permanent communities, the only result was random land deforrestation cycles.
It is only since we humans have established towns and permanent habitations in potential fire areas, that we now realise what nature can do.
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Fires are a natural part of the bush for sure as for the patchwork burning it was explained to me that in areas of high growth every year if they burnt off in sections the animals were easier to hunt and could hide in the unburnt bits . The new growth was then a magnet for kangaroos etc and as they ventured out into the cleared sections the natives would sneak in via the unburnt bits . I’m told they also knew that wildfires were not as bad in areas that had been burnt .
I’m actually amazed at the Kites up north that take advantage of burn offs and pick up burning sticks to drop them into unburnt areas so they can scoop up any fleeing lizards and insects , surely this behaviour would have been learnt over time .
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And when you looked at most of them, they had eucalypt trees next to their residences or work sheds, or tall grass/shrubs right up to their places. The TV footage showed embers flying well over a 100-200 metres with the strong winds, setting alight more houses. And there was a bulldozer, trying to clear a firebreak a few metres wide while the embers were flying a good 200 metres. When will folks learn…
Firebreaks have to be a good 500 metres wide – there was an excellent photo of a forest down south, where the extra-wide firebreak stopped the bushfire completely. And a “home amongst the gum trees” is akin to surrounding your place with large drums of petrol, as eucalypt oil is so volatile.
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Just watching the TV footage right now. One burnt-out home and sheds was located in a bush area, surrounded by open fields. Perhaps when they rebuild, they might also remove the bush area that took out the property.
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Yes,..we saw similar situations here (NSW south coast) during the 19/20 fires.
The risk is from the storm of embers carried by high winds, as well as burning dry paddock grass.
In some ways an open area just allows the embers to be swept across like a blizzard until they meet an obsticle to settle on/in/under, and ignite.!
Roof gutters are still a major risk….we need a better fireproof system for eves and gutters.
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Planting deciduous trees and plants around buildings is known to be very effective for bushfire protection.
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Following yesterday’s school protests in Melbourne, I find it interesting that Israel exited Gaza in 2005, prior to the “educated” students’ births! So that’s how you occupy in absentia! Meanwhile, the “genocide” has resulted in large increases in Palestinian residents of Israel. Who teaches these students? Will the teachers organize school outings for these students to the Melbourne Holocaust Museum prior to their graduations?
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Huge! – Netherlands Election.
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“The Next Current Thing?”
“Is the next set of fear porn cards about to be played?”
“BREAKING: New Mystery Pneumonia in China OVERWHELMING Hospitals”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjuSaigKJFI
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/11/24/the-next-current-thing/
But is there yet a miraculous out of no where “vaccine” for it?
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The WHO doesn’t see a reason to react after beeing informed by Chinese medical authorities. No strange virus or bacteries, but a heavy cold in China.
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Places Now Banning EVs due to Fire Risks
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Airbus Albo
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“The failure of wind, then solar, and also batteries, in three stories”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/11/24/the-failure-of-wind-then-solar-and-also-batteries-in-three-stories/
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“Nobody Panic: W.H.O. Says no ‘Unusual or Novel Pathogens’ Found in New China Respiratory Outbreaks”
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2023/11/24/nobody-panic-w-h-o-says-no-unusual-or-novel-pathogens-found-in-new-china-respiratory-outbreaks/
They haven’t got a “vaccine” yet?
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Monash Health – which operates 11 hospitals and medical centres in Melbourne – told staff they can no longer charge electric cars and battery-powered mobility devices within sites run by the group due to a perceived fire risk, despite the company’s own battery-powered cars being allowed to keep using the facilities. Electric cars which are leased by Monash Health do not have to comply with the ban and can be charged at designated charging stations across the group’s sites.
https://www.drive.com.au/news/electric-cars-banned-from-charging-at-melbourne-hospitals/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_4&utm_medium=partner
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FWIW
“From the Shoulders of Giants: The World Has had Enough of Klaus F***ing Schwab”
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2023/11/24/on-the-shoulders-of-giants-the-world-has-had-enough-of-klaus-schwab-n4924189
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Instapundit said –
“SO, OUTPERFORMING OUR POLITICIANS THEN: Even without brains, jellyfish learn from their mistakes.”
Links to
https://www.popsci.com/science/jellyfish-learn-without-brains/
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More “one rule for them”
“Upcoming UN Climate Confab Could Have Largest Carbon Footprint In Event’s History”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/24/upcoming-un-climate-confab-could-have-largest-carbon-footprint-in-events-history/
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If you believe in these things my local wildlife is telling me we are in for a cyclone [or something]. My back yard is eerily quiet.
The seed I put out for the lorikeets and manikins is untouched when the lorries are usually there within minutes. There have been no wallabies or bin chickens, only one turkey and not a sign of other birds that drop in for a drink or whatever.
The weather map shows a low pressure trough across the north but nothing like a “tropical low”. Do the birds know better?
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FWIW
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Have a look in the NE corner here –
https://forecasts.bsch.com.au/raincast.html
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Another challenge for “ElBowen” to better –
“Friday’s Energy Absurdity: You Just Won’t Believe the Electric Bus Story Out of Edmonton”
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/fridays-energy-absurdity-you-just?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=712558&post_id=139125906&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=portq&utm_medium=email
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