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In the USA, the RSV thing is being promoted:
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes infections of the lungs and respiratory tract. It’s so common that most children have been infected with the virus by age 2. Respiratory syncytial (sin-SISH-ul) virus can also infect adults.
Seems the vaccine is in somewhat short supply, so there is a bit of a caution about widespread vaccination at this time. This RSV topic has sprung up on me. I guess I was paying too much attention the the TS (Taylor Swift) thing. 🙂
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RSV ist really strong, COV-19, I had 3 month earlier, was a children’s game in comparison. (No vaxx)
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My better half is pushing us to get that vaccine; I looked into it, and the primary provider of serum is Pfizer.
I have strong reluctance to touch anything Pfizer. Do others have any other thoughts, or info, or anything to assist those of us who are unsure, and may not be able to differentiate competent information from mis-information?
NJ
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They’re probably flogging off their “dead in the water” Covid vaccines as a cure all for anything that raises its head. I have read that their revenues have fallen off the edge!
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I’m sure that the Pfizer vax will ‘help’ prevent (some) in-growing eye-teeth and reclining digital ashtrays, and possibly hangnails.
Not sure it’ll help your horse racing selections to be profitable, though.
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I don’t think you will get an objective answer here as this site is generally anti covid vaccine for this sort of reason
https://notrickszone.com/2023/11/01/scandal-leaked-pfizer-supply-agreement-shows-eu-was-fully-aware-vaccine-was-unsafe/
I think it is generally accepted that the vaccine won’t stop you getting covid or passing it on.provided it hasn’t damaged you there is some evidence it will mitigate the effects of the virus but only for a month or two
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And would you risk your life for that return??
It nearly killed me!!
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G’day Nick,
I can’t comment directly, as I’m avoiding al those “vaccines” completely. And I’m not a doctor.
On the other hand I can tell you what we’re doing, why, and the effect we’ve obtained.
(To regular Jo watchers: nothing new, I’ve said it all before.)
We’re taking 8000 IU of vitamin D3 daily, with its cofactors – specifically zinc – and have been since pre-vaxx. The zinc stops the virus from replicating within our cells.
We’ve not come down with COVID, nor my usual hay fever and we’ve not had any of the Covid jabs. I had my last flu shots before the mess, and I’ve stopped my specific hay fever (rhinovirus) meds. I’ve had just one short bout of hay fever before I adequately got the co-factors organised, about 18 months ago and added some vitamin A.
As far as I can tell the zinc is effective against several, maybe many?, even all?? viruses and at least supports one’s immune system.
Cheers
Dave B
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David, with the regular zinc intake, do you find any problems at the other end of the body from where the tablets go in?
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G’day Adellad,
No,
And my understanding is that the body does excrete any excess.
We take an across-the-counter tablet once per day as recommended on the container. We started to do this after the late Dr Zelenko’s emphasis of its need , and his understanding that a significant % of populations are deficient. Then, when I went looking for a natural source it appeared I’d have to eat oysters every day. That I rarely have them in any form, and their relatively high expense, sent me towards the supplement.
It was later that we discovered the immune system’s need. And the proposition of their cofactorial dependency.
I’ve also assumed that any fighting of viruses uses up some of the available zinc, that such activity is fairly constant, and that that in turn means we need the constant daily input.
Cheers
Dave B
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Thanks mate, interesting. Re the oysters, if that were me, I’d have 24/7/365 gout and probably not the other alleged effect of oysters.
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Many thanks to all who chimed in. In spite of the advice of one poster above, I do feel that there is at least some objectivity in the responses.
Just an FYI: I do take the daily zinc and Vit D supplements also. My ‘better half’ and I have been doing it for a long time, but increased our intake when “the bug” showed up and we learned of the benefits. I personally have been exposed to “the bug” well over five dozen times (including our daughter, who was required to be vaccinated due to her work [floor nurse at the local hospital], and have never come down with it. For those ‘skeptics’ who think that the exposures were not CoVid, let me assure you they were verified by health care professionals (yes, I know — — just as trustworthy as your typical used-car sales-personage).
As of now, I think I will try to persuade my ‘better half’ that we’re better off w/o the RSV shot, and most especially the Pfizer brand. I found, and showed her, one of the many videos of the autopsy of a “vaccinated” cadaver; I wish I could have taken a picture of her face when the Medical Examiner removed a half-metre long clot from the femoral artery of this one individual. We then watched the video of the difference between antemortem and postmortem clots. I’m making progress, but as the flu season is upon those of us on this side of the Big Pond, it’s still something of an uphill battle.
Thanks again to all who posted, regardless of what your thoughts were,
NJ
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Once they have inveigled you in for the RSV vax, expect pressure to use the opportunity to get the Spike vax as well – happened to an elderly friend and she gave in to the “wisdom” associated with white coats.
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American Leftists destroy a historic statue of General Lee (and many others) and have no idea who he was or what he did.
Matt Walsh discusses this disgrace: https://youtu.be/6WYDWzFD8iY
But Leftists will quite happily wear motifs of Che Guevara (and not know who he was or what he did either)! And – no kidding – there are even t shirts with Pol Pot on them! (Goolag “pol pot t shirt” without quote marks.) Yassir Arafat as well. Come to think of it, they probably do know what these monsters did, that’s why they celebrate them.
The Left are becoming so unhinged they have become parodies of themselves.
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Wadd’ya mean, “BECOMING unhinged?
You have to be mentally defective or a terminal sociopath to sit on that side of the table. Or indeed on EITHER side of the “socialist” table.
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Data centres and the cloud are huge consumers of electricty (and water)
They tend to cluster round certain cities so whilst taking up five to 10% of electricty worldwide, in some places they absorb a third of a cities power.
They rely totally on continuity so even a seconds interruption can severely interrupt data flow, which might range from military instructions to videos of cute kittens.
They are increasingly by choice powered by renewables.
So what happens when the renewables don’t work and there is no longer grown up power stations to compensate?
There will be massive disruption which will be skin to a major and concerted cyber attack by a hostile power.
The electricty requirements of data centres are forecast to double every 4 years so the problem will only get worse.
At best if there is an outage the cloud will insist its information is uninterrupted so it will be the general public and non vital industries that will be rationed.
The digital world looks likely to destroy us, either through diverting too much power to it that we havent got, or becoming too reliant on the data flowing through it in the Internet of things.
Incidentally those using the Internet and telephony are creating as much co2 as transport and soon transport and air travel combined.
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Data Centres have comprehensive no break back up power systems to ensure continuity of power at least until the first truck load of diesel arrives. All works well if properly maintained and exercised.
In the early 2000s I visited ANZs outsourced centre in Bangalore and it was unusual in that it regularly operated on its backup plant due to the state of the local grid at the time. Since improved they say.
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FWIW
“Where’s The Beef?”
“Debunking of the latest anti-meat “study”. This one comes out of Harvard. Can be summed up in two words -confounding factors-.
Video is time stamped and includes a transcription.”
https://youtu.be/jiJJTpKjrBA
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/11/01/wheres-the-beef-4/
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“The Arc Of The Renewables Universe Is Long, But It Bends Toward Bankruptcy”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/11/01/the-arc-of-the-renewables-universe-is-long-but-it-bends-toward-bankruptcy/
I guess that could be hinted at with EVs too?
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“Teslas and salt water don’t mix very well”
https://youtu.be/cUVZR7OIelk
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/11/teslas-and-salt-water-dont-mix-very-well.html
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But it demonstrates a safe way to dispose of an EV !👍👍
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Going green would cost the average American family $9000 a year.
https://summit.news/2023/10/31/bidenomics-typical-us-family-would-pay-9100-to-comply-with-dream-house-climate-wish-list/
That seems to be close to a British estimate that by 2050 going green would cost the average British family £220,000
Big sums which have yet to filter into the public mind who are generally keen on all things green.
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And it won’t make a bit of difference. And it is entirely unnecessary. It’s just the biggest wealth transfer from the poor and middle class to the rich evah.
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A neat summary of a not so neat situation.
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When the public get the full flavour of the BS that’ll be the end of it!
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Possibly not, especially given that; per an apocryphal bit of Mark Twain:
“It is easier to con a man than to convince him that he has been conned”.
Whatever the source, it is observably true.
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“Britain and France Brace For Storm Ciaran, 100 Mile Per Hour Winds Forecast”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/11/01/britain-and-france-brace-for-storm-ciaran-100-mile-per-hour-winds-forecast/
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It’s hitting us in Devon at the moment, people have been preparing for it all day. We won’t know the damage until the morning, it’s 10 at night here so dark
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Did it emerge from the Bay of Biscay?
Also, does this sound reasonable?
‘It could potentially be amongst the handful of strongest storms in the region for the last 200 years.’
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Update at 6.30am. Its still pretty dark here but there seems to be no wind and no rain at present so quite where the storm has gone I don’t know. Perhaps its just resting…will venture out when its properly light as the forecast was pretty dire for today
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We, on the eastern seaboard of Aus are supposed to be being broiled in unrelenting heat waves. Like you good folk we’ve been BShi’d. what we have had in Queensland is close to 3 weeks of incessant winds of between 25 km/hr to 35 km/hr and minimal rain of 1 to 2 mm. Temperatures up to 28 deg C which is temperate for Queensland.
The real problem has been bushfires fanned by the high winds. Australia is known for it’s 3 seasons per year, I E Fire , Drought or Flood. There is another scourge, being useful idiots setting fires…… arsonists, who never seem to receive any punishments.
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Well, just braved the elements. Not a nice day but the wind and rain are hardly epic. Will have to see what has happened in the rest of Devon.
As for one of the strongest storms for 200 years, certainly not here, its just an ordinary winter storm but with a name added. What causes the damage is if it comes from the ‘wrong’ direction and at high tide. Its spring tides at moment so the water is already high.
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Just walked five minutes to the cliffs. Very blowy and moderate rain. The sea is quite calm as I would have expected with a SW wind blowing over our Easterly facing bay. Presumably the Atlantic facing North Devon coast would have fared much worse.
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I’m right on the south coast, steady rain and blustery 45 mph gusts, although yet to peak. Feeble!
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We face west so I doubt it will impact us too much. It’s the easterlies that really affect us, like with the train line at Dawlish a few years ago
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Here, inside the M25, South London, we’ve had rain showers – steady, rather than especially moderate – and some breeze.
Regular Autumn Storm Ciaran [IIRC] seems to be a regular autumn storm.
Maybe more to come – the centre is now East of London – per https://www.xcweather.co.uk – and there may be a kick in the tail.
BBC is – as folk here might guess – going ballistic.
Leads the World News.
‘hundreds of Schools shut’ – well, got to stop them learning about scientific method somehow – WuFlu, Strikes, Autumn Storms …
And ‘Trains disrupted across southern England’ – as an ex-commuter with the misnamed Southern Rail Services – no comment, except – How can they tell the difference?
Ho Hum.
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Latest update- from the Beeb …
“The storm brought down a tree overnight, blocking a road in Falmouth, Cornwall”
Scary stuff – it’s a NAMED storm!!!
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Mods – /s
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Nullschool currently showing three lows surrounding UK with central pressure of 954hPa and peak wind so far of 106kph:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-6.79,51.64,3219/loc=-5.227,48.600
It looks like an interesting couple of days. Scandinavia has already has some cold weather with plenty of snow.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20057823
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Three low pressures developing simultaneously might be rare, but not unprecedented. Clearly the jet stream is a major player.
I think the climate is changing back to the atmospheric conditions of the early 19th century.
‘The Met Office says the UK has provisionally recorded the joint-sixth wettest October on record, after the heavy rain brought by Storm Babet. Eastern Scotland had its wettest October since records began in 1836, with 82% more rain than its average.’ (BBC)
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I remember it well.
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A meandering jet stream may have been the cause.
In 1821 ‘extremely low atmospheric pressure reading in London. At around 0500/25th, a reading of 948.7mbar (originally read in inches/to nearest 1/1000’th) was observed at Greenwich. Until at least 2006, this is the lowest known reading for the ‘London’ & SE area.’ (Premium Weather web)
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‘The jet stream can also change the strength of an area of low pressure. It acts a bit like a vacuum cleaner, sucking air out of the top and causing it to become more intense, lowering the pressure system. The lower the pressure within a system, generally the stronger the wind, and more stormy the result.’ (Met Office)
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My rule of thumb for the UK in winter –
[millibars]
980 – gales are likely
960 – storm force ten likely
940 – possible hurricane force 12 possible.
At the moment – 1035 Z – XC Weather is showing 955 mb over the Suffolk coast.
Rule of thumb – do consult a medical professional if symptoms persist. YMMV. etc.
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Thanks, I’ll pull my head in.
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Forecast was off, worst of it was further south than predicted, Jersey got 90+mph gusts, then worst into France. We made about 60mph which is nothing unusual.
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Some wind records broken in France.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/02/storm-ciaran-live-latest-updates-uk-weather-europe
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FWIW
“DIY Abortions at the University of Tennessee”
https://pjmedia.com/lincolnbrown/2023/10/31/diy-abortions-at-the-university-of-tennessee-n4923497
Alternate name “The Coathanger Club”?
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FWIW
“Pfizer Suffers Massive Quarterly Loss as COVID Vaccines and Paxlovid Doses Are Returned”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/pfizer-suffers-massive-quarterly-loss-covid-vaccines-paxlovid/
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Thanks a i,
I’ve enjoyed filing the link away in my “COVID vaxxes adverse reactions” folder.
Cheers
Dave B
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I just remembered that this year is the tenth Anniversary of The Ship of Fools Antarctic trip. You know the one, went down with various climate scientists (plus the essential ABC reporter(s) & camera crew, plus The Guardian) to find that the sea ice was shrinking, but instead got ice-bound 110 Km away from where Mawson more his ship in 1910/11.
One of those “Well respected climate scientists”** who think that floating ice melting raises sea levels.
** Letter in the local paper from one of the gullible.
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Any chance of a commemorative coin?
5p coin here [UK] is the likeliest – so we, the great unwashed, can’t actually read the inscription without a scanning electron microscope!
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File this one under “You thought the health industry cares about your health?”
Along with all the others …
A few years ago, Phillips Respironics, manufacturer of medical devices such as ventilators and CPAP machines, recalled millions of its devices due to a fault whereby insulating foam inside the machines was breaking down into tiny particles which were then breathed in by the user. These could lodge in the sinuses and lungs and were believed to be potentially carcinogenic.
As a CPAP user myself, but not a Philips user, I have been following the story and aware that the company was slow to respond to user complaints. Also, even when the recall/replacement program was in place, users had trouble getting the company to honour its promises. Philips also refused to admit the scale of the injuries potentially caused. All bad.
But it doesn’t stop there. It now transpires that Philips had been aware of the problem for ten years, yet hid it from the FDA and users rather than jeopardise profits. Despite the very serious health impacts, including cancer, complaints and investigations were concealed while more and more devices were sold to sick people.
Trust generally has defined in recent years but Covid has opened a lot of peoples eyes and this kind of thing is only going to reinforce growing suspicions of health organisations in particular.
As I personally know two CAP users who have recently been diagnosed with throat cancer, I am of course spreading this news.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nine-stories-of-people-impacted-by-philips-breathing-machine-recall
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Australia has taken 25 years to basically ‘stuff the energy system’
IPA’s Executive Director Scott Hargreaves says Australia has taken 25 years to basically “stuff the energy system”.
Mr Hargreaves’ remarks come after the Institute of Public Affairs released a new report titled ‘Energy Security is National Security’, written by energy expert and University of Queensland Adjunct Professor Stephen Wilson.
The report is a framework for better energy outcomes for Australia.
“We commissioned this report because we all understand we need to take affordability seriously for ordinary people … the missing dimension in thinking about energy is energy security,” Mr Hargreaves told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“What this paper is doing is saying, ‘Here’s a better framework where we put energy security front and centre’.”
ENERGY SECURITY IS NATIONAL SECURITY
A Framework for Better Energy Outcomes in Australia – 72 page pdf
Stephen Wilson
Foreword by Scott Hargreaves
November 2023
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For what purpose was the document written?
Who is the intended audience?
I can find nothing in the paper that advances knowledge?
The most important initiative on the electricity front would be to remove the government orchestrated theft from poor to not so poor by stopping the electricity retailers from being the bagmen collecting hard earned from electricity consumers then handing it over to weather dependent generators.
Another good policy would be to eliminate their ABC, BoM and CSIRO. They no longer serve a useful purpose. If the public need the sort of information these monsters produce let the free market fill the need.
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INTRODUCTION
Sunshine is wonderful. It has been said that even a blind man appreciates the
warmth of the sun on a cold day. It has also been said that daylight is the best
disinfectant. Light is a timeless metaphor for knowledge and understanding, and
warmth represents kindness.
Sunshine was a favourite metaphor of Ronald Reagan, who is remembered by his admirers and his detractors for his sunny disposition throughout the Cold War. Reagan used a sunshine metaphor in the opening of his inaugural address as Governor of California way back in 1967. That was also the speech in which he famously said:
Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away
from extinction.
In our generation Australia and wider Western society have fallen blind to a modern day form of sun worship.
This is characterised by the mistaken belief that the modern world can be powered by solar panels, along with wind turbines, all
backed up with gigantic batteries of electrochemical cells.
Blind reliance on sunshine, wind and water is seen by many as a universalenergy cure-all. Some see ‘renewable energy’ as the key to freedom from high energy costs. Others think it is the answer to minimising adverse environmental and social. impacts. Yet others spruik it as the solution to energy security.
All of those simple-minded views are worse than mistaken. They are dangerously delusional.
Whether through the ignorance of our political leaders; or the cynical selfinterest of financiers, investors, and the boards and managers of corporations; or passive acceptance by the public; these three misunderstandings—on cost, the environment, and security—are widely held. They are found in business and the military. They circulate in the halls of academia and the corridors of government.
Wind and solar power are sold under the labels ‘renewable energy’, ‘clean energy’, and ‘green energy.’ That’s fine, as long as we realise that these are marketing labels, not technical terms.
The belief that wind and solar power are ‘the cheapest form of energy’ is adeceptive half-truth. The Levelised Cost of Energy (LCoE) is the metric of choice used to mislead the public and our political leaders about costs. CSIRO plays thisgame, as does AEMO, along with many others.
It is echoed by the media.
If wind and solar energy are cheap, then they are also nasty.
Low value energy dilute, intermittent, unstable, and unreliable—is not cheap after value-adding to upgrade its quality, match it to our real-world service needs, back it up, and stabilise the electricity system.
Contrary to popular opinion, the more wind and solar power that is added to a system, the more expensive it becomes to deliver as a service.
You get what you pay for, or in this case what your neighbours have unwittingly been compelled to subsidise.
On top of the high economic cost and hidden financial burdens of harvesting flows of wind and solar energy are vast physical footprints.
Nuclear energy requires similarly tiny land areas as do coal, oil, and natural gas: a small fraction of the land area required by wind or solar power, hydropower or biomass. Nuclear power requires a small fraction of the material throughput for construction and lifetime
fuel of all other energy forms, whether hydrocarbons or ‘renewable’ energy.
An interactive chart shows that nuclear energy has the smallest total environmentaland social ‘footprint’ of all energy sources, when mortality, emissions, land use, material use, critical minerals, costs, capacity factor, and solid waste are considered.
So we must ask ourselves:
• What is energy security?
Reduced to its essence, energy security is the power to be free and todo work. Energy security is national security. A nation cannot have one without the other.
• Why does energy security matter?
Without energy security a nation may be rendered powerless. Without adequate capacity to do work, a nation will rapidly grind to a halt. Civil unrest then becomes a real risk. Unable to defend itself, and without the capacity to do work, such a nation will then be liable to lose its freedom.
• What needs to be done about it?
We must raise awareness and understanding—from our own house to Parliament House. We must re-learn our own history. The Snowy Mountains hydropower scheme was initiated in the late 1940s by Chifley’s government with reference to the Defence Act: thereby acknowledging that energy security is national security. We need to act on the increasingly mature public discussion that has nowopened up on nuclear energy.
That means using the precious remaining years of the 2020s to create real options, so that we are in a position to deploy nuclear plants from the 2030s, if we need to.
In the meantime, Australia would do well to follow the common-sense advice of Dr
Maria Korsnick, President and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute in Washington,
D.C.:
‘Stop blowing up your coal plants – you’re not ready to live without
them yet!’
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G’day O O,
I rather like this, but it’s paywalled.
Today’s Daily Telegraph on bottom of page 7:
” The ‘big lie’ about cost of renewable energy “.
The article is factually dense and well put, summarising ideas and challenges we’ve seen heard and expressed over recent years, but rarely – ever? – seen in msm print before.
It’ll be interesting to see what, if any, reaction is prompted, anywhere.
Well done the Tele and James Morrow.
Cheers
Dave B
Cooyal
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Dim Jim, the Australian federal treasurer, is forcing a command economy upon us to judge by what I read at https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/2023-outlook-conference-a-heavier-hand-to-hit-green-target-says-jim-chalmers/news-story/7decf0beba32e8378245ae3c8d62bd3e; Stalin’s and Mao’s genocidal administrations are precursors to the programs Albanese is rolling out –if he has one of those much prized Pol Pot t-shirts I’ll wager he sleeps in it.
Australia will be utterly crushed by eighteen months more of this relentlessly ignorant government’s shenanigans.
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How humans adapt to hot climates learned from the recent research on tropical indigenes
The artificial environment created by technology often focuses on the pursuit of convenience and an improved economy. It is not designed based on the physiological and psychological characteristics of human beings. In the case of the thermal environment, for example, overcooling by the air-cooling system in the summer causes “cooling disease.” It cannot be denied that the artificial thermal environment has various adverse effects. It is feared that the expansion of the artificial thermal environment in the last 100 years may deteriorate the ability of human beings to adapt to the natural thermal environment acquired over hundreds of thousands of years.
Most physiologists assume that heat acclimatization is at least a partially phenotypic adaptation. Reversible changes in sweat onset time and sweat rate have been documented for tropical indigenes residing in moderate climates for extended periods of time. Changes in sweating activity or skin blood flow from heat adaptation was detected in temperate indigenes who had lived in the tropics for less than 2 years, a mean period of 18 months, less than 3 years, or more than 2 years. These results suggest that the decay or increase in sweating function or skin vascular activity from heat acclimatization is manifested within a few years.
Cats that were subjected to temperatures of 5 °C for 2 months had no indication of a functional changes in facial cutaneous receptors, whereas cats that had been living in the cold for 4 years displayed functional changes in their cutaneous receptors. Considering the previous findings during the decay of heat acclimation (short term adaptation), heart rate changes occur first followed by a reduction in core temperature and then adjustments in the sweat rate. These observations suggest that the desensitization of thermal sensitivity is a heat exposure time-dependent phenomenon.
https://jphysiolanthropol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40101-022-00302-3
So…adaptation to a significantly different thermal environment naturally occurs within a few years and the modern artificial climate lifestyle is restricting our ability to adapt.
So much for an AGW fraction of a degree change over a decade or more affecting people…
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I’m in the wrong business: some outfit is now contracted to warn NZers when it gets hot – it’s Non Niño doncha know – ‘hot’ being classified as (don’t laugh) 25C or above. Lawdy, I don’t come out of hibernation until it hits 25 and keeps on rising…
Maybe it’s a side-hustle of King Charlie and Al Jaber of Cash Or Perish (COP) fame / infamy. Everyone I know is keenly looking forward to the ‘long, hot, dry summer’ the worriers are fretting about: after 3 wet years we’ve all grown a little mouldy. Sunshine please!
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On the south east corner of Oz the nights are cool and days moderately warm, with a nip in the air.
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JC II
The ‘physiological and psychological characteristics of human beings’ will change through evolution – those who adapt better will tend, on average, to have more offspring.
The rest of that paper is pure physiology.
Artificial environments are unlikely to affect reproductive success unless the humans involved live – exclusively or very largely – in them for a couple of generations.
And, even then – it is certain that other factors [ability to squirrel grants from governments, possibly] could affect reproductive success more, perhaps hugely more.
But Toshihara et al. got their grant money [and, maybe, tenure!].
It’s a ‘Review’; “From a questionnaire survey … ”
But it approaches science, as they do show some error bars!
And
“Availability of data and materials
All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article.”
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“Meet the man who exposed Chris Bowen’s Bullshit”
“Then along came Aidan Morrison, a young physicist, who had a bit of spare time and thought he’d check the claims.
In five minutes he spotted and exposed the CSIRO’s and Bowen’s bullshit.
It’s one of the biggest frauds committed against everyday Australians.
Watch the interview with the man who exposed the scam.”
https://watch.adh.tv/alan-jones-full-shows/season:3/videos/aidan-morrison-professor-david-flint-wednesday-1-november-2023
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/11/meet-the-man-who-exposed-chris-bowens-bullshit.html
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Breaking: Erin Pattetson has just been charged with 3 counts of murder and 5 counts of attempted murder.
Never serve hand picked mushrooms to people…
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The ABC has just published this rather short story, both in length and in detail.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-02/police-charge-erin-patterson-mushroom-poisoning-deaths/103056694
Cheers
Dave B
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Collateral Damage
https://notrickszone.com/2023/11/01/scandal-leaked-pfizer-supply-agreement-shows-eu-was-fully-aware-vaccine-was-unsafe/
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Jay Martinez: 50,000 Landscapers and Gardeners Threatened With Job Loss by New California Law
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Adelaide and Melbourne both recorded a lower mean maximum temperature for October than September 2023.
Adelaide 22.1C in September, 21.5C in October
Melbourne 20.1C and 19.4C respectively.
All other Capitals were 1-2C higher. Perth was almost 4C higher.
All Capitals recorded higher mean minimums, Canberra and Darwin substantially.
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The Road to Serfdom: Australia’s MAD dash for Net Zero
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EV vs Diesel – John O’Groats to Lands End Challenge – The Numbers!
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FWIW – a Toyota look
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyMs5l5u8S5/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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