See ‘notrickzone’:
A virologist claims we will be hearing of serious decimation of the population – in some populations maybe up to 30, 40%. . . . anxious to see what is going to happen not in the coming months, but in the coming days and the coming weeks.
A virologist claims we will be hearing of serious decimation of the population –
That is also the hypothesis of Dr Philip McMillan of the YouTube channel Vejon Health. Naturally, like Dr John Campbell, he has to be EXTREMELY careful about what he says to avoid Leftist censorship of anything that doesn’t follow the Official Narrative (by pimply faced censors with purple hair and half-completed “university” degrees in feminist theory or similiar).
He believes immune system and other systemic damage caused by the mostly-untested covid “vaccines” is yet to fully manifest itself.
Just watching the Vejon “Outcomes of Covid Reinfection”.
He highlights the problems with the Vaccinate and “Learn to live with it” idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_glZcWy_BA0
Interesting how Sweden flashes up with only low excess or moderate excess but more often than the countries that go darker. https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
I’m hoping that a science-enlightened elucidation will appear before I check out.
Here ya go then:
Japanese Scientists Find Indisputable Evidence that All COVID Variants Are Man-Made
A stunning Japanese study that has evolved from preprint to peer-reviewed publication suggests that all COVID-19 variants were engineered in biolabs and intentionally released upon humanity.
First released in August 2023, the study, conducted by renowned Japanese virologists Professors Atsushi Tanaka and Takayuki Miyazawa of Osaka Medical University and Kyoto University, affirms that the push to keep COVID around is part of a nefarious deep state scheme to remove our individual freedoms and control us.
The researchers explained that their study aimed “to clarify the evolutionary processes leading to the formation of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants, focusing on Omicron variants with many amino acid mutations in the spike protein among SARS-CoV-2 isolates.”
As their work progressed, they discovered roughly 100 separate Omicron subvariants that could not possibly have arisen naturally. The existence of these variants and the systematic order in which they appeared provide conclusive evidence of large-scale lab creation and release of COVID-19 viruses.
The fact that most of these mutations occurred without synonymous mutations suggests that none of them arose as a result of trial-and-error random mutations in nature.”
The ramifications of this study are profound and demand immediate attention. As so aptly expressed by Substack author Phillip Altman, there has never been a business model so perfectly planned and executed as SARS-CoV-2. Once released, there was a gigantic cover-up.
How obvious must it become that something is major off with this entire ‘Pandemic’ thing, before something gives?
I see no structure of integrity among the Gov/Tech/Media/Corporate/Academic complex that exhibits the capability or willingness to act.
Compromised either by corruption or mass formation hysteria, top to bottom.
Hopefully it is just corruption and hysteria, and not something more darkly sinister.
“One of my go-to “died suddenly” sources is Canadian doctor Will Makis, who heroically reports SADS cases every single day — even after the Canadian medical board took his medical license for his “misinformation.” This week, Dr. Makis published three enormously-important roundups on his Substack, which you can read over there (paid subscription, links provided), but I have summarized them below.
The reason these three posts ares so important is that we’ve finally reached the point where this epidemic of sudden deaths has literally become undeniable. Sure, hardcore jab defenders will cling to insisting that the growing lists of SADS folks are “just anecdotal,” but that’s like arguing there could be lots of reasons all the deck chairs are suddenly sliding to the Titanic’s port side.
It’s about the odds. Excess death statistics in the abstract are one thing. But growing numbers of only atypical sudden deaths — versus deaths from all causes — are a whole different enchilada. I’m a lawyer, not a mathematician, but even I can see the odds are growing vanishingly small that all these atypical types of sudden deaths in working-age people — an atypical cohort— could possibly be random or caused by something benignly natural.”
There doesn’t seem to be much interest in presenting mortality figures as vaccinated vs unvaccinated, not that I can find anyway.
THIS is the most important detail hiding within these excess deaths. Though I do not trust the mRNA ‘vaccines’, I wonder how much of the current health issues (deaths and chronic illness) we’re seeing might actually be due to viral damage from Covid itself and how much is due to the vaccines? I suspect both are involved, but in what proportions, and which health problems are caused by covid, which by the vaccines?
In a normally-functioning health system, we would know all this already.
The UK govt has dictated that UK boiler makers must flog a certain percentage of heat pumps next year and for every one below the target the makers will have to face a fine of £5000. The makers say there is no way they will sell the heat pumps wanted so will have to raise the price of gas boilers to compensate..
If a technology is good the public should not need coercion to buy, but we have it with electric vehicles and now heat pumps which suggests the public aren’t convinced. I certainly won’t be looking at either of these products.
It is interesting to see how many politicians, green zealots and other fanatics keep uttering “heat pumps” without having any idea what they are. Many people express surprise when I tell them they already have at least one in their homes.
I did try that David. They were terribly confused and asked what CO2 was. I had to explain that politicians and other refer to it as Carbon because adding dioxide causes confusion.
Whenever I have tried to find the power rating of heat pump clothes dryers I find that it is rated in stars. When I studied electrical trades in the 1960s power was measured in watts and kilowatts not stars. I wonder what they are trying to hide?
It’s rare in Australia to have any A/C unit that is not also reverse cycle … and that’s been the case for at least the past 10 years.
That said, most places in Australia don’t get below freezing and if they do then it doesn’t happen often. That’s about the ideal environment for using heat pumps. On the heating side if it’s 4C outside and you want 24C inside the pump must hold a 20C delta … right in it’s optimal efficiency sweet spot.
Going the other way, it’s 40C outside and you want 24C inside … that’s also pretty much ideal.
It’s a great technology … would be even better if the morons at Greenpeace didn’t force people to install lighter fluid as a very dangerous fire hazard inside these devices … but that’s a separate issue.
In the UK it often does go below freezing outside, then you find all sorts of problems preventing the outdoor unit from icing up. Depends on humidity as well … you end up needing more power to run de-icing heaters. Not impossible, but no longer a good fit for the technology.
In other words, the free market got there long before the ooliticians and people have already made good use of the various options available.
We had the icing-up problem in a rental house in this area (Nth Central Vic) in a very frosty winter (not in the mountains). The reverse-cycle AC, in heating mode, turns off for a while to defrost itself. It happens to the one in our church in Marysville too.
Migrants both there and in the UK are put up in good quality hotels whilst seemingly the German homeless are left to rot.
Lawyers are still fighting to get UK illegal migrants into luxury hotels instead of being housed in the extremely well equipped Bibby Barge moored at Portland. Not only the homeless but manty in sub standard accommodation would be very pleased to be housed in these units which apparently are not good enough for those who have forced their way into this country via criminal gangs
“Migrant” implies someone who entered the country legally and passed various background checks (e.g. not a terrorist) and had various qualifications.
What the UK, Europe, the US and Canada are doing is allowing criminals in, in unlimited numbers and without restriction. Australia is doing it to a certain extent, but because we don’t have a land border with anyone, illegal immigration is slightly harder,
They are importing some of the most uncivilised and dangerous people on the planet into Western countries with the ultimate objective to destroy them. These illegals have no respect or committment to Western values at all.
May we please get some perspective on all of this CO2 scare? The US National and Airspace Administration states that the average distance between the Earth and the moon is 382,400 kilometres. If we use that number to represent the composition of Earth’s atmosphere as a “journey” to the moon, we can assign the atmosphere’s various component elements as distances making up that total. First, the current concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is 421 parts per million. This means that world-wide, there is the equivalent of 160.99 kilometres of carbon dioxide involved in “the journey” to the moon. Wow! But only three percent of the Earth’s CO2 is not naturally occurring. Thus man’s total contribution reduces to just 4.83 kilometres of “the journey”. And Australia’s contribution? Why, that’s 1.25 percent! So we are responsible for just 0.0604 of a kilometre of “the journey”, or 60.4 metres. That’s the approximate elevation of a twenty-storey building! Way to go, Australia! As Neil Armstrong might have said, “That’s one small leap for Oz, one giant waste of time for mankind”! Or, in other words, shoot for the moon, you may get over (some of) the rooftops!
Good analogy, but I’m afraid that the dumbing-down of the population is now far too extreme for them to understand anything about earth-moon distances.
In fact, it is difficult to imagine any example that might be relevant.
Perhaps you could look at proportions in regard to a jug of beer?
In Australia a standard jug of beer is 1140mls (2.409 imperial pints, 2.893 US liquid pints).
Rapid collapse is far preferable to the painfully slow collapse we are witnessing now.
Once grid collapse happens our society will either A) full degenerate into anarchy, much as South Africa is today, one of the world’s most dangerous countries, or, B) people will wake up and a super-human effort will be demanded to build power stations. We will probably have to get the Chinese to do it as they can build a USC coal plant in 18 months. They’ll have to be kept under military guard to keep feral unions and Greens away.
“We” have no say in it. The reason the collapse is so slow and drawn out is because it is being as deliberately controlled as is possible.
How ? Deliberate rationing, with those chosen to go without for a period being surreptitiously compensated through tax transfers – mainly, heavy industrial users such as the smelters.
Most people refuse to believe that the smelters and other heavy users receive payments from the tax system to stop production for a few hours at a time. “I’ve never heard of that”, I hear it constantly. Wonder why they’ve not heard of it …
Coal mines are now subsidised to enable them to keep up production while marketing rules prevent them from selling their product when the winds are favourable. Most people refuse to believe that, too.
The bureaucracies, enabled by legislation and regulation rubber-stamped by politicians, are proving quite adept at keeping the grid alive for the domestic market (that’s where the votes are) to avoid just the anger you are hoping for. Don’t doubt the deliberation here.
In the end game, I expect most people will accept widespread rationing if it is perceived to be “fair”, or something.
Coal mines are now subsidised to enable them to keep up production while marketing rules prevent them from selling their product when the winds are favourable.
I assume you are refering to the often quoted relief of fuel duty and vehicle taxation that most of the mines are eligible for ?
If so that is not a “subsidy” , but a normal rule of taxation available to most vehicles that are non road users such as mines , farmers, commercial boats etc.
Nope.
By the massive government support of toxic wind & solar, they and the AEMO have made the playing field so skewed as to artificially make the future for coal & gas appear bleak and discourage maintenance & investment. But we won’t have electricity if we let the coal plants die, so they pay coal plants to keep producing so they can compete with the massively subsidised dilute unreliable energy.
“Let’s do this” was Comrade Cinders’ rallying chant to her troops and look where it led us (think garden paths and mad hatters). She is gone* yet not forgiven… please don’t remind us of those dark times.
Thanks for your comment. My initial intent was to relate the analogy to the length of a cricket pitch, but it soon became obvious that the idea was not feasible. Perhaps one/ten/one hundred barrel(s) of oil/wine might have some merit as a analogy? I’ll give it some thought!
Finland-Russia migrant issue. Same old story with Russia. This time they guide migrants to Finland’s border and when Finland then reacts, Russia plays victim card and wonders ‘what is wrong with you?’. And threatens with counter measures.
There was a small demonstration today where some Russians were demanding that they must let cross the border to meet their relatives. There was also a one lady in her sixties, who even said that ‘Kreml hasn’t done anything wrong and that everything is our fault’.
She was like a Russian caricature, arrogantly saying that everything is always somebody else’s fault and Russia is always innocent and surrounded by enemies. That was straight from the soviet era. She was a exception though. There have been news stories where Russians in Finland and cross the border are fully aware who started this migrant issue.
Didn’t help that Finland signed a contract with the Yanks to allow 15 military bases in their country, for the air force, army & navy. Of course Finland will never get rid of those marines now, and it puts American nukes right on Russia’s border, exactly the reason Russia is fighting in Ukraine right now.
You can not be more wrong.
Finland was the most Russia-friendly country for 3 generation. I would even call it subservient but now even they had enough of “anti-Nato struggle”, finally they saw the light and joined NATO themselves.
When (and if…) the current calamity ends Ukrainians will erect a memorial to putin in every village, maybe Finns will do it too, because though his bloodthirsty push to dominate the Europe they (putin) dug their own grave and created real strong Nations on their borders.
When Finland became part of Russian empire in 1809 as Grand Duchy of Finland started also a closer relationship with Russia. Most of the time that relationship has been beneficial to both. At the same time Finland took baby-steps towards the west where we felt we belong to. We avoided any sudden moves when possible not to poke the bear, so to speak.
The problem between Finland and Russia has always been the same. Russia wants a buffer zone around it for protection and Finland ‘thinks’ that everybody should be allowed to join or not to join any camp if they so chooses. To me these two attitudes or views to the world are very difficult to combine.
About statues and memorials of Putin or Russia in Finland I have to disagree. In Helsinki there is still a stutue of Alexander II of Russia and for good reason. He encouraged Finnish nationalism, gave us our own money (markka), lifted status of Finnish language to national level. And there is still a Lenin museum in Tampere. Every now and then there are opinions that that museum should be closed. The answer is always the same, it is better to remember that happened than to pretend there was a different history.
Vene, thanks.
Sorry, it was an attempt to joke about Putin’s statues…
I have learned lots on the subject in the last few months – totally opposite to what we were taught about Winter War all our lives.
May I suggest, if you are interested, to check a certain engineer/dissident/historian Mark Solonin, he has honestly tried to find the truth. I totally agree with him that there is only one truth and it must be told.
Have a great evening,
“because though his bloodthirsty push to dominate the Europe..”
Last I saw Putin was happy to sell energy to Europe & buy European goods. All he wanted was NATO not to expand Eastwards, which of course was America’s aim all along. So the American coup in Ukraine came about to drive the Russian supporters out, and that was the final straw for Putin.
I haven’t seen anything saying Putin wants Europe, although today the German MOD said that if Ukraine loses the war (A guaranteed result!) Germany will declare a State of Emergency and go on a war footing to be ready to fight Russia in 6years.
So, who is getting ready to fight who?
Who blew up the Nordstream pipeline to make sure Germany couldn’t buy Russian gas?
America will sell their allies out at the drop of a hat, as Finland will find out! They should ask the Japanese or the Koreans what its like to have America run your country and be immune from your laws while they do it.
My apologies for the typo: instead of “though” it should read “through”
There is no other explanation for the situation but putins’ desire to rule everything and everyone. There is no benefit to Russian state in re-acquiring Ukraine, Baltic states, Poland, Finland, etc,.. and even less of that to Russian people. Most of Russian land is underdeveloped; its underpopulation is not the right term, thousands of sq. km. are as empty as Australia.
Moreover, few short years ago many Ukraine residents would accept putin instead of their own elected but corrupt rulers. I know because some family and friends said it openly, for others main point was higher pensions in Russia than in Ukraine. Some spoke Ukrainian, the rest preferred Russian – including their President. Religion was the same or practically the same. Majority preferred Europe to Asia, though unlikely anyone gave NATO much thought.
About American making Ukrainians to do Maidan (coup d’état) – even Kremlin stopped saying it, the common opinion is that V. Zelensky will not survive signing peace agreement with putin – there will be another Maidan.
Another nail in the Australian Soveriegnty coffin:-
Australia unlikely to send a warship to Middle East; why
1) because we are incapable of manning our frigates we have on a rotational basis.
2) our ships can’t cope with the threat of multiple small cheap drones.
So as a brief summary our soveriegnty is under threat as follows:-
1) Our armed forces are incapable of protecting Australia at this point. Hence we tie ourselves to the US and we let our soveriegn capability decline further.
2) Our governments tell us we can provide our energy from only renewables, and forget any need for base load power. Not to mention the point that armed forces cannot run on renewable energy!
3) Our necessary industrial base is expected to be powered by expensive unreliable energy without fossil fuels or nuclear power. They will not be able to compete on this basis, leading to further hollowing out of manufacturing.
4) Our health system is on its knees, and abdicating our soveriegnty and agreeing to WHO demands for decision making in health would seem to be a good idea the government says.
Overall our governments are incapable of making rational soveriegnty sustaining decisions in relation to the future of Australia in the world we now have. They would seem to be incapable of this in relation to most decisions they make today.
I know I’m preaching to mostly converted here, but how bad does it have to get, before the majority demand change, and will Australia at that point be capable of change! Will the majority wake up?
The majority wouldn’t have a clue what happened, even long after what happened happened.
So don’t expect them to know what’s happening now or to be able to work out what’s going to happen soon when what’s going to happen happens.
A few weeks ago tonyb commended the book, The Dark Cloud. When I challenged one of the claims he quoted, he urged me to buy it for myself as a Christmas present. I eventually accepted the challenge. Finished reading it last night.
It was originally written in French, then translated to English. The style starts out pretty flowery, but settles down after a while. Not sure whether the style is due to the Frenchman or the translator.
My synopsis: I have no idea what point the author wanted to make beyond a vague sense of alarm. Like Holly in Red Dwarf saying “Emergency! Emergency! There’s an emergency going on.”
There are some obvious factual errors, e.g. that a 1990 mobile phone included tin, but a 2021 phone doesn’t (which will be news to the solder manufacturers). There are also citations of such authorities as WWF and Greenpeace which don’t suggest everything is well grounded in fact. There are urgings for carbon taxes too. But the commonest problem is that woolly claims of “as much as” and “up to” are projected as if these upper limits applied to all.
Perhaps the silliest part was where it criticised a Facebook data centre placed near the arctic circle (for efficient cooling) and hooked up to renewable energy (hydro). The objection was that being so remote was a hassle for any protesters who wanted to picket the place. Pour quois?
The final sentence of his conclusion quotes Gandhi: Be the change you want to see in the World. Very nice, but a quote more fitting to what had gone before would be Stop the World, I want to get off. I think the most apt quote was on p.186, in the mouth of an old French beachcomber when he heard that all this digging was to lay new internet cables: There’s nothing good about it. It’s pointless! All that for a load of online twaddle and porn.
While the book wasn’t my cup of tea, I’m not criticising tonyb for liking it. Description is satisfying for some, others like to see a storyline. Anyway, now I can give it as a Christmas present to someone else.
The SOI continues its upward trend with it well and truly in neutral territory. The 30-day average is -1.79 and the 90-day average is now at -6.79. It looks like it might be slightly drier than normal but just an average year. See https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/soi/ for up to date data.
President Xi Jinping called for “all-out” emergency response efforts as a cold wave froze most of China on Friday, affecting transport and sending hundreds to hospital after a train crash in Beijing.
So here we have the highest concentration of CO2 emissions on the globe. CO2 in the atmosphere is higher over China than any other country unless there is an active volcano elsewhere. So highest CO2 leads to record freezing cold. And there is more to come – both cold and CO2 as China works hard to stay warm. China would like their share of “global warming” right now.
The additional accumulation put the city at a new record for snowiest year to date since at least 1953, according to National Weather Service data.
Record September ocean temperature leads to record snow extent. The NH ocean surface temperature has a well established upward trend. The early season snow extent has a rapidly rising trend. The maximum extent is trending upwards but not as dramatically as the early season snow.
Fun fact Monday. Total American household net wealth is $150 trillion. Coincidently that is the exact amount widely toted needed to repair the climate crisis!
Guess that’s not including maintenance and replacement which will probably be half that again every 15 years.
Difficult to think of a wealth preservation asset class that will be immune from tax destruction. Be good to get some ideas on that.
Intermittent energy sources such as solar and wind will not be able to replace the firm (dispatchable) power generation from fossil fuels without massive energy storage on the order of several months worth of energy consumption. In the absence of such energy storage technology, one has to conclude that renewables are not viable alternative to fossil fuels. Only nuclear energy is a viable “stock limited” resource where the stocks are much larger than the jack pot from fossil fuels.
From Judith Currie‘s page Balaz M Fekete, an engineer, doesnt pull punches.
[Severe Heatwave Watch] red alert on my mobile phone app again today, BoM forecast up to 28 degC for today.
Tomorrow 31C and then 24C, 22C, 23C, 25C & 26C for Sunday.
Mid North Coast NSW
In Adelaide, South Australia, a heat wave is five consecutive days at or above 35 °C (95 °F). It can also be three consecutive days at or over 40 °C (104 °F).] The Australian Bureau of Meteorology defines a heat wave as three or more days of unusual maximum and minimum temperatures. Before this new Pilot Heatwave Forecast there was no national definition for heat waves or measures of heat wave severity.
I am aware of that definition and without checking, that implies no heatwave here (despite BoM’s innovative ways) since at least 2019/20, possibly going all the way back to the horrible 5 days >42 in January 2014.
I have driven SUV’s here all that time, it’s largely my fault.
the wunderground weather site gives interesting data on urban heating effects.
A casual glance right now (simultaneous measurement) shows a difference of 2 deg C.
Townies have already got their “two degrees” .
Certainly a calamity for science.
Has James Cook been cancelled in Oz yet?
Ernest Rutherford also never existed.
Just checking the temps for Casino and see the top temp for today so far is 35.4C at 2:00pm.
Checked the 2:00pm temp and find it was 34.6C. Wow, an 0.8C difference during that one minute timeline.
I’m sure the old LIG thermometers wouldn’t have picked up that spike.
It’s the same at the West Tce gauge here in Adelaide – within the same minute 0.6 is common and within a 10 minute period, 2 degrees can happen. West Tce is 5 or 6 lanes either way and in summer, we tend to get the maxima around 5-5:30. Lots of cars about then.
Re the “totally unpredictable” current Queensland cyclonic deluge, I would really like to know how the old Australian climate model, developed over decades, would have performed in prediction had it not been thrown out the window by the incoming ex-University of East Anglia current management and their “better” climate models.
Just got a gas bill for $580 from “Covau” energy. My retailer AGL mistakenly churned me to them. Reading the meter myself, they have charged me 27 times the actual gas consumed. A call to their service centre, they are reversing the bill and returning me to AGL. What is the penalty for “Charging” $500 dollars more than the real bill is worth? Of course it is a “smart meter” read- complete nonsense!
Even The Lancet seems to be querying what is behind the excess deaths following covid
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/12/16/the-nonsense-claim-that-covid-vaccines-saved-20-million-lives/
Good Daily Sceptic report and there have been similar ones the last few days covering Germany and Italy
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There is something very strange about the entire Covid affair.
I’m hoping that a science-enlightened elucidation will appear before I check out.
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See ‘notrickzone’:
A virologist claims we will be hearing of serious decimation of the population – in some populations maybe up to 30, 40%. . . . anxious to see what is going to happen not in the coming months, but in the coming days and the coming weeks.
Note Richard Greene’s comment.
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That is also the hypothesis of Dr Philip McMillan of the YouTube channel Vejon Health. Naturally, like Dr John Campbell, he has to be EXTREMELY careful about what he says to avoid Leftist censorship of anything that doesn’t follow the Official Narrative (by pimply faced censors with purple hair and half-completed “university” degrees in feminist theory or similiar).
He believes immune system and other systemic damage caused by the mostly-untested covid “vaccines” is yet to fully manifest itself.
See his channel at:
https://youtube.com/@VejonHealth
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Just watching the Vejon “Outcomes of Covid Reinfection”.
He highlights the problems with the Vaccinate and “Learn to live with it” idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_glZcWy_BA0
Interesting how Sweden flashes up with only low excess or moderate excess but more often than the countries that go darker.
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
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Here ya go then:
Japanese Scientists Find Indisputable Evidence that All COVID Variants Are Man-Made
A stunning Japanese study that has evolved from preprint to peer-reviewed publication suggests that all COVID-19 variants were engineered in biolabs and intentionally released upon humanity.
First released in August 2023, the study, conducted by renowned Japanese virologists Professors Atsushi Tanaka and Takayuki Miyazawa of Osaka Medical University and Kyoto University, affirms that the push to keep COVID around is part of a nefarious deep state scheme to remove our individual freedoms and control us.
The researchers explained that their study aimed “to clarify the evolutionary processes leading to the formation of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants, focusing on Omicron variants with many amino acid mutations in the spike protein among SARS-CoV-2 isolates.”
As their work progressed, they discovered roughly 100 separate Omicron subvariants that could not possibly have arisen naturally. The existence of these variants and the systematic order in which they appeared provide conclusive evidence of large-scale lab creation and release of COVID-19 viruses.
The fact that most of these mutations occurred without synonymous mutations suggests that none of them arose as a result of trial-and-error random mutations in nature.”
The ramifications of this study are profound and demand immediate attention. As so aptly expressed by Substack author Phillip Altman, there has never been a business model so perfectly planned and executed as SARS-CoV-2. Once released, there was a gigantic cover-up.
https://therepublicansvoice.com/healthcare/japanese-scientists-find-indisputable-evidence-that-all-covid-variants-are-man-made/
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How obvious must it become that something is major off with this entire ‘Pandemic’ thing, before something gives?
I see no structure of integrity among the Gov/Tech/Media/Corporate/Academic complex that exhibits the capability or willingness to act.
Compromised either by corruption or mass formation hysteria, top to bottom.
Hopefully it is just corruption and hysteria, and not something more darkly sinister.
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More on “sudden and atypical deaths”
“One of my go-to “died suddenly” sources is Canadian doctor Will Makis, who heroically reports SADS cases every single day — even after the Canadian medical board took his medical license for his “misinformation.” This week, Dr. Makis published three enormously-important roundups on his Substack, which you can read over there (paid subscription, links provided), but I have summarized them below.
The reason these three posts ares so important is that we’ve finally reached the point where this epidemic of sudden deaths has literally become undeniable. Sure, hardcore jab defenders will cling to insisting that the growing lists of SADS folks are “just anecdotal,” but that’s like arguing there could be lots of reasons all the deck chairs are suddenly sliding to the Titanic’s port side.
It’s about the odds. Excess death statistics in the abstract are one thing. But growing numbers of only atypical sudden deaths — versus deaths from all causes — are a whole different enchilada. I’m a lawyer, not a mathematician, but even I can see the odds are growing vanishingly small that all these atypical types of sudden deaths in working-age people — an atypical cohort— could possibly be random or caused by something benignly natural.”
More follows at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/impossible-odds-sunday-december-17?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
More on that Winston Peters item at the end from the clip quoted –
https://twitter.com/2ETEKA/status/1734499530245390689?s=20
“Winston Peters has been deputised and is acting PM and on the same day NZFirst has passed Act in the polls 8.1 vs 6.2%”
Clip dated 12 Dec 2023″
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There doesn’t seem to be much interest in presenting mortality figures as vaccinated vs unvaccinated, not that I can find anyway.
THIS is the most important detail hiding within these excess deaths. Though I do not trust the mRNA ‘vaccines’, I wonder how much of the current health issues (deaths and chronic illness) we’re seeing might actually be due to viral damage from Covid itself and how much is due to the vaccines? I suspect both are involved, but in what proportions, and which health problems are caused by covid, which by the vaccines?
In a normally-functioning health system, we would know all this already.
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This is a curious one
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/12/16/homeowners-hit-with-120-boiler-tax-to-cover-government-net-zero-heat-pump-fines/
The UK govt has dictated that UK boiler makers must flog a certain percentage of heat pumps next year and for every one below the target the makers will have to face a fine of £5000. The makers say there is no way they will sell the heat pumps wanted so will have to raise the price of gas boilers to compensate..
If a technology is good the public should not need coercion to buy, but we have it with electric vehicles and now heat pumps which suggests the public aren’t convinced. I certainly won’t be looking at either of these products.
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It is interesting to see how many politicians, green zealots and other fanatics keep uttering “heat pumps” without having any idea what they are. Many people express surprise when I tell them they already have at least one in their homes.
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Most such people (politicians, green zealots) have no clue about anything they promote.
Next time you encounter one of these beings, why not try asking them how much CO2 is in the atmosphere?
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I did try that David. They were terribly confused and asked what CO2 was. I had to explain that politicians and other refer to it as Carbon because adding dioxide causes confusion.
Whenever I have tried to find the power rating of heat pump clothes dryers I find that it is rated in stars. When I studied electrical trades in the 1960s power was measured in watts and kilowatts not stars. I wonder what they are trying to hide?
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Yes.
Air conditioning is simply a heat pump where the heat created is let go into the atmosphere rather than inside the home.
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It’s rare in Australia to have any A/C unit that is not also reverse cycle … and that’s been the case for at least the past 10 years.
That said, most places in Australia don’t get below freezing and if they do then it doesn’t happen often. That’s about the ideal environment for using heat pumps. On the heating side if it’s 4C outside and you want 24C inside the pump must hold a 20C delta … right in it’s optimal efficiency sweet spot.
Going the other way, it’s 40C outside and you want 24C inside … that’s also pretty much ideal.
It’s a great technology … would be even better if the morons at Greenpeace didn’t force people to install lighter fluid as a very dangerous fire hazard inside these devices … but that’s a separate issue.
In the UK it often does go below freezing outside, then you find all sorts of problems preventing the outdoor unit from icing up. Depends on humidity as well … you end up needing more power to run de-icing heaters. Not impossible, but no longer a good fit for the technology.
In other words, the free market got there long before the ooliticians and people have already made good use of the various options available.
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We had the icing-up problem in a rental house in this area (Nth Central Vic) in a very frosty winter (not in the mountains). The reverse-cycle AC, in heating mode, turns off for a while to defrost itself. It happens to the one in our church in Marysville too.
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Scarcely believable but this is the accommodation planned for homeless people in Germany
https://gatesofvienna.net/2023/12/cold-comfort-in-neustadt/
Migrants both there and in the UK are put up in good quality hotels whilst seemingly the German homeless are left to rot.
Lawyers are still fighting to get UK illegal migrants into luxury hotels instead of being housed in the extremely well equipped Bibby Barge moored at Portland. Not only the homeless but manty in sub standard accommodation would be very pleased to be housed in these units which apparently are not good enough for those who have forced their way into this country via criminal gangs
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I don’t think we should use that term.
“Migrant” implies someone who entered the country legally and passed various background checks (e.g. not a terrorist) and had various qualifications.
What the UK, Europe, the US and Canada are doing is allowing criminals in, in unlimited numbers and without restriction. Australia is doing it to a certain extent, but because we don’t have a land border with anyone, illegal immigration is slightly harder,
They are importing some of the most uncivilised and dangerous people on the planet into Western countries with the ultimate objective to destroy them. These illegals have no respect or committment to Western values at all.
Import the Third World, become the Third World.
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Australia has just accepted 850 Palestinian ‘refugees’. I’m sure there would be absolutely NO evil terrorists in that cohort. /sarc
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May we please get some perspective on all of this CO2 scare? The US National and Airspace Administration states that the average distance between the Earth and the moon is 382,400 kilometres. If we use that number to represent the composition of Earth’s atmosphere as a “journey” to the moon, we can assign the atmosphere’s various component elements as distances making up that total. First, the current concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is 421 parts per million. This means that world-wide, there is the equivalent of 160.99 kilometres of carbon dioxide involved in “the journey” to the moon. Wow! But only three percent of the Earth’s CO2 is not naturally occurring. Thus man’s total contribution reduces to just 4.83 kilometres of “the journey”. And Australia’s contribution? Why, that’s 1.25 percent! So we are responsible for just 0.0604 of a kilometre of “the journey”, or 60.4 metres. That’s the approximate elevation of a twenty-storey building! Way to go, Australia! As Neil Armstrong might have said, “That’s one small leap for Oz, one giant waste of time for mankind”! Or, in other words, shoot for the moon, you may get over (some of) the rooftops!
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Good analogy, but I’m afraid that the dumbing-down of the population is now far too extreme for them to understand anything about earth-moon distances.
In fact, it is difficult to imagine any example that might be relevant.
Perhaps you could look at proportions in regard to a jug of beer?
In Australia a standard jug of beer is 1140mls (2.409 imperial pints, 2.893 US liquid pints).
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Let’s stop fighting against the unreliables.
Let the anti-energy lobby have their way.
Let the grid collapse.
Rapid collapse is far preferable to the painfully slow collapse we are witnessing now.
Once grid collapse happens our society will either A) full degenerate into anarchy, much as South Africa is today, one of the world’s most dangerous countries, or, B) people will wake up and a super-human effort will be demanded to build power stations. We will probably have to get the Chinese to do it as they can build a USC coal plant in 18 months. They’ll have to be kept under military guard to keep feral unions and Greens away.
Let’s do this.
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“We” have no say in it. The reason the collapse is so slow and drawn out is because it is being as deliberately controlled as is possible.
How ? Deliberate rationing, with those chosen to go without for a period being surreptitiously compensated through tax transfers – mainly, heavy industrial users such as the smelters.
Most people refuse to believe that the smelters and other heavy users receive payments from the tax system to stop production for a few hours at a time. “I’ve never heard of that”, I hear it constantly. Wonder why they’ve not heard of it …
Coal mines are now subsidised to enable them to keep up production while marketing rules prevent them from selling their product when the winds are favourable. Most people refuse to believe that, too.
The bureaucracies, enabled by legislation and regulation rubber-stamped by politicians, are proving quite adept at keeping the grid alive for the domestic market (that’s where the votes are) to avoid just the anger you are hoping for. Don’t doubt the deliberation here.
In the end game, I expect most people will accept widespread rationing if it is perceived to be “fair”, or something.
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I assume you are refering to the often quoted relief of fuel duty and vehicle taxation that most of the mines are eligible for ?
If so that is not a “subsidy” , but a normal rule of taxation available to most vehicles that are non road users such as mines , farmers, commercial boats etc.
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Nope.
By the massive government support of toxic wind & solar, they and the AEMO have made the playing field so skewed as to artificially make the future for coal & gas appear bleak and discourage maintenance & investment. But we won’t have electricity if we let the coal plants die, so they pay coal plants to keep producing so they can compete with the massively subsidised dilute unreliable energy.
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What evidence do you have to support that claim ?
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All coal mines pay royalties, how is that “subsidising”?
Royalties are all that is keeping Qld afloat.
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David, wash your mouth out –
“Let’s do this” was Comrade Cinders’ rallying chant to her troops and look where it led us (think garden paths and mad hatters). She is gone* yet not forgiven… please don’t remind us of those dark times.
* Gone = Promoted
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Hi, David
Thanks for your comment. My initial intent was to relate the analogy to the length of a cricket pitch, but it soon became obvious that the idea was not feasible. Perhaps one/ten/one hundred barrel(s) of oil/wine might have some merit as a analogy? I’ll give it some thought!
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Finland-Russia migrant issue. Same old story with Russia. This time they guide migrants to Finland’s border and when Finland then reacts, Russia plays victim card and wonders ‘what is wrong with you?’. And threatens with counter measures.
There was a small demonstration today where some Russians were demanding that they must let cross the border to meet their relatives. There was also a one lady in her sixties, who even said that ‘Kreml hasn’t done anything wrong and that everything is our fault’.
She was like a Russian caricature, arrogantly saying that everything is always somebody else’s fault and Russia is always innocent and surrounded by enemies. That was straight from the soviet era. She was a exception though. There have been news stories where Russians in Finland and cross the border are fully aware who started this migrant issue.
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Didn’t help that Finland signed a contract with the Yanks to allow 15 military bases in their country, for the air force, army & navy. Of course Finland will never get rid of those marines now, and it puts American nukes right on Russia’s border, exactly the reason Russia is fighting in Ukraine right now.
NATO is a long way from the North Atlantic.
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You can not be more wrong.
Finland was the most Russia-friendly country for 3 generation. I would even call it subservient but now even they had enough of “anti-Nato struggle”, finally they saw the light and joined NATO themselves.
When (and if…) the current calamity ends Ukrainians will erect a memorial to putin in every village, maybe Finns will do it too, because though his bloodthirsty push to dominate the Europe they (putin) dug their own grave and created real strong Nations on their borders.
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When Finland became part of Russian empire in 1809 as Grand Duchy of Finland started also a closer relationship with Russia. Most of the time that relationship has been beneficial to both. At the same time Finland took baby-steps towards the west where we felt we belong to. We avoided any sudden moves when possible not to poke the bear, so to speak.
The problem between Finland and Russia has always been the same. Russia wants a buffer zone around it for protection and Finland ‘thinks’ that everybody should be allowed to join or not to join any camp if they so chooses. To me these two attitudes or views to the world are very difficult to combine.
About statues and memorials of Putin or Russia in Finland I have to disagree. In Helsinki there is still a stutue of Alexander II of Russia and for good reason. He encouraged Finnish nationalism, gave us our own money (markka), lifted status of Finnish language to national level. And there is still a Lenin museum in Tampere. Every now and then there are opinions that that museum should be closed. The answer is always the same, it is better to remember that happened than to pretend there was a different history.
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Vene, thanks.
Sorry, it was an attempt to joke about Putin’s statues…
I have learned lots on the subject in the last few months – totally opposite to what we were taught about Winter War all our lives.
May I suggest, if you are interested, to check a certain engineer/dissident/historian Mark Solonin, he has honestly tried to find the truth. I totally agree with him that there is only one truth and it must be told.
Have a great evening,
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I’ll check that Solonin guy, thanks for that.
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“because though his bloodthirsty push to dominate the Europe..”
Last I saw Putin was happy to sell energy to Europe & buy European goods. All he wanted was NATO not to expand Eastwards, which of course was America’s aim all along. So the American coup in Ukraine came about to drive the Russian supporters out, and that was the final straw for Putin.
I haven’t seen anything saying Putin wants Europe, although today the German MOD said that if Ukraine loses the war (A guaranteed result!) Germany will declare a State of Emergency and go on a war footing to be ready to fight Russia in 6years.
So, who is getting ready to fight who?
Who blew up the Nordstream pipeline to make sure Germany couldn’t buy Russian gas?
America will sell their allies out at the drop of a hat, as Finland will find out! They should ask the Japanese or the Koreans what its like to have America run your country and be immune from your laws while they do it.
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My apologies for the typo: instead of “though” it should read “through”
There is no other explanation for the situation but putins’ desire to rule everything and everyone. There is no benefit to Russian state in re-acquiring Ukraine, Baltic states, Poland, Finland, etc,.. and even less of that to Russian people. Most of Russian land is underdeveloped; its underpopulation is not the right term, thousands of sq. km. are as empty as Australia.
Moreover, few short years ago many Ukraine residents would accept putin instead of their own elected but corrupt rulers. I know because some family and friends said it openly, for others main point was higher pensions in Russia than in Ukraine. Some spoke Ukrainian, the rest preferred Russian – including their President. Religion was the same or practically the same. Majority preferred Europe to Asia, though unlikely anyone gave NATO much thought.
About American making Ukrainians to do Maidan (coup d’état) – even Kremlin stopped saying it, the common opinion is that V. Zelensky will not survive signing peace agreement with putin – there will be another Maidan.
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FAQ about DCA between Finland and USA. A good read for any one interested in the subject.
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Testing
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1, 2, 3.
Over!
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For users of big hard discs –
“Seagate 14 TB Disk – Failing GPT Table Write”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/12/16/seagate-14-tb-disk-failing-gpt-table-write/
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Another nail in the Australian Soveriegnty coffin:-
Australia unlikely to send a warship to Middle East; why
1) because we are incapable of manning our frigates we have on a rotational basis.
2) our ships can’t cope with the threat of multiple small cheap drones.
So as a brief summary our soveriegnty is under threat as follows:-
1) Our armed forces are incapable of protecting Australia at this point. Hence we tie ourselves to the US and we let our soveriegn capability decline further.
2) Our governments tell us we can provide our energy from only renewables, and forget any need for base load power. Not to mention the point that armed forces cannot run on renewable energy!
3) Our necessary industrial base is expected to be powered by expensive unreliable energy without fossil fuels or nuclear power. They will not be able to compete on this basis, leading to further hollowing out of manufacturing.
4) Our health system is on its knees, and abdicating our soveriegnty and agreeing to WHO demands for decision making in health would seem to be a good idea the government says.
Overall our governments are incapable of making rational soveriegnty sustaining decisions in relation to the future of Australia in the world we now have. They would seem to be incapable of this in relation to most decisions they make today.
I know I’m preaching to mostly converted here, but how bad does it have to get, before the majority demand change, and will Australia at that point be capable of change! Will the majority wake up?
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The majority wouldn’t have a clue what happened, even long after what happened happened.
So don’t expect them to know what’s happening now or to be able to work out what’s going to happen soon when what’s going to happen happens.
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A few weeks ago tonyb commended the book, The Dark Cloud. When I challenged one of the claims he quoted, he urged me to buy it for myself as a Christmas present. I eventually accepted the challenge. Finished reading it last night.
It was originally written in French, then translated to English. The style starts out pretty flowery, but settles down after a while. Not sure whether the style is due to the Frenchman or the translator.
My synopsis: I have no idea what point the author wanted to make beyond a vague sense of alarm. Like Holly in Red Dwarf saying “Emergency! Emergency! There’s an emergency going on.”
There are some obvious factual errors, e.g. that a 1990 mobile phone included tin, but a 2021 phone doesn’t (which will be news to the solder manufacturers). There are also citations of such authorities as WWF and Greenpeace which don’t suggest everything is well grounded in fact. There are urgings for carbon taxes too. But the commonest problem is that woolly claims of “as much as” and “up to” are projected as if these upper limits applied to all.
Perhaps the silliest part was where it criticised a Facebook data centre placed near the arctic circle (for efficient cooling) and hooked up to renewable energy (hydro). The objection was that being so remote was a hassle for any protesters who wanted to picket the place. Pour quois?
The final sentence of his conclusion quotes Gandhi: Be the change you want to see in the World. Very nice, but a quote more fitting to what had gone before would be Stop the World, I want to get off. I think the most apt quote was on p.186, in the mouth of an old French beachcomber when he heard that all this digging was to lay new internet cables: There’s nothing good about it. It’s pointless! All that for a load of online twaddle and porn.
While the book wasn’t my cup of tea, I’m not criticising tonyb for liking it. Description is satisfying for some, others like to see a storyline. Anyway, now I can give it as a Christmas present to someone else.
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Thanks for that review, saved me having to read it.
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Time To Bring Nuclear Energy Into The 21st Century
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What’s wrong with solar ?
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/solar/hail-storm-destroys-solar-farm-in-nebraska/?fbclid=IwAR13J4DqUuEoF8Z2985RRd6LEd0rakW8NvS-8ddy4I8KF49mfIwFOWzHj4E
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The SOI continues its upward trend with it well and truly in neutral territory. The 30-day average is -1.79 and the 90-day average is now at -6.79. It looks like it might be slightly drier than normal but just an average year. See https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/soi/ for up to date data.
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Another thing to climate change’s tally –
Caption from unreferenced cartoon
“Climate Change
Looking back, fathers used to have 4,5,6 kids.
Nowadays kids have 4,5,6 fathers.
Climate change is real!”
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I wonder if the author of this story on China freezing appreciates the apparent paradox:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-16/china-cold-wave-beijing-train-collision/103236966
So here we have the highest concentration of CO2 emissions on the globe. CO2 in the atmosphere is higher over China than any other country unless there is an active volcano elsewhere. So highest CO2 leads to record freezing cold. And there is more to come – both cold and CO2 as China works hard to stay warm. China would like their share of “global warming” right now.
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Anchorage continues its record breaking snowfall this season:
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2023/12/13/reduced-visibility-and-messy-roads-ahead-as-more-snow-hits-anchorage/
Record September ocean temperature leads to record snow extent. The NH ocean surface temperature has a well established upward trend. The early season snow extent has a rapidly rising trend. The maximum extent is trending upwards but not as dramatically as the early season snow.
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Fun fact Monday. Total American household net wealth is $150 trillion. Coincidently that is the exact amount widely toted needed to repair the climate crisis!
Guess that’s not including maintenance and replacement which will probably be half that again every 15 years.
Difficult to think of a wealth preservation asset class that will be immune from tax destruction. Be good to get some ideas on that.
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From Judith Currie‘s page Balaz M Fekete, an engineer, doesnt pull punches.
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Their BoM’s super-dooper plastic-fantastic climate computer must’ve been hacked or it’s spewing forth A.I. generated ‘truth’ –
Tasmania, Tuesday 19 Dec:
“Snow falling above 1000 metres.”
Wednesday 20 Dec:
“Snow possible above 1000 metres.”
Near-freezing overnight/morning temps.
Below-freezing (no snow) for Victoria’s hills.
Must be the warming what done it.
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[Severe Heatwave Watch] red alert on my mobile phone app again today, BoM forecast up to 28 degC for today.
Tomorrow 31C and then 24C, 22C, 23C, 25C & 26C for Sunday.
Mid North Coast NSW
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I am aware of that definition and without checking, that implies no heatwave here (despite BoM’s innovative ways) since at least 2019/20, possibly going all the way back to the horrible 5 days >42 in January 2014.
I have driven SUV’s here all that time, it’s largely my fault.
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the wunderground weather site gives interesting data on urban heating effects.
A casual glance right now (simultaneous measurement) shows a difference of 2 deg C.
Townies have already got their “two degrees” .
Certainly a calamity for science.
Has James Cook been cancelled in Oz yet?
Ernest Rutherford also never existed.
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/john-raine-david-lillis-peter-schwerdtfeger-respecting-rutherford-and-cook
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Just checking the temps for Casino and see the top temp for today so far is 35.4C at 2:00pm.
Checked the 2:00pm temp and find it was 34.6C. Wow, an 0.8C difference during that one minute timeline.
I’m sure the old LIG thermometers wouldn’t have picked up that spike.
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It’s the same at the West Tce gauge here in Adelaide – within the same minute 0.6 is common and within a 10 minute period, 2 degrees can happen. West Tce is 5 or 6 lanes either way and in summer, we tend to get the maxima around 5-5:30. Lots of cars about then.
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Re the “totally unpredictable” current Queensland cyclonic deluge, I would really like to know how the old Australian climate model, developed over decades, would have performed in prediction had it not been thrown out the window by the incoming ex-University of East Anglia current management and their “better” climate models.
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Isn’t that the festering source of the infamous “Climategate” emails fraud scandal?
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Just got a gas bill for $580 from “Covau” energy. My retailer AGL mistakenly churned me to them. Reading the meter myself, they have charged me 27 times the actual gas consumed. A call to their service centre, they are reversing the bill and returning me to AGL. What is the penalty for “Charging” $500 dollars more than the real bill is worth? Of course it is a “smart meter” read- complete nonsense!
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Found this over at wuwt, an insightful image provided by John Shewchuk.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/12/17/nasa-giss-data-shows-2023-el-nino-driving-global-temperature-anomaly-increases-noaa-data-shows-u-s-nov-2023-temperature-anomaly-declining/#comments
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