Tuesday

There are big protests coming at parliament house Australia on February 6th. Sorry I’m away today. Some readers have already commented on this event. More details here soon for those who don’t know!

Posted from a giant Karri Forest by moonlight…

 

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    Leo Morgan

    Here’s a question that puzzles … um.. a friend.

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEZRzjWXQAAMu0P?format=jpg&name=900×900

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    Jojo(the one and only)🐕Dogfacedboy💩

    Discussion on Canada leadership changes in the future and what obstacles that could be.
    President Trump coming to office this November in the United States election.

    Unless we create some truly fantastic product that is unique to give as a gift that is currently illegal to do…
    I used to make unique stuff myself before safety regulations and restrictions made doing so under penalty of breaking any of hundreds currently in place by the drip…drip…drip of regulations making my business illegal by way of heavy fines.
    Canada is already behind the 8 ball of blowing up the Whitehouse in our past and the damn French [Snip]AD that he can’t stand to talk with. Yes, he is prejudice as many of us have had in our past growing up. Remember the name of freedom fries came from french fries.
    French and English were having pretty big fights in our communities.
    Plus our leadership is a bunch of whiney weasels that he has no time or use for.

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    CO2 Lover

    Man arrested for wearing the Australian Flag – inciting a riot!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO-aJNLTLY4&ab_channel=SkyNewsAustralia

    Also if you protest against immigration you are labllled a neo-Nazi but it is OK to potest shouting “G*s the Jews” in front of Sydney Opera House

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    CO2 Lover

    “Invasion Day” 26 Jan

    “That’s not an invasion – these are some real invasions”

    and their invaders

    Top 10 Conquerors

    #10: Hernán Cortés
    (1485 – 1547)

    #9: Charlemagne
    (c. 742 – 814)

    #8: Julius Caesar
    (100 – 44 BC)

    #7: Adolf Hitler
    (1889 – 1945)

    #6: Tamerlane
    (1336 – 1405)

    #5: Napoleon Bonaparte
    (1769 – 1821)

    #4: Attila the Hun
    (? – 453)

    #3: Cyrus the Great
    (c. 600 – 530 BC)

    #2: Genghis Khan
    (1162 – 1227)

    #1: Alexander the Great
    (356 – 323 BC)

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      David Maddison

      Khan and his male reletatives were such prolific rapists that their genes are carried by about 0.5% of the male population of the world.

      https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/mongolia-genghis-khan-dna

      An international group of geneticists studying Y-chromosome data have found that nearly 8 percent of the men living in the region of the former Mongol empire carry y-chromosomes that are nearly identical. That translates to 0.5 percent of the male population in the world, or roughly 16 million descendants living today.

      ….

      To have such a startling impact on a population required a special set of circumstances, all of which are met by Genghis Khan and his male relatives, the authors note in the study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

      Khan’s empire at the time of his death extended across Asia, from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. His military conquests were frequently characterized by the wholesale slaughter of the vanquished. His descendants extended the empire and maintained power in the region for several hundred years, in civilizations in which harems and concubines were the norm. And the males were markedly prolific.

      Khan’s eldest son, Tushi, is reported to have had 40 sons. Documents written during or just after Khan’s reign say that after a conquest, looting, pillaging, and rape were the spoils of war for all soldiers, but that Khan got first pick of the beautiful women. His grandson, Kubilai Khan, who established the Yuan Dynasty in China, had 22 legitimate sons, and was reported to have added 30 virgins to his harem each year.

      13 Feb 2003

      SEE LINK FOR REST

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        An international group of geneticists studying Y-chromosome data have found that nearly 8 percent of the men living in the region of the former Mongol empire carry y-chromosomes that are nearly identical

        I would not have thought it would need much “study” to conclude that there are some common genetics responsible for the obvious common features across the Chinese population ?

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          CO2 Lover

          More on genetic feature

          “This woman has more chins than a Chinese phone book,” says Comedian Joan Rivers

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        John Connor II

        Khan and his male reletatives were such prolific rapists that their genes are carried by about 0.5% of the male population of the world.

        If they were alive today, would they be let off all charges for doing the same because “it’s their way”, as happens now?

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      David Maddison

      Under Khan mohammedism nearly disappeared, especially after the Shah of the Khwarazmian Empire went back on his agreement with Khan and then killed his emissaries. Khan invaded the islamic Khwarazmian Empire during 1219–1221 and killed what was then much of the world’s muslims.

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      David Maddison

      Nowadays the invaders come to Western countries by invitation.

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    CO2 Lover

    Fun Fact

    Richest 1% Emit More Carbon Dioxide Than ‘Two-Thirds Of Humanity’

    November 2023 report, Oxfam

    Bet this was never discussed at Davos!

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      Steve

      “carbon dioxide (CO2), commonly mischaracterized as a harmful waste product of respiration and a pollutant that is disrupting the planetary climate. As explained by Happer in this lecture, CO2 is actually an essential gas necessary for life. Moreover, its impact on Earth’s temperatures is negligible, and will remain negligible even if the current concentration in the atmosphere were to double.”
      See video and report here.
      https://www.globalresearch.ca/carbon-dioxide-gas-life/5847759

      “Further holes have been blown in the ‘settled’ scientific view that humans are responsible for all or most of the changes in the climate by burning hydrocarbons.”
      https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/29/new-paper-argues-carbon-dioxide-causes-much-less-warming-than-is-commonly-believed/

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      James Murphy

      Probably difficult to hear over the noise from all those private jets…

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      Maptram

      Taylor Swift would definitely be in this category. On the news last night it was said that she is in Japan on 7 and 9 Feb for concerts, flies back to LA to watch her boyfriend play in Superbowl 11 Feb, then flies to Australia for concerts, starting in Melbourne, 16 – 18 Feb, all by private jet. And like most showbiz people she probably believes in climate change.

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        Mike Jonas

        Taylor Swift buys carbon offsets. So even though she is a great singer-songwriter with great business savvy, she is still easily duped.

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      Graeme#4

      I see where Alaska Airlines found more of their 737 MAX aircraft had loose bolts. They aren’t very happy with Boeing.

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    Paul Cottingham

    Possible War with Iran due to confusion, and to deflect from a possible Civil War at home?

    Three US service members have been killed and at least 34 others wounded in a drone attack on a military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border. The drone hit Tower 22 after its air defence system was turned off to prevent the destruction of a returning US drone. The US drone has gone missing and was confused with the enemy drone that hit Tower 22. Due to this confusion, War is imminent, and Britain is ready to support any attack on Iran.

    Operation Lone Star is lead by the Texas Military Forces (TXMF) and supported by the National Guards of 25 other states. The rebel forces are lead by Commander-in-chief Governor Greg Abbott and Adjutant general Major General Thomas M. Suelzer from the rebel headquarters at Camp Mabry in Austin Texas. The rebel forces have already blocked federal agents from access to areas in Texas.

    After the United States Armed Forces, Texas Military Forces are the most capable, mission-ready forces in the United States. They include infantry, paratroopers, special forces, armoured cavalry, field artillery, communication, cyber, intelligence, support, medical, engineering, civil affairs, and weapon of mass destruction response units totalling over 23,000 service members. It also maintains a fleet of manned and unmanned aircraft with strike, reconnaissance, and transport capabilities, a fleet of rotorcraft, and a fleet of riverine watercraft. It maintains a statewide network of garrison, training, and monitoring installations. It maintains command and control through shelter and mobile tactical operations centres.

    Texas Military Forces with the help of the national guards of 25 other states are fully capable and well prepared to take on the demoralised vaccine injured federal forces at Fort Bliss in El Paso Texas.

    The First American Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces opened fire on the Union-held Fort Sumter.

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    David Maddison

    https://yzcjgi-zgpvh.maillist-manage.net/click/162781fa40d4c55b/162781fa40d3fddb

    NEW DATA REVEALS TSUNAMI OF COVID-19 VACCINE DEATHS

    Systems Engineer & Analyst, John Beaudoin, Sr., delves into his recent testimony before the New Hampshire Senate where he shared the extensive data he has gathered from death certificates, revealing a concerning surge in blood and circulatory-related deaths aligning with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Beaudoin and Del discuss how through cross referencing of data sets, Beaudoin was able to match death certificates to VAERS reports from those who died after a COVID-19 vaccine. Hear some of the heartbreaking instances of young patients whose deaths are directly linked to the vaccine, exposing a disturbing trend of fraudulent coding on death certificates to conceal the true impact of vaccine-related fatalities.

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    David Maddison

    Someone has to wake up and realise that a war has been declared against Western Civilisation.

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      yarpos

      Personally I think western civilization has declared war on itself. It peaked some decades ago and is in steady decline. Empires come, empires go.

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    David Maddison

    Here is an interesting video from someone talking about a forest in the US northwest explaining why it is NOT a good idea to replant trees that have been cut down – in the interest of a healthy and natural forest.

    Thoughts?

    https://youtu.be/Gff-DF3qKBE

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      David of Cooyal in Oz

      Seems like a fair summary to me. The massive fires in our national parks provide syrong supporting evidence.
      Cheers
      Dave B
      Cooyal

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      CO2 Lover

      Regular bushfires are a good thing (as opposed to less regular but catastrophic ones) and many plants have evolved to take advantage of bush fires

      An amazing fire adaptation is that some species actually require fire for their seeds to sprout. Some plants, such as the lodgepole pine, Eucalyptus, and Banksia, have serotinous cones or fruits that are completely sealed with resin. These cones/fruits can only open to release their seeds after the heat of a fire has physically melted the resin.

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      beowulf

      The fellow’s comments on having too many juvenile trees are totally applicable to Oz. You only had to look at the news coverage of the 2019/2020 bushfires to see that. Again and again there were blackened stands of young eucalypts at incredible densities that had to be approaching a stem every 2 to 4m2 — that’s 2,500 to 5,000 stems per hectare. Those are insane densities of flammable trees — and growing almost up to the eaves of houses jammed into the bush, just waiting to burn down at the first spark.

      It does the young trees no good to be competing with each other at such densities. Eventually they will choke each other out until a density of one or two hundred stems per hectare is achieved by attrition. An early, managed, low intensity burn-off would have killed a lot of those young saplings and thinned the forest naturally, allowing the remaining trees to grow better and also reducing fire potential.

      From a forestry perspective for managed timber production, it can be advantageous to replant/re-sow after logging operations. I don’t know what the situation is now, but a few decades back QLD forestry maintained seed tree plantations specifically to grow selected trees for seed production of native trees with the best genetic traits for timber production. They would also strategically leave selected old trees specifically to re-seed harvested areas, but their resulting progeny would later be thinned and managed in the state forests.

      This selection in no way reduces genetic diversity since the area of trees selectively grown is only a minute fraction of the overall native forests.

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        Strop

        There were stories of early settlers being able to ride a horse quickly through the bush between Warburton (Vic) and Woods Point (Vic), as an indication of the lack of undergrowth and the spacing of trees.

        Drive around the hills east of Marysville and you can see the amount of extremely dense re-growth since Black Saturday. It had been allowed to get bad leading up to Black Saturday. But seems even worse now.

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    Neville

    Good to see that the Cairn’s News is trying to promote the Farmer’s rally against Reckless Energy in Canberra on the 6th FEB ’24.
    The trouble is the NFF are strong supporters of TOXIC, UNRELIABLE S & W and seem to want a “bob each way bet” and are really sitting on top of a barbed wire fence.

    https://cairnsnews.org/2024/01/26/farmers-organise-reckless-renewables-rally-canberra-feb-6-no-more-windmills-solar-panels-or-power-lines/

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      Skepticynic

      Paywalled.
      Who actually subscribes to this marketing/propaganda junk?

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        KP

        “Who actually subscribes to this marketing/propaganda junk?”

        Probably nobody, its all an illusion.. I just click on ‘refresh’ and then immediately ‘stop loading’ and it freezes the page before the subscribe banner obscures it.

        Its a completely different world inside the media, between the big papers and the Govt TV you can see how people are unaware of what is happening in the world around them.

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          MP

          I just click on ‘refresh’ and then immediately ‘stop loading’

          It does not work for me.

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            John Connor II

            The method works but your timing needs to be just right.

            Few things pain the tycoon more than losing and being forced to part company with his cash, but the jury’s mammoth penalty also hits his political bottom line. Though these civil and criminal legal cases have bestowed a form of MAGA martyrdom, and powered his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, they make it harder for him to win the presidency.

            Just days before the Carroll verdict, it was a 50-something female who got under his tangerine skin. Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, refused to end her long-shot campaign for the Republican presidential nomination despite being convincingly beaten by Trump in the New Hampshire primary.

            Expecting a coronation rather than a contest, Trump thought Haley should kiss his ring the instant she appeared before her supporters that night “all dressed up nicely”, as he chauvinistically put it. But the former UN ambassador vowed to fight on after winning 43 per cent of the vote, and afterwards escalated her attacks on her former boss by describing him as “totally unhinged”.

            Haley has as much likelihood of winning the Republican nomination as Trump does of converting to Buddhism, then shaving off his feather-light wedge of corn-coloured hair. Yet in New Hampshire last week, she scored particularly well with college-educated women. In the very demographic that could decide the November election, Trump won just 36 per cent.

            For these crucial swing voters, who boosted Joe Biden in 2020, the Carroll case and the Haley campaign may well be serving as a memory jog – if one is needed – by bringing to the surface Trump’s bullying misogyny.

            The former president has mocked his former UN ambassador as a “birdbrain”. On the eve of last week’s defamation verdict, in posts on his Truth Social website, Trump attacked Carroll 40 times in less than an hour. Both Carroll and Haley have therefore become important character witnesses. Women in the all-important suburbs of battleground states such as Pennsylvania and Georgia will hopefully be taking note.

            For all that, it is always dangerous to write off Trump’s chances with women voters. Like most reporters on the Trump beat in 2016, I was convinced his candidacy was dead and buried after the emergence of the notorious Access Hollywood tape, which showed him boasting about grabbing women by the “pussy”. Yet only a month later, he ended up winning more votes from white women than Hillary Clinton. In New Hampshire last week, even as he bullied and belittled Haley, he still attracted more female support than she did.

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            Gob

            12ft.io is back in business; just prepend that to the offending url –bypasses javascript or something…

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          Skepticynic

          I just click on ‘refresh’ and then immediately ‘stop loading’ and it freezes the page before the subscribe banner obscures it.

          What browser does that?

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    CO2 Lover

    The revolt against “Smart Cars” is wider than just EVs

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-13019399/old-cars-insurance-cost.html

    I recently ditched my “Smart Phone” for an old style simpler Flip Phone with a key pad.

    Often “Less is More”

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    another ian

    More testing

    “CBC’s Marketplace tests EVs in real world and finds them wanting”

    “CBC’s Marketplace put several EVs to the test, checking their range, charging infrastructure, and repairs, and found them wanting. Of 12 charging stations attempted from four different providers, seven had problem. And to top it all off, they even asked Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault about it!”

    More at

    https://pipelineonline.ca/cbcs-marketplace-tests-evs-in-real-world-and-finds-them-wanting/#/?playlistId=0&videoId=0

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      yarpos

      Probably the most notable thing was that CBC said something factual about one of dear leader Justin’s pet policies.

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    Lawrie

    I have noticed a change to the advertising for one seller of domestic solar panels. Arise Solar has been advertising on Sky for years now and they have been continually reducing their price for domestic units. recently they are offering trips to Phuket and Bali as part of the deal. Is this a sign that fewer people are installing roof top solar and are fewer people replacing older units? Wouldn’t it be strange if all that rooftop solar started to diminish at the same time reliable coal was being forced (not phased) out.

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      David Maddison

      lrecently they are offering trips to Phuket and Bali as part of the deal.

      Few people would realise that the trip isn’t really free. The price is already incorporated into the purchase unless somehow the tax payer is paying for it. It would be better to negotiate the value of the trip off the purchase price.

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      CO2 Lover

      Solar panels have been victims of their own “success” or a gullible public.

      The proposed flat minimum feed-in tariff for 2024–25 in Victoria is 33 per cent lower than the 2023–24 flat minimum feed-in tariff. This is mostly because daytime wholesale prices are forecast to decrease, which is driven by increased solar exports during daylight hours.

      Solar panels produce electricity when it is needed least during daily hours – at noon

      From Energy Victoria

      Peak times are when large numbers of people use electricity (when electricity demand is high). For example, many people prepare dinner from 3 to 9 pm and have lights and heating or cooling systems running. Therefore, if you are on a time-of-use plan, the charge per kWh is higher during peak times.

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      Mike Jonas

      “trips to Phuket and Bali” – by sailing boat, presumably.

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    David Maddison

    Bret Weinstein and his wife took about toxic compounds developed in cooking oils, especially the bad seed-based oils.

    https://youtu.be/xEQgraiatTY

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    David Maddison

    What’s wrong with the world?

    https://youtu.be/REId8lfmmhI

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    David Maddison

    Notice that the resident Leftists have been almost totally absence from the threads for the last week or two?

    They can no longer defend the indefensible, although I have no confidence they have gained any wisdom either.

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      Neville

      Leave them alone David and give us some peace and quiet for a change.
      I can easily find their BS and FRAUD and I’d just rather THINK for myself than BELIEVE their silly delusional fairy tales.

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    Neville

    Dr Pielke shows how Mann deliberately intervened to have a study by McIntyre and Pielke fail the peer review process.
    Later Mann and others used some of the same data for a new study and of course this easily passed PR.
    This vile little creep is really a very nasty piece of work.

    https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/climate-science-gatekeeping

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “WINNING – Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data”


    To all of you that have contributed time and money to this, I thank you. Please share the hell out of the article on social media.

    To read the article, you’ll have to register for a free account, but trust me when I say it is worth it, and they won’t spam you.”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/29/winning-trillions-spent-on-climate-change-based-on-faulty-temperature-data/

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    MrGrimNasty

    Scotland has broken the UK January heat record yet again, 19.9C today.
    January records have been broken through North Africa and Spain.
    Crazy times.
    It’s almost enough to turn me into a believer,………

    Nah.

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    CO2 Lover

    Riddle me this

    Chrissy Bowen has assured Australians that “renewables are the cheapest form of electricty”

    If this were true then there should be no need for any more taxpayer funded subsides for “renewable energy”.

    The new government has lifted investment in climate action from virtually nothing in the May 2022 Budget to $24.9 billion in this update

    Why has Chrissy Bowen failed to mention that the cleapest form of electricity in Australia (and very relliable) is made from Brown Coal in Victoria?

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    David Maddison

    Biden is increasingly unable to function and is dysfunctional even by the low standards of the Left.

    Who do you think the DemocRATs will run for President and what will be their excuse to get rid of Biden, assuming they don’t arrange for him to fall down some more stairs…?

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      CO2 Lover

      Plan B is to have Michael Obama replace Dementia Joe

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      Honk R Smith

      The consortium that runs things is sticking with the Biden mascot.
      The 2024 US election will settle nothing save for proving the obscured existence of the consortium.
      (It is a weird visible obscurity, in that its’ aspirations are openly discussed in Davos. So dark in scope and intent that ordinary people can’t comprehend or cope.)
      The consortium was built on Climate Change.
      Its’ master work was ‘Pandemic’.
      If they fail at neutralizing DJT, a color revolution will be materialized.

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      Dave in the States

      This indicates that they expect to lose with Biden. It doesn’t matter them how dysfunctional Biden is. It never did. Actually, the more incompetent the person occupying the White House the better for the puppet masters.

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      CO2 Lover

      Annual Electricty consumption in Australia is 213.5 billion kWh vs 329.3 billion kWh for the UK (54% more than Australia)

      The cost of battery backup for a fully solar and wind grid in Australia is around AUD$10 Trillion (not Billion).

      So for the UK say around AUD $15 Trillion or around 8 Trillion UK Pounds

      Was this mentioned in the UK Climate change committee reports?

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        Neville

        OK co2 lover I agree that battery back up would cost 10 TRILLION, but according to their Net Zero Australia the cost or WASTE of TOXIC, UNRELIABLE W & S would also cost / WASTE another 10 TRILLION by 2060 and have to be REPLACED AGAIN every 15 to 20 years.
        And the ENVIRONMENTAL costs / WASTE onshore and OFFSHORE would also cost / WASTE TRILLIONS more $ and the ENVIRONMENTAL WRECKAGE could last for centuries.
        So how can lame brain Bowen lie to us and tell the voters that W & S are the CHEAPEST ENERGY?

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          CO2 Lover

          So how can lame brain Bowen lie to us and tell the voters that W & S are the CHEAPEST ENERGY?

          Bowen is relying on the fact that there are so many lame brain voters who vote for Labor (and the Greens and Teals) who cannot even remember what their electricity bill was last year compared to this year!

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          CO2 Lover

          Also the $10 Trillion only applies to current electricity demand and does not include the extra demand when ICE cars and trusks have been banned and replaced with EVs so add in a couple of extra Trillion for that as well.

          The official estimate for Australia’s GDP was $1.347 trillion at the end of 2023

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      CO2 Lover

      Perhaps they did work out the cost of Lithium Ion battery backup

      To meet such storage levels would require more advanced battery systems of hydrogen and salt mine technology, his report said, and a massive effort by the government that needed to get underway immediately.

      https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a34824959/salt-caves-store-hydrogen/

      Now even assuming there was little leakage from the salt caves where will all the hydrogen come from to provide back-up for many days of supply and at what cost?

      The cheapest way to make hydrogen today is from natural gas.

      Why not just store a lot of hydrogen in steel tanks?

      Hydrogen atoms are small and can permeate solid metals. Once absorbed, hydrogen lowers the stress required for cracks in the metal to initiate and propagate, resulting in embrittlement. Hydrogen embrittlement occurs most notably in steels, as well as in iron, nickel, titanium, cobalt, and their alloys.

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        Joe

        The densest way to store Hydrogen atoms is in a compound with Carbon. Each Carbon can have 4 Hydrogen atoms attached. In a carbon chain the first and last carbon has 3 Hydrogen atoms, and the Carbon atoms in the chain have 2 Hydrogen atoms.
        So the number of Hydrogen atoms is 6+(n-2)*2 where n is the number of Carbon atoms.

        NOTE: We already make use of this dense packing as HYDRO-CARBON fuels.

        So if you are talking about a Hydrogen fuelled civilisation, we already are one.

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      Strop

      That’s probably the least of which they’ve misled parliament on.

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    CO2 Lover

    What a better way for Dodgy Albo (“Sleeper Electrishity”) to dodge Australia’s Housing Crisis (due in part to massive immigration) is to lay blame on the Middle Class who invest in housing which then provides rental accommodation.

    Reducing or eliminating the tax deductions for “negative gearing” would provide an immediate boost to revenue to provide more handouts to Labor voter, but it would decimate the rental markets with investors fleeing which in the end woulld drive up rents faster than they are already increasing.

    But it was when questions turned to housing and the impact of negative gearing that the Prime Minister changed the subject to talk about “free TAFE”.

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      yarpos

      Only some investors would flee. Properties don’t stay negatively geared forever. If handled stupidly like an on/off switch it would certainly cause issues. We do rather tend to sound like the Americans who say a decent basic wage will be the end of life as we know it, when the rest of the first world manages it somehow. The same goes for us with property. Most of the rest of the first world doesn’t need negative gearing to make their rental markets work.

      I’m not a zealot either way and have had investment properties (negative and positively geared) I am just not convinced that removing negative gearing (if managed well) would have to be the apocalypse. Of course migrating away from any entrenched system is hard.

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        robert rosicka

        Agree Yarpos , it will benefit some but in the end you lose the gains if you sell via taxation so I’ve heard .
        Our rental is positively geared but the new land tax arrangements from the Victoriastan gubbermint means I have a conundrum. The new land tax means I have to fork out just over a grand each year which of course gets passed on to the tenant making them fork out extra per week or I wear this impost and leave the rent as is . If only I was paying tax at least I could claim it .

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          Yarpos

          Two different things I think Robert. Negative gearing is just a yearly transactional thing. You have to be paying enough tax to make the losses work for you vs just paying full tax. Many think neg gearing comes straight off your tax bill , rather than just reducing income for subsequent calculation of tax.

          The things that can impact you at sale time are capital gains tax and any claims for depreciation you have made. These apply regardless of the gearing status.

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    el+gordo

    CO2 fertilisation is doing wonders for greening the planet, which is good news if you believe a mini ice age is on the way.

    https://notrickszone.com/2024/01/29/new-study-2001-2020-global-greening-is-an-indisputable-fact-and-its-driven-by-co2-fertilization/

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      Neville

      Yes E G even a mini ice age would be a disaster and in perhaps a few thousand years we could be facing the BIG full ICE AGE and that could last for 90 K to 100 K years.
      None of us or endless generations into the future will have to worry until the temp starts to really drop.
      Then they’ll be in the sh.t and only unheard of technology by then could save the day or not? Who knows?

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    Doc

    Must be good to hug a big tree instead of a computer occasionally Jo. Silence of nature and computer always good to maintain balance.

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    Adellad

    Today’s Australian, the paper that pretends to be conservative and independent, has in one of its editorials a discussion about Tuvalu and its venal stance on climate change. In said editorial The Oz makes the fatuous claim, admitted even by the ABC (!) to be a lie, that this atoll shall be under water by 2050. God help us all.

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      Ross

      Journalists, even those at the Australian, are not what they used to be. Probably did a quick Google search which has been manipulated to put all the ocean rise/boiling voodoo science as its top hits. Last week they did a story on some solar panels being installed at the Gabba cricket ground and how proud Pat Cummins ( Australian Test captain) was of the project. Then went on to describe how solar panels” remove carbon” from the atmosphere. Unbelievable.

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      CO2 Lover

      The Antarctic has been getting colder for the last 20 years. The ice there is up to 4 km deep

      https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2023/cool-change-for-west-antarctica/

      The Artic has floating ice and if this melted there would be llitle change to ocean levels

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        Graeme#4

        And yet a climate scientist holidaying in Antarctica at our expense claimed on last night’s TV news that the absence of one glacier there would cause the global sea level to rise 1.5 metres…

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    Ross

    So, jump in my vehicle to go do some errands. Radio tuned into local FM station. There’s an ad. Monash Uni (Victoria, Australia) are asking for volunteers who have had recent contact with a COVID infected person to enter into a study evaluating a protective drug. Wow, only 4 years after they found ivermectin had positive efficacy vs then SARS -2- COV, they are now doing some efficacy testing. But silly me, here I was thinking its probably some really cheap off patent drug like ivermectin/ hydroxychloroquine (or the raft of other possibilities), when its most likely a slightly altered version of ivermectin or even Paxlovid that costs hundreds of $ per dose schedule.

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    another ian

    FWIW – more “Faith in flying”

    “Another Story on the Hiring Scandal at the FAA”

    https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/01/29/auto-draft-224-n608349

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      yarpos

      Hard to believe flying there is the safest its ever been. They certainly seem intent on destroying that trend.

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    Neville

    AGAIN Ken Stewart shows why all our electricity generation is weather dependent today.
    IOW we should just save TRILLIONS of $ and refuse to WRECK our environments and just use cheap, RELIABLE BASE-LOAD energy like COAL, GAS or NUCLEAR.
    And have the added bonus of saving our ENVIRONMENTS and help to further GREEN our planet as we head to 2100.

    https://kenskingdom.wordpress.com/2023/07/17/all-our-electricity-generation-is-weather-dependent/

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    el+gordo

    Willis mind wrestles ChatGPT and reckons they can’t think.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/29/more-about-artificial-ignorance/

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    John Connor II

    Operation Starve Paris: French Farmers Begin “Indefinite” Tractor Siege to Protest Crippling Net Zero Policies as it’s Warned City Only has Three Days of Food

    French farmers have today started an “indefinite” tractor siege of Paris to protest the Government’s crippling Net Zero policies, blocking off key routes after threatening to “starve” the city amid warnings the capital only has three days of food. The Mail has more.

    Tractors are clogging major roads bringing traffic to a grinding halt around the city with stacks of hay bales also used to block carriageways as part of a bitter on-running dispute over work conditions.

    Meanwhile, the southern city of Toulouse has nearly been ‘cut off’ in the midst of similar protests in what will be a major test for France’s youngest ever PM Gabriel Attal – just weeks after he was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron aged 34.

    In recent weeks there has been a slew of protests in France, a major agricultural producer, by farmers angry about incomes, red tape and environmental policies they say undermine their ability to compete with other countries.

    Protesting farmers started the operation by blocking the A13 highway to the west of the capital, the A4 to the east and the A6 on which hundreds of tractors rolled towards Paris from the south. The Government in response has deployed some 15,000 police officers.

    By mid-afternoon [the farmers] appeared to have met their objective of establishing eight chokepoints on major roads into Paris, according to Sytadin, a traffic monitoring service.

    “We need answers,” said Karine Duc, a farmer in the southwestern Lot-et-Garonne department as she joined a convoy of tractors heading for Paris. “This is the final battle for farming. It’s a question of survival,” she added.

    A banner on a tractor in the convoy said: “We will not die in silence.” …

    https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/29/operation-starve-paris-french-farmers-begin-indefinite-tractor-siege-to-protest-crippling-net-zero-policies-as-its-warned-city-only-has-three-days-of-food/

    Interesting. Will it cause a mass awakening when the food runs out or will they be seen as domestic terrorists?
    A croissant shortage revolution?

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    John Connor II

    Slovak Prime Minister Launches Sweeping Investigation into Covid Response, Vaccine Deaths, and ‘Suspicious’ Pfizer-EU Deal

    “I was very open and told the President of the European Commission that it’s clear she’s suspected to be connected to the largest vaccine purchase in the history of the European Commission, that she exchanged secret text messages with the director of Pfizer, and when it was published in the European Parliament, the report was entirely redacted.”

    In a dynamic and candid address before the Slovak parliament, Prime Minister Robert Fico unveiled a groundbreaking initiative – establishing a dedicated secretariat charged with unearthing the critical aspects surrounding handling the COVID-19 pandemic. This undertaking aims to shatter the veil of secrecy surrounding the pandemic’s origins, scrutinize vaccine safety, and lay bare the intricacies of the controversial Pfizer-EU agreement.

    Prime Minister Fico boldly confronted members of Progressive Slovakia and the opposition. He challenged them with piercing questions, demanding answers. “Have you confronted the unsettling statistics on the alarming surge in deaths due to various cardiovascular causes following vaccinations? Do you dare deny it?” These probing questions were a clarion call to address the grave concerns surrounding vaccine safety and the government’s pandemic response.

    Fico did not mince words as he continued, “Of course, you attempt to deflect and proclaim that our vaccination efforts were unparalleled. But how many expired vaccine doses lie unused, and how much taxpayer money has been recklessly squandered?” These questions laid bare the urgent need for transparency in the procurement and distribution of vaccines.

    https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/slovak-prime-minister-launches-sweeping

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    Steve of Cornubia

    Most in here will know that Mark Steyn is currently in court, defending himself against ‘Hockey Stick Mann’. This action has been ongoing for (I think) ten years and has cost Steyn millions already, with the court case still in its early stages.

    I was alarmed, but not surprised, to hear that Mann, who has a veritable team of expensive lawyers on his side, hasn’t paid a penny for them. I can find no mention of who IS paying for them, but of course this case is in fact ‘Climate Complex Billionaires vs Steyn’. They are clearly out to beat him, but also to ruin him in the process. If that happens, I hope a crowdfunding initiative will help him out. I will happily donate to that. This of course assumes that such a fund is permitted …

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    David Maddison

    You WILL eat the steaks.
    You WILL drive your gas guzzler.
    You WILL heat your home.
    You WILL use cash notes.
    You WILL travel at your leisure.
    You WILL disobey the globalists.

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    robert rosicka

    So “I” before “E” except after “C” has been debunked by “Science” !

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      yarpos

      Shock bid that people have been talking about for at least a year. The MSM conditioning has finally started.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Biden’s Bumbling LNG ‘Ban’ Profits Putin, Vexes Texas, And Unsettles Europe”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bidens-bumbling-lng-ban-profits-putin-vexes-texas-and-unsettles-europe

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    Andrew McRae

    At the beginning of the year I predicted 2024 would see a significant increase in Artificial Intelligence being blamed for human errors. I don’t know if the recent case of Georgie Purcell counts towards that bet as the machine learning involved is the relatively basic technique of content-aware resizing. But if the ABC’s reporting can be believed, Nine News themselves described the tool as AI.

    Nine News apologised to Ms Purcell and said the image was inadvertently altered.
    “Our graphics department sourced an online image of Georgie to use in our story on duck hunting,” Nine News director Hugh Nailon said in a statement.
    “As is common practice, the image was resized to fit our specs. During that process, the automation by Photoshop created an image that was not consistent with the original.
    “This did not meet the high editorial standards we have and for that we apologise to Ms Purcell unreservedly.”

    Nine attributed the error to artificial intelligence and said no staff member was involved in altering the image.

    No doubt more incidents will arise the more you look for them.

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      Kalm Keith

      I heard that one;

      ” the automation by Photoshop ”

      What a load of ,,,

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      Steve

      I’ve looked and can’t find the bigger t*ts and midriff button on photoshop. So, I guess the ABC AI training data used images from Porn Hub.

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    another ian

    “WHO Climate BS, Infantile Edition”

    “The WHO, famous for its accurate and timely advice on the origins, treatment, and precautions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, is advising us all to make radical changes to our economies and our lifestyles in order to address the climate crisis.”

    More at

    https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/01/29/who-climate-bs-infantile-edition-n608286

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