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Nothing abpout climate, but energy, athletic one:
Eternal Kasai qualifies for Sapporo ski jumping World Cup at age 51
Unbelievable ! 👍
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Will alleged ‘carbon pollution’ allow him to soar even further than before or will it slow him down – these existential questions need to be answered for the sake of the children’s children’s children.
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Please help me, what are you talking about ?
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The effect of CO2 on air density
/sarc
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Thanks JCII. Apologies Krishna, perhaps my tongue-in-cheek Antipodean humour got mistranslated or lost in the interwebs – not a big fan of putting /sarc after comments.
With so many peer-reviewed papers claiming carbon [sic] in the atmosphere is affecting sport – running, jumping, throwing, kicking, swimming, flying – I thought I’d have a little fun re: Noriaki Kasai’s return-to-the-skies after more than 30 years’ accumulation of [life-giving] CO2.
NB. Parts of Japan have over 3+ metres of snow, laughing in the face of ‘Dr’ David Viner yet again.
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Now, let’s see. What was I doing at 51?
A little cricket and social tennis.
I had long since given up Rugby.
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Still surfing at 78.
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Great, we are now feeding the sharks our “out of date” stock.
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The problem we will face with our vast fossil fuels, specifically in Victoria coal and natural gas ready to use, is that if we keep it in the ground, do not export it, do not use it ourselves we set ourselves up as a major and justifiable target for invasion.
Forget gold. The new gold is gas and we have vast ready to use reserves in Gippsland. We also have brown coal which minus the water as briquettes is black gold, as good as anthracite for thermal coal. Fracking in Queensland for the vast shale reserves. And that’s not counting what we have not discovered because in Victoria at least, it is illegal to look. Or pick up branches in the forest. According to Victoria’s rampant Greens, blackouts are preferable to free brown coal or gas. We need to keep blowing up power stations which are fully working and which we did not build and replace them with Chinese windmills.
Saving the planet is mad when the world demand for fossil fuels is soaring while we play dog in the manger. It’s also incredible dangerous. And they have a point because CO2 isn’t changing with record amounts of fossil fuel being burnt and it still goes up so slowly at 0.2% a year as for the last 70 years.
Unless we are suffering from Global Warming in Australia, why are we doing this? No one else is. And nett zero is denial of the fact that nothing we do changes CO2 anywhere in the world, a world in which CO2 is a constant to 1% whether you are part of 1.4Billion people in China or the empty South Pacific with 1/30th of the population. CO2 is so obviously set by the ocean and increased CO2 is sign of slight surface warming not ‘Boiling Seas’. That is so obvious it is ridiculous.
So I would have thought it was bleeding obvious that we could not change CO2. And that daring China/Indonesia/India/Vietnam to come and get it is insane. I do not know what good a couple of submarines would do. Even if they are nuclear. And at the moment those submarines do not exist except as an idea. And we are mothballing one of our frigates because we have no crew.
But the coal and gas exist and we are painting a huge target on Australia with our fantasy global warming, save the polar bears and penguins and Nauru approach. We are not the clever country. Peter Dutton must realise the risk, even if the Teals and Greens think they own the place. As in the Opium wars, refusal to trade in extremely dangerous.
So let’s not sell uranium either? And just wait. We refuse to use it as well. But people who need energy to live will not buy our save the planet silly science argument.
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It is already underway – most of Australia’s immigrants are now from China and India.
They are the advance guard.
Our coal, natural gas and iron ore are just what they need for continued economic development.
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And that the reality of world power is that the US, China, Russia, Uk, France, Israel, India, Pakistan, North Korea have nuclear weapons. And no one else. New Zealand cannot come to our aid. Nor the 11,000 people of Tuvalu.
And if the Chinese fleet sails in to Sydney Harbour on a goodwill visit, what exactly are we going to do? Kamikaze ferries? Escape in our Teslas? March up and down and protest? And demand the government do something? We dare not even send a frigate to the Red Sea as a group of uneducated rebels could blow it up.
And still the activists do not want us even to export coal, oil, gas or today sheep. A live sheep ship was just stopped and we are not allowed export them either. It’s inhuman apparently.
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The reality is that the only fleet sailing into Oz is the american one, at the invitation of the government. The USA would, IMO, be more than happy to use Oz as a proxy, like Ukraine, to annoy the Chinese. And, they’ll station their nukes in Oz, like they do in the UK, making you a big fat target for the ‘enemies’ of the USA. Trade is better than war, but that’s not the way the west works.
And, yes, IMO transporting live animals is inhuman. Frozen meat can easily be transported to other countries as can frozen sperm for breeding purposes. Transporting large numbers of live animals on a ship is cruel and reminiscent of convict/slave ships and totally unnecessary in this day and age and probably only done for profit. The way we treat animals is an indicator of how we treat each other.
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I don’t think the Arabs would take kindly to being told we were substituting meat with frozen sperm.
The trade is in meat not vegetables, but so much of the middle east has no refigeration, something we take for granted. You cannot go down to the supermarket to the frozen section and buy meat. And in those temperatures, nothing keeps.
As with Singapore in WWII, once a fleet sails in, it’s over. We used to have cannon on both sides of Port Phillip bay. The first shot in WW1 was from one of these cannons. And the second shot in WW2. In Melbourne we had mobile batteries from St. Kilda to Port Melbourne, cannon dragged at speed along the military road which became Beaconsifield Parade when we were less scared of the Russians invading.
Now they are holiday places. No hint of war. Mutually assured destruction from Nuclear weapons has seen to that, but invade and you have a real problem. As in Korea, Vietnam, Ukraine. It’s conventional warfare with trenches.
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As for the way we treat animals, check out your incisors, your canines. Useless for chewing. Humans have been vegetarians only since the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago. Note your Darwin’s point at the top of the ear, like a baboon, a fearsome predator. How we treat animals is as well as we can. And the scorching heat of the desert with zero humidity is not kind to vegetables. Israel is the first country to master desert agriculture and a lesson to the whole Middle East in water management.
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courtesy of the wiki
Qurbān or uḍḥiyah as referred to in Islamic law, is a ritual animal sacrifice of a livestock animal during Eid al-Adha.
I note that frozen processed meat will NOT be an acceptable substitute.
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Hmm,?… try selling dead/frozen meat to those asian cultures that will only buy live meat !
And sure, its for profit !..its called foreign trade,..capitalism in action.
..Or would you rather live in an economic dead zone ?
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I find it amusing as people pay tens of thousands of dollars to be crammed into a floating shopping mall called a cruise ship. There they get ill or die as covid or food poisoning rips through the place and there’s nowhere to get off.
We do it to animals because we do it to ourselves
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” it still goes up so slowly at 0.2% a year as for the last 70 years. ”
I’m not sure if you are referring to emissions or CO2 growth.
I graphed annual anthropogenic emissions and CO2 growth (Mauna Loa data) from 1959 to 2022. The 2023 growth data is not out yet.
Emissions are increasing at almost exactly twice the rate of CO2 growth.
Emissions are increasing by 0.12 gigatonnes (Gt C) per year
CO2 growth is increasing by 0.06 Gt C per year.
To convert ppm to Gt C multiply by 2.13
To convert Gt C to GT CO2, multiply by 3.667
CO2 growth data from https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/data.html
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“Emissions are increasing at almost exactly twice the rate of CO2 growth.” is a comparison of absolute output of each to say they are becoming comparable. My comment is a comparison of the % growth of each, not absolute.
Total CO2 growth in 250 years. 50%. That’s 0.2% a year average growth in CO2.
But CO2 ‘Emissions’ have grown a staggering 3500%
In the recent half century
CO2 325ppm to 415ppm from 1975 to 2024. Thats 90ppm/325 or 27% in 50 years or 0.5% per year an increase in the rate of growth but still roughly a straight line.
CO2 emissions 1950 to 2021, 5 billion tons to 37 billion tons or 640% in 70 years or 9.1% per year.
Which is my point.
Emissions have exploded exponentially in the last century.
What you have done is compare current absolute increases in GtC. And annual emissions in GtC are now by your figures half of the total increase in atmospheric CO2 in GtC, but only because the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is so large that a small % increase is comparable.
The observation then is why is atmospheric CO2 growing so slowly when emissions are exploding?
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Thanks for the explanation, TdeF. I think that you are right that there is a problem with the orthodox explanation. There has been a massive increase in emissions but the increase in CO2 growth is small in comparison. I am just looking at it from a different angle.
The orthodox explanation is that about half of our emissions are absorbed by the oceans and the terrestrial biosphere with the other half remaining in the atmosphere causing the increase in atmospheric CO2. I am not happy with this explanation. In particular, it does not take into account the equilibrium relationship between oceanic and atmospheric CO2.
I would like to rant on about this a lot more but I have things to do.
A minor correction. You say “And annual emissions in GtC are now by your figures half of the total increase in atmospheric CO2 in GtC”.
No. It is the other way around. The increase in atmospheric CO2, CO2 growth, is about half the annual emissions.
However, I am also looking at the rate of change in emissions compared to the rate of change in CO2 growth. That is the slope of the graphs. The slope of the emissions graph is double the slope of the CO2 growth graph.
I think this is evidence that the orthodox explanation is false.
Gotta go.
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The idea that one sort of CO2 stays in the air is remarkable when you consider they are identical molecules. So CO2 either all goes or all stays. 98% of all CO2 is in the ocean and ultimately 98% of emissions will end up in the ocean and there is no problem.
Real scientists know the very rapid exchange of CO2 in and out of the water. The half life, residence time is 5-10 years for half or all CO2 respectively.
We know it is very rapid because it is true for O2 and fish breathe. And CO2 is 30x more soluble than O2.
So the Climate Change scientists cooked up a barely plausible idea that there are two oceans, a tiny top ocean of say 100 metres and a bottom ocean, the rest of the 3.5km. Which is how they came up with half, by restricting the container. So increase total CO2 in the air and the top ocean and half the emissions stay in the atmosphere and half in the top ocean. Neat, eh? You just invent your way out of the problem.
And what proof do they have of these two CO2 disconnected oceans. None. They argue that the bottom ocean CO2 is liquid and sloshes around trapped in the deep currents which can swirl around for ‘thousands of years’. Except that’s not true either as geologist know, especially the ones looking for hydrocarbons in the ocean.
What absolute proof do we have that it’s not true? Lots. For example in perhaps the world’s biggest accidental experiment n 1965 atmospheric atom bomb testing doubled C14 from one atom per trillion to two atoms per trillion. C14 cannot be removed or destroyed. Wherever that CO2 goes, it carries twice the historic amount of C14.
So the current level by the two oceans logic should be halfway, about 1.5 atoms per trillion an extra 0.5 in the air and 0.5 in the ocean. In fact ALL the extra C14 is gone from the air and there is only one place radioactive C14 can go, the deep ocean where it is diluted to zero.
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TdeF:
So you think that the Climate “scientics” invented an underwater Hockey Stick?
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Yes, they call it ocean acidification. And back it up with increased CO2 in the top layer. Except that is exactly what would happen if there was equilibrium anyway. Their argument is that increased CO2 in the air increases CO2 in the top layer. Except it is equally true that increased CO2 in the top layer would increase CO2 in the air. It’s always a fantastic exercise that events are interpreted to justify Armageddon, that increased CO2 causes warming when it is equally plausible and closer to our ordinary experience that increased beer temperature makes beer go flat.
Part of the problem is that alleged ‘scientists’ like Flim Flannery actually did not study mathematics, equilibrium, physical chemistry, physics. The extension of science into observational areas like botany, zoology, paleoentology allows people with no hard science training or skill to make this stuff up. I run into them all the time on Quora, Dr Google scientists.
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While you and I know that the lifetime of CO2 is relatively short I think the IPCC’s position is interesting.
In the IPCC’c 4th Assessment Report (AR4) Chapter 10 they say ” a lifetime for CO2 cannot be defined.”
It is important to note that “lifetime” is not quite the same as “half life”.
In reality both are only a few years but the IPCC needs the lifetime to be 100 years for their Bern Model or else the human influence on CO2 growth is small.
There is a table, I think in AR5 which shows the lifetimes of non- condensing GHGs. The lifetime for CO2 is blank.
I will see if I can find a reference.
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The table 2.1 is in AR5 WG1 chapter 2 page 166. The value for CO2’s lifetime is blank.
You can download the AR5 at the link below but it is quite large at 360Mb
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_all_final.pdf
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Absolutely TdeF. We have vast resources of energy and just about everything else, except wisdom of our “leadership” (sic). As has happened with every other country that doesn’t bother using their resources, there is always someone else willing to come and take them.
Chinese need lebensraum and they know our politicians are almost all disloyal to Australia, extremely pro-Chicomm, we have allowed our defence to deteriorate and the US also has a weak, corrupt, demented, pro-Chicomm “president” who will allow China to do as they please (subject to Trump being re-elected).
If Trump is re-elected, the rogue nations of the world will start behaving themselves more. That’s why the Left are trying to destroy him. The re-election of Trump is Australia’s and the West’s only hope for peace and freedom, and a return to bountiful energy when he again removes the US from the Paris Accords and the rest of the world is forced to follow or lose all competitive advantage.
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Australia’s destiny is to become Hong Kong Mk2
The Chinese did no “invade” Hong Hong
Ok there is no 99 year lease with Australia but there are other ways and means to “invade” a country.
Just look at our China captive politicians like the former dictator of Victoriastan and our current PM who was a radical communist in his student days.
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Victoria banning the export of a product that someone else wanted was the most extraordinary thing.
As you said yesterday, TdeF.
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Australia also occupies an increasingly attractive position to enable the exploitation of Antarctica’s resources and, if Australia were to fall, the ‘new owners’ would pretty much automatically become the new rulers of New Zealand.
I have been saying this for years, in the context of Chinese expansionism.
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The latest development in AI
I was part of the era when computers meant punch cards and long reams of text printouts.
Now some text can create a virtual world
What next?
https://openai.com/sora
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Computers are now a million times faster and 64 bits wide and each has a floating point processor and threading and of course many processors on the one chip. And it has infinite memory when a simple storage is 5 terabyte, mega megabyte.
Of course you can get the computer to write its own instructions and instantly. The dreams of science fiction writers have come true. And as everything becomes connected to everything else, that’s the end of any idea of privacy. Azimov’s three laws of robotics will be necessary and likely ignored. I try not to think about it.
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As a retired IT professional I still cannot see these computer thingys as anything more than high speed 0/1 switches. There is no intelligence, just speed and quantity and GIGO still remains king. The most powerful AI couldn’t even simulate a gnats brain and infinite memory is an impossibility, by definition. 42 !
Here’s an interesting article about how exposed we all are in the digital age:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/nuclear-high-attitude-electromagnetic-pulse-the-united-states-has-zero-national-security/5848897
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Yes Steve and this can be either from a high altitude nuclear blast or solar CME producing an X class solar flare. IE Carrington event.
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Yep, there’s no true AI, as much as they all like to think they are. Sophisticated code producing human like rendering, yes, but comprehension and understanding, no.
SORA doesn’t understand left from right or grasp cause and effect amongst other basic flaws.
Have a play with Synthesia.io too.
The top 300 AI experts have all said they were wrong a year ago and that their timelines have advanced 15 years.
By the end of 2026 their 2050+ timelines may well be here due to non linear advancements.
ie true AGI by 2026 or so.
At that point AGI will self evolve into super artificial intelligence unless constrained.
Learn how to
codejuggle and entertain your new masters (for 100 nanoseconds, before they get bored with you). 😁20
Net Zero by 2050?
Clealy no one told India
This year india’s population passed that of China, however India currently only emits 25% of CO2 emissions compared to China
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-g-n/india.aspx
India has overtaken China as the world’s most populous country, according to UN population estimates, the most significant shift in global demographics since records began.24 Apr 2023
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Wait till they demand Teslas and 100 inch tv.
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This was in 2019 – today it is getting closer to 100%
https://www.ceew.in/publications/access-to-electricity-availability-and-electrification-percentage-in-india#
Meanwhile in Australia it is now a challenge to retain connections to the grid due to both grid failures and many people unable to afford to pay their ever increasing power bills.
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Last time I was in India, my host in Delhi had a row of 8-10 car batteries to provide light when the grid was down.
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On the subject of net zero…let’s discuss the latest from Snowy Hydro 2.0. Two years ago when I explained here why it would be the biggest dud ever, I drew everyone’s attention to a number of “publicly undisclosed” problems which would eventually destroy the whole project.
I described the great difficulty they would soon be having with the extremely fractured rock from Tantangara (where the tunnel Adit / horizontal entrance is) under the Tantangara Plain and under the Gooandra Ridge. AND the major difficulty they were having with naturally-occuring asbestos.
I explained how ANY blogger here could access the sites off the Snowy Mts Highway between Kiandra and Bullock’s Hill to view the many many “Asbestos Danger Keep Out” signs, which of course would never deter a seasoned bush-basher cutting cross-country to save 10 ks walking.
OK…so here’s Malcom Roberts grilling the CEO of SH about whether it’s true they’ve encountered asbestos (at the 5 minute mark)…which he directly denies (lies about). I wonder who that “someone who’s local” who blew the whistle might be……
https://youtu.be/IZ-wzdjIUQE
[Thanks. Long google link replaced with youtube url -Jo]
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In the Left’s latest war against the food supply now they are claiming that home-grown food has five times the CO2 emissions (what they call “carbon” (sic)) of farm grown food.
European YouTuber Survival Lilly discusses:
https://youtu.be/2AgJtUB3u94
Article:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/22/carbon-footprint-homegrown-food-allotment-increase/
So the Left don’t want you to grow food at home but they’re also trying to shut down commercial farms as well…
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How the “carbon” of home grown “zee bugs” compare with ther commercial variety?
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Must be all those tractors and combine harvesters we use.
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But this is true. The urban hippy movement is keen on growing vegetables small scale and selling it at local markets. I would argue with them that their petrol motor tiller is an extremely inefficient tool compared to a 150 hp tractor. It’s obviously true. They could not understand this.
But very interesting they have started turning on themselves. Would be hilarious to see a hippy tell another hippy to stop the veggie patch.
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Will they let you breed your own bugs for food? 😎
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Interesting video about the Mona Lisa mystery.
https://youtu.be/MhE3bADJTPM
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I think in response to something said by Baldrick in “Blackadder” Rowan Atkinson declares “that is the greatest understatement since the model posing for the Mona Lisa said to Leonardo ‘I don’t what it is today, but I just feel a bit odd!”
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Australian news item – firefighters’ warning about danger of lithium battery fires, especially from scooters, bikes and cars. Do NOT charge indoors.
https://youtu.be/op7tY2toKIs
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https://www.thecompliancecenter.com/lithium-battery-incidents-on-airplanes-are-increasing/
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On the education front –
“SF brings back 8th-grade algebra, admits ‘equity math’ failed”
https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/sf-brings-back-8th-grade-algebra-admits-equity-math-failed
Via Instapundit
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I guess the junkies in SF are unable to get their maths right when figuring out the correct proportions of the drug cocktails!
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What Nazi Germany can teach us about “Fighting Climate Change”
https://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/presentations/AIChE%202003%20Spring%20National%20Meeting/Paper%2080a%20Stranges%20germany.pdf
The process can be modified for other carbon sources such as CO2.
https://www.science.org/content/article/cheap-catalysts-turn-sunlight-and-carbon-dioxide-fuel
If synthetic liquid fuel can be made with CO2 taken from the air then this would be the same as burning wood (eg Drax powerstation in UK) which is counted as “Green Energy” since no additional CO2 is added to the atmosphere.
This would eliminate the need for EVs and all the expensive and complex recharging infrasture.
Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
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(Now ex-) Tropical Cyclone Lincoln lasted less than 12 hours as a minor Cat 1 before losing puff and reverting to a low / depression over the Northern Territory, although models have it (possibly) re-strengthening as it drifts westwards.
Greater minds than mine may be able to shed light on the Intertropical Convergence Zone, aka the monsoon trough or doldrums, and more specifically the South Pacific Convergence Zone: this summer it seems to reach farther eastwards, even beyond Tahiti, with a near-continuous series of low centres drifting eastwards from the Coral Sea towards Fiji, Rarotonga, then onwards to the southeast of Tahiti.
Is this a regular feature of El Niños (or Modoki?) or is this Cyclone Season unique in some way? Perhaps meteorological observations are more precise in 2024 and we have greater detail of the ‘line of convergence’ between the equatorial tropics and the southern ocean. All I know is that our climate is perfect February weather here across the ditch – long may it last (yeah right).
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This brief extract reckons the ITCZ expands during Heinrich stadials.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217064120
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Gaia works in mysterious ways.
‘One important driver of ITCZ shifts: differential heating or cooling of the hemispheres shifts the ITCZ toward the differentially warming hemisphere. So when the northern hemisphere warms, for example, because northern ice cover and with it the polar albedo are reduced, the ITCZ shifts northward.
‘This can be rationalized as follows: When the atmosphere receives additional energy in the northern hemisphere, it attempts to rectify this imbalance by transporting energy across the equator from the north to the south.’ (Caltech)
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A moderate El Nino at this time of year acts as a trigger.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/31/11/jcli-d-17-0905.1.xml?tab_body=abstract-display
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I will predict that the beautiful autumn weather will break in late April, when it will start to get wet.
Until then ( and for a bit afterwards ) the days will be measured in wagons of silage .
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Its all about looks! A five year rolling average? without one year.
Australian Bureau of Statistics mortality Data had an outlier in 2020 when during the most deadly pandemic less deaths were recorded.
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Back to the beginning.
Yesterday I saw a map of the world, centered about Greenwich. The same as I have seen all my life.
I have never undertaken a formal study of Geography. The rocks that I was familiar with were sedimentary and igneous, and I still don’t know where igneous turns to metamorphic. The border for sedimentary and igneous is there to see. At least in my part of the world igneous is younger than sedimentary,
As far back as I remember the jigsaw fit of Gondwana raised the question could this have really been so?
Eventually i was informed that yes, indeed it was so. Australia was indeed attached to Antarctica and India.
So that other jigsaw fit, across the Atlantic Ocean, would have been unified too.
So.:
1 .Where was all the water?
2. What was the diameter of the Earth?
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G’day Ted1,
I decided my knowledge was too limited to adequately answer your question here:
” …where igneous turns to metamorphic” , so I tried Wikepedia and found this, which at least addresses it to respectable depth I think:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphic_rock
Enjoy
Cheers
Dave B
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Talking to a geologist friend, the ocean cliff rocks at the lower Cape regions of Western Australia are identical to coastal rocks in southern India.
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Not sure if I can answer your questions, but I’m willing to learn.
‘The team studied the paleomagnetic record of the Amadeus Basin in central Australia, which was part of the Gondwana precursor supercontinent.
‘Based on the directions of the ancient rock’s magnetization, they discovered that the entire Gondwana landmass underwent a rapid 60-degree rotational shift, with some regions attaining a speed of at least 16 (+12/-8) cm/year, about 525 million years ago.
‘By comparison, the fastest shifts we see today are at speeds of about four cm/year.’ (Yale News)
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Or the magnetic field undertook this shift?
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Too much to read and absorb here atm…gotta go and mow. I look forward to getting back later today.
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Zen and the Art of Mowing
Something to contemplate in the evening.
https://www.whatthefarmblog.com/blog-1/dyddb4gc94t6m6kgdy5g5k6s44bk3y
“Listen Grasscatcher, the very act of mowing your lawn brings its share of inner calm and stillness. Turn off your mind, empty it of disturbing thoughts and concentrate fully on the simple task of cutting your grass.”
https://www.mowdirect.co.uk/blog/2015/03/31/zen-and-the-art-of-lawn-mowing-ommmmmmmmmmm/
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Grasshopper say: always mow to correct height, do not scalp lawn like 99.9% of people do.
Water at night, fertilise monthly.
Other people will ask how your lawn looks so good.
😉
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“fertilise monthly.”
WT beep?
Annually would be heaps, if all clippings were left in place , surely?
Cows leave 60% of the “clippings” in place , in a biologically enhanced form.
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Annually? WT beep!
I don’t use pellet or solid fertiliser, but spray on so it’s already diluted.
Spray on is a quick boost so can be used more often.
Slow breakdown/release fertilisers should be every 3 months or so.
I have a mulching mower but use it selectively now due to thatching.
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A grasshopper walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender says, “Hey, we have a drink named after you.” The grasshopper says, “Really? You have a drink named Steve?”
A History Lesson: Philibert Guichet invented the drink that would become known as the Grasshopper, for a 1918 cocktail competition in New York City. Guichet’s cocktail secured a second-place finish and became so popular back home in New Orleans, that it’s held a permanent spot on the Tujague’s cocktail menu ever since
The Grasshopper is a green blast from the past featuring green creme de menthe, white creme de cacao and heavy cream
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Not lawn as such; fenced in rough meadow more like. Too large an area to fuss and the mowing takes a long time, even with a 42″ ride-on and I don’t dawdle! Lots of trees to circle with zero-turn ability. Our paddocks are grazed and fertilised by some steers and sheep. Mowed and manured according to Mother Nature’s method.
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Gippsland valley Au:
It has been a year here of mowing madness and mutant giant Jerusalem Artichokes and figs that have only just started ripening, a tad month or so late..reminds me of the old Lost In Space episode.
“The Great Vegetable Rebellion” February 28, 1968
from Wikipedia:
“While Don and the Robinsons celebrate the Robot’s birthday, Dr. Smith sneaks off in the space pod to a planet dominated by intelligent flora. After picking a flower, Smith is accused of murder by Tybo, the carrot-man who rules this world. Tybo sentences Smith to an eternity of literal tree-hugging. The J2 crew lands to search for Smith, but instead they find Willoughby: a purple-haired botanist who is Tybo’s aide-de-camp. With Dr. Smith mutating into a stalk of celery, and Penny into a flower bed, it’s up to Will and Judy to find them all, and the Professor and Don to save the day by sabotaging the planet’s weather-control system.
Guest stars: Stanley Adams (Tybo), James Millhollin (Willoughby the Llama), Jerry Traylor (Plant) “
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Annie will probably be surprised what her simple comment about mowing triggered.
I must say the original Zen and the art of books is my favourite book. I was once walking through a building fit out computer room site, with lots a cabling work going on and tradie radios blaring. I asked my colleague if he had read that book, and he had. He got my concern re unengaged work.
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I was surprised Yarpos! I was reading above it and wasn’t thinking about my comment. Just wanted to get back to the stuff I couldn’t read earlier. The mowing was done, in two long sessions, except for where the storm had broken trees on the roadside. My husband picked up the worst of the twigs and branches before I did our roadside bit. Having just had the mower serviced…sigh!
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Trump: win some, lose some
Trump Slams ‘Election Interference’ And ‘Tyrannical Abuse Of Power’ After $364 Million Verdict
“A Crooked New York State Judge, working with a totally Corrupt Attorney General who ran on the basis of “I will get Trump,” before knowing anything about me or my company, has just fined me $355 Million based on nothing other than having built a GREAT COMPANY. ELECTION INTERFERENCE. WITCH HUNT (more to follow!),” said Trump in a post to Truth Social.
“The Justice System in New York State, and America as a whole, is under assault by partisan, deluded, biased Judges and Prosecutors. Racist, Corrupt A.G. Tish James has been obsessed with “Getting Trump” for years, and used Crooked New York State Judge Engoron to get an illegal, unAmerican judgment against me, my family, and my tremendous business. I helped New York City during its worst of times, and now, while it is overrun with Violent Biden Migrant Crime, the Radicals are doing all they can to kick me out….”
And according to the former president, Engoron conspired with New York Attorney General Letitia James.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ny-judge-hits-trump-364-million-penalty-alleged-fraud
New York is TOTALLY corrupt. He NEVER had a chance.
But…
The SEC has approved the merger of $DWAC and Truth Social. Former President Donald Trump is expected to profit almost 4 BILLION dollars given his 58% stake in the company and the current stock price.
The leftists trying to bankrupt Trump are in shambles.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/trump-set-to-rake-in-4-billion/
Stick it to the lefties and deep state.
I think that warrants a Biden clip for today’s entertainment:
https://twitter.com/_/status/1758550879295475882
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What kind of law allows one man to fine another $364 mill and have men with guns to enforce payment?
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It’s not the law but those supposedly upholding it, like the judges.
NYC in particular, the home of Wall St corruption and cronyism. Destroy Trump at any price, the law be damned.
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I am not a religious person
But to persecute a popular leader and make a martyr out of him
Well there is a historical precedent
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9,000-Year-Old ‘Stonehenge’ Megastructure Found Under Lake Michigan Rewrites History As We Know It
While searching the busy 19th- and 20th-century maritime trade route using remote sensing techniques, Mark Holley, professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan University, came across a rock that he said bears a prehistoric carving of a mastodon.
On further investigation, he discovered a mile-long Stonehenge-like megastructure of ancient stones that is threatening to rewrite history as we know it.
The extraordinary discovery has stunned the archeological community and raises the question: is everything we have been taught about history a lie?
The mini-Stonehenge features an outer ring of stones, about 40 feet in diameter, and an inner ring about 20 feet in diameter, both made of local granite. They stand 40 feet below the water’s surface, and the stones are some 9,000 years old, making this one of the oldest structures ever discovered in North America.
https://youtu.be/ni3D_xN0AGs?si=jToz_lUcu5Uexn8k
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Yes it is.
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That would make it 4,000 years before Stonehenge.
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The story first appeared in 2007, so its old nooze.
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Dropping steel structures the right way
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s8j3wtnSVm1a694ji.mp4
What are power tower designers doing wrong? 😉
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Update: MS Society paying the price for their DEI now
Recently, a heart-wrenching story went viral which inadvertently revealed a great deal about the patient “advocacy” industry.
Since then, the organization chose to internally double-down on that decision and then publicly reaffirmed that decision, their president has stepped down, and its page listing the non-profit’s board of directors was also recently taken down. As best as I can tell, a large boycott is forming against the organization and this decision will ultimately cost them a lot of money.
As organizations grow larger (e.g., the MS society is the 63rd largest charity in the USA and now takes in over 200 million dollars a year), their focus switches from their mission (e.g., helping MS) to simply protecting the institution’s interests.
Note: this applies to many large charities. For example, the pink breast cancer group, Komen (“for the Cure”), is notorious for also raising around 200 million annually, taking very questionable corporate sponsors, spending very little of their budget on cancer research or patients, and suing many other “competing” charities). Throughout my life, I’ve observed that any organization tasked with “solving a problem” will inevitably fail to solve the problem because it has an inherent conflict of interest against the problem being solved (due to the funding or political power it receives then disappearing), and sadly will instead often make it the problem worse (which in turn “necessitates” more funding to “solve” that problem). Recently, I learned from a reader one term for this dynamic is “The Shirky Principle,” and as this MS documentary shows, all of the above issues are seen in MS societies around the world (including lawsuits against anyone competing with their monopoly on eventually “curing” MS).
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-can-a-ms-charity-teach-us-about
Too many bloated, dysfunctional, politicised organisations that have totally lost their way.
Too many searching for “cures” that already exist, but there’s money in them thar hills of ill people.
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Saturday sarcasm
000 Operator: “Triple zero. How can I help you?”
Female caller: “My husband just collapsed and isn’t breathing.”
000 Operator: “Can you tell me what happened?”
Female caller: ” Well, I just told him I was wrong and I apologised to him.”
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I call and raise you one
I can remember when I got married and I can remember where I got married.
For the life of me, I can’t remember why I got married.
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When my wife and I argue, I always get the last word.
They’re usually, “I’m sorry. You’re right.”
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How Labor is again attacking working class Australians
Only Teals and The Greens voters would support these attacks and they do not vote Labor.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13094239/Albanese-government-carbon-emissions-fines-SUV-ute-toyota-ford-tesla.html
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Chiefio has a look –
“Comments On “The Golden Billion” ”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/comments-on-the-golden-billion/
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Wind turbine fails including what looks like a lithium battery going up .
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1142292220466726
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