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    Environment sCeptic

    ‘String theory’ is the extraordinary work of Dr Joe Lee. Extraordinary, and actually makes an enormous amount of sense in my opinion. I think this is it, the one, and could well be a ‘keeper’. Rock solid. Makes refreshing common sense in my opinion.

    “REVOLUTIONARY THEORY”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLZpFhd1ck8

    From the video in the description box:

    Dr Joe Lee began his journey by asking the question, how was it possible that without COVID antibodies, people were able to recover from COVID because no one had a COVID antibody in 2020? He wrote a detailed letter to Fauci in February 2021, explaining to him how the c19 vaxxine was never going to provide immunity. See below”

    (And in the description box under the video.that is more extensive.)

    THE STRING THEORY

    In the video is the diagram that explains why boosters cause a string of antibodies and antigens to form in the body. It is why those who have high antibodies in their blood, when they take a booster shot, are at grave risk of sudden death, as their process of assembling of the antigen (from the booster) and antibodies (from previous vaccination) continues unabated. Even the very idea of giving boosters where antigens are injected that use up the antibodies, according to the current established Science of vaccination is ridiculous. For what purpose? Essentially nullifying any benefit from previous jabs but unfortunately actually multiplying the harm, as these long, white fibrous clots form in the body.

    Half the vaxxines currently on the market fit this criteria. So this is not just about covid19 genetic vaxxines but many of the vaxxines on the childhood schedule.

    Dr Joe Lee’s theory can bring down the whole vaccination industry because it attacks the foundation on which vaxxination is based; that is the theory that anti-bodies provide immunity. There is a tsunami of vaccines in development but already a huge childhood schedule and because vaccine manufacturers think they have immunity from liability, they will continue to make more vaxxines to bring to market. When the vaxxines injure children and people, these people become life long customers of the pharmaceutical industry and while it was argued that the risk/benefit was worth it, the vaxxine narrative could continue unchallenged. If the focus is on certain ingredients in the vaxxines or delivery platform, pharma could just change that and voila, “safe” vaxxines.

    If you go back and watch our podcast with Dr Richard Fleming and bear in mind the connection between inflammo-thrombolic response in the body (think clotting and ischemia) then you can also draw a line to other diseases such as cancer, heart disease, Alzeihmer’s, etc..

    Imagine that? The root of many modern diseases finds it’s roots in vaxxination.”

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    CO2 Lover

    China loving Chrissy Bowen in action

    How will the USA react to having Australia tax US automakers, then pay the collected cash to China? Australia is such an insignificant auto market US automakers might not care. But supporting US automakers has been a high profile issue in the USA lately, so an ally like Australia discriminating against US automakers in favour of Chinese manufacturers might attract some attention.

    If the US government does decide to push back, they have a lot of levers to pull, from threatening retaliatory sanctions against Australian products, right up to re-opening discussions about Australia’s high profile deal to purchase US nuclear submarines.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/08/electric-or-bust-aussie-climate-ministers-plan-to-ruin-automakers/

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      Ted1.

      There are some elections coming on.

      Who remembers a Prime Minister heading off to a party in the US and having to change the name on the cake?

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    Thomas A

    Listening to a UK radio station last night and heard the news at the top of the hour. I guess the usual suspects in North Qld are at it again. The GBR is going through another mass bleaching event and it is due to climate change. The newsreader left out the last sentence, “Send more money!”

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      Graeme No.3

      Will it work as after GBR coming (real soon) death announcements in 1971, 72, 74, 78, 79, 80, 81, 84, 88, 89, 93, 94, 95, 2003, 2016, and 2017 the 2019 The Great Barrier Reef was ‘officially announced dead’ in September.
      Obviously more money would be unnecessary. Apart from Turnbull’s $400 Million odd cache.

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    Environment sCeptic

    From cutting edge with Dr Joe Lee in the interview above, to an author circa one hundred years ago. I found this book a few weeks ago somehow and now is reviewed on Housatonic channel with Mark Kulacz

    A century of vaccination and what it teaches” William Scott Tebb (Ep 253.1) Who sent me this?”
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/VM5QC9ERfkeg/

    The book can be found on Google books.

    https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Mp5HDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

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    John Hultquist

    The GBR makes the news — again. Paul Homewood has posted.

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    CO2 Lover

    It is not only Tesla EVs that catch fire.

    There have been two Tesla Megapack fires in Australia – but many more overseas

    Unfortunately, large lithium-ion battery facilities like Elkhorn (USA), which consists of 256 shipping container-sized Tesla Megapack batteries, have proven to be fire hazards – even at the same Moss Landing substation.

    In South Korea, where battery energy storage systems (BESS) have been deployed widely, there were 23 BESS fires between 2017 and 2019 resulting in $32 million in losses.

    https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/21/tesla_battery_megapack_fire/

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      CO2 Lover

      Unreliable wind and solar power are to be backed-up with unreliable batteries!

      Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility, at 400MW/1,600MWh the world’s biggest battery energy storage system (BESS) project so far, is back online.

      Owner Vistra Energy had called a temporary halt to its operation and market participation after battery overheating incidents at both phases of the project.

      The 300MW/1,200MWh Phase I, commissioned in December 2020, went out of action after a September 2021 incident, while Phase II’s separate 100MW output and 400MWh of capacity went online a month before that incident, only to be also switched off in February this year.

      https://www.energy-storage.news/worlds-biggest-battery-storage-system-comes-back-online-after-months-of-shutdown/#:

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        Yes except that is not enough to back anything substantial. It takes 16 hours or so to get solar thru the night so this monster only backs up 100 MW. Assuming no clouds, rain or snow.

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          CO2 Lover

          California has an annual electricty demand of 259,500,000 MWh (7% of US demand)

          The “world’s biggest battery” with 1,600 MWh energy storage would provide 3.2 minutes of back-up for California’s demand if required for back-up (and not grid stabilisation).

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            Leo G

            The “world’s biggest battery” with 1,600 MWh energy storage would provide 3.2 minutes zero minutes of back-up for California’s demand …

            California’s daily peak-hour demand exceeds 50,000 MW. The “world’s biggest battery” is designed to supply up to 400MW.

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    TdeF

    Some prize must go to Breitbart which described Joe Biden’s State of the Union display of youthful vigor as ‘Old Yeller’.

    He managed to read his speech in which he directly threatened the US Supreme Court judges to their faces to standing applause by U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken adjacent to them. Then he made fifteen disparaging references to the ‘previous incumbent’. The state of the Union was more state of chaos as he denied there was any problem anywhere, say at the open borders. And even the New York Times ‘fact checked’ (which means disagreed with) many of his statements.

    After spending nearly 50% of his presidency at home on the beach, for perhaps the last time he summoned up the energy to criticize everyone else. Who is actually controlling the White House is unknown. Donald Trump in his running commentary noted that the drugs seemed to be wearing off. It was another Weekend at Biden’s performance.

    Still the Democrats chanted ‘four more years’. Of Old Yeller. Or more likely, President cackling Kamala Harris.

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      OldOzzie

      In truth, Biden gave the most livid state-of-the-union address in modern memory, a surreal teleprompted rant from a “get off my grass” old man. At points, he started howling at the seated opposition and even called out Supreme Court Justices. Determined not to reveal cognitive decline, Biden instead came late to the podium shouting nonstop, grimacing in reptilian style for over an hour.

      If the planned Adderall-fueled screaming was to prove he was still alive, most would have preferred his drowsy incoherence.

      But mostly the speech was one of abject lies as he either blamed all his disasters on others or claimed they were his greatest achievements.

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        OldOzzie

        Gibberish at the State of the Union

        March 8, 2024 – Sundance

        There really isn’t much you can say about what was witnessed last night in the People’s House. Joe Biden shouting at America for an hour while muttering something about snickers bars, snack food and the need to send billions of dollars to Ukraine was essentially the gist.

        Following one of the most incoherent teleprompter reads in the history of presidential politics, one can only imagine how Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were briefed on what took place in Washington DC at 9:00pm. Suffice to say, no sleep was lost amid the global community of leaders who smile as the USA influence collapses.

        What was even more goofy, was the pretending amid the corporate media that Joe Biden said stuff that was discernable and/or potentially fitting the office of the executive. The various news agencies each described the color of the emperor’s new coat as if it actually existed. The pretending was/is simply off the charts bizarre, and normal Americans tuned out and went on about doing things normal Americans do.

        That said, Tucker Carlson watched the naked emperor and livestreamed his thoughts on the insanity of the event, he then gives a reaction. WATCH: 16 Mins 18 Secs

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      RickWill

      I imagine warching Joe Biden is as much as fun as wandering around a dementia ward . My son did some of his training in a dementia ward and can see the sometime funny side because he was a physician and not one of the nurses actually trying to control the deranged people.

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    Crazy Climate News, once again and actual:

    Projections of an ice-free Arctic Ocean

    Observed Arctic sea ice losses are a sentinel of anthropogenic climate change. These reductions are projected to continue with ongoing warming, ultimately leading to an ice-free Arctic (sea ice area <1 million km2). In this Review, we synthesize understanding of the timing and regional variability of such an ice-free Arctic. In the September monthly mean, the earliest ice-free conditions (the first single occurrence of an ice-free Arctic) could occur in 2020–2030s under all emission trajectories and are likely to occur by 2050. However, daily September ice-free conditions are expected approximately 4 years earlier on average, with the possibility of preceding monthly metrics by 10 years. Consistently ice-free September conditions (frequent occurrences of an ice-free Arctic) are anticipated by mid-century (by 2035–2067), with emission trajectories determining how often and for how long the Arctic could be ice free. Specifically, there is potential for ice-free conditions in May–January and August–October by 2100 under a high-emission and low-emission scenario, respectively. In all cases, sea ice losses begin in the European Arctic, proceed to the Pacific Arctic and end in the Central Arctic, if becoming ice free at all. Future research must assess the impact of model selection and recalibration on projections, and assess the drivers of internal variability that can cause early ice-free conditions.

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      Reader

      Where have I heard that one before? 🙂

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        Graeme No.3

        Apart from 1939, 1957. 1950, 1958, 1981 (when Buckingham Palace was in danger of being under 7 foot of Arctic ice melt), 1988, 1989, 1995, 2007, 2008 (Wadham quoted by Al Gore), 2009, 2010, 2012 (Wadham again) and 2013 but (after Explorer Philip Goodeve-Docker freezes to death on second day of trek across Greenland. 2 others injured) things seem to have become quiet until now.

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      TdeF

      It would be great if the Arctic ice melted, even just in summer. All trade is by ship. And it would mean a greatly reduced cost and time for shipping, say between Japan or China or South Korea and America or England or Europe. For some reasons this is implied as a bad thing?

      But the reason it is important for the theory of man made Global Warming is that it is the canary in the cage. The (yearly) average temperature at the North Pole is exactly 0.0C. And if the average was 1.0C, all the ice would be gone, at least in summer. So it acts as the world’s thermometer.

      And annoyingly, refuses to melt completely. Expand and contract in cycles, the ice has never vanished. And that means the temperature has not changed.

      Of course that is also silly as ice is not measuring air temperature as much as ocean temperature and while some of the Arctic sea is shallow, the depth at the North Pole is 4,000 metres. Which is the same as most of the world’s oceans. And the heat capacity of the air is only 1/1600th of the heat capacity of the ocean. Plus the air can cool by convection to higher altitudes, radiation. The water has little radiation and no conduction and only internal convection. Like a dog, it has only evaporation which is great for us as we get our weather from the oceans, not the air.

      But the promoters of man made CO2 driven Global Warming (or cooling now) care only about air temperature because that is where people live. So they ignore the ocean. And for them, the Arctic ice is a sign that they are completely wrong.

      And in passing, the highest temperature ever recorded at the North Pole is +21C. The highest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole is -12.3C. Still the story is that Antarctica is melting rapidly too, which is silly.

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      CO2 Lover

      Wow a whole 4cm!

      The melting of ice floating on the ocean will introduce a volume of water about 2.6 per cent greater than that of the originally displaced sea water. The melting of floating ice in a global warming will cause the ocean to rise. If all the extant sea ice and floating shelf ice melted, the global sea level would rise about 4 cm

      https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/170/1/145/2019346

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        John Connor II

        How much rain and ice melting is needed to raise the oceans to mountain height?
        /asking for Noah 😁

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        TdeF

        I doubt it. Just looking at the calculation as a quick estimate.

        The ice at the North pole is about 4 metres thick. 2.6% of that is 104mm, 10cm. If the entire planet was covered in floating ice metres thick, that would be the maximum sea level rise. I assume this is because of the slight difference in saline between fresh water ice in a salt water ocean.

        But the arctic circle is small compared with the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

        So if we take the entire arctic circle, that’s 22 degrees of 180, about 1/10th. As an area square it to 1/100th and we would have a that 104mm spread over 100x the area of ocean which is unfrozen and reduced to 1mm.

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      Graeme#4

      Arctic sea ice predictions have been made so often that the level of sea ice can be measured in Wadhams…

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    Reader

    Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck
    https://phys.org/news/2024-03-interstellar-linked-aliens-truck.html

    Sound waves thought to be from a 2014 meteor fireball north of Papua New Guinea were almost certainly vibrations from a truck rumbling along a nearby road, new Johns Hopkins University-led research shows. The findings raise doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien materials from that meteor, as was widely reported…

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    CO2 Lover

    Oh dear another Boeing 737 mishap!

    United Boeing 737 Max suffers ‘major landing gear collapse’ and skids off runway at Houston: 160 terrified passengers are rushed to safety as FAA launches new probe after third Boeing incident this WEEK.

    SEATTLE, WA — Amid growing concerns over safety after several devastating mechanical failures on Boeing 737-9 Max aircraft, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun assured hesitant travelers that all their aircraft are built according to the highest standards of diversity

    I hope Jetstar sticks with AirBus for its domestic flights

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      United Airlines plane makes a safe emergency landing in LA after losing a tire during takeoff

      A United Airlines jetliner bound for Japan made a safe landing in Los Angeles on Thursday after losing a tire while taking off from San Francisco.
      Video shows the plane losing one of the six tires on its left-side main landing gear assembly seconds after takeoff. The tire landed in an employee parking lot at San Francisco International Airport, where it smashed into a car and shattered its back window before breaking through a fence and coming to stop in a neighboring lot

      Both Pilots Fell Asleep In Cockpit Of Flight To Jakarta, Veered Off Course And Lied To Air Traffic Control

      Both pilots of a Batik Air Airbus A320 fell asleep in the cockpit on a flight from Kendari to Jakarta, Indonesia.
      The aircraft was carrying 153 passengers, 4 flight attendants and 2 pilots. While cruising at 36,000 feet, the pilots removed their headsets and increased the cockpit speaker volume. The captain decided to take a short break and rested. After waking up, he offered to switch with the first officer but that pilot declined. The captain went back to sleep on the 1,095 mile flight.

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        yarpos

        United/Boeing have also just had an off runway excursion in Houston. The clock is ticking on US aviation safety. One (or more) of these will inevitably turn into something horrible.

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          John Connor II

          23 seasons of Air Crash Investigation later, you mean.

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            yarpos

            Nope just sad to see what had been a pretty safe commercial aviation sector in the US , going into decline across the board. There have been multiple near miss ATC events in recent times and of course the ongoing Boeing debacle. The frequency of all these events is quickening.

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      TdeF

      The basic idea is that CO2 from forest fires, volcanoes, cars, factories, people are emissions which permanently disturb the ‘balance’ and these increase total CO2 in the air. There is no other explanation. This is even accepted by some physicists.

      I am appalled. A physical chemist would tell you that dissolved gases like CO2 are in constant equilibrium between the liquid and the air. In a laboratory this is called Henry’s Law. And given that 98% of CO2 is already in the ocean, our tiny output makes no difference. Secondly increased temperature at the air/sea interface means more CO2 molecules escape than are captured, so a small increase in sea surface temperature means CO2 goes up. Certainly ‘boiling oceans’ would do that.

      And yet no one cares or mentions this? And physicists seem ignorant of it. The other fact is that the absorption and evaporation of both gases, CO2 and H2O increase as the fourth power of wind speed.

      Another is that most H2O in the atmosphere is a gas, not a liquid. And so many look at clouds as very serious contributors to reflecting light and infra red, even blocking light completely. But clouds are visible liquid water in droplets. Fly through them and you get wet, as in a fog. Water vapour however over the oceans which cover 72% of the planet and over much of the land is at 1% -4% of the atmosphere. Drop below the Dew point and this turns into water and then rain. This phenomenon may explain why Australia had so much rain this summer because the BOM could not see the water vapour.

      All this is ignored. Human related (now even forest fire) CO2 emissions just pile up in the atmosphere, apparently. Which is why we have ‘nett zero’ logic. And this bears no actual relationship to the real equilibrium between sea and sky.

      Graph CO2, not emissions, and you will see that no human activity in the last 50 years had ANY impact on CO2. And human ’emissions’ have increased 3500% in the last 100 years. CO2 has gone up maybe 35%.

      And we need an explanation the phenomenon that world CO2, despite forest fires, is a constant from North Pole to South Pole, within 1%. And forest fires do not change that. Nor the increase in human population in 1900 of 1 Billion to 8.2Billion today.

      That’s because highly soluble CO2, 30x more soluble than even O2, goes straight into the ocean. We have seen this though the NASA/CSIRO explaination is about fertilizer/Iron, the real observed process is rapid CO2 absorption after forest fires, say to the East of Australia.

      What is really puzzling is that the evidence is everywhere of constant levels of CO2 no matter what we do. And yet people write articles like this, pushing that fact that humans control CO2 levels. That’s not science. It’s propaganda.

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    R.B.

    There is a warm start to March in SE Australia so the Conversation has the scientific evidence to post a story “Climate change is warping the seasons”. Just a coincidence?

    I’m sick of the over reaction to the heatwave that has started in Adelaide. It was 37 yesterday (going by highest half hour readings of 36.9 at 4.30 and 5.00pm). It’s predicted to be 40 today, 39 tomorrow, 38 then down to 34.

    It will be hot. It will be good bush fire weather.

    But…

    In my second year of Uni, I stayed in an old residential college that stored the days heat overnight. We had to drag our mattresses on to the lawn to get some sleep. So I checked the temps for 1989 (at Kent Town rather than West Terrace). The last two days of February were 37.3 and 39.2. Then there were were 8 days of heatwave conditions to start March. First, a 39.4 then every day bar two over 38. A 34.4 and a 37.8. There were two more days of 39.0 and a day of 40.3. A much worse heat wave for the start of Autumn than now, but little fanfare. No heat related deaths that I can find reported, and no major bushfire.

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      TdeF

      Exactly. In Camden (Park) we all slept on the lawn outside. It was 100F for a week and hotter at night! No wind at all. The beach at Glenelg was like a lake and the oil slick from suntan oil was obvious. The brick houses were too hot to enter. I remember it was fun in the morning, waking up and standing up and stretching and noting the entire street was outside on their lawns doing the same thing. I remember catching a taxi and being from Melbourne I was shocked then that the taxi driver wore only a pair of speedos. It was too hot to wear more. Motor bike rider in Hay Street Perth too. Six weeks of 100F. Speedos and that’s it. No helmet. Maybe thongs.

      And in Melbourne we had similar heat waves but not as long and the bitumen would melt in Collins street and as school children, shift under our feet. The first two weeks of February were hell. No airconditioning anywhere. No one could actually study, so school was survival. I do not trust the BOM records with their desperate stories of ‘hottest ever’.

      For the last few years in Melbourne, we had a few half days of heat, peaking at 37C for an hour before a huge cool change. Not two hot days in a row with a hot night.

      Even at Easter I remember 100F was common. So this story about the hottest March in 40 years is just nonsense. And I note the high predicted heat always drops a few degrees as you get closer, but the hottest ever stories are based on predictions, not reality.

      This weekend in Melbourne, the BOM record breaker, we are told 38,38,38, the hottest recorded in 40 years. And claiming a record. But I’ll bet the reality is 34, 36, 32. But that’s hindsight. The BOM does not do hindsight.

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        Vladimir

        I wonder if anyone in the last few years has produced a table or graph of BOM short term predictions v actual readings, as declared by the same BOM hours later.
        No argument about actual accuracy of measurement or data manipulation or any other “highbrow science”. Simply compare statements from a single source in order to see which direction BOM is more prone to err – higher temperature or lower?

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      el+gordo

      A week later another post in the Conversation seemed to play down the temperature aspect.

      ‘Plants are among the first to know when the days start to contract in autumn, as they use a pigment called phytochrome to detect changes in red light.;

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      Ian Hill

      In March 2008 the Kent Town station in Adelaide recorded 13 consecutive days above the old Fahrenheit “ton” (37.8C). This was predicted beforehand: “two weeks of very hot weather”. At the time they said it was a one-in-3000-year occurrence. I marvelled that the BOM could get it right. This was before I became interested in the climate (non) debate!

      http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=122&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=2008&p_c=-106631587&p_stn_num=23090

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        R.B.

        The thing with these one in so many years is how its defined and the guess of what happened in the thousands of years with no records.
        I suspect the four days over 40 in 1940 in March is unrivalled, but the three days over 40 in 1942 (preceded by a 39.4) came close.

        2008 were measurements at Kent Town. The AP site had days much cooler, for example, the 12th was almost 4 degrees cooler. West Terrace is closer to the AP and the coast, but also was a quiet suburban street before 1970

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          Adellad

          West Terrace was a 10-lane highway when I was at school in the 1960’s. It has always been Adelaide’s biggest road.

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            R.B.

            That should have been 1960. Stray thumb. It was widened to 2 chains (40 m) starting in in 1962. It was only 56 ft (17 m) wide at Henley High when plans were made to widen it in 1953, and had tram lines down the middle, so a single lane apart from tram lanes and parking.

            Obviously, turned into a busy street in the post war years, so not so quiet after that.

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        Ian Hill

        Hottest place in SA today was Port Lincoln Airport with 42.7C. That wouldn’t happen very often.

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          R.B.

          Hit 43.6 , 6th March 1986

          41.1 on 13th March 1920

          40.6 6th March 1936

          40.0 on the 25th! Of March 1916.

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    another ian

    From today’s Covid and Coffee Newsletter

    “This week, Chip Roy filed maybe the most important bill in American history, which would delete the PREP Act’s liability protection for covid vaccine makers and allow injured citizens to sue the pharma companies directly.

    As you well know, Roy’s bill has a snowball’s chance. It’s going nowhere, and rapidly. But bless Chip for filing it. His bill is not without consequence, it is critical to continue the conversation. Let’s keep filing bills like Chip’s, over and over, until the exact right political moment appears and then we will pass it.”

    And some comments on “Old Yeller”

    https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/yelling-friday-march-8-2024-c-and?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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    another ian

    An example of something getting overseas attention –

    “Aussie Climate Minister’s Plan to Boost China and Hurt US Automakers
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/08/electric-or-bust-aussie-climate-ministers-plan-to-ruin-automakers/

    https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/03/08/march-8-2024-reader-tips/#comment-1872781

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    another ian

    “The “Great Barrier Reef Is Dying” Scam”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/08/the-great-barrier-reef-is-dying-scam/

    Another day, another go

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    another ian

    Willis E has a look –

    “Arctic Sea Icecapades”

    “The latest entry in the prediction sweepstakes is described in the climate alarmists’ favorite newspaper, the Guardian, with the obligatory tear-jerking polar bear photo:

    Ice-free summers in Arctic possible within next decade, scientists say”

    More at

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/08/arctic-sea-icecapades/

    “CONCLUSIONS

    • There is no simple linear relationship between either global or Arctic temperature and Arctic sea ice extent.

    • Models are just a reification of the understandings and misunderstandings of the programmers.

    • They are supposed to be “physics based”, but if they truly were, there wouldn’t be such huge disagreements between models.

    • The use of the most extreme scenarios is clear evidence of the alarmist views of the authors of this study.

    And a final thought. The world of climate science would be well served to declare a moratorium on these endless failed serial doomcasts, and study the climate of the past instead. The models are a joke in that regard. Consider that the models give climate sensitivities that range from about 1.5° C to 6.5° C per doubling of CO2. Despite that, they all do a reasonable job of emulating the historical temperature record … and if they are “physics-based” as the modelers claim, that’s physically not possible. I discuss this in my post Dr. Kiehl’s Paradox That is clear evidence that they are merely tuned to match the past, and thus they have no credibility in predicting the future.”

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      another ian

      Watch the pea –

      “The Guardian hype refers to an un-paywalled study entitled Projections of an ice-free Arctic Ocean in Nature Magazine.

      Now, you’ve got to be careful to watch the pea under the walnut shell. Well down in the scientific study they say:

      The definition of an ‘ice-free Arctic’ has varied over time. Early on, it referred to the nearly complete disappearance of all sea ice, or zero SIE [sea ice extent]. However, as thick sea ice remains north of Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago more than a decade after the rest of the Arctic Ocean becomes ice free in September a SIE threshold of 1 million km2 [386,000 square miles] became commonplace.”

      So give or take 1 Wadham

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    another ian

    “DEVELOPING: United Airlines Plane Makes Emergency Landing After Tire Falls Off During Takeoff, Damages Parked Cars (VIDEO)”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/united-airlines-plane-makes-emergency-landing-after-tire/

    Another one –

    “JUST IN: United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 Suffers Gear Failure, Crashes Off Runway”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/just-united-airlines-boeing-737-max-8-suffers/

    Check the wheel nuts?

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    another ian

    “THEY LIED TO YOU: New Study Finds People Who Took Ivermectin for COVID Recovered Faster – As TGP Reported Over Two Years Ago!”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/they-lied-you-new-study-finds-people-who/

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    CO2 Lover

    More on EV fires

    How to deal with an EV on fire?

    Dig a hole, fill it with water and then drop in the EV.

    Cover with soil when fire is out. R.I.P.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oAVCEnO2VA&ab_channel=ChargeDrive

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    CO2 Lover

    The EV that would not stop – for a second time.

    No hand brake!

    Interview with driver

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SVxmqS5_60&ab_channel=GeoffBuysCars

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      Hanrahan

      geoffbuyscars.whatever does a phone call with the driver. He seems to have had his wits about him and be a better than “competent driver”.

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    John Connor II

    Fluoride does NOT protect teeth from cavities, large-scale government study proves

    A recently published and very large government study has revealed that there is zero benefit to drinking fluoridated water as far as dental health is concerned.

    The paper out of England states that fluoridation results in a mere two percent fewer cavities than non-fluoridation, two percent being a statistically insignificant figure that might as well be zero percent. Also, fluoridation does not prevent teeth from falling out.

    The longstanding claim that artificially fluoridating water results in net economic benefits by lowering public dental costs is also a myth, the study states. To the contrary, fluoridating water results in a net economic loss when considering the capital costs of doing it.

    Using the dental insurance records of 6.4 million adults living in England, the study found that those living in fluoridated areas show no reduction in tooth decay compared to those living in non-fluoridated areas.

    “It’s the largest ever study of the effects of fluoridation on the dental health of adults,” wrote filmmaker and architect Robin Monotti on X.

    “The LOTUS study, funded by the UK Department of Health, was intended to inform policy-makers of what to expect for future dental and economic outcomes from the current plan to expand fluoridation to all of England. Currently, only 10% of England is fluoridated. The study found ‘exceedingly small’ reductions in caries most people would not consider meaningful.”

    On the other hand, the risks of consuming fluoridated water far outweigh any best-case scenario savings of $1 per person, per year, not the least of which include dental fluorosis, or the discoloration and breakdown of teeth and tooth enamel.

    In areas of the United States where public drinking water is fluoridated, upwards of 70 percent of children now suffer from dental fluorosis, the cost of which to fix through cosmetic dentistry can be enormous. Not only that, fluoridated water damages brain tissue and leads to a reduction in IQ in children.

    https://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2024/03/fluoride-does-not-protect-teeth-from.html

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      Leo G

      Not only that, fluoridated water damages brain tissue and leads to a reduction in IQ

      Suggests recycling fluoride waste from fertiliser production into the public water supply has been a “no-brainer”.

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    John Connor II

    Microsoft says Russian hackers breached its systems, accessed source code

    Microsoft says the Russian ‘Midnight Blizzard’ hacking group recently accessed some of its internal systems and source code repositories using authentication secrets stolen during a January cyberattack.

    In January, Microsoft disclosed that Midnight Blizzard (aka NOBELIUM) had breached corporate email servers after conducting a password spray attack that allowed access to a legacy non-production test tenant account.

    A later blog post revealed that this test account did not have multi-factor authentication enabled, allowing the threat actors to gain access to breach Microsoft’s systems.

    Today, Microsoft says that Midnight Blizzard is using secrets found in the stolen data to gain access to some of the company’s systems and source code repositories in recent weeks.

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-russian-hackers-breached-its-systems-accessed-source-code/

    Quick! Patch the Windows source code, taking out the garbage, bloat and spyware, and put the revised code back before anyone spots it.😆😆

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    John Connor II

    Saturday sarcasm

    At this point in their presidency, who had more brains left – Biden or JFK?

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    CO2 Lover

    If you are a fan of Duel, 1971 American action-thriller television film directed by Steven Spielberg, you may find this of interest.

    The screenplay by Richard Matheson adapts his own short story of the same name, published in the April 1971 issue of Playboy, and based on an encounter on November 22, 1963, when a trucker dangerously cut him off on a California freeway

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jWq9t20PUQ&ab_channel=RetroRecipes

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    John Connor II

    Grid down, power up. Full 2024 documentary
    The next 9/11?

    https://youtu.be/1kErOyJ0u-8?si=K77K6WhIRH3fvvZ0

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    another ian

    FWIW – a lot if this is right!

    “Sen. Tommy Tuberville: “Climate Change is the Biggest Hoax in the World!… I Would Say “25% of Budget” Goes to It (VIDEO)”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/sen-tommy-tuberville-climate-change-is-biggest-hoax/

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    another ian

    “Col Douglas Macgregor Response to Joe Biden SOU Speech Is Profoundly Accurate and Important
    March 8, 2024 | Sundance | 18 Comments”

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/03/08/col-douglas-macgregor-response-to-joe-biden-sou-speech-is-profoundly-accurate-and-important/#more-256258

    https://youtu.be/sFW7dbKCzPY

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    el+gordo

    Tasman waters boiling.

    ‘The weekend scorcher follows a Sydney record on Friday when the water temperature off the coast reached a new all-time high of 26.75 degrees Celsius — 3C above average.’ (ABC)

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    John Connor II

    Election time…

    Politics has become a daily “conflict game”, dominated by career politicians concentrated on winning points on the other side, rather than on developing and delivering good public policy, and good government.

    Important issues have been left to drift, or in some cases have been compounded by short-term, populist responses, so that important problems remain unresolved, all having a negative impact on the wellbeing of the average voter, let alone the legacies being left to their children.

    Unfortunately, the skill sets and experience required of a career politician essentially make them incompetent to govern effectively. Their career path is often from university, community or union politics, through local government/party engagement, perhaps serving as a ministerial staffer, to pre-selection, then election, and so on.

    Politics has become the end in itself. Those that make it are mostly qualified just to play the “game”, but not to govern.

    Increasingly, fewer have ever had a “real job”, or a significant career, before entering politics, and even then that may not qualify them to be a competent minister. It is also not easy to come from outside, as both Trump and Turnbull are finding.

    Yet, many end up as ministers responsible for significant government portfolios, and large budgets, with little or no relevant experience or skills or commitment to that area, let alone in management.

    https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/career-politicians-arent-qualified-to-run-the-country-20170223-guj8gw.html

    …and the neighbourhood political candidate signs are up!

    Real estate agents, doctors and lawyers after an easier life courtesy of the gravy train.

    I’m sure they all have trading desk experience so that they understand investment, capital flows, the business cycle and global economies. NOT!
    I’m sure they all know a kWh from a kVA. NOT!
    I’m sure they’d all still run for office if they were to be held fully accountable for their stuffups in office. NOT!
    I’m sure they would always publicly release all funding, donations, sponsors, allegiances, proposed policies and schemes with no secrecy or deception whatsoever. NOT!

    No, it’ll be more of the same old losers with tv ads doing nothing more than ad-hominem attacks on their opposition because they have no actual viable solutions and plans to put forward themselves.
    Which is why what’s coming up is inescapable.

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      Skepticynic

      That was a great little essay until I saw that tedious turncoat Turnbull’s name pop up. That’s when I realised it’s from February 2017. Other than that little indigestible lump it’s a good rant and very true.

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    another ian

    Overlooked in the SOTU –

    “You Have Got To Be Kidding Me…?”

    “By the time you are done reading this article, you may be tempted to tear your hair out. A substantial portion of the U.S. population is deeply struggling in our current economic environment, but instead of focusing on helping Americans that are hurting, homeless and hungry, our leaders are going to great lengths to make things better for those that have no legal right to be in this country. Our priorities are way out of whack, and U.S. voters are fed up. Immigration has become the hottest political issue during this campaign season, but many of our politicians still don’t seem to understand why so many of us are so frustrated with what has been going on.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/you-have-got-be-kidding-me

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      Kim

      No different than here. Albo is so busy wasting our money on his pet projects that he is neglecting to spend time on sorting out the fundamentals of the economy (including government efficiency \ spending).

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    RickWill

    There have been a couple of fires in recent weeks around Melbourne that made me wonder if they were intensified by EVs.

    This week, a yong couple were incinerated in a vehicle fire after a high speed crash. The fire was captured on video and appeared to be far more localised and intense than a fuel fire.
    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/toorak-crash-cctv-footage-reveals-horror-moments-before-fatal-car-crash/news-story/bb55631f358686a0ad001e24d4bb308c

    A couple of weeks back now there was a fire in a set of units at Clyde or Clyde North. The fire was mostly confined to the garages but spread across 5 units and all are now unlivable. These were modern units with little spacing. I now cannot find any report on that.

    I can easily imagine the situation in places like Chappell Steet with lots of BEVs parked close together and a fire skipping down the street as successive EVs explode.

    Lots of leaf fall in Melbourne after this long weekend as another three more days of summer make a late arrival. Black Saturday was fourteen years and one month ago. But this weekend has a somewhat similar feel. Just a bit cooler than the 46C recorded back then. RH today is 26%. Back in 2009 it was in the teens; tinder dry.

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    John Connor II

    NHS to Snoop on Your Step-Count via Mobile Phone as Part of Agenda 2030 Targets

    The app is due to become mandatory for all service users in 2027.

    The NHS are to use their App to monitor exactly how many steps a day you are taking towards yout 10,000 steps-a-day target and then bully you with the evidence.

    The information on your daily performance will be automatically sent to your GP who will then use that information to ‘advise’ you that your health needs to be improved. The technology was embedded in the original NHS app, launched in 2020 under the guise of pandemic prevention, but the new version uses AI to monitor you in ever greater detail.

    The updated app is part of a £3.4billion investment into new technology that was announced in the Spring Budget on Wednesday. The App will crunch the data on step-counts and heart rates, using the functions smartphones already have to offer what the NHS claims is ‘personalised health advice’ and to suggest potential screenings and treatments.

    Health secretary Victoria Atkins claims that “a strong NHS helps a growing economy” and that measures such as this app will prove vital. To that end, £430million has been earmarked for the new app and new phone services. Ms Atkins told The Times: “If you think of the data that we have on our phones, healthcare is absolutely going to be there encouraging people to find out what is a healthy lifestyle for them. How can they help quit smoking, talking therapies on the NHS App … these are all things that are going to be helping us in future.”

    https://www.visionnews.online/post/nhs-to-snoop-on-your-step-count-via-mobile-phone-as-part-of-agenda-2030-targets

    Awww..how nice that das gubermint cares about your health, given the Covid years.
    Send the data to your doctor who’ll prescribe a pill rather than say “lose some weight, tubby”.
    Being an app it could easily be “tweaked” anyway.
    Maybe it could monitor how much people run to escape those illegal immigrants instead. 😎

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      Gob

      What a bizarre society it is which enables personal biometric data to be “automatically sent to your GP”.

      I’ve never had a GP so that undeliverable data of mine will likely set the miscreant alarm in MyGov and trigger a warrant for detention and reeducation in due course.

      At least over the coming few years after Bowen has succeeded in making the lights go out all these daft electronic shackles will disappear not to mention the manifold boons reliable electricity supply delivered.

      O tempora o mores!

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    another ian

    “Minding the Sciences—Wicked Science and Understanding Climate Change: Uncertainty, Risk, and Pragmatics”

    Woven around Judith Curry’s book, Climate Uncertainty and Risk,

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/08/minding-the-sciences-wicked-science-and-understanding-climate-change-uncertainty-risk-and-pragmatics/

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    another ian

    “20 Megawatt Nuclear Reactors That Can Fit In a Truck”

    https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/03/20-megawatt-nuclear-reactors-that-can-fit-in-a-truck.html

    The Instapundit ead says “Faster, please”

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      TdeF

      I have read the uranium required for these micro reactors has to enriched to a much higher state than in larger reactors, bringing them much closer to weapons grade. This is likely a great solution but the big worry of enriched uranium is obvious in a world of muslim terrorism. For decades now we cannot just go to an airport and get on a plane because of the reasonable fear of such terrorism. Trucks full of highly enriched uranium are a real worry.

      That is why Thorium research is so important.

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    another ian

    FWIW – long

    “Saturday Snippet: It all comes down to corn”

    “First published in 2006, Michael Pollan’s book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” exposed the hugely artificial, compromised nature of our First World food chain. It’s been a source of enlightenment and controversy ever since.”

    https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/saturday-snippet-it-all-comes-down-to.html

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