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And for Mr. Tim Flannery at Climate Control (trying to control the Climate), here is an update of the Dam levels in the Greater Sydney area and beyond……….
https://www.waternsw.com.au/nsw-dams/nsw-storage-levels/greater-sydney-dam-levels
Dan levels at 97%
With lots more rain to come this Weekend.
Over to you now Tim for some lucid comments.
https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/author/tim-flannery/
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Whoops – Dam levels at 97% I mean and not Dan levels. Too early in the morning for me.
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You were obviously taking about Dan Residues in Victoriastan.
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Floods in Dubai and Saudi Arabia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7HX8OXtfJY
Could be time to build one of these
https://www.instructables.com/Noahs-Ark-1/
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It would be worth rereading The Weather Makers now that it is almost 20 years old to see how good Tim’s predictions were. His pessimism that we would be able to adapt fast enough seems to becoming true.. If you had read the book you would know that he points out that Australia has a climate of extremes, lurching from drought to flood as ENSO changes.
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,,, So it’s not Karbon Dyoxhide?
It was enso all along.
Great to finally get the troof.
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LOL
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Most Stupidest Predictions. Flim Flammery, Full List. Tim Flannery. Former Climate Commissioner, Professorial fellow at Melbourne University. Australian of the Year 2007.
Follow the Money and the Evidence – Here are some of the ‘predictions’ –
“There is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century’s first ghost metropolis.” 2004
2005 predicted Sydney’s dams could be dry in as little as two years, leaving the city “facing extreme difficulties.”
In 2007, he claimed: “In Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane, water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months.”
2007 said “global warming was so baking our Earth that even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems.”
An almost permanent drought. “Over the past 50 years southern Australia has lost about 20 per cent of its rainfall, and one cause is almost certainly global warming, he claimed in 2007.
For the full list see this link –
https://www.realclimaterecords.com.au/?p=2940
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Simon, it’s in the title of the book, “We are the weather makers”. Which is the most absurd statement ever. Not only are we NOT the weather makers, we have still very little idea what actually influences climate ( and weather) on our planet. In Australia , we have absolutely no idea what causes drought and in fact what causes droughts to end.
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We have altered every ecosystem on the planet, even the Antarctic. It would be surprising if humans didn’t affect the climate. We have known about the anthropogenic influence on climate ever since 1896.
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That’s the Titanic effect. The engineers from late 1800’s onwards who thought that humans could outwit nature. That they could build a ship that was unsinkable. The same applies to humankind- look at us , we’re so mighty we can change the earths climate. It’s nonsense. If you’ve ever personally experienced a drought, major bushfire, cyclone or large scale flood you realize very quickly old Mother Nature has way more power than us humans. Also, have we really affected Antarctica? If you consider its size, complexity and very minimal human interference, I think not.
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The fact that anything in particular might be surprising to you doesn’t surprise me, and it’s not at all surprising that humans are not the driving factor of changes in climate.
We have known that man cannot control climate for a helluva lot longer than that.
“We have known” is not evidence, it’s not even a convincing line of argument, especially considering all the predictions of that man-made-climate-change theory have failed. When the predictions fail, it’s back to the old drawing board, time to scrap the theory.
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In which way have we impacted the climate in Antarctica Simon? And I think that your date is wrong – Arrhenius wasn’t the first.
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Exactly who is the ‘we’ and what has been altered? Oh, and BTW don’t just change the subject. How about your assertion on Tim Tam Flatulence and “to see how good Tim’s predictions were”………..
Please see my response and respond accordingly. The web link says it all and is fun reading.
Even a broken clock can get it right twice a day. Tim and so very very dim can’t ever get it right. Never can. What a Charlatan and absolute Fraud this bloke is.
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I have little doubt that humans do affect the climate. The question is by how much.
The effect is most visible in the Urban Heat Island effect, and is essentially invisible in the oceans and Antarctica. What actual evidence, NOT computer GIGO models that are simply reflections of the biases of the authors, do you have that the effect is significant?
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Gosh, did Tim read Dorothea’s poem?
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In wish Simon would.
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“If you had read the book you would know that he points out that Australia has a climate of extremes, lurching from drought to flood as ENSO changes.”
That’s weird. Even though I haven’t read his book, I knew Australia has a relatively extreme climate. Am I a climate expert?
I would also know how how Dorothea Mackellar got her hands on a copy way back in 1904 …
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How did this clown get it so wrong and end up influencing so many people.
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Appointed by a Labor Government – say no more!
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He picked the stupid people to start with… Once he had the politicians in his pocket it was easy to monster any other scientists disagreeing, and the politicians bought the media on board.
The hoi polloi are irrelevant.
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They were already under the influence, so to speak.
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Two hour video of the history of the Covid-19 response, focused on hydroxychloroquine.
“Epidemic of Fraud Documentary”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmvwyuV7Uvk
An introduction to the video:
“A New Documentary Exposes the COVID-19 Response
Epidemic of Fraud concisely breaks down the scam that was pulled upon the world”
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/a-new-documentary-exposes-the-covid?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
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I’m thinking of replacing my Tin Foil Hat with a Solar Panel Hat.
On cloudy days, I would be unable to produce conspiracy theories.
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Like this?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/second-whistleblower-linked-boeing-dies-sudden-illness/
“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
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Here’s the Babylon Bee image to go along with it:
https://imgbox.com/kIRsWQMw
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We have whistleblower protections here in the US.
But they do not prevent you from contracting early onset whistleblower death.
They do make it less likely that you will be hospitalized as result of early onset whistleblower death.
Keeping corporations from being overwhelmed by whistleblowing.
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Oh well, we all have our own problems!!
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Woolworths (ASX: WOW) ‘out-traded’ by Coles (ASX
The Australian
2 days ago — Outgoing Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci has made the rare admission that arch rival Coles had “out-traded” the supermarket giant during the March quarter…
Looks like there were enough patriotic Australians who boycotted Woke Woolies for siding with Marxist Aboriginal Activists over Australia Day
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Mr Banducci was unaware of the Australian populace. What he & his ilk are unaware of is that being closeted in a board ( bored ) room, insulated from the real world will always lead to almighty stuff ups because they no longer connect with anyone or anything outside of that environment!
I wasn’t aware that they seem to replicate the same situation that prevails in Canberra,albeit at a slightly lower lntensity.
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Yip the backlash regarding Australia Day and (lesser extent) ANZAC Day has had an effect. As much as the rate at which tyrants are losing power can be measured by the rate and extent that their brutality increases businesses losing market share can be measured by the rate and qualifying conditions of specials, sales and savings they throw to the market.
Woolies email special offers have become more frequent with an increase in offers through their petrol station, liquor and department store arms. One that stood out this week was multi-layered and almost rocket science material level when it came to how it worked and didn’t work.
Till 30 June you can get 3% off gift cards and up to 2500 points depending on final spend. You can only take up this offer through “Everyday Gifting” which is in the everyday rewards app which can be “found” on the “Wallet” screen (captures all the newbie data and gets app on your phone – handy for more offers) Oh and the discount runs till 30 June however the points offer ends on 13 May. Oh, and whereas points are normally “earned” at 1 point per $spent this does not apply because you are getting 1200 (up to $249.99), 1800 (up to $349.99) or 2500 points (spend $350+). But hang on the points offer finishes 13 May and there is no indication in the conditions as to whether it reverts to the 1 point per dollar spent.
Oh, and if you buy just over any group limit to get the next up points make sure you go over by more than 3% because points are based on your final dollar total and the discount might put you back to the lower offer.
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I think people power can work but it needs publicity. Following the Australia Day Woolies snub I certainly avoided my local W supermarket for Feb and March. Did a lit bit more shopping at ALDI, which is ironical considering it’s a foreign owned chain. But when Coles decided not to stock the tinned Anzac Biscuits I found the equivalent at ALDI. A German owned company who we fought against in 2 World Wars. How’s that for even more irony. Ross- proud grandson of 2 ANZAC grandfathers.
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Indeed your observation of the irony concerning the source of the ANZAC biscuits reinforces the saying “We won the war but we lost the peace”. Cheers.
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Aldi is more woke than Woolies.
After they insisted that their staff be jabbed; I minimised my shopping there.
The local chains are visited for victuals, before the bigger chains for the rest.
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people power can work but it needs publicity
Can’t beat good timing. Just read about a group against the approaching cashless society with some 50k members apparently calling on a boycott of both Woolies and Coles.
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When Holden and Ford both made cars in Australia, sales were very much driven by production – the bigger producer sold more, even if only by a few thousand. The leader would change on almost monthly basis, but didn’t really change their combined market share in any significant way.
I feel it’s the same for Coles and Woolies – their combined market share is such that trading places on the sales leaderboard is little more than “bragging rights”.
Maybe people have finally realised what they are up to, but I think the supermarket duopoly could do far more stupid and crazy things and still sell a lot, just because they are perceived as being “cheaper”, and all of us do love cheap prices.
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As you would know the speed of absorption of CO2 into the ocean precludes any man made increase in CO2. The small slow increase of 50% over 270 years is due to ocean surface warming, not fossil fuel.
But years ago I also thought we might bring CO2 levels down by growing trees, NASA has proven that completely wrong on a planetary scale and quite accidentally. And in doing so destroyed the idea of carbon farming and sequestration of any sort.
Prof Happer uses the NASA observation by satellite that world tree coverage increased by 14% between 1988 and 2014 to argue that CO2 is a good thing. A forest the size of South America, two Brazilian rain forests.
What he does not note is that CO2 went UP by 14% in the same period. In other words growing billions of trees had zero impact in reducing CO2 or in fact steady CO2 growth of about 0.2% per year. There is no sign of human activity in CO2. No 3500% increase in Emissions. No rise of China. No lockdown. No bushfires.
And in turn this means CO2 is not reduced by growing billions of trees. In fact trees grow in direct proportion to increased CO2! This means everyone is wrong.
This means the Australian Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 is a load of rubbish. And this is the foundation of the The Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Bill 2022.
Unless NASA is completely wrong, it confirms no one has any control over CO2 levels. There is no question that trillions of tons of CO2 have been sequestered in trees. So the two questions
1. why didn’t CO2 levels go down at all?
2. why did they keep going up?
And the obvious answer is that the CO2 exchange between ocean and atmosphere is so vast and so fast that the missing CO2 was immediately replaced. And secondly that this exchange is determined by the ocean itself, not anything we humans can do. And likely ocean surface temperature determines CO2, as in a global real world version of Henry’s Law.
This joint project involving many countries should be the end of any idea of man made CO2 or man controllable CO2, sequestration, carbon credits, Green hydrogen and the whole stack of cards which is man made CO2 driven Global Warming.
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“An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort”.
1. Can anyone identify these eight countries? Is Australia one of them? If so, who?
2. ‘Fertilization’ is NASA’s wrong view of CO2, that it is a ‘fertilizer’. When it is in fact the plant. It shows the level of understanding of CO2. Plants are made from CO2 and H2O and little else. So are all living things. And all living things share the same genes and process sugars into energy and CO2, from fungi to carrots, insects and blue whales. The same cell structures and genes!
3. I note some versions of this press release have ‘- FOR NOW’ added. But generally the world wide publication of this article is the most anti carbon credits, carbon farming publication in history. A world experiment, the admitted greening of the earth without any effect on CO2 proves man made CO2 is impossible. I think the NASA editorial team has realized this might spell the end of the CO2 scare, but no one seems to have drawn the obvious conclusions.
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And in passing I read that 50% of fossil fuel CO2 stays in the air. Really? That doesn’t make sense.
Remarkably annual fossil fuel CO2 ’emissions’ are about 5% of total atmospheric CO2. But the increase in atmospheric CO2 is only about 0.2% a year.
This means that at most only 4% of ’emissions’ stays in the air and at least 96% of ’emissions’ go into the oceans immediately.
This is not a complex calculation. Its the only explanation for a CO2 increase of 50% in 270 years but an ’emissions’ increase of 3500% in a century.
Without man made CO2, whether CO2 causes warming/climate change is irrelevant. As humans cannot change CO2, we may as well burn all the coal we want. Just like China! And the UN does not criticise China, even though their CO2 output is now more than the rest of the G20 put together.
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An 8 year ago publication, I think.
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Yes. 2014 was the last measurement. So add another Brazilian rainforest since then. Trees are booming with the extra CO2. And that destroys the man made CO2 story!
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Great summary.
And, that’s even before we start to look at the atmospherics and thermodynamics of the system with respect to CO2.
CO2 cannot heat the atmosphere.
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Correct, because CO2 molecules cannot “trap” acquired energy for very long. What works in the lab doesn’t work in the atmosphere. Prof. Happer provides a very good explanation of why they can’t.
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The IPCC don’t even mention Henry’s law. They use the Revelle Factor instead which stops the oceans from absorbing our emissions. Segalstad (1998) provides an erudite discussion of how the Revelle Factor is in violation of Henry’s law.
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TdeF is in fine form. Great stuff.
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The AI Revolution – they did not see that one coming
Data centres need reliable power 24/7 so where is Labor’s “Energy Policy” on this one? Remotely turning down home air conditioners on a hot summer’s day is no solution.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/02/the-looming-electrical-power-shortage/
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Data centres need reliable power 24/7 so where is Labor’s “Energy Policy” on this one? Remotely turning down home air conditioners on a hot summer’s day is no solution.
Reminds me of a certain advertisement…..”we’re going to need a bigger one” A battery??
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It would make a huge amount of sense for the AI companies to build their own power stations rather than rely on the grid. Those power stations would necessarily be coal, gas or nuclear (SMR). No matter which, we then get the rather nasty situation in which the big companies get reliable electricity, and the general population get net zero electricity.
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There are many very old reports of aurora Australis seen a long way to the north and aurora borealis being seen to the south. This one from 1872.
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. Mon 15 Apr 1872 Page 2 Click here.
Ben Davidson of Suspicious Observers is encouraging every one to “get prepping now” for a magnetic pole shift in the 2030s. In this video. Click here
Missing from his list is quiet a few of these old events.
Also seen in Bowen Queensland. Click here Rockhampton Bulletin Tue 6 Feb 1872 Page 1
To my mind he has it the wrong way around. A stronger magnetic field would cause a larger diameter of Birkeland spiral due to a stronger angular deflection. A seriously weak magnetic field would cease to produce a ring of Aurora and just allow the radiation in on one side.
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Hubblesite Pictures of Aurora on Jupiter.
The rings are not small.But Jupiter is not small. They are not close to the equator but it is a gas planet.
https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2016/24/3756-Image.html
Where the magnetic field is weak what happens is seen on Venus and it is not a ring around the equator.
“Surprise! Venus May Have Auroras Without a Magnetic Field”
https://www.space.com/15171-venus-auroras-magnetic-field.html
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Hundreds of deposits of sodium chloride (table salt) stretching tens to hundreds of square kilometers in area were discovered by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) starting in 2008.
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About seventy years ago we could enjoy the Southern Aurora from here in NovoCastria.
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1946 ROMA Queensland.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/98201942
1947 Mt Morgan near Rockhampton.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/171100123
1947 at Barcaldine Queensland.
“Several Barcaldine people report
having seen a reflection of the
Aurora Australis on August 15.
There was a bright red glow in
a southerly direction .resembling
a bush fire. ”
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/56795334
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Since our planet has been loosing water…
That’s generating an imbalance which should increase more volcanic activity to bring our planet back into an orb shape.
This is generated by our planet scooped up by the Sun’s exhaust gases into a stable orbit.
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Join me and other concerned citizens and send a strong message to protect our democracy and basic freedoms.
The government introduced and cut short proper scrutiny and debate on the Digital ID bill. A national identification scheme like this is a blow for Australians’ fundamental right to privacy and self determination, and is something many of us don’t want any part of. Yet Labor is pushing ahead in lockstep with other nations in the global digital economic agenda.
Minister Gallagher has stated that this Digital ID won’t be compulsory, however we know how that worked out with the COVID shots!
There’s a provision in this bill to make it compulsory should the government choose to do so. Another risk is the exclusion from society of those who choose not to partake in the scheme. There are serious flaws in this legislation such as the potential for ‘scope creep’ whereby providing your digital credentials will become compulsory. Of concern also is that the government indemnifies all agencies and service providers against liability when something goes wrong with the scheme that results in fraud or systemic failure.
The legislation is for a single government digital identification system, which is accessible to both the public and private sector, goes much further than the MyGov digital ID or any of the other digital identities that have been popping up. It puts all your identity eggs into one digital basket and will place more Australians at risk of being hacked.
Although the bill was passed in the Senate it has not yet been passed through the Lower House, which means that this is the time to push back.
The details for Brisbane’s National Day of Protest are finalised. There are some great speakers attending the rally.
For all other states and territories, visit the One Nation web site: Events Calendar – Pauline Hanson One Nation
Brisbane
Sunday 5th May | 11:00 am
King George Square, Brisbane
North Queenslanders are holding their rally one hour earlier. We’re delighted to support this local initiative:
Cairns
Sunday 5th May | 10:00 am
Freedom Park @ Cairns Esplanade (North of Muddy’s Playground)
JOIN concerned citizens protecting democracy and basic freedoms that the Uni-party is trying to kill through combining these legislation & systems:
• Identity Verification bill — passed parliament;
• Digital Identity bill — paused in parliament due to strong public opposition;
• Misinformation/Disinformation censorship bill — paused in parliament;
• New Payments Platform — in use & tracking every digital financial transaction;
• Digital global currency — Reserve Bank admits developing this with central banks.
If people allow the Liberal-Labor Uni-party to continue with Digital ID and Mis/Disinformation Bills, the Uni-party will hand globalists the foundation for a Social Credit System that will control every aspect of our lives.
Send a strong message to MPs: NO Digital ID bill, NO censorship bill.
Please consider signing the petition: https://senroberts.com/4dvYv6T
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Back in the day ALL Australians had a right to visit public lands such as National Parks and mountains therein.
Now, these are increasingly being rendered inaccessible according to race-based access policies.
I found this interesting web site called “Right to Climb” concerning access for rock climbers denied their right to access traditional climbing sites they always had access to.
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Aborigines have already been given ownership of 53% of Australia. Talk about landed gentry! Unearned rights. How much ‘sovereignty’ is enough?
This endlessly expanding apology is nuts. We should start charging for all the cash received without question or even any form of explanation, $44Bn each year. No one knows where it all goes? And their ABC denies it all anyway.
Now there is talk that like New Zealand aboriginal elitists want rights over all the water too, which is strange as we only have rivers and salt lakes, no large bodies of water. So then we can be charged for the dams we have built. What’s next, an aboriginal breathing tax? A wifi tax? Satellite parking rights?
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“aboriginal elitists want rights over all the water too, which is strange as we only have rivers and salt lakes, ”
No, every drop that falls from the sky will be included, every farm dam, every stream, every river… Every time you turn the tap on and water comes out, Abos will own it.
I would expect this to be followed with the seabed & foreshore claim the Maoris made, so any water from a desal plant will also need a payment to them.
Basically the UN us going to make sure the productive in society are slaves to the natives.
You’re right about the WiFi tax, the Maoris have already claimed the electronic spectrum above NZ, so radio and tv licences, and no doubt satellite connections too. I can’t remember how the court case went, but you can expect Australia to set up a kangaroo court like the Waitangi Tribunal that can completely ignore history and make sure the money goes to the right people! Minus the fortunes for the lawyers of course!
You have no idea of political corruption and what traitors really do until this bandwagon gets rolling!
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The ban on climbing Ayer’s Rock has impacted the tourist industry in Alice Springs
The Parks Australia data, seen by the ABC, shows Ayer’s Rock (aka Uluru) visitation has stayed sluggish in 2023. As Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park heads into its hot summer season and annual quieter tourism period, year-to-date visitor numbers are 164,678, compared with more than 300,000 in 2017.7 Oct 2023
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It serves them right for not fighting the ban.
Get woke, go broke!
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Because of the Left, Western Civilisation is in steep and rapid, possibly irreversible decline.
I feel privileged to have lived through the peaking of Western Civilisation and to have been taught an honest historical interpretation of the West which was something (by and large) to be proud of, not ashamed of. Of course, we would have continued to progress had it not been for the Left puttng us into a state of regress.
Now thanks to the indescribable evil of the Left, everything is under attack and being destroyed. They too will end up being destroyed by their own insane policies and beliefs. And unlike previous civilisational collapses, this one is happening much more rapidly than others because of the instantaneous flow of information.
There is only one hope for the US and the West and that is if Donald Trump gets elected and you can see the Left are doing everything possible to stop that.
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‘ … if Donald Trump gets elected …’
Will he stop supporting Ukraine?
Will he tell the world that CO2 doesn’t cause global warming?
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awww… The best ones always get deleted!
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It’s still there but in the right place, just below.
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Comrade Hanrahan.
When you edit to remove, just leave the block blank and save, the program wont allow a blank box and will prompt to delete. (Your comment cannot be empty. Delete instead?)
Peace in the middle east.
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Amen to that.
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Don’t forget this weekend – a celebration of internal and external combustion engines at the Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally near Beaufort, Victoriastan, about two hours drive from Melbournistan.
As the ultimate insult to science, engineering and reason, the entire surrounding area of the Steam Rally site has been surrounded by a brutally ugly wind subsidy farm owned by the Chicomms and one of Australia’s largest.
Celebrate the time when science and reason ruled the world and there was ongoing progress due to abundant hydrocarbon energy available in Western countries.
The Steam Rally site is like a giant private town in the middle of nowhere, albeit now encroached by the disturbing and ugly invasion of windmills, like the Fighting Machines from War of the Worlds – and with the same purpose – destruction of our Civilisation.
https://www.lakegoldsmithsteamrally.org.au/
I have some YouTube videos from past visits if you want to get an idea what goes on there. Search YT with the terms “lake goldsmith steam rally maddison” with no quote marks.
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I would love to visit, too bad I live too far away.
Just love those old farm engines, the ones where you can see all the bits working.
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The oddest tractor I’ve seen was on Fairymead Sugar Plantation, a Lanz Bulldog, single cylinder, horizontal two stroke that you started by removing the steering wheel and column to use as a crank. Could run either way and someone did plough a shift in reverse.
I just did a search and there are many models but a flywheel on the side seems universal.
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Dad always had Bulldogs when I was young. Steering wheel start was pretty common, but I also remember heating the head on some and using shot cartridges in others. However, the favourite way to start them was to park them on the dam bank. Eventually, he bought a brand new one with an electric starter motor.
Over the years dad also bought a couple of other tractor brands but never seemed to keep them long because they weren’t reliable enough. Eventually he bought a second hand electric start Bulldog the same as the other one and then joined them together. No cabins. Sitting on the lead tractor you had an unmuffled exhaust about 4′ in front you and another one about 3′ behind you. Deaf as a post now.
Lanz Bulldogs were incredibly reliable and cheap to run. Also, because they were so heavy, the amount of pulling power delivered to the drawbar left other tractors of similar horsepower for dead.
After WW2 John Deere wanted to get into the European tractor market so they bought out the company that made Bulldogs. They continued to make them for a while but they were sold with the John Deere green and yellow colours. Eventually, John Deere stopped making them.
Thanks for the memory Hanrahan
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The “shot cartridge” start (minus shot) was Field Marshall and the tracked Fowler version.
The cartridge case was 12 gauge of the time and each carried a warning of dire effects if used in a shot gun.
You had to position the flywheel, put the decompressor wheel in the right track,tear off a piece of fuse paper and insert in the fuse holder then light and screw into the cylinder head. Then hit the firing pin with a hammer. The tractor bucked several times and you had action.
Now about “thecartridge with shot”. One owner somewhat local was demonstrating how it all worked and found he was out of start cartridges. So he used a field load and action came to a sudden halt.
Serviceman removed the head, scraped out the lead, reassembled and it went back to work.
What you might call “Built Tough”.
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We owe our lives to the tractor, literally
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Watched a TV doco on the history of Harry Ferguson a few weeks back.
Brilliant man who’s ideas and engineering helped revolutionise mechanised farming.from the 1930s
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Video:
How The year 2440 was imagined in 1771.
https://youtu.be/pKdGJELk3wY
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Apparently they want to build a monstrous 50 GW nameplate wind and solar subsidy farm on the Nullabor Plain to make “millions of tonnes” of “green hydrogen”. It will contain 25 million panels, 3,000 windmills and produce 2.5 million tonnes of hydrogen (supposedly).
So…it had to happen, presumably they get to harvest wind, solar and “green” hydrogen subsidies all at the same time…
This threatens the vast network of caves there and their unique cave-adapted wildlife plus is also on Aboriginal territory which will require extensive payments to the Aboriginal community and board positions in the proposed company.
Video: https://youtu.be/iOsZA-ct1Is
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Does anyone feel like doing a calculation?
How many GWh are needed to produce 2.5 million tonnes of hydrogen per year and how does that compare to the likely production of a 50 GW nameplate solar/wind plantation?
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I have a simpler question. How many wind turbines does it take to stop the wind entirely? We must be well on the way to the ultimate zero output situation.
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Assuming it takes 55kWh to produce 1 kg of hydrogen.
Then 1 ton H2 would need 55MWh
And 2.5 million tons would need 137,500 GWh per year
Or on average , 15.7 GW ….full time 24/7
… that would require a 50. GW nameplate wind installation to operate at a CF of 31.4%
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Thanks Chad.
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Just checked, 15gW is >2X current demand.
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Around 50kWh per kg of hydrogen and with a capacity factor of 29% of nameplate 50GW would do the job.
Extra electricity would be required to cool and compress the hydrogen.
Just need a pipeline to Singapore to sell the hydrogen!
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Or Japan,
Or keep much of it for our own use !..we use a few million tons for fertiliser, and industry.
..But first the price has to be low enough…
Wind turbines typically cost $1.2 million per MW installed.
And Electrolysers are a similar cost currently at $1.0 m per MW
So for 50 GW, that would be $110.0 billion just for the basic equipment. ..
…..dryers, compressors, pressurised storage, O&M, etc etc will all add to that..
I would love to see the bissness case being put to investors !
And remember , 50GW is 5 times the entire wind capacity installed in Au over the past 20+ years !
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Out of all other places in Australia, why would anybody want to build a wind and solar facility out there? As the caves gent said, it is a very fragile ecosystem that could easily be destroyed. I also surprised that any group managed to obtain control of that location, because as far as I’m aware, there was never any sign of human habitation in such an isolated area.
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50GW implies about 5000 turbines @ 10MW, spread over approx 600 km of coast
So about 8-9 turbine towers per km ..1 every 130 mtrs !…..a “wall” of turbines for 600 kms !! ..nice .
And, Much of that area is nature reserve,
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Why the third atomic bomb wasn’t dropped on Japan, and there were going to be more available soon, contrary to popular belief.
Video: https://youtu.be/-v5tymzKrIY
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On occasion when I have said that wars must be fought to the final chapter, with a victor and vanquished, I get blowback and half a doz. red thumbs.
Note that in both European and Pacific theatres of war this was achieved and the peace with Japan and Germany has been permanent and productive. Both knew absolutely that their wars had been lost long before the final surrender and I am not convinced that any truce or armistice would have been used as a chance to rearm.
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The difference in WW2 was that those two countries were invaded and the invaders never left, America still runs them.
What do you think the cycle length of war between countries is? Eventually politicians change and people get over it, so the UK is no longer at war with Spain, or France. Perhaps its related to how long an empire lasts as the enemies all change when the empire collapses. The genetic of the population changes as the winners breed into the vanquished, although its hard to imagine Europe and the USA with slanted eyes in 50years. I suppose that depends on how many mosques there are there.
It is interesting to watch the fall of an empire, although my children have no idea of how far we have come to the peak and I doubt my generation will see the crash out.
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Oh dear, Americans are bastards for hanging around and helping rebuild destroyed economies. Pity they didn’t help Britain. They didn’t even cancel the lend-lease debt.
Be careful. your hatred is showing.
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Its worth remembering that after WW1 the winners made the Germans pay them back for all they had destroyed.
This was a dumb idea, only leads to future catastrophe, better to uplift Germany and Japan after WW2 so that they could be absorbed into the Western Alliance.
‘It is interesting to watch the fall of an empire …’
You are on the wrong side of history, the American Alliance is not an empire, we are democratic peoples and intend to isolate the dictatorships until they collapse internally.
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Concerning the ridiculous container deposit scheme in Vicdanistan, for which you get a 10c return if you can be bothered going to a redeeming site, I reckon the total cost to the consumer must be closer to 70c or a little less because by my estimate, being a consumer of Pepsi Max, this is about how much the 1.25l bottle price has jumped since the scheme was introduced.
And what was the point, nearly everyone put their bottles in recycling anyway – a bit odd since as far as I know, Australia doesn’t even recycle PET bottles or other plastics due to high “green” electricity prices. And Australia banned or highly restricted export of used bottles and other waste, in a further insane sslf-destructive act.
https://mraconsulting.com.au/plastics-export-ban-imminent/
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/protection/waste/exports
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My nearest recycling point means I have to drive an extra 500 metres in and out.
The extra kilometer cost 14 cents and I rarely have 40 cents worth of woolies vouchers when I’m done.
And then sometimes there’s a queue.
What a woke joke.
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Does not accept wine or spirit bottles either
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I can (perhaps) understand why the wine bottles are not currently accepted, since the ten cents “deposit” is not officially paid when originally sold.
But since the “stubbies” do have the deposit collected, when they are turned in, the turn in process is normally accompanied by the sound of breaking glass. And I have been told that if wine bottles are included in the general recycling “collection”, glass ware is “extracted”.
Would it not make sense to allow the wine bottles to be collected at the “deposit refund centers” (saving the eventual “expense of glass separation”) but without the payment of the non-existing deposit?
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As the Safeguard Mechanism has driven QENOS, the biggest plastics company with 700 people, out of the country. Reduced our balance of trade by $1Bn. And eliminated the one company which can make plastics from resin and actually recycle bottles, where are the bottles going?
I cannot believe the visionaries Ablanese and Bowen invest $1Bn in a non existent, non functioning future computer and let 700 people lose their jobs? And destroy any hope of plastic recycle. All those plastic bottles will end up as CO2.
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“where are the bottles going?”
Staked up in warehouses while there are subsidies to farm, then exposed once the recycling company goes broke! That’s the usual story anyway..
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Beat the Bastards
https://sodastream.com.au/products/pepsi-max
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Well of course! We know the Vic government is totally inept. But further problems with the scheme. Over last weekend a couple of the local sporting clubs reported thefts of their already established recycle bins. The ones installed before this scheme was concocted to raise funds for sporting equipment etc. It was reported that the whole bins were stolen with their contents. The law of unintentional consequences strikes again.
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Also to add, I now see more people rifling through rubbish bins in shopping centres and public parks etc. Now , that’s a healthy pursuit- not!
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I would be happy to pay the 10 cents deposit if the regular council collection continued and the money went to worthy charities.
This would save me the pain of sorting out which containers qualify for a refund and which don’t and then having to go to a recyling centre and hand feed them into a very expensive machine.
The copper cables at EV rechargers also present an opportunity for recycling!
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Covid19 jab is a GMO !!!!
No license for use in Australia.
Please visit website https://www.section72.au/ ,an Initiative of Children’s Health Defense Australia Chapter, to read about the Complaint made by 5 senators against Justice Helen Rofe under Section 72(ii)of our Constitution.
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For more information see
https://clubgrubbery.com.au/graham-and-john-speak-with-julian-gillespie-about-current-issues-in-australian-courts/
Julian Gillespie on fire over the court’s decisions .
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Is this bloke on the panel advising “ElBowen” on how to do it?
“Unbelievable”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/05/03/unbelievable-n3787707
And
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/05/03/this-video-of-bidens-chief-economic-adviser-is-making-the-rounds-yeah-it-explains-a-lot-n2395866
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GDP goes up because of migration. It’s utterly fake economics.
The massive extra spending by governments to house and feed and care for migrants adds directly to the GDP. And given the US government is printing $1.5Trillion a year to pay their bills, this government spending is the main reason we have inflation.
In a highly automated society, you do not need slave labour. Mass migration is nothing more than the new slavery model for the elites.
And importing unskilled, uneducated, unsocialised workers into your society just creates violent ghettos, as in Germany where some are demanding an Islamic Caliphate in Germany itself. So we can all become like Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Syria. Mostly third world.
As Dame Edna Everage replied when asked if she was learning Spanish, “who wants to talk to their leaf blower”?
This utterly faux economics to create a slave class paid for by taxes on the poor is the reverse of caring or economic logic. It is just exploitation of poor people.
While talking oppression, slavery, discrimination and reparations, the elites are getting their cheap drivers, nannies, cleaners, waiters, baby sitters, gardeners.
Caring? Not at all. Mass migration is the 21st century form of enslavement engineered by the rich and paid by the poor. And if the black people only realised, it’s going to remove their agency and their jobs while they vote Democrat, the political party created by the people who lost the war on slavery.
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FWIW
“EVs are the most expensive vehicles to operate over 1,000 miles, according to iSeeCars”
https://www.autoblog.com/article/evs-are-the-most-expensive-vehicles-to-operate-over-1000-miles-according-to-iseecars/
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And Elon Musk can see it too. Battery development has not kept pace with computers and electronics and the internet and WiFi and 5G. The electric car platform is perfect for conversion to hybrid. Same smarts. 100kg battery and small engine solves all the problems. All the advantages of electric at the cost and range of a conventional car.
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And conventional engines have had a thorough rethink too. Lighter, smaller, long life, higher performance with twin turbo, fully electronic and with electric motors no gearbox, differentials. Just a high power low running cost, high efficiency electric generator.
Watch for a major manufacturer like Audi to break away with a cheap, very fast everyday hybrid commuter with massive range, all wheel drive for snow and ice and a free cabin and battery heater for winter.
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Caught in slips
“What Would We Do Without Peer Review?”
“The Lancet Publishes CDC Studies on Misinformation, Hoping You Forgot The Lancet and CDC Spread Pandemic Misinformation”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/05/03/what-would-we-do-without-peer-review-23/
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Linked in is a lovely competition, find multiple photos of one person promoting Covid shots and posting them online. First one up has 5 photos and in each one she is wearing different clothes..
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Apologies for no link for the quotation as it is a sponsored advertisement featuring a contagion emergency kit
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Planet Nine of almost certainly out there, although it might be a Neptune-mass mini black hole, which would be about the size of a basketball.
https://youtu.be/RFU08fYL_xc
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FWIW
“The Cold Hard Truth About Renewable Energy Adoption”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cold-hard-truth-about-renewable-energy-adoption
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Nah- stopped reading at their statement that-
“The energy transition is strictly necessary. “
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As did I.
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Happy Star Wars Day!!!
I wrote the following for an admin person who wants something less scientific in order to explain to his non-scientific associates, that more easily explains how little CO2 there is in the atmosphere. Please could the Nova-nauts give me feedback on this essay (apologies for the table of numbers):
“To more easily understand the composition of the Atmosphere and, more importantly, the amount of Carbon Dioxide contained therein, here is an exercise that might allow better understanding of the improbable role of Carbon Dioxide in changing the Atmosphere, hence Climate.
The following table is a list of the constituents of the Air at ground level. The column “PPM” is the number of molecules for each constituent and is expressed as Parts Per Million. Normally the list is for Dry Air, however there is a fair amount of highly variable Water Vapour in Air, ranging from nothing to 30,000 PPM (or 3%), dependent on many factors (esp. weather). So I have added half that amount of Water Vapour (15,000 PPM) to the list. Note that Water Vapour is an integral part of Weather.
Now if we turned all those molecules into people and sent them to the MCG for a Collingwood-Dockers game, let’s assume the total head-count is 100,000 people. The numbers are pro-rated (modified) for 100,000 total in the column “Mod”.
We can see in the “Rounded” column that there could be:
76,924 Collingwood fans including players, staff;
20,634 Dockers fans including players, staff;
1,478 folks in corporate boxes (where you normally go) and hospitality servers, generally;
920 cops and ground security;
41 officials (umpires, goalies, scorers, TV commentators etc);
Approximately 3 folk that got in for free (the really trace gases, Neon etc.).
Constituent PPM Mod Rounded
Nitrogen 780840 76923.76 76924
Oxygen 209460 20634.77 20634
Water Vapor 15000 1477.712 1478
Argon 9340 920.1218 920
Carbon Dioxide 417 41.08038 41
Neon 18.18 1.790987 1.8
Helium 5.24 0.516214 0.5
Methane 1.91 0.188162 0.2
Krypton 1.14 0.112306 0.1
1015083 100000
So you can see that 41 officials in a crowd of 100,000 is a very small number. In other words, Carbon Dioxide is a very insignificant constituent of Air, and this is meant to be the cause of global warming, climate change, extreme weather etc.? It’s highly improbable.
But it gets really interesting if you consider the analysis of Carbon Isotopes by Demetris Koutsoyiannis (2024): “Net Isotopic Signature of Atmospheric CO2 Sources and Sinks: No Change since the Little Ice Age”. He concludes that the amount of Human causation of Carbon Dioxide is no more than 4%.
THEREFORE if we go back to the 41 Folk representing ALL Carbon Dioxide, then ONLY 1.64 Folk (lets be kind and call it TWO FOLK) represent the amount of Carbon Dioxide caused to be present in the Atmosphere due to Humans.
So in conclusion can we blame the Two Goal Umpires for impacting the football game’s outcome when we know that its up to the players and the field umpires? In other words: how improbable is it that 2 molecules of Carbon Dioxide per 100,000 molecules of Air can have any effect, let alone justify the trillions of $$$ spent trying to address a non-existent problem?
Think about it: Just Two Goal Umpires worth of “nasty” CO2 in the Air.
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I used a similar analogy years ago when I was training an U16’s AFL football team. The subject of climate change came up somehow. I told the team the oval represented the atmosphere. Started at the goal line at one end and got the team to jog to the 50 m line in the forward half. The distance from that goal line to that 50 m line represented Nitrogen in the atmosphere. Blank astonished faces. Then jogged from there to the goal square. Oxygen in the atmosphere. From that goal square line to the goal line represented the minor gases. Then told them to look at the very outer edge of the goal line because about 1 cm represented CO2. More blank astonished faces. Then we finished off with 20 sprints.
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In my discussions with other dog owners at the park, when the discussion trends towards weather, the topic of Klimat Change rears its head. Other heads explode when I ask them “what is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?” No-one EVER has got it right, the answers ranging from 3 to 20%. But they can tell you how bad are fossil fuels!
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And you can model CO2 saturation. 41 officials. Now make that 62 officials. Whatever they do, do the extra 21 officals make any difference? No.
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I have a few issues with the memo.
1. You will never get that many docker supporters to a home and away match against Collingwood at the MCG. To fill the stadium to capacity it would need to be a final or grand final.
2. Just selecting ground level ratios would get the ire of the believers because CO2 is more evenly distributed than water vapour. In terms of volume, water vapour averages around 2800ppmv – about 7 times the present volume of CO2.
3. In terms of importance, the 280 water people would be all the club officials, the players and support staff. Water is really important to the outcome.
4. The 41 carbon dioxide are the television crew. Only important to the broader audience. Nothing on earth lives without CO2 but it has no direct role in the climate.
5. The sun probably the AFL management. There would be no game without the sun.
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G’day Stanley,
I prefer Ross’ shorter approach.
Or, even shorter:
” CO2 is plant food “.
Cheers,
Dave B
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Famous for being Rude – I could go with that.
In today’s woke world Fawlty Towers would not make it to air
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13379595/Fawlty-Towers-hotel-owners-Basil-Sybil-Fawlty.html
Manuel singing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS3Ouh21jqA
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From Friends of Science.
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Europe’s Net Zero Rebellion and the implications for Canada
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A talk by Dr Benny Pieser
(45 min video)
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https://youtu.be/sllhp8X_eFg
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He is excellent Benny. Good presentation and good news.
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JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup’s Citibank have a combined $7.427 TRILLION hidden off-balance sheet
Picture this: the Buffet Indicator, named after legendary investor Warren Buffet, is now teetering perilously close to the precipice of its 1999 pre-crash levels. A chilling reminder of the dot-com bubble that burst with catastrophic consequences, reshaping the financial landscape for years to come.
But wait, hasn’t artificial intelligence (AI) intervened, briefly postponing the inevitable? Indeed, the rise of AI has injected a dose of optimism into the markets, offering a fleeting reprieve from the specter of market collapse. Yet, beneath the veneer of technological prowess lies a deeper truth—a truth that threatens to unravel the very fabric of our financial system.
The Federal Reserve, once hailed as the guardian of economic stability, now finds itself grappling with a train wreck of unprecedented proportions.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/trillions-hidden-off-balance-sheet-by-jpmorgan-chase-bank-of-america-and-citigroup-fdic-bank-insurance-roughly-200-times-under-funded/
Mega banking crash on the horizon and mandatory bail-ins?
Watch CNN and find out. 😁
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15 Portland Oregon police cars burned as fiery but mostly peaceful protests engulf (see what I did there) city.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/15-oregon-police-cars-burned-180558607.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referr
Seems a bit insurrectiony to me.
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Ok, couldn’t resist.
Here’s video of a brave Portland anti-Israel protest warrior charging a cop with his shield.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/anti-israel-mob-charges-cops-in-portland-with-garbage-can-shields-only-to-be-quickly-thwarted/ar-AA1o3Q3B
All of you have a snack bar.
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Just swap Portland for Glasgow
“The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards” – Billy Connoly
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Love that quote.
I’ve been spreading it around with my unvaccinated breath.
😁
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Another Connolly Classic – Glasgow Terror Attacks
Now, normally having terrorists attack your city is no laughing matter. Fortunately, nobody died in the Glasgow airport attack of 2007 except one of the perpetrators himself – and Billy was quick to make fun of the incident.
‘What were they f****** thinking about? Bringing terror to Glasgow…’, he chuckles. ‘Should’ve known better than that, we don’t mind a bit of terror in Glasgow!’.
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More Snowy 2 problems…
.. That “partial collapse “ is in fact in the main turbine hall…the biggest cavern on the project.
..and “Florence” has problems with hard rock ??
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Only six years! No tunnel boring machines here
On May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah, a golden spike was hammered into the final tie. The US transcontinental railroad was built in six years almost entirely by hand. Workers drove spikes into mountains, filled the holes with black powder, and blasted through the rock inch by inch.
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Perhaps they should ask those genius engineers Albanese and Turnbullsh-t for advice.
It’s their masterful engineering proposal responsible for this project after all.
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Nation Building by people with NFI. What could go wrong?
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.”and “Florence” has problems with hard rock ?? “
Yeah why not? In my area there is a proposed new national park. This needs to be approved because”climate change” is impacting the forest and I quote
“ The forest values are under threat PARTICULARLY from the impacts of climate change including MORE extreme weather events such as heatwaves and FLOODS, higher average temperatures, declines in ANNUAL RAINFALL, increased bushfire frequency and severity.”
The emphasis is mine, but like a tunnel boreing machine designed to cut hard rock being stopped by both soft ground and now hard ground, the local forests are in danger of because of declining rainfall and floods!
I might also add this Victorian government Interim report does not provide any supportive evidence how any of the above stated “concerns” are measured nor over what time scale
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The ABC has reported it:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-04/blasting-at-snowy-2-0-site-causes-partial-tunnel-collapse/103802994
Cheers,
Dave B
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Groan. It doesn’t pay to do any research on gummint responses to anything. Let’s start with a funny name
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2017/release/international-scientist-to-lead-capr
So, what is CAPR? Kneel to honour the taxpayers who fund the bleeding obvious
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/research/centres/health/capr
If you’re stupid enough to click on any of the links you might find a useful tool for culturally and linguistically diverse alcoholics who carry and IPad
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/announcements/2023/academic-to-progress-important-research-at-la-trobe-university
But it’s definitely not a jobs for the boys and girls “thanks for your services” scheme
https://fare.org.au/about/board/
And I definitely wouldn’t click on any of their bios.
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YYY,
Director Mark Textor is the son of a former top official in the enforcement division of the Australian Taxation Office.
Among other things, Mark was a pollster for the NSW branch of the Libs. Just sayin’
Geoff S
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After reading that I need a drink
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What else could society do to soak up the unemployables? Now you see why Govt employment has skyrocketed as manufacturing was crashed.
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Australian car sales are in the fast lane, with the industry recording record figures for the month of April, and the first four months of a year.
Toyota’s RAV4 was the best-selling vehicle for April, overtaking the Ford Ranger that looks on track to retain its place as Australia’s favourite car.
It also helps justify a switch to more efficient – and expensive – hybrid-only engines for the Yaris and Corolla hatchbacks.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/motoring-news/record-new-car-sales-in-australia-for-april-2024/news-story/d85737edc1d81d1e46081fbb8592a97a
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Read somewhere that Toyota markets with the 1-6-90 rule. That is the metals in 1 BEV can make 6 PHEV or 90 hybrid vehicles.
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Major Australian Pension Fund To Restrict Coal Investments
Australian Retirement Trust, which manages $183 billion (AUS$280 billion) of retirement savings, is placing thermal coal on its exclusion list as of July 1, as it looks to have a net-zero emissions portfolio by 2050.
“As a global investor, Australian Retirement Trust is committed to achieving a net zero greenhouse gas emissions investment portfolio by 2050,” the fund said in a statement carried by Reuters.
However, it applies exclusions in limited circumstances “in accordance with members’ best financial interest.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/major-australian-pension-fund-restrict-coal-investments
Who cares! The government will be long gone, pension funds gone, most people long gone, the great rebuilding for your kids, if any, will be in progress, and “the great renewables failure” will be taught in schools, and the kids will all laugh thinking it’s just a joke.
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Compulsory superannuation is the biggest fraud of all time – a tax dodge for the wealthy
The best investment you can every make is to purchase your own home and pay off the mortgage as soon as possible.
However, this has become a dream for most Australians and a nighmare for those who bought when interest rates were absurdly low.
Everything politicians touch – they stuff it up.
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If Peter Dutton wants to win the next election all he has to do is make superannuation VOLUNTARY.
People despirate to buy a home would suddenly have their deposit with money locked away in their super account plus more money available to pay the mortgage.
Compulsory super is a Labor sacred cow. Most super money is now held in Union controlled “Industry Superfunds” and being directed towards woke causes.
It is a no brainer that Dutton should attack Labor’s sacred cow when cost-of-living and a housing crisis are top of voters minds.
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Even better, Dutton could ask Australians how much immigration they want while we have a housing crisis.
And he could stop the international student demand on homes until Australians can afford one.
This is a supply-demand thing. We have enough homes for the number of Australians living here ten years ago. The easiest part of this equation is to stop demand growing not to build a million homes.
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The Singapore Provident Fund is a better model – assists with home ownership
https://www.cpf.gov.sg/member
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Whatever it is, maybe it’s better than our superannuation. That’s not the point — if 700,000 people arrive in a year an extra 200,000 houses don’t magically appear no matter what the super rules are.
The immediate problem is people arriving who don’t already have a home. Our children didn’t need to raid the super fund to build a home 30 years ago.
I’m all for getting rid of forced super, but priority one is to turn of the tap flooding the demand side of the equation.
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Homes?
Please.
That’s so post-Neolithic.
Australia is the perfect place for the WEF to reestablish pure Hunter Gatherer human society.
You have huge amounts of uninhabited land for bipedal migration.
You have your own continent … basically a flyover continent.
If it doesn’t workout, and people rebel, you’re surrounded by sharks.
You guys have chance to lead the way.
Make Humanity Unanthropogenic Again!
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Honky.
We had a mass stabbing event in a mall here, the MSM stated the car park was full and held 3000 cars, let’s say 2 persons per car = 6000, plus street level walkins say 1000, based on averages that’s 3500 males.
The attacker only attacked women, two immigrant males were stabbed one fatally while attempting to intervene, so 3498 aussie males fled, but they only had to run faster than the females.
Australians will lead, the rest of the world just needs to keep up with the men. Best to just fly on buy.
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I have a personal interest in Superannuation having been defrauded out of over $1 million of retirement benefits that has been covered up by corrupt public servants – as have several thousand members of one of Australia’s oldest superannuation schemes where the original founding Trust Deed was drafted under the supervision of Sir John Downer who co-drafted the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act with our first Prime Minister and one of the first justices of the High Court.
This has been confirmed by the Attorney-Generals Department of South Australia as the original Trust Deed was amended by an Act of the Parliament of South Australia
People just do not realise the extent of corruption in Canberra. In Australia – “Money Buys You Justice”.
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Fair enough. Superannuation is a source of power for Big-Gov Big-Money, the bankers, Larry Fink etc.
I’m no fan of forced super.
Just urgently we need to ask the citizens whether they want our population to grow faster than any first world country when the housing crisis is at the point that parents with 10 week old babies are living in tents in Perth because they can’t rent anything.
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I have previously mentioned how the Left are at war against certain anaesthetic agents, mainly Desflurane and nitrous oxide because they supposedly cause global warming.
My anaesthetist friend is at an anaesthetic conference in Brisbane where some “professor” of “sustainability” from a famous Melbournistan “university” said (with an eager smile) that there are going to be restrictions put in place in order to ultimately ban these supposed planet-destroying agents.
In his professional opinion there is no acceptable substitute for Desflurane.
There are already bans and restrictions in some of the woke hospitals he works in.
The “professor” also talked about “decarbonising” the healthcare industry which is an interesting concept because they are meant to be caring for carbon-based life forms and just about all materials contain carbon. “Carbon” is just a meaninless scary word to the average Leftist, they have no clue as to the science – just like they consistently call carbon dioxide “carbon”.
He walked out of the lecture in disgust, it’s meant to be educational, not propaganda.
As Donald Trump said, https://youtu.be/IvJybdKZTf4
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I trust that the Professor’s dentists and surgeons are being advised.
There are plenty of more risky and painful alternatives. Remember; it’s the patient’s informed choice. Be sure to get their signature on the form.
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US Senators Drop a Bombshell on the World Health Organization
In a shocking turn of events, all Republican senators (49), led by Senator Ron Johnson, have formally urged President Joe Biden to withdraw his support in expanding the World Health Organization’s (WHO) pandemic authority.
The letter, sent ahead of the 77th World Health Assembly scheduled from May 27 to June 1, 2024, in Geneva, Switzerland, argues that the WHO’s mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis underscores the need for major reforms rather than granting it more power.
The senators warn that such an expansion could threaten U.S. sovereignty and constitutional rights, emphasizing that any international agreement enhancing WHO’s authority should be treated as a treaty, requiring a two-thirds supermajority vote in the Senate for approval.
https://vigilantnews.com/post/us-senators-drop-a-bombshell-on-the-world-health-organization/
Slowly but surely their plans fall apart…
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I want to use an analogy too, of the reality of rapid and substantial exchange of CO2 between ocean and atmosphere.
This is how equilibrium really works. It’s not like two buckets, water and air. It’s more like a country with a border.
When a gas is dissolved in water, at the surface there is a steady exchange where some of the CO2 is absorbed from the air and some escapes from the water by evaporation all the time. It never stops. It’s not static even if the average is static.
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So consider Australia’s steady population. Officially 26.01Million. That’s the ‘equilibrium’ value.
But is it? What about travellers, overseas students, sailors, aircrew, tourists, students?
Each year
Tourists 6,600,000
Overseas students 713,144
Nett migration 518,000
Temporary vias holders 554,000
Migrant departures 219,000
Australian tourists departing, short term, medium term, ten years.
So there a huge numbers of people in transit both directions. But the population is still 26.01. The equilibrium value.
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This is comparable to CO2 moving between the water and the atmosphere. And H2O itself with evaporation, humidity, clouds, rain, rivers. H2O is also a gas.
While people like to think of CO2 as being an atmospheric gas, it is highly soluble and 98% lives in the water.
The amount of CO2 out of the water at any time is only 2%.
We know that on average all CO2 molecules stay in the air for about ten years before returning to the water. The radio carbon age of CO2 in the water is about 500 years on average, so 2% of the molecules 1/50th for 10 years matches. We also observe that CO2 molecules can return very quickly, as we saw after the East Coast bushfires in 2019.
And further we know the extra CO2 released at present from fossil fuels is about 5% of the atmosphere each year. But firstly that is a tiny 0.1% of the total as 98% of all CO2 is in the water. And secondly it vanishes very quickly as CO2 returns to 0.042%
So CO2 is highly mobile but the averages only change very slowly. CO2 has only increased a tiny 50% in 270 years, 0.2% a year. And that’s very close to constant within 1%, from pole to pole, and even year to year. And any imbalance is rectified almost straight away.
But the UN wants money. So the IPCC, who are not scientists, pretend we can change the laws of nature and push more CO2 into the air. Or that the vast oceans cannot handle any more.
On this last point the oceans are 350x the weight of the atmosphere. One atmosphere per 10 metres and the oceans average 3.5km deep.
And of the atmosphere only 0.042% is of CO2 molecules. So the ratio of CO2 molecules in the air to water molecules is 350×2500:1 or nearly a million H2Os to one CO2. The idea that the ocean cannot absorb all the CO2 in the air is like saying Australia cannot absorb 26 more migrants. What actually sets the ratio of air to water is the temperature at the border, the water surface. And slight water surface warming causes more CO2 in the air. And that’s not a problem.
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The IPCC apply the Revelle Factor when they say that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is from humans. The Revelle Factor treats humans CO2 and natural CO2 differently, it violates Henry’s law, the bomb-spike data, and when the IPCC tried to measure the Revelle Factor they re-discovered Henry’s law, but as Jeff Glassman explains, they deleted the results from their final AR4 report.
I decided to put together an article explaining why I think that the increase in CO2 is natural:
https://chipstero7.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/why-the-observed-atmospheric-co2-increase-could-be-natural/
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The ocean is on average 3.5km deep. At 2 atmospheres CO2 or 20 metres and 4C (277K), CO2 is no longer a gas in principle. It is a liquid.
As such its behaviour is very different. As a liquid for most of the ocean depth or at least cool enough and under enough pressure to mainly bevhave as one, solubility changes. There are then no limits for mixing of two liquids.
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I could write a book on this posting. So just a few quick comments..
“The decrease in 13C and 14C cannot concretely be attributed to anthropogenic CO2. The measurements of decreasing 13C and 14C do not tell us whether the CO2 is anthropogenic or natural in origin. This is because a decrease in 13C and 14C is not a unique signature for anthropogenic CO2. ”
Yes, it is. But the logic is reversed. The lack of C14 is a unique signature for fossil fuel CO2. All other CO2 cycling in the ‘biosphere’ has C14 regardless of growing/rotting/doing nothing. Lifetimes are far shorter than 5740 years.
Unlike say a radioactive medical tracer, what you are looking for is a lack of radioactivity in Carbon. All free carbon is radioactive except fossil fuel. That is the trick. And it is absolute proof.
If as is alleged the 50% increase in CO2 in the air is man made with 0% C14, the total C14 level in the atmosphere must be 33% below the historic level. Presently it is only 3% below. In 1958 it was 2.3% below. This is not debatable. It is an accidental world size experiment to double C14 from one molecule per trillion of CO2 to two molecules per trillion of CO2. This CANNOT be removed. But it is all gone. Therefore ALL the CO2 from 1965 is in the ocean. And not just the top of the ocean.
As for C13, it is far less certain but the result is the same. The story there is dilution from -6 to -8 in the atmosphere. If it was from fossil fuels at -28, the total dilution would be much greater than an additional -2. If however the C13O2 was from the ocean you have 2 parts Atmosphere at -6 and 1 part ocean at -10 which gives you the value of -8. Which confirms the C14 result, not that it needed confirming. (the origin of these differences is that CO2 is more rapidly absorbed by plants if it is lighter, so C12 rather than C13. And like Henry’s law presumably different speeds at the same temperature, so what they seem to call kinetic fractionation, slight separation by speed)
“absorption of anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere has acidified the ocean”. That is a wild presumption and built into it is the idea that the extra CO2 in the air is ‘anthropongenic’ or man made from fossil fuel.
Like all of this it is possibly the reverse of the truth when you consider that 98% of CO2 is in the ocean and there is only 3.0% fossil fuel CO2 in the air. Rather I suspect that the steady increase in ocean surface temperature indicates a long ocean oscillation which may be bringing warmer currents to the surface which simply contain more CO2. So the usual business of confusing cause and effect. Warming increases CO2. CO2 does not increase warming. And warming correlates with CO2 increase in the ocean surface because that is the origin of the CO2. Which is confirmed by the both C13 result and the C14 results.
As said I am not happy with the Revelle factor as it assumes shallow water. Below 20 -30 metres, CO2 is practically a liquid, not a gas. Although it would have characteristics of both.
And the bomb blast C14 has two major lessons.
Firstly it decays with a perfect e-kt which confirms a single sink, not multiple sinks as proposed by the Bern model. Secondly the horizontal asymptote is almost exactly where it started, which means a doubling in C14 has vanished completely. This can only be explained by complete absorption in the deep ocean and dilution x 50, which confirms the model of a disconnected top ocean and bottom ocean is rubbish.
The disconnect between the 3500% growth rate of emissions and the 50% growth of CO2 is not explicable except by rapid maintenance of an equilibrium balance as dictated by Henry’s Law.
I also believe Henry’s Law which arises entirely from the Kinematics of CO2 molecules at the air/water interface is in play. Except that the environment is subject to many conditions in the real world where Henry’s Law is in the laboratory. In the real world you have wind, waves, droplets, turbulence. And exchange of gases increases to the fourth power of the wind speed. Plus the phase change in CO2 at even modest depth. Still the principle is the same but the return to equilibrium is clearly very fast.
We see this in fossil fuel CO2 emission which have reached a record 5% of atmospheric CO2 each year. But CO2 is only growing at 0.2% per year. Total CO2 is nearly stationary when it should be growing 5% a year if fossil fuel CO2 is adding directly. So we know that at least 96% of fossil fuel CO2 goes straight in the water, within say six months.
And my other observations include the incredibly fast restoration of CO2 levels across the planet, the maintenance of CO2 levels within 1% across the planet, the variation of CO2 with seasonal warmth, summer and winter and anticyclic from the North to South hemisphere confirming both mechanism in that heating increases CO2 and sensitivity.
For your last comment, that equilibrium is achieve quickly, confirming the involvement of the entire ocean to remove C14 which cannot be removed, just diluted plus the half life of 7 years and the single perfect e-kt which also proves the Bern model wrong.
There is one and only one possible story. That CO2 is in rapid equilibrium with the ocean. And that increasing surface temperature, likely from currents is responsible for increased CO2. We do not need to invent ways in which increasing CO2 by 50% over 270 years can increase temperature suddenly.
And my favorite proof by far is in the model of Prof Carl Otto Weiss and team. I have never seen such a good fit from two sine waves and these prove beyond a doubt that the major factors in temperature are ocean currents and solar activity. CO2 is irrelevant, tiny and saturated anyway.
The attack on Western Democracies by the communist states through the UN is all about promulgating this evil story. It has no basis in science.
And it is kept going because of the unbelievable amounts of money being given away to do absolutely nothing about CO2. Everything is concentrated on ’emissions’ when emissions are not even the alleged problem. 500,000 giant windmills and billions of solar panels have had zero effect on CO2 which is now at record levels. And still Western Democracies are fooled into blowing up coal power stations when China cannot build them fast enough.
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One more thing. The NASA result where between 1988 and 2014 tree coverage increased by 14% and CO2 increased by 14%.
We have seen the world wide, rapid and huge equilibrium at work. CO2 did not just go up and come down, it kept growing without pause.
The massive amount of CO2 sequestration in 26 years and trillions of trees had no effect on CO2 and no effect on the slope of CO2 growth. The amounts of CO2 sequestered is incredible. The only explanation is that the CO2 equilibrium between atmosphere and ocean is so fast that there was not even a dip in CO2 as the sequestered CO2 was replaced by more ocean CO2.
Between this world size experiment and the Atom bomb graph, we have a picture of the equilbrium at work which makes man made CO2 in the atmosphere impossible. 98% of all CO2 is in the ocean. And 98% of all fossil fuel CO2 goes into the ocean in about 6 months.
There is no man made CO2 growth. Therefore there is no man made CO2 driven Global Warming. There might be warming but it is extremely unlikely to be tiny, exhausted CO2 which is why the idea of the amplification by water vapour was invented, the hot spot.
What is the problem is that no one is calling this out largely except retired scientists. Everyone else is too scared for their jobs and the approbium.
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Thanks for your input TdeF. Your points are well taken. Though I had no idea that there was such a disparity in the growth-rates. Do you have any sources, papers, or more information about this?
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The 50% is extremely well known. It is after all the basis of it all. I hate referring anyone to NOAA and their very misleading graphs. 0.028 to 0.042%
The emissions is a common graph and not as hacked around. It’s about 35 billion tons a year starting at say 1 billion in 1900.
I found it impossible to find a correct graph of CO2 so I downloaded Mauna Loa and drew my own. It is nearly flat, not the rocketship they create by removing the X axis and scaling up. All the NOAA graphs show this flagrantly wrong plotting.
When you are discussing absolute values, you must show Y=0, the X axis. Anything else is incremental and deceitful and typical of NOAA graphs.
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And when I communicated with the late Will Steffen, a professor in industrial chemistry at Monash, I wanted to know why he would even think CO2 was NOT in equilibrium? He ducked and referred me to the IPCC report 4. I scanned it all and only found two half lives, 80 years the IPCC standard and ‘thousands of years’.
The excellent paper last year from Peter Stallinga of Portugal gives TABLE1 which lists 36 papers which confirm the 10 year residence time for ALL CO2. And low level fossil fuel CO2 vanishes much faster seemingly.
His conclusions are
(1) The adjustment time is never larger than the residence time and is less than 5 years.
(2) The idea of the atmosphere being stable at 280 ppm in pre-industrial times is untenable.
(3) Nearly 90% of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide has already been removed from the atmosphere.
My figure for (3) is 97%. About 6 months emissions.
The default position of all gases is constant equilibrium, not because of a ‘law’ but because they enter and leave liquids all the time. And this gas has a stopper at 1 atmosphere of pressure, just like a Coke bottle although coke is often 3-5 atmospheres, but 1 atmosphere is substantial. So there is always a % in the liquid and a % in the air and the ratio is fixed.
The usual CO2 tables do not apply in the wild. The ocean surface is turbulent and the wind is a huge accelerator and the formation of high area droplets and the churning of crashing waves burying gas which you see on the front of a ship, blue green water full of gas. But the principle of kinetics which dictate evaporation and absorption are the same. If you want the surface, more comes out. The flat beer effect.
Another complication is the phase change of CO2 to liquid, something we do not see everyday. It usually sublimes, but at even a modest depth in any quantity CO2 would be a liquid even at 4C.
What is staggering to me is that I never read the opinions of physical chemists. This sort of equilibrium is bread and butter to them. And it is to be expected, not discovered!
If I am surprised, it is how constant CO2 is from pole to pole.
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And examining the ages of CO2 from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the deep churning is much larger in the Atlantic. Where the Pacific is well, Pacific as named by Magellan. Still still waters run deep and carry heat and CO2 with them. Unlike air which expands massively on heating and rises explosively, warm water does not have the temperature range and a lower coefficient of expansion and much greater mass, so it can dive with its heat and gas and surface somewhere else.
So currents like the Gulf Stream can move 2,000km carrying massive amounts of heat to Greenland and on to Europe. And runs at 9km/hr! 100km wide and 1km deep. How many more currents of this magnitude exist running very deep? The cold Humboldt current up the coast of South America. And the many circular gyres, of which the gulf stream is only one.
Until climate scientists can explain El Nino, I do not believe they can model climates at all. As Prof Judith Curry say and everyone should agree, the major climate forces are only two, ocean currents and solar input. CO2 is not a player and a near constant.
And CO2 is in rapid equilibrium until someone proves it is not. Not only because that is most likely, but because it perfectly fits all the facts as we know them now. Prof Carl Otto Weiss narrowed it down to the De Vries Solar cycle of 250 years and the AMO/PDO ocean oscillations of 65 years.
The reason the ‘climate scientists’ cannot get anything right is that they are modelling near random effects, not causes.
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@Jo this should thread by TdeF be a post all by itself
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Fond Childhood Memories
On June 7, 1986, cracker night was celebrated for the last time in NSW, after the government banned it for safety reasons.
The local newspaper today ran a story of a lady who has had her letter box blown up several times complete with security camera camera footage.
In my younger days it was a common practice to tie several Tuppenny Bungers together and to drop them in a letter box. Wait for the lid to blow off and then high tail it as fast as possible.
After our letter box got blown up, my father got an uncle who was a welder at BHP to weld up a letter box made from 5mm steel plate – this proved to be indestructable!
It was also fun to throw Tuppenny Bungers over the fence grenade style at the kids next door and wait for the cries of a direct hit. This would be followed by a hail of ninja star knives made from jam tin lids.
Children today may have their smart phones and i-pads but they never exerience the fun that our generation had.
https://www.facebook.com/Igrewupinmortdale2223/posts/back-in-the-day-penny-bungers-a-real-blast-from-the-past/2940705889493112/
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“For safety reasons” – to protect kids.
Now they are taught about adult sex by pervs, pumped full of hormone altering drugs, and mutilated by twisted surgeons…for their own good, and you’re a anti-trans racist if you object.
Where did it all go wrong?
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IIRC – I’ve heard of used thermite being used on one of those.
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Vietnam vet’s Rolex that cost $345 is worth a tad more today
https://twitter.com/TimeTriping/status/1749058056619532449
The watch has just done more for him than the Biden criminal government ever would.
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Sodium batteries hit the market
Two years ago, sodium-ion battery pioneer Natron Energy was busy preparing its specially formulated sodium batteries for mass production. The company slipped a little past its 2023 kickoff plans, but it didn’t fall too far behind as far as mass battery production goes. It officially commenced production of its rapid-charging, long-life lithium-free sodium batteries this week, bringing to market an intriguing new alternative in the energy storage game.
Sodium-ion tech has received heightened interest in recent years as a more reliable, potentially cheaper energy storage medium. While its energy density lags behind lithium-ion, advantages such as faster cycling, longer lifespan and safer, non-flammable end use have made sodium-ion an attractive alternative, especially for stationary uses like data center and EV charger backup storage.
Natron says its batteries charge and discharge at rates 10 times faster than lithium-ion, a level of immediate charge/discharge capability that makes the batteries a prime contender for the ups and downs of backup power storage. Also helping in that use case is an estimated lifespan of 50,000 cycles.
We haven’t seen a weight-based energy density figure from Natron itself, but a 2022 article from Chemical & Engineering News put its sodium-ion batteries at 70 Wh/kg, around the very bottom of the sodium-ion energy density scale. That aligns well with the company’s stationary-only business plan, as sodium-ion batteries being pursued for potential mobility use have more than double that density. CATL showed a 160 Wh/kg sodium-ion battery in 2021 and has plans to increase that density over 200 Wh/kg to better meet the needs of electric vehicles.
https://newatlas.com/energy/natron-sodium-ion-battery-production-startt/
For 200Wh/kg – take my money!
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Charging future EVs could take seconds with new sodium-ion battery tech
Researchers have developed a new coin-type sodium-based battery that can charge rapidly “in seconds” and could potentially power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles (EVs) in the future.
The new sodium-ion hybrid fuel cells could serve as a “viable next-generation alternative to lithium-ion batteries,” the researchers said in a joint statement, with applications ranging from laptops and mobile devices to electric vehicles and aerospace technologies.
The research represents “a breakthrough in overcoming the current limitations of energy storage systems,” Jeung Ku Kang, lead author of the study and a professor of materials science and engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), said in the statement.
The team said the full cell, once assembled, achieved an energy storage capacity of 247 watt-hours per kilogram (Wh/kg) and could deliver power at a rate of up to 34,748 watts per kilogram (W/kg). This means it could hold more energy for its weight than existing hybrid sodium-ion batteries and could charge and discharge power much more quickly, exceeding the performance of existing technology by more than 100 times.
https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/charging-future-evs-could-take-seconds-with-new-sodium-ion-battery-tech
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Remember this one?
Sorry, could not resist Babra Albomememe du jour.
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Snowy 2.0 folly on the rocks. All the risk for no gain for the public.
It makes more sense to dam off Bass Strait and to use sea water for pumped storage. At least that could have the required capacity.
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Former CIA Operations Officer Warns: EVs and the Climate Agenda Threaten National Security
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Cleaning your home does as much damage as smoking a pack a day for 20 years!
Have you ever sprayed those brand name cleaners from the store and found it almost hard to breath afterwards as you try and finish cleaning the shower?
That should tell you something.
It’s bad for you but until recently we didn’t know how bad.
https://en-volve.com/2024/05/03/new-study-as-much-damage-as-smoking-a-pack-a-day-for-20-years/
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The UCLA fiasco aftermath
This is the campus of UCLA today. These are the people who claim they’re are going to “save the planet” from “muh climate change”.
UCLA campus was left in disarray after a pro-Palestine protest, with many of the participants being self-proclaimed environmental activists.
The incident sparked criticism online, with users questioning the commitment of these activists to environmental causes given the significant amount of trash left behind.
The university and local authorities are working to clean up the mess and restore the campus to its original state.
It’s very typical of leftist to make a mess and leave it for someone else to clean up…it’s what they do.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_scvco5CLPi1qdptr8.mp4
Now off to glue themselves to a penguin or something…
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An obviously mentally ill German man took the covid “vaccine” jab 217 times.
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Extraordinary. No side effects! Except that he is completely mad.
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Giant Kelp Extinction?
I keep seeing propaganda ads from the CSIRO about how Tasmania’s giant kelp is supposedly at risk of extinction because of “climate change” and the boiling oceans.
They are trying to breed heat resistant varieties.
They say 95% of giant kelp has disappeared.
Their video is at: https://youtu.be/sTs9K6bANYU
More propaganda from Their ABC here: https://youtu.be/FUrhr13gBeg
Thoughts?
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Looks like the sea urchins found a lot of food. Then the sea urchins die and the kelp comes back. This is a typical prey predator response. The same happens with the coral reefs and the crown of thorns starfish. But ‘scientists’ always find it a problem and try to fix it. In Townsville they were building autonomous swimming robots with cameras to inject cyanide into recognized starfish. Man made killer bots on the reef! What could go wrong with that?
But others found in Tahiti that the starfish were natural, the ‘devastation’ quite the opposite as the entire reef came back better than ever when the starfish were gone. It’s called pruning. They discovered this because the natives told them their story, showed them the icons and sang the songs. They welcomed these terrible ‘predators’ as saviours.
And one thing from the video, the giant kelp can double in size in a week and reestablish quickly. Because it is edible. We are now treating every natural thing as a deadly result of ‘Climate Change’ when the most likely explanation is just a typical cycle of life.
Researchers need funding though. And if they can reestablish kelp faster, fine. But painting it as a direct result of coal fired power stations is enormously damaging to our society. And wrong.
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And of course humans eat kelp too! Giant Kelp is called Konbu.
“Seaweed is also thought to be a contributing factor to the long life expectancy of people in Japan, as it is low in calories and rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber. Kombu-maki, a classic New Year dish in Japan, represents health and longevity.”
Frankly these people are enjoying all this and its funded by your taxes. What I don’t like is that they join in painting the picture of a world going to hell because of Carbon Dioxide/Climate Change. It’s not.
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The YSM covid breakthrough?
“NYT Finally Covering Jab Side Effects”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/05/03/nyt-finally-covering-jab-side-effects-n3787710
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FWIW
“Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah – I’ve Joined My College Intifada”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/05/03/hello-mother-hello-father-ive-joined-my-college-intifada-n3787697
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FWIW
“”I’ve Been Totally Ghosted”: After Install, Solar Panels Become Maintenance Nightmare”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ive-been-totally-ghosted-after-install-solar-panels-become-maintenance-nightmare
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Remember “Safe and effective”?
“Almost Half Of Health Care Workers Hesitant To Take COVID-19 Boosters: Study”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/almost-half-health-care-workers-hesitant-take-covid-19-boosters-study
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Jordan Peterson Exposes The Hidden Agenda Of The Elites
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a “must watch”
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I love his work!
And listened to all his podcasts.
I have rarely heard such an incisive mind and never heard such a logical measured clear speaker.
He has mastered listening, logical reduction like a scientist and precision speaking in a way I have never heard. Flippant interrogators do not last long, he pulls them apart motive by motive. At huge personal cost sadly, but he has recovered.
But most importantly he has really helped millions of young men find their path in life with good simple practical advice on growing up and finding their place and fulfillment. And in a world which treats physically strong but often emotionally fragile young men so badly. As also a political graduate he is most scathing of evil opportunistic and incompetent and selfish politicians like Justin Trudeau.
He knows Climate Change is a lie. But he is as interested in why it is being pushed and by whom. It is just one of many destructive stories which are shattering Western Democracies like BLM, DEI, Transgenderism, ESG, Post Modernism, #metoo, intersectionality, fact free history and the road to destruction and slavery for most. All presented as good ideas but intended to disrupt and destroy society.
And now Antisemitism and worship of HAMAS, an incredibly evil terrorist and murderous organization, is sweeping the Universities. These are monsters being worshipped and defended.
Monty Python, a group of Oxbridge University students, warned of much of this in Life of Brian in the 1980s. The People’s Liberation Front of Palestine. Stan who wanted to be Loretta. What have the Romans/British/Americans done for us? It’s finally caught up with us, pushed as usual by the Marxists of the universities.
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Willis E takes a look at
“CMIP6 Runs Running Wild”
“If I ran the zoo, the first thing I’d do is get the scientists together and at least get an agreed-upon historical record …”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/03/cmip6-runs-running-wild/
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FWIW – widen your viewig spectrum
“Adding Odysee, EwTube Diminished”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/05/03/adding-odysee-ewtube-diminished/
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Major Retailer Bites The Dust 540 Stores Close 5000 Lose Their Jobs – How Safe Are The Pensions?
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British military think tank explains why Russia is so effective on the battlefield and how NATO will not be able to win.
“Royal United Services Institute, and claims to be “the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defence and security think tank.”
The entire report revolves around an urgent plea for the West to remold its strategic concept of warfare, which has been badly degraded and fallen out with the times by several decades of lazy misallocation of resources and reorientation toward colonial policing actions.
Attritional wars require their own ‘Art of War’ and are fought with a ‘force-centric’ approach, unlike wars of manoeuvre which are ‘terrain-focused’. They are rooted in massive industrial capacity to enable the replacement of losses, geographical depth to absorb a series of defeats, and technological conditions that prevent rapid ground movement. In attritional wars, military operations are shaped by a state’s ability to replace losses and generate new formations, not tactical and operational manoeuvres.
“The side that accepts the attritional nature of war and focuses on destroying enemy forces rather than gaining terrain is most likely to win.”
The West is not prepared for this kind of war. To most Western experts, attritional strategy is counterintuitive. Historically, the West preferred the short ‘winner takes all’ clash of professional armies. Recent war games such as CSIS’s war over Taiwan covered one month of fighting. The possibility that the war would go on never entered the discussion. ”
Like thinking F16s will make a difference in the hands of Ukie pilots who have had a few months training..
Its over, give Putin what he wants and move NATO back to where it was in the 1990s.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/rusi-report-quietly-validates-russias
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I wonder if the eight non-nuclear large submarines being built for Pakistan by China will have lithium batteries. $5billion for the eight, ready in 6years, 4 built in China and 4 in Pakistan.
Maybe Australia should inquire, it might be a better bet!
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