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It’s predicted that the next week is going to be very cold.
Funny how that coincides with the shortest day of the year.
I’m not sure whether atmospheric CO2 level are changing at the moment.
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What amazes me is that fossil fuels which heat our homes are supposed to be heating the planet? The air temperature goes up and down 15C a day as the sun rises and falls, but we have trouble heating our small homes. Why don’t we all just open the windows and doors and heat the entire atmosphere instead of waiting for the sun to come up? Does anyone appreciate the difference in scale?
I know that’s ludicrous, but so is the idea that humans are heating the planet. And that we need a Minister for Climate. It’s all the most ridiculous and deliberate and destructive science fantasy. To stop using our own coal and to destroy our wonderful inherited power plants and build and install very short term windmills and solar panels as fast as we can to stop planetary heating is to shoot ourselves in the feet in the interests of humanity. Unimaginably great self harm for no good reason. It is certainly not science
Given this seemingly endless and amoral public insanity, it would be wrong to legislate euthanasia in any circumstances. Even Joe Biden.
And abortion on demand is a terrible thing, the ultimate consumer society where human life is valueless. But in the case of some politicians the argument could be made for retrospectivety.
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That’s why “powerful greenhouse gases” needed to be promoted, so the scale thing could be swept aside. As long as you talk in big numbers nobody notices.
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TdeF,
Have you ever seen studies of whether our global coal resources, at depths from showing at the durface to (say) a km undergroud, are slowly oxidising way, contributing CO2 to the air?
Is this new a source of CO2 that has not been considered so far? There might be some starting material to investigate from air sampling in underghround coal mines, usually for dangerous gases like CO, but possibly for CO2? Is underground air typically like open air, or enriched? Geoff
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An interesting question Geoff.
While I don’t know the answer I would guess that deep, solid seams of coal would be unlikely to combust for long before being snuffed out by co2 produced.
Spontaneous combustion in crushed coal is a well known issue because oxygen is well mixed in the pile.
Locally, we had an old abandoned, near surface mine which smouldered away for years before a housing estate was eventually built over it, Glebe/Merewether.
CO2, being a bit heavier than most atmospheric gases is likely to smother deep seams, or so it seems.
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And if man made CO2 driven global warming was to be noticeable, it should night time be where solar warming was least and the sun has gone down. This is NOT on the hottest days but the coldest nights. You certainly notice the difference in Melbourne at the moment where with rain/cloud cover it is 10C at night, not 0C.
But the UN/IPCC/Chris Bowen highway to Climate Hell and boiling seas, the climate porn is about peak temperatures in the middle of summer, say in Mecca. For humans, us, the real problem is that of very low temperatures. And that is where it is clear a 50% increased CO2 ‘blanket’ has no effect at all.
So we as a nation keep spending billions on short term windmills to stop the night time warming? Why? Where’s our warming? I mean it.
Isn’t it obvious that after at least 36 years of Global night time warming and thousands of windmills, there isn’t any?
Can we get back to warming coal some time soon? If we are very lucky and footballer Al Gore was right for once, it might even heat the place at night.
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In Melbourne now at 5:25AM. Largely clear skies.
Temp 8.7C
Dew point 8.7C
Rel Humidity 100%
or 7.2G/kG of air. This is 0.7% by weight. Or still 16x CO2.
Maximum humidity . Any cooler and water will condense from the air and it means a warmer night.
Water vapour is a very strong and highly variable greenhouse gas
but it is hardly mentioned. Clouds as liquid water are great reflectors of infra red.
But water vapour has a large effect on night time temperature too. And it is 40x greater than CO2.
And CO2 is nearly constant, year to year, pole to pole. You have to wonder at the alleged size of the effect
compared to water vapour and clouds. And with such a debatable argument and very slow change if any, we are destroying our infrastructure and
taxing businesses out of existence? Why?
Why do we have all this Climate Change (sorry, Clean Energy) infrastructure as if there is a crisis? Where?
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TdeF >You have to wonder at the alleged size of the [CO2] effect compared to water vapour and clouds
Quantified here:
Global atmospheric downward longwave radiation over land surface under all-sky conditions from 1973 to 2008
Wang & Liang (2009)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2009JD011800
Scroll down to:
1. Introduction
5. Decadal Variation in Global Ld next
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5. Decadal Variation in Global Ld
And,
Prada (2008) is paywalled.
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Wang & Liang:
Ok, plenty of sites to look at but I prefer tropical Darwin given plenty of studies there (Darwin also one of the the 20 AmeriFlux sites in W&L09):
Ld fluctuates around 440 W.m2 24/7 unless there’s a monsoon going through:
The Diurnal Cycle of the Boundary Layer, Convection, Clouds, and Surface Radiation in a Coastal Monsoon Environment (Darwin, Australia)
May, Long, and Protat (2012)
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/25/15/jcli-d-11-00538.1.xml
Fig. 5.
Aggregate diurnal all-sky downwelling (solid) and upwelling (dashed) LW for the (top)
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/25/15/full-jcli-d-11-00538.1-f5.jpg
Therefore if total Ld (DLR) is 440 W.m2 at Darwin and CO2 is only about 7 W.m2 at present, about 433 W.m2 at Darwin is attributable to water vapour + clouds + whatever.
There’s a breakdown of all the DLR components somewhere but can’t remember where off-hand.
Might be in one of the references. I may have discovered a free version of Prata (2008) years ago and think that was it but can’t find one now.
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>There’s a breakdown of all the DLR components somewhere but can’t remember where off-hand.
Some pointers in this paper:
Trends and Variability of Atmospheric Downward Longwave Radiation Over China From 1958 to 2015
Wei et al (2020)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020EA001370
Introduction
And,
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>Some pointers in this paper: [Wei]
Guo was a dead end.
Cheng et al., 2017 was instructive to a degree:
An efficient hybrid method for estimating clear-sky surface downward longwave radiation from MODIS data
Cheng, Liang, Wang, and Guo (2017)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016JD026250
1 Introduction
And,
5 Conclusion
The implication of this, if I’m reading it right, is that of an LWDN estimate of 315 W.m2 90% of the variation of it is attributable to CWV (column water vapour).
CO2 is fixed i.e. no variation worth looking into. Of that 315 CO2 accounts for about 7 W.m2 leaving 308 to be apportioned to WV + clouds + whatever.
308 x 90% = 277 W.m2
That is the implied contribution of CWV.
Summary:
315 W.m2 total DLR estimate (typical)
277 W.m2 WV component (implied)
7 W.m2 CO2 component (Std Atm)
31 W.m2 Residual (ozone, cloud water, cloud ice, aerosols, fog)
Caveat Emptor.
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>Prada (2008) is paywalled.
Should be Prata.
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>Prata (2008) is paywalled.
US$71.00
Explains the disappearance of freebees.
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“A new study comprehensively eviscerates a 57-year-old modeling paper upon which nearly the entirety of the IPCC’s CO2-drives-climate paradigm is based.”
https://notrickszone.com/2024/07/12/seminal-1967-paper-introducing-co2-radiative-forcing-is-based-on-assumptive-imaginary-world-modeling/
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Next you’ll be saying Continental Drift is real and that the planet revolves around the sun… oh wait –
1-dimensional Flat Earth cloud-deniers are so yesterday 🤪
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>Dr. Roy Clark has published a new 73-page study
A Nobel Prize for Climate Model Errors – Roy Clark
https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/Clark-2024-Nobel-Prize-Errors.pdf
Dr. Roy Clark is the retired Optics expert (Ventura Photonics) who penned this:
A Null Hypothesis for CO2
Roy Clark, Ph.D. (2010)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1260/0958-305x.21.4.171 [Subscribe – see below]
Also was a submission to the US EPA’s ‘Endangerment finding’ efforts:
A Null Hypothesis For CO2
http://appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/EPA_Submission_RClark.pdf
Unfortunately buried in about 30,000 other submissions.
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Many thanks. Will study later.
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Roy Clark on Manabe and Wetherald (1967), (MW67):
Which it is – solar IR-A/B or DSR.
Terrestrial radiation (DLR), of which CO2 emissions are a small component, is IR-C. Even the IPCC’s Surface Energy Budgets do not tag DLR (IR-C) as “absorbed at surface”.
On the IPCC’s Surface Energy Budgets only solar (DSR) is tagged “absorbed at surface”.
Since the IPCC claim, speculatively, ocean heat rise to reconcile the humungous excess TOA energy that their radiative forcing theory generates with observations, their theory is immediately invalidated.
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Clark:
That subsurface energy rise makes up 93% of the earth’s energy increase in the IPCC’s attribution era.
And yet, completely ignored by MW67.
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>subsurface thermal storage and ocean transport were ignored” in MW67.
Thanks to the Arrhenius model sans ocean:
See Figure 2: The 1896 Arrhenius steady state model
https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/Clark-2024-Nobel-Prize-Errors.pdf
No ocean.
Remember this next time Simon cites Arrhenius.
If he ever comes back.
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Clark:
Probably the best static AO energy explanatory diagram I’ve seen. Roy Clark has refined this from earlier efforts.
Saw a dynamic animation video years ago that showed the above process in motion. Lost in the mists of time unfortunately.
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KK >It’s predicted that the next week is going to be very cold.
Funny how that coincides with the shortest day of the year.
Winter solstice and shortest day was 21st June.
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And on Wednesday the 10th of July, air pressure above NZ broke the carbon ceiling by reaching an unprecedented new high (for the modern era) of 1046.5 hPa – half a hector Pascal higher than before – at Ranfurly, Central Otago in the South Island, which also recorded NZ’s lowest temperature, back in 1903, of -25.6 Celsius 🥶
In 2024, it was only -7 Celsius. Holy Greta we’re doomed!
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That must be due to all the added mass from burning carbon based fuels. The hydrogen part of any fuel just adds to the water vapour which has a retention time of around 8 days in the atmosphere.
Ever wondered why tropical storms produce intense low pressure at the surface?
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The Australian winter solstice (ie shortest daytime) was 21st June, but the shortest day was at aphelion on 5th July. The length of the day at aphelion is about 4 minute less than at perihelion.
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Leo – Gottit.
Shortest daytime is least solar but there’s a weather lag.
I was wondering if KK was referring to the lag i.e. wintery July-August. Appears to coincide somewhat with aphelion.
Always thought it was thermal lag. Is there any weather-aphelion connection?
If so, how can it be physical?
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The annual weather impact of changes in aphelion and perihelion are relatively small but the precession cycle has been the main climate driver for the million years or so since the Isthmus of Panama separated the Tropical Pacific from the Tropical Atlantic.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/16/cycles-in-earths-climate-part-1-the-trend-setters/
The dominant frequency in glaciation is the precession cycle or multiples of the 23,000 year cycle. The current climate optimum being driven just by solar activity is near its peak and there will be a 300 to 400 year decline to a less energetic sun that will mark the end of the present interglacial.
Perihelion and aphelion precess at approximately 15 days per 1000 years (say 23lyr per cycle). In 10,000 years, perihelion will occur in late June and the June sunlight in the NH will be up around 20W/m^2 over present level. But by then everywhere north of 40N will be permanent ice. So fart only Greenland is showing the gain in permanent ice extent.
There is thermal lag to sunlight over the annual cycle. Land temperature lags sunlight by typically one month. Oceans in the NH lag sunlight by 2 months and about 10 weeks in the SH. It takes almost a month for the atmosphere over tropical oceans to equilibrate with the ocean surface. That is why regions like the Bay of Bengal, the Timor Sea, Coral Sea, Caribbean Sea etc will get warmer than 30C before the monsoon sets in. Once cyclic instability sets in, the ocean surface temperature is regulated to 30C.
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Thanks, the comment was very general but based on an observation by a friend. We didn’t go into the fine detail but I gathered he must have been talking about the 5th July event mentioned in another comment here.
Of course the orbital mechanics can do its thing but the chaotic atmosphere is ultimately in charge.
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Sudden stratospheric warming over Antarctica.
‘It is currently unclear whether the stratospheric warming will influence weather closer to the ground in the coming weeks. However, some models are already showing signs that the SSW signal will descend to lower altitudes during the second half of July. If this trend continues, it will increase the likelihood of a shift towards a negative SAM in late July or August.’ (Weatherzone)
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I must admit that while reading Jo’s post “Worlds largest vacuum to suck carbon out of the sky” I immediately thought of Dark Helmet’s line in the movie Spaceballs, “commence Operation Vacu-Suck.”
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Here it is:
https://youtu.be/YNbSauU–h0
(15 sec)
At least, for Spaceballs, we know it’s a harmless joke unlike “the world’s largest vacuum to suck carbon out of the sky” which is a project to deceive the ignorant and no doubt for the Elites to make vast amounts of money exploiting such ignorance.
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I, David Maddison posted that, but someone else’s name popped up!
Plus my name and email aren’t being remembered in the reply box. This happens in different browsers and on a different computer. I am on an Android phone now.
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David,
____Have, and am having that issue right now.
____Information fields are just blank now – not preloaded with another’s details.
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Here it is:
https://youtu.be/YNbSauU–h0
(15 sec)
At least, for Spaceballs, we know it’s a harmless joke unlike “the world’s largest vacuum to suck carbon out of the sky” which is a project to deceive the ignorant and no doubt for the Elites to make vast amounts of money exploiting such ignorance.
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(Repost.)
Here it is:
https://youtu.be/YNbSauU–h0
(15 sec)
At least, for Spaceballs, we know it’s a harmless joke unlike “the world’s largest vacuum to suck carbon out of the sky” which is a project to deceive the ignorant and no doubt for the Elites to make vast amounts of money exploiting such ignorance.
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Didn’t realise Spaceballs had 3 movies to its franchise. Rocky may loose its position but record holder Godzilla (38 films including Japanese and US productions) is safe.
LOL
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Well, well, well. Here we go again.
“Ink dries on new deal to better fight bushfires in NSW | 9 News Australia.
A new contract managing firefighter aircraft in NSW is hoped to make the state more self-sufficient.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDBlngmiRzM
Ok,
Imho, this is your NSW (Australian) tax payer money being wasted…… Your Hospitals, Aged care and Ambulance ramping seem to be ignored. It is business as usual.
Understand a firefighting aircraft is limited in payload. Only a spa size or home swimming pool or two of water can be dropped.
The cycle return is 40 mins or so at best.
In my 30 years experience, that payload means nothing on a large bush fire front .
It works to protect a single property or two, and if you are connected to the right people, you may get preferential service.
I despair.
Sadly, It is what it is.
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Don’t they include fire retardant? Otherwise, I cannot see the point either. It’s a question of scale. Or putting out spot fires to defend a fire break or a specific location or critical infrastructure.
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Were there electric fire-fighting planes in the News report?
Auto – asking for a friend …
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…and can they make them quieter, or space the flights out more or at least change the flight path – same friend wife’s supplementary questions .
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Its about the television news WX. As people in the city tut tut about how bad the situation is, the fire bombers streaming in creates the illusion that the government is doing something to keep the outer suburbs safe. Meanwhile, the blokes on the dozers, chainsaws, LITTLE underfunded local fire services and rakehoe lines are working their backsides off often for days at a time without sleep doing the big picture. No drama there, no swooping planes, no choppers in and out of the smoke just hard work.
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Much depends on how, when and where they are deployed. I lived in Canberra when the big bushfire came into town and judicious use of a airtanker or two, at the right time – when the fire was small and well to the west, in dense forest – could have prevented the disaster. The problem was, the so-called ‘experts’ didn’t think the fire posed much of a threat to the city and so, according to people I knew who had far more knowledge than me, they didn’t hit it hard enough, early enough.
In other words, no amount of expensive equipment is going to help if it isn’t used correctly.
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Has any National Park ever had a fire reduction burn, other than where it buttes onto housing? It seems to be a shock when there is a total conflagration, when it finally ignites?
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I believe that Vic and NSW only cool burn around 2-3% of the forests annually, while WA cool burns around 10%. Guess which state has less severe bushfires.
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Even when our valley was threatened by the severe fires west of Sydney several years ago, the RFS head office would not permit backburning in National Park areas adjacent to threatened farmland.
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Seems that in Qld any untoward effects of a back burn is on the head of whoever OK’d it – hence the reluctance of official use.
And for the record re waterbombing –
A firm in British Columbia was using Martin Mars flying boats as water bombers –
6000 gallons every 15 minutes.
A couple of qualifiers –
You need a Martin Mars flying boat
You need a lake 5 miles long
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_JRM_Mars
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You need a lake 5 miles long
There’s the BIG difference between here and the US. Here we need choppers such as the Erickson Skytrain. But waterbombing is hazardous, burning off much better.
It was a bit of a joke but we once watched a smaller chopper filling a bag from the lake inside the local racecourse to dump on a local fire. In suburbia there would be thousands of swimming pools to fill up from. 🙂
I doubt this is the vid I was looking for but it tells the story.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O2KCYhULWZ8?feature=share
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This young lady wasn’t so lucky.
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuycRQZ59A4
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I also posted this over on Chiefio to get his perspective on US debt which is increasing by a trillion dollars a quarter.
The west’s prosperity was built on reliable, cheap energy, which we all seem determined to throw away via renewables. We are also wallowing in over liberalism where many of its own inhabitants hate the progress and history of the west. Coupled with that, everyone seems to expects the state to bail them out, instead of being self reliant.
Put all the negative factor together as US debt soars to unprecedented levels and unfortunately this article and its headlines seems to sum up the death wishes of the liberal elite, as they run as fast as possible to throw themselves lemming like over the economic and cultural cliff
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/western-economy-on-the-edge-of-the-abyss/
There are far too many parallels with the demise of the Western Roman Empire to be comfortable with. Russia, China et all really do not need to gear up for war as we will surely culturally and economically destroy ourselves?
If we don’t, our over reliance on fragile Digital technology only needs a nudge by our enemies to bring everything crashing down.
As George Orwell nearly said ” The world will end, not with a bang, but a cyber attack.”
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I wrote above about my concern of Todays parallels with the fall of the Western Roman Empire. I therefore could not resist posting this link, which unfortunately sums up much of our over liberalism with this coming academic study on the Eastern Roman Empire
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvard-class-byzantine-empire-study-trans-monks-and-genderless-angels
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Why are Big Macs now so expensive?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2024/05/30/mcdonalds-president-big-mac-price/73910321007/
A basic rule of inflation is that it causes the value of a currency to decline over time. In other words, cash now is worth more than cash in the future. Thus, inflation lets debtors pay lenders back with money worth less than it was when they originally borrowed it.
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Meanwhile, more and more countries are wary of international trades being done in US dollars. Alternative transaction instruments such as BRICS are apparently going to revert to a gold standard. If that succeeds, the US dollar is toast and will plummet in value, making it even harder for America to repay its loans.
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A few months ago at a Brics conference in SA, China, Russia and SA opened their statements with, ‘we are going to stay on the US dollar’. The Saudis are selling individual tanker shipments to China in yuan. The Saudis are converting Chinese refineries to handle Saudi crude.
China encouraged its citizens to buy gold earlier this year. A lot of people did get scammed, and a number of large gold traders have shut down.
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“There are far too many parallels with the demise of the Western Roman Empire to be comfortable with. Russia, China et all really do not need to gear up for war as we will surely culturally and economically destroy ourselves?”
You are right, they are only State actors, our cultural problem is of a different kind as our birthrates plummet and we let thousands of Muslims in. We will simply be out-bred and out-voted, no war necessary.
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In the modern era birthrates plummet around the world as a strong middle class develops.
A young muslim woman in Australia, having lived here for most of her life, is unlikely to mother a large family.
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USA is abusing its status as the world banker. It has done this in a number of ways including running massive government deficits and locking up assets of people it does not like. Using its bankers privilege for political purposes is an abuse of the privilege.
There is a gradual movement away from the USD as the world reserve currency. As that gathers pace, other countries will be unwilling to hold USD debt. China is selling down US debt for example. That means inflation in the USA ramps up because it will no longer get real stuff being traded for its debt. It will be like the UK and have to sell up the farm to foreign interests to maintain its standard of living.
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BoM testing a new website.
How much old daily data could be digitised into the online records for the price of doing this first?
https://beta.bom.gov.au/resources/indigenous-weather-knowledge/indigenous-seasonal-calendars
Seems to be teaching us the traditional way they used the Roman calendar or something.
https://beta.bom.gov.au/
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And they are still pushing “Indigenous weather knowledge” Or what we have to learn on a daily basis from stone age people who had no idea where they lived, no ability to count to ten or leave written records. It’s absurd.
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Still “indigenous weather knowledge” is likely to be more accurate that what the BOM comes up with!
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Not to mention easier to understand.
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A few days ago, chanel 10 TV did the national weather map using only aboriginal place names !
..A total wase of visual imagery for 97% of the population.
( likely for most of the other 3% also, depending on which of the 600+ languages used !)
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A thoughtful article on Soros and the “great reset”. Is it real? Is it merely a conspiracy theory?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-evil-aims-of-the-billionaires-funding-the-great-reset/
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Soros is in the hedge fund brokerage business.
Promoting the “great reset” is good for his business model.
He particularly likes the way woke governments short sell public assets, motivated by aberrant ideology rather than sound economics.
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Lotus e-hypercar wipes out.
https://youtu.be/AiYxEhOjw_M
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****
No, something’s wrong with the site.
I post things then they don’t show up.
Then later they do but they haven’t been in moderation.
And just now some else’s name an email appeared pre-filled in the reply box.
I am on an Android phone and no one else uses it.
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Well, that’s bad David@! You got my attention. I’m not sure what I can do (especially at 4am).
But hopefully we can sort this out!
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Thanks Jo.
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WHY were you awake and on your phone at 4am Jo?? That can’t be good for you!
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Same here,and my name and email address have to be re-entered every time I comment. I use a mac laptop.
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Thanks Gary, I’m glad I’m not the only one having the problem.
Thanks for your attention to this Jo.
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The CIA is getting annoyed by the anti establishment posters?
Have you cleared your browsers caches, especially cookies?
Full system AV/malware scans?
Have you done a search on the errant name and email?
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Also “like” comments don’t work.
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Sounds like your ISP has let loose the cache updating gremlins.
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Sunnica £600m solar farm approved despite objections
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgxqn9v0jdxo
BBC.
It’s in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire – 2500 acres – about 4 square miles, or about 1000 hectares.
“A decision on the plans had been delayed several times, including most recently due to the UK general election. The new energy security secretary, Ed Miliband, said solar power was “crucial to achieving net zero”.
“Mr Miliband added solar power would provide “an abundant source of cleaner, cheaper energy on the mission towards 2030.
“”We will make tough decisions with ambition and urgency – all part of our plan to make the UK a clean energy superpower,” he said.”
And in 2030, or soon after, they’ll need to change the solar panels – if a hailstorm doesn’t bring that day forward sharpish!
“The farm could power 172,000 homes and create 1,500 jobs during construction, with 27 full-time jobs to run it, the company has said.”
Could …
And most of the 27 full-time jobs will be panel cleaning.
“Sunnica said the land used would be decontaminated and returned to its original, largely agricultural, use once the scheme was finished.”
Sunnica did not say that they would decontaminate …
That might – should – add to the costs.
This site appears to be situated at least 52 North.
The Falkland Islands are about 52 South.
Not much sun in ether place in November, December or January [UK], or May, June, July [Falklands].
Another colossal waste of money – 4 square miles of slaver panels!
Auto
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“Sunnica said the land used would be decontaminated and returned to its original, largely agricultural, use once the scheme was finished.”
It will NEVER be returned to its original use! If solar is the way of the future why would any site be discontinued? Unless of course, nuclear is planned to eventually take over.
In the meantime more land will be taken out of food production for these white elephant projects and as many lies as nesseccary will be told to please the gullible.
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Achieving net zero. I’d be inclined to say their efforts to change the weather will achieve absolutely zero.
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Auto, do you know the nameplate power output?
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Found this later –
https://news.sky.com/story/government-approves-three-new-solar-farms-that-could-power-400-000-homes-13177195
“Why you can trust Sky News [honestly, as if … Auto]
“The government has approved three new solar farms, that could power more than 400,000 homes, according to estimates.
“Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has approved the plans for projects at Mallard Pass, Rutland and Lincolnshire, Sunnica in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, and Gate Burton in Lincolnshire.
“According to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), the projects could create a total power of 1.4GW – enough to power 406,994 homes. In total, the farms will cover 2,837 hectares.”
So, roughly a third of 1.4GW [nameplate]. A little further south than the other two [Gate Burton is 53 North], so – benefit of the doubt – about 500 MW nameplate [my estimate].
More –
https://sunnica.co.uk – the developer, which, presumably,. wishes to make money from this – but, I fear, largely from subsidies – though it is supposed to include a Battery Energy Storage Site. But not easy to find a nameplate.
And the estimate of the ‘number of houses’ may well be based on current [no EV, no Heat pump] consumption.
Auto
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This is what passes for BBC’s prayer for the day these days. 2nd July 2024.
“Good morning.
Radio may not be the best place to learn about the amazing eco system that is the Great Barrier Reef in Australia but I was particularly taken with a short piece on the Today programme about the challenges it faces.
Extending for thousands of kilometres, the Great Barrier Reef is home to countless micro habitats, each of which provides a home for more than 1,600 species of fish, dolphins and whales and six of the world’s seven species of marine turtles. No one reef looks like another. Their beauty – and their strength – lies in their diversity.
However, the rise in ocean temperatures has led to severe bleaching and decay and recent cyclones have caused large areas of the reef to fracture into coral skeletons. Without intervention the coral will simply break up and die.
Yet marine scientists are rising to the challenge. Massive seawater misters are being deployed to create fog over reefs exposed to too much sunlight and thousands of living coral fragments are being planted to enable reef renewal.
We are not the first generation to feel overwhelmed by challenges to faith and to Christian values. Nor are we immune from the temptation to think that there is nothing much we can do, that decline is inevitable.
But like the coral scientists we will need to be both creative and systematic in finding solutions to enable our own hugely complex ‘barrier reef’ church home to thrive once more. Jesus talks about the way the grain of wheat has to die before the crop can be harvested. What new fragments do we need to be planting?
Lord, in all the challenges be our guide, for we put our trust in you.”
End.
Apart from the now everyday replacement of the content of various unrelated BBC features with political propaganda, not just climate, what struck me is the enormous arrogance to think that the puny efforts of scientists will make any significant difference to something that has evolved over and survived millions of years.
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Strange.
I would have thought that a rise in ocean temperatures would cause coral to be more widespread. And that the main cause of coral bleaching is shallow tides.
Just goes to show that I’m no expert.
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Most bleaching events on the GBR are related to El Nino and a periodic drop in sea level, exposing coral to direct radiation.
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FWIW – developments on the covid scene
“Sometimes, small developments signal massive changes. One such signal unexpectedly appeared last week in a ‘study’ (a “Perspective”) that popped up in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, succinctly titled “Funding Postauthorization Vaccine-Safety Science.” ”
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2402379
“The Perspective’s unremarkable premise was that governments should not only require minimal safety testing from vaccine manufacturers for initial approval, but agencies should also continue tracking vaccines’ real-life performance after approval. The authors strongly argued we need to figure out the real-world, long-term risks from vaccines, however rare they might (or might not) be, and which for whatever reason might not have shown up in the drugs’ initial approval studies.
In other words, they argued we should keep checking vaccines after authorizing them, instead of drinking a few more espresso martinis and singing “safe and effective” at the karaoke booth until the bar closes.”
“While you might think that is just common sense, you are not an expert. Experts, unlike you dummies, have no need for common sense. They have grants.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/generic-vegetable-friday-july-12?
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IIRC – didn’t Pfizzer and Moderna nix continued tracking requirements by vaccinating their controls?
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FWIW
“Systematic suppression of the truth – covid vaccines are linked to cancer and death”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/systematic-suppression-of-the-truth-covid-vaccines-are-linked-to-cancer-and-death/
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FWIW
“Senate Panel’s Probe Into COVID-19’s Origin Brings Us Closer to Truth”
“Did you know that four months before the world had ever heard of COVID-19—on Sept. 3, 2019—authorities in the Veneto region of Italy discovered COVID-19 antibodies in local blood samples.
Of course, you didn’t.
The deadly and mysterious COVID-19 was around much longer than anyone had previously suspected. ”
More at
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/11/senate-panels-probe-covid-19s-origin-brings-us-closer-truth/
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Italy, particularly Northern Italy was/is the canary in the covid coal mine. The Italian authorities have always been diligent when it came to seasonal flu and the vaccines were widely available and free. In 2015 they blazed the trail with a new quadrivalent influenza vaccine and in 2017 the flu vaccines were derived (cultured from dog kidney tissue, specifically Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cells, for the growth and production of vaccine viruses.
Then, unofficially as detailed in your article link, covid arrives at some time and blazes its trail through a population with personal immune systems that have been exposed to all the above new forms of vax and, study needed, therefore probably weakened or at best totally mucked up.
Coupled with all the Chinese nationals working in the Chinese owned factories producing the knock-off goods that can legally claim “Made In Italy” selling status and no wonder grandma and granddad shuffled off in such vast numbers.
So it is very good that the Italian quilt is starting to take shape.
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My Son & His Family having skied in Italy from Switzerland, in Crowded Gondola’s, all got an extremely bad dose of Covid Early January 2020
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This short 1-pager (Research letter) reports a case of a 4 year old child in November 2019:
The sequence (SARS-CoV-2_Milan_Dec2019 [GenBank accession no. MW303957]) was identified in a specimen collected from a 4-year-old boy who lived in the surrounding area of Milan and had no reported travel history. On November 21st, the child had cough and rhinitis; about a week later (November 30th), he was taken to the emergency department with respiratory symptoms and vomiting.
Apparently he experienced Kawasaki disease (body rash similar to measles) which raises the antenna given how shingles was identified by Israeli medicals as occurring in many of the early vaccinated.
Trust the family all recovered 100% and still enjoy skiing – though not in Italy lol. Cheers
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That is really interesting – re the previous use of vaccines in northern Italy & the possible immune effects.
I have to say that the devastating effects of C19 in Northern Italy in 2020 really initially spooked me, as it affected not only the elderly population but the the attending medical staff. A twitter feed from a nurse was particularly scary. It has taken a long while for all the info to emerge – eg the above info on extensive tax program. I also suspect the medical staff suffered from viral overload in those early days.
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Vicki. Greetings. A bit more on the Italian experience during the 2014 flu vaccine program. Italy removed 2 batches of Novartis’s Fluad vaccine after 13 elderly Italians died within 48 hours of getting it. (Safe and effective yeah right). According to the article the situation at the time that the batches were being removed:
Italy’s health ministry says there are more than 3.5 million doses of Novartis’s Fluad in circulation as part of the country’s flu-vaccine campaign. Luca Pani, head of AIFA, told reporters Monday that 1 million doses have already been used in Italy
Really concerning that 13 died however the bigger concern should have been there are upto 1 million seniors who survived (other batches) so what other thangs could now be going on in their bodies as far as maybe becoming incubators for future flu strains to the point of even helping future infectious strains mutate into more powerful strains. A big concern of mRNA has been how the liquid did not remain in the arm (point of admission) but flowed around the body and accumulated in different organs. Obvious question well did the accumulation ultimately die out or like a cancer is it just sitting there for the next call to (h)arms.
Here is a good article from Science Daily which gives a run down on issues faced after the WHO decide on what flu vaccine to produce:
“One common problem, however, is that the viruses chosen for vaccines often mutate in the process of production, creating mismatches between seasonal flu viruses and the vaccine in any give flu season.
Jo did a great article some time back on leaky vaccines including the devastation experience with chickens because of the supposed (safe and effective) Marek’s disease vaccine. Now we have bird flu coming to the fore. Seems chickens can be hatched in incubators but then they can maybe become incubators themselves.
And if you aren’t sitting down already this will knock you off your feel – try some background on the addition of adjuvants that some of our medical “experts” have been playing with to supposedly boost immunity effectiveness – 2min30sec video. What are the implications/dangers of over-stimulating elements of a human’s natural immunity when the “vaccine” is pumped in but there is nothing to fight?
Suddenly that Shakespearean scene of witches around a cauldron tossing in this element and that element hoping that somehow the potion about to come out will do all things to everyone only it would seem the witches are now mad scientists’ hell bent on using humans to test out their potions in the hope of getting rich and famous.
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Biden referred to his Vice Pres Trump. Maybe VP Trump will run against Pres. Trump. Works for me.
I have not enjoyed politics this much for a long time.
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And lest we forget President Putin of Ukra!ne.
Team Blue are Biden den!ers – the real man-made catastrophe.
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There, in future if our civilisation survives, will be serious deliberations on that issue: was the path to catastrophe natural or man-made
Desire to dominate is natural for any creature from viruses to Putin, who over the years proved it by his words and actions and, probably would get Ukraine anyway, with much less blood and self harm, by normal intimidation, buying people off, etc,..
Man-made trigger was a 30-second POTUS declaration, to the effect that we will not defend Ukraine.
Maybe he did not mean it, maybe in his head it sounded very statesmanlike but events are on the roll. We know nothing about tomorrow …
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FWIW – a dose of applied scepticism
“What did virtue signaling Tanya learn?”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/what-did-virtue-signaling-tanya-learn.html
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That ABBArigines need a lot more money?
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‘Don’t sit on the red dirt in white pants suit.’
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“Craziest Training Video”: Anti-Woke Crusade Goes After John Deere
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/craziest-training-video-anti-woke-crusade-goes-after-john-deere
Several X posts, like this:
Memes: “John Qweere”, “Juan Deere” (jobs going to Mexico).
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Hi Jo
FYI – WordPress gets a mention in comments here
“Something weird is going on with Comments”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/07/something-weird-is-going-on-with.html
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That must be what’s happening to me.
Good find Ian.
Not Jo’s fault of course, but as one of the comments at your link says it’s, “closer to (US) election time”.
This is what many platform owners are doing (not Jo).
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Can’t believe I’m recommending something on SBS but on 32 World Movies watch out for “Men”. It’s a good old fashioned horror/supernatural fillum which gets past an early man-bashing message and into some proper scares and gore with great special effects.
IMDB scored it 7.1, Rotten Tomatoes critics 69%, audience 39% (I presume millenials).
Best to watch in the dark, in a creaky old house.
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Ah, the end of NAIDOC week. I celebrated by reading the life story of 2 sisters who were the last native Aborigines to come in from the Western Desert in the 60’s. It’s called Two Sisters, a short read with the story reproduced in traditional language! I’ve read plenty of early journals and such of the harsh realities of traditional life but there’s this little paragraph that’s a new one for me –
Available in the library. Much more reality in the rest of the book. Recommended read.
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Since the native Australia’s where hunter gatherers and moved camp regulary, the lubras could only carry one child under the age of two with them.
This then led to the practice of infantacide if a lubra fell pregnent in the year after giving birth.
Infanticide could have been as high as 40% to 50% of all births, and the population could have survived. In actuality infanticide rates were lower, and probably ranged from 15% to 30% of all births.
Where are the Abiriginal activists on this one?
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2021/12/infanticide-in-traditional-aboriginal-society/
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China’s factories are closing down and moving, to other regions in China. Not to Vietnam or Mexico. (video)
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Indonesia Launches ‘Tariff War’ With China! Rates Soar to 200%! What China Feared Has Happened (video)
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THE DAILY CHART: NON-WORKING FEDS
As John has covered, there is a lot of hysteria on the left these days about Project 2025, and above all the idea that a President Trump might actually run the executive branch.
The left is so used to a bureaucracy that runs autonomously from the expressed will of the people, not to mention the constitutional power of the chief executive, that they can’t fathom the thought of a president actually deciding to fire bureaucrats and give them firm orders about what to do.
But maybe this is a self-correcting problem? It seems that a lot of federal workers in Washington (Canberra/State & Territory Govts/Local Councils) got used to (not) working at home during Covid, and still aren’t coming into the office:
Federal Workers – 30% Remote: Full Time vs 12 % All Workers – Federal Workers 94% Remote: Full Time or Hydrid vs 36% All Workers – Federal Workers Onsite: Full Time 6% vs All Workers 64%
It is annoying to be paying the salaries of federal employees who don’t show up for work, but this has the character of the old joke about ambivalence being the sensation when you see your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your brand new Cadillac.
If we can’t fire them, maybe paying feds not to work would still be a bargain for Americans, given how much damage they do when they do show up for work.
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What did virtue signaling Tanya learn?
An inner suburban, multimillionaire, leftist heads to the outback on a taxpayer covered junket.
Designer clothes and all … and a team of advisors in tow.
She meets an Aboriginal person and poses to get a photo taken….
Then Brave Tanya claims to have learned things.
Apparently, “It was an honour”.
What did Tanya learn? How much did this fabricated feel good scenario cost the taxpayer?
(Hey it’s only Taxpayer Money – As Labor Federal & State Governments, it’s a Money Tree of Taxes, so we can spend on useless things – The Voice Anyone?)
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I seem to recall that a company now called “X” was sold and the worker population “re-aligned” without seemingly reducing the functionality of the company.
Should this apply in the case of government departments?
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Test.
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– CIA
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DON’T WATCH IF YOU LIKE WIND TURBINES
“Blood on the blades”
You won’t see this happen tens of thousands of times off shore.
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Just for perspective:
https://imgbox.com/lekzSrkK
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Interesting Analysis – Can the West Still Win? Analyzing Claims of Ukraine’s Coming Tech Supremacy Over Russia
SIMPLICIUS. JUL 12, 2024 ∙ PAID
Welcome to this month’s first exclusive paid content. It’s another thorough, ~5,400 word article that seeks to answer the question I’ve been asked by some readers over the past few months: is there a possibility that Ukraine can still achieve victory in this war? I look at the question through the technological lens, as whatever real chance at victory Ukraine may have remains tied into its one and only arguable advantage: the Western-supplied drone and AI tech.
I leave the first ~2,000 words open to free subscribers: if you like what you read, please consider signing up for a paid subscription today, so you don’t miss my most hard-hitting exclusive content in the future.
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Although I imagine wind turbines kill a small subset of “birds”, their size being quite different to the fantasy figures for cats for example. Turbines won’t kill sparrows or Indian Mynas, while cats won’t kill Wedge-tails or Bald Eagles. Turbines effect on a population of a particular species will be different to the impression given there.
We’ve had cats for 40years, we used to breed Abyssinians, and I can tell you right now they eat mostly lizards, then mice, and lastly small birds. The calories in a bird compared to the effort to catch it make them well down the list, contrary to what anti-cat researchers can promote.
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There are only around 200 nesting pairs of eagles left in Tasmania. Yet the state continues to approve more wind turbines.
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Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain is brilliant on the NDIS
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Excellent, but she could use that movie for ANY Govt welfare program, all the way down to the Ministry of Women’s affairs!
Welfare, Education, Health.. all places for just flushing taxpayer money down the toilet!
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And Would be for the Liberals in Australia!
Nationwide school choice: a winner for Trump — and America’s kids
Now, red states are unleashing education freedom through education savings accounts, vouchers and other school choice initiatives— but blue states have a long way to go.
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Public School Spending Increasing Faster Than Test Scores, Report Finds – Same in Australia
New research indicates that U.S. public school spending has doubled since 2003, outpacing the rate of inflation and showing no clear correlation between more dollars per pupil and higher eighth-grade math and fourth-grade reading scores.
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Tweet from Elon Musk.
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Los Angeles Times Opinion
Editorial: One candidate is patently unfit for the White House. It’s not Biden
The Times Editorial Board
Democrats are in crisis at the moment, divided over whether President Biden should stay in the race after his disastrous debate last month or clear the way for another, younger candidate.
Biden’s shaky performance raised concerns about whether he can win in November, and prompted calls from prominent Democrats, columnists and others for him to step aside. It’s up to the Democratic Party to sort this out.
But it’s time to refocus attention on the only candidate in the race who is patently unfit for office — any office — and an imminent threat to democracy: Donald Trump.
It’s unbelievable that the nation is spending so much time on the question of Biden’s verbal acuity, when the greatest concern ought to be that his challenger is a self-aggrandizing felon and twice-impeached election-denier. Trump fomented the Jan. 6 insurrection, shows contempt for the rule of law and shamelessly lies in pursuit of more power. He’s an authoritarian who admires murderous despots, wants to jail his political enemies and has publicly flirted with declaring himself a dictator on his first day back in office
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Jo – Your Blog gets a Mention
‘Largest ever’ carbon vacuum nicknamed ‘Mammoth’ goes online, promises to remove 1/1,000,000th of annual emissions with a hefty price tag
First, the story, from a report out at The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday:
In May this year, on the flat plains of an Icelandic geothermal reserve, a gigantic vacuum cleaner designed to suck planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the sky was switched on.
The machine, called Mammoth, would not be entirely out of place on a Mad Max set. It will soon start extracting up to 36,000 tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere a year to be fossilised, locking it safely and permanently underground.
And, here’s some context, from one of my favorites, the Jo Nova blog:
In a world where humans make 37 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually the project will be able to remove 36,000 tons of CO2 each year, which is approximately one millionth of human annual emissions.
Cost estimates are said to be ‘closer to $1,000 a ton’ to remove the CO2. Effectively, we’re spending 36 million dollars US to convert one millionth of human annual emissions of a fertilizing gas into limestone rock we don’t need.
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BREAKING: “Coordinated Democrat Rebellion” to Unfold Over the Next 48 Hours as the Largest Pro-Biden Super PAC Freezes $90 Million in Pledged Donations
This comes after Joe Biden’s disastrous “Big Boy” solo press conference Thursday evening where he called Kamala Harris “Vice President Trump.”
“Some major Democratic donors have told the largest pro-Biden super PAC, Future Forward, that roughly $90 million in pledged donations is now on hold if President Biden remains atop the ticket, according to two people who have been briefed on the conversations,” The New York Times reported.
“The frozen contributions come as he had hoped to turn the page on a weekslong crisis within his party following a nearly hourlong news conference on Thursday evening. That appearance — in which he delivered a few gaffes but also demonstrated a command of foreign policy — did not immediately seem to worsen Democrats’ fears about his viability, but it also did not silence the calls for him to drop out. After he was done speaking, three more House members joined the ranks of elected Democrats calling for Mr. Biden to end his campaign,” the Times reported.
https://www.cuzzblue.com/2024/07/breaking-coordinated-democrat-rebellion.html
And a lot want their donations refunded too.
Bye Joe. And stay out!
Who’s remotely likeable and competent to replace him?
Absolutely not Harris.
Hillary?
They really need a staged crisis to prevent the election…
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‘Who’s remotely likeable and competent to replace him?’
Kennedy, with Tucker Carlson his VP.
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A George Clooney / Taylor Swift ticket is doubtful at 500/1.
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Thank God for that!
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Any moves in the polls now will happen at the speed of treacle. Biden’s popularity has bottomed, he has the “blue no matter who” solid base with him, or as the “ladies” on the View say, they would vote for Biden in an urn.
Trump has hit his peak, 40% of the electorate has TDS.
It is going to be a close for the Presidency, the Senate should move a few seats to be a small (R) majority but I have no idea about the house.
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Babies Are Having HEART ATTACKS in the Womb
Dr. James Thorp, OBGYN with 43 years of experience, explains the devastating consequences of COVID vaccination
“I don’t know if there is any other physician in the country that sees as many patients as I do by ultrasound, so I know what’s going on. I’ve seen death and destruction like I’ve never seen before.
There is a 1200x increase in menstrual abnormalities.
When we look at pregnancy, there is a substantial and significant increase in miscarriages, birth defects, fetal cardiac arrhythmia, fetal cardiac malformations, fetal growth slowing, reduction in amniotic fluid, and fetal cardiac arrest.”
“Are you saying that babies are having heart attacks in the womb?”
“Yes. The vaccine is causing a significant inflammatory effect.”
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/unconscionable-evil-babies-are-having
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Never forget, never forgive. These fiends who still recommend the jab are evil.
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Interesting Analysis – Can the West Still Win? Analyzing Claims of Ukraine’s Coming Tech Supremacy Over Russia
SIMPLICIUS. JUL 12, 2024 ∙ PAID
Welcome to this month’s first exclusive paid content. It’s another thorough, ~5,400 word article that seeks to answer the question I’ve been asked by some readers over the past few months: is there a possibility that Ukraine can still achieve victory in this war? I look at the question through the technological lens, as whatever real chance at victory Ukraine may have remains tied into its one and only arguable advantage: the Western-supplied drone and AI tech.
I leave the first ~2,000 words open to free subscribers: if you like what you read, please consider signing up for a paid subscription today, so you don’t miss my most hard-hitting exclusive content in the future.
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And from another even longer report by Russian military analyst Alexey Zhivov, we have the following—read the frightening text in full to get a detailed first-look at the DARPA-led initiative:
A new type of war: what did we face during the Kharkov operation?
I wrote before, and confirmed from various sources, that the “North” group, after a spectacular “first round,” got bogged down in the subsequent “clinch” in Volchansk and Liptsy.
There are two types of reasons that led to this. Ordinary and extraordinary.
But no one has really understood the extraordinary reasons yet . Basically, they boil down to the fact that the enemy has superiority in low air (attack and reconnaissance drones), while we lack effective trench- and army-type electronic warfare systems.
But it’s not that.
Last year, NATO, together with the Ukrainian Armed Forces , began testing a full-fledged system of decentralized battle control based on special multi-layer military programs with artificial intelligence. Let’s call it “military Google.” DARPA is putting the lion’s share of money into multi-domain warfare .
The essence of this military-analytical complex is that it is capable of “seeing the entire front” and processing colossal volumes of combat data per second. This fundamentally changes the picture of a battle with an army that has a classic (and not very reliable) military connection.
Wings, FPV Mavics and guided bombs make up a new type of attack and reconnaissance system. Many storm wounded did not see a single enemy soldier. The captured FPV operator had 50 drones, two Starlinks, and antennas worth 10 million in his landing. It was some grandfather who had been a nightmare for the month of Voznesenovka.
This is a completely different level of battlefield organization.
[SNIP]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxPS5uUqw0Y
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Ukraine can’t beat Russia.
The west can’t beat Russia.
Ukraine + the west can’t beat Russia.
Ukraine + the west absolutely can’t beat Russia + China + N.Korea + Iran + other BRICS alliance countries.
Every day you wait for the event that will change everything, but they keep moving the goal posts so the party just goes on and on, getting worse and worse, until they collapse under their own weight.
It won’t happen overnight but it will happen.
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This guy would disagree with you. Apparently Russia is on its knees and we must beat Russia in Ukraine as a western union that will show China to forget about Taiwan. we are too strong for you. Simple as that. Oh, and Trump must be stopped before he ends the war, via capitulation to Russia.
It’s one way to go about it I guess, will cost a lot of money and lives though.
Trump has one hell of a time in front of him shall he win. He will be opposed by the entire administration and war machine, like this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08dmvjo15hg
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Trump? what is it – Agenda 2025? – doing a Milei?
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Russia is dying the death of a thousand cuts, administered by a proxy using obsolescent western arms.
I don’t like the way things are going, NATO should get involved on the grounds of war crimes such as bombing hospitals and stop the bloodshed in a week.
If you think I talk shite search on how Operation Desert Storm cleaned up Saddam. The Yanks were serious, the F117 night hawks went in first followed by different aircraft types as defences were neutralised. The cavalry cleaned up the tanks at 73 Easting and the final butchery on the only road out of Kuwait was so grotesque the public insisted the war be stopped before Baghdad was forced to surrender. Mistake.
The US has the army and airforce to fight Russia in Europe and the navy and marines to curtail China in the pacific.
Well over 1,000 F35s have been built and combined with older aircraft such as FA18s as missile trucks beside them, there is no way any force could survive if/when the West gets serious.
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Four hours is sounding like censorship.
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Ukrainian Men Desperate to Escape War Are Drowning as They Flee
VELYKIY BYCHKIV, Ukraine—It was seven weeks after Pvt. Ivan Pidmalivskiy had been due back on the front line with Russia when rescuers pulled his lifeless body from a river on Ukraine’s western edge.
His death added to a toll of more than two dozen other men who have drowned in the River Tysa since Russia invaded, many of them fugitives from a military draft aimed at sustaining Ukraine’s war effort. Pidmalivskiy was different: He had fought for two years after returning to Ukraine from abroad to defend his country.
The bodies in the river are a grim manifestation of one of the biggest issues facing Ukraine as the war enters its third summer without a clear path to victory. Many of the men who initially mobilized to repel Russia’s invasion are dead, missing or wounded—and the rest are worn out from more than two years of brutal combat. Ukraine’s government has struggled to replace them after dragging its feet over a politically unpopular decision to expand the draft. A wartime law bans men aged between 18 and 60 from leaving Ukraine. Still, tens of thousands have fled the country illegally and many are lying low to avoid conscription.
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Ah the reality of war vs the rhetoric. Don’t see much mention of dead Ukrainians on the news. I wonder why?
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I hear that there are plenty of young men in Kiev who are apparently not worried – well connected – please correct me if I’m wrong.
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Young men from Moscow and St Petersburg are avoiding the draft as well. What’s your point?
The high Ru death toll is disproportionately minorities and criminals, that’s why Poots has avoided a universal draft.
This seems a couple of years out of date. Maybe young Russians aren’t to keen on dying either.
Russian emigration during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine that started in late February 2022, more than 300,000 Russian citizens and residents are estimated to have left Russia by mid-March 2022, at least 500,000 by the end of August 2022, and an additional 400,000 by early October, for a total of approximately 900,000. Wikipedia
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How reality has changed
1998: “Don’t get in a car with strangers!”
2008: “Don’t meet people from the internet alone!”
2019: UBER…Order yourself a stranger from the internet and get into a car with him alone!
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FWIW
“I Should HATE This, But I Don’t”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/07/12/i-should-hate-this-but-i-dont-n3791728
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Interesting piece on ZH about the opposite imperatives of AI and Nett Zero. Neither of which really matter but have the makings of a train wreck.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/big-wreck-about-happen-intersection-artificial-intelligence-boulevard-and-net-zero-avenue
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ZH quoting Pickering Energy Partners:
Then,
Bottom line:
Reality is fast-approaching and it involves a lot of fossil fuels and a lot of nuclear.
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Even though I expected it, the news that Alec Baldwin won’t face justice for shooting Halyna Hutchins makes my blood boil. I can’t even bring myself to describe the ridiculous excuse used to ‘dismiss’ the trial, but it essentially boils down to the local police allegedly withheld evidence related to how live rounds ended up in his gun.
Really? So how come the armourer is in jail? How could she be convicted if the presence of live rounds on set can’t be explained? If there is doubt as to how they got there, how can she be responsible for them being there?
As I said, I expected this. Baldwin is a darling of the Democrats and a certified Trump-hater who mocks him on TV, so of course the Democrat-controlled ‘justice’ system is going to look after him.
Typing this has made my blood boil even more. That we’re living in a democracy with impartial law truly is an illusion these days.
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Saturday funny: solve the Captcha
https://imgbox.com/8XplEPI1
😆
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>solve the Captcha
Biden Admin was advertising for a Meme Manager.
How will They/Them “manage” that one?
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EV Curse: Lexus, Porsche and Mercedes all struggling to sell EVs (video)
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Alleged spy Kira Korolev takes in the sites of Canberra.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-13/kira-korolev-from-youtube-videos-to-accused-russian-spy-asio-afp/104090092
Careful what tourist photos you post on your life-log feeds – you may be accused of ‘taking in sites’ rather than the ‘Sights’….
More concerned how someone with a rank of private had access to information of value to foreign governments … doesn’t sound very ‘need to know’ to me.
An exchange administrator I worked with in Government in 90s used to wear a T-shirt to work ‘I read your e-mail’ – I am not sure any of the higher ups understand yet that this is not a joke!
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