Image by Jacqueline Wales from Pixabay
By Jo Nova
The modern media is like a form of hypnosis
Lord help us all. Climate change might wreck Ayers Rock, I mean Uluru. It’s been baking in the desert for 550 million years, but another half a degree C and it’s in “peril“. (You had to use the hair-dryer…)
It’s such bad luck. “Climate change” could hit anywhere but it’s going to hit airports, vineyards, national parks, and Bondi Beach? It’s ruining holidays and your favourite symbols. It’s so unfair.
I thought this was surely an AI joke, or a grade school project, but Graham Readfearn put his name on it and the Guardian editors didn’t run away. The whole story is a keyword salad of hot button words and random numbers. 620,000 tourism jobs will be at risk they say mindlessly, as if 26 million Australians will stop having holidays and 10 million international guests will stay home, scared off by a one degree Fahrenheit rise.
Almost 68% of Australia’s tourism sites at major risk if climate crisis continues, report says
Uluru, the Daintree and Bondi beach among iconic Australian locations that could be impacted if planet hits even 2C of warming by 2050
Who comes up with these headlines: “almost 68%”? What is that? They could have said, well ….”67″. They could have said 2 out of 3, but they had to drop some meaningless specificity in there to give these chicken entrails the appearance of “scienctifiiness”. As if the error bars on this analysis don’t reach plus or minus 100.
The basis is that some people who want to sell us insurance have helpfully done a report telling us which industries, towns, airports and businesses will be mercilessly crushed by the Climate Gorgon. Given the dismal state of the climate models, these are the modern equivalent of Shamanic Spells.
I’m sure the Zurich-Mandala team did good work on the economic costs and losses, but they start with IPCC climate models, so they might as well be analyzing the Land at the top of the Magic Faraway Tree.
Even the media know this is a nothing-burger
For some reason even Bloomberg thought there was something newsworthy about this new “index”:
Australian Airports Face Costly Fight Against Worst Climate Risk
The index calculated for the first time the risk from climate change to Australia’s A$170 billion ($114 billion) tourism sector. It studied 178 sites, ranging from Sydney Airport and Bondi Beach to the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Uluru, using Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change modeling and proprietary impact assessments.
Though hold off with the SWAT Team:
Assuming 2C of warming, by 2050 the proportion of Australia’s tourism sites in the three highest climate-risk categories will rise from 50% to 55%, the report said.
So the writers at Bloomberg know there’s nothing there. To put it bluntly: if half a degree more warming happens by 2050, (and if the models are right, which they rarely are) a big 5% of Australian tourist sites will shift from one arbitrary category to a slightly worse one? That’s as bad as it gets.
So much of what we call news is so absurd, yet repetitive, at best, it’s a kind of trance with a drip drip drip feed…
Actually, tourism at Ayers Rock is in peril ever since they introduced race-based access to climbing the rock. Without this option, the place is barely worth visiting. Similarly for many other areas for which access is now race-based such as Mt Warning and Mt Arapiles.
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With the 15 minute cities, and no private transport there will be no tourism at all!
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When exactly will Australia ban gasoline cars? Cleaner air will attract millions of tourists.
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George you curious!
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You will notice that the great majority of tourists in Australia hang around the cities … so the air is probably already quite clean enough.
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But hang on. Doesn’t the urban heat effect specify urbanites are already experiencing the 1.5-2C warming
we are told will be a crisis for the rest of humanity? Did they not notice? Or is it really the fact
that in our daily and seasonal range of temperatures, we cannot in all honestly feel the difference.
Yes, it’s been warming for the past 50 years, but the actual global rate of 0.1C per decade isn’t unusual
or in any way scary. So, what’s the fuss all about then? Who gains from scaring the public over climate?
Think about it.
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” Who gains from scaring the public over climate?”
Surely not … Follow the Money!?!!
Heaps of money – from taxpayers, bill-payers, er, is there anyone else?
Ahhh.
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Lake Eyre is another place where access is now race-based.
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I did fly over Lake Eyre on tour. But when will that be extended to ban high altitude flights from Europe? After all, these jets are desecrating the stars and the blue sky with vapour trails. You just have to invent a complaint and receive compensation. It’s a wonder riverboats and the ocean ships are not prohibited as well, given the neolithic aborigines did not have any. What about windmills? Surely they are an affront, especially at sea. Sacred turtles, whales etc.
It’s an insane situation where one side gets everything and the other is told they are not welcome. Legislated extreme racism in the name of anti racism.
There is a possibility of a deal. Aboriginal groups stop complaining about everyone else and using inventions like cloth and soap and metal and cars and alcohol and bread and cheese. And we continue to hand over $42Billion a year for being first here. No group in history owned a place including the sky, the water and the rocks simply because they were first there. No one should get everything for nothing.
And there has to be a genetic definition of an aborigine. Otherwise everyone should tick the box. My family has been here five generations and some seven generations. When do we get to be aborigines with handouts?
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The author of the report delivered a pre determined survey. I reckon he didn’t even leave his office. Will be repeated by MSM for sheep to feed on.
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The author could make a fortune producing manure for agriculture. I cleaned that up
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He has Bruce Pascoe as a tutor. He saw how uncle Bruce of the Farkawi tribe made a fortune out of cattle dung so figured he could do the same. The Green blob has to keep the scam going because an awful lot of awful people are making an awful lot of taxpayer money their own by sprouting this kind of rubbish. BTW who will take the Albanese government to the disinformation bureau for its false hood loaded take down of Dutton’s nuclear plan? It relies on the CSIRO, the most unreliable agency spruiking for the unreliables industry. Talk about the blind leading the blind.
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I already suggested a campaign to start ticking off all newborn Australians as indigenous on all government Forms.
Myself (and my grandsons…) bit late but maybe there is still a chance with my great grandchildren:
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I agree David! I’m just wondering what the authorities could really do if busloads of Australians invaded these places? The more we pander to their inane welcome to country and smoking ceremonies the worse it will get!!!
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Let the indigenous custodians sort it out, we white fellas ain’t allowed there any more.
Maybe their rainbow serpent can help.
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Remove taxpayer funds for a start and make then self reliant. Betcha they would have us climbing the rock within a week. Not until there is a monetary price to pay will Aborigines stop destroying Australia. Close Jabiluka; subtract the potential royalties from the Aborigine budget.
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>we white fellas
Stop identifying as a whitefella you box ticker!
What are you? A racist?
Race is just a social construct remember so anyone can be a whitefella, what makes you so special?
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Reasonably sure the holiday places around The Rock have lost millions since its closure for starters. Secondly anyone believing any of the climate garbage need their sanity checked. Rumour and scaremongers one and all!
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Visitors to Ayres Rock by year. As you say, notably less visitors since climbing closed. Here’s the numbers.
2018 – 370,408
2019 – 406,821 (climbing closed in Oct 2019)
2020 – 93,221 (covid affected)
2021 – 127,981 (covid affected)
2022 – 222,118
2023 – 164,678 (figure up to Oct, but tracking less than 2022)
https://camperchamp.com.au/statistics/australia/northern-territory-tourism/
If there’s any doubt that the climb closure hasn’t affected visitor numbers and someone wants to claim that tourism in the NT is down anyway. Across the 22 Parks/Reserves/George Brown Gardens/Territory Wildlife Park there were 3.75mil visitors in 2019 when Uluru visitation peaked. In 2023 the same locations has increased to 3.92mil visitors but Uluru has notably decreased.
https://depws.nt.gov.au/parks-and-wildlife-commission/parks-and-wildlife-statistics-and-research/park-visitor-data
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it would be interesting to see how much the tourism has decreased since the ban was introduced. why would anybody spend 3 days out of a itinerary to visit the rock when all you can do is see what you can see on the brochure. Visiting Australia, the time needed to visit Ayers Rock and do nothing is not worth the time to do it
read the trip advisor reviews….most of them are scathing
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See the tourism stats above at #1.6
I knew you were going to ask 🙂
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I almost went there for a big star party in about August 1994 by Tom Clark who was the organizer of the star party event it would have been glorious if I had been able to do it, but at least these days I can use my 18″ F4.75 Newtonian Dobsonian telescope more locally and without too much trouble.
Meanwhile the idea that a small change in temperature in nature is going to cause chaos is silly since there have been a 100 MILLION temperature changes in the last Billion years thus nature is going to be resilient naturally.
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You could get four or five wind turbines on top of that rock, what’s the problem, go for it.
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Why not have wind turbines on Ayers Rock; Mt Warning and The Olgas too?
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And if the rock got plastered with those awful solar panels that the Chinese churn out with fossil fuel [and labour that can’t ask for Thursday off, I gather] – then the convection currents will help turn the bird chopping- and bat busting-things.
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Modern media is like “a form of hypnosis” and is happy to sell itself as such. There’s a radio advert pushing a certain TV brand at the moment:
Get mesmerised with next-gen AI television
No thanks, gave it up decades ago. Too reminiscent of Fahrenheit 451’s giant all-pervading ‘telescreens’ hypnotising, mesmerising, controlling the zombies. Be more like Mick & Keef and throw them out the window. Or read a book. Or visit Jo’s site.
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You’re onto something big there. People like us , without cell phones /TV are noticing this hypnosis thing. It’s a reason why I don’t watch youtube docos – too hypnotic.
But the one which seems more dangerous is this habit of wearing earphones at all times . WTF are they listening to?
Anyway our OSH policy dictates no devices at work on the farm . It’s just too bloody dangerous, quite apart from being counter-productive.
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This is off-the-planet awful and ridiculous! But The Greens and Teals will run it to death!
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The eco-nazis and other assorted degenerates seem to be on a tight timetable to imprison the world in their fantasies.
A REAL geologist will tell you that since the planet coalesced out of cosmic dust and gas, the entire thing has been “rocking and rolling” in all directions.
What next from these psychotics? “Stop Continental Drift”?
The fossil and geological record is replete with examples of higher and lower sea levels AND “land” levels. and “relocation” of entire continents; a process that started with the “breakup” of Pangaea and which continues today. What are the “datum points’ for “absolute sea / land level”? Just for giggles, has anyone noticed that the ‘mean sea level at one end of the Panama Canal is NOT the same as at the other end? As measured by “scientific satellites”,as well as by good, old fashioned “Analogue” surveyors tools. The REAL PEOPLE who engineered and built the canal actually knew what they were doing, an art seemingly lost forever now, in the miasma of “Woke science”.
There is an old engineering saying: “If you cannot measure it, you cannot MAKE it” If the design calls for a dimension to be, say, 128mm +/- 0.02mm, if you cannot reliably measure to that specification, you CANNOT actually produce the item, except, perhaps by random “good luck”.
The eco-nazis are, and have ONLY ever been about “politics”, often of the genocidal, population “right-sizing” flavour.
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As far as The Pacific Ocean having about a 15 ft. higher sea level than the Atlantic Ocean, it’s old news.i can remember learning that fact at primary school. That about 68 years ago. How come I can remember that but our so called “ climate scientists “ can’t remember it???
Howcome the knowledgeable amongst us do not mention it or are they told to keep quiet or find another profession!!
More likely they hope everyone has a bad memory or they are as stupid as today’s politicians & scientists!
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The stupid Guardian donkeys live in a fantasy world and today in 2024 co2 levels and tamperature are very low.
Here’s a graph of co2 levels and temperature over the last 600 million years and Ayers Rock etc had much higher temperatures to endure then and for hundreds of millions of years.
When will these clueless fools wake up to themselves?
https://jeremyshiers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/globalTempAndCo2_last600MillionYears.png
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Neville – When will these clueless fools wake up to themselves?
When you are led by Idiots like These 3 Stooges – Albo/Blackout Bowen & Jim Chalmers – Never
Summed up by this Johannes Leak Cartoon “Driverless Cars – Tomorrow’s Technology, Today!”
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Jobs boom … courtesy of the taxpayer, Chalmers signals more spending
Nearly two-thirds of the jobs created under the Albanese government are being funded by the taxpayer, with Jim Chalmers paving the way for more money for aged care, childcare, higher education and health ahead of the election.
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Labor’s $32bn housing vow for 1.2m homes by 2030 – after two years not one has been built
Less than $3bn of the Albanese government’s claimed $32bn housing plan has been disbursed for the direct construction of new homes, with no new dwellings understood to have yet been completed.
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Does anyone know if any of that useful sum – $32,000 million – has seeped into the [deserving?] hands of pals of the Ministers [or, indeed of pals of senior Civil Serpents]?
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Askin’ for a friend, naturally!
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Thanks OldOzzie and I note that silly Albo is asleep in the boot, while BO Bowen is about to drive over the cliff.
I wish I had Leak’s skills as a cartoonist.
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Tesla are introducing a new driverless feature with an amusing acronym. I had to check the date to make sure it wasn’t April 1st when l first read it…
https://www.vehiclesuggest.com/tesla-actually-smart-summon-feature-ass-is-here/#google_vignette
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Green German Academic: “old … parts of an economy need to disappear for new parts … to happen”
“Fratzscher” is Marcel Fratzscher, President of The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).
Marcel Fratzscher, despite his no doubt impressive economic qualifications, has misunderstood the situation.
The Germany companies aren’t “disappearing” redundant parts of their businesses, they are relocating them to Asia. If those business activities were truly no longer useful, they would disappear worldwide.
When kerosene replaced whale oil for heating and light in the 1860s, companies didn’t relocate their whale industry to other nations to cut costs, they got into the mineral oil business – or were rapidly annihilated by those who did.
The only thing preventing automobile manufacturers and other energy intensive businesses from prospering in Germany is German politicians.
Germany companies have no problem recovering at least some measure of economic competitiveness after they relocate to nations with cheaper energy.
As for Fratzscher’s prediction that the Germany economy will recover in a few years, why should the German economy ever recover? A shop which charges too much, and which refuses to accept the direction of the free market, has no hope of ever achieving future prosperity.
There is no chance green energy will ever be competitive, there is no economically viable means to transform unreliable green energy into dispatchable energy, which is what a modern economy needs.
The German (Australian) economy will continue to decline until politicians who have set this disastrous economic direction are replaced by politicians who are less ignorant of real world economics.
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It’s jest a jump to the left… 🙁
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In case I didn’t make myself clear –
“There is no chance green energy will ever be competitive, there is no economically viable means to transform unreliable green energy into dispatchable energy, which is what a modern economy needs.” OldOzzie.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – The Time Warp Scene (2/5
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Australian tourism is more at risk from giving it back to the stone age.
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It’s a little known fact that almost 68% of statistics related to the Climate Apocalypse are conjured from thin air. The percentage is even higher if there are farting cows in the general vicinity.
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Irrational Fear
AMOC Collapse? Think Again—The Florida Current’s Stability Defies Climate Predictions
A new Nature Communications paper titled “Florida Current Transport Observations Reveal Four Decades of Steady State” provides a long-term analysis of the Florida Current, a major component of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).
Contrary to frequent claims in the media about a weakening AMOC due to climate change, the study finds that the Florida Current has remained steady over the past four decades.
This directly contradicts alarmist narratives, which often highlight the imminent collapse of ocean currents as a result of global warming.
The paper focuses on direct transport observations of the Florida Current from 1982 to 2022. 12 Page PDF
The data shows no significant long-term trend, suggesting that the Florida Current’s strength has remained stable over the 40-year period, despite projections that climate change would drastically weaken the AMOC.
This finding is important because the AMOC, which transports warm water from the tropics to the North Atlantic, is often portrayed as on the brink of collapse in MSM. Such a collapse is frequently linked to catastrophic weather changes, including a deep freeze in Europe or more intense hurricanes in the Atlantic.
Past predictions regarding the weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) were flawed due to incomplete data and oversimplified models.
The Nature Communications paper specifically notes that early projections failed to account for complex seasonal and annual fluctuations in the Florida Current.
Additionally, past measurements relied on electromagnetic data, which needed corrections for variations in the Earth’s magnetic field.
These inaccuracies, combined with sparse datasets, led to false assumptions about long-term trends.
The paper’s 40-year analysis of direct observations reveals the stability of the Florida Current, contradicting prior predictions of weakening.
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Graham Readfearn? I haven’t seen any of his alarmist propaganda for years, I had actually forgotten about him! He still doesn’t know what he is writing about!
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After his very public stoush with Lord Monckton he picked up jobs here and there, last I saw he was a casual scribe.
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Again, our atmosphere almost reached disaster levels of co2 only 14,000 years ago.
The Co2 Coalition Scientists tell us that co2 levels fell to just 180 ppm and that’s just 30 ppm above the level that plants start to die.
And during the last 400,000 years data shows that co2 levels have also fallen to very dangerous low levels over that period of time.
More co2 is good for the plants and animals + Humans. And low co2 levels are very bad for the environment.
https://co2coalition.org/2023/05/11/more-carbon-dioxide-is-good-less-is-bad/
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The report author is Adam Triggs with his resume. I’m not sure he’d survive any temperature extreme.
Nor would his buddies. Soy milk sales must be booming there.
The newspaper author is, oddly (a)manda Parkinson (d)isplaying her leftie credentials
(I)s (t)his a (n)ew (g)ender? (I) (t)hink (t)his (i)s (h)er.
Cheers
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YYY Guy….any relation to Gillian Triggs perhaps…….Typical Canberra grifter and as for his fellow Latte sippers…….pathetic.
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What is happening to our society? Not the most productive sorts.
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They will soon re-define ‘productivity’ to disguise its collapse, as per CPi etc.
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BEYOND PARODY: NPR Reports That ‘Eco-Chaplains’ Are Helping People Process Their ‘Climate Grief’
National Public Radio has a new story out this week about ‘Eco-Chaplains’ who are apparently tasked with helping people work through their ‘climate grief’ whatever that is.
If you needed any further proof that Climate Change is a religion for the left, this is pretty much a confirmation.
Isn’t it great that our tax dollars subsidize this hard-hitting journalism?
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Can’t wait for their climate god to help out like he (she) does with mainstream religions…
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From the tweet on the above link:
So, almost 68% of Americans may be in need of a session with an eco-chapsplainer!
You can’t make this stuff up
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How do I qualify [I assume you need a paper of some sort, even if I have to design and print it myself] as an Eco-thingy?
It looks like there’s a tsunami of work coming – almost 68% of Americans!
I guess I can do it on line – no need to actually visit them at home.
And if paid in Bitcoin, possibly tax-free.
What’s not to like in a post-retirement career?
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Environmentalists Take Chainsaws to Protected Joshua Trees to Erect Solar Panels and ‘Save’ the Planet
In what world does it make sense to destroy thousands of once-protected Joshua trees — you know, trees: the epitome of green and environmentalism — to make way for a solar field?
Oh, the world run by eco-loons. That’s where:
When Roy Richards spotted workers cutting down and shredding Joshua trees for a sprawling solar energy project near his Mojave Desert home last week, he started taking photos.
“Once the trees go through the shredders, they vanish,” he said, showing a reporter an image of a small pile of brown dust left by the crews.
The developer of the Aratina Solar Center has government approval to fell all of the thousands of trees on the site. The solar energy farm won a controversial exemption from rules protecting Joshua trees four years ago after closed-door meetings between industry executives and state wildlife officials.
Excellent questions, all.
– This above is the true threat to nature, pretending this is a cure when it just provides more issues. Or did I miss the part where the panels take in CO2 and release O2?
– And if CO2 is the problem, wouldn’t we want more trees to take it in?
This writer is old enough to remember when planting trees was the goal of the environmental movement.
You know, as opposed to full on socialism.
– This is an atrocity! WHY are they doing this?!
Because their eco agenda is more important than nature. Or logic.
– Anyone know what the fine was previously is someone cut one down prior to the being sacrificed to the Eco-Gods.
– Funny you should ask.
This writer consulted Google, and according to the search results the penalty is $4,100 per tree and up to six months in jail.
But laws. Or something.
How Much Land does Your Electricty Use?
Any environmental proposal that doesn’t put nuclear energy at the top of the list is unserious.
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How Much Land does Your Electricty Use?
Any environmental proposal that doesn’t put nuclear energy at the top of the list is unserious.
Labor launches new attack ad targeting Coalition’s nuclear policy, but Angus Taylor says government has ‘no credibility’ on the issue
Labor has launched a new attack ad targeting the Coalition’s nuclear policy, but shadow treasurer Angus Taylor has hit back at the government, accusing Labor of having “no credibility” and claiming the government’s “renewables-only” policy has “failed.”
Patrick Hannaford Sky News Digital Reporter
Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor has hit back at the Albanese government after the Labor Party launched a new attack ad targeting the Coalition’s nuclear policy.
The first of Labor’s nuclear attack ads – aired on Sky News Australia’s Sunday Agenda – focuses on the costs of the Coalition’s nuclear plan, asking whether the opposition leader had “thought through his nuclear plan?”.
The ad campaign has been devised by advertising executive and media personality Dee Madigan, who devised the “that’s not my job” attack ads targeting Scott Morrison during the 2022 federal election.
Sky News political editor Andrew Clennell said the Coalition’s failure to detail the costs of its plan had opened up an opportunity for Labor to “whack a price tag on it” and on this occasion, they had gone with $600 billion.
“Peter Dutton’s had an idea: nuclear power stations” the attack ads begins, as an image of Peter Dutton with a light bulb above his head fades into view.
The voiceover states the policy will “cost $600 billion to build” while making up “just 4 per cent of the national grid”, with the claims appearing as the image of Mr Dutton and the lightbulb remains.
“When would that power switch on? Wait for it… 2040” the voiceover continues.
It then states that “because nuclear is the most expensive form of energy for Australia, your power bill will go up – up a Mindblowing $1000 more a year,” before asking “has Peter Dutton really thought through his nuclear plan?”
Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor responded to the attack ad on Sunday, telling Sky News Australia the government had “no credibility” on energy policy because their approach had “failed.”
“Labor’s got no credibility on this,” Mr Taylor told Clennell.
“This is the Labor Party that promised a $275 price reduction and there’s no sign of that.
“There’s no sign of our electricity bills going down under this renewables-only strategy of this Labor government.
Meanwhile, emissions are going up… not down.
“And, of course, we got cost of their plan after the election – $1.2 trillion.
“So their energy policies have failed. There is a better pathway, and that is exactly what we’re pursuing.”
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Never forget that very few people understand what their dangerous CC nonsense is actually based on.
Yet even their BBC tell the truth sometimes and here they show that Nitrogen is about 78%, Oxygen is about 21% and Argon is about 0.9% = a grand total of 99.9% and then co2, methane, water vapour + other trace gases make up the remaining 0.1%.
Of course WV is much higher at the equator and very low at the poles.
Trust me, try getting the correct answer to the percentage of the gases in the atmosphere?
Try telling most donkeys that co2 is about 0.042% or just 420 ppm and you will sometimes get a very hostile response.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkbbbqt#z8ggg7h
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BTW Methane makes up just 0.00018% of the atmosphere and is about 200 times less concentrated than co2.
But it is a GHG and helps to keep the Earth at livable temps for plants and animals.
It is also measured in parts per billion.
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And, if you try to calculate the amount of human origin CO2 in this atmosphere you will never find it, it’s so small and insignificant.
Then, of course there’s another overlay of reality from science, if you dare to go that way.
All, thermodynamics, atmospherics and common sense analysis shows that ordinary co2, let alone the human component, cannot produce Global Warming.
Maybe it works in a vacuum chamber somewhere in a laboratory in New York UN building.
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It’s the old 1% of truth thing.
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It’s Rule by Narrative – a religion to them. They don’t like expending the time and effort supporting the cause only to be told it’s a load of bs – no return on investment.
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Maybe Climate Change could reduce the number of poisonous critters and plants?
I might consider visiting if it does.
So on the other hand, Climate Change could improve tourism.
I like to look on the bright side.
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If you come over, watch out for that dingo, it might still be around.
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For what it’s worth, most of the critters that want to taste you are relatively big. i.e. keep your eyes open and you will be O.K..
On the plus side Oz has very few of those nasty parasite type infections that are insect borne , most of the fresh water streams are safe to drink from and not many cases of hook worm.
Just to qualify so I don’t get to many red thumbs.
1/ Red back spiders, small usually docile. Funnel webs on the other hand, aggressive and bites have very high fatality rates.
2/ Death adder snakes. Small 400 to 500mm ( 16 to 20 inches) and have a habit of lying under litter and dust just waiting to get ya. High fatality rates, but hell they have a very limited range and Oz is a really big place.
3/ Provided you can read English ( and for some reason German) most of the waters where crocs and bull sharks lurk, have signs saying “don’t swim”. If you choose to roll the dice don’t be upset at potential outcomes.
Other than that just come for a look and a laugh, bring your multi lingual dictionary in case you can’t find anyone that speaks American.
I’ve managed to avoid most of the pitfalls for nearly 80 years
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The bite of a Redback spider can be fatal for young children, but is usually just very painful for adults. The webs are easy to spot as they are very untidy – a tangled mess. Redbacks are usually found under man-made objects such as metal fence capping.
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The escalator.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_August_2024_v6_20x9-scaled.jpg
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Escalators take you places: that’s more a seismograph of a minor, unnoticeable, less than mag 1 wobble. Mind you, it’s enough to induce vertigo and sheer terror in some Homo Latte Sippers. Where’s the missing hot spot?
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The ‘hot spot’ in the troposphere has been debunked, but I still have faith in the theory that it appears when the sun is at solar max.
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We would easily stop global warming wrecking our tourist sites by fencing them all off with native title bans. Sorted.
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Where would you start in Europe?!
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Europe is lost anyway, just mark my words.
In 10-15 years time the tourist industry is dead or changed so much you would recognise it.
Not that I know its next shape but in 1950ies who could foresee the city-size Royal Caribbean ships?
Nothing apocalyptic, just normal socio-economic transformation.
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Apologies – I missed “not” as in would not recognise it….
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Tourism is always for the middle-class, so look forward to far fewer white faces and many more Asian faces, they are where the future lies. They will travel to the decaying West and imagine what it was like in its heyday that their grandparents talk about.
It will be like us going to see Roman ruins and imagining Italy as the center of the world. ..and I see the center of the world has said we are not pulling our weight in AUKUS and if we don’t pony up some serious number of billions they are threatening to disband it. I expect we will never see the subs, but will get bled dry by our Lord and Master to pay for his wars, unless we are lucky and America goes bankrupt sooner.
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Husband and I, like many others of our generation, were incredibly lucky to travel the world before global affluence extended this ability to all. We saw the exquisite buildings of past ages before you had to brave thousands of tourists. And we travelled (by car) the roads beyond the cities into unspoiled countryside.
On one of our last trips we took the heritage train across the Swiss Alps from Interlaken to Montreux, As many will know, the views are beyond exquisite. But we were appalled when a large Chinese contingent of tourists insisted on pulling down the blinds and playing loud Chinese music. But this incident aside, we were astounded at the numbers of tourists in areas which are iconic.
So go soon to visit planned special places.
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Wife and I visited her friend in Sion and then stayed in Interlaken to explore the Eiger, Monk, JungFrau complex.
Caught the train to Kleine Scheidegger and then up inside the North Face.
A great visit.
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The true fact is that Australia is not warming. Rather it is not getting quite so cold.
Better working would be if it gets 1 degree less cold. This is entirely;y beneficial because the cost of heating in the southern states will reduce.
The linked image shows the global change in TLT from 1980 to 2023 for peak summer and peak winter in both hemispheres.
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/UAH_Summer_Winter-1724985960.4364.png?fit=720%2C1040&ssl=1
Note little Australia over on the lower right hand side. Aug 1980 to Aug 2023 quite noticeably less cold, particularly WA. The Feb 1980 to Feb 2023 is actually cooler.
This is a trend that is following the precession cycle as peak sunlight shifts north from the Southern Hemisphere to northern hemisphere. Australia’s temperature extremes will moderate. The increased atmospheric water due to NH oceans warming up also helps to moderate because the atmosphere gains thermal inertia. There is already enough moisture in a band across Australia to support convective instability and it is only September.
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ENSO moderates world temperature, so what happens if it gets stuck in one phase?
Of equal importance, what if temperature remains on this new plateau even when La Nina is strong?
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el+gordo,
Once again with the deep mysteries of ENSO. ENSO doesn’t *drive* anything, it’s just a result of the prevailing weather patterns over time. Its wet and dry phases are a longer-term equivalent of looking at the sky and saying: Reckon the rain’s setting in, or: Looks like being another scorcher.
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NOAA says ENSO is a driver.
‘ENSO is one of the most important climate phenomena on Earth due to its ability to change the global atmospheric circulation, which in turn, influences temperature and precipitation across the globe.’
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That’s from a sales brochure. Sea surface temperatures, in the tropical Pacific or anywhere else, are an *indicator*. They no more drive the weather than a speedo needle changes a car’s speed.
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Here is a bit more in-depth.
https://judithcurry.com/2019/09/01/enso-predictions-based-on-solar-activity/
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That article is trying to eke out a relationship between ENSO and solar activity. I’d count that as another vote for ENSO being speedo needle, not driver.
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I have a theory, ENSO is an internal dynamic.
Near the end of that recent La Nina triple I was looking at Nullschool SST and ocean currents, and I noticed a small warm blob show up about 200 kilometres west of Chile.
As the days passed it grew larger and began to spread east, this warm tongue cut off the upwelling Humboldt Current.
On seeing this I concluded that El Nino was coming.
Any suggestions?
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el+gordo,
I think your efforts are misguided. Here’s a short video I’ve linked at least once before at Jo Nova’s. IMO, it gets to the heart of the matter.
The weather is intrinsically chaotic with millions of analogues for the double pendulum. In places, these average out and things are quite predicable. In other places they add-up in highly unpredictable ways. Think of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. The middle of it appears to have been very stable for hundreds of years. However, at its edges, as the Cassini images have shown, everthing is as turbulent as could be.
That’s essentially how I see Earth’s weather: predictions are easy to get right where it’s stable; only right by fluke where it’s not.
You linked that item by Javier: I have seen others of his where he purports to get chaotic behaviour under control. As I recall, he reckoned you could do this by “zooming out” in space or in time. I reject the time side of that out of hand — the “double-pendulums” of the planetary orbits become unpredictable over a long-enough timescale. Zooming out spatially will likely bring most of the chaos under control, but what is the good of reducing a whole planet to a small number of pixels.
When it comes down to it, the only scale that matters is the human scale. Tell me the weather at one-mile and one-day granularity. Some supposed average over 1000 sq miles over 12 months is no use to anybody (except politicians).
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You maybe correct, I’ll have to wait until this La Nina finishes to see if my submarine hot spot shows up.
I liked the vid.
‘Lorenz (1963), in the landmark paper that founded chaos theory, said that because the climate is a mathematically-chaotic object (a point which the UN’s climate panel admits), accurate long-term prediction of the future evolution of the climate is not possible “by any method”. At present, climate forecasts even as little as six weeks ahead can be diametrically the opposite of what actually occurs, even if the forecasts are limited to a small region of the planet.’ (Christopher Monckton)
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el+gordo,
Glad you liked the video.
That Monckton quote presses another of my buttons. Lorenz’s paper was about “hydrodynamical systems”: *weather*. In that quote though, Monckton has made it “relevant” to the political stoush by referring instead to *climate*. That strikes me as technically invalid, but also politically unwise. Better to point out how utterly irrelevant “climate” is. Sure, the climate scientists go on about the dire consequences of this fraction of a degree warmer world climate, but what are the terms of alarm: drought, flood, hurricane,… it’s all *weather*. Nobody lives in a “world climate”, so why all the effort modelling it? Have their models accurately predicted *one* hurricane? The *only* useful product of their research has been alarm.
I see I’m starting to hit my own buttons now, so had better stop before I get deeper into rant mode.
Chaos is frustrating. The human mind is highly attuned to seeing patterns, and chaos leads to patterns so often. When we see a pattern it’s easy to think There *must* be a way to predict this. Unfortunately, I think chasing that is no more productive, and less fun, than lying on your back on a sunny day, looking for rabbits and elephants in the patterns of the clouds.
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Melbourne summer lost its normal few days above 40 C.
That is a fact.
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It certainly has lost them at least the last four years.
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If average temperatures “keep rising”, it will make no difference at all.
I was a child in the 70s, and since then that graph has peaked. For what difference? None. The ecosystems and nature where I live is still EXACTLY the same (except there are far more trees than there used to be, nothing to do with temperature, just re-growth from initial over clearing).
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Almost 68% of Australia’s tourism sites in “peril” if lefties get their hands on them. FTFY 😎️
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Bit of a pattern going on here JoNova. You find a ridiculous piece of climate alarmism journalism in the leftie media and write a story about it. Usually it’s the Guardian, no surprises there! You’re doing a stoic job wading through all this anti- science, but do yourself a favor , just ignore it. Don’t consume the ABC and the SMH/ The Age either. We really won’t mind and your health will also likely improve.
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How about this one Ross:
Leading climate scientologist from some Aus uni declares DOOM as 80% of the Great Barrier Reef is dead, bleached, a wasteland, doomed…
Who knew make-believe Degrees and PhDs were still giveaway prizes in Skippy cornflake packets. Wonder if she’s ever visited the reef or if it was just a bad day at the office 🙄
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She’s probably up for a research grant renewal. Cant say the GBR is perfectly healthy, they’ll all be out of a job. There was a time I would hear a comment like that and think “no surely not, she’s a scientist”. Now, just follow the money is my rule.
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Somebody has to watch or read this garbage. Thankfully Jo does it so we don’t have to.
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I thought most of Australia’s tourism sites were already in peril since governments started handed it back to the Aborigines.
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We first ran into major problems like these when making submissions for the Plan of Management of the to-be-formed Kakadu national park in the 1970s.
Our corporate and industry submission stressed phrases like “National Parks attract people and people destroy National Parks.”
The whole concept of “environment protection” by creation of “National Parks” and “World Heritage” is flawed. There is a stronger reason for their existence. That is “bureaucratic and political control” of people and resources.
Kakadu was created over second rate land in the Top End with a strong purpose of stopping more uranium mining. They knew that, we knew that, we discussed it and they went ahead anyhow.
You have to consider these other purposes when talking about tourism.
“Control” is the operative word.
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Here is an interesting test.
Does anyone know of commercial, grid supply type solar or wind farms in an Australian national park?
Exclude small ones to support park infrastructure.
What, precisely, is the reasoning on whether or not to treat park lands like private lands able to support new renewables projects?
What does this say about sincerity, honesty, openness in planning?
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For the dedicated, it can work in reverse.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-true-first-neoen-in-landmark-deal-to-create-national-park-next-goyder-renewable-zone/#google_vignette
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Snowy 2.0 has Transmission Line easements that have carved a corridor through the Kosciuszko National Park trees. And who got to keep all of that wood that was felled?
How was that ever approved by the Federal Environment and Water Minister let alone the relevant State Minister?
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Ask Tanya, she can come up with answers for any environmental position. She can’t come top with answers as to how she arrived at the “first” answer, but hey.
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Johnny, #23.1
_____Did the brumbies do that much damage?
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No, they didn’t. The Muppets in CanBrrrrra did it
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And what about the wildlife?
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“What about the wildlife”
Well brumbies and deer are culled from helicopters to save the park. The carcasses are not utilised but just left where they lie. A free feed for the wild dogs, foxes and feral cats, you know, the great demons of the Australian bush. On the other hand the big eagles and other carrion eating birds and little critters like bush rats also “benefit”. So, depending on your point of view either a win for all or another government fiasco. The trees that are knocked down have all allegedly been checked for the tree dwelling stuff like pygmie gliders right through the possum group and up to the endangered greater glider. Funny how none of these furries are found along the transmission line easements. A stretch of highway was rerouted a few years ago when a group of legless lizards were found living nearby (true) but those powerlines easements are all gun barrel straight. Just lucky I guess!
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Kaka-do or Kaka-don’t?
Is Kakadu National Park Worth A Visit?
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Yes. Just for the dawn cruise it would be. But there is more to see if you stayed longer than we did.
WE flew over it in an 8? seater plane. I was astonished to see how small the Ranger uranium mine is.Right by the croc motel. A mini compared to our coal mines.
I have great difficulty hearing, but understood the pilot to say that if you wanted some uranium, bring a pick and shovel and anywhere you scrape the topsoil off you will find it.
The crocs we saw were about 2.5 m
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I have been there a number of times with Family and on 4WD New Vehicle Testing
Memories of B’Cold water pushing my kids on a lilo, whilst swimming besides, and watching Freshies sunbaking on the rocks on the way to Twin Falls
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Again with imperfect hearing, I thought the guide may have said that big crocs don’t like fresh water. Saltie or fresh are the same breed, different habits.
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Oh my goodness – YES. Husband and I have been there a few times over the years. Kakadu is very easy to get to – a bitumen road a reasonably short distance from Darwin. Our best trip was when we flew to Darwin with our grandchildren – then around 9 (the boy) and 6 (the girl). From Darwin we hired a big Winnebago and drove through both Kakadu and Litchfield Parks. Probably one of the most wonderful trips we have ever experienced.
Our first stop was the Adelaide River, where a river boat takes you on a cruise to view the crocodiles, which have been conditioned to leap out of the water to grab a chicken bait. Before we got on the boat a guide had put a giant carpet snake (called “Matilda”) around the 5 year old’s neck – who was delighted! But both were gobsmacked when the first crocodile – an immense creature – leapt out of the waters, from which he could not be seen.
This was just the first of many adventures for them – a walking tour at Mt Bundy Station looking for wild pigs, swimming in magnificent streams and under waterfalls, visiting caverns covered in Aboriginal drawings and many other adventures. I taught the little one the first verse of “My Country” which stunned her teacher when she returned to school.
I told people that we were “showing our grandchildren Country”. After all, this is our country, too.
So, Old Ozzie – yes, Kakadu and Litchfield will delight and surprise. you.
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Yes, but do it in the “dry”, or more importantly towards the end of the dry. So, southern Australia winter into about now. Before the wet season happens. Much easier to see crocs because the water is down. 🙂
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If Kamala and the Dumbacrats cheat their way to the Whitehouse again in the US November elections,the Western world will be all in on CCP ruinables. Bye, bye Australia.
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What we know for sure is that the renewable industry is in trouble, it cannot carry base load.
It will be a shoe-in for Donald if he comes out and says CO2 doesn’t cause global warming. Its not a temperature control knob.
There would be uproar and Harris will be caught short.
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And Trump, (Fingers Crossed he wins), hopefully will pull out of Paris Agreement & UN as well!
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Don’t think he’ll pull out of the UN just yet, wait until the dust settles before making that leap.
The Paris Agreement can definitely be pulled at a moments notice.
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I don’t know if it is a shoe-in or not.
Those who have figured out the “renewables scam” are likely to be on Trump’s side anyway.
I’ve been trying to follow the USA election on U-tube and i”ve seen that
Republics say polls show Trump will win in a landslide
Democrats think polls show that Kamala will win
and the best advice was “forget about the polls. About 20-25% of voters only think about the election about 5-6 weeks before the date, so the polls are useless”.
If Trump says anything about dumping the Paris Agreement. then the Greens will go ballistic and carry on scaring voters, esp. the young who believe this, so they will vote when they may not have done so.
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We should encourage people to vote for whatever reason.
Donald has to join the denialati and explain to the world how the climate scientists (sic) got it badly wrong.
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shoo-in /shoo͞′ĭn″/
noun
A sure winner. One that has a sure chance of being chosen, as for a job or other position. The winner of a fixed race, a fixed race.
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Thanks FB, what a hoot.
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If you had been to Kakadu aka The East Alligator Uranium Province the 50 times or so that I have – boring, hot, dusty, monotonous, flat, most better parts closed to the unwashed, most ab art out of bounds, lots more in Arnhem Land reserve where you & I cannot go …..
The place needs roads up the hills so visitors can see the landscape as shown by comments about views flying above. The park restrictions are unbelievable. In detail seldom read or policed, you cannot pick up twigs or set them alight, there are few places where you can legally park your vehicle or camp …. Permits needed for this and that. …
Yes, the Ranger mine was a tiny % of the park area, which exceeds to combined areas of the 10 smallest European countries. Next door to a military training area which confuses ducks flying the boundary. I could go on for a long time. Colour me unimpressed. Geoff S
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Eartheye Space raises $1.5 million
SAN FRANCISCO – Singapore startup Eartheye Space raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to expand its online satellite-tasking platform.
Eartheye Space, founded in 2022, calls itself the “Uber Eats” of Earth-observation data.
Uber Eats can deliver food from multiple restaurants and Eartheye Space “can combine any of the 475-plus satellites across all the sensor modalities,” Eartheye Space founder and CEO Shankar Sivaprakasam told SpaceNews. “You can task them together in the same workflow.”
With the recent investment, Eartheye Space “will be expanding into Africa and the Middle East next, followed by the USA in 2025,” Sivaprakasam said.
The latest funding also will help Eartheye Space gain access to additional data sources, expand its staff and continue training computer-vision and machine-learning algorithms.
Assorted Sensors
Eartheye Space helps customers task a variety of satellite sensors.
The network includes multispectral, hyperspectral, synthetic aperture radar, thermal infrared, greenhouse gas, full-motion video, automatic identification systems and radio frequency sensors.
Once data is acquired, Eartheye Space relies on computer vision and machine learning to draw insights.
“You task a satellite, and you get the data,” Sivaprakasam said. “Within two to three minutes, we extract the information from the data and tell you the information of interest to you.”
For Navy customers, the pertinent information may be transshipment in the South China Sea. A customer focused on deforestation could obtain “pictures of deforestation day or night, but also information on how much area is being deforested and the loss of biomass because of deforestation,” Sivaprakasam said.
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Bugger! I never got round to seeing Uluru. And it will be gone before I can get there now.
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Uluru is like an Iceberg, Seven Eights of the rock is below ground. Plenty of rock to be exposed at some point in time. BTW it will take a lot of time. Lol.
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Graham Readfearn! I can’t believe it. It must be 12-15 years ago when I last heard of him, encircling the national parliament with some other hand-holders; when asked how such a small number could achieve such a feat some more awkward dribble was forthcoming from Gwaham along the lines the organisers were best not doubted.
I thought he’d gone back to Billy Butlin’s.
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>Readfearn
He’s a trained hotel worker, but somehow he’s been the Guardian’s resident ClimateTM propagandist for the last ten years or so.
He doesn’t seem to be hampered at all by any particular expertise in that subject area.
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What on earth are the airports going to do in the ‘fight’ they are apparently facing? Somehow change the climate by themselves? It isn’t even vaguely competent journalism.
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