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https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-world-climate-conference
“About 15 years ago, I bought into the climate change narrative. Used to have discussion after discussion with my now departed father, who used to always laugh at my indoctrinated beliefs about the veracity of ever-changing models, only with a comforting, yet authoritative voice to ultimately state that this is about progressively milking people dry. I tried to ‘educate’ him by sending him books on the topic, of which one was on peak oil – which I similarly used to buy into – to which he sarcastically quipped ‘will there be a test on the subject at the end?’
And up until recently, questioning the topic did make me rest somewhat uneasily. Because all those people can’t be wrong, right? And although the message frequently does appear to be delivered somewhat speculatively ahead of empirical observation, one does fundamentally still prefer to ‘trust science’ – especially if one has a ‘hard science’ background as I do.”
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“You cannot ‘trust’ ‘science’ established on a fundament of pure horse manure. And those who disagree – please explain to me the validity of the ‘science’ relating to the alleged pandemic, as delivered in March, 2020. Because not only were we not allowed to question said ‘science’ either, but that was certainly complete and utter BS just as well, and further – along with the ‘carbon consensus’ established in 1979 – ultimately expressly delivered for sake of political expedience.”
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Its not so much that they are wrong but they are simply lying, or going along with a lie to run with the herd. Their priority is protecting income stream, maintaining positions of power and having their 15 minutes of fame.
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‘ … a lie to run with the herd.’
More likely lying down flat until the pressure is off, Chinese proverb.
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That’s usually the first assumption made about a skeptic. It makes sense among the sincere believers.
It’s interesting, though, how many of those have never heard of Climate Gate.
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I can relate to that. I was a farm kid who observed nature from a very early age and the new green narrative provided seemed logical to me. My father’s retort to that was bigotry, so I picked environmentalism as “they seemed more intelligent”.
My father was right. He and his lot could observe the environment extremely well, but were uneducated so could not express it. He loathed hippies that flooded into the area, said “they’ll ruin the place those b….”, and would take them on. He got farmers together and went and demanded to join their “environment group” and other such humorous activities. Sadly lacking today.
It took me years to work it out, my enviro doom predictions just never came to fruition. But at least I noticed it at some stage. My environmental thinking developed, and I am now more anti environmentalism than even my father was.
There is much more wisdom in bigotry than is given credit for.
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I went through a similar process – in my case Climategate revealed that global warming was generated by Thatchers think tank to justify the use of more Nuclear power so that the UK had its power supply independent of Europe and union controlled coal mines, it all became clear that its bastard son climate change was an easy way to politicize anything and avoid making difficult decisions like water and power supply. In the process governments found they could increase all their costs by saying they were “saving the planet” until today when governments are the highest paid “servants” in history and we are their slaves.
Plimer is the best at clear interp
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Who is the author?
Unfortunately I couldn’t see a name anywhere. Google’s “AI overview” tells me;
Thanks.
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“In 1798, Malthus published his work on population control: An Essay on the Principle of Population. Malthus argues, from studying population increases over time, that population tends to increase in a geometric progression (i.e. multiplying each consecutive term by a constant or common ratio), in this case doubling every twenty-five years. Food production, on the other hand, only increases in an arithmetic progression (i.e. the difference between any consecutive two numbers is constant). Malthus’ concern was that the population would continue to increase beyond what is sustainable; resulting in food shortages, poverty, famine and disease. These consequences are inevitable, according to Malthus, and the government should not interfere in trying to mitigate their impact. Malthus’ ideology has faced much criticism for its laissez-faire attitude towards the poor, and it has been cited as a key influence behind Victorian legislation which was designed to limit poor relief.”
There are now over 8 Billion people on the Planet. Come back Malthus and tell the World this now.
The Club of Rome got it wrong as well. The Climate Alarmists get it wrong every time the open their gobs.
Onwards and Upwards with REALITY………………….
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Sorry if someone has already posted this here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHtAHw1u15g Flat Out Like a Nation Sinking by Matt Barrie
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Have only watched the first minute and Australia has been destroyed -from Within – for yonks.
[SNIP]
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Decades ago I came to the conclusion that Australia was becoming a nanny state. What we have now is still that but with a couple of extra heads and like a hydra impossible to kill.
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Must watch if you wonder how things went so wrong
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https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/the-economist-a-marketing-arm-of
“A friend of mine developed polymyalgia rheumatica from the injections commonly known as covid vaccines – (all inflammatory complaints are very common side effects of these products as they are pro-inflammatory by design).
So he is put onto a steroid.
Gets some stomach irritation (as is common) from those
So he is put on omeprazole to prevent ulceration by blocking stomach acid
But omeprazole causes calcium absorption, problems so he gets osteoporosis
So he is put on alendronic acid to counter than
This is part of the pharma-induced cascade. Now he is on a cocktail of drugs, the interactions between which are virtually impossible to predict.”
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Yes.
A pharmacist once told me that two drugs on my list were not compatible, and to inform my doctor because there were other drugs that could be used to avoid this problem.
The doctor didn’t appear pleased with this information. I can’t remember if he changed it.
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As a pharmacists once told me, drugs with contraindications are often prescribed by doctors. The pharmacist becomes the last line of defense to protect the patient from the resulting harm. As he said, “Pharmaceuticals is the gentle art of knowing by just how much you can poison someone.” This becomes even more important with a definite push from pharmaceutical manufacturers not to treat the condition, but to treat the symptoms. This way guarantees a revenue stream. The whole pharmaceutical industry seems to be shifting to a “you will die with it, not from it” philosophy – provided you keep taking the pills and giving us lots of your money.
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My father, a waterside worker, unloaded the ships that brought the asbestos to NZ and at the end of the shift, covered in white powder, the gang were given a glass of milk to clear their throats.
Toward the end of his life each Saturday morning he would take some 20 prescribed tablets, return to bed and not resurface until Sunday lunchtime or afternoon. He asked his doctor what the tablets were for and was told that while the majority addressed his various respiratory and associated issues 4 or 5 of them were taken to combat the side affects of the others.
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My dad lived to nearly 92, but for the last 5 years of his life his GP had him on the usual long list of medications. It was only after mum died and I was caring for him more, that I learnt the extent of these pills. About the only thing he wasn’t on was statins. For all of that time he had persistent diarrhoea, which was simply the medications upsetting his stomach. You couldn’t take him anywhere unless there was a toilet really close by. But, one thing, his GP was at least rather conservative on dosage for all those medications. However, he did have a couple of 1-2 week stays in hospital during that time. There was an attending doctor’s in the hospital ward, who was considered “god like” amongst the staff. But his trick was simple, he just upped the dosage on all of my father’s medications. That combined with rest, attention from the nurses etc and regular simple meals meant his health somewhat improved. But the stomach irritation never stopped. It was definitely the steroids – prednisolone.
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My late mother lived to 94 and a half and took no regular prescribed medications but I made sure she took daily vitamin D, zinc, magnesium, K2 and quercetin. She remained independent and at home until her last 15 hours in hospital. She never got covid despite going out in public and on public transport and hated wearing a mask during the plandemic.
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We all know guys/gals who are bullet proof, just never need a doctor and others on so many pills they need special organisers for them.
RFK Jr could do worse than to study how people progress from one to the other, as exemplified above. Doctors make mischief, probably unintentionally.
For starters healthy people do not need an annual checkup, just repair when damaged.
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“For starters healthy people do not need an annual checkup, just repair when damaged.”
Absolutely!!
I’ve finally been captured by the medical industry via the Govt wanting everyone over 75 to have a medical to drive! WTF! How about medicals for everyone UNDER 75 that got the covid jabs?
The medics couldn’t believe I didn’t ‘have’ a doctor and had no medical history, so they made sure I had enough appointments to generate one. I’m sure I’ll be getting mail about “Its time for your…” and a follow-up appointment next year to look for something, anything! to get me on medication!
The longer you can avoid doctors the longer you’ll live!
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For starters healthy people do not need an annual checkup, just repair when damaged.
Perhaps up to a certain age?
There are useful things to be learned from annual blood tests, even if everything is well within “medically normal ranges”. Changes that stay within those “tolerances” may very well indicate that further examination might be useful since changes that are eventually detected outside the “accepted ranges” may be a great deal more difficult to “fix”.
And there are certain periods of life where underlying metabolisms will change. And those changes can bring nasty alterations.
Know yourself and have the documentation to prove it.
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This is one of those fascinating charts-like the Debt clock. This one measures productivity
The means to becoming wealthier is to be more productive. Instead of that we have relied on “cheap” labour through mass migration which in the end is nothing of the sort. As regards productivity the US gdp per head is some 30% better than in the UK. Most of the developed European economies are in the same boat and the gap widens each year.
https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/uk/usa
If Our GDP per head was equivalent to the US our economy would be some £700 billion a year greater, annually. That buys an awful lot of things we might want. It would also help pay down our debt which is around the third largest of our financial commitments and is a real drag on or economy.
Australia does better than Britain on productivity and debt but is substantially worse than the US on productivity. Oz does badly on innovation which doesn’t bode well for the future. However the US debt is worrying and seems to be increasing rapidly.
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Hi Tonyb,
One of the issues with productivity measures is population size. Countries with lower population sizes tend to have to be jack of all trades resulting in one factory having to produce multiple SKU’s versus a population size that allows one facility to concentrate on a couple of SKU’s.
We saw this with Black and Decker in the US back in the 2000’s where one factory made only Circ saws and another made Drills. Johnston & Johnston took this to a whole new level by making only a couple of products per country in SE Asia.
So I get the whole premise of the drop in productivity versus where we were, but need to be a little careful comparing countries.
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The consider the cost of said productivity. Would you work for$7.25 an hour? The god of productivity is rarely balanced with having a life outside the plantation.
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Per person productivity V national productivity matters. Excessive immigration lowers the first, raises the second. My son is THE electrician on a solar farm, [specialised, HV stuff] his boss is in Manilla. He is on FIFO wages working gentleman’s hours, vehicle supplied. The productivity of a solar farm [good/bad, a topic for another day] allows him time off the plantation.
Agitate to reduce immigration.
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Hawke, leading the ACTU, spent the whole of the 1970s busting any firm that tried to innovate.
It was particularly galling then in the 1980s to have him telling us that Australia had to become “the clever country”.
Before he hit the scene Australia was a remarkably clever country.
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Ted1, I think the decline of productivity and innovation started with Gorton. Whitlam and the ACTU gave a great kick backwards. Fraser with Howard as Treasurer did nothing squibbing change when he had both houses of parliament. Hawke stopped the Franklin Dam and sent Tasmania backwards with closed mines, and industries like paper mills. Keating bowed to the aboriginal industry. Howard started the climate scam and stopped Nuclear. RGR where hopeless especially with the climate scam (“there shall be no tax on carbon”). Turnbull was a snake promoting the climate scam (eg Snowy 2) and messing up water allocations for Qld, NSW, SA & Vic. Morrison was useless overall with Covid which set the country back. Now Albersleasy has given the unions a go ahead to destroy productivity and waste huge money on useless unreliable energy.
Do not know if Dutton can turn things around but it seems he will at least stop the trend. They should follow Trump if he gets out the Paris agreement- no need for net zero. The biggest problem is the unions -industrial legislation giving unions any rights should be scrapped. Australia should do more minerals & metals processing and get some industry back eg steel, aluminium, copper, ship building.
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“The biggest problem is the unions -industrial legislation giving unions any rights should be scrapped. ”
Get Roger Douglas and Don Brash over from NZ to take charge… They stripped the unions and the bureaucracies so fast nobody knew which way to turn, and suddenly NZ had to stand on its own feet and get going.
We had a great burst of economic action until those queer women in the Labour Party screwed it all up. Coming to Aussie was a trip to the past with unions running everything and far too many politicians.
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In a previous life I was a comms tech for the then Northern Electric Authority which included the Collinsville power station. The place was a disgrace, “Do Not Operate” tags fluttering in the breeze, in the lift that failed daily the solid old Telstra handset someone broke. How did they do that? Our riding orders were to always lock the door behind us lest a unionist see us use a tool and set off a demarcation dispute.
A good power station was closed down and the town died because of pure union bluudy-mindedness. That electorate voted in a card carrying, avowed commun1st to state parliament.
I tried to do business in the town years later and when I finally pulled out I stopped on the hill out of town and symbolically hissed on the town and everyone in it.
I’m working class, unions have never done anything for me. They just make things hatder
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An excellent synopsis of the last 50 odd years in Australian energy and environmental policies by cement. Gives me some perspective that makes Labor’s current policies seem even more ridiculous.
For example, our government expects to provide a cost effective alternative to China’s mass production of solar panels- Solar Sunshot. Catchy name, but it will siphon more funds than it will create profits
https://arena.gov.au/funding/solar-sunshot/
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3 years ago Dutton was in government, he did nothing then, except keep us on the downward slide. Add in the covid scam, you want those pricks again?
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Yes.
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You may well be right and I’m placing unwarranted trust in the Libs to correct the ship on all things energy.
In the meantime I’ll poke holes in Labor policies and hope a viable alternative presents itself. Not holding my breath.
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It’s half time, they change sides, same game from a different angle.
There are independents, if enough people vote other than the 2 party system they could gain balance of power. At least you didn’t vote for more of the same.
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Beware the false hope of single issue independents.
I will always include an independent Senator or two, Hansen and maybe a fishers’ party, in my top picks but in the house it is ALWAYS libs above labor. Nothing else matters.
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And nothing else changes.
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German electricity prices soar as the weather gods refuse to cooperate
https://rmx.news/article/germanys-policy-of-green-stupidity-sends-electricity-prices-soaring/
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The German’s have been trying and failing with wind power ever since the National Socialists.
It’s no different with the modern day Socialists.
Even the propaganda is the same.
And see the book:
Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex by Rupert Darwall.
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Written by James Delingpole, not surprising. Listen to his podcasts on a regular basis- he often comments how after “Climategate” he thought the whole AGW/CC scam would come to an end. Here we are nearly 20 years later and it’s possibly getting worse.
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Ruinables fanboy reckons nuclear won’t work, we will run out of uranium soon..
“Small modular nuclear power plants are still in development, by fewer participants. They might work one day; let’s hope it’s before Earth’s supply of uranium runs out in 80 years’ time. Wind, solar, and hydro energy are cheap and proven and they are being adopted on a worldwide scale. Cost reductions continue to happen. These investments should last, with maintenance, for four billion years. A good battery changes everything. Put your money on the vast amount of research achieving a battery breakthrough.”
of course one of these weird editors in the SMH just had to make a headline-
‘Folly of Fission Impossible exposed by the fiscal facts’
I think that’s the reason the letters were printed in the first place!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/folly-of-fission-impossible-exposed-by-the-fiscal-facts-20241215-p5kygj.html
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While a small pebble-red reactor has been supplying power to a commercial grid, and another SMR moves steadily ahead with its construction, due online in 2026, the renewables enthusiasts in Australia keep saying that no SMR is being built or is even being designed. It seems that they pickup an cult-like mantra and persist with it, despite all evidence to the contrary.
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At Sky News two engineers who have identified as related, one now retired to Scotland but lived in Australia, both with lengthy nuclear power plant construction and nuclear reactors, and one recently posted current project being a nuclear power plant in China, not their first project there. And that recently China had a coal fired power station converted to SMR.
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I think Ian Walker is confused between fission and fusion, especially when he mentioned the Tokomak reactor.
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“A new study has found a compound produced by the emissions of marine life in the oceans called methanethiol that reflects the sun’s rays and cools the planet far more than scientists realized.”
https://notthebee.com/article/climate-change-greatly-overestimated-oceans-cooling-earth-far-more-than-we-thought/
Full Source paper:
Marine emissions of methanethiol increase aerosol cooling in the Southern Ocean
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq2465
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Front page article in this morning’s Herald Sun with a “full report” on p4.
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If that’s what Joe and Joanne Sixpack think, then I’m pleasantly surprised.
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It will be 40C (104F) in Melbournistan today, after 4pm (according to the weather propaganda bureau, BoM).
The weak-minded are going out of their minds, as if this has never happened before.
And don’t forget, according to the BoM, temperature records before 1910 no longer officially exist and those after 1910 have been “homogenised” by a mysterious, unpublished (and hence unscientific) process which tends to cool the past and warm the present.
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Is it a promised cool change already? Started to rain 15 minutes ago.
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Sorry, false hope, it was just a light drizzle. Alexa / Google insist there is no rain today and 39 degrees max.
Yesterday they predicted 41 .
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Moved to Melbourne in February 82. Arrived on an afternoon flighr and it was 42C. The CBD was most uncomfortable and very quiet.
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Those 1-day heatwaves sure can freak-out the Urban Wokerati, though they can rest easy overnight on a chilly 17 with a not-so-hot max of 24 tomorrow. Similar to Adelaide, 38 today, 16 overnight, 26 max tomorrow: nothing a cool change can’t fix.
Jo must be shivering in Perth with its max 25 today 🥶 before soaring back up to its standard mid-30s for the rest of the week.
“Thunder… hail… snow to 1,400 metres” for NZ’s southern alpine regions today, despite Christchurch’s 32 a few days ago: there’s a cool change going on everywhere, thanks to wind direction not imaginary blankets of carbon. Then later this week another cool southerly blast with more snow for the hills. No wonder thousands are leaving New Zealand for a warmer climate…
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Their ABC is reporting Ivanhoe may be the HOTTEST EVER RECORDED!
Ivanhoe’s records go back 24 years … yep, since the year 2000 AD. Has their BoM disappeared completely the whole 20th century?
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It seems so. But we can’t be surprised.
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Must have been hot in 1999.
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Ivanhoe used to figure in the evening weather reports as having the hottest temperatures. Other stations included Wilcannia, White Cliffs and Tibooburra. Hot place when the northerlies get going.
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Greg – Pick an Ivanhoe
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/lists_by_element/alphaAUS_139.txt
Bureau of Meteorology product IDCJMC0014. Produced: 15 Dec 2024
Australian stations measuring total monthly rainfall
Site Name Lat Lon Start End Years % AWS
49127 IVANHOE (ABBOTSFORD NORTH) -33.0000 144.3500 Jan 1877 Dec 1904 28.0 100 N
49000 IVANHOE AERODROME AWS -32.8833 144.3092 Feb 2000 Nov 2024 24.8 100 Y
49103 IVANHOE (BADEN PARK) -32.1698 144.2007 Jan 1893 Nov 2024 51.5 39 N
47054 IVANHOE (BEILPAJAH) -32.9667 143.8167 Jan 1884 Aug 1978 41.2 43 N
49061 IVANHOE (BERANGABAH) -32.3884 144.7456 Jul 1999 Nov 2024 25.4 100 N
49003 IVANHOE (BONUNA) -32.6667 144.2500 Jan 1884 Jul 1956 58.1 80 N
44044 IVANHOE DOWNS -26.3453 147.1258 Jan 1908 Nov 2024 115.5 99 N
49063 IVANHOE (KILFERA) -33.0520 144.1444 Jan 1872 Nov 2024 106.0 69 N
49113 IVANHOE (KOONABURRA) -32.2000 144.7000 May 1911 Jul 1949 28.3 74 N
49131 IVANHOE (LIGNUM PARK) -33.1492 144.4768 Jan 2004 Nov 2007 3.8 98 N
15133 IVANHOE MINE -19.5667 134.0500 Sep 1969 May 1972 2.3 82 N
47022 IVANHOE (MT MANARA) -32.4759 143.9396 Aug 1887 Oct 2024 115.0 84 N
47112 IVANHOE (OVERNEWTON) -32.9416 143.5386 Aug 2017 Jul 2024 6.4 92 Y
49019 IVANHOE POST OFFICE -32.8999 144.2995 Aug 1884 Jan 2016 129.7 99 N
2013 IVANHOE STATION -15.6900 128.6833 Jan 1907 Apr 2022 90.3 78 N
49021 IVANHOE (WOKABITY) -33.0444 144.2354 Jun 1954 Aug 2007 52.0 98 N
https://search.brave.com/search?q=IVANHOE+%28KILFERA%29&source=desktop&summary=1&conversation=ea877a2af5143dd48ab288
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So… some young churnalist on ‘work experience’ picked the 2nd one, Ivanhoe Aerodrome, 2000-2024, claiming scientific research! whilst missing your emboldened Kilfera station which has over 150 years of data, 1872-2024?
Rightio, disband the ABC – what a crock. All the news you can bust! Thanks Ozzie.
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Greg in NZ to be fair to the young churnalist, it looks like Kilfera station only recorded rain data – more suspicious for BOM is
Station: Ivanhoe Post Office Number: 49019 Opened: 1884 Now: Closed 01 Feb 2016 Lat: 32.90° SLon: 144.30° EElevation: 85 m
only shows back to 1959
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=122&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=1959&p_c=-480787632&p_stn_num=49019
So Most of the Stations in Ivanhoe were concerned with recording Rianfall
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Ivanhoe NSW highest Dec temp was 46.4C in 1951. The highest temp today so far today is 45.2C. Might beat a 72-yearold Dec record. Highest was 20 years ago – 48.5C.
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Ivanhoe got to 45.4C. No record broken – but still hot.
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What will happen when all those a/c’s get switched on?
Stay tuned for the next exciting episode of Gullible’s Travels, “The Renewables dream”.
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I would love to know which industrial loads get shed to keep on the lights of domestic consumers, the Government hoping no one will notice the industrial load shedding.
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A lass on this morning’s TV was exhorting us to stay indoors by the air conditioners.
Has she not been listening to what our premiers are telling us?
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And don’t jump in the ocean – you’ll boil!
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… “homogenised” by a mysterious, unpublished (and hence unscientific) process which tends to cool the past and warm the present.’
The past is cooling and only an audit will unscramble the deceit.
‘The daily maximum and minimum values in ‘the national temperature dataset’ (the homogenised ACORN-SAT data) are different from the actual recorded historical values, often by several degrees, usually cooler. The further back you go in time, the more significant the cooling thus making what was a modest temperature increase over the period appear greater than it is.’ (Jennifer Marohasy)
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December 1953
FIERCE HEAT-WAVE STRIKES MELBOURNE
MELBOURNE, Dec. 20.-Melbourne today endured its fiercest December heat-wave for 55 years, and its hottest day for two years. The temperature leapt to 107.7 degrees in the City today, after Saturday’s 101.3
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In Jan 1908, Melbourne had five consecutive days of +40C. The day preceding that heat wave was 39.9C.
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http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=122&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=1908&p_c=-1481858568&p_stn_num=86071
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I checked Melbourne today.
https://www.eldersweather.com.au/history/vic/melbourne
Highest was 39.1°C so it fell short of the prediction.
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President TRUMP said he’d end daylight savings.
I assume it’s less popular in the US than Australia because the majority of people in each country live in different lattitudes, although plenty of Australians don’t like it either.
Already, the states of Arizona and Hawaii don’t have DST and neither do the territories of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
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I think we should save as much daylight as we can. We’re going to need huge reserves of daylight ready for when we need to turbocharge the solar panels during the dunkelflautes.
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Daylight saving is another example of bureaucrats and politicians spending time and tax payer funds coming up with and administering a recipe for confusion.
The only reason I can see for making the highest point of the sun in the sky one o’clock is so the inner city elite can race their yachts on Sydney Harbour in a twilight series or play 18 holes instead of 9 at the club.
The whole concept is crappy for producers and farmers whose operations require sunlight as their markets and transport operations have earlier cut-off deadlines.
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Farmers always worked toa daylight saving timetable anyway, because so much of their work depends ln natural lighting. This is why so many objected to compulsory “daylight saving.
And the people whoI recently here accused pf not know that a cubic metre of water weighs a tonne also don’t know that in tropical regions daylight hours vary much less.
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Isn’t it strange how the U.S. dependencies closer to the equator are less keen on daylight saving? When variability of daylength is negligible, the benefits of any ‘saving’ are diminished somewhat. Latitudes rule.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but very few hot countries have daylight saving.
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You can only get in 9 holes of golf after work when you have long twilight and flexitime [DST].
In the tropics it goes from light to dark in minutes.
Qld DID a DS trial many mango seasons ago and the north and the west in particular HATED it.
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Queenslander Here, what is Daylight saving?
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No Daylight saving in WA either.
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DST has been a good thing in my state of Minnesota, USA, which extends up to about 49 degrees N. Short winter days.
The farmers like it, but parents with kids in school like it more. The kids can go out to the bus in the light, and get off the bus later in the light. That was always our biggest justification.
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I was born at around 54 deg. N. The difference in daylight hours between the winter solstice and the summer solstice is 9h. 35min.
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What happens for the rest of the year?
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Sometimes it’s light, sometimes it’s dark.
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On the other hand sunrise at 0430 during the summer near the southern WA coast is a waste of good daylight for most people
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Perth is 40 minutes ahead of Sydney all year round.
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FWIW
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“You’ve probably already heard, but the New York Times ran a truly terrific story yesterday headlined, “ABC to Pay $15 Million to Settle a Defamation Suit Brought by Trump.” The sub-headline added, “The outcome of the lawsuit marks an unusual victory for President-elect Donald J. Trump in his ongoing legal campaign against national news organizations.” Note that the Walt Disney Corporation owns ABC.”
“Completely separate from anything related to the President-Elect, the professor’s admission about the dire legal implications of society’s loss of trust in corporate media might have been the most important part of this story. How much that might also be true for big hospitals, pharma, and public health in general. How long can a particular group or market segment be hated —“vilified” in the professor’s words— and still survive, at least without radical change?
I sense radical change coming for corporate media. How about you?”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/a-red-storm-sunday-december-15-2024?
And other things
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It was an amazing win for TRUMP because under US defamation and libel laws it’s almost impossible for a past or present President, politician or senior public official to win a defamation case.
And as you point out, it’s also an indication that the Leftist Lamestream Media can no longer be trusted. That’s why thinking people look to blogs like this to discover the truth.
E.g. how many people would know the truth about the covid vaccine disasters, the anthropogenic global warming fra_d, the Hunter Biden laptop, censorship of US election information by Facebook or numerous other “far right conspiracy theories” which have turned out to be true if it were not for alternative media like Jo’s blog?
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Politicians are in the public domain by choice and defamation laws are relaxed. It is common practice to call politicians Hitler or Nazi or even murderer. It’s part of the job to be called a liar, an opportunist, on the take. You will not win a defamation suit. That’s not unreasonable.
But stating that someone is a convicted rapist and doing so on National television is nothing to do with politics or political opinions. It is a very clear and devastating personal National level defamation. And because it is reporting on a specific court judgement, a statement of court proven fact, there is no debate about the truth. It was a lie. Which is why this was an open and shut case.
Stephanopolos plainly and deliberately lied to destroy Trump’s good character and both he and the ABC presumed they would get away with it as they did with all the other standard abuse. They are lucky not to be hit with all the laws regarding attempts to influence an election.
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Very tough to win defamation against a public figure in the US. You can’t just show they were wrong – you have to prove they were wrong “with actual malice or with a reckless disregard for the truth.”
Stephanopoulos’s statements were as close to that requirement as I’ve seen.
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That’s intent, malicious intent. There is no other explanation for blatantly lying. And clearly expecting that no one would take any action.
Slandering of Donald Trump has been a National pastime for most of his life.
Consider the alleged documentary of his life and the alleged rape of Ivana Trump, a rape she said never happened. You also have the situation of one of the world’s wealthiest men who ran Miss America for twenty years without a single allegation, but a random woman without any facts or witnesses can make an allegation thirty years later and get a conviction not for rape but ‘sexual abuse’? Only in New York.
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Latest climate nonsense from the US National Academies:
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/28192/global-pathways-to-net-zero-behavioral-social-and-technological-research
“The climate crisis poses a threat to life on the planet, with human health, ecosystem, and economic impacts globally. These impacts are projected to worsen in the future, as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and warming to date continues to produce adverse effects. For example, in 2022 alone, the United States experienced 18 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, totaling $165.1 billion. With the transportation sector being a leading source of emissions, it is essential that immediate steps are taken to decarbonize transportation and to continue to invest in the research needed for our decarbonization commitments to be met.”
Climate disasters! The nonsense summarized in two words.
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There was a wonderful meme a few years back, ‘Decarbonize The Planet!’, with a picture of Mars’ barren inhospitable rocky wasteland in the background. No thanks, I love carbon.
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I can only shake my head. There is no connection between tiny 1% annual ‘greenhouse gas emissions‘ and CO2 levels. CO2 is maintained as a constant from pole to pole, growing very slowly because of slight ocean surface warming. The very foundation of man made emission driven Climate Change is a lie.
Not even China can change CO2. It’s the vapour pressure of gas 98% of which is dissolved in the oceans.
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In 30 years, when no warming has been shown, the same crowd will cheer and claim that their vigilance protected us all and prevented catastrophe.
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Yes. But CO2 has gone up in a precise straight line. I wonder how that could be a consequence of ‘vigilance’. There is absolutely no evidence of human activity, let alone 500,000 windmills and billions of solar panels or of China itself.
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FWIW – another “drought”
“Study: It Will Take 18 Years to Build Enough Replacements for Weapons Going to Ukraine”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/study-will-take-18-years-build-enough-replacements/
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At least the next challenge to the Empire will be met with nice fresh weapons.
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” We cannot continue to sell out our own national security to the point where critical systems might take nearly two decades to replace in order to keep fueling a war that, at best, can only remain in a meat-grinding stalemate.”
Nah… Russia will keep moving forward and the West will lose. It has never been a stalemate.
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Canada are taking guns off their citizens to give to Ukraine to fight Russia. I’m not sure they realise that they also have Russia right near by – they could fight Russia themselves if they wanted to.
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Ian, do do see the incongruity here, don’t you?
“We built all these weapons of war to defend ourselves against the Red Menace. If we use them defending Europe against the Red Menace we will have to make newer, better stuff to replace it”.
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Biden has given RFK the rude finger by extending Pfizer’s and Moderna’s immunity from being sued for Covid “vaccine” injuries until 2029
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14189845/president-joe-biden-protect-vaccine-manufacturers-injury-claims-2029.html?ito=native_share_article-top
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If their covid products were and are “fully safe and effective” as the Left claim, why do they need to be protected from prosecution?
Further evidence of the accuracy of yet another “far right conspiracy theory” that the covid “vaccines” were not properly tested or safe.
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Just like Radithor in the early 1900’s.
Radium for all! Radium toothpaste, Radium shampoo, Radium happy pills!
Cures everything, safe and effective!
And then the reckoning with reality when it all collapsed overnight as the masses learned the awful truth.
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DM
IIRC if their products can be proven “not safe or not effective” then that “immunity” can be declared null and void.
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That protection from legal suits as a result of vaccine injuries would appear to be challengeable. That is, if the litigant ( and their legal team ) can prove negligence or fraudulent behaviour in the development/ marketing of said products, the protection is voided. It would seem that negligence/ fraudulent behaviour is most obvious.
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FWIW – “Trumpwork”
“Deporting 1 million undocumented immigrants a year is much easier than you think | Opinion”
https://instapundit.com/690504/#disqus_thread
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I used to be a regular supporter of such charities as MSF and Amnesty International but they’ve both received scathing letters and been struck off my subscription list for their political stances.
Here’s the latest Anti-Australian racist woke nonsense from Amnesty.
Your donations are now funding advertisements on YouTube for free stickers featuring the Aboriginal Flag and the words, “Always Was Always Will Be Aboriginal Land”.
This under the heading, Support Indigenous Rights.
I thought we were supposed to be proud that Australia is a multicultural society where we all have the same rights and we’re all treated equally regardless of religion or race.
No. Some of us are more special than others to the woke rainbow Left.
And then below the free activist sticker giveaway is the fake history talking point, ”
“For over 65,000 years, First Nations People have cared for this land”
Fictional narratives to support social division.
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The following contains a link to a survey about whether you want the natural gas supply to be shut down in Victoriastan. Or you can make a submission. This is about even more extreme measures to shut down the energy supply than already in place.
Only the Stupid Country would do something like this. It’s insane.
Australia is no longer “the lucky country” and never really was. It was a misinterpretation of the words of Donald Horne as I have previously pointed out. As he said “run by second rate people”…
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‘Lucky’ we aren’t in a worse situation than we already are.
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So. Maths are tricky things. Vic gas usage is 16% of total emissions.
Total CO2 in the atmosphere is 0.042%. Humans contribute 4% of that. AU contributes 1.1% of the total, and Vic is 16% of that.
That is: 0.042 x 0.04 x 0.011 x 0.16 = 0.00000296% of global CO2. Or 0.3 parts per Billion.
Only an idiot would hinge a decision of energy usage or distribution on such an irrelevant measure.
AU provides 40% of Japan’s natural gas. AU exports 73% of AU NG production.
Electing innumerate idiots is no benefit to a modern society. Vic seems certifiably insane.
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23 seconds of why you should wear a helmet.
https://old.bitchute.com/video/IvFmu6UOap23/
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Have a friend who wanted to show how to ride his grandson’s scooter down a slope. Didn’t have a helmet, head over heels onto a rock and is now confined to home, a life totally wrecked. My son when young also went over the front of his bike, cracked his helmet, but never ever rode his bike without a helmet. Nor do I.
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I ticked it for the story value – not the outcome. That is sad but not uncommon.
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This morning happened to park close to an accident that occurred while parking, where a cyclist ran headlong into the rear of the car that had stopped to make a u-turn. Cyclist had a deep gash on his chin and apparent shoulder damage – hatchback rear roof was dented by impact. A group of us stayed with him and kept him stable and quiet until ambulance arrived. Again, very lucky that he was wearing a helmet. Think outcome would have been much worse without one.
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More importantly, why you shouldn’t try and lane split with a truck if you can’t steer straight.
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‘Game-changer’: Expert weighs in on Coalition’s energy plan
Sky News Australia
Video goes for around 11 minutes – Top Stuff –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Ue7cdpVRY
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“Fatal flaw in Gencost…”
I like it.
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He says he hasn’t looked at the details but completely agrees with it !, the sort of ‘expert’ I love.
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Another one for the ‘You couldn’t make this stuff up’ category.
As you all know, the Syrian government was recently overthrown and the country is now controlled by an organisation known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). HTS is designated as a terrorist organisation in the US, UK, Canada, Turkey, Russia, New Zealand, Australia and a few others.
Wiki says: “HTS carries out extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, and forced disappearances.[256][257] Political opponents, journalists, activists, and civilians perceived as critical of HTS are unlawfully detained. Torture and mistreatment are widespread in detention facilities operated by HTS, with at least 22 documented methods of torture being employed by HTS.”
So the UK’s Labour government has been quick to act.
By sending HTS a gift of £50M. Meanwhile, it is illegal for any UK citizen to send money to a terrorist organisation.
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Harris/Walz voters are a special and precious breed:
I’m voting for this police officer on my Oscar ballot this year. Epic!!!
https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1858909184923726201?t=EJJdU6WkMXyFgNM7Alp06Q&s=19
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Putting costings etc on his nuclear plan was probably a step too far for Dutton and the LNP. Personally, I think nuclear is just the biggest red herring and is just taking away the attention from the inefficiency of intermittents. All he needed to state was when back in government, he would reverse the legislation on nuclear power in Australia. Just say he supported coal/gas as well. Talk about the energy mix more, something that Matt Canavan talks about. But one thing about nuclear, it doesn’t scare the pants off a sizeable chunk of the population any more. That chunk that grew up with The Simpsons. Homer Simpson worked at the local nuclear plant and in the opening scenes for each episode, even had a radioactive rod slip down his back. 30 yo’s these days – meh, what’s all the fuss about nuclear.
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AUKUS disabled the anti-nuclear case. Peter Dutton can also cite electricity costs in France and Germany. But if the people are ready for nuclear energy, it will get up anyway
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Dutton just needs to wind back all legislation to how it was before Howard of the fake conservative Liberal Party banned nuclear power and allowed random generators to connect to the grid.
A free marketplace will decide what type of generators go where and when, whether they be coal, gas or nuclear, possibly hydro (as there are very few suitable sites left in Australia) and for True Believers, they can buy Intermittent at three or more times the cost of real power generation (but I bet they won’t).
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A film crew for ABC news were shocked by the appearance of this glowing ‘Energy Orb’ of light in New Jersey.
https://x.com/TheProjectUnity/status/1867849766425575763/
What is it with the mystery?
There are thousands of drone owners that could send their drones up for some close-up video, yet no-one has.
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The clueless of people claiming these are extraterrestrial visitations is staggering.
It’s either drone owners performing pranks, Chicomms or Russians or a Biden Deep State operation to draw attention away from his Maladministration in his last day’s as the shadow President Obama does everything possible to sabotage Trump and start multiple wars and other things. Or a combination.
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This one looks like a plasma laser ball.
There are fakes around, there is one vid of a man shooting at a drone, totally fake.
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Mmmmm if only determining object size and range at night was that simple
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We know a lot already, they are roughly the size of a SUV without a heat signature.
‘The drones reportedly emitted no heat signatures, making them impossible to track using conventional thermal imaging, and demonstrated an uncanny ability to manoeuvre out of detection range.’ (NDTV)
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Carbon drones perhaps? https://www.unmannedsystemstechnology.com/2024/11/drone-based-rainforest-biodiversity-sampling-tech-wins-xprize-competition/
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$815 BILLION: The Cost of Going Green in New England
With New England state governments committed to reducing their carbon emissions at least 80% by 2050, residents and businesses can expect electricity rates to double, along with rolling blackouts, according to a new joint report completed by several of the region’s think tanks. The study concludes that “green” energies — like wind and solar — simply cannot meet regional demands for electricity.
https://yankeeinstitute.org/2024/11/14/the-staggering-costs-of-new-englands-green-energy-policies/
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With average demand of 15GW that looks reasonable for the electricity grid. Still a long way short of achieving NetZero across the entire State economy.
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After the covid “vaccine” disaster, you wonder how many other modern drugs claimed to be “safe and effective” really are.
Or how many expensive modern drugs can be replaced by cheaper alternatives or even by correcting common deficiencies such as Vitamin D (which would have substantially reduced mortality with covid and many other diseases).
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Re Bovaer etc
IIRC back in the early days of the Peking Pox jabs comparison was made to the requirements for registration of a new animal health product.
Again IIRC it took a minimum of 5 years and required testing for genetic effects.
This seems to be current requirements
“I want to register a new agricultural product that contains a new active constituent – full assessment (Item 1)”
“A full assessment (Item 1) involves a comprehensive assessment of data for both the active constituent/s and the proposed chemical product is required for chemistry and manufacture, toxicology, poisons scheduling, residues and trade, worker health and safety, environment and efficacy and safety. It may also include trade and special data modules, if applicable.
Applications involving less than full assessment (Item 2) include where the active constituent is:
a biological
currently used in domestic or industrial chemicals
an adjuvant for use with other agricultural products
proposed for uses (excluding vertebrate poisons) only in:
a non-food crop
domestically in the home, home garden or a swimming pool or spa
buildings not used in animal production (for example, warehouses, offices, or glasshouses).”
More at
https://www.apvma.gov.au/registrations-and-permits/application-guidance/i-want-register-new-product-contains-new-active-constituent/i-want-register-new-agricultural-product
So it would seem that calling it a “supplement” looks like an “end run” around testing requirements or an invoking of the “GRAS” clause – Generally Accepted As Safe”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generally_recognized_as_safe
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You have to wonder why Green energy now means ONLY Chinese windmills and solar panels? Why?
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Especially as neither is commandable, continuous or adequate. And where in the world have energy prices dropped with promised free energy?
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Surely Hydro is ‘Green’. So is Hydrogen but way to expensive to produce with current technology.
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I’m a big fanboi of hydro. I remember the control room operator at Karreeya declaring that they generated 110% of nameplate for the month. Free water.
Once the dam stops topping hydro does stellar work meeting the peaks and taking over freq. control [manually at that time] because it was so easily controlled.
I an unaware if any of the trillions spent in the last 50 years increasing hydro [I don’t include Tas in my knowledge area] so if a green includes hydro with the wind/solar figures they are frauds.
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TdeF,
FYI
Interesting post over at No tricks zone about CO2 balances and has a good chat about the IPCC not taking Henry’s law into account.
https://notrickszone.com/2024/12/14/the-fairy-tale-of-the-co2-paradise-before-1850-a-look-at-the-real-science/
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There are so many wrong arguments in this absurd claim of man made Climate change. The article lists a few.
But the most serious on is that we can measure how much fossil fuel CO2 is in the air and it is 2.0%.
That should be an end to it all. But it continues. On Quora I just keep picking up red herrings, transparently, obviously false.
One common one is that the ocean is ‘full’ and cannot take any more CO2. So 98% of gaseous CO2 is already in the ocean and it cannot take the last 2%?
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Why only Chinese-made wind turbines and solar panels? I suppose that’s a rhetorical question, but WTH there might be visitors here from Greenland (spelled green-land): The answer is obvious – the Chinese build them using coal power. The people who have the wind turbines and solar panels can’t build anything.
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This is the lates Clintel video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrrHEXnCW-8&t=1s
It is a lecture given by Benny Peiser from GWPF. It covers how the political landscape is changing. Trump’s win is included on the list.
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Something that Peiser points out in this video is that the G7 has agreed that they will not pay anything into the UN climate fund unless China agrees to pay.
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Varta batteries and cells are very good, inexpensive available at Bunnings in Australia. I didn’t know Varta was owned by Energizer.
https://energizer.asia/Australia/about-energizer/
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Why am I not surprised?
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Are these women ever charged and convicted themselves? I can’t say I’ve ever heard of that happening.
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“The former Duke players were declared innocent in 2007 after Mangum’s story fell apart under legal scrutiny.”
The case actually fell apart when the judge, in open court, discovered that the Durham county prosecutor Mike Nifong, was found to have withheld exculpatory DNA evidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Nifong
He was briefly jailed and disbarred.
Early example of progressive political lawfare that reached it’s zenith (hopefully) in the lawjihad against Donald Trump.
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Hottest Melbourne days each year, historic, raw BOM data from Climate Data Online.
Not the same as hottest each past December. Too hot to sit in front of the PC to calculate.
Graph made 2 years ago, but nothing of interest is in 2023 or 2024 to date.
Cheers Geoff.
https://www.geoffstuff.com/melb1day.jpg
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Well done, Geoff.
Can you also calculate the number of days above a certain temperature, say 40C, for each month or year for that data set?
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Got a few spare hours to waste? http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/IDCJDW0300.shtml
If you have patience and “play” with the site, you can extract the > 40˚C days for Melbourne yourself.
Download or shove it into your own spreadsheet.
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Thats not how it works here Ross.
Spoon feed.
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“Spoon feed.”
old age… 2nd childhood..
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David,
Original Melbourne April 1855 to 5 January 2015
with my favourite month February 1968 when my Wife & I moved to Melbourne the day after our wedding for my new job
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=122&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=1968&p_c=-1481858568&p_stn_num=86071
The Highest Daily In December for this Station was 43.7C 15 December 1876
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Step 1: pull out your trusty spreadsheet
2: enter the following formula: =countif ([range],”>40″)
3. Done.
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Hivemind,
I am lazy – prefer to click days above 30C, 35C & 40C in field above year
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=122&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=1968&p_c=-1481858568&p_stn_num=86071
Dec 1897 ran 3 days above 40C
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=122&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=1897&p_c=-1481858568&p_stn_num=86071
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It’s also possible to setup an Excel macro to regularly extract data from a website and load it into a spreadsheet.
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While you’re there, would appreciate seeing the Southern Hemisphere UAH. Was the recent temperature spike universal?
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FWIW
“The Only Thing Canada and NZ Can Learn From Each Other on Guns is Failure”
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/12/13/the-only-thing-canada-and-nz-can-learn-from-each-other-on-guns-is-failure-n1227146#google_vignette
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Lest We Forget it was an Australian patsy in the starring role of the 2019 Christchurch govt-funded war game scenario.
Meanwhile police are still on the hunt for a large fully face-tattooed male who fatally shot the leader of another gang / tribe last week north of the capital Wellington.
Must be Captain Cook’s fault, e hoa bro?
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I saw this video years ago, very interesting, he follows the car that was parked in front of the Mosque.
https://old.bitchute.com/video/RrXnFhUnJ47u/
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Video comes up as – ‘unavailable, requested by authorities’, sinister.
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It was also removed from rumble. Found an interview by the man that covers it.
https://odysee.com/@thecrowhouse:2/Max-Igan-on-the-coverup-of-the-Christchurch-massacre—Jerm-:2
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FWIW
“Interesting: The Seed Oil Wars Are Heating Up”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/12/15/interesting-the-seed-oil-wars-are-heating-up-n3797918
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Good to hear awareness being raised about these unhealthy products.
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MAHA has a long road ahead of it.
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Well I try to avoid seed oils as much as possible. At home I only use Olive oil and Duck fat but when eating out I have no idea what is used and I’m sure many restaurants and food outlets use whatever is the cheapest which would be seed oils. I also used to use margarine’s 30 years ago on a doctors advice with regards to high cholesterol but now only use butter.
Is olive oil a seed oil?
https://www.chefsresource.com/is-olive-oil-a-seed-oil/#Is_Olive_Oil_a_Seed_Oil
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One of my wife girlfriends is an industrial chemist. She worked many years ago for a company that made a well known margarine.
My wife was standing in front of this ladies fridge one day when we were there for a bbq. She remarked “hey , how come you only have butter, dont you use your own product?”
Response was ” Are you kiddihg? I know what goes into that sh1t”
This was decades ago.
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Further back than that I bought some lard at the supermarket and some witch presumed to give me a health lecture.
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A friend got a tour of a margarine production line.
Reports that the product is an un-ghostly grey colour till the last stage where they add the butter colour
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Re olive oil
In here
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252458
There is a mention that a lot of it is “helped by unmentioned additive oils”
If you buy Oz produced probably doesn’t have those
(My guess and hope the label reads true!)
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And don’t forget what makes those “spreadable butters” spreadable
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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Steven E. Koonin and Mark P. Mills
Real Clear Wire
[The following is based on remarks delivered by Koonin and Mills at an MIT Free Speech Alliancedebate, which can be viewed here.]
The climate change debate continues to rage. Though the science remains “unsettled,” what does seem settled is that President Trump will withdraw, again, from the now infamous Paris Climate Accords. Importantly, those accords are centered on pledges made to modify national energy policies.
A decision to exit the Paris Accords is no mere gesture.
The central fact for citizens everywhere is that putative “climate solutions” would deploy trillions of dollars and implement mandates and diktats for the supply and use of energy in every aspect of society.
The stated rationale for proposals to alter completely how civilization is fueled is the need for an “insurance policy” against future climate catastrophes. In that framing, the climate-fearful argue that some possibility of consequential future harms warrants the “responsible” decision to “buy” insurance now. But this often-argued “insurance” construct assumes that we know enough to say that the consequences of future climate change justify paying for the insurance—and collaterally, that we know the “insurance” itself will be affordable.
It turns out that we do know quite a bit about both those domains. As we outline below, reality tells us that the climate-change consequences that we’re trying to avoid will be modest—and that the costs of the “insurance” are staggering.
What are we insuring against?
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FWIW
A bit of a bang!
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1868427980781027402
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‘Fresh NSW coal plant issues trigger power crunch fears.
‘NSW’s two largest coal power stations are running at reduced capacity just as energy demand is expected to surge.’ (Oz)
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I guess doing minimal maintenance and not investing because you beleive “magic happens” has consequences.
Somehow , despite the reality of the last 70 years of generation, this will get spun as “unreliable coal” because, you know, the narrative.
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All such plants need maintenance. If you have no reserve capacity when do you schedule maintenance?
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I just had a horrific find (and have the offline sceen shots to prove this).
Foolishly watching “SBS on demand” I was subjected to an advertisment suggesting antivirals for those still at risk from the Wu Flu. Prominently displayed at the end of the advert was none other than the “pfizer” logo!
So in total breach of advertizing rules in Australia, government dependant SBS is now advertising perscription only drugs to support their new Pfizer sponsors.
Yes, I have the screen shots.
SBS, brought to you by Pfizer …
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SBS being a far Left organisation, of course they are partnered with Big Pharma.
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SBS shouldn’t exist as a Government broadcasting company. It was created by Al Grassby to get media to migrants. And in the age of the internet we are still paying for it? Why?
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Of course it should be no surprise that Big Pharma is teamed up with transgender activism either.
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SBS is allowed to receive revenue from advertising. Unlike the ABC.
If it falls into the banned advertising prescription category then maybe they get around it by making it a community service health announcement. But I speculate.
There have been antiviral medication promotional campaigns previously. One included Ita Buttrose as the face of the campaign while she was Chair of the ABC. Don’t think it was brand specific. Was promoting antivirals in a general sense.
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You don’t need a presrcription, just rock up to a bunnings.
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You may notice at times that Chemist Warehouse skate very close to those pharmaceutical advertising laws as well. Advertise a condition or illness and then have products cleverly positioned in the ads. What’s worse about the SBS ads is it’s most likely for Paxlovid, which is a very ordinary product, to say the least. Usually just results in eg COVID rebound, just ask Tony Fauci.
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Never had the Covid Jab/Boosters. Never had the Flu Jab. Had all the other jabs as a young person. And still here at 72 and I know I have a GREAT IMMUNE SYSTEM, Guv’ment’s GET THIS. Bugger orf’ and let me make my own mind up.
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Re posting of MeAgain @#2. I just finished watching all 1.18mins, and it is gut churning, and I dont even know if it explains the diabolical deviancy that uniparties around the world are engaging in. It’s all the stuff we have been discussing, bundled up in a grand unifying theory, that makes my mind want to vomit. So it explains it, but the total is more than the sum of the parts, and my throat says, ‘stage one prep to throw up’.. The foundation is the mad migration the west has had in the last 5 years, and how that is to be transformed into election results, in just a few years. (ie one party state California.) One fly in that ointment is that genuine economic migrants (but according to these figures, Aus doesn’t have many of these.) don’t want to live on a dole, when they have some chance to get ahead?
One of the categories of workers Aus is seeking, are immigration agents!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHtAHw1u15g Flat Out Like a Nation Sinking by Matt Barrie
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The Gerrymander didn’t go with Joh, just got far more sophisticated.
I think it is ridiculous for a rich country like Australia, which claims to have such great education that it is a major export, to then claim they need skilled migration programs for businesses to find the staff that they need to run.
I believe we should only have family and refuge migration programmes. I think the World has to face the fact that there are more people seeking refuge now than there were at the end of WWII.
For the refuge programs, Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs should consult regularly (say weekly) with the communities who are taking refuge here to better understand what we can do to influence the situation in their home country so that it can be safe for them to return. Training and skills programs for refugees should focus on the skills they will need to rebuild once they are able to return home (ie – not to work as migration agents …. or Uber drivers).
Anti-immigrant sentiment seems wrongly directed at refugees to me – it should be focused on skilled migrants
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Another interesting thing Barrie highlighted is, all the parasitic nanny industries are bloating nicely, but the two industries that are under constant attack, are mining and agriculture, with many people slavering to shut them down. The lunatics control their asylum.
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Funny how you lob into things like the AEMO dashboard and get a bizzare snapshot.
Earlier today I had a look and VIC had surplus power over demand and was exporting to SA and NSW, yet the wholesale price was at least double any other eastern State.
Just now at 6PM. All the interconnectors are red (maxed or limited). It does not look like a happy system.
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Zali Steggle is both figuratively and actually a Luddite…in my opinion!
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FWIW – travel with caution
Don’t think of going to Canada unless you are absolutely sure that you are healthy –
“MAID in the Great White North: Canadian per Capita Euthanasia Deaths Now Beat U.S. Gun Deaths”
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/12/15/canada-1-in-20-deaths-now-assisted-suicide-n2405231?bcid=5e02542952a6f353fe3eb471afa8be92bb58af8cf6e9d760bc00bc9f16dd300d&lctg=28968094
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FWIW
“The Keynesian Playbook – Eat your Cake and Have it too!! Are we at the End of the Road?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-12-15/keynesian-playbook-eat-your-cake-and-have-it-too-are-we-end-road
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Former President Bashar al-Assad has released his first statement:
It is very well written, as might be expected from a well educated man.
“Ousted Syrian leader Bashar al Assad issues first statement since fall of regime”
https://arab.news/ms35t
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