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Greetings from perishing cold South Devon.
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Global Warming/Climate Change. Winter draws on……………….
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British humour has long embraced a popular appetite for sexual innuendo. Just in case some readers don’t know that ‘draws’ are a synonym for knickers/underpants and was once banned by the BBC
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“drawers”
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That’s the trouble with England. Even if December’s mean temperature is 3C above average, in one of the warmest years in the last 360 years, it still feels chilly. More warming required!
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My wife was watching an English gardening show once and the presenter was describing that the plant was at its best in summer , which he described as “you know, those three days in August”
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Where the thought of a slight warmer planet is terrifying the local population in one of the warmest places in the UK.
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“December is Cold and Wet and then.,…”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P4_Wbb4V-o0
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Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don’t come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain
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“‘Something’ January again”! Flanders and Swann.
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17 C degrees at 7 am in magnificent Mudgee NSW.
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Think of Jo and her fellow WA-lians (West-Aliens?) as the thermometer heads for 39C today… before thunderstorms kick in, the wind shifts and things cool down – as if ‘Nature’ has its own balancing switch.
Similar to those 3, as yet unnamed, whirls of cloud north of Broome: a warm pool of water (thanks to La Niña’s efforts?) and just like that, nature kicks in with 3 whirling air conditioners and balances everything out.
What happened to the East Coast’s permanent heatwave drought plague of locusts doomsday furnace? Mid-20s is all they can muster despite their Colonial Conquering Carbon footprints 👣
To paraphrase George Carlin, RIP:
The planet is fine, leave it alone!
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Where can I get some of those carbon footprints?
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at the moment my wife is watching the womens cricket ODI between Australia and India in Perth. Despite the apocalyptic conditions the girls are managing to play cricket.
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Just a typical Perth summer day. 40C on my back patio. Thank goodness for plenty of reliable power to keep the air con running. At least the solar contributed over 30 kWh.
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Climate Science You Can Believe
Tony Thomas
Dec 09 2024
“Top-tier climate scientists are pushing for the urgent establishment of a national climate agency. This agency will coordinate the science needed to harden up Australia’s response to climate change, get us successfully to net zero emissions by 2050 and put an end to those pesky droughts, floods, bushfires and storms.
This climate super-bureaucracy is the brainchild of Andy Pitman of UNSW, chair of the Science Academy’s National Committee for Earth System Science and director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. He’s also the chap who let the climate cat out of the bag when he told an audience in 2019 that global warming doesn’t cause droughts, rather the opposite, since warm air holds more water.[1] He suggested the media were lying about this simple fact — but which of his fellow climateers had been briefing the media?
His truth outraged the alarmist crowd and Pitman had to pull his head in for a spell. But heavens, he now admits on behalf of the Academy that “we are building our climate policies on crumbling foundations” and there’s “critical gaps in our understanding” and “our knowledge is incomplete”. And even, “(W)e risk investments that lead to maladaptation, incorrect disclosure of financial risk by business, and erroneous assessments of national and regional risks associated with climate change.”
Andy, whatever you do, don’t share those qualms with Climate Minister Chris Bowen. The Mad Minister intent on spending trillions of the taxpayer coin on his renewables mirage. “Crumbling foundations” is not what he wants to hear, especially from the woke and Labor-captured Academy.
Pitman and his Academy are finally catching up with what sceptics have been pointing out since the start of the net-zero farrago: no amount of battery and hydro backup can offset the certain failure of renewables during sustained wind droughts and cloud cover across regions– which the ingenious Germans call Dunkelflaute or “dark doldrums”. In his Academy paper Pitman writes, in a masterpiece of understatement: “High impact events also include long periods of low solar radiation coinciding with low winds… these impact national strategies to achieve net zero emissions” (Decadal Plan, P4). Andy’s such a tease: he offers no solution.”
https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/doomed-planet/climate-science-you-can-believe/
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Electrification prior to plastics – as well as the obvious copper, involved quite a lot of jute and lead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYTqpCZRLyI Mesmerising warning – if you also enjoy the meditative effect of watching heavy, industrial machinery don’t start the film unless you have an hour to spare!
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And asbestos, a marvellous product which enabled young people to have their own homes. I had forgotten that the ban on asbestos puts it in the same league as Carbon and CFCs.
It would not be overly difficult to eliminate exposure to free asbestos in the mining and processing.
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Jo’s article quoted at American Thinker.
“Climate ‘scientists’ discover they’ve been underestimating a major factor, and all their climate models are in fact wrong”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/climate_scientists_discover_they_ve_been_underestimating_a_major_factor_and_all_their_climate_models_are_in_fact_wrong.html
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Since when has taxing carbon dioxide been based on actual science, let alone the mysterious ‘Climate Science’? It is a fraud inside a hoax wrapped in a lie. The fraud is that we understand climate. The hoax is that climates are critically based on CO2. And the lie is that humans can change CO2.
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The obvious solution.
Capping marine mammal harassment constrains offshore wind
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2024/12/09/capping-marine-mamma-harassment-constrains-offshore-wind/
The beginning: “Prior to approving offshore wind development NOAA routinely authorized the loud noise harassment of large numbers of whales under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). New research by Professor Apostolos Gerasoulis shows that this harassment is causing a lot of whale deaths.
For example it is known to cause deafness which can easily be deadly. But harassment need not cause deafness to cause death. Offshore wind arrays that occupy a hundred square miles or more are typically built in low ship traffic areas with high traffic nearby. Harassment can simply cause the whales to avoid the low traffic area and spend more time in heavy ship traffic leading to an increase in deadly collisions.
The same is true for lightly versus heavily used fishing areas where avoidance leads to increased entanglement. Ship strikes and entanglement are the two leading causes of whale deaths. Ironically the wind defenders say that increased ship strikes and entanglements show that wind is not causing increased death rates when they are actually strong evidence against wind.
The clear solution to this killing of whales is to severely constrain the number of harassment authorizations. With these very limited authorizations very few new offshore wind projects can be built. Nor should they be since they are killing whales. Each project requires a large number of authorizations so drastically reducing their number drastically reduces the number of offshore wind projects and the number of whale deaths.
The simplest way to do this is to cap the total number of wind authorizations that will be issued for a given exposed population. This is analogous to capping the emission of dangerous pollutants. One could even have a cap and trade program where developers bid for authorizations just as they now bid for leases. The 1990 cap and trade program for power plant sulfur dioxide emissions is an obvious analog.
If the cumulative harassment were limited to say 10% of the exposed population of a given species of whale this would severely constrain offshore wind development. As it is now the cumulative authorized harassments of multiple projects often add up to many times the exposed population. This is a striking example of BOEM and NOAA’s stubborn refusal to do cumulative environmental impact analysis.
This is especially true of the severely endangered North Atlantic Right Whale which has an estimated population of just 340, all of which are exposed to all of the Atlantic offshore wind development because they migrate along the entire coast. Ten percent of this population is 34 harassments and some projects approach this number individually”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
Save the whales from wind.
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How to save the whales from wind when Australian environmentally aware groups and activists ignore the destruction of forests for wind turbine installations, and hilltops on the Great Dividing Range flattened, access road and transmission line corridors constructed while the environmentalist Greens say nothing and environmental groups advertise begging for donations to save the Koala and other wildlife as habitats are “lost”.
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The US and EU have lots of active anti-wind groups. Does Oz not?
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Bill Stinson, the Community Relations officer for the Energy Realists of Australia has a long list of active community organizations. I will mail you the contact.
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Orchid Energy (Brisbane) has proposed plans to install 6 GW of offshore wind within 30-45 km of the Central Queensland coast to service the expanding industrial city of Gladstone. I alerted the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park authority (GBRMPA) to Orchid’s proposal, and they passed on my concerns to the Offshore Wind (Climate Division) section in the relevant federal department (DCCEEW). As Orchid Energy had been working on the proposal for more than 2 years, they must have had some inkling that the intended site would attract Australian Government approval.
Fortunately, DCCEEW has advised me that there are now no current plans to open up this area for offshore wind. Frankly I don’t know what the proponents were thinking. Blinded by the potential of huge subsidy mining no doubt. While conveniently forgetting that the project would impact the key annual migration route of c.30,000 humpback whales and be smack bang in the GBR marine park and gazetted World Heritage Area! Nevertheless, experience tells you not to take your eye off the ball when dealing with subsidy miners and fanatics. Hopefully forewarned is forearmed.
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‘Does Oz not?’
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/12/08/stop-these-things-weekly-round-up-8-december-2024/
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The Australian Government is hunting for global talent.
I will look at a few of the categories.
They also forgot to mention the terrorists and terrorist-supporters they are already importing in large numbers.
Clean energy (sic) Don’t we already have enough home-grown grifters? And I guess with TRUMP soon to be in charge on the US, a lot of the “renewables” parasites will be looking for new subsidies to harvest.
Innovative investors, presumably to be involved in renewables scams.
Global researchers, what the hell are those? I guess they mean globalists.
Athletes, we don’t have enough? And for what? More panem et circenses?
Creatives, to harvest taxpayer subsidies for garbage art?
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Downturn in outlook for leftists in US after Hillary lost is what sent her pal Audrey Zibelman over here to head up AEMO; there’ll be an avalanche of the same unless the Australian voters scrub Labor in the upcoming federal election.
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I see the CSIRO have put out the latest gencost report version 2 after fiddling the books on the last report , this time they are saying nuclear power plants will last 60 years but insist solar panels and wind turbines will last 30 years each !
Definitely no bias here , can’t wait for version 3 !
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Back in the day, CSIRO used to employ scientists, many of them were even very good.
Now the good ones have retired or been sacked (fired) for not following the Official Narrative and the remaining staff are basically anti-science public serpents who support whatever their political masters tell them to. I won’t insult real scientists by referring to the remaining staff as such.
If the Uniparty Government tells them to say that “wind and solar are the cheapest and most reliable form of electricity production”, despite the evidence of our own eyes, then that is exactly what they will say.
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The CSIRO are wind powered – they change directions at any change of gusts.
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There has been a lot of discussion about the new draft GenCost in The Australian recently. I believe that despite saying 60 years, nuclear costings were still 30 years, and they said that there wasn’t much difference in nuclear costs 30 to 60 years. Have to check.
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What happened to “hi fi” systems?
I had been wondering about this myself.
Apparently younger people don’t know about high fidelity sound reproduction. They mostly only experience music via earbuds.
And listening to music is today a solo activity for young people, no going to the friend with the best hi fi system to listen to thr latest LP record.
Here is a video that discusses this.
https://youtu.be/c1pxS8Uk6fE
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I turned on my Marantz amplifier yesterday to play some Christmas carols. I bought it in the 70’s so it is 50 years old.
My old large speaker boxes have been in Storage for years. I bought small units 25 years ago which are wall mounted and I have one base “woofer” unit.
I have thought about resuscitating my turntable and LP collection just so that my grandchildren can see how recorded music was done in the “olden days”.
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During the 1970s I helped install a copper wire around a house below the flooring that was attached to an amplifier, the couple who owned the house were both deaf and had a new born baby, the system was installed so that they could use their hearing aids to hear their baby crying from her bedroom or anywhere around the house.
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I recently did exactly that, amp and speakers also, even investigated potential new speaker systems etc…
..But aftera few weeks of messing with record cleaners , tone arm balancing, speaker location, etc etc….. i resorted back to ear buds and the iPhone !…..so i can listen at a decent sound level without the family hassling me to “turn it down “ .
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With a new PC a couple of months ago, the inbuilt “sound” was pathetic quality, so I tried to connect our big old Sony amplifier and speakers that cost thousands back then in the 1980s. We could enjoy near live broadcast quality music from the CD or DVD.
All my efforts failed to connect PC to sound system. If any reader has found a way, please share. Geoff S
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Bluetooth wireless speakers?
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Beat me to it. A decent soundbar perhaps?
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Depends on your computer’s connections. If it has a typical 3.5mm stereo socket, something like one of these would give you stereo RCA plugs to connect to your amp’s inputs.
Check with headphones that you’re getting sound from the socket before getting fancy. PC audio is pretty complex, with all sorts of mute, mixer and preamp settings that do a fine job of confusing me at least.
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okay Geoff you are saved.
You need to buy an audio interface, usb connection to computer. From the audio interface out, go to your amp – with appropriate connection fittings. An audio interface is much better than the audio out on your computer.
Alternatively you may be able to just use that 3.5mm output jack on the computer and go to your amp if you get the correct lead combination to suit the input of the amp.
Anymore questions let me know.
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and another way is to add a small audio mixer; audio interface to mixer; mixer to amp. This would make it easier to get leads as you can use standard configurations readily available. Then you have control of the audio on the mixer, including some EQ, which is all very useful.
Audio bliss.
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The world only seems to want “good enough” technology and services in the main. In most areas excellence isnt really rewarded , especially when it comes to the general public. As long as it looks good , you are most of the way there.
Audio systems, software development, education, legislation, building regulation, Boeing, the grid, almost anything to do with maintenance.
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Sure people and their headphones, but it’s largely much better these days.
Sonos speakers are incredible engineering, that adjust its sounds based on the acoustic response of the room. Phenomenal things. If you’re into music production, people have studio monitors that are way better than any stereo unit speakers I could afford. Few people had really good speakers and amps back in the day.
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FWIW – more covid news
“Why NHS staff are shunning the vaccines”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-nhs-staff-are-shunning-the-vaccines/
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And
“SCOTUS Asked To Block State From Investigating Doctors Who Question COVID-19 Policies”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scotus-asked-block-state-investigating-doctors-who-question-covid-19-policies
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FWIW
“Governments, academics and think tanks – Backscratchers United”
“RACHEL Reeves’s recent ‘farmers’ Budget’ highlighted one key individual driving the policy: academic Arun Advani. His key policy of capping agricultural property relief originated in his academic research and has been pushed through NGOs and think tanks before being adopted as government policy – referring back to those same sources as support. The network operates as something like an Academia-Charity-Government Complex (borrowing from President Eisenhower’s coinage of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex).”
More at
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-academia-charity-government-complex/
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I recently came across an acronym I hadnt heard before (sort of related to this):
MICIMATT is a an extension of the concept of the MIC (Military–industrial complex) that stands for Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank.
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Video:
Men don’t want to socialise anymore.
Thoughts?
https://youtu.be/740EcJLzsY8
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I can identify with that, many of the people around me are too old and the others are too young.
sarc.
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My take on the subjects above –
For a while I wonder why Hearing Aid mafia still exists?
More and more people around me buy those fiddly little earbuds, pay thousands for something they are (some very…) unhappy with.
My ears still work (the boss says – selectively). When it becomes a real problem I will use an earpiece and a small mobile phone (hopefully inherited from one of grandkids…) in an amplifier mode.
BTW – why those mighty Apples, Samsungs, etc,.. have not yet developed an app which converts unclear mumbling & waffling into simple clear audio statements & questions ?
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Sorry, forgot to end … and into short texts?
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I can understand why men don’t want relationships anymore , the risk reward doesn’t make sense and the potential for long term financial destruction is there.
General socialization? just personal preferences I think. I hate large gatherings and making pointless small talk with people. I much prefer socializing in smaller groups with people I connect with naturally. Mrs Y is much more gregarious and is happy to chin wag with anyone and everyone , although she does have a low tolerance for stupidity and self centeredness.
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A young (to me) lady called Hannah Pearl Davis – who calls herself an ‘anti feminist’ – has talked about this for some years. She points out frequently that marriage and long-term relationships are a very bad deal for men. She mainly points to the more or less complete lack of say men have in reproduction, i.e. that women can control whether or not they get pregnant.
Even if their partner wants to be a father they can deny him that pleasure while conversely, they can decide to get pregnant even if their partner doesn’t want a baby (assuming he is fertile of course). Even when pregnant, the woman can decide to terminate without his consent and there is nothing he can do to stop her. After birth, the mother can have the father ejected from the house he paid for, prevent him seeing the child, move another man in AND take the father to the financial cleaners.
Her YouTube channel is called ‘JustPearlyThings’.
Pearl lists plenty of other ways that modern men get shafted by women, and how much harder men have to work in a relationship often dominated by the woman’s emotional and financial needs, where the stakes are high for those who fail (see above).
She is very eloquent on the matter and incredibly patient with her opponents. I don’t know how she does it.
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Plastics/pesticides/herbicides/EMF radiation..
The only reason men socialised used to be to get a women into bed, or tell their mates how good it was, and these days men aren’t that fussed.. There seems to be nothing like the sex drive in men that there was in the 60s & 70s.
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Here is an amazing video.
This guy converted an old IBM Selectric typewriter ijto a teleprinter for Linux.
Teleprinter conversions for this type of machine have been done, back in the day, but this guy did it from scratch, hardware and software and is a real genius.
https://youtu.be/1kXnsvYfaF4
The Selectric typewriter itself, is a work of mechanical genius as well.
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My first commercial invention was to convert the old ASR33 teleprinter to intelligence, an inline memory based editor. It was the basis machine of Telex. Endless nights of binary. Everything but the chips. And manually programmed in Hex without a compiler prior to the 8080 with a National Semiconductor SC/MP processor and a massive 2.5kbyte of RAM. It sold well at the price of a car and allowed me to buy a house.
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Gawd, the ASR33 days!
I did have a soft spot for the DECwriter II though, top speed 30cps, 300 baud.
The dawn of the pc had arrived and some very clever kids with it.
Oh the stories…
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My first couple of computers about 1970-5 used the ASR-33 with paper tape punch. We got useful work out of it. But it came to us already interfaced, so much easier than do it yourself connection. Geoff S
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Check out the IBM1403 printer….
Bullet-proof work of art.
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I’ve seen one of those run.
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Once built a data converter that allowed an early microcomputer to communicate with a “Bardot” teletype. A bit slow though. But didn’t have monitors or keyboards back in those early days.
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FWIW
Re the Amazon rainforest and other things
“How can we predict the future if we don’t understand the past and/or the present?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/09/how-can-we-predict-future-if-we-dont.html
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“Trust the science. Don’t trust the scientists.”..
Nice..
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A generation the CSIRO was world class but John Phillips, the head of Soil Physics, warned that two developments threatened the work of the CSIRO and research institutes around the western world.
One was the growing use of computer models to replace experimental work at the bench or in the field.
The other was the rise of MBAs, starting at Harvard and taken up worldwide, which purported to qualify prospective managers and bureaucrats to run research institutes and universities as well as every other business.
Phillips sounded a warning about content-free managers, and it has come to pass, where CSIRO and the universities are run by people with next to no grasp of the science and are operating with political agendas.
Garth Paltridge, in The Climate Caper, described how that played out in CSIRO when climate alarmism became the new Big Thing for the thinly qualified movers and shakers who ran the organization.
Turning to the latest iteration of the notorious GenCost study it seems they are still using their favourite toy, the ever-reliable LCOE which can be guaranteed to deliver the result that serves the political agenda.
If you want to get a genuine comparison of costs you can go to the Energy Return on Investment, the eROI, or even better, the Complete Cost of Energy which is a work in progress with Lars Schernikau and others.
The eROI indicates that the unreliables barely pay their way and survive with support from the more efficient providers that do the heavy lifting. For comparative purposes the eROI for nuclear power is in the order of 70 compared with 30 for coal and 5 for wind and solar.
Of course those numbers will be contested and they will be refined, but don’t expect to see any wind and solar on the grid when sanity prevails in energy policy. Nix on “all of the above”.
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So, we asked a non independent government science institution to do very complicated economic analysis to support their own governments policy and they basically produced junk. Is anyone surprised?
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Yes, LCOE is only useful when comparing similar energy sources over the same time period. It cannot be used to compare energy sources that have different lifetimes. Most of the world’s main energy think tanks have disavowed the use of LCOE, with one think tank saying that LCOE costing was “incomplete”.
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via your their Abracadabra news:
Australians flying and driving to holiday destinations are increasing their carbon footprint, “fuelled by a growing desire to explore the world”. This has never happened before.
The name of this smarty pants University Queensland Business School philosopher? Dr Sun.
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Never happened before? Aussies and K1W1s have been travelling since commercial travel became available and affordable to us masses, and have been found roaming around the world in numbers for at least 60 years.
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Yarpos,
Wife and I have been to about 30 countries, mostly at our private expense. Worked in several. Started 1976. Geoff S
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If my own observations are any guide, most of the quite staggering increase in visitor numbers to European sites over the past ten years or so has been driven by China. I recall visiting Salzburg a few years ago, but found we couldn’t bear the crowds and went back to our digs in Bad Gastein just a couple of hours after arriving. It was like a horde had descended from Asia and every fountain, cathedral and public square was a noisy mass of tours, each headed by a VERY loud lady waving a flag. It was horrendous.
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Steve, we had the same experience. Although we drive a rental car whenever we visit Europe, on our last visit we decided to see the beauty of the Swiss Alps by way of the return train journey between Interlaken and Montreux. On the return journey to Interlaken our carriage was dominated by Chinese tourists. They proceeded to draw the blinds on every window and played Chinese music very loudly.
The Swiss were too polite to make a comment. But when a Chinese passenger put his bag on the adjoining seat so that a Swiss passenger had to stand, us outspoken Aussies couldn’t hold back. The Chinese tourist grudgingly removed his bag.
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Heard this morning on their ABC that tourism is the source of 9% of carbon emissions, shock, horror, gasp. What are we going to do about long haul flights, diesel buses, hotel power consumption, etc.
What a joke!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-11/tourism-air-travel-carbon-emissions-surge-environment/104701158
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Thanks Brenda, that’s the article – Dr Sun ‘discovers’ we antipodeans like to get out-and-about occasionally, and due to our isolation (blessing/curse conundrum) walking and paddling just doesn’t cut the mustard now that we’re living in the future.
Mr Yarpos above may have missed my tongue-in-cheek jibe at Dr Sun – I just didn’t want to use that ‘unprecedented!’ catch-all phrase these carbophobes fall-back on when they know their SCIENCE™️ is a crock.
A big roaring sky-bird is going to fly my niece and I to NSW next week (and hopefully back again next year) so we’ll be doing our little bit to add some extra ‘plant food gas’ to the Great Sunburnt Country – or is it flooding this summer?
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Is it raining this summer?
Yes – Darwin NT;
No – Cooyal NSW; ( today )
Maybe – Oz.
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It will supposedly be wet on the top end, above average they say, also along the east coast. Everywhere else rainfall will be pretty average.
Of course temperatures are forecast to be above average across Oz, day and night. BoM seasonal forecasts are woeful and I’m punting on below average temperatures because of the extra cloud cover.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/ahead/outlooks/
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“You will own nothing and you will be happy”. Now add, “ you will travel nowhere except inside your 15 minute city and you will be even happier”. Plus, of course “ eat ze bugs”. All said in a voice sounding like Darth Vader from Star Wars.
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FWIW
“Industry-funded study suggests coffee really is the fountain of youth”
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-industry-funded-coffee-fountain-youth.html
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Maybe, after a morning coffee I feel full of beans.
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Boom Tish!
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Something to keep in mind –
“The Mainstream Media FINALLY Admits Obamacare Is a Failure”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/12/10/the-mainstream-media-admits-obamacare-is-a-failure-n4934987
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Major Study Confirms Covid-Vaxxed Cause Side Effects in Unvaccinated People
A major new peer-reviewed study has confirmed that unvaccinated people can suffer from the harmful side effects of Covid mRNA “vaccines” by just being around people who have received the injections.
The study finally confirms the existence of “vaccine shedding” – an issue previously shot down by health officials as a “conspiracy theory.”
Alarmingly, the study found that unvaccinated people suffer vaccine harms even if they are “indirectly exposed” to those who received Covid mRNA shots.
https://slaynews.com/news/major-study-confirms-covid-vaxxed-cause-side-effects-unvaccinated-people/
Mask up to protect yourself from tha vaxxed…
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I would but we know that masks don’t work.
Any one gote a fully sealed hazmat suit with its own oxygen supply for sale
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Not so simple… They got the spike protein RNA put inside their bodies with lipid capsules, beyond the immune system to start with. Then the spike protein was released in a most unnatural way into their bloodstream
We’re getting the actual spike protein in micro-droplets into our eyes/nose/mouth etc, outside our bodies, and we have an immune system to deal with that sort of foreign protein.
It will be interesting to see the mechanism they reckon does this.
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Also interesting would would be the state of the individual’s immune system – vitamin D and zinc levels especially – but I doubt they’re measured.
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Any possibility that the unvaccinated person may have been exposed to C19 without manifesting symptoms, and it is this exposure that is being detected?
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Industry funded study…..
Depends on what one adds to the coffee? that may cancel out the benefits mentioned.
Thinking ‘milk’ products. Becoming sus the unknown additives within milk, all inorder to save us from ourselves. Bovaer springs to mind. That’s my rant for Wed morning thanks.
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Visited my retired electrical engineer client / friend recently. Very bright guy, diligent, knows his engineering thoroughly, worked on managing the grid most his life. Within my work I have worked with him on problem solving and highly respect his objective mind. He is however, green minded.
I asked him about the current grid and its challenges. He seems to accept that using wind and solar is compulsory because of climate change, and calls it free energy. He regards baseload energy as a bad thing because you have to turn it down to accept the free energy. Nuclear he says will be even worse than coal for that purpose.
The problem however is storage, and said if he knew the answer to that he’d tell me.
Amazes me the power of the climate spook. Can change a very clear thinking mind to mush once accepted. He just can’t get over that idea that co2 will destroy the planet (not his specialty), and it rules all his decisions on the matter.
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If I correctly understood your fillings Philip, I absolutely share your bewilderment.
It all happened in front of my eyes – my employer, a petrochem giant, overnight went from being a cornerstone of this capitalist civilisation to a giggling youth concerned about every weird issue in the world, except profit.
OK, really it took few years, included many willing servants of progress (double sarc…) and in the beginning it was possible to sit on two quickly spreading chairs…
By now, I think our congenital respect to authorities (all decisions came from US & UK) was at fault. We should have screamed blue murder then, too late now.
BTW. I hope my memory is correct: 20-25 years ago Malcom Roberts was trying to talk sense (degrees C, etc,.. ) to Liberal leadership and I recall the reaction was totally blank eyes – what was he talking about ?..
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” (not his specialty), ”
That problem! Because he has a specialty he respects other specialists, and hence easily gets led astray by the crooks in other fields.
Being a born cynic and having no particular specialty, I take no ‘expert’s’ word as being true, I’ve found them to be more ‘just ordinary people’ than white-coated automatons, and prone to ego attacks, looking for the butter on the bread, and just as likely to be wrong and never admit it.
You only have to look at the arguments within any field to see that its all opinion and belief. Yesterday’s article on heart attacks being dependent on sugar or fat was a good one.
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I have a work acquaintance with virtually the same education and work history as myself. Science based in private industry for about 40 years. We even worked for the same company briefly for a short time. Named his dog “Greta” because he passionately believes in AGW.
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Wednesday WHOA! – a fun day at the zoo for the kids
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sjlubj0N4n1smv61l.mp4
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Cute cuddly polar bear – CHOMP!
Thank ‘the Thing’ for reinforced glass/perspex carbon-based beast-proof plastic.
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Elon Musk:
“The Federal government computers & software are in such bad shape that they often cannot verify that payments are not fraud, waste or abuse!
That’s why the government can’t pass basic audits. They often LITERALLY don’t know where your tax dollars went. It’s insane.
My preferred title in the new administration is Volunteer IT Consultant. Need to fix the IT infrastructure in order to make government work. This is a grind & hardly glorious, but we can’t make government efficient & fix the deficit if the computers don’t work.”
Meanwhile they’re building billion dollar data centers with nuclear power to monitor your mean tweets…
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FENBENDAZOLE PASTE Testimonial – SKIN CANCER Basal Cell Carcinoma on right cheek disappears after two months!!
https://makismd.substack.com/p/fenbendazole-paste-testimonial-skin
https://www.onedaymd.com/2024/11/fenbendazole-and-cancer-15-minutes-with.html
Time to stock up on horsey products.😉
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Fen ben for cancer? Dr John Campbell two weeks ago :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q5QjEPGNNg
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NEXT PANDEMIC PSYOP: Potential Spread of “Bleeding Eye Virus” in Rwanda Leads U.S. State Department to Issue “Increased Caution” Travel Advisory
Health officials are back at conditioning the public minds again as another “pandemic” was reported “quickly” developing in East Africa, which “supposedly” originated from a bat species again.
The potential global spread of the Marburg virus, which has already killed at least 15 people in Rwanda, has sparked fear among authorities and triggered a travel advisory from the U.S. State Department.
On Nov. 22, the federal agency issued the advisory, recommending that travelers exercise “increased caution” in the African country due to the outbreak of the said virus, more commonly known as the “bleeding eye virus.”
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/next-pandemic-psyop-potential-spread
Bleeding bullsh#t virus more like it…
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UK: Thousands of police officers face losing their job
Police chiefs have warned Yvette Cooper that thousands of officers’ jobs will have to be cut because of a funding shortfall.
Ten forces have written to the Home Secretary predicting that they will be more than £300 million short in the police funding settlement due to be announced this week, forcing major reductions to frontline officers, police community support officers (PCSOs) and staff numbers next year.
The chief constables and police and crime commissioners (PCCs) are seeking talks with ministers about the scale of the cuts, with one force alone warning it would have to axe more than 200 police officer posts and half of its PCSOs to balance the books.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/09/yvette-copper-police-thousands-officers-job-cuts-funding/
All those illegals cost the UK how much?
The crime?
The renewables nonsense?
They’ll probably boost the funding for the mean tweets division though.
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Good to see a country with the right priorities to guarantee it will not have to pay climate reparations. UK is implementing all the policies needed to make it a third world dictatorship. They could offer Assad an advisory position rather than leaving him to hide away in Russia. He was trained as a medical professional in the UK so has the right credentials for a key role in the UK dictatorship.
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Federal election coming up early 2025. I’ve got 2 ‘How To Vote cards’: (1) my electricity bills & (2) my grocery bills.
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Dutton’s eliminating the three flags Labor foisted upon us is a winning policy on its own.
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Nothing much will change, the State level wokies and council sycophants will keep their beloved troika.
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Beijing is trying different ideas to pull China’s economy out of depression and this might work.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3290179/chinas-hidden-infrastructure-tech-upgrades-empower-investment-potential?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
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Some detail on AEMO’s ISP that came to my attention:
https://www.energycouncil.com.au/analysis/battery-storage-australia-s-current-climate/
This is starting to look a lot like my estimate of 750GWh that I proposed in my scoping exercise for the 2016 Finkel enquiry.
What these mentally challenged planners are yet to realise is – why would any household with a solar plus battery choose to remain on the grid for the privilege of paying their connection fee, which is heading for the stratosphere due to the blowouts in RET theft, Snowy 2, transmission lines, grid stability costs and grid scale batteries.
Something I recently realised is that the frequency constraint on an off-grid system is not as tight as it is for grid connected systems. My appliances are not much bothered with 50Hx plus or minus a few cycles per second. But the grid requires much tighter tolerance to remain synchronised. Hence an off-grid household system does not incur the high stability costs of DC to AC grid systems. This is an additional saving to the transmission costs that grid scale intermittent are burdened with compared with household systems.
Speaking of RET theft. The LGC prices tanked in November – down to $30/MWh. I do not know why! That might just impact retail prices in a rare downward direction if it is sustained.
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You can’t go off grid with solar cells and a battery, it doesn’t work. A diesel genny is a must. As for frequency control an island system can do what it likes within limits. It becomes critical if you are supplementing the grid which means you sync your inverter to the grid which is what your home system does.
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So, on this blog many commentators have talked about the importance of Vitamin D, particularly in relation to health of your immune system etc. Very topical during the COVID bollocks. On my X feed pops up this story “ The cold exposure that coincides with the nadir in seasonal blood serum Vitamin D might compensate by stimulating mitochondrial production of ultraviolet light inside the cell, thus activating Vitamin D production inside brown fat cells.” Author- Thomas P Seager. Layman’s terms – the cold shock that you might experience in winter, could help to increase Vitamin D levels and that some humans have this adaption probably developed over millennia. Something about mitochondrial light photons. It could go somewhat to explaining how in a sunny country like Australia , most of us are still Vit D deficient. We’ve been scared witless about sun skin exposure with slip, slop slap etc and we don’t experience a cold snap type exposure. Too much heating in buildings and cars. Cold shower anyone?
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Re “Cold shower anyone?”
IIRC lines from a John Stewart song
“You know what cold showers do
They make you cold and they make you blue”
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“stimulating mitochondrial production of ultraviolet light inside the cell,”
Any moment now they will discover the amazing benefits of that thoroughly discredited and mocked light therapy from the 1920s…
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Impact of administration routes and dose frequency on the toxicology of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines in mice model
Immunotoxicology
Published: 10 December 2024
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00204-024-03912-1
From the abstract:
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FWIW
“UK Government ‘Commits’ to Forcing Cattle to Consume Anti-Flatulence Feed Additive”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/uk-government-commits-to-forcing-cattle-to-consume-anti-flatulence-feed-additive/
Hopefully “Elbow and Co” don’t get ideas
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FWIW
“World Coal Demand And Exports Set For New Record High In 2024”
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/world-coal-demand-and-exports-set-new-record-high-2024
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FWIW
“US Cattle Crisis Worsens As Nation’s Herd Size Continues Alarming Side Into Abyss”
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/us-cattle-crisis-worsens-nations-herd-size-continues-alarming-side-abyss
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