Friday

Taking a few days off…

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    Tonyb

    I wonder if Oz and the UK will rein back on the assaults of free speech now that Trump is back?

    https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-hate-speech-laws-tightening-nsw-free-speech-debate

    Regrettably they are likely to double down.

    Personally I think the word “Hate’ as in hate speech is much overused.

    I don’t hate anyone. I may dislike them, disapprove of them, disagree with their way of life but that is an awful long way from “Hate” yet governments seem unable to see this difference in scale.

    wanting to criminalise people just for their not approving of another person or group of people seems an alarming state of affairs

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      MeAgain

      Starmer seems to be doubling down on the ‘young men in their bedrooms’ rhetoric. Frustrating how much political capital this all consumes. All these people with no idea how the internet works trying to control it.

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      Skepticynic

      >wanting to criminalise people just for their not approving of another person or group of people seems an alarming state of affairs

      Akin to wanting to criminalise people for holding or expressing a non-approved opinion.

      >the word “Hate’ as in hate speech is much overused.

      It is actually those who use the expression, ‘hate speech’ who hate. They hate free speech.

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    Tonyb

    I would pay good money to see a debate between Donald Trump and pipsqueak Ed Miliband on the subject of net zero

    https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/net-zero-is-unstoppable-says-ed-miliband/

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      And in Australia, between Trump and Blackout Bowen (Chris Bowen).

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      TdeF

      I would love to see any debate between two real scientists. I have never seen such a thing. Governments collectively or individually do not control Climates.

      The whole political climate fantasy is based on the incredibly simple and wrong idea that CO2 builds up in the air because of fossil fuel. Who proved that?

      In fact the exchange of highly soluble CO2 in and out of the ocean on this 74% water planet is immense and fast. The oceans breathe on a massive scale, dwarfing human activity.

      CO2 is 98% in the water and lasts about 10 years in the air in a massive world wide exchange old as time. But it is remarkably constant so it is in equilibrium.

      Despite this massive activity CO2 levels are changing a tiny 0.4% a year, increasing only 50% in 250 years. CO2 is quite constant within 1% from pole to pole despite human activity being in a very narrow band. But within 1% CO2 over Australia is the same as the North Pole and China.

      Total world fossil fuel CO2 production each year just reached 1% of atmospheric CO2 despite, an increase in fossil fuels use of 3500% since 1900.

      Humans do not and cannot control CO2 levels. This was proven by NASA that tree cover of the planet has gone up dramatically. Which alone busts tree farms and carbon credits. So sequestering trillions of tons of CO2 has not changed CO2 or stopped or slowed the steady growth in CO2. Likewise,burning old trees or fossil fuels has no effect. CO2 is in massive equilibrium and any deviation in consumption or production of CO2 has zero effect.

      Net Zero is Political Science, not science. Currently costing $1,800,000,000,000 a year and having no impact on CO2.

      Yes, I would love a science debate. From first principles. First prove that humans can change CO2 levels. Tiny fossil fuel CO2 emissions are irrelevant to total CO2.

      Then and only then move onto additional CO2 causes warming, then warming is bad and why.

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        TdeF

        All living things are made from CO2 and H2O almost entirely. All living things burn. All breathe in oxygen and breathe out CO2. Hydrated CO2 from photosynthesis, known as carbohydrate, powers all life.

        And now politicians have decided to tax breathing. No surprise there.

        Just don’t call it science.

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    MeAgain

    https://michaelwest.com.au/ageing-coal-clunkers-posing-power-outage-risk/ – “Baringa Partners’ Peter Sherry said his firm’s analysis of the coal power fleet suggests most of the nation’s generation will be replaced by renewables and firming technologies like storage within the next 10 years, given the advanced age of the fleet.”

    That would be this Baringa I guess: https://www.baringa.com/en/ – Tier 2 consultants

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    MeAgain

    https://michaelwest.com.au/dutton-shuts-down-nationals-call-for-gender-debate/

    More information is expected to be published by the US government in coming months, according to University of Sydney health ethics associate professor Morgan Carpenter.

    “It’s plausible,” he told AAP.

    “There’s still quite a bit that we don’t know.”

    Australian passports can contain the “X” gender marker for those who are non-binary, intersex, gender-fluid or otherwise non-conforming.

    In some countries such as the United Arab Emirates, those travelling with an “X” marker are barred from entry or transit.

    It is not clear whether the US will implement similar rules.

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    MeAgain

    Anyone else wonder how in their lifetime the water into the house became metered while telecommunications became unmetered?

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    Australia’s “renewable energy superpower” South Australia is transitioning to grid scale diesel, just like in Third World countries.

    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/renewable-energy-economy/emergency-diesel-backstop-approved-as-south-australia-grid-struggles-to-coexist-with-renewables/news-story/3e48e8b9cceea8250fd515f98bd63d69

    Emergency diesel backstop approved as South Australia grid struggles to coexist with renewables

    A rule change will see two diesel generators used to prop up the South Australia grid as the state struggles to reconcile renewables with ensuring grid security.

    Colin Packham

    January 23, 2025

    South Australia could draw on emergency diesel supplies this summer after the country’s energy regulator approved a last-ditch request to use two French-owned power generators to back up a grid that is increasingly struggling to coexist with record renewable penetration.

    SEE LINK FOR REST (PAYWALLED)

    Can someone please tell me what effect the self-destruction of the Australian economy is having on CO2 level, especially as the world’s largest producer China dies nothing and the second largest producer in now put of Paris?

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    MeAgain

    https://www.themandarin.com.au/285025-more-driverless-trains-prepped-for-nsw-amid-ongoing-union-disputes/ Industrial disputes, maintenance backlogs and Sydney’s reliably unpredictable and disruptive seasonal weather shocks for millions returning to work might ordinarily be a reason for a state minister for transport to feel a little anxious. Unless there is something very good around the corner.
    ….
    a pop-up carboard train, now that makes up for it all.

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