Wake up Patsy States! Trump dumps “climate change” and creates a *Council of National Energy Dominance*
Donald Trump is not wasting time unpacking the mess. In a blockbuster sweep he’s ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to immediately “stop work connected to climate change” and eliminate “climate-related terms” across the agency, and to the “maximum extent permitted by the law”. Homeland Security is supposed to be guarding the USA against terrorists, hackers, disasters and other threats, so this is a major refocusing exercise for an agency that was wandering in the dark trying to hold back the sea, and prevent droughts and floods with windmills and LED lights.
The DHS was set up in response to the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, so it was only 22 years old, yet it had already mutated into an agency that that was “working to inform the American people about climate-related risks, including extreme heat, flooding, wildfire, and drought, and to provide them with clear information about how to reduce those risks. ” In other words, it was a walking-talking scare machine to squeeze more money out of taxpayers to feed The Big Government Blob. The official webpage now has a label saying “Archived Content“.
In true Donald Trump style — stripping the climate barnacles off is not enough, and he’s set up the National Energy Dominance Council. The US doesn’t just need some energy it needs to have more energy than everyone else in the world. “We’re going to make more money than anybody’s ever made with energy,’ said Trump. The race is on. Patsies-beware: he’s thrown down the gauntlet to any leaders still talking about the end of fossil fuels.
The last time around, in 2017 Trump pulled out of Paris but didn’t “interfere with the US IPCC engagement”. This time he’s pulled the pin and blocked the State Department from sending a team to China for the next round of Paris Agreement extortion. Since the US is pulling out of the Paris agreement this would have been an entirely frivolous junket.
It’s all so exquisitely neat and bureaucratically brutal:
US: Trump ends climate work inside agency that responds to disasters
In a continuing slew of stories being generated by the Trump administration’s attempts to destroy US climate-focused policies, Bloomberg reports that “top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency”. The outlet adds: “The memo instructs senior office heads to ‘eliminate all climate change activities and the use of climate change terminology in DHS policies and programs, to the maximum extent permitted by the law’, according to the document seen by Bloomberg News.
Look at the the language — energy is now “liquid gold”:
Trump creates council for ‘energy dominance,’ boosts natural gas exports and offshore drilling
Matthew Daly, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order formally creating a National Energy Dominance Council and directed it to move quickly to drive up already record-setting domestic oil and gas production.
“We’re going to make more money than anybody’s ever made with energy,’’ Trump said at an event Friday in the Oval Office. The United States has “clean energy, very clean beautiful energy. We’re lucky to have it. I call it liquid gold under our feet. And we’re going to utilize it.”
The new council, to be headed by Burgum, will be granted sweeping authority over federal agencies involved in energy permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation and transportation, with a mandate to cut bureaucratic red tape, enhance private sector investments and focus on innovation instead of “totally unnecessary regulation,” Trump said.
No more junkets for climate minions, and no more juice to feed the UN:
Trump pulls US out of key global climate assessment, sources say
By Valerie Volcovici, Reuters
And no more apologies for using or producing fossil fuels. Excellent.
And the subtle strength in the power of a new catchphrase.
Net Zero is now defunct and de-funked.
Energy Dominance!
Australia take note!
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Australian Uniparty politicians interpret “energy dominance” as the Stupid Country becoming a “green energy superpower”.
A stupidpower to be sure. Certainly not a superpower.
And being a “green energy superpower” is actually government policy.
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/House_of_Representatives/About_the_House_News/Media_Releases/Transition_to_a_green_energy_superpower
Unbelievably, there are people out there, especially our “leaders” and the Left who actually believe this nonsense, or at least pretend to.
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The only superpowers Albo and Big Wind Bowen possess are the unrivalled ability to speak BS and the propensity to promote climate quackery.
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Stupidpower – love that.
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EPA officials prepare to ditch fiction justifying Green New Deal
Climate hoax fading fast
By Editorial Board – The Washington Times – Friday, February 21, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to bury the unscientific idea that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. Dropping this “endangerment finding” represents the beginning of the end for the great global warming hoax.
Under President Barack Obama, the agency in 2009 declared the molecule that enables plants to grow and humans to breathe an enemy of the planetary thermostat. This decree vested the EPA with authority to regulate CO2 as if it were a nasty substance equivalent to black soot, lead, radon or asbestos.
President Joe Biden implemented the deal’s main provisions administratively. His Inflation Reduction Act allocated billions to the EPA for distribution to any organization claiming to have a “climate solution.”
Nonprofits signed up for cash rewards for spreading the global-warming gospel. A vast array of public subsidies was lavished on economically unsustainable energy projects. These endeavors had a remarkable tendency to be staffed by the friends and political allies of progressives.
Newly sworn-in EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin pulled the plug on the scheme. “We will review every penny that has gone out the door. The days of irresponsibly shoveling boat loads of cash to far-left, activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over,” he said earlier this month.
In one instance, an individual who left a company to take a position at the EPA “tossed his former employer $5 billion of your tax dollars,” Mr. Zeldin wrote on X, referring to a large EPA grant the firm received.
Mr. Zeldin’s review discovered a $20 billion EPA slush fund the prior administration had moved into private financial institutions as officials sought to empty the agency piggy bank before President Trump’s team arrived. This dubious use of public resources has been referred to the agency’s inspector general.
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Thanks O O,
Well found.
That’s another rapid response to Trump’s earlier EO demanding a report within 30(?) days on the validity of the “endangerment” finding. I guess I was expecting that report to be released before any direct action, but once again I’ve been surprised by the man and his team.
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Why can’t we have someone in Australia like this?
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Maybe the ones smart enough to do it are also smart enough to avoid politics.
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“Trump has promised to bring gasoline prices below $2 a gallon, but experts call that highly unlikely, since crude oil prices would need to drop dramatically to achieve that goal.”
The only way of doing this is the get crude oil below US$60/barrel.
Canada and the Permian need US$80/barrel to remain profitable.
OPEC have no need to increase production.
There is only one other source large enough in the USA to keep the price at US$60/barrel without negotiating a price below their cost with Mexico and Canada.
Fortunately Victoria has the world’s second largest suitable resource. However, its covered with “scientists” with their hands out in a bankrupt state. As soon as they smell money all are likely to become proven experts.
Doug Burgum the ex-governator of North Dakota, is head of the US Energy Commission. ND has 350Bt of suitable resource. Light oil that can be mixed with tar oil and piped to Texas.
Trump is hovering over the money. This strategy can balance the US debt. All of it.
Australia remains a very silly country.
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I’m aware that Australia is thought to have lots of undiscovered oil resources but oil exploration is banned in many places, as is fracking, but can you please enlighten us as to what you had in mind Geoff?
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My father had an uncle lived at Roma jn Queensland. Australia had no known oil fields.
Roma had gas, which they piped to Brisbane.
Uncle said: there’s plenty of oil at Roma. But there’s nobody honest enough to find it.
40 years later Australia’s first oil field was opened an hour up the road at Moonie.
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Stop exporting your precious coal abroad.
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Extracting oil from the lignite using solvents or steam (both methods work). Extraction % 1.1/0.86 BoE/raw ton.
20% of lignite by raw weight is volatiles, n-anes, n-enes, phenols.
North Dakota has 350 Bt inferred, 25 Bt easily extracted.
Gippsland 395 Bt inferred, 33 Bt easily extracted.
Both coals similar.
Mix with heavies from tar sands in Alberta and/or Colorado for piping to Texas.
Victoria is potentially the richest state on Earth.
But its not going to happen here.
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As far as my personal energy dreams I think we’re well on the way to more energy and wealth and at least for the US this is the greatest boost to national security for decades.
Now other OECD countries must start to wake up and understand the data and then try to catch up.
Never forget we are now living in the safest period for deaths from extreme weather events in Human history.
Just takes a few minutes to look up OWI Data or the co2 Coalition site etc, so what’s the problem?
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Again here’s the global death rates per 100,000 people from 1900 to 2024 from OWI Data.
And over 6 billion more people at risk today in 2024.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-natural-disasters
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How’s Albo’s green steel fantasy looking this morning? That 2.4 billion could build a reliable, modern, HELE plant to run the Whyalla smelter. Instead we get nothing. Will Trump’s moves shift thinking in moribund Australia? Hopefully a lot of “scientists” at our institutions will be out of work shortly.
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Sorry, I have little confidence in that.
And Dutton reaffirmed his commitment to Paris right after TRUMP abandoned it.
Why would any taxpayer-funded “scientist” risk giving an honest science and evidence-based opinion when they know their job is safe no matter which faction of the Uniparty wins government?
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Dutton will have tp breakaway from the uniparty, but not sure if he has what it takes to bring about a revolution.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/21/trump-scientific-research-climate
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The tide is turning against fringe bodies like the Environmental Defenders Office and their campaign to derail our economic prosperity Canberra must follow the NT’s lead in limiting the ability of fringe groups like the EDO from waging “environmental lawfare” against the nation’s energy industry
Ever since the taxpayer funded Environmental Defenders Office was found by the Federal Court to have distorted evidence in its quest to cancel the Barossa Gas Project, there has been greater awareness of the economic harm being inflicted by green lawfare.
In the Barossa Gas case, Justice Natalie Charlesworth was scathing in her judgement, finding that the evidence the EDO presented was “so lacking in integrity that no weight can be placed on them”.
Since the case ended in January 2024, national coverage has highlighted how activist groups use legal frameworks to delay and cancel vital nation building and job creating projects in our courts.
The EDO has been exposed as a repeat offender in this space, successfully using any and all means to have Labor Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek cancel the McPhillamys Gold Project in New South Wales and mounting an ongoing campaign along with the Australia Institute and the Bob Brown Foundation to cancel Tasmania’s vital salmon industry.
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Here’s Human life expectancy since 1770 for the world and continents or since the UK’s start of the Industrial Revolution.
For the first 300,000 years ( 99.9% of Human existence) life expectancy was under 30 years, but today is about 73 years and much higher in OECD countries, but NON OECD countries are catching up fast.
This OWI Data link uses the latest UN data.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy
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Looking at that graph, no wonder the chosen few want the rest of us to return to pre-Industrial times: short, sharp, shocking. No thanks, onwards & upwards is far more pleasant… so far.
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Greg I just added Australia and NZ to the life expectancy graph as well.
IOW wealthier countries enjoy longer lives, but the rest of Oceania is still doing okay.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?country=OWID_WRL~Americas~OWID_EUR~OWID_AFR~OWID_ASI~OWID_OCE~AUS~NZL
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What a coincidence (cough!), NZ & Aus’ 82-83 yrs life expectancy is exactly the same as that quoted by a certain Dr Fauxi 5 years ago regarding a certain ‘dilemma’ afflicting the world’s senior citizens at the time.
Why am I not surprised.
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“For the first 300,000 years ( 99.9% of Human existence) life expectancy was under 30 years,”
I find that extremely unlikely. How many children can you bring up before you’re 30?
The race would die out..
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The AVERAGE life expectancy was 30. And just like today, if you survive the 0-5 year old deaths, then you are more than likely going to exceed the average life expectancy. As a group, (the survivors), they must average more than 30 years to balance out those who have already died, (if not the average would be lower).
In the past a lot of children failed to progress beyond 5 year old, much more, (as a percentage), than today. So I’d expect a much larger portion of those who survived to exceed the average life expectancy of their time.
And that’s why large families are a reasonable outcome to consider, even if the average life expectancy is only 30.
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How many children can a female have before the age of 30? About 10.
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That is awesome beyond words.
Meanwhile, back in the Stupid Country, we are full steam ahead spending billions of taxpayer dollars on subsidies for “green” steel and “green” aluminium.
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steady on there… “full steam ahead” sounds suspiciously Carbon rich… you’ll get yourself on more government watchlists with that kind of talk.
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Yes James, I had thought of that, but I couldn’t think of an appropriate politically acceptable alternative term. And “full wind ahead” is awkward, and doesn’t work if it’s during the 70% of time the wind doesn’t blow, unlike steam which is always available as long as you supply fuel.
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Full steam ahead means just that. The West progressed because of efficient energy.
‘Green energy’ is a contradiction in terms – like “midget giant.’
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Much of the “green” energy disaster can be attributed to the Left’s dumbing-down of the education system over many decades.
How many school graduates even know how steel or aluminium are produced or the tremendous amounts of inexpensive and reliable energy required to do so?
I was just going through things I had in storage and I found a school project book where I had written about steel making when I was in fifth grade.
Nowadays a kid would be asked to write an essay on the 72 supposed genders (assuming they could write at all which is also doubtful).
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People with any intelligence & imagination need to take a good hard look at our cities & suburbs & then ask themselves what size batteries will be needed to run society day & night!!
When they realise that it’s impossible ( the batteries collectively would be bigger than cities)
Stretch the imagination to batteries required to run New York, London or any city for that matter.
The problem is the people have been taught to believe the incessant propaganda & disregard intelligent thought processes!
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“How many school graduates even know how steel or aluminium are produced or the tremendous amounts of inexpensive and reliable energy required to do so?”
How many know “much” at all. I have a niece, mid twenties, had no ideal why the earth had seasons, or why the moon went through phases. What the hell. As is my want I also spontaneously started reciting Dorathea McKellar’s “My Country” youngest grand kid, still at school, had NEVER heard this poem, nor The Man from Snowy River and could not sing Waltzing Matilda. The very foundations are no longer worth anything in this brave new world.
So when we get to how stuff is made, the basic stuff, discovered some time during the STONE AGE, the simple ( relatively) reduction of oxides to metals, is just not wort knowing. Someone else, somewhere, can satisfy all of our needs. Until they can’t!
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If you criticise others it is essential you yourself make no errors. You write “As is my want” which should be “as is my wont”
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And you forgot a full stop.
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And a capital ‘A’. A couple of commas wouldn’t go astray either. Slightly supercilious.
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Thank you for your tolerance. One of the issues with being 80 years old is my typing skills started with chalk marks on a slate. My eye sight not quite as good as it was. Oh and bloody auto correct, where some algorithm does your thinking for you, I’m sure you understand and maybe forgive the odd typo.
P.S. I’ll take more care in the future
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I’ll be 80 next month and always had an exercise book. However I am not going to critisise since what you say is pertinent. Kids are not being taught those things that made Australia special.
In a similar vein.
There was a photo in today’s Australian, of the people attending one of Tony Burke’s large ALP enlistment functions which posed as a Naturalisation ceremony. Behind Minister Burke were the three flags of division and I wondered what the new Australians were thinking, “after I swear allegiance will I be an Australian or an Aborigine or a Torres Strait Islander?”. They would be forgiven if they were confused. Of course that is the aim of our socialist government; to cause confusion and disunity.
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@Sambar: …how many know …
It was once quite easy to arrange trips for groups (incl. students) to factories and similar places. I’ve done many, from watching Hershey’s Kisses being made, cheese, steel, glass, Zinc, …, and thousands of feet underground in a deep mine. I’ve visited several large dams, but only recently the Grand Coulee on the Columbia River. I’ve paddled a canoe and been on a paddle-wheeler. And there are lots of things I would do, but had to settle for reading and videos. While thousands of miles away, I am familiar with Dorathea McKellar’s “My Country”. Last evening I attended a presentation on the forests, birds, and reptiles (live examples) of western Mexico.
I do wonder about those, such as your niece, with little knowledge of natural things.
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The things that were taught, and thought of as useless information by the students, are in fact the very foundations of being taught to think for your self. Agreed, visits to butter factories ( I’m essentially a country kid) forges, engineering works and anywhere the principle could get kids into was a part of learning. If you watch any of the numerous quiz shows on the box, it’s surprising how little general knowledge is displayed by endless contestants. It doesn’t matter, if its geography, recent historical events, current politics, it all seems to be a black hole whereas movie stars, pop songs, or the false narrative of climate change are all the go. I guess it doesn’t matter to me as I will soon be one of the “We of the Never Never” (another Oz Classic) I will leave knowing that my kids and grand kids do have a basic understanding of the real world, what they make of it is up to them!
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We as grandparents should try to find out what our grandkids are being taught at school, you won’t have to look very hard as it’s not much.
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How many Politicians or Citizens, understand how grid power functions?
What pct of the populace knows what Active, Reactive, and Total power mean? Or their relationship to voltage and frequency in an AC power system.
The people making decisions and the people supporting those decisions, are woefully ignorant of the subject matter and therefore incompetent to decide/legislate anything or support any decision.
I’m barking at the moon, yes, but how can such incompetence and ignorance “Lead” anything to anywhere worth going? The Climate Blob is going to crash and burn when the subsidies run out, the people riot, or the national grid goes black for weeks or months. It is going to happen. Because Stupidity is no substitute for Reality.
I hope I’m wrong, but nothing suggests that. A week or two of grid failure will convince the survivors that the illusions were wrong. Trump is simply stepping forward to avoid national economic collapse. Thinking people would see and imitate that. But the grift beckons the corrupt and ignorant.
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Lance, totally on point.
But I’ve been reliably informed that we have no reason whatsoever to worry about how the grid actually functions.
Evidently, they have Economists to tell them it’s all okay!!
Tony.
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Demob the Blob!
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This has implications about our ability to understand our world.
Let’s do a little thought experiment.
Each of us imagine our past selves when we began to understand the Climate charade, and fret about the unfolding assault on science, rationality, and progress.
Then imagine being informed by a voice from the future … that a heroic figure will appear and restore sanity and end our suffering …. after surviving unprecedented assaults on his character and life by the most powerful forces in society.
“Who would that be?” you ask.
“Donald Trump” comes the answer.
“Donald Trump?” you exclaim with incredulity.
“You mean the TV show, celebrity real estate guy?”
“Yes”, says the voice from the future.
Destiny mocks us.
Happily so.
But mockery nevertheless.
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Nono! Trump is bad, he’s weak, he doesn’t play by someone else’s rules, he’s unreliable, he’s unpredictable..
“Marco Rubio met a Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia..had the atmospherics of a doe-eyed new wedlock. ..Lavrov.. sounding like a contestant on Married at First Sight..To sweeten the honeymoon, Team Trump appears to have offered Russia the one-sided bargain of Ukrainian territory, no NATO membership for Kyiv, and no US or European soldiers to enforce a security guarantee.”
“Donald Trump is not a warmonger. Rather, it is the craven nature of his peacemaking..Europeans are now feeling the same sense of foreboding that has shaped Australian diplomacy since the fall of Singapore in 1942: the fear of abandonment.”
“international relations are no longer going to be determined by rules and multilateral institutions. “They’re going to be determined by strong men and deals,” ..The questions Europeans are now grappling with – “Is the US still an ally? Has it become an adversary?”
Loads more as the leftists in the SMH rake the propaganda up from every angle they can. It all ends up with “Trump is bad!” So much fun to see!
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There has been a response by the green blob to the demolition of climate change hysteria by the new US administration. The last few weeks there has been an upsurge in the ridiculous claims of the climate alarmists and the “ scientists”. So, it would seem the glaciers are melting faster, increase snow and LA bushfires are caused by CC, for example. I think we will see a raft of scientific papers rushed to publication with all these predictions. Even last week in the lead up to Cyclone Z hitting the WA coast, the Climate Council’s David Karoly was predicting that cyclones will be more intense in a CC affected world. Then that cyclone just petered out to a large rain depression, so that prediction was useless. But, if I’m a US taxpayer and looking at the DHS, you would have to wonder whats’s the point of that agency?
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See my comment #15 on Saturday‘s thread: not one proper cyclone for the South Pacific this year [so far] although there’s been stormy and wet weather which, oddly, is the climate of the tropics in summer.
Soon they’ll be claiming the Ningaloo Reef is bleaching and mortally wounded [ABC] d’oh!
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“Soon they’ll be claiming the Ningaloo Reef is bleaching and mortally wounded [ABC] d’oh!”
Probably not, I doubt that many of the populace have heard of this and even fewer could point to it on a map. Now the Great Barrier Reef, that’s different, isn’t that the place a T.V. star got speared by a stingray?
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That was the exact phrase in a recent ABC horror story about WA’s ‘fragile’ reef, complete with photo of a marine scientist “Dr” grinning like a Cheshire cat at the helm of a zodiac with his life-vest un-clipped.
If he fell overboard (d’oh!) he’d be the only one mortally wounded.
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Too right! Looking at the satellite of the Eastern Pacific this morning revealed tropical cyclones spinning like Catherine wheels and all dancing and exchanging energy like nobody’s. Oh dear, something is happening – maybe it’s a ” monster” storm ready to obliterate tropical QLD. Sauve qui peut!!
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Remember this, petition banning water?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF1nwuRFD3w
Democrats versus Republicans… romanticism versus reality
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So why are we so lucky to be living in the most prosperous and fortunate time in Human history?
The main reason is that the world today gets about 82% of our base-load energy from fossil fuels and this will continue for many decades into the future.
But it’s incredible how FFs have allowed us to be much more efficient and it’s amazing when we look up the value added per rural worker since 1990.
Australia and Canada are by far the highest value per worker today and ditto for high income countries, but the world has also shown improvement over the last 30 years.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agriculture-value-added-per-worker-wdi?tab=chart&country=OWID_WRL~AUS~GBR~USA~CAN~OWID_EU27~DEU~High-income+countries~Low-income+countries~Lower-middle-income+countries~CHN
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‘Trump and Musk uncover waste,fra*d and incompetence’, you mean like in Commiefornia and their handling of the fires.
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And the train to nowhere …..it’ll be interesting to see what Sean Duffy’s investigation will bring up about dodgy contracts and frauds …..
Brian Auger ……Night Train to Nowhere……
https://youtu.be/C39-C-cjSRI
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The Mayoress of LA fired the Fire Chiefess today. MEOW – here comes the cat fight.
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This battle might be over , but the war isn’t . Look at what is on the media and internet – climate panic is still being promoted . Until rational media and internet coverage start (apart from here) the general population will still adhere to the narrative and will reject the objective truth . Its hard to admit that you were fooled and a lot of people are in that category , and many of them are engineers , scientists and of course academics . Politicians will of course swing with the wind…
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At least TRUMP has threatened social(ist) media with sanctions or enforcement of Section 230 if they don’t stop censoring conservatives and their opinions.
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Medical doctors are the most vulnerable. They spend their lives reading, learning, repeating and respecting authority. And believe no one would lie to them. Which is why they are often so vulnerable in their personal lives.
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I wonder how much USAID cash and other billions flowed to the more general print media? Scientific American. National Geographic. Lancet.
Scientific groups. Like the Australian group of 35,000 scientists who ‘endorsed’ the voice when in reality it was just the head of the organization, a former Age journalist who had been a major part of the Voice movement and not a scientist. These people are planted by politicians as heads of groups and against the explicit wishes of the members.
It has been quite amazing how staid even boring science magazines suddenly and enthusiastically embraced man made CO2 driven Climate Change without a quibble. These were respected voices. No more.
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TdeF:
I am trying to rebut a “believer” who took issues with me in the local papper claiming that we were emitting trillions of CO2 into the atmosphere.
I have found 2 claims, one saying that 1.5 trillion tons of CO2 have been emitted since 1751, Since that was 6 years before Joseph Black discovered CO2 I wonder who was analysing those emissions then, or was it a guess?
The other was Wikipedia which claimed that in 2024 humans emitted 3341 gigatonnes of CO2 which I read as 3341 billion tons or 3.34 trillion tons.
As Earth’s atmosphere is only 5.5 billion tons adding 3341 billions of CO2 might be noticeable.
Any correction?
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I looked at Wikipedia.
3.34 Trillion tons or 3341 billion tons or 3341 Gigatons is the figure for total CO2, not ’emissions’! 3.34 x 10^9 tons.
Earth’s atmosphere is of course much more as you say. Anyone can check it 1 atmosphere of weight x the earth’s surface area or 14lb/sq inch or 10.3tons per square meter. The planet surface area is 510 million km2 so this means 10.3*510*10^6*10^6 = 5,253*10^12 or 5.253*10^15 tons of air by my calculation.
Britannica agrees at 5.5 quadrillion tons or 5.5 x 10^15.
The CSIRO says . “Our latest annual stocktake shows the world is on track to reach a new record: 37.4 billion tonnes of CO₂ emitted from fossil fuels in 2024”
So fossil fuel CO2 contribution to existing atmospheric CO2 is only 37/3340 or 1.1% a year of atmospheric CO2 which is only 0.042% of air itself, mainly N2(78%) and O2(21%) and Argon(1%).
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So what happens to these ’emissions’ of CO2, a gas which is 30x more soluble than oxygen. And fish breathe too. As do all living things.
The continuous rapid exchange of CO2 with the vast oceans which cover 72% of this planet is so fast CO2 is constant from pole to pole within 1%. Incredibly the same in China/America/Europe/Russia as at the South pole. Only 2% of humans live in the bottom 40%.
So CO2 is in rapid exchange equilibrium, like that in your lungs every time you take a breath. CO2 in at 0.042% and out at 8% to 14% in a single breath. That’s a very fast air/water exchange.
The following paper lists 36 references for roughly the half life of the CO2 exchange at around 5 years. Click Table 1.
What that means is that half of all atmospheric CO2 is replaced every 5 years. That is 3340/2/5 = 334 billion tons a year. Ten times total fossil fuel CO2. Which is why CO2 cannot and does not build up in the atmosphere.
End result? 98% of fossil fuel CO2 ends up in the ocean very quickly. Fossil fuel CO2 is never above 2.0% of the CO2 in the air.
The same paper also list his conclusions
(1) The adjustment time is never larger than the residence time and is less than 5 years.
(2) The idea of the atmosphere being stable at 280 ppm in pre-industrial times is untenable.
(3) Nearly 90% of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide has already been removed from the atmosphere.
I would increase the 90% to 98%. But otherwise agree.
The very idea that humans can change atmospheric CO2 is pure fantasy. NASA in 2014 demonstrated that as CO2 goes up, tree cover goes up exactly in proportion. Which shows that for every tree grown, more CO2 comes out of the ocean. Carbon credits, carbon farms are all busted. Humans CANNOT change CO2
And besides, after 37 years at $1.8 Trillion a year trying to change CO2 (not emissions) 500,000 giant windmills, where is the impact on CO2?
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To be fair, initially I agreed with growing trees. Simple and cheap. But NASA showed it was pointless. More CO2 and trees grow themselves and CO2 does not go down. QED. CO2 is in rapid equilibrium.
Why then does CO2 go up at all? Firstly it’s very slow, 0.42% a year. As inflation it’s not noticeable. And the likely explanation is that the ocean is warming slightly, which is no surprise. A sure indication that CO2 is coming out of the ocean is that the surface through which it must travel has higher CO2 levels. Which climate pushers call ‘acidification’ even though no ocean is alkali. However it is proof that the CO2 is transiting into the atmosphere, not from the atmosphere. It’s the old switcheroo.
We are told CO2 causes the temperature increase, when ocean surface warming will of course increase CO2.
We are told CO2 in the surface layer is also our fault, when it is a predictable even if CO2 is leaving the ocean due to warming.
So it’s all fake science, switched around to pretend there is a world ending man made drama and that CO2 is industrial pollution, even though all life on earth is made from CO2 and breathes out CO2.
The sky has NOT fallen. King Charles is a well meaning dill, but a dill.
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The only evidence claimed for CO2 being constant until the last 250 years is the business of CO2 in ice cores. But the conversion of fallen snow to glassy metamorphic ice takes hundreds of years. And recent data is quite invalid being in ‘firn’ or partly compressed snow or in laboratory by instruments. In science you cannot connect data from different sources unless you can prove they produce the same results.
So ice cores cannot show recent changes in CO2 because all we see historically is the long term average CO2 over say 2,000 years. Like temperature, you do not see the instantaneous temperature in records, just the average.
The recent CO2 laboratory increase will be averaged out to nothing in blue solid ice core records. I call it the ice Hockey stick as it has the same science problems as Michael Mann’s Hockey stick.
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A scientist would look at the graph and question the latest data. Otherwise the graph has an obvious pattern over a million years. So while alarmists blame the crazy data of the last 150 years on the industrial revolution, a scientist would question the validity of comparing apples with oranges with grapefruit.
I mean compare the temperature at this instant with what it has been daily for the last year and you would see the problem, comparing instantaneous with long term average records is nonsense.
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“Which climate pushers call ‘acidification’ even though no ocean is alkali.”
No ocean is acidic, they are slightly alkali.
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Again the pushers of this hoax work on the idea that people do not understand pH or alkali or acidity.
Even as far as alkali, sea water is almost exactly the same ph as the water we drink which is slightly alkali from the concrete pipes which carry it. Remove the salt and sea water is perfect fresh water.
But we are told sea life is struggling?
And acidification is like spending $1 and calling it bankruptification.
These are just lies. Every chemist knows it. But it continues now that politicians have replaced scientists and engineers.
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I cannot listen when our Prime Minister Albanese or Climate Change Minister Bowen lectures us on ‘Green energy’, ‘Renewables superpower’, ‘Green Steel’, ‘Quantum computing’ and now using windmills for smelting. And throwing billions our OUR money at things which are not true, not worth a cent, like Snowy II and Quantum Computing and Solar Panel manufacture. What is wrong with our democracy that the Prime Minister, not the Parliament, can spend money like a drunken sailor? Is it even legal? What is the point of parliament?
I either have to believe they are insane or that they really want to bankrupt the place, like Daniel Andrews.
There was a time our best engineers, like Sir John Monash, were put in charge of electricity.
Frankly I blame Gough Whitlam for people like Bowen, Chalmers, Albanese even getting degrees. As for Dr Twiggy Forrest and Dr Chalmers and Dr. Rudd, words fail. Or is it simply the Peter Principle, promoted many levels past their level of competence? Surely these people know they are utterly incompetent?
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In short
1 “in 2024 humans emitted 3341 gigatonnes of CO2” is wrong. This is total CO2 in the air alone.
2. Humans emitted 37.4 gigatonnes or 1.1% which in turn is only 2% of what is in the ocean. So humans increased total CO2 by a tiny 0.02%
3. the total weight of the atmosphere is a gigantic 5,500,000 gigatons. That’s 5.5 million billion tons. Out by a million.
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Good video unbrainwashing CC mass hysteria.
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Now all Australia needs is someone with the same cajones to say and do the same things – and maybe get us out of the UN as well.
Dutton, you say? Yeah, nah. He’s just another Uniparty stooge.
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Agreed Rick. Conservatives who put their hopes in Dutton are going to be hugely disappointed, as they always are in the fake conservative Liberal faction of the Uniparty.
Rather than reiterating his commitment to Paris afther TRUMP withdrew, Dutton should also have agreed to withdraw and give back Australia the inexpensive energy it used to have, which in turn would bring back industry and jobs.
If you don’t want to be disappointed, just realise Dutton won’t change much except possibly build nuclear reactors which in “can’t do” Australia will take 15 to 20 years, if ever. Australia won’t have anything worth saving by then.
Just forget about Australia ever being a First World country again in your lifetime, if ever.
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Unfortunately.
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Small steps folks.
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Not the usual Friday news dump
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Do they do that in the US?
In Australia this is where, when politicians or public serpents operating under political direction have bad news like interest rate increases or inflation, release it late on Friday afternoon and the press mostly ignore it and it’s forgotten by Monday morning.
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Our YSM probably borrowed it!
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FWIW
“Quantum Computing, Majorana, Topological Superconductors, Microsoft, and Physics Of Confusion”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/quantum-computing-majorana-topological-superconductors-microsoft-and-physics-of-confusion/
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FWIW – just in case it might be needed
“Compile Linux Kernel On Raspberry Pi “howto” ”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/compile-linux-kernel-on-raspberry-pi-howto/
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Why the heck would anybody want to do that? Raspberry PIs run Linux natively.
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Like Ben Gunn – he has “reasons of his own”
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Lomborg has just presented the best killer blow to the toxic W & S lunacy and in very quick time.
He achieved this a few hours ago in just 16 minutes at ARC 2025 and he has included the ongoing crippling trillions of $ cost of the net zero BS and fra-d and he uses very simply graphs and honest data.
Please have a look and I hope you’ll learn something. And it only takes you 16 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN_ARfPY9rY
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So he’s going to deMann the climate industry
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Considering all of the above, just how long do you think Australia’s Uniparty politicians, especially Al-bozo and Dutton and their drones, are prepared to hang on to the BS? How much lower to they want Australia to sink?
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In the Australian news under “Sacking Spree” that “Trump fires top Pentagon officers in sweeping overhaul”. But not a mention of the fact that they were active promoters of DEI in the armed forces, not merit. That information is freely available, so this is deliberate distortion.
The press are implying that Trump is mad and not doing what he said he would do. And doing what the majority of voters wanted him to do.
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And Paul Kelly calls it an ‘age of disruption’ instead of returning to the norms from disrpution by DEI, ESG, BLM and illegal and criminal mass migration. Plus China taking control of America’s essential waterway, the Panama Canal.
And 100,000 Fentanyl deaths a year, mainly young American men. It is not disruption, but cancelling the terrible damage done by the socialists, Communists, Fascists and people who hate America.
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And the eternal Trump hater, Cameron Stewart saying that “Trump’s Putin play horrifies Europe and Ukraine”. His preference would be eternal war and millions of dead people.
The chattering classes just cannot keep up with Trump, so they sling mud from the sidelines. As if anyone takes any notice. But they are deliberately misreporting the facts to most Australians and that is not professional. And not helpful.
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“But they are deliberately misreporting the facts to most Australians and that is not professional. And not helpful.”
Its a feature, not a bug.. They have been reporting nothing but the blob’s propaganda for my lifetime anyway.. All about the free democratic West lead by the greatest democracy eva..
Now I realise it was all bullsh1t, America was just making sure no-one could challenge it, and they were happy to go to war to defend their number one spot. They were there to rape and pillage the world to make America wealthy, the same as the Brits before them.
The poodles ran along behind barking the same story and adults of the 1950, the 60s the 70s and the 80s all believed in it, it was what they learned from the news every day.
The internet broke the whole thing.. Thank God!!
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