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We on this blog already know the headline on this link to be true. When will politicians catch up?
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/12/24/science-shock-carbon-dioxide-is-good-for-the-planet-peer-reviewed-studies-suggest/
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Politicians sell themselves as problem solvers. If there is not a problem they make one up. Co2 not being a problem is useless to them.
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Actually, you could have stopped with “Politicians sell themselves.”
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“Pollies” can always be bought.
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I recall a conversation I had with a woman at the gym back in 2016. She said: “He can’t be bought, this changes everything.” That is a big reason why they hate him.
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Insert prostitute instead of sell!
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Research conclusion that experimental evidence confirms earlier work
that CO2 at current levels in the atmosphere cannot contribute to warming by more back rdiation
and climate science should be revised and much more experimental evidence aabout IR radiation
response of greenhouse gasses be collected before current attributions of the modelling be accepted.
https://www.scirp.org/pdf/acs2024144_44701276.pdf
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G’day tonyb,
And TdeF has been telling us about this for some years now:
My source TdeF at #18.2.1:
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/12/monday-83/#comment-2817978
That sort of explains the “saturation” mentioned in the paper you referenced, and how it’s handled by nature.
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Jo has covered this topic before but good to see it being spread to another audience
https://slaynews.com/news/woke-town-runs-100-green-energy-suffers-days-long-blackout-single-storm/
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Egg on all the faces behind that eco-farce.
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And yet our politicians are full steam ahead with their renewable net zero policies.
Push an agenda, it fails miserably, then what do they do? Double down on pushing it more. Our political class has an unbelievable combination of outright stupidity and maliciousness.
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And the pollies keep throwing Other peoples’ money, (ours), at their pet projects.
It’s like a never ending episode out of “Yes Minister”….
…”we’ve got $$$Billions we have to spend otherwise Joe Public will think we aren’t doing anything! Plus, we need to spend all the revenue so we can justify the need to raise taxes on everything!”
Economics 101; The politicians’ version!
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It seems the problem was due to the collapse of seven transmission towers. Surely such towers are used for transmitting all supplies of power not just power generated by “green energy”
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What about the $650 million of backup equipment that didn’t work, a wind farm, a solar farm, a big battery which all failed spectacularly.
Supported days later by a dodgy 50 year old gas turbine which was on its last legs due to its age and lack of care, but the renewables were as good as two men off sick.
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“What about the $650 million of backup equipment that didn’t work, a wind farm, a solar farm, a big battery which all failed spectacularly.”I
If the transmission of power fails, which is what happened in this case, no matter how many wind farms and solar farms and big batteries there are they are not going to to get power to the customers without transmission lines.
The reality is a severe storm on Thursday 17 October destroyed seven Transgrid transmission towers causing significant disruption to the supply of electricity to Broken Hill and surrounding communities including Tibooburra, Wilcannia, Menindee, White Cliffs, Milparinka, Packsaddle and Silverton.
These communities were powered by a network of generators while Transgrid crews worked around the clock to construct replacement towers and restore the transmission line.
During the transition from generators back to the main power supply at 8.41pm (ACDT) last night, Broken Hill did not experience a power outage.
Communities outside Broken Hill were without power for around 20 minutes when they were taken off Essential Energy’s generators at 10pm (ACDT) and moved to the main grid, which is a much shorter outage than expected.
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You need to read the report, have a look where the solar and wind are located, the towers that blew over were out in the desert.
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Se transmission towers obviously lacked side loading resilience. Sounds like a design fault or steel no up to specification.
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I recall somebody here referencing an article in the Cairns news about the old towers, I presume purchased from the private owner by Transgrid, were overloaded with new transmission lines. But I couldn’t track down the article.
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“If the transmission of power fails, which is what happened in this case, no matter how many wind farms and solar farms and big batteries there are they are not going to to get power to the customers without transmission lines.”
The fallen towers were part of the high voltage bulk supply which supplies the transformer and switchyard which then supplies the Broken Hill grid, nothing to do with the distribution of local power
in BH itself.
The intermittent power from W&S was supposed to be ‘smoothed’ by the big battery and supplied to the local grid, did not work at all.
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The battery could never act as a source of power, because Transgrid refused to allow the battery to “island”, saying that they wanted another facility to “island” as backup. So even if the battery had been fully charged, it wouldn’t have made any difference. That was covered I think in the Nick Cater video. Would be interesting to know if the battery now can island.
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“Advocates of the plan argue that Broken Hill will serve as a blueprint the rest of the world to comply with the “Net Zero” goals of the World Economic Forum (WEF).”
Well, it served as an example alright, just not the one they were seeking. LOL
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Some lovely Christmas music
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/classics-at-christmas/
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One of my favourites –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo
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My favourite film 🥰
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A beautiful cover of one of my all time favorite Carpenters Christmas songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZolAU9O7SY
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And another Christmas song cover done by the same artist. It’s short but very well done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf7PNTl5M0k
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If you want to hear the closest thing to angels incarnate, listen to this London boys choir. Apparently they have quite a following.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQadcm_dwEM
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That is a wonderful rendition of one of my favorite Christmas songs.
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My favorite from Australian brothers Joel and Luke. {The litter drummer is Luke’s 5 year old son, Phoenix.}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzEX3QMuVPM
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Professor Gad Saad is a conservation intellectual from Canada.
He Tweeted to a post by Justin Trudeau:
Both Prof. Saad and Dr Jordon Peterson have both had enough of Canada and its anti-freedom, anti-conservative policies and are migrating to the United States.
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I mey conservative not conservation, an unauthorised spelling correction.
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Oops again… Meant not mey.
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I am surprised it took Dr. Petersen so long. He came from a small town in Alberta.
I can only think it is a sign of the Trump effect. For the next four years, America will be conservative and free.
Not extreme left as at present or extreme right, just representative of the bulk of the people. It would be great in Australia and the UK too. There is no extreme right. Hitler was a socialist and closer to Trudeau.
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I was convinced that the writer was describing our “ Prime Minister “. ,!!
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It’s what is called “Boxing Day”, Dec 26, here in Australia.
Today was meant to be catastrophically hot according to the BoM, the Government weather and climate propaganda bureau.
They earlier predicted it was going to be over 40C max. (104F) but have now revised it to 39C (102F).
http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml
Also, at the following link from two days ago, note the revised colour code to indicate Australia is “red hot”.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/extreme-to-catastrophic-fire-danger-to-hit-sa-victoria-on-boxing-day/1890230
Independent weather organisations predict s maximum of 36C (97F) as I type this.
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/australia/melbourne/hourly
Keep the panic going.
These were once considered typical temperatures in Australia for this time of year and nothing to panic about. Australia is a hot country, people used to know that. It’s climactic zones include tropical, arid, temperate and subtropical zones. Believe it or not, back in the day, in Australia, they used to teach geography in schools.
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As you say, geography used to be taught in schools, Australia can be a hot place, surely the skin colour of the original inhabitants might yield a clue.
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Perhaps also in the UK and the EU, esp. northern countries.
Check out the latitude of Macquarie Island (about 54 degrees South) and where solar panels are being installed (with subsidies).
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At least most of the snow should slide off them.
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Looks like Weatherzone’s temperature scale hasn’t caught up to WXMaps yet –
http://wxmaps.org/outlooks.php
Select “Australia and New Zealand” “Temperature” to check
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24 deg’s, Red hot!
Used to be airconditioning temperature.
http://wxmaps.org/outlooks.php
People have been conditioned to colours.
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More worrying there is that by about 30 you are starting to char and by 38 you’re about done ashing (based on experience with ashing in a muffle furnace)
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“People have been conditioned to colours.”
People have been conditioned to pictures and videos, rather than reading and thinking… The rot started when TV took over from radio and accelerated with dirt-cheap bandwidth on the net and then mobile phones. So much easier to fool the stupid that way.
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Weather channels as well as the regular weather updates broadcast at news time need to be modified.
All actual temperatures for the day in question should be accompanied with the verifiable historic temperature of that day recorded the previous year. Probably use colour coding to show that temperature from 12 months ago! Hopefully the gullible public will be able to see the hoax they are being subjected to!!!
Maybe we’ll then get some honesty about those “ hottest days evah “.
Currently every day is reported as the hottest day ever recorded. This appears to coincide with events such as the opposition leader announcing their intentions over nuclear power generation, a renewables induced blackout or a drop in sales of EVs.
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Are you saying the 26th of Dec every year should be the same?
The colour scales have been modified, they are intentionally scaled to alarm. Red is 24 to 26 deg’s.
It looks like a preschool water painting class.
If the wind blows off the desert it’s hot.
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No MP. Please show where it’s said that Dec 26th would be the same every year???
On 26th December 2024 show temp for the day & in a different colour show the temp for 26th December 2023. This must be verifiable. We will soon see honest reporti g surface!
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Thats how I read it, I just picked a day, you may pick any day you like, what would be the point of this?
You can just look it up https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/australia/sydney/historic?month=12&year=2023
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Bushfires are a consequence of a refusal of Labor/Green governments to allow let alone organize backburning of grasses and forests and to prevent high plains grazing. Bushfires are less frequent and far smaller in extent than before settlement and the vegetation is adapated to 50,000 years of aboriginal burning practices with almost exclusively pyrophytic trees left.
But the extra CO2 means more trees too. Great for agriculture but of course more fuel if governments go mad and prevent fire precautions. Bushfires are the third great threat in Australia after ‘drought and flooding rains’, but what politician has read ‘said Hanrahan‘?
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How do we know it is hotter than it has ever been? Easy, it’s much redder on the map than it has ever been. “Those who control the colour control the temperature” – per George Orwell
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Melbourne had highest Daily in December – 43.7C 15th December 1876 from Melbourne Station Station 86071O
:Melbourne Regional Office Number: 86071 Opened: 1908 Now: Closed 06 Jan 2015
Note BOM Telling Lies again – says opened 1908 but data goes back to 1 May 1855
And 43.5C 20th December 2019 from the Melbourne Station Details 86338
Station:Melbourne (Olympic Park)Number: 86338 Opened: 2013 Now: Open
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OldOzzie – the first link you gave wouldn’t open. However, …
… there’s confirmation of what you say, on the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190323183454/http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_nccObsCode=122&p_stn_num=086071&p_c=-1481648909&p_startYear=1855
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Daily maximum temperature
Melbourne Regional Office
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Station:
Melbourne Regional Office
Number: 86071
Opened: 1908
Now: Closed 06 Jan 2015
Lat: 37.81° S
Lon: 144.97° E
Elevation: 31 m
[]
1855 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Graph Graph January data Graph February data Graph March data Graph April data Graph May data Graph June data Graph July data Graph August data Graph September data Graph October data Graph November data Graph December data
1st 16.7 18.3 13.3 10.0 15.1 13.9 17.2 22.7
[]
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So, the archived bom.gov.au web page says the station opened in 1908, closed in 2015, and has data from 1 May 1855!
Also, in the “Summary statistics for all years” it shows the highest daily Dec temperature is 43.7, and says “Move mouse over highest and lowest daily temperature to view dates”. When I hover the mouse on the Dec highest of 43.7, it gives date “15th 1876”.
Unfortunately, the 1867 page – which is indexed in archive.org – gives an error message.
“Your request cannot be completed
Our system has a problem and cannot complete your request.”
Is it possible that BoM has managed to delete the embarrassing 1876 page from the Wayback Machine? I have kept a screenshot of the 1855 page just in case (but the screenshot doesn’t show the mouse-over).
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PS. The 1875 and 1877 pages are on the Wayback Machine, but the 1876 page won’t load.
1875
1876
1877
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PPS. I didn’t need to go to the Wayback Machine after all! I went to station 86071 in bom.gov.au – the station that opened in 1908 – and could scroll back in the dates all the way to 1855. The Dec daily max 43.7 is still there in the 1876 data – and the Dec daily max mouse-over still shows 15th 1876.
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Mike ,
the BOM site tends to be flaky
at this site – http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/
go to 1 and enter
1: Selected: Daily maximum temperature
Data about
Temperature
Type of dataObservations
Daily MonthlyStatistics
Daily Monthly
Data type options
Maximum temperature
Daily maximum temperature data and graphs for a selected year. Data download for one or all years.
then go to 3 and enter
3: Get the data
If you already know the station number you may enter it below instead of using the search above.
Station number Your data will open in a new browser window
86071 (Opens in new window)
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Oops you had already worked it out – BOM does not make it easy!
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Mike,
to make it easier for you
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/lists_by_element/alphaAUS_139.txt
and
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/lists_by_element/stations.txt
then
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/
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Wind up the hypebole to 11!
In that one block of text. “Extreme’….dire….temperatures soar….massive warning…… “extreme” dangers …..scorching temperatures….. massive bushfire….. major fire warning …..“extreme”
For two hot days in a string of 20something C days. No wonder people have stopped listening.
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The Sheeple are already dumbed-down enough.
AI is making them more so by removing any last vestiges of a necessity to think. E.g. they don’t have to research anything themselves, or write anything, they just ask AI to do it for them.
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As Carl Sagan put it almost thirty years ago:
“I have a foreboding of America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all of the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; with our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
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Steve
Check the service industry fiddle already in the US GPD figures mentioned in #15.
Doesn’t say whether it is in others but UK seems a “likely other place” as big on service industry
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FWIW – for the covid record
“React19 is the only organization created to help the covid vaccine injured. It does other great work, too, like maintaining a searchable database of thousands of published studies on the covid shots, and it funds research grants to scientists studying mRNA vaccine injuries. Since so many academic journals locked their science behind paywalls, React19’s website is one of the only places to find the studies.”
https://react19.org/
From today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter
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Boxing Day?
Christmas?
New Years Day?
I’m beginning to think everyday is Halloween.
The elites, the pols and their media mind control Sturmgruppen, constantly assault us with wave after wave of goblins and ghouls costumed, disguised, fake monsters to extort us for candy.
It’s the ____ ever!
Disease X!
White Nationalists! (Behind nearly every tree, so we must cut down trees to stop Climate Change and racism.)
Trick or Treat.
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FWIW
“Jewish Radio Host in Australia Reportedly Fired For Refusing to Support Pro-Hamas, Anti-Israel Views”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/jewish-radio-host-australia-reportedly-fired-refusing-support/
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I think there are definitely fewer insects in Australia than there used to be.
My anecdotal observations come from: 1) Fewer insect collisions with cars on highways although this might be attributable to better aerodynamics of cars with a higher frontal rake angle making insects more likely to bounce off or not hit in the first place. 2) Outside my front door in Melbournistan where I leave the porch light on at night there used to be huge numbers of insects attracted to the light, so much so that I installed an electronic insect killer because otherwise when I opened the door they would come inside. Now I don’t need to use the insect killer as there are few to no insects attracted to the light and I’m sure I didn’t kill all of my neighbourhood insects. 3) During camping and bushwalking (hiking) I have noticed that there seem fewer insects to annoy me.
Could it be a sign of a cooling climate which we do seem to have if you ignore official propaganda and BoM altered “homogenised” weather data (which is also deleted from the Official Record if it’s from before 1910)?
Some blame insecticides but if anything I think there is less use than in the past when they were used much more indiscriminately plus older insecticides were more persistent than modern ones.
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I think you may well be right. That seems to be happening in our neck of the woods too (between Sydney and Canberra). It could be because we moved (not far) to somewhere with less cattle and gum trees nearby, or maybe farmers are using more insecticides esp. systemic insecticides?
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Mike,
I know in our case here in Seaforth when we had 2 Beagles, the Dung Beatles were extremely active in the back, front and side yard lawns, and we rarely see flies these days – Loads of Ants, Blue Tongues, Water Dragons, Lizards, Kookaburras, Maggies thanfully the Cockies avoid us, but lots of Lorikeets
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How is it that a bug ALWAYS impacts the windscreen right in the driver’s view, never on the passenger side.
Secret forces at work here.😎
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It is riding the driver’s “projected line of concentration”?
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Firstly, less insects is a good thing. And you should come to my place if you think there are less insects.
What does less insects mean? All insects? Everyone sites this less insects on the windscreen thing. They would’ve been a certain type of insect, bogong moths? I don’t know. And what’s to say there weren’t too many insects in the past? I’d say there was.
The general “wild environment” has improved dramatically since the 70’s when I was a kid. Regrowth of trees in over cleared areas is dramatic. Look at old photos, it’s plain to see.
People don’t like change to any environmental factor, it makes them nervous. But nature fluctuates all the time, especially insect populations.
Chemicals? Not in the forests of the great divide. How have they managed to spray them to reduce insects? I would doubt insecticide use in agricultural fields would even effect insect levels in urban and non agricultural areas.
It’s all good. Insects are more a problem than anything. To get rid of them would be impossible, trust me I’ve tried many times. There are far too many of them in the world anyway, still. Biodiversity is simply an index of excess species.
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The incoming administration in the US will need to move smartly to save the nation from the wind drought trap. Another term with a Democrat president could have seen the trap close with disastrous consequences for the power supply.
The trap is set when subsidised and mandated wind and solar power DISPLACE conventional fuels although they can’t REPLACE them.
https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/renewables/21-7-intermittent-solar-and-wind-power-can-displace-coal-but-cannot-replace-it
That is a “frog in the saucepan” phenomenon and the danger only causes alarm when it is almost too late.
The trap closes when the displacement of conventional power reaches a “tipping point” and the grid is in the “red zone” where windless nights are potentially lethal.
Britain and Germany have passed that point and they survive precariously on imports and deindustrialization to reduce demand.
Australia is on the cusp and ANOTHER DEMOCRAT TERM IN THE WHITE HOUSE WOULD DRIVE THE US INTO THE RED ZONE.
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/11/approaching-the-tipping-point/
The treason of the meteorologists
The meteorological offices of the world never issued wind drought warnings even though they know that high pressure systems cause low wind periods. So the Dunkelflautes came as a surprise in Europe in 2021 although mariners and millers must have experienced them for centuries.
https://www.flickerpower.com/images/The_endless_wind_drought_crippling_renewables___The_Spectator_Australia.pdf
The World Meteorological Organization must have known about wind droughts because the first Assessment report of the IPCC recommended a survey of the wind resources of the world to assess the prospects for large-scale wind power. That would have been led by the WMO.
The WMO was a first mover in the climate scare in the UN and all the met offices have been hyperactive in supporting the scare by tampering with temperature records and attributing extreme weather events to climate change.
One of the aims of the original climate alarmists in the UN was to wreck the capitalist economies of the west (to save the planet.) That can happen when wind and solar displace fossil fuels to the point where wind droughts become an existential threat to the power supply because on nights with little or no wind there is effectively no RE regardless of the amount of installed capacity. For some strange reason the authorities in Britain and Germany don’t understand that.
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although mariners and millers must have experienced them for centuries.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
‘Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!
All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
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Rafe, I think Australia is not “on the cusp” but we are already in the Red Zone.
As Jo reported here the other day, regular large scale blackouts in Australia are only prevented because large amounts of taxpayer money is paid to our few remaining large industrial electricity consumers to allow their loads to be shed every time the wind stops blowing or the sun stops shining.
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And very large amounts of tax money (quantums not revealed because of “commercial sensitivity”) paid to the major coal-fired generators (Eraring, Bayswater, Mt Piper, Loy Yang, Yallourn) so these critical generators may remain patched up despite being under regulatory death sentences.
Yes, coal-fired generation is now subsidised (NOTE: not the miners, though). The actual subsidy sizes are not published, officially because of commercial sensitivity, but really because the actual money amounts would stir the lefty MSM into endless paroxysms.
I think I’ve previously commented that those major generators I’ve listed all require over $100m each now in routine repair/maintenance capital to guarantee reliability – but who would provide that capital to operations that are threatened almost daily with regulatory closure ?
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True, that is hard to quantify and not well-known.
It is probably somewhere in the AEMO database and I must find it and report regularly.
Another issue is the deindustrialization that is not documented; the Page Institute is working on it.
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FWIW – more on that “give away sale”
“President Trump Reports Border Wall Auction Has Been Stopped
December 25, 2024 | Sundance | 59 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/25/president-trump-reports-border-wall-auction-has-been-stopped/
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The Left/Elites love AI because it is helpful in controlling the masses by making sure only the “correct” information is fed to them e.g. biased search results and propaganda. Government love it because of its assistance in tracing and tracking people and facial recognition.
However, AI requires vast amounts of energy.
You can’t run AI on wind, solar or Unicorn flatulence.
That’s why the woke purveyors of AI are running their AI computers on nuclear power.
https://www.ans.org/news/article-5842/amazon-buys-nuclearpowered-data-center-from-talen/
And GASP even coal and gas.
Meanwhile the masses freeze or boil due to inability to afford wind and solar electricity.
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FWIW
“BRICS+ Grows. GDP Fiddle”
“Here’s a nice little update on BRICS+ growth AND it demystifies some of the GDP Games in the US numbers.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/12/25/brics-grows-gdp-fiddle/
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GDP… as meaningless as a global temperature and only useful for Govts to interfere with the lives of their subjects. Another bunch of snivel servants who should be fired to get a haircut and get a real job!
“8% Of US GDP is the implied rents for owner occupied houses. Yup, 8% is a complete fiction. They figure out how much I would have to pay to rent my house from myself and add that to the GDP. “
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GDP is supposed to be an indicator of a country’s economic activity. So government spending should be excluded. Government spending is uneconomic activity.
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Great Cartoon The Australian Today -Johannes Leak cartoons
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“The good, the fat and the ugly who want to fight in Ukraine
The notion of a prison swap between a forlorn Australian vegan incongruously fighting on the battlefields of the Donbas and a grossly obese, sweaty man holed up in an apartment in Woollahra, claiming diplomatic protection, invites a raft of fat jokes. ”
The writer strikes me as a particularly nasty man… must be a journalist.
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A pox on the porpentines and pesky popinjays
This is journalism’s off-season. Our audience is drunk, hating the kids, or hiding from foaming Uncle Peter. Like the Antichrist, my dark hour has come, and I am filled with malice. My target is the entire, simpering modern English language.
GREG CRAVEN
I’ve bitterly accepted “impactful”, “holistic” and the metronomic “best practice”. I’ve chokingly swallowed “low-hanging fruit”, “drill down” and “evidence-based”. But I’ve had enough.
English, you’re an indiscriminate postmodern word-whore and you can stand on someone else’s corner. Like some low-rate literary exile, weeping beside the waters of the Paramatta River, I mourn for the English of Donne, Milton and Eliot. For that matter, I pine for the English of Enid Blyton.
I accept that writing – now the realm of motherless political speech hacks and unimaginative sign writers – has been on the wane for an age. Most of the really good words have been dropped from the team, like rugby forwards who failed the etiquette class. What happened to quality insults like Shakespeare’s popinjay and fearful porpentine? Popinjay was a person so obsessed with their spangly appearance they gave parrots a bad name. A fearful porpentine was not a prickly behemoth inspiring fear, but a spindly porcupine raising soft, futile spikes at every danger.
With his sale-price Zegna suits and Armani front teeth, Treasurer Jim Chalmers is a popinjay. Scuttling heroically away from any possible policy debate, Anthony Albanese channels his inner fearful porpentine.
Today, we have a language primarily designed to cover and conceal, not explain, let alone entertain. We are the undertakers of our own mother tongue.
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I also hate expressions like “thank you for reaching out to us”.
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Agreed. Faking sincerity is harder than it looks.
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Like it isn’t a real smile unless the eyes also smile
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How much do you hate the repeat-the-question-in-the-answer totally unhelpful useless answers that emanate from the M$ online support centre? 😁
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Doesnt bother me. Sometimes useful when the thread goes off topic or branches to another question.
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Depends on the context IMHO,
Repeating a question by a public speaker to an audience can ensure that everyone has heard the question.
Applies in spades if the proceedings are being recorded, where the remote mike is often ineffective.
Also useful when the question is long winded and/or multi-faceted.
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I dislike modern sports photography in which the victor (male or female) obliges with mouth wide open and a camera view down the gullet.
Geoff S
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Where Australia could be headed under Labor/Greens/TEALs, given my House & Contents Insurance and Rates increases over the last 3 years
Insurance and Taxes Now Cost More Than Mortgages for Many Homeowners
Ballooning expenses rewrite the math of homeownership
Soaring costs for home insurance and property taxes are busting homeowners’ budgets.
Insurers have pushed big rate increases because of losses from natural disasters and rising costs to repair homes. Surging home values in recent years, meanwhile, have lifted property taxes for many homeowners.
These ballooning expenses are rewriting the math of homeownership.
In September, 32% of the average single-family mortgage payment went to property taxes and home insurance, the highest rate ever for data going back to 2014, according to Intercontinental Exchange.
But while mortgage rates fluctuate, climbing property taxes and insurance costs show no sign of reversing.
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We pay stamp duty and GST on home insurance.
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“Natural disasters” is always the excuse for higher home insurance rates, but is there any actual evidence for an increase in natural disasters in Australia?
And why do people keep building in known flood and bushfire zones and expect insurance coverage or the taxpayer to cover their losses?
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Flood zones are generally the best land in Australia … in terms of agricultural production. Really, Sydney should be moved into the Blue Mountains and the river flats around the Parramatta River and the Georges River should be made into farms like it used to be.
We supposedly have city planning in Australia but they certainly don’t think ahead.
Anyway … in a known flood zone, it’s rare to be able to get flood insurance and people live there anyway because you don’t really need insurance but you really, really do need somewhere to live.
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If the floods don’t get ya the bush fires will.
We’ll all be rooned, said Hanrahan.
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It’s 50 yrs since Althea. The town has suffered virtually no damage since. I’m well above any water level, a fair way from the beach tucked under the hills. I have no mortgage so let my insurance slip and any burglar would prolly leave a donation. The car sits in the garage most days so I let that insurance slip as well. Saving heaps.
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Just learned that the star Aldebaran is located 66.6 light years or 20.4 parsecs from the Earth based on the latest parallax records from the Hipparcos satellite. Yikes! 666.
https://www.universeguide.com/exoplanet/140/aldebaranb
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So I’m assuming HR 8531: A single F-type main-sequence star with a median distance of 66.8 light years would make it the neighbor of the beast?
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Victoristan is set to erupt in flames in coming days, perfect conditions, bankrupt communist green govt, tinder dry fuel, hot dry northerly winds.
It’s all coming together, again.
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The bushfires are just as planned because the Government banned or greatly reduced the number of fuel reduction burns allowed plus banned firewood collection in large areas.
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..Listening to a radio report on bush fire reduction in Spain ,..a local authority has run a trial of introducing a particular breed of wild horse and other large animals into forrest known to be fire risks.
The large animals eat and trample the lower ground growth which has a similar effect as a controlled burn,..but with much less risk or resource demand. ..all year round .
Seems a smart idea to me .
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Meanwhile the Government is busy killing all of Australia’s wild horses.
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It’s only today that’s the real fire hazard- tomorrow it’s back to 20˚C again, hardly hot. Usually the worst aspect of this type of weather is the dry thunderstorms which might start some fires. The best thing you can do is NOT watch/listen to the MSM news and whatever you do, don’t get the Vic Emergency app. Or if you do get the App, just turn off all notifications, otherwise it will drive you nutty.
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Finding joy in abstinence: Merry Christmas, crazy miserable commies
’Tis the season to be jolly.
And yes, that means even you crazy, miserable leftists who are dyeing your hair purple and declaring a “sex strike” over the outcome of the last election. In all fairness, however, your “sex strike” just may be the greatest Christmas present you ever gave.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
And we mean thank you not only on a personal level on behalf of all those good people spared such unpleasant conjugations, but also on a societal level. By that one act alone, you are doing your part to make America great again.
So, thank you.
And truly, even on a larger level. On behalf of humanity everywhere, thank you. Every now and then, it is not bad to run a little filter through the human gene pool — so long as it is entirely voluntary.
“Voluntary” is one of those things crazy, miserable leftists reserve only for themselves.
Anyway, your self-discipline does not go unnoticed, and it is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for taking one for the team. Team human. Team America. And team your unfortunate boyfriend. Or whatever.
Indeed, one of the most baffling things about crazy miserable leftists is their general tendency toward smugness in politics, especially when they are not on a “sex strike.” Always with the lectures and high-handed moralizing about everything.
So in this season of joy and gratitude, we celebrate your failure and subsequent celibacy. May all your failures be manifold and may your celibacy reign forever.
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It’s only today that’s the real fire hazard- tomorrow it’s back to 20˚C again, hardly hot. Usually the worst aspect of this type of weather is the dry thunderstorms which might start some fires. The best thing you can do is NOT watch/listen to the MSM news and whatever you do, don’t get the Vic Emergency app. Or if you do get the App, just turn off all notifications, otherwise it will drive you nutty.
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The linked image is on a post at WUWT:
https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/FD/16/20243591650_GOES16-ABI-FD-16-1808×1808.jpg
It is the CO2 band radiating temperature. White is really cold at around MINUS 90C. Blue is just cold at MINUS 30C, redish-brown is 0C, yellow is 30C and bright red in 60C. The image came from one of these NASA animations:
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G16&band=16&length=12
You wil see the scale below the animation.
The red region is the Atacama Desert. So the CO2 over that region radiates at 60C when the sun is shining. The surface below is close to 0C so there is a massive temperature inversion such that the CO2 is probably above the tropopause.
The Atacama Desert is hyperarid. with negligible rainfall. The atmosphere is extremely dry. The regions that show white are all high altitude ice. All the blue regions are mid to high level ice and water vapour. The brown to yellow are low level cloud, water vapour and some surface.
If the atmosphere had a lot more CO2 and a lot less ice, then the CO2 would be capable of warming the surface. The ability of ice to reflect more than 85% of the incoming solar radiation is all that matters with regard Earth’s energy balance unless you live in the Atacama Desert where the CO2 could be adding to the surface heat input. But so far it has not done enough, even in the hyoerarid regions of the Andes, to melt the ice above 5000m.
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Rick
Meet Prosopis tamarugo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopis_tamarugo
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MSM Quietly Acquits Itself with Hushed Admissions of Major White House Coverup
Simplicius – Dec 25, 2024
Another one of those bombshell MSM pieces slipped past this week, not far in gravity from the seminal Time exposé about the ‘shadow campaign’ that stole the 2020 election.
This time it dealt with the revelation surrounding Biden’s “diminished” mental capacity, long known to all those around him, and how he was essentially ventriloquized, shielded, and stage managed into an acceptable simulacrum of a ‘president’.
Of course, as usual the admissions are made long after the fact, with the damage long done and the MSM shills feeling they can now provocatively milk the revelation when the chance for any accountability has been dissipated and America’s attention redirected elsewhere.
More significantly the article indirectly sheds light on the structure and contours of the deep state and just how the powers that be work behind the scenes to control policy by taking advantage of crises to foment ideal circumstances that can be used to steer events and people in power.
In this case, the article makes direct mention of how Biden’s staff ‘took advantage’ of the Covid era protocols which insulated the president from excessive meetings and contact, stretching the new normal out indefinitely to the present in a way that evoked few real protests yet kept Biden under the thumb of a small claque of inner staff.
And that word—insulated—is an operative one:
it’s used in various forms nearly ten separate times in the article, including as title of a subheading, with the very theme consequently being Biden’s total insulation from the outside world, which included members of Congress and Cabinet.
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WSJ Archived – How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge
Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted. The administration denied Biden has declined.
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OK, they are safe now and can admit it. But are they? Presidential immunity is not transferrable and staff can’t grant pardons.
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I did the following exercise five years ago. The figures are probably different now, but just as bad.
I added up the total capacity of coal power plants in Australia as listed in Wikipedia = 24,767MW for 20 plants so average size per plant of 1,238MW.
There are also 94 visually and audio polluting wind subsidy farms of total nameplate capacity of 5,679MW (representing 2,506 stinking windmills). Now, since the capacity factor is only 30-35%, this means the true total windmill output is just 1,703-1,988MW or a mere 18MW to 21MW per subsidy farm.
Another way to look at it is the total true capacity of all Australian wind subsidy farms is only 37% to 60% bigger than just ONE proper power station.
It hardly seems worth destroying our economy for, does it?
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That figure for total nameplate wind seems low. Based on Tony’s data and other sources, I have:
NEM: 13,460 MW (Oct 2024)
WA: 762 MW (Oct 2024)
NT: 0
And I believe that Tony stated the number of turbines on the NEM to be 3300. Haven’t as yet determined the number of turbines in WA.
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Ok, a bit searching for WA provides the following:
Wind systems: 17
Number of turbines: 430
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Since the Albany (and Mt Barker and Denmark) wind farm is too small to be considered for reporting in the national capacity factor scheme of things, where would one find that information?
The larger WA wind farms are in a different geographic area.
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The info I used was for any turbines 1 MW or larger. So Albany, Mt Barker and Denmark have been included. So has the single turbine at Rottenest, plus a minesite and a couple of hybrid arrangements. I had to go to many different sources as Wikipedia was very wrong and included some older locations such as Esperance that has been shut down. In the end you have to identify each site, then look at the actual site info, not rely on any overall database.
Many of the smaller sites are connected into the SWIS grid.
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Towers in each:
Denmark 2x800kw
Mt Barker 3x800kw
Albany 12x1800kw & 6x2300kw
Standard reporting seems to ignore wind farms with a nameplate capacity of less the 40Mw total
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This video is a talk given at the 2024 Australian ARC conference a month or so ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRhNOv1Uo4M
There are some very good numbers on the real cost of Australia getting to NetZero using “renewables” compared with nuclear or sticking with coal. The bottom line of AUD2.57tr is close to the money on the basis that the demand rises to average of 35GW.
He is a factor of 1000 out when he states $95M per person but $95k per person is still expensive.
The peak demand in Victoria yesterday was 5809MW at 7pm. Christmas Day so one of the lowest peak demand days of the year. The minimum generation from wind was 168MW from an installed capacity of 5375MW. If there was only wind and we could guarantee that wind CF would never be lower than 168/5375 = 3.1% then Victoria only needs 32 times the capacity to power the state – say 177GW. The problem is the guaranteed output is zero. So wind is not a viable generating option unless you can command the load to follow the generation. Definitely no cooked meals for Christmas Day if that was the case.
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Not surprised by those numbers. Presume they are based on all-battery backup, for an unspecified time, perhaps one week? However, the Labor govt will still refute them by claiming that gas can be used as backup. And as Robert Idel pointed out, switching from batteries to gas for backup makes a significant difference in the backup cost. But if they want to achieve over 80% renewables, I cannot see much spare gas bring available.
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Not surprised by those numbers. Presume they are based on all-battery backup, for an unspecified time, perhaps one week? However, the Labor govt will still refute them by claiming that gas can be used as backup. And as Robert Idel pointed out, switching from batteries to gas for backup makes a significant difference in the backup cost. But if they want to achieve over 80% renewables, I cannot see much spare gas bring available.
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Ice-skating drag queens and Ukrainian influencers included in $1trn US ‘waste list’
Over $1 trillion in US taxpayer money has been frittered away on unnecessary, crazy, and outright repulsive projects, Senator Rand Paul believes. The libertarian-leaning lawmaker has urged the future administration of President-elect Donald Trump to tackle the problem.
The senator seems particularly miffed by $1,513,299 that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has spent since 2019 on a study of motion sickness. It involved researchers removing parts of kittens’ brains, strapping them to hydraulic tables and rocking them 360 degrees. Paul considers the experiment an unjustifiable form of animal cruelty, he said in interviews.
Last week, the DOGE account on the same platform released a short list of questionable government projects, such as toilets scanning people’s “anal prints” and a grant to Harvard University to study the effect of leaf blowers on lizards in trees.
https://www.rt.com/news/609922-paul-government-waste-report/
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In case you are wondering what an “anal print” is…this is indescribably messed up…a consequence of taxpayer-funded “science”…
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Didn’t that used to be a “blot copy” on a photocopier?
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David,
On first read, I saw “camera that sits inside the bowel.”
More thorough read gave “camera that sits inside the bowl.”
Geoff S
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Festive fun with Santa Klaus dreaming of a grey Christmas and a Great Reset:
https://videopress.com/v/tQB16MTi
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Tech tips corner: Five lesser known Task Manager features in Windows 11
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/five-lesser-known-task-manager-features-in-windows-11/
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And for those who think coal CO2 is special, sticking in the air while all other CO2 goes in the ocean, China has some news. Record levels of coal burning, a 50% increase since pre lockdown. Can’t get enough of the stuff. Someone clearly could not care less. Simply because it’s not true. And as long as people worship the heat, sun and sand for their holidays, why would anyone else care? Where’s the actual problem?
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And while the world worries about the poor Maldives less than 1 metre out of the water. They now have seven new airports for tourists. What people don’t know is that the oceans around the Maldives are 4,000 metres deep. And no one asks why they are all at sea level within 1 metre? Like all the coral atolls. Just lucky I guess. And where do the 521,000 people get their water? But the alarmists never ask such questions. Send money/carbon cash before they all drown.
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And China supplies most of its own coal. Plus ““Data from the National Energy Administration (NEA) expected national coal production to reach about 4.76 billion tons for the year 2024,” the Times noted. “Crude oil production is expected to rebound for the sixth consecutive year, with natural gas production expected to increase by more than 10 billion cubic meters for eight consecutive years.” Of course they have also invested heavily in nuclear and tripled their number of nuclear warheads.
Meanwhile nuclear is banned in Australia. And we pay for all our imports with coal and iron ore exports to China. Australia is not the clever country with massive CO2 carbon credits soon the reach 10% on June 30th on its way to 35% on all transport, shipping and flying. And the ‘big polluters’ just mark it up and pass it onto the ignorant consumers, us. No wonder the cost of travel heads the inflation list at 50%.
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True enough, although it really applies to thermal coals. China has very few high quality coking coal deposits and what it does have is actually controlled through the PLA (literally), such is the value ascribed to it.
Consequently, the world benchmark coking coals from the Q’ld Bowen Basin are able to negotiate high ranges of sale price across Asia; so too the Hunter Valley coking coals, although to a lesser degree.
Doubtless this will be challenged by greenies claiming that differing steel manufacturing techniques are just around the corner. As they have said now for well over four decades.
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So I just came from my Christmas dinner amongst the Progressive tribals.
Did not go well.
Writing this because because I left the wife there and escaped.
There where many off hand passing references to Trump, Pandemic, and Climate and my tongue could sustain no more biting.
So I interjected.
I am weak.
Learned a bit.
Pandemic was bad because Trump denies ‘science’ and did not lockdown soon and severely enough.
Did it come from a lab?
They “don’t know, don’t care … Trump”.
It’s not important … Trump.
So how much warmer is it since 1850?
“Don’t know, don’t care”.
Apparently, I Honk, am a MAGA science dee-ny-er for knowing (as much as it can be known).
How much CO2 is in the atmosphere?
“Don’t know, don’t care.”
I am distrusting science for knowing what the science says.
I was asked a departing question, “do you respect Trump?” I said yes.
I will not be invited to Prom.
It was weird, most of these educated and successful people simply genuflect to popular science magazine authority.
I must avoid social interactions.
Especially since I have little tolerance for small talk a zero interest in sports.
Merry Boxing Day.
2025 is going to interesting in an old Chinese proverb kind of way.
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Sorry to hear of your trauma Honk.
It’s very hard for a thinking person to be forced to associate with Leftists so I just avoid it altogether.
I don’t mind alternative points of view, but Leftists tend to have a complete disconnect from the evidence of reality. It comes from their belief in post-modernism.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy
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I am finding that if I dare comment on a leftist’s statement on climate, they immediately raise a hand to stop any further discussion, thus limiting the conversation to their point only, and refusing to entertain any rebuttals. In one case, the raised hand was accompanied by “oh, here we go…” comment. To maintain friendships I just accept this, but one day might bite back.
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Perhaps a preemptive raising of your hand will save some grief.
Along with a statement that the speaker should talk to the hand because the face isn’t listening.
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You need a better class of friends and a greater level of battle engagement with family.
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May the bridges I burn light your way.
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I’ve been asked that, apropos of nothing I said or did anywhere near the point of the question. I was simply describing the formation and growth of a coral atoll in the simplest language I could in response to some quite normal and inquisitive question about big wave surfing.
So my response to the passive-aggressive question on Trump ?
Well, we’re going to drill, baby, drill !!
The consequence of that was quite funny.
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I was under the impression that even Jill Biden has boarded the Trump train.
The new seat of power in the world is Mar-a-Lago with anyone of consequence visiting there in the past two months.
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This is why second-world countries run rings around us … we spend our time with political science squabbling over who gets a few extra scraps while they get on with honest measurements, calculation and engineering design.
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It’s weird. The left are schizophrenic. On the one hand they are saying Trump hasn’t achieved anything after nearly two months, on the other they say he is in breach of the Hatch Act.
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Honk – consider yourself to be in a very special group: those who don’t succumb to mass indoctrination, but actually use the critical facilities of your very fine brain.
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Honk,
You and any other reader here is invited to try more deep conversation by email tome at sherr#01 at outl##k d#t c#m.
Some of my friends compared anagrams of their names. I found a Geoffrey Sherrington anagram of ENERGY OFFERING SHORT.
Some of the others were hilarious and clever. This is just a little taste of the fun we have.
Another piece tested AI solutions to some Diophantine equations.
Hop on board, it is small but fun.
Geoff S
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Boxing Day 2024! Seconds out, Round 2025. Don’t get the hump! Pump and Dump with Trump! Labor must be the first KO
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We’re at this point now: I think both authors were correct as we have examples of both.
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Currently 85:15 in Huxley’s favour.. 85% of the population are only concerned about their immediate lives and pleasure, and the Govt persecutes the 15% that realise what is going on!
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That’s a notably high estimate of government efficiency KP. To prosecute the 15% a government would need to prosecute everybody and prosecute some twice.
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FWIW
More “Safe and Effective®”
Biden pardons Pfizer and Moderna, shielding them from prosecution for vaccine injuries/deaths until 2029, when Trump’s term as President ends. There’s nothing to see here, Im sure.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/12/25/safe-and-effective-187/
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Wow.
A prime example of why I read this blog.
I will be paying attention to see how much the media buries this in the holidays.
Assuming it’s true.
(It’s POTUS Pardon season, comes every 4 to 8 years depending.)
A pardon for Safe and Effective?
For making billions?
For saving millions?
Maybe Biden is just being a loving friend to his Pharma donor friends and expressing sympathy for their addiction to extracting the future wealth of the public through legalized graft and corruption.
I think they deserve a government subsidy to cover the cost of rehab.
In a luxurious location equal to the lifestyle to which they are now accustomed.
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Seems the Azerbaijani Embraer was shot down by a missile.. The Russians will blame the Ukies, the Yanks will blame the Russians, and the truth will not be revealed. Usual story..
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1871965964352590212
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Go to 4:25.
That tail section looks to have been placed there, not a mark on the ground.
Today’s squirrel.
https://old.bitchute.com/video/crhQWxZqDNlS/
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I reckon its all papier mache
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Blown up from inside out.
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How do you figure that? Shrapnel will pass right through an airframe hardly tougher than a coke can so there will be exit holes but the other side has the entry holes.
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2 coke cans flew into a couple of buildings in the US of A, cut through 4″ steel beams like butter.
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No, that’s not what happened. It looks like it, but in WWII a US bomber flew through the Empire State building. The building survived.
The fact is that the massive building can withstand coke cans. Even those weighing hundreds of tons as the buildings weigh hundreds of thousands of tons. It’s a fly on a windscreen.
Bin Laden had previously tried detonating explosives in the basement car park of the Twin Towers, successfully. But the building did not come down.
So the b*stards chose fully loaded long range flights carrying hundreds of tons of aviation fuel. The plane fuselage stripped away the covering on the steel and the fuel did the rest. Steel burns! Then it buckles. And as it buckles, the floors above come crashing down, creating a sledge hammer from the top floors. And that was a new way to bring down a steel framed building, from the top. Bin Laden’s father was a billionaire engineer. It was all planned.
And so sadly the death toll was even higher because although the buildings did not collapse for 90 minutes, 400 very brave fireman ran into the two buildings and forced people back to their desks. They all believed the building was completely impervious to coke cans. But that was sadly not true with the fuel load. This changed the rule book on steel framed skyscrapers and fire, their greatest enemy.
(Cutting steel with oxy acetylene torches is called ‘burning’ at 1200C, but it starts to lose its strength at only 400C. Later steel cutting technologies including plasma arc and laser melt the steel at much higher temperatures, up to 10,000C)
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There’s a logical fallacy there somewhere. Argument from absurdity?
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Couldn’t possibly be the Russians. Merde!
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I watched the long video of the flight approach. It was dropping precipitously and then climbing. Three times. It looked like there was a very serious problem with flight control. It could not fly level to land, so it went in hard. It is amazing anyone survived. That would be a testimony to the skill and bravery of the pilots who must have reduced the airspeed somehow or no one would have survived.
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Ivermectin has been investigated as an anti-cancer treatment for some time but I guess it will never be approved by Big Pharma or their marketing agents at Australia’s TGA.
(NOTE – THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH, MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND, AND FIND A PRO-MEDICINE DOCTOR WHO HAS A CLUE.)
Also see: William Makis MD
ALSO
SEE PAPER AT:
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Will we get to the point when the Doc says “Take two Vit I. If you don’t feel better ring me in the morning.”
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These days they don’t ask you about either your diet or the amount of exercise you get. It’s all about pharmaceuticals and/or surgery. My GP asked in wonderment how I reduced my cholesterol without medication. I told her with a change in diet – cutting out cakes/biscuits et al and eating particular fruit and veggies daily. She was amazed. Even more so when I told her I changed our diet to become healthier during Covid – not to reduce cholesterol!
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You would get better dietary advice from a rural vet than your GP.
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Fits here IMO
Instapundit lead in –
“OKAY, THEY ARE DUMBER THAN THE AMA: Europe’s Medical Students Being Trained to Consider Climate Impact of Inhalers and “Green Prescribing”.
“Europe’s Medical Students Being Trained to Consider Climate Impact of Inhalers and “Green Prescribing”
Meanwhile, Association of American Medical Colleges did a survey and found that 55% of medical schools reported that the health effects of climate change were a required topic in their courses.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/europes-medical-students-being-trained-to-consider-climate-impact-of-inhalers-and-green-prescribing/
https://instapundit.com/692521/#disqus_thread
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Just watched a video on a shark attack in Egypt, an ex Australian Greens senator, vegan. Even sharks eat their greens.
Does this make sharks herbivores.
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The person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.
– William Osler
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We were headed in that direction at the start of Covid, but the proponents were vilified rather than eulogised .
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The ivermectin dose is given as 72mg over six months,
presumably per day.
72mg per day is rather higher than dosages used for parasite control and viruses.
” with no problems/side effects at all.”
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Re anti-cancer properties of Ivermectin:
Yep. There are medical research papers on this. It is infuriating that medicos are still refusing to prescribe it and pharmacists similarly. Incidentally, I was fascinated to read medical papers of years ago suggesting that the amazing old workhorse Aspirin also showed anti-cancer properties.
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If YOU found a cure for cancer it would never get adopted and you would be found floating in the harbour or suffer a fatal car accident.. Where there is money no-one gets healthy!
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My wife is still taking 12mg/day and has been for a couple of months now. She will have her six-weekly blood test next week and of course we’re hoping for a good result. We’ve talked about what she’ll do if the cancer marker has increased and she’s prepared to shift to a higher dose. Fingers crossed. She will also have a three-monthly CT scan next week.
In the meantime, she started a daily dose of vit. C, which some studies claim anti-cancer effects for, if taken at high doses. She started on 5g but experienced gastric issues so dropped to 2.5. Gastric probs went away but we’re not sure if 2.5g/day is sufficient to do any good. She’s in no position to take time to think about these things though.
There has definitely been positive changes since she started the IVM, other than blood tests. She almost immediately felt her breathing improve. A little while later (we didn’t notice at first) she began to feel stronger and had more energy. So of course she repainted half the house and reorganised every drawer. It’s great to see, but now I can’t find anything.
Oh and she insisted I buy another motorbike.
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Very best wishes for you and your wife, Steve. Ivermectin has certainly produced some encouraging results. Two things are relevant, in my opinion. Firstly, pharmaceutical companies are committed to products still under patent or licence. Secondly, no proven ill effects is surely relevant.
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Thanks Vicki. We won’t be separated.
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G’day Steve,
And best wishes for you and your wife. Although I’m not a doctor I have explored and experimented on myself to reach my regime, which is a maintenance one, not a curative one.
On vitamin C: Its half life within us is measured in hours, so I’m taking my 3000 mgs in three equal doses over the day. It is also a cofactor of vitamin D, each requires the other for full effect.
On vitamin D: Its half life is about 14 days and there are different opinions on dosage and frequency I’ve seen. I’ve opted for 4000 IUs of D3 morning and night ( less chance of spilling pills everywhere v taking 8000 at a time), rather than less frequently to hopefully achieve a fairly constant high blood level. My target is 200 nmol/litre.
The early protocols based on IVM and HCQ included vitamin D, but without much emphasis which I consider an oversight.
There are other cofactors and support supplements for D, eg zinc…
Cheers
Dave B
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https://www.nuclearforaustralia.com/frontier?utm_campaign=video&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nfa
Don’t normally post here but linked is a very good video courtesy of Nuclear for Australia featuring a discussion between a couple of nuclear engineers and the guy who authored the Frontier economics report Danny Price. This report is what the flawed AEMO and Gemcost report should have covered. It is about 1.5 hours but worth the watch
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I’m not against nuclear, but we have hundreds of years of coal in Victoria which we are not allowed use ourselves and not allowed export. Are we the only country in the world with such a low IQ?
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Agree, but in Australia it’s probably easier to go nuclear politically rather change our pollies’ alleged minds to open new coal mines or build new coal fired power stations.
But now that the costs of nuclear and “renewables” are actually being discussed at all, there’s just a chance that someone might ask whether coal is actually cheapest??? Perhaps? Hopefully?
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Watched the whole video. Brilliant Stuff. Every ‘Pollie’ should watch this and learn. Feral and State.
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Electrical power in perspective –
“No, it is not all of the above, stupid! ”
“When it comes to energy generation, ‘all of the above’, gets my prize for the dumbest comment by centre righters / putative conservatives during the past year. Sky presenter Steve Price and National’s senator Matt Canavan come to mind, but there are numbers more. The difficulty for me is that these guys are on the right side of things yet still don’t get it.
Let us be clear. There is no place in a country’s national power system for wind and solar farms. They despoil the landscape. Moreover, this despoilation is exacerbated by their requirement for thousands of miles of wires and poles. They deliver poor quality variable power which complicates and increases the costs of grid management. They have a relatively short operational life which means they must be disposed of somehow and replaced at frequent intervals. And, the killer, they go to sleep when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine.”
More at
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2024/12/21/no-it-is-not-all-of-the-above-stupid/
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