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When I first heard of CO2 building up in the atmosphere, I checked. It isn’t. C14 answered that question in 1958.
However the shape shifting promoters came up with things like CO2 sequestration and Australian Agricultural Carbon Credits. In England hundreds of ‘tree farms’ as investments. Not chopping things down or harvesting earns cash because it is sequestration.
But NASA proved that wrong with satellite measurements. From 1988 to 2014 tree coverage world wide showed forestation, not deforestation. A 14% increase in tree coverage and a 14% increase in CO2. So more CO2 means more trees, not the reverse. Of course in typical fashion NASA called it ‘fertilization’, which is ridiculous. Trees are made from CO2, like all living things.
The CSIRO pulled the same stunt when they had to comment on the rapid ocean absorption of bushfire CO2 and a phytoplankton bloom. These geniuses blamed it on Iron ‘fertilization’ from the ash. Anything but admit plants are hungry for CO2.
But one of the ideas was that a mythical shallow ‘surface’ ocean was ‘full’ of CO2. Now 98% of CO2 is in the ocean as it is extremely soluble, 30x more than O2 and all things breathe O2. And there are 36 papers which agree that CO2 changes completely roughly every ten years. (Table 1 here)
So what limits are there to dissolving CO2? Firstly CO2 gas we see as a solid, dry ice. But with over 5 atmospheres/276K/3C it is a liquid, like water. And that’s only 50 metres in an ocean on average 3500 metres deep. So there’s no real limit to CO2 because largely it’s not a gas in water. Even more dramatic is that unlike oxygen, CO2 dissociates H2O+CO2 becomes HCO3 and H+. Carbonic acid, a very weak acid. But it is also not easily predicted by Henry’s Law of dissolved gases. Henry’s Law works at the surface of course, but not with the values developed in laboratories as CO2 exchange goes as the fourth power of wind speed and you don’t get that in a laboratory. No waves and droplets.
This is relevant because the people who argue that fossil fuel CO2 is stuck in the atmosphere are forced to claim that the water is full of CO2, saturated. But that’s not possible. You can release the gas in Coke Cola or Lemonade with a rough surface as with menthos. So here is a fun experiment which shows just how much CO2 gas is in water even at air pressure. This is NOT a chemical reaction, just the rough surface providing a catalytic surface to form the gas instantly.
The whole fantasy of fossil fuel CO2 building up in the atmosphere is as busted as it can be. But still sequestration is fundamental to Australia’s CO2 laws as we legislate the amount of CO2 we are allowed to release and fining our biggest ‘polluters’. Fantasy science and fantasy laws, crippling the country. Why? Is it just the cash? Or the centralization of (electric) power in Canberra? Or a scare to enable crazy science laws to enslave and rob everyone? Or just a United Nations which does nothing to resolve the Ukraine war but now demands $40Bn a year from international shipping?
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That’s before you even get to Prof Will Happer’s certainty that even doubling CO2 would have a tiny 1% effect on CO2 infrared retention.
It’s all busted. So why is CO2 driven Global Warming/Climate Change/Nett Zero continuing? Why has it never been debated? Why are there thousands upon thousands of Australian public servants collecting cash for CO2?
We Australians should be rich. But we are becoming Argentina. And the PM has bought his retirement house on the beach to go with his perpetual salary. That’s the thing with communists. How to get to the top without knowing anything except how to get to the top. Or caring.
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When I was 15 my best friend’s father, a wonderfully cynical engineer told us, “You’ve heard of the Age of Dinosaurs, The Stone Age, The Bronze Age and The Iron Age, The Age of Steam? Well now we’re in The Age of Bullsh!t.
>So why is CO2 driven Global Warming/Climate Change/Nett Zero continuing? Why has it never been debated?
You know why. Because it’s an enormous money-spinner for the wealthy and a marvellous way to destroy the Western Democracies. And better still, it’s entirely built on bullsh!t!
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“Lest We Forget”
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For our overseas friends that is a reference to ANZAC Day in Australia, 25 April. It’s an acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and is a remberance for all Australians and New Zealanders “who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations” and “the contribution and suffering of all those who have served”.
“Lest we forget” comes from Rudyard Kipling’s 1897 poem “Recessional”.
And that itself may come from the Bible which warns against not remembering past events.
And the deliberate destruction of the education system in the West means historical events are no longer correctly taught or not taught at all.
Lest we forget.
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That’s a great summation of the “ocean – CO2 interaction TdeF.
It’s great to wake up to read the truth and nothing but the truth, the absolute truth, on this special day.
The C14 presence in the atmosphere is one of the keys to helping to De-Gore this new form of slavery to which “civilisation” is now subjected.
That science is real and undeniable.
Similarly, the concept of atmospheric CO2 being a dangerous “heat trapping” gas when in the atmosphere must also be crushed by the real science.
Even if atmospheric CO2 did pick up a bit of extra energy there are scientific truths that preclude it from causing runaway heating and “global warming “.
Let’s open the door and let the truth in.
It is absolutely amazing that all life on earth can exist with such low levels of CO2: but here we are, going for it.
In terms of the atmospheric thermodynamics the quantity of CO2 is quantitatively irrelevant, even if the “heat trapping” was a major issue.
Remember: PV = nRT rulz from now and forever.
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America’s electric car crash is over. Europe has finally noticed
Trump’s reversal of Biden-era EV mandates is putting huge pressure on the UK and the EU to follow suit
During the campaign, candidate Trump was consistent in his determination to restore to Americans the right to buy whatever car they want
He hasn’t wasted any time in putting in place a five-pronged approach to make his policy a reality.
First, on Jan 20, in an executive order entitled “Unleashing America Energy”, the president removed the requirement, put in place by Biden-era Transportation Department and Environmental Protection Agency regulations, for car companies to sell a certain share of vehicles that are battery-powered electric, effectively cancelling the mandate.
Second, Trump pledged in the same executive order to consider cancelling the $7,500 tax credit to buy EVs. The credit, signed into law by Joe Biden as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, would have cost $105.7 billion over the next 10 years.
Third, Trump paused producer tax credits for clean energy, including advanced battery technology, estimated to cost between $30 billion and $200 billion over the next decade.
The effects of Trump’s policies are being felt domestically, as car companies quietly drop their Biden-era plans to go all-electric. Assaults against Toyota for insisting that it would sell any car that its customers wanted to buy have stopped.
But the consequences of the president’s agenda are set to be wider than that – The European Union can surely no longer ignore the costs of banning new gas-powered car sales by 2035.
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Australia’s Chief Chimpanzees Albo just blew another $1.2 billion of Aussie taxpayer dollars.
This is insane.
Firstly, we process very few minerals and certainly don’t turn them into any significant amounts of manufactured products.
Secondly, this stockpile of unused and unspecified minerals will represent a huge liability due to constant maintenance costs and price fluctuations.
It would have been better to establish a strategic reserve of petroleum products for military and critical civilian needs in the event of disruption of supply of refined petroleum products. But we are already meant to have that, although who knows if it is actually maintained.
Money is meaningless to our head Chimpanzee and his troop.
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That’s a bit tough on chimpanzees.
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I wonder if it’s Albo’s speech defect or his innumeracy that leads him to get “million” and “billion” mixed up or not know how much money one billion dollars really is?
And he can’t pronounce “nuclear” either, nor can Blackout Bowen.
Or is he just stupid?
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And you guys reckon we speak strange: he’s not a chimpanzee, he’s a buffoon!
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He is a very sad and disturbing video about the destruction of scientific specimens and materials of early pre-modern human remains in Australia and the prohibition of studying anything that doesn’t fit the Official Narrative of one human migration to Australia and no pre-modern species or races.
It’s not vandalism but Government policy.
It’s Soviet-style “science” where “the science” is closely tied to Leftist politics and ideology, just like “climate science”.
I urge you to watch the following video. Even I was shocked to discover the extent of destruction and restriction of access to earlier archaeological and anthropological materials and reports.
Video, 14.5 mins. https://youtu.be/_tNDivDf9XI
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