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Blep.😁
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rxjcw3qpTZ1w5pr9j.mp4
Wow.
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A fish you do not kiss. I used to love riding the wash behind a game boat. That is one hell of a stink boat to surf killer whales on the pressure wave.
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wow!
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I do say , that Orca would outdo my 60hp Yamaha.
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Something rigged up to charge the Tesla when the charging cable has been stolen and sold for scrap?
What does the fuse do? Prop a switch open?
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Closed.
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Thanks MP
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Re “‘Hottest Days’ Manipulation?” in previous post comments
Think it is worth looking at some misconceptions surrounding “hottest day’.
Firstly, the “manipulation” was an Aug 2022 glitch, nothing to do with hottest day 2023.
I’ve laid out the current data at the link above in #11.1. There is no “manipulation”.
Secondly, the “hottest day” was described by Neville as “lunacy”, “BS”, and “nonsense”. I’ll duplicate my response here because I think that is gross misconception.
It wasn’t lunacy, it was Antarctic weather skewing the entire global metric.
And “hottest day” was ABSOLUTE – not anomaly.
All those anomalies captured on screenshot Aug 2022 seem to be incorrect. All 6 were negative. The current anomalies conform with absolute:
Today’s Weather Maps – Sun July 16 2023
https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/?var_id=t2anom&ortho=1&wt=1
Anomalies:
World, Northern Hemisphere, Arctic
+ 0.74 °C, + 0.86 °C, + 0.71 °C
Tropics, Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic
+ 0.87 °C, + 0.63 °C, + 1.05 °C
Daily 2m Air Temperature – Sun July 16 2023
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/
World Absolute: 16.99 C
World Anomaly: +0.74 C
Next more on the Antarctic spikes and a note on statistical averages.
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>”It wasn’t lunacy, it was Antarctic weather skewing the entire global metric.”
Take a look at the GFS anomaly:
GFS 2m-T
http://karstenhaustein.com/climate
The June and July spikes in the SH (Blue) are simply Antarctic weather. In the SH winter all you are seeing is Antarctic weather basically. And those 2 spikes pushed up the World average metric, the second to record levels because it coincided with peak NH summer. Those spikes are normal just that July one was the first at that time. It was by no means the largest.
You can see the Antarctic spikes and wild swings here:
Daily 2-meter Air Temperature
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/
Choose Area: Antarctic
Now compare to Area: NH
No spikes in the NH, some fluctuation in the winter but nothing like Antarctica
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The reason Antarctic fluctuates wildly is that the air is very dry so an encroachment from the north of relatively warmer and MOIST air has a profound effect, even when just localized. That hikes up and skews the entire Antarctic average which in turn hikes up SH which in turn hikes up World.
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>”That hikes up and skews the entire Antarctic average which in turn hikes up SH which in turn hikes up World.”
That’s the statistical nature of averages. Take 2 sets of 10 values:
1) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1, Average 1
2) 1 1 1 1 10 1 1 1 1 1, Average 1.9 – almost double
Obviously “1” is the Mode for datasets 1) and 2). It only takes one datapoint to skew the Mean but the Mode remains the same.
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>”The reason Antarctic fluctuates wildly is that the air is very dry so an encroachment from the north of relatively warmer and MOIST air has a profound effect”
Surviving the hottest ever propaganda by showing the total picture
By Joe Bastardi
https://www.cfact.org/2023/07/12/surviving-the-hottest-ever-propaganda-by-showing-the-total-picture/
And,
It pains me that sceptics too are not seeing the big picture and throwing the baby out with the bathwater (so to speak).
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Hi Richard,
WUWT have a post on this and a couple of things to point out from their own website.
at least two other posters have screenshots of changing data over time, unsurprisingly it got hotter.
So no I dont believe it was the hottest day ever they even admit it is not fit for that purpose using the word “estimated” from the climate forecast system. so yes it may have been warm in Antarctica but far from the hottest day eva.
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scott
>’at least two other [WUWT] posters have screenshots of changing data over time, unsurprisingly it got hotter”
In August 2022 – NOT July 2023.
>”So no I dont believe it was the hottest day ever”
Not “ever” but within the NCEP CFSV2/CFSR dataset 1972 – Present where the data for that and other NOAA reanalysis systems originates from GDAS:
Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS)
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00379
surface observations,
balloon data,
wind profiler data,
aircraft reports,
buoy observations,
radar observations, and
satellite observations.
So I assume you don’t “believe” any of the TV weather reports all over the world that provide a snap-shot of the weather situation, yes/no?
>”they even admit it is not fit for that purpose using the word “estimated” from the climate forecast system”
Actually they are explicitly stating the purpose – “to provide daily snapshots of temperature as estimated”.
It is an estimation i.e. indicative, as close as possible to real-time as technology will allow – what other method is there that does that?
Also non-homogenized and non-adjusted unlike GISTEMP, HadCRUT, NCEI (NOAA), Berkeley Earth, BOM ACORN-SAT, NIWA 7SS etc – why is that a problem?
>”yes it may have been warm in Antarctica”
Nobody said it was warm in Antarctica. Joe Bastardi explicitly states otherwise – twice:
And,
You have completely missed the points of comments #2, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, and 2.1.2.1.
>”far from the hottest day eva”
Not in Antarctica – it’s winter there. Not World eva – just NCEP CFSV2/CFSR 1972 – Present.
But since you seem to know when the hottest day actually was – when was it and in what dataset?
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Hi Richard,
when you try to use data that has been tortured and twisted to say its hotter than any other time then no I dont agree with you.
its summer in the NH and warm its winter in the southern hemisphere and bloody cold and wet
and just to emphasis the manipulation of data the following graph says it all
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/16/hottest-days-manipulation/#comment-3750325
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scott
>”when you try to use data that has been tortured and twisted to say its hotter than any other time then no I dont agree with you.”
I did no such thing.
I specifically stated, in respect to the NCEP CFSV2/CFSR reanalysis dataset:
You seem to think I’m using the adjusted datasets listed above – I’m certainly not.
>”to emphasis the manipulation of data the following graph says it all”
Graph – GISS Changes
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/GISS-Changes-Aug-2005-to-Oct-2015-1689540286.4234.gif?fit=800%2C546&ssl=1
You present the homogenized and adjusted GISTEMP changes – why?
Don’t you see that you have inadvertently proved exactly what I’ve been trying to get through?
I challenge you to present a similar graph of changes to any of the following weather and climate reanalysis datasets:
ECMWF ERA-Interim
ERA5
NASA MERRA
NCEP CSFR
NCEP-NCAR (R1)
GFS
Good luck with that.
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>”I challenge you to present a similar graph of changes to any of the following weather and climate reanalysis datasets”
I’ll help you out here Scott.
I know of one ex post facto adjustment to NCEP GFS but that is by NASA’s GISS using the already adjusted GISTEMP.
The adjustment details can be found at Karsten Haustein’s website:
NCEP GFS 2m-T
http://www.karstenhaustein.com/reanalysis/gfs0p5/GFS_anomaly_timeseries_global.html
At the bottom of the graph see “GISS adjusted”
In FAQs Karsten gives his reasons for the adjustment (abridged):
So, “At least its algorithms are trying to make the best of the sparse data in this [polar] region”.
Ok, GISS makes up fake surface data to adjust GFS for this particular presentation (and only this) but Antarctica is huge but with very few surface stations – what else can be done to provide an indication of Antarctic-wide temperature?
Reanalysis is, by definition, interpolation between fixed datapoints. The fixed data is non-homogenized, non-adjusted.
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Scott, if you don’t like the GISS adjustment to GFS above you can always go to NOAA’s WRIT:
Web-based Reanalysis Intercomparison Tool: Monthly/Seasonal Time-Series
https://psl.noaa.gov/data/atmoswrit/timeseries/
First parameter: Dataset 1
Default is NCEP/NCAR R1. Also available NCEP/CFSR, ERA (ECMWF Reanalysis v5) and several others.
ECMWF Reanalysis v5 (ERA5)
https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-reanalysis-v5
These reanalysis datasets are where your weather status and weather forecasts come from.
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Scot,..Its not easy to understand that graph from WUWT as the legend colors are missing ?
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Richard,
garbage in = garbage out
garbage multiplied by anything = garbage out
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Hi Chad,
anything below zero has been adjusted down anything above has been adjusted up
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Its the same with CO2 and the miss held belief that the increase is all due to man when C14 dating shows that human contributions through fossil fuels remains the same at around 4% and hasn’t changed much since it was first measured.
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Problem solved – just ignore Antartica!
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Taking_Earth_s_temperature
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David >”Taking Earth’s temperature”
FWIW I think the concept of averaging Arctic + NH Mid Lat + Tropics + SH Mid Lat + Antarctic is absurd.
These are all disparate datasets: North Polar looks nothing like South Polar; NH Mid Lat looks nothing like SH Mid Lat; even the Nth of the Tropics (0 – 20N or 30N) is different to the Sth of the Tropics (30S or 20S to 0).
Gets really silly when we try to apply the IPCC’s 1.5C “limit”:
Applying the IPCC’s 1.5 C limit to absolute GMST
Assumptions using NOAA’s WRIT
Default dataset: NCEP/NCAR R1 (monthly)
01-06-2023 NZ time, dataset updated since
Means are 2013 – 2023.42 unless stated
https://psl.noaa.gov/data/atmoswrit/timeseries/index.html
IPCC human attribution begins 1951
1948 – 1958 Global Mean: 14 C (287.095 K)
IPCC “limit” pre-industrial year base: 1880
2013 – 2023.42 Global Mean: 14.4 C (287.549 K)
1.1 C (K) rise since 1880 (NASA GISS)
1880 Global Mean: 14.4 – 1.1 = 13.3 C (286.449 K)
IPCC 1.5 C (K) “limit”: 13.3 + 1.5 = 14.8 C (287.949 K)
Some rounding to simplify,
Northern Mid 35 39 Mean: 14.4 C (287.534 K) 0.4 C under
Global Mean: 14.4 C (287.549 K) 0.4 C under
Southern Mid -35 -43 Mean: 14.5 C (287.701 K) 0.3 C under
Northern Polar 60 90 Mean: -8.8 C (264.317 K) 24 C under
Tropics -20 20 Mean: 25.7 C (298.843 K) 11 C over
Southern Polar -60 -90 Mean: -18.7 (254.419 K) 34 C under
35N – 39N and 35S – 43S and thereabouts are the only 2 bands where the Global Mean and global “limit” actually means anything and can be applied. It makes no sense at the high latitudes or tropics
Some more notes on this but that should suffice for now.
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Couldn’t resist …
”Taking Earth’s temperature”
Where would you stick the thermometer ? 🙂
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Steve,
Bandar Khomeini, Iran, springs to mind.
I was there, when it was Bandar Mahshahr [spelling is mine!], in 1973, anchored in the river, the Shatt Al-Arab; and it was 112 F in the shade on our [shady] bridgewing, at noon. At 1300 IIRC it was 118 F.
And that evening, in the pumproom, it was 170 F. That’s in a steel hulled ship, with a lot of [14″ or 16″, probably] valves to swing to set the lines for deballasting …
Glory days!
Auto
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I agree.
Belittles their arguments on AGW in a way most people would understand and cast doubt. So good they keep saying it actually with the most extreme language possible.
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Hot enough?
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It’s amazing what people could achieve back in the day with primitive technology but Deep Knowledge of how things worked.
For example, in 1880, Alexander Graham Bell transmitted voice on a modulated light beam. (Jointly invented with his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter.)
He saw it as the invention he was most proud of, not the telephone (of controversial inventorship).
There was no practical application for this idea until many decades later with the invention of optical fibres and lasers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophone?wprov=sfla1
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Sometimes no matter how deep your knowledge it still comes down to primitive brute force. The tin can was first invented/patented/produced in 1810/13. The tin can opener, an American invention, came into being around 1858.
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David, I was trying to find out which was the first air conditioned building in Australia and came across this on the Carrier-Australia website,
Willis Carrier was the first to install an air conditioning system with humidity control in 1902, “in response to an air quality problem experienced at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company of Brooklyn, New York.” Wikipedia
So it took 30 years to get here. Although, to be fair, there was the Great War and Great Depression in between.
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The White House resident has been sniffing children again. Absolutely cringe worthy.
Paul Joseph Watson comments.
https://youtu.be/xXD7i1FTia8
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Gosh, I got a thumbs down for that comment. Obviously someone thinks it’s OK for Joe to sniff random children…
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There seems to be a sniffing and snorting trend in the Whitehouse these days. The Babylon Bee said local residents have been complaining about the crack house on Pennsylvania Ave affecting their house values.
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I wouldn’t read too much into it David.
It wasn’t me but two possible explanations are finger failure combined with the fact that you can’t undo a thumb up or down, and that there is somebody out there who doesn’t like you (or doesn’t like the truth).
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Rewnewable Energy in Eastern Europe.
I am just returning from some travel in Eastern Europe. A lot of train travel was involved so I got to see some of the countryside.
The first country visited was Austria with was covered in wind turbines. Wind turbines were also prevalent in Germany but much less so in Hungary and the Chech Republic.
In Dubrovnik and Split (Croatia) I did not see any wind turbines at all. Same with Northern Italy and Montenegro.
I am not sure if it was a biased sample but there seems to be a lack of enthusiasm for wind power in some of the European countries.
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nice that bits of Europe remain
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For the Earth to get hotter, it has to receive heat energy from a source that is hotter than the Earth. We are aware of two heat sources, the internal heat from the Earth’s core and the external heat from the Sun. The later is modulated by the conditions in the atmosphere and on the surface, with the UN IPCC claiming that radiation from the so-called ‘greenhouse gases’ is causing the Earth to warm.
There are a host of events that affect the amount of heat from the Sun reaching the Earth’s surface and the properties of that surface, which determine the temperature. To date the affect of cosmic radiation creating clouds, dust absorbing or reflecting heat, the every changing humidity and perhaps properties not yet defined are ignored by the IPCC with their claim that the concentration of greenhouse gases is the most important event for us to consider.
However the greenhouse gases are natural phenomena that are of little significance. For example CO2, the main greenhouse gas, does not of itself generate any heat energy whatsoever. Storage cylinders of industrial CO2 do not get hotter over time sitting in the cellars of the many pubs around the World. The main 15 micron absorption band for CO2 is the peak radiation from a surface at -80 degrees C, a temperature experienced occasionally in the Antarctic. Re-radiation at 15 micron wavelength is definitely not going to warm anything across the surface.
Furthermore, data clearly shows that the concentration of atmospheric CO2 is determined by the temperature of the oceans and the occasional volcanic eruption. To date there has been no event correlating CO2 concentration with human activity.
As the Clintel organization has shown with their recent analysis of the many errors in the IPCC Assessment Report, the IPCC is not a competent scientific body, but a political branch of the UN which is surreptitiously attempting to gain complete dominance of the whole World’s population for their benefit only.
The most obscene ambition of the UN is for a World population of 500 million persons only when the current population is 8 billion. That is, they want 15 out of every 16 persons to die !
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Most of your post makes good sense except for this clanger – “for example CO2, the MAIN GREENHOUSE GAS”, which I presume you know is incorrect.
To clarify, Water vapour, the most significant greenhouse gas, comes from natural sources and is responsible for roughly 95% of the greenhouse effect with CO2 contributing less than 5%. Among climatologists this is common knowledge but among special interests, certain government groups, and news reporters this fact is underemphasized or just ignored altogether.
Conceding that it might be “a little misleading” to leave water vapour out, they nonetheless defend the practice by stating that it is “Customary” to do so!
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Thank You Terence M. Yes I was thinking in terms of the propaganda from the UN IPCC.
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Bevan,
The geothermal upward heat escape is affected by the temperature of its destination, the atmosphere and beyond. Looked at in terms of heat flow equations, there is a mathematical surface of constant chosen temperature that is somewhere between the underground and the atmosphere, that floats up and down as the air temperature changes. When there is a fixed Stevo screen near that surface, it will detect the ups and downs. But, it also detects variations in the geothermal flux and in a push/pull way we see the outcome at the screen. The outcome is different from place to place with different thermal conductivities, esp of the solid rock/soil part.
However, the interaction between geothermal up and away through the air is completely different over the oceans because of a host of factors like mixing.
As a minimal consequence, one should not expect Stevenson screen type temperatures to correlate well over oceans versus over seas. Yet the two are blithely combined to make a non-scientific global average surface T anomaly.
Is this too simple an analysis?
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Yes Geoff, as the temperature of every point on the Earth’s surface is continually changing all of the time I fail to see how the average temperature can be determined with any accuracy. It can only be the mean of a statistical sample from an ever changing probability distribution yet, as far as I am aware, these factors are never given when the “average Earth surface temperature” is quoted. Consequently any claim of ‘hotter’ should not be accepted without the accompanying relevant statistical parameters that support the claim.
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Nice post Bevan. Just a random thought but I wonder about temperatures under the ground. It used to be that when visiting caves the guides would tell visitors that the temperature was constant underground. I wonder whether geologists are even keeping track.
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Forrest Gardener, wine cellars are said to meet that statement and I, for one, am quite happy with the outcome as have been most geologists that I have met.
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Looks like Albo has taken a hit in popularity. And the Aborigine vote is at 42%.
Little white pills.
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For anyone not aware, Pauline’s One Nation cartoons are superb Canberra satire. You should seek them out.
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for those seeking https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAxn3qhG_qL8mplKpsHMbBnYICCgs9Rgk
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Monday funny: masterclass welding
https://64.media.tumblr.com/89125351a8bab924e1627e7c7af99df8/d306f3eb78302546-08/s1280x1920/cb8e63da650f181ec5f1094a3ff53f8fd25a1f74.jpg
Not exactly aerospace standard, but no doubt will be woke standard. 😁
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Making bird sh#t into an art form. How did they do that with what looks like a MIG? I can do the bird bit but not the nest.
Whitlam would have paid 6 million for that, he was textbook Alinski.
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That is what a neighbour would call “Real chickensiht welding”!
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The New Freedom Movement Taking Facebook by Storm
A new UK social movement DO NOT CONSENT, only launched this week, is already spreading rapidly across social media. The concept is simple: A rejection of all Lockdowns; vaccine passports; digital IDs; 15 minute cities; climate lockdowns; CBDCs; and any and all other totalitarian plans being forced upon us by unelected technocrats.
Contained within the website is a declaration the authors encourage the public to send to their MP. That declaration contains the following passages:
“You have put your own personal interests before ours, you have failed to uphold the law or respect the human rights of the people, people, you have blatantly disregarded “The Seven Nolan principles of public life,” you have allowed the wilful destruction of the economy of the United Kingdom, you have allowed unelected outside influence from private corporations including, The World Economic Forum, The World Health Organisation, The United Nations and various corrupted foundations. You have allowed profits before people and have fraudulently and criminally wasted our money.”
“You are hereby being notified that I withdraw my consent, as is my fundamental right, to be governed by any corrupt, compromised, belligerent, criminal Parliament or Government. I will not comply but I will remain lawful and keep the peace.”
https://www.visionnews.online/post/the-new-freedom-movement-taking-facebook-by-storm
Now for one here in Oz…
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Nice in theory, but MPs (etc) dont listen to the public now. Where is the incentive for them to improve?
Saying that one will remain “lawful and keep the peace” is pretty much admitting that you’re not happy, but wont do anything about it, because at some point in legitimate non-compliance, you will break some sort of law.
I’m not saying that breaking the law and being violent are the only solutions, but from the perspective of a politician, why should they care what you do – unless you’re going to run against them in an election?
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A lesson from history is in order.
“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”
— Sophie Scholl
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl
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Sophie Scholl: an amazing story of bravery by a 22 year old woman in Germany 1943.
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And another story of inspiration from a 17 year old who remained true to herself and her belief while faced with dire consequences.
Sol Hachuel (1817, Tangier – 1834, Fes). Executed for alleged apostasy.
The govenor of the region threatened her with:
“I will load you with chains,” said the pasha. “I will have you torn piecemeal by wild beasts, you shall not see the light of day, you shall perish of hunger, and experience the rigor of my vengeance and indignation, in having provoked the anger of the Prophet.”
And her response:
“I will patiently bear the weight of your chains; I will give my limbs to be torn piecemeal by wild beasts; I will renounce forever the light of day: I will perish of hunger: and when all the evils of life are accumulated on me by your orders, I will smile at your indignation and the anger of your Prophet: since neither he nor you have been able to overcome a weak female! It is clear that Heaven is not auspicious to making proselytes to your faith.”
The final and absolute justice is that Sol is revered by the Jews (The Righteous Sol) AND the Muslims (Holy lady Suleika) alike.
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I’m not sure what lesson I am supposed to learn from that. Under the laws at the time, her actions were not “legal”, so that kind of defeats the message that this Facebook thing is supposed to convey.
Sending a message on Facebook saying you’re not happy but you’ll follow the rules, is incomparable to actively resisting the Nazi regime.
You know all too well that any form of successful “resistance” against a government or similar body can, and will be made illegal if it threatens those in charge. At no point did I say we should do nothing, just that this particular technique will not have the outcome that is desired.
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I thought your response exactly conveyed a do nothing approach. I was going to comment earlier but refrained. Effectively nothing is what results from sitting on the sidelines saying that will never work
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FDA confirms Modified Spike Protein used in mRNA COVID-19 “Vaccines” is NOT Safe & More Dangerous than Unmodified Spike Protein after being Forced to Publish Confidential Pfizer Docs
Pfizer claimed that their modified version of the Spike Protein is unable enter the cell; hence, it can not cause disease.
The way in which Pfizer modified the Spike Protein by inserting two prolines (an amino acid) resulted in the exact opposite of what Pfizer, and then the FDA claimed; namely, sufficient amounts of Spike Proteins did in fact enter and infect the cells while also residing on cell surfaces resulting in the worst of all possible worlds!
The cell surface Spike Proteins would clump together with other prions, thus forming fibrils which are the very dangerous building blocks of Alzheimer’s Disease, as well as other neurodegenerative afflictions.
Additionally, some of the modified Spike Proteins also infected the cells causing Spike Protein diseases that the FDA claimed would never occur, despite being in possession of a study that explicitly showed that the exact opposite was true.
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/bombshell-update-fda-confirms-modified
Can of worms opened.
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“Can of worms opened.”
And dutifully ignored and/or memory-holed by the government-controlled media.
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“Biological camera” stores data in DNA of living bacteria
Scientists have developed a new way to tap into the incredible data storage density of DNA in a more scalable way. A “biological camera” imprints images into the DNA of living cells, tagged with barcodes to retrieve data.
As with many human technologies, nature has greatly outdone us when it comes to data storage. DNA can store information more efficiently than any system we’ve come up with, cramming as much as 215 million GB of data into a single gram of the stuff. Better yet, under the right conditions it can last millennia or maybe even longer, so it’s not surprising that scientists are trying to find ways to store data on DNA.
But of course, there are hurdles – DNA is fiddly to synthesize artificially, and it can be fragile, both of which make it hard to use at the large scales needed. Now, scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a promising new method of writing data to and reading it back from DNA. The technique works like a biological version of a digital camera, the team says, and as such they’ve dubbed it “BacCam.”
“Imagine the DNA within a cell as an undeveloped photographic film,” said Associate Professor Poh Chueh Loo, principal investigator of the study. “Using optogenetics – a technique that controls the activity of cells with light akin to the shutter mechanism of a camera, we managed to capture ‘images’ by imprinting light signals onto the DNA ‘film’.”
Essentially, lasers of red and blue light are used to trigger gene expression in specially engineered bacteria, which encodes the data in their DNA. Existing barcoding techniques are used to label data with unique ID tags, which can then be organized and retrieved using machine-learning algorithms.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38876-w
Barcoding at the genetic level.
Shiver down your spine anyone?
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The question what could possibly go wrong comes to mind. And we can’t think of anything is never a satisfactory answer.
On the other hand my mother was old enough to recall the apprehension in some that the first laboratory splitting of the atom would cause an uncontrollable chain reaction.
Who would want to live in any other time but the present?
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Monday entertainment: season 2 of Hunted screens tonight.
The promo’s say the hunted are smarter this time.
They’d have to be! 😆
Should be good for a laugh.
The promo shows the contestants being dropped off dockside and running off.
Yep. Same stupid mistakes as season 1. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
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Looking at the ABC reporting on a senate committee hearing (a strange form of theatrical performance!), where the CEO of Deloitte was asked various “questions”. On top of the usual “who voted for these morons, and why are they asking such pointless questions?” It made me wonder…
– Why should Deloitte (or any company) have to publicly announce how they deal with staff complaints?
– Who cares what the CEO and partners earn?
– If a privately owned, or publicly traded company gets revenue from any level of government, at what point (if any) should they be required to disclose info that would would normally be confidential? Is it the amount of revenue…? Is it the source of revenue…?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-17/deloitte-ceo-fronts-senate-committe-into-integrity/102610116
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” Is it the amount of revenue…? Is it the source of revenue…? ”
They don’t need to, but the Govt should make available the record of every dollar it spends! Its OUR money!
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Its official, there won’t be a super El Nino this year.
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2023/July/El-Nino-Southern-Oscillation
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Well I best be changing all my plans then.
Is there a new level of doom to go with this latest guess.
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Cai is correct in discounting a strong El Nino, instead we should expect a Modoki.
This is good news, do not be afraid.
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The typhoon hit will be in Macao. A clear eye can be seen, indicating the great strength of the wind.
https://i.ibb.co/vsDkXD4/Zrzut-ekranu-2023-07-17-085800.png
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And pervy old Joe was still nibbling and sniffing the little kiddies last week.
And the clueless Harris cackler also had a surprise about her lefty vision for the future of the hated Human race again.
And yet some crazy lefty loons still want to vote for these vile creeps?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELwYdEtkm7s
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And yet another “conspiracy theory” is proven correct. The Cackler even said it. “Reduce population.”
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Re “The Sound of Freedom”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/07/16/well-worth-seeing-sound-of-freedom/
Comments now look at the media blitz on it
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CSIRO >”Reports of a possible ‘super El Niño’ this year might have been greatly exaggerated”
Certainly seems the case although I think we need to see the July data to know for sure. When that comes in there will be new prognostications, model re-runs, and maybe some back-pedaling and egg-on-face among certain climate scientists (I’m keeping a Kevin Trenberth article in mind for the latter event if it arises).
Good article except for last line obligatory penance warning:
Not sure how that works but hey, they’re on-message and politically correct and that’s what really matters (sarc).
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CSIRO article points to BOM’s El Nino criteria:
The graph at the BOM link shows June Nino 3.4 anomaly at just over +0.8.
Nino 3.4 Monthly Anomaly
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/wrap-up/archive/20230704.sstOutlooks_nino34.png
I looked at this in Saturday Open Thread and did a comparison of the 2015/16 El Nino with 2023 development. Seems clear that the July data will, if not tell all, at least tell us whether there is even an actual El Nino and if so if it is “super”:
BOM – El Niño: 2015–16
Monthly Reanalysis Timeseries
https://climatereanalyzer.org/reanalysis/monthly_tseries/
Region: Nino 3.4
Anomaly Values: Y
All Months: Y
+1.068 Jun 2015
+1.452 Jul 2015
+2.442 Dec 2015 (2.333 Nov)
+0.820 Jun 2023
The July anomaly (and actual) will have to shoot up markedly or this El Nino’s a fizzer.
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>”CSIRO article points to BOM’s El Nino criteria”
See El Gordo’s link to article at #15.
Thought I was replying to his comment.
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>”maybe some back-pedaling and egg-on-face among certain climate scientists”
Also WMO, although I expect either deafening silence or weapons-grade spin from them.
Here’s hoping for a round of schadenfreude.
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The harp in action
“This is, once again, J.S. Bach Toccata & Fugue in D Minor. This time on a Harp, and with a Cyrillic Title, so I assume she is Russian. But 9.5 minutes without a single missed note in an iconic and not simple piece. Then, you can See The Music on the strings! ”
More at
https://youtu.be/HAi1pn3kBqE
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/07/10/sunday-into-monday-and-omg-a-harp-t-f-d-then/
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FWIW
“Watch This!”
“Let’s start with a quick jaunt down memory lane. I first realized that the USA was going to follow the general trajectory of the USSR back in 1995. I also immediately realized that the USSR was rather well prepared for collapse whereas the USA was about to be blindsided by it, and so, as a public service, I thought I should warn people. “And a fat lot of good that did!” some of you might immediately exclaim. But you would be wrong: lots of people have written to me to say how much better adjusted they are psychologically now that they have heard and accepted my message, for now they are ready to accept collapse with equanimity and poise. This is sure to make their company less tedious moving forward.”
More at
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/11/14/watch-this/
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What we see is :- i) destruction of food supply, ii) destruction of energy supply, iii) destruction of transport supply, iv) destruction of housing supply, v) destruction of jobs and income supply, vi) destruction of infrastructure, vii) destruction of borders, viii) destruction of defences, ix) destruction of institutions, x) destruction of law and order, xi) destruction of democracy. Sure looks like a coup to me.
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The obsession with going green that’s putting drivers’ lives in danger: How UK’s overgrown roadside verges have left motorists and pedestrians fearing for their safety as cost-cutting councils hide behind #NoMowMay and other eco-initiatives
Motorists say their lives are being put in danger because of dangerously overgrown verges plaguing roadsides across the UK, amid claims that councils are using No Mow May and other eco initiatives as a ploy to cut costs.
Drivers have posted images to social media and local Facebook groups of areas so out of control with weeds, grass and flowers that oncoming traffic at junctions is being obscured, increasing the risk of collisions.
Concerned pedestrians have also highlighted that overgrown areas are preventing them from walking along stretches of pavement, and they are being forced onto roads and face the threat of oncoming traffic.
The outrage comes following the introduction of No Mow May, a national scheme aimed at encouraging councils as well as garden owners not to cut back any green spaces – an initiative that appears to have run into June and July.
Councils claims it has helped them to improve diversity, but following the end of the scheme over a month ago, countless areas across the country still remain uncut. And it has led to claims from campaigners that the real reason for the council’s inaction is to cut costs, rather to save the environment.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12287259/How-UKs-overgrown-roadside-verges-left-motorists-pedestrians-fearing-safety.html
What will it be like when everyone’s locked in their suburbs?
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It’s different in South Korea: –
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66219597
Floodwaters following rain. Probably unusual rain. But it’s in the monsoon season.
And Korea has had monsoons before.
Probably every year for the last thousand [or ten thousand ….].
The bus trapped in the tunnel was electric. Earlier photos plainly show that – a big sign on the bus [to warn passengers?].
But that photo is now NOT on the BBC article.
Coincidence, obviously.
A big, diesel digger (see the exhaust pipe!) rescuing or recovering – yes that’s there.
Auto
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This “failure to maintain” has been a highly visible feature of East coast NSW around the Hunter – Port Stephens local government areas.
Roadside maintenance of “growth” including noxious infestations of imported species has been postponed indefinitely. As for designated parkland, why bother, the public can’t see it from the road.
The former cost of maintenance and bushfire control can now be diverted to other more important projects like supporting the latest woke U.N. project.
In bushfires a few years back the access to escape routes in the port stephens lga was severely restricted.
And please,please, don’t mention the disastrous Victorian bushfires: that was due to climate change, not overgrown undergrowth.
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Serious question as opposed to my usual sarc/snark.
What am I missing about ‘excess deaths’ and the Great Pandemic?
A Dr. John Campbell vid …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtkfPWddQtY
stat chart at minute 4:05.
‘Cumulative Excess Deaths 2013 to 2023’
There appears to be nearly no increase in ‘excess deaths’ 2013 to 2021 until the … uhm … mandates.
Is it possible there was a Great and Worldwide Pandemic in which there were very few (if any) outlying increase in Excess Deaths?
How does this not indicate we have experienced an historically unprecedented, premeditated global (centrally planned and executed by God knows who or what) political fiction?
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https://twitter.com/rncresearch/status/1679988366618624000?s=61&t=gYN3sFx5QZrxr4Uehq09qg
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They’re saying she misread the teleprompter.
She was supposed to say ‘pollution’.
Freud was an anti/science conspiracy theorist.
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They would never allow Trump to get away with such mis-speech if that’s what it was.
In the case of Harris, however, the more sinister interpretation is likely the correct one anyway and entirely consistent with the general misanthropic objectives of the Left and the scary stories they like to follow from the 1972 Club of Rome book The Limits of Growth.
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She just has a slight case of COVFEFE
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If you look at the whole sentence the word pollution is the only one to make sense. The word population doesn’t fit in at all. She merely misread the TelePrompTer She is an idiot after all
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An anomaly over the southern polar circle in the distribution of ozone in the upper stratosphere. The anomaly begins in the region of the Atlantic geomagnetic anomaly. It can be seen that there is more ozone where the magnetic field is weaker. This is because ozone is diamagnetic, that is, it is repelled by a strong magnetic field.
https://i.ibb.co/K6bK3tt/gfs-t02-sh-f00.png
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Q) Why isn’t China concerned about “global warming”?
A) Because they already have a communist government.
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https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1680310647983054850
“The world has been shocked by the sudden death of a renowned “vaccination expert,” Dr. Alfredo Victoria Moreno. Known to many from his regular appearances on “Mexico Today,” Dr. Alfredo was a passionate advocate of Covid mRNA vaccines. The 42-year-old public health specialist died in his sleep on Monday due to a myocardial infarction, according to reports. He was otherwise in excellent health, with no known pre-existing medical conditions.”
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That is very sad for Dr. Moreno’s family.
But – a myocardial infarction?
Have we heard that linked – even possibly caused by – certain injections, recently?
Auto, wondering …
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The strength of the polar solar field.
23.07.14
http://wso.stanford.edu/gifs/Polar.gif?fbclid=IwAR3LW1hqfS7CDB72B2AOasiSz7NrR8FN1AMxvrXYvZbG_1kxM-aHpT56dgU
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The northern polar field appears to have reversed polarity in late February 2023. Solar max normally occurs within 0.5-2 years after the first polar field reversal. We can expect solar max for cycle 25 sometime between August 2023 and February 2025.
https://solen.info/solar/polarfields/polarfields.png
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It seems all Australian geographic place names are now being renamed to Aboriginal ones.
The latest is Mt Canobolas in Orange is to be renamed Gaanha Bula.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-17/mount-canobolas-renamed-gaanha-bula-wiradjuri-language/102610042
Nearby famous Mt Panorama in Bathurst has already been renamed.
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It appears that hundreds of small groups of people with 600 odd variations in languages just happen to have a place name for every English named place.
These very limited languages with so few words can fortunately just adapt and expand when required, something that they didn’t do for the previous 50,000 years.
Hopefully these totally unnecessary manipulations can be ignored. Cant remember what they tried to call the Grampions in Victoria, just know that some 30 years later everyone still refers to “The Gramps”
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I can remember a discussion about Ayers Rock.
My friend informed me that in his culture it has always been known as Uluru and followed up by asking why I disrespected his culture. I informed him that in my culture it has always been known as Ayers Rock and followed up by asking why he disrespected my culture.
The good news is that we remained friends for many years until we lost touch. He was very good at cryptic crosswords.
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Typhoon brings heavy rainfall to China’s southern coast.
https://i.ibb.co/YP5wnMm/pobrane.png
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Things explained –
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/07/1920/1080/Political-Cartoon-7-16-2023-.-Woke-Hole.jpg
Via a comment at Chiefio
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/06/21/w-o-o-d-21-june-2023-the-thin-line-between-comfort-disaster/#comment-165351
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Topical sci-fi:
The Day The Earth Caught Fire
https://youtu.be/26IUlZjknDQ
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It’s blocked Down Under.
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