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Friends of Science Newsletter #417
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https://friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=2944
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Topics include:
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Net Zero and the Future Power Grid, with Randy Stubbings
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Florida Major Hurricanes, 1900-2024: What Do the Statistics Show?
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Steve McIntyre; the Real Lesson to be Learned from Hurricane Helene
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U.K. Faces Economic Ruin with World’s Highest Electricity Prices
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Heavy September Rainfalls Have Brought Back Lakes In The Sahara!
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Cloud Changes ‘Are the Cause of Changes In the Accumulated Solar Energy’
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‘Dr. Spencer shows a very weak correlation between hurricane intensities and sea surface temperatures (SST).’
This is an important finding and may have universal significance.
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Digging a little deeper into Sahara precipitation, Morocco had an abundance of rain from the mid 19th century until the 1970s and its been droughty ever since. They say its the impact of global warming, but I suspect its only a climate change phase. Natural variability rules.
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During the Medieval Warm Period (MCA) it was droughty in Morocco.
‘The IFK1 speleothem record from Ifoulki cave reveals substantial decadal to multidecadal oscillations between dry and humid periods, consistent with regional paleo-records with prevailing dry conditions during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) from 900 to 1350 AD and wetter conditions during the second part of the Little Ice Age (LIA) from 1500 to 1850 AD, and a trend towards dry conditions during the current warm period.
‘The MCA-LIA transition is generally consistent with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) phases, which were relatively more positive during the MCA than during the LIA.’ (Ait Brahim 2017)
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‘From the lessons to be learned from Helene’ section.
“Stephen McIntyre wrote “Actually, the lesson from Helene is the opposite from that being promoted. In 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority was given the mandate for flood control in the valley of the Tennessee River and its tributaries. Over the next 40 years, they built 49 dams, which, for the most part, accomplished their goal. Whereas floods in the Tennessee were once catastrophic, younger people are mostly unaware of them.
The French Broad River (Asheville) is an upstream tributary where flood control dams weren’t constructed due to local opposition. Rather than the devastation of Hurricane Helene on Asheville illustrating the effect of climate change, the success of the flood control dams in other sectors of the Tennessee Valley illustrates the success of the TVA flood control program where it is implemented. Hurricane Helene did not show the effect of climate change, but what happens to settlements in Tennessee Valley tributaries under ‘natural’ flooding (i.e. where flood control dams have been rejected.)”
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Chapeau to Elon Musk, who is making the world a better place. Incredible.
But it also means NASA is too busy fighting man made funding chasing Global Warming instead of doing their job. One man with his own money and sheer determination is making a mockery of public space research. And Boeing also has lost their way, introducing racism as a meter for R&D and achievement.
Long live the pursuit of excellence. Only one man is talking of colonizing Mars. The rest have lost their way in Marxism.
And the world is busier spending $1.8Trillion a year fighting something which does not exist, man made CO2 driven Global Warming. The oceans are NOT boiling. That’s ridiculous. And no one in the slave press says so? Who believes it? No one. They are too busy punishing Putin, ignoring China, demanding that there are a million sexes and chasing reparations for slavery which has not existed for centuries.
Meanwhile an utterly unqualified and very strange woman may be elected US President on the platforms of racism, sexism and utter incompetence. E Pluribus Nihil. Kamala Chameleon is completely unsuited for the job. And all of America knows it. That makes NASA’s failure to innovate look reasonable.
And no one put in the door bolts on a new Boeing, checked they were there or even cared. Doors fall off. It happens. So they wonder why 17,000 people just lost their jobs? And Disney, the children’s favorite for decades is now the company of institutionalized pedophilia. Who cares about science, morals or even survival? It’s Hollywood versus the world.
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Great summary TdeF.
You have a way with logic and words that reflect the utter stupidity of our current world.
Thank you.
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Great news!
The Victoriastan Government is lowering electricity prices. They sent me tbis:
And where does this $300 come from?
It comes from the very same taxpayers it was stolen from in the first place, or money borrowed by the Government that the taxpayer will eventually have to pay back one way or another.
But most people (present company excepted) won’t realise that as they are addicted to all the “free stuff” they think the Government gives them.
It’s funny how no one needed electricity bill relief before the Liberals (fake conservatives) under Howard first forced “green” energy onto Australians, a position enthusiastically followed by the Green Labor faction of the Uniparty.
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In South Australia the former Liberal (& Opposition) Leader has resigned from Parliament after the Police charged him.
The Liberal hierarchy have endorsed a former Green as their candidate in the fore coming by election (no others were approached).
But it is OK because he gave up being a Green more than 24 hours ago.
I can foresee that there might be a deal of opposition from the voters when the time comes.
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A few days ago all the usual suspects were delighting in the closure of the UK’s last coal power station. Today, risk of generation shortfall:-
https://x.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1845834412811759925
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No need to panic says Ed Sillyband, the Flywheels and Batteries will come to the rescue.
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I have bought a pack of AA batteries and will be contacting mini brain to tell him they will be able to store enough energy to power the UK for six weeks.
I have provided lots of mathematical formula as proof
£ 100 million sounds reasonable for this valuable energy source. Wish me luck.
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With “your” Ed Millibrain I think we now have a real challenger to “our” simpleton Energy Minister Chrissy Bowen. I never thought there could be a serious challenger to Bowen’s extreme stupidity.
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This is “journalist” maths.
I read up quite a lot on the Dinglun flywheel storage system with the objective of checking the often repeated claim that the energy stored in the flywheels could power 2000 houses for a year. That would be 7300MWh at the accepted 10kWh per day for a house.
I then found that the flywheels could supply their rated power of 30MW for 15 minutes. That is 7.5MWh or 7500kWh. So the journalist who did the original maths was out by a factor of 1000. If the flywheels did not lose energy due to friction, they could supply 2 houses for a year. Just 1998 short of what the journalist worked out.
If you search on “dinglun flywheel 2000 houses”, you will get pages of hits. So it is an oft repeated claim that is 1000 times out.
There are lots of outlandish Chinese claims on products but the claim for Dinglun appears to be a claim in the English speaking press. But selling electricity magic to politicians is an easy one. The majority have taken the CO2 scam hook, line and sinker.
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Surely this level of misinformation will result in jail time.
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LOL
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I have difficulty accepting any claim of “supplying x houses”, as they seem to base their maths on very low house energy consumption, perhaps based on an average daytime figure, and ignoring the fact that most residences consume considerably more energy during the morning and evening peak periods.
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It’s also a convenient way to ignore base load questions.
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At least the UK has Nuclear and has plans to build more Nuclear Power Stations I believe (SMRs in particular). Here in OZ the Nuclear stoush continues on.
Meanwhile, Uganda is building a Nuclear powered Electricity Generating Power Station. The Russians are building one for Egypt. The Philippines have one in mothballs and are looking to fire it up again. Belgium has 7 of them operating and humming away nicely.
In OZ there is a Nuclear Power Station at Lucas Heights in the southern suburbs of Sydney which is used for Medical purposes. AUKUS (If it eventuates) will provide OZ with nuclear powered submarines. BUT to use nuclear to generate electricity in OZ is apparently not for OZ.
Go figure.
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That’s great news.
The Woke countries, including Once Great Britain and Australia, need some major power outages or preferably complete grid collapses with associated major chaos.
It’s the only way the Sheeple and politicians will wake up.
Don’t prolong the agony.
The downside is the way it might be spun. In Australia, I can see the Lamestream media, Marxist fake “academics”, the subsidy harvesters and our simpleton politicians spinning it as attributable to not enough wind and solar plantations. We just need to throw more billions at more such plantations.
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Just watched some Sky News this morning where a new QLD State Guv’ment Candidate who is a former Construction Worker stated in a TV Interview – “I’m not a Politician, I’m a real person”.
Well said mate.
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🙂
Aren’t some Construction Workers in Unions?
Aren’t some Unions involved in politics?
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And then there was set theory.
From the construction worker set, a couple of percent are in the union.
From the union member set, (which includes all union members), some are involved in politics.
Now, anyone care to guess how many in parliament could hit the correct end of a nail.
Or in some cases, “What’s a nail?”
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The reason I went in that direction is that here in NovoCastria we have a lot of “building” projects that are blocking and tying the city in knots.
They almost seem to have been designed to make life harder and deeper in debt for all local ratepayers and businesses.
They were initiated by our former Lord Mare who was recently de-elected and there is no doubt that these monuments were intended to stand as reminders of her contributions to her city.
Every time I hit a pothole I am reminded that the money from our rates is going to these monuments and every time I walk past the “work in progress ” next to our Library I salute the gigantic crane looking over the sinkhole.
Dangling from the crane are three flags, an aboriginal flag , another one not known, but last and most importantly the CFMEU.
I suspect that all on that site would be Unionists.
The union I was in did nothing for its members but heaps for associated politicians.
My apologies to all hard working construction workers who are not unionists and help build our nation.
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Deconstructed Construction Worker Fake News claim?
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Yesterday, somewhere , there was another news headline that struck me as being so 2024ish.
It proclaimed that “Dementia is Diabetes Type 3 “.
Didn’t bother to read it.
Type 2 causation I understand, type 1, I suspect, is a derivative of the damage that follows on from T2 but now we have T3.
Really?
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QUESTION ABOUT WIND PLANTATIONS
On recent drives between Melbournistan and Sydneystan, my eyes and ears have been assaulted by three things
1) The sight of wind and solar plantations.
2) Their ABC Radio. How do people listen to that?
3) Government roadside rest stops with woke long drop/composting toilets. Only Leftists could love them with the disgusting sights and smells…
ANYWAY yesterday I noticed at one of the wind plantations thst many windmills were not spinning or only quite slowly and there was no obvious wind. I know that in the absence of wind power is drawn from the grid to turn them VERY slowly to prevent Brinelling of the bearings but many windmills seemed to be going faster than a very slow speed. I was wondering whether, in the absence of wind, they are spun under power just to give the appearance of operating and being useful? Yes, I am THAT cynical…
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Well, in daylight, it might help the duck curve….
Auto
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/port-hedland-council-votes-expose-dna-contamination-mrna/
Interesting, I can’t recall seeing anything about this in the Lame stream Media
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Because the Lamestream Media are the public relations arm of Big Pharma and Government and the experimental covid “vaccines” are “fully safe and effective”.
And to this very day, the Australian Government prefers you to die rather than have a life-saving organ transplant if you are not covid vaxxed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13517255/Heartbreaking-update-teen-denied-transplant.html
https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/australian-mom-denied-heart-transplant-due-to-her-covid-19-vaccination-status/
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One of the best examples of science fiction turning into reality is the vertical landing of Elon Musk’s reusable rockets. It was the standard way rockets were portrayed as landing in science fiction stories and illustrations in the early 20th century but that was never the reality until recently.
It’s still fascinating to watch even though it’s been routine for SpaceX for about six years.
Going beyond that, and in reference to Jo’s story yesterday, now Musk’s rockets don’t even touch the ground but are caught by the Mechazilla Arms.
And the Left are out to destroy this guy just because he doesn’t conform to their anti-Civilisation and anti-science beliefs and especially the Woke Mind Virus as he calls it.
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Unlike the science fiction rockets, the Primary booster doesn’t have legs. The stage is already super heavy and the legs would be much heavier than on lighter stages and more likely to be damaged anyway. So the primary stages are now to be caught with super strong arms. Plus of course you now have to have a lot of additional fuel to arrest the supersonic descent to hovering speed. No parachute would stop it. Most of that slowing work is done by the atmosphere but it must be an amazing balance between slowing the stage and burning up. Even empty it is 233′(75 metres) tall and 250 tons!
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And when captured from the top rather than the base, the rocket structure is exposed to tensile forces instead of compressive forces.
It’s a lot easier to make a tension member resist a load, (thing string), compared to a compression member, (think of that coke can you stand on when someone taps the side).
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I remain puzzled at how it was caught mechanically, presumably a very substantial flange on a 250 ton cylinder at any speed. There must be very substantial springing in those arms! Who would have thought you could catch an unstable moving weight spewing flames like that.
Odd to have a flange on a rocket but maybe there is a step between the booster and the load. And perhaps the step is protected by cowling to prevent massive drag and the cowling is removed/destroyed on reentry or in separation?
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The “other” thing to note about SpaceX is the very rapid rate of development of all of its systems. NASA, after being around from the ’60s has been comparatively slow in such things as super heavy launch vehicles and other than the space shuttle , does not appear to have pursued the “reusable” option with much vigor. I will bet, regardless of final costs, Space X will be doing it billions of dollars cheaper than any government involved agency and quickly.
Was it in this thread yesterday that Musk was quoted as saying that Space X could get launch vehicles ready in less time that it took to get appoval to do the launch?
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You can see the arms and the final footage shows it sitting on the frame.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-14/space-x-starship-rocket-successful-test-flight-texas-elon-musk/104467832
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Yes, there are four likely swinging ‘chopsticks’ which catch under the flange. The body of the rocket is not touched.
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Yes, David I am THAT cynical too. “They are spun under power just to give the appearance of operating and being useful?” AEMO anybody?
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There may be some logic to that other than bearings. There is momentum and perhaps a higher incremental yield from a gust if the blades are already turning. It’s a bit like aircraft on the ground where the problem is supporting the wings when in flight the wings support the aircraft. Being on the ground is unnatural for an aircraft and in time leads to damage through cracking and crack propagation as the bend is always extreme.
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The bend in the wings on the ground is just the weight of the wings. The bend on the wings in flight is caused by the weight of the plane body, (usually a lot more than the wings). So why would you crack more on the ground than in flight?
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It is counter intuitive. The extent is maximum down, every time when parked and almost never when flying. All the fracture damage which dooms the aluminum struts comes from up/down cycles proporgates the cracks and their magnitude which creates cracks. I worked on this with the F111 project, in real time monitoring stress gauges to show the flexing which limits wing life and it is the extremes which do the most damage in creating cracks and crack propagation which dooms the structure. Aircraft actually last longer in useful flying time if they live in the air. Aircraft frames especially wings and wing roots are continually monitored for cracks. Australian aircraft have a high resale value overseas as they do the fewest landings per hour of flight time. I have seen 747s used as short distance shuttles in China.
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Nothing counter intuitive about it.
STATICALLY, the loads are as I described. If you doubt it, picture the plane on the ground and someone undid the wing bolts. The wing falls. Similar for in the air, the wing stays flying, the plane body falls.
The cracks you are talking about are fatigue induced. Nothing to do with static weights. Everything to do with cyclic loads, flexure, etc caused by turbulence. All materials will eventually fail, stress hardening and fatigue is just one of the ways. Guess what, aluminium is a sucker for it.
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Counter intuitive in that the wing root is stressed to a maximum on the ground. People think the aircraft wing should be very relaxed on the ground, but it is designed to fly endlessly, not sit on the ground. The wing weighs nothing in the air when flying. And the flexing is about a mean. Yes, cycling propagates cracks but they form when you pass the point of elastic deformation at extremes, as when parked.
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IIRC the cracking is caused by the flex cycle life.
All metals have a flex cycle life. With some like steel it is greatly extended at low loads. Some like aluminium it is irrespective of load – well known to owners of earlier Head aluminium tennis racquets.
An aeronautical stress engineer’s answer to my question as to why DC3’s keep flying was (IIRC)
“The engineers knew what they were doing. There are three wing spars, any one of which will hold the wings on. And there is a component replacement schedule which, if adhered to, will keep them flying indefinitely.”
As in
https://borekair.com/fleet/dc3t/
https://www.baslerturbo.com/manufacturing.html
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And IIRC in its earlier days the DC3 was also known as “The Flying Vagrant – no visible means of support” in honour of the visible flexing of its wings in flight
http://dc3history.org/didyouknow.html
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An example of wing loading flex – the wing tips of a Lancaster carrying a 10 ton Grand Slam were about 5 feet higher than the fuselage in flight
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Another study finds issues with the jab.
https://slaynews.com/news/scientists-find-55-undeclared-secret-chemical-elements-covid-vaccines/
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Just ask a Leftist. “Fully safe and effective.”
Leftists, isn’t it time for your 27th booster?
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The BOM does it again.
Monday’s Weather Forecast for Sydney City, the prediction was for rain and a few mm of rain. In reality there was lots of rain with thunderstorms on Monday afternoon.
This morning’s Weather Report stated 24 mm for Sydney City on Monday……………That is nearly an inch
– Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……………………
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Back in the day, before they went woke and abandoned science, I remember when the BoM was capable of delivering reasonably accurate short term weather predictions. As an avid bushwalker (US = hiker, UK = walker, rambler) I no longer rely on them, they have caused too many trips to be cancelled or wrong preparations.
And I remember in primary school before they went woke and used to teach useful things, the teacher asking we students to cut out the synoptic weather map from the daily newspaper and we brought it to school and studied it in class.
Today there is no useful teaching (unless you want to learn about the supposed 104 supposed genders or however many they are up to now) and no (or few) printed newspapers and certainly no widely published detailed weather maps like they used to publish in the daily newspaper (not for mass consumption anyway, only for specialist consumers like yachtsmen)…
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Could I recommend this Norwegian site which does a better job with the same data in my experience and gives a far better hour by hour picture. As a bike rider I cannot use the BOM predictions as far too vague. Click on the day to get the hourly forecast.
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Well, if recent experience in the last 24 hours in the Adelaide Hills I suggest they’re are right for Melbourne today.
Very unsettled heavy rain then sunny periods. Not like what was suppose to happen on the previous TV (hence BOM) weather forecast.
My thought is that the BOM have abandoned the idea that the weather comes mainly from the west and have reverted to the nineteenth century ideas.
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Looks like “Tough luck” if you’re not around a major city
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Sounds like a perfect job for AI.
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If you want the number for a regional town in NSW, you just take the number for Darwin, add two Perths, divide by a Brisbane and add one Hobart.
And make sure the past is colder than the present by ensuring that you always subtract 1 for each decade you go back.
(Lifted from the BOM website…… /s) (maybe not /s)
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A foreigner’s point of view of their BoMbastic report today:
Melbourne is as hot as Brisbane – or Brisbane’s as cold as Melbourne – 26C apiece.
Hobart is warmer than Cantberra – 19C v 18C.
Adelaide’s rainy (stormy?) and 29C, lovely.
As for the Long Lost State of NZ, a roaring southerly is keeping things cool for those of us in the north, while frigid SNOW keeps falling down south. Thirty-six years and waiting…
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BoM is in a pickle, a low pressure trough is stuck between two blocking highs.
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY65100.pdf
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https://www.breitbart.com/news/super-harvest-moon-partial-lunar-eclipse-to-combine-for-rare-celestial-trifecta/
Good omen Orange Moon for orange man?
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“This shit is everywhere.”
— physicist Sabine Hossenfelder
Warmist science presenter bangs on about research fraud across “all” the sciences. Fraud and sloppy research continue to proliferate because there are few consequences.
https://youtu.be/EpQobaBCSYk?si=NfmxAsQEz4akJopV
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Peter Ridd called out the fake photographs. And PhD’s were awarded on infamously fake research from the same James Cook University. My view is that you can get a PhD in the operation of meat vans for delivering Halal Meat (I was at the graduation ceremony and it was one of many 200 PhDs from RMIT in one ceremony as I listened to the dissertations).
Real scientists doing real R&D are silenced, as was Peter Ridd, Head of Physics. PhD is now an industry. So you get Dr Jill Biden and Dr Twiggy Forrest and many more. You can even do a PhD in the economics of Paul Keating, a politician with no economics who dropped out at high school.
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And on Quora, all leading scientists who doubt the hoax are called shills for the oil and gas industry. Which is nuts because the oil and gas and coal industries have zero problem selling their product.
In fact COP was at Dubaim Shark El Sheikh and the next one is in Azerbaijan. The oil people in some of the hottest, most unsustainable, energy wasting places on earth are now funding and operating the UN Anti oil lobby main event. Which tells you how upset they are with Global Warming. It’s all good for business. Why pay to prove it nonsense? The oil sheiks think Green is great and you should Just Stop Oil. It’s good for oil prices.
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You can get one from Oxford on Taylor Swift and of course there is Dr Raygun.
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Have a look at this for an example of woke in science.
https://aibn.uq.edu.au/article/2024/09/fermenting-way-net-zero-lanzatech-and-dr-sean-simpson
https://lanzatech.com/
The technology actually looks pretty interesting, but the people involved are woke up to the eyeballs. Diversity is very important to them and we are all going to die via carbon dioxide no doubting it.
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Well Lord Kelvin predicted that the world would end in 400 years when we used up all the oxygen and would suffocate from CO2.
He also said that the Earth was only 10 million years old, that heavier than air machines wouldn’t fly, and that radio wouldn’t succeed.
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It’s amazing that the first trapping of solar energy as hydrated CO2 produced an equal quantity of O2.
6CO2+6H2O→C6H12O6+6O2
CO2 + water -> sugar + oxygen
Humans share with every other living thing the ability to combust these sugars back to CO2. We share the genes. Humans have a 60% overlap with a carrot. (Don’t tell the vegetarians)
Except now it is evil. And carbon dioxide is a toxin, to be buried as industrial pollution. Which means all living things are major polluters.
Only a nutjob could come up with stop carbohydrates/hydrocarbons. As Dr Patrick Moore wrote, he only met a single chemist in his time with Greenpeace. And that was before the lawyers, businessmen and communists took over.
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It is more correct to say that there is now a worldwide shortage of CO2. Ocean life has trapped so much in creating shells, now limestone and marble which cover oceans and form cliffs and coral. Our only hope is a bit of ocean surface warming to release some of the very soluble CO2 from the oceans. Trust the Greens to paint this as a disaster.
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Humans share with every other living thing the ability to combust these sugars back to CO2
And then there was Chemosynthesis and the virus families. Almost all life.
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Sure. There are bacteria which get energy from other sources. And there are even some worms on deep fumeroles in the Marianas which have developed a sulphur cycle. But in general all living things breathe. Even fungi.
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A new book has just been published.
Unredacted: Russia, Trump, and the Fight for Democracy (Christopher Steele).
How is this even allowed just before the election after the last dossier rubbish.
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Is this simply propaganda, or is there substance to the story?
“Putin is now desperate to have Donald Trump back in the White House. If he succeeds in helping Trump get reelected, I am convinced that the global political order will be utterly changed. We shall have entered a new historical era of strategic chaos, a ‘new world disorder.’ The consequences of Trump winning the 2024 election are catastrophic.” –from Unredacted
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“Putin is now desperate to have Donald Trump back in the White House. ”
Yet he endorsed Kamala a couple of weeks back… Obviously trying to destroy America!
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And Kamala Kameloon’s book on being a prosecutor has been identified as plagiarized substantially directly and improperly with whole article cut and paste from Wikipedia. No attribution. No quotation marks. Just bulk theft of intellectual property presented as original thought. No surprises there. Even a fake reference. Too bad AI wasn’t there for Kamala. But the New York Times says it is ok to steal like this.
JD Vance is onto it. “Hi, I’m JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia.”
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And Joe Biden did the same thing when he in the Presidential primaries in 1988. So now birds of a feather, President Biden and Vice President Kamala. Ethics are us. And in 1988 another Presidential hopeful, Al Gore, invented Global Warming and the IPCC. Our modern world is still suffering from the frauds in the Democrat primary of 1988.
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As seen by The Bee
“Kamala’s next new, all original book”
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1845949656951312776
Via https://instapundit.com/677806/#disqus_thread
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Very funny. I was not expecting that.
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That Steele book published in UK?
Looks like published by Mariner Books, A US off shoot of Harper Collins
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Jordan Peterson’s take on the US election with Piers Morgan. Always interesting. 11 mins. ToM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DXML3UobbsA
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The entire human genome, has been encoded onto a 360TB quartz data crystal in 5 dimensions and can last an estimated 300 Quintillion years
https://youtube.com/shorts/qaNl_ht9eeU?si=y2PDFvRUq1Bu6A_3
Anyone remember the film Zardoz?
Finally, a long term storage option.
/all claims verified by my neighbour’s pet rabbit, named Frank.😆
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FWIW
“UK Power Grid Blackout System Activates as Demand Outstrips Supply, Just Days After Shutting Down Final Coal Power Station”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/10/14/uk-power-grid-blackout-system-activates-as-demand-outstrips-supply/
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U.S. Hospitals Raked in $120 Million Performing Sex Changes on Thousands of Kids
U.S. hospitals charged nearly $120 million over five years for sex-change procedures performed on around 14,000 children, according to new data compiled by medical watchdog Do No Harm.
The first-of-its-kind database, which logs sex-change procedures given to children nationwide between 2019 and 2023, catalogs a total of 5,747 minors who underwent sex-change surgeries, along with 8,579 who obtained puberty blockers or cross sex hormones.
Do No Harm believes the problem is likely even bigger than the data shows. The numbers, which are drawn from insurance claims data across all 50 states, do not include self-pay, charity payments, internal Veterans Affairs claims or patients covered by Kaiser Health Plans.
While the procedures are widespread across the U.S., Do No Harm’s database highlights a “dirty dozen” of hospitals, exposing ones that have been the most vocal in their advocacy for offering sex-change procedures to minors.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) leads the list, followed by Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Children’s Minnesota, Seattle Children’s and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
https://tennesseestar.com/economy/u-s-hospitals-raked-in-120-million-performing-sex-changes-on-thousands-of-kids-new-data-shows/dcnf/2024/10/08/
/fact checked by an AI Chatbot with bit/nibble pronouns, and that identifies as as a RPN scientific calculator.
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That’s just the first pile.
Once you snip here and there, add some chemical blocking agents requiring regular boosters, you make a customer for life.
Especially lucrative when make it all run on the OPM* system.
*Other People’s Money
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Lawfare is Jihad Against Our Country
Old Joke: what do you call a hundred thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Answer: A good start.”
“You think the bankers are up to no good? No band of scoundrels has brought more chaos and grief to the life of this republic than the claque that gathers darkly under the banner of “Lawfare.” ”
More at
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/lawfare-is-jihad-against-our-country
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Tuesday wisdom
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
– Seneca
/Seneca – some old Greek warrior with PTSD and a Facebook account
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It’s an odd name. When I studied Latin it was the word for ‘old man’. Thus senile. Senior. Seneca himself, the famous Roman philosopher of 1st century AD was born in Cordoba, Spain. But like so much in Rome the philosophical tradition was (Hellenic) Greek. And their statues never matched the quality of the Hellenic Greek statues. The Italian peninsula and Sicily were settled by the Greeks long before they were Roman. The largest Greek temple still standing is near Naples and the massive palace of Caserta, both of which are on my list. At the base of the Amalfi peninsula.
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Obama called himself, and his acolytes also called him, the anointed one. Since then we now have appointed ones. Meanwhile, the elected one must be kept out of office in order to save democracy. Crazy.
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FWIW
“They’re BAAAAAACCCKKKKK: Mask Mandates in California”
“It has been over four years since mask mandates first came on the scene, and they were a ridiculous idea then and now a totally debunked idea now. But since COVID is now a religious issue and masks are a religious symbol, I shouldn’t be surprised to see that some public health officials are requiring people to bow down in reverence. ”
More at
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/10/14/theyre-baaaaaaccckkkkk-mask-mandates-in-california-n3795805
Hmmm! CHO’s, TGA et al in 3, 2, 1?
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The Siberian Arctic was warmer 3,500 years ago, slightly on the downside of the middle Holocene.
https://notrickszone.com/2024/10/14/brown-bears-lived-in-the-73n-siberian-arctic-3500-years-ago-today-their-northern-boundary-is-65n/
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Tuesday funny: Trump draining the swamp
https://64.media.tumblr.com/91dfa6d50148ec5ec9b03ce2070cc2fc/be2aa37fe9a3a0e7-8f/s1280x1920/4256bcf17a73125e802c80f0242c3527eea4a92e.jpg
/Hey Australia! Do you want me do the same there next?
-D. Trump
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When a negative Indian Ocean Dipole coincides with La Nina you are assured of a wet Oz summer.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/iod/content/iodneg-nina.html
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Weather organisations’ take on whether it’s a negative or positive IOD Sept to Dec.
https://business.weatherzone.com.au/climate/could-australia-see-a-negative-iod-in-2024/
The BOM has a slightly different perspective to all the others.
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‘This requires winds to be more westerly and northerly than usual over northern Australia, allowing warmer than normal water to be dragged towards Australia’s northwest coast.’
The waters off north west Australia are warm at the moment, but I’m not sure about warmer than normal. A negative IOD is a safe bet.
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Here’s the update at 15 Oct. The earlier link was the prediction at July. The BOM is now in the negative IOD camp.
Would be good to know why they were out of step with all the other organisations making predictions. Nothing wrong with being out of step …. as long as you’re right. Most importantly, I hope they know why.
https://business.weatherzone.com.au/energy/negative-iod-signal-emerging-in-indian-ocean/
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PS. Wasn’t me giving the red thumb.
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FWIW
“Sri Lanka Applies to BRICS, Austria Thinking, Hungary Being Pushed…”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/10/14/sri-lanka-applies-to-brics-austria-thinking-hungary-being-pushed/
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A pretty good grasp of the world I’d say-
“I saw an excerpt from the Putin “meet the press” in St. Petersburg some months back. It was impressive…Putin taking questions from the reporters for hours, answering completely with expositions of the relevant facts, dates, numbers and all. With no notes. And he spoke clearly with full grasp of the issues…Compared to Biden mumbling, raging, and unaware of what city or even Country he is in; or KaMala’s word salads; it was a stark contrast…I can see why basically anyone in The Second or Third World along with anyone being abused in the EU, will be heading to join BRICS+ as fast as they can.
Well, The West has had a good run. It was nice while it lasted, at least up until about the 1980s when our Overlords went off the rails into Tyrant Wannabees. “
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If Russia and China sink into economic collapse its all over for BRICS.
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These countries total about 2 billion people and have vast resources. Then India and Brazil.
Short of nuclear war or an asteroid strike, the world is not going backwards.
But Venezuela has shown once again what is euphemistically called socialism can devastate a country.
As was written on the Berlin wall, Socialist is what totalitarians call themselves.
The last thing the world needs is a socialist America, as at present with two utter losers in charge.
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More Kamala “Not good days”
https://instapundit.com/677809/#disqus_thread
https://twitter.com/i/status/1845956561937502550
https://x.com/therealroseanne/status/1845963338343153929
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FWIW
“Buy Woke, Go Broke: The Failure of ESG Investing”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/14/buy-woke-go-broke-the-failure-of-esg-investing/
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https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/incredible-aftermath-of-how-milton-tornado-tore-through-solar-farm/ss-AA1sikum?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=7ac441c572a04b2bab6f2d2b633560ca&ei=18
Oops. Smashed solar farm in Florida. Who would have thought that would happen?
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Lab-grown meat is proving to be a grotesque misadventure
https://archive.is/aXPxT
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