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Thanks to Bill in Oz sending in the shot of Mt Barker, Ken Stewart started auditing other sites in South Australia and discovered this masterpiece of expert siting. And thanks to Ken, you can see The Wacky World of Weather Stations: No. 2- Murray Bridge. Year opened: 1885. Who thinks the site looked like this 130 years ago? | Image capture Mar 2018, Google ©2019 As he points out: The screen is in a houseyard near concrete paths, vegetable gardens and shrubs, close to a picket fence, within 5 metres of sheds, sheltered from the south by a 1.6 metre high fence, with buildings to the east, north, and west, and less than 10 metres from the bitumen road. Like Mt Barker, this is another site which is not an ACORN “top ranked” site that the Bureau of Meteorology use, but results from here are used to adjust ACORN sites like Mount Gambier, so it is de facto a part of that network. Sites like this are also used to create propaganda, sorry, press releases about “hottest ever records”. The BoM know exactly how bad this site is, and in carefully measured detail. Somewhere a paid bureaucrat […] July 30th, 2019 | Tags: BOM, Micro-siting (thermometers), SA (South Australia), Stewart (Ken), Surface Stations | Category: Global Warming |  Print This Post | | Thanks to Bill in Oz who sent in this photo of the Mt Barker site in South Australia. Ken Stewart at Ken’s Kingdom writes: The Wacky World of Weather Stations: No. 1- Mount Barker Photo: Bill in Oz. Count the ways this site breaches the Bureau of Meteorology own rules: Ken Stewart finds the relevant BoM guidelines. Clearly this site is on a slope, too close to buildings, too close to tall foliage, too close to heat sinks, it should not be artificially watered, or near asphalt. It should have a 30 meter buffer zone, and not be shielded from the sun, rain or wind. BillinOz points out that it is totally screened from the southerly cold winds, and the cold air will be drained from the spot down the slope. How much do the Bureau of Meteorology care about climate change? — About 1m out of 30m or 3% of their advertised “care” factor. That’s a a 97% Junk-Science rate. The future of life on Earth is supposedly at stake and the “experts” can’t even be bothered accurately measuring the climate change they tell us we need to pay billions of dollars to solve. Could it be […] July 29th, 2019 | Tags: Australian temperatures, BOM, Micro-siting (thermometers), SA (South Australia), Stewart (Ken) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Skeptics are now the brain-eating undead from Haitian Cult Voodoo. Just more namecalling in lieu of science. The ABC has become the US Weekly, TVWeek, or OK! of national policy, filled with inane clickbait animations, fictional stories and fantasy myths. Looks like it’s projection again Here’s a guy who believes that we control storms, floods and droughts with solar panels and wind turbines. The only climate zombie that needs hosing down is all his. He’s the one saying that the type of milk you drink, or your funeral service are to blame for random stuff like spotted quoll fertility, shark attacks, or tornadoes. Go vegan to save the planet! Poor Nick Kilvert is so badly trained he can’t figure out why ideas like “CO2 feeds plants” just won’t die. The mystery of how the truth keeps coming back (despite their best efforts). So this weekend he put out a handy condescending guide of strawmen and mythical myths for beleaguered believers who are lost for answers to skeptical scientists. The man’s cult-like belief is so obvious, the real question we need to ask our elected MP’s is why are we funding an journalistic organization which has staff who are so incompetent, […] July 28th, 2019 | Tags: ABC, Bullying, Pause (in global temperatures), UAH | Category: AGW socio-political, FakeNews, Global Warming, Ideology, Media-matters | Print This Post | | … 9.5 out of 10 based on 24 ratings After nearly two weeks the ABC carrier pigeons finally brought the news that Bob Brown, former Greens leader, is campaigning against this gigantic wind farm — the $1.6b one in NW Tasmania that wants to be the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. Could it be the ABC doesn’t want to admit they were wrong too, pushing wind power non stop for years? Look how erratic that wind is — 90% one day, zero the next Tom Quirk looked at the nearest wind farm to Robbins Island, and it’s a fitful machine (see that graph below). Worse, it fails in synchrony with most wind farms in Australia. Thus exacerbating the unstable, fickle supply of wind energy. Tom Quirk predicts the demise of another coal plant Quirk was Deputy Chairman of VENCorp, which managed the transmission and wholesale natural gas market and system planning for the electricity market in Victoria, Australia. A wind farm on Robbins Island will simply extend the variations in power supplied to the mainland while making no difference to the correlations of wind through the states in the wholesale market. Thus more backup would be required from gas and hydro sources. Loy Yang B […] July 27th, 2019 | Tags: ABC, Brown (Bob), Quirk (Tom), TAS (Tasmania), Wind Power | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Here we go again. For five or so years believers didn’t really mention the Medieval Warm Period. Too bruised by the embarrassment of Hockey Stick Zombie failures. But it’s an inconvenient era they have to rub out because none of the expert models can explain what caused it, and it’s hard to panic about same temperatures that Edward the Confessor survived with oxen and carts. And it’s hard to call the modern warmth “man-made” if nature created something just like it 1,000 years ago. Climate change: We haven’t experienced anything like this in the past 2,000 years By Michael Collett, ABC, Environmental Copy and Paste Promoter Climate scientists writing in the journal Nature have found there is no evidence for “globally coherent warm and cold periods” over the past 2,000 years prior to industrialisation. That’s significant, because climate change deniers have sometimes pointed to epochs like the so-called “Little Ice Age” or “Medieval Warm Period” to argue that the current global warming is one among multiple similar global climate events. But what the research actually shows is that other “peak warming and cooling events” over the past two millennia appear to have […] July 26th, 2019 | Tags: Evidence, Evidence (AGW disproved), Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Roman Warm Period | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | A new Nature paper claims that pauses and cooling phases mean C02 may cause more warming than anyone thought. Pause Excuse #431 It’s all so obvious. If researchers start with models that don’t work, they can find anything they look for — even abject nonsense which is the complete opposite of what the models predicted. Holy Simulation! Let’s take this reasoning and run with it — in the unlikely event we actually get relentless rising temperatures, that will imply that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is lower. Can’t see that press release coming… Nature has sunk so low these days it’s competing with The Onion. The big problem bugging believers was that global warming paused, which no model predicted, and which remains unexplained still, despite moving goal posts, searching in data that doesn’t exist, and using error bars 17 times larger than the signal. The immutable problem is that energy shalt not be created nor destroyed, so The Pause still matters even years after it stopped pausing. The empty space still shows the models don’t understand the climate — CO2 was supposed to be heating the world, all day, everyday. Quadrillions of Joules have to go somewhere, they can’t just […] July 25th, 2019 | Tags: Pause (in global temperatures) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | … 9.6 out of 10 based on 17 ratings The biggest changes in temperature (“divergence” in dark red brown Fig 6) occurred where the most people lived (blue dots). In the 60 years to 2010 China was reported to have warmed by 0.79 ± 0.10 °C. However Scafetta et al calculate at most, China could have experienced a real warming of only 0.46 ± 0.13 °C. Somehow the combined might and supercomputers at NOAA, NASA, Hadley and the Bureau of Met experts all missed this. It’s another third of a degree gone from the Glorious CO2 Narrative. Just like that. Fig. 6. Map of the divergence (ΔTMin − ΔTMax) between the warmings registered by the minimum and maximum temperature records (CRU TS4) between 1945 and 1954 and 2005–2014. The cyan dots indicate the 200 most populated cities in China according to the Free World City Database. (White regions over India and the ocean indicate missing data). Is there a more perfect nation to study the Urban Heat Island effect than China? The worlds most populous nation has made a blistering transformation in two decades. As recently as 1995 the population was 75% rural. Now it’s approaching 60% urban. Shenzhen, which is near Hong Kong, grew from 3000 people […] More Fake News to scare the kiddies “Climate Apartheid” is just the latest round of Thesaurus-Torture, whereupon people with no clue about anything make up a meaningless buzz-phrase to tell us we are about to lose something we never had. The Big-Gov-PR-Generator randomly combines climate with any bad word in the dictionary then post hoc rationalizes it to pretend they’ve discovered something. By default they also delete 100,000 years of history. Eons of slavery, genocide and war simply never happened. Why do we pay a UN Expert to tell us inanities and stoke the fires? UN report warns coming ‘climate apartheid’ will split Earth between ‘those who escape’ and ‘those who will suffer’ UN “expert” says human rights may not survive. May not survive? The only places in the world with any human rights are the ones with massive emissions of CO2. The kindest thing we could do for any nation is to help them use their own resources and produce more CO2. It will increase their quality of life more than nearly any other thing we could do bar from making them a protectorate. In the Handy-guide for Tyrants and Tin pots, surely Step […] … 9.3 out of 10 based on 24 ratings The battle continues for Peter Ridd. James Cook Uni lost every single point against Peter Ridd. Today at the penalty hearing we find out they plan to appeal. The fake fish uni has learnt nothing: Charlie Peel, The Australian James Cook University risks contempt rap for response to verdict James Cook University is poised to appeal against the Federal Court finding that its sacking of physics professor Peter Ridd was unlawful. JCU’s response was so far from the mark, apparently Justice Vasta is considering whether to refer it to the Federal Court Marshall. Vasta said the statement attributed to Chris Cocklin of JCU was “almost contemptuous”. The IPA, bless them, filed an FOI to find out how much money was burnt in the quest, and says it’s high time JCU stops: Gideon Rozner: The details of a freedom of information request lodged by the Institute of Public Affairs with James Cook University and released today reveal the University has already spent at least $630,000 on legal fees in the Dr Peter Ridd case. “The very fact that an Australian university is willing to force the weight of an entire […] July 20th, 2019 | Tags: Free Speech, Ridd (Peter), Universities | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | ________________________ Part 3 in the hugely popular, politically incorrect, Apollo 11 series from Daily Wire as we count down to the 50th Anniversary. Enjoy. I was surprised to hear that Apollo 10 made it to within ten miles of the moon. The lunar module was launched, started descent, then had to stop and return. It was all according to plan, and apparently they were so afraid the astronauts would go that extra ten miles that NASA only “half filled their tank”. They didn’t have enough fuel to do the landing and return. … The Youtube direct URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9hC1Rc0uC0 ______________________________ UPDATE: Stephen sends in another Apollo 11 site — it’s replaying the audio and transcripts for the whole mission in “real time” with a 50 year delay. 240 hours of space-to-ground audio! 9.4 out of 10 based on 26 ratings Who wants to pay more for electricity? All around the world conservative politicians are afraid to campaign against the cost of renewables. So here comes yet another survey showing a huge voter group sits there unrecognized, invisible, waiting for someone to vote for. The news from the Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University: Who is willing to pay more for renewable energy? In two recent national surveys of American adults, we asked how much more per month, if anything, people would be willing to pay to get their electricity from 100% renewable sources. Nearly half of Americans (47%) reported that they were willing to pay more, while 50% said $0. It’s a devastating result. Think about the fantasy they were being asked to put a price on — on offer was the mythical golden goose of “100% renewable energy”. It doesn’t exist (unless you count hydroelectricity). Even so, what was that fantastical creature worth? For half of Americans — nothing. Instead, the Centre for Climate Communication could have put a more realistic price on “100% renewable purity”, and asked how many Americans were willing to pay that exorbitant sum — it might be 1%. Might be […] July 19th, 2019 | Tags: Polls, USA | Category: Global Warming, polls, Psychology | Print This Post | | The obvious headline: “Worst drought in history was 100 years ago, nothing to do with CO2” The Carbophobic headline: Drought of 1891 to 1903 reconstructed shows today’s conditions likely to have more devastating effects Indoctrinated ABC copy-writers can’t see anything other than future doom and a chance to advertise the government religion. Figure that the Australian GDP per capita is 13 times larger now than in 1900. We have phones, planes, antibiotics, air-conditioning, satellites, and super computers, yet somehow we wouldn’t cope as well if the drought hit now? It’s great, for a change, to see the ABC reporting on historic Australian extremes, and the BOM researching our amazing documentary history, shame they miss the bleeding obvious. By Nikolai Beilharz, ABC Enviro-propaganda Unit. A reconstruction of the Federation drought has found that if it were to occur again today, its effects would likely be even more devastating in some areas of the country. The ‘once in a century drought’, which went from 1891 to 1903, caused an ecosystem collapse affecting more than a third of the country. The drought was one of the world’s worst recorded ‘megadroughts’, which […] July 17th, 2019 | Tags: ABC, Australian rainfall, BOM, Drought | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | For those who want to immerse themselves in the engineering masterpiece of the Apollo 11 mission, Burt Rutan recommends this documentary series. A whole fascinating hour each. Burt Rutan is an aerospace engineer who has designed 46 aircraft, received six honorary doctoral degrees and hundreds of awards. If these documentaries can keep him interested … Hail the brilliant technical minds that triumphed and the brave men who got there. Only 12 men have walked on the moon and three out of four still alive are skeptics. Buzz Aldrin is an outspoken skeptic, as are other astronauts Harrison Schmidt, and Charles Duke. So is Australian born Phil Chapman (support crew, Apollo 14) and Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7). Burt Rutan too, of course. Remember a time when NASA could achieve great things… Part I: We choose to go to the moon: Hosted by Bill Whittle Part II: The clock is running … …. Burt Rutan says Part 3 and 4 are on the way. The URLs: https://youtu.be/k9BmufbVf2E https://youtu.be/2lmPWkd2Kx0 Rutan warns that Google or Youtube searches may not find the series. Apparently Bill Whittle is too politically incorrect for them. At this point the Google search works with […] July 17th, 2019 | Tags: Moon, NASA, YouTube | Category: Astronomy, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Do we need wind farms to save the world or not? Not, says Bob Brown. Robbins Island, North West Tasmania People can have sleep and health and their views destroyed, but that didn’t matter til a farmer on a remote island off Tasmania made a deal to build one of the largest wind “farms” in the world. Graham Lloyd, The Australian Former Greens leader and veteran activist Bob Brown is campaigning to stop a $1.6 billion wind farm development in Tasmania because it will spoil the view and kill birds. The proposed Robbins Island wind farm in Tasmania’s northwest will be one of the world’s biggest, with up to 200 towers measuring 270m high from ground to blade tip. He’s written a letter protesting about the view: Despite the criticisms levelled at former prime minister Tony Abbott and treasurer Joe Hockey for describing wind turbines as “ugly”, Dr Brown said the Robbins Island plan was, visually, a step too far. “Mariners will see this hairbrush of tall towers from 50km out to sea and elevated landlubbers will see it, like it or not, from greater distances on land,” Dr Brown said. […] July 15th, 2019 | Tags: Brown (Bob), Greens, TAS (Tasmania) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | … 8.7 out of 10 based on 23 ratings How many sentient mammals died to make that vegan hamburger? Tasmanian farmer Matthew Evans has added up the inconvenient numbers and written “One Eating Meat”. The death toll for vegetarian foods means vegans kill less cows, but more mice, lizards and ducks. Preachy vegans should be silenced by new book on true cost of plant-based diets Susie O’Brien, Herald Sun (paywalled) For every 75 hectare of peas, 1500 animals die each year, including possums, wallabies, ducks and deer, not to mention many more rodents. The 200,000 wild ducks killed in one year by NSW rice farmers? Evans estimates he kills close to 5000 moths, slugs and snails each year in order to grow vegetables at Fat Pig Farm, his property in the Huon Valley. Apparently beef uses more water, but plants use more brains: One scientific analysis from the University of NSW quoted by Evans concludes that “25 times more sentient beings die to produce a kilo of protein from wheat than a kilo of protein from beef”. The sentient beings are mostly mice. More spent on low iron hospitalisations as meat intake declines It’s down with […] |
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