By Jo Nova
Lo behold, I give you the sign of doom. Bioluminescent jellyfish have traveled from the Pacific to the UK to warn of climate change.
We know this because citizen scientists have been tracking jellyfish for at least 20 years of the Holocene, if not the other 12,000 years, and they noticed things have not stayed exactly the same.
We don’t understand the underlying ocean gyrations, currents, jellyfish biology, or long term cycles of anything, but the team collected 1,315 sightings in the last year, which is a big number. Lordy, in waters surrounding 66 million people, it amounts to them counting three or four jellyfish a day.
Based on this we’d like your wallet, your pension fund, and the deeds to the houses your children haven’t bought yet.
Climate crisis brings growing numbers of unusual jellyfish to UK seas
Helena Horton, The Guardian
Britain’s seas are becoming populated with large groups of unusual jellyfish owing to climate breakdown…
Between 1 October 2021 and 30 September 2022, there were a total of 1,315 jellyfish sightings reported to the MCS.
Eight jellyfish species are normally seen around the UK and Ireland but this year 11 were spotted, with more uncommon visitors now visiting these waters
Bioluminescent crystal jellyfish made up 3% of total sightings: these animals are nearly completely transparent, but give off an amazing green-blue light under certain circumstances because of the fluorescent protein produced by their bodies. They are usually found in the Pacific Ocean and rarely visit UK waters.
No one mentions that jellyfish plagues come and go on 22 year pattern that matches solar cycles. What’s more likely, the sun shifts ocean currents, or that coal fired plants make jellyfish migrate?
The doom in this story is the state of science journalism. The Guardian churns out pagan whimsy and astrological prophesy on a daily basis, and calls it science — yet no publicly funded academic scientist has the guts to call this out. We are regressing to an era of tea-leaf reading, and scientists are preying upon the vulnerable and untrained.
No wonder the public thinks that “climate change is already here”.
As an aside, the crystal jelly (Aequorea victoria) has been called “the most influential bioluminescent marine organism.” Not for its ability to motivate millions of homo sapiens to live in the cold this winter, but for the green fluorescent protein (GFP) which won Roger Tsien a Nobel Prize in 2008 and is now used in laboratories for medical research.
Sadly no one has any idea why the jellyfish want to glow.
Photo: Aequorea victoria by Ssblakely
The bioluminescence would be to lure food of course.
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Jet-setter bioluminescent jellyfish would be conspicuous consumers.
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I would say that tha Guardian is preying upon the vulnerable and untrained. Were any scientists quoted as saying this observation is due to AGW?
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On michaelsmithnews.com I once saw the amusing observation that ‘climate change’ always seems to harm cute, fluffy animals but brings on lots and lots of nasty animals.
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Yes, you never hear about hagfish harmed by “climate change” (sic), do you?
It’s animals like polar bears, monarch butterflies, giant pandas, koalas, gorillas, sea turtles, beluga whales etc..
Who speaks up for the hagfish?
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All sorts of marine species are prone to turn up in unexpected places from time to time.
In any case, since Aequorea victoria is the subject of extensive scientific research throughout the world due to its fluorescent protein, isn’t plausible that they were a lab leak from a European laboratory or aquarium? Larvae are only 0.5mm-1mm diameter.
And is it possible they were misidentified or misclassified?
https://racerocks.ca/aequorea-victoria/
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Ask Dr* Souixe Wiles (Jacinda’s NZer Of The Year 2018), spokes-thingy for all things expert on “just take the shot!” and “keep your distance and wear your mask!” – who was shortly thereafter busted chilling with a ‘friend’ on the beach without a mask. ‘Tis still a mystery how the UK-born pink-haired midget bag-lady with the squeaky voice became spokes-thingy for Pf!zer-Gates & Co as her PhD was in bioluminescent jellyfish*.
And please Jo, don’t knock the tea leaf-readers: my Grandma used to read our tea cups when we stayed with her as kids (she grew up in the North Country / the Borders) and her highly detailed and uncannily accurate ‘readings’ used to astound and amaze me when I was five.
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“Tis still a mystery how the UK-born pink-haired midget bag-lady with the squeaky voice became spokes-thingy for Pf!zer-Gates & Co as her PhD was in bioluminescent jellyfish*.”
No mystery at all there G in NZ. The answer is in the ” bioluminescence” When all else in the world is blighted by darkness any thing that stands out must have the answers.
Wandering around in the darkness I am always “drawn to the light” / sarc
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It even has its own Wikipedia entry.
It looks like it was written by a PR (public relations) firm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siouxsie_Wiles?wprov=sfla1
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Why did it change its name from Susanna to Siouxsie?
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David, in ‘er yoof she was a punk-rock groupie of Souixse And The Banshees (no, me neither) and legally changed her name to follow the leader. Or to be edgy. Or sumpfink.
Dr Pink ‘Squeaky Green’ Hypocrite-Jellyfish is a more fitting title.
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My Mum used to read the tea leaves too. I really cannot remember if any of the prognostications came true, but it was impressive to a young kid.
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Tied up with the Occult, better to keep away.
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Further comments on identification of Aequorea.
https://faculty.washington.edu/cemills/Aequorea.html
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I am sorry Jo but you are wrong.
I have conclusive scientific evidence of that.
I consulted my Tarot cards.
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Even worse that tea leaves reading.
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So you probably won’t want to come to my next seance.
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There are too many non-illuminati jellybacks in the ranks of science and politics to counter the barrage of climate memes. Most of the media are only too happy to promulgate them.
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Thanks to the Left, and particularly the anti-scientific publication Cook et al (2013) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024 (that “97% consensus” paper), which shockingly is the most downloaded “scientific” publication from Environmental Research Letters the paradigm of science, (at least for matters pertaining to environment, covid and probably diet) was changed from rigorous and heavily debated scientific research to “popular consensus”, dumbed-down “universities” and appallingly low standards with any and all dissent censored or proponents of alternative ideas sacked (fired).
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And near Orange in rural NSW we now have plagues of king parrots and black cockatoos where 10 years ago we had none.
Further proof the world is coming to an end.
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They obviously crave cold, wet weather. Should be right at home in Britain this winter.
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Samuel Pepys 21st jan 1661
It is strange what weather we have had all this winter; no cold at all; but the ways are dusty, and the flyes fly up and down, and the rose-bushes are full of leaves, such a time of the year as was never known in this world before here.
fast day ordered by the Parliament, to pray for more seasonable weather; it having hitherto been summer weather, that it is, both as to warmth and every other thing, just as if it were the middle of May or June, which do threaten a plague (as all men think) to follow, for so it was almost the last winter; and the whole year after hath been a very sickly time to this day
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Currently sharing my carport with a pair of nesting Pardalotes that are taking advantage of a rolled-up piece of insulation batt – with a convenient hole in the middle of the roll. We have come to an amicable arrangement – if I am working in there, the returning bird lets me know it wants access, and sits on a shrub a metre or two away unafraid and cheeps loudly. I stand back and allow the parental swap-over.
Adaptation at its best.
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The 40 spotted variety?
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Not the 40 spotted but the other spotted variety with the extra red on the back towards the tail (Pardalotus punctatus). The female looked exhausted this afternoon. Both are out getting food – the young ones must have hatched.
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We used to have a lot of pardalotes some years ago every spring. They are absent now. Busy types that carry on somewhat.
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In the late 1960s I lived on my yacht, moored at a marina at Balmain in Sydney harbor, just a few hundred meters from Cockatoo Island dock yard. We regularly had strange exotic marine growth appear on our boats & the piles of the marina, almost every time a ship was docked in the dry dock.
They would have their bottoms cleaned while in there, & when the dock was flooded to float the ship out, various species from around the world the ship had gathered would swim out & straight across to our marina.
Around this time there was a growing problem with ships bringing harmful species to harbors around the world in their ballast water. They would pump ballast water containing the eggs or young of invasive species out into each port.
A law was passed requiring ships to exchange their ballast water well off shore, replacing it with fresh ocean water to reduce the transfer of invasive species.
Could the poms have started bringing energy in from Pacific sources, & these jelly fish along with it.
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Doctor T, have you checked to see if Alfred Hitchcock is in town? We get them here too and I love’em, but I wouldn’t call them plagues. ToM
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Hi ToM,
That was sarcasm! I should have flagged it. They’re a great joy!
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They sure make a racket but not as irritating as the “do it!” (what it’s call sounds like) bird that’s moved in to the neighbour’s tree.
Oh for a .177 😉
The “Oom” bird is insufferable but none near me thankfully.
A jellyfish plague is nothing…
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The word “amazing” in an article reporting science has a good chance of revealing an author who is young, female, inexperienced and reliant on social media for vocabulary.
“Incredible” is another tell, while those trying really hard go for “unprecedented”.
Amateur pop science does harm. Geoff S
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Indeed Geoff, after a few seconds thought I came up with “vivid” as a more appropriate word but correct me if I’m wrong.
Recently The Guardian proudly announced that it had quadrupled the size of its environmental and science reporting team in the belief that more articles will help the cause.
This is an example perhaps!
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Is the “cause” the prevention of the extinction of the newspaper ?
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Could be Gerry. Here’s the article and the seventh paragraph has the announcement.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/28/how-the-climate-crisis-is-threatening-power-supply-stability
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As indeed is the expression “that’s something we need to have a conversation about”.
In fact, no such conversation is ever intended.
It means they are going to pretend to be consultative but in fact will impose their decree.
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I love it; amazing, incredible and unprecedented.
And how about unbelievable !
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Awesome post Geoff. ToM
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Just heard our esteemed treasurer, no idea Chalmers talk energy crisis. Subsidies, subsidies and more subsidies. Hey Chalmers and your no idea ALP, I’ve got a solution to our energy problem, OPEN UP MORE GAS PRODUCTION AND COAL MINES!!!!
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I have a new slogan….
“Tax The Earth, Not It’s Inhabitants!”
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“Snake” Chalmers
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Apparently keeping pet jellyfish is a thing in the UK, probably elsewhere as well.
E.g. https://petjellyfish.co.uk/shop/live-jellyfish/
The above example doesn’t sell Aequorea victoria, but perhaps some vendors do?
Escaped or dumped from a home aquarium?
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“Distribution Countries:
Eastern Pacific: Canada and USA”
https://www.sealifebase.ca/summary/Aequorea-victoria
Canada? Well, it’s sure they aren’t coming to the UK waters to get warmer.
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Climate Change has run its useful course because “The Climate is Always changing” So now it’s “Climate Breakdown”? The only bioluminescent jellyfish I recall was in packets of Allen’s mixed Jellies!
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Yes.
It went from:
Global warming
to
Climate change
to
Climate crisis
to
Climate disaster
to
Climate catastrophe
to
Climate breakdown.
It’s keeping the marketing people busy, and I bet the Elites of the Left are paying them plenty.
(There may be some room to debate about the order of when these terms appeared.)
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I can’t even begin to imagine what the next term after “climate breakdown” will be.
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“Climate disintegration” will be a strong candidate I’m sure. The term will signify the total lack of understanding of climate and the abandonment of “all hope” in predicting climate by climate scientists.
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Marxism, One World Government, Soylent Green – in that order.
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You mean fascism with Chinese characteristics, the UN will be in their pocket, soylent green is not on the agenda.
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“Climate mistake”, and begging forgiveness probably…
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They have to keep changing the catch phrase due to the doomsday predictions for each one failing to materialise – in fact, mostly the opposite has happened!
Remember when globull warming was going to cause more cyclones, sea level rise 100 stories high, permanent drought and the extinction of polar bears? They couldn’t even get the temperature rise part right, so had to resort to the laughable ‘climate change’.
How anyone can take this complete and utter nonsense seriously is absolutely staggering.
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You forgot “climate disruption.”
To be honest, I hadn’t heard of a couple of those you mentioned.
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David – you left out ‘climate emergency’. Need to update your list.
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Fragile Apocalyptic Climactic Terror – FACT 😃
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Greg in NZ, How about Future Uncertain Climate Kaos – you work it out. ToM
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Surely by now it’s an “unprecedented” climate emergency?
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Which is odd, because the “polar amplification” (lol) in the Antarctic Peninsula is causing a significant cooling trend.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/11/03/dramatic-cooling-and-recent-ice-shelf-advance-in-the-antarctic-peninsula/
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“Global heating” has also come into vogue in the past year or two.
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David, you dropped the ‘Anthropogenic’. That’s supposedly the big hitter, the reason to smash the use of those wonderful ‘fossil fuels’ and force the Western world back to the stone ages. It’s the one term showing the Westerners really are dumber than the Chinese, Indians,Russians and Brazilians. One up for the that lot, including the despots. One down for the Western Democracies.
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I’m more worried about climate bankruptcy and climate receivership, because that is were we are headed.
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And don’t the Left tell us anyone or anything can identify as whatever they want? Perhaps certain jellyfish have decided to “identify” as something else?
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The things I learn on this site! I had no idea glowing crystal jellyfish could speak. Or, perhaps people are hearing jellyfish voices in their head. A growing problem in the UK, particularly among government officials.
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Probably just coming there to show solidarity to their fellows in Parliament.
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We’ve been suffering this Human EXISTENTIAL THREAT lunacy since the Ehrlich goon and his barking mad Malthusian followers told us we were heading for world famine and disaster by the year 2000.
This included the poor Asians, Africans and the wealthy countries like Nth America, Europe, Australia as well.
Since 1970 the Human population has increased by about 4.3 billion people and life expectancy then 56.5 years and now 73 years.
This Ehrlich loony appeared on their ABC’s Monday Conference 52 years ago and told us we’d soon see mass starvation and we MUST REDUCE our population or perish.
My Dad said then that he’d never heard “so much BS and garbage in his life and this silly bastard must be mad”. Dad was always a good judge of character and could smell a BS merchant in very quick time.
Today we’ve never been healthier and wealthier, but I fear for our future when the MSM cover every stupid fairy story with gusto and the Kool-Aid ( like S & W energy) is swallowed without any protest. All unbelievable but true.
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JC-2 reported in the Thursday open thread the only true piece of global warming I have recently seen studied:
So the globe is truly warming under kilometres of Antarctic ice.
The dreaded CO2 juggernaut, unable to melt the ice on the surface, has called on the magma gods for help.
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Here’s the first Earth day lonnies’ predictions made in 1970 and Ehrlich’s starving millions starts at no 4 on the list.
Read all 18 dud forecasts and yet today these same left wing nutters are still quoted and revered as they continue with their latest fairy tales.
https://fee.org/articles/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year/
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Thanks for that link Neville – in addition to the list of dud forecasts, in 2000 Ronald Bailey made one final prediction about Earth Day 2030:
“There will be a disproportionately influential group of doomsters predicting that the future–and the present–never looked so bleak.”
In other words, the hype, hysteria and spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions will continue, promoted by the virtue signalling ”environmental grievance hustlers.”
How true is all that, even in the 2020s, some ten years ahead of 2030.
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Yes Michael B, I have to agree with you. BTW have a look at the very short video from Outsiders Sky News as Alex Epstein makes the Moral case for fossil fuels. Comment 27.
At comment 27 see Links to other videos and if you want a full detailed video(s) he certainly is a very clever bloke and is very good during debates over the years.
IOW he really knows the data and seems to have a very good memory and clear delivery during the very long debates.
Lomborg is very good but Epstein at his best is excellent as well.
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Climate breakdown? Really? Based on what?
These clowns are calling themselves journalists. They are not. They are activists in the true sense of the word.
BTW, I thought we were all going to die years ago. What happened to those prophecies?
The media deserves all the criticism it gets and more.
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Because it couldn’t possibly have anything to do with international shipping and ballast water.
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Craig D Idso explains why low levels of co2 are a disaster and plants begin to die at 130 ppm.
And we’ve already seen co2 levels of 150 ppm during the last full glaciation after the end of the Eemian inter glacial.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/03/the-dangers-of-low-atmospheric-co2-concentrations/
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This report is misleading as well as being largely irrelevant. A far more comprehensive study on much the same subject was published way back in the days of climategate.
What it found was that most plants start to become seriously stunted below 280 ppm, and below 220 ppm growth is restricted to the point of not maturing enough to produce seeds. So, while 130 ppm might be technically capable of killing them, at that level there wouldn’t be anything left to die.
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Agree… it is old accepted knowledge and is trivial to bring it up in this context. A complete “so what”.
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Great to see GA agreeing that the world’s biosphere functions much better on higher levels of atmospheric CO2 than we currently have.
Seems he is coming around to the realisation that CO2 is “nothing but beneficial”…
… and that all the memes of the anti-CO2 idiotology such as “net-zero” and “CO2 emission reduction” are, in fact, baseless and counter to human and animal life on the planet.
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The Idsos have been studying this and reporting on it for many years:
http://co2science.org/about/emerituspresident.php
A well written update is welcome even if it is not new to you. It might be new to someone else that is not familiar with “A far more comprehensive study on much the same subject was published way back in the days of climategate.” A reference would have been helpful.
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When this is all said and done we will be building coal plants out of coconut shells and bamboo.
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Putting energy realism on the google map
Author Rafe Champion
Posted on November 4, 2022
The Energy Realists of Australia have two sites, the original list of papers hanging off the RiteOn site and our own site, Flickerpower.
It will help if these sites come up on the first page of searches and this is more likely to happen when they get more traffic directed from other sites, like this blog.
Cats/Jo’s Bloggers are invited to head to these sites and sample the rich store of energy knowledge and wisdom, while making the sites more visible for searchers.
Casualties on the road to net zero
Flickerpower
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Greenies may want to hide it or pretend it isn’t there, but the fossil fuel King Kong keeps getting harder to ignore.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/11/a-transition-to-fossil-fuels.php
As yet there just is no alternative.
That fellow has written well about in the past, snd I expect he’ll remain a reliable energy (and climate) realist.
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This might reveal a bit of realism later today and in coming days. All four units at Callide (Qld) are out of action:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-04/callide-power-station-offline-equipment-failures/101615842
Cheers
Dave B
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Not Helped by – The Lunacy of The Australian Labor Party at Work
Coal and gas projects could be BLOCKED by Anthony Albanese’s government as it announces it will ‘reassess’ 18 major businesses based on climate change impacts
. Climate impacts of planned coal and gas projects the basis of legal actions
. Eighteen projects in Queensland, NSW and WA to be reviewed in legal action
. Power prices could jump 20 per cent this year and another 35 per cent in 2023
Anthony Albanese’s government could block new coal and gas projects on climate grounds even though soaring energy prices are set to dramatically worsen.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has approved an environmental group’s legal bid to have 18 projects reassessed with increased focus on their climate impacts.
The Environment Council of Central Queensland (ECoCeQ), represented by Environmental Justice Australia, took legal action in July to have 19 projects reviewed.
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I wonder where their parts were sourced from. If from China, they might want to see if someone else makes them. Just sayin.
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A little more realism, Dave. That was no ordinary coal fired plant. They used “oxy-fuel” technology.
https://www.csenergy.com.au/what-we-do/thermal-generation/callide-power-station/callide-oxyfuel-project
I know. Let’s burn the coal in pure oxygen instead of air. What could go wrong?! I don’t see any fire hazard, do you? 🙄
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G’day Y,
Thanks for that. Something I didn’t know. But I was thinking of the effect of the effectively simultaneous loss of 3 units, rather than the cause(s) of those losses.
Cheers
Dave B
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Of course. I thought you probably didn’t know. I didn’t either ‘till I did some digging.
I was thinking more in terms of when we abandon what works for new, untested and less safe technologies, we are only asking for trouble.
Note that they thought that would make carbon-capture easier, indicating that this was just one more attempt to force the square peg of reality into the round hole of screwball greenie ideology.
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What now is a sign of global climate dysfunction, was (back in 2014) just an unusual but not unheard of occurrence.
https://cornishrockpools.com/2014/07/30/uk-rarity-the-crystal-jellyfish-turns-up-in-cornwall/
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Dr Judith Curry looks at COP 27 and has a round up of latest dud climate model predictions.
We can only hope these donkeys start to WAKE UP. But Judith is correct, “the climate crisis isn’t what it used to be”.
That very clear graph shows the huge reduction in deaths from extreme events since 1900. In fact the numbers have fallen off a cliff, but Human population has increased by over 6 billion since that time.
THINK about it, then start to WAKE UP.
https://judithcurry.com/2022/11/02/the-climate-crisis-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/#more-29307
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‘The doom in this story is the state of science journalism.’
Totally agree, this is the crux of the matter. You are doing a good job, but we have to get the MSM editors to encourage their journalists to put both sides of every story.
The rot set in at journalism schools, they need to be purged.
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Not every story has more than one side and certainly “other sides” have to be worthy. Do you think every story about air-travel or NASA should include a comment about how flat earthers think it is all a hoax?
[That’s a bunch of nonsense. Try harder, give references, make a claim, support your claim, and stop being obtuse. – LVA]
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So Gee Aye, who gets to decide which views are “worthy”? Is that you? Are you God? Or do you think university Professors are?
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“So Gee Aye, who gets to decide which views are “worthy”?”
Are not the institutional frameworks for who decides being constructed as speak?
Canadian Bill C11.
https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-11/third-reading.
Jacinda Ardern has claimed that lofty position.
The US DHS is working the problem, despite a recent public setback. (They prematurely thought their ultimate power consolidation was was complete.)
The US may become a one party Democratic state next week.
As POTUS, just two days ago, proclaimed all votes for the opposing party are votes against “our Democracy”.
Michael Beschloss, revered WP contributor and Presidential historian, declared on MSNBC, that if Republicans win “our children will arrested and conceivably killed.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michael-beschloss-says-gop-victory-in-midterms-will-mean-our-children-will-be-arrested-and-conceivably-killed/ar-AA13HIuH
So hopefully Gee’s intellect will soon be safe from unfiltered influence.
Hyperbolic political rhetoric for the public good will be the law. After all it is a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated.
I would also suggest checking the current WHO definitions of ‘flat’ and ‘hoax’.
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Leaf, a good independent editor should have an open mind on all controversial issues, that is where the muck will be found.
So assuming he has a few investigative journalists, he would send them out to find the characters involved. Remember comrade its all about who, what, when, where and why.
Climate change is a controversial issue that definitely needs a going over.
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“certainly “other sides” have to be worthy”
And yet when it comes to arguments of issues to do with CO2 causing warming…
… any arguments you or anyone else have tried to put forward…
… have been totally unworthy.. ie WORTHLESS.
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On the question of NASA, this story needs debunking.
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-relentless-rise-of-carbon-dioxide/
Do you really think CO2 hasn’t been this high in a million years?
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All “journalists” have preconceived opinions about a story they are producing. That’s human nature, we all have opinions.
Most journalists nowadays allow their opinions to guide their story line. A news story these days cannot be trusted to be factual.There are no consequences for doing this so they will continue doing it.
Most journalists of 40,50 years ago tried not to let their opinions alter the facts of the story they were producing.
I have more faith in a used car salesman than a journalist. I am not joking either.
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A 2019 Ipsos poll showed that the MSM is on the nose.
‘In Australia over the past five years, trust in newspapers and magazines has had a net decline of 14%. That is, 28% have less trust now versus 14% who trust them more. Trust in TV and radio had a net decline in trust of 13%, while trust in online news websites and platforms had a net decline in trust of 9%.
‘Globally, newspapers and magazines suffered the greatest net decline in trust of 16% alongside TV and radio (16%), followed by online news websites and platforms at 12% versus five years ago.’
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The Guardian. That paragon of scientific knowledge? Here’s the real simple science. It’s good old Mr sun, our nearest star, that causes the climate cycles mainly thru the action of convection in the atmosphere and the oceans. The Holocene, used to be thought of as pretty stable, but ocean sediment data shows climate has been cyclic. Up, down, warm, cold, not newsy enough to sell newspapers for the Guardian so they invoke the sensational glowing crystal jellyfish hypothrsis as fact that the climate is breaking down. Migration of the Sea Monkeys next?
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Here Alex Epstein presents his “moral case for fossil fuels” and his 6 minutes with Rowan, Rita and James is very interesting and well worth your time.
He considers that the case against fossil fuels just follows the anti-human instinct of the left and he’s correct.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=prager+alex+epstein+videos%2C%2C+moral+case+fossil+fuels&atb=v344-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Do94prWTuBIs
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Gold star to Jo today for reading the Guardian – she has made this extreme sacrifice in order for the rest of us not to endure the pain.
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How can we not believe the jellyfish?
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Bioluminescent crystal jellyfish made up 3% of total sightings: So 3% of 1315 jellyfish which is 39 bioluminescent jellyfish in a year. Less than one a week.
With these very low numbers, how can anyone say they have not been around for a long time or just not part of waste water or huge volumes of ballast dumped in the world’s busiest shipping lanes? And no one would care, which is why it is now another proof of Climate Change and the End of the World. Which is the sort of press you need to get funding.
Science? This is not science. Or science journalism. It’s Ripley’s Believe it or Not!
Perhaps the worst example was the discovery of some drowned polar bears projected to tens of thousands of drowned polar bears due to Global Warming with no evidence at all. Pure speculation with facts.
Most polar bears live in places people never go, so he just made it up. And for three decades we have had to endure the nonsense without evidence. At least people then tracked them and showed populations were actually growing rapidly, possibly due to minor Global Warming which peaked in 2010 and is about to vanish rapidly.
Frankly a polar bear is close to the most dangerous predator on the planet and just a huge brown bear cousin underneath the translucent fur.
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In fact a surgeon friend explained that whenever someone wanted funding, they wrote a piece like this. Ripley’s style reporting. Like a man giving birth. It’s either a prank or a plea for funding. In the fantasy world of Climate Change, it’s pretty common.
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Ripley’s was far more fact based, as I recall. Sensational, yes, but if you read the fine print, the facts were often there.
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Agreed. It’s the style. Climate Change catastrophism has no basis in science.
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As, according to law, ships are required to release ballast at sea before entering ports, any eastbound transatlantic vessels heading for Southampton, Dover or London etc., would need to empty out off the coast of, wait for it, Cornwall.
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How about we up the “ante” and revive an old maritome horror story.
A while back, it was put about that cargo ships were discharging “ballast water” into the pristine oceans, usually whilst waiting to enter port to pick up a cargo of some sort. Hence the global spread of all manner of marine nasties / invaders.
Not sure how much wildlife survives being sloshed around in a big, dark bunch of “vintage” sea-water, but, there you go.
MAYBE, just maybe, these new-found invaders of the Northern Hemisphere survived, possibly as larvae, in a bilge full of dodgy stale water and were unceremoniously bumped overboard.
It seems unlikely for a “tropical” species to deliberately “swim” all that way.
It is certain that the “bioluminescence” is NOT an instant aberration acquired on the supposed journey. Bioluminescnce is also hardly an unknown phenomenon in marine critters; and a lot of terrestrial ones, too.
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It’s not commonly known but humans are bioluminescent too albeit at levels below human perception…
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True.
I have known ladies who positively glowed.
Afterwards.
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fried jelly fish taste better tan insects
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Than not tan
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So now we have climate “breakdown”, according to the creatives at The Guardian. But how does climate break down? Is this a mental health issue?
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Yes Dave – for the creatives at the Guardian.
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[…] Jo Nova discusses a new scary climate omen […]
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And according to Gore the Bore Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and the results of electing Trump instead of Hillary and not obeying Mother Gaia just like they blame the Gun Lobby(NRA)for mass shootings because liberals are such aa bunch of narrow minded pinheads who consult their Horoscopes before they leave home and send a $500 check to Greenpeace to save the Non Endangered Polar Bears
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