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    John Connor II

    We know the vaxxes are highly effective

    https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1597834522116120577/pu/vid/542×480/GUXWCCq52kYpcdUz.mp4

    …at producing big pharma profits…

    I’ll have my bananas instead 😎

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    John Connor II

    China hit by strongest cold wave since 1987

    The weather in northern China changed dramatically at the end of last week, leaving at least 7 people dead and hundreds of thousands of livestock stranded after exceptionally cold temperatures hit the province of Xinjiang. At the same time, southern China was experiencing a rare heat wave with temperatures exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) in some places. The cold wave entered South China on November 29, dropping temperatures more than 20 °C (36 °F) in just 24 hours.

    In Altay, Xinjiang Province, the lowest temperature on Saturday, November 26 dropped to -48.6 °C (-55.5 °F) — close to the country’s lowest record for the month of November. It was the region’s 7th consecutive day of snow, with a record-breaking November snow depth of 46 cm (18 inches) measured.

    https://watchers.news/2022/11/30/china-hit-by-strongest-cold-wave-since-1987/

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      Dennis

      Here on the NSW Mid Coast today I need a track suit top over the teeshirt I first put on this morning, it’s hardly the beginning of summer today.

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        Adellad

        Lucky you; as that high that’s giving you nice southerlies moves towards the Tasman (bloody slowly) here in SA we shall get NE to NW’ly airstreams from tomorrow resulting in 4 hot days in a row. Ugh.

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          Ross

          Good for the crops 🙂 ( harvesting, that is )

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            farmerbraun

            In NZ currently the cow cockies are all moaning about the lack of pasture growth.
            That is the case even where there has not been excessive rain ; rain in December is definitely a positive as we approach the summer solstice in three weeks time.
            It appears to me that the cause is a lack of sunlight ; we have had very few sunny cloudless days.
            Grass is described as ” weak , yellow , lacking in energy” , and milk production shows it.
            And the ultimate stupidity is to throw nitrogen fertiliser at the problem , thus exacerbating the feed quality problem.

            I am actually selling a hundred acres or so of surplus grass , achieved by lengthening the spelling interval between grazings , just as one would do in winter or low light conditions.
            Of course , a conservative stocking rate , and adequate reserves, are part and parcel of a resilient system.
            Agrostology 101 , you might think.

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              John+in+NZ

              I have been complaining about lack of sunshine and low grass growth. I’m spending a fortune on Nitrogen.

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                farmerbraun

                Nitrogen won’t be the limiting factor ; sunlight is. Feed quality won’t be improved by more nitrogen in that situation.
                You’ve probably noticed that cows are ravenous for some mature growth with some”guts” in it .
                I’ve always relied on the nitrogen cycle and clover for nitrogen input to the system ; in a year round daily quota system it’s all about the cost of production.
                But farmers who milk year round know that reserves are a critical must-have ; it can be money , or feed. I always carry at least one years silage reserve ahead of me , sometimes more.

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              Ross

              My father lived through dry droughts and wet droughts as a farmer in southern Victoria. He much preferred dry droughts. ( wet droughts is when it rains that much and is cold, nothing grows ). The 1960’s in particular were extremely wet.

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      el+gordo

      Extremes in weather are caused by a meandering jet stream and blocking, so if we look at the Atlantic the pattern is the same except a negative North Atlantic Oscillation is involved.

      ‘Evolution of a titanic negative North Atlantic oscillation (-NAO) pattern is indicated during the medium-range. The effect of -NAO is to produce anomalous upper-level high-pressure blocking over Greenland. The high-pressure block is certainly evident in the “most likely” upper air forecast for the northern hemisphere by the mega-cluster ensemble in the 6-10-day forecast.

      ‘In the 11-15-day forecast, the blocking high pressure is arguably record-strength according to the model and forecast with a robust 68% confidence which is exceptional beyond 10 days.’ (Climate Impact Company)

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        farmerbraun

        “titanic ” “arguably record-strength according to the model ”
        Sounds like robust climate “science “.

        🙂

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    John Connor II

    THE PURSUIT OF THE IMPOSSIBLE: Materials Constraints and Realities for the Net Zero Utopia

    In late 2021, a group led by Simon Michaux of the Geological Survey of Finland produced a 1000-page “Assessment of the Extra Capacity Required of Alternative Energy Electrical Power Systems to Completely Replace Fossil Fuels” (link at bottom to pdf.) The focus of the study is almost entirely on determining the magnitude of the physical material requirements of decarbonization. Here are some of the findings.

    The global fleet of road vehicles in 2019 numbered about 1.416 billion. Of this, only 7.2 million were electric vehicles (EV). Thus, only 0.51% of the road vehicle fleet were EVs and 99.49% of the global fleet was “yet to be replaced”.

    In 2018, 84.7% of the world’s primary energy consumption was met by fossil fuels, whereas renewables (solar, wind, geothermal and biofuels) accounted for only 4.05% and nuclear power 10.1%.

    The total additional non-fossil fuel electrical power annual generating capacity that would be needed for complete global decarbonization is around 37,671 terawatt hours (TWh). An additional 221,594 new power plants would have to be constructed and commissioned to meet the power needs of a decarbonized world. To meet the power requirements of complete decarbonization, almost five times as many plants as those now in place today would have to be built, and all this would have to take place in 27 years.

    Converting all current (i.e. 1.39 billion) short-range road vehicles to EVs would require the production of an additional 65.19 TWh of batteries (282.6 million tonnes of lithium-ion batteries), and an annual additional 6,158.4 TWh of electricity from the power grid to charge those batteries.

    The 282.6 million tonnes of lithium just to power the 1.39 billion short-range road vehicles is beyond current global lithium reserves. Further, each of the 1.39 billion batteries would have a useful working life of only 8 to 10 years, according to International Energy Agency estimates. So, 8-10 years after manufacture, new replacement batteries would be required.

    https://tupa.gtk.fi/raportti/arkisto/42_2021.pdf

    https://blog.friendsofscience.org/2022/11/28/the-pursuit-of-the-impossiblematerials-constraints-and-realities-for-the-net-zero-utopia/amp/

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      Dennis

      I observed a few electric vehicles around town this morning, perfect for elderly people and others who have walking difficulties, or golfers.

      Like wind turbines and solar, small scale ok.

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        Greg in NZ

        Had an electric skateboard (for road-riding) which was great fun for the 8 years it lasted… however I drive a diesel 4×4 van: I may be immature but I’m not stupid 😃

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      Plain Jane

      I dont think there was ever an intention to replace like with like as far as energy is concerned. It is obvious the only way to meet those goals is to get rid of the people.

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      John Connor II

      I wonder if Vin Diesel will ever buy an ev.😁

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    John Connor II

    Australia will now fine firms up to AU$50 million for data breaches

    The Australian parliament has approved a bill to amend the country’s privacy legislation, significantly increasing the maximum penalties to AU$50 million for companies and data controllers who suffered large-scale data breaches.

    The financial penalty introduced by the new bill is set to whichever is greater:

    AU$50 million
    Three times the value of any benefit obtained through the misuse of information
    30% of a company’s adjusted turnover in the relevant period
    Previously, the penalty for severe data exposures was AU$2.22 million, considered wholly inadequate to incentivize companies to improve their data security mechanisms.

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/australia-will-now-fine-firms-up-to-au50-million-for-data-breaches/

    Now expand it to cover p1ss-poor fraud protection by banks.
    Cough..Bendigo..cough..

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      KP

      So the Govt will fine private companies who have data breached..

      Who will fine the Govt when they suffer the same? Can we have the salaries seized from the Minister in Charge, his responsible secretaries, the top 5 bureaucrats and all of the ruling party at the time please?

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    skeptikal

    It’s hard to believe (considering I live in Queensland), but it’s only 17C here in the middle of the day. This is the coldest Summer day I’ve ever seen.

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      Greg in NZ

      Welcome to your ‘new warming’ – also known as cooling. Today’s satellite pic shows an impressive curling wave of climate change cloud, which the maps say will hang around for a few days more, thanks to a ‘blocking high’ in the Tasman Sea: likewise, a blocking high over Greenland appears to be causing ‘new warming’ in Canada & USA and Russia & Eastern Europe. There’s fresh snow in Hawaii too, aloha!

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        Adellad

        As I said above, blocking highs in the Tasman have dramatically different impact on different parts of Australia. For us in the middle (and further west) they mean endless hot northerly air and heatwaves. It ain’t climate change, it has always been thus.

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          el+gordo

          Blocking is a global cooling signal.

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          TedM

          ” For us in the middle (and further west) they mean endless hot northerly air and heatwaves.”
          How far west Adellad? In the Sw of WA we could do with a bit of those hot northerlies. Yesterday was warm, near 35C but that warm day was an orphan. My fire will be going again tonight.

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          el+gordo

          If we accept that blocking is caused by a meandering jet stream, then we need to know what causes it to meander?

          In this recent paper, focussed on the Northern Hemisphere, they hint its because of AGW.

          ‘The Arctic is warming more rapidly than midlatitudes and the temperature difference between those regions is being reduced. As a result, it has been hypothesized that the jet stream will decrease in intensity and its meanders will move more slowly eastward, leading to more persistent or even extreme weather conditions.’ (Riboldi et al 2020)

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      wokebuster

      Will be needing fur lined budgie smugglers for the beach this year.

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      Gerry

      I have a favourite saying on the blustery cold days …. “ thank God for global warming. Imagine how cold it would be without it.”

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    crakar24

    https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-11-30-globalist-utopia-self-extinction-calhoun-mouse-experiments.html

    Did this guy predict the future demise of the human race? The parallels are uncanny.

    This is very much worth the read

    cheers

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    Dennis

    Are the UN Officials working through Christmas to try and secure signatures pledging a trillion dollars a year collectively for the redistribution of wealth (less administration fees for the gravy train people) before the now underway cooling cycle becomes obvious to all?

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    crakar24

    Dennis,

    Cooling is climate change, there is no need to switch gears in fact a cooling cycle will only enhance the amount of gravy collected, because at least then the climate would have actually changed.

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    David Maddison

    Back in the day, I once thought it could be an honourable profession to work at the UN. Now it’s full of Elites preparing the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the Elites ever seen.

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    David Maddison

    At the beginning of the following video Dr John Campbell explains how his YouTube channel is on a “warning” status which means the Leftoids of Goolag/YouTube are close to shutting him down, as careful as he is.

    Nothing terrifies a Leftist more than alternative ideas or free speech.

    https://youtu.be/EaSU2mfNrIg

    He explains what is verboten to discuss according to YouTube:

    -Covid vaccine safety alleging chronic side effects except “rare” ones acknowledged by authorities.

    -Efficacy of covid vaccines such as not allowed to claim they do not reduce transmission or contraction of covid disease.

    -Not allowed to talk about the ingredients.

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      John Connor II

      One of my 60 or so regular youtube channel guys is moaning about censorship for content that’s SBS documentary quality and he’s looking to move to a platform that would allow the content (and he censors any touchy content himself) but can still derive an income via monetisation.
      Anyone have any good suggestions or experience?
      I don’t know if Twitter blue would be a good alternative.

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      David-of-Cooyal-in-Oz

      Perhaps he could change his style and use Musk’s Twitter??
      Cheers,
      Dave B

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    Leo G

    Another series of earthquakes (200 counted in one day) recorded over two days under Lake Taupo in New Zealand, the strongest at 5.6 on the Richter scale.
    If the activity continues along with increased ground displacement, then we should expect the alert level to be again increased.
    The Taupo Volcano produced the two largest eruptions on earth in the past 5 million years.

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      John Connor II

      Volcano Eruptions On the Rise with Solar Minimum

      I warned that Socrates, which monitors everything around the world (JC2 – so do I!), noticed a distinct correlation that more volcanos erupt during Solar Minimum. There have been many studies on the impact of UV and gamma radiation during solar changes and events. Gamma-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, as are radio waves, infrared radiation, ultraviolet radiation, X-rays, and microwaves. Gamma-rays can be used to treat cancer, and gamma-ray bursts are studied by astronomers.

      I have also reported that our correlation models also show that solar minimums correspond to increased volcanic activity. Volcanic winters take place during solar minimums. It certainly seems that gamma-rays may be the reason volcanoes erupt more during these periods. This certainly also reduces food production and increases disease, presumably because of a rise in malnutrition. However, since gamma-rays are also used to treat cancer, there is at least a basis to warrant further investigation if the increase in gamma-rays during solar minimums impact certain susceptible people or those with particular DNA sequences.

      Over in Russia, its Shiveluch volcano has become active and now a powerful explosion is considered possible at any moment. It is one of the largest in the Russian far East volcanos recorded and it has had volcanic ash plume rising up to around 13000ft altitude.

      https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/nature/volcano-eruptions-on-the-rise-with-solar-minimum/

      I suspect Shiveluch will pop too.
      My prediction posted here back in mid Feb was that we’d see TWO MAJOR volcanic eruptions late this year. Mauno Loa was #1 (prediction #3.1) so just waiting for #2.
      Breaking – just got an advisory right now about Shiveluch!
      Sorry Marty – JC2 beat you again.
      And for my next trick…

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        crakar24

        we are heading towards solar max!!

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          Memoryvault

          we are heading towards solar max!!

          We Are?

          Pity nobody told the sun. It’s been retrograde, moving into a Grand Solar Minimum (GSM), since 2004. And that’s the least of our problems.

          Most of the world is heading into an almighty economic crash. At the same time much of the world is experiencing shortages of gas, electricity, food and fertiliser. And even that is only the start.

          The four giant planets, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter, are moving into an alignment with us not experienced since 47AD. The solar system’s magnetic fields are already moving into realignment as a result. This is partly causing our weird weather. We start to hit peak alignment late 2024 to mid 2025.

          Can you spell “catastrophic” children?
          I knew you could.

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            el+gordo

            ‘Can you spell “catastrophic” children?’

            Yes sir, but I just had a look at the Roman Warm Period and nothing happened in 47 AD.

            ‘Two potential climate-forcing factors both show unusual stability. Within the generally even level of solar activity between c. 200 b.c. and 600 a.d., the centuries from 200 b.c. to 100 a.d. stand out as particularly stable. An exceptionally low level of volcanic activity also prevailed from c. 40 b.c. to 150 a.d.’ (McCormack et al 2012)

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              Memoryvault

              Well, we don’t have to wait long to find out, do we Gordi?

              BTW, did you enjoy the first day of summer? Max of 17 degrees in my little corner of sub tropical QLD. Cold and drizzling rain all day. Which reminds me, weren’t you predicting a mild NH winter only a few weeks ago? How’s that working out for you?

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            Will Gray

            Early 2022 Jupiter and Neptune were conjunct in pieces amplifying precipitation.
            Earth’s magnetic field is weakening rapidly, some years ago I was shocked to see a “white Sun”. Nobody seems to be paying attention.

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              farmerbraun

              “conjunct in pieces”

              I apprehend that you meant to say “in Pisces”. That is a particular region of the sky as seen from Earth.

              Frequency and resonance , leading to amplification. Quite handy for long -range forecasting at the seasonal level.
              But dismissed by most punters.

              The situation from mid -December looks slightly better , probably much hotter .

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              el+gordo

              Pseudo science won’t win the climate war.

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                b.nice

                Pseudo science seems to be winning so far…

                … look at the power supply and farming devastation it is already rorting !

                … look at the billions of dollars being wasted/pocketed.

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                farmerbraun

                It’s clear that currently pseudo-science is winning hands down, whether you’re talking climate or vaccines, if the majority is buying it.
                The real problem is that propaganda and disinformation from our betters has been funded by we the people.
                What % of the politicians actually believe the climate and covid nonsense that they spout, do you think?

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                farmerbraun

                “Pseudo science ”
                Belief in the results of pseudo science is really just superstition ; a product of human imagination.
                Failure to check superstitious belief against reality is likely to be . fatal in the long run.

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                farmerbraun

                “Our solar system’s barycenter constantly changes position. Its position depends on where the planets are in their orbits. The solar system’s barycenter can range from being near the center of the sun to being outside the surface of the sun. As the sun orbits this moving barycenter, it wobbles around.”

                So what can be said to be the effect on climate of changes in the position of the barycentre of our solar system?
                Anything ?

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                el+gordo

                ‘Anything ?’

                A cosmological approach is worthwhile, but we need to see runs on the board to prove the point. Historical repercussions or paleo climate history?

                I agree that AGW is pseudo science, which gives us a winning edge because pure unadulterated science will eventually make fools of the zealots.

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                Graeme No.3

                The claims are that Jupiter and Saturn are aligned every 11 years and in opposition (i.e. on opposite sides) every 11 years.
                Some think this might explain the 11 year solar cycle.

                Then it appears that the Sun returns to the same position to the barycentre every 179 years, which seems rather similar to the 180 year climate cycle some have claimed. Let’s see 2022, 1843 (1), 1664(2), 1485(3), 1306(4), 1127 (5), 948(6) , 769(7), 590, 411(8), 232, 53 AD.
                (1) Second mild winter in England followed by cold and wet weather from 1845 then Irish Famine.
                (2) Cold and rainy in London & SE. Following 2 years had warm summer Plague and Fire. Followed by the depths of the Little Ice Age.
                (3) In a period of variable weather esp. wet and cold.
                (4) A severe winter across Europe
                (5) A period of severe wet and cold weather
                (6) 3 years of very dry weather in England
                (7) a period of cold winters but fewer storms. May have helped the Viking raiders.
                (8) Huns sacked Rome the previous year. Not sure it was due to Climate Change.

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                farmerbraun

                “pure unadulterated science”
                The problem with that is that it can’t be done until we have a list of the independent variables that need to be eliminated as causes.
                That’s the minimum requirement to get falsification of the null hypothesis .
                That requires us to have a Unified General Theory of Climate Variation.
                I’ve never seen one.
                All we have for sure is that the CO2 conjecture is falsified by the models.

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                el+gordo

                The Irish potato famine was caused by the late blight pathogen, introduced to Europe in the 1840s, not climate change.

                Plagues in Europe usually came from the Far East through trade and are not directly linked to climate change. The fires in London were probably exacerbated by hot winds off the Sahara.

                The 1306 date is on the money, but its worth remembering that correlation does not prove causation.

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            Crakar24

            You still get solar max during a GSM…….

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              Memoryvault

              Maybe we are talking at crossed purposes here, Crakar.
              GSM is a period low total solar irradiance (TSI).
              What do you mean by a “solar max”?

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                farmerbraun

                “The orbit path of the sun as the locations of barycentre and planets alter is complex, as demonstrated by Fairbridge. This divergent behavior causes widely varying outputs of energy from the sun on a regular basis, and these variations in the interactions between the sun and the planets have been assessed by various geological and related studies. The variations in energy correlate with uncanny precision with past vagaries of the Earth’s climate on a cyclical basis, the periodicity being about 179 years.

                The correlations with recurring periods of very cold weather, as evidenced by historical data, can only be described as irrefutable.”

                This is what you’re talking about , right?

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                el+gordo

                The Fairbridge forecast failed to materialise, do you know why?

                ‘Some years ago Fairbridge predicted that the next cooling period would commence in about 2006, and would be evident by 2011; and his prediction thus conforms with recent atmospheric temperature data …’

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                Memoryvault

                Thank you for that link, Farmerbraun.

                Yes, that is the GSM cycle I was referring to. At high school we were taught it was an approximately 150 year cycle, but that was half a century ago. So I will happily accept the 179 year cycle stated in the report as more accurate.

                I get my retrograde starting date of 2004 from articles in WUWT circa 2009, but I don’t think the two year difference to Fairbridge’s 2006 is worth quibbling about.

                More importantly, Fairbridge’s paper accurately describes what has been happening these past fifteen years since it was written. I urge everyone reading this now, to spend five minutes reading the report, and copy or bookmark it for future reference. Things are going down very quickly now.

                Having said all that, I think we are at crossed purposes to what Crakar is referring to, and I would really appreciate an expansion on what he refers to as “solar max”.

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                Memoryvault

                The Fairbridge forecast failed to materialise, do you know why?

                It didn’t? Thank goodness!!
                It must have been a figment of my imagination that people were still skiing at Thredbo mid-November, or that our cotton crops couldn’t be planted mid-October because it was too cold, or that most of SE Australia is experiencing temps 10 degrees below average, or that much of Europe and North America that are lucky to get snow by mid January, are currently digging themseles out of snowdrifts several feet deep.

                But then, I always did have a vivid imagination.

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                KP

                “I would really appreciate an expansion on what he refers to as “solar max”.”

                3 options I think-

                -The maximum output of the sun hitting Earth in W/SqM

                -The maximum number of sunspots in the current cycle

                -The size of this sunspot solar cycle compared to the overall waves since we started counting them.

                As far as I know we have lesser sunlight in W/SqM, are accelerating in sunspot numbers faster than expected, but yet to peak, and this cycle is smaller as we approach the grand minimum.

                However, there was that interesting bit about sunspots being smaller than usual…

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                el+gordo

                ‘It must have been a figment of my imagination.’

                World temperatures plateaued from 2000 to 2010, because of a negative Pacific Decadal Oscillation, but for some inexplicable reason it returned to its positive phase.

                https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_October_2022_v6.jpg

                Fairbridge was fairly accurate for those dates, especially 2010.

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    David Maddison

    More encroachment of the UN World Government into Australia.

    I bet they’re not doing any inspections in China, North Korea or Iran….

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-01/qld-attorney-general-fentiman-law-united-nations-torture/101717222

    Queensland to change laws to allow United Nations physical access to mental health in-patient wards

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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    John Connor II

    Biden the liar caught out. Nothing’s changed

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1597791904846209024

    A historical video of our apex predator…

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    Ross

    My municipality in regional Victoria publishes a monthly newsletter. All froth and bubble mostly highlighting all the “woke” things local government are wasting my council fees on. December edition arrived today. Story on what is being called a “Survival Day” ceremony which is to be celebrated ( ?) on 26/1/23 – yep, Australia Day. Also a dawn service, so maybe has similarities to Anzac Day. Organised by some Koorie activist group , all with the blessing of local council. So, on the day we should be celebrating our great nation by bringing all of us together, this lot will be up at the crack of dawn having a big whinge – dividing us up. So, we’ve had “Invasion Day”, now we have Survival Day. My first thought – that scene in Monty Python, Life of Brian. Someone asks ” What did those bloody Romans ever do for us?”. Another answers quietly, ” umm, modern sewerage facilities”. Someone else ” … roads”. Keep a watch out for you local council – I’ll bet it’s nationwide.

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    another ian

    “Don’t Be So Sure That The Climate Extremists Have “Won” ”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/30/dont-be-so-sure-that-the-climate-extremists-have-won/

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      another ian

      And upcoming –

      “From the MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN

      Francis Menton

      Undoubtedly, the question right now at the top of everyone’s mind is, When is the Manhattan Contrarian’s Energy Storage Report coming out? After all, he previously promised it for September, and then October, and here we are almost in December and we still haven’t seen it.

      It’s a fair question. Being a blogger, I don’t have much appreciation for the formalities of the publication process. In blogging, you finish the post, do a quick proofread, press “Publish,” and there it is. With this, it has been rounds of peer review, editing, typesetting, proofreading, and so forth. However, I’m now told that the official issue date will be Thursday, December 1.”

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    David Maddison

    Here is the Bureau of Mediocrity’s assessment for November 2022. I’m shocked. They actually admitted it was cooler than average. I was fully expecting “one of the hottest eeevveeerrr”.

    Perhaps it was so cold that the required data alterations would have been too great and too obvious, even for these masters of data manipulation with the secret data “homogenisation” algorithms.

    http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/month/aus/summary.shtml

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      b.nice

      Read somewhere that Queensland has just had its coldest summer day EVAH !

      Have not had time to verify.

      Here in the mid-Hunter, was wearing a tracksuit top except while doing manual outside work. Quite chilly !!

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        Hanrahan

        I reckon Nov was pretty cool even in the tropics. Last night I switched the fan off at about 4 AM. Windy.com says it was 21 deg but I am usually a little cooler than official readings. First day of summer.

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      another ian

      But will be fixed by next month?

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        Graeme No.3

        Too late for South Australia; the BOM has admitted November was 2℃ cooler than average. But we can expect 2 “hot days” this weekend.

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          el+gordo

          Cool and wet is the order of the day. With all this negative feedback how can the zealots blame CO2?

          ‘Based on spatially-averaged rainfall, Australia just had its 2nd wettest spring in records dating back to 1900, beaten only by 2010. More locally, it was the wettest spring on record for NSW, Victoria and the Murray-Darling Basin.

          ‘It was also an abnormally cool spring for large areas of Australia, due to increased cloud cover from La Nina, the negative IOD and positive SAM, combined with the passage of several unseasonably strong cold fronts.

          ‘Based on daytime maximum temperatures, it was the coldest spring since 1976 in NSW, 1992 in Vic and WA and 2010 for Qld, SA and Australia as a whole.’ (Weatherzone)

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    David Maddison

    Video:

    Huge collection of “green” electric scooters that have reached the end of their battery life.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/teRPoC1rLBc

    No further information is supplied but there are many thousands, maybe more.

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    John-Paul

    Anyone seen this document on how we are going to get to 100% RE?
    If you go to the page, in the middle there’s a PDF report.

    Some salient points:

    The NEM will reach the point where it can operate at 100% instantaneous penetration of renewables many years in advance of the time where it can operate at
    100% renewables on an extended basis (over many weeks or months).

    and then:

    The term ‘100% renewables’ is used throughout this report to refer to the first instance of operation at 100% instantaneous penetration of renewables

    So, 100% renewables will be 100% at any instant – for how long? Then ‘they’ will claim that we have achieved 100% RE.
    And this all depends on how much wind will be blowing each night.

    It’s scary reading 101 pages of complexity with no costs.

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    David Maddison

    People often ask me how to preserve wealth through the coming economic collapse and increasingly Marxist totalitarian governments throughout the West.

    Gold is an obvious preserver of wealth but highly impractical for many reasons.

    Real estate is not secure because it can be confiscated, or, heavily taxed by governments forcing you to sell (I expect that to happen before the end of the Andrews regime in Vicdanistan, Australia).

    I don’t think crypto is fundamentally secure either.

    Any ideas?

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      Memoryvault

      There are no guarantees, David, but my ploy has always been to have a little bit of everything – excluding stocks and bonds at the moment, and crypto never.

      I also have a few grand in a Perth Mint GoldPass account. WA is the only state that isn’t bankrupt, the Perth Mint is wholly state govt owned, and I think McGowan has set up GoldPass as the basis for his own gold-backed currency if the shyte really hits the oscillator.

      It also is a trading bank account (Westpac) which offers some protection against bank bail-ins. The account is designed to buy gold, but you don’t have to – you can just use it as a normal trading account. I hold some gold and some cash reserve in it.

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      yarpos

      Why is gold highly impracticle?

      Might not suit some but I don’t see it being that different from other asset classes in term of practicality. Subjective I guess.

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      KP

      A few tons of copper under the house? Foodstuffs are always perishable, artworks subject to fads, stocks just gambling, so anything that can be sold on later. Silver maybe more than gold for trading as coin, but for real wealth gold is better.

      So much wealth has been moved around the world in jewelry.

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      David Maddison

      Ultimately the only thing we get to keep is what’s inside our heads. And even that’s under assault with massive brainwashing from the Left that the weak-minded (which would be most people, present company excepted) in society are highly susceptible to.

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        Hanrahan

        In Europe gold can be the difference between life and death – if you have the gold sewn in the hem of your coat to bribe a border guard.

        It is said, with reasonable accuracy, that a Roman could dress himself befitting a man of standing with an oz of gold. At A2,600/oz today it is much the same.

        Personally I have a stash of round 50c coins. Each contain a third oz of silver. I have enough to eat [no I do not intend eating the coins] during an even prolonged bank holiday. It’s insurance that doesn’t expire in 12 mths.

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      Hanrahan

      Why do you believe gold to be “highly impractical”?

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    David Maddison

    Update on Mauna Loa.

    This YouTube channel, GeologyHub, is very good and gives daily updates on all sorts of geological situations in under 5 mins.

    https://youtu.be/SIB3CupE1h8

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    KP

    Poland has over 5000 soldiers serving in Ukraine, and Russia says their status is causing jealousy amongst the Ukrainians. They have supplied Ukraine with arms and are quite close, especially as part of Ukraine used to be Polish. Zelenski recently made it visa-free for Poles to go to Ukraine and work/live.

    Now the Russians say Poland has a plan to take Western Ukraine back, leaving a central Ukraine as a buffer between Poland and the East of Ukraine Russia is taking.

    https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/rosia-schedio-prosartisis-tis-dytiki-oukranias-apo-polonia-poies-perioches-pairnei-o-zelenski-chorigise-eidiko-kathestos-stous-polonous/?_x_tr_sl=el&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB

    Head of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen, said the Russians have killed 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers, which is similar to what Russia says, and that suggests a quarter of a million soldiers injured. After the instant outcry she deleted the tweet and replaced it with one that doesn’t mention casualties.

    https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/ektakto-diloseis-vomva-komision-pano-apo-100-000-nekroi-oukranoi-kai-200-000-travmaties-anakoinose-eidiko-dikastirio-kata-poutin-kai-rosias/?_x_tr_sl=el&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB

    Also in there, apparently we are keen to chip into the $US1,000,000,000,000 that Zelenski wants to rebuild Ukraine. If there’s only 30million Ukies left, that’s $US300,000 per person, and a $US goes a long way in a dump like Ukraine.

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    yarpos

    Does the Trillion include the Big Guys 10% and the recirculation back to the Dems? Or is there a service charge as well?

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    KP

    Couple of nice posts by Caitlin Johnstone-

    “NATO has doubled down on its determination to eventually add Ukraine to its membership, renewing its 2008 commitment to that goal in a meeting between the foreign ministers of the alliance in Bucharest, Romania this past Tuesday.
    The recent push to expand NATO in Ukraine along with nations like Finland and Sweden as justified by “Russian aggression” is a good example of what professor Richard Sakwa has called the “fateful geographical paradox: that NATO exists to manage the risks created by its existence.”
    The US is pushing European allies to take a harder stance towards Beijing as it tries to leverage its leadership on Ukraine to gain more support from Nato countries for its efforts to counter China in the Indo-Pacific.
    “NATO should be renamed ASFP: the Alliance for Self Fulfilling Prophecies,”

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/12/01/nato-exists-to-solve-the-problems-created-by-natos-existence/

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    KP

    This one too-

    “The Guardian has joined The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País in signing a letter from the five papers which collaborated with WikiLeaks twelve years ago in the publication of the Chelsea Manning leaks to call for the Biden administration to drop all charges against Julian Assange.

    If The Guardian really wants to help end the persecution of the heroic WikiLeaks founder, the best way to do that would be to retract those many smears, spin jobs and outright lies, and to formally apologize for publishing them.

    This is after all the same Guardian which published the transparently ridiculous and completely invalidated 2018 report that Trump lackey Paul Manafort had met secretly with Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy, not once but multiple times. Not one shred of evidence has ever been produced to substantiate this claim despite the embassy being one of the most heavily surveilled buildings on the planet at the time, and the Robert Mueller investigation, whose expansive scope would obviously have included such meetings, reported absolutely nothing to corroborate it. It was a bogus story which all accused parties have forcefully denied and no serious person believes is true, yet to this day it still sits on The Guardian’s website without retraction of any kind.”

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/11/30/the-guardian-could-help-assange-by-retracting-all-the-lies-it-published-about-him/

    and so on.. Mainstream media is corrupt, dishonest and as bad as we have always known.

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    John Connor II

    How dumb are glue-happy climate activists?
    THIS dumb:

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1598215498336202757

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    Andrew McRae

    Question for MemoryVault about impact of your “Inside News” and anti-ID card activities in the late 1980s.
    Were you ever the subject of harassment by shadowy forces of unprovable allegiance?

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      Memoryvault

      Not much in the way of “harassment by shadowy forces of unprovable allegiance”, Andrew. They were usually pretty open about it. At various times we had altercations with the AFP, ASIO, the CIA, MI6 and Mossad.

      But the scariest crowd were the guys from the British Admiralty – not MI6 – who report directly to the Crown, not the govt**. They were very specific about the future state of my health, and Marilyn’s, if we didn’t cease and desist publicising details about George H Bush’s ongoing protection of pedophile activities in the USA. That was after the Inside News issue about Alisha Owens that caused Bush to throw up at his State Dinner in Japan.

      That’s when we retired.

      ** If you reply to this don’t mention their name. It sets off autobots which neither of us want.

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    MrGrimNasty

    Lithium batteries causing fires in rubbish and recycling.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63809620
    Considering how widely they are used now, often in disposable products, you are never going to stop people disposing of them in general waste. This is leading to massive fires in recycling centres and no doubt soon some landfill sites will set alight and burn for decades.

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      David Maddison

      “Vaping” devices are frequently disposed of inappropriately.

      They contain a genuine lithium ion rechargeable battery even though the devices are not rechargeable.

      Electronics enthusiasts salvage these batteries and use them in projects.

      I can post some YouTube videos if anyone’s interested.

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        MrGrimNasty

        Yep, see them all over the place, street (usually squashed), beach, parks, countryside….
        Another stupid thing that should be banned.

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      yarpos

      I recently dismantled an old laptop to recover the SSD out of it. When i disposed of the carcass though i did the right thing and put it in the Ewaste bin at the tip. That way it can ignite all the other batteries when it catches fire.

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    David Maddison

    Now the EU commies are going after Elon Musk and Twitter.

    SEE video by Dr Steve Turley.

    https://youtu.be/KkjyHlyl_-8

    There is nothing more terrifying to a Leftist than free speech or alternative opinions.

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    another ian

    Things graduates from UHK* come up with

    “The World as We Know It Ends If It Can’t Find Its Bearings”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/01/the-world-as-we-know-it-ends-if-it-cant-find-its-bearings/

    * UHK = University of Hard Knocks

    And on trains

    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/12/01/coulda-had-a-pipeline-14/

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      KP

      “As society’s fortunes increase, succeeding generations become farther removed from where things really happen. People flock to cities, where food just appears in supermarkets, where fuel appears in gas stations, where power appears in sockets, where everything else is on Amazon and on the doorstep the next day. It’s a bit of an illusion. The appearance of all this stuff is not automatic.”

      Ah.. so true! As mentioned, people who cannot drive a commercial vehicle are now in charge of driving whole countries.

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    another ian

    “The Insanity of ‘Zero Covid'”

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247530

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “So much for diversity”

    https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/12/so-much-for-diversity.html

    Now you’ve read it think about “The Voice”

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      another ian

      Particularly in light of this –

      “LABOR WILL NOT ALLOW INFORMATION OR DEBATE ON THE VOICE CONSTITUTIONAL VOTE”

      https://richardsonpost.com/joanna-hackett/29543/labor-cancelling-debate-on-the-voice/

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        KP

        Modern WEF Govt- Crush any opposition voice while running the propaganda machine at full speed.

        “According to Senator Pat Dodson, the Government reserves the right to run a minimalist education programme, because campaigning before the referendum could cause hurt and division. He says, “People need to be free to make their own decisions, not be badgered by negative racist views that are ill-informed, untrue and irresponsible.””

        Just like vaccines v. Ivermectin, or global warming v. reality, or renewable v. reliable power..

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    crakar24

    Looks like some politicians can still do math:

    The Albanese government has maintained the coalition’s net zero target by 2050 and set a new 43 per cent target
    by 2030, which also assumes an electricity generation target of 82 per cent from renewables. This, by the minister’s
    own admission, requires the installation of 22,000 solar panels every single day and 40 wind turbines every single
    month all the way up to 2030, along with tens of thousands of kilometres of transmission lines carpeted over regional
    Australia. In setting these grand targets, however, the government lacked an implementation plan and any credible
    economic modelling to back it up—despite having nine years to do so.

    Mr TED O’BRIEN (Fairfax) House of reps Hansard 24 NOV 2022

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    crakar24

    More from Ted:

    Issues of reliability will only worsen over time under this government’s settings. Set against a backdrop of
    increasing demand over coming years due to population growth and electrification, we have approximately 20
    gigawatts of coal-fired generator capacity due to close by 2035. That’s around 80 per cent of baseload capacity in
    the National Electricity Market gone. Here’s the issue: this baseload capacity is being removed without any
    guarantee of adequate replacements being up and running in time. To make matters worse, Australia’s not
    mothballing these plants but demolishing them, leaving us with no plan B for when the government’s rollout of 82
    per cent renewables fails. What has the government said about this? How is it acting on these premature closures?
    It has said nothing and it has taken no action, only escalating the risk for the reliability of the Australian grid.

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    The contretemps between Xi and Trudeau keeps coming back to me, and memories of reading about how China encourages useful idiots to put up seemingly anti China arguments, so things don’t look too obvious. But that was a very lame encounter, and at a time when Trudeau’s popularity was declining, it would give him a nice bump. He has said something else about their Chinese relationship, but I don’t remember if it was significant?

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