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Statistics
Despite rumours, I am still alive.
Happy Shatterday! Bring on Sunday!
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A little rain never hurt anyone! 😁
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Well, actually it can. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300794369/auckland-floods-death-toll-now-3-after-landslide-brings-down-remuera-house
Auckland shattered it’s 24 hour rainfall record; 249mm compared with a previous record of 161mm. Six-sigma+ events like this should be completely improbable, but as we know small changes in climate mean or standard deviation can result in vastly increased probabilities of extreme events. We also know that every one degree increase in temperature potentially increases precipitable water vapour by 7%.
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Record since when ?
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1872, but records aren’t considered reliably prior to 1909.
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So in other words it is a record from recent history only which may or may not be an accurate true and factual record in the history of the area over a greater time span and before rainfall was being counted in enzed.
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“but records aren’t considered reliably prior to 1909.”
So barely 100 years.. a geologically meaningless pinprick of time.
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Here’s the NZ cumulative rainfall record for the last seven days.
As you can see nothing even vaguely unprecedented has happened – depressions regularly affect the north of NZ, especially during la Ninas.
The particular longitude of the latest one is in no way remarkable , except for the unprecedented number of snowflakes in its path.
Try to be not such a [Snip]AD, as difficult as that may be for you .
https://www.metservice.com/maps-radar/rain/cumulative-rainfall?tab=last-7-days
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The maximum scale value on the chart is 200 mm/week but Auckland had 249 mm in a single day. Here’s another off-the-scale chart to help you appreciate the improbability of the event. https://twitter.com/marcdaalder/status/1619052447976292353/photo/1
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And this is observed global increase in daily rainfall records: https://twitter.com/rahmstorf/status/1619096528605581312/photo/1
Robinson, A., Lehmann, J., Barriopedro, D. et al. Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate. npj Clim Atmos Sci 4, 45 (2021).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-021-00202-w
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Maximum in the NZ is 869mm in a day.
Mean and deviation are meaningless because rainfall is not “normally” distributed.
Your comments are absolutely irrelevant to any rational scientific discussion.!
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Heat and rainfall as the planet climbs out of the COLDEST period in 10,000 years.
Be very grateful !
Now provide evidence of human CO2 causation
Massive FAIL so far. !
And taking data starting around 1950.
Are these guys scientifically hopeless or what !!
And NOTHING from RahmsDOOFUS is worth a speck of dust !
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And of course we know why they start in 1950, don’t we 😉
https://clivebest.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Global-Rainfall-1.png
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They should ask Australia’s BoM to look at it.
With their “modelling” (sic) they can recreate any historic weather data you require. They do it all the time with their secret “homogenisation” Al-Gore-rithm.
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So, Simon , records were not reliable before 1909. And yet the IPCC says temperatures have increased 1C since 1850-1900 but there were no records of T in 88% of the SH land. There was only 40% coverage of the NH pre 1900. There were millions of square miles of ocean not measured. It seems like having no records is ok with you when you want it to be ok.
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‘Six-sigma+ events like this should be completely improbable …’
Ex-tropical cyclone slams into the North Island, not exactly unprecedented.
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No, that was last week.
This was a northerly low blocked by a high with a low level converging jet combined with a marine heatwave.
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Copy that.
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY65100.pdf
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Its feasible, sea surface temperature above normal
‘ … this summer, the Wairarapa region experienced warmer than usual waters as a consistent 81-day long marine heatwave from November 2021 to February 2022 hit, with water temperatures at one point hitting 19 degrees.
‘Areas such as the Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, the Cook Strait and the Banks Peninsula are all currently enduring strong marine heatwaves, with the Chatham Islands and Stewart Island are expected to join them early next week.’ (Hub News)
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100 years is more than long enough to establish a rainfall probability distribution if the mean and standard deviation were invariant. The problem is city planners have built infrastructure which can not handle events which were considered impossible at the time.
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“. The problem is city planners have built infrastructure which can not handle events which were considered impossible at the time.”
A true statement; purely a result of mis-direction of ratepayer contributions over many decades.
End of story.
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“100 years is more than long enough to establish a rainfall probability distribution”
WRONG..
The LPIII estimation bounds at the top end are considerable.. and on a log scale.
BTW, the highest 24 hr rainfall event for NZ is 869mm, more than THREE TIMES this event.
NZ is a small country. Just a matter of where the rain cell hits.
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“The problem is city planners have built infrastructure which can not handle events which were considered impossible at the time.”
Auckland was built in 1841.
Remarkable how you keep coming up with gormless and fatuous comments !
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You are suggesting the city planners should put more thought into the impact of AGW, but NIWA didn’t predict that a marine heatwave might produce this spontaneous flood.
The general theory is that marine heatwaves are caused by blocking high pressure, so what exactly is causing the blocking?
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Simon
I have extreme rainfall and drought records for England going back 1000 years and extreme rainfall events were just as likely to occur during cold weather as during warm periods. During one cold period in the early 1300’s there was in effect three successive years of extreme rainfall which caused famine and destroyed bridges, mills and reshaped the landscape
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Simon, yet again trying to conflate a very localised high rainfall WEATHER event with “climate”
While totally avoiding finding and posting any actual scientific proof of human CO2 causation.
Its all in your “single-track-from-nowhere-to-nowhere” irrational non-thought processes.. !
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It isn’t so much that the events were considered to be impossible. More accurately, it would have been too expensive, so they decided to build more cheaply than they should have.
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It would be interesting to know when the major drainage channels were built.
If Auckland is like any other city, they were built using a WAG for size, and to a budget.
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‘The cause of the rain was a low pressure system of tropical origin. Swollen with the intense humidity typical of the tropics, the low moved southeastward from its initial position over the Coral Sea last weekend, to reach the North Island of New Zealand on Friday. The slow-moving nature of the low exacerbated heavy rainfall totals.’ (Weatherzone)
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Converging jet stream.
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/viewer/index.shtml?type=windbarb&level=200hPa&tz=AEDT&area=Au&model=CG&chartSubmit=Refresh+View
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Not another Climate get-together?
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“combined with a marine heatwave.”
So, absolutely NOTHING to do with human CO2.
Thanks ! 🙂
CO2 cannot cause ocean warming… you do know that, don’t you !
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Isn’t that more correctly that the likes of you feel such is the case?
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Or an alternative
“And the New York Times could be trusted back in 1960, although we could not afford a subscription to it.
Now, when someone quotes the New York Times, I always ask:
“Is that true, or did you read it in the New York Times?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/27/nyt-bomb-cyclone-or-just-windy-with-a-chance-of-hyperbole/
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So funny that Simon tries to make increased rainfall seem like ‘settled science’. Yet for years the alarmists like Flannery tried to scare the sheeple with visions of endless droughts caused by global warming.
Answer this Simon, what caused any weather records before 1900, eg the record floods in Brisbane 1893?
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Simon, the NZ 24 HR rain record is a whisker short of 30″. Historically extreme and far deadlier weather this time of year is far from unprecedented. You’re using the climate scammers favourite statistical con by claiming an extreme rain event in one particular location is ‘almost impossible’, whereas it is bound to happen somewhere in NZ fairly often.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_New_Zealand
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A brief study of the geomorpholgy shows that MUCH MUCH larger floods occurred in the past.
The region was formed by large floods.
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Now where is the evidence that human CO2 affected this current NATURAL rainfall event ?
Still TOTALLY LACKING as always ??
As usual, Simon has nothing but FAKE INNUENDO !
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Auckland was not formed by large floods, it is a isthmus formed by a geologically recent volcanic field.
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Then worked on by numerous high rainfall events.
It is high rainfall area. Get over it.
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Simon, NIWA has 100 events for Auckland flooding, let alone the whole island.
https://hwe.niwa.co.nz/search/summary/Startdate/n-a/Enddate/n-a/Regions/Auckland/Hazards/Flooding/Impacts/all/Keywords/none/numberOfEvents/20/page/1
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1928.. wide ranging floods in the Auckland region.
https://hwe.niwa.co.nz/event/July_1928_Waikato_and_Auckland_Flooding
A concentrated rain cell hit Auckland directly this week… Just bad luck.. but NOT UNUSUAL for the region.
No human CO2 causation whatsoever.
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Auckland recorded 4.29 in (10.90 cm) of rain in 48 hours to 9am on the 23 July 1928. On Friday 27 January 2023, Auckland recorded 24.9 cm of rain in 24 hours. The two events are not comparable.
Prof. Renwick has this to say about the event: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/the-auckland-floods-are-a-sign-of-things-to-come
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Thanks for confirming this is a very localised WEATHER EVENT..
NO human causation whatsoever. !
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“A sign of things to come”
ROFLMAO !!
Poor guy has crystal balls.
A Flannery moment to be sure. !
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“a-sign-of-things-to-come”
And just how many times have we seen similar “climate” comments from self-styled “climate gurus”
… only for the very opposite to turn up over the next several years.
Way to make a fool of himself… Gore, Wadhams, Flannery, Little Hummber, the “children won’t know what snow is” guy
and many many more.
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Simon has ignored the 30″ 24 hour record I posted above. It is not a sign of climate change that an extreme rain event happens a few hundred miles from where it previously happened. Like I said, it’s the alarmist favourite statistical con. And Auckland flooding is common.
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“Now where is the evidence that human CO2 affected this current NATURAL rainfall event ?
Still TOTALLY LACKING as always ??”
Noted that Simon’s proof is still totally MIA.. as always. ! Hilarious. 🙂
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“events like this should be completely improbable”
With only 100 years of data. Seriously !!
You are really stuck on the basics, aren’t you
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It was was a localised downpour, as the NZ cumulative record shows. It has to fall somewhere Simon.
A couple of degrees of longitude is the only difference in this case.
Get over it.
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“climate mean or standard deviation “
Rainfall is not quoted in terms of “climate mean or standard deviation”
They are meaningless statistics when it comes to rainfall.
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And of course, only 2 years ago.. NZ was in drought
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-water-shortage-outdoor-use-set-to-be-banned-fines-of-up-to-20000/GBWJUEDZANNWUOVSP4J2ZAF2UY/
Its called WEATHER… for those who are perpetually confused.
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And last year it was the South Island that copped the downfall
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/127700264/south-island-weather-stations-record-1-metre-of-rain–more-than-christchurchs-annual-rainfall
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Report in 2020 https://www.stats.govt.nz/indicators/extreme-rainfall
Shows Auckland rainfall extremes as “very likely decreasing”. 🙂
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Noah would disagree. Ark. Ark.
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Isn’t that reserved for “‘erald Hangels”?
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I like Mondays…………………..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81Ojd3d2rY
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And best of all you CAN eat a Monday ham sandwich.
Or can you?????
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Baxter Black
“Timing has everything to do with the success of a rain dance”
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News from the BBC: Six women were spared jail time after causing £100,000 of damage by smashing the front windows of Barclays’ headquarters last April. They used chisels and hammers to break large glass panels.
During their trial they argued that Barclays staff would have consented to the damage if they were fully informed about the climate crisis and said they did not mean to cause as much damage as they did.
What punishment they received I can’t tell.
But, it seems to me there is about a 70/30 split of females to men in these violent climate activists. Perhaps, the media bias is that way. Or, heaven forbid, I’m wrong!
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A pathetic ‘defence’ which should not have been allowed. The world is quite mad. I wonder if anyone bothered to ask the opinion of the bank staff, or had they already been indoctrinated?
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They consider themselves “fully informed” ? I find that hard to believe really.
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Pfizer Pleased To Announce Their New Vaccine 90% Effective Against New Virus They Created
Lucky for us eh. When they release the new virus there’ll be a vaxx on standby.
What planning!
Reminds me of something…
https://babylonbee.com/news/pfizer-releases-new-vaccine-virus-combo-pack
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Victor Borge’s uncle got there first –
“The one who invented the cure for which there was no disease”
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I tried it. Didn’t work.
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Maybe upgrade to this one then?
THE SUPERSALESMAN
Slicker’n deer guts on a doorstep!
Smooth as a filly’s nose!
Here in this jug’s a miracle drug
So new that nobody knows!
Feed it inject it or plant it
Stick it under an ear.
Pick any breed, results guaranteed,
The data’s perfectly clear.
It’s good for foot rot in gophers,
Chafing on buffalo thighs,
Horses with corns, Angus with horns
And girls with fire in their eyes!
Goats with a bad disposition,
Lovers losing their spark,
Turpentined cats, blindfolded bats
And dogs that forgot how to bark!
Friends. Are you troubled with aphids?
Kids all down with the flu?
Cattle won’t gain? Needing more rain?
I’ll tellya what this’ll do;
Kill all the weeds in your garden,
Patch up your innertube,
Leaven your bread, stiffen your thread
And work out your Rubik’s cube!
Give you more miles per gallon,
Relieve your gastric distress,
If that ain’t enough, this wonderful stuff
Eats barbecue stains off your dress!
I see you don’t quite believe me!
The best I saved for last
Pay me the cash then quick as a flash!
See? Oh, I went too fast
Okay, let’s do it again.
Watch and you’ll understand.
Safe and improved, it gently removes
A five dollar bill from your hand!
Baxter Black, “Coyote Cowboy Poetry”
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Re that $US5 dollar bill
The poem was published in a 1987 book so adjust the price up to current $Pfizzer rates
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It was a Pfizer.
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On the honours system –
If a Flannery is 25 mm of rain how many dollars to a Pfizzer?
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Victor Borge’s uncle also came close to inventing soft drink. He first called it 4 Up, that never worked so he tried again and called it 5 Up. That failed as well and he tried again with 6 Up. That also failed so he gave up.
He never knew how close he got.
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Regardibg the Pfizer scandal from the previous thread, I fail to see how Walker “boasting” about doing something extremely immoral, dangerous and possibly illegal is going to lead to success on the “hookup” unless the other person is a serial killer and/or psychopath.
There was no incentive for Walker to lie about this.
He was accurately describing his job and Pfizer’s silence, the mainstream media’s silence and Walker’s temper tantrum suggest that it’s true.
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Being powerful is sexy. Walker could have exaggerated and embellished in order to impress (a fairly shallow) date.
He is saying he has powerful insider secrets. Get close to me, he offers, and I can share them…
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With the Pfizer scandal, now there’s an additional problem.
What’s Pfizer going to do about this?
They could claim Walker was lying and sack/fire him.
Or remain silent suggesting it’s true.
And if he is sacked, then they will likely be accused of “racism” since he was probably a “diversity” hire and not a merit-based hire.
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David,
After watching the video I reckon Mr. Walker wishes he could be
the OTHER Mr. Walker* (The Ghost Who Walks)
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‘Man Who Can Never Die’……….
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They’ve probably all ready created “vaccines” for both those problems?
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If you think about it David, corporations like Pfizer HAVE to hire arrogant, ignorant, amoral r soles for these positions. Otherwise there’d be whistleblowers every second day.
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Pfizer have faced down to these rumours head on and released a statement debunking them. Dr John Campbell has provided his usual very astute input. Indeed his cultural end comment is a master stroke.
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White House refuses to say whether Ukraine will receive toxic depleted Uranium ammo
A Biden official wouldn’t disclose whether Bradley Fighting Vehicles will be equipped with the anti-tank rounds, linked to cancer and birth defects.
Depleted uranium is a common byproduct of manufacturing nuclear fuel and weaponry, and, owing to its extreme density, ammunition made from the stuff is a fantastic way of punching through the thick armor of a tank and igniting everyone inside. But these anti-tank rounds also happen to be radioactive, extremely toxic, and have been linked with a variety of birth defects, cancers, and other illness, most dramatically in Iraq, where doctors reported a spike in birth defects and cancers since the Gulf War, when the U.S. fired nearly a million depleted uranium rounds, and the 2003 invasion of that country.
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/26/ukraine-uranium-bradley-fighting-vehicle/
Add to the tanks that take 6 months training to use, the lack of experienced maintenance crews for same as the tanks need 3 hours of maintenance per hour of use.
Ukraine is toast and the west doesn’t care.
Just take point and spare the western troops.
World Health Organization Recommends Stockpiling Meds for Radiological Catastrophe
The World Health Organization’s updated list of critical medicines puts a focus on radiological and nuclear emergencies.
The WHO says governments need to have treatments available for citizens exposed to radiation.
New formulas developed in the last decade have, in part, prompted the updated guidelines from WHO.
In the just-issued report, the WHO updated its list of medicines that governments should stockpile for these types of emergencies, including medicines that “either prevent or reduce exposure to radiation or treat injuries once exposure has occurred.”
“In radiation emergencies, people may be exposed to radiation at doses ranging from negligible to life-threatening,” Maria Neira, WHO acting assistant director-general of the Healthier Populations Divisions, says in a news release. She continues:
“Governments need to make treatments available for those in need—fast. It is essential that governments are prepared to protect the health of populations and respond immediately to emergencies. This includes having ready supplies of lifesaving medicines that will reduce risks and treat injuries from radiation.”
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a42688968/world-health-organization-stockpile-medicine-radiological-catastrophe/
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240067875
When will the west wake up and demand their leaders stop supporting the USA’s insane war against Russia, and understand this is the west’s war, not Russia’s.
Russia won’t take out Kyiv, they’ll take out every EU capital, Paris, London, Berlin, Brussels etc. You all lose. You’ll have a REAL extinction event to worry about, so rebel againgst that!
…time for 2nd coat of high temperature paint on the bunker.😎
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Time for a bex and a lay down.
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LGB doesn’t seem to listen to good advice
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“Bex Is Better”
The voice in the add was much deeper and more resonant than in this add for Bex, as far as i can remember:
https://youtu.be/q0rsiC-C8hs?t=13
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Is ivermectin on their list? They might need it in case a nasty virus were deployed.
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Meet The Organisation Behind The Media’s Climate Hysteria
In his Mail article this week, Ross Clark wrote about an outfit called Covering Climate Now (CCN):
This tougher tone in the media is partly down to an organisation called Covering Climate Now, an initiative by the Guardian and other outlets with Left-liberal leanings, to which some very high-profile news organisations, such as Bloomberg, Reuters, the Daily Mirror and Newsweek, have signed up.
It offers support to journalists to ‘forge a path towards an all-newsroom approach to climate reporting’. Its guidance includes: ‘Remember, an extreme weather story that doesn’t mention climate change is incomplete and potentially even inaccurate.’
Bottom line, there’s no excuse to skip the climate connection in your stories. Here’s some simple language to help:
This [heatwave] is exactly the sort of extreme weather that scientists around the world associate with climate change/a warming planet.
This [hurricane] comes at a time when human-caused climate change is consistently making storms like it more intense.
You can also try an analogy or turn of phrase:
Climate change isn’t solely to blame for extreme weather, but…
… it stacks the deck against us.
… it’s baked in with our weather, and often a key ingredient in the outcome.
… it supercharges normal weather patterns, like steroids.
https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/your-guide-to-making-the-climate-connection/
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/meet-the-organisation-behind-the-medias-climate-hysteria/
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Jane Fonda: “There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism”
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1619070268802220034
I’m sick of “celebrities” and their idiotic opinions. More worthless people to ship to Golgafrincham.
C’mon Elon, Space-X can spare a ship surely.🤣
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“C” ark that “falls” into a distant sun, perhaps?
With non-stop Vogon poetry as a sound-track.
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For the youngsters –
Vogon poetry
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Phew, for a moment I thought you said Vegan Poetry!
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I doubt Hanoi Jane has much cred in any community these days
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Jane Fonda had more credibility as Barbarella. “Who can save the Universe?”. Unfortunately she clearly thought it was her life’s work.
“Barbarella, an astronaut from the 41st century, sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.”
Unfortunately the evil scientists Durand Durand are still here
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Fonda bases her conclusion on premises that “everything is connected” and “everything causes everything”.
To everything there is a season and at times a reason for too many causes.
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Ricky Gervais skewering Hollywood on their opinions. How does Jane Fonda connect climate and race? In her world they’re both black and white.
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Don’t forget about this site ! (And I’ve posted about it before too)
https://joannenova.com.au/2019/08/3-weeks-to-go-til-climate-propaganda-week-starts/
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Tens of Thousands of Defibrillators Being Installed in UK Children’s Schools
On January 20, 2023, deliveries of defibrillators began to all state-funded schools in England. Typically, heart attacks and other cardiac issues which require rapid electrical stimulation of the heart in children are rare, explains Dr. Suneel Dhand, almost unthinkable. However, over 20,000 defibrillators will now be in nearly 18,000 schools by the end of the academic year.
https://rairfoundation.com/tens-of-thousands-of-defibrillators-being-installed-in-uk-childrens-schools/
Do your part to stop heart attacks from climate change. Get a defibrillator for your school today!
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“Numbers needed to vaccinate data”
To prevent ONE hospitalisation
Dr John Campbell
https://youtu.be/fbFayD_S_54
Unfavourable risk / benefits
Via SDA
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COV-19 enters the body through the nose and replicates there at first.
The vaxxes are introduced in the arm muscle and is spread through the body by the blood vessels. There the immune system could, is said, start activity.
But where is the virus ? In nose and throat, with a first immune system at it’s own…
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The Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 is “Delivered” to All Organs via the Endothelium and Induces Systemic Nonsense mRNA Translations Resulting in Hyperaccelerated Aging
The Spike Protein, in Essence, Acts as a Progeria Drug
Since the appearance of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein, the world has been stunned and puzzled by the increase in sudden deaths and dramatically increased excess mortality which continues to accelerate with each passing year. Curiously, there is a plethora of causes for these excess deaths. It is not just a “pandemic” of sudden cardiac arrests, cancers or neurodegenerative diseases. It is a hodge-podge of the lot, with no seeming singular cause.
Until now.
All these deaths can be explained in a very clear and concise way. They are all CAUSES OF DEATH SEEN IN THE OLDEST OLD. One only needs think of the final scene of The Godfather III, where Corleone falls over dead from his chair – expected in an individual of advanced age. Not so in a 26-year-old – unless their heart has been “transformed” into that of a nonagenarian.
COVID-19 has been generally regarded, of late, as an Endothelial disease. I have called this SPED (Spike Protein Endothelial Disease). However, I was not satisfied as this being the ultimate cause of all the pathology being observed. Therefore, I endeavored to look deeper, to find what is ACTUALLY causing the pathologies. What I discovered is most alarming.
I believe that STAGE I of Spike Protein Progeria Syndrome (SPPS) is an Endothelial “reaction” to the INVASION of the Spike protein INTO ALL OF THE MAJOR ORGANS. Consider this much like the shock of being submerged in freezing water, or being blasted with fire. There is INSTANTANEOUS damage: inflammation, coagulation and all that accompanies an insult to the Endothelium.
However, once the Spike Protein has INVADED the Endothelium of all the major organs, it then PROCEEDS TO INDUCE MISTRANSLATION OF mRNA IN EACH ORGAN.
https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/urgentbreaking-updated-summation
I waited for someone else to post this, but no-one did.😉
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At first view, I can’t find the word vaccine, that’s the source of most of spike proteins….
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The only source really.. The virus doesn’t spread a spike protein, it binds to the cell wall using it, leaves it bound there with the envelope as the RNA enters, and when cell lysis occurs it releases mainly complete virus particles.
The virus won’t release raw spike proteins to float around the body like the vaccine does. I think he carefully avoided attributing the spike protein source.
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Hanrahan
Re your question on the last thread on excess deaths in states that used ivermectin
Dr Campbell
https://youtu.be/222G8VV6hx4
Uganda would have likely been using both Ivm and HCQ but he doesn’t seem to mention any excess deaths
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Around this area
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXGnkGH5eAIbEzPrdfIIT8CMtUY-p-FQMekUIGyvHvb63_XHtMs73FkYcM4N1CDB2zBaur5JhIlVjB-aO7sqoAEyNYMo1kjiZeiyMEucqqugE6_jshZ2LWYJkwMP3lY1-xsw_fSB2-ZbUGUNzf8JPIiFZ8cqmWocwhzrhiCOlrHgALGm8xlH9gXhRl8Q/s562/90milese215553b38f2f1841d9158257b63e542_f6606247_500.jpg
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Both HCQ and IVM are effective and safe antivirals against C-19 if used in accord with appropriate protocols, at least in places where they are not illegal for C-19 treatment or prophylaxis (not Australia). I wonder if they are even more effective for C-19 if used together?
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My guess is that it would work quite well, even where it’s illegal.
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Saturday entertainment: escape velocity, path and time considerations vs incoming liquid flow momentum dynamics
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rok130dD061ub2urw.mp4
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There is a cure for Go Woke Go Broke disease. If only Coon/Cheer cheese had included a pair of () and the word (Formally ….) things may have turned out so much better.
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The shelves at Woolies were bare of block cheese y’day but for cheers. I left it – too expensive.
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The misuse of our language is becoming a bigger problem daily. I’m sorry to pick on you (you are not Robinson Crusoe) but when I read your words above it took me far longer than it ought to have to make sense of it.
The word is “formerly.”
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No worries I accept and acknowledge your correct observation. Your time “lost” was time well spent.
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“NYT: Bomb Cyclone? Or Just Windy with a Chance of Hyperbole?”
“At least the New York Times has finally acknowledged that climate alarmist fearmongering has gone so far that even they can’t accept them. Hopefully, this won’t be the last time the NYT recognizes the serious flaws in the doomsday climate mania.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/27/nyt-bomb-cyclone-or-just-windy-with-a-chance-of-hyperbole/
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In comments there
“If the media are going to get people excited with “bomb cyclone”, I think they should go further and say this:
“This is the worst bomb cyclone since the last worst bomb cyclone. Scientists say this bomb cyclone is a symptom of the climate emergency, Putin’s war on Ukraine, and it is denied by Trump supporters”.
If the media want to BS us, why not go all the way and mention three different boogeymen: The climate emergency, Putin and Trump? Three boogeymen for the price of one.”
If you’re going to exaggerate then why not?
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Then you wonder if the hyperbole is ‘directed’ propaganda, you know like evolution, or is it just dying media in their last gasp for attention.
Could be both I guess.
Funny how coincidental cultural trends seem to always end up benefiting the Government/Elite Industrial Complex.
Somewhere there’s a billionaire at the palace gate of Trillionairedom.
As the rest of us face internment in a 15 Minute City.
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No no – it is directed propaganda, very deliberate and obvious to many:
https://joannenova.com.au/2019/08/3-weeks-to-go-til-climate-propaganda-week-starts/
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Its not directed propaganda from government or social elites, the editors of media outlets dramatise weather to make a dollar.
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The Price Of Eggs Soaring 138% Is No Coincidence
But times they are a-changin’. The average price for large Grade A eggs was $4.25 a dozen in December. That’s a 138% increase from $1.79 a year earlier, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. By the way, a dozen eggs cost $1.33 in August 2020.
The narrative being peddled by the industry is that there is a historic outbreak of avian influenza that has killed tens of millions of egg-laying hens. Maybe. Chicken has gone up, too. A pound of chicken cost $2.96 in March 2020 and last month hit $4.34.
But here’s one weird thing: Have you noticed a scarcity of eggs or chicken at the grocery store? I sure haven’t.
That’s what Farm Action, a farmer advocacy group, thinks. The group says the “real culprit” behind sky-high prices is a “collusive scheme” among top U.S. egg producers to fix prices to gouge consumers.
In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Farm Action said the alleged collusion has helped egg producers to “extract egregious profits reaching as high as 40%.”
And the letter said avian flu is not to blame.
“Examining publicly-available financial data from the egg industry, the letter determines that the supply disruption caused by the avian flu outbreak had an ‘apparently mild impact on the industry,’” the group said in a press release.
And the group said egg producers are making money hand over fist.
“For the 26-week period ending on November 26, 2022, Cal-Maine reported a ten-fold year-over-year increase in gross profits — from $50.392 million to $535.339 million — and a five-fold increase in its gross margins,” the letter said.
http://www.womensystems.com/2023/01/the-price-of-eggs-soaring-138-is-no.html
Sounds like eggtortion to me.
“Producer’s Pride” chicken feed sold by the Tractor Supply chain has been recently altered and that its new formulation is causing chickens to stop laying eggs. Some suggest a deliberate reduction in the amount of protein in the feed may be causing the reduction in egg production.
That’s the USA but here in Oz we’re starting to see panic buying and shortages looming.
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A good time to have an occupied and productive chook pen.
Other times the economics can be questionable
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We kept chooks when I was a boy, but I can’t see many families doing it properly today.
Every year we bought a couple of dozen day olds. As the cocks put on weight they were culled. One of us kids would chop its head off before going to school and help mum pluck it. Eventually it was the older hen’s turn. If your family is too straight for this it won’t work.
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Younger replacement rooster arrives and immediately struts up to the old incumbent and announces “Time to go old one the new blood has arrived”. The old rooster replies “Not so fast young ‘un. How about you prove how good you are with a race 3 times round the coop. Winner takes all. And to really impress the hens how about you give me a half length start.” The over confident young rooster readily agrees and with all the hens watching on the race starts.
First time round and the old rooster is maintaining his lead. Second time round and the young rooster has shortened the distance. Last time round and the young rooster is just about to catch and overtake when the farmer steps out on the porch and shoots the young rooster.
Turning back to enter the house he yells “Dammit Martha thats the third lgbt rooster Ive bought this week”.
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I’m not on a spotter’s fee
https://honestclimatescience.blogspot.com/
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And from that comment
“And the New York Times could be trusted back in 1960, although we could not afford a subscription to it.
Now, when someone quotes the New York Times, I always ask:
“Is that true, or did you read it in the New York Times?”
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Link
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/27/nyt-bomb-cyclone-or-just-windy-with-a-chance-of-hyperbole/
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FWIW
“No Matter Your View on Climate Change, Pricing CO2 Is Harmful… Why?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/27/no-matter-your-view-on-climate-change-pricing-co2-is-harmful-why/
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Wokeing at the Welcome Collection
“The strange death of “Medicine Man” ”
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2023/2/the-strange-death-of-medicine-man
No doubt they’ll replace him with honourings of the boss of Pfizzer?
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Some background to that
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Henry_Wellcome
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Some more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genome_Project
And Welcome is listed in the contributions.
However, if you read that section in
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Return-British/dp/0571214975
this wasn’t all sweetness and light and, but for Welcome Trust funding, the human genome sequence would have been patented
IIRC as it is a while since I read that one
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https://reason.com/2023/01/27/twitter-files-matt-taibbi-hamilton-68-russian-bots-fake/
News out of the USA about Russian bots and Russian troll farms were largely based on fake lists. How long until news organisations correct their articles accordingly, if at all ?
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“Volcanic eruption in Tonga will contribute to global cooling
“When the underwater volcano in the island nation of Tonga in the South Sea had its explosion-like eruption on January 15, 2022, a massive pressure wave, more powerful than the largest atomic bomb, spread through both the Earth’s oceans and atmosphere. The catastrophic event created a record-high ash and gas cloud that continues to spread over the earth.
“Much worse is that it has dramatically reduced solar radiation over large parts of the earth and caused the temperature in the atmosphere to drop drastically, which affects agriculture in the southern hemisphere. A selection of available new data reveal that the authorities tried to hide the extent of the disaster. There is a historical connection that is relevant too.”
https://freewestmedia.com/2023/01/05/volcanic-eruption-in-tonga-will-contribute-to-global-cooling/
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The world is likely already cooling, even before the eruption.
The eruption will be used to cover up the Fact that claims of anthropogenic global warming are wrong.
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What happened to the murky red sunsets that volcanoes used to cause ?
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There is no indication that cooling will result from the Hunga Tonga eruption.
‘ … after two weeks, due to dispersion/dilution, water vapour heating started to dominate the top-of-the-atmosphere radiative forcing, leading to a net warming of the climate system.’
(Sellitto et al 2022)
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So the record-breaking water vapour release is heating the Earth, the record-breaking ash release is cooling it..
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With the “climate change” scam you get to have global warming and global cooling simultaneously.
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Mostly water vapour, but according to NASA … ‘It does not appear that a sufficient quantity of sulfur dioxide was released to cool Earth’s climate.’ (Washington Post)
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The electric vehicle hoax
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/the-electric-vehicle-hoax/
… But the fact that a major blooper could make its way into Australia’s mainstream media is telling. The headline screamed that Tesla is now Australia’s largest-selling car. OK, it’s Australia’s largest-selling car within the category of mid-size sedans which no one really buys these days. It even outsold Toyota’s shunned Camry, although Toyota is the largest-selling car maker overall.
Just take a look at the figures. Tesla sold just under 11,000 vehicles in 2022 out of 1.1 million in total. That’s right, Tesla accounted for 1 per cent of all sales. (Electric vehicles in total accounted for only 2 per cent of all sales.) It didn’t rank in the top 10, 20 or 30 of the top-selling cars but, hey, when the PR urgers push a line, does it really surprise anyone that this line about Tesla being the highest-selling car is regurgitated by the press? …
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Quote from White House Press Secretary
How about people get employed according to the content of Their character and competence for the job rather than the colour of their skin or some other characteristic unrelated to the job. These people are just being employed so the diversity boxes can be ticked plus it results in unfair discrimination against heterosexuals, whites and males.
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In other words the Left are heterophobic, racist and misandrist.
But no surprise there.
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Three months after testing positive to Covid (a very mild reaction), yesterday I received an SMS from Vic Dept of Health saying that I may now be eligible for another vaccine dose. But there seems to be virtually no publicity about more boosters, compared to the previous mandates?
Their coronavirus website says almost nothing about the vaccine program, but focuses on antivirals for those most at risk.
Buried deep on the site it says: Everyone aged 30 years and older can have two boosters. Boosters should be 3 months apart. I’ve had two boosters.
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From Dr Robert Malone:
“People are hitting Google like crazy with queries regarding Jordon Walker, Pfizer and Veritas. As they did when I said “mass formation psychosis”, Google manually interferes with the searches, returning wishy washy “these results are changing rapidly” screens instead of actual links. So, now we have a pretty clear smoking gun involving collusion between Pfizer and Google to suppress the story. Then everything, anything, having to do with Jordon Walker, MD gets memory holed. Wiped from the internet, including the Wayback machine. And then the chaos agents, bots and trolls descend on all social media channels. Sowing doubt that Jordon Walker is even a real person. Floating paranoid conspiracy theories that this is all a big deep fake set up of Veritas, O’Keefe and myself.”
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similar to how the Hunter Biden Laptop with Pedophilia, drug taking, prostitution and all kinds of Dodgy business dealings was dealt with. “Too good to be True”. “Make the lie so Big, the people will have to believe it”
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Queensland is supposed to be heading towards 50% renewables by 2030, with new commitments of 70% renewable energy by 2032, and 80% by 2035.
At 7pm last night, solar 0.4%, wind 3%, hydro 4%, battery 0.9%, coal 72% and the balance gas.
Average for the last year, solar 17%, wind 3%, hydro 2%, coal 69% and the balance gas.
During summer, solar has been contributing 40-50% of demand in the middle of the day, but it’s hard to see that doubling by 2030 without a lot of really, really big batteries.
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When the anti-energy lobby say “x percent renewables” do they mean nameplate or actual deliverable capacity?
I suspect they tell the usual lie and claim the ruinables installation produces its nameplate capacity rather than a third of that number, and then only at random.
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South Australia is up around 70% of its electrical energy from wind and solar. That is possible through using Victoria as their really big battery. When the wind and sun are good, SA exports a lot of energy to Victoria. That counts as SA generation. On calm nights, SA imports power from Victoria and that would be classed as the mix of generation in the market, mostly fossil fuel. The accounting trick is to add up the energy produced by wind and solar, including an estimate for rooftop solar, in SA and divide that by the energy consumed to arrive at the 70%. It is quite possible for SA to generate more than 100% of its demand. The excess goes off to Victoria (or NSW) and adds to the percentage of generation in the accounting.
Canberra is 100% “renewable”. They achieve that from wind and solar generators that gets used anywhere in Australia and they pay the difference for the power they actually need when they need it. It is a time shifting cheat that is the basis of a huge Ponzi scheme; and Canberra got in first.
Germany claims 40% “renewable” energy but that has its own cheats similar to SA. They get 28% of energy from wind and solar. The other 12% is hydro and biofuels. Similar to SA, they also use other regions as batteries. So they export a lot when wind and solar are doing well and import when W&S are down. So when accounting they do a similar fudge to SA.
Both SA and Germany export their intermittency and even pay to get others to take it. However the intermittency brings massive penalties to dispatchable generators. Their market share is eroded and they force up prices when the opportunity presents so they remain profitable. Norway can potentially benefit from German intermittent power by conserving perched water but I have been told last year that there has been high demand and their water is low. Maybe all the electric vehicles!
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Glenn Beck: Modern Scottish Warrior Neil Oliver
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From Dr Robert Malone
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/pfizer-responses-to-veritas-expose
Pfizer Responses to Veritas Expose
A Primer on Modern Crisis Management when you can control Google, Corporate Media, and have virtually unlimited Social Media assets
Robert W Malone MD, MS
10 hr ago
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Well, first nuclear part of the USA/Russia war in Ukraine will be the use of radioactive uranium ammunition in the Abrams tanks the Yanks are promising to send. Russia’s nuclear reply might be slightly different..
The French are walking backwards now, no tanks available to send, none made in the last 15years. 226tanks in service, 40% for training and 60% on active service.
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/exegersi-stratigon-stin-gallia-le-monde-den-echoume-armata-machis-leclerc-gia-na-trofodotisoume-to-kievo/?_x_tr_sl=el&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
The Poles are always up for a war, they are sending 60 tanks of their upgraded T72 series. That will give the Ukies the most useful tanks, the British, German, French and American tanks are all completely different and will just be a logistics nightmare.
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The Abrams tanks run gas turbines and very advanced combat systems.
I doubt the Ukes will be able to maintain them.
So, what happens next is American “advisers” have to be sent in to help them, then….the Americans have to send in troops to.protect the advisors and on it goes…
And then, also, the Ruskies and Chinese get their hands on America’s most advance tank to discovers it’s weaknesses and reverse engineer it and steal it’s technology.
It’s insanity, and treason.
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The US is damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
The Abrams tank is NOT suitable for Ukraine and the Yanks were justified in not committing them, so they were criticised. Now they have agreed they are criticised for escalating it.
Their own tanks with DU armour and secret bits cannot be sent so they are manufacturing a new batch especially. Hopefully Ru will collapse before they are finished.
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Unlikey that Ru will collapse, judging by the way things are going so far.
Ukraine has lost the equivalent of 2 armies plus all their airforce and armour.
Sanctions are hurting the West but Russia hardly at all.
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Notice how the Left said Trump would start WW3? He bought nothing but peace.
As usual everything the Left says is the opposite of truth. That is the nature of evil.
It’s Biden and his handlers that are starting WW3.
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Brought not bought.
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You won’t see this headline on Australian tv
https://expose-news.com/2023/01/27/52x-increase-deaths-australia-covid-vaccination/
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Dr Peter McCullough Melbourne meeting.
You will recall Eventbrite went fully woke and cancelled all tickets they issued.
An Australian company is now doing the reticketing.
https://www.ivvy.com.au/event/7HOK7P
I am not sure about arrangements for the Sydney and Queensland meetings.
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I might see you there David.
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Albo’s intervention into the energy market drives wholesale electricity prices plunge as much as 57% in December. Is this a little deceptive?
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“”John Howard, speaking in the House in 1989, stated: If the Government wants to divide Australian against Australian, if it wants to create a black nation within the Australian nation, it should go ahead with [ATSIC]. In the process it will be doing a monumental disservice to the Australian community. If there is one thing above everything else, that we in this Parliament should regard as our sacred and absolute duty, it is the preservation of the unity of the Australian people. The ATSIC legislation strikes at the heart of the unity of the Australian people. In the name of righting the wrongs done against Aboriginal people, the legislation adopts the misguided notion of believing that if one creates a parliament within the Australian community for Aboriginal people, one will solve and meet all of those problems.””
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“During 2017 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said; “To have a national representative assembly… which would be in the Constitution. And to which only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders could be elected, is contrary to the principles of equality of citizenship in Australia and it would inevitably be seen as a ‘third chamber’.”
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When asked for their “pronouns” some US conservatives and fellow rational thinkers respond “FJB” which means **** Joe Biden.
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Let’s Go Brandon!lol
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Earth’s Inner Core May Be Reversing Its Spin
This link from The People’s Cube for an update.
https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/earth-inner-core-reversing-its-spin-t23426.html
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TAKE NOTICE!
“There’s no way to confirm this, but watching just the same: Multiple reports that Israel(?) has launched military attacks on Iranian targets.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/01/28/developing-3/
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Try this
https://twitter.com/i/status/1619501064046387200
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There is no suggestion it was Israel. They are not threatened by Iranian drones as they have Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow 2, Arrow 3, Barak 8, Iron Beam etc. in their air defence suite.
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US debt limit comes into focus and there is talk of default, Beijing has told them to get their act together.
“Given the bickering in the US, it is no longer clear that the US’s form of democracy clearly works better than the autocratic CCP approach,” said Stephen Jen, who runs Eurizon SLJ Capital, a hedge fund and advisory firm in London. US political partisanship “is a major factor from which the Chinese Communists have derived considerable confidence in themselves.” (Bloomberg)
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FWIW
““Not only is there no threat from Russia that is independent of American policy, but it is also the expansion of NATO to ‘meet the threat from Russia’ that creates the very threat that expansion was supposed to meet.” — Alistair Crooke”
More at
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/pretend-o-rama/
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The impact of certain technologies on our society becomes to big.
And they became other tools for some to try to create a society as they envision it. It almost seems that the world is slowly ‘evolving’ towards a 2-tier society: the very rich and the obedient rest of us…. maybe I’m exaggerating….I really hope so.
YouTube:
“This WEF plan is the most INSANE one yet | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris”
This panel called “Ready for Brain Transparency” at the Davos World Economic Forum made us pretty nervous and it turns out, with good reason. In this panel, Duke University researcher Nita Farahany predicts that in the future, even healthy adults will use implanted technology in their brains in order to collect data from their brain for insights and convenience. She shows how big business and big government will use your brain data to make you a better worker. You want this?
Nita Farahany: “…rather than a mouse or a keybord, you can simply swipe with your mind, move your hand more seamlessly when you are in VR or use your brain as the way in which you interact with all of the rest of your technology which is an exciting and promising future but also a potentionally scary one, a transformative one that will change the way that we interact with other people and even how we understand ourselves
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on YouTube:
?? “Why are they hiding this about Klaus Schwab and the WEF? | Redacted with Clayton Morris” 18/01
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ChatGPT
Smartphones…. should be banned from every school.
iPads should be banned in Primary school
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‘Personal carbon allowances revisited/ Nature Sustainability 16 August 2021
Personal carbon allowances revisited (PCAs)
In particular, during the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions on individuals for the sake of public health, and forms of individual accountability and responsibility that were unthinkable only one year before, have been adopted by millions of people. People may be more prepared to accept the tracking and limitations related to PCAs to achieve a safer climate and the many other benefits (for example, reduced air pollution and improved public health) associated with addressing the climate crisis.
Other lessons that could be drawn relate to the public acceptance in some countries of additional surveillance and control in exchange for greater safety. For instance, in many countries, mobile apps designed for COVID-19 infection tracking and tracing played an important part in limiting the spread of the pandemic. The deployment and testing of such apps provide technology advances and insights for the design of future apps for tracking personal emissions.
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Cato Institute:
‘How Canada Made the Case for Cryptocurrency, Not CBDCs’
As Norbert Michel, Walter Olson, and I wrote when the news first broke, the main intent of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act was to freeze the bank accounts of those involved in the trucker protests without so much as a court order.
With that one call, Trudeau made the case for cryptocurrency abundantly clear: cryptocurrencies offer a way to protect one’s wealth from authoritarian governments and that’s a consideration that needs to be made even in one of the freest countries in the world.
Trudeau’s decision, however, did not just make the case for cryptocurrencies. It also made the case against central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs.
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‘Don’t Punish Crypto for the Sins of SBF’s FTX/ Cato Institute’:
Trainwrecks like FTX understandably cause people to question crypto’s ability to mitigate such risks by removing the middleman.
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
By Jack Solowey and Jennifer J. Schulp
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Brownstone Institute:
‘The Impending US ICD Vaccine Passport and Its Unconstitutionality’ Harvey Risch January 26, 2023
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US, ‘Video of Teacher Using Non-Binary Doll with Preschool Children Sparks Anger’
A video of a teacher teaching preschool-aged children about gender identity has sparked a furious backlash from politicians and parents online. Some viewers argued that it showed an indoctrination of young children and said they would withdraw their children from any similar class.
In the video a teacher called Maddie Piper uses a non-binary doll called Nash to chat to a group of 4 and 5-year-olds about gender identity. At one point they say: “The friend likes to ask the question: ‘are you a boy or a girl?’ And Nash answers: ‘I’m just a kid.'”
One child responds: “But kids can be boys or girls.” Other children, seemingly without prompting, chip in with “or they” and “or maybe non-binary.”
Discussing the classroom session, in a panel including Piper, another teacher says it is “a huge testament to how much we’ve been talking about it in the classroom” that it was a child that identified and mentioned the phrase “non-binary” first.
“Nash, just like me, is non-binary,” Piper tells the children in the clip. “So they aren’t sure if they’re a boy or a girl. So when people ask them ‘are you a boy or a girl?’, right now they just feel like saying: ‘I’m a kid’. They’re figuring it out.”
However, in their questions about Nash the children keep referring to the doll as “he,” and Piper has to repeatedly correct them.
The video was shown to daycare owners in North Carolina at a training session given by the North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children (NCAEYC). The clip is part of a wider film, Reflecting on Anti-bias Education in Action: The Early Years.
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