Monday

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    Glenn

    At last…first ?

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      crakar24

      First….at last?

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      b.nice

      You were first… not last ! 😉

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      Roger

      Jørgen Peder Steffensen, of Denmark’s Niels Bohr Institute, is one of the most experienced experts in ice core analysis, in both Greenland and Antarctica. This short, 4 minute video by him is a ‘Must Watch’ to understand the current ‘Climate Emergency’.

      Ice core temperatures within the borehole retain the temperature at the time the snow fell and created ice sheets which are over 3 kilometers thick. These temperatures have been measured inside the ice core borehole with ultrasensitive thermometers able to measure to one thousandth of a degree centigrade. Those measurements are now telling us what Earth’s temperatures have been over the last 10,000 years and more.

      In this video he explains a coincidence that has misled those alarmed about the warming recovery since the Little Ice Age. And if you skip to 2:25, you will see the huge error we have made and the assumptions and extrapolations based on that error.

      So, we can see from this that ‘Modern Warming’ is hopefully taking us back to temperatures that our ancestors enjoyed – there was never a Climate Emergency then and the earth and all living creatures and plants flourished under more beneficial, warmer temperatures.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1mjG_F8ppw

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        Lawrie

        Roger. That was a very informative video. So informative that I am surprised it has not been banned by the UN for it completely destroys their main argument that we are warming the world to a dangerous level.

        While I went for coffee the next video began. It goes for 26 minutes and it gave me hope that there are still some in the world, in this case Guatemala, where a young lady is fighting socialism and is gaining traction. She is also very attractive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUfRwYcaL-k . I wish she would come here because what she finds troubling in her country is beginning to happen here; bloated bureaucracies, promises of free stuff, government knows best particularly how to spend your money, collusion among big companies and of course a useless MSM. Worth watching.

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      Roger

      Studies in Germany have found that soils around wind farms are much drier than soil away from wind farms leading to speculation that they are (partly) responsible for drought.

      “Plastering the landscape with wind turbines for producing renewable energy may lead to regional drought.

      Germany has so far installed over 30,000 wind turbines, which is about 1 every 11 sq. km. Plans are calling for doubling or even tripling wind power capacity. But this may be detrimental as new studies show that wind farms are altering local climates, and thus may be having an effect on global climate and contributing to regional droughts.

      Northern Germany, for example, has a high concertation of of wind turbines and has seen an unusual dry spell since 2019. Fortunately, recent rains have alleviated these drought conditions. Alarmist climate scientists of course blamed rising CO2 emissions for the North German drought.Yet, a recent paper by Wang et al (2023) shows that wind farms reduce regional soil moisture, thus confirming earlier model simulations of wind-park-made climate change, e.g. by Zhou et al (2013).”

      https://notrickszone.com/2023/05/07/manmade-studies-suggest-that-wind-parks-cause-climate-change-even-regional-drought/

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        Glenn

        Thank you Johnny…I must admit, that timing is everything. I will now retire gracefully.

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    Arrived at the sweatshop (I wish) here in the Canberra bubble surrounded by snow-capped peaks ready for a hard days labour and noticed the mains voltage readout on the UPS protecting the expensive electronics – 227V!!

    Anyone would think it was cold and they all had the (non-gas) heaters on. Roll on winter….

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      David Maddison

      That is within permissible range:

      Australian standards require electricity to be supplied at 230 V (+10% to -6%), therefore providing an allowable voltage supply range between 253 V to 216 V.

      They have liberated power by shedding the Tomago Aluminium Smelter as needed which consumes 950MW and paying a huge price to do it. That’s one of the ways they hide the disastrous power situation.

      But wasn’t the ACT (Canberra) meant to run on 100% unreliables (obviously a government lie)?

      https://www.climatechoices.act.gov.au/energy/what-the-act-government-is-doing

      100% renewable electricity
      We source our electricity from renewable generators, such as solar and wind. These don’t produce any greenhouse gas emissions.

      Large-scale generators in the local area include:

      Mugga Lane Solar Park
      Williamsdale Solar Farm
      Royalla Solar Farm.

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        Ted1

        We need the world to know what load shedding has been done.

        How do we make sure it gets published?

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        Hanrahan

        Since when have we been 230 V? We should be 240V.

        Electronics is no longer voltage critical but your meter reads Amps so @ 230 V you are being cheated for 4% on your IxV power bill.

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          KP

          That’s what I thought H, at least for the last 70years! I suppose they’d say that if 240V was critical you’d have it protected.

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      crakar24

      I guess it was overcast then otherwise all the solar panels would have nudged it up over that 253V level

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    David Maddison

    Why should the clueless, the uneducated and the uninformed be forced to vote?

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      NuThink

      David, would this have anything to do with it?

      https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BriefingBook46p/PoliticalFinance

      Public funding
      Parties and candidates that receive more than four per cent of the primary vote are entitled to public election funding of an indexed amount multiplied by the number of votes they receive. The per-eligible vote public funding amount for the 2019 federal election is $2.756.

      In recent federal elections, public funding was paid as an entitlement, with all candidates and parties that received more than the four per cent threshold automatically receiving the full amount, unless they opted not to.

      Following legislative change in the 45th Parliament, parties and candidates who received at least four per cent of the vote will now receive an automatic payment of $10,000 (indexed). Any additional public funding beyond this will be capped at the per-eligible vote public funding rate, or the claimed electoral expenditure of the party or candidate, whichever is less. The AEC has the power to refuse to pay public funding for any expenditure which it is not satisfied is electoral expenditure.

      Political parties are not required to otherwise disclose their electoral expenditure, so at the time of publication it is not clear to what extent this new rule will affect the amount of public funding paid following the 2019 election. The total amount of public funding paid in respect of the 2016 federal election was just over $62.7 million.

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      Adellad

      Good question and it appears one of them had the temerity to downvote you on this post!

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      James Murphy

      I think the usual question would arise – how to decide who is clueless, and/or uneducated and/or uninformed?
      Compulsory voting has its problems, but then, so does voluntary voting.

      In terms of being uninformed, I had no interest in politics as a child, and didn’t know much about how the Australian system worked. I didn’t even know Australia had a constitution until some point in high school (maybe 1988-ish) when we all had a copy of it plonked on our desks and we spent some time understanding what was going on.

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      KP

      Well, which is in the bigger mess, Australia or NZ? Both very close in societies, but NZ does not have compulsory voting.

      When Govt forces you to do things its called tyranny.. Its all part of the scam they call democracy, a failed experiment when there are so many other ways of picking our leaders. We could reverse our failed Welfare State that has given undue emphasis on being poor, uneducated and a baby factory for money by giving everyone a vote, then another vote for finishing high school, another for a degree, and another for owning a company employing 10staff or more. …or just relate the number of votes you get to the amount of tax you pay…

      We would move the voting power to those who are productive.

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        ozfred

        productive may be defined in many different ways.
        depends perhaps on the final goal? or who is setting the goal?

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    TdeF

    I am listening to every podcast by Jordan Petersen. An amazingly clever and incisive person with vast tecnical and practical expertise in psychology. The precision in his words is unprecedented in my experience. As he says, he chooses his words very carefully, which is likely an understatement.

    However while the podcast with noted atmospheric and nuclear physicist Steven Koonin was very rewarding, they jointly seem to accept three things I find unacceptable.

    That ‘carbon’ or ‘carbon dioxide’ is a real problem. That carbon dioxide levels are man made. And that carbon dioxide is merely a ‘fertilizer’ for plants.

    And I have noticed how many physicists are ignorant of basic physical chemistry, basic equilibrium and the vast rapid exchange of gases between the ocean and the atmosphere. I put it down to the fact that chemical equilibrium is not a part of physics. Physicists deal in absolutes and can be very advanced and not appreciate the equilibrium which underpins the entire of chemistry in even the most absolute reactions. People who can calculate what happens when billiard balls or even atoms collide need computers to understand chemistry. But long before computers existed, Chemists came up with working precise empirical formulae like Henry’s Law. About 200 years ago.

    Without the rapid and continual equilibrium of gases between atmosphere and the oceans, fish would drown for lack of oxygen. Bread would not rise. Beer would not be fizzy. And while Dr. Koonin lectures on energy and climate entirely from the IPCC notes to avoid any criticism, as does Dr. Judith Curry, they have missed the absurd and essential fact claimed by the IPCC that the half life, the time for half the CO2 to enter the ocean, is 80 years. Which is ludicrous. And every ‘greenhouse’ gas is scaled for potentcy from this number.

    Without this claim and recognizing the real half life of 5 years, the turnover in CO2 is so rapid that human output is irrelevant. We do not control and cannot control CO2 levels. Sequestering CO2 is insane. Carbon Credits are ridiculous. After all the increase in CO2 has increased Greening of the planet by an area bigger than the rainforests of Brazil since 1988. And CO2 has kept rising with all those new trees, not falling.

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      TdeF

      And a more recent observation is notable, that CO2 and H2O are BOTH gases. They both evaporate in huge quantities from the ocean surface. The warmer the ocean surface, the more CO2, the more H2O. Warming ocean surfaces fully explain steadily increasing CO2. The reverse explanation by James Hanson does NOT explain warming oceans as his hothouse effect does not work over oceans. CO2 does not warm air which then warms oceans. Try warming water with a hair dryer.

      But no one considers that warming oceans are responsible for increasing CO2 as 98% of all CO2 is in the oceans. The complex Hanson conjecture is contrary to all known science and fails Occam’s razor. And warming oceans have only two major forces, ocean currents and solar activity.

      As for water in the air, people cannot see H2O gas, so they think it is not there. All they can see are clouds. But you can feel humidity. Overcast humid days are warmer than clear days. The sun is blocked by clouds and it is warmer? Humidity.

      So the more significant corollary is that H2O gas (not droplet, clouds, mist) is about 1%-4% of the atmosphere! We measure it as relative humidity but it can also be expressed as % H2O.

      As a far more potent greenhouse gas with a wider band of IR absorption than CO2 or really tiny CH4 at 25x and 250x the concentration to 100x and 1000x the concentration, the tiny increase in CO2 of 50% in 250 years is completely insignificant.

      This is the sort of thing people should be told. An increase in CO2 from 0.028% to 0.042% has likely no measurable effect at all on this water planet. And even in deserts with 0% humidity, the frozen nights are no warmer. Myth busted.

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        Ted1

        Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, there is more good than harm.

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          TdeF

          I have yet to see any harm? Every living thing is made from CO2 and H2O and very little else. Organic chemistry is the study of compounds of carbon. The very stuff the Climate Catastrophists are trying to ban, man made or not. Which redefines st*pidity.

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            TdeF

            They have form. Greenpeace once banned the element Chlorine.

            Element 17 in the Periodic table. NaCL, salt. The stuff which conveys all the electrical impulses in your body. Roman soldiers were paid in salt, sal, thus salary. Egyptian workers were paid in salt and beer. Salt is absolutely essential for life and animals need to find a source of salt. So salt licks for cows.
            And more evil chlorine in PCV, polyvinyl chloride as used in pipes around the world for plumbing. Endless uses for element 17 but to Greenpeace it was industrial pollution.

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        theotherross

        I find your comments on this fascinating and fairly easy to understand. Cheers.

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        Glenn

        An excellent and easy to understand post/s…thank you.

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        Don A

        “As a far more potent greenhouse gas with a wider band of IR absorption than CO2 or really tiny CH4 at 25x and 250x the concentration to 100x and 1000x the concentration, the tiny increase in CO2 of 50% in 250 years is completely insignificant.” — Perhaps this could be better put. A little clumsy.

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          TdeF

          True. It happens why I try to say too much.

          So suffice it to say that water in the atmosphere is at least 25 times more prevalent than CO2 over most of the planet. And it is a much stronger green house gas. This means a 50% increase in CO2 is even more insignificant against water vapour.

          The you get Prof Ian Plimer’s good point that making a blind 50% thicker does not change the light as much as the first 100%. The effect diminishes rapidly with thickness.

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      NuThink

      Physicists deal in absolutes and can be very advanced and not appreciate the equilibrium which underpins the entire of chemistry in even the most absolute reactions.

      At one place I worked the physicists had a sign in their lab, which read as best I can remember.

      If it is green and wiggles – it is BIOLOGY.
      If it smells bad it is CHEMISTRY.
      And if it does not work it is PHYSICS.

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        TdeF

        Good one. My view though is that underneath biology and chemistry and geology and most science there is physics, the laws which make things move or stop them. But biology and chemistry and engineering developed independently as reality is complex and physics is best in a simple system, as in snooker. Larger systems require computer simulation and massive computers and do not always mirror the real world. Climate science is a good example where the presumption is that as much as possible is static when in fact everything is in flux.

        So chemistry is about equilibrium. Reactions too use the double arrows to show they go both ways. It is fundamental. CO2 dissolves in the ocean and it evaporates from the ocean. No one disputes that with O2. I have read that half the world’s O2 is generated in the ocean by phytoplankton!

        Biological systems are so complex that they are even harder to simulate because as one lecturer in biophysics explained that while you are measuring the voltage driving a frog’s muscles, the frog is dying. Non destructive testing not only takes on new morality, it is far harder to control all the variables.

        Still it was Crick and Watson who revolutionized biology with their discovery of the double helix. And these days when you get medical tests, they are so often the technologies from nuclear laboratories of the 1960s starting with Xrays but onto NMR, acoustic, electron microscopy, CAT scans. The spin off is just incredible when you can watch blood flow in 3D without colour with playback. Or opthamologists or general surgeons with pinhole surgery, often conducted like done pilots from far away.

        But my point here is that self accredited climate scientists are either lying or ignorant. A slight growth in CO2 is a ridiculous scare. Tipping points did not happen. Sea rise is unaltered from the last ice age. And total CO2 in the air is tiny compared to H2O. So why not ban H2O? It also comes out the exhaust in the same quantity as CO2.

        If Professor Tim Flannery can be called a scientist, even Australia’s Chief Climate Scientist, then the world is upside down. We are being led by opportunistic nincompoops.

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          Gee Aye

          Keep it simple.

          Physics is applied mathematics.

          Chemistry is applied physics.

          Biology is applied Chemistry.

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            TdeF

            In a sense, yes but in detail no.

            I cannot agree much with the first. It is the view of the engineer. Physics gave rise to mathematics and still drives development of mathematics. Originally equations, formulae, axes, algebra and calculus, algebra. Quantum Mechanics for example. Left to themselves engineers and mathematicians have no pressure to invent and so much engineering is formulaic. Solving imaginary puzzles is not the stimulus of real development and solutions. Physical problems drive everything in the quest for understanding not just modeling.

            And biology operates on chemistry fundamentally but that in itself explains very little of biology as you then need biochemistry and microbiology and physiology and the statistical process of selection discovered by Darwin. None predictable from elementary chemistry or explainable by chemistry alone.

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              TdeF

              Where real science seeks to interpret, explain, analyse and predict. My observation of Climate Science is that it always seems to be intended to confuse and befuddle. Flippant analysis beyond belief, such as a single change in tiny CO2 being responsible for global climates.

              Who would think it possible that such a huge complex global system was so sensitive to the smallest component in the air. Not that it is not possible. Just that it is so unlikely and so convenient for the purveyors of Armageddon, as are most politicians. Man made disaster. How interesting. And a new type of scientist, almost unqualified in science, like Tim Flannery or Al Gore. Both mathematical dunces but graduates in English.

              It’s as if someone was looking to create a scare so that the UN could keep going, scaring people as fear of nuclear war faded. After all it was war which created the UN. And people stop believing.

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                TdeF

                The very idea that a system complex and unimaginably huge beyond belief such as a whole planet would be inherently unstable is absurd. A meteor, a gigantic volcano perhaps. But not tiny CO2. Life on earth, totally based on CO2 is the unpredictable element. The rest of the world, the tectonic plates, the sun, the orbital variations are significant but not the pond scum. The whole world would be here without humans. And it would be identical.

                The dinosaurs lived for 150 million years, 1000x our human existence and evolved endlessly. Until a meteor. Does anyone seriously propose that their carboniferous world produced their extinction? And we are still living on their solar energy, stored in their old plants. Lucky them.

                So the very premise of man made tiny CO2 driven climates is ridiculous and would have to be proven before anyone took it seriously. Or so you would think. In fact NONE of it is proven, even a little. And who is pushing all this from the UN down, people who stand to benefit from it. Climatebaggers. All of them.

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                Honk R Smith

                “The very idea that a system complex and unimaginably huge beyond belief such as a whole planet would be inherently unstable is absurd.”

                True, however, the notion the a single product of that very system (us) would be capable making that system unstable is extra absurd.
                In fact, it is fundamentally a religious idea.
                But, the sky IS falling.

                IMHO, the science argument is moot.
                From what I see the basic layout is this …
                1) It is is clear, shown by simple ‘counting eggs’ science, that there is no climate instability.
                2) Also clear, the increase in CO2 (plant food), O.03 to point O.04 is small. The human contribution even smaller.
                3) Historical reconstructions of the tiny changes in the ‘average’ (ugh) ‘global’ (there’s that word again, God help us) temp and trace gas % is beyond the accuracy capability of the measuring constructs, not to mention the ability of ‘science’ to predict the consequences of these barely quantifiable changes 50 years out.
                4) There is a massive, historically unprecedented, utilizing cutting edge tech, propaganda machine constantly obscuring 1, 2, and 3.

                The Mother of All Facts is that ‘Climate Change’ is the new religion of the Intelligentsia, and quite possibly has entered the human sacrifice phase (common to early religious development).
                The Net Zero train has left the station.
                We likely can’t get off until derailment.
                John Kerry, Billy the G, and Klaus might best be described as Neo Aztec Priests.

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                Gee Aye

                this is keep it simple for you? Thanks for the lecture.

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            b.nice

            So, those, like you, who know very little about mathematics, or physics, or chemistry…

            … by basic logic, cannot know anything about biology.

            OK !

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          David

          These physicists seem to agree with you on the half life and Henry’s Law points.
          https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01245

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            TdeF

            Great find.

            The 200 year old Henry’s Law is finally exposing physicists to the world of physical chemistry. And the implications are so important.

            The IPCC has tried to hide Henry’s Law because it destroys their fundamental premise, that you can increase concentration on one side and not have the system respond in direct proportion to the perturbation. And the force to drive back to equilibrium actually increases with the perturbation, like a pendulum. So much so that a pendulum has the same period, not matter how far is swings. And of course that the balance between atmosphere and oceans is dependent on only one variable. Temperature at the sea surface.

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              TdeF

              And that also shows the power of the very different approaches of Physics and Chemistry. Chemists noticed, refined, proved and documented Henry’s Law 200 years ago.

              There are many laws developed by tedious careful observation like Boyle’s Law of gases. These are known as Empirical laws. The job, the challenge of Physics is to explain them. Henry’s law is understood by considering the distribution of kinetic energy of hot molecules and their escape velocities from each medium. That’s the way it works. CO2 enters the water. But high speed CO2 molecules leave the water.

              I was always fascinated by the fact that ice blocks when dissolved do not add to the volume of water. But it’s simple Archimedes principle. The force upwards equals the volume of water displaced. The weight does not change but the extra volume appears above he water so that the force upwards exactly by the weight of the ice now out of the water.

              And Climate Catastrophists play a game because even scientists think that if the North Polar ice cap melted, we would drown. But it’s not true. You can try it on a scientist friend. Ask what would happen if all the North Pole ice melted. It’s typical of the fraud which is man made sea rise/Global Warming/Climate change.

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          Geoff Sherrington

          TdeF,
          As a Chemist I feel bound to agree with you. The Chemistry I studied in the 1960s was developing (like newish polymer chemistry) and still is. However, all of the fundamentals have stood the tests of time.
          I would like a quid for each time I have stressed that much climate research is about dynamics, not statics. For example, how can you look at a static satellite image to decide if an area is a CO2 sink or emitter? I also agree with you about equilibria. You cannot succeed with that topic without a good deal of study and experiment, even philosophic contemplation. People succeed better when they start to talk chemistry like it was a second language, even with some chemical species developing personalities in the mind to better predict the outcomes of reacting.
          I see little of deep understanding of Chemistry in climate research papers. There is an occasional excellent paper, but many read like they are by amateurs using belief instead of observations and measurements. Geoff S

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            TdeF

            Chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering are rational science, truth based on more fundamental truths and all with a purpose to create truthful and complete understanding with the hope that with understanding comes human development. But I would call Climate Science Irrational science. Superficial guesswork and conjecture with no underlying science at all. When you build a house of cards like Climate Science, the foundations are shaky to non existent. It is propped up with trillions of dollars and a search for political power. It is not science.

            And while Peter Cook emailed 10,000 scientists, mainly meteorologist he had to eliminate all the meteorologists and reduce it to a mere 100 people of whom 97 thought it might be true. This fake paper is quoted worldwide as 97% of scientists agree. The real conclusion from his data is that 99.03% of scientists disagreed. Except from those making their living from it.

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              David

              That’s right consensus notion is unethical.
              https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2887245

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                TdeF

                I looked at this. His email survey was to 10,000 people, mainly meteorologists. Then he invented criteria to eliminate almost all of them until he was down to 100 people, 97 of whom he claim agreed. As I have written elsewhere his real figure should be 99.03% disagree. It’s even totally fake consensus.

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              b.nice

              Was John Cook, actually.

              Peter Cook was Dudley Moore’s partner in comedy… who actually made a positive contribution to modern society.

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      NuThink

      Beer would not be fizzy.

      I do like the smaller bubbles that nitrogen makes in nitro beers.

      https://www.foodandwine.com/news/nitro-beers-explained

      Guinness Draft by Guinness & Co.
      Gotta give credit where credit’s due. And when it comes to nitro beers, the originator deserves a prominent place on the list. If you didn’t realize the nitrogen in your pint (or bottle or can) of Guinness was the cause of those wonderful, dusky, downward-flowing bubbles, now you know. Sip and enjoy the frothy goodness.

      But if you are a lager drinker you stand for equal Rights.

      LAGER = Let All Get Equal Rights.

      I saw that in a pub, which also had behind the counter.
      W.Y.B.M.A.D.I.I.T.Y

      When asked what it stood for the barperson would say
      “Will You Buy Me A Drink If I Tell You.”

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    David Maddison

    Yesterday I was at the Lake Goldsmith Steam Preservation Society near Beaufort, Victoria, Australia and someone had put a WW2 Rolls Royce Meteor engine in his vintage Rolls Royce. The engine is a V12 of 27 litres capacity. The Meteor is the tank version of the aircraft Merlin engine but with reversed rotation, lower compression, omission of supercharger and omission of propellor gear reduction drive. He drives it on the road.

    https://youtu.be/qOEiM47Hing

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      Strop

      Was there a sauna? Not much point in preserving steam otherwise.

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      Geoff Sherrington

      David,
      IIRC, the Merlin was built in two versions with opposite rotation for the Mosquito. Wish I had had a chance to fly one.
      The RAAF Lincoln bomber was scrapped in my late teens. Older brother and friends examined buying one for 5 quid for a speedboat just finished with a Ford auto V8. Cooling and carburetion were too bulky and complex.
      Geoff S

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        another ian

        Geoff

        Contra-props were only used in the DH Hornets.

        Those were the Merlin 130/131 series for the DH Hornet and 132/133 series (with naval extras) for the Sea Hornet. The engines all turned the same way, contra-rotation was done with an extra pinion in the propeller reduction drive.

        They also used downdraft carburettors to aid streamlining of the engine nacelle.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Hornet

        You’d have given more than your eye teeth to have had a go at flying one of those!

        An aircraft crew at Ardmore in NZ have recreated the moulds to build Mosquito fuselages and at least one of their rebuilds is flying. And there is “The People’s Mosquito” project in UK.

        IIRC Ardmore are doing the same for a Hornet that went to Canada for cold weather testing and stayed there – in one piece. If that gets back to flying it will be the only only one.

        Lincolns used the Merlin 68 and 85 series

        Merlin info via Haynes “RR Merlin 1933 – 50 (all engine series) Owners Workshop Manual

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          another ian

          Merlin 68 was the Packard version of Merlin 85

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          Geoff Sherrington

          Thank you, Another Ian.
          My apologies for being wrong.
          I was starting to fly Winjeels in 1959, with attention to the torque of the engine on takeoff to be trimmed out. Examples of cures were discussed in flying class, including different rotation in Mosquito. I jumped to conclude engine rotation, when it was prop rotation. All those years in ignorance!
          A few years ago at Pt Cook I saw a Mosquito being reconstructed, beautiful work with balsa. Did this ever get finished? I have not seen one flying at air shows this past decade. Now, I just look, gobsmacked, at the F-22 Raptor doing manoeuvres that we long thought were impossible. Geoff S

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      lyntonio

      I have the framed blueprints in my office.
      None of us would be here, without the Merlin.

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      Judging from the exhaust output, you wouldn’t take it out on the road during a fire ban.

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      Tel

      He drives it on the road.

      But not long distances on a tank of gas.

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    David Maddison

    On Saturday I spoke to Senator Babet, UAP Victoria. He has been outspoken about mamy issues of interest to conservatives and other rational thinkers and has called for inquiries into covid vaccines and excess deaths etc.. He told me he had been warned by YouTube that if he continues to post material on YT that goes against the Official Narrative, he would be banned. He explained that he was an elected Senator of the Australian Parliament and he was doing his job by raising these issues to his constituents and they told him it didn’t matter.

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      John Connor II

      YT has changed their layout for most channels to push other channels and ads ahead of the content for the channel you want to see.
      Their revenue is well down and alternatives like Bitchute and Odysee get the problematic content.😎

      A lot, way too many in fact, YT videos are semi-clickbait and 90% fluff and 10% worthwhile content.
      I have around 70 fave channels with solid content thankfully.

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        another ian

        Rumble also seems a go to place.

        It is a bit hard to be exclusive when you aren’t exclusive.

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      Strop

      Strange that parliament doesn’t have its own platform for MP’s to share files and videos with the public, without MP’s being at the mercy of tech companies to edit or censor the MP’s communications with the public.

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    John Connor II

    California Approves Reparations of $1.2 Million EACH for Every Black Person in the State

    California has approved plans to give every single black resident $1.2 million each as compensation for slavery and discrimination that occurred over 200 years ago.

    The Democrat-controlled nine-member committee voted Saturday to approve proposals on how the state can compensate and apologize for slavery and ensure that every black resident votes Democrat for the rest of their lives.

    A black resident in California who has lived in the state their whole life until the age of 71 will receive over than $1.2million in compensation, once the recommendations are signed into law.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12055465/California-panel-approves-reparations-proposal-life-long-black-residents-1-2million.html

    Bye bye California, you’re toast, and almost bankrupt as it is.
    What absolute nonsense. Go study American history, slavery AND the democrats involvement and participation in it.

    I identify as black! Where’s my $1.2M? 😄

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    John Connor II

    Pentagon Admit Anthrax and Ebola Was Leaked Into Public Waterways From Military Lab

    The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, leaked the water out the top of a rusty 50,000-gallon outdoor holding tank.

    The pressure shot the water over the concrete wall that was supposed to contain hazardous spills.

    The tank holding waste from labs working with Ebola, anthrax, and other dangerous pathogens had become overpressurized, forcing the liquid out of a vent pipe.

    An estimated 2,000-3,000 gallons streamed into a grassy area a few feet from an open storm drain that dumps into Carroll Creek — a centerpiece of downtown Frederick, Maryland, a city of about 80,000 an hour’s drive from the nation’s capital.

    But as the waste sprayed for as long as three hours, records show, none of the plant’s workers apparently noticed the tank had burst a pipe.

    https://slaynews.com/news/anthrax-ebola-spilled-public-waterways-military-lab/

    Detrick again…

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      James Murphy

      Reminds me of some CSIRO chaps who had a good laugh about using a nearby paddock to “conveniently” dispose of radioactive, and chemical waste.
      When I worked there, they built some new buildings, and put a carpark over the site – hence the comments about its previous use.
      I never enquired as to the volume or intensity of the material they dumped, but I presume it was not vast, or the car park would not have need artificial lighting!

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      KP

      No! It cannot be! Those sorts of problems only happen in China or Russia, not in the World Leader in Science..

      Wait, you mean the stories that Fort Detrick leaked Covid in October 2019 and the Yanks unwittingly took it to the Army Games in Wuhan in November might be true after all?

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    John Connor II

    Food Bank Users Swap Face Scans For Free Food In London

    A London food bank is using facial recognition technology to facilitate the distribution of free food to its customers through local shops.

    A trial of the FaceDonate app by Hackney Foodbank in London was launched last year and included nearly 200 users, Reuters reported.

    It allowed users to buy groceries at participating shops by scanning their face on an app installed on their mobile phone.

    Now the app is set to roll out at all five of the food bank’s distribution centers in the London area.

    The app is used at participating local grocery stores, where the user can access a wider variety of foodstuffs than the food bank is able to stock. The app prevents the purchase of products like alcohol and tobacco. It also allows fundraising by individuals and businesses, and tracks donation spending.

    https://www.activistpost.com/2023/05/london-food-bank-rolling-out-face-biometrics-app-for-store-purchases.html

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    John Connor II

    STARVE FOR THE CLIMATE: European Union partners with Dutch government to shut down dairy, cattle, pig, and poultry farms across the country

    The “Climate Shutdowns” are here. The European Union is partnering with the Dutch government to permanently shut down dairy, cattle, pig, and poultry farms across the Netherlands. Just a year ago, the Dutch government announced a plan to reduce nitrogen emissions across the country by more than 50 percent by 2030.

    On May 2, the European Commission approved a plan that would pay livestock farmers to shut down indefinitely in designated conservation areas if they agree to never start the same breeding activity elsewhere. The EU’s environmental regulations are a threat to basic economic freedoms and the repercussions will impact human rights and the food supply itself.

    European Green Deal bribing small farmers to shut down permanently
    Under the European Green Deal, governments are bribing small and mid-sized farmers to shut down their operations permanently because their facilities produce high levels of nitrogen. The nitrogen is now labeled a “pollutant” that should be cut by 50% across Europe. Under the Green Deal, it is “necessary and appropriate” to “improve the environmental conditions of the targeted areas and to allow a high quality, sustainable and environmentally friendly production,” and that involves shutting down hundreds of small farms.

    http://www.stationgossip.com/2023/05/starve-for-climate-european-union.html

    No beef, ham, pork lamb, chicken products.
    No butter, margarine, cheese, milk, cream or eggs either.
    Animals are used for leather, tyres, vitamin pills, medicines, cosmetics, plasma, crayons, paints, candles, Gelatin, lubricants, bone china and lots more.

    No-one’s mentioned fish yet. That’ll be next on the hitlist.
    Crickets, worms and an early death for all! 😄

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      TdeF

      It is the next move of the totalitarian state to exercise their power to starve the people into submission. Cold starving people will obey.

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        TdeF

        H.L. Mencken “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

        While that explains the UN/EU actions, it is possible that WWIII is underway funded by Chinese money and fifth columns and infiltrators. There is no other way to conquer the powerful Western democracies except by persuading them to self destruct, starve and freeze.

        Wasting all their weapons in Ukraine is a bonus. As is blowing their own power supplies and banning fracking, gas and coal. And Joe Biden has run down the strategic reserve. Odd.

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        Gary S

        ‘Cold starving people will obey’…..Or rebel.

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          TdeF

          Yes, they would love that. Exactly. Especially the Greens. A new Russian or French revolution and a chance for a totalitarian state. And the people who would run the place would be your worst nightmare. Ask communist Adam Bandt. It’s his dream as for his hero, Lenin.

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            Gary S

            Very sad – not too long ago, the people used to have dreams. Now they have nightmares. However, the nightmare ends when they wake.

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        Greg in NZ

        My 1970s high school atlas (still have it) shows, in a pie chart, nitrogen makes up 78% of the atmosphere – this could get very existential! Carbon dioxide, the trace gas, is a tiny weeny slither described as ‘<1%'. Save The CO2!

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          Graeme No.3

          Greg:
          The nitrogen the Cultists mean is actually nitrogen oxides (much as they claim Carbon instead of carbon dioxide).
          I wonder what they will come up with to control lightning which causes “nitrogen” and what will they come up with to stop volcanos?

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            TdeF

            These are the same ratbags who force the French to abandon their petrol cars and go to diesel. And then find that N2O4 was a major pollutant which ate old buildings. The original problem with petrol, Sulphur Dioxide was solved. So acid rain stopped.

            And st*pid environmentalists forced the French to change to high compression GREEN diesel!

            NO2 by the way forms nitric acid which eats the same sandstone and marble and limestone buildings. The enemies of Europe are the environmentalists! And the poor French had to pay taxes and fines for driving the cars they did not want and were forced to buy. Thus the Gilet Jaune, the Yellow Jackets.

            Now the incredible Dutch farmers are being driven off their land when NO2 in the soil is a good thing. And the new tractors pump it back into the ground as they work. So farming is to be banned.

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              TdeF

              Every commentator indicates that the EU wants the land to build a thing called Tri State City.

              “The project, backed by Dutch employers organisation VNO-NCW, says the region’s population of 30 million people creates a ‘sustainable urban power house’. The project’s supporters include property developers and pension funds as well as Utrecht’s economic board. Dutch cities, the organisation says, are too small to compete in what it calls the ‘battle of the cities’, in which mega cities compete for investment and talent.”

              For their unwanted migrants I suppose. We have the privileged unaccountable mandarins of the EU building their own palaces on farmers’ land. And their unbelievable excuse is that they are saving the planet. And housing the economic migrants they are encouraging to invade and destroy the old borders and cultures, religions and languages and history.

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    Greg in NZ

    According to some young twerp from ABC (radio interview over here) Seednee NSW is being attacked by Cyclone Climate Change or something – he was rather excitable and incoherent for a government-sponsored thingy – but I did decipher “beaches closed due to beeg surf”. I’m guessing the term ‘east coast low’ is an unknown entity to the spring-chicken landlubber with a Bachelor in Communication (?). Nought about cold snow in the hills… trust you’re all warm enough?

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      Gee Aye

      Just to be clear. What are you talking about?

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        Sceptical+Sam

        He’s talking about the uneducated, ignorant graduates that are increasingly produced by the green-left university sausage machines that operates in Australia.

        Clear enough?

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      TdeF

      No, we’re freezing. Given how much we have paid for Global Warming and that CO2 is still going up at the same rate at 60 years ago, I would love a warmer winter and even our old summers back. We paid for rapid Global Warming, more every day. We want a return on our investment. Global warming please!

      The water moderated tropics cannot change. Antarctica is at -25C to -50C. And if the North Pole melted, that would be great. Ice blocks do not change water level. And more warming means more rain, more crops, more CO2 and better life for humans. Especially above the Tropic of Cancer most of which used to be covered by glaciers only 11,000 years ago. Warming please. And cheap electricity please.

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      DLK

      time to sacrifice the virgins money to appease the sea-monster global warming climate disruption climate change

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        TdeF

        Virgins will be provided. Government certified. They are usually called voters.

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          KP

          “Virgins will be provided. Government certified.”

          Well, child molesters seem to come from that end of society, so I figure there won’t be any virgins of any sex left when Govt has finished with them!

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        James Murphy

        I think the problem is that Australia lacks conveniently located active volcanoes. If we had more people willing to sacrifice themselves to the volcano gods (to save the planet), we would be much better off.

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      el+gordo

      Its been warm in New Zealand for 10 days, due to a blocking high pressure to the east of the country, which brought tropical airs from the north east.

      This will change in the coming days to be more south westerly polar air.

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      May/June has been known for east coast lows forming – viz Pasha Bulker on Nobby’s Beach, Newcastle on 7th June 2007.

      More about this type of storm at this link.

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    David Maddison

    At the Lake Goldsmith Steam Preservation Society open day I attended yesterday I observed a number of things. The area is near Beaufort, Victoria.

    1) The entire area of countryside has been visually destroyed by 157 windmills with a tip height of 180m, 590ft, falsely described as nameplate of 511MW but ignoring actual capacity factor.

    See https://www.stockyardhillwindfarm.com.au/the-project

    2) Existing drainage of the area was destroyed when they installed the Chinese (51%) and Quatar (49%) owned subsidy farm. Someone in the local council signed off on a new drainage plan which was lesser capacity than what was there before. This contributed to flooding of the Lake Goldsmith Steam Preservation Society site 6 months ago.

    3) There was a sickening juxtaposition of steam power, a constant power source which led to the Industrial Revolution against the background of these monstrous windmills that provide useless random power and which represent a regression to pre-steam times but are promoted as “modern” (sic).

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    David Maddison

    Following on from JC II above at #9.

    https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/dutch-schools-offer-children-worms-and-insects-as-sustainable-meat-replacement/

    Dutch Schools Offer Children Worms and Insects as ‘Sustainable’ Meat Replacement

    The Dutch insect-eating campaign is part of a wider push by globalist elites to present bugs as a solution to the world’s ‘food problem’—a problem that they themselves have helped to engineer.
    Robert Semonsen
    — October 22, 2022

    In an apparent effort to condition children for a future where they will own nothing, live in pods, eat bugs, and of course, be happy, hundreds of state-funded primary schools across the Netherlands—under the pretext of ‘saving the planet’—are offering young students an assortment of worms and insects.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

    Don’t laugh.

    Australia is already feeding children insects as well.

    https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/1000-australian-schools-are-fed-insects/

    1,000 Australian schools are fed insects
    Are you keen to chow down on micro livestock?
    Joel Agius

    A teacher from one of the 1,000 Australian schools feeding kids chips made out of powdered crickets asks, ‘Do crickets taste good?’ The student nods and the teacher adds, ‘Yeah. Let’s eat some more crickets…!’

    Bugs are on the menu again… Why does the World Economic Forum have such a weird obsession with making our kids eat them?

    First, let me make something very clear: Bugs are not food. You should not eat bugs. They are insects. They belong on the ground, or in the air, or wherever the heck they live. They do not belong on your dinner plate.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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      DLK

      1,000 Australian schools are fed insects

      actually known to damage human health.

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        TdeF

        These are children educated by Disney that Lions eat bugs and grow big and strong. And that they are ‘slimy but satisfying’ (Lion King)

        Lion King. Madagascar. Escape to Africa etc. Lions and zebras and Giraffes and pigs and meercats as best friends. Spot the carnivore.

        This educating children about a fantasy vegetarian/bug world has been going on for decades.

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    DLK

    intelligence means “the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills”

    but knowledge requires A. belief (you can’t know something unless you believe it to be true) and B. volition (you can’t acquire knowledge without it).

    AI has neither A nor B.

    therefore AI is not really intelligent at all

    it is merely a tool.

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    David Maddison

    A quote misattributed to Alan Greenspan.

    See https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan

    I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

    Attributed to Greenspan by Rupert Cornwell, “Alan Greenspan: The buck starts here”, The Independent, 27 April 2003, citing an unspecified Capitol Hill hearing. However, as Ralph Keyes notes in The Quote Verifier (2006, p. 233), “This popular tongue twister gets attributed to the obfuscator du jour.” The earliest known print attribution is to Robert McCloskey, U.S. State Department spokesman, by Marvin Kalb, CBS reporter, in TV Guide, 31 March 1984, citing an unspecified press briefing during the Vietnam war.

    Earlier attributions include: “a high government official”, Annual Report, North American Gas Tax Conference, Federation of Tax Administrators, 1967; Jerry Lewis (a sign pasted on the camera during a movie shoot), by Dick Kleiner, Hollywood Correspondent, Sumter Daily Item, Feb. 4, 1970; a sign on the desk of Suzanne Schroeder, collector of bureaucratic gobbledygook, AP wire story, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, July 3, 1973; Jack Nicklaus paraphrasing Richard Nixon, by Larry Dorman, The Palm Beach Post, Dec. 8, 1979; and “a Hollywood film director”, by J.D. Douglas, The Third Way, 29 December 1977. Additionally, a thesis monograph by Michael David Katz, Georgia State University, 1973 is titled with the quote.

    On the back of the first Stealers Wheel album, a very similar statement attributed to band member Rod Coombes is found: “We know that you believe you understand what you think we said, but we are not sure you realize that what you heard is not what we meant.” The album was released in 1972.

    See Richard Nixon: “Now, when individuals read the entire transcript of the [March] 21st [1973] meeting, or hear the entire tape, where we discussed all these options, they may reach different interpretations, but I know what I meant, and I know also what I did”.

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    David Maddison

    In Vicdanistan Comrade Dictator Dan is going to introduce as a supposed trial, digital driver’s licenses.

    If you read his press release (link below), you can see it’s being set up as a defacto fully traceable and trackable identity document as it will be in your phone which is already tracked by multiple government and semi-government agencies like Goolag.

    https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/digital-driver-licences-way-victorian-motorists

    From press release:

    Quotes attributable to Minister for Roads and Road Safety Melissa Horne

    “We know Victorians want digital driver licences and that’s why this trial is such a big step before further rollout occurs”

    “A digital driver licence will make it easier and more convenient for Victorian motorists and it will help businesses and authorities to verify identity with minimum time and fuss.”

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    RickWill

    I have been following the NEM post Liddell quite closely.

    It is worth repeating here that it appears South Australia is being hit hardest by the closure of Liddell. Just 5 days AL and SA was running diesel:
    https://opennem.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=7d&interval=30m

    Price shot up to $12,900/MWh in SA. 0830 May 4.

    Remember Hazelwood has gone and Victoria has increasing reliance on dispatchable power from the north. Now that NSW has become a power sink, Victoria will have reduced opportunity to send power to South Australia.

    Electranet started in February and is planned for completion by the end of 2023. The pretend reason is so SA can send low cost intermittent electricity to NSW but it is shaping up to be essential for SA grid security. The completion date may be too late to save SA from some embarrassing load shedding.

    I believe that NSW is currently operating with a reserve shortfall of 400MW. The $300/MWh price cap is back in action as well.

    It is fun times. Don’t get caught in the dark – torches, back up power and non electric heating! Currently 12C in Melbourne and heading down to 8C. Mount Buller below freezing tonight. And it is not winter yet!

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      Much more gas generation around peak usage times also – more than 4GW this evening.

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      KP

      “South Australia is being hit hardest by the closure of Liddell. Just 5 days AL and SA was running diesel:”

      So, how will Vic decide who to send power to, NSW or SA?? Do we run inter-State auctions? Does the AEMO market auction power across all Eastern Australia, so those who can’t match the top bid will not get power?

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        Geoff Sherrington

        KP,
        How I long for a return to the golden years of the 1970-1990 era when free markets were able to perform despite restrictions and engineers decided the ways to produce the most cheap and reliable electricity.
        We can still go back.
        Geoff S

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    As part of the Feral Guv’ments Diversity and Inclusion initiatives, here are the latest announcements –

    – A Blackout will now be called a Brownout
    – A Brownout will now be called a Bowen Out (of his depth).
    – A White wash cannot be called that anymore (too racist apparently)
    – Man Overboard is no longer allowed (not enough Men)
    – Chairman is not allowed as there are not enough chairs
    – A Cock or Two is no longer a bird. Although a Gala (Galah) Dinner is still allowed.
    – A Pheasant Plucker is not allowed as we have run out of Pluckers (although I am told that there are plenty of those pluckers in Canberra).
    – The cost of the Voice will be included in the InVoice that the Guv’ment sends you all. Please pay promptly within 7 days as the Guv’ment needs the cash.

    That should do until Tuesday Night’s Budget. More gnus to be revealed shortly. Until then, TC and have a nice Day Voters everywhere in the Land of OZ…………………………….

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    another ian

    More “interesting times” –

    “SHOT: California Reparations Panel Approves Payments Up To $1.2 Million Per Black Resident.

    CHASER: California Defaults On $18.6 Billion In Debt, Saddling Employers With The Expense.”

    https://instapundit.com/583335/

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    David Maddison

    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

    C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)

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      TdeF

      Great writer. I read his science fiction. That Hideous Strength. Voyage to Venus. Out of the Silent planet. And JRR Tolkien’s Hobbit and Triology. Farmer Giles of Ham. Even the Silmarillion collection by his son Christopher Tolkien. They were part of a group of writers often professors at Oxford The Inklings. And accused at the time of writing children’s books, but they were vehicles for much more. Especially Tolkien’s philology. And as he lost most of his friends in WW1, the story was so obviously allegorical, the evil rising in the East. And rescue by the eagles. Tolkien was Merton Professor English Literature and some considered he should not have been writing such works. Those were the days before people were cancelled.

      And it is pleasing that these ‘children’s’ books have stood the test of time and culture, especially Lewis’ Narnia books including the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

      They were hard times in the 1930s and through both wars. To me it was amazing that Tolkien’s student at Oxford, Christoper Lee was there at his side to watch the first print run in 1943 of the Lord of the Rings. Then to play the White Wizard Saruman half a century later was almost beyond belief for Lee and everyone who knew the story.

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        red edwards

        The first print run of the first volume of Lord Of The Rings was 1953, not 43. . .

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          TdeF

          Sorry, faulty memory. I remember it was during the war because that was so significant it stuck but the article was decades ago.

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    TdeF

    And a last comment on CO2.

    98% of gaseous CO2 is in the ocean. It is so very soluble, 30x more than oxygen. And CO2 is extremely compressible and we all know that from life.

    If 98% of all CO2 stays in the ocean and 2% in the air, 98% of any excess CO2 goes into the ocean and stays there. Which is why there isn’t a problem! Every physical chemist knows that. It’s a 200 year old formula.

    So why is there more CO2 in the air than 1750? Even a slightly warmer water surface means a lot of CO2 comes out of the water. Flat beer effect. Since there is so much CO2 in the water and so little in the air, it doesn’t have to be much warmer to have a big impact. Nothing plus 50% is still nothing.

    Consider as conjecture that we humans could doublethe amount of CO2 in the air. So what? Within twenty years it would all be gone. Total CO2 would climb from 100% to 102% but still 98% of this would be in the water and 2% in the air.

    So the total impact from doubling CO2? Aerial CO2 would increase from 420ppm to 428ppm and increase of 2%. Nothing.

    It is why the IPCC plays hard ball with the half life of CO2 in the air to be absorbed, which they state categorically in the fourth report is 80 years. That’s factually wrong. And I cannot see how that is accidental, which raises some nasty questions.

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      TdeF

      And this recent paper includes 18 separate published statements of ‘residence time’ which is 40% longer than half life. But still amount to a half life around 5 years. And at that incredible speed, 98% of our human ’emissions’ quickly vanish forever. Even though we rather they would stick around.

      I really do not know why humans, having survived a few horrible frozen ice ages, the most recent only 11,000 years ago would want the ice back and the sea has almost stopped rising completely. So more CO2 and more warming. Please. We want Eden back. Perhaps minus the dinosaurs.

      And those self appointed ‘climate scientists’ can go and get a real jobs. As science fiction writers.

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        el+gordo

        Unfortunately we are are at the end of the Holocene and there is no going back.

        On the question of global warming, CO2 should not be vilified.

        ‘Data analysis again reveals the increase in absorbed shortwave forcing has been driving modern climate change since the 1970s. CO2 changes are more of an effect than a cause of temperature increases.’ (Notrickszone)

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    Unfortunately an new topic exists, but I will not post of topic there, but repeat it on Tuesday Thread.

    Just an other conspracy theory debunked:

    Batch-dependent safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine

    To the Editor,

    Vaccination has been widely implemented for mitigation of coronavirus disease-2019 (Covid-19), and by 11 November 2022, 701 million doses of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech) had been administered and linked with 971,021 reports of suspected adverse effects (SAEs) in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA).1 Vaccine vials with individual doses are supplied in batches with stringent quality control to ensure batch and dose uniformity.2 Clinical data on individual vaccine batch levels have not been reported and batch-dependent variation in the clinical efficacy and safety of authorized vaccines would appear to be highly unlikely. However, not least in view of the emergency use market authorization and rapid implementation of large-scale vaccination programs, the possibility of batch-dependent variation appears worthy of investigation. We therefore examined rates of SAEs between different BNT162b2 vaccine batches administered in Denmark (population 5.8 million) from 27 December 2020 to 11 January 2022.

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    Ireneusz Palmowski

    Galactic radiation data from Oulu indicate that the magnetic activity of the solar wind is at a similar level in cycle 25 as it was in cycle 24. This is consistent with the predicted behavior of the solar magnetic field by Zharkova. Cycle 26 is already expected to be much weaker.
    https://i.ibb.co/0nT7N0d/onlinequery.gif
    https://cfn-live-content-bucket-iop-org.s3.amazonaws.com/journals/0004-637X/795/1/46/revision1/apj501502f2_lr.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAYDKQL6LTV7YY2HIK&Expires=1684170648&Signature=DKrqbKB5RfoCYuvAx7fIfmkllbw%3D

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    MrGrimNasty

    Woman lost in bush for 5 days.
    “The first thing coming in my mind, I was thinking ‘water and a cigarette,'” Ms Ip told 9News Australia. “Thank god the policewoman had a cigarette.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65524218

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    another ian

    Your chance to “go again”

    “Now there’s one more thing to avoid. Moderna’s next corporate chapter involves brewing up a “combo” shot, kind of like a happy meal, except less happy, that in one annual shot will cover a whole slew of viruses like covid, flu, RSV, plus any other ones they can think to jam in there at no extra charge. And don’t worry, all those crazy mixed-up vaccines will definitely be good for your immune system. Really terrific.

    Also don’t worry about the week you spend in bed after the “unhappy meal” shot, that’s not a sign that the jab just terribly hurt your body, it just shows it’s working.”

    Covid and Coffee Newsletter this morning

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “The danger of big cities: How can I put it any more strongly?”

    https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-danger-of-big-cities-how-can-i-put.html

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    KP

    Heavy propaganda starting about how wonderfully fit Shaky Joe is for his next presidential run-

    “It’s really important to realise that as people age they become more diverse in their abilities and characteristics, probably more so than at younger ages.”

    https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/can-we-all-be-as-healthy-and-vigorous-at-80-as-joe-biden-20230501-p5d4jb.html

    ..its a bit like becoming King at an age where the deterioration is obvious!

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    KP

    ..and White House Propagandist Peter Hartcher still banging on about Russia losing the war….

    https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/putin-fighting-a-losing-battle-as-he-condemns-russian-army-to-senseless-slaughter-20230508-p5d6ml.html

    Its so bad they’re hiding it behind a paywall, they just want you to remember the headlines!

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    Kevin a

    https://twitter.com/karma44921039/status/1655821310709080069
    Best of the UK
    The met police execute the second dog

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    Kevin a

    https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/on-the-road/glaring-problem-exposed-in-tiktok-after-mans-tyre-goes-flat/news-story/fb3b97957a99ebe2a53d09ef4243423e
    Glaring problem exposed in TikTok after man’s tyre goes flat
    An Australian driver found himself stranded on the side of the road after encountering a little-known problem with his flashy electric car.

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    Kevin a

    Interesting?
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/2grHwWaP7Stf/
    Graphika, a company that monitors online communities for government agencies, began collecting data on social media users sharing “disinformation” about Covid-19 two weeks before the World Health Organization even knew of an outbreak.

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