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Washington State’s one nuclear facility just finished a shutdown for refueling and other maintenance. Restart was June 19th. The chart
https://transmission.bpa.gov/Business/Operations/Wind/baltwg.aspx
shows the progress in 5-minute intervals as it is brought back online.
Meanwhile the fickle wind has starting bouncing up and down like a yo-yo.
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The big Nuke at San Luis Obispo in California, Diablo Canyon actually holds a record for supply of power between Unit refuels.
I was in email contact with one of the people who worked at that plant for a couple of years, and he told me that with judicious use of the rods being inserted, (so that all the rods are depleted at the same rate over that time period) they could stretch the Unit refuels out to 18 Months, and all going well, that recently refuelled Unit would run back up to maximum, and ….. stay there for the complete 18 Months.
Because of that, there was the rare occasion over a whole power data recording year when Unit One, (which has a Nameplate of 1138MW) delivered 10,095GWH of power at a Capacity Factor of 101.2% ….. for the whole year.
There really is no comparison.
Tony.
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Hi Tony,
There is one point of comparison, but in some ways it doesn’t really count, because it’s comparing with other nukes.
The all-time operational records are held at present by the CANDU reactors at Darlington Point in, of course, Canada. Because the reactor design is very like a steam locomotive’s boiler, where the fuel rods are in horizontal pressure tubes, each surrounded by a concentric water pressure tube, they are able to be refuelled on-line, by simply pushing the spent rod out by pushing the fresh one in. Obviously, it’s a bit more complicated than that, but that’s how they are routinely operated. On-line refuelling in this manner does not require a shut down. Look them up. Their track record is simply extraordinary.
We could have had CANDU in Australia, but Whitlam’s and subsequent governments banned nuclear power, as well we all know.
Cheers,
Paul Miskelly
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Paul,
For decades I have searched for prime details of how, when and by whom Australia became so anti nuc.
Last month I think I came closer. Dr Ed Calabrese of Amherst Uni Mass has recorded 40 years of investigation of the Linear No-Threshold model of dose/harm in humans. He has gone to great effort to buy or cadge original docs. A key one is from Rockefeller Foundation President Dean Rusk to Pres Eisenhower in Feb 1955, offering big money to research dose/harm from nuclear. The whole topic was captured by money, then all of the approved research posts filled by Rockefeller people. They directed the research, specifically castrating the opposing models and hormesis. Their corrupt influence seems to continue.
I would place the Australian anti faction starting about 1950 and involving opiniated people at very high Govt level in USA and probably similar here. If any money changed hands, any policy reversal now would expose egg on face, hence the anti nuc continues.
I have finished 2 parts of 3 in a corruption article that might be interesting for you.
Geoff S
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There’s something I would like to point out here with respect to electricity charges.
I don’t even know why I actually kept these in the first place.
I have my electricity accounts dating back to 2005. Not all of them, just the original account for that address where I was living, the last account at that address, and the most recent ones for the address where I live now.
I recently received an Update from my current supplier AGL that charges for electricity will be rising considerably, starting this quarter.
So the earliest one I have is from Energex, (before it ‘morphed’ into Origin) and that dates back to the second quarter of 2005, when we moved from Blackwater in Central Queensland (coal central) to Coomera at the Northern end of the Gold Coast.
The charge per unit for electricity was 15.27 cents per KWH, and in the most recent communication from AGL, my unit charge rises to 32.69 cents per KWH. So the cost of electricity has more than doubled, and seriously, you might consider that actually reasonable, I guess.
However, that’s not what I want to point out. It’s the ‘other’ insidious rise, effectively an increase that they can hide by saying that it’s ….. NOT a ‘real’ increase in the unit cost for electricity.
On that original account from 2005 there was the usual Tarrif 11 Service to Property charge, and that was a flat $9.85 for the 90 day account, and it would have been the same if it was a Monthly account, and I’m not sure if you get one of those Monthly accounts in those days, as they were all accounts for 90 days supply.
Now, the current AGL supplier, and they are all similar, lists that new charge for Service to Property at 132.462 cents ….. PER DAY.
So, that works out to just a tick under $120, or in effect, an extra 4KWH of power consumption.
I’m using less electricity these days, now that I’m on my own, so it’s down to an average of just 14KWH per day, and every so often I go into the account and deposit a hundred here, a hundred there, and when the account becomes due, there’s always enough to cover it, and with one Government or another kicking in these days, there hasn’t been an account in the last few years when they haven’t contributed as well, so I’m always in credit.
It’s in reality a clever ploy (in my opinion, anyway) to increase the cost of electricity without it being an actual increase in the unit cost.
Tony.
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TfO..
Just as a reference, have also just recieved the notification of price increase from July 1st.
My supplier..Alinta in NSW have advised the kWh rate will increase from 31.04c/kWh to 40.6 c/kWh.
..and the daily service charge from 134c/kWh to 178.5 c/kWh !
If i check on the “ energymsdeeasy.gov” site, i notice the daily service charge varies significantly, depending on which “distribution” network is in use ?
..and how those daily charges are in relation to the “Network and Distribution” costs that we are told are part of the kWh charge ?
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Eventually we will move for cheaper energy. My letter says the wire’s cost has gone from $1.83/day to $2.20/day, or ten times Tony’s 2005 price. I’m sure its the same lines though!
Unit cost has gone from 35c to 40c in the day, what was 12c a year back is now 23c for night usage.
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So the idea of privatising what is essentially a monopoly (the poles and wires).
here is a quote from the Guardian about Privatising essential services
“between 1997 and 2012 the energy, gas and water sector – where most of the privatisation was taking place – saw its sales force grow from 1,000 to 6,000, its business, human resource and marketing numbers swell from 2,000 to 9,000, and the number of general purpose managers explode from 6,000 to 19,000. The number of technicians and trade workers, on the other hand, increased by just 28%.”
Also a private company has to pay its shareholders a dividend every year. Weirdly in the example of Essential Energy (NSW regional poles and wires) it’s shareholder, The NSW state government sets the size of the dividend, hence the increase in the service charge.
So that is really a hidden tax, as the profits go to the government without any consulting with the residents. Feel free to complain, it won’t do any good, but why not.
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Is that a case of privatisation of the “poles and wires” driving those increased employment numbers quoted by The Guardian? Or is it a result of the changing to renewables and the retail sector (not poles and wires).
According to the ABS there were 26,000 jobs in the renewable energy sector in 2018-19 up from 15,000 in 2015-16. That’s a big number and increase in a short period. I don’t know what it is today.
I don’t know the reasons for the jumps in employment but I’m wondering if it’s really a result of privatisation (as suggested by The Guardian) or if it’s actually the result of trying to run two electricity systems (renewables and fossil fuel) instead of just keeping the old reliable cheap one system being fossil fuels.
Probably new employment from the new retailers that have started up.
Have a look at the chart of retail prices.
https://cdn-hgcdp.nitrocdn.com/NKmCCeiLkvHICFBsQSjyPqNEbivkvkwZ/assets/images/optimized/rev-8825928/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/electricity-price-rises.png
(Note, this is an index and not actual prices)
If privatisation of poles and wires is the cause, why does this chart suggest it was 10 years of privatisation before prices took off? Seems to coincide more with Labor’s “carbon tax” and the rush into renewables. Probably just a coincidence though.
You’ll also see the Adelaide price go higher earlier than the other capital cities. Did this coincide with SA’s push into renewables ahead of the other states?
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From South Australia:
From 1 July 2023 your electricity charges will change. Based on your past usage, we estimate this will increase your electricity bill by $802.00 per year. Please note that this is an estimate only and your actual bills will vary depending on usage.
Your electricity offer will be 19% above the reference price as of 1 July 2023. Where they got that figure I don’t know.
Supply charge from 1.10396 per day to 1.34376 = 21.7% increase
Peak first 11 kWh from 0.4631 per day to 0.6010 = 29.8% increase
Peak remaining usage from 0.4959 to 0.6436 = 29.8% increase
My comment about SA having the highest percentages of renewables seems to have been censored.
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G3, what exactly does …“Peak first 11kWh 0.601 per day”. mean
..If that is the rate for peak times, what is your off peak rate ?
..and what is defined as the peak periods ?
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That daily charge is primarily intended to cover the “poles and wires”.
Remember when the pollies were claiming there was gold plating of the networks?
Now the reality is that with widely distributed solar and wind generators there are a lot more network connectors and control systems, all over-sized to cope with peak intermittent supplies.
And Blackout Bowen now says that we need another 10,000 kms of high voltage networks.
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If the Daily charge covers the costs of poles and wires, ..what exactly is included in the “Usage Rate” of 30-40 c per kWh ?
From Canstar blue…
We know that actual generation costs are 5-10 c/kWh , ( less from wind and solar ?) , so is the additional 20-30+ c/kWh all pocketed by the retailers to cover their costs ?….
……or is a fair portion of that filtered back to the government in taxes and tarifs ?
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Now there’s a new way to pull the wool over peoples’ eyes!
Render your account to the thousandth of a cent!
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Tony,
I have a complete set of monthly accounts, AGL, same home, same people, from 2006 to now. Excel spreadsheet, some graphical analysis of broken down sub-costs. Just ask if you would like a copy.
sherro01 at outlook dot com Geoff S
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The often forgotten war on the Korean Peninsula kicked of 73yrs ago today.
I’ll have a beer for my Grandad and his mates, and another one (or two) for those who didnt return.
Lest We Forget
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The anniversary of the D-Day landing was also forgotten in political circles and elsewhere the other day, Jun 6th.
Lest we forget.
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“Our” ABC NEVER forgets Aug 6th with solemn shots of the Mayor of Hiroshima and plenty of anti-nuclear propaganda. Lest we forget how dangerous nuclear power is hey!
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Getting struck by lightning has a higher death toll than Nuclear power.
The Hiroshima thing though, and Nagasaki, how long do they have to wait before they can rebuild, something like 200,000 years, give or take a zero.
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Take off 4 zeros
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima
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So the following year would be too soon, must be seriously bad stuff.
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This hand wringing over Hiroshima and Nagasaki annoys me: The bombing was totally avoidable, all that was needed was a surrender once Japan’s plight was irretrievable. That the war was lost was obvious after the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot a year before but a year later they turned Okinawa into a blood bath, but lost anyway. This demonstrated just how expensive, in lives lost, it would have been to take the Home Islands. A qtr. mil lives is not unreasonable.
What I didn’t know until only a few years ago was that both Germany and Japan were rushing to develop their own nuclear bombs. A big, new boat, the U234 was en route to Japan with uranium oxide in its hold and some technicians on board to help build the bomb*. It was still in transit when the war ended – but the intention was real. The plan was to explode a crude dirty bomb over California. To get an aircraft over America seems to have taken inspiration from the Doolittle raid, they had built the I 400 class submarine aircraft carrier to take the bomb and aircraft into American waters.
Cry me a river.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-234
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Hanrahan. Any update on how Japan was going to use their bomb if they somehow got it developed? Give it your best consideration and then let us in on the secret.
Meanwhile: war is war. If an opponent is not “playing fair”, there’ no moral obligation whatsoever to play fair in return.
BTW: That Aussie Aborigines are so very very happy to have been saved from the Japanese by the “white colonial” powers is because they are NOT the ingrates and BS artists everyone is making them out to be…. Isn’t it?!
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I mentioned above: Japan had already built the I 400 class sub which had an aircraft hanger. They planned a dirty bomb over LA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-400-class_submarine
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Strange Japanese thinking there…?
I do not believe even a “dirty bomb” over LA would have stopped the Allies. LA not being the main center of US military strength.
It would hardly be a “ killer shot”,.. but more like poking the Lion !
Much like their attack on Pearl Harbour.
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Facial recognition tech deployed at Chinese gas stations – people on social credit blacklist can’t refuel
Footage coming out of China indicates that facial recognition systems are now being installed even at gas stations. The footage strongly suggests that Chinese citizens not in good standing in the social credit system may be ineligible for refueling.
Videos posted on social media show how customers at one gas station somewhere in China are being forced to approach a kiosk and have their faces scanned in order to access gas for their vehicles.
Furthermore, people reportedly on the blacklist of the country’s social credit system are barred from driving their own cars. If they are hailed by the facial recognition and ID check required, they will not be able to purchase more gas unless another person – someone not on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) blacklist – drives the car for them.
http://www.domigood.com/2023/06/facial-recognition-tech-deployed-at.html
…and as I posted the other day, the Orwellistralian gubermint wants facial recognition to help stop cybercrime.
That national face database wouldn’t hurt either. 🙄
V8? No fuel for you! 😉
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The Australian state and federal Labor Governments are drooling at the Orwellian innovations in China, the country they love more than Australia (which they hate due to the dominant population being heterosexual, monotheistic, white people).
Of course, the alternatives are Liberals who are only slightly less bad and merely a different faction of the Uniparty.
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Blocking people access to banks and essential services is already a thing and has been for a while. If you get on the internet and start speaking about racial matters for example, and get a following, you will have your bank services stopped.
Sure, we say, they’re just extremists – which I agree with, they are – but that is irrelevant. They are also actually harmless to society yet the power is being practiced. Just one more small step.
Look at what that Canadian nutter did over there during covid. Stopped banking for hard working patriotic but pissed off Canadians who were protesting. It’s less than a small step.
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My 80 y o wife in a wheelchair and I at a planned appointment at our bank asked manager for some simple tasks be done after several written requests. Woman bank manager sooled security guards on us. She felt “uncomfortable” in the same room as me. The actions are still outstanding, 2 months later. They are not answering emails. We have been impeccable clients for 15 years and now we are treated like crap by wokery. Something big has gone wrong with young society. Geoff S
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Might be just to stop people driving away without paying, unless you’re an ultimate outlaw.
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In some countries you pay before filling up,which solves the drive away problem, no facial recognition needed.
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In high trust societies you don’t have a drive away problem.
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I’ve never been asked to prepay for petrol. One highway site was careful noting rego numbers as you drove in.
Ours must be a high trust society. 🙂
Just a thought: Charging stations have your CC inserted before you get a Watt.
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All our pumps work with a credit card without going inside and some places there is no “service” area at all. It is self-service top to bottom.
Most places are also “convenience stores” with food and so on. You get a discount for paying cash but have to go in and pay, the pump is then activated, and you go out and pump the gas.
I haven’t seen a pump-first pay-later place in at least a thousand years. 🙂
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In WA, and SA, it is not uncommon to find servo’s with no attendent at all.
The pumps are normal but before they will dispense fuel you have to “register a credit” from a credit card on a separate pay kiosk…usually $50 or $100 .
The pump will then dispense fuel up to that value.
Any unused credit is refunded.
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“I haven’t seen a pump-first pay-later place in at least a thousand years. ”
please, we must have told you at least a million times to stop exaggerating!
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So no definite proof then, just a lot of supposition !
OTOH.
Sainsbury’s supermarket chain in the UK DOES pass cctv data to the benefits agencies so that people claiming certain benefits can be tracked and penalised. 1984 is already here in the UK.
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Beznau nuclear power plant in Northern Switzerland takes the honour of being the oldest nuclear power currently in use. Construction on the plant began in 1965 and Beznau 1 began producing power on 1 September 1969, with Beznau 2 following in 1972.
How many wind turbines will still be operational 58 years after being constucted (or 15 years)?
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It’s had a rebuild or two…
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So have most 58 year old cars, or any other 58 year old thing.
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Like the story of grandfather’s axe
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Do you realise that most politicians neither read nor understand the legislation they vote upon and don’t care what the consequences of the legislation might be?
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It is blindingly obvious when you consider what they say and write. Got this reply from MP Mick de Brenni, Qld Minister for energy to a (clearly unsuccessful) online Qld gov petition titled ‘Petition No. 3854-23 titled ‘Halt pursuit of renewable energy targets through wind and solar farms’.
There is more the reply, but it is all similarly stupid, unquestioning, unthinking pap, so will spare you.
The Queensland Government is committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2050. To achieve this, we need to rapidly decarbonise our electricity system. The Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan (the Plan) and the Queensland SuperGrid Blueprint (the Blueprint) provide the pathway for this decarbonisation by establishing the renewable energy targets of 50% renewable by 2030, 70% renewable by 2032 and 80% renewable by 2035.
The build out of Queensland’s transmission and distribution grids and renewable energy capability is essential to ensuring Queensland’s significant renewable energy resources can be utilised to produce clean, green and affordable power. The 100,000 jobs expected to be produced by this transformation represents a generational opportunity for Queenslanders, particularly those located in regional communities.
Measures of capacity factors (i.e. energy generated over a period of time) are different to measures of energy efficiency (i.e. energy converted to electricity). For this reason, the calculations presented in the petition are incorrect. Capacity factors influence the energy in megawatt hours (MWh) expected to be produced over a given period (usually measured by calendar year). For example, the proposed installed capacity of renewables referenced in the petition at 5,774 megawatts (MW) can produce 5,774 MW of energy at a point in time, and not 1,905 MW as referenced in the petition.
The solution to the intermittency of wind and solar has always been to store surplus energy generation and shift its use to times when it is most needed (such as the evening after sunset), and maintain an appropriate level of dispatchable ‘peaking’ generation. That is why the Queensland Government is investing in large-scale, long duration pumped hydro battery energy storage and Investigating additional hydrogen-ready gas generation plants through the Plan.
Then he goes on about ‘can’t do nuclear, too difficult’. I live in a regional community, with 3 solar farms so far and rising. There are about 3 jobs with each. What liars they are.
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” the proposed installed capacity of renewables referenced in the petition at 5,774 megawatts (MW) can produce 5,774 MW of energy at a point in time, ”
Ask him when that happened? Has it ever happened? For 30seconds? A minute? Ever?
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No!
There was the closest example of this less than 24 hours ago in fact.
At exactly 11.45PM last night, Saturday 24 Jun 2023, wind generation reached the highest power delivery it has EVER achieved.
From a total Nameplate of 10,277MW, wind generation reached a high of 7353MW. That’s a Capacity Factor (CF) of 71.55%. (Wind generation has had CF actually higher than that and the highest it has been was at 12.35PM on 31 May 2022, when it reached 74.62%, and at that time, the total Nameplate was lower than it is now)
You might think I am being a little pedantic quoting the exact time like that, but all power data recordings are taken at 5 minute intervals, and that total was achieved for only that single five minute point in time.
But 100% of Nameplate for any renewable of choice, wind and solar, well, that will NEVER happen.
Tony.
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Where did the flu go?
Go to the following link and then change the start year to say 2018….
https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZTkyODcyOTEtZjA5YS00ZmI0LWFkZGUtODIxNGI5OTE3YjM0IiwidCI6ImY2MTBjMGI3LWJkMjQtNGIzOS04MTBiLTNkYzI4MGFmYjU5MCIsImMiOjh9
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It didn’t go anywhere, but doctors wrote off all cases as Covid, as they were instructed to.
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Jo’s Monkey with a computer #iamjohncullen has been reporting the CDC Wonder database where the death certificates were recording Pneumonia & Flu deaths even though the surveillance reports stopped reporting Flu in 2020 weeks 11 to 14 worldwide except from memory Cambodia where maybe the phone was out of order.
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No one noticed it because “P&I” isn’t one disease but many. Pneumonia and influenza (P&I) could apply to many different respiratory infection – virus or bacteria. HPMV, HPIV, Legionnaires, Pneumococcal, RSV, Rhinovirus, mycoplasma….
As I explained years ago, deaths due to actual influenza are often inflated, with modeled, statistical estimates of the “burden” raising the death tolls from 3,000-15,000 up to “60,000”.
I’ve got nothing against people outside virology commentating on viruses. They just need to learn the basics first.
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Most folks have never heard of the “burden” of flu.
Good to point that out.
FDA Approved First Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine
Arexvy is approved for the prevention of lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV in individuals 60 years of age and older.
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Yes Jo, the murky mess that we create in our respiratory tracts could test for anything and with a cranked up PCR test specific for a few chosen strains of bugs and advice to place Covid 19 on the death certificate with what were flu or cold symptoms who know what the truth is?
Interesting Australian Bureau of Statistics data on All Cause Mortality in Australia as reported by NSW Health. They include 2017 Flu season for balance. When I compiled the 2017 data for the year from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the impressive spike did not make for a yearly result to compete with 2021 and 2022.
Look what is happening now. Is it Flu season? or is the fear campaign and marketing working with people again lining up for the shot?
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Covid 19, the study of, affects eye sight!!
Have a look at page 5 of the Australian Health Departments vaccine roll out records. Compare this to the all cause mortality from the ABS data I have linked to as reported by New South Wales Health (Page 3).
The Australian Actuaries Institute’s Covid 19 working group says their isn’t a correlation between the excess deaths and the vaccine due to from what I understood was advice from the TGA.
There is a wave coming and the insurers will be looking the wrong way. Safe and effective vaccines will be reducing the risk of death and disability, so no need to provision for excess mortality or loss of income due to disability.
Look on the bright side we will have a larger pool of disabled athletes to chose from.
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Maybe folks who were counted in all those previous years as “specimens” sadly died of Covid during 2020-22.
So a huge cohort of flu-vulnerable people have simply disappeared from the statistics base in just 2 years.
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Pierre Gosselin mocks the elites and has a glimpse of the future.
https://notrickszone.com/2023/06/24/private-jets-keep-green-light-as-wef-pushes-to-remove-75-of-all-cars-in-just-27-years/
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A low brow ill-informed commentator, Jordan Shanks-Markovina, has 500.000 subscribers and is peddling lies about the GBR.
Jennifer Marohasy is not happy with Friendly Jordie.
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2023/06/invitation-to-visit-mass-coral-bleaching-and-see-the-fishes/
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Rotten clown that guy
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First class response by Jennifer. Worth reading if anyone is just passing it by.
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Friendly Jennie’s latest was also posted on WUWT.
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Looks like Toyota is betting on hydrogen.
Toyota CEO: “Our NEW Hydrogen Engine Will Destroy The EV Industry!”
(9m 15s video)
Why is Toyota not making full battery-electric cars?
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Ssshhh…you’ll upset the hydrogen haters.😁
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Another video on it, this one with more detail on the new engine.
(8m 14s video)
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More info than the first video, but skip the first three mins.
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Not so simple !
There is more to this than those Ra Ra promo videos reveal.
Getting enough H2 onboard to fuel a combustion engine was glossed over somewhat !
Get more background from this..
https://youtu.be/vJjKwSF9gT8
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There will be carnage among EV manufacturers in coming decades and I predict it will not be restricted to startups. Come on down Ford!
Toyota has a good product range that will allow them time to wait and see if the business model works and THEN they can buy a bankrupt company for cents in the dollar. In the meantime they can earn their green brownie points by saying they are serious about hydrogen, R&D is never a total waste.
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What happens to a person’s body when a submarine implodes?
(2m 51s video)
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Mostly correct but as the human body is around 60% water and water won’t compress much at all even at 6000psi, the lungs and sinuses will go first.
Given that the sub was carbon fiber not steel it almost certainly shattered rather than deformed as steel would, allowing for multiple pressure escape routes so any superheating or extreme air compression probably didn’t happen but would for a steel sub.
In either case there won’t be much to recover, bodywise.
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John, squashed or shattered, eitherway the air inside is not going to “escape” since the external pressure is totally uniform all around, and will always be greater than the air contained until it reached equilibrium. So the compressive energy will have to go somewhere ?……heat ?
There is not going to be a “bubble” rising from that failure,
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Does the ABC spread misinformation on climate change?
‘Online platforms spreading misinformation could face millions of dollars in penalties under new proposed government legislation that bolsters the power of Australia’s media watchdog.’ (ABC)
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Misinformation; “Misinformation is “false information that is spread, regardless of intent to mislead.”
two nights ago, the BoM was predicting an 8 Degree night and winds of 20-25 Kph in my neck of the woods. It turned out to be 4 Degrees and about 10Kph.
What will the misinfo fine be for the BoM?
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Two weeks ago a warm , dry winter was predicted.
A couple of days ago that was reversed.
I guess its a prediction, not a promise.
Climate is different though. They absolutely know for sure what’s happening at the end of the century.
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They have faith in models which don’t have the capacity to forecast. It would be unprecedented if global cooling begins in the Southern Hemisphere.
‘Parts of the SA outback shivered through their coldest June day on record yesterday as a thick northwest cloudband brought heavy rain and chilly temperatures across the state.
‘While winter is northwest cloudband season in Australia, this week’s cloudband has been thicker, larger and more laden with moisture than usual.’ (Weatherzone)
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Reports say that Wagner chief Prigozhin has turned his troops around and sent them back to/toward Ukraine, while he goes into “exile” in Belarus.
In the words of the great philosophers, “Pull the other one. It has bells on.”
This nonsense merely strengthens my belief that western media either has no clue about how things work in Russia, or chooses not to report it properly. Probably both.
This cr4p makes no sense. Lukashenko (leader of Belarus) is a staunch Putin ally, so Belarus can’t be seen as a safe haven for the Wagner leader. Also, Prigozhin has supposedly handed control of Wagner to Russian authorities, in effect leaving him with no leverage and no protection. Does that make sense to you? Me neither.
Disinformation or incompetence? Both I’m sure. Few western reporters understand the Russian mentality, much less its politics, but the travails of the Biden syndicate probably requires that they turbocharge their usual Blitzkrieg of Bullsh1t.
Squirrel!
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Nobody knows whats going on. Here are a few guesses:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/prigozhins-siege-ends-postmortem
https://sonar21.com/russias-academy-award-winning-performance-for-best-coup-prigozhin-scores-best-actor/
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They could be in a car carrier coming to a port near you. Apparently this happened in Libya.
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And at the same time the USA find a missing $6.2 Billion down the back of the couch.
Mercenary army aren’t they?
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https://babylonbee.com/news/pentagon-announces-they-found-another-40-billion-that-fell-between-couch-cushions
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It certainly doesn’t make sense at face value! So the result is that Russia has 2/3 of his 25000 hardened veterans in their army now, and they have Prigozin with the other 8000 in Belarus, 100km from Kiev.
Do the ex-jailbirds still get to go home?
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Applying Occam’s razor my guess is that when he got close to Moscow he found that his allies in the Kremlin either were nonexistent or got cold feet.
Much of this has been confirmed including shooting down three Ru helicopters. The camera in every pocket means they can’t lie TOO much.
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“Applying Occam’s razor my guess is” So your simplest explanation is that?
Mine is, it’s all propaganda, based on that no military forces tell the opposing side their plans.
At least 50% of the video footage of aircraft in this war is taken from video games, none is time stamped.
But only the Russians lie isn’t it, the accidental president and paid liar speaks only the truth.
It’s one big money laundering scheme that’s disarming the western countries and propaganda to confuse the delusional.
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Correct. Has all the hallmarks of sleight of hand . The Russians are fighting smart . Probably something big coming .
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Perhaps it might make more sense to know the Prigozhin is not the operational commander of Wagner Group.
The real commander is Ukrainian-born, Slav Nativist Dmitry Utkin, a former Russian Armed Forces/GRU Lt Colonel and a former commander of the 2nd Spetznaz Brigade.
Utkin assembled the Webster Group in 2014, naming it after his military call-sign.
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Hey Leo G. I recently had to pick up some meds for an ageing relative. A Wagner Pack?
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Indeed. There happens to be a very subversive nonagenarian in my household.
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Have you offered your knowledge of Russia to the US military? They might pay you, unlike us bludgers here.
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..is there such a thing ?
History shows that The concept of being an “Ally” means something very different in that company..!
Maybe Lukashenko has something else in mind ?
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Oh oh we’ve done it again. https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/weird-reason-earths-rotation-has-shifted/news-story/0148073e7ebe6e7990eb975e10b43891?utm_campaign=EditorialSB&utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=SocialBakers
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‘ … polar drift can have an impact on climate.’
Strongly disagree, however, a geomagnetic excursion will have an impact on climate
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30% of Siemens wind turbines have defective parts:
https://www.wnd.com/2023/06/massive-energy-corporation-says-30-percent-wind-turbines-malfunctioning/?utm_source=Email
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And the other 70% don’t work.
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My son is sparky on a solar farm. The idea that you set up an array and go fishing is delusional. Harvesting sunbeams keeps a small workforce busy.
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Keeps an Antechinus busy wearing down their teeth. Just wait till the Rag & Bone team start removing copper and aluminium from these remote sites.
Rumour has it the Woolooga Solar farm took a substantial hail damage hit with the Insurer now refusing to insure against future events.
So yes much work to maintain a vast renewable facility and even difficult to sleep at night when there is chewing and scratching in your own roof with a hose of Edison’s DC electrons looking for earth.
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And the share price dropped 37% in seconds or less.
Traders moved computers close to NYC a few years ago to get millisecond advantage over others.
Bad news triggers “sell” orders at the speed of an electron in a Hydrogen atom.
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Unprecedented marine heatwave in the North Atlantic.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/20/europe/marine-heatwave-north-atlantic-climate-scn-intl/index.html
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Marine heatwaves spreading like a cancer and impacts Beijing.
‘An emerging MHW in the Sea of Japan, Yellow Sea, and East China Sea has developed rapidly during the past 30 days. The 16-day MAX/MIN forecast for Beijing features consistent 100-110F daytime risk.’ (Climate Impact Company)
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FWIW
“1984 IS HERE 40 YEARS LATER”
https://richardsonpost.com/matt-taibbi/32119/the-elite-war-on-free-thought-through-censorship/
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He’s good-
“A political movement has long been afoot in America and other places to reduce every political question to simple binaries. As Russell knows, current political thought doesn’t like the idea that there can be left-neoliberalism over here, and right-Trumpism over here, and then also all sorts of people who are neither – in between, on the peripheries, wherever. They prefer to look at it as, “Over here are people who are conscientious and believe in science and fairness and democracy and puppies, and then everyone else is a right-winger.” ”
Get rid of the shades of grey and make everyone only able to think in terms of black and white, them or us, so you are either completely right or deserve death twice plus cancer.
Some interesting stuff about how social media channels people the way they want them to go. Social media may bring in 1984 & a new society faster than the WEF ever can.
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Wikipedia article about the first bathyscaphe to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.
I doubt whether many people these days would have even heard of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste_%28bathyscaphe%29?wprov=sfla1
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Video about the dive: https://youtu.be/AOfS-tzxZAs
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I guess it’s just me.
We’ve all been admonished for years to “follow the Science”.
Then it turns out …
The Great Pan Thing was the direct result of scientific experimental malfeasance (or charade).
Guess we will all “follow the Science” … because of the chains.
Should have listened to Dr. McCoy.
If you think about it, there was something a little creepy about Spock anyway.
Kind of like this …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZNUXnzdWpM&list=PL79TNJUrErY6HlYRXBiSHBTxmddAiIJ4v
Off to spend the rest of my day listening to crickets and watching squirrels … hey, what’s that strange light in the sky?
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FWIW
“The Word is Out – Corporate Media Start the Biden Removal Process
June 25, 2023 | Sundance | 75 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/25/the-word-is-out-corporate-media-start-the-biden-removal-process/
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Goes with that
https://i.imgur.com/1SjRMeK.jpg
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This is the advantage of having interchangeable empty suites. Once the figure head has run its course as far as usefulness, he/she is just replaced by another. The cloaked emperor/polit bureau remains unaffected. The visceral reaction against Trump back in 2015 was because he was not one of them. He was and is not interchangable.
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It is Sunday, but several days ago it happened prematurely; I was “blessed”
Amazing:
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/vc-habeck-says-german-industry-may-shut-down-hopes-russia-and-ukraine-will-play-nice-on-gas/#comment-2678289
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cuts deep
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Deep as the river Jordan.
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Let’s adopt the same policy on carbon dioxide emissions as the world’s largest emitter.
No limit!
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“One will be dead soon, possibly both, they both know it. There is no way it will end peacefully. Wagner will not go to the front lines and follow orders from the armed forces. Wagner will not disarm. A pet alligator is still an alligator.” Just thought I’d document this classic stupidity from Colonialista at SDA for posterity. Why are so many people so stupid?
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How the world was meant to follow America’s Liberal consumer ideals and go beyond the thought of war and territorial conquest..
“Since the second world war there have been precious few wars, and primarily conflicts. Ours has been an age of coups and color revolutions. I don’t mean to minimize the bloodshed, but wars of expansion or territorial disputes were a thing of the past, of a time before The End of History. This perhaps best describes what Fukuyama meant by his declaration that History had seized. There would be no more great wars or bloody revolutions in the style of the Red Revolution of Russia or the French Terror. Instead liberal institutions would pacify the populace and electoral procedures would allow guillotines to rust, their thirst for blood unquenched. Ideally, because elections were being held and votes counted, no one should feel the need to “water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants.” Conventional tyranny was over; we’re all free men.”
https://rwasamizdat.substack.com/p/prigozhin-and-the-end-of-history?sd=pf
We were all to end up in one village, run by the WEF. Seems Russia has upset that too…
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FWIW
“Nuclear Falseflag on Zaporozhye NPP Heats Up + Major Wagner Updates and More”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/nuclear-falseflag-on-zaporozhye-npp
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Ross Gittins trying to sell the 15minute city. Pushing all the WEF propaganda, that man is an embarrassment!
“Why packing more people into our cities won’t be so bad”
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/why-packing-more-people-into-our-cities-won-t-be-so-bad-20230624-p5dj43.html
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Matthew Goodwin: The Failures of British Conservatism
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Will political promises be subject to fact checking, dis, and mis information? There have to be questions based on previous experience.
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Unseasonal floods in the dry season.
‘This system will deliver widespread and prolonged rainfall to parts of Australia that typically see little of no rain at this time of year. This will cause out-of-season flooding and may catch some communities and travellers by surprise.’ (Weatherzone)
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Voice to Parliament – the case for NO
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‘Get out the way!’ Moment furious cyclist drags Just Stop Oil activists out of the road to let gridlocked traffic pass – after motorcyclist ploughs through banner during chaotic slow march protests
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Why are we locked into a nightmare by a belief in some weird concepts like CAGW.
I am sure that a thermodynamic analysis of the daily atmospheric churn created by the combined effects of the Earth’s rotation and exposure to the Sun is the answer.
Three things;
Temperature variations of the atmosphere over the 24 hour cycle show no evidence of the activity of that Devil Gas CO2.
Known atmospheric physics places CO2 as an integral component of the “atmosphere” above 30 metres altitude.
Below that point the “atmosphere” is picking up energy from conduction with the ground and possible absorption of ground origin IR, in the case of the greenhouse gases.
Above 30 metres it is simply one component of a gas following the universal gas laws.
Individually it cannot “trap” heat, it behaves exactly as one component among many until through convection it is at altitude where humans would freeze to death.
Then things change and CO2 may unload any spare energy it holds as a gift to space.
There’s no room in this process of solar induced atmospheric churn for CO2 to cause any kind of heating let alone “catastrophic” heating.
My previous rough analysis under the title “IF” shows that CO2 is thermodynamically inconsequential.
And that’s the troof.
Any contention that CO2 is dangerous, made at this moment in human history, when we understand so much of the intricacies of science, is downright Evil and is evidence of massive corruption of our Democratic Process.
What is the motive in all of this?
KK
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Far-left NYC cracks down on coal, wood-fired pizzerias to fight climate change
https://thepostmillennial.com/far-left-nyc-cracks-down-on-coal-wood-fired-pizzerias-to-fight-climate-change
The city wants to take one of the major draws to the city, its pizza places, and force them to pay upwards of $20,000 for emissions control devices.
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The looney left thinks there is a blood bath at our ABC.
https://www.aap.com.au/news/flabbergasted-abc-star-redundant-as-axe-falls-on-120/
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The rain band from the north-west maybe significant.
‘A La Niña Modoki cold anomaly near the Dateline is effective in shifting convection westward, causing an autumn rainfall increase over northwestern Australia extending to the northern Murray-Darling Basin …” (Cai et al 2009)
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Interesting weather maps on Ventusky, of the wind at 100 000ft for the next 10 days. The southern hemisphere jet is just blasting W-E, up to 430kph south of Aus. At ground level the whole northern tropics is getting rain, the Indian monsoon is about to kick in. There is a wet band forming right around the globe, north of the equator, heaviest just W of central America. Up to 100 000′ the winds are fluky above the wet, but at 100 000′ a strong E-W jet appears. So the jets seem to be straightening out. No idea what is normal for this time of the year, but it is a lovely pic.
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Thanks, I had no idea that there was wind at 30,000 metres altitude.
Have been in a passenger jet at 11,000 metres and it’s cold outside.
Hard to imagine being three times further up.
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‘So the jets seem to be straightening out.’
Its still meandering in the Southern Hemisphere, producing this rain band.
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Hmmm… no Monday place to post and now no Tuesday, so I guess I will continue with Sunday…
Macron calls for an international taxation deal to finance climate efforts
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-emmanuel-macron-calls-for-international-taxation-to-finance-climate-efforts/
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday hinted at a fresh push to revamp the international taxation system to finance climate efforts.
Macron spoke on the sidelines of the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris, where delegates from across the world are discussing ways to reform the international financial system to help raise money for climate adaptation and mitigation efforts…
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Scientists Say Earth’s Warming Could Set Off Wide Disruptions
By WILLIAM K. STEVENS
Published: Monday, September 18, 1995
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/18/world/scientists-say-earth-s-warming-could-set-off-wide-disruptions.html
And look at how many of their predictions have come true…
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