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I’ve noticed a lot of websites lately that give you the option to reject cookies altogether and still let you use the website. I like thst. I often don’t use websites that insist on cookies unless I really need to use them. I think compulsory cookies had something to do with EU legal requirements.
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I have a computer program called SuperAntiSpyware Professional.
It clears out all cookies while I sleep, and first thing when I check in of a morning, there’s a text box telling me it’s done, and I just hit proceed, and all cookies from the day before are deleted. Any Malware is automatically picked up by the Firewall.
I visit so many sites during each and every day, so something like this just saves me the task of manually doing it.
Tony.
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I know SAS pro…
Cookies take all night to be cleared rather than 2 minutes?
Windows firewall for Malware?
Mate, you need to invest in a good pc security suite, fast!
I use Kaspersky Internet Security Suite and have for 20 years plus Malwarebytes Pro along with some more “techy” specialised software.
Maybe Jo could do a “Tech Support Tuesday” so people can post tech questions and get advice, as it is increasingly important in the age of cybercrime to have top notch protection…
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I use none at all and it makes no difference. I buy a computer every 4 years generally. Im into 5 now.
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So is banning gas in new real estate developments anti competitive? Could the gas industry fight this in the law courts. the same as banning new fossil fuel cars, could the motor car industry take the governments to court over these bans? Next we’ll ban water from rivers and dams for home use and you’ll just have to use RO/UF water.
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Next we’ll see – Banning sale of meat, banning concrete use for building buildings, painting all roads and roofs white, limit house/unit ownership to one per family etc. – unless of course you are a billionaire.
The Vic government spokesperson on the news this morning said the gas ban was to ‘educate consumers’.
Interesting education for a country which is one of the largest gas exporters in the world and now has some of the highest electricity prices.
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No doubt to be soon backed up with re-education camps.
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Given the meejia we have today, they don’t need re-education camps.
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Like all Leftists, Dan is a hypocrite.
He here is cooking with gas.
https://twitter.com/DanielAndrewsMP/status/1248542493840257024?t=ZvIwMdTJgst5g23iTM1ogw&s=19
(I don’t know if others can see that Twitter link.)
If you can’t see it do a Goolag search for “dan andrews cooking” without quote marks.
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Condescending a-holes.
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Was this image taken before or after that fall?
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Before the fall. The gas cooking picture was April 2020. The fall was March 2021.
Here is a picture of the stairs he was alleged to have fallen down in which he was said to have suffered serious spinal injuries, six broken ribs, and collapsed lungs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11394521/Dan-Andrews-holiday-home-steps-fell-broke-revealed.html
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IIRC in some US states it’s illegal to store rainfall from your own roof to water your garden without a licence.
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I’m amazed at the prolific posting of articles at Zero Hedge – about one every 20 -30 minutes 24/7.
Here’s one on heat islands:
‘Heat Islands’ Have City-Dwellers Swelter In A Concrete Jungle
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/heat-islands-have-city-dwellers-swelter-concrete-jungle
News reporters gravitate to these areas for their ‘Global Boiling’ stories. But there’s not much of a story away from the concrete, black top, brick, and iron environment.
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No ‘heat’ problem down in Antarctica today: -71C at Vostok Station, -55 at Amundsen South Pole, and a veritable scorcher of -13C for Summit Camp up in Greenland.
Boiling? What boiling!
Mind you, the temp doubled here today, thank goodness, from a chilly 7C overnight to a sunny 14, though I’d prefer 21 or 28 or 35…
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My old physical chemistry teacher would suggest that doubling temperatures would require use of the Kelvin temperature scales.
So your local temperatures went from about 280 to 287.
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Ozfred.
Yes most mornings here start in the negative numbers degrees C. A doubling would be very cold. Have just been reading the difference between IPTS-68 and ITS-90. Quite a surprise just how non-linear a degree C used to be. If doubling degrees C need to state which type.
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They repost from other sites. Better than Google for finding interesting articles.
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Two sides to the same story:
‘Off the charts’: Antarctic sea ice plummets to worrying low
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/07/28/off-the-charts-antarctic-sea-ice-plummets-to-worrying-low/
And,
Antarctic Sea Ice Volume
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/07/28/antarctic-sea-ice-volume/
With the start of the New Zealand-Australia Antarctic Science Conference in ChCh there was a media blitz of Antarctic angst last night. Complete with fearsome missattribution.
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A silly metric to use for melting, an area with at least 15% ice when half the area with greater than 30% ice could have more ice.
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Another sudden death in a person known to me, also a friend had a stroke last Tuesday. I had to get the police to break into his home. They had to break into another home the next day for a similar reason.
Also a few weeks ago a sudden death just down the road from me. I know that these things happen, but one of the local cops commented on the number of sudden deaths in town recently. I’m starting to lose track of how many of these events have taken place in my periphery over the last two years.
There is a problem, and that problem has a cause.
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Add in the increase in the number of cases of aggressive cancer?
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“Add in the increase in the number of cases of aggressive cancer?”
i.e. My brother in law.
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My mother went the same turbo cancer route post vax (a requirement for her weekly hairdresser appointment).
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>”media blitz of Antarctic angst”
The One News article previous has all that. Examples:
And,
And,
No mention of the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) as last comment.
I would note for Australians that Tim Naish, as a scientist, has a very loose grasp of objectivity. For example, he headed the NZ$20m+ Searise Programme along with Richard Levy above.
Only thing missing? Well, actual observations of sea level.
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>”NZ$20m+ Searise Programme”
Sorry, $7.1m 5 year project. I’ve seen other totals elsewhere that must have misinterpreted the total cost. Still substantial at $7.1m.
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About SeaRise says $7.1m over 5 years.
Rush & Moody (see below and #5.2 following) say this on SeaRise cost:
I’m inclined to think that Sean Rush (LLB, LLM, MCCSP) and Katharine Moody (BSc, PGDipPlan) may have the more reliable figure than do scientists Tim Naish and Richard Levy.
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>”Only thing missing? Well, actual observations of sea level.”
Sean Rush & Katharine Moody say NZ needs to be more realistic when it comes to policy development regarding sea-level rise projections & managed retreat
https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/121439/sean-rush-katharine-moody-say-nz-needs-be-more-realistic-when-it-comes-policy
And,
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I think studies of Antarctic ice are mainly about taxpayer-funded adventure holidays for those who identify as “climate scientists”.
The scarier the scenario, the better funded is their adventure.
It’s all fun and games until they get stuck in excess ice. Remember the “ship of fools”?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/global-warming-s-glorious-ship-of-fools/
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David M:
somehow this didn’t get featured in the MS Media.
Last year Sept. 3
The conviction that global warming is melting ice in the polar regions has once again led climate warriors into danger and the need for rescue. The MS Malmo, a Swedish-registered ship, was just rescued after being trapped in ice, and its passengers airlifted to safety.
Arctic tours ship MS MALMO with 16 passengers on board got stuck in ice on Sep 3 off Longyearbyen, Svalbard Archipelago, halfway between Norway and North Pole. The ship was on an Arctic tour with Climate Change documentary film team, and tourists, concerned with Climate Change and melting Arctic ice.
During the winter of 1922, there was no sea ice around Spitzbergen (Svalbard.) The water had warmed by 12°C and it was too warm for seals. There was a radical change in climatic conditions with unheard-of high temperatures.
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Why does this keep happening?
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/global-boiling-confronting-graph-a-warning-for-australia/news-story/1463f8b4c72296b7ab6abaff8f9f6f33
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Harold >”Why does this keep happening?” [hottest days graph]
Not sure what you’re alluding to but here goes.
1) It’s only been happening this year i.e. a one year aberration.
2) 2 wild Antarctic spikes skewed the global average metric. Second coincided with peak NH summer hence the “hottest day” records. Antarctic is back down below the mean now and heading in the opposite direction.
3) The second Antarctic spike was by no means the largest that has ever occurred, just that it was the first recorded to coincide with NH summer.
4) Since the second Antarctic spike the action is elsewhere e.g. Tropics and Arctic. You can view the different regions here:
Daily 2-meter Air Temperature
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/
The source of the graph data you reference is the same NCEP CFSV2/CFSR dataset.
5) Big Climate has discovered real-time absolute temperatures are a handy weapon for PR blitzes. Note however that one year is not climate and there are natural causes, particularly in the very influential Antarctic (see #4 upthread).
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Not to worry, Harold, I’ve sent Chantelle a friendly email with informative graphs attached.
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Harold
Don’t panic!
It’s just the UN having another “Heat UP”
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Harold >”Why does this keep happening?” [hottest days graph]
Not sure what you’re alluding to but here goes.
1) It’s only been happening this year i.e. a one year aberration.
2) 2 wild Antarctic spikes skewed the global average metric. Second coincided with peak NH summer hence the “hottest day” records. Antarctic is back down below the mean now and heading in the opposite direction.
3) The second Antarctic spike was by no means the largest that has ever occurred, just that it was the first recorded to coincide with NH summer.
4) Since the second Antarctic spike the action is elsewhere e.g. tropics and Arctic. You can view the different regions here:
Daily 2-meter Air Temperature
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/
The source of the graph data you reference is the same NCEP CFSV2/CFSR dataset.
5) Big Climate has discovered real-time absolute temperatures are a handy weapon for PR blitzes. Note however that one year is not climate and there are natural cause, particularly in the very influential Antarctic (see #4 upthread).
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Quick!
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How do they do it?
How have they induced the most successful in the society to behave like fools.
“The era of Global Boiling” … sheesh!
The US Secret Service is unable to figure out who dropped a baggie of cocaine in the most secure location on the planet.
A lawyer for Hunter Biden called the court and pretended to be a lawyer for the prosecution, trying to remove Biden tax records from the case.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/hunter-biden-judge-plea-deal-phone-call-00108184
They are able to make obvious stooges of the Secret Service?
For Joe Biden?
So some young woman of sufficient social station to be in that position, is willing to do this for the sake of a mediocre, mentally debilitated, has been if ever was machine politician and his drug addict son?
And the Pandemic?
How were they able to get so many well educated people to go out in public and call Ivermectin “horse de-wormer”?
And that’s only one of the crazy examples of the Pandemic fiasco.
Who or what is running this cult?
Kamikaze Banzai for the Emperor is way more understandable and seems quaint.
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Mysterious Chinese COVID Lab Uncovered in City of Reedley CA
Code enforcement check uncovers illegal lab making COVID-19 and pregnancy test kits, bacterial and viral agents and 900 white mice.
Why would a COVID lab run by a shady Chinese company be operating in Reedley, CA in the central San Joaquin Valley? The lab, which was supposed to be an empty building, was discovered by Reedley city code enforcement officers when they saw a garden hose attached to the building and investigated.
Darren Fraser at the MidValley Times reported earlier this week that the building has been illegally operated since October 2022 by Wang Zhaolin of Prestige Biotech, and the lab was used to produce COVID-19 tests and pregnancy tests.
City of Reedley officials called in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the FBI, the State Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), the State Department of Health, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the Fresno County Department of Public Health (FCDPH).
“Reedley officials and personnel from CDPH and FCDPH executed a warrant on March 16 to inspect the warehouse at 850 I Street,” MidValley Times reported. “According to a declaration from Humero Prado, Assistant Director of Fresno County Public Health, which was filed in superior court, investigators discovered that one room of the warehouse was used to produce COVID-19 and pregnancy tests. In other rooms, investigators found blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples. They also found thousands of vials that contained unlabeled fluids.”
And they found 900 genetically engineered mice, engineered to catch and carry COVID-19, living in “inhumane” conditions. 773 of the mice had to be euthanized, and officials found another 178 mice already dead.
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/mysterious-chinese-covid-lab-uncovered-in-city-of-reedly-ca/
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John,
They “busted” a lab . No mention of arrests . Very sloppy operation – 900 mice , where are the ‘rats?
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Saturday weirdness: insane flexibility!
https://vidmaxviral.com/video/220517-wtf-guy-with-insane-flexibility-leaves-cops-watching-his-skills-dumbfounded
It’s hard enough to move without creaking for some of us. 😁
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Saturday weirdness: Divers encounter Taiwan’s giant doomsday fish
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rxz194vhk31zlxqpx.mp4
Eek!
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Ah yes, the oar fish, rises to the surface prior to an earthquake, except the biggest shake Taiwan had that week was a 5.0 standard wobble. Those wounds in its side didn’t look too healthy, poor critter.
August could be fun for earthquakes with a ‘once in a blue moon’ double full moon for the month lining up with perigees both times… can you feel the syzygy?
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Saturday entertainment: are your ducks in a row?
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ry3sxt9QBa1w5pr9j.mp4
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Kazakhstan confirmed 2,694 measles cases.
Over 80% of the cases fall on children under 18 years old, and above 70% of them are unvaccinated. 60% of them refused measles vaccination, Vice Minister of Healthcare, chief sanitary doctor Aizhan Yesmaganbetova told Kazinform News Agency.
She added most cases were recorded in Almaty. No measles-related deaths were reported as of now.
https://www.inform.kz/en/almaty-leads-in-measles-cases_a4094713
Interestingly, in 2022 there was a measly (sorry 😁) TEN cases…
Brisbane, London Kasai, S. Africa are having minor upticks in cases. No trend emerging but I’ll watch Kaza anyway.
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The doctor also said:
“The vice minister stressed the only way to prevent measles spread is the vaccination.”
Despite the vaccinated accounting for 30% of the cases.
Somehow sounds familiar.
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CDC likely to recommend annual COVID booster shot, director says
The new director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that her agency would likely come out with guidance in the fall that Americans should get an annual COVID-19 booster shot.
“We’re just on the precipice of that, so I don’t want to get ahead of where our scientists are here and doing that evaluation work, but yes we anticipate that COVID will become similar to flu shots, where it is going to be you get your annual flu shot, and you get your annual COVID shot,” Dr. Mandy Cohen told Spectrum News.
“We’re not quite there yet, but stay tuned,” she added. “I think within the next couple of weeks, month we’re going to hear more from our experts on COVID shots.”
Spectrum News said that the agency is finalizing the recommendation and is expected to announce it in early September.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/cdc-likely-recommend-annual-covid-booster-shot-director-says
1 in 50,000
1 in 10,000
1 in 1,000
1 in 500
1 in 100
1 in 35 (you are here).
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1 in 10
1 in 1
Bye everyone.
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Around here even some of the elderly are beginning to avoid “boosters”. Can’t wait to find out about the uptake of annual Covid shots.
On the other hand, the inmates of care homes are meat for injectors.
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More unanswered questions about the death of Obama’s chef.
Benny Johnson discusses:
https://youtu.be/a1sKVEFzQpI
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I have seen reports of several recent drownings of adult swimmers. I suspect “medical emergencies”, just like the neighbour who just totalled her car.
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Look at today’s electricity supplies at OpenNEM.
At 1pm, solar was providing 11.4 GW (47% of demand) and wind 3.2 GW (13% of demand and a capacity factor of about its average of 30%).
Coal was cut back to 8.8 GW from a peak the night before of 16.0 GW from a nameplate capacity of 21 GW.
Now consider Minister Bowen doubles wind capacity and it delivers 6.4 GW.
And solar increases output to say 14 GW
Can coal reduce output to just 3.0 GW, yet still be ready to deliver 13 GW at the nightly peak?
Now consider the scenario where Bayswater and Eraring close with a loss of 5.5 GW and the wind doesn’t blow.
What will be left to keep the lights on? Snowy 2? More big batteries? (currently batteries deliver just 0.25 GW for an hour or so).
We will get Minister Bowen’s promised $275 reduction on our electricity bills when rationing is introduced.
Look at South Africa:
“People are experiencing rolling blackouts of up to six hours a day and are having to face a bitterly cold winter with an erratic and unreliable power supply.”
“A typical day of what the state-run power company Eskom euphemistically calls “Stage six load shedding” consists of waking up to no power, driving to work through congested roads because the traffic lights aren’t working, being pummelled by the din of generators at the work place, and then finding power has been cut once more when you get back home.”
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“We will get Minister Bowen’s promised $275 reduction on our electricity bills when rationing is introduced.
To put it towards a generator.
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Sky News Australia video compilation.
“Toxic trans agenda is failing our children”
https://youtu.be/Nqj54Qy7wDY
13 mins
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Around 80% of them are suffering chronic pain, mental and physical dysfunction and unhappiness.
The lawsuits have begun.
The pink unicorn squad, just like the Covidians and climate alarmists crazies will all wake up shortly.
Their stupidity in the news:
Trans indigenous Canadian slams doctors for denying her euthanasia request, saying death would be better than her constant pain from a surgically-built vagina
An indigenous transgender woman has slammed Canada’s healthcare system for rejecting her euthanasia request despite the pain she endures from a surgically-built vagina.
In social media posts, Lois Cardinal, a self-proclaimed ‘sterilized First Nations post-op transsexual’ said regret over her medical transition led her to apply for a lethal injection in January.
Cardinal, who lives on a native reserve near St. Paul, Alberta, posted her medical records from the request online this week to draw attention to radical gender ideology.
Her case underscores the perils of Canada’s ultra-liberal healthcare system — one of the world’s most permissive for both euthanasia and affirming an individual’s chosen gender.
‘I’m in constant discomfort and pain,’ the 35-year-old told DailyMail.com.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12349523/Trans-indigenous-Canadian-slams-doctors-denying-euthanasia-request-saying-death-free-agony-surgically-built-vagina.html
No escape from your self-created nightmare for you.
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Planes, planes and more planes
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1609563939259514880
That’s a Jan 1st 2023 snapshot of global air traffic.
One day.
Just stop oil. Yup.
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One wonders why there was such an outcry in USA over the Chinese “ spy balloons “.
After all the USA government appears to be near to full with Government officials working for the Chinese Communist Party. Even Republican Mitch McConnell has interests in Chinese companies directly involved with their military. The latest Fox News reports that AOC has financial interests with China. I guess it’s all OK seen as the President’s whole family partakes in his international corruption with China, Romania , Ukraine. Nothing like a story of “ happy families “ I guess!! What happened to this once great country?? Where has the rule of law gone. What happened to pride & patriotism? Where have integrity & values gone.
Somehow I can’t see the country ever being turned around & put back on track. That’s the real worry. Makes civil war look very likely!
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Hmm, ‘what happened to pride & Patriotism’ ? Well, look at what happened to PRIDE UK Results; and Pride World results . and as for patriotism? ” F U m8 “
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Not just ULEZ, but proportional representation? The UK stands almost alone in Europe in using a ‘one-person-takes-all’ disproportionate voting system.
Got me thinking regarding yesterday’s Court outcome: On Disproportionate voting systems: why then do we ALL have to bide a singular decision? What sort of civilisation have we become? Few people refer to the Book “ Lord of the Flies ” – I wonder why not: does it hit the jackpot, – about themselves? and why is it dystopian?
For Conch read Climate or COvid or Control, or Coverup!
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All the alarmist media predictions and reporting of heatwaves, and governmental bodies issuing wildfire risk warnings; you might as well just say “hey arsonists, get your kit ready, start your fires….. now”.
100% arson but climate change the cause. Hmmm.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/28/greece-fires-arsonists-extreme-weather
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Quite agree! have said that too, manys a time. Inanimate objects have no concept of Temperature: so why self combust ?
I believe that ( and I do know it gets very hot, but damp with condensation) damp organic matter (Hay) can set itself on fire … but dry material ?
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The hay fires I’ve read about have been in stacks or sheds of hay, not individual bales in the paddock. And I’ve not read of any bushfires started by spontaneous combustion of ground debris. Has anyone?
I’ve always assumed that it occurred in bales which were moister than necessary and under pressure?
Cheers
Dave B
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Well I haven’t bothered to do anything scientific about it: just controlled the heat in clamp silage by compression to exclude Oxygen, Baled Hay as dry as possible and allowed to vent / cool before indoor storage, BUT finely cut Lawn clippings in a large collector box can heat up very quickly – too hot to touch, but you sense it with the condensation developing on the surface…. so doubt it would burn, but Coal & Wood chip/pellets ? anyone?
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Just like, “He was flattened by a bus but because he had Covid at the time, we’ll add him to the Covid death toll.”
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This is global!
Offshore wind has a cost crisis
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2023/07/26/offshore-wind-has-a-cost-crisis/
The beginning: “The horrific term “cost crisis” is not from me. It comes down from on high, in this case the mega-conference: US Offshore Wind 2023. Specifically the “DEVELOPER LEADERS KEYNOTE PANEL” which features this chilling title: “Tackling The Cost Crisis Through Assessing Investment Risks”. See https://events.reutersevents.com/renewable-energy/offshore-wind-usa/agenda
Mind you I could not attend, given the tickets cost $4,000 with schmoozing or a mere $3,000 without. This just shows how gold plated the offshore boom has become.
But now they have a cost crisis. Could the bust be at hand? The evidence is piling up.”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
Every boom has a bust. Here’s hoping.
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An excellent summation of what is wrong with ‘renewables’:
https://twitter.com/Bel_B30/status/1684904810032640000?s=20
~2m video – you will need to turn the audio on in the player
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“We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars”
“Ford Motor Co.’s is throttling back on plans to ramp-up electric vehicle production, pointing the finger at a price war for battery-powered vehicles.
The automaker on Thursday said it would need another year to meet a year-end target to reach an annual production rate of 600,000 EVs, which it now expects to reach in 2024. Ford also abandoned plans to be making 2 million EVs a year by the end of 2026.
It now expects to see losses from EVs hit $4.5 billion this year, up from an earlier estimate of $3 billion. That’s more than double the $2.1 billion the company lost on EVs last year.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/07/29/we-dont-need-no-flaming-sparky-cars-122/
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Spreading!
“The Lancet’s Scientific Chicanery on Mortality Exposed by CO2 Coalition”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/29/the-lancets-scientific-chicanery-on-mortality-exposed-by-co2-coalition/
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Nice to know that they’ve caught up with Jo:
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/the-lancet-stretches-half-the-axis-and-then-heat-deaths-look-worse/
Cheers
Dave B
That was meant to be a reply to another ian at #23
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Wow, did I get that wrong.
Now I’ll have to work out how I managed to so badly misplace that!!
I hope to get it correctly located soon!
Cheers
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Viewed from outside
“Australia Continues to Lead the World in Self-Demolition”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2023/07/29/australia-continues-to-lead-the-world-in-self-demolition-n1714441
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Teachers better check their “suggested teaching resources” list
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Climate Change is Changing How We Dream
https://time.com/6298730/climate-change-dreams/
And,
And,
I must have missed the zeitgeist – I never have dreams like that.
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FWIW – more hocus on that Sardinia temperature
“Sardinia Temperature Record Set in Middle of Undergrowth, And Yards from Road”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/29/sardinia-temperature-record-set-in-middle-of-undergrowth-and-yards-from-road/
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