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Stronger solar winds accelerate the jet stream in the north, which becomes latitudinal.
The analogy happens in the southern Pacific.
https://i.ibb.co/jwXfYRV/mimictpw-epac-latest.gif
https://i.ibb.co/cy8Y73Q/mimictpw-spac-latest.gif
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A typhoon in the western Pacific is blocked below the Japan Islands.
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mtpw2/webAnims/tpw_nrl_colors/wpac/mimictpw_wpac_latest.gif
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There is an unusually high amount of atmospheric water over the north-western Pacific, China and India:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=total_precipitable_water/orthographic=-229.19,13.22,372/loc=131.439,30.332
Record flooding now will give way to record snowfall in a few months.
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The SST underneath that typhoon is cool.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-223.80,16.81,1090/loc=136.640,18.322
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This shows that the water that reaches the tropopause cools the surface. The same thing happens in winter in high latitudes.
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Thanks.
What is the chance of El Nino being weak?
During the Holocene Climate Optimum, when SST was warmer, it appears that ENSO behaviour was muted.
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It looks like it will be weak.
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Now temperatures will not rise. Heat is escaping quickly from the Pacific Ocean.
http://www.bom.gov.au/archive/oceanography/ocean_anals/IDYOC006/IDYOC006.202308.gif
http://www.bom.gov.au/archive/oceanography/ocean_anals/IDYOC007/IDYOC007.202308.gif
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La Nina Modoki?
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More on EVs:
EVs On a Collision Course With Reality
“The alleged transition to “green” energy is destined to crash and burn. A modern society can’t meet its needs for electricity with wind and solar sources that produce nothing a large majority of the time, supplemented by wholly notional “batteries.” The race to disaster is being accelerated by government-mandated use of electric vehicles, which will put impossible burdens on an already-inadequate grid. So it becomes a question of where the “green” dream will break down first”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/08/evs-on-a-collision-course-with-reality.php
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Lance. I’ve been absent the past ten days, so don’t know if the following got mentioned…”Japan’s Toyota overtook Germany’s Volkswagen in vehicle sales last year, regaining pole position as the world’s top selling automaker for the first time in five years”…..
“Now, the company leader has told his top executives that “the future of the VW brand is at stake.”….
“Schafter noted that the company is only producing a 3.6 percent profit margin, half that of VW’s competitors… [snip]
‘The roof is on fire’ – Volkswagen in crisis as switch to e-cars destroys profitability. VW’s electric car business has turned into a disaster. German automaker Volkswagen (VW) is entering crisis mode, and even the executives are admitting it, with the company’s leader describing a “perfect storm.”
[SNIP]
At the top of the list of challenges facing the company is the lack of demand for electric cars despite the company investing huge sums in the division. High inflation, Germany’s recession, and e-car sticker shock for consumers have contributed to a sharp reduction in demand.
[Source? https://rmx.news/economy/the-roof-is-on-fire-volkswagen-in-crisis-as-switch-to-e-cars-destroys-profitability/ ]
[Snipped for copyright. Please add sources. PS: See new thread just posted… :- Jo]
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It is a just reward for all those car makers who swallowed the “Tesla dream” story, bowed to the green political hype , and committed to large scale production on EVs .
They of all industries should have realised the market sensitivity to change and price increases,
Many of them also converted to the Tesla style “Non Dealer” / on line sales business plan, which was another step out of the comfort zone for customers.
Practicality, price, and PPoor customer service, all combine to give the result that VW, Ford, GM, etc etc are now suffering .
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Glad to see the old “perfect storm” rationale get trotted out to try and cover a management stuff up. It never hets old.
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In New York City — the concrete jungle — a proposal has been submitted to make ice cream trucks use solar and batteries to power their gear, and maybe the locomotion also. The report I saw wasn’t clear on the issue.
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Between us and the city there is an extremely attractive winding drive through towering gum trees and tree ferns. It also has a bit of a reputation for accidents especially when its wet.
On one problematic corner they put a powered warning sign that flashed a warning if, in the powers that be’s opinion, you were approaching to fast. No power in the forest? no problem! lets just make it battery powered and put up a solar panel…in the middle of a forest. This was at least 15 years ago. It still sits there rotting to this day. I think it lasted about a 3 months, with who knows how many battery changes.
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The towering trees overshadowed it somewhat iirc and it was too far from the bend too. It has ceased to be obvious while driving through there so it must be pretty rotten, to the point of invisibility!
We have family names for certain of the bends. Wombat Corner is one where our son managed to avoid running into a massive wombat but needed someone to help him to pull his undamaged car back onto the road. Another is Annie’s Bend, where I forgot how long the road carried on bending but managed to hold the road somehow! The one referred to by Yarpos was where another family member had an ‘interesting’ time but no bad outcome. Our incidents were many years ago and the road pretty quiet at the time. I think our various vehicles have learned the route by heart!
It can be a very busy road at certain times too.
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New data shows temperatures above 86F (30C) begins a precipitous decline of EV performance
Apparently, outside the range of 59F-86F,(15C – 30C), EV battery operation declines.
In the US, annual temperatures can range from -20C to +45C, so the EV battery is only suitable for spring and fall seasons?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/new_data_shows_temperatures_above_86_f_begins_a_precipitous_decline_of_ev_performance.html
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Once again…Hybrids seem to make sense, whereas EVs have NEVER done likewise…and probably never will….
There are several free charging thingies in the Whitsunday Regional Council area (in Bowen, Airlie/Cannonvale, Proserpine but not Collinsville as yet: they like big diesels out there!) and I have not once seen any of them in use. This after about 3-4 years.
Who’d take the risk of batteries running flat, and then waiting hours for the next jolt, when a tank of fossil gets you three times the distance after three minutes pump-time?*
“Yeah, but, but geez I just saved $40 after spending $40 THOUSAND extra for my EV. I’m an economic genius!” is about the size of it. Dopes the lot of ’em!
BTW: That * up above: We all know the answer; city-slickers with very low IQs. VERY!
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That is the reason most EVs have active thermal management systems incorperated into the battery packs…. To maintain an efficient operating temperature.
IE;- warm them up in cold climates, ..and cool them in hot conditions.
How long would an ICE run without a cooling system ?
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Why the observed decline in performance then if they are so well managed? Surely not something talked about as if it works , but in reality mileage may vary, literally.
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The battery has to use its own power to heat and cool thus reducing significantly the range. The cost of cooling/heating an ICE is practically zero and has no real world effect on its range.
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Practically zero seems a bit optimistic given fans, water pumps, AC compressors, alternator etc all have loads and costs. Really we have become used to it being just part of the total system, but with EVs its a new topic to focus on, especially with the current range sensitivity.
Never mind the new generation batteries will solve all that they tell us. New batteries, room temperature super conductors, boy! we wont know ourselves in a few years.
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https://www.facebook.com/owen.gudzenovs/videos/290048756944438/
Pfizer/Moderna Grilled By Australian Senators Senator Alex Antic, Senator Malcolm Roberts, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation – South Australia, Forced To Admit Their Employees Got A Different Batch Than The Public, Ignorant of Adverse Event Rate Reports…
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Malcolm Roberts interview, 50 minutes of reality.
Well worth a watch and relivant to all countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu7Hu-o_lKA
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For those who are following Katcher’s anti aging research, there is a new, very interesting article (and research paper) from a completely different source.
https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2023/08/06/exosomes-and-their-potential-for-rejuvenation/
Paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39370-5
Bon apetit!
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Interesting. Does this mean that physical contact with babies and young children (who will be shedding exosomes) is an antiaging treatment?
Merogenomics has a series of podcasts on exosomes in the context of vaccine shedding. The first of the series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9jOxkZJQfg&t=1156s
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One wonders if the level of support for domestic solar power by various state governments is more to do with the installation of smart meters that allow the government to voice their displeasure towards a dissenting citizens by denying power.
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Smart business people should be looking into forming new companies to make smart meters whose operation is controlled by the user. That is, the ability to turn off supply is taken from some faceless unelected bureaucrat and placed properly in the hands of individual consumers.
I resisted a smart meter in Victoria. The old meter rolls on like Old Father Thames. There is no legal requirement to have a smart meter.
By the way, while giving away free advice, there is also an opening for a smart investigative reporter. I have never seen a report on who made the smart meters, what our governments paid to buy vast numbers of them, who negotiated the deals, if procurement was put out to
tender, what total profit the suppliers made, what cost recovery the government buyers have in place to get money back from the final users, what installation costs were charged, what profits installers made. I sense that there is a stone ready to be flipped to reveal a writhing mass of creatures underneath. Geoff S
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(California) Laws requiring ‘climate change’ content in K-12 education follow push from colleges
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=23648
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A few container loads of professor Ian Plimers books should educate them sufficiently.
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Where has all of our monies been spent, States with primary responsibility, NT and Federal funding for Aboriginal Affairs?
“Australian historian Keith Windschuttle goes against popular opinion and criticises the late Yunupingu for taking copious amounts of royalties from mining companies prior to the Indigenous leader’s death. “He provided himself, and a small group of his own family with millions and millions of dollars,” Mr Windschuttle told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “It just hasn’t sunk into the current generation, and the person whose made the biggest fool of himself is our unfortunate Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese.””
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Consider;
* NT Anthem Land culture and language – Makarratta (treaty and process).
* 13 Clans.
* Garma Festival.
* Uluru NT – Clans unhappy that Uluru Statement was named for their country, because it’s not their culture.
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FWIW
“Elbow’s” latest “Voice stitch up” by Leak and Michael Smith News
“More genius Leak on Albanese’s Bulltish”
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02c1b25c2a8c200d-800wi
It follows this
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02c1b25be3fe200d-800wi
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Johannes is brilliant and these two cartoons do not disappoint.
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On track –
“WA scraps cultural heritage laws after ag industry opposition”
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/wa-scraps-cultural-heritage-laws-after-ag-industry-opposition/
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news.com
How will you vote in the Voice referendum?
Yes
10 %
No
85 %
Undecided
5 %
48326 votes
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One can only hope…
Can we turn a rejection of The Voice into a campaign to reject the renewables madness afterwards?
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Don’t get your hopes up!
Picture how it’s going to play in the UN: “How can they refuse to give the original inhabitants a voice?”, and country after country lining up to condemn us. We’ll get a taste of what it was like to be South Africa in the ’80s.
We can also bank on redoubled spite from our own politicians.
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As Bolt Report pointed out yesterday, every country that has a treaty with Indigenous Peoples has a high percentage disadvantaged.
The difference is lifestyle, retain the traditional lifestyle and cultural systems on traditional lands and remain far behind the Indigenous People who move into mainstream society and take advantage of the services available for all citizens.
In more remote circumstances the services that benefit people are much more difficult to access because of distance but also cultural reasons.
In Australia 80 per cent of Australians who identify as having Indigenous ancestry are living in mainstream society and are not disadvantaged.
Noting that all Australians in country areas with few or no local services tend to be disadvantaged.
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Vote No to Division. Vote No to Racism. Vote No to Apartheid. Vote No to The Voice. One Australia. All together. All equal. 😎️
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I wasn’t suggesting anyone vote “Yes”. A “No” result, while better than “Yes”, won’t be much to celebrate. The referendum itself is a poisoned chalice.
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Well, i lived and worked in S Africa in the ‘80s…life then was much better than it is now !
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“We’ll get a taste of what it was like to be South Africa in the ’80s.”
Ditto- mid-70s to early 80s, and the sanctions made that country pull together like nothing else could. Better roads than NSW has now too!
Certainly The Whine will be the introduction of apartheid to Aussie, but don’t lose heart, there is another decade or two of getting worse before we catch up to NZ. Billions of dollars into tribal elites and the usual mixed-race losers are still losers.
It took us 6000years to get this civilisation to where it is, you just can’t take stone-age people and expect to short-cut that experience down to 50years, or even a few hundred.
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Chad and KP,
The “taste” I meant was of social opprobrium: we’ll be a nation of “deplorables”. It’s not like we’re going to suddenly develop a black majority or diamond mines. I don’t anticipate sanctions. Just as well; the COVID capers show that this great nation doesn’t exactly rise to the challenge when under pressure.
KP, I don’t agree with your last paragraph at all. Have you not wondered why earlier generations of Aborigines were able to speak clear grammatical English, but more recent ones can often barely put two words together? This process of “civilising stone-age people” seems to be going backwards.
Rather than some sort of “tribal memory”, my counter theory is that people have been gaining political power and money by pretending to champion Aboriginal causes. This motivates them to deepen the problems as much as they can. The “Voice” is very much on this path.
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The faithfull would just snark and say “oh a News poll, what else would you expect” in that oh so superior tone used when they dont have anything else.
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The “change of news” is spreading –
“To tidy up the economy in preparation for the 2024 election cycle, Team Biden needs to somehow extract the U.S. from its expensive Eastern European quagmire, or Proxy War. Biden needs a narrative shift, stat.
Oh wait! What’s this? From Newsweek, yesterday:
It’s spreading. After the New York Times story this weekend, multiple corporate media outlets have echoed the same cynical sentiment. Keep in mind that, until last week, it was expressly verboten to criticize the Proxy War. So it’s starting to look a lot like the beginning of some kind of an end. But if so, who will take the blame? They need to blame someone besides the mental midgets running the Proxy War.
Citing the weekend’s New York Times article, Newsweek blamed two things: First, the Ukrainians didn’t get enough advanced aircraft to dominate their skies, which apparently is now realized to have been a necessary precondition for dominating the ground.
I guess nobody thought of that a trillion dollars ago.”
Today’s Covid and Coffee
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Interesting, so just throwing aircraft at the Ukrainians would have lead to them dominating the skies. You can see why things have gone so well so far cant you?
Actual air domination by either side has proved problematic as the both have air defence capability. Afghanistan it ain’t.
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Yes, it looks like America is getting ready to walk away. The fun questions will be-
Does Zelensky survive?
Will the Bidens rebuild Ukraine as their cash cow again?
Does NATO keep building their military up and learn from what they have watched for next time?
Will Europe collapse in an energy crisis of their own making, leaving Russia as the biggest economy there?
Can America keep selling arms that are ‘not fit for purpose’?
..and the big one!
Which country is next in America’s sights??
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Not James Bond, Dr Who did this about ten years ago!
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For those with an interest in Wind Generation I suggest
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/offshore-wind-new-big-lie
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I saw a large bright meteorite just before midnight last night. At first it seemed like a helicopter approaching but was completely silent. It came from the North West and as it moved towards the South a luminous tail became visible. As it passed a smaller part of it detached from the main part and ahead of it and there were faint colours in it (pink and green). It broke up into smaller parts as it disappeared South South Eastwards. It remained completely silent throughout.
No camera to hand unfortunately but it was a fantastic sight, only seen because the dog likes to go out late chasing torchlight!
It’s time for the Perseids and years ago I saw a much more short-lived but very bright one here too.
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Looking online, it seems that many people around Melbourne also saw it and heard it too. Apparently also a small earthquake? Space junk burning up?
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It is in all the papers with some moving vision
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Here is one link https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/mystery-object-lights-up-melbourne-night-sky-20230808-p5duok.html
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Definitely space junk.
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Thanks GeeAye. I rarely look at The Age so would have missed their report without your link!
I notice there was an Annie in the comments…not me.
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Annie, maybe it was something else.
Curious.
Main stream DC news seems to be talking aliens.
‘EGG SHAPED, SUV SIZED, UFO RECOVRED, Stored by US Military’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otibKvLZ09g
From ‘The Hill’ an, at least previously, legit DC political news source.
UFO whistleblowers have been around for decades.
Saying these same things and dismissed as fringe mental cases.
Suddenly, these new witnesses are being anointed with legitimacy by the the Elite Overlord press.
I guess the new ones went to the right schools.
Very curious.
Suddenly the boy who cried COVID wolf has new tales to tell.
BTW, apparently the egg is uncrackable.
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Who knows? Luckily my breakfast eggs were crackable and very tasty.
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Late news reports are suggesting it was a fuel tank stage from a Russian space launch vehicle. ?
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I had assumed the fragments reached the ground from the way it looked from here (North Central Vic); maybe they were all burnt up before that. As it was silent for me but audible around Melbourne, it must have been larger and further away than it appeared to be.
Anyway, it was an amazing sight to see.
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Sound was possibly a sonic boom which might not have carried to your location.
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Monday: “Fiery debate” on Channel 7’s Sunrise program between host Natalie Barr and Tanya Plebersek.
“But Barr pressed Ms Plibersek on the wording in the Uluru Statement which refers to a treaty and a “percentage of GDP” to be paid.
“Well Nat, we’re not determining any of that right now, we’re determining one simple question, do we change our constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and do we set up a committee that would give advice,” the MP replied.”
For me Tanya’s reply “…we’re not determining any of that right now” reinforces my main concern and basis for voting NO. Once enshrined in the constitution the “determination” of “any of that” will become a demand/dictate delivered with all the force and legal might that is constitutional law.
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And remember “elbows” election promiss to support the Uluru Statement “IN FULL” .
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We used to call Scott Morrison, “ScoMo” for short. So that means “elbows” is AnAl. Which is probably quite fitting.
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Full title (IMO)
“Elbow the Truthful”
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Bumped from “Sunday”
More on the shenanigans of “Elbow the Truthful” et al and “Their Voice”
I caught a bit of Ray Hadley interviewing Warren Mundine this morning so went and found it –
https://www.2gb.com/podcast/the-ray-hadley-morning-show-highlights-august-7th-5/
It is from 23:00 to 31:30
and worth listening to IMO, as it stitches in the WA back off from their latest horror “permit to dig a post hole” act.
Suggested that is being shoved out of sight until the vote on “Their Voice” is done and then reappearing. Seema Tanya P might be having a similar play at federal level too.
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Yesterday I agreed to take part in a phone survey about the upcoming referendum. It was for the Australian Electoral Commission and I gathered the interviewer was employed by an agency contracted to do the survey. He said it would take about 15 minutes and gave me the option of having it recorded for “training purposes” or not and I declined. We started and the first question was “What is your gender?” I was shocked and said “can’t you tell I’m male?” He knew I wasn’t impressed and gave a bit of a laugh and I relented and said “yeah, I know you didn’t design this survey”.
We pushed on and it was all about the public’s knowledge of AEC procedures for referendums. I didn’t know the AEC felt so insecure. The dooziest question was “what is the correct way to answer “yes” or “no”? He then read out the options; using a tick against your choice, circling the choice or writing it down? I was dumbfounded and said I couldn’t give a stuff! He laughed. I’ve decided to take a highlighter pen with me and use that in October!
Near the end, thirty minutes later he thanked me for persevering and said it can take him three hours before finding someone like me who sees it out to the end. Is it any wonder when people are hit with that first question?
Afterwards I thought of a funny scenario;
Q: What is your gender?
Shouts to wife “Hey darl, what is my gender today?”
“Aren’t you playing golf?”
“No, not agenda … oh forget it!”
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Small point however to ensure your vote is counted you need to write the full word YES or the full word NO in the box provided. It will say it clearly on the voting form – as shown in the link.
Having worked as a counter on elections there are plenty of examples where some people do not follow instructions/assistance and you (the counter) can get everything from expletives on what the candidates can do with donkeys to hand drawn pictures of genitalia.
The drawings always got me because if they are protesting against having to spend time going to a booth to vote do they not take account of how much effort and time they have just spent drawing their protest picture?
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Nah. Let him take his highlighter and answer how he wants.
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Is Albo delaying announcing rhe date of the referendum so he can get the counting system to perform to his specification? I was wondering if he’d subcontracted the counting to the BoM, but is finding it difficult to suitably apply their homogenisation algorithms?
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Cloud variability can change climate.
‘Changes in cloud cover over Europe and the North Atlantic have been observed to be a significant driver of sunshine duration (SD) changes, and thus climate change, in this region. Changes in cloud cover are “the result of internal variability in the ocean-atmosphere system.” (Notrickszone)
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Willis on Hunga Tonga-Hunga.
‘But they seem to disregard the cooling effects of the decrease in downwelling shortwave (sunshine). This is likely to be significant, since stratospheric water is going to contain a lot of ice, and ice is a good reflector of sunlight.
‘In addition to reflecting sunlight, a second large issue is that water vapor, ice, and water droplets all absorb sunlight, which also cools the earth by reducing downwelling shortwave at the surface.’ (WUWT)
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yep. I asked the question days ago “After 18 months though?”
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Can it be a greenhouse gas in the stratosphere and a cooling agent in the upper troposphere?
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el+gordo
“Can it be a greenhouse gas in the stratosphere and a cooling agent in the upper troposphere?”
Well, as CO2 is a wonderful gas – causes warming and cooling, droughts and floods, priapism and male impotence, tourist destination changes and budget deficits, frogs migrating and lemmings jumping, etc. – I imagine water vapour, ice and droplets, should be able to warm in the stratosphere and cool in the troposphere [Monday to Thursday only; Friday to Sunday the reverse] – at least.
In the meantime, Nature changes the climate in its own way, in its own time – and we wet ourselves at evidence of UHI.
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Australian Lawmakers Uncover Pfizer Used A Separate Untested Batch For Its Employees
like trying to nail a jellyfish to a wall
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Uluru Statement in full …
https://www.skynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Credlin-Editorial-PDF-2.pdf
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Indigenous politics Arnhem Land:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHlPuIzTr1Y
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A good reason for voting “No” to “Their Voice”
“In-depth analysis on ‘NO’ voters from Mike Carlton. Something awful must’ve been done to him as a child.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/in-depth-analysis-on-no-voters-from-mike-carlton-something-awful-mustve-been-done-to-him-as-a-child.html
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Parliament are currently discussing the behaviour of the ABC, SHY is currently trying to defend the indefensible, her repertoire of excuses is quite stunning.
This is all mis/mal/dis/false information perpetrated by that evil Dutton and the liberal party.
Your tax dollars at work, when will people wake up
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“Tonight’s feel good post: Wind blowing up all over”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/08/07/tonights-feel-good-post-wind-blowing-up-all-over-n569701
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And
“About those electric stove “savings.” Nevermind”
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/08/07/about-those-electric-stove-savings-nevermind-n569614
“It turns out that the “big savings” you will see if you switch from a gas stove to an electric stove will work out to a whopping nine cents per month. You should probably start planning that European vacation immediately. (Fox News)”
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Antibiotic resistance caused by air pollution, or more likely just a spurious correlation! Sounds as reliable as the declining number of pirates causing global warming story!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12383945/Air-pollution-linked-rise-antibiotic-resistance-poses-significant-threat-human-health-world-study-claims.html
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‘I’m sorry’: WA Premier apologises for scrapping Aboriginal Heritage Laws
It took the Bubble Heads 6 years to put the legislation together. It took reality 6 weeks to tear it down.
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But have a listen to the link at #18.2 before you write off a reappearance after the curtain falls on “Their Voice”
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If it was locked into our Constitution the Heritage Laws could not be repealed.
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