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Orography of NCEP GFS
http://www.karstenhaustein.com/Janek/maps/HSURF/HHSFC_GFS0p25_world.png
This is a hi-res image so can be expanded right out to see grid blocks around coastlines. New Zealand and Tasmania are good examples. Note for next comment (re Berkeley Earth) the difference between the respective sizes and orography of NZ and Tasmania. Also the dent in the middle of NI NZ made by the Taupo eruption.
This is Mercator projection which is not used by reanalysis e.g. NCEP, ECMWF. They use variants of a Gaussian grid which render countries true size. Like this:
This animated map shows the true size of each country
https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/data-visualisation-animated-map-mercater-projection-true-size-countries
Greenland seen by Mercator projection looks to be a huge island continent several times larger than Australia – not so . Makes me think much of the Greenland ice hand-wringing is due to the Mercator perception that Greenland is ginormous when it’s not.
AU – NZ – Greenland comparo next comment.
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Greenland – Australia – New Zealand – Tasmania true size comparison
You can now drag and drop whole countries to compare their size
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/compare-true-size-of-countries/
Scroll down to Ten largest countries. Australia #6, Greenland nowhere.
Article links to The True Size:
https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTc5OTk2NTM.MjA3NQ*MzYwMDAwMDA(MA
Select (highlight) from selection box: Greenland + Australia + New Zealand
Drag Greenland across Western Australia, Central Australia, Eastern Australia. Drop in the middle od Tasman Sea. The gives a realistic perspective of respective sizes.
Berkeley Earth pulls in Hobart as a proxy for the entirety of New Zealand at the beginning of their New Zealand series (see following) – that is bogus. It was not a proxy then and it is not now. Yes Hobart is just north of Christchurch in terms of latidude but size, orography, and climate are much different.
Drag Christchrch NZ across to just below Hobart. That is how Berkeley Earth consider the two. Yes it works out latitudinally (see below) but that is where it ends. Tasmania is about the same size as only the upper SI NZ and the orography is completely different. Tauranga NZ is about the same latitude as Melbourne and reanalysis (next comment) reveals NZ to be considerably warmer than Tasmania and what Berkeley Earth portray.
Comparing the world’s most well known cities with NZ’s latitude
https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/comparing-the-worlds-most-well-known-locations-with-nzs-latitude-some-may-surprise-you-x2-maps
Next comment,
Berkeley Earth New Zealand vs ECMWF ER5 New Zealand and ECMWF ER5 Tasmania
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Berkeley Earth New Zealand vs ECMWF ER5 New Zealand and ECMWF ER5 Tasmania
Berkeley Earth: New Zealand
https://berkeleyearth.lbl.gov:4443/regions/new-zealand
ECMWF: Monthly Reanalysis Time Series – New Zealand, Tasmania
https://climatereanalyzer.org/research_tools/monthly_tseries/
Anomaly: N
Sequential Months: Y
At 1940 Berkeley Earth have NZ at 10 C. ECMWF about 13.5. 10 C is below ECMWF’s minimum.
At 1940 ECMWF have Tasmania at about 11.5.
At 2015 Berkeley Earth have NZ at 11.2 C. ECMWF about 14.5. 11.2 is at ECMWF’s minimum.
At 2015 ECMWF have Tasmania at about 13.
The Max to Min spread of Tasmania is much less that it is for New Zealand in ECMWF. This is due to the larger land mass obviously. Also obvious, Tasmania is not a proxy for New Zealand.
And thus homogenized and adjusted time series are shown to be misleading. Berkeley Earth even manages to make a complete hash of the inland Waikato Basin in NZ and its difference to coastal Tauranga and Auckland. Having lived in both Hamilton Waikato and coastal Tauranga I know full well the climates are very different. But Berkely Earth pulls in Auckland and Tauranga as proxies for Waikato while neglecting the perfectly good Ruakura station at Hamilton.
Using one region as a proxy for another is bogus – even local regions can vary substantially. Reanalysis exposes the false assumption.
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Apologies for all the typos in those 3 comments. I screeched them out in a train-of-thought with a browser full of open tabs. Proof read was a skim.
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BEST >”neglecting the perfectly good Ruakura station at Hamilton”
NIWA have Ruakura in their 11SS but drop it for their 7SS. The cynic in me explains that it was because Ruakura warmed rapidly up to 1970 but after that is dead flat for decades.
Flat temperature series just will not do for govt work.
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>”Drag Greenland across Western Australia, Central Australia, Eastern Australia. Drop in the middle [of] Tasman Sea. The gives a realistic perspective of respective sizes.”
Also, select Antarctica and drag-n-drop in the Indian Ocean off WA.
So we have a comparo: Antarctica – Australia – Greenland – New Zealand.
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Richard C,
In terms of hot days, weeks, even months, Melbourne is rather hotter than Sydney or Brisbane.
Much hotter than Hobart or Christchurch, not because of latitude, but because of distance to a large, hot desert linked to a prevailing wind system that brings the hot summer air SE to Melbourne, but seldom East to Brisbane.
Elevation is related a little, but the main factor is a big, landlocked desert that gets the hottest of all the regions, linked to weather systems that can often take the hot air elsewhere of interest. Geoff S
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>”This is Mercator projection” re the orography chart.
Got this wrong. Looking at Greenland in actual Mercator is different from the chart.
Seems to be Gaussian grid reanalysis data plotted on an equi-sized grid. Bottom left corner says – GrADS: COLA/IGES:
Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS)
http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/
About COLA IGES
http://cola.gmu.edu/aboutiges.html
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
The Institute of Global Environment and Society, Inc. (IGES)
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We flew a large airborne geophysical of Iran years ago. It created thousands of maps. The Iranian chiefs insisted that we produce all of the maps on the exact same size of paper, all squared up so they could join next to each other, and all to same map scale like 10 mm equals one km. It took us days to convince them that spherical geometry applied. Geoff S
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Take that, northern hemisphere – you’re not as big as what you thought!
Still reckon maps look more ‘balanced’ when centred on the Date Line, as opposed to Greenwich: admittedly it places NZ & Aus in the middle of the known world (not ‘on the edge’ of it) and besides, it just looks better.
And re: Philip Duncan’s NZ v other cities, no wonder I never wanted to visit Europe – it’s in the Furious Fifties and Screaming Sixties! Give me tropics any holiday 🌞
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>”not ‘on the edge’ of it”
Not the end of the world but you can see it from here.
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Vegan influencer who only ate “exotic fruit” dies of starvation
Vegan influencer Zhanna Samsonova has reportedly “died of starvation” after subsisting exclusively off a diet of exotic fruit in Malaysia, according to her friends and family.
She was 39.
The photos this woman posted online do not depict someone who is healthy and in good shape. They depict someone who is, yes, slowly starving to death.
https://notthebee.com/article/a-vegan-influencer-was-surviving-solely-off-exotic-fruit-and-she-just-died-ofwell-you-can-guess
It’s called Anorexia. It’s called severe malnutrition. It’s called stupidity and delusion.
She had 10,000 “followers” on Farcebook.
10,000 stupid people who would follow a dog turd on a stick.
Now apply this cult thinking to Covid, vaxxes and fake climate change.
Should we save people from themselves?
Should we even try?
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Yes we should not only “try” but push on until we remove all of this type of “misdirection” from society: and especially when it comes from politicians.
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Eat more meat.
Delicious, mouth-watering meat.
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But won’t you get scurvy on an all-meat diet?
Probably not.
SEE LINK FOR REST
And, of course, Eskimos survived fine without fruits and vegetables.
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It’s true that vitamin c is an essential nutrient and humans can’t produce it like other mammals can due to the GULO gene expression, however some gut bacteria can synthesize it albeit in small quantities. Another reason to look after your gut.
Interestingly we can produce it from birth for a short time so the maturation cycle is somehow curtailing it.
We are however VERY good at utilising what we get and we can get by well on 0.1g per 100kg body weight
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Meat Consumption And Longevity
In February of last year, the International Journal of General Medicine published a study that was easy to miss, as no major media publication reported on “Total Meat Intake is Associated with Life Expectancy: A Cross-Sectional Data Analysis of 175 Contemporary Populations,” by Wenpeng You and his team of researchers.
For years we have heard that the secret to a long life is to cut back on meat consumption and increase our intake of carbs—advice that is enshrined in the USDA’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans. But that’s not what these researchers found.
You and his team analyzed data from 175 countries and territories—in other words, almost the whole world—and used various statistical methods to “explore and compare the correlations between newborn life expectancy … life expectancy at five years of life … and intakes of meat, and carbohydrate crops, respectively. The established risk factors to life expectancy—caloric intake, urbanization, obesity and education levels—were included as the potential confounders.”
The researchers found that worldwide, meat intake was associated with a longer life. “This relationship remained significant when influences of caloric intake, urbanization, obesity, education and carbohydrate crops were statistically controlled.” By contrast, consumption of carbohydrates had a weak but negative correlation with life expectancy.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/meat-consumption-and-longevity
Be a hero – eat meat!
Be a zero – eat bugs.
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Good find.
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And Steven Jobs was an American business magnate, inventor, and investor and fruitarian. He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company’s board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT.
Born: February 24, 1955, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died: October 5, 2011, Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Resting place: Alta Mesa Memorial Park
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“10,000 stupid people who would follow a dog turd on a stick.”
100s of thousands follow Catturd on nTwitter
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EXCLUSIVE:American military badly affected. “75% will be dead in 10 years” of those who are affected.
Dr Chris Shoemaker reveals startling information about Covid19 vaccines from American Military Studies and the detected/undetected damage of Myocarditis.
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1686284502325149696/
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Climate change: the dumbest solution in human history
It’s so bonkers that you might assume it’s just the plot of an upcoming Hollywood blockbuster.
But scientists really are toying with the idea of catching an asteroid, in the name of saving the planet from climate change.
The bizarre mission, if ever given the go ahead, would then see a massive umbrella stuck on top of the trapped rock to shield Earth from the sun’s rays.
István Szapudi, an astronomer from the University of Hawaiʻi, argued his far-fetched concept was merely an enormous ‘solar shield’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12360681/Fighting-climate-change-space-Scientist-unveils-bizarre-plot-CATCH-asteroid-tether-enormous-umbrella-attempt-shield-suns-rays.html
How many Cornflakes packet tops did they have to send in to get their science degrees I wonder…
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Its science fiction and will never come to fruition.
When our planet was a snowball, a large rock crashed into Western Australia and brought on a thaw. Also, the theory that our moon was developed in situ has now been debunked. It now appears that the moon was wandering along and captured by earth, which was very fortuitous for life to evolve.
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Not debunked.
Alternative theory.
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John Connor II:
My guess is 3 Cornflake tops.
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Isn’t this an admission that the climate is driven by the Sun?
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The only antitheft device that works
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He’ll think twice before he steals something again.
Don’t steal! That used to be taught to children, back in the day.
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But won’t you get scurvy on an all-meat diet?
Probably not.
SEE LINK FOR REST
And, of course, Eskimos survived fine without fruits and vegetables.
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I prefer a trunkmonkey . Permanent solution and will work for peanuts…
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If Biden makes THIS climate executive order, it could affect EVERY aspect of your life
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What are the verb forms on X which are equivalent to those on Twitter such as tweet, tweeted, tweets, etc.?
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X, X & X, easier for the TikTokers to comprehend.
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It’s still called twitter, tweeter, tweeted, tweet, twot, twat, twain, and twelfth.
The only difference is instead of a bird symbol it’s an X.
Simple really.
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Well medically speaking there are XO aka Turner’s Syndrome, XX (female), XY (bloke), XXY (Klinefelters) for starters Dr David!
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X-crete, X-creted, X-creta. Naturally.
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US down graded on Biden’s watch.
‘The Australian dollar has tumbled below 66 US cents amid a slowdown in global manufacturing and the Reserve Bank’s rate pause.
‘And markets are in the red after global credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings downgraded the US credit rating one notch from AAA to AA+.’ (ABC)
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I would like to pay my respects to elders past and present to –
To the Italian elders that built our roads, railways and telecommunications infrastructure.
To the Greek and Turkish elders for giving us the tasty kebab shops.
To the Jewish elders that gave us all the Westfield shopping centres and Meriton apartments.
To the Chinese elders that gave us all the $2 shops.
to the Irish elders that gave us all the great Irish pubs.
To the Indian elders who gave us great Curries.
To the English elders who gave us Cricket.
To the Irish elders who gave us so much Humour .
To the Japanese elders who gave great Cars.
To the Elders from all over the World who have given so much to Australia .
Finally
To Indigenous elders who have given us, um ?????????????????????
Oh yes, the Smoking ceremony ?
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Errr ?…nope !….that was copied from the Pacific islands in the 1960s.
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New high-strength glue can stick and unstick on command
Scientists in Japan have developed an intriguing new glue that can basically be switched on and off on demand. The adhesive sticks together when hit with one wavelength of light, and breaks apart with another, allowing it to be removed and reused easily – potentially, even underwater.
Designing adhesives means balancing two conflicting properties – how well it sticks together, and how easily it comes apart. Obviously, boosting one usually sacrifices the other. An ideal glue would be one that holds strong during use, but can be released on demand to adjust for mistakes or when a product is no longer useful.
Now, scientists at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) have developed an adhesive that can do just that. The key ingredient is caffeic acid, which can form and break cross-links under different wavelengths of light. In this case, the team made a polymer containing caffeic acid, applied it to a surface, and exposed it to UV light with a wavelength of 365 nanometers (nm). This cures it into a firm film that holds strong at room temperature, with a shear adhesion strength of up to 7.2 MPa.
When that adhesion is no longer needed, the film can be exposed to 254-nm UV light, which breaks the cross-links and returns it to its original state. In doing so it doesn’t leave any residue behind on the surface and doesn’t lose any of its adhesive properties, essentially allowing it to be reused like new.
The researchers subjected the adhesive to a series of tests, including bending samples repeatedly and lifting a 40-kg (88-lb) weight, which it was able to do for 72 hours with no sign of breaking. In others, they used it to repair cracked silicon tubes then ran high-pressure water through them, finding no leaks.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202215064
Now, THAT will be a top seller.
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Why is the US getting rid of dams from its rivers?
In a remarkable undertaking, the United States is embarking on a significant dam removal project aimed at restoring rivers and revitalizing salmon runs. The largest dam removal project in American history is currently underway on the Klamath River, along the Oregon-California border in the western Rockies.
This ambitious effort seeks to reinstate the natural flow of rivers, enhance fish habitats, and restore ecosystems in collaboration with Native American tribes.
The United States has witnessed over 2,000 dam removals so far, with a majority occurring in the last 25 years, reflecting a growing national consensus to restore the natural flow of rivers.
The recent focus has been on the Klamath River, where four hydroelectric dams were built starting in 1918 to generate electricity.
The $500 million Klamath Dam removal project, overseen by the Klamath River Renewal Corporation, involves complex planning and execution.
https://www.dailyo.in/news/why-is-the-us-getting-rid-of-dams-from-its-rivers-40855
We don’t need no steenkin’ hydro power, we can use solar panels!
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I thought fish ladders were the usual method for fish to bypass dams. It sounds like a strategy to destroy important infrastructure.
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Australia is light years ahead.
We don’t have any dams.
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??.. an odd and totally untrue comment…why ?
…we may not have as many, but we have multiple important dams for domestic water supply as well as power and agriculture.
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Oregon-California border. What a surprise.
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in related news https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/9-billion-spent-salmon-recovery-oregon-has-produced-few-discernable-results#comment-stream
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Richard C,
In terms of hot days, weeks, even months, Melbourne is rather hotter than Sydney or Brisbane.
Much hotter than Hobart or Christchurch, not because of latitude, but because of distance to a large, hot desert linked to a prevailing wind system that brings the hot summer air SE to Melbourne, but seldom East to Brisbane.
Elevation is related a little, but the main factor is a big, landlocked desert that gets the hottest of all the regions, linked to weather systems that can often take the hot air elsewhere of interest. Geoff S
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And Hobart’s top temp is hotter than Darwin’s .
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Marine heatwaves coming to the boil.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-118.00,62.13,530/loc=161.945,-3.398
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POTS’ new NIGHTMARE! Surge in Cases of Debilitating Autonomic Nervous System Disorder after COVID Vaccines
The COVID-19 pandemic casts a concerning shadow in the form of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). This perplexing health issue (also reported by the famous scientific magazine Science in a recent article – note by Gospa News),, marked by a significant surge in heart rate when standing, is gaining increasing attention in the medical community because of a rise in cases.
POTS falls within the wider category of disorders called dysautonomia. It signifies a malfunction in the autonomic nervous system, which quietly controls crucial functions such as breathing, digestion, and heart rate.When this system falters, as in POTS, it can undermine health and daily quality of life.
POTS primarily manifests as a substantial increase in heart rate when moving from a sitting or lying position to standing. It’s typically diagnosed when a person’s heart rate rises by more than 30 beats per minute within just 10 minutes of standing. For instance, if someone’s heart rate jumps from 70 while seated to 100 or more upon standing, it’s a strong indication of POTS.
https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2023/07/pots-new-nightmare-surge-in-cases-of-debilitating-autonomic-nervous-system-disorder-after-covid-vaccines/
The damage is done to the vaxxed now, only the fallout remains.
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And now an important message from our extraterrestrial sponsors
Now they are claiming the aliens have provided a message to our leaders and their message is that we need to depopulate the planet and fully align with the leftist agenda.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1686001956299362305/
Make sure you forgive our “leaders” for not telling us.🤭
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What a load of hot Tik Tok twaddle!
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extraterrestrialsatanic sponsors20
Years ago I saw a Yes Minister segment on climate change on You Tube but for the life of I can’t find it. Anyone got a link?
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Maybe that?
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Suggested Terrifying New Names For Climate Change
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It’s amazing that an incorrect command was sent to Voyager 2 causing its antenna to point in the wrong direction thus losing comms with the spacecraft.
Fortunately they now have a “heartbeat” signal but may have to wait until an automatic reset of the spacecraft in October when, presumably, it will reorient the antenna.
You’d think all commands would be checked multiple times before being sent, especially one that could permanently disable the spacecraft.
Part of the problem is that given the spacecraft was launched nearly half a century ago, most of the people involved in its design and who were familiar with its operation have passed away. The other part of the problem, as with any modern organisation, might be “diversity/quota hires” whereby people are no longer employed by merit but instead according to gender, ethnicity, race or other criteria unrelated to actual qualifications for the job thus resulting in the down-skilling of the workforce.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-02/voyager-2-found-by-nasa/102676802
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I understand that Zali MP has been inquiring about buying shares in a Gulf of Carpentaria boiled King Prawns venture straight from the ocean.
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Potential cancer breakthrough as ‘groundbreaking’ pill annihilates ALL types of solid tumors in early study
Scientists have developed a holy grail cancer drug that kills all solid cancer tumors while leaving other cells unharmed.
The new molecule targets a protein present in most cancers that helps tumors grow and multiply in the body.
It is significant because this protein – the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) – was previously thought to be ‘undruggable’.
The drug was tested on 70 different cancer cells in the lab – including those derived from breast, prostate, brain, ovarian, cervical, skin, and lung cancer – and was effective against them all.
The pill is the culmination of 20 years of research and development by the City of Hope Hospital in Los Angeles, one of America’s largest cancer centers.
The medicine is codenamed AOH1996 after Anna Olivia Healy, who died in 2005 from a deadly childhood cancer aged nine. Dr Linda Malkas, who leads the research team, met Anna’s father just before she died and was inspired to find a cure in her memory.
It comes amid excitement that cancer will be curable within the coming decade, a claim that has been made by the scientists who invented the Pfizer Covid vaccine.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12360701/Potential-cancer-breakthrough-groundbreaking-pill-annihilates-types-solid-tumors-early-study.html
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They will have to pay attention in kidney behaviour when the pill will come in use during tests.
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John,
Big pharma at work again . All drugs have side effects and I wonder what this one has . It will be hideously expensive . With the current rise in cancer rates it will be a goldmine . Because its for “cancer” its safety profile can be bad and it will still get used – just look at chemotherapy .
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Actually, this research was done at a research hospital, not Big Pharma. As to side effects, virtually all cancer treatments have side effects, many very severe. The question is, will it work in vivo? If it does, and has few side effects, it should be part of a multi-valent treatment regimin.
High cost? What price life?
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Maybe this explains Dopy Joes slurred comment last week where WH aids denied he said.. “ we have defeated Cancer”….. in a televised interview ?
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How did this happen?
https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/beijing-rains-heaviest-since-records-began-140-years-ago/news-story/83e73369f976af79df0f60883bf47786
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Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.
Large swaths of the world are sweltering amid a scorching hot summer. July is shaping up to be the Earth’s hottest month in recorded history, with heat waves expected to become more frequent and unrelenting.
But even those who have never experienced this kind of extreme heat before have the potential to adapt to endure it better. “Our bodies are remarkable things,” said Stefan Wheat, an emergency physician at the University of Washington School of Medicine who specializes in climate change and health.
“Our bodies are well adapted to be able to acclimate to heat under the right circumstances.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/07/29/how-to-become-heat-tolerant/
But…but…but…that’s counter narrative! 😆😆
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Direct exposure to high levels of sunlight can produce a subcutaneous tissue layer that can insulate humans.
It’s good for the hot and cold of desert environments.
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Hey, maybe athletes going to compete in a hot country should head off a few weeks early in order to acclimatise. Why didn’t they think of that before!
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OR acclimatise at altitude before competing in Mexico olympics. Who’d a thunk we can adapt!
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Having lived in the tropics most of my life I’ve never thought I am physiologically different to southerners. I’ve always thought my relative comfort [I DO feel the heat] was mainly mental acceptance of the condition I live in and adapting.
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As from evolution, we came out of Africa, most certainely, and we adapted to the colder environnement. So we should trigger the bodys evolutionary memory, probably not completely lost.
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A Brief History of Climate, From Prehistory to The Imaginary Crisis of the 21st Century
Just in time the new WUWT article 😀
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UAH JULY – AN EXTRAORDINARY MONTH.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/
https://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/
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It Wouldn’t Happen to an ICE: Britain’s summer washout goes from bad to worse: Now flooding misery sees electric cars submerged in rainwater with one woman’s brand new £22,000 motor a write-off following torrential downpours and gale force winds
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Oh yes it would !
Any car EV, Petrol, Diesel, Hybrid, immersed in “3 feet of flood water” , would be written off .
Just too many sensitive and expensive electronic systems in modern cars that cannot tolerate immersion in water.
The costs (parts and labour) just make it uneconomic for repairs.
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Of course they would, I’ve seen them at auction. Your red-thumber is ignorant.
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Depends on the vintage and the retrieval process
A couple of weeks before one big flood out here (late 1990’s) a local businessman brought home a new BMW – just over $100 kilobucks worth. It went under to the roof. He broached the subject of a new one and was told by the assessor that “WE’ll fix it up better than new”. He got the new one – there were 7 computer boards that were going to cost $57000 for starters.
I cleaned up my XE Falcon and it did about another 200,000 km.
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“Safe and Effective®” (/S)
Various links to “things covid”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/08/02/safe-and-effective-140/
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And comments
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Monkey with computer has interesting scenario to explain my loss of sense of smell in winter 2019.
Well worth the watch!
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“There’s no point in building new power plants if they can’t connect to the grid”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/08/theres-no-point-in-building-new-power.html
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TIL: TLD .su – Soviet Union – still exists and is used by the Russian government and public access is prohibited. I’ve also seen Soviet badges on Russian troops fighting in the Ukraine War. It’s probably largely remnants from the Soviet era.
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FWIW
“Faulty COVID Study Claims Republicans Had 43% Higher Death Rate Due To “Vaccine Hesitancy” ”
“The lesson here? Science is being politically weaponized, and every single new claim from such institutions needs to be thoroughly examined rather than taken at face value.”
“Assume” being the word that makes an “ass” out of “u” and “me”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/faulty-covid-study-claims-republicans-had-43-higher-death-rate-due-vaccine-hesitancy
So you don’t have to worry until you become a paid up Republican?
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FWIW – trying an end run
“BlackRock And Its ESG ‘Voting Choice’ Ruse”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blackrock-and-its-esg-voting-choice-ruse
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Albanese ‘too scared’ to mention his ‘plans’ or ‘treaty’
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