Climate Soothsayers: Why your hay fever is a “sign” you should vote for a carbon tax

Dust, pollen, dystopia, hypnosis.

Image by Ulrich B. from Pixabay

By Jo Nova

Just more junk science to spook those who want to be spooked

Did you sneeze today? It must be “Climate change”. Go forth and buy some solar panels…

Like a continuous propaganda machine, the government pays academics money to find a crisis, so they do, and then the media rephrase the story like a Pavlovian prompt. It’s a form of mass hypnosis. Everything is climate change and only the government can save you:

Sydney Morning Herald logo

Is your hay fever getting worse? It could be climate change

by Laura Chung, The Sydney Morning Herald

Did your hay fever start earlier this spring? The coughing, the sneezing, those terrible itching eyes? You are not alone, and it might get worse in coming years as climate change extends the season, experts say.

About 15 per cent of Australians have hay fever, with those between 25 and 44 years old most likely to suffer during spring. Hay fever is an allergic response when substances including pollen from grasses and trees, dust mites or mould come into contact with the nose and eyes.

The only time a climate scientist remembers that CO2 helps plants grow is when it’s bad:

Plants rely on carbon dioxide to fuel photosynthesis, so they may grow larger and produce more pollen with increased gases in the atmosphere.

Summers are going to keep getting longer — (especially because temperatures in 1910 keep getting colder every time we revise the dataset):

Data from the Australian Institute published in 2020 found that summer was, on average, one month longer than it was 100 years ago, while winter was more than three weeks shorter. For example, in Port Macquarie in New South Wales, summers have increased by 48 days.

And if summers stop growing, we’ll just change the instruments, build another runway and add another radar.

Remember girls and boys — your hay fever is not because of the highly allergenic shrubs your neighbors planted, or the westerly wind that blows over the hay plains. It’s got nothing to do with your wayward gut flora, antibiotics, diet, mineral deficiencies or any other possible thing.

Sneeze and think about all those evil people causing your terrible itching eyes because they’re driving a Ford Ranger XLT and loving it.

UPDATE: All around the world the past keeps getting adjusted, not just in Australia.  John McLean audited the UK Hadley global dataset and found they were cooling the past one hundred years later. Then there’s the US adjustments of GISS where the 1970’s kept warming for decades.

 

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58 comments to Climate Soothsayers: Why your hay fever is a “sign” you should vote for a carbon tax

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    Peter Fitzroy

    It’s not just Australian summers, northern hemisphere summers are growing as well.
    And so is the northern hemisphere hay fever season
    And those BOM adjustments, are the observations in line with the rest of the world?

    Sources: Phys.org, New Scientist, BOM, Nature.

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      Yes Peter, they’re all adjusting their data to fit the same models. Is that what you meant to say? They’ve all shifted to electronic thermometers, near hot concrete and airports.

      And in any case, they were all hotter in the Holocene and your SUV didn’t cause hay fever in 6,000 BC.

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      R.B

      In your first link, they start their research from 1952. Why do that when there is data from the dust bowl years?

      The climate varies a lot. It’s easy to cherry pick data to fit an agenda, and easier if the data is “corrected” to fit an agenda. But what makes it worse is having a 0.1 difference between normal and hot weather. Any good scientist would find that stupid beyond belief.

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        Peter Fitzroy

        very good RB, please read the whole article before throwing accusations around

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          Why don’t YOU read the article better here is quote from it you seem to have forgotten:

          About 15 per cent of Australians have hay fever, with those between 25 and 44 years old most likely to suffer during spring. Hay fever is an allergic response when substances including pollen from grasses and trees, dust mites or mould come into contact with the nose and eyes.

          bolding mine

          Has nothing to do with climate it is from plants they would have been contact with ANYWAY as they are still there as they are too thus the article doesn’t really have a valid argument to sell.

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      Aww a longer growing season in the north is bad news for YOU but for others it will generate less cold related illnesses and related deaths into the future which must push you into a depression.

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      exsteelworker

      So Peter, are more green planet is bad for the environment? So the moronic Western government’s must spend trillions of dollars to stop the planet from becoming more green and fertile? Cover the whole Western world in ruinables so people don’t suffer from hayfever longer? How absolutely moronic is that Peter?

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    Broadie

    Could be something affecting your natural immunity?

    Get a dose! Block your nose!

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    markx

    Gee. These journalists are getting a bit desperate for another climate change story aren’t they?

    Of course, they do it only for the good of the planet, not the financial rewards. It is only those in the pay of energy companies who are corrupted by cash.

    Climate journalism award
    Winners of covering climate now
    Journalism awards for climate
    Climate journalism award

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    David

    Probably not a lot of hay fever back in the ice age. Maybe they should move to Antarctica to avoid it.

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    Richard C (NZ)

    Link >temperatures in 1910 keep getting colder every time we revise the dataset

    Anyone who has not dissected that post should do so.

    To me that is the #1 case against homogenized adjusted anomaly datasets and #1 case for real-time absolute raw unadjusted unhomogenized reanalysis data of which there is now plenty – even the WMO has moved to reanalysis data for their real-time doom pronouncements coinciding with the middle of NH summer (natch).

    In that post linked Broadie asks:

    Broadie
    January 22, 2022 at 10:08 am

    [Simon] – If you don’t like Acorn, use NOAA, NASA, HadCRUT, Berkeley Earth, or Copernicus.

    Simple question Simon. Do any of these databases reference ACORN stations?

    The answer is yes.

    Not only does HadCRUT “reference” ACORN, it is their entire Australia land series for CRUTEM 4/5 which supplies land data for HadCRUT 4/5. Same with NIWA series in NZ. Proof here:

    CRUTEM4 Temperature station data

    Australia

    Homogenized series, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

    ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/ncc/www/change/HQdailyT/HQdailyT_info.pdf

    New Zealand

    Homogenized series , NIWA, New Zealand

    http://www.niwa.co.nz/our-science/climate/news/all/nz-temp-record

    Source
    https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/crutem4/station-data.htm

    However, Simon suggests Copernicus to which I applaud.

    Copernicus ECMWF ERA5 is an absolute unadjusted reanalysis dataset. ERA5 returns a mainland Australia timeseries that looks nothing like ACORN.

    ACORN vs ERA5 (Copernicus) next.

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      Richard C (NZ)

      ACORN vs ERA5 (Copernicus)

      Monthly Reanalysis Time Series – ERA5
      https://climatereanalyzer.org/research_tools/monthly_tseries/

      Select defaults except,

      Region: Australia
      Anomaly: Yes (to compare to ACORN below)
      Plot

      Clearly, there is no trend in the 50 years of data late 1950s – 2012. The actual trend can be determined with NOAA’s WRIT – it’s negligible.

      ACORN-SAT
      http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi

      Not possible to apply a trend to a specific segment but the overall trend, 0.13 C/decade is typical of the intermediate data.

      Thus BOM’s manipulation of mainland Australia temperature is exposed as bogus.

      Q.E.D.

      [Oh, and thanks Simon for your reanalysis recommendation]

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        Richard C (NZ)

        >Monthly Reanalysis Time Series – ERA5 (mainland Australia)

        To see mainland Australia actual absolute summer-winter cycle, max and min, leave Anomaly unchecked (N), check Sequential Months (Y), and Plot.

        To see mainland Australia actual absolute annual mean leave both Anomaly and Sequential Months unchecked (N) and Plot.

        BOM would probably prefer you didn’t see either of those two graphs – especially if they were used to compare to their climate model output for the same region.

        That particular model-obs graph will NEVER be disclosed by BOM unless required by Federal law, Parliamentary Inquiry, or whatever i.e. never.

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          Geoff Sherrington

          Richard C,
          Thank you for the links.
          How can I obtain numerical data, not graphical?
          Seeking daily (if they exist) or annual Tmax and Tmin for 2m land over Auistralia observations, digital. 1910 to 2020 or a lesser interval.
          Geoff S

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            Richard C (NZ)

            Geoff S

            >How can I obtain numerical data, not graphical?

            Via NOAA’s WRIT:

            Web-based Reanalysis Intercomparison Tool
            https://psl.noaa.gov/data/atmoswrit/timeseries/

            You have several reanalysis datasets to choose from and can compare simultaneously Dataset 1 to Dataset 2 e.g. ERA5 to NCEP/NCAR R1. ERA5 is now considered “most trusted source” by likes of Ryan Maue and many others.

            First caution: ERA5 was extended back pre-1979 to 1942. I don’t consider ERA5 1942-2023 to be a contiguous dataset because there is a discernible step at 1979 (i.e. 2 datasets: pre and post 1979) – but your call.

            >Seeking daily (if they exist) or annual Tmax and Tmin for 2m land over Auistralia observations, digital. 1910 to 2020 or a lesser interval.

            I only know of monthly/annual data access but you can extract monthly Tmax and Tmin once you have monthly data. You would have to contact the respective series compiler (e.g. ECMWF) to obtain daily I’m guessing. Even then not sure you would get access.

            Second caution – be very careful with parameter settings and to check before each new plot or going out and coming back in to the tool.

            To obtain the same Region Lat/Lon bounds (settings) as for the graph at Climate Reanalyzer (CR), switch on ‘Show Map’ next to Region at CR. Obviously there is some data over the sea area and it excludes Tasmania i.e. not just land station bounds but all mainland is included plus some sea.

            Lat: -40 (40S), -10 (10S)
            Lon: 115 (110E), 156 (156E)

            Monthly/Annual – Defaults except.

            Dataset: ERA5
            Variable: 2m Air Temp
            Start: 1942, End: 2023 (or 1942,1979 or 1979,2023, or whatever)
            Time Averaging: Y None (monthly), or Y Seasonal (annual)
            Variable Stat: Y Mean (absolute), or Y Anomaly
            Grid Points Region 1 (or 1 & 2): As obtained above
            Create Plot

            You now have downloadable data table and graph, plus statistics.

            Note Slope is “per year” so shift one decimal place for per decade.

            All monthly data Slope 1942-2023: 0.0765 K/decade

            Also note the the data is not quite the nominal Lat/Lon selected:

            “Closest lat/lon centers for dataset 1 bounds are: Lat: -40.5 to -10.5 Lon: 109.5 to 156”

            Last caution: The same data retrieved in Kelvin may not correspond with the same data in a Celcius dataset from the same provider. I’ve found discrepancies but not constant i.e. it is not a K-to-C conversion problem – not significant but beware.

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              Richard C (NZ)

              >You now have downloadable data table and graph, plus statistics

              The usefulness of the overall series Mean statistic might not be immediately apparent but it can be used to determine the difference between 2 climate regimes decades apart. For example:

              1) Determine series mean for 1950-1960, say.

              2) Determine series mean for 2000-2010, say.

              Difference is the change in climate regimes between 1950s and 2000s. Not just for temperature but any available variable.

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              Richard C (NZ)

              Geoff S

              Me >you can extract monthly Tmax and Tmin once you have monthly data.

              Forgot to mention that in the ‘Which Variable For D1’ menu, WRIT also provides Tmax and Tmin options but not for ERA5 (or most other). You will have switch to Dataset 1 & 2 to NCEP/NCAR R1 which enables:

              2m Tmax Air Temperature
              2m Tmin Air Temperature

              These series can be plotted either individually or simultaneously (with ‘Optional Dataset 2’). Once plotted the data tables can be copied/downloaded.

              Don’t forget to set ‘Grid Point/Region 2’ same as ‘Grid Point/Region 1’ when plotting simultaneously.

              NCEP/NCAR R1 Slopes Australia 1979-2023:

              Annual Mean (“Seasonal” 1 value/year)
              Tmax: 0.0737 K/decade
              Tmin: 0.0767 K/decade

              Monthly Mean (12 values/year)
              Tmax: 0.0447 K/decade
              Tmin: 0.0463 K/decade

              Monthly is essentially 0, max or min, given the fluctuation over the series.

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              Richard C (NZ)

              Correction:

              “ERA5 was extended back pre-1979 to [1940]”

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              Richard C (NZ)

              > available at [ECMWF}

              Yes but a real mission, tons of data, and registration required.

              There is a Web Interface to download but what options?

              To extract specific data rather than bulk download, which would overload most systems and connections I’m guessing, probably requires their Application Programming Interface (API):

              How to download ERA5
              https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/CKB/How+to+download+ERA5

              Table of Contents

              3 – Downloading online ERA5 family data through the CDS web interface

              C3S climate data store (CDS) [examples]:
              ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1940 to present
              ERA5 monthly averaged data on single levels from 1940 to present

              4 – Download ERA5 family data through the CDS API
              First: Install CDS API on your machine

              [“This is Python based…may require some basic knowledge of Python”]

              NOAA’s WRIT by comparison is also a programmed interface (API) that enables easy extraction of specific grids of data from multiple reanalysis datasets and comparison of 2 datasets simultaneously.

              You can even just extract ONE datapoint e.g. nearest nominal Lat/Lon to the location of your house.

              And WRIT is just a URL away – you don’t have to load it on your own computer.

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    markx

    A bit like pretending bushfires are some meaningful indicator of climate change: myriad factors involved.

    And the only possible true drivers of an increase in pollen (if it is indeed the case, currently it is unknown) must be one or both of the following:
    1. Increased production by individual plants ( which would be a direct result of improved plant growth and yield from increased atmospheric CO2, which we know is happening)
    2. More plants.
    Both matters with some benefit.

    In reality, I see that someone has simply jumped on the bandwagon in search of some research funding:

    Beggs said Australia poorly measured pollen in that it relied on someone manually collecting and analysing samples – a method that was developed in the 1950s.

    A new trial was hoping to change that, he said.

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      Hasbeen

      If increasing heat causes the big bush fires would someone please explain why all the really big bushfires are in the cooler wetter near coastal regions, rather than the hotter drier regions further inland.

      Could it be that the cooler wetter regions get greater thicker growth, & hence have more fuel to supply the fires, & nothing to do with temperature.

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    Pauly B

    Climate Change and Ukraine are the swiss-army knives of big government and woke corporations – they can be used to “explain” away any price rise or tax hike….

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    GlenM

    Beware of experts.Pariticularly when they are quoted.

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      ivan

      Always remember the definition of an expert: ‘X is the unknown quantity and a Spurt is a drip under pressure’ which appears to be true when you consider most of the so called experts on climate change.

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    Lawrie

    It may be the toxins given off by deteriorating solar panels on the roof next door or the extra pollutants in the manufacture of turbines too. Or it could be the fact that we cloistered humans are losing our ability to fight of irritants and infections due to excessive reliance on medicines including the experimental vaccines which are now up to shot six I believe. That new flu shot , the one combined with mRNA to make it better, could be the cause. Then again it could be the scientists have their fingers on the scales to make the results scarier. You know they have done it in the past with all sorts of things because accuracy doesn’t matter any more. Anyway I don’t care because I am off to vote NO shortly then going in to buy a new petrol engined car.

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      Fran

      Here in Canada a lot of housing is being built with chipboard. It will give off formaldehyde for some years, especially since buildings are constructed with tight windows and little fresh air. This could be a cause of increased mucosal irritation.

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    another ian

    A reminder that in some circles SMH = “Shaking my head”

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    Graeme No.3

    in Port Macquarie in New South Wales, summers have increased by 48 days – typical NSWelchmen taking the Sun and letting us Southerners have longer winters. Can we blame this on GlobalWarming© ?

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    David Maddison

    Before the belief in supposed anthropogenic global warming became woke and trendy, it had long been observed that there was an increase in allergic and auto-immune diseases in the West due to over-active immune systems and a corresponding decrease in infections.

    And this was also long before possible immune system damage caused by untested covid “vaccines”.

    The observed increase in allergic and auto-immune conditions was traditionally attributed to the “hygiene hypothesis” resulting in reduced microbiome diversity and the elimination of parasites in the West. Immigrants from Third World to Western countries soon develop the same conditions as the West that they didn’t have in their country of origin.

    Some people in the West even deliberately infect themselves with parasites to help moderate their over-active immune systems (helminthic therapy).

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      Ross

      Indeed, you are correct David. There were some very famous villages and towns split by the formation of the Soviet Union post WW2. Example being Mödlareuth in Germany. A few years ago there was a report of another town in either a Scandinavian country or maybe the old Czechoslovakia that had been split this way. One side of the town/ small city was in the Soviet Union and the other in the West. This had endured for 4 decades, at least. When the SU dissolved, the town was re-united. One of the health aspects was interesting. The West side had children/ young adults/ adults with lots of allergies and auto-immune disorders along with autism. On the old Soviet side – allergies were basically unknown amongst the population. The theory for this observed phenomenon? Aspects of either modern western health or diet were responsible for the difference. On the previous Soviet side there was not even nut allergies. I’m sure someone here will know the town.

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        Kalm Keith

        As a youngster I spent most of my life during summer at the beach body surfing.
        After the first drenching of each new season over a number of years I would return home and later throw up uncontrollably in the cement wash basins in the laundry.

        I’m sure it had nothing to do with the sewer processing plant in Murdering/Murmering gully which sent the ground and roughly filtered waste into the ocean just around the headland.

        The “grounds” were put into rail carts and dumped in carefully prepared ditches just across the valley.

        I suspect that the regular “challenges” to my immune system gave me a strong natural immune system.

        Maybe that’s a bit extreme but getting too far away from nature can have its downsides.

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        Kalm Keith

        I apologise for being immoderate again.

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    R.B

    I suffer a lot from hay fever, asthma and sinusitis but less than when I was younger.

    Must be climate change.

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      wal1957

      If “the voice” doesn’t get up today it’ll be blamed on climate change!

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      David of Cooyal in Oz

      G’day RB,
      I too was a sufferer of hay fever, but have found quite good relief, in spite of my age, as a result of my reading here about Covid!!
      I discovered the claim that hay fever is caused by a, or is it the, rhinovirus, and the word virus jumped out at me about the same time that doctors Zelenko and Sehault discovered, and explained the value of zinc. And claims that a significant number of the population was deficient in it and/or vitamin D.
      So I started taking some of both.
      Later I discovered the term “cofactors” and added some of those plus K2, and later still vitamin D.
      While it’s a bit early to claim complete success, I’ve not had any serious bout for a couple of years, haven’t had the flu shot or the vaxx and am getting along quite nicely thank you.
      Cheers
      Dave B

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        David of Cooyal in Oz

        Ooops,
        Big mistake.
        “…and later still vitamin D” should read
        “…and later still vitamin A”.

        Thought I’d checked that quite thoroughly. Sorry.

        Cheers
        Dave B

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    Ross

    How can Summers be longer? Summer is the 1/12-28:29/2 every year. Plus, very often when the climate alarmists say ” getting warmer” its after examination of the daily high temps only. They either totally disregard minimum or average daily temps. I downloaded all the daily temp data for my local regional city here in Victoria a couple of years ago. Yes, over that 120 year period the maximum daily temps had indeed increased. But the daily minimum temps had decreased by about the same factor. Which meant the average dailies were about the same. When I dowloaded some lighthouse data ( Cape Otway ) in the same fashion, the exact opposite was true. Minimums increased/ maximums decreased.

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    Hey, there’s a side effect to the China Coronavirus.

    I’m reticent when it comes to flying, because I have a problem with ear pressurisation when it comes to flying, the result of a Barotrauma in my left ear in December of 1968, resolved with a hole drilled through my eardrum and a Teflon tube inserted to drain the fluid behind my eardrum. That tube was removed six Months later, but I have had that ‘grommet’ ever since, and those ear pressurisation problems, also sinus related, and now I just cannot equalise the pressure at all.

    Because of that, I travel by train when it comes to long distance travel.

    So, recently, on my second trip North to visit my daughter and family in Rockhampton, via the Tilt Train, I actually think I may have caught that dreaded China virus, thanks to the recirculation of air in the train, via the airconditioning. Now, I had no idea at all that I may (or may not have) have caught that dreaded virus, but three quarters of the way through that trip, I developed a horrendous cough, and that lasted the two weeks I was in Rockhampton. Just that cough was the only thing I noticed, and it was absolutely awful, and also caused some breathing problems as well.

    Now, I knew, hand on heart, that there was absolutely no way on Earth that this was the dreaded China Virus (COVID 19, and how I hate that term) because (solely due to the threat of total ostracisation) I had received the requisite sixteen hundred of those recommended vaccinations and interminable boosters. (oh, and that’s me being facetial to quote Dorrie Evans) I wanted to avoid them, but because my wonderful good lady wife, Barbara, had such marginal health at best, I saw that she had those vaccinations, hence I had them as well.

    So, I DID NOT have Coronavirus.

    Anyway, two weeks after I got home from that visit, the cough eased back. However, my taste changed. Nothing at all tasted the same (nothing) as it had before I took that train trip, there and back.

    Recently, my long standing GP mentioned it was time for my yearly ‘Health Plan’ to be compiled, where I get six Medicare subsidised visits with Allied Health Professionals, and for that I have a Nutritionist, a Dietitian, a Podiatrist, and an exercise Physiologist, (three visits with that guy)

    Anyway, the GP’s Practice Nurse Practitioner gets to do that one hour assessment for all of that, in conjunction with a full medical checkup as well.

    During that appointment, I mentioned the horrendous cough, and the change in my taste, and she mentioned that I probably caught the Coronavirus. Now I knew that was incorrect, because I was immune, because Annastacia Palaszczuk told me so, when I had all of the aforementioned sixteen thousand vaccinations and boosters, with the circles and arrows.

    But maybe, just maybe, that wonderful Nurse Practitioner might have been correct, you know, ‘well maybe Tony, you might have just caught that Coronavirus’.

    Anyway, that change in taste is the most obvious thing, and while at first it was such a disappointing thing, perhaps it’s not too bad really, except for my Earl Grey tea (Dilmah, and hey, I’m fussy when it comes to Earl Grey) which tastes so different now.

    But I have found a new Coffee (and I’m fussy with that too) Moccona Indulgence, and a Blue Cheese (I love it on Saladas) Castello Creamy Blue.

    Okay, I’ve tried them before, and not really liked them all that much, but they taste really nice now.

    Same with some meals, and I’m finding completely new tastes and flavours, some meals I loved, and now not so much, and some I was iffy about before, which suddenly are not too bad at all.

    However, I’m looking at it positively, as I find some things I liked before , well, not so much now, and the opposite, some which were average before, and are nice now.

    Also, I’ve found a a new beer with a completely different taste, one I would have detested in my younger days, (a big fan of Melbourne Bitter with the red label) and that beer is a craft beer, Burleigh Mid Tide, and it’s only 3.0% ABV, a really nice taste, completely different to any beer I have tasted before.

    I kept thinking that a loss of taste associated with that Coronavirus would be something horrendous, but so many new flavours are opening up.

    But hey, it’s all a furphy really, because, you know, I’m supposedly immune, what with those sixty five thousand vaccinations and all!!!

    Tony.

    PostScript – Oh, and if any of you have a solution for that ear pressurisation problem, I’d be happy to hear it, as I am going to Canberra in November, and I’m actually going to fly, so I hope that works out, as I haven’t flown now for 15 years

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      old cocky

      with the circles and arrows

      and a paragraph on the back of each one?

      More seriously, immunity has a very specific technical meaning, and there are degrees of immunity. Resistance would be more in line with general perceptions.

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      Ross

      It’s a shame your doctor or NP didn’t give you some basic information on your body’s defences vs virus infection. This is also the reason for your change in taste. One of your body’s initial defence vs virus infection is to beef up the zinc concentration in those tissues where it’s needed. Because zinc is our body’s first major defence vs virus infection. The increased zinc in your mucosal cells increases their acidity, reducing the ability of the virus to reproduce. The body pulls zinc from those areas not considered critical. Mostly your taste sensors. Which then affects your ability to “taste”. This has always happened ( to me at least ) when I’ve contracted colds/flus etc in the past. Hence, just try taking some zinc supplements or eating oysters perhaps. It’s why mostly all cold/flu over the counter medications now have added zinc. It’s why all the early anti COVID protocols proposed by free thinking doctors (Zelenko etc) have zinc tablets as part of the cocktail.

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    Geoffrey Williams

    At this moment the ‘yes’ vote is looking pretty sick.
    It would appear that sanity has prevailed . .

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    Honk R Smith

    IMHO or main problem is affluenza.
    We have the luxury of waking up a thinking “how do I feel today?”.
    “Am I a girl or a boy?”

    Once upon time, we were lucky to find a doctor.
    Now you can’t see the doctor to treat your problem without being screened by 3 doctors to permit ascendance to the right one.
    3 if you’re lucky.

    Many take a medication to remedy the ‘side effects’* of another medication.
    Some medical institutions are providing cervical cancer screening to people with prostate glands (I’m pretty sure you can’t take that one out without making a mess).
    https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/trans-woman-cervical-cancer

    We live in a tiny warm spot in a possibly infinite Universal Deep Freeze and we worry about it getting 1.5 degrees warmer 50 years from now.
    Liquid water is one of the rarest things we know of, and some are dumb enough to be willing to sacrifice themselves for more ice.

    There are people who demand other people be arrested for mis-gendering them.

    I, Space Dr. Doctor Honk, diagnose this species hopelessly neurotic.
    And on the the fast track to Jungian extinction.

    *(‘Side effect’ is a marketing term. There are only effects.)

    BTW, ‘Climate Change’ is such an obvious marketing term as to be laughable. And we have to take it while these people pummel us with a ‘Science’ stick.

    It was a “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated” … yeah … like every other ‘pandemic’ in every species in the frigging biological history of the planet.

    “All of you have a snack bar”, I keep hearing somebody yelling that in the distance when out for a walk.

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    Harves

    From the Guardian:

    “So far, the Central Land Council, Congress and the NSW Aboriginal Land Council are among the groups who have shared the statement calling for a national week of silence, given the referendum result.”

    Hang on. Are you suggesting that there are already multiple taxpayer funded indigenous groups that give a voice to indigenous Australians? Who’d have thought?

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    bobby b

    I love the MH headline – it “could” be climate change!

    It “could” be aliens, too. Both are correct.

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    TomR

    Climate tax is a support of communist economy: if a government owns means of production of electricity then it pays a climate tax TO ITSELF, overall impact of such a tax being zero. If private companies generate electricity – the tax is a real additional cost to them that makes them uncompetitive in the market to government, being too expansive because of the cost of the tax – real cost for private sector, just a circulation of money for the government selling electricity.

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