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UK Met Office now has an annual CO2 forecast.
Looks as if they have been at this since 2016.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2024/met-office-carbon-dioxide-forecast-on-the-limits-of-compatibility-for-achieving-1.5c
I have missed all their past forecasts [possibly not scary enough to make the news …?].
They say: –
“The annual Met Office CO₂ forecast estimates the annual rise in the atmospheric concentration of carbon-dioxide, measured at Mauna Loa in Hawaii.
“The ongoing CO₂ rise is mainly driven by fossil fuel burning and land use change.”
No significant information [or evidence] is given to justify that last sentence, tho it is a religious tenet.
More –
“The current level of global warming is approximately 1.3°C, driven by the human-caused build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The Paris Agreement aim of limiting warming to 1.5°C refers to the average over a long period such as 20 years. Although the global temperature in 2023 was nearly 1.5°C above pre-industrial, making it the hottest year on record, the natural cycle of El Niño had temporarily added to the human-induced warming. The record temperatures in 2023 therefore do not represent an exceedance of 1.5°C human-caused global warming.”
And no indication of how the ‘pre-industrial’ was observed, calculated, adjusted -or [even] pulled out of their a55 – but … We can scaremonger with the BBC, you know!!
And –
“Methods
“The technique used to make this forecast was also used to make forecasts ahead of time for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. In 2020 we also issued an updated forecast once it became clear that the response to the Covid-19 pandemic would cause global CO2 emissions to be much smaller than expected that year. ”
Yet the curves on their website do not seem to show that ‘much smaller than expected’ emissions.
As if the CO2 content in our atmosphere is – at most – marginally related to fossil fuel use.
At –
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/seasonal-to-decadal/long-range/forecasts/co2-forecast-for-2024 – Figure 7.
More at the links, if you want to look.
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It’s an obvious fact, IMO, that the UK Met Office is corrupt and incompetent and incapable of accurately forecasting weather for more than a couple of days ahead, even with some of the most powerful, and expensive, supercomputers.
However, excuse me being a bit dim, but why would you measure atmospheric concentration of carbon-dioxide on top of the worlds largest active volcano ?
Consider: “By far the most abundant volcanic gas is water vapor, which is harmless. However, significant amounts of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen halides can also be emitted from volcanoes”.
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“However, excuse me being a bit dim, but why would you measure atmospheric concentration of carbon-dioxide on top of the worlds largest active volcano ?”
Mauna Loa, the worlds largest active volcano has an atmospheric monitoring station on it, are they serious, what do they hope to measure there.
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The mission of ESRL is to measure atmospheric constituents that are capable of forcing change in the climate of the earth and those that may deplete the ozone layer. ESRL accomplishes this goal primarily through long-term tropospheric measurements of key atmospheric parameters such as carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4), chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), ozone (O3), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), radon, aerosols, optical depth, and a spectrum of solar radiation parameters.
MLO is located on the north flank of Mauna Loa Volcano, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Due to its remote location in the Pacific Ocean, high altitude (3397 meters, or 11,135 feet above sea level), and great distance from major pollution sources, MLO is a prime spot for sampling the Earth’s background air in the well mixed free troposphere. The observatory protrudes through the strong marine temperature inversion layer present in the region, which separates the more polluted lower portions of the atmosphere from the much cleaner free troposphere.
Answer your question?
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But it’s a volcano, it belches all sorts of nasties including copious volumes of CO2 and sulphur dioxide.
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Exactly. It’s like placing an air quality monitor right on the exhaust pipe of a diesel truck – then telling us the air we breathe is polluted.
Or placing a temperature gauge at the end of a runway then telling us the planet is warming.
Corrupt madness.
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I’m surprised Sportsbet haven’t got onto this, or have they.
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There were some posts a few days ago asking about EV emergency service vehicles…
OK.. Here is your Australian ACT EV/hybrid Fire truck. and how it is promoted:
“The vehicle runs on electricity, with enough battery capacity to operate continuously for up to two hours. If more range is needed, an on board diesel electric generator supplies the vehicle with power for up to six hours – giving the vehicle the same operational capability as a conventional diesel pumper.”
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8215096/gamechanger-act-takes-delivery-of-latest-15m-electric-fire-truck/
“The ACT’s new zero-emissions pumper is the first step in better protecting its frontline officers and every fire service in the country is eager to get a closer look at what it does, and how it does it.
Two massive battery packs to provide the primary motive power…..
“Providing the back-up to repower the batteries on the move or at a fire scene is a big 3-litre BMW diesel engine hidden inside. When the battery power drops to 20 per cent, the diesel engine kicks in as the recharger, effectively providing a driving range of up to 1000km.”
The stupidity never stops.
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Sorry, but this looks like a form of hybrid vehicle. I’d be curious what the efficiency is for this form of hybrid versus one that directly drives the vehicle and pumps from the diesel engine. If the efficiency is reasonable then this dual-power option seems viable. I still prefer the redundancy of the traditional hybrid approach (electric motor and engine both capable of moving the vehicle).
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“Two massive battery packs”…
In lieu of payload.
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At least they will be on the spot to respond when their own battery packs ignite.
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Make Canberrans use 100% EV emergency vehicles.
And while at it, make them use 100% wind and solar They claim to do that now, buts it’s only because of a fraudulent accounting trick. If they were really running on wind and solar, they could disconnect the whole territory from the grid.
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Electricity consumed in the Australian Capital Territory mainly comes from the national power grid through substations at Holt and Fyshwick (via Queanbeyan). The ACT currently mandates that 100 percent of its electricity, will be supplied from renewable sources by 2020.
It seems that the power companies in NSW assure the dumb bureaucrats in Canberra that the only electricity sent over the boarder is sourced from “renewables”!
Coal continues to be the primary fuel source for electricity in NSW, generating almost 80 per cent of the State’s electricity
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A new form of creative accounting.
Can’t last.
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Must be a filter in the HT lines.
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Government Ministers for the A.C.T. boasted they were 100% renewable in late 2019.
Pathological levels of delusion by the lame stream media, green washing and spin overlook the fact that 100% renewable energy in Canberra resulted in higher electricity prices than Melbourne & Sydney.
Renewable electricity is a luxury in Canberra that the poor cant afford.
The rest of Australia is now feeling that pain.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/canberra-where-electricity-is-a-luxury-the-poor-cant-afford/
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Can you imagine all the ambulances hooked up to ‘shore power’ while they are ramping.
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Analysis shows that ambulance efficiency improves when the space normally used for a patient is used for a battery.
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Force Cantberra onto renewables?
Instead of Operation Warp Speed we could call it Operation WOP Speed. WOP = We’re Outa Power. 🤭
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I wonder how they feel about driving a bomb . If the battery heats up too much they will get toasted by their own truck when it fires up . Its an insurance nightmare too….
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It would take the stoopids in Cantburra to try this on, what a waste of public money.
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It will either fight the or BE the fire, either way, I hope they’ve got plenty of foam on board.
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30 day Av. SOI 2,87
https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/soi/
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Some Warming ?
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A distant memory by next week.
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You are cryptic.
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http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mtpw2/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&prod=spac×pan=24hrs&anim=html5
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BBC – proud if its ignorance?
I gently complained to the BBC: –
HOLDING RESPONSE: –
“Thanks for contacting the BBC. This is to confirm we’ve received the attached complaint sent in this name. We’ve included the text of the complaint and a case reference for your records (see below).
Our normal aim at this stage is to reply within 10 working days (two weeks). We hope you will understand that sometimes it may take us longer. If we think that will be the case here, we’ll try to let you know in advance.
We’ll normally include your complaint in our overnight report to producers and management. This will circulate your complaint (with any personal details removed) together with all the other reaction we receive today. It will then be available for the right team to read tomorrow morning.
For full details of our complaints process you can visit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/how-we-handle-your-complaint.
Please don’t reply to this email because it’s an automated acknowledgement sent from an account which can’t receive replies. If you do need to get in touch, please use our webform instead at http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints, quoting your reference number.
Here are the details of your complaint:
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YOUR COMPLAINT:
Inappropriate picture
Hi.
At 1512 GMT the leading picture on this news story – about oil – showed a bulk carrier.
Bulk carriers carry grain, or coal, or bauxite, or iron ore, etc.; solid commodities.
They do not carry oil, which is a liquid and is pumped off the ship.
It gives the impression of a poor organisation, lacking in knowledge [and possibly lacking in curiosity, to see where it could improve].
Perhaps ask a seafarer about ship types before putting up inaccurate and inappropriate pictures.
Surely you have at least one contact who can tell a Cruise liner from a Collier?
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Thank you again for contacting us,
BBC Complaints Team
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints
Please note: this email is sent from an unmonitored address so please don’t reply. If necessary please contact us through our webform (please include your case reference number).”
Today, I received a polite SUBSTANTIVE REPLY: –
“Reference CAS-7732254-F5T2F0
“Dear Auto,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67947795
“Many thanks for getting in touch.
“I am sorry you are unhappy with our coverage. The photo used is not supposed to represent a vessel which carries oil, rather it is meant to represent a normal ship or even a bulk carrier. As the article explains, oil prices have increased in the wake of “recent attacks by Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea”.
“Attacks on ships is a key part of the story, therefore the photo is supposed to represent a regular ship. I do not believe there has been any inaccuracy here, however I would like to thank you once again for getting in touch with us.
“Your views have been shared with senior management.
“Best wishes,
“Carolina
“www.bbc.co.uk/complaints ”
Names changed to protect the innocent – and me!
It certainly doesn’t feel there is any point complaining to the BBC about the BBC.
About Mr. Trump, or Mr Bolsonaro, or Mr Milei; even about Mr. Sunak – for sure.
I wonder if the other news organs – ABC, CBC, CNN etc. – have as little regard for accuracy as the BBC admit they do.
Their accuracy … not mine – and I pay my licence fee!
I weep for my country.
Auto
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In general, these pictures are named “symbolic pictures”, without any connection to the story.
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Which is why when they show the cooling towers of a Coal Fired Electricity Power Station they show the ‘pollution’ steaming out of the top of the cooling towers when it is steam/water vapour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlers_Ferry_power_station#/media/File:Fiddlers_Ferry_Power_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1696162.jpg
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And set against the setting sun, for dramatic effect.
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Just maybe you expected too much of a journalism major!
I am frequently on Interstate 90 in Washington State. This is a cross-country highway carrying all sorts of stuff from ports on the West Coast into the interior of the USA, also from east to west.
I see odd-shaped trucks and wonder what they carry. Sometimes I have to guess and look for photos on the web.
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It’s difficult to know what that article is supposed to be about. The headline says “Oil Prices” but they don’t give a chart of oil prices … the chart they do provide shows container shipping costs.
My impression is that the general idea is to blame inflation on the Houthis and for that purpose any chart showing rising prices will do. The photo of the ship seems like it simply reinforces the earlier message on inflation, “Oh it’s a supply chain issue!”
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It’s a ‘big ship’, near enough for the ignoramuses.
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Never ever go ‘gentle’ on these sods, rip it into them, they’ve worked for it.
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Thanks Auto for the post at #1.
It is absolutely incontrovertible that human origin CO2 has No effect on atmospheric temperature.
1. There’s no mechanism by which CO2 can do anything special to heat or store energy when it is in the atmosphere.
2. Even IF CO2 did the things claimed by the IPCCC branch of Disneyland it is obvious that it is quantitatively Irrelevant in the system.
There are real sciences out there but those pushing the Klimate Katastrophism don’t want that made public and just label them Dissinformation and quash the reality.
The World is in big trouble.
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If you use the web to find the shapes of molecules, you can see how the radiatively active gases look. Water and Carbon dioxide differ from each other, and more so from, say Nitrogen (N2) or Argon (Ar).
The concept of a “green house gas” is that the radiation coming in contact with such a molecule will (in some fashion) go off in a random direction. Sometimes that new direction will lead back toward Earth. Whatever it then comes in contact with will determine what happens next. This gets complicated and the researchers have not figured out the final result in Earth’s atmosphere.
In contrast to the physics and chemistry, observations suggest negligible, if any, contribution to atmospheric warming from CO2.
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Hi John, if you are saying that the powers that be are complexifying the process to hide the reality, then I agree.
The same technique of going deep into true basic science was used to cover over what was real in the Covid19 drama.
We don’t need to go that deep because the atmospheric processes and basic physics preclude the concept of “energy” or photons “being let out in random directions and some heading back to Earth”.
It can’t happen in the real world.
” the researchers have not figured out the final result in Earth’s atmosphere.”
They don’t want the Truth.
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KK
the fundamental claim of AGW is that CO2 traps heat and radiates it back to Earth, warming the planet.
You must not ask why (with CO2 being a well mixed gas) do places on the same latitude get different temperatures depending on the water content above.
You must also not ask why at the top of the troposphere there isn’t the predicted “hot spot”.
And you not ask why if CO2 molecules emit IR in both directions, why should increasing CO2 levels at the top of the troposphere mean that more IR is sent to space?
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Of course, the biggest ‘greenhouse’ gas by far is water vapour. But I guess we shouldn’t mention that !
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🙂 🙂
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“the researchers have not figured out the final result in Earth’s atmosphere.”
How long have the boffins been working on this.
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In 1862, the physicist William Thomson published calculations that fixed the age of Earth at between 20 million and 400 million years.
The motions of the Sun and planets took about 3,000 years.
I’m not expecting much better.
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“The World is in big trouble.” As if things are not strange enough. The Earth does not normally spin exactly on its axis. Like a toy top, it wobbles as it spins. This is known as the Chandler Wobble, first discovered by Seth Carlo Chandler in 1884/1885. That is, until now, when the wobble just suddenly stopped. Nobody knows why, or what the implications are, but it is just another in a long list of weirdness being exhibited by planet Earth. A 30% drop in magnetic field strength since the mid 19th century, the magnetic poles decided to go walk about, the South Atlantic magnetic anomaly has grown significantly in 2023. Signs of fun times ahead?
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Apologies to Shakespeare
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Just another example that when it comes to planetary science we know FA. the earth has been around for 4.5Bn years, we, mankind, have been around for 200,000 years and have been scientifically aware for around 2,000 years. Guesswork and modelling is no substitute for honest science.
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” the wobble has stopped “?
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Can we explain the post-2015 absence of the Chandler wobble?
Earth, Planets and Space volume 76, Article number: 1 (2024) Ryuji Yamaguchi & Masato Furuya
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Still not sure what’s going on here.
The effects of axial variations on the planet’s inclination to the Sun may change the intensity of summers and winters.
Period, is either 24,000 or 41,000 years approx.
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Looked it up.
Chandler:
” He used angular momentum models of the atmosphere and the oceans in computer simulations to show that from 1985 to 1996, the Chandler wobble was excited by a combination of atmospheric and oceanic processes, with the dominant excitation mechanism being ocean‐bottom pressure fluctuations.”
Seems like a load of CAGW BS.
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This is a reference to an article from 2024.
Didn’t real science end about twenty years ago?
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Maybe the ‘wobble’ finding was inaccurate and has been resolved.
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‘The wobble just suddenly stopped. Nobody knows why.’
The meandering jet streams in both hemispheres might be the result. When exactly did the wobble stop?
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More to the point, maybe, when did the wobble start ?
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Good question. wonder what mechanisms bring it about.
‘The wobble was first spotted in the late 1880s, when astronomer Seth Carlo Chandler noticed the poles wobbled over a period of 14 months. This wobble started to slow down in early 2000s, reaching historic minimums since 2017. ‘ (Business Insider)
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Are you talking about the movement of the poles or the orbital wobble of the earth’s axis relative to the orbital plane of the solar system?
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THAT’S how you stop eco protesters! Italy brings in £50,000 fines for climate activist vandals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12982229/italy-environmental-activist-crackdown-50k-fines.html
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The law aims to stop climate protests, giving officials the power to levy fines of between 20,000 euros (£17,000) to 60,000 euros (£50,000)
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They should also strip these “climate activist vandals” of everything they own that are derived from fossil fuels.
These vandals are complete hypocrites
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Indian firm, Tata steel (formerly British Steel) Port Talbot, South Wales, will press ahead with their plan to close the last two blast furnaces at the plant, replacing them with an Electric Arc Furnace (EAC). That would mean thousands of job losses by 2027. EACs alone cannot make high quality virgin steel from iron ore, meaning the plant would be reliant on cheap scrap metal from overseas as raw materials.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/19/tata-steel-axes-3000-jobs-at-u-k-s-biggest-steelworks-as-u-k-becomes-only-country-in-g20-unable-to-make-its-own-steel/
More green nonsense devastating communities. Australia take note.
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Aluminium smelting in Australia consumes 9% of our electricity production.
China is the world’s largest producer producing 71 million metric tons
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-powers-global-aluminium-output-record-high-andy-home-2023-09-26/
There are currently four aluminium smelters operating in Australia producing Australian primary aluminium metal. Production was 1.51 million tonnes in 2022
Bell Bay (Tasmania) – Rio Tinto
Boyne Island (Queensland) – Rio Tinto
Portland (Victoria) – Alcoa
Tomago (NSW) – Rio Tinto, CSR, Hydro Aluminium
Given the increasing cost of electricity in Australia (and supply reliablity issues) these smelters are living on borrowed time and government (taxpayer)subsidies.
If (and when) these smelters are shut down China will be able to quickly replace Australian production.
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Steve
Don’t electric arc furnaces chew big chunks of power like aluminium refining?
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South Australia has “Unlimted Renewables” including “green hydrogen”to run an electic arc furnace!
You can bet more $ millions of taxpayer money have been put up to subsize steel making that cannot compete with China.
China should start planning a few more coal fired power stations to pick up on Australian steel and aluminium production when the taxpayer subsidies finally run out.
https://www.aumanufacturing.com.au/whyalla-site-will-retire-blast-furnace-up-capacity-with-new-electric-arc-furnace-gfg
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..bur as Steve pointed out above, an Arc furnace cannot smelt iron ore into steel.
So there goes another basic industrial process from Australian shores.
Basicly, they are admitting they cannot produce the much proclaimed “green” steel !
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I remember reading of Whyalla being rescued by that Sanjeev Gupta chap.
An endless rigmarole is being spun by spivs who’ve latched onto the renewables rort.
Today’s renewables developers are part of a rich tradition in The City extending back to the projectors lampooned by Swift in Gulliver’s Travels which was published two hundred and ninety-eight years ago.
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As I understand it, the green loons like EACs because they are electric and therefore can be powered by windmills and solar, therefore producing green steel !
Of course it’s all bollox but the greens are incapable of grasping this and the big, overseas, steel makers see a way to increase their hold and profits.
Meanwhile the UK, and others, try to make steel out of the rejects and scraps from the big boys, probably at higher costs. There goes your economy and sovereignty …
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Electric Arc furnaces consume approximately 0.5 MWh per ton of steel produced.
They can also inject very high levels of harmonic distortion into the grid.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9181453/
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Recycled steel is no good for cold rolled steel [I have no idea how you roll steel when cold] and just think how much sheet steel is around you in your car panels, washing machine, fridge etc.
Russia has been an important player in the market and now with sanctions there is a vacuum there. If our government were serious about anything but woke they would be rolling out the red carpet to anyone willing to use Aus iron ore and coal for this. Once established the market would be assured with the normal price fluctuations.
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From the latest Whitehaven Coal (ASX: WHC) quarterly report (19 Jan 2024):
“From 1 April 2023, Whitehaven’s mines have been obliged by the NSW State Government to make available specific volumes of suitable thermal coal for supply to NSW domestic power stations. [] The Domestic Coal Reservation Scheme is scheduled to finish at the end of June 2024.”
This is something that I had not been aware of. I wonder whether the NSW State Government knows that it will have enough coal-fired power after June this year, or whether it is in the cloud-cuckoo land of thinking that somehow it will then get by without coal. I wish I had more confidence in our state and federal leaders having at least some common sense.
The rest of the world seems to be in no such state of illusion. From the same report (ignore the obviously ridiculous but necessary genuflection to political correctness):
“Underlying demand for high CV [calorific value] thermal coal remains strong in Whitehaven’s traditional and emerging markets in Asia, including to supply high-efficiency, low emissions (HELE) electricity generation, which is important for our customer countries as part of their long-term energy transition and decarbonisation plans. [] The metallurgical coal market is also strong and the anticipated growing structural shortfall in HCC production to supply Asia demand, particularly to India, is expected to underpin metcoal prices over the longer term.”.
Reports of the impending death of coal appear to be, in the words of Mark Twain, an exaggeration.
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https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chinas-2023-coal-output-hits-record-high-2024-01-17/
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Well that WHC quarterly report worked just fine. My WHC shares went up $900 yesterday. 🙂
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It will be bought out by the Japanese or Korean.
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Groundbreaking nuclear plant approved, uses non-water-cooled reactor
https://libertyunyielding.com/2024/01/16/groundbreaking-nuclear-plant-approved-uses-non-water-cooled-reactor/
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I saw that a while back, I haven’t looked at the design but I couldn’t help thinking that the only sensible coolant was one that was readily and rapidly available everywhere, just in case.
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Molten salt, what could possible go wrong.
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How the Left saw the witch doctor at the WEF. All the usual “diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE)” BS.
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This brings to mind another “diverse culltural practice” and an approach to “complex challenges”
When someone is “blowing smoke up your arse” today, it is a figure of speech that means that one person is complimenting another, insincerely most of the time, in order to inflate the ego of the individual being flattered.
Back in the late 1700s, however, doctors literally blew smoke up people’s rectums. Believe it or not, it was a general mainstream medical procedure used to, among many other things, resuscitate people who were otherwise presumed dead. In fact, it was such a commonly used resuscitation method for drowning victims particularly, that the equipment used in this procedure was hung alongside certain major waterways, such as along the River Thames (equipment courtesy of the Royal Humane Society). People frequenting waterways were expected to know the location of this equipment similar to modern times concerning the location of defibrillators.
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And blowing air directly onto the WEF leaders.
Oh, aren’t they among the ones that supported universal “social distancing”, compulsory masking and lockups (for non-Elites) during covid and still maintain an obsession about it to this day?
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It’s (AGW wrapped up in globalism, renewables, wokism..ect..) a pagan religion.
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DAVOS — Members and invited attendees of this week’s World Economic Forum’s annual summit in Davos, Switzerland capped off yet another monumental event with the traditional virgin sacrifice to weather gods to prevent climate change.
https://babylonbee.com/news/world-economic-forum-concludes-event-with-virgin-sacrifice-to-weather-gods-to-prevent-climate-change
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and this one:
https://babylonbee.com/news/kamala-enjoys-finally-being-smartest-person-in-the-room
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Where did they find the virgin.
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Anyone can identify as a virgin these days.
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I LOVE the idea of a forum for invited members only.
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And was that witchcraft ritual the symbolic start of Disease X?
Disease X is probably the US Election Variant of Covid.
https://www.who.int/news/item/21-11-2022-who-to-identify-pathogens-that-could-cause-future-outbreaks-and-pandemics
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There will only be another outbreak if Trump wins, and the US gets an economy. Why have one otherwise?
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“Attendees experienced first-hand a collision of distinct worldviews – from the rational and analytical domain of economics and politics to the esoteric and spiritual realm of witchcraft.“. Since when has Davos had anything whatever to do with the rational and analytical domain of economics. It has always been witchcraft all the way down.
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The madness of the Port Talbot (UK steel manufacturing) closure. Now certain.
https://twitter.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1748418948062683204
Self destructive and counterproductive.
Instead of boasting how many houses supposedly using only 330w on average continuously can be powered by the latest wind farm, maybe they should count how many electric arc furnaces, probably wouldn’t be very impressive though?
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Another example of madness of energy policy in the UK is the Drax Power Station.
Drax uses “biomass” instead of coal.
Drax switched from burning coal to burning wood pellets, which gave the company millions of taxpayers’ money from “green” subsidies. Emissions from burning wood pellets, in the UK, are considered “carbon neutral” and hence are not considered in the GHG accounting sheets.
The wood is derrived from chopping down trees (which absorb CO2) in the USA, Canada and Brazil.
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More at Davos
“Looks like another one. The Heritage Foundation president speaks truth to power:”
https://youtu.be/v5rV5aVRYeg
Via https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/01/18/milei-at-davos-take-down-of-collectivism-at-davos/#comment-168524
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“Watch: “You Are The Problem” – Conservative Speaker Slams Davos Globalists To Their Faces”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-you-are-problem-conservative-speaker-slams-davos-globalists-their-faces
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Another look at Davos
“The Goddess of the WEF”
” “What has been the number one theme of the World Economic Forum this year? It’s not climate change, it’s not Ukraine. It is censorship of the internet. They are painting a target directly on @ElonMusk’s forehead and they’re labeling it ‘X’” — Jack Posobeic”
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/the-goddess-of-the-wef/
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Unfortunately, Musk is to Internet freedom what Trump is to democracy. Just a wet dream …
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https://richardsonpost.com/steve-watson/34519/world-health-organisation-and-disease-x/
Beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing!
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (the WEF UN TAG team) Team stated that “Very narrow national interests should not come in the way” of controlling Disease X.
Bear in mind that their ammunition was loaded into our Law Books 30 years ago by a Liberal Government that included Alexander Downer
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Maybe those Denver doctors who got injected with live Ebola late 2023 will be ground zero.
NOT!
Hyper-A. 😉
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Yesterday-
“Why Trump couldn’t drain the swamp…
“The concept made sense back in 1984, when the Supreme Court held in Chevron v. Nat. Res. Def. Council, that courts should defer to the expertise of administrative agencies in their reasonable interpretations of ambiguous laws. … But did that mean the National Marine Fisheries Service not only got to mandate that its observers be allowed on private fishing vessels to prevent over-fishing, but required boat owners to pay its observers $700 per day for the pleasure? That $700 pretty much ate up the day’s profits, but why was this a cost to be shouldered by the boat rather than the government? Because the bureaucrats at the National Marine Fisheries Service said so.
In the years since Chevron, politicians and activists realized that it was no longer necessary to win a majority in Congress to control the functioning of the American administrative machinery, but rather staff agencies with sympathetic bureaucrats and issue “guidance,” if not rules and regulations, and essentially reinvent the law to serve political ends.”
This is where the administrative control of a nation stands today. We need administrative agencies or the nation will cease to function, but we need agencies run by humble experts rather than radical activists bent on abusing Chevron deference to own an industry.”
https://blog.simplejustice.us/2024/01/18/chevron-deference-in-the-age-of-a-captive-bureacracy/#more-51994
The bureaurats trump the politicians every time!”
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Today- Solving the unemployment caused by automation…
“The growth of bureaucracy costs America over $3 trillion in lost economic output every year, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini estimated in 2016 in The Harvard Business Review. That was about 17 percent of G.D.P. According to their analysis, there is now one administrator or manager for every 4.7 employees,….The Massachusetts Institute of Technology now has almost eight times as many nonfaculty employees as faculty employees. In the University of California system, the number of managers and senior professionals swelled by 60 percent between 2004 and 2014. The number of tenure-track faculty members grew by just 8 percent….Their power is similar to what Annie Lowrey of The Atlantic has called the “time tax.” If you’ve ever fought a health care, corporate or university bureaucracy, you quickly realize you don’t have the time for it, so you give up….This is death by a thousand paper cuts. Whether bureaucrats know it (some do, obviously, but as a general rule, it’s unlikely they give it any thought) or not, they justify the misery they cause by believing they are just doing their job administering the good rules that keep society functioning for its own good….Perhaps this was inevitable given the explosion of people with dubious college degrees who needed jobs, and so jobs were created so they had someplace to go on Monday mornings. ”
https://blog.simplejustice.us/2024/01/19/drunk-on-their-own-virtue/#more-52000
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What Trump can do is: 1) localise as much as possible to the states – have the states constructively competing – eg localise education, 2) shrink the federal government down as much as possible – Government is overhead. Minimise the size, reach and cost of government (in all respects and aspects). Minimise regulation. , 3) the FBI, CIA, NSA etc can all be massively reduced in size, 4) organise government departments, 3 letter agencies etc on the basis of being run by CEOs (department heads) where those CEOs have full control and have pay packages attached to performance, and where the government acts as the board of directors. Task those CEOs – eg task the IRS CEO with fully automating taxation and reducing its collection and administration costs down to 10% (or less) within 3 years.
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The mistake to make is to assume the president is actually in charge and has any real power. The real power base is the billionaires, the multinationals, the MIC and the lobby groups. If Trump was to become a real threat to the power base he would be JFK’d.
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Kim,
Accountability is the key . Don’t reward incompetence and ensure that anyone in power has to do their job properly or face penalties . As you stated – don’t allow them to write their own paychecks either. These rules apply to us but not to them.
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$2 Billion In Subsidies, Only 2 EV Stations Opened, The Holdup Is ‘Social Justice’
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MSM still in denial.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/19/msnbc-damage-control-yes-its-cold-yes-the-planets-still-warming/
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China Stocks Hit Rock Bottom: After $6.3 Trillion Market Loss, Brokers Suspend Short-Selling
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There is something in the air (not the UFO over Beijing) the revolution is here and I wish them well.
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China Stocks Hit Rock Bottom
Another piece of disinformation.
Rock bottom is the equivalent of nowhere further to fall.
Want to take a bet?
That’s why they’ve suspended short selling. They know it’s a lie.
Look out below.
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Yep, they still have a way to go.
‘The Hang Seng China Enterprises index, a closely followed gauge of large Chinese listings in Hong Kong, has dropped about 11 per cent so far this month after losing 14 per cent last year. The benchmark CSI 300 index for domestically traded stocks has shed more than 5 per cent, after taking into account the renminbi’s depreciation against the dollar.’ (Financial Times)
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Col Douglas MacGregor: Turkey will fight in Gaza in April, conflict will escalate into global war
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Check the “Temperature Inflation Scale” –
https://stormcast.com.au/stormcast.html?ops=gfs:2024011918:2024011918:aus:tscreen:null:0#sc
It is now the purple you need to keep an eye on
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I think NOAA did something similar in the US, changed the colour code toward the red end to make temperatures firey and red-hot to confirm to the Official Narrative of Global Meltdown and Boiling Oceans…
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That one runs out of red about 28 degree – that isn’t going to boil much ocean!
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It seems that the weather map is black every night – either for temperatures over 28 degrees or for 10mm of rain.
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Ignore the red. Fat finger.
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Entire staff of Sports Illustrated laid off
https://twitter.com/THEWATCHTOWERS/status/1748422942109888759
I guess AI works for free and can put men in women’s bikinis on the cover just as well…
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Concrete Boom Drives Up Inflation and Carbon Emissions
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Now you understand why the vax was pushed. The branch covidians are not going to be having any offspring as they have been effectively neutered.
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On a lighter note,
Go Woke Go Broke
Publisher of Sports Illustrated Lays Off Magazine’s Entire Staff
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Sorry, John Connor II #20 beat me to it.
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I wonder what Playboy would look like today? Sorry what would Playperson look like today.
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A lawyer’s paradise?
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Panicked Establishment Admits Trump Is Winning 2024!!!
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Sebastian Gorka explains why America – and the world – needs President Trump back in office
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‘Winning’ is likely undergoing redefinition nowadays.
Kinda like ‘vaccine’, ‘woman’, and ‘Our Democracy’, just to mention a few.
‘Establishment’ is an antiquated somewhat benign sounding word.
The pipes and the smoking jackets are way out of style.
Something much uglier than ‘establishment’ gave us lockdowns, mandates, and that little Net Zero thingy.
Even if Trump ‘wins’, the establishment will still control the dilithium crystals.
And sit safely in their DC donjons.
Any suspicious gathering outside the curtain wall will be surveilled by Bank of Amerika.
What’s it called when Tiananmen Square goes global?
The new tank drivers are the same folk pulling security at Davos.
And that arrested old ladies on park benches in Victoria.
Hopefully the won’t ‘mistakenly’ (another word that likely faces redefinition) mix up the rubber bullets with the real ones.
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I am not that optimistic. The Deep State will find a way, like they did last time.
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Which Mediterranean diet?
“THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET: A WESTERN CONSTRUCT”
https://lilynicholsrdn.com/mediterranean-diet/
5th May 2023
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“The Mediterranean diet” = In southern Europe they drink more wine in Northern Europe they drink more beer.
Wine is better on the heart than beer.
Subject closed.
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I’ve just been hunting down ‘The Revolver’s’ Jan 6 coverage, and their incredible investigations into Epps and Rhodes. Looking for time lines. I smelt a big stinking rat from the very beginning. The pluses were all one way. Trump didn’t see it coming.
Wafting through The Revolvers other stuff, and an article on Vancouver’s ‘enlightened’ drug stance, which is a perfect example of the left’s automatic reaction of doubling down to bad numbers. Facts have no effect, and things have to get totally bananas before undecideds get a bit restless.
Legalised drugs; another kick in the guts to Western Civilisation.
“But the paper – like other efforts to detail the potential real-world costs of making drugs more accessible or more socially acceptable – generated huge pushback among the legalization community.
Because for drug advocates, the answer to the failures of “harm reduction” is always more of the same. About 12 months ago, British Columbia fully decriminalized the possession and use of heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl.
But with death rates continuing to rise, advocates argued last fall, addicts be allowed to receive drugs without a prescription – a proposal that essentially would end any restrictions on state-funded drug use. (The government rejected the proposal.)”
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Give them as much as they want, they won’t be a nuisance for very long.
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Otherwise known as “Make it all legal and bury the idiots”
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I wrote this seven years ago:
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What is the extent of taxpayer subsidies now to keep these four smelters operating?
Bell Bay (Tasmania) – Rio Tinto
Boyne Island (Queensland) – Rio Tinto
Portland (Victoria) – Alcoa
Tomago (NSW) – Rio Tinto, CSR, Hydro Aluminium
Bell Bay can claim to operate on Hydro power, but the other three rely on coal.
Who will pay to replace coal with 100% “renewables” for these smelters to stay in operation? Silly question – us mug taxpayers of course!
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Now South Australia is joining the electricity subsidy rort by convering a blast furnance at Whyalla to elctric arc!
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We now import white paper after the closure, last year, of the Maryville paper mill in the Latrobe Valley.
Australia’s last white paper manufacturer to close in Latrobe Valley
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Tech tip corner: have your details been hacked?
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
The odds are you have, but if you changed your password(s) when you should have you’re probably ok.
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Haha! Perfect phishing site! Enter your email address.. OMG You’ve been hacked, go to our secure website and enter you name and address and we will contact you with what to do about it… Only $49.99 on any bank card…
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Oh please. This is a reputable site developed by an Aussie that’s been around for 10 years. I wouldn’t post anything questionable and I’ve been in IT support for 30 years.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2021/05/have-i-been-pwnd-what-is-it-and-what-to-do-when-you-are-pwned/amp
Computer noobs and scaredy cats. Heh heh… 😆
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No, I’ve just checked out HIBP and it’s genuine. They’re not selling anything and they don’t ask for your name.
I entered several of my Gmail addresses, none of them had been ‘pwned’.
I then tried the emails of some of my former bosses in the public service, and all of them had been with 1 to 7 hacks recorded. Possibly a government domain attracts hackers.
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Instapundit
“THE AMAZON ISN’T SOME SPECIAL GREEN GARDEN OF GAIA. IT’S A POST-COLLAPSE FOREST THAT GREW OVER FORMERLY SETTLED LAND. Cluster of Ancient Lost Cities in The Amazon Is The Largest Ever Found. “This amazing discovery, the oldest and largest of its kind in the region, includes a vast system of farmland and roads, revealing that Ecuador’s Upano Valley was densely populated from about 500 BCE to between 300 and 600 CE. . . . Evidence of a vast, pre-Hispanic human influence in the Amazon continues to grow, with the current coverage of LIDAR data suggesting more than 90 percent of the human history in the Amazon is yet to be uncovered. . . . The organization of the cities reveals the sophistication and engineering capabilities of these ancient cultures, according to the researchers, who concluded that the ‘garden urbanism’ of the Upano Valley provides further proof that Amazonia is not the pristine forest once depicted.”
Links to
“Cluster of Ancient Lost Cities in The Amazon Is The Largest Ever Found”
https://www.sciencealert.com/cluster-of-ancient-lost-cities-in-the-amazon-is-the-largest-ever-found
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Yes. The natives used a form of raised bed farming and made special black soils called terra preta which comprised charcoal, pottery shards, organic matter and microorganisms which rendered the otherwise poor tropical soils highly rich in nutrients and suitable for farming.
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There are many interesting history subjects on Mayan and Inca civilisations and ancient history, some many people would reject with closed minds.
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I think rejecting the brutal human sacrifice of Inca and Aztec societies that practiced it was and is utterly valid.
Neither Inca nor Aztec lived in the Amazon Basin, however.
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But it didn’t stop them trying to appease the climate gods for all the good it did them. 20 years of alternating severe rain and drought sealed their fate.
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And what about those amazing Aboriginal cities in Australia and their extensive irrigated farmlands – just waiting to be discovered!
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The ones “discovered” by an Englishman who later discovered he had Aboriginal ancestry but cannot identify with any Mob, and no Mob accepts him.
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Apart from one handful, I can think of no Australian politician, or indeed any woke individual, who has an enquiring mind.
And increasingly, the written word is under attack by the Left, making it difficult for enquiring minds.
As President Eisenhower said:
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Pol Pot in his quest for YEAR ZERO knew how to deal with enquiring minds – Cambodia’s educate class were all sent to the “Killing Fields”
The Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than 1,000,000 people were killed and buried by the Communist Party of Kampuchea during Khmer Rouge rule of the country from 1975 to 1979.
Australia is curently being governed by a Communist Party.Anthony Albanese was leader of the ‘hard left’ faction of NSW Labor in the 1980s
He was interviewed by the Communist Party of Australia newspaper in 1991
Praised ‘comrades who struggled before us’ to put left-wing policies into action
https://cpa.org.au/guardian/issue-2012/open-letter-to-the-prime-minister-of-australia/
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These days the Left classify anyone to the right of Pol Pot as being a “right wing nut job”. Anyway being of the right and believing in truth and freedom is objectively the correct side. Concerning the Left, “on the left side” translates to Latin as _sinistro_ which is where the word sinister comes from and is an apt description of the Left.
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Maybe the ADF bureaucratic bungling of Taipan and Tiger helicopters is not going to be ignored, see Weekend Australia out today for more details.
And here is the link again explaining why those not too many operating hours completed assets should not be dismantled and dumped into holes in the ground on defence land.
https://asiapacificdefencereporter.com/helicopters-there-is-nothing-wrong-with-tiger-and-taipan-the-problem-is-defence-logistics/
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In 2011, 23 F111 fighters were buried.
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Yes but only after spares ran out, Keating Labor purchased a a few grounded USAF F-111s from the USA for spare parts to keep the RAAF aircraft flying but eventually the new stealth technology and other new technologies that could not be fitted to F-111 ended their service with the RAAF.
There are I believe Classic Hornets F/A-18 jets in storage from RAAF service, replaced by Super Hornets and the Growler electronic jamming version. And in excellent condition but far more flying hours than the helicopters, Taipan and Tiger.
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A few years back I did some geolocations for a military enthusiast mate, all the camps from WW2 North of Taupo. There were credible stories around that the Yanks dug trenches with bulldozers, drove in trucks full of guns & ammo and buried them in case they had to come back to NZ and fight the Japs again.
Seems that’s what military does best, although at Tarawera they drove all the vehicles they were not allowed to take back to the USA off the cliffs and into the deepest part of the lake. GM had an agreement with the Govt in USA saying any vehicle that left America for war was not allowed back in.
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Public Notice
Scott Morrison MP is not in Hawaii on holidays as leftists are claiming, he is a delegate to an Asian Pacific Security Forum.
Unlike the false accusations from Labor during 2019 bushfire season about his family holiday there, ignoring that the Deputy Prime Minister was acting Prime Minister and other Members of Cabinet were available as well. However, bushfire control is a State Government Premiers and Cabinet responsibility, State Budget funded emergency services not Federal, there are no Federal emergency services, apart from the recent provision for a National Air Wing of fire fighting aircraft owned by the State Governments and recently provided with a new Federal owned Boeing 737 tanker-fire bomber aircraft to match the NSW Boeing 737 tanker-fire bomber purchased before the 2018 fire season.
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A scholarly look at the speech patterns, persuasion and propaganda techniques used by one of the Left’s smartest intellectuals, Dr Greta Thunberg.
Very interesting!
https://youtu.be/zKQLTH74Yus
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Oh the irony:
Novak Djokovic will remain a hero to some, but to many others he has TRASHED his reputation beyond repair… the world No 1 thought he could work the system, but it turns out favourable treatment only goes so far
Mick Dickson Australian Open 16 January 2022. Two years on…
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So many people today are “dying suddenly”, especially the strong proponents of the experimental covid vaccines who must be up to their tenth or so dose by now.
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Covid and Coffee Newsletter is running a list of the “more famous, more spectacular, on location etc “mysterious, unprecedented, etc” such happenings.
The newsletter doesn’t have space to include “lesser lights”
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A couple of items in this Covid and Coffee issue
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/sinking-ships-saturday-january-20?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Including some “things Trump” and “things WEF” as well
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Just for a historical perspective – Boston 1920 fire engine frozen solid.
https://imgbox.com/TbBSBrv9
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An update on that in the first cartoon here
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/10/bloomberg-dont-be-fooled-snow-is-becoming-a-thing-of-the-past/
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Even when its freezing and blizzards raging, its still global warming.
‘Despite the warming trend, extreme weather events — including cold waves and snowstorms — have occurred with greater frequency and intensity.
‘Last January, Mohe in Heilongjiang province set a record for a lowest temperature of -53 C, breaking the previous record set in February 1969, the center said.
‘Zhou Bing, chief expert at the center, said at the news conference that people should prepare for compounded climate-related events in China.’ (China Daily)
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