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    CO2 Lover

    Believe it or Not!

    Nationwide shortage of carbon dioxide leaves supermarkets shelves bare
    Soft drink shortage at supermarkets and restaurants
    The issue is caused by limited supplies of CO2

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13139995/carbon-dioxide-shortage-soft-drinks-supermarkets.html

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      James Murphy

      Until recently, Australia’s only source of natural food grade CO2 was from 1 well called Caroline, in South Australia.
      That’s no more, and another field called Nangwarry, not too far from Caroline is, or will be its replacement.

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        Adellad

        Out of consideration for the weather in the rest of Australia, we ought to stop allowing any C02 to leave and donate it to the SA Film Corp. Then we can all sit back and enjoy some naughty Air-rated movies.

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      David Maddison

      New Zimbabwe is also experiencing a CO2 shortage.

      https://www.gasworld.com/story/australia-and-new-zealand-grapple-with-co2-shortages/2134900.article/

      Do climate alarmists avoid drinking carbonated beverages? Do they even know what gas is used in them?

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        Kalm Keith

        Here on the streets of Big W in Niu Zimbabthey, there’s no sign of reduced CO2 involvement and the number of earrings, noserings, dyed hair etc on frames exhibiting largess is equivalent to if not exceeding the Australian experience.

        Tattoos are everywhere and people rarely look up from their phones to absorb the real world, even when crossing the road.

        People want to belong!

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          Graeme#4

          As long as they keep serving up those great green-lipped mussels, seafood chowder, fush and chups, lamb rump slices, etc., etc., I’m not going to complain. We have been living it up as we meander through the northern shaky isles.

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        KP

        “You’ve got a lot of traditional sources supplying emerging markets, that are moving out of Western Europe and North America to lower-cost energy environments,”

        So sunshine and wind have made electricity so expensive they can’t make CO2 in the West anymore..

        “New Zealand had two food-grade CO2 plants but the last of these, the Todd Energy Kapuni plant, closed in December following an ammonia leak, and the Marsden Point oil refinery – where CO2 was produced and captured as a byproduct – closed in 2022, ”

        Ah- both CO2 factories closed by some Left-wing Govt determined to push us onto unreliable power.

        You reap what you sow..

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      Maptram

      A couple of interesting quotes from the article.

      “Supplies of beer, however, are understood to be unaffected by the shortage.”

      I thought the CO2 in beer was part of the process to turn sugars into alcohol, similar for sparkling wines.

      “Carbon dioxide is captured in large quantities often at major industrial sites such as power plants and natural gas-processing facilities.
      It is removed by burning fossil fuels, such as coal, and is captured from the gases emitted during this process before it is stored.
      CO2 can also extracted directly from the atmosphere through the air.”

      I wonder how much of the CO2 captured from these processes is sitting in containers of various sorts, soft drinks, soda stream gas bottles etc.

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        Maptram

        I remember, back in the old days, when CO2 was used to fight fires, so there was probably millions of tonnes of the gas sitting around in fire extinguishers. Back then the CO2 was probably manufactured by some chemical process. Now it could be captured.

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        Philc

        Maptram

        I thought the CO2 in beer was part of the process to turn sugars into alcohol, similar for sparkling wines.

        You are correct in home brewing.

        In commercial brewing you require CO2 bottles to charge the beer and delivery it through the lines.

        Cheers

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      James Reid

      Remember in rural Australia when ice cr3am was shipped in large green insulated canvas bags. We used to grab some of the “dry ice” and throw it in a puddle to see the reaction. Dry ice is of course solid CO2 and at room temperature it sublimates too a gas without a liquid phase… fascinating?

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    CO2 Lover

    Dunkley by-election

    Then on Monday, separate MyGov and YouGov polls both found the Liberals were leading Labor 51 per cent to 49 per cent on a two-party basis in Dunkley.

    Who will win?

    – Labor?
    – Coalition?
    – The by-election will be rigged?

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      Gerry

      I can’t understand why Government funded websites are doing election polling. And it could hardly be considered randomised polling.

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        David Maddison

        It’s a concern. It is not their job to do election polling. It can only be for propaganda purposes. A complaint should be made to the Australian Electoral Commission.

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      Dennis

      I suspect that internal political party polling revealed the trend downwards for Labor weeks ago, and one of the reasons why Albo started to try and muddy the waters with his strange claim that a 7 per cent swing against a government at a by election is normal.

      It isn’t, less than half that amount on average.

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        Hanrahan

        The swing against is down around 2% if the “sitting” member dies in office. Labor are prepping for bad nooos.

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      Peter C

      Dunkley By-Election: Who to Vote For?

      I am not in the electorate myself so I can’t vote.
      The candidates are here:

      There are 8 candidates who have been officially declared for the 2024 Dunkley by-election. A random draw for positions on the ballot paper was undertaken at a public event on Friday 9 February.

      CONROY, Nathan – Liberal
      CURRIE, Bronwyn – Animal Justice Party
      ABRAHAM, Chrysten – Libertarian
      YUNIS, Reem – Victorian Socialists
      BERGWERF, Darren – Independent
      BRESKIN, Alex – The Greens
      McKENZIE, Heath – Australian Democrats
      BELYEA, Jodie – Australian Labor Party

      AEC

      The Libertarian Party stands out! I don’t know anything about the independent. After that it is a matter of the least worse. I would rate the Liberal Party as marginally least worse compared with the others?
      Who gets last and does it matter?

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    CO2 Lover

    Believe BOM or Not?

    Word for today: “catastrophisation”

    The Bureau of Meterology has revealed it expects less rainfall and higher temperatures for large parts of Australia over the next few months.

    Earlier this week, BOM director Andrew Johnson fronted a federal parliamentary hearing and was grilled about his agency’s performance, including the accuracy of its forecasts following the devastating impact of ex-tropical cyclone Jasper and other recent severe storms.

    Mr Johnson argued his staff had done a “superb job”, adding communities were given several days’ notice before the major weather events hit.

    “I think the performance of our people — to give the community that level of advance warning — just wouldn’t have been possible in years gone by,” he said.

    Mr Johnson said BOM’s performance was exceptional and its forecasts were excellent.

    He also said BOM could not be accountable for the media reporting of weather events.

    “What I observed this summer is a catastrophisation, frankly, of a whole range of weather events,” he said.

    https://www.news.com.au/national/weather/less-rain-and-higher-temperatures-forecast-by-bureau-of-meteorology-over-the-next-few-months/news-story/6d37891ad931903bad7a0eb3bfa1c3a6

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      Graeme No.3

      Well given their usual performance lately I suggest the BOM be a bit more modest about the time they think they give the public about weather.

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        Dennis

        This morning my phone weather app warns “extreme heat alert” and further down a forecast for Friday of 29C and Saturday 30C and then falling lower thereafter.

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      David of Cooyal in Oz

      Perhaps they heard that bit of Dorothea’s poem: “… of drought and flooding rains”, and shoved a bit of dry stuff into their forecast.

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      el+gordo

      ‘BOM’s performance was exceptional and its forecasts were excellent.’

      They failed to forecast unusual wet conditions during El Nino.

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    tonyb

    “catastrophisation” That is not nearly scary enough

    How about “Climate Armageddon” Or “Climate Terror” or “Climate Melt Down”.

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    Paul Cottingham

    Possible Civil War between the American people and the CIA?

    Its dumb for Americans to take on the deep state Communist Insurgents Agency (CIA)

    Most Americans are beginning to realise that Kennedy and Trump need to abolish the Anti-democratic Federal agencies such as the CIA and the FBI, which are seen as full of lawless thugs and traitors.

    The CIA assassination of President Kennedy and an attempt on Julian Assange, and now the suspected assassination attempts on Tucker Carleson, Bobby Kennedy and Donald Trump seem to indicate the CIA are at war with democracy and wont allow the American people to vote for people who want to abolish the CIA.

    The first time that Americans voted for a Republican President, the Democrats started a Civil War to preserve Slavery from being abolished by the Republicans.

    The next time that Americans vote for a Republican President, the Democrats could start a Civil War to preserve the CIA from being abolished by the Republicans.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/like-the-fbi-the-cia-must-be-dismantled-5596187

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    tonyb

    Hottest EVAH! coming to an ocean near you. Well that’s the end of the coral then. On the bright side, any fish you catch will already be cooked.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13140713/maps-record-breaking-temperatures-El-Ni-o.html

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      Kalm Keith

      We mustn’t forget that.

      Businesses and lives smashed, for what?

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        Hanrahan

        I share your anger but not your optimism that anything will change. Even today the message is still “get your booster”.

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          Bruce

          “For what?”

          Provocation.

          Humiliation.

          Despair.

          Desperation.

          Per Lenin: “The worse, the better”

          Or, Rahm Emamnual, et al: “Never let a crisis go to waste”. (Especially one you have engineered yourself).

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          Kalm Keith

          Optimism??

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    Orson

    An early warning about current news. “Terrifying” Heat predicted by June in a new Chinese paper in “Scientific Reposts Nature”. A hot spot predicted for Western interior of Australia.

    Via London Daily Mail.

    Not Blaming man-made “global warming, but merely natural ENSO! The last year of record warming predicted to get worse!

    THIS CLIMATE-SCARE PORN “prediction” for the globe until summer uses the oldest trick in the book to get it: use the Cold Decades of the Global Cooling Scare as the base for model comparison. Let’s compare recent and forthcoming few months to make predictions based on decades of cooling temperatures.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13140713/maps-record-breaking-temperatures-El-Ni-o.html

    Terrifying maps reveal the three areas of the globe that will experience record-breaking temperatures this year thanks to El Niño
    * As ocean temperatures rise, El Niño is predicted to make this year the hottest yet
    * The Bay of Bengal, the Philippines, and the Caribbean Sea will all hit record heats

    By WILIAM HUNTER
    PUBLISHED: 11:00 EST, 29 February 2024 | UPDATED: 11:00 EST, 29 February 2024

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    This model revealed the difference between average regional temperatures between July 2023 and June 2024 and the 1951-1980 baseline.

    [Note: IN SHORT, IN ORDER TO GET “Terrifying” Predictions, LET’S USE THE DECADES OF THE GLOBAL COOLING SCARE TO GET IT!]

    _ _ _

    [This and other Links in Daily Mail story, above]

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-52846-2

    NATURE SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
    29Feb24
    Enhanced risk of record-breaking regional temperatures during the 2023–24 El Niño

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      Ronin

      June will be close to mid winter here.

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      RickWill

      The Bay of Bengal, the Philippines, and the Caribbean Sea will all hit record heats

      The entire Bay of Bengal regulates at 30C for almost 6 months. That is all there is. It cannot sustain more than 30C.

      So impossible to warm when it already sits at the upper limit over the entire surface.

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    David Maddison

    The hottest February EEEVVVEEERRR!

    https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-02-29/spring-came-early-february-likely-warmest-on-record-amid-climate-change

    Spring Came Early: February Likely Warmest on Record Amid Climate Change

    By Reuters
    Feb. 29, 2024

    (Reuters) – The world likely notched its warmest February on record, as spring-like conditions caused flowers to bloom early from Japan to Mexico, left ski slopes bald of snow in Europe and pushed temperatures to 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 C) in Texas.

    While data has not been finalised, three scientists told Reuters that February is on track to have the highest global average temperature ever recorded for that month, thanks to climate change and the warming in the Eastern Pacific Ocean known as El Nino.

    If confirmed, that would be the ninth consecutive monthly temperature record to be broken, according to data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA will publish final figures for February around March 14, according to its press office.

    In the Northern Hemisphere, the record temperatures mean that “springtime comes earlier,” according to Karin Gleason, an atmospheric scientist at NOAA said last week.

    “I was just in the eastern part of North Carolina yesterday and saw some trees in full bloom with blossoms all over the trees and I’m thinking – It’s February. This just seems really odd.”

    ….

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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      Ian George

      I remember trees beginning to bloom when I was in London in Jan, 1975. Then in April, London had light falls of snow.

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      TdeF

      Yes, with record snows in California. And record cold across many countries including devastation across Mongolia.

      But only premature spring warming is reported.

      It seems that any Climate Variation is climate change. Especially early warming, somewhere, anywhere. And there is always a pseudo science argument that extreme cold is a simple result of global warming, incredibly silly though that logic seems.

      It is why the tradition existed of the late Punxsutawney Phil, the ground hog. A light hearted poke at the traditional method of forecasting the end of winter, the instincts of an animal in something which is naturally highly variable.

      I would suggest the pushers of Climate warming stare into a washing machine or dryer for a minute and see if they can predict the future in a chaotic system? And why they expect zero variation year to year, country to country.

      If the BOM predictions are any indication, no matter the obfuscation, the ability of scientists to predict even the short term future in any detail is zero. Yes, summers are hotter and dryer than winter. And winters are colder and wetter than summer. But if last years’s BOM prediction is any indication, they really have no idea in detail.

      But I can safely predict that any global Cooling is going to be hidden and it is underway right now.

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        Graeme No.3

        Well Hubert Lamb suggested in the early 70’s that the climate would be quite cold in 100 years.
        No one members him now even after his graph was used in the first IPCC report.

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    Philc

    For those that are vaccinated or know of people that have been, this article could be concerning.

    https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/29/mild-myocarditis-post-vaccination-can-result-in-sudden-death-japanese-autopsy-finds/

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      John Connor II

      Safe and Effective: Japanese Ministry of Health Increased COVID Vaccine Health Damage Budget by a Staggering 110 Times vs Previous Estimates

      This budget was initially 360 million yen. However, with the supplementary budget, it turned out to be 39.77 billion yen.

      Indeed, it has become 110 times larger than the previous estimate, it can be considered that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare assumes over 100 times more health damage incidents have occurred.

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    Dennis

    Climate Council – non government organisation – and the source of many weather and climate related newspaper reports from CC media releases.

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      Steve of Cornubia

      That’s OK, apparently. You see, deaths from vaccine-induced heart attacks are “very rare”, so that’s good, no need to worry, come get your umpteenth booster.

      It’s also good that deaths from vaccine-induced blood clots are “very rare” too. Inflammation of the spinal cord following vaccination is very rare, as is Guillain-Barré syndrome. The vaccine can also cause brain inflammation, but this too is “very rare”. The CDC says anaphylaxis after COVID-19 vaccination is rare. Hearing loss is rare. Your chances of developing ‘Long Covid’ are increased following vaccination, but that’s rare too.

      So they’re all rare. Phew.

      Wait a minute. If we add up all the “rare” side effects …

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    Broadie

    Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.

    From my friends at NSW Health who have at least attempted the difficult job of reporting the facts.

    Figure 4. All-cause death rate per 100,000 population, all ages, 2017 to 7 January 2024

    Here is the same graph in October 2023

    Figure 4. All-cause death rate per 100,000 population, all ages, 2017 to 22 October 2023

    What happened to the excess deaths in 2021?

    The data references the Australian Bureau of Statistics and one of their explanations for choosing an expected baseline is.

    Baseline comparisons
    The purpose of a baseline is to provide a typical year (or combination of years) to compare the current year to. Deaths for 2023 will have two comparisons points – they will be compared to both deaths occurring in 2022 and a baseline period consisting of the average number of deaths occurring in the years of 2017-2019, 2021.

    Who walked in and decided to make these changes and why? Why drop 2020 from the baseline? Who is going to tell the hardworking souls in the Emergency rooms, Hospital wards, Ambulances and Mortuaries that 2021 was a ‘walk in the park’? Statistically speaking that is!
    Maybe that is what ‘Flattening the Curve ‘ is really about?

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      KP

      You must admit they are good models! Their modeled predictions graph became a modeled results graph with almost no difference!! Well, until you actually count the dots!

      They re-modeled their model in the later graph starting at 2019, not their predictions, but the actual results they had there in Oct 23. The one week with excess deaths above the ‘average’ was deleted in the later graph. In 2020 the two weeks with ‘below average’ deaths became 7weeks below average. In 2021 the 5 weeks above average becomes one week, and their prediction of 40weeks of excess deaths becomes 24!!

      So its the opposite of temperature science, they re-model their models to lower deaths as time goes by!

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        Broadie

        I contend the ‘Bureau’ as we understand is the trend in referring to our trusted institutions has the duty to present data in a standard format where variation can be observed. The source of these variations should there be an ‘outlier’ can be discussed and explained. Governments, Insurance actuaries, businesses, etc make decisions on these trends in data.
        My understanding from the Australian Actuaries as I have previously discussed on Jo’s blog is the previous representation of excess Mortality since 2021 can be explained as not being due to the modified RNA vaccines due to the Therapeutic Goods Administrations (TGA) advice that this technology is safe. This is an example how variations from an expected outcome are analysed and explained. In viewing the latest graphical representation where the method for calculating a comparative baseline was changed, the Actuaries did not need to approach the TGA as there were few excess deaths. Personally if I was an insurance underwriter looking at this blog I would be provisioning for a tidal wave of claims and good luck with that if you are holding US government bonds as assets.

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            Broadie

            ?

            Exactly, we really do not know. Imagine the poor Actuaries doing their maths (excess deaths in 2021) on a problem that was later (2024) shown to be of considerably less concern. What was their advice then and how would they have acted then if they had known what the ABS would be telling them now?

            Would we be shutting Coal fired power stations now if the early thermometer readings had not been adjusted downwards? We rely on these ‘Bureaus’ to report facts, not adjust them without providing a comparison series using the previous data.

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    Mayday

    Yesterday the base rate retailers can pay customers for their solar exports will be 3.3 cents a kilowatt hour – a 32 per cent reduction.

    There is now so much solar on rooftops across Australia, including in Victoria, that it’s pushing out all other forms of generation and leading to a daily glut of supply.
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/why-falling-feed-in-tariffs-wont-slow-solar/103528180

    So if Australia now has a gut of supply as we are now told, this must mean the end of future massive solar farms? A net zero failure, leaving only the wind farms and batteries as an option?
    Are existing commercial solar farms having their export rates slashed to 3.3 cents per Kw Hr?

    Once again the mum’s and dad’s that forked out hard earned cash for their rooftop solar have been conned. They may never see the day when its paid for itself. It’s another political decision by the Labor Party that’s sacrificed solar home owners incomes to increase foreign owned power company profits. At a time when the cost of living is seeing families struggling to put food on the table. Owners of rooftop solar who are voting in Dunkley please put Labor and the Greens last.

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      MP

      Tough titties, why should I have to pay for you to jam more sunlight into your local grid.
      I paid for half of your sunshine collection device, what about my hard earned coin that was forked out for your virtue signaling enterprise, why do you have the right to sell power to me at a time I don’t need it.
      You should have to pay to feed your local grid as the real generators have to lose money for your rainbows and lollipops, free for all midday madness.

      Did you really believe the government was doing it for your benefit, when they have never done anything for your benefit?

      People are struggling, because they have to pay you for something they don’t need and never asked for.

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      RickWill

      Are existing commercial solar farms having their export rates slashed to 3.3 cents per Kw Hr?

      The solar farms rely on the subsidy through the creation of LGCs. They often export at negative price just above the going price for LGCs. Lunchtime Friday and both Victoria and South Australia have negative wholesale price.

      Anyone with solar panels should be looking at a battery with the objective of getting off-grid. It will always be lower cost to make your own electricity using solar and battery than having the solar panels, wind turbines and batteries strung out hundreds to thousands of kilometres away and transmitiing the power to households over vast distances.

      The only reason Australia’s grid worked so well for decades was because of centralised power stations on or near coal fields. That sensible approach no longer applies. Wind and solar resources are ubiquitous so it makes sense to locate the collection point at the load rather than in some remote location.

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        Mayday

        So now 300,000 solar homes in Victoria are being slowly pushed into purchasing a battery. Spending an extra $10K-13.4K / 10Kw battery, as MP above says, they have to pay you for something they don’t need and never asked for.
        Spending $13,400 on a 10Kw battery that only stores $3 worth of electricity isn’t really great value for money. The whole Net Zero thing is financial entrapment. The only free cheese is on the trap.

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    Reader

    (Alaska) This Green Group Wants To Penalize You for Using Natural Gas—and Obtain Your Private Data To Do So
    https://freebeacon.com/energy/this-green-group-wants-to-penalize-you-for-using-natural-gas-and-obtain-your-private-data-to-do-so/

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    MP

    The return of One Nations cartoon.
    Distractions

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJTfrK2W1M

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    Uber

    Dear Apple and other electric car investors. P = IV

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    OldOzzie

    Interesting Reading Article – Sydney, Brisbane and Perth summer temperatures among their hottest on record as warm, wet season finishes with a scorcher

    Eastern Australia’s summer was marked by high levels of heat and humidity as Sydney and Brisbane sweated through record challenging temperatures in recent months, writes Rob Sharpe.

    Even Melbourne snuck over the line due to the rounds of heat it experienced this month.

    In a few days’ time we will get the statistics for the entire country, likely the third hottest summer on record.

    Looking at – Station:Melbourne (Olympic Park)Number: 86338 Opened: 2013

    Days over 30C for Melbourne Jan 24 = 6 Days Feb 24 = 9 Days
    Days over 35C for Melbourne Jan 24 = 0 Days Feb 24 = 5 Days
    Days over 40C For Melbourne Jan 24 = 0 Days Feb 24 = 0 Days

    Even more interesting – Summary statistics for all years

    Jan Highest Daily = 43.4C Feb = 40.7C

    Then look at Station: Melbourne Regional Office Number: 86071 Opened: 1908 Now: Closed 06 Jan 2015

    Note actually opened on 1st May 1855 and has data from then

    Days over 30C for Melbourne Jan 68 = 11 Days Feb 68 = 13 Days
    Days over 35C for Melbourne Jan 68 = 7 Days Feb 68 = 9 Days
    Days over 40C for Melbourne Jan 68 = 2 Days Feb 68 = 2 Days

    Summary statistics for all years

    Jan Highest Daily = 45.6C Feb = 46.4C

    And if you really want it Hot look at Jan 1908

    15 Jan 08 = 39.9C
    16 Jan 08 = 42.8C
    17 Jan 08 = 44.2C
    18 Jan 08 = 40.0C
    19 Jan 08 = 41.1C
    20 Jan 08 = 42.7C

    How in the heck can BOM & Australian Journalist make stupid statements like hottest on record when simple check of the past shows these statements to be false?

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      el+gordo

      ‘ … 1st May 1855 and has data from then.’

      Ah yes, when it suits the meme they allow the past to speak.

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      el+gordo

      BoM and the ABC only go back to 1910.

      ‘Despite the increased rain, according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s preliminary summer recap, Australia looks set to record its third warmest summer on record, behind 2018-19 and 2019-20, comparing all years back to 1910’ (ABC)

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        John B

        Warwick Hughes has a photo of a Stevenson Screen in Melbourne, in 1879.
        The BoM has always argued that many stations were not fit for purpose (in recording temperatures) because of the common use of the Glaisher Stand, prior to 1910 . Yet, Hughes maintains that the Stevenson Screen was in common use prior to that date. He further argues that the supposed +0.2 deg C difference in readings of the Glaisher Stand could be adjusted to fit the readings of the Stevenson Screen.
        Hell, I think that the BoM are fully aware that the very warm period of the Federation Drought is contradictory to the ‘CO2 causes global warming’ paradigm and would be an embarrassment to the bureaucrats & political class pushing this lie.

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    OldOzzie

    ‘You shouldn’t have problems’: Swiss retiree’s brutal assessment of Australia

    A Swiss retiree on holiday Down Under has given a scathing assessment of Australia, stating exactly what the nation needs to thrive.

    Rudolf, a retiree, was recently pulled up by viral vox-popper Mr Sikkant, where he was quizzed on the differences between Australia and Switzerland.

    The elderly tourist said Switzerland’s prosperity was mainly due to its low taxes and good governance.

    In Switzerland, the average single worker pays 18.5 per cent in taxes on the average salary of a whopping AU$139,135. An equivalent salary in Australia would be taxed at 37 per cent.

    In comparison, the average full-time salary in Australia is $74,035.

    And of that you would still be expected to pay 21.6 per cent in tax.

    Why the difference?

    Rudolf, the former chemical industries worker, said: “We have the same (resources), but we don’t pay so much taxes.”

    When quizzed on how the small nation of less than 9 million can afford to keep itself progressing, the retiree said: “We don’t have this burgeoning bureaucracy”.

    “Every ten years, the government reviews how many jobs we have and really need – if they don’t (need them), we close the department – we don’t trust the government.”

    “We trust them to do certain things, but we watch them.

    Rudolf’s final message was a poignant one.

    “Australia is a rich country; you have coal, gas, oil and wheat,” he said.

    “You shouldn’t have (problems).”

    “You just have to get better management.”

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    Dennis

    Lee Kuan Yew the late Prime Minister of Singapore who was responsible for building the small island nation into an economic powerhouse made similar comments about Australia, he even said our friends in Australia were in danger of becoming “the white trash of Asia Pacific”, so many natural resources and debt far too high.

    Of course we are over governed and in recent times public service employee numbers have been increasing markedly, and noting that many now work from home and enjoy regular wage/salary increases ahead of private sector taxpayers who pay the revenue that pays for public service.

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      Steve of Cornubia

      I recall reading somewhere that all taxes are paid by just 50% of citizens. I assume this takes into account age and unemployment, also those who don’t earn enough to pay tax. This is shocking but made even worse when you consider that the 50% who are working and paying tax includes that ever-growing number of public servants, who don’t really pay tax, they just give some of the money handed to them by government, back to government. The REAL taxpayers are those generating ‘new’ money paid to them by private sources. Any guesses what % of the population this represents? Obviously, it’s less than 50% – and falling. This cannot be sustainable.

      On that basis, if Australia wasn’t flogging its dirt for high prices, we’d be broke.

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        KP

        Income tax is not a big deal any more, they make the money they spend from sales tax, industry taxes and borrowing. Personal income tax is about half the taxation taken, and taxes make up about 25% of GDP.

        Borrowing currently is 34% of GDP, planned to reach 37% in 2027.

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    another ian

    I need help for an information “feed forward” –

    Recently someone posted a one paragraph description of how “the jab” has changed in dfinition from a “vaccine” to “applied genetic manipulation”.

    I’ve done a speed read on days back to Sunday but haven’t seen it.

    Guidance appreciated

    TIA

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    Honk R Smith

    Our current situation.
    Establishment institutions across Western societies have been exposed by ‘Pandemic’.
    Sinister by design or incompetence.
    Hardly matters.

    Two paths.
    1) Rebuild trust.
    Harr … they appear to making ZERO attempt to do so.

    2) Legal institution of authoritarian control by silencing dissent*.
    Being developed and introduced by governments in every country and the EU (whatever that thing is) as we speak.

    *(Because the jig is up and the peasants are gathering with pre-industrial night vision devices and manual pronged hay redistribution implements.)

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