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‘String theory’ is the extraordinary work of Dr Joe Lee. Extraordinary, and actually makes an enormous amount of sense in my opinion. I think this is it, the one, and could well be a ‘keeper’. Rock solid. Makes refreshing common sense in my opinion.
“REVOLUTIONARY THEORY”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLZpFhd1ck8
From the video in the description box:
(And in the description box under the video.that is more extensive.)
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China loving Chrissy Bowen in action
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/08/electric-or-bust-aussie-climate-ministers-plan-to-ruin-automakers/
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There are some elections coming on.
Who remembers a Prime Minister heading off to a party in the US and having to change the name on the cake?
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Listening to a UK radio station last night and heard the news at the top of the hour. I guess the usual suspects in North Qld are at it again. The GBR is going through another mass bleaching event and it is due to climate change. The newsreader left out the last sentence, “Send more money!”
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Will it work as after GBR coming (real soon) death announcements in 1971, 72, 74, 78, 79, 80, 81, 84, 88, 89, 93, 94, 95, 2003, 2016, and 2017 the 2019 The Great Barrier Reef was ‘officially announced dead’ in September.
Obviously more money would be unnecessary. Apart from Turnbull’s $400 Million odd cache.
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From cutting edge with Dr Joe Lee in the interview above, to an author circa one hundred years ago. I found this book a few weeks ago somehow and now is reviewed on Housatonic channel with Mark Kulacz
“A century of vaccination and what it teaches” William Scott Tebb (Ep 253.1) Who sent me this?”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VM5QC9ERfkeg/
The book can be found on Google books.
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Mp5HDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Hmm…The link above on google books is not correct. It can be downloaded and does not have any copyright or restrictions. Apologies.
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/cazhyvfb
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The GBR makes the news — again. Paul Homewood has posted.
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https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/03/08/the-great-barrier-reef-is-dying-scam/
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It is not only Tesla EVs that catch fire.
There have been two Tesla Megapack fires in Australia – but many more overseas
https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/21/tesla_battery_megapack_fire/
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Unreliable wind and solar power are to be backed-up with unreliable batteries!
https://www.energy-storage.news/worlds-biggest-battery-storage-system-comes-back-online-after-months-of-shutdown/#:
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Yes except that is not enough to back anything substantial. It takes 16 hours or so to get solar thru the night so this monster only backs up 100 MW. Assuming no clouds, rain or snow.
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California has an annual electricty demand of 259,500,000 MWh (7% of US demand)
The “world’s biggest battery” with 1,600 MWh energy storage would provide 3.2 minutes of back-up for California’s demand if required for back-up (and not grid stabilisation).
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California’s daily peak-hour demand exceeds 50,000 MW. The “world’s biggest battery” is designed to supply up to 400MW.
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Some prize must go to Breitbart which described Joe Biden’s State of the Union display of youthful vigor as ‘Old Yeller’.
He managed to read his speech in which he directly threatened the US Supreme Court judges to their faces to standing applause by U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken adjacent to them. Then he made fifteen disparaging references to the ‘previous incumbent’. The state of the Union was more state of chaos as he denied there was any problem anywhere, say at the open borders. And even the New York Times ‘fact checked’ (which means disagreed with) many of his statements.
After spending nearly 50% of his presidency at home on the beach, for perhaps the last time he summoned up the energy to criticize everyone else. Who is actually controlling the White House is unknown. Donald Trump in his running commentary noted that the drugs seemed to be wearing off. It was another Weekend at Biden’s performance.
Still the Democrats chanted ‘four more years’. Of Old Yeller. Or more likely, President cackling Kamala Harris.
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In truth, Biden gave the most livid state-of-the-union address in modern memory, a surreal teleprompted rant from a “get off my grass” old man. At points, he started howling at the seated opposition and even called out Supreme Court Justices. Determined not to reveal cognitive decline, Biden instead came late to the podium shouting nonstop, grimacing in reptilian style for over an hour.
If the planned Adderall-fueled screaming was to prove he was still alive, most would have preferred his drowsy incoherence.
But mostly the speech was one of abject lies as he either blamed all his disasters on others or claimed they were his greatest achievements.
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Gibberish at the State of the Union
March 8, 2024 – Sundance
There really isn’t much you can say about what was witnessed last night in the People’s House. Joe Biden shouting at America for an hour while muttering something about snickers bars, snack food and the need to send billions of dollars to Ukraine was essentially the gist.
Following one of the most incoherent teleprompter reads in the history of presidential politics, one can only imagine how Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were briefed on what took place in Washington DC at 9:00pm. Suffice to say, no sleep was lost amid the global community of leaders who smile as the USA influence collapses.
What was even more goofy, was the pretending amid the corporate media that Joe Biden said stuff that was discernable and/or potentially fitting the office of the executive. The various news agencies each described the color of the emperor’s new coat as if it actually existed. The pretending was/is simply off the charts bizarre, and normal Americans tuned out and went on about doing things normal Americans do.
That said, Tucker Carlson watched the naked emperor and livestreamed his thoughts on the insanity of the event, he then gives a reaction. WATCH: 16 Mins 18 Secs
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Psychiatrist sees signs Biden was medicated for State of the Union performance
A psychiatrist who has worked with elderly dementia patients said President Biden exhibited signs of stimulant use to mask cognitive decline in his amped-up, aggressive State of the Union speech on Thursday.
Mr. Biden, 81, often raced through his remarks with the speed of an auctioneer, loudly shouting his words despite having a microphone in front of him.
Speed and volume of speech can be a sign of using Adderall or another amphetamine, said Dr. Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist based in Beverly Hills, California.
“If you look at how Joe Biden usually is — slow and stumbling — compared to how he was during the State of the Union — fiery and angry — these are signs that are typical for someone taking Adderall or any amphetamine,” she said.
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Biden’s SOTU address was, quite simply, horrible
By Andrea Widburg
Joe Biden’s State of the Union (“SOTU”) was unlike anything I’ve seen before, and I started watching these speeches in the mid-1980s.
No president has ever been so maniacally wired, periodically incoherent, or viciously angry. That was style. The substance was worse.
Biden opened by calling Trump a Nazi, shifted to Ukraine, promised to stamp out “insurrections,” and attacked Republicans—and then ended by calling for non-partisanship and comity. Throughout it all, he lied and then lied some more.
This was a Dark Brandon campaign speech, not an SOTU.
If you didn’t watch Biden’s SOTU, count yourself lucky.
It was a deeply disturbing experience.
The best comment about Biden’s demeanor came from Greg Gutfeld, who skipped over the usual take that Biden was completely hopped up on a variety of prescription amphetamines:
Think we found out who that coke belonged to
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I imagine warching Joe Biden is as much as fun as wandering around a dementia ward . My son did some of his training in a dementia ward and can see the sometime funny side because he was a physician and not one of the nurses actually trying to control the deranged people.
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Crazy Climate News, once again and actual:
Projections of an ice-free Arctic Ocean
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Where have I heard that one before? 🙂
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Apart from 1939, 1957. 1950, 1958, 1981 (when Buckingham Palace was in danger of being under 7 foot of Arctic ice melt), 1988, 1989, 1995, 2007, 2008 (Wadham quoted by Al Gore), 2009, 2010, 2012 (Wadham again) and 2013 but (after Explorer Philip Goodeve-Docker freezes to death on second day of trek across Greenland. 2 others injured) things seem to have become quiet until now.
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Should have made the comment about Arctic sea ice being measured in Wadhams here…
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Interesting. It turns out that the measurement unit of Wadham has an actual value, as 1 Wadham = 1 million sq km of sea ice.
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Doesn’t Wadham include a depth or thickness factor?
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It would be great if the Arctic ice melted, even just in summer. All trade is by ship. And it would mean a greatly reduced cost and time for shipping, say between Japan or China or South Korea and America or England or Europe. For some reasons this is implied as a bad thing?
But the reason it is important for the theory of man made Global Warming is that it is the canary in the cage. The (yearly) average temperature at the North Pole is exactly 0.0C. And if the average was 1.0C, all the ice would be gone, at least in summer. So it acts as the world’s thermometer.
And annoyingly, refuses to melt completely. Expand and contract in cycles, the ice has never vanished. And that means the temperature has not changed.
Of course that is also silly as ice is not measuring air temperature as much as ocean temperature and while some of the Arctic sea is shallow, the depth at the North Pole is 4,000 metres. Which is the same as most of the world’s oceans. And the heat capacity of the air is only 1/1600th of the heat capacity of the ocean. Plus the air can cool by convection to higher altitudes, radiation. The water has little radiation and no conduction and only internal convection. Like a dog, it has only evaporation which is great for us as we get our weather from the oceans, not the air.
But the promoters of man made CO2 driven Global Warming (or cooling now) care only about air temperature because that is where people live. So they ignore the ocean. And for them, the Arctic ice is a sign that they are completely wrong.
And in passing, the highest temperature ever recorded at the North Pole is +21C. The highest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole is -12.3C. Still the story is that Antarctica is melting rapidly too, which is silly.
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If one trolls through the DMI’s data for Arctic temps, summer mean temps rarely go above average.
https://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
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You do know how averages work?
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Maybe mean temp? Whereas the winter temps show spikes of warmer temps, the summer data doesn’t.
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There are 10 days, on 9 days the temp is 20 degrees, on one day it is 40 degrees. The average temperature is 22 degrees, so 90% of the days are “below average.” Do you know how averages work?
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I’m just your average person.
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Wow a whole 4cm!
https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/170/1/145/2019346
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How much rain and ice melting is needed to raise the oceans to mountain height?
/asking for Noah 😁
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I doubt it. Just looking at the calculation as a quick estimate.
The ice at the North pole is about 4 metres thick. 2.6% of that is 104mm, 10cm. If the entire planet was covered in floating ice metres thick, that would be the maximum sea level rise. I assume this is because of the slight difference in saline between fresh water ice in a salt water ocean.
But the arctic circle is small compared with the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
So if we take the entire arctic circle, that’s 22 degrees of 180, about 1/10th. As an area square it to 1/100th and we would have a that 104mm spread over 100x the area of ocean which is unfrozen and reduced to 1mm.
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Arctic sea ice predictions have been made so often that the level of sea ice can be measured in Wadhams…
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Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-interstellar-linked-aliens-truck.html
Sound waves thought to be from a 2014 meteor fireball north of Papua New Guinea were almost certainly vibrations from a truck rumbling along a nearby road, new Johns Hopkins University-led research shows. The findings raise doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien materials from that meteor, as was widely reported…
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At least they didn’t find the respective truck at the ocean ground 😀
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” … we strongly suspect that it wasn’t aliens,” Fernando added.
Hmmm …
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Oh dear another Boeing 737 mishap!
United Boeing 737 Max suffers ‘major landing gear collapse’ and skids off runway at Houston: 160 terrified passengers are rushed to safety as FAA launches new probe after third Boeing incident this WEEK.
I hope Jetstar sticks with AirBus for its domestic flights
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United Airlines plane makes a safe emergency landing in LA after losing a tire during takeoff
Both Pilots Fell Asleep In Cockpit Of Flight To Jakarta, Veered Off Course And Lied To Air Traffic Control
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United/Boeing have also just had an off runway excursion in Houston. The clock is ticking on US aviation safety. One (or more) of these will inevitably turn into something horrible.
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23 seasons of Air Crash Investigation later, you mean.
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Nope just sad to see what had been a pretty safe commercial aviation sector in the US , going into decline across the board. There have been multiple near miss ATC events in recent times and of course the ongoing Boeing debacle. The frequency of all these events is quickening.
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When Science Journals become Activists
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/07/patrick-brown-when-science-journals-become-activists/
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The basic idea is that CO2 from forest fires, volcanoes, cars, factories, people are emissions which permanently disturb the ‘balance’ and these increase total CO2 in the air. There is no other explanation. This is even accepted by some physicists.
I am appalled. A physical chemist would tell you that dissolved gases like CO2 are in constant equilibrium between the liquid and the air. In a laboratory this is called Henry’s Law. And given that 98% of CO2 is already in the ocean, our tiny output makes no difference. Secondly increased temperature at the air/sea interface means more CO2 molecules escape than are captured, so a small increase in sea surface temperature means CO2 goes up. Certainly ‘boiling oceans’ would do that.
And yet no one cares or mentions this? And physicists seem ignorant of it. The other fact is that the absorption and evaporation of both gases, CO2 and H2O increase as the fourth power of wind speed.
Another is that most H2O in the atmosphere is a gas, not a liquid. And so many look at clouds as very serious contributors to reflecting light and infra red, even blocking light completely. But clouds are visible liquid water in droplets. Fly through them and you get wet, as in a fog. Water vapour however over the oceans which cover 72% of the planet and over much of the land is at 1% -4% of the atmosphere. Drop below the Dew point and this turns into water and then rain. This phenomenon may explain why Australia had so much rain this summer because the BOM could not see the water vapour.
All this is ignored. Human related (now even forest fire) CO2 emissions just pile up in the atmosphere, apparently. Which is why we have ‘nett zero’ logic. And this bears no actual relationship to the real equilibrium between sea and sky.
Graph CO2, not emissions, and you will see that no human activity in the last 50 years had ANY impact on CO2. And human ’emissions’ have increased 3500% in the last 100 years. CO2 has gone up maybe 35%.
And we need an explanation the phenomenon that world CO2, despite forest fires, is a constant from North Pole to South Pole, within 1%. And forest fires do not change that. Nor the increase in human population in 1900 of 1 Billion to 8.2Billion today.
That’s because highly soluble CO2, 30x more soluble than even O2, goes straight into the ocean. We have seen this though the NASA/CSIRO explaination is about fertilizer/Iron, the real observed process is rapid CO2 absorption after forest fires, say to the East of Australia.
What is really puzzling is that the evidence is everywhere of constant levels of CO2 no matter what we do. And yet people write articles like this, pushing that fact that humans control CO2 levels. That’s not science. It’s propaganda.
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There is a warm start to March in SE Australia so the Conversation has the scientific evidence to post a story “Climate change is warping the seasons”. Just a coincidence?
I’m sick of the over reaction to the heatwave that has started in Adelaide. It was 37 yesterday (going by highest half hour readings of 36.9 at 4.30 and 5.00pm). It’s predicted to be 40 today, 39 tomorrow, 38 then down to 34.
It will be hot. It will be good bush fire weather.
But…
In my second year of Uni, I stayed in an old residential college that stored the days heat overnight. We had to drag our mattresses on to the lawn to get some sleep. So I checked the temps for 1989 (at Kent Town rather than West Terrace). The last two days of February were 37.3 and 39.2. Then there were were 8 days of heatwave conditions to start March. First, a 39.4 then every day bar two over 38. A 34.4 and a 37.8. There were two more days of 39.0 and a day of 40.3. A much worse heat wave for the start of Autumn than now, but little fanfare. No heat related deaths that I can find reported, and no major bushfire.
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Exactly. In Camden (Park) we all slept on the lawn outside. It was 100F for a week and hotter at night! No wind at all. The beach at Glenelg was like a lake and the oil slick from suntan oil was obvious. The brick houses were too hot to enter. I remember it was fun in the morning, waking up and standing up and stretching and noting the entire street was outside on their lawns doing the same thing. I remember catching a taxi and being from Melbourne I was shocked then that the taxi driver wore only a pair of speedos. It was too hot to wear more. Motor bike rider in Hay Street Perth too. Six weeks of 100F. Speedos and that’s it. No helmet. Maybe thongs.
And in Melbourne we had similar heat waves but not as long and the bitumen would melt in Collins street and as school children, shift under our feet. The first two weeks of February were hell. No airconditioning anywhere. No one could actually study, so school was survival. I do not trust the BOM records with their desperate stories of ‘hottest ever’.
For the last few years in Melbourne, we had a few half days of heat, peaking at 37C for an hour before a huge cool change. Not two hot days in a row with a hot night.
Even at Easter I remember 100F was common. So this story about the hottest March in 40 years is just nonsense. And I note the high predicted heat always drops a few degrees as you get closer, but the hottest ever stories are based on predictions, not reality.
This weekend in Melbourne, the BOM record breaker, we are told 38,38,38, the hottest recorded in 40 years. And claiming a record. But I’ll bet the reality is 34, 36, 32. But that’s hindsight. The BOM does not do hindsight.
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I wonder if anyone in the last few years has produced a table or graph of BOM short term predictions v actual readings, as declared by the same BOM hours later.
No argument about actual accuracy of measurement or data manipulation or any other “highbrow science”. Simply compare statements from a single source in order to see which direction BOM is more prone to err – higher temperature or lower?
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A week later another post in the Conversation seemed to play down the temperature aspect.
‘Plants are among the first to know when the days start to contract in autumn, as they use a pigment called phytochrome to detect changes in red light.;
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In March 2008 the Kent Town station in Adelaide recorded 13 consecutive days above the old Fahrenheit “ton” (37.8C). This was predicted beforehand: “two weeks of very hot weather”. At the time they said it was a one-in-3000-year occurrence. I marvelled that the BOM could get it right. This was before I became interested in the climate (non) debate!
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=122&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=2008&p_c=-106631587&p_stn_num=23090
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The thing with these one in so many years is how its defined and the guess of what happened in the thousands of years with no records.
I suspect the four days over 40 in 1940 in March is unrivalled, but the three days over 40 in 1942 (preceded by a 39.4) came close.
2008 were measurements at Kent Town. The AP site had days much cooler, for example, the 12th was almost 4 degrees cooler. West Terrace is closer to the AP and the coast, but also was a quiet suburban street before 1970
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West Terrace was a 10-lane highway when I was at school in the 1960’s. It has always been Adelaide’s biggest road.
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That should have been 1960. Stray thumb. It was widened to 2 chains (40 m) starting in in 1962. It was only 56 ft (17 m) wide at Henley High when plans were made to widen it in 1953, and had tram lines down the middle, so a single lane apart from tram lanes and parking.
Obviously, turned into a busy street in the post war years, so not so quiet after that.
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Hottest place in SA today was Port Lincoln Airport with 42.7C. That wouldn’t happen very often.
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Hit 43.6 , 6th March 1986
41.1 on 13th March 1920
40.6 6th March 1936
40.0 on the 25th! Of March 1916.
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From today’s Covid and Coffee Newsletter
“This week, Chip Roy filed maybe the most important bill in American history, which would delete the PREP Act’s liability protection for covid vaccine makers and allow injured citizens to sue the pharma companies directly.
As you well know, Roy’s bill has a snowball’s chance. It’s going nowhere, and rapidly. But bless Chip for filing it. His bill is not without consequence, it is critical to continue the conversation. Let’s keep filing bills like Chip’s, over and over, until the exact right political moment appears and then we will pass it.”
And some comments on “Old Yeller”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/yelling-friday-march-8-2024-c-and?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Around that area –
“The Greatest Scam in All of Human History”
https://pjmedia.com/david-solway-2/2024/03/08/the-greatest-scam-in-all-of-human-history-n4927145
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An example of something getting overseas attention –
“Aussie Climate Minister’s Plan to Boost China and Hurt US Automakers
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/08/electric-or-bust-aussie-climate-ministers-plan-to-ruin-automakers/ ”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/03/08/march-8-2024-reader-tips/#comment-1872781
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“The “Great Barrier Reef Is Dying” Scam”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/08/the-great-barrier-reef-is-dying-scam/
Another day, another go
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Willis E has a look –
“Arctic Sea Icecapades”
“The latest entry in the prediction sweepstakes is described in the climate alarmists’ favorite newspaper, the Guardian, with the obligatory tear-jerking polar bear photo:
Ice-free summers in Arctic possible within next decade, scientists say”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/08/arctic-sea-icecapades/
“CONCLUSIONS
• There is no simple linear relationship between either global or Arctic temperature and Arctic sea ice extent.
• Models are just a reification of the understandings and misunderstandings of the programmers.
• They are supposed to be “physics based”, but if they truly were, there wouldn’t be such huge disagreements between models.
• The use of the most extreme scenarios is clear evidence of the alarmist views of the authors of this study.
And a final thought. The world of climate science would be well served to declare a moratorium on these endless failed serial doomcasts, and study the climate of the past instead. The models are a joke in that regard. Consider that the models give climate sensitivities that range from about 1.5° C to 6.5° C per doubling of CO2. Despite that, they all do a reasonable job of emulating the historical temperature record … and if they are “physics-based” as the modelers claim, that’s physically not possible. I discuss this in my post Dr. Kiehl’s Paradox That is clear evidence that they are merely tuned to match the past, and thus they have no credibility in predicting the future.”
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Watch the pea –
“The Guardian hype refers to an un-paywalled study entitled Projections of an ice-free Arctic Ocean in Nature Magazine.
Now, you’ve got to be careful to watch the pea under the walnut shell. Well down in the scientific study they say:
The definition of an ‘ice-free Arctic’ has varied over time. Early on, it referred to the nearly complete disappearance of all sea ice, or zero SIE [sea ice extent]. However, as thick sea ice remains north of Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago more than a decade after the rest of the Arctic Ocean becomes ice free in September a SIE threshold of 1 million km2 [386,000 square miles] became commonplace.”
So give or take 1 Wadham
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“DEVELOPING: United Airlines Plane Makes Emergency Landing After Tire Falls Off During Takeoff, Damages Parked Cars (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/united-airlines-plane-makes-emergency-landing-after-tire/
Another one –
“JUST IN: United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 Suffers Gear Failure, Crashes Off Runway”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/just-united-airlines-boeing-737-max-8-suffers/
Check the wheel nuts?
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And
“The Wheels Are Coming Off DEI — Literally”
https://pjmedia.com/athena-thorne/2024/03/08/the-wheels-are-coming-off-dei-literally-n4927133
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“THEY LIED TO YOU: New Study Finds People Who Took Ivermectin for COVID Recovered Faster – As TGP Reported Over Two Years Ago!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/they-lied-you-new-study-finds-people-who/
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More on EV fires
How to deal with an EV on fire?
Dig a hole, fill it with water and then drop in the EV.
Cover with soil when fire is out. R.I.P.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oAVCEnO2VA&ab_channel=ChargeDrive
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The EV version of
S, S, S?
(Shoot, shovel and shut up)
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The EV that would not stop – for a second time.
No hand brake!
Interview with driver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SVxmqS5_60&ab_channel=GeoffBuysCars
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geoffbuyscars.whatever does a phone call with the driver. He seems to have had his wits about him and be a better than “competent driver”.
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Fluoride does NOT protect teeth from cavities, large-scale government study proves
A recently published and very large government study has revealed that there is zero benefit to drinking fluoridated water as far as dental health is concerned.
The paper out of England states that fluoridation results in a mere two percent fewer cavities than non-fluoridation, two percent being a statistically insignificant figure that might as well be zero percent. Also, fluoridation does not prevent teeth from falling out.
The longstanding claim that artificially fluoridating water results in net economic benefits by lowering public dental costs is also a myth, the study states. To the contrary, fluoridating water results in a net economic loss when considering the capital costs of doing it.
Using the dental insurance records of 6.4 million adults living in England, the study found that those living in fluoridated areas show no reduction in tooth decay compared to those living in non-fluoridated areas.
“It’s the largest ever study of the effects of fluoridation on the dental health of adults,” wrote filmmaker and architect Robin Monotti on X.
“The LOTUS study, funded by the UK Department of Health, was intended to inform policy-makers of what to expect for future dental and economic outcomes from the current plan to expand fluoridation to all of England. Currently, only 10% of England is fluoridated. The study found ‘exceedingly small’ reductions in caries most people would not consider meaningful.”
On the other hand, the risks of consuming fluoridated water far outweigh any best-case scenario savings of $1 per person, per year, not the least of which include dental fluorosis, or the discoloration and breakdown of teeth and tooth enamel.
In areas of the United States where public drinking water is fluoridated, upwards of 70 percent of children now suffer from dental fluorosis, the cost of which to fix through cosmetic dentistry can be enormous. Not only that, fluoridated water damages brain tissue and leads to a reduction in IQ in children.
https://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2024/03/fluoride-does-not-protect-teeth-from.html
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Suggests recycling fluoride waste from fertiliser production into the public water supply has been a “no-brainer”.
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Microsoft says Russian hackers breached its systems, accessed source code
Microsoft says the Russian ‘Midnight Blizzard’ hacking group recently accessed some of its internal systems and source code repositories using authentication secrets stolen during a January cyberattack.
In January, Microsoft disclosed that Midnight Blizzard (aka NOBELIUM) had breached corporate email servers after conducting a password spray attack that allowed access to a legacy non-production test tenant account.
A later blog post revealed that this test account did not have multi-factor authentication enabled, allowing the threat actors to gain access to breach Microsoft’s systems.
Today, Microsoft says that Midnight Blizzard is using secrets found in the stolen data to gain access to some of the company’s systems and source code repositories in recent weeks.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-russian-hackers-breached-its-systems-accessed-source-code/
Quick! Patch the Windows source code, taking out the garbage, bloat and spyware, and put the revised code back before anyone spots it.😆😆
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That would be a public service!
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Saturday sarcasm
At this point in their presidency, who had more brains left – Biden or JFK?
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If you are a fan of Duel, 1971 American action-thriller television film directed by Steven Spielberg, you may find this of interest.
The screenplay by Richard Matheson adapts his own short story of the same name, published in the April 1971 issue of Playboy, and based on an encounter on November 22, 1963, when a trucker dangerously cut him off on a California freeway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jWq9t20PUQ&ab_channel=RetroRecipes
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Grid down, power up. Full 2024 documentary
The next 9/11?
https://youtu.be/1kErOyJ0u-8?si=K77K6WhIRH3fvvZ0
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FWIW – a lot if this is right!
“Sen. Tommy Tuberville: “Climate Change is the Biggest Hoax in the World!… I Would Say “25% of Budget” Goes to It (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/sen-tommy-tuberville-climate-change-is-biggest-hoax/
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“Col Douglas Macgregor Response to Joe Biden SOU Speech Is Profoundly Accurate and Important
March 8, 2024 | Sundance | 18 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/03/08/col-douglas-macgregor-response-to-joe-biden-sou-speech-is-profoundly-accurate-and-important/#more-256258
https://youtu.be/sFW7dbKCzPY
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Excellent!
Also:
Tucker Carlson Responds to Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f72Tc-iXc4A
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Tasman waters boiling.
‘The weekend scorcher follows a Sydney record on Friday when the water temperature off the coast reached a new all-time high of 26.75 degrees Celsius — 3C above average.’ (ABC)
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Election time…
Politics has become a daily “conflict game”, dominated by career politicians concentrated on winning points on the other side, rather than on developing and delivering good public policy, and good government.
Important issues have been left to drift, or in some cases have been compounded by short-term, populist responses, so that important problems remain unresolved, all having a negative impact on the wellbeing of the average voter, let alone the legacies being left to their children.
Unfortunately, the skill sets and experience required of a career politician essentially make them incompetent to govern effectively. Their career path is often from university, community or union politics, through local government/party engagement, perhaps serving as a ministerial staffer, to pre-selection, then election, and so on.
Politics has become the end in itself. Those that make it are mostly qualified just to play the “game”, but not to govern.
Increasingly, fewer have ever had a “real job”, or a significant career, before entering politics, and even then that may not qualify them to be a competent minister. It is also not easy to come from outside, as both Trump and Turnbull are finding.
Yet, many end up as ministers responsible for significant government portfolios, and large budgets, with little or no relevant experience or skills or commitment to that area, let alone in management.
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/career-politicians-arent-qualified-to-run-the-country-20170223-guj8gw.html
…and the neighbourhood political candidate signs are up!
Real estate agents, doctors and lawyers after an easier life courtesy of the gravy train.
I’m sure they all have trading desk experience so that they understand investment, capital flows, the business cycle and global economies. NOT!
I’m sure they all know a kWh from a kVA. NOT!
I’m sure they’d all still run for office if they were to be held fully accountable for their stuffups in office. NOT!
I’m sure they would always publicly release all funding, donations, sponsors, allegiances, proposed policies and schemes with no secrecy or deception whatsoever. NOT!
No, it’ll be more of the same old losers with tv ads doing nothing more than ad-hominem attacks on their opposition because they have no actual viable solutions and plans to put forward themselves.
Which is why what’s coming up is inescapable.
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That was a great little essay until I saw that tedious turncoat Turnbull’s name pop up. That’s when I realised it’s from February 2017. Other than that little indigestible lump it’s a good rant and very true.
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Share this widely
https://rumble.com/v4i2coc-warroom-battleground-ep-488.html
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Overlooked in the SOTU –
“You Have Got To Be Kidding Me…?”
“By the time you are done reading this article, you may be tempted to tear your hair out. A substantial portion of the U.S. population is deeply struggling in our current economic environment, but instead of focusing on helping Americans that are hurting, homeless and hungry, our leaders are going to great lengths to make things better for those that have no legal right to be in this country. Our priorities are way out of whack, and U.S. voters are fed up. Immigration has become the hottest political issue during this campaign season, but many of our politicians still don’t seem to understand why so many of us are so frustrated with what has been going on.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/you-have-got-be-kidding-me
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No different than here. Albo is so busy wasting our money on his pet projects that he is neglecting to spend time on sorting out the fundamentals of the economy (including government efficiency \ spending).
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It’s the same in the UK.
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There have been a couple of fires in recent weeks around Melbourne that made me wonder if they were intensified by EVs.
This week, a yong couple were incinerated in a vehicle fire after a high speed crash. The fire was captured on video and appeared to be far more localised and intense than a fuel fire.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/toorak-crash-cctv-footage-reveals-horror-moments-before-fatal-car-crash/news-story/bb55631f358686a0ad001e24d4bb308c
A couple of weeks back now there was a fire in a set of units at Clyde or Clyde North. The fire was mostly confined to the garages but spread across 5 units and all are now unlivable. These were modern units with little spacing. I now cannot find any report on that.
I can easily imagine the situation in places like Chappell Steet with lots of BEVs parked close together and a fire skipping down the street as successive EVs explode.
Lots of leaf fall in Melbourne after this long weekend as another three more days of summer make a late arrival. Black Saturday was fourteen years and one month ago. But this weekend has a somewhat similar feel. Just a bit cooler than the 46C recorded back then. RH today is 26%. Back in 2009 it was in the teens; tinder dry.
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Pretty hard to find a big straight-six motor or a V8/V10 motor in those photos.
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Michael Laws on Why New Zealanders Are Losing Trust in the Media
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NHS to Snoop on Your Step-Count via Mobile Phone as Part of Agenda 2030 Targets
The app is due to become mandatory for all service users in 2027.
The NHS are to use their App to monitor exactly how many steps a day you are taking towards yout 10,000 steps-a-day target and then bully you with the evidence.
The information on your daily performance will be automatically sent to your GP who will then use that information to ‘advise’ you that your health needs to be improved. The technology was embedded in the original NHS app, launched in 2020 under the guise of pandemic prevention, but the new version uses AI to monitor you in ever greater detail.
The updated app is part of a £3.4billion investment into new technology that was announced in the Spring Budget on Wednesday. The App will crunch the data on step-counts and heart rates, using the functions smartphones already have to offer what the NHS claims is ‘personalised health advice’ and to suggest potential screenings and treatments.
Health secretary Victoria Atkins claims that “a strong NHS helps a growing economy” and that measures such as this app will prove vital. To that end, £430million has been earmarked for the new app and new phone services. Ms Atkins told The Times: “If you think of the data that we have on our phones, healthcare is absolutely going to be there encouraging people to find out what is a healthy lifestyle for them. How can they help quit smoking, talking therapies on the NHS App … these are all things that are going to be helping us in future.”
https://www.visionnews.online/post/nhs-to-snoop-on-your-step-count-via-mobile-phone-as-part-of-agenda-2030-targets
Awww..how nice that das gubermint cares about your health, given the Covid years.
Send the data to your doctor who’ll prescribe a pill rather than say “lose some weight, tubby”.
Being an app it could easily be “tweaked” anyway.
Maybe it could monitor how much people run to escape those illegal immigrants instead. 😎
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What a bizarre society it is which enables personal biometric data to be “automatically sent to your GP”.
I’ve never had a GP so that undeliverable data of mine will likely set the miscreant alarm in MyGov and trigger a warrant for detention and reeducation in due course.
At least over the coming few years after Bowen has succeeded in making the lights go out all these daft electronic shackles will disappear not to mention the manifold boons reliable electricity supply delivered.
O tempora o mores!
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“Minding the Sciences—Wicked Science and Understanding Climate Change: Uncertainty, Risk, and Pragmatics”
Woven around Judith Curry’s book, Climate Uncertainty and Risk,
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/08/minding-the-sciences-wicked-science-and-understanding-climate-change-uncertainty-risk-and-pragmatics/
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“20 Megawatt Nuclear Reactors That Can Fit In a Truck”
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/03/20-megawatt-nuclear-reactors-that-can-fit-in-a-truck.html
The Instapundit ead says “Faster, please”
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I have read the uranium required for these micro reactors has to enriched to a much higher state than in larger reactors, bringing them much closer to weapons grade. This is likely a great solution but the big worry of enriched uranium is obvious in a world of muslim terrorism. For decades now we cannot just go to an airport and get on a plane because of the reasonable fear of such terrorism. Trucks full of highly enriched uranium are a real worry.
That is why Thorium research is so important.
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FWIW – long
“Saturday Snippet: It all comes down to corn”
“First published in 2006, Michael Pollan’s book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” exposed the hugely artificial, compromised nature of our First World food chain. It’s been a source of enlightenment and controversy ever since.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/saturday-snippet-it-all-comes-down-to.html
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