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Woden welcomes you to his day.
It’s been extremely windy the last forty eight hours, like all hell’s been let loose.
Here, on the east coast, clouds were racing overhead before sunset, heading North.
And it was cold, all the CO2 must be gone.
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All that ‘missing CO2’ is obviously over here, on the other side of the depression – archaic term for EWE or Extreme Weather Event aka a Tasman Low – warm humid northerlies pushing fluffy lil clouds southwards… not so much an ‘Indian Summer’ as a Fijian Autumn: lovely.
Great to hear your dams are full to overflowing: ours are heading that way with up to 800 mm (almost 3 ft) of manna from heaven falling on the ranges & headwaters. Shiny mirrors and spinning prayer-wheels don’t work too well in these types of conditions. Go Hydro! Oh, and Woden too.
BTW most of New Zooland is warmer than your neck of the woods today, KK, so those Swiss grandmothers suing their govt for causing heatwaves must be speaking their truth… whatever.
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Covid overhyped
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/08/as-an-epidemiologist-i-could-see-straight-away-that-covid-was-being-over-hyped/
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Even I, not being an ologist of any kind, could see that.
But lacking an ology, nobody listened.
But that guy’s an epidemiologist.
We should only listen to Pandemiologists.
They’re the experts.
Epis and Pans are totally different.
Just like weather and climate.
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I think I’ve heard of Honkology
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I, too, have heard the Honkologist speak, and I believe! Honk-honk!
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Smiths are more trustworthy than ologists any day of the week: blacksmiths, locksmiths, goldsmiths, even wordsmiths.
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CDC Discloses 780,000 New Reports of Serious Side Effects After Covid-19 Vaccination
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released previously hidden reports of facial paralysis and other adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination.
The 780,000 reports were received shortly after the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out and show that people experienced a wide range of post-vaccination problems, including heart inflammation, miscarriages, and seizures.
“Loss of consciousness and seizure immediately following injection. Went to ER by ambulance,” one person reported.
Another stated, “Diagnosed with Bells Palsy today due to left-sided facial numbness and paralysis.”
People lodged the reports with V-safe, a text-message system created by the CDC to monitor for possible side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.
The CDC, for years, declined to make the V-safe data public, instead publishing studies that described the reports as providing reassurance about the safety of the vaccines. However, according to data released in 2022 as a result of a different lawsuit, nearly 8 percent of the 10 million users required medical attention or hospital care after vaccination, and many others reported missing school, work, or other normal activities.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, appointed by former President Donald Trump, ordered the agency in January to disclose free-text entries from a different section of the survey in which individuals could describe their experiences.
The judge dismissed the government’s arguments that processing the responses and redacting sensitive information would require too much work.
The first two tranches, made up of 780,000 reports from some 523,000 people, include dozens of reports of heart inflammation, hundreds of reports of facial paralysis, and thousands of reports of tinnitus.
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The Great COVID Cover-up: Shocking truth about Wuhan and 15 federal agencies
Shame on all the federal employees who covered up these facts about COVID-19
Sen. Rand Paul By Sen. Rand Paul
How vast was the Great COVID Cover-up? Well, my investigation has recently discovered government officials from 15 federal agencies knew in 2018 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was trying to create a coronavirus like COVID-19.
These officials knew that the Chinese lab was proposing to create a COVID 19-like virus and not one of these officials revealed this scheme to the public. In fact, 15 agencies with knowledge of this project have continuously refused to release any information concerning this alarming and dangerous research.
Government officials representing at least 15 federal agencies were briefed on a project proposed by Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
THE ARROGANCE OF ANTHONY FAUCI
Not surprising to some of us, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) was not only briefed on Wuhan’s desire to create this virus, NIAID was actually listed as a participant in the initial DEFUSE pitch. Fauci’s Rocky Mountain Lab was named as a partner alongside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the proposal.
These documents also reveal that a scientist whose lab has received millions of dollars from EcoHealth was also part of the original plan to create these chimeric coronaviruses. This researcher, Ian Lipkin, also later became one of the authors of “Proximal Origins,” a journal paper commissioned by Fauci and National Institutes of Health head Francis Collins to throw shade on anyone arguing that the virus might have come from the lab. Yet, Ian Lipkin never revealed to the public the DEFUSE proposal.
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Thanks Ozzie. This information uncovered by Senator Rand Paul, is perhaps some of the most damning evidence to emerge of the implication of US agencies in the Wuhan disaster. It is bad enough to know that Chinese labs have produced a pathogen that has caused such heartache and suffering in the world, but that US agencies were involved is extraordinary.
I knew (through the Bailiwick website & by way of Sasha Latypova) that, amazingly, labs like EcoHealth Alliance had been collaborating with the Wuhan Lab. But I was unaware that so many people in the US were implicated, if only through knowledge.
Shattering.
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Another ebike fire
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/08/watch-e-bike-explodes-at-london-train-station/
Time will tell if Electric vehicles in general are more prone to fire than ICE’s. However there is no doubt that the effects of an electric fire are often catastrophic and very difficult to deal with.
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pressure is on to force Oz motorists to ditch their ICE vehicles by 2035
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13285821/Push-ban-Australian-buying-petrol-powered-cars-just-12-years.html
Its a big country and no doubt some epic journeys are undertaken by ICE cars. However the green elite will argue that most journeys are undertaken in cities and EV’s are ideal for this use.
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Only allowed to drive Chinese made EV’s with Chinese software contol systems – what could go wrong?
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When we (non-Elites) are all living in the free range prisons known as “15 Minute Cities” or as the marketing people in Australia rebranded them “20 Minute Neighbourhoods” you will not need an ICE vehicle for extended trips.
https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/guides-and-resources/strategies-and-initiatives/20-minute-neighbourhoods
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If that ever happened, who would be “out there” farming our food, mine our wealth, build, maintain, and rebuild, our wind and solar farms, etc , etc, ?
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Probably the people who are not confused by what is meant by a 15 minute city.
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I live in a 15 minute city (country town) and its pretty good.
Here is our ABC trying to be balanced.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-27/the-15-minute-city-conspiracy/102015446
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oooh scary elites. I’ve lived in places like that and basically used a car on weekends. If you couple that with a good transit city, you can be at your workplace or other services (theatre, sporting events) that are beyond the 15 minutes in 15 minutes too – which I managed when living in a European megacity.
I don’t get why this is impinging on freedom. Efficiency of design will save the people living in these money for a start. If you don’t like them, seek out the badly designed neighborhood of your choice. Caroline Springs is waiting for you.
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European cities , with their excellent public transport systems, are nothing like most Australian cities, and I’ve also lived in a few overseas for some time. I recall when British migrants came to Australia, the first recommended purchase was a car, and I believe that nothing has changed.
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Yeah but G’s anectdote greatly outways observable reality in Oz
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Time for a push to get rid of the Climate Council, a waste of money and oxygen if there ever was one! Why anyone would listen to those clowns is beyond me.
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I believe that it is a private organisation now, not govt funded. Is this correct?
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IIRC
You’re half right –
Private but government funded
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2035 will be a whole new world, and all the current BS and pollies will be gone. However…
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Massive fire at battery recycling plant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skEY9ct00fM
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/12439252/fenix-battery-recycling-fire-kilwinning-ayrshire/
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Nice try but the French still do it better. Battery recycling plant in Viviez southern France went up on Saturday 17 February 2024. Apparently some 900 metric tonnes of lithium batteries were on site as well as (very quickly) some 70 fire fighters.
The Viviez report conveniently continues into last year (2023) January 16 fire at a lithium battery warehouse near the city of Rouen Normandie which tied up some 100 firefighters and 60 fire engines.
The larger turnout in Rouen was probably due to the fire spreading to a nearby storage facility containing about 70,000 rubber tyres. Maybe its their car manufacturing district hence the close proximity of lithium batteries/rubber tyres – what could possibly go wrong??
Best Australia could do was a January 5, 2024 fire in an e-bike warehouse attracting 60 firefighters and trucks.
Always the innovators NSW has trail blazed (pun intended) the concept of lithium fires to you.
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Hottest Year on Record? “Global Boiling”?
Ski resorts in NSW and Victoria record their first drop of snow for 2024
Winter has come early this year, with ski resorts in NSW and Victoria recording their first drop of snow in April.
https://www.news.com.au/national/weather/ski-resorts-in-nsw-and-victoria-record-their-first-drop-of-snow-for-2024/news-story/81d4939769c70d3fd7a8bea186dd463c
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Perisher, NSW mid-station reported a “beer can’s depth of accumulation” – great to see the old school ‘scientific method’ at work!
We use kegs for our measurements – only because icebergs, Wales, and Rhode Island, are nigh impossible to imagine. Congratulations, you’ve stopped ™climate change™, brrrrrrr…
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It seems like only a few weeks ago, that there were suggestions that perhaps it’s time to rethink the seasons, in other words longer summers.
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Total Eclipse of the Sun – USA
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/trump-posted-hilarious-ad-featuring-eclipse-liberal-media/
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Here’s another perspective:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sbo4lvkhbQ1z23obp.mp4
Or from a Starlink satellite:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1777493587925647795
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Great news!
There is a new study vindicating the thinking community’s claims that children who are gender confused will usually grow out of it and there is no need to undertake horrific, irreversible mutilating and sterilising hormonal treatments and surgeries.
So stop the transgender madness with children NOW.
Beyond that, I want to see people involved in transgendering kids, “doctors”, psychologists, teachers, social workers etc. severely prosecuted for ruining these kids’ lives.
Andrew Bolt discusses:
https://youtu.be/SqTimV69N5g
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Read that when it came out, and it just proves what those of us with normal brains have said over and over (for how long now?)- it’s a mental health issue, or in this case just childhood confusion over self identity, a part of growing up.
As for all those pushing drugs and surgery, life imprisonment.
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Greater Sydney Dam levels now at 98% as of before yesterday’s rain. Warragamba Dam at 100%. Nice and how about that Mr. Tim Tam Flannery?
https://www.waternsw.com.au/nsw-dams/nsw-storage-levels/greater-sydney-dam-levels
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I think that this is spam and that it is April the 1st again and not the 10th –
All UK Airports will close by 2029 and Beef and Lamb will be banned for Human Consumption to meet Climate Scam Targets according to UK Gov. Report.
https://expose-news.com/2024/04/08/all-uk-airports-will-close-by-2029-climate-scam/
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I don’t think you should take any notice of information from that source.
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Yeah, your sources are soooo much better.
You could have opened a link from the article. These are the UN’s ESG’s, stick your head back in the sand, nothing to see up here.
And Johnny, it’s not spam, it’s conditioning.
https://ukfires.org/
https://www.ukfires.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Absolute-Zero-online.pdf
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I did open a link before I responded. Living in the UK I would repeat the article is nonsense.
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Arguably Australia’s most useless and environmentally destructive of all the useless “green” projects is Snowy Hydro 2.
Remember, 2024 was meant to be its finishing date.
It’s barely even started due to predictable tunneling problems.
Updates are rarely posted…
There appears to be no possible exit strategy for anyone.
The Liberal faction of the Uniparty won’t stop it because it was their idea, specifically that of the self-identified “engineer” Turnbull..
The Green Labor faction of the Uniparty won’t stop it because it’s “green” and the self-identified “engineer” Chrissy Bowen fully supports it.
Money will keep getting thrown at it contributing to the ultimate economic collapse of Australia.
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Here is Turnbull’s original announcement complete with him wearing his pretend engineer uniform.
https://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/securing-australias-energy-future-with-snowy-mountains-2.0
It’s shameful that real engineers don’t speak out against this madness.
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It’s shameful that real engineers don’t speak out against this madness.
They, along with other similarly silent “experts in their field” eg doctors when it came to covid, scientists re nuclear power/warming etc, should be made aware that they will be considered/treated/given the same status as the getaway driver for a bank robbery.
Do not know what came of it but in NZ years ago there was talk or even actual legislation to stop people not disclosing information when it came to selling/buying stuff ie if an art expert visited a garage sale and saw a Da Vinci they were duty bound to share their knowledge with the seller. Of course there were loop holes and get out of jail free ways of getting around it but at least it leveled the playing field to some extent. Of course its probably a forlorn hope but the move to accountability has to start somewhere.
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Gives it that ‘official expert’ look.
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Where was the Environmental Impact Statement and the geology report?
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Can’t trust geologists, they’ve got rocks in their heads.
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David, I doubt whether the Snowy 2 project could be justified but It is quite an engineering achievement and each month the project produces a short video that provides an update on various aspects of the project eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0CVjPHs-yM&ab_channel=SnowyHydro
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What was that about?
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Accepting that its implimentation is a joke,….if it ever come near to meeting its planned potential , it will still be a much better use of $20 bn than spending that amount on battery storage .
SN2 is designed to store 200+GWh , with the ability to supply 2 GW for multiple days.
. 200GWh of Battery storage to do a similar job would cost in excess of $100bn, at todays prices, and likely need replacing multiple times over the working life of SN2.
$20 bn will not even buy you 40 GWh of battery storage.
But.. Sadly, i do not expect SN2 to perform as planned 🙄😳
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The USA & California have the “bullet train” and Australia has its Snowy Hydro 2. The California High-Speed Rail Authority does, and intends to, spend more than SH2 and has somewhat more to show for the expenditure. Still, both countries would be better off if these projects were abandoned.
In September 1982, the California legislature passed AB 3647, authorizing the construction of a $2bn “bullet train”
Those that were adults in 1982 will likely be ambient temperature when this thing is finally completed. {If it ever is.}
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It’s like our Governments are doing a great big “FU” to the people, deliberately and highly visibly throwing away their hard-earned taxes just to
p-ss them off.
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I didn’t realise this but apparently most new cars don’t have a transmission dipstick to check transmission oil levels and haven’t had for ten years or more. No wonder I couldn’t find mine.
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But some cars still have a nut behind the steering wheel.
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Or the new green car made entirely out of wood. Wooden wheels, wooden engine, wooden seats and wooden go.
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And only one previous owner, F. Flintstone!!
Tony.
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It’s been the ” norm ” for some time now David. My work Commodore Utes never had them, so I changed the transmission oil at 50,000k intervals. Service Techs seemed to think that they were good for 100,000k’s if you did not tow anything and from that point…good luck. So, I halved it and changed the fluid and never had a problem. Present V6 Car has a PDK transmission and it has the fluid change listed as every 40,000k’s from memory. No physical dipstick on the engine either…frustrating when trying to get the level correct after an oil change !
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Had 2 Honda Jazz Cars, 2004 sold 4 years ago, and current 2006 115,000kms, both with CVT Transmission which I like.
As only short journeys, as well as U98 Petrol, Mobil 1 Fully Synthetic Oil every 10,000Kms, have flushed and changed CVT Fluid every 10,000Kms – in scheme of things $130 last CVT Flush & Change, happy to pay – 2006 drives like new and gets off the mark quickly – Magic Seats make Honda Jazz an amazing cargo vehicle for its size
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What’s a dipstick? And why do you need one for the transmission. One should be enough hanging on to the steering wheel.
My wife’s car has anti-theft fitted. – three pedals.
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Thw sarcastic hot up kit of old included
Double overhead dipsticks
Shaved radiator cap
Straight through glove box
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Common practise these days, covered by Scotty Kilmer endlessly. Sealed for life.
Given the competencies of vehicle servicing in the USA, the less anyone can mess with the better.
They’re moving car detailers (!!!) into mechanics roles as mechanics are leaving the industry in droves because of physical and mental stress/burnout.
Diagnostic skills are very poor at best so modern hi tech cars are money pits and parts cannons unless you can find a GOOD mechanic.
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Mmmm much more. I had a 25 year old BMW club car with no trans dipstick.
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On my CVT the fluid level must be critical. There is a level plug, but the vehicle must be dead level and the fluid at a quoted temperature. It is quoted as service free for life, without saying how long it should live. I change oil once a year and don’t lift the lid otherwise.
I have no oil on the garage floor so I’m happy, at least for another 50k. 🙂
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The NSW Government is destroying native forests and koala habitats for “carbon credits”.
Unbelievable but true.
https://youtu.be/MDzW-f8y8F0
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Just keeping up with Qld – or vice versa
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Apparently even the far-Left dominated Vatican is now against the promotion of transgenderism.
https://youtu.be/1iXenrqoQy4
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Unfortunately that also highlights the incursions that the religion of peace continue to make under this Jesuit’s watch.
The information provided by ritamalik at the beginning and through the comments thread is interesting. Seven (7) years later and the increasing closeness continues.
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Chief Engineer and Australian PM Albanese explains how solar panels can charge your car at night for free.
https://youtu.be/vyS9uqRLbB8
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Rita Panahi’s latest edition of “Lefties Losing It”.
https://youtu.be/mTGC8DF61BA
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Sand dunes and beaches disappearing – it’s worse than we thought (much worse than the last time we were told it was worse than we thought).
Realistically I have no idea if this is high quality research or not, but it is very difficult to have much faith in anything related to climate change.
https://www.indaily.com.au/environment/2024/04/09/south-australias-changing-coastline-sounds-warning-to-nation
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As I have said before, warmists are staticists.
They have an Aristotlean world view that the world is static and unchanging.
They fail to understand or appreciate that the world is constantly changing due to natural forces, especially coastlines, sand dunes and river systems.
That sort of thing used to be taught in geography classes in schools, back in the day.
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Someone has an overactive imagination !
There is a 10+ km beach near me on the NSW south coast that has been under constant monitoring ( physical geological measurements,…not “Google Earth” photos !) by the ANU , for the past 50 years.
Their most recent report concluded that the high water and sand line moves back and forth with time and storms etc, but is still exactly where it was 50 yrs ago !
Does that mean that the ocean level is not rising and the waves are no different in height or energy ?
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Spot on Chad. I have lived on a beach in Central Queensland for the past 23 years. I walk along it most days. On the northern end is a surf lifesaving clubhouse. Historical photos show beach change huts were present in that area, just above high tide level, going back to 1929. The huts disappeared by the early 1950’s photos, but the hardwood posts supporting them were left in situ.
When I commenced my ‘daily’ walks in 2001 there were no stumps to be seen. But over the ensuing years they have been exposed and then re-covered with sand on an irregular time frame. Today there is just one stump to be seen. If anything these observations suggest ‘my’ beach is advancing seawards. In fact a Beach Protection Authority publication from 1978 suggested the beach dunes had advanced c. 50 m seawards over the previous 50 years. The photographic record supports that statement. [I think all State Libraries in Australia have now digitised their historical B&W photographic catalogues. A marvelous resource.]
In 2015 Cyclone Marcia tore a 8 m strip off ‘my’ beach foredune. Ten years later the foredune has re-established to its pre-Marcia position.
“The sands of time” can teach you a lot!
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And there is the tidal mark, cut into the rock at Point Puer, Port Arthur, a long time ago, that is still visible.
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We can leave out sea level rise as a cause, so the breaking down of offshore reefs is probably a major factor.
‘ … wave energy has been increasing in the Southern Ocean in the past ten years.’
Hmmm … second opinion might be necessary.
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‘ … no idea if this is high quality research …’
The market is enthusiastic, so it must be reasonably sound.
‘One case in point is the 2022 research by CSIRO, which was commissioned by Wave Swell Energy and concluded that harnessing wave energy off the coast of southern Australia would deliver more stability and reliability to a future clean electricity grid, as well as reduce the cost of batteries to store this renewable energy.’ (Create Digital)
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And when a wave energy company, subsidised by the WA govt, tried to employ a wave energy generator in the Southern Ocean off Albany, it failed within a very short time. Thankfully the WA govt didn’t feed any more subsidies into the effort.
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Apprarently wave energy is a King Island add on.
I was looking at their dasboard last night and it was a diesel free period.
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That was another Flannery and it fell apart like all other Flannerys.
One was built for the Genset capital of Australia, King Island, $14 million, 200kw and lasted 2 years.
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Here’s one for the Lefties….LoL. (Trigger warning.)
I saw a picture of a t-shirt that said:
Christian
White
Straight
Unwoke
Unvaxxed
Gun owner
Meat eater
&
Trump supporter
How else can I p-ss you off today?
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Even Winnie the Pooh comes with a Tigger warning these days. Especially in China.
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I want one.
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With woke Governments in every major Western country, Climate Change(TM) madness has never been worse.
I think the worst afflicted places are Australia, Canada and the United States.
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No mention of the UK, I would have thought they were leading.
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Scotland certainly…
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Brain storm of the day?
“Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad – San Francisco edition”
“Not content with blaming businesses for crime, as in this morning’s first blog post, it seems that the loony left – in San Francisco this time – wants to make businesses financially liable when they’re driven out of business by street crime.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/04/those-whom-gods-would-destroy-they.html
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People noticing – USA this time
“Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam of All Time”
” The culprits here are the very companies that Biden is in bed with: green energy firms.”
https://hotair.com/stephen-moore/2024/04/09/biggest-corporate-welfare-scam-of-all-time-n3786164
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A very interesting paper from E.G. Beck, posthum published, about early CO2 measurements:
Reconstruction of Atmospheric CO2 Background Levels since 1826 from Direct Measurements near Ground
Found at NotricksZone
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Read about this just last night in Javier Vinos’ book. Good book
Solving the Climate Puzzle by Javier Vinós, Hardcover
Willowbrook Shopping Centre
https://www.shopwillowbrook.com › storeyline › product
The Sun’s Surprising Role | Solving the Climate Puzzle by Javier Vinós,
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An old video from Jordan Peterson explaining how people with IQ’s below 83 are unemployable.
One in ten people have an IQ below that. And they do vote, at least in places like Australia where everyone is forced to vote, or at least have their name crossed off at a polling booth.
https://youtu.be/5-Ur71ZnNVk
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“Vote?” Not only that, they also comprise a fair proportion of Labor’s front bench.
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So how did Biden get the top job in the USA? And Albanese in Australia – to say nothing of Chris Bowen? And the Ministers for Imigration and Home Affairs?
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Having a decent IQ is no gaurantee of good decision making or using it for good. Most serial killers are quite intelligent.
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Transgender Indonesian Streetwalkers Aggrieved by Weather
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More “Pharma Pressure?”
“Suneel Dhand is a British physician who has been openly critical of pandemic policy in many a YouTube video and now focuses his critical eye on another common medical issue: blood pressure.
“I believe it’s absolutely ludicrous that we would have this one size fits all approach to blood pressure [of ] 120 over 80.”
“Every passing year the guidance from the medical establishment gets more and more aggressive and on many levels this is a complete money grab…” ”
https://youtu.be/lMlmd1PoTLU
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/04/09/pharma-pressure/
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Is The Great Illusion In Ruins?
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Booster for your faith!
“Pfizer And A Corruption Too Deep To Fix”
“Let’s cite an astonishing example from this past week that should have been headline news but was utterly invisible to legacy media (speaking of corruption at the very top). The case involves the COVID medication Paxlovid. It was approved under “emergency use” in December 2021, and trumpeted by Fauci, President Biden, and the rest of the usual crowd. It was 90 percent effective, they said!”
And then
“The drug was not a game changer at all. It was a vast waste of money.”
“What we have in operation here is a form of vampiric capitalism, an entire industry that has colonized our health and bodies in the interest of wealth extraction even though its products do not work and actually make us more sick, providing more opportunities to innovate products that do more of the same.
It’s time that this system came to an end, but where is the crime commission to investigate and stop it?
It doesn’t exist. That’s the great dilemma of our time.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pfizer-and-corruption-too-deep-fix
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“EXPOSED: Billion $$$ Pfizer SCAM “Paxlovid” COVID-19 Pill – TAXPAYER FUNDED! | Elijah Schaffer’s Top 5 (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/exposed-billion-pfizer-scam-paxlovid-covid-19-pill/
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Beverly Hills is Dying , lots of Stores are out of Business. Beverly hills is becoming a Ghost Town
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European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68768598
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I don’t think Switzerland is a member of the EU.
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In few days Australia, like most UN member states will accept Gaza as its full member.
And why not?
Legitimate government, sufficient population on small territory which location allows economic prosperity. Unlike PA territory Gaza has defined borders and army, still fighting against overwhelmingly stronger neighbour.
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Maybe they could become a tourist destination for paragliding enthusiasts.
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The hypocrisy of our, as well as most of World Governments, is overwhelming.
Wong and Albanese continue to repeat the same senseless crap about two states in secure borders, etc,..etc,.. but Hamas will have no place in future Gaza.
Political games are played by rules, at times you must say something you know absolutely is wrong and will never happen, but these two are beyond repair.
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Dear Honk,
Compare the cost of war (or War !) with economic benefits of, just an example – Saudi Arabia getting an Oil Terminal where military action happens now.
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The Israelis removed their settlers forcably from Gaza and the Palistians were given self-government.
The Gaza Strip could have become the Singapore of the Middle East
Instead the Palistians promptly elected the HAMAS terrorist organisation at as thank you to Israel and then began preparation for a war of extermination with Israel (aka “The Jews”) backed by Iran
The Israelis will not make the same mistake twice.
Even other Muslim countries hate the Palistians with Kuwait expelling 300,000 of the trouble makers.
Again the Albanese Goverment is detached from reality and common sense.
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Dear CO2 Lover,
Israelis, same as the rest of us are quite able to do the same mistake more than twice; though I hope not very soon…
That’s aside – there are UN members, which governments committed crimes equally horrific as the ones Hamas did. In cynical body count Hamas will hardly get to the 5th page of the List.
Does it mean that Gaza can not be a 23 Arab member of United Nations? Just watch this space.
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FWIW
“Will “Industrial Wind Knew” replace ”ExxonKnew”?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/09/will-exxonknew-be-replaced-by-industrial-wind-knew/
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Leaving Engineering decisions to Politicians and their woke policies
Energy storage is measured in watt-hours (or gigawatt-hours).
The energy in joules is equal to the energy in watt-hours multiplied by 3,600
Peak power is measureed in watts (or gigawatts) but how long does this peak power last?
A base model Tesla Megapack has 2.6 MWh of energy and 1 MW of peak power and so if dischared at its peak power rate would provide energy for 2.6 hours.
However it is recommended not to discharge below 20% to extend battery life – so 2 hours is a more accurate rating
So the ignorance of politicians is no full display when they do not understand the difference between Energy and Power.
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“It’s not just Boeing…
Problems with Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan engine, used by most recent-production Airbus A320-family airliners, have grounded almost a third of the fleet.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/04/its-not-just-boeing.html
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Apollo Joinery factory collapses into liquidation owing more than $11m
Staff have been left shocked by the collapse, which has left them jobless and out of pocket.
Workers at two NSW factories have slammed their former employer after the company went bust, leaving them and other creditors multiple millions out of pocket.
Last month, two companies linked to the Sydney-based Apollo group, which manufactures kitchen and bathroom joinery, collapsed into liquidation after 56 years in business.
Its main clients were big builders who will likely have to wear the cost in an already difficult market. Apollo also had showrooms in Sydney and the Central Coast where customers could come in to order cabinets or bench tops for their homes directly.
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Meanwhile – Annual picnic day, eye-popping perks for Queensland construction workers
Double time when it rains and an extra $1000 a week for working on a project 50km away are just some of the perks these workers will receive.
Queensland’s third-term Labor government has inked astounding deals with the construction unions.
Under the state’s Best Practice Industry Conditions policy, workers get double time when it rains and an extra $1000 a week for working on a project 50km or more from the employer’s address.
“Government should be an employer of choice, and working on our projects should be one of the best jobs you can get,” Premier Steven Miles said on Tuesday.
Pay increases across the trades boost the pay packets 700-plus-tonne crane operators to $2394/week and fourth-year adult electrical apprentices to about $44/hour or $1585 a week.
Those wages are the first year of four successive 5 per cent pay increases across the board.
Stacked on top of the locked-in wage increases are the myriad loading and allowance payments, such as 300 per cent loading for working on and between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day or Good Friday and East Monday.
A “picnic day” on the first Monday of December will be observed; anyone who has to work on picnic day gets double time-and-a-half pay.
In the tumultuous wake of Annastacia Palaszczuk’s resignation in December, The Courier-Mail reported that Mr Miles ultimately got the nod following a deal between union powerbrokers.
Like all states and territories, Queensland businesses and agencies are duelling to get tradies on site for their projects.
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Or – Labor has launched an ‘ideological pile-on’ against Australia’s business sector that feeds off our national penchant for stigmatising success
Australia’s plummeting productivity and languid economic growth is due in no small part to a Labor Government that has no practical or ideological interest in business success, writes Caroline Di Russo.
Last week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese insisted he was pro-business.
At a small business forum he said he wanted the sector to be courageous and flexible when seeking to compete in a global race for jobs and future prosperity, while advocating that business cooperation with government wasn’t a sign of weakness.
And that all sounds sensible if that was what the Albanese Government was attempting to achieve in practical terms.
However, its policies and actions are the antithesis of flexible, cooperative and pro-business.
Australia’s plummeting productivity, surging insolvencies and languid economic growth is evidence enough of that.
And it’s easy for those who have never been responsible for keeping a going concern solvent to use big words they don’t understand in a context they’ve no experience of.
In reality, Labor’s archaic industrial relations changes, pitched as protecting job security, cut across any meaningful ability for business to be flexible.
The implementation of pattern bargaining intentionally prohibits flexibility and shackles individual businesses to what the Fair Work Commission considers to be like businesses.
Similarly, laws mandating a right to disconnect incapacitates business from dealing with matters outside of the ordinary business hours.
This government cannot talk about a progressive business landscape and a global race for jobs when, in 2024, they are passing legislation that reflects commercial norms from the 1970s.
Give this Labor government enough rein and they’ll have a crack at reintroducing leave loading.
Labor’s highly secretive proposed “nature positive” laws are also a worrying red flag for business.
What is clear from the scarce information so far provided is that industry has an extra layer of opaque ideologically driven regulation headed in its direction.
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‘Bird Flu-Pocalypse’ Forces Hong Kong To Suspend Some Imports Of US Poultry Meat
The recent spread of bird flu—also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI— across several US states has been hyped by corporate media. Some journalists are quoting ‘experts’ who warn the bird flu pandemic could be ‘100 times worse’ than Covid.’
The context here is crucial. Bird flu is not just a US issue anymore; it’s ‘going global,’ and this is happening just before the US presidential elections in November.
On Tuesday, Hong Kong’s food safety authority published a memo stating, “Import of poultry meat and poultry products suspended in some areas of the United States.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/bird-flu-pocalypse-forces-hong-kong-suspend-some-us-poultry-meat
100x times worse than Covid, so about as dangerous to most people as the CO2 in the atmosphere then.
Bird flu shots, masks, lockdowns, fear and gubermint/MSM BS on standby. Again.
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I wonder if vitamin D and zinc would work against this virus too?
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Once Canadians realize how broke they actually are, a REVOLT is likely, government report warns
An information request filed by Matt Malone has brought to light a secret report from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) warning that once Canadians realize just how broke they are, a massive revolt will ensue.
It may seem like things are still kind of hobbling along financially and economically due to political sleights of hand, but once that illusion fades, things “will probably deteriorate further,” according to the RCMP, which warns that all of this is coming to a head “in the next five years.”
The RCMP reportedly alerted Canada’s federal government about the strong possibility of civil unrest once Canadians come to realize what has been done to them by the powers that be. It will spell disaster for their families’ lives and livelihoods.
The Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada study explains that “the coming period of recession will … accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations.”
https://greatgameindia.com/secret-rcmp-report-warns-canadians-may-revolt-once-they-realize-how-broke-they-are/
Report compiled in 2023, so 2028 then. 😎
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Europe’s highest court rules countries must ‘protect citizens from climate change’
“Europe’s highest human rights court has ruled that countries including Britain must protect their citizens from the consequences of climate change, in a landmark ruling that sided with a group of 2,000 Swiss women against their government.”
“The court – which is unrelated to the European Union – faulted Switzerland for not giving sufficient protection to the Senior Women for Climate Protection, whose average age is 74 and who argued that older women are most vulnerable to the extreme heat that is becoming more frequent.”
Perhaps free air conditioners for all, powered by windmills?
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It is a “heatwave” in Switzerland when the temperature gets above 30°C!
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Not so different here really these days. Their houses are less adapted to heat unfortunately so it gets mighty uncomfortable. Not sure how orevalent AC is these days , in the early 2000s it was a rarity for residential.
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Well, that destroys the idea that the older generation were tougher than these whiny wimpy millenails!
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2024: The Greatest Taxing Year Ever
2024 will go down as the biggest earning years for the three tiers of government in Australia, ironically right at a time people can least afford it.
Circle 20th of April on the calendar.
That’s the day in the year when you stop earning to pay tax and start taking banking money for yourself.
The first 111 days are effectively hard labour – working to pay for the government.
The Centre for Independent Studies has just finished a taxation tally. – 16 Page pdf
They claim there’s now 125 different ways to pay tax in Australia – and concede there’s probably many they’ve missed.
Everyone ‘gets’ the notion of income tax and company tax on profits, but the rest … most of the time we pay without even knowing.
GST, council rates, fuel excise, duties, licences, beer and cigarette levies, fees, tariffs, tolls even fines – call them what you like – they’re all a form of tax.
The CIS reckons “statistically governments collect $29,700 in taxes from every adult and child”.
It’s a mind-blowing figure.
Take a not uncommon family of five – mum, dad, and three kids.
That calculation puts the average all-government tax take from that household at almost $150,000.
The Centre’s analysis says, “total tax revenue is expected to amount to a near-record 30% of gross domestic product” this financial year.
That’s the highest tax take since the boom years of 2000-01.
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Once again, at a time Australians can least afford it – governments find a way to make things tougher.
Let’s not mention Chris Bowen’s power prices!
There is never a real discussion about reducing the size and cost of government.
It’s always a game of shifting responsibilities.
One thing that never gets cut is size of the public service.
This year is another record number.
Just short of 2.5 million people were employed on the public payroll by the Commonwealth, States, and local governments last year.
Every tentacle keeps growing in size … and salary.
We paid almost $215 billion in wages in many cases for so-called services the public never really wanted.
When politicians talk of ‘growth’ – other than immigration numbers, the only real thing growing in the number of people on the public teat.
Hold your breath for this one:
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A more apt description would be 2.5 million blood-sucking parasites
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We need a Javier Millei to put the cobweb broom through this lot; what an awful country this has become and the Labor visionaries in a race to the bottom are agitating for four year terms with the ultimate goal being to render their depredations uninterruptible.
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Plenty of construction cranes in Canberra last weekend, and crowded roads on a workday too. The place must be bulging at the seams.
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EV charging snag !
This is just being an issue in the UK, but the implication in Au is worth considering.
Public EV chargers are cashless, and further can only be accessed via the relavent charger app,…ON A MOBILE PHONE !
Now.. consider that both the cashless operation and the app on the phone require a “good” mobile network coverage at the charger location.
No problem in urban areas, but as any traveling aussie will know as soon as you venture off the highway, you chances of continuous mobile access are somwhat lower !
Effectively this means that EV charge points are only possible inareas with mobile coverage ( for all network providers ?)
It is all very well for Optus , Telstra , etc to say they cover 90+% of the population, but they certainly do not cover 90+% of the country, highway, roads, let alone remote country areas.
…And something tells me they never will !
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So EV recharging stations will be built in remote Australia with no cell/mobile phone coverage and no grid connection – requiring diesel generators!
https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/bowen/media-releases/fast-charging-ev-stations-ready-connect-nt-regions
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I love it when EV fanboys punch the air when they approach 1960s car caabilities.
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Pfizer and Vampiric Capitalsim
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pfizer-and-corruption-too-deep-fix
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This man is a light in the darkness. A saint, a spiritual guide, a model, mentor, and a bloody good bloke. Russell can be my moral compass any time.
“ Excess Deaths Explained
514 views Apr 8, 2024
My full conversation with Dr Andrew Madry and Ms Clare Pain.
Russell Broadbent MP”
2.15K subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1MTVZZ6svA
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Islands That Climate Alarmists Said Would Soon “Disappear” Due To Rising Sea Found To Have Grown In Size
An amount of land equivalent to the Isle of Wight has been added to the shorelines of 13,000 islands around the world in just the last 20 years. This fascinating fact of a 369.67 square kilometre increase has recently been discovered by a group of Chinese scientists analysing both surface and satellite records. Overall, land was lost during the 1990s, but the scientists found that in the study period of three decades to 2020 there was a net increase of 157.21 km2. The study observed considerable natural variation in both erosion and accretion. Of course, the findings blow holes in the poster scare run by alarmists suggesting that rising sea levels caused by humans using hydrocarbons will condemn many islands to disappear shortly beneath rising sea levels. By means of such flimsy scare tactics, as we have seen in many other cases, desperate attempts are made to terrify global populations to accept the insanity of the Net Zero collectivisation.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/islands-climate-alarmists-said-would-soon-disappear-due-rising-sea-found-have-grown
No more funding!
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Sacrifices to the Climate Gods are being rewarded.
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Steve Kirsch: vaccines are not safe for pets
I got this message from a fellow MIT alum just now. The tl;dr is that vaccines are NOT safe to give to pets.
1) He is legally obligated to give rabies vaccines. However, most vets don’t know that you can test dogs for the rabies antigens from last year’s vax, and if they have the antigens, he can write down that the titer is high, and he can wait another year.
2) vets have discovered that vaxed dogs are much more likely to get cancer in the area vaxxed, usually the shoulder. He now (and for years) gives the vax in the tail of the dog — that way, if cancer develops, the tail can be amputated without issues, vs the shoulder which is problematic.
3) There are many other vaxes for dogs, with similar impacts. He avoids them unless insisted upon by the owner, and if so, goes in the tail.
4) this has been known for YEARS.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1776755232179179674.html
Tip of the tail, if at all. 😉
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It’s time for climate satire Wednesday!
https://www.tetongravity.com/story/culture/7-hilarious-videos-about-how-awesome-climate-change-is
Enjoy ’em all.
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What Has Happened to Electric Vehicle Sales?
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