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Friends of Science Newsletter #416
https://friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=2944
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Topics include:
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Africa Prospers Despite Gloom from the UK’s ‘The Telegraph’
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Study Quantifies Germany’s Disastrous Switch Away From Nuclear Power
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Florida Current Transport Observations Reveal Four Decades of Steady State
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This Hurricane Season is Confounding Experts and Defying Forecasts
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Critique: Roles of Earth’s Albedo Variations and Top-of-the-Atmosphere Energy Imbalance in Recent Warming
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It looks to me that there is an error in the FoS item on albedo and TOA energy imbalance. They say “Note that they assume the temperature is determined only by absorbed solar energy, and then calculate that the recent temperature trend is due to only the trend of absorbed solar energy, which circular reasoning. This means that the conclusion is invalid.“, but if I am interpreting it correctly that is not so. They calculated the temperature trend that would be expected from solar and albedo, and compared it with the actual temperature trend. There was a good match, leading them to conclude that GHG warming was not needed to explain any of the measured trend. The actual temperature trend appears not to have been used at all in the calculated trend, ie, there was no circular logic.
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Edward Snowden:
“What Israel just did is – regardless of method, reckless. They blew up countless number of people who were driving, shopping (your children in the stroller behind in the checkout line), et cetera. Indistinguishable from terrorism.”
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Snowden’s leaks revealing surveillance methods is probably one of the reasons Hezbollah used pagers. So he is likely indirectly responsible for making the pager weapons possible and is trying to make himself feel better by condemning it.
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So the daily rockets into Israel from these same people are not indiscriminate acts of war which have forced 60,000 people from their homes?
War has been running for a very long time and Hezbollah have more soldiers than the Lebanese army, all focused on killing Jews. They are controlled, funded and run by Iran. As are Hamas.
This idea that war is an on again/off again affair with strict rules of behaviour is nonsense.
A state of war has existed for a decade. As in Ukraine. There are no rules. No nice rockets, no duels at dawn. The pagers only hit senior active members of Hezbollah involved in their ongoing war on Israel. Why else have a Hezbollah pager? These are people who have shown zero concern for anyone else in their indiscriminate bombing. And such evil people rely on their anonymity buried safely within a largely peaceful society of innocent people who do not want them. No longer.
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FWIW
“Reflections on “Operation Grim Beeper” (what a name!)”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/09/reflections-on-operation-grim-beeper.html
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All’s fair in love and war
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Looks like ActBlue is a huge fraudulent money laundering operation for the Left.
Rand Paul Review
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Another #Walkaway Democrat now ex-Democrat
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-operative-announces-party-exit-after-volunteering-at-dnc-impossible-to-unsee-what-i-ve-seen/ar-AA1qNA8F?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=b549030fb6724725a062d979c2f6c96c&ei=23
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So, which components of our solar and wind arrays should we now be expecting to explode when it can do the most damage?
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Firstly, the destruction of windmill and solar plantations would be a good thing. Electricity prices would go down.
However, I’d be willing to bet that the Chicomms have “backdoors” built into all the windmills, solar panel and battery banks and other energy infrastructure they sell to the West so they can disable it when they feel like it.
That’s why Trump banned the importation of grid-scale power transformers and other infrastructure from China and other enemy states.
That’s also why Biden rescinded the ban as Biden’s handlers are trying to destroy the United States.
https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2020/05/trump-administration-limits-acquisition
https://www.heritage.org/cybersecurity/commentary/could-china-hack-our-electric-grid-joe-biden-just-made-it-easier
https://www.powertransformernews.com/2021/04/23/us-department-of-energy-reverses-trump-ban-on-chinese-electrical-equipment/
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Even the Pigeons are worried – https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary
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Rita Panahi’s latest episode of “Lefties Losing It”.
https://youtu.be/HOfuV1lsrbI
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Surely, China would target reliable fuel-based power, not wind turbines or solar panels. They want to damage America, not help.
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You won’t see this on the Leftist controlled Lamestream media. There is also a 1min 40sec video testimony.
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Australia has always had bad governments with massive missed opportunities no matter which faction of the Uniparty rule, although on rare occasions the pretend conservative Liberal faction has been slightly less bad than Green Labor.
However, I think that the present governments of Australia, especially the Federal and Sicktoria state regimes are without question, the worst ever. The Whitlam regime of 1972-75 actually looks good by comparison and far less destructive.
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The worst thing, IMO, is that the Labor fraternity know what they are saying and doing will not benefit Australians but they proceed anyway. Politics and theatrics for the sake of power! Even the CFMEU debacle will likely get modified by our lefty Judges.
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FWIW
“Brilliant reader research – Pakistan’s Government officially honours Mehreen Faruqi for ‘Services To Pakistan.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/brilliant-reader-research-pakistans-government-officially-honours-mehreen-faruqi-for-services-to-pak.html
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Present members of the thinking community excepted, I don’t think most Australians have any clue what a serious threat to free speech and democracy the Uniparty’s “mis and disinformation” censorship laws, before the Senate now will be.
These laws were first proposed by the Liberal faction of the Uniparty and are now being attempted to be implemented by their partners in the Labor faction of the Uniparty.
I noted in my submission against these laws that the Government is the main purveyor of misinformation.
This is my submission about the censorship bill.
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/acma2023-31735-david-s-maddison.pdf
The laws are designed to silence criticism of Government misinformation.
These laws are what the Left have always wanted for their assault on free speech, democracy and Western Civilisation in general.
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Am wondering how all those doomers & climate refugees who fled to Tasmania to escape the oppressive heat of the mainland are doing today, and if they are having second thoughts, as yet ANOTHER wave of cold wet windy snow pummels their ‘safe zone’. Lentils and fern-root soup AGAIN? Ugg!
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