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We on this blog already know the headline on this link to be true. When will politicians catch up?
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/12/24/science-shock-carbon-dioxide-is-good-for-the-planet-peer-reviewed-studies-suggest/
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Politicians sell themselves as problem solvers. If there is not a problem they make one up. Co2 not being a problem is useless to them.
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Actually, you could have stopped with “Politicians sell themselves.”
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“Pollies” can always be bought.
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Insert prostitute instead of sell!
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Research conclusion that experimental evidence confirms earlier work
that CO2 at current levels in the atmosphere cannot contribute to warming by more back rdiation
and climate science should be revised and much more experimental evidence aabout IR radiation
response of greenhouse gasses be collected before current attributions of the modelling be accepted.
https://www.scirp.org/pdf/acs2024144_44701276.pdf
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G’day tonyb,
And TdeF has been telling us about this for some years now:
My source TdeF at #18.2.1:
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/12/monday-83/#comment-2817978
That sort of explains the “saturation” mentioned in the paper you referenced, and how it’s handled by nature.
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Jo has covered this topic before but good to see it being spread to another audience
https://slaynews.com/news/woke-town-runs-100-green-energy-suffers-days-long-blackout-single-storm/
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Egg on all the faces behind that eco-farce.
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And yet our politicians are full steam ahead with their renewable net zero policies.
Push an agenda, it fails miserably, then what do they do? Double down on pushing it more. Our political class has an unbelievable combination of outright stupidity and maliciousness.
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And the pollies keep throwing Other peoples’ money, (ours), at their pet projects.
It’s like a never ending episode out of “Yes Minister”….
…”we’ve got $$$Billions we have to spend otherwise Joe Public will think we aren’t doing anything! Plus, we need to spend all the revenue so we can justify the need to raise taxes on everything!”
Economics 101; The politicians’ version!
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It seems the problem was due to the collapse of seven transmission towers. Surely such towers are used for transmitting all supplies of power not just power generated by “green energy”
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What about the $650 million of backup equipment that didn’t work, a wind farm, a solar farm, a big battery which all failed spectacularly.
Supported days later by a dodgy 50 year old gas turbine which was on its last legs due to its age and lack of care, but the renewables were as good as two men off sick.
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“What about the $650 million of backup equipment that didn’t work, a wind farm, a solar farm, a big battery which all failed spectacularly.”I
If the transmission of power fails, which is what happened in this case, no matter how many wind farms and solar farms and big batteries there are they are not going to to get power to the customers without transmission lines.
The reality is a severe storm on Thursday 17 October destroyed seven Transgrid transmission towers causing significant disruption to the supply of electricity to Broken Hill and surrounding communities including Tibooburra, Wilcannia, Menindee, White Cliffs, Milparinka, Packsaddle and Silverton.
These communities were powered by a network of generators while Transgrid crews worked around the clock to construct replacement towers and restore the transmission line.
During the transition from generators back to the main power supply at 8.41pm (ACDT) last night, Broken Hill did not experience a power outage.
Communities outside Broken Hill were without power for around 20 minutes when they were taken off Essential Energy’s generators at 10pm (ACDT) and moved to the main grid, which is a much shorter outage than expected.
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“Advocates of the plan argue that Broken Hill will serve as a blueprint the rest of the world to comply with the “Net Zero” goals of the World Economic Forum (WEF).”
Well, it served as an example alright, just not the one they were seeking. LOL
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Some lovely Christmas music
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/classics-at-christmas/
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One of my favourites –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo
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My favourite film 🥰
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A beautiful cover of one of my all time favorite Carpenters Christmas songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZolAU9O7SY
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And another Christmas song cover done by the same artist. It’s short but very well done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf7PNTl5M0k
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If you want to hear the closest thing to angels incarnate, listen to this London boys choir. Apparently they have quite a following.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQadcm_dwEM
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That is a wonderful rendition of one of my favorite Christmas songs.
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My favorite from Australian brothers Joel and Luke. {The litter drummer is Luke’s 5 year old son, Phoenix.}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzEX3QMuVPM
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Professor Gad Saad is a conservation intellectual from Canada.
He Tweeted to a post by Justin Trudeau:
Both Prof. Saad and Dr Jordon Peterson have both had enough of Canada and its anti-freedom, anti-conservative policies and are migrating to the United States.
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I mey conservative not conservation, an unauthorised spelling correction.
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Oops again… Meant not mey.
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I am surprised it took Dr. Petersen so long. He came from a small town in Alberta.
I can only think it is a sign of the Trump effect. For the next four years, America will be conservative and free.
Not extreme left as at present or extreme right, just representative of the bulk of the people. It would be great in Australia and the UK too. There is no extreme right. Hitler was a socialist and closer to Trudeau.
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I was convinced that the writer was describing our “ Prime Minister “. ,!!
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It’s what is called “Boxing Day”, Dec 26, here in Australia.
Today was meant to be catastrophically hot according to the BoM, the Government weather and climate propaganda bureau.
They earlier predicted it was going to be over 40C max. (104F) but have now revised it to 39C (102F).
http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml
Also, at the following link from two days ago, note the revised colour code to indicate Australia is “red hot”.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/extreme-to-catastrophic-fire-danger-to-hit-sa-victoria-on-boxing-day/1890230
Independent weather organisations predict s maximum of 36C (97F) as I type this.
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/australia/melbourne/hourly
Keep the panic going.
These were once considered typical temperatures in Australia for this time of year and nothing to panic about. Australia is a hot country, people used to know that. It’s climactic zones include tropical, arid, temperate and subtropical zones. Believe it or not, back in the day, in Australia, they used to teach geography in schools.
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As you say, geography used to be taught in schools, Australia can be a hot place, surely the skin colour of the original inhabitants might yield a clue.
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Perhaps also in the UK and the EU, esp. northern countries.
Check out the latitude of Macquarie Island (about 54 degrees South) and where solar panels are being installed (with subsidies).
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Looks like Weatherzone’s temperature scale hasn’t caught up to WXMaps yet –
http://wxmaps.org/outlooks.php
Select “Australia and New Zealand” “Temperature” to check
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24 deg’s, Red hot!
Used to be airconditioning temperature.
http://wxmaps.org/outlooks.php
People have been conditioned to colours.
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More worrying there is that by about 30 you are starting to char and by 38 you’re about done ashing (based on experience with ashing in a muffle furnace)
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“People have been conditioned to colours.”
People have been conditioned to pictures and videos, rather than reading and thinking… The rot started when TV took over from radio and accelerated with dirt-cheap bandwidth on the net and then mobile phones. So much easier to fool the stupid that way.
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Weather channels as well as the regular weather updates broadcast at news time need to be modified.
All actual temperatures for the day in question should be accompanied with the verifiable historic temperature of that day recorded the previous year. Probably use colour coding to show that temperature from 12 months ago! Hopefully the gullible public will be able to see the hoax they are being subjected to!!!
Maybe we’ll then get some honesty about those “ hottest days evah “.
Currently every day is reported as the hottest day ever recorded. This appears to coincide with events such as the opposition leader announcing their intentions over nuclear power generation, a renewables induced blackout or a drop in sales of EVs.
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Are you saying the 26th of Dec every year should be the same?
The colour scales have been modified, they are intentionally scaled to alarm. Red is 24 to 26 deg’s.
It looks like a preschool water painting class.
If the wind blows off the desert it’s hot.
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No MP. Please show where it’s said that Dec 26th would be the same every year???
On 26th December 2024 show temp for the day & in a different colour show the temp for 26th December 2023. This must be verifiable. We will soon see honest reporti g surface!
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Bushfires are a consequence of a refusal of Labor/Green governments to allow let alone organize backburning of grasses and forests and to prevent high plains grazing. Bushfires are less frequent and far smaller in extent than before settlement and the vegetation is adapated to 50,000 years of aboriginal burning practices with almost exclusively pyrophytic trees left.
But the extra CO2 means more trees too. Great for agriculture but of course more fuel if governments go mad and prevent fire precautions. Bushfires are the third great threat in Australia after ‘drought and flooding rains’, but what politician has read ‘said Hanrahan‘?
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How do we know it is hotter than it has ever been? Easy, it’s much redder on the map than it has ever been. “Those who control the colour control the temperature” – per George Orwell
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Melbourne had highest Daily in December – 43.7C 15th December 1876 from Melbourne Station Station 86071O
:Melbourne Regional Office Number: 86071 Opened: 1908 Now: Closed 06 Jan 2015
Note BOM Telling Lies again – says opened 1908 but data goes back to 1 May 1855
And 43.5C 20th December 2019 from the Melbourne Station Details 86338
Station:Melbourne (Olympic Park)Number: 86338 Opened: 2013 Now: Open
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Wind up the hypebole to 11!
In that one block of text. “Extreme’….dire….temperatures soar….massive warning…… “extreme” dangers …..scorching temperatures….. massive bushfire….. major fire warning …..“extreme”
For two hot days in a string of 20something C days. No wonder people have stopped listening.
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The Sheeple are already dumbed-down enough.
AI is making them more so by removing any last vestiges of a necessity to think. E.g. they don’t have to research anything themselves, or write anything, they just ask AI to do it for them.
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As Carl Sagan put it almost thirty years ago:
“I have a foreboding of America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all of the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; with our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
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Steve
Check the service industry fiddle already in the US GPD figures mentioned in #15.
Doesn’t say whether it is in others but UK seems a “likely other place” as big on service industry
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FWIW – for the covid record
“React19 is the only organization created to help the covid vaccine injured. It does other great work, too, like maintaining a searchable database of thousands of published studies on the covid shots, and it funds research grants to scientists studying mRNA vaccine injuries. Since so many academic journals locked their science behind paywalls, React19’s website is one of the only places to find the studies.”
https://react19.org/
From today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter
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Boxing Day?
Christmas?
New Years Day?
I’m beginning to think everyday is Halloween.
The elites, the pols and their media mind control Sturmgruppen, constantly assault us with wave after wave of goblins and ghouls costumed, disguised, fake monsters to extort us for candy.
It’s the ____ ever!
Disease X!
White Nationalists! (Behind nearly every tree, so we must cut down trees to stop Climate Change and racism.)
Trick or Treat.
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FWIW
“Jewish Radio Host in Australia Reportedly Fired For Refusing to Support Pro-Hamas, Anti-Israel Views”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/jewish-radio-host-australia-reportedly-fired-refusing-support/
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I think there are definitely fewer insects in Australia than there used to be.
My anecdotal observations come from: 1) Fewer insect collisions with cars on highways although this might be attributable to better aerodynamics of cars with a higher frontal rake angle making insects more likely to bounce off or not hit in the first place. 2) Outside my front door in Melbournistan where I leave the porch light on at night there used to be huge numbers of insects attracted to the light, so much so that I installed an electronic insect killer because otherwise when I opened the door they would come inside. Now I don’t need to use the insect killer as there are few to no insects attracted to the light and I’m sure I didn’t kill all of my neighbourhood insects. 3) During camping and bushwalking (hiking) I have noticed that there seem fewer insects to annoy me.
Could it be a sign of a cooling climate which we do seem to have if you ignore official propaganda and BoM altered “homogenised” weather data (which is also deleted from the Official Record if it’s from before 1910)?
Some blame insecticides but if anything I think there is less use than in the past when they were used much more indiscriminately plus older insecticides were more persistent than modern ones.
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I think you may well be right. That seems to be happening in our neck of the woods too (between Sydney and Canberra). It could be because we moved (not far) to somewhere with less cattle and gum trees nearby, or maybe farmers are using more insecticides esp. systemic insecticides?
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Mike,
I know in our case here in Seaforth when we had 2 Beagles, the Dung Beatles were extremely active in the back, front and side yard lawns, and we rarely see flies these days – Loads of Ants, Blue Tongues, Water Dragons, Lizards, Kookaburras, Maggies thanfully the Cockies avoid us, but lots of Lorikeets
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How is it that a bug ALWAYS impacts the windscreen right in the driver’s view, never on the passenger side.
Secret forces at work here.😎
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It is riding the driver’s “projected line of concentration”?
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The incoming administration in the US will need to move smartly to save the nation from the wind drought trap. Another term with a Democrat president could have seen the trap close with disastrous consequences for the power supply.
The trap is set when subsidised and mandated wind and solar power DISPLACE conventional fuels although they can’t REPLACE them.
https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/renewables/21-7-intermittent-solar-and-wind-power-can-displace-coal-but-cannot-replace-it
That is a “frog in the saucepan” phenomenon and the danger only causes alarm when it is almost too late.
The trap closes when the displacement of conventional power reaches a “tipping point” and the grid is in the “red zone” where windless nights are potentially lethal.
Britain and Germany have passed that point and they survive precariously on imports and deindustrialization to reduce demand.
Australia is on the cusp and ANOTHER DEMOCRAT TERM IN THE WHITE HOUSE WOULD DRIVE THE US INTO THE RED ZONE.
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/11/approaching-the-tipping-point/
The treason of the meteorologists
The meteorological offices of the world never issued wind drought warnings even though they know that high pressure systems cause low wind periods. So the Dunkelflautes came as a surprise in Europe in 2021 although mariners and millers must have experienced them for centuries.
https://www.flickerpower.com/images/The_endless_wind_drought_crippling_renewables___The_Spectator_Australia.pdf
The World Meteorological Organization must have known about wind droughts because the first Assessment report of the IPCC recommended a survey of the wind resources of the world to assess the prospects for large-scale wind power. That would have been led by the WMO.
The WMO was a first mover in the climate scare in the UN and all the met offices have been hyperactive in supporting the scare by tampering with temperature records and attributing extreme weather events to climate change.
One of the aims of the original climate alarmists in the UN was to wreck the capitalist economies of the west (to save the planet.) That can happen when wind and solar displace fossil fuels to the point where wind droughts become an existential threat to the power supply because on nights with little or no wind there is effectively no RE regardless of the amount of installed capacity. For some strange reason the authorities in Britain and Germany don’t understand that.
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although mariners and millers must have experienced them for centuries.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
‘Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!
All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
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Rafe, I think Australia is not “on the cusp” but we are already in the Red Zone.
As Jo reported here the other day, regular large scale blackouts in Australia are only prevented because large amounts of taxpayer money is paid to our few remaining large industrial electricity consumers to allow their loads to be shed every time the wind stops blowing or the sun stops shining.
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And very large amounts of tax money (quantums not revealed because of “commercial sensitivity”) paid to the major coal-fired generators (Eraring, Bayswater, Mt Piper, Loy Yang, Yallourn) so these critical generators may remain patched up despite being under regulatory death sentences.
Yes, coal-fired generation is now subsidised (NOTE: not the miners, though). The actual subsidy sizes are not published, officially because of commercial sensitivity, but really because the actual money amounts would stir the lefty MSM into endless paroxysms.
I think I’ve previously commented that those major generators I’ve listed all require over $100m each now in routine repair/maintenance capital to guarantee reliability – but who would provide that capital to operations that are threatened almost daily with regulatory closure ?
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True, that is hard to quantify and not well-known.
It is probably somewhere in the AEMO database and I must find it and report regularly.
Another issue is the deindustrialization that is not documented; the Page Institute is working on it.
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FWIW – more on that “give away sale”
“President Trump Reports Border Wall Auction Has Been Stopped
December 25, 2024 | Sundance | 59 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/25/president-trump-reports-border-wall-auction-has-been-stopped/
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The Left/Elites love AI because it is helpful in controlling the masses by making sure only the “correct” information is fed to them e.g. biased search results and propaganda. Government love it because of its assistance in tracing and tracking people and facial recognition.
However, AI requires vast amounts of energy.
You can’t run AI on wind, solar or Unicorn flatulence.
That’s why the woke purveyors of AI are running their AI computers on nuclear power.
https://www.ans.org/news/article-5842/amazon-buys-nuclearpowered-data-center-from-talen/
And GASP even coal and gas.
Meanwhile the masses freeze or boil due to inability to afford wind and solar electricity.
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FWIW
“BRICS+ Grows. GDP Fiddle”
“Here’s a nice little update on BRICS+ growth AND it demystifies some of the GDP Games in the US numbers.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/12/25/brics-grows-gdp-fiddle/
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GDP… as meaningless as a global temperature and only useful for Govts to interfere with the lives of their subjects. Another bunch of snivel servants who should be fired to get a haircut and get a real job!
“8% Of US GDP is the implied rents for owner occupied houses. Yup, 8% is a complete fiction. They figure out how much I would have to pay to rent my house from myself and add that to the GDP. “
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Great Cartoon The Australian Today -Johannes Leak cartoons
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“The good, the fat and the ugly who want to fight in Ukraine
The notion of a prison swap between a forlorn Australian vegan incongruously fighting on the battlefields of the Donbas and a grossly obese, sweaty man holed up in an apartment in Woollahra, claiming diplomatic protection, invites a raft of fat jokes. ”
The writer strikes me as a particularly nasty man… must be a journalist.
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A pox on the porpentines and pesky popinjays
This is journalism’s off-season. Our audience is drunk, hating the kids, or hiding from foaming Uncle Peter. Like the Antichrist, my dark hour has come, and I am filled with malice. My target is the entire, simpering modern English language.
GREG CRAVEN
I’ve bitterly accepted “impactful”, “holistic” and the metronomic “best practice”. I’ve chokingly swallowed “low-hanging fruit”, “drill down” and “evidence-based”. But I’ve had enough.
English, you’re an indiscriminate postmodern word-whore and you can stand on someone else’s corner. Like some low-rate literary exile, weeping beside the waters of the Paramatta River, I mourn for the English of Donne, Milton and Eliot. For that matter, I pine for the English of Enid Blyton.
I accept that writing – now the realm of motherless political speech hacks and unimaginative sign writers – has been on the wane for an age. Most of the really good words have been dropped from the team, like rugby forwards who failed the etiquette class. What happened to quality insults like Shakespeare’s popinjay and fearful porpentine? Popinjay was a person so obsessed with their spangly appearance they gave parrots a bad name. A fearful porpentine was not a prickly behemoth inspiring fear, but a spindly porcupine raising soft, futile spikes at every danger.
With his sale-price Zegna suits and Armani front teeth, Treasurer Jim Chalmers is a popinjay. Scuttling heroically away from any possible policy debate, Anthony Albanese channels his inner fearful porpentine.
Today, we have a language primarily designed to cover and conceal, not explain, let alone entertain. We are the undertakers of our own mother tongue.
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I also hate expressions like “thank you for reaching out to us”.
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Agreed. Faking sincerity is harder than it looks.
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Like it isn’t a real smile unless the eyes also smile
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How much do you hate the repeat-the-question-in-the-answer totally unhelpful useless answers that emanate from the M$ online support centre? 😁
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Where Australia could be headed under Labor/Greens/TEALs, given my House & Contents Insurance and Rates increases over the last 3 years
Insurance and Taxes Now Cost More Than Mortgages for Many Homeowners
Ballooning expenses rewrite the math of homeownership
Soaring costs for home insurance and property taxes are busting homeowners’ budgets.
Insurers have pushed big rate increases because of losses from natural disasters and rising costs to repair homes. Surging home values in recent years, meanwhile, have lifted property taxes for many homeowners.
These ballooning expenses are rewriting the math of homeownership.
In September, 32% of the average single-family mortgage payment went to property taxes and home insurance, the highest rate ever for data going back to 2014, according to Intercontinental Exchange.
But while mortgage rates fluctuate, climbing property taxes and insurance costs show no sign of reversing.
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We pay stamp duty and GST on home insurance.
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“Natural disasters” is always the excuse for higher home insurance rates, but is there any actual evidence for an increase in natural disasters in Australia?
And why do people keep building in known flood and bushfire zones and expect insurance coverage or the taxpayer to cover their losses?
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Flood zones are generally the best land in Australia … in terms of agricultural production. Really, Sydney should be moved into the Blue Mountains and the river flats around the Parramatta River and the Georges River should be made into farms like it used to be.
We supposedly have city planning in Australia but they certainly don’t think ahead.
Anyway … in a known flood zone, it’s rare to be able to get flood insurance and people live there anyway because you don’t really need insurance but you really, really do need somewhere to live.
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Just learned that the star Aldebaran is located 66.6 light years or 20.4 parsecs from the Earth based on the latest parallax records from the Hipparcos satellite. Yikes! 666.
https://www.universeguide.com/exoplanet/140/aldebaranb
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Victoristan is set to erupt in flames in coming days, perfect conditions, bankrupt communist green govt, tinder dry fuel, hot dry northerly winds.
It’s all coming together, again.
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The bushfires are just as planned because the Government banned or greatly reduced the number of fuel reduction burns allowed plus banned firewood collection in large areas.
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It’s only today that’s the real fire hazard- tomorrow it’s back to 20˚C again, hardly hot. Usually the worst aspect of this type of weather is the dry thunderstorms which might start some fires. The best thing you can do is NOT watch/listen to the MSM news and whatever you do, don’t get the Vic Emergency app. Or if you do get the App, just turn off all notifications, otherwise it will drive you nutty.
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Finding joy in abstinence: Merry Christmas, crazy miserable commies
’Tis the season to be jolly.
And yes, that means even you crazy, miserable leftists who are dyeing your hair purple and declaring a “sex strike” over the outcome of the last election. In all fairness, however, your “sex strike” just may be the greatest Christmas present you ever gave.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
And we mean thank you not only on a personal level on behalf of all those good people spared such unpleasant conjugations, but also on a societal level. By that one act alone, you are doing your part to make America great again.
So, thank you.
And truly, even on a larger level. On behalf of humanity everywhere, thank you. Every now and then, it is not bad to run a little filter through the human gene pool — so long as it is entirely voluntary.
“Voluntary” is one of those things crazy, miserable leftists reserve only for themselves.
Anyway, your self-discipline does not go unnoticed, and it is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for taking one for the team. Team human. Team America. And team your unfortunate boyfriend. Or whatever.
Indeed, one of the most baffling things about crazy miserable leftists is their general tendency toward smugness in politics, especially when they are not on a “sex strike.” Always with the lectures and high-handed moralizing about everything.
So in this season of joy and gratitude, we celebrate your failure and subsequent celibacy. May all your failures be manifold and may your celibacy reign forever.
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It’s only today that’s the real fire hazard- tomorrow it’s back to 20˚C again, hardly hot. Usually the worst aspect of this type of weather is the dry thunderstorms which might start some fires. The best thing you can do is NOT watch/listen to the MSM news and whatever you do, don’t get the Vic Emergency app. Or if you do get the App, just turn off all notifications, otherwise it will drive you nutty.
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The linked image is on a post at WUWT:
https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/FD/16/20243591650_GOES16-ABI-FD-16-1808×1808.jpg
It is the CO2 band radiating temperature. White is really cold at around MINUS 90C. Blue is just cold at MINUS 30C, redish-brown is 0C, yellow is 30C and bright red in 60C. The image came from one of these NASA animations:
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G16&band=16&length=12
You wil see the scale below the animation.
The red region is the Atacama Desert. So the CO2 over that region radiates at 60C when the sun is shining. The surface below is close to 0C so there is a massive temperature inversion such that the CO2 is probably above the tropopause.
The Atacama Desert is hyperarid. with negligible rainfall. The atmosphere is extremely dry. The regions that show white are all high altitude ice. All the blue regions are mid to high level ice and water vapour. The brown to yellow are low level cloud, water vapour and some surface.
If the atmosphere had a lot more CO2 and a lot less ice, then the CO2 would be capable of warming the surface. The ability of ice to reflect more than 85% of the incoming solar radiation is all that matters with regard Earth’s energy balance unless you live in the Atacama Desert where the CO2 could be adding to the surface heat input. But so far it has not done enough, even in the hyoerarid regions of the Andes, to melt the ice above 5000m.
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Rick
Meet Prosopis tamarugo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopis_tamarugo
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MSM Quietly Acquits Itself with Hushed Admissions of Major White House Coverup
Simplicius – Dec 25, 2024
Another one of those bombshell MSM pieces slipped past this week, not far in gravity from the seminal Time exposé about the ‘shadow campaign’ that stole the 2020 election.
This time it dealt with the revelation surrounding Biden’s “diminished” mental capacity, long known to all those around him, and how he was essentially ventriloquized, shielded, and stage managed into an acceptable simulacrum of a ‘president’.
Of course, as usual the admissions are made long after the fact, with the damage long done and the MSM shills feeling they can now provocatively milk the revelation when the chance for any accountability has been dissipated and America’s attention redirected elsewhere.
More significantly the article indirectly sheds light on the structure and contours of the deep state and just how the powers that be work behind the scenes to control policy by taking advantage of crises to foment ideal circumstances that can be used to steer events and people in power.
In this case, the article makes direct mention of how Biden’s staff ‘took advantage’ of the Covid era protocols which insulated the president from excessive meetings and contact, stretching the new normal out indefinitely to the present in a way that evoked few real protests yet kept Biden under the thumb of a small claque of inner staff.
And that word—insulated—is an operative one:
it’s used in various forms nearly ten separate times in the article, including as title of a subheading, with the very theme consequently being Biden’s total insulation from the outside world, which included members of Congress and Cabinet.
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WSJ Archived – How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge
Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted. The administration denied Biden has declined.
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I did the following exercise five years ago. The figures are probably different now, but just as bad.
I added up the total capacity of coal power plants in Australia as listed in Wikipedia = 24,767MW for 20 plants so average size per plant of 1,238MW.
There are also 94 visually and audio polluting wind subsidy farms of total nameplate capacity of 5,679MW (representing 2,506 stinking windmills). Now, since the capacity factor is only 30-35%, this means the true total windmill output is just 1,703-1,988MW or a mere 18MW to 21MW per subsidy farm.
Another way to look at it is the total true capacity of all Australian wind subsidy farms is only 37% to 60% bigger than just ONE proper power station.
It hardly seems worth destroying our economy for, does it?
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That figure for total nameplate wind seems low. Based on Tony’s data and other sources, I have:
NEM: 13,460 MW (Oct 2024)
WA: 762 MW (Oct 2024)
NT: 0
And I believe that Tony stated the number of turbines on the NEM to be 3300. Haven’t as yet determined the number of turbines in WA.
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Ok, a bit searching for WA provides the following:
Wind systems: 17
Number of turbines: 430
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This video is a talk given at the 2024 Australian ARC conference a month or so ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRhNOv1Uo4M
There are some very good numbers on the real cost of Australia getting to NetZero using “renewables” compared with nuclear or sticking with coal. The bottom line of AUD2.57tr is close to the money on the basis that the demand rises to average of 35GW.
He is a factor of 1000 out when he states $95M per person but $95k per person is still expensive.
The peak demand in Victoria yesterday was 5809MW at 7pm. Christmas Day so one of the lowest peak demand days of the year. The minimum generation from wind was 168MW from an installed capacity of 5375MW. If there was only wind and we could guarantee that wind CF would never be lower than 168/5375 = 3.1% then Victoria only needs 32 times the capacity to power the state – say 177GW. The problem is the guaranteed output is zero. So wind is not a viable generating option unless you can command the load to follow the generation. Definitely no cooked meals for Christmas Day if that was the case.
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Not surprised by those numbers. Presume they are based on all-battery backup, for an unspecified time, perhaps one week? However, the Labor govt will still refute them by claiming that gas can be used as backup. And as Robert Idel pointed out, switching from batteries to gas for backup makes a significant difference in the backup cost. But if they want to achieve over 80% renewables, I cannot see much spare gas bring available.
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Not surprised by those numbers. Presume they are based on all-battery backup, for an unspecified time, perhaps one week? However, the Labor govt will still refute them by claiming that gas can be used as backup. And as Robert Idel pointed out, switching from batteries to gas for backup makes a significant difference in the backup cost. But if they want to achieve over 80% renewables, I cannot see much spare gas bring available.
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Ice-skating drag queens and Ukrainian influencers included in $1trn US ‘waste list’
Over $1 trillion in US taxpayer money has been frittered away on unnecessary, crazy, and outright repulsive projects, Senator Rand Paul believes. The libertarian-leaning lawmaker has urged the future administration of President-elect Donald Trump to tackle the problem.
The senator seems particularly miffed by $1,513,299 that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has spent since 2019 on a study of motion sickness. It involved researchers removing parts of kittens’ brains, strapping them to hydraulic tables and rocking them 360 degrees. Paul considers the experiment an unjustifiable form of animal cruelty, he said in interviews.
Last week, the DOGE account on the same platform released a short list of questionable government projects, such as toilets scanning people’s “anal prints” and a grant to Harvard University to study the effect of leaf blowers on lizards in trees.
https://www.rt.com/news/609922-paul-government-waste-report/
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In case you are wondering what an “anal print” is…this is indescribably messed up…a consequence of taxpayer-funded “science”…
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Festive fun with Santa Klaus dreaming of a grey Christmas and a Great Reset:
https://videopress.com/v/tQB16MTi
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Tech tips corner: Five lesser known Task Manager features in Windows 11
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/five-lesser-known-task-manager-features-in-windows-11/
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And for those who think coal CO2 is special, sticking in the air while all other CO2 goes in the ocean, China has some news. Record levels of coal burning, a 50% increase since pre lockdown. Can’t get enough of the stuff. Someone clearly could not care less. Simply because it’s not true. And as long as people worship the heat, sun and sand for their holidays, why would anyone else care? Where’s the actual problem?
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And while the world worries about the poor Maldives less than 1 metre out of the water. They now have seven new airports for tourists. What people don’t know is that the oceans around the Maldives are 4,000 metres deep. And no one asks why they are all at sea level within 1 metre? Like all the coral atolls. Just lucky I guess. And where do the 521,000 people get their water? But the alarmists never ask such questions. Send money/carbon cash before they all drown.
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And China supplies most of its own coal. Plus ““Data from the National Energy Administration (NEA) expected national coal production to reach about 4.76 billion tons for the year 2024,” the Times noted. “Crude oil production is expected to rebound for the sixth consecutive year, with natural gas production expected to increase by more than 10 billion cubic meters for eight consecutive years.” Of course they have also invested heavily in nuclear and tripled their number of nuclear warheads.
Meanwhile nuclear is banned in Australia. And we pay for all our imports with coal and iron ore exports to China. Australia is not the clever country with massive CO2 carbon credits soon the reach 10% on June 30th on its way to 35% on all transport, shipping and flying. And the ‘big polluters’ just mark it up and pass it onto the ignorant consumers, us. No wonder the cost of travel heads the inflation list at 50%.
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True enough, although it really applies to thermal coals. China has very few high quality coking coal deposits and what it does have is actually controlled through the PLA (literally), such is the value ascribed to it.
Consequently, the world benchmark coking coals from the Q’ld Bowen Basin are able to negotiate high ranges of sale price across Asia; so too the Hunter Valley coking coals, although to a lesser degree.
Doubtless this will be challenged by greenies claiming that differing steel manufacturing techniques are just around the corner. As they have said now for well over four decades.
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So I just came from my Christmas dinner amongst the Progressive tribals.
Did not go well.
Writing this because because I left the wife there and escaped.
There where many off hand passing references to Trump, Pandemic, and Climate and my tongue could sustain no more biting.
So I interjected.
I am weak.
Learned a bit.
Pandemic was bad because Trump denies ‘science’ and did not lockdown soon and severely enough.
Did it come from a lab?
They “don’t know, don’t care … Trump”.
It’s not important … Trump.
So how much warmer is it since 1850?
“Don’t know, don’t care”.
Apparently, I Honk, am a MAGA science dee-ny-er for knowing (as much as it can be known).
How much CO2 is in the atmosphere?
“Don’t know, don’t care.”
I am distrusting science for knowing what the science says.
I was asked a departing question, “do you respect Trump?” I said yes.
I will not be invited to Prom.
It was weird, most of these educated and successful people simply genuflect to popular science magazine authority.
I must avoid social interactions.
Especially since I have little tolerance for small talk a zero interest in sports.
Merry Boxing Day.
2025 is going to interesting in an old Chinese proverb kind of way.
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Sorry to hear of your trauma Honk.
It’s very hard for a thinking person to be forced to associate with Leftists so I just avoid it altogether.
I don’t mind alternative points of view, but Leftists tend to have a complete disconnect from the evidence of reality. It comes from their belief in post-modernism.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy
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You need a better class of friends and a greater level of battle engagement with family.
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I’ve been asked that, apropos of nothing I said or did anywhere near the point of the question. I was simply describing the formation and growth of a coral atoll in the simplest language I could in response to some quite normal and inquisitive question about big wave surfing.
So my response to the passive-aggressive question on Trump ?
Well, we’re going to drill, baby, drill !!
The consequence of that was quite funny.
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I was under the impression that even Jill Biden has boarded the Trump train.
The new seat of power in the world is Mar-a-Lago with anyone of consequence visiting there in the past two months.
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Boxing Day 2024! Seconds out, Round 2025. Don’t get the hump! Pump and Dump with Trump! Labor must be the first KO
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We’re at this point now: I think both authors were correct as we have examples of both.
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