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In praise of CO2
New Year’s Resolution to Embrace CO2 Emissions and Benefits
We should be grateful for the industrial emissions of carbon dioxide that contribute to greater crop productivity instead of spending billions on foolish projects to remove the gas from the air to store it underground. Such initiatives will do nothing to improve the weather while impoverishing people.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/01/02/new-years-resolution-to-embrace-co2-emissions-and-benefits/
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The scam plays on two very wrong ideas
1. that a gas can accumulate in the air, as if it is just a bucket with an arbitrary amount of the gas.
2. and the corollary, that a gas can be increased by ’emissions’ or decreased by removal.
People talk of ‘The Science’ but this foundational concept is a sheer ignorance of the universal fact of equilibrium.
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Consider that CO2 is 30x more soluble than oxygen and rapidly absorbed so almost all CO2 is in the ocean.
And like the other great invisible gas, H2O at 1% to 4% in the atmosphere, a lot comes back out by simple evaporation.
When things get absorbed, what determines how much comes back? What sets the ultimate level?
This is the usual state of nature, equilibrium where the level settles at the precise point where the amount going in equals the amount coming out.
The very idea that humans by CO2 emissions or CO2 sequestration can interfere with this level is both ignorant and delusional. And there is plenty of very obvious evidence that this idea is completely wrong. You have to suspend belief in science to believe a word of it.
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The made up science to help explain rapid man made CO2 warming include
1. that the ocean is full of CO2. It cannot absorb any more CO2. Which is very odd considering that 98% of free CO2 is already dissolved in the ocean, so the increase of 50% or 0.7% of the total cannot fit? That’s absurd.
2. that the tiny effect of increased CO2 on IR reflection is significant enough to produce degrees of warming. It obviously isn’t. So the idea was created that the CO2 warming caused extra evaporation which greatly by increased effect with a band of warm, humid air over the equator. So the CO2 effect causes evaporation which causes the effect. Really? Except that 30 years of searching has failed to detect this ‘hot spot’. This is no longer mentioned.
3. that there are two oceans, a ‘surface’ ocean which is full and a vast ‘deep’ ocean which is disconnected. So the ability of the ‘surface’ ocean to absorb CO2 is reduced dramatically and so explains the growth of CO2 and the simultaneous ‘acidification’ of the surface. This convenient and unproven conjecture is wrong on many counts. The first is that no ocean is acid. A Ph of 8 is alkali and the oceans are hugely buffered by literal mountains of chalk/coral. Continents of the stuff. And 8 is the ph of our drinking water, close to dead neutral.
There is also a convenient omission of the fact that CO2 is a liquid at even modest pressure. Oceans at 1 atmosphere per 10 metres, so at 25 metres CO2 the pressure is enough to dramatically increase CO2 absorption. You can see this in Coca Cola with a few menthos with this pressure. The amount of CO2 you can stuff into a bottle is amazing.
4. that the increase in CO2 in the top layer of the ocean is due to the CO2 increase in the air. No one draws the reverse conclusion that an increase in surface concentration is the obvious reason for the increase in atmospheric concentration. Especially when you consider that 98 parts out of 100 of CO2 are in the ocean.
5. and of course the very obvious idea which is utterly ignored, that ocean surface warming releases CO2. Which of course must go through the surface. No, the evidence is flipped around to argue that human increased CO2 causes increased atmospheric CO2 which increases ocean surface CO2.
Everything presented is actually a simple reversal of the obvious truth of physical chemistry and CO2 equilibrium. As if someone is making it all up to suit themselves and getting away with it. Let’s call this body the IPCC.
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And the simplest proofs that is it all untrue
1. CO2 is a constant from pole to pole, within 1%
2. NASA has proven we cannot reduce CO2 by carbon credits/growing trees/reducing emissions/sequestration.
This is the satellite observation that from 1988 to 2014, CO2 increased by 14% and tree cover world wide also increased by 14%. So hundreds of billions of tons of CO2 were sequestered in trees and CO2 went up, not down. What then is the point of Carbon Credits and government driven Tree farms across the world, especially in the UK.
So why is this all continuing? Green Energy/Carbon Credits/CO2 taxes/tree farms subsidized entirely by hidden massive theft in our electricity prices? There is no science of man made CO2 driven Global Warming. Sequestering CO2 is pointless! More comes out of the ocean because of the reality of equilibrium.
Any government which promises to bring back coal will romp home. But we will never match China which is opening a new coal fired power plant every week while receiving Carbon cash as a struggling third world country. At least they have removed their super taxes on our wine and lobsters. And as the Chinese ambassador to Australia commented, he hopes we have learned our lesson not to ask questions.
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Thank you TdeF for putting all of this in one place at one time.
If I may make an observation and ask a question or two.
CO2 levels in the atmosphere have been increasing. If that is not due to burning fossil fuel then it must be due to a shift in the equilibrium between atmosphere and oceans. What could cause that shift? The small amount of warming in my lifetime does not seem enough to do that.
What happens when deep cold ocean water comes to the surface eg on the west coast of South America? Presumably there is a massive release of CO2.
Is it possible to track movements of CO2 into and out of the oceans?
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There is only one source of such an amount of CO2, a 50% increase over 250 years, so only 0.4% a year.
So the question is only why the equilibrium point shifts.
As for temperature, we see the annual effects of warming in the CO2 graph of Moana Loa/Hawaii. NOAA’s explanation of plant life is obviously wrong. The peaks are midsummer and mid winter. However having seen this, the underlying straight line as seen in NZ needs explanation as the temperature change is not enough.
I believe your suggestion about rising currents is spot on, except the provision that they have to be cold. They can be warm. The surface current on the North Atlantic gyre, the Gulf Stream is a river of hot water over perhaps 1500km and is 1km deep and ‘only’ 100km wide. As a river it travels at 9km/hr and warms on the great circle the East Coast of North America, Greenland and Norway to Ireland.
One of the reasons I believe heat stays and travels in currents, both laterally and vertically, is that heat expansion is small and heat capacity is high/specific heat. We are more familiar with air currents which are driven by massive expansion. Hot air has more lift then hydrogen and it rockets up, creating vortices and carried hot wet air to great heights. This gives us thunderstorms, monsoon rains, tornadoes, hurricanes and rapid mixing. Even so you can see these phenomena in play on a grand scale.
So even slightly hotter water, say a few degrees hotter can carry great amounts of energy and CO2, even at great depths. The heat does not mix dynamically and dramatically as you would get in thin air with turbulence. There is no real turbulence at depths.
We see evidence of this with famous currents and cycles like the El Nino/La Nina. Heat rises to the surface of the Eastern Pacific. And our droughts and flooding rains are the exact reverse of those in South America/California, as if that wasn’t obvious.
And trapped in these currents, as is admitted, CO2 travels and surfaces and dives and gets pushed around. Given that 99.9% of the heat (350x the mass, 4 x the specific heat of air) and 98% of the CO2, if scientists were serious about climate, they need to study and model the oceans, cause not effect. All of our weather, all of our water, all of our climates are determined by the ocean, the greatest heat bank on the planet.
As Rick Will demonstrated, people have finally been able to isolate sources of CO2 by satellite. There are CO2 specific satellites aloft now. But to even see human ’emissions’ you have to substract of the 99% background CO2 as even our record CO2 ’emissions’ are only 1% of what is there anyway. So they are just able to map CO2 emissions with origin. Tracking is something else. And there are many other emissions, notably from the oceans, emissions which are so great they replace 50% of the CO2 every five years. That tiny 1% gets lost.
But all this focus on CO2 is a circular argument based on the Al Gore/James Hanson determination to blame human origin CO2. If you ignore them, you can explain everything with solar activity and ocean currents. This was done for thermometer measured temperatures in Europe and the fit is spectacular.
However the European temperature also are very different from this ‘world’ temperature, a completely artificial construct based on proxies mainly for most of the globe for most of the last 250 years. And also based on the idea that it makes sense to talk about a ‘world’ temperature, that the Southern and Northern Hemispheres are even strongly coupled in that sort of time scale. It’s one of those averages which no one actually has experienced as it is an average from pole to pole, summer and winter, night and day. It could be completely misleading at all locations.
I lean towards the excellent data and fit of Carl Otto Weiss who had twelve inflection points with only two osciallations, the De Vries 250 year solar oscillation and the 60 year AMO/PDO ocean oscillation. And CO2 is likely an artifact not a cause. The idea that CO2 is a greater threat to humanity than 10,000 nuclear warheads is unbelievable.
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Shorter. Currents do not have to be cold. The water can be warmer. I know hot air rises, largely because of expansion, but the same is not true of water. And the difference only has to be a few degrees to be very significant. Heat moves by convection, conduction, radiation. A hot current like the Gulf Stream has little surface area compared to volume, no radiation underwater and no mixing and little conduction except on the very edges. Below I talk about the Gulf Stream, but only as one example of how rivers of water can travel in what amounts to pipes in all directions including up and down.
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Well assembled Tdef. My interest was piqued about “CO2 is a liquid at even modest pressure”.
I am familiar with frozen CO2 in the form of dry ice and of course gaseous CO2 and the fact that at standard temperature and pressure frozen CO2 sublimates directly to gaseous CO2.
I have never heard of liquid CO2 until now. Wikipedia confirms the numerous uses of liquid CO2 in “decaffeinating coffee, extracting virgin olive oil from olive paste, in fire extinguishers, and as a coolant”.
And I confess that I studied physical chemistry as a sub-major in my BSc all those years ago.
We live and we learn. Many thanks.
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Than you will love this phase diagram. By definition we never see pressures above 1 bar on land, but divers know all about pressure in the water.
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Two fellas in Cornwall make sure next year the pub won’t require fancy dress to get in on NYE: https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/ku-klux-klan-fancy-dress-9830838
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Love it! Freedom of expression is a hallmark of democracy.. Oh wait, they had to take their KKK costumes off?
“The pubgoer, who was left “angry and annoyed” by the incident, said they could not be sure anyone else at the pub recognised that the pair were dressed as Klansmen…”We were in shock at first and couldn’t believe it. We spoke to a guy standing near us and he thought it was a game character as some people were dressed as Mario. No one seemed to take much notice and they did seem to know people and staff.”
Ah, there’s always someone around to get offended and make sure we all know we’re not moral enough!
So, KKK really bad and must be obliterated from people’s minds…
“The NAACP says that 4,743 lynchings took place between 1882 and 1968.”
However witch hunts seem fine and never suffer the same bias..
“An intensive period of witch-hunts… took place from about 1450 to 1750, … resulting in an estimated 35,000 to 60,000 executions.”
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Assuming that there were no American blacks in the pub, this person was “angry and annoyed” on behalf of others he has probably never met.
That’s the hallmark of victimhood. Native Americans didn’t force the name changes of football teams and condiments, ’twas other busybodies.
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A rise in UK deaths expected with cold weather.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/02/ice-warning-travel-alerts-uk-flooding
“Public health bosses in the UK are expecting a rise in deaths from cold weather, amid severe weather warnings for snow and ice over the next five days. The UK’s Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued an amber alert for social care in England, saying vulnerable people were at risk as the country braced for heavy snow and ice going into the weekend.”
And, somehow, the Graudina thinks rising temperatures are bad?!
I’m pretty sure I won’t have any of whatever it is that they are smoking!
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Cold is a much bigger killer than heat.
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I wonder if there has ever been a UK winter where there wasnt rise in deaths compared with warmer months? The amber alert seems to be triggered by government induced energy issues more than anything.
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Donald Trump has promised to use tariffs to police countries playing games with unfair trade.
And John Howard with Peter Costello have issued a statement that Trump should be constrained by ‘international law’ from applying tariffs. Clearly the UN should rule the world.
Really? Except that this same duo were silent about 200% taxes by China on our wine and lobster trade. For asking about the origin of Wuhan Flu?
Why is the behavior of the Chinese Communist party exempt from criticism? But Donald Trump is already being targeted by Democratic leaders for even threatening to do what China openly does?
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And as Jo has pointed out, it is absurd that China is able to claim Carbon payments and be exempt from any prohibition on coal and gas when China is now the largest historic emitter of CO2? The story of China as an historic Climate ‘victim’ is extinct.
Why do only Democratic counties like Australia have to comply to the edicts of the UN/WHO/IPCC, committees of retired politicians dominated by China?
Of course supported by adoring fans including Kevin Rudd, Anthony Albanese, Chris Bowen, Penny Wong and Adam Bandt. When did Australia become a communist vassal state? And the UK and Canada and South Africa. All very worried by a resurgent democracy in an independent US.
The last thing Australia wants is another drop in the lobster trade. Lobsters are clearly not the only bottom feeders.
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It’s pretty obvious that western industrialised nations must get the hell out of the UN / WEF stranglehold. Continued association will only lead to the decline of the west.
USA must take the lead by engineering a new body for international relationships. Once there is an alternative the only western members will be the EU which will follow when 5he UN becomes a totalitarian organisation.
A second organisation will bring competition to international affairs & win. Just like competition works for commerce & industry! 😳😳 shock & horror
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The UN should get out of the business of the weather. Governments do not control the weather. The idea is insane. As for wanting $1.3Trillion a year to help third world countries buy windmills and solar panels, it’s another dream of rivers of cash.
What is the UN doing to prevent war in the Middle East and Ukraine. The UN seems to be Israel’s biggest enemy, which is odd as Israel was a 1948 creation of the United Nations. Overiding the lines drawn on the map by the victorious French and British after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Whole countries disappeared, like Kurdistan. And then the business of Protectorates. How is that working out for Lebanon, Iraq, Syria?
As for employing 80,000 people, the UN has metastasized like the EU. They are hungry beasts and have never seen a milch cow like Global Warming. It was the gift of US Presidential Candidate Al Gore when he ran in 1988. It nearly made him President, the terrible spectre of Global Warming which only Al Gore could see.
If any organization needs to fire 90% of its staff, it is the UN. It is staffed by vastly overpaid failed politicians who live in luxury, funded in large part by the US. And the UNWRA was a main actor in the massacre of 7 October 2023 in Israel. Without consequences.
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Victoria is becoming a Totalitarian state.
The same crazy ideas infect leftist bastions in the US as well, but this is a bridge too far.
“Residents of Victoria’s most populous region have to pay upwards of $400 just to work on their own vehicles, after a local government area imposed strict rules around private land use earlier this year.”
https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/this-australian-city-wants-to-charge-people-to-work-on-their-cars
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Would that apply to checking oil, changing wiper blades, adding fluids, inflating tires?
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That would be decided at the whim of some officious council officer (aka twit)
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There was a time when the owner/driver of a vehicle was expected to follow the Manual of Instructions: from the manual for my post WW2 classic car:
Summary of Routine Maintenance
Daily
Check engine oil level
Check water level in radiator
Weekly
Wash and polish paintwork
Every 1,000 Miles
Lubricate all grease **pples with the exception of the hubs
Fill up wick lubricator on dynamo with thin oil
Add a drop of oil to distributor **aft
Inspect battery level
Check spring bolts
Spray springs with penetrating oil
Every 2,000 Miles
Check brakes and adjust if necessary
Clean sparking plugs and set gaps
Check tappet clearances
Drain engine oil, clean filter and replenish
Oil door hinges and locks
Check oil level in gearbox, topping up if necessary Clean sparking
Check oil level in rear axle, topping up if necessary Clean sparking
Every 5,000 Miles
Drain gearbox and replenish with oil
Clean distributor and set points if necessary
Lubricate dynamo and starter motor
Clean filters in fuel feed system
Check spring bolts Spray bolts
Check steering and track rod joints
Add a few spots of thin oil to accelerator pedal, throttle levers, ignition levers, hand brake trigger
Top up shock absorbers
Clean oil feed to rocker **aft filter
Every 10,000 Miles
Remove cylinder head, decarbonise and grind in valves if engine performance indicates the necessity for this
Lubricate all wheel hub bearings
Replenish oil in steering box
Lubricate springs
Every 20,000 Miles
The car should be submitted to the Works or an official Agent for an inspection, when any necessary adjustments will be recommended.
Any local government stooge will have a hard time fining me for keeping my car roadworthy. Will I have to present my driver’s licence and said permit in order to purchase grease, oil and coolant?
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Australia has become the laughing stock of the world.
Ww have our worst governments ever at federal, state and local levels.
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Australia’s most dangerous invasive species is the government bureaucrat.
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“Australia has become the laughing stock of the world.”
I very much doubt that the rest of the world is the slightest bit interested in what Australia does or doesn’t do
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Ian,
“I very much doubt that the rest of the world is the slightest bit interested in what Australia does or doesn’t do”
The rest of the world should be – as burrocrats do talk to each other.
Ideas get exchanged, and then acted on elsewhere.
First – here – Australia – then later, the whole [Western] world . . .
Not in China, obviously, as they’re already Communist.
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Here’s another great money spinner with Govt clout behind it- ANCAP now cancels its ratings after a few years, so the manufacturers have to pay them to crash more new cars.
“Independent safety ratings for many popular new cars in Australia – including the Toyota Corolla, Hyundai i30 hatch, Audi Q3, Volvo XC40 and Suzuki Jimny – expired overnight…ANCAP will no longer list a safety rating for 24 new vehicles sold in Australia and built after 31 December 2024, following the introduction of its six-year datestamp limit.”
Of course they’ve become terribly woke and no longer just measure the crash response of the vehicle. Cameras, radars, sensors, computers are now all counted to come up with a figure that is as meaningful as a global temperature. My car scores -36 stars.
As an interesting side-effect, the usual collateral damage of Govt decisions, cars are being written off after a minor front-end impact as it destroys some very expensive electronics that sit in the front bumper and a headlight or two worth a thousand dollars. Your insurance costs are going to rise again..
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I guess its their way of getting over the problem of old ratings not being able to be compared with newer ratings now they have added all the fluffy features as “safety” items.
As we have no car industry and ratings agencies exist elsewhere I dont see why we waste money on local version.
It seems a pointless exercise.
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Fantastic news and more fightback against the Left.
In the US Victims of transgender procedures and states are suing “doctors” for the harm done.
They might get monetary compensation but the physical harm is irreversible.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/ucla-student-sues-california-doctors-says-was-fast-tracked-transgender-rcna183815
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-doctor-illegally-providing-harmful-gender-transition-treatments
https://nypost.com/2024/12/06/us-news/la-dr-johanna-olson-kennedy-accused-of-pushing-pre-teen-into-puberty-blockers-mastectomy-sued-for-medical-negligence/
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/12/06/americas-best-known-practitioner-of-youth-gender-medicine-is-being-sued
It’s even happening in fully woke Australia.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/absolutely-devastating-woman-sues-psychiatrist-over-gender-transition-20220823-p5bbyr.html
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Here’s to the memory of the tomboy.
And my surprise to learn that according to wikipedia there is no male equivalent. I read it on the internet so it must be true. Those effeminate boys I remember were just figments of my imagination.
And now I am confusing myself because who other than an effeminate boy would ever want to become a girl. Maybe a teenage sportsman who wants to win contests with girls. Or a boy who is curious about what goes on in the girls change rooms.
And what happened to the wisdom among parents that boys and girls would eventually figure it all out for themselves.
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Wisdom or worry?
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If genders confuse you, go milk a bull.
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We have a new outbreak of dead whales on the Atlantic coast. As of yesterday 13 dead in 31 days. There are at least ten projects authorized to harass whales acoustically at this time. Several are doing it and I am waiting for data on the rest.
See https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/01/02/offshore-winds-fatal-folly-13-dead-whales-in-31-days-latest-mortality-is-humpback-on-beach-in-westport-ma/
Most of the harassment authorizations are off MA, NY and NJ which is where most of the dead whales are:
Dec 3 minke cape may, NJ- still alive-euthanized
Dec 10 humpback east of shark river inlet, nj. offshore-dead
Dec 10 humpback, plymouth ma young male, dead
Dec 12 minke, Wellfleet MA, dead
Dec14 humpback, Brewster MA, dead
Dec 18 humpback, Amagansett, LI (NY) dead
Dec 18 minke, Quonnie beach Charlestown RI, dead
Dec 26 humpback, Marshfield MA, dead
Dec 27 humpback, Kitty Hawk, NC, dead
Dec 27 humpback? Unk decomposed whale west side Hudson Canyon-could possibly be same as seen east of shark river inlet on Dec 10. Not counted
Dec 28 minke, Tobay beach Town of Oyster Bay Long Island NY dead
Dec 29 unk sighted 50 miles due south of VW lease area, dead
Dec 30 juvenile humpback Roosevelt Beach Long Beach LI (NY) dead
January 1, 2025 on Westport land conservation trust land on Richmond Pond Beach, Westport, Massachusetts Humpback dead
CFACT is suing to force the Feds to acknowledge the cumulative impact of offshore wind on whales and then do something about it.
Donations needed and welcome: https://www.cfact.org/2024/12/31/time-to-win/
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All environmental destruction is acceptable to save the environment.
(/sarc)
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“Habitat Destruction Offsets for “Renewables” are just Indulgences”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/12/28/habitat-destruction-offsets-for-renewables-are-just-indulgences/
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They’ll probably just blame the whale deaths on the “boiling oceans”.
Do the whales looked to be cooked emballé sous vide style?
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I have asked the question before. If whaling was largely stopped in 1986 and whales live for an average humpback life span of 30 to 40 years. Would we not expect an increasing occurrence of dead whales along the seasonal migratory path? These whales are passing south in December to their winter mating grounds.
I am all for kicking at the insanity of sticking lumps of rotating dissimilar metals in the salt water. However, I feel we should use clean data adjusted for growing populations otherwise we are just like some self styled experts we all know, measuring lightning damaged tree rings or heat islands and yelling ‘global warming’.
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“I have asked the question before. If whaling was largely stopped in 1986 and whales live for an average humpback life span of 30 to 40 years. Would we not expect an increasing occurrence of dead whales along the seasonal migratory path? ”
Yes, if there were more whale born 30-40 years ago, more whale deaths now is a reasonable deduction.
However – that’s based on like-for-like.
And it’s not quite the same now, as there are these massive noises emanating from short-lived wind-energy gatherers being hammered into the sea bed. In the same area the whales use for migration . . .
Coincidence is not causation – but this still strongly suggests an investigation – and what about the Precautionary Principle?
Does that go out of the window if pals of the President are enriching themselves from grants, subsidies, and kick-backs?
Are marine mammals sensitive to noise?
And we know they are, so a link is much more than cloud-thin tenuous.
Big question – what will the incoming administration – that of Trump – actually DO about this?
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The “climate catastrophe” is like Waiting for Godot.
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The Met Office has finalised the mean Central England Temperature for 2024.
Winter was exceptionally warm, top handful.
Spring was record warm.
Summer was merely top third.
Autumn was top tenth.
The year was the fourth warmest in 366 years, although that requires hundredth degree precision, so joint in reality.
The top ten years are all 2006 or later apart from 1949.
Note, this is the CET, although not 100% perfect, it’s a pretty good reflection of reality.
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Question is how much of that warming is heat contamination from economic development?
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What you are not told is that the trend has been up[ward since its inception:
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/image-107.png?ssl=1
This looks at 3 by 100year blocks plus the last 70 years as separate trends. All are upward.
The peak solar intensity over the northern land mass bottomed in 1500. Peak solar will rise for 9,000 years but well before that time, the resulting increase in snowfall from warmer oceans will overtake snow melt and all the northern land masses will be expanding ice cover again; not just Greenland.
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The UK Met Office uses 302 weather stations to monitor and record temperatures across the UK. But for the inconvenient fact that 103 of these weather stations do not actually exist. Made up data? Manipulated results? “The European Institute for Climate And Energy (EIKE) now reports of Great Britain’s phantom weather station network: one third of all its stations don’t actually exist.” Can you trust the UK Met Orifice?
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They lost all credibility last year with the announcement of the warmest May in history. After a major outcry at the absurdity, it was admitted the source was a few hot nights in the Scottish highlands which were 3.5C less freezing due to cloud cover. It means the very definition of warm is a joke. Such announcements are meaningless practically.
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“Such announcements are meaningless practically.”
But – good propaganda, no?
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Getting warmer is a good thing to happen.
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The fourth warmest in 366 years!?
That’s like forever in Earth years.
Surely we are all doomed.
If we were on Uranus, it would be like only fourth warmest in 3 or 4 years.
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Not sure warm, warmer and warmest are words any sensible person ascribes to English weather.
And I’m always more interested when numbers are used.
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This is precisely the game plan! It’s being copied and dispensed Nationally by jumped up City Councilors and politicians generally who believe in their own omnipotence. We vote in the incompetents because we are too lazy to proactively self-police society P2P. Local Councils are used as springboards for aspiring egomaniacs who want to control the world. They sit around in their Council Chambers wondering what new Laws they can inflict on us oblivious to their effects on residents/ratepayers. They become a law unto themselves because we let them by failing to see the wood for the trees that mask their iterations and pronouncements. Stop blaming them and take responsibility!
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Johannes Leak cartoon in todays Australian is fantastic! It depicts a pathetic Kevin 07 Rudd standing outside Maralago while Scomo and doubtless Joe Hockey too is lauded inside. Time to bag your bags Kevin and slither back to Australia before depression overwhelms!
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I hope TRUMP expels KRudd as Australian Ambassador to the US.
He has the legal power to do so.
For non-Australians KRudd (Kevin Rudd) was a psychopathic and narcissistic former PM who was widely hated and was rewarded with the US Ambassador job. He has a serious case of TDS (TRUMP Derangement Syndrome).
Even some Leftists hate him. The only people who really like him are the Chicomms where his loyalties lie.
He is not a fit and proper person to be Australia’s representative in the US.
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Trump probably has a thicker skin than needing react to Rudds petulant outbursts. The new AU government will probably appoint an adult to represent us next year, once onne term Albo is in the history bin.
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Do I hear Xi Zing Ping calling? No! Even K07 is not that dumb! Or is he?
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Well so do I, but I think it is much more likely that Trump will ignore him.
The Australian Government may get the message eventually and replace him as our Ambassador.
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For Hanrahan
Re that Courier Mail photo comment from a couple of days ago re Qld’s Wayne Goss?
Remember that Rudd was his head of Premier’s Department
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https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary
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Thank you Daily Telegraph!
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Here it is –
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/cartoons
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I heard on the Australian Government’s propaganda outlet, Their ABC, how last year Australia supposedly had its second hottest year eeevvaaahhh “since records began in 1910”.
But records didn’t begin in 1910. We have records from much before that, e g. the Jevons’ dataset from 1863 which goes back to 1842 (link below). There may be earlier reliable records.
They are referring to the Official Record (ACORN-SAT*) which starts in 1910 because BoM decided that all temperatures before that were “unreliable”. Of course, it had nothing to do with the fact that the 1800’s were relatively hot, and keeping of earlier data wouldn’t allow them to “prove” catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.
In any case, we don’t know to what extent they have fiddled the numbers to get the hottest eeevvaaahhh result due to their undocumented, irrepoducible and thus unscientific and invalid process of altering recorded temperature data via “homogenisation” plus inappropriately located weather stations and closure of well-placed ones.
Jevons’ data
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=IW9ZAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
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David,
BOM Obsfucating
– Station:Melbourne Regional Office
Number: 86071
Opened: 1908 Now: Closed 06 Jan 2015 – Lat: 37.81° SLon: 144.97° EElevation: 31 m
Select Temperature and Put in 86071 as Station and you will see that can access Temperatures for Melbourne back to 1st May 1855
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/
Sydney Obsevatory stills shows correctly back to
Station:Sydney (Observatory Hill)Number: 66062 Opened: 1858 Now: Closed 31 Aug 2020Lat: 33.86° SLon: 151.21° EElevation: 39 m
66046 PARRAMATTA
-33.8167 151.0000 Jan 1832 Dec 1966 99.8 74 Now: Closed 31 Aug 2020 – Lat: 33.86° SLon: 151.21° EElevation: 39 m
66095 SYDNEY (HORNBY LIGHT) -33.8333 151.2833 Jan 1840 Dec 1932 30.4 33 N
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and anyway, if the first hottest year wasn’t in the last 10 years or so, what are they worried about?
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Trump to Withdraw from World Health Organization –
“The World Health Organization has become nothing more than a corrupt Globalist scam…paid for by the United States, but owned and controlled by China,” Trump stated in November 2024. Biden re-entered the US into the WHO at full price, and has tried to bypass the US Senate and entire democratic process by entering into a pandemic treaty that would essentially allow the WHO to lead the nation in the event of another pandemic. “I will not allow public health to be used as a pretext to advance the march of global government,” Trump stated before vowing to leave the organization.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/trump-to-withdraw-form-world-health-organization/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
[Note: “Fair Use” does not allow posting the entire article without permission. – LVA]
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Woke is not cool anymore.
(It never really was.)
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It appears Europe, including the UK, is getting a good dose of Global Warming™ today:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=0.65,50.37,1190/loc=-2.567,52.667
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So …
2025 is off to banging (see what I did there) start here in the US of A.
A born in a America us Army veteran killed 15 people in New Orleans with a fully semi-automatic assault truck.
His name was Shamsud Din Jabbar.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-we-know-about-the-new-orleans-new-years-terror-attack-suspect/ar-AA1wOk74
It was a mass trucking.
Truck violence.
Another US Army veteran blew himself up, after shooting himself in the head, at the entrance to a Trump hotel … in an Elon Musk cybertruck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyrHl7aPw1g
He was burnt beyond recognition but fortunately for the diligent investigators, his photo ID cards were only slightly singed and within recognition.
Hmm … a cybertruck blows up at the door to a Trump hotel?
I sense a message.
From messengers back at work after holiday.
We’ll teach those MAGA rubes.
All this and shopping for groceries this AM there has been a sudden precipitous increase in prices.
Our incorrect anti-democratic votes will be punished..
*Disclaimer …
(Any opinions implied are unintended and for recreational purposes only.
I would like to express appreciation for the American Federal Government service persons that are constantly endeavoring to protect us from things that we aren’t allowed to know about in ways that are none our business.)
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…’constantly endeavoring to protect us from things that we aren’t allowed to know about in ways that are none (of) our business.’
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…’constantly endeavoring to protect us from things that we aren’t allowed to know about in ways that are none (of) our business.’
Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s New Orleans attack was terrorism — why did the FBI lie about it?
By Post Editorial Board
After Shamsud-din Jabbar’s New Orleans attack turned a New Year’s celebration into violent tragedy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to show why it has forfeited the trust of the American people.
Jabbar affixed an ISIS flag to the pickup he drove at high speed into a crowd of revelers, killing at least 14 people.
Yet the FBI at first refused to call the attack what it plainly was: terrorism.
That’s even though it arrested a shocking 10 ISIS would-bes in 2024 alone, thankfully before they were able to carry out any attacks — including a 17-year-old in Arizona.
“This is not a terrorist event,” emphasized Alethea Duncan, assistant special agent in charge at the NOLA office.
Now the FBI has admitted what was obvious to everyone, including the killer’s brother — who said Jabbar had been radicalized.
The local G-men screwed up so badly that the DC office sent in one of its counterterrorism honchos, Christopher Raia, to clean up the mess.
Very unusual. Yet no one should be surprised.
The Bureau’s initial hesitance to tell the truth plainly stems from the Biden administration’s most insane idée fixe, i.e. that white supremacists are the most dangerous terror group in the country.
This is the agency that wasted its time going after school-board protestors and religious Catholics under Biden political hack Attorney General Merrick Garland as jihadi recruitment ramped up
The FBI’s bungling in New Orleans is fresh proof that Trump is right and the Swamp needs draining to restore public faith in this corrupted, hollowed-out and utterly politicized institution.
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An FBI That Targets Political Opponents Instead Of Terrorists Doesn’t Deserve To Lead New Orleans Investigation
The FBI wholly disqualified itself from leading investigations when it deemed anyone questioning the regime guilty of wrongthink.
“The FBI is leading the investigation to determine what happened, why it happened, and whether there was any continuing threat to public safety,” Biden said.
Biden might trust the FBI to handle investigations like the one into Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s allegedly ISIS-inspired massacre on Bourbon Street, but Americans who have seen the nation’s premier law enforcement agency weaponize itself against the Biden regime’s political opponents overwhelmingly don’t.
The FBI claims protecting the nation from terrorist attacks is its “number one priority.”
Yet the agency spent recent years redirecting its attention and resources from top issues like violent criminal acts that lead to mass casualties and child s@x abuse cases to arresting meemaws for walking around the U.S. Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021 and praying at abortion facilities.
The FBI’s laundry list of corruption extends far beyond smearing Catholics, concerned parents, and Trump voters as domestic terrorists, manufacturing scandals like the Russia collusion hoax, killing the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell, raiding the home of a former and future president even if it required “deadly force,” and interfering in elections.
Yet, the DEI-plagued agency, despite its discrediting track record, is routinely accepted as the lead on investigations into real terrorism.
The FBI wholly disqualified itself from being the lead on the New Orleans investigation when it deemed anyone questioning the regime guilty of wrongthink at the same time it allowed, entrapped, and even groomed true threats.
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Vegas Police Say “Very Strange Similarities” Between Cybertruck Bombing & Bourbon Street Massacre
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Be careful, it’s not Jan 20 yet.
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Cybertruck explosion suspect wore Ukrainian neo-N@zi shirt
Matthew Livelsberger was a veteran US special forces operative
The US Army veteran suspected of detonating a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas was a supporter of the Ukrainian nationalist cause, according to a photo posted on Facebook.
In a photo purportedly shared by Liveslberger’s wife on Facebook in 2016, the former soldier can be seen wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with a Ukrainian coat of arms and the slogan “Slava Ukraini,” or “Glory to Ukraine.”
As a Green Beret, Livelsberger was based at Fort Liberty (formerly known as Fort Bragg) in North Carolina. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who killed 14 people in the vehicle attack in New Orleans on Wednesday morning, was also stationed at Fort Liberty, and deployed to Afghanistan. The Army is currently investigating whether the men knew each other, a spokesperson told AP.
Livelsberger and Jabbar both rented the vehicles used in their attacks via the car-sharing company Turo, a company spokesperson has confirmed. The spokesperson said that neither suspect “had a criminal background that would have identified them as a security threat.”
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Speaking of things you aren’t supposed to know about, have they shot down all the drones or did they get all the intelligence they need and go home?
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A tip at # 11.1.4
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I think we can all agree , the time has come for common sense truck laws. Clearly trucks need to be removed from society. I mean who needs a truck really?
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..Trade workers
…delivery servicemen.
…farmers
…towing services
..folks hauling caravans,
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FWIW
WHO ARE ALL GETTING FLOGGED BY THE “ANTI-POLLUTION EXCESS CHARGES” POST NYD.
I HEAR ABOUT $11,000 FOR HILUX TYPE VEHICLES
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Retired blokes need trucks too, I have one.
Friends and family could never move house, buy a friddge or dump their rubbish if I dont have a truck. I didnt mention firewood cause in Vic you cant pick up sticks anymore.
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House Report Discloses New Information on Unsolved J6 Pipe Bomber
House Republicans reveal stonewalling, major security lapses, and misrepresentations by top law enforcement officials related to the still at-large J6 pipe bomber.
JULIE KELLY – JAN 03, 2025
Four years after what the FBI describes as an act of domestic terror–the protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021–federal authorities have not yet solved the most consequential crime of that day: the presence of two explosive devices within blocks of the U.S. Capitol.
A report issued today by Representatives Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky), chairmen of House subcommittees examining the events of January 6 and the work of the January 6 Select Committee, details how the FBI investigation into the so-called pipe bomber went cold by early 2021 despite dedicating significant resources into finding the suspect and initially identifying several “persons of interest.”
But no one has been arrested despite a $500,000 reward offered by the FBI. Further, the failure to locate the J6 pipe bomber doesn’t add up considering the extensive investigative tools still being used by the FBI to track down and arrest J6 protesters, a caseload now approaching 1,600 individuals.
Footdragging, Stonewalling, and Non-Interest by J6 Truth Seekers
Plenty of Leads, No Answers
More Unanswered Questions
How is it possible the pipe bomber remains at large given the extensive resources first expended by the FBI and at their disposal to this day? Why did the J6 Select Committee avoid looking into the threat, particularly since it posed a mortal danger to both the incoming vice president and the Speaker of the House, who created the committee? Why did Kamala Harris never discuss her near-assassination attempt on the campaign trail? Why did D’Antuono mislead Congress about the condition of cell phone data? Why has the media stopped covering the pipe bombs?
The good news for now is that House Republicans are not backing down. The key to permanently unraveling the entire Jan 6 narrative is tied to the mystery pipe bomber—and once that missing puzzle piece is found, the public likely will find more shocking revelations.
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Here’s Who Biden’s FBI Decided To Persecute Rather Than Hunt Down Real Terrorists
Imagine how much worse Wednesday’s deadly event would have been had the FBI not taken dangerous grandmother’s off the street?
Early Wednesday morning, a radical Isl@mic terrorist drove his truck through a crowd of people celebrating the start of the New Year in New Orleans.
Fifteen people were murdered and more than 35 injured.
But maybe this tragedy could have been avoided if the FBI spent less time targeting parents, Catholics, and countless other dissidents and instead focused its resources on catching actual terrorists.
Unfortunately under the leadership of then FBI Director Christopher Wray, the FBI was too busy doing things like helping to orchestrate a kidnapping plot targeting Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to catch a terrorist.
Here are some others the FBI was too busy targeting while a terrorist became radicalized on U.S. soil.
– Catholics
– Trump Supporters
– Parents At School Board Meetings
– Pro-Lifers
– Grandmas
At least Americans can rest easy knowing threats like Lavrenz, parents at school board meetings, Trump supporters and Catholics are off the streets.
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Four Years Later: Examining the State of the Investigation into the RNC and DNC Pipe
Bombs – 80 Page PDF
Interim Staff Report of the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, Chairman
and
Committee on the Judiciary – Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antirust
Rep. Thomas Massie, Chairman
U.S. House of Representatives – January 2, 2025
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But as John Prine put it –
A question’s not really a question
when you know the answer too”
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What would Greens know about the bush? They spend only 30 mins a day outside to go and collect their soy lattes.
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Friday funny: Fauci
https://x.com/CNviolations/status/1874505612484317487
😆
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Albo v Plutonium Pete: energy politics is a numbers game
The arguments for and against nuclear power in Australia are confounding for everyday folk like me. I honestly don’t know who to believe. So I’m not believing anyone.
Charles Wooley Contributor – Charles Wooley is a Tasmanian-based journalist.
Unless you’ve been hiding deep in your underground radiation shelter these past few weeks, Peter Dutton plans to build up to seven nuclear reactors on sites around the nation at a cost of about $331bn over the next quarter of a century.
The subs are priced at $368bn and for only $37bn more we can have eight of them and scare the pants off China. Now coal (which both parties now say they want us to stop burning at home) we export and sell mostly to China. That earned us $91bn last year.
So does that mean if we continue our hypocritical policy of being the world’s second-biggest coal exporter we can pay for Plutonium Pete’s nuclear power stations with just four years of coal revenue?
Unfettered by economic literacy, I can’t help noticing that renewables will have to fill a 60-gigawatt gap opened by retiring coal- and gas-fired power stations.
Now, 46 per cent of Australia’s total electricity generation last year came from burning coal, and consequently as power users (don’t take a deep breath) each of us emitted 5.3 tonnes of CO2. But that’s only one source. Another estimates a figure three times that.
So how much coal is that?
You can look it up for yourself and pick a figure that suits your position, but in anyone’s language it’s “shiploads”. Literally shiploads of extra coal. Which we can send to China to burn because we won’t do that here anymore. Apparently the carbon emissions stay in China.
In fact, we are like the drug dealer who’s stopped using his product because he knows how dangerous it is but is still selling it because it’s a good business.
From the Comments
– I would be happy to be called Plutonium Pete, energetic, powerful, decisive. It’s certainly a cut above Albatross.
– Well I certainly would not believe the CSIRO.
– “It’s the household budget, stupid”.
– If it is a numbers game, why draw fish with 5 eyes and snakes with 3 heads.
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O.O.
I once had a conducted tour of the Fort St Vrain unclear plant in Colorado.
No one has commented on observing extras like that so far
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On Jan 20th, the US does the hokey-pokey.
You put the right ones in, you take the left ones out.
That’s what it’s all about.
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How Mike Johnson Could Lose the House Speaker Vote, Explained
If no one quickly wins the gavel, certification of President-elect Trump’s victory could be delayed
If House Republicans can’t swiftly unite to install Johnson or another person as speaker, the ensuing chaos could prevent Congress from functioning and—if the drama drags on long enough—potentially threaten Trump’s ascension to the presidency on Jan. 20.
In that admittedly far-fetched scenario, a 91-year-old senator from Iowa would become president instead.
What happens on Jan. 3, and how does the speaker vote work?
The vote is by roll call. The clerk of the House from the previous Congress, who presides, will call out, in alphabetical order, the names of members-elect, who will then state the name of their preferred candidates. If no one receives a majority of votes cast for a named candidate, more ballots will be held until someone wins a majority. When Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) ran for speaker in January 2023, he wasn’t able to secure the gavel until the early hours of the morning on Jan. 7, after four grueling days of voting and 15 ballots.
How could Trump’s certification on Jan. 6 as president be affected by a delay?
If no speaker is elected by Jan. 6, Congress likely won’t be able to ratify Trump’s election or the election of Vice President-elect JD Vance. If there is still no speaker, no functioning House, and no certification by Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, then the new GOP-controlled Senate’s president pro-tempore, 91-year-old Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), would become president, according to the presidential line of succession.
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The TEAL’s Supporter
Multi-millionaire mastermind of climate independents comes under fire for launching a ‘disgusting’ insult at Scott Morrison
A multimillionaire who bankrolled a host of ‘teal’ climate independents has drawn criticism for comparing Scott Morrison’s popularity to a p@edophile.
Businessman and climate activist Simon Holmes à Court posted of a photo of the former prime minister with Donald Trump and their wives at a New Year’s Eve party earlier this week, with a controversial caption.
‘If (Mr Morrison) ever reads the replies to this tweet, it’ll be the second time he’ll have wished he could stay in the US and avoid ever coming back home,’ he wrote.
‘Morrison is almost as popular as Rolf Harris,’ Holmes à Court added, comparing the Liberal Party stalwart to the late Australian entertainer who was a convicted child s@x offender.
The response to Mr Holmes à Court’s comment was swift and brutal, with one woman branding him ‘a sick attention seeker. How disgusting’.
‘No matter your opinion of ScoMo this comparison is beyond contempt. You should be ashamed of yourself, but we all know you love s*** stirring purely for attention, ‘ she wrote.
Another added: ‘It really doesn’t take much to pull back the thin veneer of civility and expose the nasty piece of work lurking underneath left-wing activists like this one.
‘Here – the great one – compares a former prime minister to a convicted s@x offender, all because he doesn’t like Morrison’s politics.’
Liberal Senator James Paterson saying ‘It’s deranged to compare a former Prime Minister with a convicted child s@x offender, and that it reflects on Simon Holmes à Court not Scott Morrison.’
Mr Paterson also called on teal MPs elected with the help of his money, to say where they stand on the comments.
‘As the primary funder of the teal MPs, Holmes à Court’s wacky views do matter,’
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“…that it reflects on Simon Holmes à Court not Scott Morrison.’”
Something the Principal at our kids school used to convey to students. Lashing out and name calling usually reveals more about the ranter than the target.
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Scientists Want to Define the Kilogram by Gravity, Not Electricity
Metrology, the branch of science dedicated to measurement, has created better and better systems of measurement for the kilogram based on fundamental principles rather than arbitrary chunks of metal locked in a vault.
In 2018, scientists redefined the kilogram related to the basic electromagnetic principles. But a new study suggests that something similar could be done with gravitational principles as well.
The redefinition of the kilogram relied on a concept known as the quantum metrological triangle, which redefines quantum effects in terms of h (the Planck constant) and e (the elementary charge.)
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a63231248/kilogram-gravity-measurement/
Buying some meat “weighing” 1kg will never be the same again. 😎
/confused looks
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Does Planks Constant work out to be an exact number, or are they rounding it off at a convenient spot?
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MOTORING – JOHN CONNOLLY
Haunting tales from the unencrypted VW data
Drive an Audi, Seat, Skoda or Volkswagen and been up to funny business? Then you’re in deep doo-doo.
Our friends (freunde) at Germany’s best-selling news mag, Der Spiegel (The Mirror), have explosively revealed that leaked data has shown the precise locations of about 800,000 VW electric vehicles.
“For instance, blackmailers could have targeted those vehicle owners who regularly drive to the parking lot of the large Berlin br@thel Artemis, a prison, the Kensi (Berlin branch) or a drug addiction clinic. Stalkers and jealous ex-partners could have seen where someone was staying and when. Since the movements of vehicles in Ukraine and Israel were also traceable, the data could even have been of military interest!”
Take our reader poll to see if you are at risk: – Why do you drive an electric car?
1. Because I am a disgrace to my family, my country and the whole human race.
2. Because I want everyone in Canberra to know I want to save the world.
3. To avoid the awkward silence that ensues when someone asks, “What kind of car do you drive?”
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• What’s the inside of Artemis like?
1. How did you know I was there?
2. I lent my VW to my mother.
3. I was checking it out for a friend.
• Do pensioners and taxi drivers pay only €50 entrance on Sunday and Monday?
1. Yes.
2. I don’t know but they took my senior’s card.
3. I am not a pensioner or taxi driver even though I pretended to be.
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As a concerned citizen of this country I see a problem.. other people’s problem of course, never mine.. Australians are TOO FAT!
“Obesity has tripled in Australia since 1980, and so has diabetes over the past 25 years.”
This is expensive, and I have to pay for it-
“obesity alone was estimated to cost nearly $12 billion in direct health and indirect community costs.”
So the answer is not to make people take some self-responsibility and pay for their own decisions, its a TAX of course!
“A tiered tax in which drinks with the most sugar would be slugged 60¢ per litre”
…and a bit of magic with unicorn farts, then everyone is slim, good-looking and healthy!
Signed- The Gratton Institute.
The reality is the manufacturers would quickly re-formulate their drinks with some poisonous/cancer-causing chemicals to replace sugar, and the sugar producers will march on Parliament demanding higher subsidies to keep them wealthy. The Americans will lose out on HFCS exports and promptly start a tariff war with us. Nothing will turn out like the Gratton Institute wants, it never has!
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/the-secret-to-better-health-and-less-obesity-is-a-tax-20250102-p5l1s5.html
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Did Bowen jump or was he pushed from X?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/01/chris-bowen-apparently-removed-from-twitter-.html#comments
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The Australian has just published an article saying that Bowen quit X, saying that X is not a place for respectful conversation.
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Ahhh there’s the rub. To have a respectful conversation you have to be respectable. To be respectable in relation to a meaningful topic you need to be credible. You see where this might start to fall apart?
I’d suggest Bowen is unused to getting push back and having his nonsense called out. He will find a home where his ego will be reliably stroked, but will have far less reach. Its a shame he has so little confidence in arguing his position.
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Here in the UK, it’s obviously ‘Climate Change’ to blame.
For floods, this time.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g2vy3jr1jo
Was the north-west of England ready for flooding?
And can you guess which two word phrase features in nearly every paragraph? – the brainwashing has been effective.
One interesting snippet –
“Burnham said major weather events had been “coming thick and fast”, with a number of named storms battering the UK in recent months. The rain event on Wednesday was not technically a storm, so was not named as such by the Met Office, but Burnham said that “led to a worse situation than the others that we have been warned about”.
“He added: “It’s not easy for anybody because we are seeing what people call one in one-hundred-year weather events happening every year or so now. “The weather has changed.””
[Andy] Burnham is the [elected] Mayor of Manchester, is high profile, and is seen, by some, as still harbouring ambitions [in the – ruling – Labour Party] on the national stage, were anything – such as unpopularity because he’s useless – to happen to, say, Sir Starmer.
So – all those named ‘storms’ and passing showers . . . yet this one slipped through the net – and nobody, not even the Drain Cleaning Services of Manchester, [prop. Burnham, A.] was fully ready.
Who’d a thunk it could actually, you know, rain – in Manchester!
I imagine the Met. Orifice will need to expand its remit, so it can give serial numbers to every cloud in the Kingdom.
And, very soon, a Cloud Inundation Threat Index – CITI – to each, updated hourly!
Yay – more non-wealth-producing drones!
Yay – higher taxes!
What’s wrong with – ‘don’t build on flood plains!’??
Auto
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Fun fact about our new F 35s the 72nd of which has been delivered:
Max TO weight for the F 35 is abt 70,000 lbs. The max TO weight for a WWII Lancaster is the same 70,000 lbs.
Why this is of interest is because the Lancaster needed four bluddy big fans to convert the thousands of horsepower developed by the RR Merlin engines to thrust. The F 35 gets that thrust out of one jetpipe.
AFAIK there is no technology available today to convert MWs in a battery to thrust to move an aircraft forwards other than a fan.
I haven’t even mentioned how quickly a LiIon battery fire would destroy it’s environment. A kiwi glider pilot found that out when his battery self-launching glider caught fire.
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Parachutes mandatory for electric self launching gliders yet?
There is the story about the correct procedure to follow if you encountered a fire in an airborne Tiger Moth
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Anything to do with kissing yourself goodbye?
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The punchline is
“You know the location of the fire extinguisher?”
“Yes sir”
“Well grab it firmly, throw it out and follow it bloody quickly”
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