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When I first heard of CO2 building up in the atmosphere, I checked. It isn’t. C14 answered that question in 1958.
However the shape shifting promoters came up with things like CO2 sequestration and Australian Agricultural Carbon Credits. In England hundreds of ‘tree farms’ as investments. Not chopping things down or harvesting earns cash because it is sequestration.
But NASA proved that wrong with satellite measurements. From 1988 to 2014 tree coverage world wide showed forestation, not deforestation. A 14% increase in tree coverage and a 14% increase in CO2. So more CO2 means more trees, not the reverse. Of course in typical fashion NASA called it ‘fertilization’, which is ridiculous. Trees are made from CO2, like all living things.
The CSIRO pulled the same stunt when they had to comment on the rapid ocean absorption of bushfire CO2 and a phytoplankton bloom. These geniuses blamed it on Iron ‘fertilization’ from the ash. Anything but admit plants are hungry for CO2.
But one of the ideas was that a mythical shallow ‘surface’ ocean was ‘full’ of CO2. Now 98% of CO2 is in the ocean as it is extremely soluble, 30x more than O2 and all things breathe O2. And there are 36 papers which agree that CO2 changes completely roughly every ten years. (Table 1 here)
So what limits are there to dissolving CO2? Firstly CO2 gas we see as a solid, dry ice. But with over 5 atmospheres/276K/3C it is a liquid, like water. And that’s only 50 metres in an ocean on average 3500 metres deep. So there’s no real limit to CO2 because largely it’s not a gas in water. Even more dramatic is that unlike oxygen, CO2 dissociates H2O+CO2 becomes HCO3 and H+. Carbonic acid, a very weak acid. But it is also not easily predicted by Henry’s Law of dissolved gases. Henry’s Law works at the surface of course, but not with the values developed in laboratories as CO2 exchange goes as the fourth power of wind speed and you don’t get that in a laboratory. No waves and droplets.
This is relevant because the people who argue that fossil fuel CO2 is stuck in the atmosphere are forced to claim that the water is full of CO2, saturated. But that’s not possible. You can release the gas in Coke Cola or Lemonade with a rough surface as with menthos. So here is a fun experiment which shows just how much CO2 gas is in water even at air pressure. This is NOT a chemical reaction, just the rough surface providing a catalytic surface to form the gas instantly.
The whole fantasy of fossil fuel CO2 building up in the atmosphere is as busted as it can be. But still sequestration is fundamental to Australia’s CO2 laws as we legislate the amount of CO2 we are allowed to release and fining our biggest ‘polluters’. Fantasy science and fantasy laws, crippling the country. Why? Is it just the cash? Or the centralization of (electric) power in Canberra? Or a scare to enable crazy science laws to enslave and rob everyone? Or just a United Nations which does nothing to resolve the Ukraine war but now demands $40Bn a year from international shipping?
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That’s before you even get to Prof Will Happer’s certainty that even doubling CO2 would have a tiny 1% effect on CO2 infrared retention.
It’s all busted. So why is CO2 driven Global Warming/Climate Change/Nett Zero continuing? Why has it never been debated? Why are there thousands upon thousands of Australian public servants collecting cash for CO2?
We Australians should be rich. But we are becoming Argentina. And the PM has bought his retirement house on the beach to go with his perpetual salary. That’s the thing with communists. How to get to the top without knowing anything except how to get to the top. Or caring.
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When I was 15 my best friend’s father, a wonderfully cynical engineer told us, “You’ve heard of the Age of Dinosaurs, The Stone Age, The Bronze Age and The Iron Age, The Age of Steam? Well now we’re in The Age of Bullsh!t.
>So why is CO2 driven Global Warming/Climate Change/Nett Zero continuing? Why has it never been debated?
You know why. Because it’s an enormous money-spinner for the wealthy and a marvellous way to destroy the Western Democracies. And better still, it’s entirely built on bullsh!t!
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So why is CO2 driven Global Warming/Climate Change/Nett Zero continuing? Why has it never been debated?
“I have often wondered how all this climate nonsense keeps going until I came across this online. I saved it as “Something for Everyone” and I would like to thank whoever put this together as it hits the nail on the head.
The idea behind the climate change scare succeeds because it offers something to everybody.
For the Left it offers their salvation – capitalism really is evil after all.
For the Messiah Complex politicians (more of those than there used to be) it allows them to Save the World.
For the opportunists and rentiers it allows them to become rich whilst appearing virtuous.
For the scientists it allows them to bask in glory and prizes.
For the upper classes it allows them to ban all the stuff they don’t like, plebs on cheap flights to places that should only be for the right sort of people for example.
For the Waitrose middle classes it allows them to feel they are doing their bit.
For the mad Greens, they can finally destroy the hated oil companies.
For the neoRomantic fantasists they can believe they are going back to nature and we will all live in beauty and harmony.
And who dares oppose “science”? Who wants to be a Denier? So most other people simply keep their heads down and go along with it”.
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Why ladies love diamonds which are as expensive as they are useless ?
Why men pay enormous money for mechanical watches which are only as good as $50 ones?
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I wanted to add a single observation that we can put millions of times as much CO2 in sea water than is already there because of the extraordinary properties of CO2.
The menthos video really shocks with the amount of gas in slightly bubbly water. And given CO2’s transition to a liquid at most depths, it’s likely unlimited. So the idea that fossil fuel CO2 stays in the air because the surface ocean microsystem is saturated is a lie. As is the idea the CO2 stays only in a surface ocean.
For the CO2 to reach the atmosphere, CO2 must go upwards and the surface layer CO2 must go up. This is called acidification, which is another lie as no ocean is acid. But it is actually expected proof that CO2 is rising from the depths into the atmosphere. And by Henry’s Law of kinetic transfer, evaporation and condensation, slight ocean warming increases atmopsheric CO2. CO2 does not increase warming. Warming increases CO2 in the ocean surface layer. Like everything else in “The Science”, it is flipped around to allege the opposite, that fossil fuel increases the CO2 in the air. Real science disagrees with every part of that bizarro logic.
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“Lest We Forget”
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For our overseas friends that is a reference to ANZAC Day in Australia, 25 April. It’s an acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and is a remberance for all Australians and New Zealanders “who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations” and “the contribution and suffering of all those who have served”.
“Lest we forget” comes from Rudyard Kipling’s 1897 poem “Recessional”.
And that itself may come from the Bible which warns against not remembering past events.
And the deliberate destruction of the education system in the West means historical events are no longer correctly taught or not taught at all.
Lest we forget.
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Lest we forget it was 110 years ago, to the day, British high command sent forth young Australian & New Zealand lads, amongst many others, on a futile scramble up cliffs at the wrong beach…
Remember the Dardanelles, Gelibolu, the Bosphorus & Constantinople, the Black Sea, Crimea, Russia… 110 years on and what have we got? Drones, more drones.
Thank the luck of his Irish ancestors my grandfather survived Gallipoli, albeit shaken and stirred, to return to Christchurch where he set-up a market garden, not only to help feed food-deprived NZers but also because he’d seen enough destruction and wanted only to grow things, healthy green living wonderful things (he’d been a shepherd on horseback in his youth). He and his wife also had my mum.
From little things, big things grow.
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Would this be a good moment for a WeightWatchers testimonial?
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” 110 years on and what have we got? ”
Politicians using ordinary people to kill each other for the politician’s sake… Nothing has changed, the politicians are the problem, not the people.
Its within a lifetime that the people you were screaming insults at and trying to kill will be your friends, and those allies you were fighting beside will be the hellish enemy. People on here were probably amongst those who refused to buy Japanese cars in the 1970s because they were our enemy, and now Vietnam is a hot tourist spot for the Westerners who’s fathers were there burning the locals to death. Turkey too, now a NATO member and great ally in fighting ISIS…
Politicians get famous, arms manufacturers get rich, the rest of us get killed.. You’d think people would have more discrimination about Russia and Ukraine after all this time , but no, “Putin is a madman” “Russia wants to rule all of Europe” “The poor brave Ukrainians are the great heroes” etc. Don’t ever tell me propaganda doesn’t work, there’s a reason those 50% of people on the ‘below average’ part of the IQ curve are allowed to vote!
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That’s a great summation of the “ocean – CO2 interaction TdeF.
It’s great to wake up to read the truth and nothing but the truth, the absolute truth, on this special day.
The C14 presence in the atmosphere is one of the keys to helping to De-Gore this new form of slavery to which “civilisation” is now subjected.
That science is real and undeniable.
Similarly, the concept of atmospheric CO2 being a dangerous “heat trapping” gas when in the atmosphere must also be crushed by the real science.
Even if atmospheric CO2 did pick up a bit of extra energy there are scientific truths that preclude it from causing runaway heating and “global warming “.
Let’s open the door and let the truth in.
It is absolutely amazing that all life on earth can exist with such low levels of CO2: but here we are, going for it.
In terms of the atmospheric thermodynamics the quantity of CO2 is quantitatively irrelevant, even if the “heat trapping” was a major issue.
Remember: PV = nRT rulz from now and forever.
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America’s electric car crash is over. Europe has finally noticed
Trump’s reversal of Biden-era EV mandates is putting huge pressure on the UK and the EU to follow suit
During the campaign, candidate Trump was consistent in his determination to restore to Americans the right to buy whatever car they want
He hasn’t wasted any time in putting in place a five-pronged approach to make his policy a reality.
First, on Jan 20, in an executive order entitled “Unleashing America Energy”, the president removed the requirement, put in place by Biden-era Transportation Department and Environmental Protection Agency regulations, for car companies to sell a certain share of vehicles that are battery-powered electric, effectively cancelling the mandate.
Second, Trump pledged in the same executive order to consider cancelling the $7,500 tax credit to buy EVs. The credit, signed into law by Joe Biden as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, would have cost $105.7 billion over the next 10 years.
Third, Trump paused producer tax credits for clean energy, including advanced battery technology, estimated to cost between $30 billion and $200 billion over the next decade.
The effects of Trump’s policies are being felt domestically, as car companies quietly drop their Biden-era plans to go all-electric. Assaults against Toyota for insisting that it would sell any car that its customers wanted to buy have stopped.
But the consequences of the president’s agenda are set to be wider than that – The European Union can surely no longer ignore the costs of banning new gas-powered car sales by 2035.
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Australia’s Chief Chimpanzees Albo just blew another $1.2 billion of Aussie taxpayer dollars.
This is insane.
Firstly, we process very few minerals and certainly don’t turn them into any significant amounts of manufactured products.
Secondly, this stockpile of unused and unspecified minerals will represent a huge liability due to constant maintenance costs and price fluctuations.
It would have been better to establish a strategic reserve of petroleum products for military and critical civilian needs in the event of disruption of supply of refined petroleum products. But we are already meant to have that, although who knows if it is actually maintained.
Money is meaningless to our head Chimpanzee and his troop.
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That’s a bit tough on chimpanzees.
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I wonder if it’s Albo’s speech defect or his innumeracy that leads him to get “million” and “billion” mixed up or not know how much money one billion dollars really is?
And he can’t pronounce “nuclear” either, nor can Blackout Bowen.
Or is he just stupid?
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And you guys reckon we speak strange: he’s not a chimpanzee, he’s a buffoon!
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I recall an old saying about “doing things right, but also doing the right things ” Albo, in most areas of public life, seems to do neither.
Government by thought bubble throws up anomalies like Bowen and hand wringing about rare earths when you have little fuel and the grid is teetering.
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I don’t know how many elections I have voted in over the last sixty years, I do know that regardless of what was promised by politicians of all colours over those elections I cannot tell you a single thing that has positively effected me.
Not a single thing, not one.
On the other hand the political decisions that HAVE affected me negatively is quite a long list. Starting with the destruction of personal freedoms, the lack of accountability of decision makers, cultural destruction of this once magnificent country into a Muti cultural mess etc etc etc. The list is endless. The lies peddled as though something will happen over a 3 year cycle that will be positive for all Australians is disappointing.
The real classic used to be state politics where every election it was promised by both sides that:- Education would improve, law and order would prevail, we would have the best medical system in the world, nicely stated yesterday where in Victoriastan an old lady, dropping off her sick husband at a hospital emergency room, was run over by her own car as it was being hijacked by some low life sucking on the system.
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the lack of accountability of decision makers
Dan Andrews faces a deeply embarrassing golf course rejection – as he is increasingly locked out of the very state he once locked down
Former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews is running out of places to tee off, after being barred from yet another golf club this week due to backlash from members over his harsh rules during the Covid period.
Melbourne golfers were outraged by the Victorian government’s ban on the sport during lockdown, despite it being in the open air with large distances between players and providing a rare outlet for exercise.
Last week, it seemed he’d finally found a club when The Herald Sun reported that his property developer friend, Max Beck, had secured him a spot at Moonah Links on the Mornington Peninsula.
Beck had reportedly removed his wife’s name from his membership and replaced it with Mr Andrews’.
But on Thursday, Moonah Links took to Facebook to ‘address recent public speculation’ about Mr Andrews’ membership – confirming in a terse post that Mr Andrews is ‘not a member of Moonah Links Golf Resort’.
The club’s announcement was met with dozens of thumbs up, smiling faces and heart emoticons, and, perhaps most tellingly, the club switched off comments in an apparent effort to prevent feedback.
Mr Andrews resigned in September 2023 after leading Victoria through the Covid pandemic, but sparked massive backlash for his harsh stance that made Melbourne the world’s most locked down city and earned him the nickname ‘Dictator Dan’.
It’s not just golf clubs banning Mr Andrews.
Daily Mail Australia revealed in December that ex-AFL star Paul Dimattina, who runs popular South Melbourne venue Lamaro’s Hotel, had banned Mr Andrews from his venue.
Mr Dimattina said the former premier was ‘easily the most hated person’ in Victoria as it is revealed multiple restaurant owners had refused service to Mr Andrews and his wife Cath.
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He is a very sad and disturbing video about the destruction of scientific specimens and materials of early pre-modern human remains in Australia and the prohibition of studying anything that doesn’t fit the Official Narrative of one human migration to Australia and no pre-modern species or races.
It’s not vandalism but Government policy.
It’s Soviet-style “science” where “the science” is closely tied to Leftist politics and ideology, just like “climate science”.
I urge you to watch the following video. Even I was shocked to discover the extent of destruction and restriction of access to earlier archaeological and anthropological materials and reports.
Video, 14.5 mins. https://youtu.be/_tNDivDf9XI
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Ch!na Syndrome explodes above Auckland’s skies last night: a recycling centre in Glenfield (where I grew up when it was semi-rural) on the North Shore burst into flames spewing a toxic cloud over surrounding suburbs and north/west parts of the city after stored L.ion batteries (self)ignited… BOOM!
We had to destroy the planet to save it.
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The Won Sauce Off Tooth [sic].
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/559021/fire-crews-work-overnight-to-contain-major-fire-at-recycling-plant
Govt Radio™️ states “lithium iron batteries” most likely behind last night’s toxic fireball in suburban Auckland. Now beaches downstream are CLOSED due to “hazardous substances” flowing into Wairau Creek which flows into the Hauraki Gulf / Pacific Ocean.
The old diggers fought and died for THIS?
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