JoNova
A science presenter, writer, speaker & former TV host; author of The Skeptic's Handbook (over 200,000 copies distributed & available in 15 languages).
Jo appreciates your support to help her keep doing what she does. This blog is funded by donations. Thanks!
Follow Jo's Tweets To report "lost" comments or defamatory and offensive remarks, email the moderators at: support.jonova AT proton.me
Statistics
From the Spectator Australia –
‘If wind turbines and solar panels were so effective, China wouldn’t need coal to make them.’ Ouch.
That has always been the great idiocy at the heart of decarbonisation.
https://www.spectator.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/489957350_1291459972984586_3126187268777585816_n.jpg
270
I can’t remember where I saw it, but it was an analysis of how if solar panels and wind turbines and everything involved in their manufacture was made exclusively from energy from same, they would, obviously, get ever more hideously expensive with each generation.
160
https://manhattan.institute/article/mines-minerals-and-green-energy-a-reality-check
30
And what’s even more ironic and bizarre is that the wind turbines, panels and batteries that are made in China and responsible for destroying Australia due to the destruction of the energy supply they bring about, will be partly made with raw materials purchased from Australia.
We really are the Stupid Country.
240
Right on, David. Reminds me of ‘pig iron’ Bob. We never learn.
130
https://manhattan.institute/article/mines-minerals-and-green-energy-a-reality-check
Vote (anything) Green, for a darker future!
40
The Dutch made a logical decision on his matter based on cost and reliability in the 1780’s
The draining of the Lake was achieved using 3 machines including the largest steam driven beam engine from Cornwall.
Three steam driven pumps did the the work of 150 windmills.
A steam driven pump built in the 1920’s is still available.
When the lowland rivers flood and the wind does not blow you drown, no matter how many boys are available to stick their fingers in the holes in the dyke.
151
It make me absolutely mad.
In Melbourne we are in undeclared draught, no need for perpetually lying BOM to say it. I expect this or next State government starting water-saving campaign.
For thousands of years, people knew that destructive floods follow devastating draughts which follow floods and on and on…
Reasonable civilisations tried to survive to the best of their technical abilities by redirecting water and by storing water.
Unreasonable – by sacrificing virgins.
Oh, yes – and declaring the priests (who felt sorry for virgins) as heretics, themselves deserving an auto-da-fe .
That is about “$600B for Dutton’s nuclear plants” and replacing beautiful Melbourne streets with multi-million dollar goat-paths maze.
40
Apologies – droughts, of course.
30
Trump pauses some tariffs – 10% for most – but 125% for China.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp8vyy35g3mt
Auto
60
… and stocks leap.
60
How to rig/manipulate the Stock Market and make Billions of dollars from the volatility.
90
The yuge 90 day pause :-
“This was a bailout of leveraged hedgies and banks.
5% on the 30yr. and inversion in the belly meant margin calls or unwinds.
As the rates ran up the value of the paper ran down: and that means more paper or cash has to be posted to hold the positions -or they’d get forcibly unwound; -which looks like what Ackman and the rest of the elite crowd was facing…”
50
Yesterday I posited the question :-” We went from just a polio and a tetanus vaccination in childhood in the 1950s,( and nothing more for life unless travelling), to the “normal” childhood “vaccination” schedule of today (how many +boosters?) . What happened? ”
No takers?
90
What happened?
My guess, somewhat simplified is: WEF/Fauci.
70
I think that you may be on the right track.
So who does WEF/ Fauci work for ?
50
Naaah, that’s too big for me.
20
This morning a clown on ABC radio said “vaccination is your best form of defence against measles”, people have forgotten we have an immune system and even if they did remember they have no comprehension of just how complex and efficient it is.
The result is we inject babies with everything we can, case in point, a mother in the US took her daughter to get her 1st year check up, the poor excuse for a doctor said she missed her 6 monthly check up and vaccinations so she had to catch up, the doctor then gave the 1 year old 12 vaccines in 6 injections, the 1 year old was dead within 12 hours. Perfectly healthy to dead from a swollen brain in 12 hours.
Of course due to liability indemnity no one will be held accountable, that’s medicine now in the 21st century.
141
A vital point:
“we have an immune system and even if they did remember they have no comprehension of just how complex and efficient it is”.
And, vaxxines should be carefully used to supplement that immune system only when absolutely necessary.
Community health is the objective of vaxxination and those pushing them for profit should face the legal consequences.
10
“So who does WEF/ Fauci work for ?”
Fauci?
00
Benjamin Carson and Donald Trump have replied to the question you posited. You will not get anymore clarity than this discussion between these to men when they were being set up for a hit job as anti-vaxxers.
11
Having trust in vaccines (government) seventy years ago, recent events have shown that the trust has been broken.
I feel guilt over accepting government vaxxination programs pushed onto our children.
10
“the[$U.S.] reserve status forces a good percentage of global trade to occur in U.S. dollars. For trade and global economies to grow under such a system, the U.S. must supply the world with U.S. dollars.
To supply the world with dollars, the United States must consistently run a trade deficit. Running persistent deficits, the United States would become a debtor nation.”
And there we have it.
20
Meanwhile Trump is trying to change some of the key remnants of the unwritten Bretton Woods agreement:
End or sharply reduce trade imbalances
Greatly limit military assistance and make countries pay for military support
Reduce the debt burden
Onshore manufacturing
70
Simple question?
If the US dollar maintained its value, would less dollars be required for use in global trade? In fact are we having a chicken and egg discussion here as the problem is the deficit lowering the purchasing power of the dollar and therefore trade requiring more US dollars for the same container load of widgets?
20
That is the argument and it may be right, it’s above my pay grade, but if true the increase in M3 [?] need only be GDP plus inflation but there is no enforcement mechanism. That is why they dumped the gold standard: The Keynesians couldn’t increase money supply on a whim.
But no currency, or basket of currencies could take over from King Dollar. if QANTAS signs a contract with Airbus for an A 320 it takes time to be delivered but the contract will be in USD and both parties will hedge their own currency against the USD cheaply and easily, there are always people wanting to take the other side of the hedge. It wouldn’t be as easy hedging to buy an Embraer if Brazil joined BRICS and refused to deal in USD.
10
Serious question:
If Dutton said he would abandon the Paris Accords / Net Zero and restore Australia’s electricity grid and prices to how it was before his predecessor Howard decided to make it “green” would that really be an election-losing move?
Are Joe and Joanne Sixpack really that stupid?
120
“abandon the Paris Accords / Net Zero and restore [the] electricity grid and prices to how it was ”
N.Z is considering the same question.
MSM says we would be locked out of our best markets as a consequent punishment for deviation.
China will not lock us out, unless we play silly beggars.
NZ farmers are overwhelming in favour of abandoning the Paris Accord, but perhaps there are other ways for it to become ineffectual.
61
The other way to do it is to copy what France, and more recently China, have done for decades. That is to CLAIM that they are following the rules, but in reality ignoring them. We could CLAIM we’re on board the green revolution, but start building more coal power (and nuclear), just like China is doing.
110
” CLAIM that they are following the rules, but in reality ignoring them. ”
A little window dressing is recommended , but that is essentially the pathway forward for NZ.
It’s just that nobody is allowed to say that.
Even though it is widely held that the Climate Change TM Emperor has no clothes.
I think that NZ can make a plausible case that it is following the Accord etc, while doing nothing to damage agriculture /food production which is our country’s economic mainstay.
Agriculture is all that we have got. Until such time as it’s O.K to mine our high-grade coking coal.
80
“while doing nothing to damage agriculture /food production’
That’s already written out of the CO2 reduction madness, now that you’ve got rid of the silly b1tches who ran the country for 20years you shouldn’t have to consider it.
Meanwhile, China can do what it likes because its a 3rd-world developing country, so all we have to do is wait a few years until ruinables drive our standard of living down to a bowl of gruel a day, and we shall be the same. Then we can have as much coal power as we want!
I’m sitting here wondering to where to move to after Australia, it’s coming on 20years here and it will henceforth all be downhill by the look of it, so I need to work out where to live before the assets I have here are destroyed. Most people get too poor to move when they’re older, and are trapped in where-ever they live. Living in South Africa was a graphic example of this.
20
KP, I am in the UK, and I am idly thinking about Poland. Don’t speak a word of the language, though.
Auto
00
Perhaps we could build new coal fired power plants to produce the form of CO2 that plants need and improve the grape production in the Hunter valley?
80
The coalition is showing signs of realism:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-10/coalition-keeps-open-option-of-quitting-paris-climate-agreement/105161842
Cheers,
Dave B
01
“Are Joe and Joanne Sixpack really that stupid?”
Possibly, at the very least many people just don’t concern themselves with anything other than the immediate effect on them. So, free stuff, I’ll take it. When the question is asked as to how the “free stuff” is going to be paid for they have no idea. I asked one of my grand daughters university friends who she would vote for . Answer Labour , question why? They will reduce the HECS debt by half. When I asked how this reduction in her personal debt would be paid for she had no idea, and this is a really smart young person. I asked why should I, and all other tax payers, pay for her life choices. Response was education should be free. Had a hard time convincing her that nothing is free, the point only being driven home when I asked if she would work for free once she graduates.
151
The backflips Dutton has already made on the public service and working from home provide insight into the answer. He would not do it because it is another backflip on policy and he already appears to lack conviction.
Trump used smarter wording. Getting federal workers back into the office and reducing numbers were sold as improving government efficiency. Who could argue against improving government efficiency.
Getting out of Paris was sold as patriotism rather than globalism. Not sure if that argument has much meaning for Australians.
The way a policy is packaged and sold is important. TDS has gone to new heights in Australia and no serious politician would want to be seen as following Trump. Is Clive still Trumpeting or has he realised it is a losing strategy.
90
“Who could argue against improving government efficiency.”
Millions of Americans, apparently. The same would happen here no matter how Dutton described the reasons, but he could just do what Trump is doing – ignore them. But I doubt Dutton and his party have the courage – or conviction – to do that.
30
A third of Australians work from home, it was a misstep by the Liberals and they were wise to backflip. The present system is more efficient and productive.
12
Wasn’t he specifically referring to federal public serpents working at home? Not others.
41
Dutton was only referring to federal public servants, but the government utilised propaganda to make the people fearful. The policy wasn’t thought through.
It won’t be an election issue from now on.
10
I have yet to see credible evidence that roles normally delivered from ‘the office’ are more productive – or even AS productive – when performed at home. As a business manager with decades of experience managing staff, I simply do not believe that the majority of people work as diligently unsupervised as they do when the boss might look over their shoulder. There are of course some roles that can be monitored for efficiency by the enterprise management system but, even then, I know that in-person interaction with team members is almost always positive, and vital for effective and healthy collaboration.
10
There is a better than even chance that, in all this economic instability, the Coalition will ditch the Paris Accord when in guvment.
‘The Coalition’s energy spokesman has not ruled out pulling Australia out of the agreement, and a 43 per cent carbon emissions reduction by 2030, if it’s deemed to be ‘in the national interest’. (Oz)
21
FWIW – a political comparison!
“WATCH: Senator John Kennedy Destroys AOC with an Absolutely Brutal One-Liner and Reveals the GOP’s Plan for Dealing With Her”
“Kennedy next dropped arguably the funniest and most brutal one-liner of the year in politics while comparing AOC to a standard household product.
“As I have said about her before, I think that she’s the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle,” he added while the other GOP Senators and Hannity laughed.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/watch-senator-john-kennedy-destroys-aoc-absolutely-brutal/
120
There still has been a proper audit of Fort Knox gold as requested by Elon Musk and TRUMP.
Some “audits” that have previously been done just involved checking the vault seals, not a physical audit of the gold itself.
It seems the Deep State is dragging its feet.
Also, the official gold holdings of the United States are valued at the rate of a mere US$42 per troy ounce, not the current rate of US$3,000.
61
Does it matter? No, seriously do you want to see the chaos if the gold isn’t there?
00
FWIW – another one
“Gov’t Climate Propaganda Agency Caught Raking in Billions to Push Gov’t Climate Propaganda”
https://pjmedia.com/charlie-martin/2025/04/09/government-climate-propaganda-agency-pushing-government-climate-propaganda-n4938743
60
The Conversation
Seems more like teaching people to put their fingers in their ears when someone starts talking sense.
70
The crucial part of the word ‘action’ is act (as in stage play, mimic, feign, amongst others) while the butt end is shun as in avoid, turn away from, have nothing to do with… as in Drag King Rainbow Children’s Story Time In Libraries.
Having worked on a few film & TV sets over the decades, when the Director shouts ‘ACTION!’ everyone instantly plays their role: it’s fun, it’s a way to make some money, but everyone knows it’s not real… except for those climate clowns prancing around in frilly dresses in front of the public and UN policymakers at their make-believe summits.
‘Save’ the planet? That’s an illusion.
61
“Shock poll: Bowen in danger of losing seat to tech millionaire”
He must have been watching the polls turn into pools of metaphorical blood, his!
100
Matthew Camenzuli is the name of the independent challenging Bowen. Very sensible bloke, I follow him on X.
30
I wish him the best. That defeat alone will increase the average IQ in Parliament to almost above 80 (judging by various ‘decisions’).
40
‘The Compass poll conducted last weekend shows Mr Bowen on just 19 per cent, far behind Mr Camenzuli, who was polling at 41 per cent.
‘Even more astonishing is that Mr Bowen in not only trailing the wealthy businessman, he’s also behind the Liberal candidate Carmen Lazar who polled at 20 per cent.
‘If that polling plays out on election day, Ms Lazar’s preferences – which would likely heavily flow toward the independent – would see Mr Camenzuli win comfortably.’ (Daily Mail)
20
Returning humans to the Moon now, as NASA hopes to do in 2026 or 2027 seems much more complicated than it was in 1969.
And NASA’s Boeing SLS and Lockheed Orion lander have big problems of high cost, delays and technical issues.
It has therefore been proposed that SpaceX do it.
Two alternative plans have been proposed by Dr. Robert Zubrin of the Mars Society.
1) Basically a repeat of the Apollo 8 mission of 1968 where astronauts orbited the moon but did not land. This would be done with a Galcon 9, Falcon Heavy and a modified version of Crew Dragon.
2) A landing mission involving Starship HLS, Super Heavy and Falcon 9 with in-orbit refuelling of Starship.
It makes me appreciate what a monumental achievement the original Moon landing was.
191
Typo: Falcon 9 not Galcon.
40
I’m afraid Australia will probably get the worst possible outcome from the next election which is a Labor Government with Green balance of power with Al-bozo as PM and Adam Bandt Deputy PM.
It will be the finish of Australia as we know it.
162
Haven’t you got an Australia First party?
In NZ the NZ First and Association of Consumers and Taxpayers (ACT) Parties hold the balance of power.
It’s progress, but we need them to be the majority , and dispense completely with the Labour/National Uniparty.
60
Can we dispense with the Maori/Green gang too – or are they dispensing themselves, one member at a time.
22
The latter.
I’m with Kennedy – “Let’m speak”.
Stupidity with every utterance will do the job.
10
No. The worst possible result would be the unaparty [only liberals are unaparty], or so I am led to believe reading this forum.
20
The wheels are falling off the Farage Fan Club wagon.
The person he was before the election has changed his tune after the votes were counted. Has Rupert Lowe’s time come? . . . Is he the leader Reform voters are seeking?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/reform-dithers-as-rupert-lowe-tells-the-inconvenient-truth-about-immigrants/
10
Forget robot dogs! Kawasaki unveils a hydrogen-powered, ride-on robo-HORSE that can gallop over almost any terrain
Is it the horse’s turn to render the car obsolete?
Japanese robotics company Kawasaki Heavy Industries is charging into the future — while leaning on an ancient mode of transport.
Meet Corleo, a hydrogen-powered robo-stallion that people can ride — or will be able to, once he or she hits the market.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, a company better known for its high-end motorcycles, has unveiled a hydrogen-powered, ride-on robo-horse.
The bizarre device was unveiled at the Osaka Kansai Expo on April 4 as part of Kawasaki’s ‘Impulse to Move’ project.
Dubbed the CORLEO, this two-seater quadruped is capable of galloping over almost any terrain.
The company calls it a ‘revolutionary off-road personal mobility vehicle’ which swaps out the familiar wheels for four robotic legs.
To steer, all you need to do is move your body and the machine’s AI vision will pick out the best route to take.
And, to make sure you don’t fly off as you leap about like a robot cowboy, CORLEO constantly monitors its rider’s movements to achieve ‘a reassuring sense of unity’.
However, would-be riders might have a while to wait as Kawasaki says this has been created as a concept for 2050.
51
Can anyone envisage a more useless invention, I can’t.
50
Putting man on the moon. Justified as advancing science which is what the people at Kawasaki have done.
10
Yet another Giant Leap Backwards, ie. never look over your shoulder, or as Peter Tosh RIP warned: Don’t Look Back.
30
Why and how, is it Hydrogen powered ??
It has never yet proven to be effective or practical for any other mobile device.
10
We don’t yet have unicorn farts.
We may be close to [mechanical] horse farts.
Greta would be so proud …
Auto
00
“Tariffs might seem like a crude weapon against the machinations of globalism – As so many skeptics repeat like parrots: “Trump is using an ax when he should be using a scalpel…Squawk!!”.
This isn’t about Trump, so let’s set him aside for a moment. Instead, consider what globalism really is: A system which pretends to benefit humanity while quietly bleeding as much wealth as it can from the middle class. It then places that cash in the coffers of a tiny percentage of elites. Globalism is a wealth and property transfer machine.
The direct result is a historic wealth gap that has put 30% of all cash in the hands of 1% of the population. The bottom 50% of the populace holds a laughable 2.6% of global wealth, and the problem is only getting worse.
In terms of “free trade” and the supply chain, interdependency makes all nations weak by forcing them to rely on other countries for key resources and base necessities. They’ve set up a system which makes it hard to walk away. Freedom from globalism means isolation from preestablished supply chains.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/tariff-freak-out-why-so-many-people-cling-cancer-globalism
91
Import tariffs at the retail level are a progressive, somewhat voluntary tax. A single mum working in the bistro having her bum patted for tips will notice the increase in shoes and clothes but the car she buys will be a 3rd hand Ford, not a BYD EV. Trump has promised to take the tax off her tips and a better paying job may be offered as jobs return to the US. That’s the theory.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice they are not.
10
About the recent slaughter of ambulance workers, a cynic responds: (a comment posted on Substack)
“The [covering up a] war crime checklist”:
1. We didn’t do it
2. Okay, we did it but they were Haмas
3. Okay, not Haмas but they were suspicious
4. Okay, they were clearly civilians but it was an accident, we’ll investigate
5. Our investigation found no wrongdoing
34
Whereas, with Hamas, it stops at No. 1: “We didn’t do it.”
70
That’s what happens in the fog of war when the Hamas terrorists have a long history of using ambulances and hospitals in their terrorist operations.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/hamas-has-a-history-of-using-ambulances-for-war/
81
Their ABC is now running scare stories about the “excessive” water consumption of nuclear reactors, saying it is three times greater than coal plant.
But normally the cooling water is in a lake so it’s recycled. Or water cooling might be via the ocean.
In either case, what difference does it make?
And if extra water is needed, Australia has plenty of unused desal plants.
Also, surely this article is illegal election propaganda by the state broadcaster?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-13/coalition-nuclear-plants-water-use-three-times-more-coal/104927368
111
Actually, if the cooling water is recycled to a lake it goes back hot so evaporation will be higher. More likely the lake is storage for one or more cooling towers where it is evaporated to the air and not recycled. Either way water is consumed (although it may turn up as rain somewhere else).
10
Makes a great fishing spot!
20
Most nuclear reactors, LFTR (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) in particular, can be configured to use the cooling of the coolant via water evaporation to create clean potable water. As LFTR’s work in the 800 to 900 degree range of temperatures this is a particularly effective way of creating fresh water. Please note that the coolant cycle in the proposed LFTR is completely separate from the fuel cycle and does not carry radiation.
A 1 GigaWatt LFTR situated every 100 Km along the Western Australian coast line, would create enough electricity to so swamp demand as to reduce the price of electricity to zero or near about. Similarly, the same reactors could create GigaLitres of fresh water that could be used to green the state and effectively give any amount of water away to the citizens for free.
As such, THE PROJECT WILL NEVER BE DONE BY CAPITALISTS – no profit in it.
Therefore only the state can build such infrastructure.
50
would create enough electricity to so swamp demand as to reduce the price of electricity to zero or near about.
Well reduce the cost to the consumer to the cost inherent in the distribution network
Even with the availability of potable water, locating any of these newfangled generating facilities near population centers would be politically “difficult”
10
The cost of distribution is a fixed cost (exclude maintenance for the moment). So the cost needs to be amortised over the life of the network. The network is effectively immortal so the cost is effectively zero.
Maintenance can be paid out of taxes – as it used to be. Expansion can also be paid out of taxes – as it used to be.
Result, cost of electricity to the consumer, zero.
02
You meant – Free Market state, did not you Joe?
The textbooks attribute French and Korean program success – on budget and nearly on time to their governments push. By different ways, by different means but it happened..
The soviet state built Chernobyl.
10
I said what I said.
Monopolies can not be controlled by the price market mechanism. So why do we try to twist the market to so control them. Leave markets for their natural place and allow the state to provide monopoly services for free, based on the fact that taxes were paid for the state to provide those services in the first place.
11
“Therefore only the state can build such infrastructure.”
You mean it will be proposed, talked about, electioned on, committees formed, reports made (well, that’s a decade or two gone!) and perhaps some ground broken amidst much fanfare, and will slowly progress while the taxpayer is being screwed blind by the unions and it blows out from $2Billion to $8B to $12Billion and Snowy2 is still going up.
If the private sector can’t build it and make it work, it won’t happen at all! ..and we should all be grateful!
11
Anybody know what’s going on with RFK and measles? I read somewhere that he supposedly said a day or two ago that the only way to avoid a measles epidemic is the MMR vaccine. He was previously staunchly against the MMR vaccine, citing studies linking it with autism.
Has he changed his tune or is one of the above wrong?
20
Now go ahead and prove he actually said that about measles and MMR.
I have noticed a number of these so called back flips from pro-Trump politicians. I’m not so sure that they are real.
The BLOB is panicking and will use any method – including creating false and impostor messaging – to save themselves.
20
I have no additional knowledge.
However, I do wonder if he is encountering entrenched Blob puzzle palace forces which he may have not anticipated.
And none of us fully understand.
I figure the Blob feeds the public opposing narratives.
For example, ‘it came from a lab’ and ‘it came from the wet market’, were likely both propaganda creations.
And still ‘public health’ authorities express little interest in the origin of the Great P.
Now this ..
‘Exclusive report claims U.S. troops had COVID in Wuhan before the Pandemic began’.
https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/us-troops-covid-wuhan-before-pandemic
I say this because of the very curious multi-government, in consort, centrally controlled fear mongering.
Funny how governments do almost nothing well, expect convince us all to self-imprison, comply with allowing our loved ones to die alone, submit to coerced ineffective injections, and fear the police for walking alone on the beach.
They Blob may be Blobbyer than we imagine.
31
except not expect
I have insomnia from worrying whether or not there is a Dog.
50
No doubt in our house you can hear his snoring from a great distance through closed doors.
I think he may have sleep apnea I just can’t get him to keep the mask on to see if it makes a difference
10
So you are an insomniac, agnostic dyslexic.
40
Now this ..
‘Exclusive report claims U.S. troops had COVID in Wuhan before the Pandemic began’.”
I am convinced that Covid was around early in 2019. I believe I caught it from my Chinese host while visiting Naples, Italy. She was sick and had just returned from China.
20
There were reports about US Military personnel getting ill in China way back when the origin of the virus was being discussed in 2020. Maybe 2021. China hosted the Military World Games in Oct 2019.
10
I just wish more people would read this web site and learn something
21
“more people” have been led to believe that this is a right-wing/ conspiracy-theorist website.
And if that were not bad enough, there are indications that some here do not have acute TDS.
As Trump is wont to say :-“It’s just horrible”.
20
Another TRUMP win.
Meanwhile Australia keeps going in the opposite direction with ever more restrictions on consumption and freedom.
51
I would appreciate comments on this claim by Their ABC that Clive Palmer’s Trumpets of Patriots party ad on “climate change” is “misleading”.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-02/clive-palmer-trumpets-of-patriot-misleading-election-ad/105123094
21
No need to read further than this , from the article –
“which questions the scientific consensus on climate change.”
20
What would you expect from the ABC?
Anything that upsets their beliefs is rubbished and ignored. Supposedly 20 years old so what? Their dogma comes from Greta’s great Uncle (or whatever) who said in 1911 that the world would be 3℃ warmer by 2000 AD.**
Yes, I have seen the video and agree with it, although I am not sure whether I would vote for Clive’s Trumpets, too many past sins.
**He may not have said it at that time (and Popular Mechanics just put it in knowing that he certainly believed) it despite Planck, Einstein and Angstrom all rubbishing his idea.
21
Unsurprisingly, no comments allowed on the ABC page… Just a Govt propaganda arm & should be called such.
21
David Karoly said “It is clear that this video contains misinformation and disinformation about climate change over the last 120 years.”
I disagree with that comment from the professor.
41
Is this David Karoly the chap who tried to have Stephen McIntyre’s presentation removed from a climate science conference in Italy.
This Karoly?
50
Vitamin D3. Again.
I have longstanding heart issues, CVD, a leaky valve, some damage from a heart attack in ’08 (4 stents) and an enlarged but stable aorta. A few days ago I experienced three full days of wobbly heartbeat so (eventually) took myself to hospital, where I was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. I suspect it was triggered by the stress of my wife’s cancer.
I was discharged the same day with blood thinners and instructions to double my beta blocker. I was also told to cease taking low-dose aspirin AND the vitamin K2 I take alongside 5000iu D3. K2 apparently potentially has a blood clotting effect.
I am loathe to stop the K2 as my understanding is that I would have to stop the D3, too.
Does anybody in here know of an alternative to K2, for the purposes of preventing arterial calcification?
30
Steve, really sorry to hear about your terrible week. Wish I had an easy answer. I would do what the docs suggest, and do some research or get a second opinion in the long run.
What dose of K2 are you on? I guess I would hit Pub Med to look at papers on K2 and clotting, and pay attention to dose, but that’s probably a bit much unless you are used to reading papers. Have they given you Warfarin?
I can’t endorse this, but it turned up on a quick search.
https://menaq7.com/news/vitamin-k2-and-blood-coagulation-debunking-a-myth/
People eating a higher K2 diet (in a consistent manner) did better than those who didn’t.
https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/vitamin-k-helps-not-harms-patients-on-warfarin
This is not medical advice. Just a suggestion that there are other opinions. There will be other ways to reduce attrial Fib as well, which is an important thing to do. Hopefully this is a temporary situation for you?
Really sorry to hear about your wife. I take it you know there are alternative cancer treatments available now that may be worth trying?
30
Imunotherapy with Keytruda (Pembrolizumab) saved someone close from lung cancer.
It is now on PBS (we paid 6K every 3 weeks).
Effective if patient has over a certain proportion of PD-L1:
“It essentially works by targeting a “cunning”‘ protein marker found on cancer cells, known as PD-L1, which tricks the body into thinking there is no cancer in the body for the immune system to fight.”
10
Thanks for that. She was put on an immunotherapy treatment last year but it caused brain bleeds (they think) so was halted. She also enrolled with an organisation running trials based on immunotherapy/genetics but was not found suitable for current trials.
10
a bit more from my own studies in 2016-2017:
There are 2 categories of “new drugs” for cancer treatment: INIBs and MABs.
A few drugs with names ending in …MAB (Pembrolizumab for Keytruda) are immunotherapy.
(Monoclonal Anti Bodies}
This one works if there is PD-L1 in high proportion in the tumor. (Now on PBS)
Another one – Opdivo (scientific name Nivolumab) is a bit more generic and I think it’s all on PBS but it may require a bit of traditional chemo-therapy first to help qualify for PBS.
The other category of drugs end in …INIB and are anti-neoplasmic generic therapies or EGFR inhibitors. For instance, Tarceva (the scientific name will end in …inib).
These are prescribed for a very small percentage of cancer sufferers who exhibit specific genetic mutations like EGFR or ALK, if present in the patient’s biopsy. Only about 10% or even 7% of sufferers have these mutations.
These drugs may be simpler, I think they are in pill form.
Hope this helps
10
Yes, the immunotherapy med that caused the brain bleeds was a ‘MAB’: Bevacizumab. She has been offered no alternative other than chemo. She has agreed to continue the Ivermectin alongside the chemo, because some reports say that it increases/enhances the cancer-killing effect of chemo.
00
Thanks Jo. I really appreciate your comments. We just got back from a 9hr day at Mater Cancer Care Centre where Marian commenced a new series of chemo, poor thing. The next week or so will be tough on her.
For me, much will depend on what my cardiologist says next week, when he will have the results of the echocardiogram. I’m hoping he will tell me the A-Fib was a passing episode brought on by stress, rather than an escalation of my chronic heart issues. I will discuss K2 with him. I’m not expecting him to step one millimeter outside the accepted, orthodox and approved wisdom though, because he is quite enthusiastic about mRNA technology for the control of cholesterol.
As for Marian, I do know about (some) alternative treatments. She is taking Ivermectin and has been for some months. In that time however her cancer has recurred, so I am unsure if it’s helping. Maybe it doesn’t work. Maybe she should be taking more (dosage is a mystery) or maybe it IS working but her cancer is just too aggressive to be thwarted – because it doesn’t work or her dosage is too low. There’s so much I don’t know and, to be honest, I struggle to think straight these days.
By the way, I was not prescribed Warfarin but Xarelto, an oral route blood thinner. I haven’t started it yet.
20
Did a few searches on Ivermectin during Covid.
The FLCCC protocol was 0.4 – 0.6mg per Kg of body weight, I think the Zelenko protocol was 0.2 mg. I took the latter for 5 days with no side effects but wife had some complaints including nausea.
The safety of ivermectin
The TGA published a study many years ago – when IVM was approved to treat scabies.
Lost the URL, search the TGA web site for ivermectin + scabies
Also:
https://richardsonpost.com/david-archibald/23317/ivermectin-safety-profile/
Or if you think that’s too radical, search the TGA web site – I lost the original URL but I remember that it is practically impossible to suicide with IVM.
One severe overdose reported in Australia was hospitalised with diarrhea, dizziness and blurred vision and released home v soon.
——–
From TGA October 2013 :
https://www.tga.gov.au/sites/default/files/auspar-ivermectin-131030.pdf
Studies providing pharmacokinetic (PK) data
Only one new study (066) was submitted by the sponsor and no new data were submitted
regarding the Absorption Distribution Metabolism Excretion (ADME) profile or other PK
characteristics of ivermectin, which is already approved and marketed for other
indications.
Evaluator’s overall conclusions on pharmacokinetics
Study 066 was designed primarily to evaluate the safety and tolerability of oral ivermectin
to support its use for the treatment of head lice infestation and PK data was only collected
as a secondary objective. Specifically, the study was designed to extend the kinetic
understanding of this drug beyond the doses examined previously (up to 15 mg) and when
administered in repeated doses for use against head lice and also to examine the effect of a
high-fat meal on absorption. The design of the study was based on the anticipated dosage
regimen for head lice (approximately 400 µg/kg) at the time the study was conducted. A
30 mg dose was chosen to span a range around this target dose but the actual range for the
participants was 347 to 594 µg/kg. Doses of 60, 90, and 120 mg were included to establish
a significant safety margin for administration of this drug. Doses of 30 and 60 mg were
administered as 3 multiple doses on Study Days 1, 4 and 7 of their corresponding periods,
which was the maximum frequency anticipated for head lice treatment and allowed
evaluation of possible accumulation and safety by Study Day 7. Additionally, the effect of a
high fat meal on absorption of 30 mg was examined to evaluate the maximum potential
food effect, since the interactions with food had not been studied previously.
10
Video from Mayo clinic states that D3 intake without K2 leads to “arterial calcification” but with K2 it will help direct it to the bones.
See around the 8th minute here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjafosuFolo
Blood clotting – you need more research.
Cleveland Clinic:
One of the main functions of K vitamins is to allow your blood to clot. In fact, the “K” in vitamin K is in reference to the German word “koagulation,” which translates to “coagulation” or the ability to clot (or thicken) blood.
Blood clots may sound like a bad thing — and they can be. After all, blood clots can travel to your brain and cause strokes. And clots in your arteries cause heart attacks.
But a certain amount of clotting-ability in your blood is important for your health. The ability for your blood to clot is what keeps you from bleeding out after an injury. Blood that’s too thin can make you bruise more easily and even leave you at risk for dangerous internal bleeding.
Vitamin K can help keep your blood not too thick and not too thin. In the words of Goldilocks, it keeps your blood just right.
HTH
30
“Video from Mayo clinic states that D3 intake without K2 leads to “arterial calcification” but with K2 it will help direct it to the bones.”
Yes, that’s why I’ve been taking K2 alongside my D3. The clotting effect is only a problem for me now that I have been diagnosed with arterial fibrillation, which can cause life-threatening blood clots to form in the heart.
10
FWIW another mystery solved
“Honey, I Finished The Internet”
“Prince Rupert’s Drop vs Hydraulic Press”
And comments, including HR’s link there
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/04/09/honey-i-finished-the-internet-525/#comments
00