Jo Nova
Programming and “pre-bunking” our children to vote Green — Boosting profits for years to come!
And you thought school textbooks were non-political…
Imagine the uproar if a coal company spent thousands of dollars to put lesson plans in schools to teach our children how to run activist lobby groups to get better subsidies and tax breaks for coal miners? Imagine these lessons even include instruction on how to fundraise, and ways to counter the anti-coal “misinformation and disinformation” ?
Indeed the ACCC banned the Commonwealth Bank’s Dollarmites program from Queensland schools because it contained “sophisticated marketing tactics”. But it wasn’t teaching children to write activist campaigns to lobby for tax breaks and subsidies for bankers.
Instead Mike Cannon Brookes, Mr $30 billion, has set up the Boundless Earth charity with a $15 to $30 million budget which generously sponsors a group called Cool org. They write “scripts for teachers” and tell the kiddies to walk to school or ride their bike while (as Tony Thomas reminds us) Mr Cannon-Brookes travels in his Bombardier Twin-jet.
It’s no tinker-toy project, already reaching 2.5 million Australian kids each year and 200,000 teachers. It’s a full on indoctrination unit.
This is the reason conservatives get wiped out in elections. One side have a multilevel war machine propaganda unit, staffed and funded with millions of dollars and the other side send their kids to those schools (and then pay for the schools with their taxes).
Part I –A Jet Jockey’s Little Green Schoolkids
By Tony Thomas, Quadrant
The Cool.org charity, drafts the scripts for teachers. Cool CEO Thea Stinear claims that Cool “helps young people cut through the BS. It helps them spot what’s real. What could be more important in this day and age?” Jason Kimberley of the multi-millionaire Just Jeans family set up Cool in 2008, catering to pre-school, primary, secondary, private and public schools with endorsement by departmental and school authorities.[3]
Cool, in fact, runs a parallel universe within the school system. Well over 17 million kids to date have imbibed at least one Cool lesson, delivered by the nearly 200,000 teachers who have signed on to Cool. Believe it or not, 92% of Australian schools have delivered Cool materials to kids. I’ve been recording this Cool educational empire for years, here, here, here and here.
Their skill building includes seven units of learning on misinformation or disinformation. In Science Over Skepticism they investigate things that “influence the adoption of scientific knowledge” — like presumably learning that “The ScienceTM” is done by consensus…
Tony Thomas writes:
Cool douses kids from pre-school upwards in a waterfall of green-left woke-ism and renewables advocacy, purportedly “building a sustainable and just world for all.” As a Cool member, I see exactly what Cool offers teachers and kids, but much of the Cool materials are paywalled to outsiders. Education was captured by the left decades ago, and school and department authorities have no qualms about kids imbibing green activism from third-party providers.[5]
But frankly, I’m near-traumatised at how completely and ruthlessly such third parties are drafting schoolkids to the green crusade…
Australian teachers are overwhelmed with bureaucratic paperwork, and administrative tasks, so they’re relieved when a professional team offers to do up the lesson plan for them, and fits it all to the bureaucratized spaghetti mess that is the curriculum. It even shows how it meets UN Paris convention goals.
Cannon Brookes uses the kids to get to the parents too.
Part II — A Green Kid is a Programmed Kid
Cool doesn’t just feed kids its climate factoids, it wants kids to preach the green gospel to schoolmates, parents and the community.
One lesson for 10- to 11-year-old’s is headed, Designing a Media Campaign to Promote Clean Energy Facts. Teachers’ job: “Share some of the following examples of accurate clean energy campaigns with your class. Where possible, encourage students to assess how their campaign could counter misinformation in the clean energy sector.”
Other kids are activated to do a “myth-busting” campaign against “deniers”. Another program teaches children how to fundraise — though Tony Thomas wonders if they should be teaching stranger danger, cash receipts and accounting as well. This is “cash raising” he says. Kids are instructed to hassle I mean, talk to shop owners, and car owners, or people on the local council….
By Year 9 and 10 the kids have graduated to designing advocacy campaigns to improve “clean energy policy” and presumably Mike’s profit margins.
Tony Thomas has been in under the membership hood and says the authors seem terrified that the kids might hear skeptical viewpoints, and so they “steered them away from the best sceptic websites like joannenova.com.au and WUWT, which Cool labels as not credible” (I think Thomas means they issue a generic warning against “blogs” rather than name us, but I shall have to clarify).
It’s full “Climate Denialist” reprogramming
The Cool Org education system teaches children to call people petty names, use ad hom reasoning, and run political campaigns!
“Climate Change Denial is on the Rise among teenagers”
Hence Cool gives kids entire lessons excoriating “Climate Denial” – Cool is either oblivious or supportive of the echo to Holocaust Denial.[2] It defines “Denial” as rejecting the notions that climate change exists (a straw man, given sceptics’ affection for geology) and that “Humans are causing the climate to change” despite alleged overwhelming scientific evidence (sceptics dispute only the severity, as in purported “catastrophic” warming, and emphasise the benefits such as CO2 having greened the plant).
The Cool lesson for Year 10 continues,
In some cases, climate deniers actively spread disinformation about climate change to suit a personal or political agenda. This can have profound effects on how we address the challenges posed by climate change.
In the “Climate Literacy: Climate Change Denial And Disinformation” lesson, Students explore climate denialism and the myths often presented about climate change. They explore the facts that bust these myths, look at the implications of climate denialism on meeting the challenges of climate change, and create a communication piece to address climate disinformation.
The program does specifically mention John Clauser, the Nobel prize winning skeptics who they say “spreads misinformation”.
What Tony Thomas hasn’t found yet, is any mention that Chinese and Indian emissions are at record highs and are still growing. Boy are those kids going to feel used and abused when they find out the truth.
Now I’m a free speech girl, I would not mind kids being exposed to all their arguments, as long as skeptics get equal access. The truth always wins (and it’s funnier… ) our job would be easy.
Tony Thomas has done a long investigation and two articles already on Quadrant with a third to come. Read it all there.
Tony’s latest book from Connor Court is Anthem of the Unwoke – Yep! The other lot’s gone bonkers. $34.95
“Science over Skepticism”
???
Science IS Skepticism
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Indeed.
That’s how you do (real) science.
Science involves constantly questioning and evaluation of claims including “consensus” (sic) claims which are falsely claimed by the Left to be the basis of scientific fact.
All science is subject to sceptical inquiry.
There is no such thing as establ8shing scientific fact by consensus.
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The scientific consensus supports Einstein, there was scepticism at first but evidence from various disciplines (consilience) has resulted in a consensus.
That’s how science is done.
Meanwhile, climate sceptics can’t provide evidence and limit themselves to fringe anti science fringe publications and blogs.
Next , you’ll be comparing yourselves to Galileo .
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If someone shouts about believing the consensus, you better check your pockets, because someone has their hand in them.
Consensus is not a scientific method, it is a political one. And don’t think scientists don’t have politics, they obviously do.
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What? Science is observation and cataloguing (it’s extremely tedious). With sufficient data a hypothesis or theory can be construed or tested. If the process is reliable then a minimum of skepticism remains. Perhaps you are referring to postmodern science in which hypotheses take precedence over observation. Yes, that is certainly a fraudulent exercise deserving of skepticism.
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Uber,
It seems Einstein wasn’t a scientist then.
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I always thought of Einstein as a mathematician.
But that’s just the way I am.
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Albert often needed help with math. Find the stories and enjoy. (Skip the part about his bad grades — mostly bunk.) Also, see Mileva Marić.
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Einstein provided a plausible construct based on
a) previously well-founded science,
b) observation,
c) strict adherence to logical construction (mathematics).
Most of his theory was already proved observationally under Newton’s laws. The extension of those laws into Einstein’s more accurate theory has since been painstakingly measured. There was never any need to be skeptical about his work, because he did it properly.
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So far!
Then it was questioned, and we got quantum theory.
Now that is questioned, by string theory,
and that is being questioned too or not yet proven.
It is never ending, that is science, no dogma.
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Uber,
I’m glad you’ve refined your hypothesis of what science is.
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So how do they teach General Science, Physics and Chemistry at Schools? The mind boggles.
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Badly.
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nIndigenous science is given equivalence in todays teachings. What we do without an aboriginal version of the Periodic Table.
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I just wish all Aussies could be told the true cost of toxic, unreliable W & S, like the estimate from 2 Universities and a think tank, that finds it could cost up to 9 TRILLION $.
BTW our total GDP is about 1.7 trillion $, so work it out for yourselves.
So why don’t we spend about 0.15 TRILLION $ on BASELOAD Nuclear and have 24/7/365 energy until 2100?
Probably the easiest no brainer we will ever encounter, unless you’re from the Labor, Greens or Teals fantasy world.
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Perhaps I should point out that 0.15 trillion = 150 billion $ and that is allowing about 21 + billion $ for each Nuclear power plant.
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Just colourise Julius Sumner Miller, and run it every weekday at 1700.
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I think it’s going to take a little more than colour to bring JSM back.
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How good Boambee!!!
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The Thinking Community needs to counter this indoctrination.
As I said in the Wednesday thread:
To counter the Leftist indoctrination of children in schools it might be worthwhile establishing some sort of “critical thinking children’s club” or TV or online show (or meetings) where children learn and participate in various critical thinking, pro-science and pro-reason activities.
Thoughts?
And Ronin replied:
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A podcast advertised on Tic Toc but they will outlaw that as soon as it done.
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Having been involved with the scouting movement it seems that it would be a good vehicle for this kind of effort EXCEPT the drive to more and more restrictions, rules and regulations meant that it became very difficult (and costly) to hold any worthwhile.event.
We need a MSGA movement. (Make Scouting Great Again :-).
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Tony Thomas is a real journalist giving us an incite into the what happens when kids are forced to drink the CC CoolAid.
He will be on the right side of history.
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Thx Tony for giving unthinking parents insight into Education Dept K-12 indoctrination curriculum
mind virus. It’s a western version of Mao’tse Tung’s Little Red Book.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/60emuh/school_girls_reading_from_maos_little_red_book/#lightbox
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Russell,
“Incite” or “insight”?
I guess both work in a fashion. Geoff S
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To the Monkees’ I’m A Believer:
And then I read Jo’s site,
now I’m a ‘den!er’.
I’m not a Green,
nor out of my mind.
Coolies k!ll (whoah!),
they’re Believers,
and Deceivers,
not you and I 🎸
It’s a concerted attack on all fronts: today’s Big Repeat®️ is if we removed six million fossil fuelled machines we’d save billions of dollars and return to Arcadia’s utopian sanctuary run on mythical ‘electricity’ from rainbow unicorn wings & things.
6,000,000.
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‘This is the reason conservatives get wiped out in elections.’. No, you are completely wrong there Jo. Conservatives do very well in elections if they are actually conservatives (and properly organised). Farage? Trump? Abbott?
The LNP did very poorly exactly because it is not at all conservative. All the nonsense about Trump and campaign incidents is just political noise. The fact is that the electorate knows the LNP is a pointless, rudderless rabble.
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Absolutely! They got a well-deserved beating last weekend because they endorsed this crap to the full! With nothing to differentiate them from Labor there was no-one to vote for them.
A perfect example of the Uniparty!
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Uber,
Agreed. Did you hear any Lib candidate in the past year stating the main, basic grounds that define Conservatism?
Why it is so different to Labor with socialist/communist Fabian Society stuff? Or examples from recent history of Conservative better than the rest? Geoff S
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We should also be honest with the people and point out that the true believers actually BELIEVE that it would take thousands of years before we could see a reduction in co2 levels.
That’s if we stopped all Human co2 emissions today. See the “The Conversation” and “The Royal Society” studies that I’ve linked to many times.
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Put this map of the worlds coal fired power stations everywhere (removing retired, cancelled, shelved, mothballed)
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The easy response for anyone is to just take the Co2 Coalition’s Quiz and this should be easy for most of Jo Nova’s visitors.
These Scientists think that more co2 would be a good thing for the world’s environment and Humans today and lead to a more prosperous future.
https://co2coalition.org/quiz/us-air-quality-is-becoming-less-and-less-healthy/
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He is also major sponsor of the Williams F1 racing team.
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/inside-atlassian/atlassian-williams-partnership
Is he a closet petrol-head?
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How many tyres would a team use up in one race meeting, 2 cars X 4 wheels for practice, qualifying for sprint then the main race, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Mr Cannon-Brookes sounds like an ideal candidate for attending Davos. He could fly in on his private jet to meet likeminded people and discuss how all the plebs should live and what they will be permitted to drive.
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A closet something Rowjay…… I try so hard not to knock successful people……but….why do they become such freakin’ hypocrites (not all of course), but they seem to come (mostly) from wealthy Families ??? And have had a rails run in life…..Holmes a court, Alex Turnbull, this bloke, Allegra spender….etc etc
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Another no brainer is that Humans lived very short and brutal lives for most of the last 300,000 years and life expectancy was under 30 years.
Then Britain started the Industrial Revolution and everything changed over the last 0.1% of Human history.
Today Human average life expectancy is about 73 years and life is steadily improving although we could be held back because of stupid leader’s decisions from now on.
Obviously we should look up the data for ourselves and vote accordingly.
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As per the multipronged attack: He’s Back! Kevin Trenberth’s not only waving, he’s drowning:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/560159/ocean-near-new-zealand-warming-faster-than-anywhere-else-study-finds
Keep a pinch of salt handy: “Oceans absorb most of the excess heat that people are pumping into the climate system [yet] the seas are not heating evenly”, preached Doctor Kevin from Illusions of NIWA (ION).
Sumpfink™️ about hot air makes hot water which makes hotter air make oceans even hotter and on and on until everything is boiling – another perpetual motion hypothesis from the Faster Than Anywhere Else school of no thought.
Despite the Consensus of Settled Science™️ (a great title for a Sci-Fi Comedy of Errors?) so-called experts don’t know why there are warm patches at 40*N and 40*S of Earth’s ocean (for it is but one). Could it be the ‘missing hot spot’ is proving so illusory that grant-seekers have invented – spellcheck: discovered – an altogether new hot spot: or more precisely, a less freezing area of salt water?
Reassure your grandchildren: the seas are not boiling around New Zealand… why, I jumped in the Pacific Ocean only yesterday and it was BRACING, BREATHTAKING and BRISK 🥶 albeit refreshing. We can only dream of ‘marine heatwaves’ – or fly to Fiji.
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Has been constant Bombardment of all my kids and Grandkids throughout their education, with constant reinforcing of Global Warming, and when that did not occur, switched to Climate Change
No real education on the realities of AC versus DC Power and how critical low cost energy is to Australia’s Future!
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Surprise! Ice is rebounding at BOTH poles — climate is more complex than we know
When it comes to climate change, to invoke one of Al Gore’s favorite sayings, the biggest challenge is not what we don’t know, but what we know for sure but just isn’t so.
Two new studies show that the Earth’s climate is far more complex than often acknowledged, reminding us of the importance of pragmatic energy and climate policies.
One of them, led by researchers at China’s Tongji University, finds that after years of ice sheet decline, Antarctica has seen a “surprising shift”: a record-breaking accumulation of ice.
The paper takes advantage of very precise measurements of Antarctic ice mass from a series of NASA satellites called GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment).
Since the first GRACE satellite was launched in 2002, Antarctica has seen a steady decline in the total mass of its glaciers. Yet the new study found the decline reversed from 2021 to 2023.
Melting Antarctic ice contributes to global sea-level rise, so a reversal of melting will slow that down. Understanding the dynamics of ice mass on Antarctica is thus essential.
The recent Antarctica shift makes only a small dent in the overall ice loss from 2022, but comes as a surprise nonetheless.
A second new paper, a preprint now going through peer review, finds a similar change at the opposite end of the planet.
“The loss of Arctic sea ice cover has undergone a pronounced slowdown over the past two decades, across all months of the year,” the paper’s US and UK authors write.
They suggest that the “pause” in Arctic sea ice decline could persist for several more decades.
Together, the two studies remind us that the global climate system remains unpredictable, defying simplistic expectations that change moves only in one direction.
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One area where the Left absolutely excels over the Thinking Community is in the production and delivery of propaganda as the cool.org website clearly demonstrates.
They are the experts!
And notice the unit on “Understanding Misinformation and Disinformation”:
The terminology of “Misinformation and Disinformation” and “to identify truths and myths about clean energy” suggests that enforcers of the Office Narrative such as the e Safety Kommissar may be asked to (or do so without being asked) use her censorship powers to shut down any challenge to any such anti-science propaganda not in accord with the Official Narrative of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.
And scaring children with stories of future catastrophe unless we shut down our energy supply and economy is downright immoral.
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Interesting idea. Hope the authors don’t realise they are playing with fire.
Just imagine if the students really did understand misinformation and disinformation.
In my days as a teacher I found students had very well developed BS detectors. The adoption of the expression totally gay is an example.
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Notice also how they use the term “clean energy” as if to imply that coal, gas and nuclear is “dirty”, which of course it isn’t.
No mention of the tremendous destruction of bird, bat and insects by windmills, the felling of forests, the removal from service of productive farmlands or wildness for solar and wind subsidy farms, clearance of forests for transmission lines and roads, toxic chemicals into the atmosphere when battery subdidy farms burn, the tremendous environmental destruction for Snowy Hydro 2 and the non-recyclable nature of most of wind, solar and battery subsidy harvesting devices.
Also, coal, gas and nuclear power plants, including coal mines and uranium mines occupy incredibly small footprints and most people rarely see them. Contrast that with any drive outside of a city and your eyes are assaulted by the eyesore visible for many kms of windmills and solar farms.
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I stumbled across an unusual graph the other day – mortality rate vs Terawatt-hour:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh
Ssshhh…don’t let the loonies see it!
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John Connor II,
One problem with that graph is that attribution of cause of death. Not too many people end up with “air pollution” listed on their death certificates, so it’s statistical shenanigans behind the figures.
I also wonder how solar’s death rate is so low. How many people have died (a) installing and (b) cleaning rooftop solar setups? (once again, “solar power” won’t be on the death certificate)
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Never forget that Lomborg tells us that everyone will be much wealthier by 2100 and he uses Dr Nordhaus’ study to prove his point. Dr Nordhaus won the Nobel prize for economics in 2015. Here’s a quote from Lomborg’s article and I don’t think we should be too worried about losing 0.1% of wealth in 2100.
BTW Dr Nordhaus used the same modelling that is used by the IPCC and the US EPA.
“Nor is Nordhaus alone in his views among economists. Lomborg shows that there are many IA models but the biggest and best known ones all more or less agree that climate change will only shave a small amount off prosperity by 2100, a result which won’t even be noticeable in the context of massive growth. Instead of per capita income being six times larger it might be only 5.9 times larger. And the models that say this are not weird outliers contrived by freaks and “deniers”. Instead they are the mainstream models used by, among others, the IPCC and the US Environmental Protection Agency to study the issue”.
Lomborg on the 21st century part 3: economic costs of climate change – Climate Discussion Nexus
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I’m sorry, I’ll try that Lomborg link again.
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2023/09/13/lomborg-on-the-21st-century-part-3-economic-costs-of-climate-change/
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Ah, brainwash ’em young to create the army of followers..
How to start a fake RElegion (Renewable Energy Legion).
Sounds familiar.😁
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How did a long hair hippy person called Cannon Brooks get so much money?
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Jason Kimberley of the multi-millionaire [Just Jeans (see “Just Group”)] family set up Cool in 2008. For Mike Cannon-Brooks, see Atlassian.
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The latest estimate of average global life expectancy in 2100 is 81.7 years and of course wealth per capita will be much higher as well. This is UN data.
So where’s their dangerous CC crisis?
https://database.earth/population/world/life-expectancy#:~:text=In%20the%20future%2C%20World%27s%20average%20life%20expectancy%20is,living%20in%20World%20by%2011.18%25%20from%20today%27s%20standard.
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Even I can’t imagine what it’d be that far out given everything that’s happening and about to.
It could be 10 years or 300 years…
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We are heading into interesting times . At some point in the future reality will re-assert itself and the pendulum will swing more in the direction of truth . At the moment its on the way back . That its required for additional propaganda to be produced to indoctrinate the young is encouraging . The “narrative” is crumbling as people are noticing the gap between reality and their “feeds” . If you look at what is being fed to the masses on the MSM its now full of contradictions . Its hard for a lot of the public to change their minds as they don’t want to admit that they had been deceived (especially to friend and family). Social pressure to conform is subtle , but all pervasive and being an outcast carries a cost . Taking a stand when right in the face of overwhelming opposition is courage….
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Perhaps the renewables industry ought be brought to task for their manifest failures in action, result, impact, cost, reliability, health/death impacts, and innumerate ignorance.
In sum, the RE Industry is sponsoring proxies to avoid legal liability for propaganda.
absolutely nothing in the RE scam is provably beneficial or economical. Mere projections of ideology.
I’d call it agitprop by proxy. They’ve bought off the schools and govt to hide behind their investments in propaganda.
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The University of Tasmania and Deakin University did some research (funded by climate change advocacy groups) on how young people see climate change. The ABC ran the story, some of the questions raised in the research included:
With the rate of climate change, what will the Earth be like when I’m an adult?
What does the melting of glaciers in Antarctica mean for Tasmania?
Will climate change mean we have to live underwater or in space?
If factory workers and other people who work in industries … are aware that they pollute the air and water, then why do they keep producing the products?
How long before climate change destroys the Earth?
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Tragic loaded propaganda questions.
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And if the factory workers, and other “polluters” such as farmers and miners, gave it away what would the little ignoramuses survive on? They don’t seem to ever consider the consequences of net zero or even decarbonising.
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I have a friend whose daughter suffered anxiety as a child and seemed to come out of it. Now as a young woman she cant countenance having children because the world is ending because climate.
I can only imagine we are going to see some angry seniors at some stage when they realise nothing has happened. Either that or they will obliviously keep kicking the future bogey man can down the road until it lands in their grave.
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“Now as a young woman she can’t countenance having children because the world is ending because climate.”
Natures antidote.
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Tasmania you say?
Don’t these anxious femme hysterics read their daily BoM panic updates?
Snow to 500 metres today in Tassie, freezing overnight up in the hills then more snow tomorrow but ‘only’ to 700m. Climate©️ done it… again.
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Obviously not much time expended on that ‘research’, but a LOT of money, I’ll wager.
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Cannon Brookes could afford to offer the site for free but I guess the idea of having a paid subscription is a psychological or marketing trick to make it appear as though you are getting a valuable resource. Some people think that a free resource is of little value, Jo’s site excepted. And since I am guessing schools will be paying subscriptions with taxpayer money, probably no one cares.
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On the site you will see much of the propaganda is consistent with globalist UN “Sustainable Development Goals”.
https://cool.org/search?term=UN+Sustainable+Development+Goals
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Now I don’t know what schools are like now, but I’ll go back a little here.
Huh!
Back in 2015, in the midst of teaching my granddaughter how to drive, (and we are now closer than I have even been to (our) three children even) after a debrief back at home after a session out on the road, going over some details, I asked her about her schooling, and gently broached the subject of if Climate Change was talked about much during classes, and here, she attended a Private School.
Her reply, and here I’ll actually quote here, because she rarely swore in my presence.
“Oh, Poppy, we don’t listen to that $h1t, and mostly, we all just tune out!”
I then wondered if they (and she was in Grade 12 at the time) talked about in the breaks at school.
And here, her response was even more direct.
She told me that if anyone brought up that subject, all the others would stand up and walk off! She added that perhaps the actual percentage of people who did talk about it was probably less than maybe 5%, and the rest of her group, well most groups she said, knew exactly who they were, and avoided them.
What all this talk with her did for ….. me, was to think that most young adults of her age had perhaps more ‘nous’ than I actually credited them with.
To this day, she still has little time for it all.
She knows EXACTLY where I stand, and said if she ever needed any correct information, she would ask me, and that’s only happened a couple of times since, all of them about wind and solar power.
She’s now in a workplace where she’s the store leader, (and she got that position five years ago) and has around 15 people working for her, actually in charge of a large (huge franchise) Hairdressing Salon. (Hairhouse) She won that franchise’s (Australia wide) hairdresser of the year for the whole of Australia two years ago, and has been on the list of best salons of the year (they choose a list of five out of the 125 across Australia) for the last three years, and that’s from regional Rockhampton, and her salon is one of the goto salons for how to best run them.
Now why I even mentioned any of that is that she told me that in all that time, no employee in her salon, nor any client, ever, has ever mentioned the subject of Climate Change at all.
She did so well at school too, and I was, well, maybe, a little disappointed she went out to this particular salon, and asked flat out for an apprenticeship, (and they weren’t even advertising for apprentices) at the beginning of her first year out of High School. I didn’t say anything, just a tad downhearted. She’s been at this one salon for all that time. They offered her the store leader position more than five years back now, when she was almost 22, and now it’s one of the best franchises across all Australia. Huh! She’s actually one of the most ‘switched on’ people of her age I’ve met.
(the hardest thing to understand is that she turns 27 this year and is eligible for long service leave)
Tony.
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What a fabulous story Tony. It proves another of my pet beliefs; you don’t have to go to university to be very successful. My son is a tradie and owns a multi million dollar business at the age of 43. My two sons-in-law are also very successful, one trained as a cabinet maker and is now a sought after programmer, the other trained as a refrigeration mechanic and now runs a very innovative company. The other thing I learnt along the way is that if you love your job you will be successful regardless of formal education. In fact it seems most degrees are virtually worthless and it surprises me that so many young people want to incur a HECs debt for some indoctrination in leftist ideology. What do they say- Those that can, do and those that can’t, teach.
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Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man’ Aristotle (the web tells me)
I first became aware of those words at the start of the 7UP series, a longitudinal study of a economically diverse bunch of UK kids over decades.
Got to indoctrinate young and keep at it.
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Y, always thought Ignatius Loyola of Jesuit infamy penned that saying, but hey no surprises with early Greeks’ penchant for (cough) training young boys.
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One of my brothers mentioned recently that if he still had school aged kids he would home school them.
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If the Liberals had an ounce of spine they should have a war going in the media about this stuff. No wonder our kids are falling towards the bottom of the international list on the school performance programs.No wonder they have trouble reading, writing and doing maths, yet those three things are the source of future understanding of how things work in the natural world and for the prosperity for any nation.
Most times we associate this sort of stuff with communism and nazism where such expertise had been perfected. Now cults are admitted into our classrooms and curricula, taking advantage of children with clean slate brains to impose basic thought principles hard to remove for many years.
Parents are responsible for the education of their kids. Is brain washing what they expect as a first up instead of the ‘three’ r’s?
Again Trump is the only leader taking the broom to this sort of stuff.
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The Liberals agree with it. Like they agree with uncontrolled migration. Like the Tories in the UK. And the Democrats in the US.
The full scale of the problem is hidden from the public. It is presented as a lack of housing problem.
And the only solution in the UK was to form a Third party which addresses Climate Change Crap and Migration Massacres. Otherwise nothing would be done.
The Liberals in Australia are likely as incorrigible as the Tories and the Democrats in the US. And as dishonest.
It has taken a people’s revolt in the US and now in the UK and Germany, Italy, Hungary, France to start to stop the theft and lies.
Globalists are the problem. They dream of a brave new world where they are the masters. And anyone who resists is called NAZI or ‘extreme/far Right’ which is code for NAZIs. Who were Socialists.
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I just heard that Senator Canavan is advocating that the Nationals decouple from the Liberals. At least the Nationals maintained some conservative values and aspirations, both abandoned by by the Liberals.
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She has a uni degree in public policy but can’t read or write
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2YO762o5GI
Sounds about right for public policy…
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So we are educating people to believe that the Climate is crashing soon, that carbon dioxide is toxic? And on the 50th anniversary of this remarkable Al Gore/UN swindle in 1988, this phenomenon in 2038, they will be voters who will assess whether their education was a pack of lies. In fact most young adults can do it now.
That’s why all the carbon dioxide ripoffs are hidden from the public in your power bills, your cost of goods, your cost of travel and from review in the budget. This was a proud Australian invention, going against all the tradition of British democracy, to enrich friends of the government directly without anyone knowing. And Britain copied John Howard’s Renewable Energy(Electricity) Act, a great compliment to the Australian battler.
At what point in the future this history will be seen as criminal activity is unknown. But I would encourage anyone who wants to do so to bring their electricity bills to the High Court of Australia. After all John Howard said he was ‘Climate Agnostic’ and Peter Dutton said he was ‘not a scientist’. It will be their defence. Ignorance, not malice.
And then the racist Act which gave aborigines absolute rights over 53% of Australia’s land on the basis of Eddie Mabo’s case where Eddie actually argued he was not an aboriginal. But Paul Keating knew otherwise, so now we have an ABC admitted $42Billion a year aboriginal industry where real aborigines are no better off.
This is government by hidden legislation of theft and lies. Fully supported by opportunists. And rich people who have nothing better to do than lie to kids. And the rest of Australia.
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I was passing Scot’s Church in Collins Street, Melbourne today. A beautiful edifice to God, people and faith. And a red banner across the church to “Restore Natural Balance. No public money for coal or gas“.
And it occurred to me that no balance is disturbed. CO2 is going up very slowly but across the massive surface of an entire planet covered mainly by water, CO2 does not vary anywhere more than 1% in two years. Nothing has an effect. Balance is maintained rapidly, fiercely, continually. From the North Pole to the South Pole. We humans can do nothing to change CO2. Look at the graph of the last 55 years. Not a single human event or volcano or bushfire or the explosive growth of CO2 output from fossil fuels. Nothing disturbs CO2. And it is ALL swapped out every ten years.(See table 1)
So again, what balance is disturbed?
And besides, as I harp on, we know absolutely from radio carbon dating the air itself, the amount of fossil fuel CO2 is under 2.0%.
So keep stealing from everyone. And sending the cash to China who now make more than 50% of the world’s steel. Often from Australian coal and Australian Iron ore while our own people are taxed out of existence with hidden carbon taxes which vanish.
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I also notice that no one has mentioned how fast all CO2 gas is swapped out with the ocean since 1992. At which time the speed of absorption and release of incredibly soluble CO2 became an embarrassment to the Climate Change Morlocks.
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Many think that the Uniting Church of Australia is the Greens at prayer. The denominations that joined were the Methodists, the Congregation and some of the Presbyterians. There are still some independent Presbyterians.Scots Church is an independent Church of the Australian Presbyterian Church. Looks like some of the Woke have infiltrated 🙁
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There was a time when the priesthood, the monks, the ultra religious were the enlightened ones, the scientists, the thinkers. Copernicus, Darwin, Descartes and their discoveries conclusions really worried them.
And I would add the discovery of white wine, champange, the punt in the bottom, the caged cork, champagne. Father or Dom Pierre Perignon, a Benedictine monk. And another Benedictine Monk, Dom Fernado Vincelli invented Benedictine in 1510.
Now they are followers of the Green religion and lack any critical thinking ability. It is sad. What happened to scholarship?
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Having trouble with norton antitracker. I think I’ve learned how to turn it off now so will send this and see what happens. Computers aren’t my forte!
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I was just in Melbourne on a tram. But the usually excellent ‘Tram Tracker’ app did not work. I thought it was ironic. And perhaps commuting isn’t my forte?
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Inside Cannon-Brookes’ Bombardier Global 7500 executive jet.
https://www.realestate.com.au/news/inside-australian-billionaire-mike-cannonbrookes-new-houselike-120m-private-jet/
It’s absolutely ideal for those long trips from Australia to climate crisis conferences and WEF meetings in exotic locations.
I just hope his staff remember to book parking for the jet as it’s always at a premium at such conferences.
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The great thing about Virtue Signalling is that you don’t have to live by the same rules. Take anti CO2 and anti methane campaigner, special envoy for Climate, the hairpiece himself, John Kerry. I love that he is party to the Heinz baked bean fortune. What about methane reparations?
And as I just found on the internet “John Kerry, who was selected by U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to serve as climate envoy, owns six homes, two yachts, 12 cars, and a private jet “. Oops.
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“Leonardo DiCaprio owns several luxurious properties, including a major compound in the Hollywood Hills and a Spanish Colonial house in Los Feliz, Los Angeles. He also has a significant real estate portfolio that includes homes in California and New York, as well as a private island in Belize. While DiCaprio is known for his environmental activism, he has also been seen traveling in private jets.”
How Green can they be? Don’t do as I do, do as I say.
And a number of the greatest offenders have stopped owning multiple private jets. They hire them.
Oprah Winfrey did not receive millions for hosting Kamala Harris’ show. She said that went to a private company Harpo. Which is Oprah backwards.
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And Al Gore claims he plants lots of trees to compensate for his massive CO2 footprint. His private jets are also contractors. And of course trees do not reduce CO2. More CO2 means more trees. NASA proved it.
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Yes, the idea that billionaires play benign despot is not new. And trillionaires can now launch their friends and in one case, girlfriend, into space in their own rocket ships. The idea that they should encourage the peasants to protect the place is natural. Otherwise there will be no great places to go. And there will be no caviar. What they really need is a different gas in Champagne.
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I have been told that the renewables industry political tactics apart from funding “Independents” to become their lobbyists is influencing groups like Smart Energy Council, Australians Against Nuclear and others to influence people generally.
And targeting or threatening to target with financing campaigns against sitting MPs who are not supportive of the renewables (so called) industry.
Democracy?
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Brain- washing the young with fake information, by those who ought to know better but are complicit in the scam, for money. Jail the lot of them.
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When I see children waiting for the school bus I think: “waiting to go for their daily brainwashing!”
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