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The National Academies are green nuts:
https://www.cfact.org/2025/09/23/national-academies-go-preposterous-on-co2/
Time to revoke their federal charter.
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Very good article on Covid and the false statistics used by governments
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/09/22/the-covid-response-was-not-a-mistake-it-was-just-wrong/
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I remember the local government briefings from the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when it became obvious that they could free up their spokesperson for more useful duties by training a parrot to repeat the phrases “Stay the course!” and “Flatten the curve!” and gotten about the same amount of benefit from the regular briefings.
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Met office produces incorrect and inaccurate temperature measurements.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/09/22/sensational-new-measurements-of-uncorrupted-air-temperatures-destroy-uk-met-office-constant-claims-of-records/
Bet this doesn’t happen in Oz and you are all very happy with the accuracy of your temperature record.
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No!
Yes!
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It is hard to find new high maximums in Australia. It is so cold that they have to look for new high minimum temperature. Anything to keep the scam alive.
The precession of Earth’s orbit is shifting the peak solar power across the hemispheres. As a consequence, the Southern Hemisphere is getting a smaller range in solar intensity while the NH is getting an increasing range. It was inevitable that Australia’s temperature fiddlers would run into this reality.
This summer might deliver us warmer conditions if the rainfall stays away. Right now daily solar intensity across most of Australia is up by about 3W/m^2 on last year but ocean advection is currently dominating. If that keeps then the extra cloud and water will dampen the potential temperature. But still early days.
My solar panels are currently enjoying the extra solar power when the clouds are not there.
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This is part 2 of an article on the threat of digital i.d. written from an Australian perspective but very relevant for many countries where our reliance on digital technology seems to be speeding us towards such an i.d which no doubt will also include health information as well as passport type details
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-we-must-resist-digital-id-part-2/
The first part is at the very start of the article.
This will do nothing to stop illegal activities but will penalise the honest, regrettably many people no longer seem concerned about privacy or the state having access to your personal details and the likelihood of them misusing it.
It is also certain these details will be hacked either for access to bank details or to steal your identity
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Digital I.D. is an important issue but, for me, it is just a part of a much larger problem, one that requires addressing urgently.
I’m talking about the modern phenomenon of governments (of all stripes) blatantly ignoring their own citizens’ wishes and demands. Whether it’s Net Zero, two-tier justice, illegal immigration, the vast expansion of government control, digital I.D., the cashless society, vaccine mandates, the sale of national assets to China, the refusal to invest in nuclear energy, allowing biological men into women’s sport and bathrooms and many others, it is patently clear that governments have no mandate for these things. Even worse, many of them are being forced on us in the face of strong and clear opposition. In today’s parlance, we’re being ‘gaslighted’.
And this is happening no matter who we vote for.
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Give the man a prize .
Pollies won’t get you out of this as they’re the ones that got you into this in the first place.
Why don’t people grasp this???
NO POLITICAL PARTY CAN STOP WHAT’S COMING.
That’s not how the world works. Sheesh.
But still the people didn’t see:
https://x.com/DailyNoahNews/status/1614361658729668611/
But wait, bigger things not on Steve’s list are coming up.
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Roger Pielke’s comments on Australia’s climate policies is good reading.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/a-close-look-at-australias-new-climate
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The whole thing is mythical nonsense. Giving any credibility to CO2 induced climate change through radiation impacts is utter tripe – unscientific mumbo-jumbo, claptrap, scamming, minchhiata.
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William Happer, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, PrincetProfessor of Physics, Emeritus, Princeton University
Richard Lindzen, Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AS CAREER PHYSICISTS, SCIENCE DEMONSTRATES THERE IS NO CLIMATE RELATED RISK CAUSED BY FOSSIL FUELS AND CO2, THUS NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR THE PROPOSED RULE, AND, IF ADOPTED, DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES FOR PEOPLE WORLDWIDE AND THE U. S. BECAUSE IT WOULD REDUCE CO2 AND THE USE OF FOSSIL FUELS
We are career physicists who have specialized in radiation physics and dynamic heat transfer for decades.
In our opinion, science demonstrates that there is no climate related risk caused by fossil fuels and CO2 and no climate emergency.
Further, nowhere in the more than 500 pages of the proposed rule is there any reliable scientific evidence that there exists a climate related risk.
None.
It refers to the International Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”), the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (“TCFD”) and other outside groups, but never provides any reliable scientific evidence that supports the rule.
The science is just assumed.
Therefore, there is no reliable scientific basis for the proposed SEC rule.
Further, contrary to what is commonly reported, CO2 is essential to life on earth.
Without CO2, there would be no photosynthesis, and thus no plant food and not enough oxygen to breathe.
Moreover, without fossil fuels there will be no low-cost energy worldwide and less CO2 for photosynthesis making food.
Eliminating fossil fuels and reducing CO2 emissions will be disastrous for the poor, people worldwide, future generations and the country.
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‘ … too pessimistic for climate change and too optimistic for the prospects for mitigation.’
Yep, got it in one.
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Thinking more about yesterday’s post about some Greens having second thoughts about wind and solar but afraid to admit it. Good friendships have been regrettably been destroyed over climate change. Back in 2001, a good friend at the time tried to publicly humiliate me over my scepticism. I can only guess at what made him choose that course of action. We haven’t communicated since. Here we are 24 years on and the world still looks the same. Perhaps I’ll reach back out. Surely opinions have changed.
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I don’t know how you feel about Trump.
If it’s at all positive, I wouldn’t mention it.
You might get bitten a second time.
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Donald Trump’s attack on Jimmy Kimmel was a disgrace. There are a few other things he has got badly wrong. It leaves a bitter taste saying that, after Barack Obama and Joe Biden and their ilk have got away scot free from an endless string of egregious statements and actions. But if we keep quiet the way BO and JB supporters kept quiet then all we do is deepen the division. Jimmy Kimmel abused free speech by criticising Donald Trumo for nothing worse than the things that Barack Obama and Joe Biden did all the time. It’s tough, but the way forward is not to silence the Jimmy Kimmels, it is to use free speech to argue the case. Hopefully by supporting and using free speech we can eventually get things evened up again.
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How’s ‘arguing the case’ been going with the ‘we’re all gonna die if we don’t stop eating meat and driving cars thing?
You’re advocating for reasoning with abusive hysterics.
And for Trump to play fair with them.
‘Cause if he does they’ll surely change their ways.
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And another thing … 🙂
if Trump had not had the stuff and wherewithal to sling back in the manner he was slung at …
you might be lining up for your 15th booster, to update your Vax Card, so you would have permission to go outside.
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I think we already had this conversation a few days ago.
Jimmy Kimmel had a paid platform to promote his views to a wide audience. He was paid to entertain but he was not funny anymore. So he loses his platform and his money but he had not been cancelled or silenced. He can comment on X whenever he wants.
Conversely we never get a platform for a wide audience nor any money.
Kimmel could have invited a debate on his program but he did not.
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Kimmel will have his paid platform restored. He may have reduced reach and some may choose not rio listen to a person with his outlook and values.
More concerning to me is my taxes helping to pay for their ABC. This organisation believe they offer balance reporting.
If you can bear it, take 30 minutes to watch ABC News channel today. You will see TDS at its finest.
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Oh yes! 😵💫 . Using freedom of speech worked out well for Charlie Kirk.
Mike , hope you’re comfortable for now in your bubble. Rude awakening coming!!
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Hes nade up a whole fantasy to then rant about. Quite odd
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Hes nade up a whole fantasy to then rant about. Quite odd
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For decades now, I got some satisfaction from being on the side of polite debate and law-abiding behaviour, the side that didn’t rise to the bait when the left threw insults and cheated. I preferred MY candidates to remain calm, use reason, and ‘take the high ground’.
But where has all that got us?
I was told as a boy that I must NEVER step back when a bully gets in my face. Instead, I was told to step FORWARDS, because bullies despise and exploit weakness. To concede to their demands and threats only postpones the day when you will find yourself unable or unwilling to step back ever further.
Another old adage says that we should be wary of pushing our opponent into a corner, for then he has only one option – to come out fighting.
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United Nations speech by Donald Trump
Trump says that Man-made Climate Change is a ‘Hoax’
The United Nations report on Rape shows that England and Wales has the ‘highest rate’ of rape of any country in the world at 117.3 annual rapes per 100,000. 90% of rapes are committed by Islamic rape gangs on white working-class girls. The Islamic Palestinian sh*t hole comes second at 110 annual rapes per 100,000. Starmer now recognises the Palestinian state hole.
President Trump also said “I think the Mayor of London, Khan, is among the worst mayors in the world… I’ve not liked him for a long time. I have a certain pride in London, the UK, my mother was born in Scotland as you know. And when I see Mayor Khan doing a bad job with the stabbings, the dirt, the filth. It’s not the same”, “I think he’s done a terrible job, crime in London is through the roof”.
Trump also said “I think I can say that there are certain groups of people [Amish] that don’t take vaccines and don’t take any pills that have NO AUTISM — that have NO AUTISM.”: https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/breaking-white-house-announces-tylenol-autism-link-opens-door-to-vaccines
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I”m trying to post that speech for people to discuss, but a Telstra bug is making it hard.
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RE: Trump/Tylenol/Acetominophen/paracetamol and autism. Try this link. Might fool Telstra.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/23/rooke-trump-autism-spectrum-disorder-asd-adhd-tylenol-acetaminophen-rfk-cnn-npr/
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Full White House Live announcement on Tylenol/Autism, 1 Hr video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esKFMCb_hYU
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ABC frontlining article on use of melatonin. no mention of injuries just about not consulting professionals or purchasing overseas. “Diversionary tactic” maybe?
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I accept that “It takes a dragon to kill a dragon” but having heard some bits of Trump speech I wish he had a severe bout of laryngitis yesterday.
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Telstra bug?
An Optus infection maybe.😁
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I just realized how we can get the greenies to reverse themselves on Climate Change and Net Zero.
Trump must express his belief in and his commitment to.
It would be an abrupt and total 180.
It would be like Free Speech and the Epstein files.
I am a genius.
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Dang.
I just saw Jo’s new post.
Oh well.
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Global surface temperatures have risen by 0.5 degrees C since 2001.
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Oh no!
How can we possibly survive another 1/2 degree in a quarter century?
Or better yet, how can they calculate global surface temperatures when wealthy climate conscious countries like the UK have 80% of their weather stations classified as ‘jumk class’ by the IPCC, with margins of error from 2-5 degrees? Or when 70% of the earth’s surface is water and has (almost) no weather stations to measure temperatures?
Almost all surface level warming ‘measured’ in the past century is due to the urban heat island effect, not AGW.
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Not sure that’s true as global near ocean surface warming rate is only slightly slower than land.
However, it’s just a natural cycle?
https://notrickszone.com/2025/09/22/new-study-modern-warmth-is-merely-part-of-a-natural-cycle/
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It is irrelevant how people vote, it is critical who counts the votes.
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But it all plays out exactly the same in the following years. It all collapses in on itself.
Votes mean nothing, who counts them means nothing, only the cycle of reality means anything.
But still the people didn’t see
https://x.com/DailyNoahNews/status/1614361658729668611/
Ok, that’s 3 times today. But still the people didn’t see.
But sure are about to !!!
Edit: I posted too soon!
“President Donald Trump is a great disappointment. He has just given the GREEN LIGHT for World War III. This is the end of Western Civilization as we have known it.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/trump-just-gave-green-light-for-world-war-iii/
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Simon old chap, what is the degree of variation allowed for in ALL measuring devices. I believe it’s about 3%. Except of course for instruments involved with measuring temperatures fo the purpose of scaring the gullible.
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Accuracy of measurement in Petroleum Industry (probably most watched by governments and general public) is 0.3% .
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Is there some verification of the difference between the 2001 temperature and now, is it is a simple calculate the average temperatures then and now and the difference is supposedly 0.5C or are the differences added and subtracted, like closing weather stations in cold places and opening new weather stations in hot places (like airports).
Also what does an increase of 0.5C mean. It means nothing at the poles where an increase from -30C to -29.5C won’t cause any melting of the ice, and an increase of 50C to 50.5C means nothing.
Also does the temperature take into account wind chill, often called apparent temperature. Where I live, at 8am the temperature was 11C, while the apparent temperature was 7.7C.
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Then there is the way in which the average is calculated. The Australian BOM seems to group temperature collection devices into areas, such as North East & North Central etc. Is the average calculated by collecting all max temperatures and:
a. calculate the average the normal way; or
b. calculate an average for each area and then average the averages.
Option b would be a problem because some weather stations are included in more than 1 area.
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As usual, drivel asserted with total certainty.
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About the same time global weather organisations started to ‘homogenise’ their data.
Mackay, QLD, had an overnight low of MINUS 44.5 degrees. If you lower the average temperature, then you can ‘claim’ an ‘increase’ in the average temperature later.
Weatherzone.com.au
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So what?
From 1919 to 1944 it went up 0.48
From 1951 to 1972 it went up 0.38 (while global cooling was the scare)
From 1976 to 1990 it went up 0.78
From 1980 to 2002 it went up 0.62
And those figures were from a WARMIST site https://earth.org/data/global-temperature-records/
so they may be ‘dodgy’ but hardly back your observation.
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I thought that the global temperature had only risen by 1 to 1.5 degrees over the last century?
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Ah! But this is from a “reconstructed” temperature graph based on CO2 causing warming.
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Someone give Simon a 0.1C resolution thermometer and walk around a room checking temperatures.
I blame the education (indoctrination) system.
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This is interesting observation, which I can confirm with actual readings.
In winter, ewe usually crank up the wood burner in the afternoon after awe have done with outdoor stuff through the morning and early afternoon.
When we start the burner, the floor can be down to as low as 12C. After an hour or so the floor will be up to maybe 16C but the ceiling is getting to 21C. At standing head height, temperature around 19C. Over the nexrt few hours the temperature profile evens out somewhat but never closer than about 2C difference between floor and ceiling.
We let the burner die down overnight so it will be chilly the next day unless there is good sunlight streaming in.
So the whole global warming saga can be experienced on a single evening in a single room in out house. Let me tell you, I prefer to be closer to the ceiling (or the burner) than the floor in the first hour.
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It is a pity Melbourne isn’t getting warmer.
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‘Global surface temperatures have risen by 0.5 degrees C since 2001.’
That is true and I credit the Hunga Tonga eruption as the principle cause.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_August_2025_v6.1_20x9-scaled.jpg
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And further to that, the planet has been warming naturally, scientists say.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/09/22/new-study-modern-warmth-is-merely-part-of-a-natural-cycle/
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Wind Waste Plagues Countries That Shelled Out For ‘Green Energy’
“Europe has 14,000 wind turbines to dismantle by 2030, which will leave them with 44,000 to 66,000 tons of unrecyclable blade waste..”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/22/wind-waste-plagues-countries-that-shelled-out-for-green-energy/
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A lot of polymer, they’ll burn well, it’ll be the most useful/reliable energy that they ever produced.
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66,000 tons of unrecyclable blade waste…
Let’s not waste words on ‘waste’ – there’s MONEY to be made out of that effluent [to put it politely].
Island nations such as Tuvalu, the Solomons, the Maldives – which were SAVED because we all took a little ACTION, right? – could invest those trillions of slushy green funds ($) to purchase those planet-saving polymers to use as building blocks to create climate-proof monuments of man (MOM) to raise themselves above the lap, lap, lapping waves of the all-surrounding seas so their children may survive to see the year 2000 or possibly even 2010 or maybe 2014 at an outside stretch… You know it makes cents.
Bonfire of the vanities 🔥
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I note that the article mentions that a number of wind systems failed after only 5-10 years.
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Even less with the great big ones supposed to help Germany. Blade failures from variable stress and troubles with cables to bring electricity onshore.
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FWIW – There might be some importance in education?
How we nearly had World War 3
“The Amazing Teflon Man”
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/75119.html#more-75119
Via https://instapundit.com/746341/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“In Which I Shockingly Agree With Sabine That Most Science Is Of Little Or No Value”
Concludes
“I could add to this list with evidence-based medicine, a lot of genetics, neo-Darwinism, every so-called soft science, and on and on, but that would take a book. It’s not that all science is bad. It’s that most of it is, and add scientism on top, the argument for cutting off public—not private; they can do what they please—funding strengthens.”
https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/58342/
Via Chiefio
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/w-o-o-d-5-september-2025-into-africa-theory-messinian-europe-losing-to-brics/#comment-178989
More around that in comments
“More on Sabine’s pseaudoscience.
Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog
Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf”
And
“OMG! That Quantum Factorisation paper is a HOOT for any Math Geek (I*R1)!
FWIW: I always thought that quantum “computing” had an air of “sellers puff” about it, but never cared enough to spend the time to find the gimmicks. Figured I’d just wait until they were actually doing something useful in real production (and that it was likely to exceed my lifetime to get there….). Now I’m thinking that might exceed the lifetime of the planet 😉 ”
Maybe “Elbow” should take note?
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“FWIW: I always thought that quantum “computing” had an air of “sellers puff” about it, but never cared enough to spend the time to find the gimmicks. Figured I’d just wait until they were actually doing something useful in real production (and that it was likely to exceed my lifetime to get there….).”
Exactly what I think of AI, its there for people to make money out of…
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I was shocked by what I saw when I spent ten years working in ‘science’, following a career in private sector high tech manufacturing. My expectation was that I would uncover a mountain of valuable IP, ripe for commercialisation. I found literally three or four inventions with any kind of potential, and even those were far, far away from any practical application.
Alongside this, I witnessed a quite alarming level of mediocrity being funded by taxpayers, plus hundreds of ‘scientists’ whose careers essentially involved flying around the world to talk about their dreary, unexceptional work with international counterparts likewise doing more talking about science than PERFORMING science. Not only that, the work in question had often already been done elsewhere.
Government-funded science has one important role: to provide justification for predetermined government programs. In order to ensure this cooperation on demand, vast amounts of taxpayers’ money is providing second-grade scientists with a cushy employment scheme, along with really good travel allowances to maintain the illusion of credibility and importance.
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Government funded science has become a curse. It suffers from massive political bias due to the side of politics that gives it the most funding without results.
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It’s another area where our so-called conservative party here in Australia (Liberals) is indistinguishable from our leftist party (Labor). Just like the ABC, our government-funded research organisation has long supported leftist policies yet the Libs, when they were in government, did virtually nothing about it.
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FWIW – for the covid record
Sutton says
“Shocking. Infuriating.”
“He states there never was medical evidence for the lockdowns and wished he had never signed up for the job”
https://x.com/realMarkHobart/status/1970298825270325534
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/09/shocking-infuriating.html
And comments
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Well, whaddaya know gee willikers ….
those gosh darn conspiracy theorists were right again.
Who knew?
BREAKING: Google admits Biden admin pressured them to censor YouTubers, will reinstate banned accounts
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-google-admits-biden-admin-pressured-them-to-censor-youtubers-will-reinstate-banned-accounts
“In a letter to Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan, Google’s parent company Alphabet stated, “Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies.”
New theory … we haven’t heard the half if it yet.
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Video about a nightmare date from hell:
https://youtu.be/CecDJ0lH88I
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Pity that wasn’t a Judge Judy one, that would have been good!
Self-entitled indeed. Avoid the show ponies and get a down-to-Earth girl instead.
Now…where do you find them???
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I was going to watch it, but when I saw it was 16mins long, I had to bail out. Thirty seconds of that whiney voice was enough then, when she said she is an “influencer” …
My mouse clicked ‘Nope’ all by itself.
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FWIW – a look at Trump’s health announcements yesterday –
“Trump’s autism announcement (slash-non-announcement) was designed to wreak strategic chaos, but reporters resisted taking the bait. Yesterday, a chastened New York Times ran its narrowly framed story below the sceptical headline, “Trump Issues Warning Based on Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism.” ”
“It must have been painfully hard to hold back, but somehow the Times and the rest of corporate media held their noses and primly ignored the real story. One of the rare outliers, Stat News, did recognize the event’s significance in its story headlined, “Trump, questioning vaccine safety, pushes major changes to how kids get shots.” The sub-headline added, “President raises unfounded concerns about vaccines at White House autism event”:”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/dont-take-it-tuesday-september-23?
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And of course the deranged TikToks of pregnant liberal women chomping on Tylenols have started. Thats not me trying to be a smart ar$e, they actually have.
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You can’t normally get people to volunteer for medical trials involving their unborn child, but Trump has.
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I this article yesterday.
There is evidence worth investigating for the acetaminophen (Paracetamol, Tylenol) autism link.
Back in the day, I remember my mother telling me that when she was pregnant with me her own intuition told her, as well as her doctor, to avoid all medications during pregnancy unless absolutely necessary.
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FWIW
“Ok, where did they come from?
NEW YORK – The U.S. Secret Service dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials, which represented an imminent threat to the agency’s protective operations.
This protective intelligence investigation led to the discovery of more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=254065
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“Ok, where did they come from?”
CIA, FBI, DHS, ATF, ICE… pick any other Govt ‘security’ organisation, all who compete and never let the right hand know what the left is doing.
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FWIW
“Judicial Limits on Glyphosate and Climate ‘Jackpot Justice’ Litigation”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/23/judicial-limits-on-glyphosate-and-climate-jackpot-justice-litigation/
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FWIW – more reading for “ElBowen”
“Governor Healey’s Energy Crisis: Outrage Theater for the Freeze-and-Pay Crowd”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/23/governor-healeys-energy-crisis-outrage-theater-for-the-freeze-and-pay-crowd/
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Of course the same has happened here. Governments everywhere have crippled, or outright banned, gas exploration and extraction and now blame Santos et al because they have to pay international LPG prices for gas at the margin.
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A drop in the bucket argument.
‘The conclusion they want Australians to reach is clear – if our country’s emissions are so small, why bother?
“Net zero is devastating for our economy and will have absolutely zero effect on the climate,” Joyce said this week. “It has no effect on the climate whatsoever.”
‘Hastie has pointed to China’s outsized emissions, alongside the United States and India, contrasting it with Australia’s “1.1%” of global emissions.
“It’s been called the drop in the bucket argument,” says Prof Brendan Mackey, the director of the Griffith Climate Action Beacon at Griffith University.’ (Readfearn / Guardian)
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““It’s been called the drop in the bucket argument,” says Prof Brendan Mackey, ”
True, but pointing the name out does nothing to refute the argument. Joyce is quite right, no matter what we do it will no effect on the climate.
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A $20 Trillion tunnel from New York to London, for a 1 hour trip
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1970130966044885314
LOL on a good day.
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Couldnt stop laughing at this. I cant believe this is taken seriously. From the AFR
Energy transition
Why the biggest threat to net zero is right-wing misinformation
The social licence of renewables is being attacked by professional and heavily resourced networks with a vested interest in delaying the energy transition.
Ed Coper
Communications expert
Ed Coper
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“The social licence of renewables exists only thanks to professional and heavily resourced networks with a vested interest in promoting the energy transition.”
There, fixed it.
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As I’ve pointed out before, the Left are becoming increasingly more violent, dangerous and deranged.
Also on social media they are becoming much more rude than they usually are.
It’s especially dangerous in places like Melbourne, Democrat cities in the US and Western Europe where lawlessness is the dominant paradigm so Leftists know they can commit crimes with impunity.
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Wiki says nothing about that.
‘Generally, the left wing is characterized by an emphasis on “ideas such as freedom, equality, fraternity, rights, progress, reform and internationalism” while the right wing is characterized by an emphasis on “notions such as authority, hierarchy, order, duty, tradition, reaction and nationalism” …
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Left wing freedom and rights??? Which universe is that in?
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Just gross generalisations, this is my view of the Right.
‘Price leapt to her colleague’s defence on Wednesday, suggesting his internal critics were agitating because they saw him as a threat.
“I think they probably see him as some kind of threat, because he is so good at what he does,” she told 2GB.
‘Asked if Hastie was capable of leading the Liberal party, Price said: “I think so.”
“The topics that I spoke to at Cpac [conference], which I think we should be focused on our key institutions, which are family, community and our nation – I think are at the core of [what] Andrew Hastie’s leading with,” she said.
“I think he’d make a remarkable leader one day.” (Guardian)
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I am getting Too Old – What? – Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson played ‘furry’ porn video games online
I still cannot think of a more powerful way to dissuade political terrorists than publicly releasing their entire internet history.
Quote
New York Post@nypost
19 Sep
Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson played ‘furry’ porn video games online: report https://trib.al/z7yfkOm
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The ABC reporting on pure, again.
Ok. There is consensus that SE Queensland is warmer in summer than Tasmania. But, looking at UQ site at Gatton, the summer months 100 years ago were as hot as now. Around an 8 degree of spread of mean monthly temperatures, and maybe a half degree increase in the average over many years in the past 10, for Feb.
In 1943, the March monthly average for maxim temperature was 34.7°C. Barely lower than the highest Jan average of 35.2 in the last 20 years, which only happened twice before, in 1942 and 1931.
Sorry, but it wasn’t climate change that made it unbearably hot in summer. You just got brainwashed.
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Smoke haze over Launceston during winter is a recurring issue linked to widespread wood heater use, with images capturing the dense smog enveloping the city and surrounding areas.
The phenomenon is particularly pronounced in the valley-located city, where cold, calm weather inhibits the dispersion of smoke, leading to elevated particulate matter levels.
Historical images from past winters show the city shrouded in a thick, visible haze, especially in the mornings and evenings.
The smoke is primarily attributed to residential wood heaters, which are used by a significant portion of households in Northern Tasmania, with nearly 35% of homes in the North using wood as their primary heating source.
This widespread use, combined with the region’s topography, contributes to Launceston consistently ranking among the worst areas in Australia for wood fire pollution.
Images from recent years, such as those from 2021, depict the persistent smog, while more recent reports from August 2025 highlight the ongoing health crisis and public frustration caused by the pollution.
The Great Smog of London made the British act on air pollution. Experts say the case holds lessons for Tasmania
Despite Tasmania’s clean, green reputation, air quality plummets across many valley regions during winter, as the landscape and weather traps smoke, which is largely emitted by residential wood heaters.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-07-28/national-map-wood-heater-pollution-smoke-health-deaths/105517056
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I spent a night in Stanley and the air was almost unbreathable with the wood fires and [I presume] a temperature inversion. Launceston was our base, staying with friends, and saw no smog.
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Funny how the world changes. One of my favourite childhood memories are of winter afternoon / nights on the way home from school, the open wood fires and combustion stoves for cooking. The best of these were Thursdays and Fridays when every house had a wife / mother baking for the week end when hubby would be home, great smells wafting around. Small country town in the high country, construction of a big infrastructure project had people from all over the world living as ( mostly ) friendly neighbours. This just a few years after a world war. Old enemies just wanting to be friends and get on with a peaceful life. That smell of wood smoke hanging in damp air conjures up great memories.
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My first winter out of Qld was in a war time RAAF base in Ballarat, cold as ‘ell. There was pot-bellied wood stove in the middle of our lecture room that we loved.
I assume you were in the Snowy Mts.
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I’m guessing it was a time when wood would be left to dry for two years before being burnt.
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But Palestine doesn’t exist, never has.
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“but it did not exist as an independent state during those periods.”
neither did Israel… Why did they get recognised?
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Why ask me?
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FWIW
“@Per Russia & “using washing machine chips” for missiles:
Chew on this Ursula Von Der-lyin… Russia is making wafers / semiconductors in space. Yes, on an R&D / experimental basis, but pushing the edge of technique.
Oh, and China has an interesting idea: Use a constellation of satellites as a large cluster computer. Power via solar panels, internode communications via laser beam in free space. Guess what… I KNOW it will work. Musk has demonstrated the node to node coms via light, and solar panels power most stuff in space so that’s proven too. Plus most satellites already have hardened computers in them. So just put up the clustering / load distribution code and “Presto!” a big Beowulf in space.
One that does not suck up ground based power, does not require miles of fiber optic cables to communicate, and needs no water towers (and water!) to dump waste heat. Nice! Then having it do the data analysis and compute work on space collected data, and just ship down answers is gravy on top…
Yes, the captions are in Russian (auto dubbed to spoken English, so some words sound odd) and yes, it is a bit Ra Ra self promotional, BUT: it does let you see what Russia is actually capable of doing and what their “attitude” is like…”
https://youtu.be/UpXvJHngG6M
Via
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/w-o-o-d-5-september-2025-into-africa-theory-messinian-europe-losing-to-brics/#comment-179003
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MORNING GRIDWATCH WED 24
AT 7 AM AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 23% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST CAPACITY FACTOR 37%
AND 38% IN THE WEST
BEWARE If you think we are doing well when you see big numbers for the penetration of wind into the grid, you are looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Look at the weakest link in the chain, the lowest point of the fence, dam and flood levee.
Like 1 Sept at 7 PM EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 3% IN THE EAST.
And 2 Sept at 7PM EASTERN TIME WHEN THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 5% IN THE WEST.
Wind and sun will not carry the grid through windless nights because we have effectively next to no grid-scale storage. Don’t be impressed by the number of batteries being installed, do the arithmetic find out the cost to get through 16 hours with minimal wind and solar generation.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
3.30 PM WIND 9% SOLAR 29%
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
10 PM WIND 65% SOLAR 0%
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Then there is the time at which the maximum temperature occurs.
The BOM has three sources of weather information:
a. Latest weather observations updated every ten minutes, and previous data disappears. This data contains min and max temps and other data, and the time at which they occurred. Apart from max and min, the previous data disappears.
b. Latest weather observations, updated mostly every 30 mins, but sometimes more frequently.
c. Climate Data online which shows max and min temps and rainfall, but no times.
When I look at a and b for where I live I see that the maximum was 19 C at 2:15pm. At 2:00pm it was 18 C and at 2:30pm it was 17.1 C. So in 15 mins the temp went up 1.0 C and in the next 15 mins it went down by 1.9 C. So there is more to the temperature than just maximum.
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” So there is more to the temperature than just maximum.”
Absolutely! For a fair comparison they should compare only the times that temperature were taken 70years ago, 9am, noon 3pm or whatever. ..and if they want to measure the real temperature of the Earth they would have to time-weight all the temperatures they collect so a warm morning and a warm afternoon hold more sway than one high peak for 15minutes one afternoon.
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The tide has has finally turned, thanks to Donnie.
‘President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, local time, that Ukraine can win back all territory lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from the US leader’s call on Kyiv to make concessions to end the war.
‘He also criticised Russia on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, saying it had been fighting “aimlessly” in a war that a “real military power” would have won in less than a week’ (ABC).
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If the US attitude changed from [sort of] helping Ukraine to defend itself to [really] helping them win, Crimea can be recovered too. Centuries old siege tactics would work. Poots’ favourite bridge should be left standing so the Russians can leave and not become cornered rats. Win, win. Ukraine wouldn’t want the Russian civilians to remain anyway.
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“Win, win.”
No. Mushroom clouds in many parts of the world… Look up your old copy of “On the Beach”
Donny forgets the Marines were kicked out of VietNam, then kicked out of Afghanistan, they wouldn’t survive against Russia these days.
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Trump is not advocating nuclear war, that is Poots, every second day if the West doesn’t tremble in his presence.
And On The Beach is one of my favourite films.
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FWIW
“The real pushback against Disney, ABC, and Kimmel continues”
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-real-pushback-against-disney-abc-and-kimmel-continues/
Via Instapundit
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YouTube has just announced that they will be reinstating many banned accounts. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
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FWIW – should have thought ahead!
https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/1970583942920315378
https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/1970625922387824778
https://x.com/Jringo1508/status/1970615813179646451
https://instapundit.com/746540/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“The Soaring Price Of Beef”
“This is happening just as more science is showing how essential beef is for human health. It is not the only good meat but it contains the most of what we need for health, weight control, energy, building muscle, and organ strength. There is growing market demand for everything from ground beef to steaks.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/food/soaring-price-beef
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Maybe it’s time for a bunny bounce back. Fed a few of us as kids way back when. Also provided my first paying job, taking orders before taking out the ferrets. Shilling a pair, fully dressed, could make a full pound on a good Saturday on the hill.
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That is a US article but the same is true here because, I hear, the US is taking more of our beef. Nobody tell Trump.
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So I see micro-plastics are finally hitting the news as they are found inside our cells, completely unsurprising. Now, after the last decade extolling the wonders of nano-materials, has anyone seen anything about the dangers of nano-products in the same way as nano-plastics?
It was all the rage a decade or two back, nano-somethings in paint, in plastics, in all sorts of products, yet you can’t tell me they wont end up inside cells of the human body.
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Any gold bugs out there?
It was nearly six mths ago I noted that Au went through the US$3,000 and the A$5,000 within days of each other. Since then it has gained 25% in US$ but only 15% in A$ [round figures] due to the Pacific Peso gaining value.
Doubling in 5 yrs buy/hold Canadian royalty companies and Au ETFs beats the heck out of trading stocks. Tried that and the thrill fades pretty quickly. I’ve stacked a little on the side for much longer than 5 yrs. 🙂
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“Any gold bugs out there?” I’m sure there are a few of us on here, but if storing wealth in gold and silver gets too popular with the middle-class I’m sure it will once again get banned in public ownership , or at least get taxed beyond the capabilities of ordinary people.
I tell myself that when I retire once more I will get out the metal detector again and go out seriously…
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I don’t live in the US and much of my stack is in Aus currency coins [round 50c pieces anyone?] anyway.
I own an excavator on the Palmer R. if you want to get serious.
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For me, gold and silver represent ‘Prepper Money’. That is, a means to pay/barter for essentials should the whole banking/currency system collapse in a heap. Though it’s nice to see values rise, the market value would be meaningless in such a situation.
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besides, there is no point in confiscating gold if you can’t immediately revalue it +70% as Roosevelt did. Aus cannot do that unilaterally.
I have no idea how much Au private “scratchers” find in a year but it would be silly to discourage them.
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