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After the Endangerment Finding, States Must Prove CO2 Harms. Wisconsin Can’t.
By Andrew Weiss
The EPA’s revocation of the 2009 endangerment finding shifts the burden of proof from federal agencies to state capitals. Governors who declared climate emergencies must now demonstrate with regional data that rising carbon dioxide (CO2) endangers their residents. Wisconsin cannot meet that burden.
In 2019, Wisconsin declared climate change a crisis requiring the state’s electricity to be carbon-free by 2050, citing worsening extreme weather as justification. Since then, the state has spent $6 billion on renewable infrastructure while residents pay 15% more for electricity than the Midwest average.
A new report by the Weiss Energy Policy Institute analyzed 130 years of Wisconsin climate data and found that as atmospheric CO2 rose 45%, Wisconsin experienced 63% fewer days over 90°F, heatwaves 71% shorter in duration, powerful tornadoes down 70%, and significant drought decline since 1894. This isn’t just absence of evidence, it’s negative correlation. As CO2increased, climate extremes decreased.
In addition to the improving climate, the report also notably found that rural Wisconsin’s average temperature has not changed since 1894. Urban areas, on the other hand, have warmed about 2.2°F since the late nineteenth century. The report finds that this urban warming is nearly entirely due to the Urban Heat Island effect from concrete and development, not CO2. In many measurable ways, Wisconsin’s climate has become more conducive to human flourishing over the past century.
Even if CO2 were causing harm, Wisconsin’s ability to adapt to climate change far surpasses its ability to influence it. The Badger State’s 2023 carbon emissions were 22% below its peak of 110 million metric tons in 2005. Despite its reduction, annual global emissions have increased by over 100 times Wisconsin’s entire annual emissions over the same period. In fact, in 2023, Wisconsin’s carbon emissions made up less than 0.25% of the global total.
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Optimal levels in commercial greenhouses typically range between 800 and 1,000 ppm during the day to maximize plant photosynthesis and growth. Without supplementation, levels can drop below ambient atmospheric levels (around 400 ppm) to as low as 150–200 ppm during the day due to plant consumption.
Therefore, reducing atmospheric CO2 levels endangers plant life!
Certainly a naive question.
Why many local (many – not all!) fruit and veg are so tasteless ?
The strawberries are worse of all, I have not touched one for years though Mrs V can not stop buying them…
Watermelons sometimes quite good, other times – only look like ones.
Can it be that insolation and CO2 levels are not matched ?
As it was last century, on another continent…
That’s the product of decades of selective breeding, the objectives of which are essentially economics: disease and weather resistance, yield, visual attributes, consistency, longevity in storage, etc. You could add taste to that, but only if you mean ‘sweetness’ – other elements of flavour are ignored.
All else, especially nutritional value, was never an objective.
The worst offender IMO is grapes, especially white seedless grapes, which are now little more than swollen bags of sugary water.
“The strawberries are worse of all, I have not touched one for years though Mrs V can not stop buying them…”
Get out in the garden Vlad, they are easy to grow! Tomatoes too, and thornless blackberries, all have a much denser flavour than shop ones.
“Why many local (many – not all!) fruit and veg are so tasteless ?”
They are pushed as hard as possible to reach saleable size, while my stuff at home takes longer to grow. Also, grown in sterilized soil without the many fungi and bacteria that plants use to develop properly. They are just starting to see the size of molecules being transferred between them all and are amazed that such large compounds go through the cell walls. Seems we know very little about how plants really grow!
Over summer we slowly move through the list of strawberries, apricots, blackberries, plums, apples and lastly pears, just fruit you can walk outside in the morning and eat. None of it sprayed, just netting over some things to keep the Rosellas/Whiteyes off. All the excess gets cooked and frozen for winter.
‘We’ve had enough’: Inside One Nation’s regional rise.
‘One Nation has claimed Victoria’s Yallourn North as its top stronghold after one in three voters backed the party amid power station closures and rising crime.’ (Oz)
It will be a devastating blow for Australian “democracy” if the new Lib/Lab censorship laws are used to silence or jail Pauline Hanson to prevent a conservative political party succeeding or even running at the next election.
It has long amazed me that leading political parties could for so long get away with pretending that Pauline does not exist. But that is coming to a head.
I saw Albo on TV last night, and when asked about Pauline he was speechless. If the camera had been pointed down a bit it would have surely shown a constant stream of used water.
Just a year ago, mentioning Pauline Hanson immediately cast you as racist. There is growing recognition that importing terrorists leads to more violence and terrorism in Australia. And giving exceptional rights to one race is racism. And bird mincers do not lower electricity costs.
Imagine how quickly sanity will spread if conversations are permitted to stray into unwoke territory.. You may even find smart people like Senator Aranda-Rajah realising she has been told a load of lies: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_JN3a8AusWQ
If you go into 5:19 (Just after lunch) you will hear Gerard Holland of the Page institute talk about the money coming into Australia for environmental activism. Then watch his exchange with Ananda-Rajah. Rajah would likely be the smartest person in the room so her lack of knowledge on energy shows why Australia is doomed unless ON get control.
I wonder what Gerard Holland is doing – he would be an outstanding candidate for the next energy minister.
It has been said that those on the left accuse those on the right of doing what the left are doing.
So the Prime Minister accuses One Nation of being divisive but a quick comparison.
1/ Labour, diversity is our strength. One Nation, National pride is our strength.
2/ Labour stands before multiple flags. One Nation stands in front of the NATIONAL flag
3/Labour wanted special political representation for different groups. One Nation believes everyone is equal under the law.
4/Labour believes that all any every minority group should be fully supported in retaining their native culture. One Nation believes that all immigrants should be encouraged to embrace Australian culture.
The list goes on of course, the major parties can claim what they like, this tends to underestimate the intelligence of the voting public. They ignore this at their peril.
Rick, you speak of intelligent people. Where do you find one.
Angus Taylor’s maternal grandfather was Sir William Hudson, the head engineer on the biggest costruction job Auatalia has undertaken, the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
WHICH WAS COMPLETED UNDER BUDGET AND AHEAD OF SCHEDULE!
The story in the Australian is paywalled.
However it seems to be a reanalysis of the 2025 Federal election results. Yallourn North is just one booth in the electorate of Gippsland, held by Darren Chester (National party).
Even with new leadership it’s too risky to vote for the fake conservative Liberals due to their multiple election failures due to trying to be more woke or at least as woke as the commies. Their collaboration with the commies to silence conservative One Nation via the censorship laws is a disgrace. (Yes, I know they got them a little bit watered down, but that was all for show. Even Labor realised that the laws were far too extreme as written. Now they are “merely” extreme.) They can’t be trusted.
So when your ON candidate is third on primaries, who get’s your next pref?
You have never answered that so I am entitled to assume it will be labor, you hate the libs so much. I vote for the lesser of two evils and lose no sleep over it.
This site was very slow yesterday or off-line, presumably due to attack by hostile parties that don’t approve of the opinions expressed here.
Also, in Australia under the new Liberal-supported censorship laws, if a site goes off-line you can never be sure if it’s local state or non-state or foreign state actors that might be causing any disruption or a “take down” notice by the Liberal-created e Safety Kommissar.
Web Guru is investigating. But traffic has been relentlessly large and mostly from one server in the US. Ashburn. Looking at the last few days there was a short big Russian spike on Tuesday, then a Chinese surge yesterday morning, and as that subsided the huge USA block of traffic started up. It is different to past attacks, being in a large single block rather than repeat spikes. Strangely switched off for 3 hours from 3-6pm yesterday WST and then came right back. Not normal traffic behaviour. Plus when I look back 7 days ago, there was a similar short monster spike last friday which I now believe was probably the test run.
Besides importing foreign oil, Eastern Canada now imported its first shipment of LNG from Australia.
Instead of building infrastructure domestically to be self sufficient, the self described environmentalists prefer imports from a tanker that traveled 25,750 km.
Sheer stupidity to build gas import terminals at the southern extremities of Australia, about as far away from gas sources as possible, while ignoring the fact that it’s very easy for states to either use their own gas, or push gas pipelines through the centre of Australia to existing gas sources.
Agree 100% that we should have pipes connecting all our gas fields to our cities but the sparse population makes that expensive.
That’s not happening and Vic is refusing to tap Gippsland gas so LPG receiving terminals is the next best option. Once built the gas should be bought out of Singapore and shipped on international ships, avoiding our maritime unions who taught the BLF, who became CFMEU, what they know about negotiations.
Besides, governments have no right to demand domestic producers sell at a discount post hoc, any more than they can demand cheap oil out of Bass St. WA has a special price negotiated at the time of licensing. That time has long passed with existing fields.
Esperance’s low population of only 14,000 people didn’t stop them receiving gas from the Pilbara, over 1800 kms away. It’s not difficult, and if costed correctly, surely must work out cheaper than shipping gas to the bottom of Australia.
Also may I add that since WA mostly uses gas for its power, obviously the govt continually negotiates new delivery prices – it’s not a process that stopped at any time.
One of the nation’s richest fishing grounds — put off-limits to commercial use by the Obama and Biden administrations — is once again open for business, courtesy of a proclamation issued by the Trump White House.
The Feb. 6 proclamation — “Unleashing American Commercial Fishing in the Atlantic” —revokes an Obama- and Biden-era policy that prohibited commercial fishing within the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. Created in 2016 by the Obama administration, the marine national monument covers nearly 5,000 square miles on the edge of the continental shelf about 150 miles east of Cape Cod. The monument designation included a ban on commercial fishing, which Trump lifted in his first term. The Biden administration reimposed the ban in 2021, a step Trump 2.0 is now reversing.
In TRUMP’s State of the Union address he said that to avoid an increase in consumer electricity prices, AI data centres had to build their own power stations.
On Their ABC Radio National radio station this morning they asked some clown “expert” about this with regard to Australia and he said in Australia data centres had to run of “renewables”.
Running a data centre off renewables makes about as much sense as running an aluminium smelter off them. It’s insane. These people just don’t have a clue.
“As of February 2026, Ofgem (the UK’s energy regulator) has warned that the pipeline of proposed AI-driven data centres seeking to connect to the national grid would, if built, require more electricity capacity than Britain currently consumes at its peak.”
More than 50GW they reckon. Not sure how Starmer expects the UK to be a leader in AI.
Miliband Net Zero + AI does not compute.
I suspect reality will cause a dramatic reduction in the pipeline.
AI applications will flourish in countries that are willing to burn coal. If you are not able to make aluminium (solid electricity) you will not make an AI industry (all electric intelligence and grunt).
Even if there was sustainable fusion with a net energy gain available today, it would be three decades before it finds wide application. Nvidia was founded in 1993. It took 6 years to turn a profit. It was the biggest company by market cap by 2025.
There are plenty of fusion start ups but none are near making a profit on energy or technology sales.
If you agree with this statement stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens not illegal aliens.
What an ambush, damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Then to allow this embarrassment to to swirl for minutes was a showman using his craft.
“This kind of crap really throws sand in my gears:
The US Army’s declining warfighting lethality is not a mystery—it’s a direct consequence of a feudal promotion system that rewards bureaucratic survival over bold leadership, misaligning senior-level priorities with the core mission of closing with and destroying the enemy. This patronage-based structure, decoupled from lethality metrics, incentivizes risk aversion and ethical compromises, eroding the force’s combat edge even as technology advances. We’ve invested billions in cutting-edge gear—Next-Gen Squad Weapons, advanced optics, and precision munitions—yet lethality is tanking. Fewer hits at Combat Training Centers (CTCs), slower quals, and dismal first-run crew scores tell the story. The root? Not tech.”
“t takes a while to spin up real warfighting; the military has to peel off the bureaucratic rot first. And it’s not just here; it’s in every military, everywhere, what’s not actually in combat.”
As Russia found out 5years ago, firing Generals and commanders and putting them at the front line, while now they have cleaned it out. When Europe goes to war they will find the same, so never take your country up against another that has just finished a war.
Of course the answer is, have more wars to keep the troops sharp… Maybe volunteer a few divisions to get out on the front line in someone else’s war, I’m sure that taught the North Koreans a lot.
From my observations as an American of the battle fodder class, the military is plenty lethal.
The problem is the general strategy.
What was the visage of ‘victory’ in Viet Nam?
Afghanistan?
How is the taking of this or that objective help achieve the political objective?
This requires a practical and obtainable objective.
Haven’t seen one of those in a while.
A less than perfect military can achieve a rational obtainable objective.
A perfect army can’t achieve what isn’t there.
Except expend expensive munitions and equipment and conduct real world testing and development of new equipment and munitions.
If you can keep the loss of sons, daughters, brothers and sisters, fathers, and mothers to a politically palpable number.
Manufacturers and their political sales force make lots of money.
Families of sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters can look forward to having an overpass named in honor of their heroic relative.
Regarding revival of an economy by attracting foreign and national investment in businesses to create jobs and taxes I noted that one of President Trump’s objectives imposing tariffs (import duty) is to increase revenue but later to abolish income tax.
The British Hong Kong Government did that and imposed a Value Added Tax to goods and services.
I wonder how Tasmania/Hobart will cope when/if they get their new AFL stadium, that the Tassie government has to pay for and that a lot of Tasmanians don’t want. I was reading yesterday they were trying to figure out how to power the stadium once it’s built. I can imagine the lights going out in Hobart when they turn on the lights at the stadium just so a group of guys can play aerial ping pong.
It is time for J. Howard (and I wish him years of good health and strong mind) to stand next to T. Abbott and apologise to Pauline Hanson.
I always consider both as noble men, such apology will never hurt their Party nor make them be or look smaller.
Without going into judicial argument about past, see what current crop of politicians did and continue to do openly and with pleasure!
“I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant departments and agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters,” Trump said. (Time)
“Heat Pumps: Efficient on paper, complicated in reality”
“Heat pumps are having a moment. Governments promote them, utilities love them, and they are, now more often than ever, described as an obvious replacement for fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas), fueled heating. The basic idea sounds great…a heat pump works like a reverse refrigerator. Instead of “pushing heat out, it pulls heat in”. That heat can come from the air outside your house or from the ground below it.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) sums up the enthusiasm nicely. “Heat pumps, powered by low‐emissions electricity, are the central technology in the global transition to secure and sustainable heating. Heat pumps currently available on the market are three‐to‐five times more energy efficient than natural gas boilers. That statement contains three big claims:
(1) heat pumps are three to five times more efficient,
Obvious from way back when the French showed glyphosate caused cancer in rats if you let them live beyond a month..
“• A highly influential 2000 glyphosate safety study long cited by regulators worldwide was retracted after evidence showed it was ghostwritten by Monsanto scientists and misrepresented as independent research
• Internal company emails revealed Monsanto planned, wrote, and celebrated the paper as a strategic tool to defend Roundup and Roundup Ready crops during a crucial period of expiring patents
• Despite ghostwriting being exposed in a 2017 litigation, the study continued shaping research, regulation, and public perception for years, accumulating more than 1,300 citations before a long-delayed retraction
• The journal admitted the study relied on unpublished Monsanto data while ignoring existing toxicity research, showing how selective evidence can quietly shape policy for years”
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After the Endangerment Finding, States Must Prove CO2 Harms. Wisconsin Can’t.
By Andrew Weiss
The EPA’s revocation of the 2009 endangerment finding shifts the burden of proof from federal agencies to state capitals. Governors who declared climate emergencies must now demonstrate with regional data that rising carbon dioxide (CO2) endangers their residents. Wisconsin cannot meet that burden.
In 2019, Wisconsin declared climate change a crisis requiring the state’s electricity to be carbon-free by 2050, citing worsening extreme weather as justification. Since then, the state has spent $6 billion on renewable infrastructure while residents pay 15% more for electricity than the Midwest average.
A new report by the Weiss Energy Policy Institute analyzed 130 years of Wisconsin climate data and found that as atmospheric CO2 rose 45%, Wisconsin experienced 63% fewer days over 90°F, heatwaves 71% shorter in duration, powerful tornadoes down 70%, and significant drought decline since 1894. This isn’t just absence of evidence, it’s negative correlation. As CO2increased, climate extremes decreased.
In addition to the improving climate, the report also notably found that rural Wisconsin’s average temperature has not changed since 1894. Urban areas, on the other hand, have warmed about 2.2°F since the late nineteenth century. The report finds that this urban warming is nearly entirely due to the Urban Heat Island effect from concrete and development, not CO2. In many measurable ways, Wisconsin’s climate has become more conducive to human flourishing over the past century.
Even if CO2 were causing harm, Wisconsin’s ability to adapt to climate change far surpasses its ability to influence it. The Badger State’s 2023 carbon emissions were 22% below its peak of 110 million metric tons in 2005. Despite its reduction, annual global emissions have increased by over 100 times Wisconsin’s entire annual emissions over the same period. In fact, in 2023, Wisconsin’s carbon emissions made up less than 0.25% of the global total.
More at –
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/24/after-the-endangerment-finding-states-must-prove-co2-harms-wisconsin-cant/
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Wisconsin needs to employ our BOM, that data obviously needs homogenisation!
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You jest, but you must not depend on our modern intelligentsia to comprehend that. They will believe you.
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Therefore, reducing atmospheric CO2 levels endangers plant life!
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Certainly a naive question.
Why many local (many – not all!) fruit and veg are so tasteless ?
The strawberries are worse of all, I have not touched one for years though Mrs V can not stop buying them…
Watermelons sometimes quite good, other times – only look like ones.
Can it be that insolation and CO2 levels are not matched ?
As it was last century, on another continent…
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That’s the product of decades of selective breeding, the objectives of which are essentially economics: disease and weather resistance, yield, visual attributes, consistency, longevity in storage, etc. You could add taste to that, but only if you mean ‘sweetness’ – other elements of flavour are ignored.
All else, especially nutritional value, was never an objective.
The worst offender IMO is grapes, especially white seedless grapes, which are now little more than swollen bags of sugary water.
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“The strawberries are worse of all, I have not touched one for years though Mrs V can not stop buying them…”
Get out in the garden Vlad, they are easy to grow! Tomatoes too, and thornless blackberries, all have a much denser flavour than shop ones.
“Why many local (many – not all!) fruit and veg are so tasteless ?”
They are pushed as hard as possible to reach saleable size, while my stuff at home takes longer to grow. Also, grown in sterilized soil without the many fungi and bacteria that plants use to develop properly. They are just starting to see the size of molecules being transferred between them all and are amazed that such large compounds go through the cell walls. Seems we know very little about how plants really grow!
Over summer we slowly move through the list of strawberries, apricots, blackberries, plums, apples and lastly pears, just fruit you can walk outside in the morning and eat. None of it sprayed, just netting over some things to keep the Rosellas/Whiteyes off. All the excess gets cooked and frozen for winter.
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I won’t particularly blame the BBC as they are just parroting another internet flooding climate industry propaganda piece.
This is possibly the biggest load of climate hogwash yet. Penguins doomed because…. Oh I can’t even be bothered to explain!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c204626888zo
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Penguins doomed because researchers introduce diseases into colonies?
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‘We’ve had enough’: Inside One Nation’s regional rise.
‘One Nation has claimed Victoria’s Yallourn North as its top stronghold after one in three voters backed the party amid power station closures and rising crime.’ (Oz)
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Great news.
One Nation or No Nation.
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It will be a devastating blow for Australian “democracy” if the new Lib/Lab censorship laws are used to silence or jail Pauline Hanson to prevent a conservative political party succeeding or even running at the next election.
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Germany is worse.
A man in Germany was investigated by police for calling a politician pinochio!
As if a politician would ever lie!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIfLEeYAo_Y
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It has long amazed me that leading political parties could for so long get away with pretending that Pauline does not exist. But that is coming to a head.
I saw Albo on TV last night, and when asked about Pauline he was speechless. If the camera had been pointed down a bit it would have surely shown a constant stream of used water.
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It is now OK to mention Pauline Hanson in polite company.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_JN3a8AusWQ
Just a year ago, mentioning Pauline Hanson immediately cast you as racist. There is growing recognition that importing terrorists leads to more violence and terrorism in Australia. And giving exceptional rights to one race is racism. And bird mincers do not lower electricity costs.
Imagine how quickly sanity will spread if conversations are permitted to stray into unwoke territory.. You may even find smart people like Senator Aranda-Rajah realising she has been told a load of lies:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_JN3a8AusWQ
If you go into 5:19 (Just after lunch) you will hear Gerard Holland of the Page institute talk about the money coming into Australia for environmental activism. Then watch his exchange with Ananda-Rajah. Rajah would likely be the smartest person in the room so her lack of knowledge on energy shows why Australia is doomed unless ON get control.
I wonder what Gerard Holland is doing – he would be an outstanding candidate for the next energy minister.
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It has been said that those on the left accuse those on the right of doing what the left are doing.
So the Prime Minister accuses One Nation of being divisive but a quick comparison.
1/ Labour, diversity is our strength. One Nation, National pride is our strength.
2/ Labour stands before multiple flags. One Nation stands in front of the NATIONAL flag
3/Labour wanted special political representation for different groups. One Nation believes everyone is equal under the law.
4/Labour believes that all any every minority group should be fully supported in retaining their native culture. One Nation believes that all immigrants should be encouraged to embrace Australian culture.
The list goes on of course, the major parties can claim what they like, this tends to underestimate the intelligence of the voting public. They ignore this at their peril.
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As a means of influencing the national conversation a series of 5 second comparisons might be quite effective.
One issue at a time. A clip of a government official spouting carp followed by a four or five word rebuttal.
Poly: diversity is our strength
Voiceover: No. National pride is our strength.
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As a means of influencing the national conversation a series of 5 second comparison videos might be quite effective.
One issue at a time. A clip of a government official spouting carp followed by a four or five word rebuttal.
Poly: diversity is our strength
Voiceover: No. National pride is our strength.
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Would the required political sponsorship announcement take longer than the advertisement?
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It would be close, but it might be worth making the announcement proudly rather than babbling through it.
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Rick, you speak of intelligent people. Where do you find one.
Angus Taylor’s maternal grandfather was Sir William Hudson, the head engineer on the biggest costruction job Auatalia has undertaken, the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
WHICH WAS COMPLETED UNDER BUDGET AND AHEAD OF SCHEDULE!
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The story in the Australian is paywalled.
However it seems to be a reanalysis of the 2025 Federal election results. Yallourn North is just one booth in the electorate of Gippsland, held by Darren Chester (National party).
https://results.aec.gov.au/31496/Website/HousePollingPlaceFirstPrefs-31496-4439.htm
In Yallourn North the One Nation candidate had the highest primary vote of 32%.
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So the rise of ON is not a flash in the pan. Simply now coming on hot and strong. Sanity is beginning to prevail.
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Even with new leadership it’s too risky to vote for the fake conservative Liberals due to their multiple election failures due to trying to be more woke or at least as woke as the commies. Their collaboration with the commies to silence conservative One Nation via the censorship laws is a disgrace. (Yes, I know they got them a little bit watered down, but that was all for show. Even Labor realised that the laws were far too extreme as written. Now they are “merely” extreme.) They can’t be trusted.
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So when your ON candidate is third on primaries, who get’s your next pref?
You have never answered that so I am entitled to assume it will be labor, you hate the libs so much. I vote for the lesser of two evils and lose no sleep over it.
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This site was very slow yesterday or off-line, presumably due to attack by hostile parties that don’t approve of the opinions expressed here.
Also, in Australia under the new Liberal-supported censorship laws, if a site goes off-line you can never be sure if it’s local state or non-state or foreign state actors that might be causing any disruption or a “take down” notice by the Liberal-created e Safety Kommissar.
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Problems this morning as well.
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Had exactly the same problems, David. Finally through.
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Same.
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I couldn’t post from UK yesterday.
Very slow to load earlier, ok at the moment.
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Ditto. Came up on screen as problem of Cloud Configuration…
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4:30pm NZ-time… you’re alive!
Thought kommissar J.I.G. had blocked you – or worse, Akbar had slapped his slippers on the site…
Alive!
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As I understand it, a DDOS attack shouldn’t get past the Cloudflare ‘prove you are human’ check.
So are they using thousands of hijacked computers that can tick that box automatically and flood Jo’s site?
or are they overwhelming this address at Cloudflare before they even get here?
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Web Guru is investigating. But traffic has been relentlessly large and mostly from one server in the US. Ashburn. Looking at the last few days there was a short big Russian spike on Tuesday, then a Chinese surge yesterday morning, and as that subsided the huge USA block of traffic started up. It is different to past attacks, being in a large single block rather than repeat spikes. Strangely switched off for 3 hours from 3-6pm yesterday WST and then came right back. Not normal traffic behaviour. Plus when I look back 7 days ago, there was a similar short monster spike last friday which I now believe was probably the test run.
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Two countries with dysfunctional energy policies.
At the same time Australia is suffering a natural gas shortage, Canada is importing Australian LNG.
Meanwhile Australia is building natural gas IMPORTATION facilities.
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Sheer stupidity to build gas import terminals at the southern extremities of Australia, about as far away from gas sources as possible, while ignoring the fact that it’s very easy for states to either use their own gas, or push gas pipelines through the centre of Australia to existing gas sources.
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Agree 100% that we should have pipes connecting all our gas fields to our cities but the sparse population makes that expensive.
That’s not happening and Vic is refusing to tap Gippsland gas so LPG receiving terminals is the next best option. Once built the gas should be bought out of Singapore and shipped on international ships, avoiding our maritime unions who taught the BLF, who became CFMEU, what they know about negotiations.
Besides, governments have no right to demand domestic producers sell at a discount post hoc, any more than they can demand cheap oil out of Bass St. WA has a special price negotiated at the time of licensing. That time has long passed with existing fields.
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Esperance’s low population of only 14,000 people didn’t stop them receiving gas from the Pilbara, over 1800 kms away. It’s not difficult, and if costed correctly, surely must work out cheaper than shipping gas to the bottom of Australia.
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Also may I add that since WA mostly uses gas for its power, obviously the govt continually negotiates new delivery prices – it’s not a process that stopped at any time.
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What were the options? OC gas turbines proliferate in the NW and that’s good. I agree with you.
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Noticed in Canada
“I Want A New Country”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/02/26/i-want-a-new-country-167/
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TRUMP reopens fishing grounds that were closed by Obama.
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In TRUMP’s State of the Union address he said that to avoid an increase in consumer electricity prices, AI data centres had to build their own power stations.
On Their ABC Radio National radio station this morning they asked some clown “expert” about this with regard to Australia and he said in Australia data centres had to run of “renewables”.
Running a data centre off renewables makes about as much sense as running an aluminium smelter off them. It’s insane. These people just don’t have a clue.
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“As of February 2026, Ofgem (the UK’s energy regulator) has warned that the pipeline of proposed AI-driven data centres seeking to connect to the national grid would, if built, require more electricity capacity than Britain currently consumes at its peak.”
More than 50GW they reckon. Not sure how Starmer expects the UK to be a leader in AI.
Miliband Net Zero + AI does not compute.
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I suspect reality will cause a dramatic reduction in the pipeline.
AI applications will flourish in countries that are willing to burn coal. If you are not able to make aluminium (solid electricity) you will not make an AI industry (all electric intelligence and grunt).
Even if there was sustainable fusion with a net energy gain available today, it would be three decades before it finds wide application. Nvidia was founded in 1993. It took 6 years to turn a profit. It was the biggest company by market cap by 2025.
There are plenty of fusion start ups but none are near making a profit on energy or technology sales.
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Does the UK have ‘smart’ meters. ?
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Yes.
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As usual, we will attempt to make something work here that won’t work anywhere else, leave ’em to it, I say.
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Why didn’t you guys say anything about this ?
And what is A. King doing there?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360943710/small-town-mayor-australia-gets-real-thrill-over-surprise-encounter-jacinda-ardern
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You don’t know how lucky you are.
Truly , you have been blessed.
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https://www.folksong.org.nz/howlucky/index.html
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We don’t know who she is without her hijab.
Kiama is about Aus’ closest point to Wellington. So maybe they found it easier to recognise her.
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““If you’re going to list the five people you’d want to meet in your lifetime, I reckon she’d be one of them.””
Tells you all you need to know about Stuff and the people they pick to quote.
Funny how its not Western Sydney she’s looking for houses in…
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The I.Q. of Australia sinks even lower (if that’s possible) present company excepted 😃
She chickened-out and ran from NZ… has she now chickened-out and run from Harvard, USA as well because Trump?
My deepest most-heartfelt sympathies to you all: good luck, and good riddance.
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If you agree with this statement stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens not illegal aliens.
What an ambush, damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Then to allow this embarrassment to to swirl for minutes was a showman using his craft.
SOTU of course.
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Nationalism?
Jingoism?
Who cares ? It is happening all around.
Multipolarity.
Or something.
Not too sure about the polarity bit.
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All of that plus the uncertainty factor, there are illegal aliens and then there are aliens. Its the great distraction to save the Midterms.
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aliens?
domestic earth born?
extra terrestrial?
save the planet?
sorry that last question was hijacked by the GREENs
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FWIW
“Aussie Senator: US Social Media Reluctance to Censor Climate Skeptics – “This is the Problem”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/21/aussie-senator-social-media-reluctance-to-censor-climate-skeptics-this-is-the-problem/
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Bumped
State of the Union speech day
FWIW
“Here’s the Tweet That Best Summarized Trump’s Epic State of the Union Address”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/02/25/vintage-trump-delivered-the-state-of-unionand-he-took-no-prisoners-n2671860
Looks like poll watching might be interesting
Plus
“This Moment of the State of the Union Just Lost the Democrats the Midterms”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/02/24/this-moment-of-the-state-of-the-union-just-lost-the-democrats-the-midterms-n4949933
And
“RESPECT: Democrat Senator John Fetterman Showed up for the SOTU – Wearing A SUIT! (VIDEO)”
He has done some appearances as the worst dressed
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/respect-democrat-senator-john-fetterman-showed-up-sotu/
Today
“CNN Poll: By Golly, Trump Moved the Needle Last Night”
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/02/25/cnn-poll-by-golly-trump-moved-the-needle-last-night-n3812286
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“This Moment of the State of the Union Just Lost the Democrats the Midterms”
Trump is the master at this.
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Eight months is a long time in politics. It MAY remind the great unwashed what matters.
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Wow.
Thanks for this:
Haven’t seen this in SMH or ABC – perhaps I missed it?
Cheers,
Dave B
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FWIW
“As Russia’s SMO Heads Into Its Fifth Year, the Struggle Lives On”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/as-russias-smo-heads-into-its-fifth
And around the same theme
“Bring Back The Killing”
“This kind of crap really throws sand in my gears:
The US Army’s declining warfighting lethality is not a mystery—it’s a direct consequence of a feudal promotion system that rewards bureaucratic survival over bold leadership, misaligning senior-level priorities with the core mission of closing with and destroying the enemy. This patronage-based structure, decoupled from lethality metrics, incentivizes risk aversion and ethical compromises, eroding the force’s combat edge even as technology advances. We’ve invested billions in cutting-edge gear—Next-Gen Squad Weapons, advanced optics, and precision munitions—yet lethality is tanking. Fewer hits at Combat Training Centers (CTCs), slower quals, and dismal first-run crew scores tell the story. The root? Not tech.”
More at
https://www.kimdutoit.com/2026/02/25/bring-back-the-killing/
Via https://instapundit.com/778670/#disqus_thread
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“t takes a while to spin up real warfighting; the military has to peel off the bureaucratic rot first. And it’s not just here; it’s in every military, everywhere, what’s not actually in combat.”
As Russia found out 5years ago, firing Generals and commanders and putting them at the front line, while now they have cleaned it out. When Europe goes to war they will find the same, so never take your country up against another that has just finished a war.
Of course the answer is, have more wars to keep the troops sharp… Maybe volunteer a few divisions to get out on the front line in someone else’s war, I’m sure that taught the North Koreans a lot.
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From my observations as an American of the battle fodder class, the military is plenty lethal.
The problem is the general strategy.
What was the visage of ‘victory’ in Viet Nam?
Afghanistan?
How is the taking of this or that objective help achieve the political objective?
This requires a practical and obtainable objective.
Haven’t seen one of those in a while.
A less than perfect military can achieve a rational obtainable objective.
A perfect army can’t achieve what isn’t there.
Except expend expensive munitions and equipment and conduct real world testing and development of new equipment and munitions.
If you can keep the loss of sons, daughters, brothers and sisters, fathers, and mothers to a politically palpable number.
Manufacturers and their political sales force make lots of money.
Families of sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters can look forward to having an overpass named in honor of their heroic relative.
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Regarding revival of an economy by attracting foreign and national investment in businesses to create jobs and taxes I noted that one of President Trump’s objectives imposing tariffs (import duty) is to increase revenue but later to abolish income tax.
The British Hong Kong Government did that and imposed a Value Added Tax to goods and services.
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I wonder how Tasmania/Hobart will cope when/if they get their new AFL stadium, that the Tassie government has to pay for and that a lot of Tasmanians don’t want. I was reading yesterday they were trying to figure out how to power the stadium once it’s built. I can imagine the lights going out in Hobart when they turn on the lights at the stadium just so a group of guys can play aerial ping pong.
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Maybe go old school and play the games during the day.
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Didn’t you get the memo? Tas is the battery of the nation, with all their hydro.
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It is time for J. Howard (and I wish him years of good health and strong mind) to stand next to T. Abbott and apologise to Pauline Hanson.
I always consider both as noble men, such apology will never hurt their Party nor make them be or look smaller.
Without going into judicial argument about past, see what current crop of politicians did and continue to do openly and with pleasure!
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many new rainfall records across Australia and more imminent:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/mount-isa-experiences-most-february-rain-on-record/ar-AA1X06cs
I did forecast above trend rain for later in the year but the current heavy rain is due to lingering monsoon trough. The monsoon has extended a long way south and has more atmospheric water right now over the outback than any tropical ocean:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=total_precipitable_water/orthographic=-222.28,-25.81,1279/loc=138.736,-25.673
Very rare for more than 70mm atmospheric water column over land using satellite measurements. Amazon current best just over 60mm.
More evidence that Australia is mirroring the convective instability that builds over the Amazon. Needs moist ground to do that.
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Now THIS is a folding ladder!
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_tazv3yqTH61y82kbt.mp4
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Very clever! Looking at the background, its for when you are shtuk..
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We want the truth and we want it now.
“I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant departments and agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters,” Trump said. (Time)
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FWIW
More SOTU
“A Masterclass in Giving a Speech Without Giving a Speech”
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/02/25/a-masterclass-in-giving-a-speech-without-giving-a-speech-n4949938
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Another Wow, and thanks again.
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FWIW
“Heat Pumps: Efficient on paper, complicated in reality”
“Heat pumps are having a moment. Governments promote them, utilities love them, and they are, now more often than ever, described as an obvious replacement for fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas), fueled heating. The basic idea sounds great…a heat pump works like a reverse refrigerator. Instead of “pushing heat out, it pulls heat in”. That heat can come from the air outside your house or from the ground below it.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) sums up the enthusiasm nicely. “Heat pumps, powered by low‐emissions electricity, are the central technology in the global transition to secure and sustainable heating. Heat pumps currently available on the market are three‐to‐five times more energy efficient than natural gas boilers. That statement contains three big claims:
(1) heat pumps are three to five times more efficient,
(2) they run on “low-emission” electricity, and
(3) they are secure and sustainable
All three deserve a closer look, so here we go…”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/22/heat-pumps-efficient-on-paper-complicated-in-reality/
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An important reminder in comments there
“ToldYouSo
Reply to
strativarius
February 22, 2026 8:21 am
“If it is being promoted by the government you can bet you’ll end up the worse off for it.”
Just so.
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
“ElBowen” with both barrels
— US President Ronald Reagan, 1986″
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Obvious from way back when the French showed glyphosate caused cancer in rats if you let them live beyond a month..
“• A highly influential 2000 glyphosate safety study long cited by regulators worldwide was retracted after evidence showed it was ghostwritten by Monsanto scientists and misrepresented as independent research
• Internal company emails revealed Monsanto planned, wrote, and celebrated the paper as a strategic tool to defend Roundup and Roundup Ready crops during a crucial period of expiring patents
• Despite ghostwriting being exposed in a 2017 litigation, the study continued shaping research, regulation, and public perception for years, accumulating more than 1,300 citations before a long-delayed retraction
• The journal admitted the study relied on unpublished Monsanto data while ignoring existing toxicity research, showing how selective evidence can quietly shape policy for years”
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/391828-2026-02-25-journal-retracts-unethical-glyphosate-safety-study-25-years-later.htm
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In this, maybe, brief period when I can post, i’ll link to a vid of Capt. Royce Willians, the centenarian awarded the Medal of Honour y’day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03gRnZBJhc
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