By Jo Nova
We couldn’t possibly save the Earth in a teleconference
The world is going to burn, but all the saints of climate penury have to be flown to five star resorts in Fiji, or else, the corals will die.
The Australian government has booked out two or three five star resorts in October in the “pre event” tropical massage leading up to the next COP meeting. This is not even the actual COP meeting. It’s the pre-COP extravaganza designed to reward the loyal, and soften up the fence sitters. This way The Bureaucratic Blob can work on them on the golf course, or with cocktails at the pool.
You, the untermenschen, will pay for all this one way or another. Taxpayers all over the world will pay to send their selected parasites on holiday, and then after schmoozen deals are done, we’ll have to pay more to be allowed to fly anywhere on a plane powered by coconut milk.
Chris Bowen’s department sets aside $4.2m to reserve luxury Fiji resorts for COP delegates
–By Elizabeth Pike, The Australian
Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen and his team are paying up to $4.2m to lock in accommodation for foreign bureaucrats at luxury five-star resorts in Fiji as part of his COP president mission.
Just weeks after Mr Bowen claimed the cost of his COP31 role was “good value”, the government lodged a tender of up to $2,113,468 for “hotels, lodging and meeting facilities” at the Sheraton Fiji Golf and Beach Resort, a five-star waterfront getaway and 18-hole golf course that fetches up to $1200 per night for a room.
“Australia is committed to working with Pacific partners to deliver a successful pre-COP that strengthens regional stability, resilience and security, in our national interest.”
The excuses are already prepared
The Minister will say that we’ll get a lot of the money back. All the foreign delegates will reinburse the Australian government to pay for their rooms, so it’s only the 50 to 500 or so Australians our taxpayers have to lump up for. (In case you were wondering we sent a delegation of 494 to Belem, Brazil for COP 30).
But this doesn’t change that taxpayers all around the world are being screwed… shouldn’t poor countries build another school instead of sending a team to a tropical resort?
If pushed to justify the extravagant costs, and the fuel, plus those planet destroying carbon emissions, The Minister will wave his hand and say it’s great for Pacific Islanders, silently implying that the conference itself will hold back the seas and save the islands which are not actually sinking, from not actually sinking.
And finally Chris Bowen will say this is just “standard operating procedure” and Australia had to look serious, because we wouldn’t want to be a Laughing Stock… Which is apparently on a par with the Ross Ice Shelf collapsing or something.
The Coalition has accused Chris Bowen of wasting millions on a “vanity project” which is good start, but they could be printing t-shirts with pictures of five star pools and sunloungers and promising to kill off the whole obscene UN climate holiday rort for bureaucrats. But do they have the mojo?
The time to get out of the UN was years ago.
h/t TdeF
Lots of “free stuff” for lots of entitled professional parasites…
Do they get to fly in on private jets as well? Or is it just business or first class on commercial airlines?
So sad for the hard-working Aussie taxpayers who have to pay for this nonsense. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for what are effectively free vacations for public serpents and other assorted, unproductive parasites.
Why couldn’t they just do the “environmentally friendly” (and more importantly, economically friendly) thing and do an online conference via Zoom or similar?
Better yet, don’t do this at all and do something useful and evidence-based.
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FIRE THE LIAR & JAIL THE THIEVES.
I also appeal to the ALP to criticise, insult & offend ONE NATION, its leader &supporters more often & more vociferously!!
It’s doing us the world of good & more & more undecided folk are seeing more & more clearly what a farce the Uniparty ( Alp / LNP coalition ) really is!
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Graham
Get your poetry to rhyme.
“Fire the Liar, Heave the Thieves.”
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Most of these senior public servants work from home and telecommute. Hasn’t anyone in the IPCC or Australian government heard of the internet?
And the reporters sent to Fiji to observe all this in midwinter aren’t going to complain either. It’s how the UN works, a conspiracy of millions of public servants whose very jobs, careers and perks are dependent on Climate Change, a huge club. Along with all that international luxury travel and dining and meeting like minded people from across those terrible climates. In the tropical South Pacific.
Do they question science? Of course not. The are not scientists. They are obliged by signed international agreements and international law, all created by the UN. And they are bravely risking their lives meeting at sea level for the greater good and for canapes and Mai Tais.
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” A conspiracy of millions of public servants whose very jobs, careers and perks are dependent on Climate Change, a huge club. ”
It’s a huge club…. and you ain’t in it.
Where have I heard that before.
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— Upton Sinclair
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I talked with the Chief Scientist. He was thrilled at the opportunity. When I explained it was not true, he was dismissive. For every paper which disputed it, he said he could find another. I realised he was not the slightest bit interested in the truth. It was irrelevant. The enormity of the challenge of the ‘transition’ was motivating him. Truth was not his concern. So much for the word scientist.
When this scam is over, if ever, the role of ultra political bodies like the CSIRO, University, BOM, Office of Chief Scientist will need a total overhaul. Sell them or close them if the truth so clearly comes a distant second to the politics. And the Climatebaggers will be on large pensions.
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I guess that means he thinks its a numbers game and not a fact or science discussion.
100 papers supporting something don’t outweigh just 1, if the 1 shows the 100 aren’t right.
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Just like ‘100 Authors Against Einstein.’ If he was wrong, one would have been enough, he said.
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Aren’t You lucky, I sent one of my studies of climate data to the Chief Scientist and received a reply basically saying “Not Interested”.
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Who is he Chief Scientist these days?
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Senate figures reveal nearly half of Services Australia staff work from home
Almost 50 per cent of the 33,500 staff in the agency have an approved working from home arrangement, according to astonishing new figures.
As the agency responsible for Centrelink, Medicare, Child Support and myGov, Services Australia is the public face of the government all Aussie citizens and residents will engage with at some point on their journey from the cradle to the grave.
Yet, almost 42 per cent of Services Australia staff working in service delivery roles apparently do so from home for part of the week.
This compares to over 60 per cent of staff in non-service delivery roles that have some kind of work from home arrangement. Around 3.6 per cent never come into the office at all.
Just 55 Service Australia employees earning $70,000 or less – so those at the very start of their careers – work from home three days or more per week. Presumably because they need to learn things.
Whereas, 10,300 employees in the pay bracket of $70,000 to $113,000 work from home three or more days a week. Surely that includes a lot of early-to-mid-career public servants – exactly the kind of people Kogan is warning about.
Meanwhile, over 1500 “EL 1” and EL 2” employees – executive-level positions who are paid between $122,500 and $168,500 – work from home three days or more each week.
Shockingly, three members of the SES (senior executive service) – those paid $170,000-plus – work from home three or more days a week. Some SES staff report directly to chief executive David Hazlehurst.
Bear in mind that these are figures from the government’s largest public-facing agency, where many employees are forced to deal with actual members of the public in-person.
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O.O….Ever tried to get one on the blower……..allow yourself plenty of time and have some Bex powders handy…..a blight on our society is the Public Service.
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Unless there is an all expenses paid conference at a beach party location overseas. Then attendance is compulsory. Personal contact is essential.
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One of the advantages of visiting my rellies in Scotland at the moment (apart from the dreadful heatwave we are having, it’s 22°C, don’t you know) is that I can be one of the first to comment before my fellow Aussies wake up.
I saw that article in the Australian yesterday and just about choked on my porridge!
I knew Bowen was an arrogant prick, but this really takes the first prize in his contempt for the Australian taxpayer.
As Jo said, this is a gift for the Coalition but, as usual, they will look at it and be afraid to undo the wrapping incase, you know, climate change!
Thank goodness I am in the land of whisky!
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Peter,
It would take 10 whiskies to wash the bad taste of bowens’ BS out of my head!
Hmmm …. 10 really nice Scotch whiskies!!!!!!!!!!!
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Here is the website of the resort.
https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/nansi-sheraton-fiji-golf-and-beach-resort/overview/
What, they’re not worried about sea level rise?
Shouldn’t they have chosen a resort not at sea level, LoL?
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The beautiful pictures of the resort in that link show it to be barely above the surrounding sea.
From a geological perspective we know that most of the flat areas now inhabited on those Pacific Islands was under water until about 2,000 years ago.
The simple, undeniable truth is that oceans have fallen by 1.2 metres since the time of Christ and any recent movement, up or down, has been almost unmeasurable.
Our planet is currently providing the best living environment experienced in the last hundred thousand years or so: but! Be afraid, it wont last much longer ’cause it is going to get very cold when this interglacial has run its course.
In maybe 50,000 years the Fijian COP Prep team will be looking down at the water, a hundred metres below.
Reality bites.
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Re the fall in the sea level – this very apparent when you visit historic sites of the Classical Greek and Roman eras. I recall visiting the remains of a theatre ( I think Miletus, now in Turkey) which was once on the coast – now a long way from water. And even famous battle sites in Greece. It is quite disorientating.
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It doesn’t fit with the Aristotlean Official Narrative that the climate and earth is static and never changes despite evidence that it did in historic times as you mention Vicki and the Minoan, Egyptian, Roman and Medieval climate optima which were warm and when Civilisation thrived.
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That’s both silting, which happens in most river ports and the rapid growth of the land, some 15 metres since Roman times. Ostia near Rome was the major port and abandoned, so better preserved than Pompeii. It is now 40km inland. Which is behind the Catholic fish on Friday Papal order to save the fishing industry of Ostia.
It’s also due to the Sirocco, the hot wind from Africa dumping sand. Even 1mm a year means 2 metres since Roman times and it’s far closer to 10mm. The same thing happens in Beijing with the sand off the Gobi (interestingly the Mongol word for desert as Sahara is the Arab word for desert)
In Norther Europe, scotland, Sandinavia, its the springing back of the land which a mere 10,000 years ago was covered in at least 1km of ice. This is much faster than the rise in sea level which has slowed dramatically as the glaciers have now vanished except a high altitudes. Stockholm had to be moved downstream 1,000 years ago as a consequence.
As for Pacific islands, often coral atolls, they are always at sea level where coral grows. Now often 3.5km thick coral which grew up as mountains went down again, leaving a ring. This was a conclusion of Charles Darwin. And confirmed when the Americans drilled to the base of the Bikini Atoll. Mountains appear and vanish along the Ring of Fire, leaving pillars of coral. And we are supposed to believe colonies of coral are super fragile?
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I have also visited Caesarea Maritima in Israel, sunken due to sea level rise (and also tectonic subsidence).
So many ancient sites have been subject to either sea level rise or sea level fall.
But it’s not part of the Official Narrative.
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The Jordan Valley is 400metres below sea level, which meant I could enjoy a Chardonnary at a record depth, below any submarine. A natural hyperbaric chamber too, so a lot of health resorts. The Dead to Red project seems to be continuing and will eventually refill the dead sea which is dropping a metre a year at present. It was a long walk down. The environmental destruction is amazing and all man made and profitable.
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In WW2 the British army rushed to Greece’s defence (reluctantly) and the (Classical Educated) Bureaucrats in London suggested that they stop the German panzers at the very narrow Pass of Thermopylae where the Greeks stopped the Persians in 480 B.C.
When the British looked at this Pass they found it was 10 kilometres wide (due to sea level reduction).
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Yes! Again, when our family first went to Europe..we actually went to Thermopylae and I was staggered to see that the topography no longer coincided with the description of Herodotus.
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Vicki,
I think you are talking about
Ancient Ephesus was originally a major coastal port city located on the Aegean Sea.
However, due to centuries of silting from the Küçük Menderes (Cayster) River, the coastline has retreated approximately 5 to 8 kilometers inland.
Today, the archaeological site is situated near the modern village of Selçuk in western Turkey, far from the current sea shore.
and
Ancient Troy was originally located directly on the coast, situated on the edge of a shallow marine embayment or lagoon.
Today, the archaeological site at Hisarlik lies approximately 5 to 6 kilometers (about 3 to 4 miles) inland from the Aegean Sea. This significant geographical shift occurred over millennia due to the silting up of the bay by sediment deposits from the Scamander (now Karamenderes) and Simois rivers, which gradually filled the harbor and pushed the coastline northward. During the Bronze Age, the sea reached much closer to the city walls, granting Troy strategic control over maritime trade routes between the Aegean and the Black Sea.
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Hi OldOzzie, while the silting may be a real ‘thing’ so was the sea level fall of four foot world wide over the last two millennia.
Geologists were aware of this as long ago as 1966, long before CAGW$ hit the world financial markets.
We shouldn’t attribute the Ephesus situation solely to silt. 😀
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Also Ephesus was sited away from the coast on a man made canal. It was common for the Romans to move their ships away from the potential storm violence of the sea front. They were not ports in the modern sense with heavy cranes and deep water. One dramatic exception was Ceaserea under Herod, an amazing real sea port in stone. But shallow canals, like those in the Nederlands, eventually silt long before the sea ports. They have to be constantly dredged, like the Port of Melbourne where Port Phillip is 80% under 11 metres/6 fathoms. The silting of the canals to the Medieval city of Bruges, Belgium is what froze the city in a time warp for today’s tourists. The building of real ports with cranage, railhead, deep berths is a major essential investment for any city. So Churchill’s Mulberry artificial harbours allowed D Day on 6th June 1944.
But I doubt Albow Akhbar would care about Ports. It’s all about power. Starting with eliminating all power which is not electrical so the States have no say. And the whole country can be switched off from his desk in Canberra. Plus a lot of parties in the South Pacific. Climate Capers. All fake of course, but great fun and no one cares. What a hoot. And Bowen is President of something at last.
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No Ozzie, I did mean Miletus. It was sited next to the river Meander (where the expression obviously comes from!), as well as the coastal shore. And TdF is right – it seems that the silting of the Meander contributed to the gradual extended distance from the coast and the disappearance of its tactical advantages.
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Went to ruins in Perga in Turkey a few years back. it was at the entrance to a river / creek hundreds(or thousands) of years ago…..now 15 KLM’s from the Mediterranean !!!
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Yes, Froggy, another (Pergamum?) example.
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Is it wrong for me to be rooting for a well-timed tsunami to hit Fiji during that conference?
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Well, to be quite honest, I had a similar thought. So, no , don’t feel so guilty.
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For the cleansing effect, yes. Out with the old….
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I could deal with Big Wind Bowen ending up being known as Big Wave Bowen…
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Even though the parasites not from Australia are supposedly meant to reimburse the Australian taxpayer for the cost, I’d be willing to bet that the Australian Government makes no serious effort (or none at all) to collect any monies owed.
After all, Labor “economics” thinks there’s an unlimited supply of Aussie taxpayers’ money and if that runs out they just have to print more and there’s plenty of “free stuff” to give away for everyone.
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Channel 7 news item, just published.
https://youtu.be/BYX0dYgzsAQ
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As usual at climate conferences, private jet parking places will be at a premium. I asked Gulag AI.
Note that if parking places run out, a “drop-and-go” protocol will be implemented for private jets so the parasite is dropped off, then its jet has to fly to Brisbane, Auckland or Nouméa Airports to park, then return to pick up the parasite.
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Note there is a pre-pre-COP conference as well.
I hope they don’t mind going on a propeller aircraft.
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My brother went fishing on a charter in Fiji many years ago (prior to the hoopla) and noticed white coral all around; he asked the charter operator what was wrong with the coral and the response was: the water had warmed up and bleached it. Ten years later he returned to the same fishing spot with the same charter; and voila: all the colour had returned. The Charter operator informed him that the coral recovery was not a problem.
And despite all the rubbish about supposed Climate Change Destruction, the fishing was still good during the bleach event.
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The coral has lived through many ice ages. Even the Great Barrier Reef at 2200km tall has a 5C temperature difference from one end to the other, tropical to temperate. Different ocean currents, tides, inner reef and outer reef 250km apart in places. With a surface area comparable to Germany the GBR is not a single environment but many. No one seems to care about facts when there is a profitable narrative to push.
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What will these people do when they get there. Does the long suffering Taxpayer get some sort of Report. Does the Australian Guv’ment Auditor do an audit to ensure that monies are repaid??
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You can rely on these armchair socialists to lap up the good life on the public purse whenever they can. They will always justify it, but criticise their opponents for any similar jaunt. BTW you can see a buildup for a future international appointment in “life after government “.
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It’s not a conflict of interests, it’s a congruence of interests.
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Again, we are living in the safest period for Humans in our history.
Why can’t they just look up OWI Data and how can they continue with this corrupt PONZI scheme?
https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260112-111535/grapher/natural-disaster-death-rates.html?country=Flood~Extreme+weather~Wildfire~Drought~Extreme+temperature
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I think we need an option to leave 10 lumps of cow dung instead of stars for articles of this kind.
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It’s very easy to interpret that comment as a criticism of the article. Rather than support.
Given you typically appreciate Jo’s articles I will assume you’re intending the cow dungs for the delegate’s junket, but the 10 as support for the article.
The thumb reactions, at the time of this comment, suggest to me the interpretation is split. More than the sentiment toward the article is split.
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The whole gang is involved in this.
Bowen – Anti-Energy Minister
Wong – Foreign Affairs
Conroy – Minister for Pacific Island Affairs
And each of them will no doubt send their own team of parasites.
https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/penny-wong/media-release/australia-welcomes-decision-host-pre-cop-fiji-and-tuvalu
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When asked what their handicap was, all the Ozzie grifters said “Pauline Hanson. She’s the one trying to put a stop to this”.
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You can see what is happening here. The Australian government is concerned about Chinese influence in the Pacific Islands. They had a workshop in Canberra to try to find ways to reduce or allay that influence. I suspect this Climate gabfest was well down the list of effective tactics. The least cost option. But, there will be much greater possibility of photo ops for the international media. It will be great advertising for Fiji and Tuvalu etc. But, I’m not sure how they will handle the fact that those islands and corals arent disappearing. Suppose that’s easy- they will just lie. Wonder if our Jo will get an invite?
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It’s difficult to counter Chicomm influence when much of our Government and senior public serpents are ideologically more aligned to the communists than they are to what’s left of the Western Alliance or the United States, the only major Western country which remains committed to Western values.
For example, the Slime Minister is a communist as documented in Trevor Loudon’s book “Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism”.
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..and if Albanese fronts at this junket he will be the appointed lier. Because he’s so good at it.
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Dr Pielke jr also refers to the recent data to show that we are now living in the safest period ever and surely we should accept the available data and we should quickly wake up to the liars and con artists.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/congratulations-world
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To quote Johnny Rotten at #9: “What will these people do when they get there.”
I keep flipping the switch but the light is not coming on. Do they have paint and carboard and intend to make posters? Maybe making center pieces for tables — plastic flowers and furry toy Koalas holding mints?
The USA has an Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, with the letters “TTB”. Known as the Talk Talk Bureau, and suggests to me that this pre-COP will be an extravaganze of talk-talk, eat-eat, and drink-drink. Being as this is a family friendly site, I’ll stop.
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Lomborg also admitted that deaths from extreme weather events had dropped by 99% over the last century and yet Humans at risk have now increased by at least 5 billion more people over that period.
Are our stupid donkeys waiting for ZERO deaths every year? Then they might accept the fact that we have been protected by our safety due to better communications etc and the use of fossil fuels?
So why do the MSM, pollies, some so called scientists etc still believe the con artists and liars?
https://nypost.com/2022/04/30/deaths-in-climate-disasters-declined-99-from-a-century-ago/
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The global elites, as so well-presented at the World Economic Forum, have totally corrupted the original purpose of the UN.
Australia should not simply get out of the UN but support any move to shut down the UN’s bloated bureaucracy and reform it in accordance with its original aims and purposes.
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A pre C.O.P. for the climate elites,
In Fiji with some fine junket treats,
Golf and cocktails by the sea,
Paid by taxpayers, all free,
While discussing their planet-saving feats.
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Eventually this will go away or expire staring down the barrel of rifle (Ceausescu Style). The “Rort” has become an “us and them” with more us’s than them’s. No wonder they have amped up gun control laws in most Western Countries. Australasia suffers from CGAF on a massive scale.
[SNIP. Email coming. -J]
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Well, that’s certainly a paragraph.
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I think a voter rebellion armed with a ballot slip is a far more likely scenario.
A civilian armed response with surplus Ukraine/Russia equipment is quite inventive though. Circa 1980’s Hollywood.
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Obviously none of us want a bloody revolution, which is why the revolt at the ballot box is so important.
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I could name one or two. 🙂
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I just received my annual Victorian water register in an envelope stamped as “energy, environment and climate action” and I thought they’re destroying our environment and we’ll soon have stuff all useful baseload energy and with no measurable difference to the climate by 2050.
But the full cost will be horrendous and I’m sure the treasonous Labor and Greens parties will be very satisfied with the result.
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Just a reminder, wind energy is a no brainer.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/07/19/wind-energy-means-going-back-to-the-middle-ages-says-german-professor-horst-joachim-ludecke/
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Molecules in isolation do not generate heat, they absorb heat from a source, eg the Sun, and pass it on via conduction, convection or radiation into the colder environment thereby cooling the environment. Hence the notion that CO2 causes warming or climate change is a blatant lie. Molecules are matter and have mass. Heat is energy, an entirely different entity.
Are our politicians so ignorant as to not know the difference or are they setting out to destroy our society?
The ignorance of the public and the media is appalling and a condemnation of the quality of our education system, especially the Universities.
I am currently applying my skills to an analysis of the UAH satellite temperature data and have found that by far the most prominent event is the El Nino cycle which is apparent all of the way from the North Pole to the South Pole.
I have yet to find an effect that can be attributed to human activity.
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