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Readers here already know this but for MSN it’s a mystery which “baffles scientists”
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Sometimes baffling leads to waffling.
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Often waffling is done to baffle
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In the news (not) :-
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/1900-scientists-say-climate-change-not-caused-co2-real-environment-movement-was
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Schmithusen J 2015 et al argue the special case for Antarctica that more atmospheric CO2 causes cooling. It is a good argument if you accept the CO2 control knob concept.
Geoff S
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My guess is that CO2 has no influence over climate change, but water vapour in the stratosphere deserves a closer look.
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Very simple.
To get true picture of Global Temperature the number of weather stations must be increased by some orders of magnitude.
Say, a BoM-approved thermometer every 1 sq.km of Earth surface.
Not cheap but possible – 0.5 Gpixels in total. A simple TV we tried to fix with my son, had (as it will never work again) 35 Mpixels.., so approx 15 000 TV sets.
Alright, we did not get any picture but neither do BoM, nor IPCC.
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If you put a sensor for multiple qualities (water content, speed, temperature etc) in every square centimetre of a river, will the data from those sensors be able to describe to you what the river does? Who or what is drinking from the river? What life the river sustains? How looking at the river, or swimming in it, makes you feel? What the river will do in future?
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Snow has recently been falling in the world’s driest desert.
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-cloaks-atacama-world-driest.html
And in Victoriastan, despite people in the industry lamenting the fact in recent years that snow seasons will get poorer and shorter, there has been the best start to the season for many years in the snowfields.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/markets/glee-at-big-snow-dump-as-victorian-alpine-resorts-report-best-start-to-ski-season-in-years/ar-AA1HmFba
When will Mother Nature get the memo and start behaving in accordance with the climate change narrative?
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>..3-2-1
“University of Santiago climatologist Raul Cordero told AFP that it was too soon to link the snow to climate change but said that climate modeling had shown that “this type of event, meaning precipitation in the Atacama Desert, will likely become more frequent.””
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SCOTUS rules 6-3 parents can opt kids out of LGBTQ lessons in schools
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-scotus-rules-in-favor-of-maryland-parents-opting-kids-out-of-lgbtq-lessons
Notice it’s always the same 3 totalitarian left looneys that vote against common-sense and sanity.
The real problem is that we needed the SCOTUS to tell us this!
The education system is fully captured by the “Long March” of the cultural Marxists.
Why they think sodomy belongs in the same curriculum as human reproduction is a mystery.
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As Maxwell Smart would say, “Missed by that much”.
Too soon?
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Thing is, you can’t opt your child out of the playground.
The opt outers will be sat in a corner and made to feel left out, then passed the information 2nd-hand anyway.
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Iran Disables GPS, Joins China’s Beidou — The End of U.S. Satellite Dominance?
https://youtu.be/BQb_hQalexY?si=S8MahmZRdqMSJGw9
Iran has also urged it’s population to remove WhatsApp and Instagram from their phones, calling them “tools of espionage”.
Iran has blamed digital communications apps for leaking data which enabled Israel to target military and political assassinations.
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And before you know it, they’ll be back to pagers.
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“Political Assassinations”?
I am certain between 6 Iranians executed last week none were of any serious rank in the military or state machinery.
Ayatollah supporters should check Cheka/GPU/MGB records opened by Gorbachev.
Those organisations killed thousands of “spies”but for each regime enemy there was a hundred (read again – a 100) uninvolved citizens.
The easiest thing to get rid an office competitor, or to get someone’s room in a communal flat or even “a divorce” in such atmosphere was to denounce him/her/whole family as spies.
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Vladimir with respect you have completely missed the point.
I wrote, “Iran has blamed digital communications apps for leaking data which enabled Israel to target military and political assassinations.”
That’s nothing to do with Iran executing anyone.
It’s referring to the Iranian negotiators murdered by Netanyahu.
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With equal respect – one does not exclude another.
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Iran does not need Zuckerberg’s digital communications apps to locate spies or dissidents it wants to execute, nor would it get Meta’s cooperation I guess.
I cannot see how you are conflating Iran’s domestic executions with the assassinations of high-ranking military and political negotiators by an antagonistic foreign adversary.
Are you able to clarify that?
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I hear there lots of good second hand pagers around, call Ishmael.
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Or, Moti Rola. A message comes up on the phone, “Hit link ’72 Virgins’ and have a blast.”
Sorry, I couldn’t help it.
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OK, my remark was sloppy, two sides of the Iran-Israel war are not even similar, leave alone equal in their killing practices.
One side uses political assassinations as a matter of course, another in the course of war.
Iran does not need Zuckerberg because no one needs that unpleasant character pushing useless product.
For years my kids tried to explain to me that “social media” thing.
They failed.
Now their children use their phones like me, ie: peer-to-peer talk and text.
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WhatsApp advertises itself by saying no one but the sender and recipients can read messages, it could be true, I suppose.
More than one large company does not allow it to be used for business related communications, and I doubt it is without good reason. All the cyber security people I know (admittedly only a handful), are very conservative and cautious about such things, and they practice what they preach, which speaks volumes.
I don’t think Chinese apps even pretend they are secure. Cyber security people recommend taking a new phone (and even laptops/tablets) to China, and disposing of them on return.
However….If the government and other agencies can’t see your messages, how can they protect you from bad people…?
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Controversy Erupts As Scientists Start Work To Create Artificial Human DNA
The Synthetic Human Genome Project is being funded by the Wellcome Trust
Scientists from universities including Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College, have begun work on a controversial project that aims to create human DNA from scratch.
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However, not everyone is seemingly convinced by the idea of humans playing gods. Professor Bill Earnshaw, a genetic scientist at Edinburgh University who designed a method for creating artificial chromosomes, said the technology could be commercialised quickly by healthcare companies.
https://www.ndtv.com/science/controversy-erupts-as-scientists-start-work-to-create-artificial-human-dna-8774112
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…and on your 55th birthday your body stopped working and you died in your sleep. It was necessary at the time as Govts couldn’t afford pensions, but once encoded in the super-humans they never took it out. It made planning so much easier! …and you could organise a wake with family and any friends you had that night. It was 70, but then to 65 in an emergency, then 60, now 55…
..of course there were certain people who had it removed from THEIR DNA, but they were politicians or the super-rich.
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Having inordinate control and access to resources, the elite want to live forever.
They also do not want to dilute their wealth, although understand the risks of inbreeding.
We don’t have the same perspective on what problems need solving. But, back to resource control, we don’t really have a say.
If data is the new oil, medical data is the West Texas Crude. We are all lab rats.
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Three great graphs on global energy.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/energy-institute-energy-review/
The idea of global net zero is clearly absurd. The OECD countries are strangling themselves for nothing.
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Apart from WW1 and WW2 it is the first world crisis in human history which is entirely political.
What is insane but predictable is that it was invented and is being maintained by the United Nations, a political body which was explicitly created to prevent WW3.
But 80,000 people need money too. The latest is to charge international trade by ship a total of $42Bn a year to fund the crisis. This is on top of the $100Bn demanded for the Green Climate Fund. And the other mandated payments to keep this body going. As for war, the UN is either part of it as in Gaza or missing in action as in the Ukraine and Iran.
As for the IPCC, after 38 years contributing scientists have dropped all statements of impending disaster. But who cares? The Climate Crisis is already enacted law in most Democratic countries and even though they only total 5% of the world’s population, they are the richest. Clearly democracy is anathema to the UN. Soak the rich.
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Australia’s PM (Prime Moron) Albanese wonders why TRUMP doesn’t want to meet him.
Perhaps it’s because Australia has the most anti-American, anti-Australian and anti-Western Government it has ever had.
And our three most important people in relation to the US, the Prime Moron, the Foreign Minister Wong and the US Ambassador KRudd all hate TRUMP, have severe TDS and have great reverence and subservience to the Chicomms, as do many of our politicians.
And KRudd hates and has mocked TRUMP on numerous occasions**** and that is a huge insult not only to TRUMP but the American people in general. Albanese should have removed him when TRUMP got elected. In any case the only reason the ex-PM KRudd is in the job is so he can have lavish Aussie taxpayer-funded parties***.
Plus our Government is fanatically globalist and a fanatical believer in anthropogenic global warming which TRUMP is sensibly opposed to.
Albanese has met Emperor Xi four times but TRUMP not once.
In addition Albanese is a life-long communist*.
It’s a disgrace that the Australian Government treats our greatest and best ally as it does.
And in addition to all that, Australia is not paying its way in defence. It will be no surprise if Australia needs military assistance and it’s not forthcoming from the US. Meanwhile our Government is silent and does nothing as the Chicomm Navy does live-firing exercises off the coast of Sydney and then circumnavigates Australia**.
This is not going to end well for Australia.
Note to our American friends, non-Leftist Australians continue to love you and are deeply embarrassed by our Government.
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* Book: Trevor Loudon, Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism
** https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/03/chinese-task-force-circumnavigates-australia-causing-local-stir/
*** QUOTE Kevin Rudd is enjoying some lavish parties, funded by taxpayers!
The Ambassador to the US has been holding events in Washington DC with expenses nearing $20,000.
MORE: https://www.2gb.com/party-boy-k-rudd-drag-queens-booked-for-20000-bash/ END QUOTE
**** https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/07/australia-us-ambassador-kevin-rudd-deletes-posts-criticising-trump-after-election-win
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I dont want to meet Albo either and I am no where near as busy as the Donald. The quarry manager is easily controlled, what is there to say really?
$20k sounds like a flagfall cost for a small soiree in Washington. Surprised its so low. Maybe that was jusr a deposit?
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Dead right Yarpos! No-one wold want to meet Elbow voluntarily, and $20k would be dinner for 4 in a top New York restaurant!
Elbow is the figurehead for an Australia that is slow to wake up to the change in the direction of the world, steered by Trump. Sharp people have seen the money running out in the climate hoax and realise the returns will be in getting the world economy back up on its feet. Aussie will just ride the demand curve for iron ore and coal without understanding why it is happening, all the while saying ‘look at me, we’re doing everything we can to stop CO2’…
We should follow SE Asia in whatever they do, we would then regain some of our lost wealth instead of sliding ever-more downhill to genteel poverty like Portugal or Greece, broke countries who squandered their fortunes of capital.
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Cheap compared to Bezos’ wedding.
All those hypocritical billionaires flying private jets to attend; effectively another CPU (Climate Piss Up).
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We knew them as PDEs – Piss-Drinking Extravaganzas!
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Kick Rudd out and get Greg Norman. At least they will meet on the golf course.
Going back a bit I shared a house in Jakarta with an American dude who loved golf. I said to him, “you are always playing golf even during the week.” He replied, “John that’s where I do most of my business. How do you think I got this job?”
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Interesting video discussing a geological oddity in Thermopolis, Wyoming.
https://youtu.be/sFAgV8QiCwM
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About 300 miles north of me.
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He finds a lot of geology facts in his part of the world. I just wish he was a little quicker in getting to the details.
Of course, since he fails to mention climate change as the cause, he’ll get no funding.
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Evidence for the much neglected colloidal state in lithogenesis. My boss John Elliston wrote the text book.
Geoff S
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The 1959 Ford (UK) Anglia is an interesting car.
I once had a school teacher who had one and was in the process of hotting it up (I guess that would be hot rodding in the US).
Video: https://youtu.be/4YpJSUtTbWA
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I used to rally one of those, an ex-works car (built originally as a ‘chase vehicle’. It had the pre-crossflow 1500cc engine, highly modified with Lotus internals and twin Weber carbs. It wouldn’t idle below 1500rpm, or 2000rpm when all the spotlights were on.
Sadly, my rallying career was limited by my inability to secure a good co-driver. My first was great on the maps but suffered car sickness, which cost us a couple of trophies. The second didn’t get car sick but wasn’t so hot with the maps, resulting in him calling ’90 right’ when in fact it was a 90 left. The resulting crash wiped out all my expensive Cibie spotlights. Later that night, he failed to call a huge ‘yump’ (crest) in the road that we consequently took flat out. The landing was so hard the rear suspension relocated itself to the boot. Being skint, that was the end of my rallying career.
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That was my first car which I bought in 1968 for 120 pounds. I didn’t keep it for long though as it was a rust bucket.
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The “Angular Anglia” had a reversed rear windscreen. An uninspiring engine that could be made sing in the hands of a good mechanic.
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There was one nut job in the UK that put a 3.8 straight 6 Jaguar engine in to a Ford Anglia. Mick Hill. It was called the Jaglia.
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Bought a Harry Potter Blue 105E Ford Anglia on posting to UK in 1970 with my Wife, excellent bodywork and low miles, supposedly driven by little old lady, but motor quickly blew, and had to buy short motor, an engine hoist from Halfords and with help of technically minded mate, also on posting, replaced engine in Garage at Apartments at nights over one week.
Ran like a dream thereafter, and saw all of UK on weekends – on annual leave, flew Anglia on British Air Ferries Bristol Superfreighter Lydd to Le Touquet and back, with 2 man pup tent camped over 3 weeks from France to Lourdes, over Pyrnees to Madrid, down to Barcelona, up coast to Nice to Turin and parked at Zurich Airport Sunday Night – Slept in Airport and flew back Monday morning to Heathrow and back Friday Night To Zurich (Idiot Boss said could only take 1 week at a time of 2 weeks leaves accrued on posting) to continue to Vienna via Salzburg, back via Stuggart and then along WW1 Line to Le Touquet
Great little car – superb gearbox and handling
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The early Holdens also had vacuum operated wipers, with the same problem.
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I heard called “souping it up”.
One would “soup up” their car to make it into a hot rod.
😉
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Sussssssan Ley wonders what’s wrong with the fake conservative Liberal Party and why it didn’t get elected.
I’ll give her some hints.
1) It’s no longer a conservative party, and hasn’t been for decades.
2) It is fanatically committed to Net Zero, as is the Government.
3) It is barely distinguishable from Labor, including a lack of concern for excessive and also inappropriate immigration.
4) It doesn’t believe in reducing the size of Government.
5) It doesn’t believe in reducing Government expenditure.
6) It doesn’t believe in deregulating.
7) It doesn’t believe in reducing taxes including numerous hidden ones.
8) It doesn’t believe in free speech. The e Safety Kommissar and the “misinformation” bill was its invention.
9) it doesn’t believe in freedom in general or getting Government off the backs of the people.
10) If the Liberals ever get elected (unlikely) it will be more or less more of what we have now under Labor although perhaps slightly less bad.
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Basically the same as the Post Reagan /Pre-Trump Republican Party in the USA.
BTW, The Democrats have nominated a communist to run NYC. Hint: he just being open about his politics thinking the truth can’t hurt him in far left NYC. This has always the case of the Democrat Party leadership and their syncophants in the MSM and academia for decades. It’s just one of their many dirty little secrets.
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The difference is, you have TRUMP and Australia has no worthy leaders capable of being elected.
And many Australians (most present company excepted) have willfuly chosen to be profoundly ignorant about their world, utterly lacking in curiosity, plus have become extremely self-destructive and think for the current instance in time only, not to the future. Short term pleasure is more important than long term gain. They are improvident.
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In reality, that NY candidate is playing a smart game. There are always more poor than rich and anyone who says that they’ll raise the taxes on the rich to give to the poor is going to win.
Free stuff wins elections.
The problem sets in when you run out free stuff and the masses are all dependent upon it. The only path then is massive government debt and no ability to repay it.
Sounds like Oz. And there is no way to fix it when free stuff is continually promoted at elections. If you don’t believe me, then consider what would happen if someone said that the NDIS has to be closed down because we can’t afford it.
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Sounds like Victoria!
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We used to laugh at the “savages” in PNG voting for whoever gave them the best watch/ tv/ whatever.
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Ley also seems committed to progressive DEI policies, usually Labor’s territory.
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David, the next change of Government in this country will be to the first Political leader/Party who denounces Net Zero and the Paris Accord and the return to Cheap reliable Coal/gas fired Electricity generation, as its primary function in Government.
They, following that policy with your extensive list of “the people first “ common sense moves.
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I can’t see that happening.
There are still too many voters who insist on voting number 1 for either Liberal or Labor parties. Some of these voters want change but refuse to actively vote for it.
As for the rest of us who put the minor parties at number 1, the preferential voting system pretty much guarantees our votes eventually trickle down to either Labor or Liberal parties.
We are screwed!
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Yes! Firm believers that democracy is the best political system ever and their party would make paradise for us all if only they’d pick the right candidates! I will continue to mock them for as long as I am alive! ..anyone that thick doesn’t deserve to be so!
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Mr Shaw is correct, abolishing Net Zero will open the gates for a flood of changes.
We shouldn’t automatically blame the egalitarian voting system for the debacle, a single charismatic personality would change everything. That is someone who understands climate change and energy as we do here, the ABC and Guardian would have to report it.
The people aren’t stupid, only misinformed.
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I agree that abolishing net zero as a policy would be a game changer for either member of the Liberal/Labor uniparty.
How could I possibly believe them though?
Myself, and I’m sure many others would need to see changes enacted rather than just policies before we could even think about voting for either of the uniparty again.
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Our only hope is that Canavan, Wilson and Tehan become the leading lights of the Liberal Party. Failing that, we might as well lie down flat and wait for the system to collapse.
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My bad, Canavan is a Nat.
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Tony was nobbled.
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Shows how far the lady of many S’s is into the bubble.
She needs committees and studies to examine the bleeding obvious. My expectation is that they still wont understand anything and will maintain that being Labor lite is the path to glory.
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To sum up Susan Leys approach …..
It will be a mess…not one thing, not another, a bit of this and a bit of that, “all things to all men” but nothing to anyone in particular…..a dogs breakfast ….. the outcome will be ….bbbllaaaahhhhhh…..
And so our conservative politicians with money in the game will end up getting their money and the rest of us are left to make do as best we can….
Let’s meet at the soup kitchen for lunch, then the bus to the local shopping mall for cups of tea and a walk around ……hot water bottle and bed with telly when we get home…..toastie for dinner
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Today’s total Australian Government debt, federal, state and local:
$2.113 trillion, about to roll over to $2.114.
Australia’s socialist governments just love spending your hard-earned money.
Enjoy!
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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And… it’s just surpassed $2.114 trillion and is already over $10 million over.
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Now $12 million over.
Watch how fast the millions just roll over.
It would only take seconds or minutes to drain your entire superannuation (retirement) fund, which is why they’re going after it. Only taxing the big balances at first but it’s obvious what comes next.
And the fake conservative Liberals are silent on this.
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If they took all the superannuation money now and paid off the debt, the underlying, (over spending), problem still exists, (of course without interest payments at the re-start), but soon enough the debt will be back at the current mark but this time there is no piggy bank to raid.
There is no solution to the problem by raising taxes. Never has been, never will be.
Since it only takes 34% to gain government, you don’t need to bribe that many thick people to get into power, just another handful of free stuff for another three years at the trough. One day, the guillotine will fall, (when the masses finally wake up). I’m betting that the government, (both sides), are hoping that the masses never wake up, if they did, they would be dragged from their safe spaces and taken to the gallows. And that’s why both sides want internet limits and a removal of freedom of speech. They despise us but they also fear us, especially those that think.
Prove me wrong.
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Unrealised capital gains tax is just the start of the theft from superannuation funds.THEY will not be able to resist stealing your retirement nest egg!
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No doubt our latest CCP-fawning liberal sewer gas poster will do that.
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FactLess Uninformed Fwit Fully Exempt from Reason, or FLUFFER for short. 😆
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Somebody needs to inform these morons that if they took all the money from the rich and shared it out amongst the rest, within six months the rich would have it all back again – it’s how the world works.
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They’re not just spending OUR money, but future generations’ too.
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And the dopey Tasmanian Liberals want to spend several billion $$$ on an AFL football stadium in Hobart that less than 50% of voters want.
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There would be some people who don’t realise how large a number one trillion is.
It is 1,000,000,000,000 ie. one thousand Billion, or 1 million million.
Those that don’t think this level of debt is a problem are living in fairyland and/or are our political elites otherwise known as politicians.
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How many of your political class could write 2.1 Trillion in numbers?
I wonder about our MPs, here in the UK.
I’m sure many of them could write a hundred and nine billion [UK interest payments this year]; it would be entertaining to see some of them try to divide that by seventy million [population] – so getting the per capita interest payment.
And that sum does NOT get a lot of attention from the BBC, say …
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Under Canada’s socialist government they no longer see their alignment with the United States but with Europe.
19 sec video at the link.
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This is very much at odds with many Western Canadians. Possible exception, left coast BC. It puts a lot of strain on national unity. The cracks are getting wider up there.
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Copied from Quora Digest.
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Is that why so many bimbos get into the “only fans” groups?
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Daughter fails to see the irony!
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A “plus sized” contestant is the new Miss Alabama.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13505169/Who-Sara-Milliken-plus-sized-Miss-Alabama.html
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Well it IS Alabama.
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I think she may have a half sister working for “Our ABC”
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Is this another case of ‘everybody gets a prize’.
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FWIW
“Opinion: Big conservation now bullying family farmers”
“THE Australian Conservation Foundation last week launched its latest attack on Australian beef producers, with several media outlets quickly turning around the conservation giant’s allegations of illegal land clearing with little scrutiny – forcing the industry to defend itself.”
More at
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/opinion/opinion-big-conservation-now-just-bullying-family-farmers/
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David, the next change of Government in this country will be to the first Political leader/Party who denounces Net Zero and the Paris Accord and the return to Cheap reliable Coal/gas fired Electricity generation, as its primary function in Government.
They, following that policy with your extensive list of “the people first “ common sense moves.
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I just don’t see this happening, Politicians have and are signing Australian soveriegnty away. Australians are very unlikely to get politicians that govern for the people; not before a massive collapse of everything in Australia. Control of Australia is currently not on our shores. Control comes from the myriad of organisations that governments have signed up to, and our trading and strategic alliances. Examples are the UN, WHO, China, US and the EU. Every OS deal signed by government removes our soveriegnty, because our politicians have little concern for our soveriegnty. As Australia becomes less self sufficient and reliant on overseas interests our soveriegnty will decline until it is lost completely.
Our current political system is very unlikely to provide the governance needed to prevent Australias demise.
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An excerpt from the Eugyppius substack. This item was about the impact of uncontrolled immigration in Germany, but it sounds awafully familiar.
“The stabbing, the raping, the fighting, the public urinating, the vandalising, the retail thieving, the loitering, the littering, the U-Bahn groping, the drug abusing, the opportunistic harassing, the street racing, the defrauding, the fare dodging – all of this is totally beyond the criminal enforcement capacity of our flabby late-liberal states
The migrants don’t care, for one; the penalties for all of this strike them as laughable and if anything inspire contempt. Our entire criminal justice system is not calibrated to deal with people like this, for another.
Migrants are enormously mobile, they inhabit illegible parallel societies in which nobody cares about their criminality, many of them have multiple identities. Nobody knows who they are, or where they are, or anything.”
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Aa they say, “import the Third World, become the Third World”.
Not all cultures are equal, despite what we are constantly told.
Some cultures have objectively different standards to Western ones, including the treatment of women.
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“Not all cultures are equal, despite what we are constantly told.”
Funny that, yet racism is a Western trigger word, the worst thing you can be! The believers don’t link race to culture for some reason, a massive blind spot in their thinking that they need to retain.
I remember being told in South Africa last century- “I’m not a racist, I’m a culturist. I don’t care what colour your skin is, so long as you behave like a white man.”
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How a camel herder from Qatar who can’t speak a word of English ended up living in London’s smartest street – then tried to r@pe a woman in a private heart clinic where HE was being treated
Standing in the dock at Southwark Crown Court this week was Nasser Al-Gherainiq who was convicted of two counts of attempted r@pe which left his victim ‘frozen with fear’. Her words.
The appearance of this foreign national in court – a scene replicated up and down the country – has become frighteningly common, with foreign offenders now representing nearly one in eight (12 per cent) prisoners in our overcrowded jails.
But surely few have a story quite like 27-year-old Al-Gherainiq who was, until his arrest at least, a camel herder from a conservative Bedouin tribe in the deserts of Qatar.
According to his barrister, he had little contact with the outside world or any experience of modern or urban life before his arrival in the UK to receive treatment for a rare heart condition at a private health unit linked to the renowned Royal Brompton Hospital in south-west London.
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Reform are getting control of Local Councils with the elections and are now refusing to house/pay for “refugees” nor putting them up in hotels etc. and are shipping them to Tory and LibDem council areas where they haven’t been settled there. Also to Labour areas such as University towns.
The Liberal minded are furious and angry but cannot do anything about this. (Except complain about the crime, the rubbish etc).
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More on Tuvalu climate change visas to Australia.
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Love it! All the pro-American/Australian trouble-makers will move here, and those supporting ties with China will remain, and Tuvalu will become a Chinese outpost. They can promise to raise the land, just look at the Spratly Islands!
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Those scientists are speeding up – that’s 25 years before the tide rolls in.
Back in 1988 it was going to take 30 years for The Maldives to be underwater
HINT they aren’t, and have opened lots of airfields for tourists (mostly rich people from Europe wanting Climate Change).
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New invention destroys stroke clots
The milli-spinner is a hollow, finned, super-speed rotating tube small enough to snake into blood vessels via a catheter.
It spins so furiously that it physically squashes and shreds clots into a fraction of their original size – sometimes slashing them by up to 95%. Instead of wrestling with stubborn clots over multiple tries, doctors could yank them out cleanly on the first go.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1939101506457735296
Not unlike those drain snakes plumbers use.
Gotta love medicine.
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Some time ago there was a documentary series either SBS or ABC broadcast on nano technology, one of the applications being researched was tiny machines using static electricity that could be injected into the bloodstream to remove material likely to cause cardio vascular problems.
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Comments from 1957
“I’II tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it’s going to be impossible to buy a week’s groceries for $20.”
“I’m afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying ‘damn’ in ‘Gone With The Wind, it seems every new movie has either “hell” or “darnn” in it.
“Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won’t be long before $5000 will only buy a used one.””
“If cigarettes keep going up in price. I’m going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous.”
“Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?”
“If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.
“When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we’d be better off leaving the car in the garage.”
“Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail haircuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know. boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls”
“If they think I’ll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.”
“I read the other day where some scientist thinks it’s possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas.”
“Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn’t surprise me if someday they’ll be making more than the president.”
“I never thought I’d see the day all kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.”
“It’s too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.”
“It won’t be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.”
“Marriage doesn’t mean a thing any more; those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.”
“I’m just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.”
“Thank goodness I won’t live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress.
“The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.”
“There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel.”
“No one can afford to be sick any more, $35 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood.”
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Interesting & Unusual Viewpoint – The Solar War Syndrome
Those who see beyond the illusions of policy and rhetoric understand a deeper truth: cycles—not politicians—rule the tides of history. And among these, one force has loomed above all, both literally and metaphorically: the Sun.
For centuries, the solar cycle has acted as an unseen puppeteer, pulling the strings of the global economy.
GDP booms and busts, interest rate pivots, inflation surges, and even the violent tremors of commodity markets—they all seem to dance to the rhythms of solar activity.
But the influence doesn’t stop at markets.
The Sun has ignited revolutions and unravelled empires. Every major spike in solar intensity has coincided with moments that reshaped the world. From the Paris Commune in 1871 (Cycle 11), through the Russian revolutions (Cycles 14 and 15), to the collapse of the Soviet empire during the peak of Cycle 22, history’s great ruptures seem to arrive on schedule—with the solar maximum as their herald. Even the Arab Spring, the most recent storm of rebellion, flared into life in lockstep with the fiery climax of Solar Cycle 24.
As the Sun is heading into another minimum probably starting as soon as July 2025—the world once again began to tremble. Revolutions ignited, social unrest erupted, and acts of terror pierced the illusion of order. These weren’t isolated incidents or random bursts of chaos. They were part of a familiar rhythm—a historical echo of what has played out time and again around past solar maximums. The patterns are undeniable. Just as in centuries past, when solar peaks coincided with upheaval and collapse, today’s turbulence follows the same celestial script. History, it seems, is not just repeating—it’s solar-powered.
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Seems you’ve shown that the sun is powered by the human psyche! The more upset we billions get the more we affect the biggest electrical field around…
I’m sure there’s still lots to be discovered!
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Thought for the day.
Why is diversity only being pushed in white countries?
Western countries…broke western countries…
Just coincidence I’m sure.😎
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Well they started off as rich white countries, but the middle class had too much of that wealth and could easily be guilt-tripped into giving it away. Automation pushed much of the working class up into the middle class, and Govt handouts took care of the bottom. Cheap energy and technology floated the Western boats higher and higher, while lack of struggling made people weaker in the mind.
In a poor country they still have rich people, but they are not fools and you don’t rip money out of them without severe repercussions. Crushing the middle class to enrich the new billionaires has broken the West, all I can say is you get what you deserve.
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Other countries are tackling “tribalism”….
https://www.lusakatimes.com/2023/11/20/tribalism-how-governments-have-ignored-or-tackled-it/
It’s impossible to call nepotism out for what it is when those in power all practice it (eg the Politician’s children’s employment prospects are greatly enhanced by their parent’s power). Different language is used in different places to make it appear like something is being done….
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Cutting the solar system with a knife
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_syimny0OCg1z23obp.mp4
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The Sun and Moon weren’t realistic at all. Most others weren’t particularly realistic either. And the Moon certainly isn’t hollow as portrayed.
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Methode Scientifique de Beaute
https://imgbox.com/5Me81CYo
For that glowing complexion back in the 1930’s.
Beauty is truly fleeting.😎
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..and people think “we would NEVER sell anything that dangerous today! They were so uneducated back then..”
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There is also Venetian ceruse, lead carbonate, used as a skin whitener in 16th century Europe and also by the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Egyptians. The Romans used lead sulphide (as did Ancient Egyptians in addition to lead carbonate).
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FWIW
“Ezra Levant shares weight loss update, challenges new PHAC president to join”
(PHAC = Public Health Authority of Canada)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkrLzbTDBV0
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Fantastic comments from Ronald Regan, as true today as then.
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The Week In Pictures: Bombs Away Edition
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https://x.com/Sir_DavidMartin/status/1937640546027340006
..bit hard to explain to the President!
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While I am ambivalent about having a paid subscription to comment, the loss of the disqus meme photo posts make scrolling through painful, with having to click on the links to see the comment
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Music:
Status Quo, Down Down, 1974.
https://youtu.be/d1gYJDQXPOk
Status Quo – Down down (Single 1974, Album On the Level 1975)
Francis Rossi – Guitar, Vocals
Rick Parfitt – Guitar, Vocals
Alan Lancaster – Bass
John Coghlan – Drums
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Are there no ethics in the music industry anymore: ripping off a well-loved Coles’ commercial!
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Should have added that in Australia it now ‘anyone’ with enough cash to afford legal representation. Why isn’t there horror expressed in the media at the immense sums awarded as costs in litigations. The amounts being charged by the legal profession do not reflect the advances in technology that have driven their costs way down.
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“enough cash to afford legal representation. ”
You turn up with that much money in cash and you’ll be arrested and asked to prove its yours and where it came from, with receipts!
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Some left leaning media claim that Iran brought down Israel Airforce F-35 Lightning stealth fighter jets, but this is denied by Israel and others;
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Some of the RAAF F-18 Super Hornets that replaced the F/A-18 classic Hornets are equipped with “Growler” technology similar to what is standard in F-35 Lightning, I think there are six or seven Growlers and thirty Super Hornets without that technology flying with RAAF and purchased as an interim measure while waiting for delivery of the outstanding 30 F-35 on order that Albanese Labor cancelled.
The Dutton led Coalition did say that if elected to government in 2025 they intended to reorder the 30 F-35s estimated cost $3 billion.
The UK a week ago announced a new F-35 order for twelve for the RAF
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Israel also uses a unique Israel-customised F-35 called the F-35I Adir.
It uses their own electronic warfare systems, sensors and countermeasures and a modified main computer which allows addition of a wider variety of weapons systems.
The requirement for Israel to include their own electronic warfare systems was due to the Israel Air Force’s concerns that the F-35’s stealth advantage would be diminished in the next ten years or so due to improvements in sensor technology to detect stealth aircraft.
As part of the global F-35 production, the helmet-mounted displays and the outer wing boxes are also made in Israel.
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“Now, Iran claims it has shot down four F-35s. ”
https://thechinaacademy.org/how-iran-shot-down-israeli-f-35s-using-chinese-tactics/
..”stealth aircraft are low-observable, and not completely invisible to radar. If they get close enough, or multiple radar bands work together, there’s still a chance of detecting and locking onto a stealth fighter.”
“The jet boasts sensor fusion, network-centric combat systems, long-range precision weaponry, and a radar cross-section smaller than a golf ball, according to Lockheed Martin. Yet Iran claims to have neutralised these advantages using a hybrid of long-wave radars, signal triangulation, optical tracking systems, and overlapping defensive sectors, reportedly developed in collaboration with regional and international partners.”
https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/fourth-israeli-f-35-destroyed-by-iran-tehran-boasts-stealth-kill-idf-refutes/
Well, lets see what happens to the two surviving pilots in Iranian custody.. It would only take a TV interview with them to prove it either way.
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Those claims have proven to be AI created propoganda. In one of the crash photos the wreck has its afterburner lit, and the intact and closed canopy (with ejection seat in place) is the wrong shape.
In another photo they got the scale all wrong. Either the F35 is the size of the battleship Yamato, or humans have been shrunk to the size of ants. The F35 is nick named Fat Amy, but it’s not that fat.
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A year or so ago on this blog there was a graph of av. global atmospheric CO2 conc. which showed that over 700m years it had fallen from around 2000pm to somewhere around 2-300ppm if I recall correctly.
This last week there was a graph of world av. temperatures over 400m years or so which showed the globe is near one of its derived recurrent av. min temperatures of that period.
Interesting to see two graphs from unrelated stories depicting the expected physics of temp-CO2 relationships presumably reflecting the solubility of CO2 in the ocean waters relative to av. global temperature. If it was to get much colder respiring animals could be begging for as much added CO2 to the atmosphere that they could get if they wish to keep breathing!
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How do we explain this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_CO2_Chart.jpg
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Very good question. Critical.
As far as I can tell, this is the entire story of man made CO2 and the foundational statement of man made CO2 driven rapid Global Warming.
It’s false. The graph is very misleading, breaking a few essential rules. They have even removed the X axis, making the increase look like 100% when it is 50%, but that’s just window dressing.
As we can prove without question that the CO2 is only 2.0% fossil fuel, how can this graph show growth of 33%? It is real or not?
Has an ‘rapid’ oscillation in CO2 happened before? Or is it that fast oscillations do not show up in the fossil record?
The answer is that like Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick this is the Ice Hockey Stock and breaks a fundamental rule of experimental work. You cannot mix measurements of different types without proof. Michael Mann connected tree rings to thermometers and even projected into the future. And he never explained why he didn’t use tree rings in the 20th century. You are led to believe this was one set of consistent readings.
In the Ice Hockey Stick what you see going back 400,000 is genuinely the graph of CO2 as measured in trapped bubbles in solid metamorphic ice. Great work. The ice with air bubbles forms when snow falls. And falls. And falls. Building up the weight in Antarctic where summer is -25C and winter -50C. As the weight builds up the snow is compressed. Many years pass and the light snow becomes more and more compressed into what is known as firn. It is however still not solid almost transparent ice and still has to compress a further x2. To get to solid ice takes 200-300 years of snowfall. So the crucial last bit is from unformed ice, firn and very recent in geological terms. And the very last part of the graph is from instant atmospheric laboratory measurements. Three different media are measured. Ice, firn and atmosphere.
So how can we guarantee that CO2 and O2/N2 remain in the same ratio through the entire process. You can’t. There is no proof at all that CO2 does not leak out relative to the O2/N2. This is especially a concern as at -78C CO2 turns solid. Plus it can go into a liquid phase with pressure which also increases with time and depth. The end result of this is that depth can become fuzzy with dispersion, leakage, separation. CO2 could be lost relative to O2/N2 until the ice is fully formed, after 300 years. Which is awkward for people who use this as proof of anything because the industrial revolution is younger than this. So the critical bit at the end is in firn and laboratory, not metamorphic ice.
One of the standard quick ways to see if anything has produced a loss of CO2 which affects time resolution is as depth corresponds to time, look at the width of peaks like any spectrum. Here the smallest peaks widths/slopes look like about 10,000 years. In areas where snow falls faster, the time resolution increases and the peaks are narrower, but not enough to see any variations less than 2,000 years. This is a general rule of spectroscopy or instrumentation. As the range increases, the resolution gets poorer, an inverse relationship. And you do not expect to see variation as fast as 250 years in a graph covering 450,000 years. That’s 2000:1 resolution and 20,000 to 1 for points ten years apart. 1mm markings on a metre rule show 1000:1. It would be like a metre ruler with marking to 0.05mm.
So if the entire of man made CO2 driven Global Warming relies entirely on the ice measurements of CO2/O2 from firn the last 250 years, it’s a work in progress. We won’t know the results until another 1-2,000 years and the 50% diversion may vanish in the average. This is more than likely. Otherwise you have to argue that because we have never seen oscillations of 33% in the fossil record, they have never happened. There is no proof of that.
However we have known since 1958 by direct measurement that the fossil fuel component of the atmosphere was 2.03%, as published in no less than the Royal Society papers.
And no one has ever refuted this. In 1965 we saw C14 double and behave exactly as G.J.Fergusson would suggest. The dilution today is 0.0%, reflecting the doubling of atmospheric CO2 from hydrogen bombs in 1965. This is an absolute direct measurement.
Otherwise the whole use of ice cores is an argument of coincidence, that we started using fossil fuels and CO2 went up simultaneously. That is not a proof. It simply argues that it has never happened before or at least we cannot see evidence of previous oscillations, therefore we did it. Coincidence is not causality. And as explained it is likely that in time the readings in 2025 will turn out to be the same in the average as in the time of Christ, 2025 years ago.
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Prof Will Happer’s spectral analysis and Stefan-Boltzman excellent points follow this.
I asked him about C14 and he used the counter argument of ice cores. When I explained the lack of resolution, he simply said it was a personal opinion that the increase was man made. Which is very unusual for a physicist. And he no longer wanted to continue the conversation.
However I do not agree that something is true just to shift to his specific areas of expertise. Accepting the idea that the CO2 increase is man made is conciliatory, but accepts that mankind is changing the planet. That gives credence to the whole anti pollution logic of man made CO2 pollution. Although he rightly argues that it is largely beneficial. But the damage is done.
Since then his CO2 coalition has published a document alleging that the CO2 increase is man made. It is wrong and others have rebutted it, but I have left it alone. The main counter proof of such documents is to consider total C14, not the ratio of C14/C12 as is essential. The effect is to muddy the waters and cast doubt where there is certainty. And others get into complex favorite arguments about variable rates of carbon sinks. It’s all distraction from an absolute conclusion from a simple measurement.
No one has actually disproven G.J.Fergusson’s conclusion from 67 years ago. Normal CO2 is radioactive. Fossil fuel CO2 is not. If the 50% increase was from fossil fuel, the radioactivity should have dropped 33% from 1800. Today the radioactivity of atmospheric CO2 is identical to 1800AD. QED.
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Regarding this statement, and forgive my ignorance of CO2 and measuring the radioactivity.
This is a genuine question and not an argument.
If the radioactivity of atmospheric CO2 is identical to 1800AD, and fossil fuel CO2 is not radioactive, that seems to me evidence that the increase in CO2 is from non-radioactive CO2 sources.
I say that because to my mind I imagine radioactivity doesn’t dilute. Which might be completely wrong because I don’t know how radioactivity is measured and you mentioned ignoring ratios.
Here’s how I imagine it. If there’s sunshine shining on me and I’m receiving say 280 lumins with UV and someone shines an LED spotlight on me of 140 lumins with no UV, then the amount of UV hitting me is still the same even though the amount of light has increased by 50%. The amount of UV has not reduced by 33%. It has as a proportion of UV to the amount of light. But not in actual UV.
In that sense, because if I measure an unchanged UV but a 50% increase in light, I can determine that the increase in light is all from the man made LED source and none is from a natural brightening of the sun.
So why isn’t the identical radioactivity of CO2 with a 50% increase in CO2 the same effect as my attempted example?
Ignore the technicalities of lumins and UV etc in my example. Was just trying to make up something that illustrated my wondering about your statement and was not equate light and UV to CO2 and radioactiviy.
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The key is the ratio of UV to lumins. Total UV does not go up. But the proportion of UV to total light goes down.
It is always measured in ratios. Just like concentrations in chemistry.
The simple reason everyone uses concentrations is that it is far easier to measure. You can take a tiny sample. You do not have to measure huge volumes.
For example measure all the CO2 in the atmosphere. You measure the ratio of CO2 to O2+N2+Ar as 0.042%.
Using liquids. A liquid has a tiny concentration of a red dye. And you add another 50% of the same liquid with no dye. The concentration of red dye drops 33%. A red might become a pink.
So if CO2 has a concentration of C14. And you add another 50% of CO2 with no C14. The concentration of C14 drops 33%. This is easy to measure.
By the way, the concentration of radiation is one radioactive CO2 to a thousand million, a trillion non radioactive CO2 molecules. But thanks to the power of radiation, this tiny amount of radiation is easily counted.
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OK. Thanks. If it’s measured as a concentration and the concentration is identical to 1800AD, then your claim makes sense.
Where are the official measurements that show CO2 radioactivity is the same concentration today as 1800AD?
This link claims the C14 has reduced.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/how-do-we-know-build-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-caused-humans
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In 1965 atmospheric hydrogen bomb blasts doubled C14. Up to 1965 it was clear that the amount of fossil fuel in air was a small amount. The long term balance of C14 was disturbed and has since dropped to the original level + 2.0% as all the extra C14 in the atmosphere in 1965 went into the ocean. This confirmed everything G.J.Fergusson had concluded. And -2.03%+2.0% = 0.0% which is the current level. Everything makes perfect sense. The fossil fuel CO2 has been rapidly absorbed into the oceans. The rise is natural and related to warming which is related to ocean currents and ocean currents carry CO2. Nothing to see here, folks. Until Al Gore and the UN thought it was a jolly good opportunity to make some political capital and real cash.
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Thanks.
Still don’t know where to find what the measurement is of C14 in the atmosphere, today and 1800AD. Or on what data you base the claim, “Today the radioactivity of atmospheric CO2 is identical to 1800AD”.
Or if the claim in the link that says C14 has reduced is true.
I’ll dig around. If it’s true that today the radioactivity of atmospheric CO2 is identical to 1800AD, then that’s a vital component in the AGW debate. There would be no debate.
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It seems to me that when we don’t have full knowledge of the physical processes over time of ‘things’ eg gasses that we measure to infer former climatic conditions, we don’t have much reliable evidence that anything researchers ‘find’ are true. That’s not to criticise the researchers so much as the validity perhaps of their yardsticks. The other matter is it seems to me that we treat the conditions on earth at anytime in the past as though the reality of the earth in those times was the same as the present. Could there have been more extremes of volcanism, gas clouds, bushfires from luxuriant growth we see depicted for films, extreme desertification etc. We know about continental drift and splitting up of continents, high sea levels and low(?). So much derived knowledge but with decreasing certainty it seems to me in the methodology. Climate science itself is at an early stage of development even if it has been around for a thousand years in one form or another. What does anyone really know apart from being a hell of a lot more than me?
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Meteorology is a science. I has been around for a very long time, a standard Science degree but applied to the business of the weather. There are also specialised fields like atmospheric physics. I am amazed, very puzzled at the many people who classified themselves as Climate Scientists. I have seen geographers, hydrologists and computer scientists present themselves as Climate Scientists with zero training in meteorology. And of course some atmospheric physicists but wonder how much they know about the larger business of weather. What is clear though is that there are plenty of jobs in Climate science and very few in traditional meteorology or atmospheric physics.
I am also puzzled that they do not seem to model the oceans in their Climate Models. 99.9% of all heat is in the ocean and of course it is the source of all the water which we see as the water. So after 60 years of this Climate Science, no one can predict El Nino or La Nina, the biggest known driver of unusual changes in climates especially for the countries bordering the Pacific. These oscillations, the AMO Atlantic Multi Decadal Oscillation and the PDO Pacific Decadal Oscillation are very connected to all changes. And according to mathematicians, when combined with the 250 year De Vries oscillation can explain all temperature variations.
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And then you get transport mechanisms like the Gulf Stream, which is really a river of hot water which flows from the Caribbean to Norway at 9km/hr. About 100km wide and 1km deep, it is a real river of hot water in the middle of an ocean. There are many currents like this, some carrying cold water. Some on the surface and some deep. Until we have a good understanding of where all the hot and cold water goes, mapping the thin atmosphere above seems pointless, an effect rather than a cause.
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But if mapping a thin atmosphere allows the destruction of a civilisation …
The Brezhnevites will say ‘Job Done’, and to hell with the oceans.
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Doc:
If you can get ahold of Heaven+Earth by Ian Plimer.
Very heavy reading but he covers lots of possible things along with loads of references.
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FWIW – more help for faith in medical research
“FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Flashback: The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades.”
“The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades”
https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarted-progress-toward-cure/
Via https://instapundit.com/729086/#disqus_thread
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but amyloid plaques are a fact and can be seen in scans in very early detection. They were observable in Mrs H when her only symptoms were poor word recall. And once a brain cell is dead it is as dead as a Monty Python parrot so it CANNOT be reversed.
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Covered many times.
BA plaques are a symptom only.
You can’t reverse cell death but you can grow more.
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Where did you read that rubbish? My daughter suffered brain damage at birth consistent with having umbilical cut too soon and I can assure you that nearly 60 yrs later she is as damaged as ever.
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>…rubbish
It’s called neurogenesis.
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“Climate science” has a name too.
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I saw this quandary mentioned recently in ‘Australian Prescriber’ which was detailing some new drug therapies for Alzheimer’s.
It said the fact of amyloid being present is still not determined as to whether amyloid is the cause of the
neuronal loss or is another expression of the disease process.
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FWIW
“What is the Point of the UK Met Office?”
“The Met Office might be safe for the moment in its self-satisfied form, but for how much longer can it claim its unreformed nationwide air temperature network is fit for purpose? And how long will its climate alarm edifice last when Net Zero comes tumbling down, and serious politicians start look for easy cuts in bloated state operations?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/28/what-is-the-point-of-the-uk-met-office/
The idea might cause quakes at BOM?
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FWIW – for the covid record
“Millions of lives saved? Scientists demolish the covid vaccine myth”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/millions-of-lives-saved-scientists-demolish-the-covid-vaccine-myth/
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Neuralink advances
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1939179519623025070
It’s come a long way.
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Very good.
Another thing for those with Musk Derangement Syndrome to get jealous about.
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FWIW – More “Telling it like it isn’t”
“Wind Power’s Subsidy Sham: Grumet’s Plea Ignores 40 Years of Unreliability”
“Appendix: Grumet vs. Pyle on IRA Subsidies
Jason Grumet of the American Clean Power Association previously earlier this year made his case in a letter in the Wall Street Journal, “Don’t Take the Wind Out of America’s Sails” (January 21, 2025):”
“To which IER president Thomas Pyle responded (not published in the WSJ):
It is ironic that Jason Grumet of the American Clean Power Association argues for continued taxpayer subsidies for wind power. In 1986, a predecessor organization to ACPA, the American Wind Energy Association, testified, “The U.S. wind industry has … demonstrated reliability and performance levels that make them very competitive.” False. Fourteen extensions of the “temporary” Production Tax Credit since 1992 reaffirm the inherent problems of an electricity generation alternative that is dilute, intermittent, and full of unique ecological drawbacks.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/28/10323801/
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https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/what-connects-the-uks-new-assisted
I last wrote about the UK’s “assisted dying bill”1 the evening before the vote (here), when I retained some hope that it might be defeated. This was not to be. It was passed last week, despite the manifest issues with the proposed new law.
It did this after around 150 hours of debate – including the committee stage. By way of a yardstick, the bill to outlaw foxhunting (The Hunting Act 2004) was debated for around 700 hours over several years.
My own objections to the bill are multi-layered. One of them centres around the capacity of such laws (and systems) to diminish the value of life, to weigh it up in a utilitarian manner against what it contributes to, or what it costs, society.
That is then the first step on a path along which it becomes acceptable to do unspeakable things “for the greater good”.
How far are we from non-essential people being required to relinquish their organs to service essential people ‘for the greater good’?
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We soured relations with our nearest, newest neighbour by spying and in 2016, https://www.timorresources.com.au/ an Australian-owned company began exploring for oil and gas in the Timor gap.
Also in 2016 we signed the Paris Agreement.
Go figure.
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The Red Arrows flying over a festival in Pilton, which the net zero cele-brat-ties are helicoptering in and out from, where there are acts accused by the State of terrorism. While the Red Arrows were overhead, Pulp were playing ‘Common People’. Tickets to the festival are £400. (no, that doesn’t include food)
I don’t think I understand irony any more.
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See:
“Oh, Tuvalu’s Not Sinkin’, Don’t Believe the Hype, Beaches Are Growin’, No Need to Swipe! Climate Visas, What A Silly Scheme,Wastin’ Our Time on A Bad Dream!”
https://energysecurityfreedom.substack.com/p/oh-tuvalus-not-sinkin-dont-believe
#Tuvalu #MacMaster #Australia #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeVisa
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Interesting patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/GB201322378D0/en?oq=GB201322378D0
Wonder what it actually is, and is it the same Angela Burns who is with Welsh Tories and pro assisted dying…
https://livinganddyingwell.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Debate-by-Individual-Members-under-Standing-Order-11.pdf
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