By Jo Nova
Could it get more vacuous? We used to think climate simulations were bad. Now we don’t even have the modeling, we have unverified, imaginary, rumors of modeling…
In a new PR tactic, the Labor government has leaked that it has “held back” an intense and scary report. This means the Blob-Media can put out frightening headlines about how dire the report is (and none of those horrid critics can ridicule the assumptions).
This new extended version of vague “non-releases” allows the Ministry of Climate Panic to get in a few extra weeks of baseless media speculation, hyperbole and uninformed discussion. Furthermore the Greens can pretend to be relevant by demanding its release, as if they want transparency, and as if the government is “covering up” the climate disaster while they actually promote it. It’s a win-win for the Blob.
The reason for the tabloid theatre is that next month the Australian government is announcing new sacred emissions targets for UN Climate Piety and Net Zero goals by 2035. Hence if there actually was a climate crisis, and if Australia could make any meaningful contribution to solving it, the report should have been released late last year when “the modeling was done”. Instead, like a Hollywood movie release, the leaked secrets have been not-dropped a month ahead, just in time to wind up the crowd without allowing for any meaningful scrutiny. Just like the original emissions target, which was “held back” instead of being released before the election.
Obviously, if the modeling was bad AND convincing, they would have released it all months ago.
From the Australian Financial Review: we have “anonymous” sources
Sources familiar with the modelling, who asked for anonymity to speak about sensitive government information, described some of the scenarios outlined in the report – known as the National Climate Risk Assessment – as “dire”, “diabolical” and “extremely confronting”.
What Stakeholders have been notified? It seems everyone who expects to score money from this has been told about it, and everyone who has to pay for it doesn’t count. In this case “stakeholders” means people in on the grift. Not people who have a “stake” in the outcome.
Why “hide” the dire report?
Wait for it… the excuse for holding back a science report about a coming catastrophe is that there is a big budgetary shock coming which will be “severe”. Presumably they are afraid people will have heart attacks and they haven’t got enough epipens and defibrillators or something:
Is anyone buying this? “We’re hiding news of the tidal wave to protect you from the budgetary shock”?
In a nation of adults, the Investor Group on Climate Change has been forewarned, but not the farmers, landowners, firefighters and taxpayers. So the industry reps for 100 Superannuation Funds (the pension funds) have been forewarned, but not the fourteen million employees who are forced to put their money into these funds, and whom, supposedly the funds, and the government are supposed to serve.
I can reveal that the “big budgetary shock” is that Australia is now broke, thanks to a combination of government overspending and intermittent expensive electricity. The government “adaptation measures” include doubling government expenditure and doubling renewable energy.
We can be sure that Anthony Albanese will do that, because those are his instructions from Xi Jinping.
If only this was just a joke …
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Expectation management. Imply you’re going to kill someone, so they will be releived and willing when you ‘only’ take their money.
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Bullsh*t. Let us laugh at them for they are a joke. The beauty of all their previous rubbish is that no one will believe this one either. There will be the odd vacuous empty head who will but none of those driving to work this morning. They have real problems to worry about. The working from home crowd, mostly public serpents, will ohh and ahh no doubt.
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The appalling state of our nation is attributable to one thing; the failure of leadership.
Fifty five years ago the first signs of rot were seen and, in hindsight, were allowed to continue without any consequences for those involved.
Our failure to demand accountability of our leaders has been a catastrophe that shames us as a nation. When bad, dodgy, ridiculous “management goes unremarked it confirms that we are doomed, unless we wake up.
Examples of us “turning the blind eye”: NIB, NRMA.
We cannot accept that Leaders can go unpunished when they become Grabbers.
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Who allowed the blighters to continue? Without consequences?
Every election is a means to effect accountability by ousting the failed politicians.
AU has elected every slate, every time.
You get the government you elect, however corrupt they might be, the People elected them.
The appalling state of the nation is a reflection of the voting public and their tolerance for being accepting of exactly what they asked for, were told, and implemented, without considering the consequences of that thinking. I’d gather that ignorant people allowed bad decisions, over decades, because the majority mistook fantasy for reality. Reality has the last laugh, and that is now.
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Failure of leadership …a problem across the Western world.
Partly because of pathological affluence nurtured progressive ideology.
Leadership is a traditional (like since our species and countless others crawled from the ooze) attribute of maleness*.
Progressives considers leadership some sort of exclusion of cooperation.
That oppresses an ‘inclusive’ path to decision.
Sometimes leadership says bollocks to your inclusion and drags us all out of the muck.
Like Trump.
The current ‘leaders’ of the rest of the Western countries couldn’t lead a two car funeral.
*In a reflexive nod to PC, I’m not saying women can’t or shouldn’t lead … and that I write this comment on land stolen from somebody because somebody had better leaders than somebody else.
Tough, but the way of things.
Our overly feminized empathetic attempt to equalize in all ways things that are not equal, is destroying us.
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So the latest ramping level of “catastrophism” is to announce that the situation is so dire that the public need to be protected from it.
And I thought we had already achieved Peak climate Trauma.
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Modelling activity taking place within the portals of
The Ministry of Misinformation…
“Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble”.
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Doublethink.
Purposeful misdirection by government to reinforce their pathetic viewpoint, but we should also blame the MSM for the sin of omission.
‘Misinformation is false or inaccurate information—getting the facts wrong. Disinformation is false information which is deliberately intended to mislead—intentionally misstating the facts.’ (APA)
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Gordo. It looks like one of the kiddies who pose as advisers to the great and powerful did read 1984, probably by torchlight under the blankets.
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Obviously, a curve will have to be flattened.
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Curvaceous Climate Cleavage shall not be tolerated: unchanging flatline theory (UFT) will be applied – for a fee – for the good of society and (cough) kindness.
Together. Forward. Hunkerdown…
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Jo – thanks for this.
I guess something similar will come soon in the UK.
Rachel from Accounts has a Budget to deliver in about October; the numbers – not wholly unrelated to spending on a lot of ‘free stuff’ – are looking pretty dire.
The UK owes about £2,700,000 Million. Covid and the useless Tories played a part in expanding that – but Labour are in Government.
‘To govern is to choose.’
The UK Pays about £ 109,000 Million in interest each year [not a single solitary penny off the capital …].
The UK – at the moment – looks on target to borrow about £135,000 Million this [25-26] financial year.
Borrowing more to pay your interest bills doesn’t usually turn out well.
But Rachel has an extra ‘£50,000 Million’ hole in her Treasury …
Something needs to be done to take the punters’ attention away from the [being kind] disastrous budget.
Oh, and from the practically unlimited migration into the UK of young men of fighting age – one or two of whom, possibly *, would want to fight for the UK.
And from the breakdown of law and order.
And the strange desire of the Government to cover it up by censoring folk, with the excuse of ‘It’s all for the kids’.
And the imploding economy.
Who would have thought that, if you make it more expensive to employ people, fewer people will be employed? [Hint – not Rachel … ]
So this tactic of breathlessly whispering about a new and even more certain doom, will, I feel sure, be at least considered.
In Whitehall and in Westminster.
Coming soon to a BBC outlet near you!
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* well, I can’t absolutely rule out that a small number may actually look to the UK as more than a convenient milch-cow, can I?
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Well you can only laugh at this bullshit – 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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The trouble is, the blighters mean it, and they hold all the legislative power and own the means of enforcement.
We may need to more than laugh at them.
As to “stakeholders” – who is more of a stakeholder than we everyday people who end up paying for all of this, both with our ever-increasing taxes and our freedoms?
The entire balance of “government” has been turned on its head.
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Debunked by the great God of AI the omnipotent CHAT GPT. https://richardsonpost.com/cliff-reece/40322/net-zero-fantasy-debunked-by-chatgpt/
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Rachel from accounts has to be the dumbest Chancellor of the Exchequer Britain has ever had. The fact that she lied about her experience in accounting and still retains her position is astonishing.
As for the illegals crossing the channel and crime in the UK?
There is no way I would travel to the UK for a holiday. It is fast becoming a 3rd world country. Woke police and prosecutors jail people for tweets but turn a blind eye on real crime. Protests by the silent majority are now occurring on a regular basis re the illegals and if the government does not fix the issues I think these protests will morph into vigilante style justice.
We might think that Australia is in a poor state but Britain is in a far perilous situation. The uniparties of both countries have failed miserably on so many issues.
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If we could convince all the left wing politicians to travel to Tuvalu for some gabfest and then to pull the plug. We are told that the island is sinking anyway.
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What opposition?
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Australia is now effectively a One Party State with no opposition.
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SSay it isn’t SSo.
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Yessssss.
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They are so FoS
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No surprises here considering the bungling incompetence via the federal government. Money thrown around like confetti, strong support for terrorism, ignoring our allies. How many tipping point warnings have we had that never happened on rubbishy climate change. Only formerly first world country still pursuing the net zero fantasy plus unrestricted immigration. What could possibly go wrong?
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It is very easy to fix and balance the Australian Federal Budget.
Immediately throw out ‘Nut Zero’, then stop building the Wind Towers, Solar Paddocks,Transmission Lines. etc, etc,etc for a start and stop ALL Subsidies.
Then, an Audit of ALL Guv’ment funded Programmes especially the NDIS (which isn’t a funded Insurance Scheme – More like a Scam really.) and the Billions paid to the Aborigibal Industry every year with nothing to show for it apart from more and more gnashing of the teeth from the Free Loaders.
With the money saved, start building loads of HELE Coal Fired Poer Stations using the best coal in the World – Australian Coal.
Oh yes, and the building of a Special Purpose Prison for the ‘Pollies’ out in the middle of the Simpson Desert. In the Slammer the Corrupt ‘Pollies’ will go.
My Consulting Fee for this inspiring Advice is a mere blip on the Budget. Only 10 Million South Pacic Pesos per annum.
QED (Quite Easlily Done).
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There was an episode of the TV series Yes Minister years ago. The minister Jim Hacker ( played by Paul Eddington) was being interviewed (TV) about how the government would fix the economy. Hacker then waffled on for ages with public service/ politician speak how his government would achieve this. Basically said nothing coherent. Then supposedly the interview was finished and the interviewer asked the same question. Hacker replied with the actual truth- much like what you have suggested, but didn’t realise the microphone was recording. Mate, you could write the Australian version of the show.
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You are too kind.
The Scripwriters for Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister were geniuses.
As for me, I have just expressed some feelings/thoughts that many people in Australia have about this Feral Guv’ment.
Who voted for them? I know that I didn’t.
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What scriptwriters? I thought it was a documentary.
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More laughable lunacy and you can bet the true believers will still believe their obvious BS and nonsense.
Why can’t the bed wetters just look up the evidence for themselves?
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But they don’t want to have their fantasies finished by facts.
e.g. a letter (to The Editor) in the local paper saying “Last year, 96% of the global demand for new electricity was met by …solar, wind and batteries.”
“In March, fossil fuels generated less than half the electricity in the USA”.
“In India, from January through April, a surge in solar production kept the country’s coal use flat and cut the gas usage in 2024 by a quarter”
Amazing Stuff Solar, cutting previous years gas usage by THIS YEARS solar production !!!!.
etc. etc. straight out of The Guardian or the ABC.
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____Getting down to the last drip.
____Scheduling a meeting about the fright of a frightening fright.
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Clearly, they couldn’t release this report last year because of the Federal Election earlier this year. So, it’s all about the timing. This stage managed process is all too familiar- it reminds me of the COVID panic lockdowns in Victoria. Little bits of info released like modelling and a gradual increase in actions until WHAM. Then we’re all at home after fighting for toilet paper at the supermarket, watching Netflix and baking sourdough bread. Perhaps Australia is about to experience its first Climate lockdown? We’ll have limits of travel, air conditioning and food rationing with caps on consumption of red meat. After the idiocy of COVID lockdowns and the general acceptance by the public of those measures, anything is now possible.
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The 2026 budget for NASA Earth Sciences, which includes GISS, has been halved.from $2.1bn to $1bn.
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/fy-2026-budget-technical-supplement-002.pdf?emrc=689bbd66a4a36
GISS will not be involved in CMIP7. That takes a lot of puff out of the Australian ACCESS modelling. GISS was the bright star of climate modelling. It is now dimming and close to non-existent.
NASA’s STEM engagement (climate porn) has no budget in 2026.
Bowen may have ambition to step up where US has vacated but the UN is a hungry parasite and I doubt even Bowen will find the funds to meet their expectations.
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Why am I not surprised that this is not reported here?o
World-famous coral reefs along Western Australia’s (WA) coast have suffered the worst bleaching on record after the state’s “longest, largest and most intense” marine heatwave, scientists say.
Between last August and this May, warmer water temperatures led to significant heat stress on the reefs, causing many of the coral to expel the algae which gives them life and colour – a process called bleaching, which is often fatal.
The damage – which will take months to assess – spans 1,500km (932 miles) and includes areas previously unscathed by climate change.
Coral reefs worldwide have been suffering from a two-year-long global coral bleaching event, due to record high ocean temperatures.
[Difficult to see what coral bleaching has to do with climate modeling – LVA]
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[ There was a discussion about it in yesterday’s daily thread “Tuesday” where Peter Fitzroy claimed that the event had killed 90% of the north west corals. Perhaps Ian, you can post about it in today’s Wednesday thread and correct him. Why am I not surprised that you didn’t include the part where they said in their media release, “A bleached coral is not a dead coral – it can recover.” Of course, some may not. But the GBR surveys show how resilient and prone to recovery Coral is. – Raquel]
[It’s probably part of the same hyperbolic scare campaign isn’t it? – Jo]
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Did someone miss the obvious misdirection?
“Sources familiar with the modelling … described some of the scenarios outlined in the report … as “dire”, “diabolical” and “extremely confronting”.”
Scenarios are simply a description of the background settings used by computer modellers. The IPCC started this game back in 2007 with AR4, and established four Representative Concentration Pathway scenarios for climate scientists to play with as they developed their own unique climate models:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Concentration_Pathway
Why? Because every academic organisation supporting consensus climate science has developed its own unique climate model, all of which produce vastly different results. The only way to validly compare them is for all of them to rely on the same background scenarios. But it is also why the IPCC ends up comparing hundreds of models – because none of them produce the same results!
Of course, the use of climate scenarios went off the rails with AR5, when almost all papers relied on RCP8.5, and scientists started using terms like “business as usual” to describe this scenario. Since then, most climate scientists have acknowledged that RCP8.5 is physically impossible and should not be relied on:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00177-3
Despite those warnings, climate scientists continue to rely on the worst possible scenarios for their research:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/08/09/pielke-jr-on-ar6/
Nearly 42% of papers used by the IPCC in AR6 relied on the physically impossible scenario, SSP5-8.5 and RCP8.5.
If the scenarios used in this new government report truly are “dire”, “diabolical” and “extremely confronting”, then the government should tell us who created them, their forecast details, and how they differ from the IPCC’s agreed scenarios.
Of course, if those words are actually about the results of the modelling, then we need to know which scenarios they used to achieve the results. Change the scenario and the results will change.
I’m betting that it is probably a rehash of CMIP6 results, focused on Australia, but reliant on SSP5-8.5 or RCP8.5. Why? Because only that scenario produces “dire” results, which is why climate scientists continue to rely on it.
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But it’s modelling Paulie. The media and the politicians/bureacrats love modelling. Gives them unrealistic scenarios to ponder and there’s a viable defence against criticism. They’ll say we relied on the “science” to give us the modelling done by one of those supercomputers. Maybe now they will throw in AI as well. Because most of the AI platforms will still spew out an alarmist approach to the whole subject. They have to, because all the scientific institutions are on board with the alarmism and a helluva lot of scientific papers in all fields, will genuflect towards the great Climate god in their summations. If they don’t, there’s no additional funding for their little research subject. Chris Bowen (Minister for Climate Panic here in Australia) and the rest of the blob hide behind the faulty CSIRO GENCOST findings all the time. Once you mention the UN and use all the fancy terms like SSP5-8.5, RCP8, CMIP6 and scary terms like “tipping points” most of the public are bamboozled anyway.
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And if English swimmers are boiled like lobsters at Portsmouth or Blackpool (such romantic seaside town names) due to a 0.2 degree marine heatwave, how much worse will it be for yous fellas eh: crocs, sharks, and now boiled lobsters [mmm…] as it was in the 60s, 70s, 80s, as we all fondly remember 🌞
To the Greenshirts, history is a dead subject: sadly they may have to repeat it again.
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If the oceans are boiling, where’s my cooked lobster.
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Overdone, much?
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Do you think the warning will be so dire that Australia will announce they will stop exporting coal and natural gas?
According to this story by Reuters, 90% of Australian coal and 76% of Australian NG gets shipped overseas bringing in $98 billion and $62 billion in revenue respectively. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/australia-cleans-up-home-exported-emissions-keep-growing-maguire-2024-01-18/
If the combustion of exported coal and NG is counted in the country’s emissions, Australia becomes the third high green house gas emitting nation per capita in the world. Surely the Chinese, I mean Australian government, won’t let that happen will they?
Sure the report won’t be so bad as to cause this to happen?
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Sean, they’ll never announce the end of coal and gas exports. That might hurt China, and the ALP want to spend the tax money.
They just want to stop Australians using coal and gas. That’s different…
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Is it worth doing a Freedom from Information request for this report?
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Probably not. The Greens have already moved a motion in Parliament for it to be released by August 26th or something. That’s all part of the theatre. It serves the Blob every which way.
They just want to wind up activists into thinking that “true science” is being suppressed, when it’s actually wild hyperbole being delayed because the Labor Party doesn’t want to release yet in case we mock it to easily. They need the horror show to continue at least until they set the 2035 Net Zero target in Sept and “win” the stupid COP event for next year.
But if we could FOI the emails related to the decision not to release it, that might be useful 🙂
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Relevant quotes by H.L. Mencken
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.”
“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”
“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking all their gaudy visions and hallucinations seriously.”
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I like these two –
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard,” and,
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
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If the report is not published, and therefore available for peer or other review, it is not science, by definition.
It is political propaganda.
It’s no different to the Bureau of Meterology’s secret “homogenisation” process to alter historic temperature data in favour of supposed anthropogenic global warming. It’s a political process and nothing to do with science because the methodology is secret and not reproducible.
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Why do you refer to the process as “secret”?
Isn’t all the information here:
Link
Which part of the method is “secret”?
Cheers!
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The precise methodology is not publicly documented so it is not possible for independent observers to check or replicate the process or confirm its validity.
See https://joannenova.com.au/tag/homogenization-temperature-data/
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Are you sure that information is up-to-date? The most recent post is from 2020.
According to the BOM site the Python computer source code implementing the inhomogeneity detection algorithm and the percentile-matching algorithm is available by request.
Wouldn’t that cover the precise methodology?
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Ah … I see you have fallen for the dreaded “available by request” rhetoric.
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The BOM said that only people at the BOM could do the right “operator intervention” on the raw data. It is thus a sacred guild with secret methods, not a scientific institution. EG Dr David Evans offered to help, but 6 degrees in maths, stats, EEng, and physics and PhD in Fourier maths, were not enough. It was too long and complex to explain how to adjust temperatures recorded from thermometers.
See my post If it can’t be replicated, it isn’t science: BOM admits temperature adjustments are secret (2015)
See the related (but not identical) update Why is temperature data a national secret? BOM still hiding data (2023)
The BOM *knows* its electronic thermometers behave exactly the same as glass ones. It has all the side-by-side calibration data from long comparison sites, yet it refuses to release any of that data. “Trust us” they say.
So no, the BOM has not remotely offered to train outsiders in the magical process of homogenization which uses thermometers up to 1500 km away to adjust other thermometers.
Think of the BOM as an advertising and PR group. Then it all makes sense.
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If the pre-adjustment data and the post-adjustment data is available as well as the code that implements the algorithm couldn’t you work backwards from that?
Could be an interesting project for Mr Maddison?
Cheers!
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Working backward suggestion by Dry Liberal:
Yes, well you would have good chance provided that the adjustment procedure used defined rules.
But as you should have inferred, it does not. The procedure was ad-hoc, numbers were human guesses, made up and used as long as the desired result was achieved, of agreement with warming.
The investigating audit team, commissioned by the BoM, stated that, neither from analysis nor from what they were told by BoM, they could not determine what the rules were.
Yet, they said the procedure was ok!
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The greatest threat to Humans today is energy poverty and China and the NON OECD countries clearly understand the facts but our stupid leaders still believe in delusional nonsense.
We are riding for a very big fall unless we get rid of super expensive, toxic, unreliable W & S ASAP and quickly build much cheaper, reliable, BASELOAD energy that will easily last until 2100.
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Australia’s national debt (federal, state and local government debt) is now:
$2.137 trillion http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
Whatever is in this secret modelling will only make it get so much worse
Australia is now so far gone it might not be fixable.
We may even go the way of Venezuela as per the topic of the following video:
https://youtu.be/xXYiCgWHTrQ
Australians have falsely thought they were a “lucky country” as per the title of Donald Horne’s 1964 book. He never meant what most people thought.
He clarified what he meant in 1976:
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“Australia is now so far gone it might not be fixable.”
No one is predicting such a future for the Kingdom of the Saudi family. We have vast resources. Turning Australia into another mendicant Belt and Road state, a vassal state of China is the clear objective as our political masters declare their allegiance to the Communists in China. No defences, hugely indebted and driven away from any alliance with the US. It’s all such a clear objective of Albanese and Wong and for that matter, Starmer.
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Donnie has given Beijing another 90 days to think about their future, because he knows Xi is on the way out.
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Insult and battery!
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At what point do you start to think or realise that the destruction of Australia is deliberate and not “merely” due to the gross incompetence of the Uniparty?
When, if ever, will the Sheeple wake up?
America had TRUMP to save them from the same fate, but who do we have?
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Aye, and there’s the rub. The RED party (Greens, Teals, Labor and Linos) rule all our governments at all three levels. The all hate us! Not one of their actions is for the benefit of Australia or its citizens. There is political opposition but it is fragmented and leaderless. If they can talk with each other and create a new party that may help. A new leader may then appear.
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‘They all hate us!’
Not quite all.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/senator-matt-canavan-makes-unlikely-ally-in-greens-founder-bob-brown-as-pair-rally-against-wind-energy-projects/news-story/c2684452018ef674d8ef54bf666a15e2
The Nats could be the catalyst for change.
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Old mate Bob Down is mainly against the Robbins Island project because it’s in his backyard
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True, he is a firm believer in global warming caused by humans, but there is always hope that we might convert him.
Our only hope is for the Liberals to change their leader and replace her with a charismatic individual who thinks like us. Andrew Hastie would be a front runner.
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“Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).
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Yes, the comparative adjective curiouser was invented by Lewis Carrol.
However, the OED does not consider it a word but does list curiouser and curiouser as a phrase used in Alice in Wonderland and it can be used in that context.
Alice in Wonderland was a less dysfunctional society than Australia.
To quote Goolag AI:
…nonsensical rules, illogical characters, and situations that challenge conventional logic and social norms, suggesting a world where order and reason are absent. …
Further:
Just like modern day Australia but less bad because Alice in Wonderland is a fantasy and Australia is real and we’re standing in it.
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They could just be holding it back because its so looney, in the face of not much happening, that nobody will take it seriously. Could buying time to get it adjusted or work out the scale of the scary marketing plan.
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Yes.
Maybe like the AIDS marketing of the 1980’s or covid-19 more recently.
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They could just be holding it back because its so looney, in the face of not much happening, that nobody will take it seriously. Could buying time to get it adjusted or work out the scale of the scary marketing plan.
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The cost of 7 Nuclear power stns would be about 0.2 trillion $.
But toxic, unreliable super expensive W & S would be replaced every 15 to 20 years and only generate electricity for a combined output of 22.5 % capacity factor ever year. Or on average about 2.7 months every year.
Just divide W & S cost of 7 to 9 trillion $ by 0.2 trillion $ for the true cost of seven Aussie Nuclear power stns.
Therefore Aussie unreliable W & S would cost 35 to 45 times the cost of seven Nuclear power stations.
When will we wake up and start to think?
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BTW Nuclear can provide reliable 24/7/365 days of energy until 2100 and not require refueling for decades.
And has a capacity factor of 93% for another 75 years.
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The Government knows that the Sheeple have been stupid enough to vote for Green-Labor twice federally and numerous times in state and local government elections.
They therefore know that the dumbed-down masses have now been fully prepared to believe just about anything, no matter how bizarre.
Remember that thinking people, including most present company, are an extreme minority in today’s Australia.
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Peak gaslighting.
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During the 19th Century scientists endeavoured to understand the physical processes involved in the Earth’s climate. In his 1824 paper Fourier stated that the Earth’s surface received heat from outer space, the Sun and from the Earth’s core, being the result of the energy from the meteoric collisions that combined to form the planet. The experiments by John Tyndall and observations by Langley showed that atmospheric water vapour and CO2 gas absorbed outgoing heat from the Earth’s surface. There was no indication as to where the absorbed heat went but it led to the assumption that it caused additional heating of the surface – the “Greenhouse Effect”. Prof. Svante Arrhenius used the data to calculate the temperature of the surface using the Greenhouse assumption and determined that doubling CO2 would cause a 5 to 6 degree C increase in the surface temperature.
It was not until the 1890’s that Madam Curie discovered the occurrence of radioactive molecules. However while radioactive energy was intensely studied during the 20th Century apparently no one realized that it was an additional source of the Earth’s heat affecting the climate. This explains why modern data freely, available on the Internet, shows that there is no Greenhouse Effect. However despots have promoted the Greenhouse Effect assuming that demonizing fossil fuel, being the source of the success of capitalism, would cause economic collapse and allow them to achieve World control. Meanwhile China has used the impasse to market useless wind and solar panel farms to gain economic advantage over gullible nations such as ours.
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Neat summary! Thanks.
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Standup comedy, Bwahahahahha
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I’m very disappointed that Simon, PF and the Leaf haven’t lobbed in to ‘edjukate’ us all on this most dire, unprecedented non release.
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You want a comment on an article about nothing much that the author admits is on the subject of vacuous theatre.
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Were it not for vacuous theatre, tax incentives and behavior control for Climate action would cease.
Ronin is just asking for your contribution to the LARP.
I think I have a dire feeling of being micro aggressed with a slight tingling of unsafety.
Give me a minute.
I know for sure we’re doomed in five years and somebody is H!tLer.
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This strategy is straight from the aboriginal cash machine. Secret Climate Business.
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‘there is not one system that was not hit hard by climate change in the past’ . .
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The Guardian publishing rumours? Well I never ….
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For a Govt. to leak something like this is unforgivable. Governments are supposed to keep things calm.
Many of the Blob believers will be affected poorly by this emotionally.
What a murder of crows they are.
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Is it at all possible that the reason we are all being dragged into poverty has little to do with carbon dioxide and a lot to do with scarcity, global population and future war-fighting? Is this carbon straw-man perhaps the reason why none of the counter-argument ever seems to faze them? Is Hastie possibly being too hasty, unless he is already ‘read-in’? Lies, damned lies and statistics… with that I am off to bed to dream of rabbits and rabbit-holes.
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If you have the facts … tell them to people and they will believe you.
If you have no facts … tell people you will be telling them something sometime.
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It’s worse than we thought.
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Calculated fear-momgering?
Have we reached “Peak Eco-Nazi, yet?
Not even close; the re just “warming up!”
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