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U.S. judges saved from alarmist tome
By David Wojick
My take on the judicial procedure aspects of this fiasco.
https://www.cfact.org/2026/02/13/u-s-judges-saved-from-alarmist-tome/
A good win along the way.
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Good article David.
Do you know which specific individuals or activist organisations were responsible for writing that alarmist tome, and who funded them?
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Some discussion of that here:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/01/the-new-federal-reference-manual-on-scientific-evidence-all-the-smartest-people-get-hoodwinked-by-the-climate-charlatans/
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Isn’t, or perhaps wasn’t, the NASA branch of climatology also based at the University of Columbia?
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Yes, Hansen’s GISS was joined with Columbia including co-appointments. Trump canceled their lease. No idea where or what GISS is now.
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Thanks for confirming that connection David. Thought so.
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Science on the side.
When I was a kid I was told that the water turns one way as it runs out in the northern hemisphere and the other in the south. I never checked it, because intuition told me that there are too many other factors.
But, so far as I know at the other end of the cyclone scale major weather events do follow that rule.
Or do they? What about tornadoes?
I have never seen a tornado. But on level terrain on a dry very windy day I saw a thick cloud of dust which was not fast enough to raise that much dust.
I later discovered that about a kilometre away across the wind there was a narrow trail of destruction at least 8 km long.
That is where my dust must have been raised. In a whirlwind 1 km wide travelling at 50? km/h .
That one was clockwise from above.
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British Secretary of State for Net Zero, Ed Miliband, refuses to publish his secret energy deal with Communist China, despite facing questions in Parliament and before a select committee. However, AlterAI has obtained information from U.S. authorities, who expressed clear disapproval of the British surrender to Communist China. U.S. intelligence-sharing functions with the British under Five Eyes are now scaled back as a precaution.
The deal is described as a one-way surrender of data and patents, with Communist China gaining access to UK-built small modular reactor (SMR) design patents (Rolls-Royce-led consortium data). In return, Britain obtained prefabricated reactor components and advanced lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery models—but under restrictive licensing that limited domestic adaptation. Chinese firms CATL and State Grid Corporation, are now allowed operational footholds in British infrastructure projects. With Chinese offshore wind supply chain partnerships, involving Chinese manufacturing and allowing Chinese access to grid-technology data. Domestic UK manufacturing is undercut by cheap Chinese production using Communist slave labour.
Rolls Royce domestic SME energy innovators, are now priced out, and absorbed into joint ventures with Communist China, with opaque oversight clauses. British strategic policymaking autonomy is now compromised by “economic soft capture” by Communist Chinese state-linked entities. In other words, Britain has traded ‘long-term energy sovereignty’ for cheaper windmills.
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This smacks of the time in 1946/1947 when the Attlee Labour government gave the Russians the designs for the Rolls Royce Nene jet engines which saved them years of development time and helped them power the MIG jets used un the Korean war.
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China got the better deal of course.
It defies understanding unless you realise Starmer is not working for the UK, but China. Just like many Australian politicians.
And don’t forget Starmer also gave away Chagos Islands and the US was furious. And now UK is leasing them back for 99 years. Pointless madness.
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Noting that “China Associates” is left side of Australian politics including the infiltrators into centre/centre right parties and many happen to also have vested interests in climate politics ventures for wealth creation.
The Labor side is more open about their associates and contacts.
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SMR technology has been provided to the UK via Rolls-Royce for about 60 years and first used by the US about 75 years ago, the US has not allowed any other allied nation access to the technology and later improvements until the AUKUS partnership agreement was signed in 2021 and Pillar 1.0 designing and building a new generation of nuclear submarine for UK and Australia and with US other technologies installed.
The Australian Government (Labor) signed a supply contract and placed orders for SMR to be installed in the planned eight SSN AUKUS nuclear submarines, the Osborne Naval Shipyards are undergoing a $30 million upgrading for the project. The shipyard built the six existing RAN Collins Class conventional submarines.
With the leftist Labour/Labor governments now in power in UK and Australia the US must be concerned
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Trump’s war against BBC ‘Fake News’:
Trump’s $10 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Against The BBC Can Proceed. U.S. District Judge, Roy Altman, rejected the BBC’s application to dismiss the $10 billion defamation lawsuit brought by U.S. President Donald Trump over its editing of a speech that made it appear that he encouraged violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The case is now set for a two-week hearing, beginning Feb. 15, 2027, at a Miami courthouse.
Laurence Williamson is credited as the Editor of the Trump speech in the BBC Panorama episode “Trump: A Second Chance?” Williamson’s edit omits the usual flash between edited segments. The Panorama program, broadcast in the UK on Oct. 28, 2024, one week before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, omitted a lengthy section of Trump’s speech in which he called for peaceful protest. The lawsuit alleges the BBC defamed Trump and violated a Florida law that bars deceptive and unfair trade practices. The president is seeking at least $5 billion in damages for each of the two separate counts in the lawsuit.
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I wish somebody had the resources to do that with Australia’s taxpayer-funded ABC for their endless lies, deceptive and biased reporting practices and promotion of far Left and anti-conservative, pro-Labor Party propaganda in breach of their legal obligation of honesty and impartiality.
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On the facts Paul, I can imagine the BBC defence revolving around the word OOPS and the phrase we didn’t mean any harm.
Good luck with that Beeb.
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Ludwig Boltzmann was a victim of “consensus science” and the Official Narrative. He was the father of statistical mechanics and also an advocate for the atomic theory of matter as his work led him to believe atoms must exist. However the German academic community thought that since atoms could not be observed (at that time) they were unscientific mathematical fictions and it led him to suffer intense criticism. This criticism from thr consensus community contributed to him committing suicide in 1906 but he was unaware that Albert Einstein (himself a victim of the unscientific idea of “consensus science”) had proven theoretically beyond doubt in 1905 the existence of atoms in his paper on Brownian motion, later confirmed experimentally by Jean Perrin im 1908 to disprove any remainibg consensus believers.
Boltzmann has engraved on his tombstone his entropy formula for statistical mechanics S = k . log W as recognition of his genius and which also permanently mocks the false idea of consensus science.
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Today, younger people with ideas not in conformity with the “consensus” and Official Narrative will be afraid to speak out with alternative ideas given the mistreatment of scientists and medical doctors who disagreed with the Official Narrative on covid, climate change”, dietary issues, micronutrients etc.. E.g. loss of medical license, defunding, sacking/firing, public ridicule etc..
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Statistical mechanics was one of my favourite topics at university. It’s magnificent in its elegance and simplicity.
I went to university before they were completely dumbed-down, before the time degrees were little more than participation trophies. Back in the day, you had to earn your credentials.
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In Mechanical Engineering, it was Stochastic Thermodynamics that thinned the ranks. In Chem E., it was Physical Chemistry.
Both courses engendered true believers in God and at least a semester’s worth of fervent prayer. 🙂
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Video:
As usual the cluelessness of the Left is absolutely staggering.
Here a German gay woman has no clue that gays in Gaza (and similar such territories or countries ruled by the same religious demographic) are routinely killed but are safe in Israel.
But her view of reality is completely reversed, as it typically is with the Left. She thinks LGBTQIA+ (whatever it is now) people are accepted by Gazans.
https://youtu.be/TK9X60-5vMM
Typically the Leftist media, groups and individuals don’t talk about these issues due to the Red-Green Alliance but see a more honest report at:
https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/06/14/this-is-how-hamas-treats-gay-people-why-is-the-world-silent/
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Official White House Tweet from Marco Rubio.
The USA is the only one that dares speak the truth.
Meanwhile Western Europe and most Western countries except the USA (the only country addressing it), including Australia are destroying themselves by the mass importation, legal or illegal, of some of the world’s most violent, uneducated, misogynisic, anti-Western, anti-Christian and antisemitic people. But they are Leftist voters for life, hence, in Australia they being Labor’s preferred immigrants, in the USA, the Democrats’ favourites etc..
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And being guided by unelected officials at the United Nations and attached organisations.
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Interesting new study from data analyst Joseph Hickey who claims that Canada’s warming has come from a warming ocean oscillation in the Atlantic ocean in 1998.
The opposite effect on western Canada with Ocean cooling at that time.
IOW NOTHING to do with co2 but occurred in JUST ONE YEAR in 1998. Looks like the same could apply to the USA at the same times. This is from 1948 to 2023. Here’s the abstract of the one year BOUNCE….
“Abstract”
“Continental-scale multi-decadal temperature climate trend evaluations rely on networks of
land-based weather stations. Long-term surface air temperature records from the said stations
are affected by many biasing factors, related to changes to instrumentation, observation
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methods and procedures, and the environment surrounding the instruments. In determining
long-term temperature trends, temperature records are adjusted and homogenized in an
attempt to correct for gradual biases and sudden discontinuities. The Canadian government
(Environment Canada) provides the Adjusted and Homogenized Canadian Climate Data (AHCCD)
to the public and research community for use in long-term temperature trend analysis in
Canada, which is promoted and accepted as reliable data. In this report, I show that a significant
non-climatic artifact exists in the AHCCD, which is a stepwise increase of approximately 1°C in
magnitude occurring at 1998 in the annual average temperature records for most AHCCD
stations across Canada, and that this 1°C increase occurring at 1998 can, on its own, be
responsible for essentially all of the claimed warming (of approximately 1-2°C) calculated for
Canada over the past six or seven decades. This is based on the temperature data itself, and the
institutional context is revealed through access to information (ATI) documents. The reported
climate warming of Canada appears to be entirely from a temperature measurement artifact”.
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https://correlation-canada.org/artificial-stepwise-increases-in-temperature-data-canada/
Published December 23, 2025
includes Download a copy of the report below:
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BTW here’s the Joseph Hickey interview on Tom Nelson’s pod cast this month
Amazing that he refused the Covid jab and was sacked and then he had more time to research and discover their BS and nonsense about co2 warming.
He seems very measured and careful and I only wish I had his analytic brain.
I hope Jo and others have the time to follow this up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6k1lH50p4k
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The PDO switched to the negative phase 1997-1998.
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Positive in 2014.
Negative since 2020 with pronounce negative values in 2024 and 2025.
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The PDO is a strong oscillation.
https://chaac.meteo.plus/en/climate/pdon.png
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The ability of the changes in the Aleutian Low to presage switching in the PDO is where some research had focused.
It would be a game-changer for resetting a farm , which realistically takes a couple of years, in the face of an imminent climate change of decadal duration.
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In our part of the world it might be best to focus on the IPO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdecadal_Pacific_oscillation
Similar but different, the great climate shift of 1976 is clearly visible.
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AI says IPO mostly negative and continuing to be since 1999, with a brief positive excursion 2014-2016 which coincides with ENSO and PDO.
What is needed is the precursor-so far only the Aleutian Low has any predictive value a couple of years out.
Warmists are hanging out for the positive phase so they can claim Climate Change TM, – a preponderance of El Niño might lead to warm and dry for a few decades.
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The Aleutian low is only active during the Northern Hemisphere winter and supposedly driven by warm water.
https://classic.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-174.94,27.71,265
Any idea where that warm water came from? Its not a marine heatwave, dominated by a blocking high, it feels more like submarine volcanoes.
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FWIW
“The Super Bowl Without EVs Tells You Everything”
“Except for Seahawks fans or those who appreciate a stingy defense, the action on the field of this year’ Super Bowl left a lot to be desired. But off the field, between the kickoff and the final score, this year’s Super Bowl sent a message that didn’t need words: the moment for electric vehicles is over.
For the first time in years, there was no Super Bowl advertisement featuring an EV in a starring role. No celebrity endorsements, no sweeping promises about the “future of driving,” and no multimillion-dollar attempts to convince Americans that electric cars are inevitable. The only trace of an EV during the entire broadcast was a split-second glimpse of Volkswagen’s electric van, which is struggling with low sales, recalls and reportedly will not receive a 2026 version.
That brief cameo stood in sharp contrast to previous Super Bowls, when EVs were front and center. For several years, automakers used the biggest advertising stage in America to promote electrification, leaning heavily on celebrity appearances and high-production storytelling. The message they pushed was that electric vehicles were not only the future, but they were already mainstream.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/13/the-super-bowl-without-evs-tells-you-everything/
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FWIW
“Farming And The Death Thereof”
“Here’s Clarkson, bringing cold logic to environmentalist slogans. It’s just over fifteen minutes of your time, and worth every second.”
“Jeremy Clarkson ‘BLASTS’ Steve Barclay — ‘Green Scheme’ Killing British Farming | Clarkson Farm”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZBbPkVu6Zc
Via https://www.kimdutoit.com/2026/02/13/farming-and-the-death-thereof/
And https://instapundit.com/776299/#disqus_thread
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From the description under the video ” Rights Disclaimer: This channel is NOT Jeremy Clarkson, is not affiliated with him, and does not represent his official views or Diddly Squat Farm. This is an independent creative commentary and storytelling project.”
In plain English it is a fake.
I’ll leave it to others to consider whether Clarkson has any recourse. IF he does nothing then there is nothing to stop others using his likeness and his “brand” without permission into the future.
At least that’s the way brand name law works. Defend it or lose it.
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Yes, I recognized the writing style. This was not Clarkson.
Many WWII documentaries have exactly the same story structure, almost identical. Clarkson voice has been cloned reading a script. Like so many. And often trips on homophones, wind and wind. Or IL and Illinois. Numbers are a real problem for AI.
Like the comedian who said he was so lazy he called his fourth child Ivy in Latin.
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But likely adding extra throb to Starmer’s headache though
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We’re going to need bigger and better magnifying glasses!
“”Billion Dollar Movie In One Prompt”: AI Disruption Crosshairs Hone In On Hollywood Studios”
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/billion-dollar-movie-one-prompt-ai-disruption-crosshairs-hone-hollywood-studios
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The depression over the East Cape is heading South west as predicted.
Expecting gale force Southerly with rain in the next 24 hours.
https://www.metservice.com/maps-radar/rain/radar/wellington?range=300&tab=real-time
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At 6pm looks like that southerly is blowing all of Wellington’s ‘brown water’ back onto itself… Green karma or Brown out in out in out (?)
Up north it’s a pleasant winter’s day, same temp as QLD’s Brisbane on 23*C … what happened to summer? 🤷♂️
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Where is the global developed nations politics heading in the not too distant future given the many ways that the leftists are manipulating societies/countries based on immigration, climate politics, and so on?
I understand that there is a swing on now and notably by younger people back to the sensible centre or conservative approaches, here in Australia with far left dominant in government and centre left up until now maybe very influential in opposition the very low primary votes both sides have been receiving might be indicative of this change. And the rise in polling results for one also conservative but controversial party that talks far above their numbers in parliament and much larger Coalition parties. A swing away from the left.
Consider 1975 and the UN Lima Agreement to help developing nations by redistributing the wealth of developed countries transferring manufacturing industry and know how, free trade agreements including removal of tariff barriers, etc. And how China (and a couple of others catching up) have taken full advantage and more, or as President Trump is trying to counter the abuse of free trade by foreign country governments subsidising their own businesses to make them more competitive on markets including the US, what is called dumping.
Recently I noticed and was surprised to read that the Australian Government has finally taken action against dumping from China, one line of products being coated steel framing sections used for house frames and other structures instead of timber. It appears that the Government realises that our steel manufacturing industry is important?
It is a long and complicated situation with many areas to cover, in short are we being manoeuvred into that must not mention new world order with the “world parliament” spoken about by former Greens leader and founder Brown? At his last National Press Club address he said that his dream is for a world parliament and no international borders?
Consider the “colonisation” by illegal immigration supported by UNHCR in the mix of evidence.
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Ah yes: arch “eco-hero” and out of the closet totalitarian, Bob Brown; DREAMING:
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”
T. E. Lawrence
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“the Australian Government has finally taken action against dumping from China, one line of products being coated steel framing sections used for house frames ”
Why would you use an emotive word like “dumping”, when China’s manufacturing is so cheap. They have no reason to ‘dump’ steel when they can make a profit. They are not a welfare state full of fat and lazy people that want over $100k to perform manual labour, I sometimes feel Australians need to get overseas to SE Asia and see how those economies run.
So the clowns in Govt here tax Chinese frames coming in, which gives them more money to buy votes with and puts the cost of a house further out of reach for the public. If they tax it high enough we will be able to buy Australian steel for an equal price, but no-one will have any employment because the Chinese will retaliate with taxes on our exports. Tariffs are always a lose-lose situation for the peasants.
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Say no to Tofu dregs.
it should settle down fairly soon now that Beijing is changing sides.
‘China will provide Ukraine with an additional package of humanitarian energy assistance, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister said after a meeting with his Chinese counterpart.’
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Like blocking exports shipped from Australia after the Morrison Government joined many other leaders of nations to request politely an inquiry into the source of COVID-19?
Like the more recent restrictions on Australian beef exports to China?
Other examples available.
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I tried to respond to Treeman yesterday, but locked out with a timeout in cloudfare. Treeman is right, many other elements and chemicals are essential to life on earth.
“Understood. Many other elements are involved and ALL are critical. DNA alone is composed of five primary types of atoms: carbon (C), hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P). But the bulk of the mass is Hydrogen, Carbon, Oxygen, the most common elements in the universe.
And all change, growth and movement requires energy, solar energy turned into chemical energy as carbohydrate. But you are right, take away the Fe for blood for example, the N for protein, the Calcium for bones and most complex life would not exist. As life evolved and became more complex, it exploited many other elements in amazing structures like DNA and the essential gas moving mechanism in haemoglobin using Fe(Iron).
But when you talk of what comprises the mass of a tree, you start with CO2 and H2O and you are already at 98%. As Michael Caine would say, not a lot of people know that. Certainly not politicians.
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Now THERE’s a foundation for education in the biological sciences or at least for biochemistry.
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FWIW
“MY, THAT’S AN AWFUL LOT OF BAD LUCK IN RECENT YEARS: This account shows how South Africa has decayed in just a decade, and it’s a warning to us all.”
“This account shows how South Africa has decayed in just a decade, and it’s a warning to us all”
https://notthebee.com/article/this-account-shows-how-south-africa-has-decayed-in-just-15-years-and-its-a-warning-to-us-all
Via https://instapundit.com/776301/#disqus_thread
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Unsurprising… Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world!
“The entire country is collapsing back into the Stone Age…”
As it did in every country in Africa when the white men gave power back to the natives, and as will happen here when power is handed back to the Aborigines. We left just before it all happened, the writing was on the wall from everywhere else, but just like Aussies keep telling me ‘it will never happen here’, the SAFs were saying the same.
Who would’ve thought, a whole highly-technical civilisation can vanish completely, just wait a century or two.
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Probably because it is hard to maintain a westernised society. It is easier to fall back into a primitive way of life.
Civilisational fatigue I guess.
Isn’t the average duration of an empire about 245 years?
Plus Mandela promised them the world and no one has been able to deliver.
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Aboriginal peoples have lived sustainability in Australia for at least 40,000 years. Your “highly-technical civilisation” will struggle to make 400 without a serious change in mindset.
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Pity their “sustainability” costs us $40billion plus per annum.
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Was “fire stick hunting” sustainable?
Did “fire stick hunting” cause severe decline in tree species that didn’t like being burned every few years and promote the growth of the gum tree, a massive fire hazard that has killed thousands?
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“Lived sustainably”
And in 40,000 years they didn’t [snip]
Yours is the most vile type of racism, Simon – reeking of Victorian moral superiority with echoes of “the noble savage” thrown in.
Spare me the grandstanding – it’s so last year.
[Pauly B – while true, people might get offended. Try to find other ways to say things. Section18C and other legislation etc. – Jo]
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Politicians doing what politicians do… screw the people with in-house deals amongst themselves, then make a big noise about undoing some of the damage they have caused. Also tossing fuel on the fire is changing the meaning of words, like ‘free trade’.
Of course the SMH use it to take another swing at Trump, its either all his fault or Russia’s…
“Cars, cows and more as Australia gets closer to mega trade win..The net result will expand a two-way trade relationship already worth about $110 billion to Australia each year, making this the most important agreement with the European Union in more than a decade…a stronger chance that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will visit Australia to seal an agreement with Prime Minster Anthony Albanese… both have to contend with the sudden upheavals from Donald Trump on trade and security. The US president is turning America into an unreliable ally.”
As if dropping duties on Euro cars by 5% will make any difference at all, and those taxes should never have been on there in the fist place! Still, it fools their simple-minded voters into thinking politicians do something useful.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/cars-cows-and-more-as-australia-gets-closer-to-mega-trade-win-20260214-p5o28s.html
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This quote is from the Foreword from an old book from 1976, “Energy in Australia”, ISBN 0859212327. Possibly a book written for young adults.
How things have changed! This was written at a time when most people thought Australia had a bright future based on abundant resources, inexpensive energy and politicians that cared about and were loyal to Australia.
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Short video:
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The advancement of AI
Another Ian, indirectly linked to the article yesterday, but I suspect no-one read it. You should.
The now viral post by AI developer Matt Shumer highlights how fast AI is developing, far beyond the layperson’s idea.
I’ve said it over and over now, it’s not coming in 2049/2050/2060, it’s almost here right now.
People will be blindsided by it.
Public opinion is based on extremely limited understanding and experience. Crude publicly-available products like software AI-plugins, assistants and chatbots, often free or cheap, are nothing compared to the high-end products and what’s going on behind the scenes, which is a lot.
I have a number of very good sources in the industry, operating at the heart of development. Won’t name names.
“But I tried AI and it wasn’t that good”
I hear this constantly. I understand it, because it used to be true.
If you tried ChatGPT in 2023 or early 2024 and thought “this makes stuff up” or “this isn’t that impressive”, you were right. Those early versions were genuinely limited. They hallucinated. They confidently said things that were nonsense.
That was two years ago. In AI time, that is ancient history.
The models available today are unrecognizable from what existed even six months ago. The debate about whether AI is “really getting better” or “hitting a wall” — which has been going on for over a year — is over. It’s done. Anyone still making that argument either hasn’t used the current models, has an incentive to downplay what’s happening, or is evaluating based on an experience from 2024 that is no longer relevant. I don’t say that to be dismissive. I say it because the gap between public perception and current reality is now enormous, and that gap is dangerous… because it’s preventing people from preparing.
In 2022, AI couldn’t do basic arithmetic reliably. It would confidently tell you that 7 × 8 = 54.
By 2023, it could pass the bar exam.
By 2024, it could write working software and explain graduate-level science.
By late 2025, some of the best engineers in the world said they had handed over most of their coding work to AI.
On February 5th, 2026, new models arrived that made everything before them feel like a different era.
He’s right.
Like a newborn animal, it stumbles just after birth, but very quickly finds its feet and is off and running.
Same here, but the evolutionary timeline, as I have said, is far beyond nature. Millions of years of biological evolution can be equalled in months by AI.
“Learn how to code” Biden said.
Should have been “learn how to plumb”.
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
https://theagiclock.com/
Your monkey has come down from the trees.
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Short answer: No, AI is not, nor will it likely ever be “here”
Large Language Models *cannot* sort fact from fiction, they can only give the answer most common in their training data. (i.e. a consensus opinion) That this makes them look smarter than an average person, is merely a sad indictment on how little average people know. Bottom line, all AI is, is just a very fast model, look to climate science to see where being in love with your model output gets you.
Do they write very good code? For “star” programmers like ESR, they are a boon. For Joe Average programmer, they turn out code that works in ways Joe doesn’t understand.
They can explain “graduate level science” because they regurgitate the lectures they’ve scraped the data for.
For a more in depth counter argument to AI being *anything*, go to William Briggs page.
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Rubio gets standing ovation, albeit slow build, after his address to Munich security forum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOjBJ89aeXA
Trump is forcing Europe to reconsider its globalist stance particularly;arly on Climate Change™ and immigration.
That leverage is presently absent in Australia. Maybe Trump has not looked at how well Australian Labot and LNP have embraced the radical left.
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In comparison to Vance it seems that Rubio is a blessed relief.
The Europeans are walking back on immigration and net zero, this trend is also happening in the Antipodes.
Politicians know little about climate change and need educating on the real cause of global warming. Hastie and Canavan are wasted talent.
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Just a thought on the lifespan of trees and Australia’s 2011 law on carbon credits from sequestration.
Many trees can live from 20 years to 200 years. But if we spend fortunes and kill agriculture with wilding and tree farms, have we actually solved a problem?
No, because even with the wacky growing trees reduces, sequesters CO2, unless they are very long lived, we have achieved nothing because they too will die and rot and the CO2 return. Sure they have sequestered CO2, but given that forests are self limiting, we cannot keep growing more trees and in the long term it is a waste of time.
Of course this is all without any proof that growing trees reduces atmospheric CO2 and the obvious evidence from NASA is that it’s not true. But even if it were true, growing trees is about as permanent a solution as windmills. Unless we humans stop breathing, staying warm, eating, we can never grow enough trees.
How did such logical nonsense become law in Australia. And the basis for the Safeguard Mechanism which will have CO2 taxes now 10% to 35% by 2029. Everything we do generates CO2, so we will pay massive taxes on everything, crippling the country. But the politicians will be fine on their eternal salaries, living like Albanese at his new taxpayer funded beach house not the slightest bit afraid of rapid sea level change. Because every knows it’s not true.
38 years of rapid rising seas and still people talk about it as real? At least everyone has backed off the poor Polar Bears, which was always a lie. The demise of the penguins. The end of koalas. Who made all this stuff up?
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Tree growing for “carbon” credits is a huge scam.
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Yes but amazingly, it’s law that growing trees controls CO2? When was that proven? Trees reach maturity and they STOP sequestering CO2. What next? And sooner or later you cannot grow any more trees. It’s all illogical nonsense presented as some sort of permanent carbon dioxide control system. And after 38 years, whas has been achieved in controlling CO2? Nothing detectable.
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Trees and plant growth generally are a minor and one-off negative feedback to increasing atmospheric CO2. So if you’re concentrating on CO2 they are of little interest. But if your interest is in growing trees or other plants then CO2 could be worth looking into. Oh, wait a mo, greenhouse growers have been using extra CO2 for years. You would think that some scientist somewhere might have noticed that by now.
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FWIW
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1867396722774073344.jpg
Caption wording
“being libertarian
TRUTH-O-ME
Connor Boyack
@cboyack
If your solution requires more government, you haven’t found the solution.
5:18 PM • Feb 7, 2026”
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FWIW
An update on the Washington DC sewerage problem
“Potomac Sewage 9,900% Error: DC’s DEI‑Focused Water Authority Can’t Count E. coli
In public health, equity slogans don’t compensate for basic competence, when 242,000 MPN/100 mL is misreported as 2,420.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/02/potomac-sewage-9900-error-dcs-dei-focused-water-authority-cant-count-e-coli/
Via https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/02/14/potomac-sewage-9900-error-dcs-deifocused-water-authority-cant-count-e-coli-n3811894
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“releasing an estimated tens of millions of gallons per day of untreated sewage into the Potomac River just upstream of Washington, D.C., ”
Couldn’t happen in a better spot! Now we will see how accurate the standards for dangerous levels of coliforms are, or if politicians are so full of shit that it won’t effect them at all!
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FWIW – further down the slope
“ISIS Issues a Call to Murder Tommy Robinson, But the Warning UK Cops Give Him Is Much Worse”
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/02/14/isis-issues-call-to-murder-tommy-robinson-but-the-warning-uk-cops-give-him-is-much-worse-n4949506
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“The officer then said that he wanted to “remind” Robinson that “because of this information, it doesn’t authorize you to carry weapons, anything like that, take any pre-emptive action against others.” Robinson asked: “So I’m named in an ISIS manual to be targeted by ISIS terrorists, but I cannot have anything to protect myself.” The officer made clear that this was indeed the case. ”
…the Govt is here to protect you… after the crime has been committed! Another start example of why America must hang onto its 2nd Amendment.
Actually, I’d put money on it being a false flag murder setup by some part of the British Govt, they want him dead as much as ISIS.
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A home brewing question –
Do glass bottles have a fatigue life? I’ve been using some for about 30 years and have had a couple of unexplained blow ups lately.
Same sugar measure as the rest of the batch – and since I started brewing
TIA
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I expect you get micro-cracks that propagate over time, just handling the bottles, temperature gradients, pressure inside..
When I worked at a brewery it was mainly re-used bottles and they were tested by dropping them, full and labelled, into the crate at the final packing. Some broke along the way as they constantly tapped against the ones beside them on the conveyor belts.
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Thanks.
I do have a reserve set.
Latest local update on the economy of home brewing. Full confession first – I use Coopers brew tins – available locally. I use 5 tins at a time which makes 120 litres and bottles about 14 dozen 750 ml tallies. Or the equivalent of 14 cartons of 24 x 350 ml commercial.
That Coopers brew in cartons will cost about $A70 a carton here. So 14 of them will be about $A 980.
Cost of ingredients for the last lot was about $A 140. About 2 hours to get the batch ready and about half a day to bottle. Lasts about 3 months.
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FWIWQ
“The Decision That Started Britain’s Long Decline – Lord Andrew Roberts”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NC-NA2WZws
“Grab a hot beverage and enjoy this very interesting video.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/02/14/britains-long-decline/
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Traditional generators vs inverters vs powerbanks
Some practical testing showing waveforms, THD and EMI, both unloaded and loaded.
Good info, not commonly seen.
https://youtu.be/_UgVdtcpXoY?si=ezuX1gVBtGgHGmeb
The crossover distortion and peak ripple are interesting too.
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Interesting. The first generator output looked like poorly filtered square waves.
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When I went exploring this area 20 years or so ago was around the brushed versus brushless traditional generators.
I got inklings that the power from brushed ones was cleaner than brushless but never anything definitive. Never blew anything up with the Dunlite 7.5 kva brushed one we had.
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I gathered something like that was the problem with the early brushless ones
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I believe that the first inverters just used pulse-width modulation that outputs square waves, and relied for filtering to “round the edges” and approximate a sine wave by removing the high-frequency harmonics. But some modern inverters synthesise the sine wave using high-speed micros, which is a lot better approach.
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I would like to point out how the cartels of Canberra pass laws which are not real science, not even agreed science and not tested opinion at an election. It only takes a signature to a non binding agreement.
For example in Gillards Carbon Credits(Carbon Farming Initiative) Act of 2011.
You get the following explanation of why the Act is necessary.
(2) The first object of this Act is to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, and avoid emissions of greenhouse gases, in order to meet Australia’s obligations under any or all of the following:
(a) the Climate Change Convention;
(b) the Kyoto Protocol;
(c) an international agreement (if any) that is the successor (whether immediate or otherwise) to the Kyoto Protocol.
Incentives
(3) The second object of this Act is to create incentives for people to carry on certain offsets projects.
Carbon abatement
(4) The third object of this Act is to increase carbon abatement in a manner that:
(a) is consistent with the protection of Australia’s natural environment; and
(b) improves resilience to the effects of climate change.
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So when a politician like Scott Morrison, without permission or fore-knowledge of the people of Australia voluntarily signs the whole country up to Net Zero for eternity, he has created another non obligatory agreement like the infamous Kyoto. That’s all it takes for the backroom people in Canberra to write new laws referencing these international agreements to which we are eternally bound. In their opinion. So while they imply these ‘agreements’ are not obligatory, they are treated as International Law to which we are bound, even if no such law exists.
Then Canberra celebrates! No need to justify anything or explain anything. Write any law you like, just keep the cash off the books so it never affects the ‘budget’ or has to be debated in parliament. In fact 99% of Australians would not know this Act had ever been written. This is rule by unelected individuals, laws which have no basis in democracy or the traditions of Westminster. It’s not even taxation, but theft.
This level of Government deceit is common place now, since John Howard’s intial RET act 2001. Which is utterly illegal, but no one notices.
And almost all ‘Climate’cash is kept ‘off the books’, out of the reports to parliament and just Canberra’s massive secret cash business. No house of review. No reporting. All black money and the public has no idea where it all goes. And journalists never question it. Financial reporters in particular. Forbidden territory.
And while Australia hits $1Trillion in debt, the Treasurer can assure us he is close to budget and even may achieve a surplus. Almost everything is off the books. Like Snowy II, which is now double the price of the Panama Canal (corrected for inflation) and taken twice as long as the Chunnel. No one is even sure if it will ever be finished. This was supposed to be 2.5years and $2.5Billion.
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And for all the immense cost of Snowy II, I believe that like half our French desalination plants, it may never be used. Simply because it will be too expensive. You lose at least 40% of your power charging the battery. Who is going to throw that amount of money away? And if coal power is used, it is the exact opposite of reducing CO2 output because it doubles CO2 output. So far from being free power like hydro, it will be off peak wind power at twice the price. Malcolm Turnbull was always a dill. And he has still to return the $444million he and his wife took without permission to ‘save’ the Great Barrier Reef, though how has never been explained.
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In this simple way, any scientific or economic or legal review of what is signed never happens. The whole logic of nett zero is never examined in any parliament, court or laboratory. Nothing is proven. Nothing is costed. No promises are made. No targets are set. And no international enforcement will happen. So voluntary and vague. Except that Australian lawyers in every Court act as if these Agreements are enforceable, obligatory, all powerful. And Australian Lawmakers in Canberra just keep writing laws taxing and robbing everyone as our international obligation. It’s a scam which starts in Canberra. All it takes is to encourage the PM to sign another non binding agreement and gain eternal fame. As an idiot. Like Morrison. What did he think he was doing? For whom?
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And whoever wants to be elected in Australia needs to promise to withdraw from ALL of these non binding agreements. And watch the stack of laws fail as having no basis in fact.
Like Trumps’ clever repeal of Endangerment, which allowed lawmakers to classify Carbon Dioxide as an industrial air pollutant! The molecule from which all life is made was declared an air pollutant? The evil people behind this infamy have to hope to hang on for another 3.3 years and another Democrat government. But with gas prices plummeting, inflation plummeting, manufacturing rocketing, it may be too late and the scam collapses. And the UN machine is going broke, hopefully. It does nothing. 80,000 people justifying themselves while spending billions of other people’s money
In Australia, Kyoto and net zero has to be repealed. Then all these laws collapse. The Safeguard Mechanism is based on the Agricultural Carbon Credits Act. It’s a stack of cards based on a couple of signatures by people who were told just to sign on the line.
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