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This graph should have gone here, sorry.
UAH monthly to end of October is here. Geoff S
http://www.geoffstuff.com/uahnov.jpg
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Trust but verify .
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Moreover, the entire UAH record consists of three “pauses” each a bit warmer with the warming caused entirely by two super El Niño.
See https://www.cfact.org/2021/01/15/the-new-pause/
There has been no CO2 or other GHG warming in the entire 44 year record. None! This is a direct and simple observation that falsifies AGW.
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If there is such a long pause and CO2 levels are a result of temperature and not industry, where is the [CO2] pause?
[If there is such a long pause, then where is the CO2 influence upon the pause? – LVA]
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But let’s look at this. One claim is that [CO2] and temperature are correlated and that little else is important to [CO2]. Since there is no dT at the moment but there is a d[CO2] this assertion is debunked.
The other claim is that CO2 influences the complex global climate system by keeping extra energy in the system. The correlation between the 2 is far from simple and global climate continues to be influenced by all sorts of other factors. This is not similar to the claim I debunked above.
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First claim is not debunked by your lack of understanding of physics.
The oceans are a huge heat sink and continue to warm at a reasonably steady ratedue to solar influence.. hence CO2 continues to rise at a reasonably steady rate.
The atmosphere is warmed by the oceans in release events of energy at El Nino events.. hence for most of the time since accurate atmospheric measurements started around 1979… there has been no warming except at those El Nino events.
It is not the atmospheric temperature that causes release of CO2 from the oceans.. so your fatuous “dT” argument is total non-science.
If the constant rise in CO2 warmed the atmosphere, the temperature rise would be constant…. but it isn’t.
The CO2 warming presumption is thus totally debunked …. and has no scientific veracity whatsoever.
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Second claim is pure speculation with absolutely nothing in the way of science to back it up.
CO2 does not keep energy in the atmospheric systems..
That is proven directly by measurements showing that the slight decrease in the very weak CO2 band is more than compensated by an increase in the atmospheric window.
As usual, you are working from a non-science, mantra-driven baselessness.
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‘ … where is the [CO2] pause?’
There is no pause in the rise of CO2, its going through the roof, yet temperatures have paused. The only conclusion is that CO2 is not a temperature control knob, unlike ENSO.
‘ … global climate continues to be influenced by all sorts of other factors.’
Natural variables rule, CO2 has no case to answer.
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There is absolutely zero evidence of any warming by increased atmospheric CO2, in any real data, anywhere…
There is also zero scientific evidence that CO2 affects the weather or the climate in any way what so ever.
The continued solar warming of the oceans, which are a huge heat sink, and basically level out the solar warming effect, explains why CO2 continues to rise at a more or less constant level.
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Thanks for that graph, it explains something that has always puzzled me.
In South East Australia a low TSI had an impact.
‘Anomalously cold periods were also identified in 1835–1836 and 1848–1849, in general agreement with temperature reconstructions from other regions of the Southern Hemisphere.’ (Ashcroft et al)
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So the world is shutting down coal power, farming, meat, cars and more to prevent what exactly? Global Warming? Where?
This graph should be on the front of all COP27 information with Congratulations. Job well done. You can go home now.
There has been Nett Zero warming in the last decade.
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“So the world is shutting down coal power, farming, meat, cars and more to prevent what exactly?”
So the Western developed world is shutting down coal power, farming, meat, cars and more to do what exactly? Clearly China , India, and Africa , and others have a different plan.
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I have all sorts of things saved in a folder called ” The B—rds knew ”
Here is one :
https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:506291-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML
Almost before the jabs were rolled out the UK government was calling for tenders for software to process an expected large number of vaccine injuries .
I wonder what they knew ?
Quote :
II.1.4)Short description:
The MHRA urgently seeks an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software tool to process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs) and ensure that no details from the ADRs’ reaction text are missed.
Dated October 2020
Never forget , never stop seeking justice for what those monsters did with their frankenvax !
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Amnesty?
Ha. No chance.
Nuremberg v2.0
Prosecutions for all involved.
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I think that in future, in Australia, the onus will be put on consumers to be responsible for their own powe.
The terrifying thing is that to grab unreliable power at the rare times it is available they’ll introduce expensive battery mandates.
Everyone will be responsible for grabbing and storing their own power for the random times it comes down the line.
If you have no power, that will be YOUR fault for not having a big enough battery, panels, windmill or even a rainbow coloured unicorn from which to harvest its f@rts.
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Here in the Adelaide Hills there was a noticeable move to wood heating in the last 3 years. Result higher prices for wood, but since electricity and gas also cost more so what?
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Should be smokier too. Cough, cough.
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I was recently researching smaller wood heaters as a possible option for keeping warm next winter, when I noticed that one of the accessories offered was a ducted outside air intake for the unit. Makes sense and it is something I never thought about, always living in draughty houses with wood heaters during my youth. If you have built an airtight house with wood heating, keep a window open.
Never stop learning.
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Ceiling fans help with air tight houses/rooms. though a bit awkward with the current 2.4 m height…
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So our socialist masters will be requiring people with rental properties to buy “large enough” batteries ?
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It seems to me that having something like a Redflow battery between the farm and the grid, so that at least there is some buffer, say 3-4 hours , before starting the main generator becomes necessary.
For example next week the whole farm ,comprising ten different connections (water pumps , factory , houses etc.) will be down all day, while the whole country is awash with hydro power.
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When I visited Delhi some years ago, my hosts had a row of car batteries behind the house and 12V wiring around the house for when the power went out.
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It is now coming out that many covid players are starting to recognise the covid vaccine disaster and want an amnesty for their wrong doing.
Don’t forgive, don’t forget.
Rational pro-science people such as most on this blog warned of the problems and dangers all along.
Here is a video from YouTuber Salty Cracker.
“Lefty Jan Addicts Want Covid Amnesty…”
LANGUAGE WARNING
https://youtu.be/N22YzEUTMuU
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I’ve just had this conversation with the better half.
She is becoming complacent due to the longevity of none of our “leaders” being accountable for what they have done to innocent citizens.
I, on the other hand, will not let it go. We were discriminated against by our governments for not succumbing to an experimental injection.
The longer this goes on, the more determined I become.
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This one from Amazing Polly . . . . .
‘Pandemic Amnesty? Not a Chance in Hell’
https://www.bitchute.com/video/c4siEY2d7FEU/
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It’s simple …. As I predicted, a new distraction would be created ( starvation and or war ) to hide what appears to be mass genocide in the making from the v.x and mass genocide from starvation and it war.
And they want an amnesty from the evil they have visited upon humanity?
Legal justice must prevail, we will fail future generations if we don’t prosecute those responsible.
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Ive been waiting for previously undiscovered impacts of Covid infections to suddenly now be discovered. That will help paper over excess and sudden deaths.
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I think as more and more people know of someone who has died suddenly, it will only be a matter of time untilt he dam breaks.
However, I suspect the demons behind the v.x will have thier flesh puppets start a war or wait until the compounding fertilizer shortage means ther ejust isnt enough food to go round to finish people off.
Dont forget too, the pending CBDC – I suspect they will say “if you sign up for the ( Mark ) digital currency, you can have food”
Its all evil.
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It hasn’t changed much you know.
I really need to get Mrs H into care, but it is impossible until we get fully vaxxed. I can’t even check out facilities or lodge an application.
I rang my local state member’s office y’day to find out the regulation governing this and he looked it up and as of the 31st of last month there are no state regulations. I emailed the care home to find out what authority they cite and they have not got back to me.
Is this Federal regs?
Before hitting “post” I rang my fed member’s office and was told that for residents, the jab is voluntary. Asked about visitors he seems to think that’s a state matter. A lot of bum covering going on methinks.
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The White House had to delete one of its Tweets after posting false information on Twitter and new volunteer genuine fact checkers caught them out.
It wouldn’t have happened under the pre-Musk Twitter.
YouTuber Salty Cracker discusses:
LANGUAGE WARNING
6 mins.
https://youtu.be/xhVeWyl-NsU
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It is time to call climate alarmism for what it is – LIES.
For some time it has been known that changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration follow after changes in temperature so it is IMPOSSIBLE for the later CO2 change to be the cause of the earlier temperature change. The fact is that temperature determines the rate of generation of CO2.
Further, CO2 is an inert colourless, odourless, tasteless gas that does not generate any heat energy whatsoever, so again it is IMPOSSIBLE for CO2 to cause any warming of anything. It exists in the environment warming or cooling through conduction, convection or radiation as does everything else in a attempt at achieving thermodynamic equilibrium which is never achieved due to the ever changing configuration of the solar system and changes in solar radiation, the major driving force in climate change.
The ‘CO2 causes global warming’ scam arose when avowed communist, millionaire and Canadian representative to the UN, Maurice Strong, set up the IPCC in order to destroy capitalism via the demonisation of CO2, the source of the cheap, reliable power that created its success. By the way things are going, he is going to posthumously achieve his ambition unless we all speak up with the truth now.
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Unfortunately it is not that simple. CO2 is a minor greenhouse gas because it absorbs and emits radiation in wavelengths that are emitted by the surface of the Earth. So it is possible that increasing the CO2 might increase the temperature, by slightly slowing the rate at which incoming solar energy escapes out to space.
The natural lag you reference is 800 years or so, at the end of ice ages, so is not relevant to today’s case. My view is we do not know why the CO2 is increasing because nothing is being measured except the increase. Coming out of the little ice age is a possibility. Human emissions are another.
The problem is that this mere conjecture of CO2 caused warming has been accepted as an established fact by a lot of academic scientists. It now dominates the field of climate science and has been programmed into all the models.
As I explain in comment 1.2 above, I think this conjecture has been falsified, but much of the scientific community still accepts it. This is a blunder of collosal proportions but it is not lying because they believe it. This includes the thousand or so scientists who have written the six IPCC ARs to date.
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David W:
Not sure about the thousand or so scientists who have written the IPCC reports. Donna La Framboise reported many less than that for one report, and noted that some weren’t much qualified.
And “mere conjecture of CO2 caused warming has been accepted as an established fact by a lot of academic scientists” and many others.
Sept. 3 2021
The conviction that global warming is melting ice in the polar regions has once again led climate warriors into danger and the need for rescue. The MS Malmo, a Swedish-registered ship, was just rescued after being trapped in ice, and its passengers airlifted to safety.
Arctic tours ship MS MALMO with 16 passengers on board got stuck in ice on Sep 3 off Longyearbyen, Svalbard Archipelago, halfway between Norway and North Pole. The ship is on Arctic tour with Climate Change documentary film team, and tourists, concerned with Climate Change and melting Arctic ice.
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It only takes 200 for each AR to get 1200 and we’ll over 300 have been listed in each of the last three for WG1, so I am allowing for repeat authors. Qualification is irrelevant to my point, but all the highly cited climate scientists are devout alarmists.
It is what Kuhn called a “paradigm” which is a body of basic beliefs that guides research because it is so widely accepted. The paradigm itself is not in question and neither is AGW in most schools. AGW is institutionalized. Every model uses it. In fact in the CMIP exercises all the allowed forcings are anthro. Only humans can cause lasting climate change!
That Mann is one of the top scientists (based on citation by others) speaks volumes.
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David,
I am most disappointed with Your reply. Please click on my name which will take you to my web site where you can see the results from my analysis of climate data. There you will see that for an average Earth temperature of 15.5̊C (288.5̊K), 99.8% of the photons that may be absorbed by the atmospheric CO2 molecules will be from the 15 micron absorption band and these represent radiation from a source at -79.5̊C (193.5̊K), so they will not heat the Earth at its average surface temperature of 288.5̊K, and much more.
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Bevan is correct, as usual.
There are three bands in the electromagnetic spectrum over which CO2 has this absorption property, none of the three correspond to temperatures at which measurable energy can be transmitted to the earth’s surface.
In theory, some energy may flow of the order of a few milliwatts over the planet,
In reality, there is no such effect as ‘Greenhouse’ in climate terms.
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We know full well why (atmospheric) CO2 is increasing. It is because sea near-surface temperatures have been increasing so the oceans have been outgassing previously dissolved CO2. Put simply, the colder the water the more CO2 is dissolved. The warmer the water the less CO2 is dissolved. Henry’s Law.
Why do you think the major commercial fishing grounds are in the North Sea and the Antarctic Ocean? Holes in the Ozone Layer?
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I don’t understand how The Teals are allowed to get away with describing themselves as “independents” when clearly they are a political party. The only difference is that they have not bothered to register as such with the Australian Electoral Commission.
Incidentally, when watching YouTube the ads can be highly geographically targeted. I get ads for the local Teal candidate for my specific electorate. It claims to be an independent in the ads.
(Notice I refer to Leftists as “it”. They don’t like being “misgendered” so I never assume their pronouns.)
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I make a point when commenting on blogs of not capitalising those I do not respect.
So, the teals remind me of characters out of “desperate housewives”.
I could be wrong (it happens occasionally), but I reckon most of them will be one term wonders when their constituents work out they are merely virtue-signalling sows with their snouts firmly in the trough.
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I saw a comment on a set of pictures of teal candidates in Sydney. Some wag said it looked like the Mosman Book Club. Mosman is a wealthy harbourside suburb for those not familiar.
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I believe that the term “Tiffany Teals” is a good description of the not a party MPs considering their privileged backgrounds, similar to the “doctor’s wives” who mostly confirmed they would vote for the Greens to protect the environment when interviewed at an exclusive Sydney Eastern Suburbs tennis court complex.
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And consider the Teal’s backers, Climate200 funded by renewables industry shareholders and GetUp established by the Union Movement via the AWU when Bill Shorten was a senior executive there and became a GetUp board member, the Union Movement that donates to GetUp, Labor and the Greens.
If it quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck and swims with ducks ………
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UN COP27 — It’s a gas, gas, gas
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2022/11/02/un-cop27-its-a-gas-gas-gas/
The beginning: “Who would have guessed that a UN COP would turn into a promotion point for fossil fuel development? COP27 is looking that way, thanks to the energy crisis and Africa’s determination to develop itself. After all, these are developing countries, right? In this case some of them want to develop, use and sell their abundant natural gas resources. Imagine the green horror! Poor countries actually making money from fossil fuels.
How, or even if, this rapidly emerging issue will get on the COP 27 table remains to be seen, but it is certainly a lively topic of discussion on the side. Europe needs gas and Africa has it; green agenda be damned.”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
Go Africa!
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Started reading a fictional series by author CJ Box about the exploits of Joe Pickett, a Game Warden in Wyoming. I do this to avoid gnashing teeth at the unnecessary climate hysteria and power generation madness confronting this land of droughts and now flooding rain. Love this quote to start book 5:
Too true….
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Scientists Just Discovered a Huge River Hidden Under Antarctica
Scientists have to factor in all kinds of variables when it comes to predicting ice loss in Antarctica as the world warms up.
Now researchers need to take into account a huge river that runs for some 460 kilometers (286 miles) deep beneath the ice; a distance longer than the river Thames that runs through London in the UK.
Experts say the newly discovered waterway and its offshoots have the potential to substantially affect the way that the glacial ice above it flows and melts.
The researchers behind the discovery used a combination of airborne radar surveys that can peer through the ice, plus water flow modeling. The large area under examination includes ice from both the east and west ice sheets in the Antarctic, with water running off into the Weddell Sea.
“The region where this study is based holds enough ice to raise the sea level globally by 4.3 meters [14 feet],” says glaciologist Martin Siegert from Imperial College London in the UK.
“How much of this ice melts, and how quickly, is linked to how slippery the base of the ice is. The newly discovered river system could strongly influence this process.”
“Previous studies have looked at the interaction between the edges of ice sheets and ocean water to determine what melting looks like,” says glaciologist Neil Ross from the University of Newcastle in the UK.
“However, the discovery of a river that reaches hundreds of kilometers inland driving some of these processes shows that we cannot understand the ice melt fully without considering the whole system: ice sheet, ocean, and freshwater.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01059-1
The Science is settled. Apart from almost daily new discoveries affecting it…
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The Methane Madness.
Help me all.
As a first responder I have access to gas monitors which we use to measure… hmm, gas levels.
So what are the CH4 levels that are reportable in clear air? What can I read re CH4?… Nothing. The amount is so tiny that it does not register.
It is reported in May 2022, that we have 1908ppb methane in the atmosphere. That is 1908 parts per 1,000,000,000.
The site i refer to is:
https://www.methanelevels.org/
Now world governments and the UN are saying we need to cut emissions of CH4 to stop climate change…… ok all good.
New Zealand is going to tax methane emissions, this is the plan:
https://hewakaekenoa.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/FINAL-He-Waka-Eke-Noa-Executive-Summary.pdf
The Australian government is also keen on cutting Methane emissions. It is reported by the ABC here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-13/australia-set-pledge-methane-emission-reduction/101531516
Quote from article: “Federal government to pledge to reduce methane emissions by 30 per cent.”
Ok.
Let us go to the Australian Governments’ “National Greenhouse Gas Inventory”.
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/climate-change/publications/national-greenhouse-gas-inventory-quarterly-update-march-2022#emissions-by-gas
(Supplied by the Autralian Gov “Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water”.)
The interactive graph on the said Australian Gov website, shows that methane emissions from our agriculture have “reduced” from:
18.78 (Mt CO2-e) December 1999 quarter, to 15.65 (Mt CO2-e) during March 2022 quarter. (16.6% reduction).
The Australian Gov wants to reduce our 2022 CH4 emissions level further by 30% in the next 8 years.
OK.
Supplied by the GMI (Global Methane Initiative) is an interactive graph which “can be used to explore methane emissions measurements and projections throughout the world.”
Link: https://www.globalmethane.org/methane-emissions-data.aspx
The data above was “extracted from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) report, Global Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Emission Projections & Mitigation Potential: 2015-2050.”
Link: https://www.epa.gov/global-mitigation-non-co2-greenhouse-gases
Look at it for yourselves.
Now I am just a humble engineer.
So to all,
I humbly ask: How can such an insignificant trace gas have any effect whatsoever on global temperature?
Like CO2, why are we taxing CH4 emissions? Why are we putting a tax on agriculture? It doesn’t make any sense.
the “evil” trace gas, CO2, at 420,000 ppb is a monster compared to CH4.
Better minds than mine may let me know what I am missing.
Please do.
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william x, check in with the UN/World Economic Forum. A few weeks ago Antonio Gueterres and Klaus Schwab jointly proclaimed that “they are the Science” and the World needs to know it. And there was I thinking that it was Dr Anthony Fauci that was the Science.
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Bevan it is sad,
Fauci, Antonio and Klaus et al.. The politicization of science is what is really tragic because, Imho, that ONLY undermines our future trust in the scientific fields.
That is not what science should be.
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“politicization of science” = denial of scientific methodology.
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The advantage is that when Govt science is ridiculed by the plebs and no-one believes what the academics in their nice sinecures say, there will be a rise of private scientists who will be the hope and knowledge of the future. Just another distancing of the Govt and their courtiers from the people who make society work.
The Health Ranger may be full of every conspiracy and chance to sell his pills, but he put up his own cash to buy the lab equipment for measuring contaminants like Roundup in food. Luckily the price and simplicity of lab gear like mass spectrographs is coming down every decade.
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“why are we taxing CH4 emissions?”
Actually we are taxing respiration in cattle, and sheep.
You can reduce your tax payment by having less grazing animals.
See how this works?
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It’s really simple….
They are trying to starve people to death, but do it slowly.
The same people who want amnesty from thier covid crimes want to tax food out of existence via “fart taxes”.
They are evil and we need to push back hard via all legal means and stop the madness. These people appear to be criminally insane.
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Nice article, however the two questions you asked at the end, namely:
1) How can such an insignificant trace gas have any effect whatsoever on global temperature?
2) Like CO2, why are we taxing CH4 emissions? Why are we putting a tax on agriculture? It doesn’t make any sense.
The answers are as follows:
1) No effect whatsoever. (maybe a smidgen, I don’t know) CH4 + 2O2 → CO2 + 2H2O
2) Money or to be more succinct as ‘Sundance’ of TheLastRefuge would say “There are Trillions at steak” in other words they want your money.
The ‘elites’ want money, power and control over us plebs. History is just repeating itself.
Regards
Climate Heretic
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William:
Think of it as 1.9 p.p.m. of methane.
It is degraded in the atmosphere by hydroxyl ions (generated by solar UV).
It was measured in 1860/61 as 4.5 times more absorbing of IR than CO2, but since then that figure has grown from 12 times in the first IPCC report to 25, 35, etc. until 85 times more absorbing. If that was true then the increase in the last 40 years would account for half the Global Warming figure, meaning that CO2 was only half the threat claimed.
But the real reason seems to have been that cows emit methane so an excuse to shut down the dairy and beef industries.
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google it mate.
Also, there are other gases that at those concentrations will kill you in minutes.
[Evidence in support of your claims would be better than fearmongering. Relevance and context would be helpful. -LVA]
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There is no scientific evidence at all that either CO2 or CH4 cause any global warming at all.
But as you said the other day, about these anti-science scares.. “It doesn’t matter if its true”
LIES and deliberate fabrications are the way the leftist memes are regurgitated.
LIES and deliberate fabrications are what the left rely on.. always.
REALITY and FACTS just don’t matter to them.
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that would be fascinating if the topic wasnt about controlling the global climate
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NASA-GISS appear to be a Le Chatelier’s Principle (Equilibrium Law) denier.
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Leo G:
I have a great idea for CLEAN ENERGY using the Global Warming principle.
As you know, the idea is that the sun heats the earth which radiates Infra Red, which is “trapped” by CO2. This re-radiates the IR with half going to space and half back to the earth (as back radiation), causing the earth to warm up.
The answer is giant thermos bottles starting with warm water. The water radiates IR and the back radiation heats the water. Further the insulation stops most of the heat escaping to space so in a short time the ‘thermos’ will be boiling. Extraction of this extra heat would warm houses and other buildings without the need for electricity and without any CO2 emissions.
I am sure Chris Bowen would be delighted to pour billions of dollars into this.
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A 23-Ton Chunk of Dead Space Rocket Is About to Fall Out of The Sky
China successfully launched the third and final piece of its new Tiangong space station on Monday – and the rocket’s 23-ton body is coming back down somewhere on Earth this weekend.
The Mengtian module, which carries science experiments, blasted off on China’s Long March 5B rocket. As it climbed into space, the rocket’s core stage gave the space-station module one last push into Earth’s orbit before detaching itself.
Unlike most modern rocket bodies, which are designed to push themselves into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, the Long March 5B body fell into its own orbit around Earth.
It’s on track to descend into the atmosphere again – an event called “reentry” – and fall to Earth on Friday or in the morning Saturday in the Eastern time zone.
No one knows where the rocket body will fall, and nobody is controlling it. But it’s extremely unlikely that any debris from space will hit you.
https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-rocket-body-falling-to-earth-this-weekend-2022-11
Let’s all concentrate and make it hit any place where politicians congregate…
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Parts of Japan (eg Myagi Prefecture, central main island Japan) were on high alert yesterday concerning possible junk from a North Korean missile that flew over Japan.
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Remember SkyLab? It fell back to earth over 40 years ago.
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Australia to Lead Global Fight Against Ransomware
The Biden Administration has announced Australia will head the international fight against ransomware cyberattacks as part of the U.S.-led Counter Ransomware Initiative.
The announcement, on Nov. 2, by the White House comes after the administration gathered 36 countries and the European Union (27 countries), for the Second International Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) Summit October 31-November 1, 2022
According to the White House, Australia will chair the International Counter Ransomware Task Force (ICRTF) to coordinate resilience, disruption, and counter illicit finance activities.
The ICRTF will also be used to develop cross-sectoral tools and cyber threat intelligence exchange to increase early warning capabilities and prevent attacks, as well as consolidate policy and best practice frameworks.
Additionally, it will generate resources for the public on “tools, tactics, and procedures” to improve awareness and cyber hygiene around ransomware globally, and will work with key private sector partners, including the establishment of an ancillary industry chapter that would be actively engaged with the work of the ICRTF.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/australia-to-lead-global-fight-against-ransomware_4835812.html
Well we certainly have the most recent experience.
Let’s start with ENCRYPTING DATA.
Oh, das gubermint wants to eliminate encryption using the predictable “prevent criminal activity” BS excuse so they can spy on everyone, but we’ve all seen the consequences of that.
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The Medibank and Optus data breaches are a good reason to check your credit score. It could even help track down criminals
Millions of Australians have had their privacy breached in recent cyber attacks against Optus, Medibank and other companies.
Cybercriminals stole sensitive health and financial data that can be used for ransom, blackmail or fraud.
Law enforcement agencies are still investigating the origin of these attacks, but as experts in cyber and national security we can say two things are already clear.
First, anyone affected should check their credit record. Second, Australia’s international cyber engagement strategy — which sets the terms for how we work with other countries to maintain national cybersecurity — is desperately in need of an update.
Alongside stolen data such as a name, address and driver’s licence details, cybercriminals will need an email address, a phone number and payslips.
Phone numbers and email addresses used for communication and authentication are easy enough to provide, and fake payslips can be generated using free websites.
In some cases, cyber criminals can start using the credit cards instantly if approved. The victim will have no idea about the existence of this credit card unless the credit report is checked as part of a subsequent mortgage or credit application.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-03/data-breaches-check-your-credit-score-track-cyber-criminals/101608276
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Vodafone Italy discloses data breach after reseller hacked
Vodafone Italia is sending customers notices of a data breach, informing that one of its commercial partners, FourB S.p.A., who operates as a reseller of the telecommunications services in the country, has suffered a cyberattack.
According to the notice, the cyberattack took place in the first week of September and resulted in the compromise of sensitive subscriber details.
The exposed information includes subscription details, identity documents with sensitive data, and contact details.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vodafone-italy-discloses-data-breach-after-reseller-hacked/
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TikTok confirms Chinese staff can access European user data
TikTok’s privacy policy update includes an explicit statement that China-based company employees can access European user data.
Short video-sharing platform TikTok, owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance, updated its privacy policy for European users, stating who can access user data stored on the company’s servers. TikTok said European user data is stored in the US and Singapore.
“Based on a demonstrated need to do their job […], we allow certain employees within our corporate group located in Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States remote access to TikTok European user data,” the company said.
According to TikTok, access to user data is guarded by “a series of robust security controls and approval protocols” as well as other methods that are recognized under the GDPR, the European Union’s privacy and security law.
TikTok’s policy updates apply to the members of the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, collectively recognized as “Europe” by the Chinese platform.
TikTok has over 1 billion users worldwide, with over 225 million in Europe and 80 million in the US. The platform’s rising popularity sparked security concerns over the platform’s data use practices.
Lawmakers and think-tankers fear China could use the social network to spy on the US population and the military. Earlier reports show that the company might have transferred data of American users to China-based servers.
https://cybernews.com/news/tiktok-staff-access-european-data/
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Rishi Sounak: He is revising the law in Britain and “finishing” them legally LGBTQ – “There is only the biological sex and not the trans”
“We are determined to end brainwashing.”
Britain’s new prime minister, Rishi Sunak, and leader of the Conservative Party, rejects the existence of a third-party and plans to “Revise the law of equality to make it clear that gender means -only – biological sex.”.
This would mean that people born as men (“biological males”) will not be able to compete in women’s sports.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/rishi-sunak-reportedly-planning-review-25403893
And remember – if you have to “transition” to a woman, it’s because you aren’t one…
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Squishy Sunak also said he supported Fracking, before he became PM, then banned it immediately. A top priority for him, evidently.
I wouldn’t trust anything else he says.
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This is outside the normal range of posts on Jo Nova’s blog, but I find it very interesting and very encouraging. From Magatte Wade (https://magattewade.com/):
Bono, who has long been a staunch advocate for redistribution and aid to end poverty, has now come out admitting that he’s been wrong all along.
After all of his years of activism, he has finally understood that redistribution is not the way to fix poverty.
Instead… COMMERCE of “entrepreneurial capitalism”, which some like to refer to as “entrepreneurial value creation”, is the only way to fix poverty to get people into prosperity.
Check out the quote from his interview in the New York Times here:
“I ended up as an activist in a very different place from where I started. I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem. I now know that’s not true. There’s a funny moment when you realize that as an activist: The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it’s entrepreneurial capitalism.”
How wonderful is this?
I’ve shared a couple of videos about this on social media here and here, because I think this is just so exciting.
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Clintel – Open Letter to Global Leaders assembled at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
“Clintel has sent an Open Letter to the Organization of COP27, the Organisation of African States, the Chairman of the IPCC and the Secretariat of the UNFCCC.
In this Letter we point out that it would be a crime against the African people to require them to base their energy system on intermittent wind and solar power. That would push the more than 1.3 billion people on this continent further into poverty. Economic development cannot happen without affordable and reliable energy supplies.
On behalf of all the poor people in Africa, we sincerely hope that Clintel’s message will have a positive influence on the decisions that will be taken next week.
Read letter here
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I was saying that decades ago, but include India. How different it would be in sub-Sahara Africa if they didn’t cook with cattle dung, the girls could do a little study at night and Mum ‘n Dad could watch a cheap TV instead of doing what comes naturally.
Green zealots called me uncaring because I didn’t care that I was poisoning their grandkids, but it is they who are heartless.
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Apparently the children in some places, first thing in the morning, collect the cow dung…. then race off to have breakfast without washing hands, get sick, miss school and the cycle of poverty continues.
If only there was a place where they could go to have time to wash hands, eat breakfast and go on to school. It could keep them healthy, save the family money, finish schooling …..
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All that will come once the solar panels are installed.
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Ever since it was first announced, using the most powerful gramophones, concerning ‘the disease’ allegedly ascribed to a region, a bat, or other, Geert Vanden Bossche’s latest analysis or talks are always something i look forward to ruminating in order to make some kind amateur biological sense in my case of ‘the science’ as it evolves, as well as being food for further detail, thought or study, usually both.
His most recent writing entitled below is well worth the read in my opinion, and in my case perused more than once as there is considerable detail.
From Geert Vanden Bossche’s recent title:
Published November 2, 2022 on his website, ‘Voice For Science
and Solidarity‘
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Dinesh D’Souza’s book of 2000 Mules about how the Democrats stole the election from Trump is now out, and goes into more detail than the documentary while responding to critics. Out in good time to affect the result of the US midterms – legally.
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On this day the average low overnight temperature for my location is 19 degrees.
The record low is 14 degrees, recorded in 2003.
It is 4.15 am, and the temperature is 11 degrees and dropping.
Could I have some global warming please?
Old JoNovians should remember this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJUFTm6cJXM
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Sniff sniff
Finding that old track made feel all bleary-eyed and nostalgic for the good old days.
So here’s the one that started it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRDpQ9NvssU
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More Range Rovers or your yam supply is under threat!
“The Dangers of Low Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/03/the-dangers-of-low-atmospheric-co2-concentrations/
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“Not Dangerous Once — Doubly So”
“If you recall I pointed out early on (2020) that one of the reasons we never had a coronavirus vaccine in the past is that they don’t work — not only do they rapidly fail to neutralize the virus, but in animal trials every single one of the attempts resulted in ADE to some degree — that is, they made the infection worse, frequently with 100% fatality rates on challenge with the wild virus.
I wrote on this extensively and pointed out that it would take quite a bit of time to develop the profile on this, because the entire reason it happens is that coronaviruses mutate at a very high rate. That is, you could easily run a short-term (e.g. 3 month) trial and not see it, but a year down the road…. aw shit. The really bad news if it happens is that the odds that the damage is persistent are very high, because the virus will continue to mutate yet your specific antibody profile and recall through B and T-cells is fixed by the (foolish) inoculation you received.
Well, here we are.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247352
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/02/big-oil-small-oil/
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Damm that was good! Every politician should be tied down and forced to read it!
Bluntly, the parasites in power are banning fossil fuel exploration and telling oil companies they will be out of business in a couple of decades. So the oil companies are slowing production to preserve what they have for when the REAL sh!t hits in a few years and we are all drastically short of fuel.
At that time today’s prices will just be pocket money and they are safe as developing any new fields takes decades. For the rest of us, we’re screwed!
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Willis Eschenbach at his best.
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https://judithcurry.com/2022/11/02/the-climate-crisis-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/
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Grabbed this from the post for further discussion.
‘Solar indirect effects are inadequately treated by climate models, which would act to amplify solar cooling.
‘A shift to the cold phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation is expected in the next decade, which influences not only global temperatures but also Greenland mass balance and Arctic sea ice.
‘Once you include alternative scenarios of natural variability, temperature change by 2100 could easily be below 2oC and even 1.5oC. Recall that this warming is with reference to a baseline of 1850-1900; 1.1oC warming has already occurred.’
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Solar this and solar that has nothing to do with the diminishing returns from co2.
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CO2 influence diminishes no matter how much extra goes into the atmosphere, its a lukewarm perspective.
From where I’m standing CO2 has negligible influence on temperature, weather and climate.
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Synthetic Fingerprint of SARS-CoV-2 – Round Table w/ Alex Washburne, PhD and Kevin McKernan, PhD
39:25 “The goal (of Science) is wisdom not truth”.
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Here’s another related post, with some good comments.
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-saic-data-shows-zero-vaccine/comments#comment-10221324
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Oops. Last was supposed to be….
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/rte-roundtable-talk-17-synthetic
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Update on July bus fire in Connecticut USA:
Green Boondoggle: Connecticut’s Electric Bus Fleet Still Out of Service After Summer Battery Inferno
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/11/03/green-boondoggle-connecticuts-electric-bus-fleet-still-out-of-service-after-summer-battery-inferno/
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Trying to fix a problem with windows 10 regedit.
https://imgbox.com/fmdzHiNz
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Turns out I didn’t have a problem, I just forgot how to use rgedit.
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grrr… regedit
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typos are important if you are playing with regedit 🙂
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Your micro$oft windoze problems will disappear if you simply move to a Linux based OS.
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Not necessarily – seems Microsoft now has a seat on the Linux board and there are dark mutterings about “System D”
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From MSN;
“Sneaky double-speaking boy minister Matt Kean checking in to Qatar Airlines to fly to London then Egypt to find new ways of making electricity more expensive.
The $25,000 flight + the entourage of staff going too + accommodation and living it up by all … probably a quarter of a million dollars dropped.
Kean is off to COP27 – the UN climate wankfest.
Didn’t look too happy to be caught out.
By the way – the COP27 is such a waste of time, even Greta is staying home.”
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“Voting Green”
https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Image-2022-11-03-06-20-30.png
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/11/voting-green/
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Maybe Matt sees his next career move on the international stage , once he makes a great success and showpiece out of the NSW grid.
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Blocking high pressure keeps the rain at bay.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/barely-a-blip-on-the-national-radar/906112
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” Experts say climate change is making drought and flooding worse across the globe”
https://twitter.com/i/events/1587087406913572865?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email
I think a COP putting out junk science may be new.
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A warmer world is a wetter world. Even the “experts” kNOAA that.
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/warming-earth-also-wetter-earth
Fun fact – the largest desert in the world is in Antarctica.
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More on the early tropical cyclone season, the models are in harmony with this forecast. They are also predicting monsoon disruption.
https://climateimpactcompany.com/ag-market-hot-spot-extreme-rains-in-australia-about-to-end-early-season-tcs-expected-2/
Also, they refer to the bureau as ABOM, no respect.
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“A couple of days ago, I put up a post rejecting calls for a “Pandemic Amnesty” from some quarters.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/11/heh.html
Links to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwio208q3jY
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Oh Dear!
“Petro-Canada issues huge EV charging fee increase across the country, one week after acknowledging how unreliable their network is [Update]”
https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/petro-canada-issues-huge-ev-charging-fee-increase-across-the-country/
Via SDA
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“Latest CDC science”
“https://ace.mu.nu/archives/401580.php
“If you want the telltales that indicate biomedical research is mostly crap…full of conjecture, flat-out guesses, and the conflation of authors’ opinions for facts…look no further than this “study.””
“Often,” “May be,” “Seems to suggest.” These are all weasel-words designed to hide the undeniable fact that they cannot prove their theory, but they really, really, REALLY want you to believe it! And…correlation is not the same thing as causality, but that little tidbit seems to have slipped past these geniuses.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/11/04/november-4-2022-reader-tips/#comments
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Polar Amplification is a myth.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/11/03/dramatic-cooling-and-recent-ice-shelf-advance-in-the-antarctic-peninsula/
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African Countries Must Oppose Measures at COP27 that Prevents Africa from Making Full Use of its Fossil Fuels
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Africa is mobilizing for gas, backed by the EU.
https://www.cfact.org/2022/11/02/un-cop27-its-a-gas-gas-gas/
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Does China have many interests in Africa? Just wondering.
Or does Africa have an interest in joining BRICS+?
This seems to make good sense.
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They seem to think they have interests everywhere, including 40 of the 55 African states involved with BRI in one way or another.
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‘As of August 2022, China’s official Belt and Road website lists 52 African countries who have signed onto an agreement or understanding with the One Belt One Road initiative. Africa is considered a key part of China’s One Belt One Road efforts, due to its potential for rails, roads, and energy.’ (wiki)
On the continent only South Africa belongs to BRICS at the moment, but there is talk of others joining soon.
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Oh my dog, there is talk of another La Nina to emerge next year.
https://climateimpactcompany.com/u-s-energy-market-midday-update-7-2-2/
That of course would be unprecedented.
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A majority of models might be half right, which is simply not good enough.
‘The majority of models predict a return to neutral ENSO during early 2023, indicating a relatively short-lived event. ENSO events typically decay during the southern hemisphere autumn.’ (ABoM)
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Democracy is poorly served when the electorate and politicians are misinformed. I blame the media and Dutton for not showing backbone.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/04/australian-government-to-ban-all-future-fossil-fuel-projects/
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How many miracles can you fit on a pinhead?
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Scotland still had glaciers during the depth of the LIA. (wuwt)
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“Emily Oster’s Plea Bargain”
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/emily-osters-plea-bargain/
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