JoNova
A science presenter, writer, speaker & former TV host; author of The Skeptic's Handbook (over 200,000 copies distributed & available in 15 languages).
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A quick look at Australia’s weather for October and its implications for climate change. Keeping the casual observer in touch with reality. http://www.dinosaurdiary.com.au
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Forget the “official” figures BS. Both daily max and min temps here in SE QLD have been been around 3 degrees BELOW average for the past year. There is definitely “climate change”, but it’s getting cooler and drier, not warmer and wetter, and it has has SFA to do with CO2.
Climate is cyclical. We have been through our 150 year warming cycle. The sun went into a Grand Solar Minimum around 2004, and we are now starting a 150 years of cooling. We are effectively where the world was at back around 1700, which is now referred to as the beginning of the “Little Ice Age” (LIA), which lasted from ~1700 to ~1850.
Atmospheric CO2 is a CONSEQUENCE of global warming/cooling, not the CAUSE of it, and is fully in accordance with Henry’s Law. As the oceans warmed since 1850, they gave off CO2 and atmospheric levels went up, benefiting crops. As they now cool they will absorb more CO2 and atmospheric levels will go down, to the detriment of crops.
Getting the population firmly under lock and key to control the coming mass panic is what this coronovirus scamdemic is all about.
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Hi, Jo.
Here in the UK, your site has suddenly got glitchy / slow to load.
Is your server being overloaded? (You certainly deserve high viewing figures!)
Or has the eye of Sauron been turned in your direction?
Thanks for great journalism.
Seeker.
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Seeker, thanks for the info. Traffic is waaaay up. Sorry if things are slow. Please do let me know how things are going. Because if I have to get more Ram, I will.
I’ve only had one timeout today for a few mins.
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Jo,
Here in Ohio, USA, I have been getting a “500 Internal Server Error” off and on the last couple of days when trying to view your home page and some of your articles. At the moment, it seems to be slow, but the articles are eventually displayed.
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Same here in Australia. Has been slow for a long time.
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Jo
You will remember we had this self same problem of slow loading many months ago. Don’t know if it’s the same fault or something different
[The host is onto it TonyB and yes it’s a problem for all of us , expecting an improvement in a few hours .]AD
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Jo
For what it’s worth here are some timings,
From google to your site took 92 seconds. When at your site it then took 186 seconds to get to the thread I clicked on. I followed a link supplied by one of the commenters which was instant. Coming back to your site took 80 seconds. Posting a comment took 96 seconds.
For comparison climate etc was a few seconds for each function but WUWT is so slow I can no longer access it from my admittedly ageing iPad. I generally post in the evening so the connection can be a little slow but no other site, other than WUWT takes remotely the time that yours does
You had the same problem some months back but then it seemed to get back to a normal speed until a week or so ago.
Hope that helps
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Good detail, but it’s been slow for months now, just a little bit worse recently.
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Here in Michigan, USA it has been taking 15 to 20 seconds to load the JoNova home page … but the content is worth waiting for. In the old days of internet over telephone modems, I had patience. But after 25 years using the internet, my patience lasts about 2.2 seconds before I go berserk — this excellent website is the one exception.
Starting this year as the best climate science in the world, the expansion into COVID news was risky … but the articles were good … and now this new expansion into the US election is risky too … but so far the articles are good again. By “good” I mean that I’m learning things not found on the other seven climate science blogs and websites I read daily.
It’s good news, and sad news at the same time, that this Australian website covers important US news that’s missing from the US mainstream media.
The main problem with the very slow download time is that it gives my computer’s spell check program a lot of extra time to garble my comments. My comments start out as Ph.D. level masterpieces, in my opinion, but then my confuser goes to “work”, and what actually gets posted on the website reads like the rantings and ravings of a deranged child, half-drunk on the scotch from his dad’s unlocked basement bar liquor cabinet.
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Here in Michigan, USA it has been taking 20 to 30 seconds to load the JoNova home page … but the content is worth waiting for. In the old days of internet over telephone modems, I had patience. But after 25 years using the internet, my patience lasts about 2.2 seconds before I go berserk — this excellent website is the one exception.
Starting this year as the best climate science in the world, the expansion into COVID news was risky … but the articles were good … and now this new expansion into the US election is risky too … but so far the articles are good again. By “good” I mean that I’m learning things not found on the other seven climate science blogs and websites I read daily.
It’s good news, and sad news at the same time, that this Australian website covers important US news that’s missing from the US mainstream media.
The main problem with the very slow download time is that it gives my computer’s spell check program a lot of extra time to garble my comments. My comments start out as Ph.D. level masterpieces, in my opinion, but then my confuser goes to “work”, and what actually gets posted on the website reads like the rantings and ravings of a deranged child, half-drunk on the scotch from his dad’s unlocked basement bar liquor cabinet.
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PS. Just saw the time stamp on my last post.
Here it is still Sunday 8th, now 15.55. Tea time.
Seeker
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Yes, sorry. Time stamp here is set to an island 45 minutes past Brisbane to the East. It’s its own timezone.
I’ll have to pay someone to fix it.
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Students develop tool to predict the carbon footprint of algorithms
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/08/students-develop-tool-to-predict-the-carbon-footprint-of-algorithms/
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The future of nuclear: power stations could make hydrogen, heat homes and decarbonise industry
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/08/the-future-of-nuclear-power-stations-could-make-hydrogen-heat-homes-and-decarbonise-industry/
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Hi Jo,
I just wanted to thank you for the great job you do on your blog, especially over the last few weeks. I purchased some ‘Chocolate Support Units’ to say thank you.
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I second that. Keep up the good work Jo.
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Fancy Leaving the Planet? Virgin Galactic Announces a November Flight
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/08/fancy-leaving-the-planet-virgin-galactic-announces-a-november-flight/
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Lockdown hell in England, Brighton on the south coast, turned pleasantly mild for November.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/12008746/
Boris has dismissed suggestions of lifting the lockdown after it was shown the ‘circuit breaker’ in Wales achieved nothing apparently, and that spread in the worst areas in England was already slowing, and that the scary ‘expert’ predictions were completely duff.
Emergency fencing is going up in supermarkets to prevent access to non-essential goods.
On the plus side, no reports of ferrets in Yorkshire with extra-long covid going zombie…….. yet.
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AUSTRALIA RETALIATES!
Chinese wind turbines and solar cells are held up at Australian ports, as talks break down over repatriation costs for recycling in China.
What are the chances o—————————0
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strong>Boy Child, Girl Child
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I started this by saying I do functional analysis. I don’t look at what causes the El Ninos or the La Ninas. I’m not trying to understand the processes. Instead, I look at what they do.
When I do that, I see that talking about the El Nino and the La Nina as separate phenomena is incorrect. They function together as the world’s largest pump. What they do is pump trillions of tonnes of warm equatorial Pacific water polewards. So much water is pumped that the elevation of the equatorial Pacific sea surface drops, and the effect is visible in local tide gauges.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/08/boy-child-girl-child/
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Jo, do you have an audience in the UK Ministry of Health? 🙂
Vitamin D to be delivered to millions of vulnerable people to help protect them from Covid
Nice to see the approach of strengthening the weapons rather than retreating. The wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly, but they do turn.
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Vitamin D is very useful for many health problems, not just COVID-19. In my opinion, Vitamin D (1000mg per day) along with a minimal intake of Vitamin C (500g per day) is excellent for the immune system. These 2 vitamins are what I used to carry me through my COVID-19 infection. As for the advantages or otherwise of liquid Vitamin D instead of tablets, the jury is still out.
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Anyone here on Facebook? I’ve been getting my posts/comments deleted recently.
Are there any alternatives?
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Vindication of HCQ
Randomized Controlled Trials of Early Ambulatory Hydroxychloroquine in the Prevention of COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalization, and Death: Meta-Analysis
Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/09/vindication-of-hcq/
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GWPF calls for urgent inquiry into rising blackout risk, threatening national security
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/08/gwpf-calls-for-urgent-inquiry-into-rising-blackout-risk-threatening-national-security/
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The Guardian: Joe Biden’s $1.7 Trillion Investment Could Reduce Global Warming by 0.1C
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/11/08/the-guardian-joe-bidens-1-7-trillion-investment-could-low-global-warming-by-0-1c/
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Don’t know if its just my computer but the last two posts of yours will not bring up comments all the ones previous still bring up comments.
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reloading can work. There is a problem.
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Trying that but still the last two posts, but it shows the number of comments increasing, so it must be my end.
but this post has no such issue.
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