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The core idea of man made CO2 driven Global Warming is that our exhausts are causing the increase in CO2. If that’s not true, nothing about it is true.
C14 shows its not true, but there is also some simple arithmetic.
This link has a graph of CO2 over the last 55 years.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/523651/carbon-dioxide-levels-reach-another-new-record-at-niwa-s-monitoring-site-on-wellington-s-coast
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Ignore their commentary which pays the bills. What is spectacular is that CO2 growth is a near perfect straight line. You don’t get funded without pushing man made CO2.
Now the rate of change of Co2 is supposedly entirely caused by human fossil fuel. But CO2 ’emissions’ have grown spectacularly, 3500% in the last 125 years and 250% in this short time. So 18 billion tons of CO2 in 1970 and 38 billion tons of CO2 in 2025. So the slope, the rate of change of CO2 should have increased x 2.5. But it hasn’t changed at all! Therefore emissions and CO2 growth are not the same thing. That’s undeniable schoolboy maths.
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And the President of the UN still insists that the ‘oceans are boiling’. Could someone please explain the difference between 100F (body temperature) and 212F? I would be very surprised if any ocean is at 212F.
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The other puzzle is boiling water, presumably on the surface of water which is, on average, 3.5km deep mostly very cold at 2-4C. Gutteres studied physics. He knows better. So why is he telling such obvious lies? And why is no one in the media commenting at the insanity of this statement?
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It’s a “cold boiling” – like mercury…
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Perhaps we are taking the clown too literally.
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A “linear’ curve? Did someone break the “Hockey Stick”?
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Quite so TdeF.
I have been known to make a mistake but by my calculations, emissions have been increasing by 0.451 Gt CO2 per year.
Over the same period, growth has increased by 0.21 Gt CO2 per year.
So emissions are increasing at more than twice the rate that atmospheric CO2 growth is increasing.
This seems strange if the growth is primarily the result of anthropogenic emissions.
This is using data from https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissions/
and
https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2/co2_gr_mlo.txt
Notice CO2 growth is reported in ppm. To convert to GtCO2, multiply by 2.13 and then 3.667
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If humans emit 100T of anything and throw it into the atmosphere it should not be assumed that the world will not strip some of that emission out prior to our measurements being taken. Same for the CO2, we emit some, some is naturally absorbed, most probably lots of it. That should be expected. So it SHOULD be accepted that just because we throw CO2 into the air that ALL of it will not be there after a finite time. We should not assume that the models are wrong because the portion of CO2 in the atmosphere does not rise exactly aligned with our tonnage emitted.
With regard to the C14 portion, fossil fuel emissions should have next to none and an hypothesis could suggest that a measure of the CO2, (containing C14), in the atmosphere should ultimately reduce. However, CO2 in the oceans, (which contains a significantly higher mass than the atmosphere), also has a blend of C14 in it which is very closely aligned to the primal atmospheric content. Gases in the atmosphere are in equilibrium between the atmosphere and the water column. It should be expected that ANY exchange with the water will result in the water emissions being at, or very near to the primal rates. If it is possible, then only AFTER the oceans have been changed with respect to their C14 ratios should we expect to see the C14 ratios, (in CO2), in the atmosphere change to match the human emissions.
I don’t think we can shoot the models down on the basis of the total mass of CO2 in the air compared to the mass of our emissions, nor on the basis of the C14 ratios.
I think we should be asking the models to make predictions so that they can be tested. Like any decent science hypothesis. If they can’t make a prediction that can be tested, (and shown to match reality), then we have grounds for dismissing them. This should be the goal of any science, the improvement of knowledge by the verification of real world measurements.
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Did the experts factor in Mt Etna’s 9,000 tons A DAY of CO2?
Or all the other volcanoes?
How do they measure undersea volcano output?
Ask Gaza Greta.
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Talking of volcanoes…
Scientists warn massive underwater volcano is ‘ready’ to ERUPT… and will release millions of tons of lava
An underwater volcano off the West Coast is predicted to erupt at any moment, and the world can watch it happen live.
Axial Seamount, located roughly 300 miles off Oregon’s coast on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, is the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest.
Scientists monitoring the underwater beast recently set up a camera near its peak, allowing the public to tune in the moment it explodes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14785333/Scientists-warn-massive-underwater-volcano-ready-ERUPT-release-millions-tons-lava.html
Where there’s lava there’s CO2…
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Its just a coincidence that CO2 and temps are rising at the same time.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_May_2025_v6.1_20x9-1-scaled.jpg
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>just a coincidence
Given an increase in temperature, would you not expect more CO2 to be liberated?
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I have a problem with the Keeling Curve.
https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/esd/climate/2023/12/co2-graph-083122_scaled_scrunched.jpg?w=1280&h=800&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint
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FWIW
“Remembering the Greatest Invasion”
“Back in 2014, the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France, Jean-Christophe Rosé produced this 90-minute documentary for France Télévisions. It uses archival footage that was remastered and colorized, and is probably one of the best sources to understand what the run-up to D-Day involved (with training and other preparations) and the reality of combat on that day.”
https://youtu.be/XkOlaRV-tuU
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/06/remembering-greatest-invasion.html
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I have watched so many presentations on the time. It is fascinating. So many innovations. Hobart’s funnies. Mulberry Harbours. But the greatest secret even today as Pipeline Under The Ocean, PLUTO.
After D day they even took PLUTO hundreds of kilometers inland. From Liverpool to France. They didn’t need to ship fuel, the most critical commodity for transport, logistics, tanks and aircraft. Still virtually unknown today unlike Enigma and Bletchley Park because it was secret then and remained secret. Even if you could get tankers to Normandy, they still needed substantial pumping, piping, routing and storage in a harbour. None of this existed.
And I have visited the beaches of Normandy and more. I would love to see the Ice Cream Shop pumping station at 1:18.
“There were multiple pumping station which sent 3,000 to 3,500 tons of fuel a day through 11 lines. (Operation PLUTO (Pipeline Under The Ocean) utilized 21 lines to connect the UK to France. These lines consisted of 11 HAIS (high-pressure cable) lines and 6 HAMEL (steel pipe) lines.
Additionally, two separate pipeline systems, each with camouflaged pumping stations, were built, one from Lepe to Thorness Bay on the Isle of Wight, and another from Shanklin to Port-en-Bessin)”
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And everyone ignores the massive invasion in the South of France with Operation Dragoon only two months later.
“In Operation Dragoon, the Allied forces initially 94,000 men. By August 17th, 130,000 men and 18,000 vehicles had landed. The total invasion force was estimated to be between 285,000 and 300,000 personnel in Southern France. ”
It was comparable, 2/3 of the size. And the ports were functional, not destroyed as at Cherbourg or months in German control as at Antwerp.
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I wonder what would have happened if the Americans had invaded southern France earlier like they wanted to… instead of following Churchill’s advice that Italy was “the soft under belly of Europe” (nonsense of course).
Thanks to him, the Allies committed their forces to fighting on a narrow front which favoured the defenders. (Italy is ‘spiny’ in the middle; nothing soft about it)
And Anzio proved that trying to win beachheads behind enemy lines was too hard; in the end, they were still bogged down in Italy when the war finished.
Just another case of Churchill’s bottle-fueled bravado losing the day. (A drink of whisky was always to hand but he claimed it was “watered down”! ).
The “black dog of depression” he complained about? … put it down to his boozing.
The British people turned on him, immediately the war was over.
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Heard about this at a very young age, from my father who landed there Dec. 10.
He would be wounded about a month later for the second time, the first in Italy.
Nearly dying from the aftermath of his wounds in the 1980s, but surviving.
So many fought in places that don’t get much attention in history.
As a kid, I would see movies books about the famous battles, and my father would mention places and events I’d never heard of.
There was no internet then, and looking for info on what stuff I could get him to talk about produced little. I often thought he might be making things up.
With the internet, 25 years after his death, I now know he wasn’t.
It’s sadly and ironically fortunate that I was not able to ask more informed questions.
Knowing now what actually happened, it is still barely believable.
And it would have done no good to ask him .
We ain’t making ’em like that anymore.
I’ve heard that current US Army Delta Force selection includes a 40 mile ruck.
My father did 52, often caring two packs, so that no man in his squad dropped out.
While smoking Lucky Strikes.
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Green tick for your dad.
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My grandad was involved in the construction of the mulberry harbours, as well as being in the fire service during the blitz. D-Day was important to him and my dad, who was in the merchant navy.
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My father spoke about being at “the tip of the spear”.
And expressed much appreciation and never disparaged the rest of the spear.
Tick returned.
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TdeF
IIRC Neville Shute Norway had a hand in Pluto
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I was very disappointed that there was so little mention, commemoration or remembrance of D-Day, yesterday Australian time.
Our history is being systematically erased.
Also, Theodore Roosevelt Jr, son of the former President, at 56 was the oldest person to land that day and also the only general. His son also landed and he was apparently the only father whose son also landed.
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Although a significant event in WW2, its not really significant from an Australian specific offensive perspective. That’s not to dismiss or downplay the few thousand Australians who did directly participate. Or the more that indirectly did.
Maybe this highlights your point. But I don’t recall D-Day as ever really getting a mention except on notable anniversary milestones.
I’m more disappointed with changing names like VJ Day (Victory over Japan) to VP Day (Victory in the Pacific) because we can’t risk upsetting the nation that ran close to 100 bombing missions on our country.
They bombed us and we’re supposed to be worried about their feelings. 😄
Changing names to downplay one particular countries focus or involvement is a form of erasing or re-writing history.
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and famously said after he landed and his unit was out of position that “we’ll just start the war from here.”
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Chinese “student” Nationals caught smuggling deadly fungus into US.
This has implications for Australia as well for reasons that will become obvious in the story abd especially since our PM and FM and many other Australian politicians have close ties with the CCP*. Many Chinese National “students” are not what they appear to be and there are a lot in Australia. Our politicians and “authorities” simply don’t have a clue and are asleep at the wheel.
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“Authorities allege the couple intended to study the fungus in a university lab without proper authorisation, ”
What, sneaking into the lab after hours to fire up the DNA sequencing system and then CRISPA at 2am?? Pretending to the lab tutors that your sample is the day’s laboratory exercise?
Sounds like absolute crap to me. Probably some Chinese medicinal fungi, or a recreational drug, or maybe it just goes really well in noodles!
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Clive Hamilson’s two books, Silent Invasion and Hidden Hand have been in print for over five years and reveal the nefarious workings of the CCP in Australia and world wide.
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Also when the UN reported that the world was greening because of increased CO2, they ducked the obvious conclusion that growing trees does not reduce CO2 because trees grow when CO2 goes up. Between 1988 and 2014, CO2 went up 14% and Tree cover went up 14%.
But they’ve done it again with Antarctic ice..
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/antarctica/nasa-satellites-show-antarctica-has-gained-ice-despite-rising-global-temperatures-how-is-that-possible
And NASA have to hope that rapidly dropping temperatures are an ‘anomaly’. They are flabbergasted.
However the wonderful analysis by Carl Otto Weiss predicted this exactly and every other turning point from real thermometer data in six European cities over 250 years.
CO2 was not required. Just two of the biggest and best known oscillations, the De Vries 250 years solar oscillation and the AMO/PDO Ocean oscillation. Both have just peaked and the drop on the RHS is now underway. 2C global cooling coming up!
If Prof Weiss is right we are in for a rapid large drop in temperatures just reported by NASA. Which will blow Global Warming out of the allegedly boiling oceans. But we will probably still be erecting Bowen’s windmills in the snow to prevent warming. Just like a hundred billions dollars on French desalination plants to supply water to a flooded country in the never ending Millenium drought.
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During the Medieval Warm Period the PDO is said to have a 20 – 40 year cycle and this carried on into the LIA, yet along the way it became a 50 – 70 year cycle.
They reckon the change came about through volcanic eruptions, but that seems unlikely.
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“If Prof Weiss is right we are in for a rapid large drop in temperatures…”
A rapid cooling is the only thing which can rapidly bring into question the shoddy science and statistics of AGW.
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There seem to be many anecdotal reports of cancers and especially aggressive ones, so-called “turbo cancers” in younger people in recent years.
As I said a couple of days ago:.
Shouldn’t it at least be investigated whether Australia’s extremely aggressive and compulsory mRNA covid vaccine regime had anything to do with it? Why do they automatically assume these substances are “fully safe and effective” when they were never properly tested?
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Yes indeed. As I’ve mentioned previously when the rollout started mother-in-law’s circle of friends had 2 hospitalised with heart issues within weeks of inoculation. Then we had relatives getting very sick and a couple of our children’s circle of 30-something friends being diagnosed with pericarditis. Last month 2 unexpected deaths of acquaintances and my daughters baby-sit cancelled for second time because the parents she was due to sit for, and who have been happy to disclose they have had 4 shots each, have come down with very bad case of flu. You can almost feel the noose tightening with each report of illness. But of course all the ground breaking discoveries of the foods or other over the counter medications that are causing these unusual/rare cases are to blame not that elephant in the room.
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Earl,
It is all so fishy.
In March 2019 I went to hospital febrile with an undiagnosed condition with high ESR and CRP that I might have had thrice over the previous 40 years. I was there for a month, no diagnosis of original condition that had just about fixed itself in the first fortnight. In the second fortnight I was suddenly diagnosed with pericarditis, myocarditis, pleural effusion (needle into lung to withdraw fluid) cardiac effusion and then pneumonia. Nearly died.
Thing is, what I got was just like Covid-19 but a year earlier than the rest of the world. Neither my wife nor I was ever diagnosed with Covid-19 later.
An intriguing question arises. In early 2019, were some hospitals injecting trial mRNA “vaccines” secretly, so that what I had in the second fortnight was vaccine damage and some immunity from widespread later Covid-19?
Geoff S
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Geoff. “were some hospitals injecting trial mRNA secretly”. Good question but without honesty and openness from the authorities all such questions get consigned to “conspiracy” status and, according to msm and certain e-commissars therefore should not be asked much less answered.
Bear in mind that 2017 was the worst year for flu that Australia had experienced to date. Here in Qld we were experiencing 5 deaths per week yet there were no lock downs, no mask mandates and no compulsory flu shots. As we know every year the WHO worked at least 6-months in advance of “flu season” to determine what strain was most likely to circulate and to produce enough egg incubated vaccine to combat the spread. Clearly something more that the usual “just flu” went around that year.
There were also reports of a strange respiratory outbreak in the Northern Territory in Aboriginal communities of something never encountered before with a number of deaths.
It was in 2017 also that the incubation process for flu vaccine was changed to using dog kidney because it meant greater volumes could be produced in shorter time AND those with egg allergies were “safe” to take it. The Italian government actually mandated this dog kidney flu vaccine to be the only flu shot available. Guess what – Italy got hit very badly when covid did come 2 years later.
In 0ct 2019 the global military games were held in (wait for it) Wuhan China and competitors noted that many fell ill/felt funny after the games.
So given all the stuff that went on immediately before the big event and the negatives that occurred (one Italian used batch of 2017 flu vaccine was connected to 10 deaths the day after it was used and the vaccine was withdrawn for a time) until any sort of honest review is undertaken by a truthful organisation we will never know. Don’t hold your breath.
Very glad you and good wife are still with us. Keep asking the questions. If enough people keep banging their heads against a wall that wall will eventually crumble. Cheers.
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Now it’s strokes.
https://expose-news.com/2025/06/05/younger-people-are-suffering-strokes/
Caused by CO2 no doubt, as the causes listed describe youth for the past few thousand years. 😎
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“Why do they automatically assume these substances are “fully safe and effective” when they were never properly tested?”
Don’t forget the 4 mice and a rabbit.
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In Australia it’s still current policy for organ transplant recipients to be covid vaxxed, even today. Transplant Australia supports this. This is on their website today:
In Australia you are expected to die waiting for an organ transplant if you don’t take the vax:
The following patient has a medical exemption for the vax and she still can’t get a heart transplant;
She is still trying to raise funds so she can get a heart transplant at a location overseas where there isn’t compulsory vaccination for organ recipients:
https://donorbox.org/heart4vicki
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Before long only the unvaxxed doctors and nurses will be left.
But if the vaxx is safe & effective then the surgeons are at no risk.
With everything we know now, such a mandate is likely criminal and lawsuit worthy.
It’s 2025 not 2021.
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Helps bump up the demand for human trafficking for organs
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I’m the state of Western Australiastan it is illegal to go through a red light to make way for an emergency vehicle:
It is also an offence:
So damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
This is why Australia is in such a mess. Stupid people (politicians and the public serpents that tell them what to do) making stupid laws.
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We have lived 11kms out of the city between a major public hospital and a main arterial route since 1999 and know the ebb and flow of traffic and traffic light sequences very well. Clearly there is a traffic light/enroute ambulance co-ordination system in operation and this becomes very noticeable in peak hour. Have experienced a number of instances of sitting at lights to turn right onto main road and our “turn” doesn’t come but then you hear the siren. No doubt AI integration with traffic control/ambulance transponder will provide a great solution but won’t be able to manage the real “artificial intelligence” problem of the nuts behind the wheel.
As far as sirens go Mon-Fri we hear them on average about 1 per 90-minutes sometimes starting as early as 6-7am. On 1 occasion when driving in vicinity of hospital pulled over to let an ambulance going to the hospital pass at the same time that traffic in the opposite lanes were pulling over to let one going to an event pass.
Visited Paris many years ago and was amazed at the number of sirens we heard there so now I can just close my eyes and imagine I’m back in Paris.
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Basic principles of law:
* Legislate broadly so everyone is potentially guilty of something.
* Selective enforcement to ensure the people who need to be busted are busted.
The real decisions get made outside the courtroom.
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It’s so sad that the world’s richest man and the world’s most powerful man can’t reconcile and shake hands and make up.
They are both needed for the future survival of the United States and the West.
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What Musk has seen has probably made him decide the human race is not worth saving. Maybe his logical thought patterns do not allow for the wham, bam & crash of the evolutionary process?
He like Howard Hughes may just take his ‘Spruce Goose’ and disappear into reclusion.
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Elon should put his mind towards designing drones, the future of warfare. He already has his own planetary communication system in place and the means to fill space with more sophisticated variants. I’m sure that he is already heading there.
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Be careful what you wish for…
Elon may decide not to be on the side of America with his new drone military.
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Elon has a lot of cards…
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And in breaking news, Hamas has called for a ceasefire between Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
😆
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In Australia’s last federal election One Nation were the only party to increase their senate vote as far as I’m aware. They went from 2 to 4 seats.
And they are totally committed to Net Zero and abandoning the Paris Accords as are the other conservative parties (but not Liberals as they are not a conservative party, they are more closely aligned with Labor).
So there must be at least sone votes in loudly and proudly abandoning Net Zero.
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Correction, insert the word “abandoning” before “Net Zero”
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You had me confused there for a moment.
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Apart from stupid politicians, Leftist activists, subsidy harvesters and other grifters, Australia’s fanatical commitment to Net Zero may be partly due to the “sunk cost fallacy”, the definition of which by Goolag AI is:
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Referencing the comment above relating to the growth of CO2 being linear while the emissions are rising far more aggressively. Its clear that the early models assumed CO2 would rise through a doubling then to somewhere north of 1000ppm this is not happening.
My pick is the level will peak at 2X even with current emissions I think the curve is a “gompertz” or similar.
We will have a lot of big fast growing trees and lots of phytoplankton and plenty of food, relax.
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With friends like this, who needs enemies:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-07/australian-warship-navigation-radar-new-zealand-internet/105388702
On its way to “celebrate the sister city relationship between Canberra and Wellington” earlier this week, the HMAS Canberra inadvertently took out parts of NZ’s internet & radio services.
5G and the IOT – safe as houses & gene therapies and just as effective.
Hope your sailors brought their thermal underwear with them, it’s barely above freezing in Wellington today with a lashing of fresh snow on the surrounding hills, arrrrr me arteries.
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Same thing happened with a US warship actually docked in Wellington harbor back in the 1980s. For some reason they turned on their radar (pre-departure check mistake maybe) and blew a few land lubber systems.
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Must have scared the bejeezus out of the Chinese!
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FWIW
“Bayer’s Push For State-Level Roundup Immunity Sparks Backlash In The Heartland”
https://www.zerohedge.com/food/bayers-push-state-level-roundup-immunity-sparks-backlash-heartland
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FWIW – for the covid record
“HUGE: Fauci’s COVID-Era Devices Were Just Found by FBI”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/06/06/faucis-covid-era-phones-found-by-fbicould-finally-blow-the-lid-off-pandemic-lies-n4940532
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FWIW
“COVID-19 Vaccine Reform Is Moving Slower Than Many Had Hoped”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/covid-19-vaccine-reform-moving-slower-many-had-hoped
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FWIW
“A Beefy Solution to America’s Health Crisis?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-06-05/beefy-solution-americas-health-crisis
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Super Tax: The top big superannuation funds in the firing line
JAMES KIRBY
We already know the last time a tax was imposed on super – Julia Gillard’s unindexed Division 293 tax introduced in 2012 – was supposed to affect just 120,000 people. That number has risen beyond 500,000 taxpayers.
This time around the Albanese government under Treasurer Jim Chalmers has estimated the new super tax will affect just 80,000. But a Financial Services Council estimate released this week says the number will be 500,000.
Blake Briggs, CEO of the FSC, says: “The government should now consult on options that would not unfairly target future generations of Australians by introducing a new contentious tax.”
But the effect of the new tax will actually be wider than FSC’s 500,000 estimate because the nature of the new tax means younger people in big funds – especially industry funds – will end up paying for older and wealthier members in these funds.
As the wider impact of the new tax continues to become more obvious, it is now clear that franked dividends will be hit – it will also capture assets which were loss making and those losses have not yet been fully recovered – even though the value of the asset is now rising again.
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First the government encouraged people to put as much money as possible into super (tax protected retirement funds like US 401K).
Now they are effectively discouraging investment by taxing unrealised capital gains which means people will have to sell assets to pay the tax or if the money is invested in property, raise the rent.
Of course, this is supposedly only meant to affect the “rich” but inflation will rapidly reduce the threshold and/or successive budgets will reduce it. And no doubt it will be extended to other areas. It is in essence a hidden wealth tax.
As Australia is effectively now a One Party State with no meaningful opposition government expenditure has no restraints, they are spending worse than drunken sailors and they are tapping into whatever savings people have less.
Total Australian Government debt (fed, state, local) now over $2.1 trillion and increasing at a frightening rate:
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
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Calendar trivia.
The dates for the last day of February and 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10 and 12/12 all fall on the same day of the week in any given year.
Check out the Doomsday Rule, an algorithm invented by John Conway in 1970.
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Australia is not a democracy or even a representative democracy. It is a minocracy. Here is the definition from Urban Dictionary.
Minocracy
Is a system of social imbalance where a minority (or many minority groups) dictate and set the rules for the majority to follow.
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Minocracy….
Sounds like a derivative of our Ineptocracy (see Yarpos)
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How are the Donbas population who voted to join the motherland faring?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIYQanCdhj8
They are now back in the USSR – not Russia.
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How about Mariupol?
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I have no way to check the veracity of the story and can only apply the rhetorical filter of Mandy Rice Davies. Well he would say that wouldn’t he?
I wonder whether the new computer technologies will reduce the propaganda or make things worse. My money is on worse.
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Rowjay swallows any Youtube that confirms his biases
The weepy emotive bulldozing kindergartens and schools is a bit of a giveaway. It was a warzone , pretty much everything will be touched in someway during rebuilding.
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And who’s biases do you swallow?
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Russia’s response to the recent Ukrainian attacks on Military Airfields should give you more of a clue as to their intentions – is a massed missile attack on Ukrainian civilian structures/apartment blocks hundreds of kilometres from the front a valid response?
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It fails the sniff test.
Missile attacks destroying entire apartment blocks would result in more than just 3 deaths.
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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/18/russia-systematically-seizing-thousands-of-homes-in-occupied-mariupol-investigation-says-a88779
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I dunno, its Youtube and I don’t watch that, its like a visual Reddit for even lower IQs…
Mariupol, where the Ukies were shooting citizens who tried to leave, set up their HQ under the theatre and used the top floor as a safe house for civilians, then whined all over the world when their HQ was bombed. ‘Russians bombing civilians..’ Certainly it has been rebuilt anew, its a showpiece for the Russians after they cleaned the Naz1s out.
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Youtube is just a library. There is fiction and non-fiction. It’s just not as clearly labelled as at your local library. But there’s something for every IQ and/or interest.
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“Ukraine refused to accept the bodies of its dead servicemen, the first stage of the exchange of which was supposed to take place today at the border, writes Mash with reference to MP Shamsail Saraliev. ..
According to the head of the Russian negotiating group, yesterday Kiev suddenly did not take the first batch of its 1,212 frozen soldiers, whose refrigerated trucks are now in the Bryansk region. Thus, the information about the failure of the exchange of bodies of the dead and prisoners of war due to the refusal of Ukraine was confirmed. “
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https://united24media.com/latest-news/russia-tried-to-disguise-its-own-dead-soldiers-as-ukrainians-in-body-swap-scheme-8879
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Can’t find any links confirming this. OTH, read the link below – not youtube just for you but also representative of all I could find on the theatre bombing – most likely another war crime.
https://zaborona.com/en/the-story-of-one-basement-in-mariupol-how-neighbors-helped-each-other-to-survive-in-unbearable-conditions/
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“Ukraine refused to accept the bodies of its fallen soldiers, the first stage of the exchange of which was supposed to take place at the border today..According to Medinsky, Ukraine has postponed the acceptance of its fallen soldiers, as agreed in Istanbul, indefinitely.
According to the head of the Russian negotiating team, Kiev suddenly refused to take back the first batch of 1,212 frozen soldiers yesterday, and the refrigerators containing them are currently in the Bryansk region. Thus, the information about the disruption of the exchange of bodies of the deceased and prisoners of war due to Ukraine’s refusal was confirmed. ”
https://translated.turbopages.org/proxy_u/ru-en.en.0f041934-6842da58-e7e3fad9-74722d776562/https/t.me/s/milinfolive?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
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There seems to be some dispute about the identity of the bodies:
discrepancy in Russian documentation, which indicated that only 15–20% of the deceased had been properly identified
My PC security advises not going to your link.
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It’s vaxx time!
BA.3.2 efficiently evades antibodies in plasma from vaccinated individuals. Its evasion is more pronounced than that of the previously prevalent LP.8.1.1 variant.
Since late 2024, a potential third major evolutionary shift in SARS-CoV-2 evolution might be unfolding. In November, 2024, and January, 2025, a highly mutated descendant of the omicron subvariant BA.36 was detected in South Africa. In April, 2025, the variant, designated as BA.3.2, was also detected in the Netherlands, raising the possibility of global dissemination.
The evasion of antibodies by the variants in individuals vaccinated with the JN.1-booster vaccine was similar to, or greater than, that observed for the currently dominating LP8.1.1 variant. These observations suggest that BA.3.2—particularly BA.3.2 (B)—may disseminate within populations with high antibody levels, thereby warranting close monitoring.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247%2825%2900093-X/fulltext
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BREAKING: mRNA Shots Induce Cancer-Linked Bone Marrow Reprogramming Within Weeks
New study analyzed leukemia patients who developed cancer within weeks of mRNA injection—their bone marrow showed distinct cancer-associated metabolic alterations.
This study suggests that mRNA injections induce distinct cancer-associated metabolic changes in the bone marrow. These findings help to explain the carcinogenic effects of mRNA technology.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-mrna-shots-induce-cancer
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Oohh, Jo…you really need a substack mirror…
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Ain’t it the truth
“We have two parties here, and only two.
One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party.
Occasionally, the two parties get together to do something that’s both evil and stupid.
That’s called bipartisanship.”
– Everett Dirksen
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Saturday funny
Elon has turned his hand to renovating, or maybe Feng Shui.
https://imgbox.com/6zqyoLmm
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It seems Europe hasn’t been this cool and dry at anytime over the past 9000 years.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/06/06/new-study-europe-was-not-only-warmer-but-also-wetter-during-most-of-the-pre-industrial-holocene/
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UK Spring warmest and sunniest in living memory.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/sunniest-spring-on-record/
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That settles it.
We have no choice but to block the Sun.
You know, anthropogenically.
The good anthropogenic, not the bad like where we keep warm, have light at night, cook and preserve food, and other terrible anthropogenic crimes against Gaia.
Which is everything except eliminating carbon and blocking the Sun because anthros are the only unnatural thing in nature.
I think UNIPCC has a list of good and bad anthropogenic stuff for reference.
AI will help us block the Sun.
So we’ll temporarily have to make more carbon, in order to stop the threat of carbon.
Fortunately, the brilliant anthros at BlackRock are on top of this problem.
Which is weird figuring the anthros are the whole ptoblem in the first place.
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Countries considering pensioner recruitment for military support roles as British Army faces shortfall
“Such a Grandad’s Army, so to speak—allowing healthy and willing individuals aged 50 and over to serve in support roles, could in principle boost the Army by nearly six million, more than a 7,700 per cent increase over the current total strength,” she wrote in The European magazine.
Other nations are already proposing similar strategies.
https://www.nationalworld.com/news/uk/countries-considering-pensioner-recruitment-for-military-support-roles-as-british-army-faces-shortfall-5157492
LOL.. Corporal Jones and Captain Mainwaring not withstanding, the oldies are scarier than the Max Klingers and green kids nowadays.
Put ’em on the front lines.
They’ve been through hell already and know the ropes, don’t take sh#t from anyone, and are permanently grumpy! The stuff any enemy would run from. 😆
Just need to point them at the REAL enemy.😎😉
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Decisions, decisions, decisions!
I have a lifetimes familiarity with firearms
But both my knees are at “stagger along” stage
So do I consider getting replacements?
Without replacements I should be considered unsuitable. But I could be considered just right for stocking some last ditch stand because I wouldn’t be able to run.
With replacements I could be considered just right.
What to do?
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Unprecedented bleaching in Ningaloo, supposedly caused by a marine heatwave.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/07/wa-coral-unprecedented-bleaching-event-ningaloo-reef
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https://www.lusakatimes.com/2025/06/05/president-hichilema-mourns-the-passing-of-former-president-edgar-chagwa-lungu/
Zambia mourns their previous president.
from the comments: There is need for Presidential vaccine in Zambia, there in an outbreak.
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