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Sunday has finally made an appearance!
Last night, was trying to convince somebody to question what he was reading and hearing about “climate change”. But the continual response I received was “I trust the science”.
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What that somebody refers to as “the science” nowadays should be named “opinion” or “activist” science.
Remember when Dr Fauci said “I am the science”. Tells you all you need to know about these people.
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But isn’t it only “The Science” if it is followed by “R in circle” or “tm”, both as superscripts?
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Better than “Sunday too far away”
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They dont trust the science ( whatever that means in their heads) they trust whatever is dished up in their comfort zone media like the ABC, SMH/Age, BBC, CNN etc they all have the same script.
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They fall in behind the bloke they think is in front.
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Ahh “the science”… That infallible rock… Never to be questioned.
That’s what “the science” of 2025 has become. An ideology.
If the facts don’t fit the theory or outcome, then one can feel free to change the facts or data.
Erase the past.
I call it: “The science of deception and illusion”.
Sadly, lots of politicians, journalists and academics are brilliant in that scientific field.
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Wexford, Ireland.
Judge shuts down turbines over noise and slams ‘unimpressive’ wind farm owners
https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/judge-shuts-down-turbines-over-noise-and-slams-unimpressive-wind-farm-owners/2-1-1829784
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I have been watching the 7048 boat race from Seattle to Port Townsend. One of my Twin 8 designs placed fourth. This is the race tracker:
https://cf.yb.tl/seventy48_2025
The stragglers are still coming in.
Today I realised that there is more than one 48 that the race gets its name from. The 70 is the distance of 70Nm. The 48 is the 48 hours time limit. If you do not finish within 48 hours you get DNFed. But the other reason for the 48 is that the course crosses t48N. That is a good deal further north than Tasmania is to the south. No wonder Australia is the hot continent.
The conditions were pleasant. It is getting close to peak sunlight in the NH so about 2 months till the hottest days. After that it will cool down rapidly and the many locations along 48N and further north will get snow. In the not too distant future, that snow will be accumulating from year to year. I think Puget Sound and Haro Strait is one of the regions that give rise to a fresh water pulse during deglaciation when the ice dam breaks and there is a great pulse of cooling freshwater with icebergs into the Pacific.
In a couple of weeks, the WA 360 boat race starts. Its is a more compact version of the Race to Alaska. I have interest in this race because I design human powered propulsion systems for quite a few of the sailing boats. Most now use pedal power rather than long oars.
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Looks interesting Rick.
https://seventy48.com/
I was once invited to join a group paddling kayaks from Melbournistan to Tasmania, apparently a done thing, but I declined.
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A very interesting video featuring Dr John Campbell speaking with Dr Tina Peers. Peers was successfully treating patients for covid in the early days of the pandemic with a cocktail of vitamins and antihistamines. She was forced to be jabbed in order to continue working and suffered a vaccine injury.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIdQAtt8ViA
Some of the information in the video is invaluable to people who have spike protein lingering in their body after infection or vaccination.
The treatment protocols in the video are all Peers reviewed 😉
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Interesting. I have noted in medical journals that anti-histamines are being successfully used to treat Long Covid. It would appear that LC is related to mast cell problems.
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FWIW
Another go at how those dams will never fill –
“NYT’s ‘Thirsty Atmosphere’ Claim Falls Flat: Real Data Debunks Drought Alarmism”
“Let’s begin with semantics. The atmosphere is not a sentient entity—it doesn’t get “thirstier.” That is a term more appropriate for a Gatorade commercial than climate science.”
Much more at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/06/nyts-thirsty-atmosphere-claim-falls-flat-real-data-debunks-drought-alarmism/
“In conclusion, the NYT article is a masterclass example of turning natural variability and questionable modeling into a headline-ready climate crisis story. By attributing regional droughts to global temperature trends and anthropomorphizing the atmosphere as “thirsty,” they abandon scientific rigor in favor of sensational storytelling. Compounding their error, the NYT ignores countervailing data on rainfall, long-term drought, and even the IPCC’s own cautious language on drought attribution.
When news outlets resort to metaphors about “thirsty skies” and glaringly omit factual explanations, they’re not informing—they’re indoctrinating. Honest climate reporting, requires a lot less narrative and a lot more reference to the hallmarks of the scientific method: available data and testable propositions.”
And doesn’t seem to have heard of Flannery.
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We has half a Flannery of rain this weekend. Most welcome.
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‘Thirsty skies’, fits well with rain bombs and atmospheric rivers.
I’m sure there are more.
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FWIW
“Globalists Go Radio Silent As NATO Flirts With World War III”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/globalists-go-radio-silent-nato-flirts-world-war-iii
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FWIW
Not what you read every day –
Kate McMillan (she runs Small Dead Animals blog) on blogging
https://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2005/07/the_normblog_pr_3.html
Via
““Mischief is important” ”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/06/07/mischief-is-important-71/
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On the topic of mischief
About half way to town there is the carcass of a dead deer on the roadside. Some wag tied a helium party ballomn to its leg. It reads “get well soon”
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A photo would be good.
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Bavarian Fire Drills: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BavarianFireDrill/RealLife
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Some good stuff in there.
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Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration
Sequester 30 years worth of CO2 emissions with a big bang at the bottom of the ocean.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387975147_Nuclear_Explosions_for_Large_Scale_Carbon_Sequestration
I guess if they get the blast right then we don’t need to worry about CO2 emissions. On the other hand, if they get it wrong we then don’t need to worry about CO2 emissions. 😄
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Win-win then …. I guess??
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More extreme crazy along the lines of dimming the sky and pumping seawater onto the ice.
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The idea of using nuclear explosives for peaceful engineering purposes has been around since the late 1950’s.
Look at Project Plowshare in the US.
In Australia there was the Cape Keraudren Atomic Harbor Scheme.
https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/cape-keraudren-the-forgotten-nuclear-harbor-plan-in-australia
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/ngugi-wa-thiongo-death-radical-writer-novelist/5889734
Wizard of the Crow is one of my favourite novels. As a lead in, my favourite novel is Peter Carey ‘Bliss’ – Wizard of the Crow has a similar level of a ‘view from a derangement’
Vale Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Jailed for a play in 1977, then from his release in 1978, in exile until 2002
“The compound used to be for the mentally deranged convicts before it was put to better use as a cage for ‘the politically deranged.'”
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FWIW
“Wood Pellets: America’s Underrated Power Play”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/wood-pellets-americas-underrated-power-play
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Gold Coast 1965: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oXhw8m-3rk
As per the BBC report, the development there was never going to amount to much – best really just as campsites that are in range of the average Australian for their holidays.
Some hilarious narration.
The young Liberals certainly looked like a lot of fun (not). The club that still made money charging entry/corkage for a bring your own bottle policy, staying open until 2:00 am when licencing stopped drink service right on the dot of 10:00, looked like a lot more fun.
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Could not help noticing how perfectly healthy everyone was … like wow… must have had different genes and maybe better drugs?
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FWIW
Letter of the day at TCW
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/letter-of-the-day-57/
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Just like many interwar and postwar European intellectuals were obsessed with anti-fascism to the point of endorsing dictatorial communist regimes, today’s intellectuals are so keen on performative outrage towards Donald Trump (or his equivalents in other countries) that they have ceased caring about preserving democracy. It is at this juncture that Covid appeared and became the pretext for a political fight that has gone far beyond a simple virus.
Many academics persist to this day in denying the symbolical importance of the way we threw democracy overboard in 2020, mainly because the vast majority of those who now intuitively grasp that they supported the wrong Covid narrative just do not want to acknowledge it, let alone apologize for it. They would rather claim that democracy is not worth defending than admit they were wrong in choosing not to defend it. They would rather finish sacrificing democracy than admit they were mistaken in their support of measures that were not only useless against Covid but harmful in all other regards and destructive of freedom.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/jj.27570413.6?seq=3
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Science is like your weird neighbors’ intelligent but maladjusted teenage son in his basement with a new chemistry set.
The neighborhood is in mortal danger, and there’s not much anyone can do.
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This evening I watched a docco about the reporters, specifically the camera-operators, who accompanied the allied forces as they rolled across Europe and particularly, the retaking of Paris from the actual nazis..
Interesting comparison to the the current situation, as the invaders are trashing the “City of Light” in order to turn it into another Hell Hole.
Will the French tool up and take back Paris?
Probably not; there are too many traitors and collaborators in “important place”.
Who had NOT read.”The Camp of the Saints”, by Jean Raspail. Its publication date? 1973.
Raspail was paying attention; very few understood.
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https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/renewable-energy-does-not-exist
The Laws of Physics can be interpreted in simple useful ways and one does not need advanced calculus or algebra to understand these concepts.
Energy is not renewable and there is no such thing as renewable energy.
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Renewable energy and renewable energy contraptions are derived from the delusions and imaginations of sales and marketing departments (and profiteers).
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https://mellowkat.substack.com/p/let-the-geese-gabble-and-hiss
Since 2020, I was very vocal about my concerns of the harms caused by the masks, testing, and the experimental bioweapon jab that was being fast-tracked for worldwide injection. I hosted and participated in protests against the fake- “mandates,” the face-diapers, the temperature checks, the nasal delivery systems swabs, and eventually the poison-pricks.
I routinely carried a bullhorn so I could be heard through buildings and up and down the streets.
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