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This from Australia. Surely the first of many such announcements that employees will be replaced by AI
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/atlassian-ai-mike-cannon-brookes/2025/07/31/id/1220812/
Which raises the question as to what NEW jobs will be created through the rise of AI? I quoted those 40 careers likely to be affected and those that might remain safe which is different to NEW jobs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14958949/careers-highest-risk-replaced-AI.html
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So we know why they had to fire their employees over the internet.
So where were those employees and how were they contracted?
Atlassian appears to sell relational databases hosted over the web. They appear to have moved from innovation to acquiring and incorporating existing script.
Great Lifestyle, hence the jet. The company is the Darling of the Blob providing a platform for collecting and collating information on populations. Hence the need for the wokeness and jet-set smoozing.
That is all well and good until the Blob create the next sharemarket listing selling a basic script that is available open source. Trump has targeted the derivative traders who have been fueling, promoting and exploiting the bulls, bubbles, wars, catastrophes etc.
Catastrophes like for instance a plane crash involving a significant personality associated with a listed company.
The question for Cannon-Brookes is whether he is safer on a commercial airliner or in a radio controlled personal jet when your share price is unrelated to the product cost and the world is run by money that can short your stock?
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” Personal security is the primary reason (an unfortunate reality of my world),”
Lol! A wanker with an over-inflated ego! “Ooohh, I’m so important now I need bodyguards with shades and earphones…” It would be no loss to humanity if he wasn’t there at all.
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Mumma’s on pills, Dad’s over the hill…..
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[Lyrics by Casey Chambers]
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None of what Atlassian did was ground breaking. In terms of bug trackers there are many of them, and a lot were around before 2000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue-tracking_systems
That’s not even a complete list … JitterBug isn’t on there, and other online systems like SourceForge and GitHub have their own built-in issue tracking.
How did Atlassian do so well, offering what was already widely available? I think perhaps they got into the right place at the right time … they made it easier for tech startup companies to have their own private system which was cloud hosted. They also offered attractive layouts like Kanban boards at just the time this style of project management was suddenly popular.
Maybe you could argue that JIRA was positioned to take advantage of newer browser features. For example, “Request Tracker” was designed for older browsers and it had a lot of established users who didn’t want to jigger it around with too much additional scripting. Maybe the result is the look and feel of JIRA is a fraction nicer than those older packages. I think also Atlassian became a bit of a buzz brand and caught the marketing wave off that. Very few startup companies are going to carefully survey the field with this type of thing … they sign up with whoever has a “cool” vibe in the year they started.
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You’re right about the company being a “buzz brand”. I recall their products coming into vogue about the time that software development was supposed to be changing to newer methods to speed up development. Never found out how those newer methods eventually worked out, but I used to call one of their packages “effluence”.
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There is an upward trend in aged care in developed countries. Developing AI to take care of the aged will likely be a challenge but it is one of the growing sectors ib the workforce.
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” Developing AI to take care of the aged will likely be a challenge ”
I can’t see a use for something expensive that can’t change the sheets or the diapers! Management is easy, physical and psychological work in an old-age home is hard.
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If a robot can weld a car frame, and fit a windscreen it can change the sheets on a bed.
The difference is the cars come to the robot. How long before the beds are moved out, (remotely controlled), to allow a robot in a bed changing room to do the work?
Granny better be out of bed when the motor grunts into life.
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They could sedate us, and hang us up in rows of hammocks, moved regularly to keep the circulation in all parts, until they need the meat for something else. Their pet lions?
Horror aside, I do think a pet robot cat or dog (soft one) would be great for the elderly who can’t look after a real one.
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Brick-laying should be safe as a career.
I think the stats show that this is a very male-dominated profession, too!
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LOL..
Australian made robo-bricklayer lays 1000 bricks an hour
Australia’s one-armed robot bricklayer could transform the residential construction sector as we know it after building its first display home in less than four days.
…and that was 5 years ago…
I’ve seen a number of videos where human-only building tasks can be done by machine, and not even AI based.
Then of course there’s 3D printed homes now too…
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LOL indeed, another technology that quotes faux figures and never talks about set up, clean up and tear down. Just the 1000 bricks an hour. A lot like EVs accelerate really quickly, just not for too long.
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A robot-controlled “printed” house was built recently in Perth. Didn’t take very long to construct the walls.
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Brickies, robot brickies, printed cement walls, etc etc , will all eventually be superceeded by prefabricated, factory made, component houses.
Even now, there are houses built completely without any brick/ block work.
Steel frames, prefab wall panels, lots of sealed structural glass , interlocking interior wall and ceeling panels ( no plastering) , etc etc.
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Basically it’s a concrete pump modified and concrete mix with chemical added to make it plastic.
The usual long rubber hose is the concrete applicator computer aided for accuracy in delivery from straight lines to curves.
Toothpaste tube example, like the US designed and built Squeezcrete Concrete Pumps that were popular when concrete pumping reached Australia, first designed in Germany by companies including Schwing GMBH piston concrete pumps.
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Many new jobs will be created simply fixing all the mistakes.
And that’s not counting a whole new class of job which is actually finding all the mistakes made by AI bots.
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The EU /US deal could get worse for the EU as it seems Medicines will also be included
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/eu-us-tariffs-pharmaceuticals-heavy-impact/
It seems there is an element of politics being introduced as Trump doesn’t like the EU stance on Palestine and he has punished Canada for the same thing and Brazil for their actions against their former President as Brazil actually had a trade deficit with the US
Hitting close allies hard and hitting others that might be more neutral such as Brazil and India will likely drive them further into the Chinese camp.
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“… will likely drive them further into the Chinese camp.”
It doesn’t matter where Trump is driving.
In terms of attitudes towards their own citizens and civil liberties in general, all the countries you mention are building their own Chinese camps.
And that would appear to include Australia and the UK.
Trump is driving them mental, which maybe he shouldn’t because they are already close enough to walk the rest of the way on their own.
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There is a significant difference between China and Australia. In China you know you only get to hear what the government wants you to hear. Australians are not clear on what the government wants you to hear.
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“Australians are not clear on what the government wants you to hear.”
Some things are very clear! Nanny State will look after you from the cradle to the grave, but you must do as we tell you! Trump bad! Putin bad! Israel bad! Palestine good! Renewables wonderful! Coal and oil bad! CO2 terrible! Our medical industry is the best in the world, do as you’re told! Internet bad, sign in so we can protect you!
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Too many memes in one paragraph. The situation is fluid and Aunty is becoming nervous over narrative, but its fair to say Australians are more astute than most give them credit for.
We are in the digital age and well informed from every perspective.
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its fair to say Australians are more astute than most give them credit for.
Well outside of the capital cities and surrounds Australians are more spread out. Maybe it takes longer for the government policies to be accepted as a result of the delays due to distance?
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The tyranny of distance no longer applies, we are totally connected to the outside world. Those living in rural and regional electorates tend to vote for the Nats or other splinter groups, so in a sense we are a subculture.
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Maybe also because so few of these so called policies impact regional Australia in a positive way
Can you think of a positive policy or program that benefits all regional Australians in recent memory? There are some if you are from the right tribe but generally the regions get 2nd class treatment in health, education, and policing. City people are taken aback when the discover there is a hospital but no emergency dept, there is a police station but there is nobody in it and my goodness arent things expensive in that little supermarket.
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Funny,
I’ve been a bit confused about what messages are coming from where in my own country.
I suppose on the upside there are lots to choose from.
At least for now.
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And that is what make you a Person.
Unlike some other crowds, who so far discovered two colours – dark grey and light grey.
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Things just got worse in NSW- Hamas has just been given control of Sydney.
Paywalled.
NSW Supreme Court green lights pro-Palestine march on Harbour Bridge https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-supreme-court-authorises-pro-palestine-march-on-harbour-bridge-20250802-p5mjq9.html
Cheers,
Dave B
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Imagine all the cringe lefty Sydney glitterati that will be elbowing their way to the front row for the photo op and virtue signalling. Lets see, Clover Moore, Fitzy and Wliiamson, Caro, Carlton, Plibers and maybe even special guest spots for the Turnbulls and Albo. Its will be a lefty feeding frenzy.
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I’m looking forward to the pro-Palestine march as it might, just might, manage to get Australians to recognise that Israel has behaved atrociously in preventing food and water from entering Gaza for 11 weeks from March two May this year and right now are providing insufficient food and water for the starving Palestinian babies and children. Unfortunately many Australians believe Israel’s claims that deprivation of food and water does not and never has happened and to say that it has is lies from Hamas. Sure there are copious numbers of pictures and photos of healthy looking babies and children but the TV pictures clearly show emaciated babies and children alive and moving and crying or exhaustedly lying down where ever thay can. How TV viewers can say there is no sign of famine is beyond belief
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Emaciated babies have other medical conditions. Their parents are not starving. Hamas uses their own children as propaganda tools. Disgusting.
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Yes, I’m sure Hamas will be showing sick children as victims of starvation.
Propaganda.
But I’m also sure Gaza is desperately short of food.
In spite of Israeli pictures showing stockpiles at the born order, and Israel blaming the UN and Hamas for lack of distribution; distribution in Gaza is mainly restricted by Israel to the to the Humanitarian Foundation, an American group backed by Israel. All access is controlled by the IDF.
Blaming others is Israeli Propaganda.
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Markx, I’m sure the people of Gaza are utterly miserable. Who would not feel for them? But the solution is not to reward terrorists.
In real famines, not photogenic ones, all generations are starving
, not just babies with metabolic disorders. The media machine lies outright.
Hamas could save their children any day by giving back the hostages, setting up a law abiding society and a real industry and dropping their vow of genocide. But Hamas use the suffering of their men, women and children as tools to gain more power for Hamas, and the UN does too. When Kier Starmer, Macron, Mark Carney, the BBC and ABC say the same thing as the UN we know what the Blob wants, and the Blob does not want Palestinians to live happy productive lives.
If Hamas cared about the people it rules over it would not launch murderous paragliders and fire off missile wars from cowardly tunnels while their own people are used as miserable human shields. 666 days of unnecessary pain caused by Hamas.
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Sorry Jo,
I don’t believe for a moment that Gaza would get any peace by surrendering. They’d still get displaced and deported, and the few tolerated to remain will have to live as second rate citizens under Israeli rule.
Look at what’s happening in the West Bank: West Bank citizens made every attempt to live under Israeli rule, and still, every day they are persecuted, attacked, and inch by inch, squeezed out of their houses, villages and farmlands.
Like you, in my schooling and in all the news and information I heard in my developing years, I heard only of brave Israelis wresting green farms from the harsh desert and dealing with the dusty Bedouin and Arabs who unreasonably opposed them. We were indoctrinated with a noble picture of bravery and perseverance.
It was never true. The Israeli settlers forced, as they still do today, people and whole communities from villages, and districts, destroying their wells, their farms, their houses, their towns. People from all over the world who have the correct ethnic background went there, and are still going there, to ‘claim’ free land. The IDF by charter will protect these settlers, and have no responsibility for the Palestinians, whose only protection is a disempowered police force under Israeli jurisdiction… which in turn has no power over the settlers. The result is cold blooded displacement and deliberate land seizures by settlers wth little constraint.
I do not condone the terrible Oct 7th attack in any way, but the Israelis grasped that event with a brutal murderous eagerness that is far worse, with the aim of genocide and displacement. And it has every appearance of having been their ultimate strategy for a very long period of time. You keep people locked in an open air concentration camp, having pushed them their off generationally owned land, then hold huge parties and raves within 1 kilometre of the barb wire, you are priming a powder keg.
Jo, I’m in agreement with you on most topics, and greatly admire your ability to cut to the chase on most subjects, and to communicate it clearly.
But in this case, I think we are witnessing one of the greatest wrongs cruelly inflicted on a population in our lifetimes. And I’m shocked that those who can see through other long term childhood indoctrinations we had, and media programs we now have, don’t see this one for what it is.
It’s worth carefully reading of the history on this, and listening to the voices of the dissident people of Israel around the world who call it out, and to the voices of others who document it.
It’s not what you are told it is.
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Speaking of a “a brutal murderous eagerness” — I don’t believe the Palestinians dropped leaflets warning the young concert goers and families to get out of the area on Oct 6? I did hear they called their mothers to brag about killing jews.
I too am surprised, as you are, when people who can see The Blob indoctrination in so many aspects of our lives, still, with the best of intentions, end up repeating what the Blob wants them to say. tu quoque?
Terrorism is never OK.
[PS: I want to help the kids of Gaza too. I just believe that the way to do that is with law and order, a free market economy, and a philosophy that does not reward lies, or cheer on rape and murder. They are captive to globalist and religious goals that sacrifice them for publicity and power. Hamas are bloodthirsty cowards. ]
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Yes indeed Israel has behaved atrociously unlike Hamas…splutter , gag. There is plenty of misery and inhumanity to share around.
Sundays virtue fest will be forgotten by Tuesday
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In other words a modern day blood libel.
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‘ … likely drive them further into the Chinese camp.’
We are just waiting for regime change in Moscow and Beijing, then BRICS will really takeoff. Stagflation is coming to the US.
‘The latest US jobs data suggests investors need to at least think about the worst of both worlds, as tariffs slow US economic growth while pushing up inflation.’ (Oz)
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How on earth do you arrive at that. The current leadership has created and promoted BRICS , they are hardly a handbrake.
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They intend doing away with centralised control under a dictator, the reform movement has been reinvigorated. Beijing is going to walk away from the CCP and become democratic, so in the fullness of time Australia might decide to join BRICS in a couple of years.
China is heading for economic depression, social upheaval and collapse, and Beijing is desperately keen to get out of this mess without losing face.
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That’s two nonsense China comments. Are you watching too much Peter Zeihan? China is so far from economic depression, let alone social upheaval that it’s not even on the foreseeable horizon, let alone approaching.
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On September 3 a military parade will be held in Beijing and Xi won’t be in attendance.
The fourth plenum in October should revel the new leaders and the next Five Year Plan.
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PZ is great! he knows everything. He predicted the collapse of th Russian oil industry. He intones drivel at times with such surety.
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You got another good story for Russia?
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Misuse, Misquote, or Just Misunderstood? Readers Wanted for the Blob’s Latest Climate Panic
The article goes on to list points of dispute that “Climate Scientists” have with the DOE Report. My favorite quote was Michael Mann’s description of the DOE report because, in reality, it is a good description of his hockey-stick graph:
“a deeply misleading antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understanding. Then they dressed it up with dubious graphics composed of selective, cherry-picked data.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/01/misuse-misquote-or-just-misunderstood-readers-wanted-for-the-blobs-latest-climate-panic/
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Note who one of the Authors is!
A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate
Report to U.S. Energy Secretary Christopher Wright – July 23, 2025
Climate Working Group:
John Christy, Ph.D.
Judith Curry, Ph.D.
Steven Koonin, Ph.D.
Ross McKitrick, Ph.D.
Roy Spencer, Ph.D.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Judith Curry, Ph.D.
is Professor Emerita at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she served as Chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences for 13 years. She is President and co-founder of Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN). Curry has a PhD in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago.
She has authored or coauthored 192 peer-reviewed papers in atmospheric and climate sciences, two
textbooks, and most recently the book Climate Uncertainty and Risk.
Curry is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical
Union, and a Member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. She has served on several Science Steering Committees of the World Climate Research Program and also the DOE Biological & Environmental Research Advisory Committee, Earth Science Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council, and the NRC Space Studies Board and Climate Research Committee. Dr. Curry has given testimony in 13 Congressional Hearings
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Here is a good article on the DOE report authored by Judith Curry et. al. including a link to the report itself:
Full Posting of: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/31/full-posting-of-a-critical-review-of-impacts-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-on-the-u-s-climate/
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For those JoNovians in NSW, how’s your permanent drought looking this weekend? It would appear some of you have been praying too hard for flooding rains and cooler temperatures and wild surf along the coast… unless it’s [shock! horror!] ™️climate change™️ at last?
Official warnings of strong winds, heavy rain, rough seas and cold conditions (even alerts for farmers & sheep up in the hills) but but but – where’s the warming?
Is there a minor glitch in the system or is this a bog-standard Tassie Low, one of a few we’ve had this winter – the remains of which eventually drift over towards us – yet today it’s calm, clear, bright & sunny with early beach-walkers out enjoying this pleasant August morning.
The ‘settled science’ is sooo confusing. Good luck!
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PS. Across the other side of your continent, on the southwest coast, there’s even SNOW forecast (again) for the Stirling Ranges tomorrow as yet another cold front aims for the wheat lands of W.A.
All those solar panels & wind turbines are obviously having an effect on your ‘existential carbon emissions’ – wrap up warmly!
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Another weather front is now passing through Perth, with another wet week to follow. Home solar delivering only 520 Watts today. It’s a case of looking for the dry days, only 1-2 every week. I think even the farmers have sufficient rain and don’t need any more.
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It is sooo cold in NSW even the fish are dying from it…
Must be as a result of a warmer climate
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Lake volume dropped for maintenance to less than half. Increased population density for the inhabitants.Shorter photo period over winter therefore less oxygen produced by plants and photosynthetic microbes during the day.
Who dies first? The more active schooling type fish?
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“… cold temperatures … pointing to climate-related factors”. Gotcha!
The Science©️ says the most oddest things. At least the pelicans aren’t starving. Meanwhile farther south, the Snowy Mountains are looking rather snowy with freezing temperatures: let me guess, climate-related™️ too?
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The Snowy Mountains are enjoying the best snow season in over a decade and life on the Central Tablelands is horribly cold.
ENSO and IOD are neutral, so it gives us a clean slate to prove its not AGW. They are bound to say its all because the waters around Australia are ‘boiling’.
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Hairback Herring or Bony Bream are the main native forage fish in the Murray-Darling system. They usually proliferate after floods and generally wet periods and provide food for Golden Perch and Murray Cod, along with many species of birds. These fish can reach a point where overpopulation takes effect when they die off in winter due to the lack of algae on which they feed. Massive numbers die due to thermal shock as well. There is nothing new here , and it’s certainly not related to Climate change. A couple of heavy frosts will knock them off big time.
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During WW2 they were harvested, canned and sent to our troops overseas – mainly to our north I would suspect.
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Cold & Wet Northern Beaches
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In the Australian “The politics of climate are turning into a wild ride
Emissions policy has become a make or break issue for Labor and the Coalition.”
Emissions? The alleged problem is atmospheric CO2, not fossil fuel ’emissions’?
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could show that the 20 trillion being spent each year on destroying adequate working and reliable and commandable power supplies with Replaceables has resulted in decreased or constant CO2. Doesn’t anyone check? What has fossil fuel CO2 to do with total CO2? It’s irrelevant. All CO2 is swapped out every ten years in this giant fish tank of a planet. Gaseous equilibrium.
Why is it that not a single CO2 action of the Prime Minister, Keith Starmer, Joe Biden had any Cost Benefit analysis. Snowy II over $12Billion. The Interconnector over $12Billion. Years to go, if they ever finish. Two years has become twenty. What good will it all do? Has CO2 go down anywhere or stopped its steady linear growth? No.
How much are countries prepared to spend on achieving nothing at all? Why is fossil fuel CO2 special?
What about the extra 7 billion people on the planet since 1900? Extra humans in China or India just breathing out each generate more CO2 ’emissions’ than all of Australia. Why are we the only ones to be punished and impoverished? Who decided that?
Fossil fuel “Emissions” have scientifically and demonstrably nothing to do with atmospheric CO2.
Nothing humans have done has changed atmospheric CO2. Not even massive bush fires. And no one cares. It’s tax and trash.
Democratic governments have become enslavers of their own populations and the people of the UK are in open revolt against greedy dictatorial demolition governments. At least in the UK they have hope in Nigel Farage. What do we have? Why is the Liberal(aka Conservative) party indistinguishable from the Greens?
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Since the start of this insanity, I have been amazed that politicians starting with Al Gore and the UN have decided that they control the weather. They have “Climate Policies”. They decide issues of science. They will spend vast amounts of our money and borrowed money, our debt, in fixing a problem where they have no competence or knowledge. And have no actual objectives except taxing the use of fossil fuel.
So many scientists in every country and politicians and politicians alone control the weather. It’s beyond belief. King Cnut would be staggered. Also Napoleon, Stalin, President Xi.
WWIII is against the weather? How’s that going? Are we winning? How can we tell?
ONLY Democratic politicians believe it. And some very odd members of the public who also believe in the power of rock crystals and astrology.
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How can we tell?
It snowed on the European Alps this week (30 cm) with glacier-skiing operations enjoying a return to winter in high summer as cold polar north winds (jetstream) brought cool & wet conditions to the continent, ending their brief ‘heatwave’.
It’s only weather after all.
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Bingo!
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“Why are we the only ones to be punished and impoverished? Who decided that?”
Not only us, all advanced western nations have been targeted. It shows up more here because our political leadership is more gullible than most, but Europe is also being hit hard, see Germany as one example.
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TdeF:
The Greenhouse Gas with the highest concentration is water vapour.
I am just wondering whether this could explain recent warming, rather than the unlikely (although popular in some circles) carbon dioxide.
Would some circumstance e.g. less (real) air pollution, change in solar angle etc. lead to more evaporation and more warming.
After all there is no real correlation for CO2 levels except between ~1980 – 2000.
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Durr!!!
You don’t say!!
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An interesting idea G3 but maybe impossible to answer.
Increased atmospheric water due to increased evaporation could lead to increased greenhouse gas (radiative warming) if that actually exists, but it is likely drowned out by other events in the hydrological cycle such as evaporative surface cooling, clouds(condensation), precipitation, increased mixing in the troposphere, thunderstorms, cyclones, cloud shading of the surface, cloud radiation to space from cloud tops etc.
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My thought – which I didn’t follow up – was that the Cult Believers haven’t checked out the most likely cause. Especially as they like (occasionally) look at Relative Humidity not actual water content. They might note that Relative Humidity is similar with higher temperature, but that means the air carries more moisture. Should the air get below its dew point the water would condense. Thus claims that increased rain storms might be a possibility. I also note that Greenland and Antarctica are increasing snow levels despite Scare Claims that the ice will melt and we will all drown esp. The Maldives.
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The heat released might well explain the increase in temperature.
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The changing climatic trends are readily explained by Earth’s relationship with the Sun. Climnate models are based on solar energy but it is solar POWER that is important to climate. Sothern Hemishpoer gets the same amount of solar energy as the Northern Hemisphere but is gets its dose in 7 days less. Which would you expect to be warmer?
If you said SH you would be wrong because SH is mostly covered in water or ice, which has slower response to solar power than the NH. The NH gets warmer because it almost 50% land and land responds faster top solar power. The increasing solar power in the NH, starting around 1700, has been deriving a warming trend since then. That increasing solar power will continue for another 9,000 years.
You need to look at Greenland to observe the most serious consequence of that rising solar power in the NH. The January temperature on the Greenland plateau has increased by 10C. That is when there is no sun so it means the advection of latent and sensible heat to the plateau is increasing strongly. The altitude of the plateau is increasing at up to 0.5m per year. By the end of this century it will be 50m higher than the start of the century. By then, many of the high peaks in the Arctic will be increasing in altitude. The ice will build at elevation on northern slopes and flow down then south.
More on Earth’s relationship with the Sun here:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/04/high-resolution-earth-orbital-precession-relative-to-climate-weather/
Australia is really the only land mass that gives a good indication of solar POWER. Its maximum width occurs around 25S. The summer solstice solar POWER is currently 500.4W?m^2 down from its Perak of 502W/m^2 in 700AD. The summer solstice solar POWER at 25N is currently 468.2W/m^2 but heading for a peak of 492w/m^2 in 9,000 years. It gives some insight into why Australia is presently the dry continent. But Australia can look forward to becoming less dry and possible even wet.
Climate models are now thoroughly discredited. Their CSIRO and BoM are pushing manure uphill and will be soon exposed for the clowns they are.
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FWIW
“Missed Us By That Much”
“Watch the waves from yesterday’s M8.8 megathrust earthquake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula roll across seismic stations in North America. Just amazing.”
https://x.com/WxNB_/status/1950522141524304087
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/07/30/missed-us-by-that-much/
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Omar Gersh! It’s worse than we thought! Climate Cacophony now causes the North American landmass to roll like ocean waves… NB. Nothing new.
Any hints to links of models or reproductions of the tsunami pulse/waves dispersing across the Pacific Ocean? After Indonesia and Japan’s big ones, there were animations galore of sloshing waves emanating from the epicentre and refracting around the watery sphere, yet not so much this time. Any clues?
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Copy of the NOAA wave simulation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STLIQ-jbE1k
Hint: mute over-dramatic soundtrack.
NB. a projection, not reality: however the rebound off the islands north of Australia, ie. Manus, Bougainville, the Solomons, appears to have kept Aus’ east coast in the lee/shelter of the main thrust, while NZ was well out of the firing-line.
So far no fatalities anywhere (hence the end of that story?) while volcanoes carry on belching fire in Kamchatka and Indonesia and Vanuatu and..
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Very well done. Some great data capture there.
I still remember being in an office on the Northshore of Sydney when the Newcastle earthquake occurred in 1989. I was on the phone to someone on the south side of Sydney. I blurted out something like – wow did you feel that – he had out “felt what” before confirming the tremor so I figured it was something north of me.
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None of the Hunter Valley coal fired power stations were damaged by that earthquake.
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FWIW – latest Kustler
“The Artificial Demon
“With apologies for bluntness, the mainstream press f***** around, now the mainstream press is finding out.” —Matt Taibbi”
“By now, it must be kind of obvious that Mr. Putin of Russia was staged-up into a demon for the convenience of Hillary Clinton — resulting in a decade of deformed US foreign relations that has dragged us to the edge of a third world war. Nice work, Democratic Party!
I will proffer a harsh truth to you: the best outcome in Ukraine would be for Russia to win the war as expeditiously as possible, neutralize and disarm the place, change-out its illegitimate government, and let it revert to being the frontier backwater it was for eight decades previous, when it was not a problem for the other nations of the region.”
More at
https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-artificial-demon
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America canned a military meeting with Aussie, we might become an independent country after all!
“US and Australian officials were planning to meet some of the nations’ top defence experts in Canberra on Monday and Tuesday next week for the fifth round of the US-Australia Indo-Pacific Deterrence Dialogue, but the event was suddenly called off on Wednesday when the American officials were told they were no longer allowed to travel to the event. Around 40 American and Australian national security figures would have gathered to discuss issues such as military integration, nuclear deterrence and strategic interaction with China at the closed-door dialogue, which involved months of planning.”
or maybe we won’t be allowed back on America’s lap unless we stop hanging out with China!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/not-woke-stuff-trump-administration-bars-us-officials-from-australia-defence-talks-20250801-p5mjhy.html
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You might be right, this is Donnie’s handiwork.
I’m guessing intel has informed him that regime change is coming to Beijing and it might be best to backoff until the dust settles.
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FWIW
“The Ongoing Fiction of Cheap Wind and Solar”
“As energy analyst Alex Epstein testified in the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should “require solar and wind generators to bear the full costs of the backup, storage, and transmission they need to provide reliable electricity. This will end the unfair practice of socializing the costs of intermittent generation across ratepayers or the grid.”
LCOE is a flawed tool, one that might have worked when comparing steady-output power plants. But for intermittent renewables, it’s a square peg in a round hole. It’s time to retire this broken metric. More comprehensive cost assessments – like LFSCOE – must take its place. Until then, public debates will continue to be skewed, and consumers will keep paying for a lie.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/01/the-ongoing-fiction-of-cheap-wind-and-solar/
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And coal is free. Coal power stations last forever. They only need one transmission line and these are already in place. Wind and solar are disposables. And you have to wonder about the lifespan of these massive multi billion dollar interconnectors? Why build a system which is so fragile when there is no need at all? The money.
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Coal is indeed free, no one writes a cheque to the Maker. It does cost to extract of course but wind and solar also cost to harvest, ask any grotty yachty.
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As well, they don’t occupy large areas of land that can be more useful and profitable for other activities such as agriculture and they don’t sit about 300 metres in the air and have to be built to withstand gale force winds up to about 200 kph (while not producing anything most of the time).
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Awkward top heavy giants, let the wind not blow too fiercely or insufficiently
or like Humpty Dumpty
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I read recently a comment from engineers who posted about being involved in building nuclear power stations that recently China complete conversion of two coal fired power stations from boiler system to nuclear reactors.
And that somewhere in the UK, location at present subject to confidentiality agreement, a SMR generator plant about the dimensions of two large shipping containers has been certified and started recently.
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Any more info about that SMR Denis? Any idea who supplied it?
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Does make you wonder. If they apparently dont seem to be able to refresh wind sites, what are these interconnects going to be doing in 20 years?
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We could say “nothing” but the reality there’ll be a big “something”: an ugly blight on the landscape and “remains” that are “too difficult and expensive” to remove.
Hopefully the perpetrators of this sham will face the consequences; but I suspect that’s just a dream.
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There has been a surprising high number of earthquakes across Australia in the last 30 days
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It’s been my observation that all these major tectonic events are connected. An earthquake in the middle of the Pacific is ignored. But then you get an explosion and tsunami somewhere else, within a week.
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Yes, as the stresses are relieved by a quake, they transfer the compressive stress to other areas.
It’s all caused by the twisting of the Antarctic plate causing compression in the rest of the plates. Aided by the Suns gravity, and angular forces reducing compressions in localised areas as the earth spins through the day.
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‘ … Antarctic plate causing compression in the rest of the plates.’
I didn’t know that, so I dug a little deeper and found another world.
‘Scientists reveal a hidden world beneath Antarctica’s ice where rivers flow uphill. Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers could have dramatic global consequences.’ (National Geographic)
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Haven’t felt a thing in Redfern NSW.
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It couldn’t pentrate that cool inner urban vibe.
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Its funny, many decades ago whem commuuting to work, Redfern was the king place where you hoped the trains didnt break down and you had to get off and find your way home from there. Quite desirable now if prices are a guide.
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My Energy company AGL just notified me of a price rise of 15% circa $600 per year and a feed in tariff reduction of 20%.
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You will find that they all have raised prices. Red energy was quick off the mark.
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And Red Energy is Guv’ment owned I believe.
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Red Energy is part of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Limited public company wholly owned by the Federal Government after buying State shareholding a few years ago around the time of Snowy 2.0 Project commencing.
Snowy Hydro also owns some gas turbine generators and large diesel generator plants elsewhere around Australia.
Some might recall the media story about the resignation of a senior executive for daring to advise the Minister that the next natural gas turbine generator now being built would not operate on so called green hydrogen, not available commercially, etc.
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Snowy started as 2.0 now its Snowy 20.0…… billion that is
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Yep- they have to have new prices locked in before the end of the year, and they want us all on timed tariffs. Lunch will be the big cooked dinner of the day, with the washing machine and the drier running then, and no heating between 5pm and 8pm when power costs twice as much…
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I wonder if anyone’s ever tried getting their money from a solar install now that the lies and fake promises have been revealed.
“You’ll save money!”
“Honey, the latest power bill says the power company owes us money!”
Full refunds for fraudulent products.
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I have not paid for electricity since 2011. Still in credit this year despite losing the 66c/kWh FIT last December. But spent $3300 on a grid connected battery in June that was switched on in July.
If you own a roof, now is a good time to gt solar and a battery. The more households that do that, the sooner the folly of intermittent grid generation comes into focus.
There is an average of 1000 households a day currently installing batteries.
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Anyone waiting for Albanese’s $275 reduction in power bill should realise politicians will say anything that they believe will bring them votes – nothing more nothing less. it is ALL about votes.
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FWIW
“Who Could Have Guessed that the Nantucket Wind Farm Would Be a Disaster?”
“”Hindsight is 20/20,” said Nantucket’s lawyer.
Yeah, well, we told you so before you got into this mess. ”
More at
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/08/01/who-could-have-guessed-that-the-nantucket-wind-farm-would-be-a-disaster-n3805395
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There was a Wind farm on Nantucket
Those in the know said _ _ _ _. it
The experts said suck it
Now what the hell’s happening in Nantucket
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There was a fella called Bowen,
Who the masses thought was all-knowin’.
When the power went out,
The masses did shout.
What fools we have been they all spoke with a whine,
“Drag him out of his office and hang him from the nearest wind turbine”
/did I say it would rhyme well? 😆
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Just switched over to youtube on the tv yesterday and they’ve made major changes.
Effectively NOTHING on the ‘home’ tab now.
I never sign in, to avoid tracking what I see, but maybe I’ll have to before long.
Lessee now – need to create a dummy email account and say I’m over 16. Shouldn’t be hard. 😆
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How one million white Europeans – many seized on the south coast of England – were sold to the Muslim world and brutally exploited in the slavery scandal the Left DON’T want to speak about.
Though it is almost forgotten today – suppressed, perhaps, by some squeamish historians – the Muslim trade in both black African and white European slaves was deeply feared for three centuries.
Now, a book by historian Justin Marozzi unflinchingly reveals the extent of slavery in Arab countries, which was conducted with unequalled brutality.
More shocking still, he shows that it continued in much of the Islamic world well into the 20th century – and, for hundreds of thousands of West Africans born into life as slaves, carries on to this day.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14943981/white-Europeans-south-coast-England-sold-Muslim-slavery-scandal-Left.html
Oohh…that’ll ruffle some feathers!
/that needed ruffling
/reparations for white fellas! Billions to be had. Apply now!
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Trump ordered to release full Epstein files by August 15 under rarely used Senate law
President Trump now faces a congressional deadline to release the full Epstein files by August 15. The demand rests on historical precedent—Senator Chuck Schumer invoked a 100‑year‑old statute known as the Rule of Five to force compliance.
“When any five senators on the Homeland Security Committee call on the executive branch, the executive branch must comply.”
https://wallstreetsuntzu.com/market-marco/trump-ordered-to-release-full-epstein-files-by-august-15-under-rarely-used-senate-law/
Let the names be exposed for all to see.
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It’s my understanding that he’s already given orders to release what can be legally be released. True?
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It’s amazing that the Democrats had access to all the Epstein stuff and did nothing. Now they imply that the information is damaging to Trump. That’s incredible.
The people known to be totally compromised are the frequent visitors to Sex island. Hillary and Bill Clinton. Separately. Was all in the other missing Lenovo laptop, Anthony Weiner’s/Huma Abadin, Hillary’s live in secretary since she was 18. Huma’s laptop went to her husband.
Divorced Huma is now marrying George Soros’ son, visitor to the Biden White house more than 20 times. There is a huge story in the Weiner laptop which was seized by the FBI from the NY Police. At the very least it contained all the separate airline bookings for both Hillary and Bill. Which implies an even bigger secret. At the time the NY Police Chief said he had enough to arrest people for criminal behaviour. As well as Anthony Weiner.
This was all freely in the press at the time, but has died as if it never existed. The coverup is extraordinary.
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Its a bit like the Inception movie. Cover ups within cover ups within cover ups.
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WMO confirms megaflash spanning 829 km (515 miles) as the longest on record
The World Meteorological Organization confirmed a new lightning flash record spanning 829 km (515 miles) across the Great Plains, United States, observed on October 22, 2017.
The distance is equivalent to a trip from Paris, France to Venice, Italy—coverable by a commercial jet in approximately 90 minutes, or by car in about 8 to 9 hours.
This specific flash was not identified during the initial 2017 analysis but was later discovered through a re-examination of the thunderstorm.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/830km-lightning-megaflash-recorded-in-us-by-satellites-is-the-longest-yet/ar-AA1JHjBr
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Trump deploys 2 nuclear subs after Medvedev’s “Foolish, Inflammatory” Statement
President Trump took to his Truth Social account and escalated from words to actions moving two nuclear submarines to be positioned “in the appropriate regions” based on “highly provocative” statements from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-deploys-2-nuclear-subs-after-medvedevs-foolish-inflammatory-statement
I wonder if there are still people covering their ears going “la la la la” at this point?
/inevitably
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This such cobblers. As if the nations capable of nuclear sub deterrents dont have them routinely deployed. Its just the US blusters about it.
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Yes,
What is the point of a boomer with nuclear weapons if you don’t deploy it to launch them against another power? The boomers were built specifically to threaten Russia.
What about the Russian Subs? Sensibly the Russians are silent about them!
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The Ohios (Strategic missile submarines) will not move one inch closer to anyone. Virginias (hello AUKUS!) will patrol as usual too. This is just Wrestlemania performative bluff, purely for the home audience. Can’t have the peons understanding just how far from great USA really is.
The desperation to halt the ongoing collapse of Ukraine’s front line by getting Russia to “please stop, or we’ll do something ‘really bad'(tm)to you [pinky swear]” is getting tedious.
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FWIW
“Grid on the Brink: PJM’s Record Auction Proves We Must Keep—and Build—More Coal Plants”
“There comes a point when even the most willfully blind must acknowledge what is plain to see. That point arrived quietly—but thunderously—on July 22, 2025, when PJM Interconnection, the grid operator for 65 million Americans across 13 states and the District of Columbia, released the results of its latest capacity auction.
In technical terms, it was the 2026/2027 Base Residual Auction. In plain English? It was a panic button. A red flare. A neon billboard blinking “DANGER AHEAD.”
For the first time in history, the auction cleared at the maximum legal price—$329.17 per megawatt-day—in every single zone of PJM’s vast territory. That’s not a random number. It’s the cap imposed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). And when a market hits the cap across the board, it’s no longer a functioning market. It’s a distress signal. ”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/01/grid-on-the-brink-pjms-record-auction-proves-we-must-keep-and-build-more-coal-plants/
“The moving finger writes and, having writ”
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Sat WTF: Woman found dead with 26 iPhones glued to her body
A Brazilian woman who had 26 iPhones glued to her body has died after collapsing on a bus.
The Daily Mail reported that the 20-year-old woman started to complain of respiratory issues while traveling from Foz do Iguaçu to São Paulo.
As her breathing began to worsen, she collapsed and started to have seizures.
When paramedics arrived at the scene, they immediately started to resuscitate the woman, but to their dismay, they were unable to bring her back to life.
It was while the paramedics resuscitated the woman that they discovered 26 iPhones glued directly to her skin.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14959035/Woman-20-dead-dozens-iPhones-glued-body-police-launch-investigation.html
Definitely needed a digital detox. 😎
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Just weird!! Why would she have phones glued to her body?? Smuggling them through a checkpoint where they inspect baggage only? You can only fit 10 of them vertically around your waist, and it wouldn’t be comfortable sitting down on a bus..
Imagine the noise on the bus if they all started ringing! ..or even jut one of them and she had to strip her clothes off to find it! ooops, that’s mine, I didn’t mean to glue that one on.
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Death by battery? Multiple charges. Victim left flat.
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with 26 iPhones, surely she could have called for help?
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STUDY: Just one egg a week slashes Alzheimer’s risk by nearly HALF
A recent study by Pan et al followed 1,024 older adults (average age 81) in the Rush Memory and Aging Project for an average of 6.7 years. Participants underwent annual cognitive assessments and lifestyle surveys, and a subgroup even donated their brains for postmortem analysis.
The results? Eating just one or more eggs per week was linked to a ~47% lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s dementia — and the protection may be partly due to choline, a brain-essential nutrient found abundantly in eggs. This is the first U.S. study to examine egg intake against both clinical Alzheimer’s diagnoses and physical brain pathology.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/study-just-one-egg-a-week-slashes
No reason to stop at one either.
Despite the deeply entrenched belief by the masses and doctors too, that eggs raise bad cholesterol, it’s all BS, just like the low-fat nonsense.
You could eat 4 eggs a day, and a month later no effect.
Quintessential nutrition.
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If I remember, I have an egg for breakfast on Friday.
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“You could eat 4 eggs a day”
Quite normal when the chickens start laying in spring! Standard lunch is a rasher of bacon, a slice of fried home-made bread and 4 eggs.
Wintertime sadly is two eggs from the supermarket, pale listless things!
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Yea! Our girls are regular layers. Fabulous eggs – “scratch mix”, dried meat worms (for protein), kitchen scraps, free range grass & whatever bugs they discover produce stunningly rich eggs. We probably eat on average at least eight to ten eggs a week. The rest are distributed t family and friends.
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Good news, I do like egg dishes of all kinds.
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Good news, I do like egg dishes of all kinds.
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Probably put out by the egg marketing board. Or some sort of yolk.
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‘Tis odd: Everyone knows what causes it, half know how to cure it, yet it is still increasing, still with 100% bad outcomes.
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WOW, it’s snowing in New England Highlands around Armadale.
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Yep! Been sent photos from the farm at Walcha with everything turned white.
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Having read this I texted my niece in Armidale and she sent pics of her kids out on the driveway, wrapped up Greta-style, building snowmen and having a ball… excellent!
When I was there in January it was mid-30s and lovely – something’s changed!
Reminds me of something Dr David Viner said 24 years ago about children and snow and how nobody would know…
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It must be fake news, BoM claimed this would be a warm winter.
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Come Spring they will no doubt report that it was the hottest ever
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Been normal here but we look to be in for a few cold mornings. Thats 12 – 13 – 14. 🙂
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I eronder if the UNIPCC is a dead duck. USA has withdrawn from AR7. The USA offshore climate research funding has been cut.
Have the new famous FIVE just produced AR7 under a different label? There was no new research. They even referenced the work of “discredited” GBR expert Peter Ridd. Not sure if any other Australians get a mention.
As I understand it, Australia is not yet committed to participating in CMIP7. There are already large gaps between models and reality and adjusting for those issues requires more tunable variables or complete rewrite based on something closer to reality. The latter would admit that CO2 is not doing what it is expected to do.
The climate modelling world is at a crossroad. Reality is passing them by. The world climate is not doing what the models predicted.
Anyone who takes an unbiased look at the state of Earth’s climate and its relationship to the Sun can already see the mechanism for glaciation unfolding. Can you imagine the egg on face of the warmists having to admit that they have it 180 degrees wrong and a warming world is the precursor for re-glaciation of the NH. The SH may lose a bit of ice as the SH eventually cools but most of it hangs around on Antartcia because ice does not melt in sunlight so does not need much additional snowfall to maintain mass balance.
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Sadly Sydney judge decided against the city Police recommendation.
Out of all parties involved the Israeli Army will be affected the least by a march across the Bridge.
ChatGPT offers two relevant pieces of wisdom :
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
“When God wants to punish you, he answers your prayers”
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I was driving in the City of Sydney CBD this afternoon and there were emergency services vehicles parking in streets and activity generally seen before major public events.
Note that the judgement to permit the Harbour Bridge protest was handed down today Saturday for Sunday morning application.
No time for appeal.
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Vladimir
Re ““Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.””
I first met this as
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make confident.”
Works about as well in most cases and seems particularly apt for some recent happenings (IMO)
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FWIW – something I hadn’t heard of before
“Fish Assholes
For that special someone! Not a fish product. Contains o shaped pasta in red sauce.”
https://www.granzellas.com/products/fish-assholes?variant=43700680130594
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They don’t sound watertight.
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FWIW
“Tom Lehrer, hilarious scourge of the self-important”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/tcw-guest-editors/
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Will be desprately needed on the harbour bridge tomorrow
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FWIW
“Chris Blackout Bowen comes out of hiding over Nett Zero with some of the coalition’s best points”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/?__cf_chl_tk=90rDUh1jpymqvYedP.H6NxeW4wg_8vBi.nuuanT._UM-1744315810-1.0.1.1-JvlacAmK30PgfI2HjgOMBqmaV6mXGdMUasoMU4wZRAQ
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Hi Jo – FWIW
Via https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/08/01/the-boss-is-away/
“Second, a WordPress housekeeping note. No, we did not deliberately put you in spam, for almost all values of you, and if you are a regular here we definitely did not (drive-by crazies may have). WordPress decides based on some known criteria (certain slurs) and some unknown (WPDE) to spam people. Some people more than others. There are three or five regulars who ALWAYS go to spam. It doesn’t help to resubmit the comment, that just means we have five identical comments in spam when we open it up. You might as well give us a day to fish it out, unless your internet is super-flaky and you really think it never left your computer. WordPress has also been ‘upgrading’. Yay?”
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FWIW
Oooh!
“Axios: Guess What Democrats Have Stopped Talking About?”
“So which Democrat dog has ceased its barking? The one that barked up the wrong energy tree, according to an Axios review of Democrat speeches and social-media accounts:”
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/08/01/axios-guess-what-democrats-have-stopped-talking-about-n3805378
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FWIW
Becoming fashionable it seems
“The Coming Wind Droughts”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/08/01/the-coming-wind-droughts-n3805367
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