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False temperature claims at COP30? surely not
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/11/07/the-false-temperature-claims-that-underpin-the-cop30-alarmist-agenda/
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This is not the only false claim. Even the Eaton educated Prince William has declared that temperature rise is threatening to affect every corner of the GLOBE!,! I’ve looked at the globe in my bedside lamp, pictures of earth,the moon!!
There are no corners on any globe known to mankind ( or personkind if you’re a woke Eton educated pounce )
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I’m sure that after Charles has gone, Willie will become King Woke the second.
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Willie “The Bonehead” Windsor. Unbelievable that conservatives like Abbott still wet their pants when royalty makes an appearance.
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It’s good to see that the family tradition will continue. Charles has made a number of climate predictions that have failed to eventuate. If a deadline is missed, he has reset and made another ticking timebomb alarmist prediction. The legacy is assured.
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Would not call 17.4C at 0847 in Sydney Hot – with breeze, feels a little chilly.
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tonyb:
You will be pleased to know that it is Australia that caused the world temperature to rise.
Working on the NASA would temperatures since 1850 (which incidentally are a load of crap) it is Australia’s huge surge in emissions which caused the world temperature to rise.
World temperature in 1900 shows a rise of 0.3℃ vs 1850 due to World emissions up 10.2 times whereas Australia’s emissions rose 91% in the same time.
And by 1980 World emissions were up 99 times whereas Australia’s were up 1823 times, which surely caused the 0.8℃ rise over 1850.
So obviously Blackout Bowen is right in his policies. Do I need to add sarc?
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Hottest random statistic ever of the day:-
UK bonfire night was the warmest on record.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/ckgklg15yxgo
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I can’t believe it. They managed to NOT blame “climate change”.
That report looks like it was written by someone who actually has a clue, e.g.:
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Tony. That was very informative and really does destroy the Blobs narrative. No wonder they don’t like that information being made public.
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Is Australia in decline? Has democracy peaked?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/i-wish-i-could-be-as-cheerful-about-my-country-as-tony-abbott/
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I might even buy the book.
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Australia is in distress. Serious distress.
I have been flying my flag upside down to advertise this very thing.
Inflation is out of control.
And, OUR Grubbnmnts are chasing MORE control over everyone here and everything we even think of doing.
We are in DIRE straits.
And 97% of Australians haven’t got a clue. (This figure COULD be slightly out. But not by much.)
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As most people who do their own shopping would realise, it’s far greater than the official claimed rate of 3.2%, more like 25% to 30% according to my observations and people like housewives whom I ask for their estimate.
That’s why Labor Governments keep getting elected.
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Five years of 25% compounding is a tripling of price.
Are you sure you are paying three times what you did pre covid? Are you sure you are not part of that 97% you speak of?
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In my assessment 90 odd percent have no clue about Australia. Myself and a few others went on a circuit from Near Townsville out to Mt Isa and back through the Gulf – in a round about fashion. Surprising to speak to fellow travelers – mainly urban types from Melbourne and Sydney who held Leftist views and knew next to nothing about the places and history of the areas visited. They’ll go back and tell their friends that they have seen it all – crocodile stories third time told and 50lb Barramundi. The men are effeminate and the women are largely aloof. One tries to keep an open mind, but it was our shared opinion that the good ol’ Australia is full of city know alls.
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The Australian press has been very effective at demonising Trump.
It would be an interesting poll but 99% of Australian woman accept that Trump is a horrible womaniser. So that is close to half the population just there.
Then every academic, reporter and other wokesters only see and reproduce bad news about Trump.
Let me suggest that the vast majority of Australians cannot imagine why US citizens vote for an immoral, war mongering womaniser like Trump – that is the only perception that they would have reading/listening to the popular press in Australia.
It must have stuck in Alan Kohler’s throat this week to admit “Trump was right” on the US economy.
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The Age (and likely the SMH) published an article on Venezuela today with emphasis on relations with the US. It opened by stating how Trump has destroyed a dozen submarines made by drug cartels trying to import narcotics into America. After that, the article went into a deep history of Venezuelan politics.
It mentioned China is now the main purchaser of their oil and may be acting as a creditor for ongoing production. So of course Trump wants to rock the boat.
It’s a strange article, a mish mash of Venezuelan political history and anti-Trump rhetoric. Of course, as someone has mentioned on this blog before, they’re not going to mention the situation is so bad over there that carnivores had to be fed with other animals from the same zoo.
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“This is a book for the remaining 60 per cent, the middle bit. One view is that they are low-information voters, devotees of either branch of the UniParty, endlessly distracted by toys, trinkets and addictions. Or maybe they are the fellow-travelling optimists who, if they buy a copy or at least watch the Sky News version, will find Abbott’s approach refreshing and congenial.”
Sounds right, who else would listen to a politician..
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At least we know the pollies’ names.
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Article in today’s The Australian regards a poll that shows 24% of Australians don’t believe that democracy is a good form of government. Also 9% say that violence to support political causes is justified.
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Are they “Australians”, or just living in Australia?
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More precisely, living ‘off’ Australia.
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It was an inaugural McKinnon Index poll of 4000 Australians, across both city and country. No link to the actual poll data.
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Vicki, I have friends in low places [or had, my wings are clipped now]. I’d call them communists, they’d call me a capitalist, but I was just there for the beer anyway and the company was more varied than you might think. Trust me, a LOT of multi-generational Aussies feel this way.
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This is the question I would ask of those 24%.
Have you ever lived in a country that is not some form of democracy?
If you haven’t, then I suggest you try it for 5 years, (if you can endure it for that long), and then come back and tell us how you feel.
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Most of those working are staunch unionists. They don’t give a rat’s how “they” live in other countries. They just know how to extort the good life here.
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In 2013 Lowy did a poll on democracy.
‘According to the poll, only 59 per cent of all Australians believe that democracy is preferable to any other kind of government.
‘An astonishingly small 48 per cent of 18-29-year-olds say they prefer democracy over any other form of government. Almost a quarter of them say that “for someone like me, it doesn’t matter what sort of government we have”.
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People are losing faith in the democratic system.
‘Survey of 4000 Australians reveals shocking view on political violence.
‘Nearly a quarter of Australians think democracy is not preferable to other forms of government and nearly one in ten believe violence can be justified for a political cause, a new nationwide survey has revealed.’ (Oz)
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In the long term democracies fail because the majority people vote based on self interest; eg “ free” money; subsidised health care, subsidised electricity, pensions, subsidised circuses (sport), unemployment benefits and subsidised transport are all examples. A good analogy is the example of two wolves and a sheep democratically voting on what they will have for their next meal! In effect the bigger the government promises, the bigger the vote. In the end industry and manufacturing can’t survive due to the taxation and government induced costs and country decline commences. At the point where the country is not self sufficient any financial blip can tip the country into rapid decline.
I’m not saying pensions and unemployment benefits should not be paid, however the increasing cost of all government spending needs to be financially supported and above all needs to be justifiable. Unfortunately a lot of government expenditure is neither.
A good example of a better alternative government would be a benevolent dictator. The major problem being finding and keeping one!
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‘ … alternative government would be a benevolent dictator.’
In the modern era that seems unlikely, a democratic one party state would be a better choice. Singapore comes to mind and a template for China when the CCP is abolished.
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el+gordo,
agree re Singapore
Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean statesman and barrister who was the first prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, is the only Politician who comes to mind as a Benelovent Dictator
I was lucky enough to have watched him over the years through Business in Singapore, and seen a number of his Adressees to the Nation on National Rally Day
An Amazing Leader, Visionary & Pragmatist
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Surely you haven’t forgotten Joh Bjelke Petersen.
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Jo did not rate on Intelligence nor Vision,
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The election process in Victoriastan is democratic but the function is not. An elected government’s actions should reflect the will of the people.
The majority of Victoristani’s voted against The Voice yet Jacinta Allen is pushing through legislation to install a treaty that only serves the vast minority of the state’s population.
US President Elect actions= Bad. ViC Premier Elect actions= Good.
Northern Hemisphere democracy is anti-democratic and dysfunctional, Southern Hemisphere democracy is ant-fascist and functional (if you take functional to mean that they implement policies contrary to the wishes of your electorate).
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Most of the “West” is in decline as far as I can see. I dont see many countries percolating econmically or culturally. We all seem to be looking at a local flavour of the same abyss, nett zero waste, uncontrolled immigration, societal fragmenation, excessive debt and baseless currencies. Apart from that, thing are good
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Most of the “West” is in decline
Compared to whom? Poland is doing OK, they limit migration and burn coal, but aren’t they part of the west? They are anti-communist, I know that so of course I like them.
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Oak milk? Horrible stuff. As a vegetarian I think vegans are being fooled but that doesn’t stop them being assertive and moralistic whilst believing they are changing the world.. Seems the doom laden climate message combined with the unpleasant ingredients in many vegan products has finally caught up with the makers of oat milk.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/11/07/oatly-ceo-admits-climate-doom-marketing-has-backfired-as-sales-plummet/
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There was never anything wrong with porridge anyway , as long as one puts enough cream on it.
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cream, strawberries, and cinnamon 🙂
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cream, strawberries, and cinnamon, BACON.
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cream, strawberries, and cinnamon, BACON, and MORE BACON!
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Smoking will kill you, bacon will kill you, but smoking bacon will cure it.
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Bacon (smoked) with eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes and possibly some black pudding.
These are followed by full cream plain yoghurt and some fruit.
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Either a full breakfast prepared in a country bakery or cafe, or perhaps an English or Scottish buffet brekky.
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That billboard tells the story:the whole saga was anti-dairy.
Or anti-humanity , if you wish.
Modern humans evolved eating meat and dairy, with a few fruits.That diet is what we are adapted to.
Clearly the great unwashed are not as gullible as the Oatly idiots.
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The vegans may be put off these various “ milk “ concoctions if they knew how ththese “ milks “ were produced and what chemical & derivatives were used. They’re far from being natural.
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They should never be named ‘milks’.
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Agreed, and I don’t know how they get away with it. The Food Standards code says to be called milk it must be the secretion from a mammary gland on a mamma1. Dairy companies can’t call their milk oat milk etc, but an plant drink can be called milk without question.
Don’t know how a plant can be a mammal and where their secretion glads are?
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farmerbraun mentions this:
I suppose there’s still some of us out there who might be descended from the First Fleeters, so imagine how their genes have evolved since then, eh!
Cattle arrived here in Australia with the First Fleet back in 1788. These cattle (two bulls and five cows) were sourced from South Africa on that original settling of Australia, and were to be used for milk, meat and heavy haulage. However, not long after their arrival, they all escaped into the wild, and in fact were not found until seven years later, by a group of ex Convicts on work release, and searching for land well away from the Colony. By that time, they had bred up into a small herd of 70 cattle. They were domesticated (again) and by 1801, had expanded to a large herd of around 500 cattle, expanding in 1804 to between 3000 and 5000 head of cattle.
I guess the, umm, traditional people didn’t know you could eat them, eh!
Sheep also came out on that journey as well, 29 fat-tailers, also sourced from South Africa, and only for meat purposes as the Merino did not arrive until 1797.
Speaking of which, every Aborigine has a totem, and that totem is an animal, one that has always existed here in Australia since ‘the dreaming’, and when they pass away, their soul goes back to being that totem, hence those traditional people have certain customs following death, which we have not quite got used to yet. Each people from their different areas have a different totem, and each is aware of the totem of nearby people from other areas. (you know, like us Australians referring to newcomers as from their original Country)
So, upon the arrival of that First Fleet, the traditional people from that Sydney Cove area had no idea what the totem of these ‘newcomers’ was, so they gave them the totem of the animal that they brought with them, and so the totem of the ‘whitefeller’ is ….. the sheep!
It fell out of favour when those traditional peoples started to assert themselves and said that aboriginal ‘constructs’ could not be used in reference to white people.
It gives the term ….. ‘sheeple’ a whole new meaning, eh!
Some of you might think that introduced animals like cattle might die out, well, consider this. The original Longhorn cattle was introduced by the Spanish, not long after Columbus. They then moved the cattle to Mexico, and from there North into Texas before the Americans later claimed all of that land for Texas in the war. Some of those original Longhorns also escaped into the wild, and went feral. Two Centuries later, after the Mexican War, and then, later, The Civil War, the cowboys came into vogue, eg cattle droving young men, as those Longhorns were now moved from Texas to the new rail head at Kansas for shipment East for meat, as Longhorn meat is so lean. Around that time, there was an estimated 10 Million Plus Longhorns in Texas, (and that was a conservatively low number) and by the early 1900s, the breed was almost extinct.
Tony.
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Introduced animals can adapt quite well, and even thrive to the point of becoming feral pests. My late brother used to shoot feral animals in the outback for pet food production. These included camels, donkeys, goats, pigs – you may be surprised at the variety and sheer numbers of these animals out there. More wild camels than all of Arabia for a start, we even export them there.
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Australia has developed a growing camel dairy industry, leveraging its large population of feral camels, which numbers over 450,000 and is considered the world’s largest feral camel population.
The industry began with Australia’s first commercial camel dairy, established in the Perth Hills in 2014 by Australian Camel Dairies, which milks camels sourced from the wild.
This operation, along with others like The Camel Milk Co. of Australia, which opened in 2015 in Victoria, has expanded the sector, with the latter farm housing 450 camels and a milking herd of 70.
Camel milking is conducted with a focus on animal welfare, as camels must be calm and settled to release milk, similar to humans.
The process involves allowing camels to bond with their calves for several weeks before training them for milking, ensuring minimal stress.
The camels are not forced to produce milk beyond what their calves need; instead, they are well-fed and watered, enabling them to produce more than the calf demands.
This ethical approach is a key selling point, as it avoids the separation of calves from mothers, a common practice in conventional dairy farming.
The milk is highly valued for its nutritional profile, containing about a third less lactose than cow’s milk and lacking the main allergen beta-lactoglobulin, making it suitable for many people with lactose intolerance or dairy allergies.
It is also rich in vitamins C and B, iron, calcium, magnesium, and potassium, and its protein structure is similar to human milk, aiding digestion.
Initially, raw camel milk was sold, but companies like QCamel have since achieved certification for pasteurised, organic camel milk, making it safe for broader human consumption.
The industry is expanding, with farms aiming to increase their herds to around 300 camels.
The Camel Milk Co. is already exporting to Singapore, Thailand, and China, and is preparing to enter Malaysia.
The global demand for camel milk is significant, with the United Nations estimating over 200 million potential customers and the industry potentially worth $10 billion
Despite the high cost—up to 12 times more than cow’s milk—consumer interest is growing, driven by health benefits and ethical farming practices.
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Camels and cattle can coexist in the same grazing areas due to their differing grazing requirements and feeding behaviors.
Camels are known to prefer different plant species and vegetation types compared to cattle, which reduces direct competition for forage.
For example, camels often consume hardy, drought-resistant plants such as Anabasis arterioidea, Aristida purgens, and various saltbushes (Atriplex species), which are less palatable or inaccessible to cattle.
This dietary preference allows camels to utilize vegetation that other livestock may avoid, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions where plant diversity is limited.
Moreover, camels have a unique feeding strategy: they do not overgraze and take only small portions from each plant, which helps preserve vegetation and prevents soil degradation, unlike sheep and goats that often graze down to the roots.
This behavior enables camels to maintain the ecological balance in fragile desert ecosystems, even when cattle are present.
In some areas, camels and cattle are managed together, with camels being allowed to graze on plants that cattle do not consume, thus complementing each other’s feeding habits.
Additionally, camels have lower feed requirements compared to cattle, consuming approximately 8–12 kg of dry matter per day, while cattle require significantly more.
This difference in intake, combined with camels’ ability to survive long periods without water and their tolerance to harsh environmental conditions, makes them well-suited to coexist with cattle in extensive pastoral systems.
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Goats are effective for clearing blackberry and other invasive vegetation due to their natural browsing behavior and ability to consume a wide variety of plants, including thorny blackberry canes and leaves.
They are particularly adept at managing dense thickets, as their prehensile tongues and agile bodies allow them to reach high branches and flatten tall growth, making subsequent restoration efforts easier.
Studies and practical applications show that goats can significantly reduce blackberry populations, especially when used in repeated treatments over two to three years, with a herd of over 200 goats capable of treating an acre of blackberries in two to four days.
Goats are not only effective but also environmentally friendly, as they eliminate the need for herbicides and reduce the reliance on heavy machinery, which can be impractical on steep slopes or sensitive riparian areas.
Their grazing can improve soil health by enriching microbial communities through their droppings, which add nutrients and beneficial bacteria.
Additionally, goats can help uncover hidden hazards like boulders or debris that might interfere with mechanical clearing.
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Was watching a video last night of guys pig shooting from a helicopter (something I relate more to the US than OZ) Quite unbelievable the damage to pigs do over wide areas. Also unbelievable wascthe size of the crocs sitting in/beside the channels in the river flats they were trying to clear. Not the lkace for am emergency landing, but at least they were armed.
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There is a good read called “His Majesty’s Spanish flock” about the introduction of the Merino. Read it in the late 1960’s
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If a lion eats the bowels of a herbivore is it 100% carnivore or partly herbivore? I don’t believe they eat the rump steak and leave the offals to the hyenas.
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Baldwin Spencer M.A. and F. J. Gillen published in 1899 that the native tribes of central Australia were well fed and healthy, with two of their staple foods being Nut Grass and Onion Weed. I wonder if they are the same plants that I know by those names.
The book available free on gutenberg.org
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I think it is dishonest to call non-animal products “milk” which should refer to lactation products only.
The feeble-minded can be confused. For example I know of a sad case in which a “natural health practitioner” told a couple to feed their infant baby rice “milk” and that’s all and it tragically died.
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How about Milk Thistle?
The milk looks like latex. Probably is.
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I’ve often wondered if vegans salivate at the smell of a newly mowed lawn…
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Ahhh, the sweet smell of (Z)-3-hexenal and 1-hexanol.
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Following is a link to an interesting chart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Generation_timeline.svg&lang=dummy
I am from the tail end of the “Silent Generation”
All those bright colors above me in that chart have done great things.
Where societies go from here is a complete muddle. I suspect it will still be unclear when I check out.
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Perhaps we were all awed into silence by WW II.
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I’d love to buy into all this sociological crap but when the experts label a generation X, then the next one Y and finally have to start with A after Z, I know they’re as flaky as hell!
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Nine underwater “lost” cities around the world.
Gosh it’s almost as though sea and land levels rise and fall all by themselves, hydrocarbon-sourced energy or not, similarly for CO2.
https://www.getyourguide.com/explorer/travel-inspiration/underwater-lost-cities-around-the-world/
Baiae
Alexandria
Pavlopetri
Lake Titicaca
San Roma de Sau
Dwarka
Lion City
Yonaguni Monument
Port Royal
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I think ice ages had something to do with it.
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Don’t forget Old Adaminaby, Old Jindabyne and part of Kiandra right here in the Socialist Commonwurst of Straya. It’s wurst than you think!
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Yes, but that was not natural sea level or land level changes but dam building, from back in the day when Australia used to build dams.
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Ironice aut iocandi causa dixit.
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hoc est aequum
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More earthquake related subsidence like Subaru’s. The more likely fate of estuarial or man made ports is silting. Ephesus. Bruges. Ostia. And in Sweden the problem is rapid land rise because off the melting of the glaciers which crushed Northerm land.
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Ha! Auto correct changed Sybarus of sybaritic fame to Subaru the car.
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Video.
Why is Africa so poor despite having massive mineral wealth?
And don’t blame colonisation. Africa was backward before colonisation, became advanced during colonisation, and has rapidly regressed after decolonisation or change of the ruling parties (e.g South Africa where they are now burning universities to complete the process).
There are many reasons but in this video the author argues that at least one of the reasons was a failure to develop agriculture which could lead to a specialisation of labour allowing other people to do different tasks other than food gathering. The reason for that was because Africa was a very easy place to survive and find food, organised agriculture waa not needed as in other places where higher levels of technological civilisation were attained.
https://youtu.be/Fy0tFaEmiKY
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As always the main reason for Africa’s failure is never mentioned. It’s glaringly simple but never discussed…….. DNA! No matter what levels of education are achieved the African will always revert to African cultural norms, which are not conducive to advancement. Regression always wins in Africa!
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A little more basic than that even but taboo means it is unspeakable.
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I would suggest culture not genes.
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That is the politically correct answer.
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James Watson who co-discovered the structure of DNA respectfully disagrees with that suggestion.
https://files.catbox.moe/p1c6s6.mp4
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As I said, “taboo means it is unspeakable.”
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>the main reason … is never mentioned … never discussed
James Watson deserved better
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/11/james-watson-deserved-better/
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I recall that Jared Diamond opined that domesticated horses were not a thing in most of Africa. Hence a lack of suitable plough drafting animals. Zebras are notoriously difficult to domesticate so there was no chance for folk like Zulus to match European cavalry regiments. They win, Uluz!
The lack of Roman civilisation in sub-Saharan Africa may have been a point of difference: the aqueduct; sanitation; roads; irrigation; medicine; eduction; wine; public baths; peace and a few other things.
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Asians somehow manage to use buffalo
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Conservation is the biggest downside that came with colonisation – hippos / crocs are dangerous to humans but are great eating
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Aa per my post yesterday at:
https://www.joannenova.com.au/2025/11/prepare-the-escape-pods-kier-starmer-says-the-consensus-is-gone-oecd-admits-its-losing-momentum/#comment-2879106
I think the staggering cost of the proposed COP31 in Adelaide of $2,777 per person per day when a typical conference cost in Australia is $220 per person per day without accommodation needs to be addressed.
Don’t let the politicians and public serpents get away with such outrageous expenditure of our hard-earned money.
Details of my calculations at link.
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I forgot to mention the expected cost to Aussie taxpayers of COP31 is at least one billion dollars.
See link in my post above.
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Australia should be able to afford the Commonwealth Games then.
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In my experience, the public serpents and politicians involved in spending our tax dollars have no concept of the actual true value of things and will sign on to just about anything, no matter how ridiculous the cost, and simply don’t care about wasting our money.
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On the topic of expensive billion dollar conferences, I asked Gulag AI:
most expensive conference in history
Gulag answered:
Hey, it’s only taxpayer money.
I’m guessing the other contender, Turkey, is not stupid enough to be throwing away that kind of money. Adelaide will get it, especially if we pay Turkey tribute in the form of lots of cash.
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https://www.tenders.gov.au/Atm/ShowClosed/a2a8c8cd-6211-49b9-94de-aa20e073a6a3?PreviewMode=False
The costing EOIs…. The scale and complexity of COPs exceed any event the Australian Government has convened before. It is therefore essential that the government partners with specialist providers to ensure success.
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Not to forget the State bidding costs: https://www.premier.sa.gov.au/media-releases/news-archive/budget-prepares-for-adelaide-to-host-major-cop31-event
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Further re Labor Proposed 70 Km/ph Speed Limits on Rural Roads
A Comment from The Australian Article – Australia’s form slump will lead to slide in living standards
Something I had not thought of, but actually very Obvious – yet another Labor Nail in the Death of Productivity in Australia
Labor’s proposed 70 km on country roads will further place a huge drag on the efficiency and productivity of the country if it goes ahead.
You can see the TWU’s fingerprints all over this.
having worked with Labor to get rid of independent truckers, now they are using this to get Unionised workers paid 30% more for doing the same job.
It has nothing to do with CO2.
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And it will be even far worse than that because a one day journey could turn into a two day journey.
Do the fake conservative Liberals have anything to say about it?
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Let the Federal Labor politicians have their say/day.
As I understand the proposal, this would apply to all roads which do not have specifically posted speed limits.
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Each state requires that ALL roads have posted speed limit signs at the required intervals.
Traveling on the ALbany – Perth main highway at 110kph (the posted value other than townsites) you will be regularly passed by other vehicles. Unless the schedule has “slipped” traveling at 100 kph saves me between 5 and 10 % on fuel.
Gravel roads probably should be posted at 70/80 kph.
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ozfred- i disagree on the gravel roads being any less than sealed roads, I’ve travelled on plenty of unsealed roads that are a better /smoother surface than some sealed roads, in the right vehicle these can be easily and safely be traversed at 100+ KMH. Also there are thousands of kilometres of unsealed roads that rural Aussie use everyday to go about their lives.
Also why should state tax payers money have to be spent to get around a stupid rule /reg implemented by clueless federal politicians and bureaucrats.
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Led by Labor Immigration Policis & Gaza Burke
Survey of 4000 Australians reveals shocking view on political violence
Nearly a quarter of Australians think democracy is not preferable to other forms of government and nearly one in ten believe violence can be justified for a political cause, a new nationwide survey has revealed.
The inaugural McKinnon Index – which will be launched on Sunday – found that of 4000 people surveyed, less than 55 per cent, were satisfied with how democracy worked and less than 36 per cent trusted federal politicians.
And, following two years of rising anti-Israel sentiment that has seen mass protests and the targeting of J@wish places of worship, nearly 9 per cent of those surveyed backed the use of violence to achieve political ends.
The survey showed that people trusted state politicians more than federal politicians, while revealing massive divides in the faith respondents had in the federal government depending on where they lived.
While more than 50 per cent of people from the ACT said that they trusted the federal government, less than 40 per cent felt the same way in the Northern Territory.
Similarly, those living in cities were much more confident in the nation’s elections than those in outer regional areas, with nearly 67 per cent of people in cities saying they had confidence in the process compared to 53 per cent of those living rurally.
Across the country, less than 50 per cent considered elections free and fair while 17 per cent said the main reason they voted at all was simply to avoid fines, which range from $20 to $70 depending on the state.
Despite concerns that young men were increasingly disengaged from mainstream politics, trust in political parties was highest among men aged 18 to 24.
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Do the fake conservative Liberals have anything to say about it?
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Even if they did have something to say the media will not repeat it!
The media organisations & their employees are the larger part of the problem!
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Not a peep out of the media so no news there. Lies by omission I think.
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Nor would DM.
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Oz, thanks for this info. In Japan at the moment so didn’t know. In our valley in Oz we are already having enormous local division after Council just implemented a reduction of the 100kph to 80kph. The resident Greenies love it, but those who make a living in the bush and have lived here all their lives are horrified and angry . They have driven these roads all their lives and it now takes so much longer to get to town for supplies, work etc. Some angry local ( supposition) last week pushed down the new signs – it has caused this sort of fury.
To implement 70kph on rural roads is just unbelievable. The big trucking companies – such as Finemore s – which already have many impediments on our poorly maintained highways – will have to increase prices etc etc – which we all will pay for – especially in the regions.
We are flabbergasted to read this. What with the recent BOM debacle, Net Zero etc etc – we despair for our country……
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Thanks Vicki – Enjoy Japan – did business with Japan Airlines there for 30 Years over 40 trips and loved it
Had Young Japanese Guy I had dealt with at the start (His Elders described him a Square peg in Round Hole), come out and join me for Lunch in February last year, and we are planning road trip, without Wives, in Japan
Have Youngest Daughter, SIL & Grandkids 7/8/9 booked for April next year, direct there and back ANA
Elder Daughter & Family went over New Year this Year, and Wife & her Sister TripaDeal in 2023 – only problem Phillipine Airlines via Manila
PS have had your comment from In our valley in Oz posted in The OZ
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I always carry a 18v cordless grinder in the vehicle. I have no doubt that it will come into good use if this law passes.
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It’s horses for courses – lower speed limits are fine in certain localities. I spent last week on Norfolk Island (highly recommended, especially if you like Australian history) and the speed limit is 50kph generally and 40kph through town. Due to the island being only 40 sq. km. it works well, particularly at night as there is no lighting on the winding roads and they are home to free roaming cows.
The locals cannot drive very far and are in no hurry to do so anyway. As a visitor though, it is difficult to stop yourself from exceeding 50kph.
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Why not just ban cars, golf carts only.
Oh, that’s right they are short of electricity too. 🙂
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All the blokes drive little Jap utes – Daihatsu, Suzuki etc. Petrol is very expensive.
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The power station next to the N.I. airport has six diesel generators.
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As I’ve mentioned before, I think most politicians are so innumerate, that they really have no clue how much the number one billion represents. They constantly throw such figures around, a billion dollars for this, a billion for that, a billion for solar panel production in Australia, a billion for California-based PsiQuantum in a highly speculative venture etc..
I bet most politicians could not even write one billion in numerals. They have no clue and no concern about the staggering amounts of money they are throwing away. Our money.
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With genuine respect to my Protestant friends and family members –
Last month it was a 507 anniversary of 95 Theses by Martin Luther; just a symbolic event for some but an earthshaking revolution for others.
Looking dispassionately – it was not caused by foreign agents and would happen sooner or later due to basic problems with the established state religion.
Having a second look – half a millennia on Catholic Church not only survived but flourishing.
What am I babbling about?
Mamdani election.
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UPS, FedEx Ground MD-11 Fleets After Kentucky Crash
Boeing requested the move out of “an abundance of caution” as the death toll in Louisville climbed to 14.
As efforts continued to determine the cause of Tuesday’s crash, an update from investigators earlier Friday said that the cockpit voice recorder from UPS Flight 2976 had captured more than two hours of clear audio, including a repeating bell that sounded soon after the crew called for takeoff thrust.
The bell continued until the end of the recording 25 seconds later as the crew tried to bring the aircraft under control, according to a press briefing from J. Todd Inman of the National Transportation Safety Board.
In its earlier findings, the NTSB said a fire broke out on the MD-11’s left wing during takeoff and that the left engine then detached and fell to the ground. The Honolulu-bound plane cleared the runway fence at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport before crashing into buildings nearby.
The jet involved was 34 years old and had undergone repair work over six weeks from September after a crack was identified in the aircraft’s fuel tank. Maintenance teams later found corrosion along two structural beams in the fuselage,
On youtube blancolirio gives good information & updates
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The DC-10/MD-11 are fundamentally flawed. They needed that third engine to get an extra hour ETOPS but any uncontained engine failure of no. 2 can do catastrophic damage to systems confined in that area. The power available from modern hi-bypass fan jets renders the idea obsolete.
Podded engines, on average, do less secondary damage in case of failure.
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Was a pleasant machine to fly on, before it developed a track record.
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I flew in a DC-10 with Sabina. Bought the “I flew Sabina and lived” T shirt.
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Sabena – Such an B Experience Never Again
TAA – Try Another Airline
Ansett – Chance it with Ansett
PanAm – We know the Pacific we have been in it 3 Times
TWA – Teeny Weeny Airline
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FWIW
“Germany’s Hydrogen Dream Becomes A $9 Billion Yearly Black Hole”
“The German Federal Audit Office (Bundesrechnungshof) has dismantled the government’s hydrogen strategy. Neither on the supply side nor on the demand side do the results even remotely align with the ambitious political targets. Germany faces yet another subsidy ruin.
Berlin is in a state of hangover. The ongoing economic crisis is mercilessly exposing the delusions of the so-called green transformation. After the collapse of battery production – think of subsidy ruins like Northvolt – the retreat of industry from “green steel,” and the failure of the energy transition under the weight of wind and solar, which have become bottomless subsidy pits, the next major project is now under heavy attack: the hydrogen strategy.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/germanys-hydrogen-dream-becomes-9-billion-yearly-black-hole
Sounds like a good idea to decline membership of that club
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Another Ian, Excelent Article!
In other words: a market that practically doesn’t exist is already consuming around €8 billion every year—public and private – like a black hole.
As always happens when the state tries to centrally steer complex sectors of the economy: hydrogen in Germany is becoming a subsidy graveyard, and taxpayers will have to pay the bill.
The Audit Office politely calls it “a financial risk for the taxpayer” – but it means exactly that.
Central Planning Has Failed – Again
Made it as Comment in The Australian – Thanks
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We Australians could really help Germany with their Hydrogen & other green problems .
Germany need only send us 2 years worth of their black hole problems in exchange for the solution to it all.
For $18,000,000,000 we’re prepared to send our Prime Minister & his moron that identifies as an energy minister to solve your energy & any other economic problems you might have!! (There is only one condition…they remain permanently in Germany.)
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I hope no one is labouring under the illusion that communist central planning works better than ours in the west.
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Thanks. I hope that things I post like this get spread
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And Germany thinks it can re- enact Operation Barbarossa. Even the Weimar Republic was better.
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FWIW – the battle that lost Britain?
“Tony Blair’s Britain”
“Recommended by a reader, via email; I have said to all and sundry for the last 20+ years that history will eventually finger Blair for the destruction of Britain a feat he accomplished without a foreign military just a subversive army of fabian professionals.
England is under attack, from all sides, and within”
“On the election of Tony Blair in 1997, what remained of our constitution was pasted over by a nu-constitution; a series of key acts and treaties ranging from The HRA, Constitutional Reform Act (2005) to the signing of the Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon Treaties with the EU. The Blairite constitution accepted all aspects of the post-war consensus, from its Never Again-isms to the necessity of closer union with Europe – it attempted to give legal permanence to every millennial assumption about a globalised world, at the zenith of the globalist moment. To do so, it impliedly repealed many of our key constitutional documents and weakened Parliament’s influence, shifting responsibility away from it, in three directions. The nu-constitution essentially castrated our sole lawmaking body – balls, shaft and head – a procedure which nobody has dared to reverse.”
https://mcrreiners.wordpress.com/2025/03/14/england-is-under-attack-from-all-sides-and-within/
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/11/08/tony-blairs-britain/
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FWIW
“NHS Spends £1.4 Billion on Net Zero With Zero Results”
“The NHS has spent £1.4 billion of taxpayers’ money on Net Zero schemes without reducing its carbon footprint at all. The Telegraph has the story.
The health service ploughed the funds into green initiatives, such as rolling out electric ambulances, adopting ‘climate-friendly pain relief’ that does not contain greenhouse gases, and putting environmental credentials at the heart of decisions around medicines and supplies.
But despite these efforts, the total carbon emissions from the health service are the same as they were five years ago when the ‘Greener NHS’ project was launched.”
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/11/08/nhs-spends-1-4-billion-on-net-zero-with-zero-results/
Via SDA
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Here is a classic video from 5 years ago with 141 million views about a squirrel obstacle course.
They are very smart critters.
https://youtu.be/hFZFjoX2cGg
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Fantastic video.
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Latest Kunstler
“Side of Jihad With That Pastrami on Rye?
“Socialism is a wonderful idea. It’s only as a reality that it has been disastrous.” —Thomas Sowell”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/side-of-jihad-with-that-pastrami
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FWIW
“Bill Gates’s Climate U-Turn: Real Epiphany or Expedient Pivot?”
Concludes
“If Gates truly means to pivot, he would begin by supporting what history has shown works: energy abundance, resilient infrastructure and economic freedom. The greatest leaps in global welfare occurred when energy, goods, ideas and people moved freely, not when elites sanctioned carbon markets or distributed patents to gene-edited crops and lab-grown food.
Whether the Gates turnaround on climate alarmism marks a true awakening or merely a tactical retreat amid the US Senate’s investigations and DOGE’s dismantling of NGO slush funds, it exposes the fragility of narratives built on technical fixes alone. The answer will shape not just climate discourse, but also the contours of global philanthropy.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/08/bill-gatess-climate-u-turn-real-epiphany-or-expedient-pivot/
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Gates appears to be endorsing ‘climate change adaptation’ measures now, rather than mitigation. My bet would be that he simply sees more money to be made that way. No doubt he has a few schemes lined up already.
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Safe and effective – Pfizer manufacturing
Becky McClain began raising safety concerns in 2000, soon after she started working in Pfizer’s Biosafety Level 2 lab in Connecticut.
The Defender reports: Three years later, after management failed to address the issues, McClain was exposed to a genetically modified lentivirus, engineered using gain-of-function technologies that made the virus more infectious and more pathogenic.
The exposure left her disabled, with symptoms including numbness, periodic paralysis, pain and other neurological problems. Doctors couldn’t diagnose or effectively treat her condition because Pfizer refused to disclose what she had been exposed to, citing “trade secrets.”
McClain was shocked because she had assumed worker rights would protect her. She said:
“I couldn’t get directed medical care for my illness, which was a mystery illness because these genetically engineered virus technologies were designed to cause new emerging diseases for use in laboratory research studies.
“So when I visited doctors, no one knew what was happening. They were all fearful and unable to explain my illness.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/whistleblower-biologist-pfizer-covered-up-exposure-engineered-virus-becky-mcclain/
“…designed to cause new emerging diseases…”
Climate change did it!
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She’s lucky she was allowed out of the lab! I’m fairly sure the Govt could permanently isolate you for quarantine reasons… and also just to see how it affects you!
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FWIW
“Dead Cows Can’t Fart: The Dark Side of Denmark’s Methane Reduction Experiment”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/11/dead-cows-cant-fart-the-dark-side-of-denmarks-methane-reduction-experiment/
Via
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/11/08/dead-cows-cant-fart-the-dark-side-of-denmarks-methane-reduction-experiment-n3808685
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Maybe it is better the cows dying than the people who eventually drink the product from the cows.
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Sounds about right!
“”ECONOMIC HISTORY IS A LONG
RECORD OF GOVERNMENT
POLICIES THAT FAILED BECAUSE
THEY WERE DESIGNED WITH
A BOLD DISREGARD FOR THE
LAWS OF ECONOMICS.”
– LUDWIG VON MISES ”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1833350374434541568.jpg
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I guess that could be described as
A long list of forcings that didn’t?
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Meanwhile in Paris…
https://twitter.com/EYakoby/status/1986975010636857530
Get on a plane and go over there if you really believe in your cause.
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Chris Bowen must be chuffed with this scholarly opinion from the prestigious New Scientist.
Quick, bring out the incence and myrrh for New Scientist’s climate religion covenant with Chris Bowen.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2503532-australia-is-getting-free-electricity-will-other-countries-follow/
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Re ” the prestigious New Scientist.”
Used to was – now also known as “The Nude Socialist”
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another Ian:
I gave that magazine up in the 1980’s. Even last year, in hospital and desperate for something to read, I looked at 2 copies added to the donations and left them there.
Someone/group must be subsidised them because I see them left forlorn on the newsagents shelves.
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‘The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted that an above average Atlantic hurricane seacon for 2025.
‘Now that the season is winding down, we are able to start concluding and summarizing the season: it’s going to come in as near normal activity. The forecast made earlier this year was a bit on the hyped side.
‘Hurricane season forecasts have not really improved, despite all the claims that models are better than ever:’ (Notrickszone)
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Here is an article about the toxic algal bloom in South Australia and they don’t even blame supposed anthropogenic climate change.
It’s almost unprecedented for a story like this not to blame “climate change”.
Is there an outbreak of common sense and rational thought?
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In the story at https://cairnsnews.org/2025/10/22/desalination-plant-may-be-source-of-south-australias-sea-algae-bloom/ it is noted that desal is associated with algal blooms elsewhere in the world.
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Looks like another serious cyclone bearing down on Philippines:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=120.19,17.06,1508/loc=125.146,14.434
Appears to be moving fast as well and more intense than the one last week. This one showing 954hPa.
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Manila is not far from the path and is already experiencing flooding.
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‘Aussie exporters double down on China despite fear of ‘getting burnt’
‘Even as Washington and Beijing spar over tariffs, Australian companies are rushing to re-establish footholds in China’s vast consumer market.’ (AFR)
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There’s no harm in us selling to China, with the usual caveats familiar to exporters. The Chinese are especially tricky though, in my experience, and I would caution anybody exporting produce of considerable value to seek advice from professional (i.e. paid) experts in the China market. Forget the Aussie embassy staff, including Austrade. I tried getting help from them in China and Russia and was underwhelmed by what I received. I sincerely hope that’s improved in the twenty years elapsed since then, but it might also be worse. Let’s face it, pretty much ANY service provided by government is bound to be cr4p.
Back then, the best help and advice I got was from Chinese (ethnically Chinese) trade experts here in Oz. It pays also to talk to others in the local/national CoC.
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Economic conditions in China are not looking good, particularly in the property market, but now that Wang Yang is in charge all should go well.
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I am exchanging comments with someone on Quora who insists that half of fossil fuel CO2 stays in the air forever. It’s a common claim. Why? Because the increase in CO2 has been 50%, not 100%. And it turns out that the sum of all fossil fuel CO2 would mean 100% increase in CO2. But retaining half of fossil fuel CO2 molecules in the atmosphere forever is very hard to explain. How does that work?
Google “Where CO2 Goes:
Atmosphere: Roughly 44-50% stays in the atmosphere, increasing its concentration and driving global warming.”
But it’s nuts. Fossil fuel CO2 is chemically ordinary CO2. And CO2 exchanges massively. Not just fossil fuel CO2 but breathing, microbes, algae, birds, insects, bluewhales, bushfires, volcanoes. It seems that all CO2 is in very fast balance from pole to pole, year to year, but half of fossil fuel CO2 piles up? It’s identical CO2. And half goes into the ocean. How? Why? Bushfire CO2 for example gets a Green card? How do half of fossil fuel CO2 molecules know they are now allowed to go into the ocean or plants? How clever are they?
It’s amazing this idea that the amount of CO2 in the air is just random and we can change it if we like. In fact CO2 is so obviously in rapid world wide equilibrium with the vast deep oceans which contain 98% of ALL CO2 and cover 72% of the planet. We are told this is the problem, the oceans can only deal with the CO2 already on the planet, going in and out of the ocean and plants and atmosphere, but you add fossil fuel CO2 molecules and they are prohibited. A severe immigration restriction on some CO2 molecules at the ocean surface.
This fantasy science, voodoo science is everywhere on the internet. And provably wrong by C14 as fossil fuel CO2 is not radioactive, but atmospheric radioactivity is today exactly what it has been for millions of years, not 33% lower.
Why are universities, physicists, chemists utterly silent on simple chemistry and physics? Historians will study why people are so afraid to speak out. And even some scientists go along with it, or part of it. It’s nonsense, non science. But part of a whole range of things we are asked to believe, like you can choose your biological sex. Or Transvestites for Palestine, which is akin to Chickens for KFC. I could not care if people want to identify as chipmunks, but I feel free to say it’s all nuts. We are being told what to think, even when it is laughable nonsense.
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“Why are universities, physicists, chemists utterly silent on simple chemistry and physics? Historians will study why people are so afraid to speak out.”
TdeF, the more illuminating question might be, why have we expected them to?
And why we continue to surrender the pursuit of truth to the social class of the academic elite?
Or to a royal family line, or priests.
It was the creation of the hero scientist myth, particular in the minds of our generation.
After the final collapse of Feudal social constructs post WWI.
Most of us exist in a bit of private fear and questionable confidence.
And seek confident leadership and example confirmation.
I think it is the reason for the pyramids and the cathedrals.
People need a knowledge hierarchy.
This became even more acute in the modern era, since very few people nowadays must depend on there own devices for survival.
Except CAGW ideology, which led directly to the ‘public health’ fiasco of Pandemic, exposed the myth of modern ‘Science’ infallibility and apolitical academic intellectual honesty.
The next new construction phase of a replacement knowledge hierarchy is going to be dangerous and painful.
And hopefully not based on authoritarian government structure coming in and simply declaring academic and intellectual thought martial law.
Which kinda looks like where the power money energy is at the moment.
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“why have we expected them to?”
Because that’s their job. These are largely public servants who get privilege to teach and research and seek truth and act as authorities on our behalf. As they presume to do. Especially explicit groups like the CSIRO and BOM who are given that very responsibility is in their charter.
And presented with obvious voodoo science say nothing. Or worse, support it and seek to join the Climate club because it pays well.
How else do you explain the incorporation of aboriginal metrological skills in weather forecasting? Stone age peoples without much language or writing or the ability to count to ten with presumed mastery of weather prediction? So while we supported CSIRO scientists for fifty years while they worked out ways to make it rain by seeding clouds, presumably stone age people have the solution to everything, not science.
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“CSIRO maintains relevance in our work through:
Listening to the community and recognising its concerns where they relate to matters of science or our behaviour.”
And what do the CSIRO recommend based on their science, Net Zero.
“To abate climate change requires greenhouse gases to stop accumulating in the atmosphere.
This requires the world to reach global net zero emissions; a state in which any residual greenhouse gas emissions are balanced by removal of an equivalent
amount of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere”
So 6,000 full time public servants specializing in science advice to the Australian public believe that CO2 can be changed by removing CO2 gases from the atmosphere?
Which is utter nonsense.
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To sum up more efficiently, considering the modern path to academic and political leadership, swaying away from consensus means not being allowed in the club.
This may explain both Trump and Mamdani.
People burned my the current system simply vote other.
And simply start parroting the new mantras.
Trump smothered the Republican DC establishment.
Mamdani might be doing the same to the Dems.
The scary thing is what the new establishment looks like.
Likely a new facade being built by The Blob.
A Blob face lift.
Blob Botox.
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RIP John Laws. a colourful character.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_BSEX-cwj4
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FWIW – things you learn
I just got introduced to “Stuck Farmer” shirts
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