By Jo Nova
What looks smells and acts like One World Government?
The UN, which we fund for some reason, is telling us we can’t drill for gas on our land and are being very naughty. They’ve sent a Special Rapporteur, Astrid Puentes Riano, to join three cases in Federal Courts in an amicus curiae role. She is here to cast a spell and see if she gets lucky and scores some shake-down-money in reparations.
It was only a few months ago the International Court of Climate Justice (ICJ) declared that nice weather was a “human right”, thus supposedly allowing the whole world to sue everyone else, ad infinitum for bad weather.
The case was originally launched by Australian Conservation Foundation and another group called Friends of Australian Rock Art in the Federal Court challenging the Ministers decision to extend the Woodside gas project out to 2070. So the UN is sending a performance artist to tell us we are “in breach of international laws.” If she succeeds, it’s a foot in the door, a precedent for more.
UN rapporteur intervenes in Federal Court case over Woodside’s gas project
By Paul Garvey, The Australian
Her shock intervention comes just months after the UN’s International Court of Justice found that countries that did not take appropriate action to protect the climate could be breaching international law.
Amicus curiae allows a person or group to offer information or expertise on a case without becoming a formal party to the matter.
Elaine Johnson, the lawyer representing Friends of Australian Rock Art in the proceedings, revealed that the group had previously warned Senator Watt that approving the North West Shelf could put Australia at risk of breaching international laws.
“The night before this project was approved, our office wrote to the minister advising him that his proposed actions could constitute a breach of Australia’s international law obligations, after Vanuatu warned that approval of the project would represent an internationally wrongful act,” Ms Johnson said.
“It’s surprising that the Australian government appears to have taken no steps at all to respond to the recent International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion, which confirmed that continued fossil fuel production could expose countries like Australia to liability for transboundary climate harms. Business as usual is no longer an option that comes without serious national economic and social risks.”
And if we stop selling gas will other countries sue us because their people are hungry or cold?
As I said when the ICJ made it’s ‘historic ruling’ in July — it’s a toothless tiger that serious counties (including Australia) have ignored many times. But make no mistake, the Blob is knocking at our door in a game of bluff, and sooner or later it will get in — unless we shut it down first.
The country that has generated the most carbon dioxide, bar none, is the US, and it withdrew from compulsory jurisdiction from the International Court of Justice 40 years ago, and the ICJ can’t hear a case against the US unless the US consents. (That was Nicaragua v. United States of 1986). In 2005, the US just ignored the ICJ ruling that the US violated the Vienna Convention. (Even Australia withdrew from ICJ jurisdiction over maritime boundary disputes in 2002 — just before East Timor was about to sue it over the Timor Gap oil field.)
The number two country on the global emitters list, — that has historically burned the most coal on Earth — is China, but good luck getting them to pay. They will, however, offer a Belt and Road climate loan, paid back in harbors, airports and railway lines or just pro-China votes in the UN.
So who is this legislative theatre aimed at? The only suckers left — Europe, the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
It’s time to defund the UN
Nothing about what they do serves Australians, except for the few who score a job “after politics”.
There should be law about that…
Related posts on Lawfare:
- Highest World Blobocrat Court decrees Perfect Climate is a “human right” — funnels money to Friends, Lawyers and Bankers
- China caught funding eco-lawfare suits in the USA to sabotage American energy dominance.
Cervantes need a rewrite – tilting at windmills is probably a crime
but attacking a gas platform seems somehow less romantic.
This is one of the many times that make me wish Mr. Trump would auction off Turtle
Bay for Condos and quit writing checks to these bozos.
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Trump has made it quite clear that the UN does not want to fiddle in US affairs for fear of making him angry. And he has the power to enforce it by taking away 25% of their funding and making it difficult to operate within US territory.
So they move into a more welcoming environment where Sleezy and Blackout will welcome their intervention in stopping industrial development in Australia.
Australia desperately needs One Nation to stop all this lunacy.
Some will argue that One Nation does not have the experience in government to manage the economy and international affairs. The only thing they need to do is to get out of all the international treaties related to Climate Change™. That is not rocket science. Can you imagine Pauline Hanson giving her address to the UN and calling them out on all their nonsense.
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The unelected UN rabble of 40,000 full time people and 40,000 contractors invented the Climate Scam in the 1988 when they and Al Gore and the WMO conspired to create the IPCC. Now they are enforcing Global Warming laws they wrote?
In 2020 they were behind the millions of deaths from the Chinese military weapon from Wuhan. And actively sought to hide its origins. “The virus is not infectious, human to human” they declared.
In 2023 they supported the torture, robbery and mass murder of Israeli citizens at home, hiding the villains under the UN headquarters in Gaza while actual UNWRA salaried staff participated in the massacre.
The International Court for Injustice then declared that the Prime Minister of the victims, the only democratic country in the Middle East was a war criminal ands should be arrested. A man who tried to fight back and to free their people who were tortured, raped, starved and filmed and told to dig their own graves. While the billionaire leaders of Hamas lounged in luxury in Qatar while the UNWRA made the people of Gaza pay Hamas for free food. And UN stooges Greta Garbage and friends made out Hamas were the poor victims.
And then demanded $42Billion a year Climate tax on irreplaceable bunker oil for all the world’s trade.
Climate justice? The UN invented the scam in the first place.
Go home. You are not wanted anywhere. Except Nigeria, Rwanda, Armenia, Sudan, Ukraine and so many terrible conflict zones where the UN is invisible and mass murder is a way of life and democracy doesn’t exist. And the UN says nothing and does nothing.
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You have to like the basic humour of Donald Trump who said after visiting the UN where the escalator was turned off, his microphone was turned off and he was treated with total disrespect, that he would build a giant robot. And kick the whole building into the East river. Later he said he wants to rehabilitate the UN. I think he was right the first time. Let another country pay for this useless group of world class parasites.
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As for Climate Justice, we are paying for Global Warming and it’s freezing in Melbourne. Where’s the Justice?
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Come on TDF
all our taxes have paid for this Melbourne freezing.Bowen’s work is a success!
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Global warming struck again at the races in NZ. It impacted the last day of the Spring Carnival last Saturday in Melbourne (coldest November day in 80 years) then crossed the Tasman and threatened Kiwi punters. Global warming just doesn’t have a sense of fun.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/racing/severe-hailstorm-forces-delays-to-nz-cup-meet-at-christchurchs-riccarton-park/XJC3AQ4TINDTBDBDNWU4MENRFI/
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I wish I could like your comment more than once.
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We need a “Collection of TedF”.
Hard bit would be picking which ones to leave out. Be hours of pleasant reading sorting them into topics.
Then again they are too accurate to be always pleasant.
Doug
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It is not a UN.
It is the Dis-United Nations.
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“Untidy Notions”?
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It often appears to me that the western world is experiencing a sort of death wish generated by a loss of critical thinking. How can this madness be otherwise explained? Or is it mass guilt generated by the financial and health benefits enjoyed as a result of post WWII prosperity?
It must be so, because these crazy ideas fundamentally arise from comfortable westerners. The world’s poor are too busy trying to survive to work themselves into a sweat over such foolish beliefs.
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Vicki,
as I previously said
The problem is the Young have bought the Kool Aid of Climate Change/Global Warming through Peer Pressure – TEALs are just like us in Age & Socially,
while with the Grandkids, Brain Washing since Pre School all the way to Uni.
Discussing with one of my many Brother-in-Laws at Family Lunch last Sunday, we both have Rabid Climate Change/Global Warming “Religious” Fanatic Daughters, who think we are both Dinosaurs
PS Like myself, He is also a Engineer, Mechanical & Mining
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Young women are adamant and quite ferocious on the AGW issue, we have to convince them that CO2 doesn’t cause global warming.
This is important demographically, younger women are not having children, fearful that the planet is overheating. Turning that on its head should produce a mini baby boom.
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el+gordo,
thankfully my 2 Daughters & Daughter-in-law did not go that far.
This is important demographically, younger women are not having children, fearful that the planet is overheating
And I have 9 Great Grand Kids, Brainwashed on Climate Change/Global Warning, but the Mad Nonno still gets Great Hugs!
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Seriously, what warming? Where is there a warming problem with the climate? Which specific country is suffering today? Our never ending drought ended.
Science is tested by matching predictions to reality. When in 38 years have the pushers of climate doom been right about anything? Make your own list. Which prediction came true?
And what difference have 315,000 Giant Windmills made? Of course you could say they have made electricity cheaper.
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‘Seriously, what warming?’
Even if we take out the Hunga Tonga effect, we seem to be stuck on this higher plateau.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_October_2025_v6.1_20x9-scaled.jpg
We have to prove that its caused by natural variables and not CO2.
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The entire complex pattern of European temperatures as measured by real thermometers in six European cities is perfectly explained by a single solar cycle and a single ocean cycle. And they were the only thermometers from 1750 onwards. Everything else is conjecture. And it looks nothing like monotonic CO2 levels.
I have no idea how temperatures were derived for the rest of the vast planet, mostly water and ice. And the Australian BOM has simply refused to digitize the only good records South of the equator for the 19th century, Australia’s state temperatures pre Federation. Why? And Antarctic temperatures are currently plummeting, as predicted. But who needs real data, real mathematics and real accuracy and real predictions when you have the UN pushing CO2?
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Not how it works.
They are the ones making the claims and predictions, and none of their predictions have eventuated.
History shows that it is caused by natural variables.
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They will say that climate history is irrelevant because AGW is unprecedented and as they dominate the high moral ground its going to be hard to dislodge them.
We need a political champion in the House of Representatives to question the science.
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Again it must be age, but I am really still feeling Cold here in Sydney 15 Nov 25 and as I keeping point out
Melbourne Jan/Feb 1968
Days over 30C – 24 Days – 13 Feb 68 to 25 Feb 1988 – 13 days of which 11 Days over 30C
Days over 35C – 16 Days – 13 Feb 68 to 25 Feb 1988 – 13 days of which 8 Days over 35C
Days over 40C – 4 Days – 13 Feb 68 to 25 Feb 1988 – 13 days of which 2 Days over 40C
Now that was hot
https://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=122&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=1968&p_c=-1481819976&p_stn_num=86071
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‘Our never ending drought ended.’
Thanks to La Nina like conditions, weak La Nina in January, which decayed around Easter and neutral ever since. With la Nina waiting in the wings we should expect to see world temperature fall, this is not happening.
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So entirely from regular ocean cycles, not weak CO2? Everything is explained by CO2 or we would not be spending trillions trying to change CO2. And failing because it’s utterly impossible.
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I agree in principle that the oceanic cycles are the main drivers of climate change, but the masses are blissfully unaware.
We have to convince them that CO2 can’t change anything.
“The killer proof that CO2 does not drive climate is to be found during the Ordovician- Silurian and the Jurassic-Cretaceous periods when CO2 levels were greater than 4000 ppmv (parts per million by volume) and about 2000 ppmv respectively.
“If the IPCC theory is correct there should have been runaway greenhouse induced global warming during these periods but instead there was glaciation.” (The Lavoisier Group)
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I totally agree. I too have a woke niece whom when challenged on why she thought that oceans were rising she said because her uni lecturer told her so! I then asked her why there is no evidence or rising ocean levels in Sydney harbour. She had no reply.
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Bumped
Vicki – try this
FWIW – latest Kustler
“”Our Democracy” (I’m Sure)
“How do empires fall? Not by war, but by unbalanced minds disconnected from reality.” — The Vigilant Fox on “X” ”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/our-democracy-im-sure
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A bloke called Arnold Toynbee noted:
“”Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.”
HOWEVER, Marcus Tullius Cicero also observed:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear”
Hobson’s choice?
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Today we have the safest climate for Humans in the last 300 K years, so why can’t these liars and con merchants look up the data and wake up?
In fact today we’ve seen a 99% drop in deaths from extreme weather events compared to the earlier 20th century.
See Dr Goklany and all of the co2 Coalition Scientists and Dr Koonin won all of his debates using the extreme weather deaths today compared to the early 20th century data.
And under 2 billion at risk in the 1920s and over 8.2 billion today. When will they start to think and WAKE UP?
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Here’s the extreme weather death rates since 1900 and takes just 5 minutes to find online, so what’s their excuse?
These liars and con merchants should be sued for wasting our time and money.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/natural-disaster-death-rates?country=Flood~Extreme+weather~Wildfire~Drought~Extreme+temperature
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Use the old ALP trick to keep her away from spreading misinformation!
Tony Berk ( using descriptive spelling ) is a regular user of the old “ you can’t have a visa” trick. This is a perfect way to keep undesirables away. So stop stressing & just do it you Berk!
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She’ll get the red carpet treatment.
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Here is a list of the largest LNG Exporting Countries in the World.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1262074/global-lng-export-capacity-by-country/
Is the UN going after any other Countries than Australia on that List?
What Sections of International Law Legislation Australia is likely to be in breach of?
UN, please elaborate with specifics and not mischief.
If not, then go away and play in the traffic at Rush Hour.
You are a quite useless Organisation. A total waste of money and space.
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They are gong after Oz, because with your current weak leadership it’s the low hanging fruit. If they go after a tougher target and fail, then that will be the end of it. With the consensus for climate action falling apart, they are resorting to establishing an enforcement mechanism. Nasty’s..
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You’ll notice they’re not telling the good ole USA not to suck up any of their gas.
The UN can’t afford that cos “orange man bad “ will cut their funding to net zero.
I think he should cut their funding anyway & evict them from USA !
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So climate is supposed to be 30 years of weather, so starting at 1900 we’ve had about 4 periods of climate to consider.
The OWI Data evidence is very clear that we’re much better off today and 99% of the deaths (rates) have vanished by 2025.
Again we’re living in the safest period in our Human history. What’s not to like?
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30 years average of weather can be a rolling period.
1900 – 1930
1901 – 1931
1902 – 1932
etc
Lots of opportunity to cherry-pick the ‘right’ climate period to bolster an argument (theirs or ours, of course)
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Never forget what the true believers really believe and how crazy they really are.
Even if Human co2 emission increases stopped today it would take thousands of years to return us to 200 years ago or the LIA.
Anyone not understand their crazy nonsense now? Here’s that laughable lunacy from the Royal Society’s question 20 and answer.
IOW a win, win for the NON OECD countries and poverty and slavery for the rest of us. Will we ever WAKE UP?
https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/question-20/
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Senator Malcolm Roberts tries to get Dr Finkel to tell us why he believes co2 is a problem.
This goes on for 7.5 minutes and at the end Dr Finkel admits it’s difficult and he relies on the MODELs.
Hundreds of comments on this so called co2 problem and I’m not sure Dr Finkel convinced too many.
Today the weather/ climate is very benign and much safer for Humans than the previous 300 K years. Dr John Christy tells us that Human lives were brutal and short until the UK started the Industrial Revolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4IPMKhlyQI&t=22s
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Is that friends of the Bradshaw Rock Paintings or the ones that came much later after that?
The Bradshaw’s were never accepted as their own by the more recent settlers until a few years ago, but now the later settlers claim them as their own as well and have even renamed them to the Gwion Gwion rock paintings.
They didn’t fit the Official Narrative of just one single prehistoric migration to Australia so what did the Left do? They simply changed the facts.
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The Woodside field holds high concentrations (>12%) of commercially useless CO2 which is released into that atmosphere when extracted. It’s a field that makes little commercial sense and should be mothballed.
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You also generate commercially useless CO2. Keep it up.
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You are on fire TdeF……..Simon must be very lonely in his basement…..
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LOL.
Tell that to Woodside and their Shareholders. They will continue to make money for themselves and Australia with LNG exports as well as Royalties for the WA Guv’ment. And provide good paying jobs as well.
Simon, are you always this ‘thick as a brick’?
Any CO2 released is Plant Food.
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This is the first time I’ve heard of a Leftist complain about the CO2 content of natural gas.
This must be the beginnings of a whole new trend.
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Actually, there are COMMERCIAL CO2 well in Australia and the US, for starters. High purity gas that is used in the food and beverage biz, eventually “escaping to the atmosphere when the “product” is used.
And what do the usual suspects think (if anything) about the bubbles in their “naturally-fermented” adult beverage?
Or the sundry volcanoes around the planet, (at least seven in Antarctica alone) that are CONSTANTLY spewing CO2 and “interesting” gases like Chlorine, Radon and Xenon into the sky?
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If you could be bothered to read the publicly available information about the Woodside Fields (as you eroneously call them), you would see that the CO2 is not going to be vented – unlike all the other players around the Browse Basin. You Climate Activists are all the same, selectively cherry-picking information to suit your misguided and alarmist agenda. Instead of focusing on CO2, maybe stop blocking progress in Austrlia for Nuclear Energy – if it is really all about co2 emissions (are you going to tax breathing next?).
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Given that almost everyone in Australia could not say, if asked, how being a member of the UN benefits them in any way, would say “I don’t know,” it’s way past time that we GTFO of it.
Rescind all treaties, agreements, commitments, and obligations to the UN and start governing for the exclusive benefit of Australians.
We don’t owe the rest of the world clean water, medical aid, education, subsidies, or a place to live.
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Rick, that is just so bloody sensible. Been saying it to myself for years !!!!
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No, it is not.
The climate doesn’t care about your “rights.”
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“Elaine Johnson, the lawyer representing Friends of Australian Rock Art in the proceedings, revealed that the group had previously warned Senator Watt that approving the North West Shelf could put Australia at risk of breaching international laws.”
No, no, just ‘breaching’ the UNs mad edicts is all.
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I think the lawyers are the problem. Aborigines never needed them. We should respect the established tradition.
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“I think the lawyers are the problem.”
William Shakespeare penned some words about that in Henry VI (Part 2):
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”
Shirley his “character” was joking????
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As Belem is only a degree or two south of the equator in Brazil’s northeast, the 50,000 or so faithful CCC Warmunists must be dripping in sweat – a true sign of the CR!S!S™️ – so why do they not gather in Antarctica which is warming faster than everywhere else (apart from all the other places claiming that untenable position) except:
https://www.antarcticanz.govt.nz/scott-base/webcams-weather
Overnight min -13.6C
midday -8.8C just above sea level
Note Mt Erebus volcano in the background.
Amundsen-Scott Base, South Pole:
midday -42C with snow flurries. Or
https://ocean.dmi.dk//arctic/meant80n.uk.php
Arctic North Pole mean -20C (14 Nov)
Greenland Summit Camp -21C (14 Nov).
And with another fresh coating of overnight snow around Queenstown and Milford Sound, their irrational fear of “one-point-five” only shows how far off the deep end these self-appointed Planet Saviours have dived, slithered, wallowed and sunk.
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If the “True Believers” were sincere in their beliefs, they would stop using thermally generated electricity.
Further on, they would tax themselves into oblivion in service to their beliefs, but not others. As well, they would eschew all synthetic products such as PVC, Rayon, CPVC, PTFE, concrete, heart catheters, contact lenses, automobiles, oil and all its 6000 products, all pharmaceuticals, etc.
Greens are nothing more than scaremongers, charlatans and thieves, braying about social guilt for the sake of their condescending moral superiority and powerlust. I’ve had enough of this claptrap. Not one of them explains how they will take responsibility for all of their failed predictions and enormous grief foisted off upon the general populace, if they are wrong. Such Hubris without responsibility is simply the whining of emotional children.
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So where is their dangerous CC and where’s their much warmer world?
Even NASA quoted the Dutch Deltares study that found more global land today compared to SLR over the last 30 years.
That’s 115,000 klm2 of water and 173,000 klm2 of land. This was from 2016 at the NASA site. Here’s their quote……
“[Source: Deltares] The world has gained 115,000 km2 of water and 173,000 km2 of land over the past 30 years. The Dutch research institute Deltares developed an open tool that analyzes satellite data and visualizes land and water changes around the globe. The results were published in Nature Climate Change”.
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Here’s the NASA link to the Dutch Deltares NATURE study.
https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/tracking-surface-water-changes-over-the-past-30-years/
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Being a member of the UN is the equivalent of joining any of the Royal Automobile Clubs or the NRMA for the NSWites. Originally it was relatively cheap, there were some discounts on services and parts from retailers and the breakdown service was some reassurance. The RAC’s pushed for better roads, safety measures and promoted car use. Now like the UN, they’ve gone woke and if anything hinder car use by promoting “green measures”. Or get involved in non automotive issues. Then really do you need the breakdown service anyway? It’s not as if the UN would assist if we got suddenly invaded by a hostile country anyway.
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Here’s the latest Shellenberger interview where he points out the BS and nonsense we’ve been fed about their so called dangerous CC.
BTW according to the Dutch Engineer’s study there’s been no acceleration in SLR since the 1850s. And that’s the end of the LIA or about 170 years ago. And still 1.5 mm a year today or 150 mm by 2125 or about 6 inches.
This is very interesting as he pulls apart the latest data and their love affair with the models. About 48 minutes and the host is a Conservative sane person as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQYIZpa3bPA
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What would the Dutch know about sea levels? And the ultimate uselessness of wind power for that matter.
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It’s amazing how yesterday’s hot environmental story is today’s distant memory. So where today can I donate to Save the Polar Bears? Save the Caribou? Save the Penguins?
All the UN seems to care about now is where rivers of cash are generated. I don’t follow. Is it a high level shakedown? Are we going to have to pay for their silence?
At least Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull and our $444million in cash have saved the Great Barrier Reef. And quite humbly refuse the thanks of a Nation for their courage and adroit money management.
So much CO2, so much tropical warming and so few funds to fight for the rights of Polar Bears and coral polyps. I can’t wait for the success of Malcolm’s Snowy II. Twice the cost of the Panama Canal and twice as long to build as the Chunnel. It will be a marvel.
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I wonder if all the money is gone? The woman in charge of the six person group calculated administration expenses alone would amount to $132million. And I suppose a lot of the rest went on crayfish and prawns. And polyps. We knew saving the immense reef would not be cheap.
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There is no such thing as international law, only international treaties. ‘Law’ means a body of legislation binding on specified people (by birth or in a territory), enforced in a specified territory, publicly known, with set process in trials and specified penalties for violation. International law fails these criteria. The actions of a nation state may be deplored, but it can be held only to its own signature (and even then – how?). The United Nations obviously wishes to claim authority over nations, but that is vanity. If you hear talk of ‘international law’, ask which code of law, by what treaty, ratified by whom.
Human rights are a similar vanity. Humans should treat each other well, but this is not the reason why.If a State acknowledges human rights, it gains a responsibility to fulfil them, because people can tell the authorities, “You say I have this right and you have the ability and authority to fulfil it, so give it to me!” But if a government provides food and housing – and human rights are mainly social (in contrast to civil rights such as habeas corpus) – then what of the motive to provide these things for oneself? How will government find the resources to provide for all? In one lifetime in 20th century Britain the depression-era Jarrow marchers’ ‘right to work’ became the right not to work and to live on benefits, a culture of entitlement. The UN in 1966 adopted an “international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights”. Human rights get ranked by the power politics of interest groups. Jurisprudential literature on rights will grow but settle nothing, since there is no coherent way to rank clashing rights. Jonathan Sumption, a former Justice of the UK Supreme Court, wrote in the Foreword to his book Law in a Time of Crisis (2021): “I doubt the value of multiplying rights, which often serve only to magnify and perpetuate grievances.”
Boštjan Zupančič, a judge from 1998 to 2016 in the European Court of Human Rights, also gained a low view. In an interview dated 2019/12/9), Zupančič said:
There are no human rights, there is only access to the Court… Human rights were, ab initio, an American ideological showcase vis-à-vis the Soviet Union and the countries behind the Iron Curtain. When I was at Harvard in the 1970s, we assumed that to be obvious. It was an opportunity for internationalist lawyers, of course, but the rest of us did not take them seriously. Nowadays, saying that is almost sacrilege because human rights are no longer just an ideology. They have become a religion. For what purpose? Obviously, to justify anything, from migration to hate speech. It does not seem to bother the people involved in human rights that no one knows what human rights actually are. On the contrary, this nebulousness works for them because they can, in their propaganda, project onto the human rights screen everything they consider politically useful.
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The US Declaration of Independence stated the basic rights were for “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. These were based on the Virginia Declaration of Rights:
http://Www.archives.gov/founding-docs/virginia-declaration-of-rights
They did not include the right to sit on your backside and sponge off others.
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Even that Declaration was written by a man who owned slaves…
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Who funds the Australian Conservation Foundation and Friends of Australian Rock Art?
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Best guess is: the usual victims; the Taxpayers”.
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Joann, love all that do you to expose corruption.
Donation incoming…
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Thank you! I couldn’t do this Brad, without people like you.
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To the UN I say GFY
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