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Guess what happened in the UK today for the third day running.
Yep, a new June temperature record, latest report is Suffolk provisionally reaching 37.3C.
Should be the last. Thankfully it’s changed at my location. From 30C at 1AM, it’s been fresh and about 21C since noon.
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Well, I have some questions about the weather stations used to measure these “record” temperatures. A few weeks ago, we were told of the hottest May day ever from Kew Gardens. Have a look at https://www.weatherforschools.me.uk/html/weatherstations.html
Click on the 5th picture down to get a view of the Kew Gardens weather station. The old station is sitting there in it’s Stevenson screen. However, they also have a new automated weather station powered by a solar panel. “This photograph also shows some of the thermometers that are outside the Stevenson Screen.” Note the position of the solar panel in relation to these thermometers. Given that a solar panel, on a warm sunny day, can reach 60 to 65 degrees c, I am not surprised that Kew Gardens broke records – records for dumb weather station design. Also have a look at the second picture down where they have 2 solar panels sited just under the Stevenson screen. Heat rises doesn’t it?
Just saying.
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I think there was a similar bit of nonsense with siting of a solar panel at Observatory Hill in Sydney a while ago.
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=619767669960332&id=100057813140464
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So far, the upward trend in temperature in the UK has been driven by hot air from the south. Summer sunlight over the UK is still declining.
UK has a long way to go before the sunlight reaches the levels Australians have experienced. And UK will never reach the near 50C that Australia has experienced because it is all too close to water. Central Europe will certainly reach those temperatures.
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Meanwhile my car has been iced up 3 days straight with more to come here in Oz.😁
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Weatherzone says an Omega Block is causing this heatwave.
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I am trying to complied an article about the effect of the sun on British and European temperatures.
I typed into Google ai the question
How sunny was it in roman times.
I then substituted the word medieval.
To my surprise it told me that both periods were warmer and sunnier than today.
I would be grateful if people could type the same questions into their own search engines and write down the results
Has ai suddenly become realists?
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How did the Roman Armies Conquer all those places with these temps? Did they march and do it during Winter and cooler months?
And how about those Knights with suits of armour and chain mail. And the poor horses.
They must have been tough people and animals. No Air Conditioning then.
I think I’ll ask the ALPBC here in Australia.
LOL
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Well, this was from conversations with a WW2 6th Division bloke who was in the first big push west in North Africa.
They were marching about 40 miles a day. The water ration was a quart which had to cover shaving.
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Don’t forget the padded undersuit that chain nail needed as a shock absorber.
Gets a mention in “The Ancient Engineers”
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Not long ago I watched a documentary and objects recovered from Roman ruins that were identified as dies for producing wire used for various applications including chain armour clothing.
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So the Medieval Warm period and Roman Optimum haven’t been memory-holed by the climate terrorists yet?
Good to know, ta.
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I typed the question and received the same result. My computer is slow enough that I can see some of Gemeni’s thought processes. It briefly flashed up “taking a look at Saturday’s Jo Nova” before giving an answer. Interesting!
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Thanks Ron.
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My trained MS Copilot goes into lengthy detail on the first question. To summarise:
Solar Activity
1-2W/m^2 higher than 20th century average.
Cloudiness
Mediterranean cloud cover 10-20% lower than during Dark Ages Period (400 to 900 AD)
Sunshine Hours Modern Mediterranean
Rome today 2500 to 2700 hours/year
Athens 2800 to 3000 hours per year
Roman era 5 to 10% more sunshine than Medieval period
There is lots more but I will not bore you with detail.
It has learnt to look for evidence before responding. Still a lot of training to go but less BS than when I first used Copilot.
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Thanks for that Rick.so is ai actually gathering evidence from a wide range of sources and is avoiding the political aspects that bedvil the ipcc.
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I expect the answer would not be as detailed from untrained Copilot. I have told mine I want facts from verifiable data sources not the glib bullshit it has been trained on.
I asked the same question on web based Copilot without training specific to my requirements and it gave a less detailed response without anything concrete.
I believe I am getting value from my MS Office subscription that includes Copilot. It is good to be able to pick up on discussion started weeks ago from where you left off.
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It might be better to refine your question, the Roman Warm Period and Medieval Warm Period only impacted the Northern Hemisphere.
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If AI says yes then we know its a lie, the RWP and MWP were universal, but the hemispheres were out of sync.
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Australian Alps example (temperature context): a long Alpine record (Australian Alps) reconstruction covering ~2000 years discusses Medieval Climate Anomaly context and compares the magnitude of recent warming to past events, indicating strong local-scale variability rather than a single countrywide Medieval temperature “number.”
Global warming in the context of 2000 years of Australian alpine temperature and snow cover
Hamish McGowan, John Nikolaus Callow, Joshua Soderholm, Gavan McGrath, Micheline Campbell & Jian-xin Zhao
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22766-z. (Nature)
It refers to one cave site in the Australian Alps and has decided that it was warmer or cooler at various times.
Otherwise it has the old excuse that we didn’t have thermometers then (or indeed before 1910 as the “official” record only starts then).
Given that very recently the records in Mt. Barker (Adelaide Hills) recorded minimum temp. for one day of 0.5,2 and 4 C (as announced on the TV) AFTER that day, I wouldn’t bother checking anything for Australia.
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FWIW
From a Jacinta Price email
“Construction apprenticeships have just hit a five-year low.
That’s a problem for every Australian trying to buy or build a home.
Australia needs tradies to build homes – yet more apprentices are quitting than finishing.
What did Anthony Albanese do? He cut $266 million from apprenticeship incentives and increased spending on bureaucracy and “advice”.
You cannot build a single home without training someone in the skills needed to build it.
So why doesn’t Labor seem worried?
Because Labor has only one answer to every problem: import more workers through mass immigration.”
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But isn’t it the apprentices who become tradies, that join unions and donate money to the ALP
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Most of the tradies I know are independent business people. They abhor the unions and all that goes with them.
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FWIW
““Super” El Niño is a No-Go: In More Ways than One”
“MLive Corrects the “Super El Niño” Narrative—NOAA Doesn’t Actually Use That Term, plus it looks to be fizzling One of the more refreshing weather articles to appear recently comes not from a climate blog but from MLive, where meteorologist Mark Torregrossa points out something that has largely disappeared amid sensational headlines, like Godzilla Super El Niño and other ridiculous headlines
“There is no such thing as a Super El Niño. NOAA ranks El Niño and has the official categories of weak, m…
This post is currently for paid subscribers only, all membership types.
If you are a paid subscriber and can’t view it, make sure to log in.
After 30 days it will be available to all users.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/26/super-el-nino-is-a-no-go-in-more-ways-than-one/
“Conjur up no more spirits than you can conjur down”
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Lamestream media article on Pauline Hanson’s early life, the overall flavour of-
“The saga demonstrates just how little is known about the background of a woman that polling suggests could become Australia’s next prime minister.”
Someone spoke to her first husband, whom she married as a teenager, but amusingly he hates all politicians and quite accurately sums it all up as
““They’re all in it for themselves. They’re not there to do good for anybody,” he says. “[Anthony] Albanese, I wouldn’t trust him as far as I can throw him … [Angus Taylor] is an idiot. Pauline, she’s about the most dishonest person I know.”
https://smry.ai/www.smh.com.au/national/queensland/who-is-pauline-hanson-immigrant-first-husband-offers-glimpse-into-her-early-life-20260616-p607ee.html?smryFrom=home
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Moderna enters in vivo CAR-T, granting autoimmune asset ‘007’ license to kill pathogenic cells
Moderna has unveiled its first in vivo CAR-T program. Building on other groups’ ex vivo CAR-T data, the company plans to start clinical development of an off-the-shelf autoimmune disease prospect, dubbed “007,” next year.
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/moderna-enters-vivo-car-t-granting-autoimmune-asset-007-license-kill-pathogenic-cells
Licensed to kill. Gotta love marketing.
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Australia’s removal of human rights in health policy
Over the last decade, Australia, like many western countries, has fallen many points on the World Democracy Index.
We are now 0.85 points from being a flawed democracy. Nine years of Liberals from 2013 started the slide and Labor continued from 2022 onwards. Since 2001 this includes approximately 100+ new counterterrorism laws , many of which remove fundamental human rights from Australians. All whilst being signatories to, and having ratified, International Human Rights Covenants.
The No Jab No Pay/Play policy violates The International Covenant for Economic, Social, and Cultural (ICESC) Rights: Article 12. This upholds the right to physical and mental health. Coercion with a medical intervention breaches this right.
The No Jab No Pay/Play Social Services legislation also discriminates against healthy children. This is a violation of Article 9 of the International Covenant on the Economic and Cultural and Social Rights (ICECSR)
https://judyp.substack.com/p/australias-removal-of-human-rights
Will they ever be held accountable for their crimes?
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‘We are now 0.85 points from being a flawed democracy.’
So I had a look at the World Democracy Index and find that the USA is already a ‘flawed democracy’.
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The US is a Republic.
Says so right in the pledge us kids used say at school.
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to to THE REPUBLIC for which it stands.”
We do have mail-in ‘democracy’ in California.
They should finish counting by July 4th.
(Once they figure out which Democrat the voter really meant to vote for.)
Of course, I am old.
I remember when vaccination and immunization where interchangeable terms and man and woman were not.
Moreover, once true Progressivism is passively aggressively forced upon all creatures of Earth, and intolerance is not longer tolerated, we will enjoy a flawless collective … like modern China.
“World Democracy Index” … an intellectually sound thing to index.
‘World Democracy’, when we are all ruled from Brussels, which as we know is the center of the World, you can call Brussels when your recycling isn’t being picked up and when your local bridge has fallen down.
You shouldn’t be leaving your designated area without permission anyway.
Unless you are Islamic or an oppressed POC, then you can go anywhere you want and get a free hotel.
If you were a Christian in Artsahk, you were only allowed to flee to Armenia where you might able to some get some food.
At least Istanbul isn’t on stolen land.
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Are you sure?
Didn’t the Romans call it Constantinople after their Emperor Constantine?
You just can’t trust those Saracens to stay in their own yard.
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Beef is nature’s most complete food
For the past fifty years, beef has been portrayed as a villain — a dangerous food that clogs arteries, raises cholesterol, and shortens lives, and more recently it is blamed for being part of so-called ‘climate change’.
And over those same fifty years, Americans got sicker. Obesity tripled. Diabetes quadrupled. Half of all adults now have some form of cardiovascular disease. Nearly one in three has metabolic syndrome.
“I have spent ten years watching patients reverse type 2 diabetes, lose weight without hunger, resolve inflammatory conditions, and discontinue medications they had been told they would need for life — simply by returning to an animal-based diet centered on beef. The evidence is not new. It was suppressed. This guide is about what it actually says.”
https://brookemillermd.substack.com/p/beef-natures-most-complete-food
Meanwhile in what’s left of the UK, their governing blob wants to end farming and replace beef with anti-nutrient Lentils. Oh, the farmers did laugh at that.
Bugs and Lentils on your plate, with fluoro-green mushy peas no doubt…
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Ahh! Beef!
I’ve got a 1.2 Kilo Rump roast for dinner tonight.
I have one of those round glass benchtop convection ovens. They were the forerunner of the air fryer, and cook times are the same as for an air fryer.
So, remove from fridge 45 minutes for the surface to approach room temperature. Preheat oven at 200C. A cup of water alongside the beef on the low rack. Insert the temperature spike. Then it gets 12 minutes at 200C to sear the already prepped skin. Turn it down to 175 and cook for a further 48 minutes. Watch temp gauge to get close to 50 to 52C Internal temp. Remove and rest under loose foil for 15 minutes. Carve.
Roast vegetables are part of a Birds Eye pack done in the other Air fryer for 15 minutes with some Cobram Estate garlic and onion infused EV olive oil, and they get 15 minutes, shaking half way through.
Gravy is a Maggie Beer rich and thick finishing sauce. 45 seconds in the nuke. To that gets added the juices from the bottom of the glass oven where the beef cooked. Added one teaspoon of Gravox Roast meat powder in a dash of hot water to make a paste, and then add to the sauce mix and stir vigourously, and then add one heaped teaspoon of Cornflour in cold water, stirred to a paste, and added to sauce to thicken a little. Stir all into the gravy mix, and then 45 seconds on high in the nuke. Stir and stir and stir. It thickens up really nicely. A small handful frozen peas in a glass nuke bowl for one minute.
All timed for around the same finishing time.
‘Collate’ onto the plate, and warm up (on ‘plate’) in the Nuke for one minute.
Place on table, with a glass of Sav Blanc.
Heaven.
Cooking is soooooo much fun these days.
Leftover beef sliced on Sunday afternoon, and warmed in the Nuke, and then onto sourdough sandwiches with warmed over gravy. Any more leftovers turned into rissoles for Wednesday night.
Tony.
Added extra. (My own Post at my home site) – Beef Cattle And Beef As Food (Part Two)
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Get in Ma Belly !
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Simplicious is writing of the increasing Ukraine-Belarus rhetoric, the Yanks have provided some detailed photos of Belarus building military infrastructure along the Ukie border. It looks like the narrative will be heaping lies on Belarus and then a false flag to spread the war into their country too. … The West will be working hard to get NATO involved so then they can let Poland loose!
The funny thing is, with the recent drone incursions into Russia and Ukraine showing how easy it is to hit infrastructure, why would you build an oil tank farm in the forest near the border with giant above-ground tanks, or an ammunition depot with sheds on the ground…?
Surely both of those projects would be underground if you were seriously expecting war with the country just over the border, and they would be far enough back from the border that they wouldn’t be easily seized in an invasion.
The Ukie Commander-in-chief Syrsky says they need to raise new divisions and 5 brigades for the Belarusian border, for defence only I am sure. Currently their ‘mobilisation Police’ are the most hated people in Ukraine, so I can’t see any enthusiasm for more conscription.
Lukashenko has an interesting speech in there, speaking off-the-cuff and comes across as quite practical, rather than a politician.
Meanwhile both sides are blowing up petrol stations and energy infrastructure at a retail level, just to paralyse the citizens, and hackers reckon they breached a Ukrainian database listing 1.7million soldiers killed so far.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/next-phase-of-psyop-ukraine-now-accuses
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FWIW
A suggestion of method in the Russian campaign on the petrol stations in the Military Summary Channel here
“In the first 6 minutes or so, Military Summary Channel explains why 150 gas stations a a lot of trucks were destroyed yesterday, and more since then. I’d wondered about that…
The drones reaching Moscow and other places inside Russia are trucked to the North East area for launch. Take out the trucks, gas stations, and bridge approaches to the Dnieper River and they must be launched from further back. So I think we know what the anticipated response is now.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/russian-uvb-76-buzzer-radio-doom-activated/#comment-182003
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FWIW
“Lukashenko NO To Zelensky Belarus Stands With Russia; Russian Troops Enter Sumy; EU NO To Kiev Entry”
https://rumble.com/v7btgnq-lukashenko-no-to-zelensky-belarus-stands-with-russia-russian-troops-enter-s.html?e9s=src_v1_upp_v
About 28 minutes in he mentions ang discusses a review of the situation at
maratkhairullin.substack.com
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Zelensky wants to avoid opening up another front, so he probably backed off.
This Omega Block is heading towards the Balkans and I pity the 1.5 million Ruskies stuck in Crimea.
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Almost KP, it is Russia (Putin) planning the false flag attack to justify attacking a NATO country. Sounds like you’ve identified the location.
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“Almost KP, it is Russia (Putin) planning the false flag attack to justify attacking a NATO country.”
Not the way to do it Mr G, the only way for him to get any reward for hitting NATO would be to take out a weapons factory somewhere in Germany/Poland/UK to reduce their enthusiasm for supporting Ukraine. That would just be Oreshnik explosions late at night and lots of ‘you did it’ ….’no, we didn’t’… in the media.
Invading a NATO country would bring him nothing but trouble.
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Drones in the Srait of Hormuz
Yesterday the IRGC launched 4 one way attack drones against civilian shipping in the Strait. Three were intercepted and shot down. President Trump announced that one drone hit a container ship very hard on the upper part of the ship.
That ship was the MV Ever Lovely, which is currently proceeding at 17kts to its destination of Singapore. It seems likely that only a stack of containers was damaged.
The US responded by attacking drone storage and launch sites and also radar control sites.
The US is supposed to be winding down its forces in the Gulf after 30 days, but I can’t see that happening if the IRGC keeps up these random attacks.
Much more intriguing is the story that the F15 shot down over Iran a month ago found its self surrounded by a jellyfish like swarm of drones!
I can’t quite imagine what that is like,
What sort of drones were they?
How did they intercept a fast moving jet?
Did the drones bring the jet down, or was it brought down some other way?
How many drones in the swarm?
Just as surprising is that Centcom has released this much of the story. ,Maybe we will hear more.
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It was low and slow so vulnerable to a manpad. The same pilot had been shot down in a blue on blue incident early in the war.
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“How did they intercept a fast moving jet?”
Was it loitering?
660kph for custom civilian drones, the newer jet-engined powered drones are probably quicker. Of course the really good stuff we won’t know about.
https://newatlas.com/drones/luke-mike-bell-peregreen-v4-guinness-speed/
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The correct units are the “mach number”.
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The next move for the bureaurat/Big Business combine to control your life-
“The European Union is advancing a sweeping rewrite of its seed laws under the banner of Plant Reproductive Material regulation (PRM). …The diversity in our fields and on our plates exists because millions of ordinary people, without asking permission from anyone, did the patient work of selection and exchange. The Plant Reproductive Material regulation turns this ancient order on its head. It presumes that seeds must be authorized from above before they can circulate below. It treats the default activity of human agriculture, the saving and sharing of seed, as something requiring a permission slip from a bureaucrat. This is not a minor tweak. It is a philosophical reversal. It moves the presumption of legitimacy from the grower to the regulator…. It takes what was free and makes it licensed. ”
..and the costs to take part will be so high that small traders will be unable to survive.
“Bayer, having swallowed Monsanto, now controls one of the largest seed and trait portfolios on the planet. Corteva and Syngenta round out an oligopoly that increasingly decides what gets bred, what gets distributed, and what ends up in farmers’ fields.”
“Xylella fastidiosa did not arrive in European olive groves because a grandmother shared cuttings. Tomato brown rugose fruit virus did not spread through heirloom seed exchanges. These pathogens rode in on commercial shipments, through industrial nurseries, through exactly the channels the PRM regulation treats as trustworthy while it tightens the screws on the channels that have historically been the safest.”
But disease is the new bludgeon for Govts to wield, anything to do with health is mandatory, no matter what it costs you. Your future will depend on the biolabs, or for some of us, on the Second Amendment.
https://www.malone.news/p/who-owns-the-seed
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..and if you’ve wondered about plaque and arteries and sugar and fat and..
“Researchers in Italy just isolated a bacterial enzyme that eats arterial plaque. .. scientists wrapped their enzyme in a microscopic lipid shell…It travels through the bloodstream entirely undetected. When it senses the specific inflammatory signals of a blockage, it drops the payload.
In animal models, it dissolved 42% of existing plaque. No incisions. No stents. Just an enzyme clearing the pipes naturally. Human trials are still years away.
Researchers have to guarantee the enzyme only attacks the plaque and does not destabilize healthy tissue. ”
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vincentius-liong_researchers-in-italy-just-isolated-a-bacterial-share-7474081009748164609-Lztu/
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From the linkedin reference
The preclinical proof of concept was published in the European Heart Journal.
Further tracking (ugh FB)
the only sad part of the post is that the reference of Rossi et al (2026) doesnt exist.
Alas wishful thinking….
A few years ago my calcium score was 16 (out of 400)
I blame 100% use of olive oil….
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