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Phew it was hot in the UK today, tropical heat, not dry.
Record wise it was not as dramatic as predicted.
The hottest area was a squat blob about 100 mile diameter with its bottom sitting on the Isle of Weight.
Several places broke the June record, Gosport highest reported so far at 36.1C, so half a degree in it.
My town had its warmest night 21C on record for any month, and warmest day today 34.9C, both by a fair margin.
Tomorrow is expected to be at least as hot, but the hottest area will move further west. But 39/40C looks less likely now.
Europe sizzled records in the mid 40s, massive part of Western Europe 35C or more.
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That happen with hot air coming directly from Northern Africa.
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And here’s me thinking all the hot air emanated from Brussels!
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It was a heat dome, winds coming directly from the Sahara.
‘What set 1976 apart was not just the intensity of the heat, but its persistence. A ‘blocking’ high-pressure pattern trapped hot, dry conditions over the UK for weeks, while prolonged dry weather since May 1975 had already depleted soil moisture and water resources, intensifying the event. It remains one of the most significant combined heatwave and drought episodes in the UK’s recorded climate history.’ (MetOffice)
Blocking high pressure can be discerned throughout history, the great fire of London is one example.
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25/26C in Carlisle today and 22C nearer the coast this afternoon…a beautifĺĺul day and with less humidity than yesterday. Too many houses here make no allowance for heat gain through glass! Cool and clear outside this evening with a wonderful view of the fells.
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I find I learn so much from this site and others.
Another site I particularly enjoy is XKCD.com where the creator blends comics with real information. I recommend it for your daily dose of uplifting humour.
Yesterday the comic used the term P-Hacking. I had not come across it, so, as I do, I went searching. It is probably a term a lot of Jo’s readers already know.
P-hacking (also known as data dredging or data fishing) is the practice of manipulating data or statistical analyses until a study yields a “statistically significant” result, usually represented by a p-value of less than 0.05. It undermines scientific integrity by artificially creating false positives.
In statistics, a p-value measures the probability that your results happened purely by random chance. The standard cutoff for significance is p < 0.05. P-hacking occurs when researchers try "trial and error" tactics until they cross this magic threshold, rather than objectively testing a pre-written hypothesis.
Common tactics include:
• Selective Reporting: Running dozens of different tests, but only publishing the one or two that yielded significant results.
• p-Harking: Changing your initial hypothesis after looking at the data to match whatever random trend happened to be significant.
• Data Exclusion: Throwing away data points or "outliers" until the remaining data proves your desired point.
• Selective Subgrouping: Slicing a larger dataset into smaller demographics (e.g., separating by age, gender, or location) until one group shows a significant effect.
• Stopping Data Collection Early: Repeatedly checking for significance while the experiment is running and stopping the exact moment p < 0.05 is reached.
So I asked google:
How P-Hacking Manifests in Climate Research
Climate science relies heavily on massive, multi-variable, and highly complex observational datasets. This complexity grants researchers high "researcher degrees of freedom," allowing them to manipulate results consciously or unconsciously in several ways:
• Selective Time Windows: A researcher might test various time subsets (e.g., 1970–2010 vs. 1975–2015) until the correlation between CO2 spikes and a specific extreme weather metric becomes statistically significant.
• Model Specification and Regressors: In economic climate research—such as studies mapping country-level CO2 drivers—there is no unified empirical framework. Researchers can cycle through endless combinations of control variables (covariates) until their preferred variable yields a low p-value.
• Proxy Calibration and Selection: Reconstructing historical global temperatures relies on climate "proxies" like tree rings or ice cores. P-hacking can occur if data is selectively standardized against specific calibration periods rather than the entire dataset, artificially weighting certain data points.
• Data Dropping and Outliers: Researchers might systematically exclude certain measurement stations or specific regional anomalies under the guise of "cleaning data," stopping only when the remaining data aligns with the desired hypothesis.
So, for me, it was an illuminating read. However it quickly morphed into the Wikipedia and YouTube default to brainwash the uninformed.
You know the story (consensus and 105% of experts agree blah blah). See what I did there, I P-Hacked my own research to come up with an impossible number, /s
After warning us about the dangers of manipulating data through P-Hacking, the last 3 points downplay its significance and tell us that science is complex, and you cannot possibly understand it so believe in the results you are fed. After all, it’s scientific and can be found on our controlled websites where we tell you what to believe.
Impact on Scientific Consensus
It is critical to separate the statistical noise of individual studies from the broader foundational physics of climate change.
1. Robustness Against Individual Bias: Climate science draws on vast, corroborating evidence from entirely different disciplines, including basic physics, oceanography, satellite telemetry, and paleoclimatology. A p-hacked anomaly in a single localized study cannot undermine this multi-disciplinary framework.
2. Meta-Analyses and Truth-Filtering: Methodological overviews published in sources like PLOS Biology indicate that while p-hacking is a widespread issue across overall science, its effect is mathematically weak relative to true effect sizes. It fails to alter the overall conclusions of rigorous climate meta-analyses.
3. The Overwhelming Consensus: According to Wikipedia's track of scientific consensus, between 98.7% and 100% of publishing climate experts agree that human activity is the primary driver of modern climate change.
Finally, some of the events you can celebrate or commemorate today, June 25th
Global Beatles Day
National Leon Day ("Noel" spelled backward). the exact midway point to Christmas
The Battle of the Little Bighorn ("Custer's Last Stand
The Korean War began when North Korean forces invaded South Korea
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl was officially published
1998: Microsoft officially released the Windows 98 operating system
2009: The date is widely remembered for the tragic passing of music icon Michael Jackson.
Enjoy your Thursday😊
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Good to know … I guess.
“3. The Overwhelming Consensus: According to Wikipedia’s track of scientific consensus, between 98.7% and 100% of publishing climate experts agree that human activity is the primary driver of modern climate change.”
So it’s looking like the new ‘human’ driver of Climate Change will be generating enough power by any means necessary to develop artificial ‘human’ intelligence.
(We need an irony referee up in here.)
The great consensus didn’t mean squat.
Not much disappoints like a human consensus.
That’s because Climate Change ‘science’ was never science at all and was entirely politics.
Politics being money.
The only thing overwhelmed was the Renewal Energy/Net Zero bubble because a new bubble is now inflating and will inevitably deflate like this one.
Though we will still suffer continuing blows to the head from the Consensus cudgel.
And we will have no AI Wonderland just as we have no Renewable Clean Energy Wonderland.
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The publishing sceptical scientists have learned to get their papers into journals by writing an abstract that supports the consensus (which gets measured as support for same), but then the actual data and conclusions are opposite.
This has also occurred in papers on Covid 19 vexxine deaths.
The real data is out there, it just has to be disguised to get it past consensus censorship.
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Thanks Geoff from Tanjil, pretty much just as I have always assumed. But thank you for taking the time to reassure me as to my thinking. Maybe you could ask google as to the benefits for mankind of a warming of the planet by 2C, as far as greening and food production goes, not to mention the reduction in “cold” deaths. See what they come up with!
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Well Murray, thanks for the reply. I had a look as you suggested and found what we already knew. I realise it’s repeating previous posts in summary but hey, I am up for the challenge. 😊
The “research” says there are benefits but also negative impacts. Depending on how the search is worded different scenarios are presented.
Generally, CO2 increases are good up to a point, then bad.
I defer to the excellent articles linked in Jo’s site that show CO2 increases by humans are statistically negligible as CO2 increases are caused by other factors. The CO2 cycle between atmosphere and oceans is an interesting read.
Increasing global climate temperatures are good up to a point, then bad.
Apparently leaf growth and cereals suffer when temperature gets too high, which makes sense, but we are not even close to that except in the laboratories.
Also, people forget the daily swing in temperature in the comfortably habitable and food growing latitudes swings daily and by 10 to 15 degrees C or more. Add the seasonal shift and the upper measurement of 25 at night can be 40 during the day.
I smile at the hand wringers who freak out that the “climate” temperature is spiking by 0.4 degrees C.
Globally, significantly more people die from cold than from heat. Studies show that cold-related temperatures cause approximately 4.5 to 5 million deaths annually, while heat is responsible for roughly half a million. This translates to roughly 9 times more deaths attributed to cold exposure compared to heat. I looked at a couple of sites and they gave the same figure.
Enjoy your Thursday.
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“It fails to alter the overall conclusions of rigorous climate meta-analyses.”
That is what happens when your overall conclusions are the result of everyone p-hacking…
“3. The Overwhelming Consensus: According to Wikipedia’s track of scientific consensus, between 98.7% and 100% of publishing climate experts agree that human activity is the primary driver of modern climate change.”
..and that is what happens when you opposing scientists can’t get published.
Too bad AI couldn’t add those riders to the propaganda it puts out.
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I proposed the following scenario to AI…
I have the worlds biggest bot farm.
I publish numerous post/thesis/consensus that 2+2=5
My question was what would AI now say 2+2= ?
The AI assured me that numerous safeguards are in place to spot and ignore “bots”.
However in the end it agreed that because AIs truth comes from the majority opinion of published data… what I had proposed was a possible but very unlikely scenario.
That the scenario is even possible leads to the following conclusion.
AI can be a very useful tool in millions of different ways.
However, AI has a huge fault….highly susceptible to GIGO.
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If AI merely repeats consensus it is misnamed, not fit for purpose, an old-fashioned search does that. This is beyond my pay grade but surely it is better than that.
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It’s right there in the name:
Large Language Model.
This is also why the argument can be made that no copyrights are violated in LLM training, as the models don’t actually *read* copy, the simply create a database of probability that a particular word precedes or follows another.
Thus “hairy-nosed” is far more likely to precede “wombat” in a sentence answering a question than “winged”, as an example.
If you think that this makes LLM’s *extremely* unlikely to reach “AGI” then you are correct.
The scary thing is NOT how closely LLM’s can mimic a human, but how close humans can mimic an LLM…
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Yea, nah: If true AI will tell us Trump is a n@zi. Again, I don’t need AI to tell me what a simple search will do. “Considerate Trump” will show about as often as “winged wombat”.
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As has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as “scientific consensus” in science, it’s a political construct. This is not a criticism of any post, just an observation.
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There was a great post on XKCD, showing how a plot of data dots could be mis-interpreted in a variety of ways to generate vastly different results.
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It’s lamentable that you did not supply a link and save your readers from hunting through the site’s thousands of pages.
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Not hard to turn up with Google:
xkcd:Curve Fitting.
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Sorry, but being away from my computer, was unable to supply the link. Good to see somebody coming to the rescue.
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But does not the AI civilization require you always have computer access?
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I am late to this party, but as good as XKCD can be, sometimes they totally miss the point.
https://joannenova.com.au/2016/09/how-to-make-climate-graphs-look-scary-a-reply-to-xkcd/
Lordy, nearly ten years ago.!
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Such anti-energy policies of the LNP are why they can’t be trusted on energy, or much else really.
It’s One Nation or no nation.
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SA Premier Malinauskis wants AI hubs to build in the State, claiming that SA has lots of renewable electricity and connections to NSW and Victoria via connectors.
Given
1) AI hubs use lots of electricity
2) They want to go where that electricity is cheap and reliable.
3) SA has the highest electricity costs in Australia.
One wonders whether our beloved Premier should see a psychiatrist.
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Just shows how disconnected from reality the political class are, and also the MSM who wont be able to ask obvious but difficult questions.
I can’t imagine SA attracting a commercial large scale DC operation, but if they do they will soon be disconnected from more than reality.
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SA is the most expensive and the least reliable, now that’s a plan.
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Re “One wonders whether our beloved Premier should see a psychiatrist.”
In the face of evidence like that one would have to doubt any ability to see a psychiatrist either
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He just doesn’t have a clue.
Surely somebody who tells him what to think and say knows that AI centres are like aluminium smelters, they need vast amounts of inexpensive, reliable electricity so that means ONLY, coal, gas, nuclear and real hydro (not SH2). (Or are his minders as stupid as he is, or just sycophants, or both?)
Why do Australians continue to tolerate politicians making engineering decisions?
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Supposedly our Premier is a smart bunny so I wonder if this is the start of a campaign for a nuclear plant in SA?
Afterall. if we build nuclear submarines, why not a nuclear plant?
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If SA, built nuclear that would invalidate all the wind and solar subsidy farms.
Plus Labor is anti-nuclear and anti-energy in general.
No doubt Labor would make exceptions if they were going to use the AI and data centres to trace, track, control and monitor people for incorrect thoughts.
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“No doubt Labor would make exceptions if they were going to use the AI and data centres to trace, track, control and monitor people for incorrect thoughts.”
..in a heartbeat!
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You are expecting a bit much of The UNI-Party.
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I hope YOU aren’t expecting too much. Politics is the art of the possible and it is labor that prevents progress. Libs are unreliable but not pure evil.
Wiping out the libs while leaving labs intact is a recipe for disaster.
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I agree David.
The LNP stand for nothing as you can see from interviews. They have all mastered the the art of word salad.
The present government is continuing doing what they want regardless, knowing the Opposition is as weak as water.
The decline continues.
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Agree David.
Just heard the state (NSW) National Leader speaking on Walcha transmission line debacle. They just can’t accept the renewable push is a failure. Expensive in money, social cohesion and environmental damage.
The Paris Accord has to go.
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FWIW – the first part posted yesterday
“The Forest Management Conundrum in the United States-Part 2”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/24/the-forest-management-conundrum-in-the-united-states-part-2/
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The same situation applies in Australia. And our eucalypt forests generate a lot of litter that doesn’t decompose readily.
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I live a loong way from fire danger so this is abstract for me but doesn’t the high oil content of eucalypt leaves make them prone to crown fires? Sounds terrifying, a tree just exploding.
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“prone to crown fires?”
Well yes and no. You can see the evaporated oils flare up but they often quickly die down. Those horrifying crown fires that run in front of the main fire generally need two things. The first is high fuel loads on the ground to create “intense heat” that rises to the top of the canopy then winds to move the fire from tree to tree. As the fire moves to a lower fuel load area the intense rising ground heat fades and the canopy fire runs out of ground support. Its the thing you learned as a little boy, no good lighting the campfire on top of the fuel, put your kindling below the main fuel.
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Often the very high volumes of ground litter that are the problem. Eucalypts shed litter at a rate of around 8 tonnes per hectare, but only 29% decomposes annually. So it doesn’t take long for the ground litter to buildup to a large amount, where once a fire starts, it almost impossible to extinguish.
The CSIRO, for once having done things properly, conducted a series of litter volume tests to determine the level at which a forest fire couldn’t be extinguished by normal fire fighting techniques.
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FWIW
“Climate.gov Rides Again: A Sign That the Climate Debate Is Far From Over”
“The Times presents the effort as a heroic restoration of a valuable public resource. Perhaps. But there is another way to look at it.
The fact that a handful of former government employees devoted substantial time and money to rebuilding a climate communications website demonstrates something many observers have long understood: the climate movement is not disappearing simply because the political environment has shifted. Far from it.
If anything, this episode illustrates the determination of climate advocacy networks to preserve and perpetuate their institutional infrastructure regardless of who occupies the White House.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/24/climate-gov-rides-again-a-sign-that-the-climate-debate-is-far-from-over/
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Its always much harder to get snouts out of the trough than in! The many people with their hands on taxpayer’s money will fight against giving it up, no matter what the evidence is.
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And
“RIP Climate Etc.”
“It’s time to declare victory against climate stupidity and move on.
Well, the definition of victory here is about as fuzzy as that for the Iran war. Here is a summary of why Climate Etc. is being euthanized:”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/24/rip-climate-etc/
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FWIW – USA but – –
“How Government ‘Affordability’ Turns an $18 Antibiotic Into $2,500”
“Nothing makes anything less affordable than a government promise to make something more affordable, and a Texas pharmacist revealed this week how an $18 generic antibiotic gets listed for $2,500. But from there, things get so seriously stupid that you just know there must be a government program involved.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/06/24/how-government-affordability-turns18-dollar-antibiotic-into-2500-n4954306
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FWIW – more nukes
“Trump Admin Backs Big Reactors With $18BN Supply Chain Loans For Ten AP1000s”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/trump-admin-backs-big-reactors-175b-supply-chain-loans-ten-ap1000s
Elsewhere
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Something to do with AI data centres.
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Trump isn’t building data centres. He is enabling business to do business.
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If you say so, AI is dependent on water and energy, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Congress that ‘the abundance of AI will be limited by the abundance of energy’.
AI looks like a stock market bubble, but it might come good and enable business to eliminate humans.
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“… but it might come good and enable AI to eliminate humans.”
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Look at the states adding more data centres. Mostly those fuelled by gas, nuclear or coal.
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How screwed is Australia, a few years ago a fully qualified medical doctor working in country Victoria, was threatened with removal from the country because the family had a disabled child that was born overseas. Today we read that a woman that voluntarily left Australia to join a terrorist organisation and had a disabled child in another country has been granted all the documentation to return to Australia. The former family were fully self supporting contributors, the later will be a drain on public resources for their entire lives.
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As I passed fuel station today and saw Unleaded91 at $149.5, it occurred to me that the petrol tax needs to come back on soon otherwise motorists will start to appreciate how much the Federal government syphons through their fuel tank.
Diesel still higher than Unleased91 but at $171.5, it is time to fill the tank ahead of the tax being restored to full strength.
The Federal Government reduces the tax we pay for their folly and make us feel they are giving us something.
Australia is now approaching the event horizon where people learn why socialism fails. Far too many takers and too few makers.
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Or the bi-annual tax hikes on alcohol.
Gotta pay off the interest on government debt somehow!😁
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Just so Australians appreciate how much tax they pay I think it should be a law to display the tax take on the excessively taxed products like petrol, alcohol, cigarettes and various “luxury” products like cars above a certain price or engine capacity.
And indeed, the amount of subsidies (illegal taxes as TdeF says) payable to wind and solar subsidy harvesters that are added to your electricity bill.
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The draconian tax on tobacco saw the proliferation of gangsterism.
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Just add the tax on at the cash register… Politicians would fall like ninepins. Same thing for income, no PAYE, you get what you earned and let the ATO bill each worker at the end of the financial year.
People are ignorant of how much tax they pay.
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Beyond Anthropic’s Mythos
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dMHiZVXj4x0&pp=iggCQAE%3D
Realise that Mythos’ amazing hacking results were from serendipity, not coding, even allowing for the controlled NSA penetration.
Underneath the radar, there’s no monitoring or oversight, no legal compliance, no restrictions, but tons of money and dreams of power.
One mistake or misjudgement is all it will take.
Nothing is safe.
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All the hundreds of billions spent on wind, solar, batteries, transmission lines and myriad other junk and Australia has managed 14% of its electricity from wind and solar in the past 3 days:
https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?range=3d&interval=30m&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed
The reason I looked was that my off-grid battery went flat overnight so I know sun has been low for a couple of days then fog this morning means wind is also low.
So Australia only needs to spend SEVEN TIMES more to meet the present demand using wind and solar. However I know that cannot happen because the country will have such a bad credit rating that no one will lend us money to buy the stuff from China.
Australia’s international buying power will decline with China’s population demise. USA will pass China’s population in 2080. So China will only need to recycle steel. Just recycling all the rusted out BYDs will keep them in steel. Next time around they will use better rust protection.
Australia really needs to be looking hard at India. Rather than India exporting people to Australia, sell them high quality iron ore at a premium price and let them convert it in India..
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‘USA will pass China’s population in 2080.’
China’s population will fall by 40% and India becomes the most populous nation on earth. Immigration is expected to keep the US on a steady upward projection to be just under China by 2080.
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Now why would you think that dragging China from the 3rd-world to the 1st will drop their population, as it has in the West, but doing the same to India will not?
As the Indians get more wealthy they will also have fewer children. The Pakistanis however…
Of course the USA’s population by 2080 won’t be recognisable as American.
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2080?
The globe will either resemble the Borg or Road Warrior.
The only thing likely recognizable will be California where the Tech Lords will return and have have built their fortresses for the weather.
The Cote d’Azur is probably not strategically fortifiable.
Australia could be good, excepting the political self destruction makes recognizeability doubtful.
The rich in CA won’t be willing or able to provide cover and supplies like the old days.
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A BOMBSHELL study of 470,000 people found using sunscreen increased the risk of 3 MAJOR SKIN CANCERS.
Invasive melanoma: +292%
– basal cell carcinoma: +140%
– squamous cell carcinoma: +126%
https://x.com/NicHulscher/status/2069828858249871437
Or just use Zinc cream.🙄
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Or have a Mediterranean complexion and use nothing. 🙂
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you linked to a social media post, not the study
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No, no, no.
Science can out perform millions of years of adaptive evolution with commercial products and salves.
Because humans have evolved so much intelligence that they can replace evolved silly ‘natural’ intelligence with product improved ‘artificial’ intellegence.
We are now the main driver of our fate.
Just like we drive the planetary weather.
The fiery orb in the sky means nothing.
I see a bright future where no children will experience violent words and freely grow into strong inclusive multiple gender adults.
Made possible by Science.
So follow it or be visited by the Thought Police.
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Clarkson’s farm
Just watched season 5, episode 3 where he travels to the Netherlands to see how they run their farms.
Just amazing how clever and efficient they are compared to other countries.
A spud farmer reclassified his farm as an airport so he could legally use drones! 😆
A floating cow farm in the middle of the city?
Crazy but very efficient use of local resources.
A must watch when you get the chance.
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FWIW
“Some revealing screen dumps from the UK Met Office website”
“For those currently in the southern UK or Northern Europe, this requires no introduction. For our American and further-afield friends, I’ll just say that the “climate change” hype in the UK has not died down in the last few months as it has in many places elsewhere, but rather intensified. We have been promised this:”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/06/24/some-revealing-screen-dumps-from-the-uk-met-office-website/
Concludes
“I remember June 26th, 1976. 98F (36.7C) was recorded at the Southampton Weather Centre. Where I was, playing in a brass band at a fete in Haslemere, Surrey, one of our big tubas physically seized up. It hasn’t been nearly that hot today.
If the Met Office declares that a new record UK June temperature was set today in South-East England, they’re lying.”
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FWIW – more Iran
“YOU SHOULD BE SKEPTICAL OF MOSSADEGH TOO”
https://harryr.substack.com/p/you-should-be-skeptical-of-mossadegh
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And
“The Presidents on Iran”
https://img.patriotpost.us/01KVX8MPJP29TM681ANFMDS9W5.jpeg?w=640&dpr=2&q=50
Via SDA
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It’s way past time to ask the question, was the Callide breakdown sabotage?
There are people in high places who would regard it as a heroic act.
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Reading the reports, while I acknowledge that there seemed to be a unknown leakage path through the control network that effectively put the control out of action, I don’t understand why the generators were left connected to the grid. – why they weren’t immediately disconnected once they lost control of them.
Doubt that the failure was deliberate.
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What was that quote about malice versus stupidity?
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Social Democrats make their move.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/24/zohran-mamdani-new-york-elections
They are left of the Democrats, its a movement that could turn the US political establishment upside down.
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Or could get “Tea Party-ed”.
And probably less likely to regroup and rejoin?
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China Daily posed the question: Will AI have a positive or negative impact on employment in the future?
No surprise, 95% said it would have a negative impact.
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It makes you wonder what most people do for a living. AI is not going to replace anyone who uses their hands, all the trades, the real workers, the guys making coffee, the chefs in restaurants…unless people are happy with vending machines for food and automated instant coffee machines.
Truck drivers.. maybe, can’t be worse than the Indians, but I’m not convinced a machine will load a truck, strap it down and get out to inspect the straps every couple of hours.
Lawyers, judges, politicians.. no loss, all gone!
Retail.. ask the big supermarkets how their ‘scam it yourself’ checkouts are going.
..and there will be a giant demand for people to nurse the machinery that AI exists in.
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FWIW – “well who’d-a thunk it?”
“Solar Panels Overheat as Gas Power Stations Ordered to Fire Up”
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/06/24/solar-panels-overheat-as-gas-power-stations-ordered-to-fire-up/
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/06/25/thursday-on-turtle-island-203/
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Ah, here’s a cute one… So Albania is ruled by a guy who wants European Community access, ‘cos Albania’s always been part of Europe. Along the way he gives Trump’s boy the go-ahead to build resorts on a bit of land that is protected for wildlife..
Goodness me, protests spring up, and in a really classic move, here’s an Albanian holding up a sign… written in English!!
So, who is trying to upset the Pro-Euro President? Putin because its always the Russians? The democrats because a Trump is involved in making money? The Albanian Pres blames…Iran!
Its all so much fun when things like this happen…
“After weeks of daily protests, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama is digging in to defend two luxury resort projects backed by Jared Kushner’s investment company that have resulted in thousands of people protesting in the streets of the capital Tirana…The opposition has dubbed itself the “Flamingo Revolution” due to the impact on a protected wetland home to flamingoes, seals, and sea turtle nesting sites – with protesters hoisting inflatable pink birds and signs opposing the projects.The demonstrations began late last month as site preparations began on the Zuvernec peninsula – while Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump, went on a podcast and discussed plans to develop the island of Sazan. ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/albanian-pm-pooh-poohs-pink-flamingo-protesters-opposing-jared-kushner-resorts
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FWIW
Celebrating “The Age of Ignorance”?
“SS Great Britain and the Tyranny of Ignorance”
“The announcement that the SS Great Britain is to be rebranded because some visitors may misunderstand what the initials ‘SS’ stand for is one of those stories that initially appears too ridiculous to be true. Surely nobody could seriously believe that one of Britain’s most famous ships is somehow commemorating the slave trade?
Surely somebody, somewhere in the chain of decision-making, would point out that SS means ‘steam ship’? Apparently not.
We live in an age in which ignorance has acquired a peculiar authority. Once upon a time, if you misunderstood something, the solution was to learn. Today, if enough people misunderstand something, the thing itself must be changed.”
More at
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/ss-great-britain-and-the-tyranny-of-ignorance/
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/06/25/thursday-on-turtle-island-203/
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