By Jo Nova
The poor suffering Blob experts are losing the information war
They can’t seem to get a break, even with all the Governments, bankers, media, universities and the United Nations to help them.
If only they had truth on their side, they could just explain it, but since they don’t — the next best thing is publishing concocted studies demonizing the truth-tellers as conspiracy theorists, and blaming profiteering Big-tech. Free speech is so dangerous, they warn, that “Elon Musk-owned X lacked fact-checks or Community Notes on 99% of the posts”. Ninety nine percent! Clearly, The Blob wants warnings and labels on every single damn tweet. No moment in the public town square can be left unguarded.
We can’t have adults thinking for themselves! And that’s the thing isn’t it, there is something profoundly condescending and undemocratic about those who believe adults can’t be trusted to have conversations that no one corrects, live, one tweet at a time. The incredible unbridled smuggery of the Blobocrats is there for all to see, (as is the desperation) yet so rarely mocked, tarred and feathered as required.
But it’s true, climate misinformation (put out by Professors) puts lives at risk — right now people are dying because they can’t afford air conditioning or heating. Climate sorcerers at universities took public money and told them the “science was settled” and they needed to redirect jet-streams with solar panels and windmills. It was a wanton electro-weather experiment that pushed the price of electricity up.
Censorship is the real killer
Climate misinformation can always be fixed if the skeptics are not censored
Extreme weather misinformation ‘putting lives at risk,’ study warns
By Anuj Chopra, Tech Explore
Major social media platforms are enabling and profiting from misinformation around extreme weather events, endangering lives and impeding emergency response efforts, a research group said Tuesday.
The report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)—which analyzed 100 viral posts on each of three leading platforms during recent natural disasters including deadly Texas floods—highlights how their algorithms amplify conspiracy theorists while sidelining life-saving information.
Just name-calling:
“The influence of high-profile conspiracy theorists during climate disasters is drowning out emergency response efforts,” the report said, adding that the trend was “putting lives at risk.”
The crime of writing something un-fact-checked!
Nearly all of the analyzed posts on Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram lacked fact-checks or Community Notes, a crowd-sourced verification system increasingly being adopted as an alternative to professional fact-checkers, the report said.
DeSmog are now “reporters on climate misinformation” (and prophets too):
Following natural disasters, misinformation tends to surge across social media—fueled by accounts from across the political spectrum—as many platforms scale back content moderation and reduce reliance on human fact-checkers, often accused by conservative advocates of a liberal bias.
“Climate disinformation costs lives,” said Sam Bright of DeSmog, which reports on climate misinformation campaigns.
“As extreme weather events become more and more frequent, these falsehoods will only get more dangerous.”
Converting power stations to global air conditioners costs a trillion or two, and the price is not just money, but blood, sweat and tears.
Mortality increases in rooms that are too cold or too hot, and financial stress increases death rates. For example…
Cumulative hazards for mortality across each level of financial strain are shown. The light blue line indicates severe financial strain, or those who reported not having enough monthly income to make ends meet. The orange line indicates moderate financial strain, or those who reported having just enough to make ends meet. The dark blue line indicates those with no financial strain, or those who had more than enough money to make ends meet.
REFERENCE
Falvey et al (2021) Association of Financial Strain With Mortality Among Older US Adults Recovering From an Acute Myocardial Infarction, JAMA Intern Med Published Online: February 21, 2022
Thank you Elon.
Climate misinformation is causing major decisions to be made incorrectly.
For example, in fully woke Australia, certain councils prohibit building at particular elevations above sea level due to supposedly imminent sea level rise. I fully agree with not building close to sea level but the heights they prohibit are not at risk.
Then there are insurance risk assessments made incorrectly.
And some people decide not to have children because of supposedly imminent climate catastrophe.
Then, and most major, is the destruction of the electrical grid, and subsequently the economy, for a problem that doesn’t exist.
Also, agricultural productivity is suffering and under continual attack to supposedly “save the planet”. They want non-Elites to eat insects.
And the gas and oil supply is under continual attack as well. Exploration and/or fracking is prohibited over much of Australia.
Etc..
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As an ex irrigation farmer I can attest to the gradual removal of irrigation water in order to save the environment. I had a small farm alongside several non irrigated farms. The amount of life on my farm amazed me. Hundreds of birds, eating tonnes of insects were just part of the menagerie. I hosted lots of brown snakes that no doubt were feasting on frogs and rodents and often had to compete with wallabies and kangaroos for my lucerne. Next door was an environmental desert by comparison. I am sure that all irrigation areas provide perfect conditions for our little friends as well as growing beautiful food for the woke city types. I get upset when our PM says that Australia could be the food bowl of Asia while his minister takes even more water to evaporate in South Australia and panic whenever a new dam is mentioned.
We are being lied to on a daily basis.
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Yes, there is something seriously wrong with the water buyback started by Howard and modified by all and sundry since, ‘ecological’ water to run down to the mouth and left sit in that great evaporation pan, Lake Alexandrina.
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The water that has been ‘bought back’ does not run out to sea. It is used for environmental flows. An environmental flow does not leave water in the river, it pumps it out into dry lakes, billabongs, creeks etc. The reason, climate change means it will never flood again. Many of the areas that have been artificially watered went under water in the last flood.
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Huh, Lawrie, you mentioned this:
I visited Western Australia some Months back, and during that time, I visited with extended family, and one of those was on a farm in The Ferguson Valley, around half way between Perth and Margaret River. They also owned a second property with their second small herd on that. We drove over the property, and in one (large) paddock, the Land Cruiser was sloshing around at a little slower than walking space, and I wondered why, and when I asked, I was told that they were slowly irrigating their pastures, one large paddock at a time, and using what was termed as ‘Laser Levelling’, and the explanation was fascinating. Rather than write it all again, I’ll copy the relevant section from one of the many Posts I made at my home site detailing that whole visit.
All of it, not just a bit here and there, was just so damned interesting, the way that farming and grazing has embraced engineering to facilitate better outcomes.
Tony.
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Hello Tony, nice story. Laser levelling has been used for years in the irrigation areas either side of the Murray river in VIC and NSW albeit initially on a smaller scale primarily for dairying but similarly large scale for rice growing and other crops in NSW and NT.
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Laser levelling was being used for flood irrigating cotton around Wee Waa at least as far back as the 1980s.
They were using some very big equipment at the time. It’s almost certainly become practical to do this with much smaller and cheaper equipment now.
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I could comment on how Australia leads the world in irrigation efficiency and farmer uptake – but it would be terribly OT. Maybe another time.
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Tony. Starting in the thirtys The Hunter River flats were being flood irrigated. On my uncle’s property they set out irrigation bays which were progressively flooded as you saw in WA. No lazers but widespread use of a Dumpy Level or a water level. The latter was a tube a chain long with vertical extentions attached to a 4 ft tall measure at each end. The tube was filled with water and with a man at each end reading the water level a paddock could be layed out very accurately. The fall was about 1 inch over the chain. It was a very efficient system until overhead sprinklers on movable pipes became the norm. Many row crops such as corn and cotton are still watered using the gravity system. Even there overhead irrigation is becoming the norm with self propelled pivot irrigation.
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Our CSIRO, in earlier better times, researched hydrophobic (hating water) soils. Today, one can buy white powder for agriculture under a CSIRO label, that helps water to sink in more.
My first job as a post-grad chemist was working for CSIRO Division of Tropical Pastures. This was the project to import, evaluate, select and distribute international grasses and legumes, leading to the huge success of the Townsville Stylo as a better pasture for ruminants. My work involved chemical analysis using the new CSIRO invention of AAS for Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry, a world-important instrument.
The CSIRO of 50 years ago was far superior to that of today. One can debate the reasons for the decline. My personal thoughts relate to beliefs overtaking the science of observation, measurement, deduction and utilisation. We have been snowed by woke, DEI, ESG, multiculturalism, racial equality, equal rights for gay black female whales type of management emphasis.
It is not beyond the wit of our present best scientists to identify each other, form a reform group to go back to the previous ways of proven success.
It is not yet too late for the Reform Group to develop and insist upon proper curricula emphasising STEM subjects, covering all education from kindy to D.Sc. Leave the reform for a few more years and we lose forever the leaders who have been there, done that and know what to reform.
The main themes on this excellent blog of Jo’s are science-related. I suspect that hardly a reader would object to what I have just written. But, we need to create action, not merely more words. Geoff S
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Funny how “environment” is determined. If you look at the Goulburn irrigation system the river environment is almost completely reversed to what it was before the dam was built.
i.e. The river, before control, flowed strong, deep and cold during winter and slow, warm and in some aspects almost dry in summer. Now it is the reverse, strong cold and deep in summer with restricted water flows in winter. Hmmm. Now of recent years there has been environmental flows during winter, these tend to be relatively short in duration and in my opinion seem to coincide with calm cloudy weather when, you know, the free electricity stuff isn’t working. In my inexpert opinion this gives the power companies two bites at the cherry. When water “for the environment” is released it is used to generate electricity. The power companies also have an allocation of their own to call on when the free stuff isn’t working. Hmmm. All of this of course, ignores the fact that the dam was built for irrigation purposes and the Goulburn valley was truely the food bowl of Australia. Hundreds of dairy farms, thousands of acres of tomatoes, fruit trees producing, pears, apricots, peaches, apples etc by the many thousands of tonnes. Half a dozen canneries, SPC, Mooroopna Coop,Kyabram preserving Company, IXL and a couple more I can’t remember, all gone except SPC. Heinz Foods, in Dandenong, gone, Nestle Pakenham, gone, Pick me Up Foods, gone, Kaft foods gone..
Oh well I suppose once the free energy is available we can grow enough food in green houses and become the “food Bowl of the world” the spot we were almost at 70 years ago.
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2013 election campaign included from the Abbott led Coalition a plan to extend the Ord River Irrigation Area Kununurra WA across Northern Australia using other major rivers and building dams and other infrastructure. The CSIRO identified the new area including the existing area as being about the area of Western Europe.
After the Abbott Government was elected in September 2013 and the LNP Newman QLD Government as well the Prime Minister and the Premier successfully had the “Wild Rivers” legislation that was a registered with UN as a protection agreement like national parks.
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WRONG!!!!! Cambell Newman REPEALED THAT LAW in 2014. This was bad legislation introduced by the Beattie government in 2005!!!
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Jennifer Marohasy sent out two emails this week regarding the algal bloom that is devastating the mouth of the Murray and the adjacent coastline beyond, killing all forms of life in the waters, including fish and sharks.
Blamed on climate change, of course, (what else?) Jennifer points out, as she has done for years, that the problem is the barrages that are placed across the exit of the river to the ocean. Put in place many years ago, in order to turn the estuarine areas into fresh water lakes, adequate tidal flushing does not take place. During times of reduced river flow stagnation develops and the algal bloom proliferates.
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The BBC had it –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7nze38p5o
Yes, ‘Climate Change’ … as you say, what else could it possibly be for the addled BBC?
Auto
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Most of the water that has been ‘brought back’ has only ever existed for a few months every decade or so.
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Another issue is the little-known soon to be 35% carbon tax to be applied to Australia’s largest companies. We will all end up paying for this, e.g. through airfares.
I’m sure TdeF who is the resident expert on this will elaborate.
Liberals could have won the election on that alone had they publicised it.
Australia truly is a nation committed to self-destruction.
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From the liked article;
The report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)—which analyzed 100 viral posts on each of three leading platforms during recent natural disasters including deadly Texas floods—highlights how their algorithms amplify conspiracy theorists while sidelining life-saving information.
“The influence of high-profile conspiracy theorists during climate disasters is drowning out emergency response efforts,” the report said, adding that the trend was “putting lives at risk.”
So the blob is mostly conspiracy theorists.
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In the eyes of the Left, all non-communists are “conspiracy theorists”. It’s now meaningless, like calling all non-communists “racist”, some type of “*phobic” or “far right”.
And most of those “conspiracy theories” turned out to be true, e.g. Twitter files, covid lab leak, dangerous and ineffective covid “vaccines”, US Democrat vote rigging (recent arrests) etc..
You need to come up with some new insults.
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You miss the point Mr Maddison, according to this site, the blob are unnamed, invisible people. Since my quote from the linked article is authored by Anuj CHOPRA, this person cannot be part of the blob, by definition.
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So Peter you have no problem with the article as you didn’t provide a rebuttal.
From the inner link you didn’t read:
Ooops.
Cheers
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‘ … climate disasters is drowning out emergency response efforts …’
The Texas flood is a good example, alarmist talk of global warming caused by CO2 and the cut back on the weather service. Both are untrue, people were given warning by the weather service and this flood is not unprecedented.
The important factor in all of this is what the MSM run with, disinformation is widespread.
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Feed back I’ve read from the area. Say it was a case of ‘Too much warning’ rather than ‘Not enough warning’
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The boy that cried wolf once too often, they ignored the warning.
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Absolute Bollocks. To blame social media for a lack of emergency response is like saying cat videos on YouTube are responsible for famines in Ethiopia. How can you believe such cr*p. You must be on the turps with Simon and GeeAye.
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Something the Blob can’t explain is why these glaciers are getting bigger “in a warming? world”. Reported in the MSM news
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/earth-s-most-dangerous-glacier-is-gaining-ice-and-scientists-can-t-explain-why/ar-AA1J5mtH?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=4675593a0afa4091a29c9089afc4af66&ei=43
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Walter Marks, an Australian MP, told the House of Representatives that Armageddon would occur in 1934 and culminate with the Royal Navy bringing Christ’s chosen people to Jerusalem.
Not sure how the Royal Navy would get to Jerusalem, but shows that the level of intellect is much the same today e.g. B*w*n.
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“Climate sorcerers”
I really like that, can I pinch it.
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FWIW
“Is Boeing Now A Kludge Company?”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/is-boeing-now-a-kludge-company/
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Aa expected from a fully woke, fully DEI company.
Why are people so surprised?
Let’s get back to the “can do” times of Lockheed Skunk Works and “Kelly” Johnson. No DEI, just people employed purely on merit, not race or gender.
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More and more, my response to the Blobsters is “GFYs”. Each and every time. Constant, unyielding pushback is required.
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“As extreme weather events become more and more frequent, these falsehoods will only get more dangerous.”
WRONG WRONG WRONG: MISINFORMATION.
Reality Check: as per BoM, NOAA, OWD, etc, cyclone & hurricane numbers are decreasing, as are deaths resulting from such natural disturbances, meanwhile the ability to see in advance, prepare, evacuate (if necessary) and minimise damage (and loss of life) has only increased, thanks to maverick inventors and outside-of-the-box scientists utilising Earth’s bountiful ingredients (oil, gas, minerals).
So for all the smug little DeSmog-ites spouting nonsense, let us fact-check their quote:
‘As weather becomes more stable and better understood, sceptics (falsely labelled ‘deniers’) will only become more reliable and more believable.’
Keep up the great work Jo!
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Again we are living in the safest period in Human history.
Britain’s Industrial Revolution changed everything, yet during the first 99.9 % of the last 300 K years Human lives were brutal and short.
In 1770 under 1 billion and Life Exp just 28.5 years, yet 8.2 billion and L Exp 73 years today. Think.
Per capita every country’s citizens are better off and wealthier and healthier today.
Of course deaths from extreme weather events have dropped by 98% over the last 100 years.
Just spend a few minutes on OWI Data and start to wake up.
But a change to toxic, unreliable, super expensive W & S could see a reversal as we embrace ignorance and stupidity.
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This is the reason we now have more time to focus on our feelings.
It does not matter if you ARE safe.
It only matters if you feel safe.
And experts are required for that.
The problem is that if you feel safe, you may be less inclined to do as you’re told for your own safety.
So the experts are dealing with a complex problem keeping us feeling just unsafe enough to allow them to take the benevolent humanitarian actions they deem necessary to keep us safe.
Benevolent humanitarianism is learned in graduate school.
Where you are ordained an expert.
Some people examined by the Inquisition learned this the hard way.
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TRANSFORMING THE ENERGY STORY
President Trump could decisively change the perception of unreliable energy by issuing an executive order to require weather reports to include the proportion of wind and solar power in the local grid at the time, backed up by a PR campaign to draw attention to the frequent lack of wind and solar power at breakfast and dinnertime.
Everyone needs to know how often their breakfast and dinner will have to be eaten cold when there is less coal and gas in the supply.
Public opinion is broadly in favour of reducing emissions by increasing the use of wind and solar power but hardly anyone knows that low wind periods (wind droughts) at night are an existential threat to the power supply because the supply of RE in the grid practically disappears during severe droughts between sunset and sunrise.
A CRITICAL ISSUE in the US is the capture of many Republican lawmakers by the wind and solar lobbies so they don’t support moves to eliminate incentives for the “energy stealers” the unreliable wind and solar parasites that corrupt and destabilize the grid.
When voters understand the threat of low winds at breakfast and dinnertime they will put pressure on their local representatives to protect the supply of coal and gas in the grid.
BECOME WIND LITERATE: LOOK AT THE DASHBOARD FOR YOUR LOCAL GRID
THIS IS AUSTRALIA
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/reneweconomy/
THIS IS TEXAS (ERCOT)
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
4.20 pm July 2 GAS 44%, COAL 12, NUC 8 , SOLAR 23, WIND 13
Conventional power 64% RE 36%
SEE THE FIGURES OVERNIGHT WHEN IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE WIND AND CONVENTIONAL POWER!
July 3 5.55 am Gas 56 Wind 16
Coal 18 Solar 0
Nuc 9
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“low wind periods (wind droughts) at night”
Blackout Bowen (BOB) would respond with “The wind is always blowing somewhere so we need more wind-capturing devices, not less”
I wonder if in the past, when BOB found something not available at his local store, he would have been happy that the same product is available in another state.
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Yes it is amazing how ‘green believers’ don’t want to be told about the lack of generation output from wind and solar installations. Even when the figures come from the NEM site or the Anero.id site generated from AEMO SCADA data they claim it is manipulated by deniers and therefore can’t be believed. The lengths they go to in order to avoid the truth!
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Maybe that would also be classed as “climate disinformation” by the green blob. Could lead to renewable energy hesitancy – couldn’t have that. So similar to saying COVID vaccines don’t stop infection or transmission. Too many people actually believing the truth might lead to vaccine hesitancy. Julia Inman Grant would be onto that in a shot.
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“Climate crisis- ‘Twiggy’ Forrest-led business campaign demands Albanese go greener
Demonstrating the political gulf over climate action, Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce declared he would use the new term to campaign for the scrapping of the Paris Agreement.
Labor ducked a fight on emissions at the May election by delaying a decision on the interim target required by the Paris Agreement..but the government’s Climate Change Authority is expected to force its hand when it delivers long-awaited advice within weeks… a new coalition of mostly left-leaning companies, called the Business for 75 campaign that includes mining giant Fortescue, has formed to call for larger cuts.
Fortescue, whose founder Forrest accompanied Albanese on his visit to China this month, said it would continue to push the government to have higher ambitions.”
Looks good… A faint ray of hope in the Nats! No mention of The Science being all BS..
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/twiggy-forrest-led-business-campaign-demands-albanese-go-greener-20250722-p5mgs6.html
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There is nothing wrong with Forrest going green.
He can do what he wants with his own billions.
The problem is when our taxes and charges such as electricity bills are expected to pay for his fantasies.
Just follow the money trail from our pockets to the pockets of the green billionaires.
BTW, did Forrest fly his new private jet to China, or did he go by commercial transport, or perhaps in the taxpayer-funded PM’s jet?
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“BTW, did Forrest fly his new private jet to China, or did he go by commercial transport, or perhaps in the taxpayer-funded PM’s jet?”
Surely you jest!
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Again, here’s Life EXP since 1770 from OWI Data.
https://sl.bing.net/bJZCiqjUaXc
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Climate disinformation didn’t impair emergency actions regarding the Texas floods. Or any other natural disaster. In the Texas case, it rained a lot in a short period of time and there were very quick large floods. That’s it – and by the way, that’s happened before, a lot. What interested me regarding the Texas floods was that long time residents had become browned off with all the flood warnings. To such an extent, over many years people weren’t heeding them any more. Yet, we still have the needless amplification of weather warnings here in Australia and in most western countries. So, I might do a One Nation – turn my back on the weather forecaster when he predicts “extreme catastrophic heat” or similar.
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If I took the BOM forecast seriously there would be times when I wouldn’t be able to hang clothes on the washing line for weeks at a time.
I use the BOM as a guide and then use a bit of my own common sense. It seems to work pretty well.
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Me too, their models are a starting point but then we see what the ants are saying. Before a significant rain event they turn up in large numbers, so I wonder if they are operating on air pressure.
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OWI Data graphs show Aussies have higher deaths from COLD than the World average.
Also Sub Saharan Africa.
Seems a bit of a head scratcher.
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Sorry, that’s the wrong link here’s the deaths from heat and cold around the world.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/temp-deaths-zhao?country=OWID_WRL~OWID_NAM~Latin+America+and+the+Caribbean~East+Asia~South+Asia~Sub-Saharan+Africa~North+Africa~Eastern+Europe~Western+Europe~OWID_OCE~Australia+and+New+Zealand
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Public information is usually complex.
Weather and climate is complex.
Beware simple comments from uninformed people.
Example.
I am following the investigation into the Air India Boeing 787 that crashed 5 weeks ago. The communication industry folk are jumping from one pet theory to another like flies buzzing roadkill.
Imagine if comments had to be verified and approved as The Blob seek to do. It is beyond current human ability.
So is the present state of much climate research.
Geoff S
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I await Quantum AI to inform society that there is no climate emergency.
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The ONLY argument for putting in expensive short lived windmills and solar panels is to reduce atmospheric CO2. And they have zero effect.
Perhaps 500,000 giant windmills around the world. And so?
Look at the graph of CO2 at New Zealand. Since 1988, no human activity has any effect on the straight line trajectory of CO2.
The money being spent is horrendous.
Australia is a land of droughts and flooding rains, we put locks on the Murray 90 years ago. They are still working. Cost and benefit.
In Victoria we added drought proof dam on the Thompson river, increasing Melbourne’s storage x10. It is full.
In Sydney we built the Harbour Bridge 90 years ago to revolutionize Sydney. It is in good condition. A real continuing benefit.
In Melbourne the West Gate Bridge with a design life of 40 years. 50 years ago. It has been widened and encased in steel to protect it from salt.
So what are we going to do when the windmills start to stop working soon? And the solar panels are broken? What good have they done?
Why is there no cost/benefit to anything modern Australian governments do? How can PM’s spend billions like drunken sailors without any reference to parliament and not have to ever justify their decisions? Where is Malcolm Turnbull’s $444Million in cash to save the Great Barrier Reef without even an application? How is Albanese’s instant $1Billion on a Quantum Computing in California going? Where is our promised Green Hydrogen? Our Green Steel? Our solar panel factory in the Hunter Valley? Our renewables Superpower? Can we even keep our own lights on as all the factories close for lack of affordable and reliable power?
Why does no one have to report on the alleged problem, CO2? Only CO2 ’emissions’ with no proof or reasonable expectation that CO2 emissions have anything at all to do with atmospheric CO2?
There is no real science to any of this. And the river of money is going into lots of pockets with no expectation of ever seeing a benefit for the country. Unless someone can point out the benefit to Australia. I see none, just destruction. In a land of droughts and flooding rains and a booming population, we have not built a new dam in half a century and we have blown up the power stations.
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TdeF you’re correct about the lack of a proper cost benefit analysis.
Toxic, unreliable W & S are a super expensive sick joke and would have to be replaced within 15 to 20 years.
The cost according to Net Zero Australia group would be 7 to 9 TRILLION $ and only 30% W and 15% S capacity factors.
How can our pollies be so stupid and where are our so called Scientists warning Aussies about the ruination of our eastern Australian environment?
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Sorry Neville, my fat fingers hit the red thumb by accident. Pure carelessness. No evil intent.
Cheers,
Dave B
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As dumb as most elected representatives are, surely some of them can see that the ‘green revolution’ just isn’t working and start to ask questions.
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Even if you believed everything you are told by the UN, why is no one asking
1. How’s it going after 37 years? What has the world achieved in slowing CO2 growth? A. Nothing.
2. How is the solution permanent? i.e. (What happens when all windmills and solar panels are broken in half a generation from now?). A. No.
and
3 How do human activity have anything to do with sudden weather events, because CO2 is oblivious to all earthly activity, human or weather or volcanoes or vents or fires or anything? A. The theory of extreme weather events is absurd. A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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And as 160 countries signed up to Paris, what proportion of humanity is doing anything to change the weather? By my count only 500 million of 8 billion, or 6%.
Or if there was no one in Australia, would it make any difference to the weather? So why the pain and massive cost? Snowy II is now over $12 BILLION for something which is not likely to be used. Like most of the desalination plants for the drought which was never going to end, according to our Chief Climate Scientist Councillor.
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I am sure some can see,…
..but to ask questions is likely to be a “career limiting “ move for a budding politician !
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Maybe you should read what you link to:
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Except when you look at the study from the University of Athens that shows quite clearly that only 4% of the increase in CO2 comes from fossil fuels. https://www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/6/1/17
You have been at the turps again with GA
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And as the increase is only 33% of the total, 4% of 33% or 1.3%. My observations indicate 2.0%. So half of a pufteenth of nothing. And a constant, so only in transit.
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You’re right. I usually post a warning to only look at the graph. The accompanying text is the usual Green propaganda. It’s how you get funding from a Green left government.
All government funded groups are compelled to support the agenda. NASA, NOAA, CSIRO,… As if you haven’t noticed. The Association of Australia Scientists even recommended Australians vote YES on the “VOICE” against the wishes of the 35,000 scientists they supposedly represented. But the woman put in charge was a former Age journalist who was involved in the YES campaign. It’s really tragic that real scientists are denied a voice. And compelled to tell lies, or let non scientists write up the pseudo science text. Never before in history did anyone in science need science ignorant PR writers. Galileo would have been fired.
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https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/how-do-we-know-build-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-caused-humans
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Now that you have read that article Simon, …try understanding what has been stated !
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‘Decade on decade we’re seeing increases …’
The increase in temperature rises started in 1910, long before CO2 began to buildup significantly. Remember, atmospheric temperatures warm and CO2 follows suite, outgassing from the depths.
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If it was coming from fossil sources, how come there’s no noticeable mark on the graph from 2020 and 2021 when so much of the world was in lockdown and oil prices (briefly) went negative?
You would expect at least a blip or a ripple on the graph … but there’s not the slightest whisper … what’s going on there?
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Maybe you should have read this showing the planet and life LOVES the added CO2 in the atmosphere:
NASA
Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds
Excerpt:
From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.
An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States.
LINK
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More CO2 is good for life and health of the planet.
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Re: disinformation
“The climate alarmists regularly seize on weather events they believe will help them exploit their narrative. Naturally, they ignore contradictory information. So we see it as our duty to fill in the gaps from time to time. Following are a few examples that show why the global warming story is less scientific theory than conjecture in the service of a political agenda.”
“If the climate tale were undeniably true, the activists in and out of the media would not have to exaggerate, disinform, and make connections that don’t exist. The fact that they feel they have to provides a clear insight into their duplicitous nature.”
https://issuesinsights.com/2025/07/22/fact-checking-the-climate-claims/
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Here’s what OWI Data says about countries and areas of the world’s temperature graphs.
“Share of all deaths attributed to sub-optimal temperatures
Based on data over the period from 2000 to 2019. Cold and heat can increase the risk of developing
certain health conditions or worsen existing ones, such as respiratory infections, cardiovascular, or
kidney disease. Most of these deaths result from “moderately cold” temperatures, rather than
extremes”.
The equator runs through Sub-Saharan Africa yet the heat deaths are very low or about 0.2% of their total heat and cold deaths.
According to the data Australia’s moderately cold deaths are higher and are also higher than Nth America, yet Aussies average tamp is 22 c and USA is under 10 C and Canada’s average temp is about minus -4.3 c.
It seems that Aussies have a lot of work ahead adapting to moderately cold temps.
Does this make any sense to anyone? BTW NZ and Australia are included together in their OWI data.
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That’s definitely disinformation there Neville. You should be ashamed. Imagine quoting real data when we know feelings and virtual signalling are much more important. I think I will report you to the Climate Blob Police.
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To be serious Neville. The other day I heard some factoids attributed to Alex Epstein. Firstly – that 3 billion people rely on dung and wood for their daily energy needs. Where’s the compassion towards these people to improve their daily lives via use of fossil fuels for electricity generation? The other factoid was that India and China combined are building a coal fired generator every week for at least the next 2 decades. So, why the hell is little, itty bitty Australia closing down our fossil fuel generators? But maybe that’s climate misinformation.
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FWIW
A while back there was an item on the use of kerosene in the third world for lighting, heating and cooking. That amount was about the same as the US jet fuel use a year.
You reckon those people will go back to using dung etc willingly?
I guess it helps explain why you can still buy a new Tilley light too.
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Undersea Volcano Affects Weather
The 2022 undersea eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga injected a massive amount of water vapor into the atmosphere, potentially affecting global weather patterns for over two years.
This event is notable for its unique contribution of water vapor, which has different climatic implications compared to typical volcanic eruptions that release sulfur dioxide and cause cooling.
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Eruption: The eruption, which occurred in January 2022, released approximately 146 billion kilograms of water into the stratosphere, equivalent to about 10% of the entire water content of the stratosphere.
This water vapor, a potent greenhouse gas, may have contributed to a temporary increase in global temperatures.
Impact on Climate: While most major volcanic eruptions lead to cooling due to sulfur dioxide forming reflective aerosols, the Hunga Tonga eruption’s underwater location resulted in a significant amount of water vapor being injected into the atmosphere. This water vapor could have a warming effect, potentially pushing global temperatures closer to the 1.5°C warming threshold set by the Paris Agreement.
Duration of Effects: The water vapor from the eruption is expected to remain in the stratosphere for at least five years, possibly longer, and could influence weather patterns and climate conditions for an extended period.
Some studies suggest that the eruption may have contributed to a temporary warming effect, although other research indicates that it might have had a cooling impact.
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Scientists are no doubt baffled. My prediction is it lead to warming, except when it didn’t. 🙂 Could that comment be climate disinformation or maybe even mal information ?
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Thanks for highlighting these Marxist criminals and their massive war chest and zealots who troll where the common sense world is rolling back the controls over adult discussion. If only Australia had an opposition who’d reflect Australia’s conservatives.
Thanks for fighting them
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What would put my life at risk is being in the path of a Tyhoon/Hurricane/Cyclone.
So what has any Miss Information got to do with that?
Mather Nature gives and Mother Nature takes away.
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What about death by lightning strikes in the US?
Death by lightning strike has dropped x6 since 1968. Thanks to slightly increased CO2.
The risk of cherry pickers picking cherries has plummeted.
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And if I read the graph correctly, CO2 driven random weather events can discriminate between men and women. I wonder what the numbers say for deaths of transvestites by lightning strike? Can God tell the difference?
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If you start with the hypothesis that global warming was designed to destroy the west, you would be extremely hard pressed to disprove it. The good science that enabled the west to lead the world has now been turned on its head by the acceptance that lying is OK. That is objectionable to those who want good science … but to western society and economy, the long term affect is catastrophic.
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The CAGW Trojan horse was built to supersede nation state legal sovereignty with global (UN/EU) control.
The entire purpose of the WHO treaty.
From weather to medical.
The only ‘West’ they want destroy is the USA and its’ Constitution, particularly Amendments 1 and 2.
But there is a former TV celebrity real estate developer that stands in the way.
The wolves are still at the door.
And the one TV celebrity is 79.
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“As extreme weather events become more and more frequent, these falsehoods will only get more dangerous.”
This sums it up for me. Such hypocrisy and BS about “falsehoods” and “exteme weather” delivered with censorius arrogance.
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Now that the Great Barrier Reef is in a healthy state, the Blob seem to have turned their attention to the Ningaloo Reef with the apparently warming waters causing the coral to expel the algae leaving a bleached area. The BBC had a long piece about this on the morning news with a University professor blaming the local production and consumption of fossil fuels for warming the ocean.
It seems that the BBC thrive on disaster scenarios and the Blob are providing them. As Judith Curry has said, for fame and fortune.
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The academics interviewed were Dr Kate Quigley and Associate Professor Chris Roelfsema.
The story has been broadcast in more detail on the BBC lunchtime news.
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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As a consultant geophysicist I worked with geologists in the later part of the 20th Century who claimed that there was no evidence in the geological record to support the claim that atmospheric CO2 caused global warming. Consequently on retirement I decided to apply my knowledge and skills to analysing climate data with the results publicly available on my web site at https://www.climateauditor.com.
There are hundreds of data files freely accessible on the Internet providing time series for temperature and CO2 from locations all across the globe. They show that without a doubt atmospheric CO2 has not caused global warming or climate change. Changes in CO2 have always followed after changes in temperature so it is impossible for them to have caused the earlier temperature changes. Furthermore CO2 data exhibits cycles related to the Seasons, the phases of the Moon, the El Nino event and more, that is, the climate change associated with these events is the cause of the change in CO2 concentration, not the reverse.
The latest data available for the Mauna Loa Observatory covers the period 29 March 1958 to 31 May 2025. It shows that the trend in the CO2 concentration has increased steadily throughout the whole time at an ever increasing rate. For the 5 year period 29 March, 1958 to 23 March 1963, the rate was 0.705 ppm pa. For the 5 year period 30 May 2020 to 31 February 2025, the rate had steadily increased to 2.82 ppm pa, that is 4 times greater than 63 years earlier so ‘Net Zero’ has achieved no measurable effect. Mankind’s production of CO2 is insignificant compared to that of Nature yet our Federal Government continues to promote wind farms, solar panels, electric vehicles and more in an attempt to reduce the concentration of CO2. Surely this amounts to criminal negligence in wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on this futile endeavour ?
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