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Statistics
New paper shows vastly increased CO2 only adds 0.1C to temperature
https://notrickszone.com/2026/07/12/experimental-lab-research-the-climate-sensitivity-to-a-400-fold-increase-in-co2-is-0-1c/
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Did you read the original paper? It sets up an experiment in a heated tube, uses an artificial gas to simulate the atmosphere, does not include any other artefacts like clouds, and comes to the unsurprising conclusion that in that experiment CO2 is not a major factor
Filed under cognitive bias
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Peter remind me again how Tyndall came to the conclusion that CO2 density increased global temps.?
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Curiously I was just calculating CO2 and temperature relating to Callendar (1938) and Plass (1954) and found that the temperature increased by 0.0068 v 0.0069C per % CO2 increase. Absolute nonsense calculations.
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I thought Arrhenius ran the same experiment in 1896, which now forms the basis for all the (invalid) claims about CO2.
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In fact Tyndall (being a mountaineer when younger and fully aware of the atmospheric lapse rate) ruled out CO2 changing temperature.
In 1861, the Irish physicist John Tyndall performed an experiment which changed our view of the atmosphere. Tyndall showed that gases such as methane and carbon dioxide absorbed infra-red radiation, along with nearly 20 other gases. Tyndall was a very careful experimenter, and an early error of 0.25% lead him to disassembled his apparatus to remove this error.
“I have already placed before the Royal Society an account of some experiments which brought to light the remarkable fact that the body of our atmosphere, that is to say the mixture of oxygen and nitrogen of which it is composed, is a comparative vacuum to the calorific rays[ Infrared Radiation], its main absorbent constituent being the aqueous vapour which it contains. It is very important that the minds of meteorologists should be set at rest on this subject—that they should be able to apply, without misgiving, this newly revealed physical property of aqueous vapour; for it is certain to have numerous and important applications.”— John Tyndall, Dec 31, 1863.”
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It truly is a terrible piece of research
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Gee Aye:
As you go up the atmosphere it gets colder. Water condenses so air is drier, yet colder despite CO2 not condensing.
Hence Tyndall realised that CO2 couldn’t be a major factor in any warming.
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Here you are Gee Aye: Take your choice.
In 1938 Guy Callendar presented a paper showing that the Earth had warmed since 1900 and that CO2 had also increased. In 1938 One of his graphs showed that at about 425 p.p.m. the effect would raise the temperature about 0.9 degrees.
Gilbert Plass (writing in 1956 remember) estimated that a doubling of CO2 would cause the planet to warm 3.6ºC, that CO2 levels would rise 30% over the 20th Century and it would warm by about 1ºC over the same period. In practice the CO2 rose 30% but the temperature rose only 0.7C
In 1971 (as part of letter to President Nixon) It is found that even an increase by a factor of 8 in the amount of CO2, which is highly unlikely in the next several thousand years, will produce an increase in the surface temperature of less than 2 deg. K. (James Hansen)
1981: Scientists (including Steven Schneider) warn global warming would see Buckingham Palace 7 feet underwater
1987: NASA’s James Hansen predicts world 3C warmer by 2020.
1988 James Hansen predicted that low lying land (e.g. The Maldives) would be underwater by 2018.
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not sure that makes a crap science publication better.
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Schneider was one of the doomsters predicting a frozen earth in the 1970s. When that didn’t happen, he switched to predicting global boiling. Not somebody I would ever rate as a “scientist”.
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You have described the way in which the co2 theory also came about.
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you’re kidding. Maybe have a chat to a physical chemist.
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Slow day at the office?
But excellent advice. Try it yourself and let us know how you get on.
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I walked down the hall and they thought the paper was utter bollocks.
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Yeh that sounds a lot like the Scientific Method…..
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Of course they would.
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Will it become impossible to differentiate between AI communications/articles/photos and the real thing?
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/07/14/ai-scams-are-becoming-a-big-problem/
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The Canadian truckers who led the Anti Covid Freedom convoy are still being hounded. They now face many years in jail
https://thepostmillennial.com/ontario-government-seeking-prison-sentences-for-freedom-convoy-organizers-chris-barber-and-tamara-lich#google_vignette
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I don’t understand what they were convicted of. Where was the criminality?
Australian courts sometimes defer to Canadian court decisions so this is a serious matter.
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“I don’t understand what they were convicted of.”
Disagreeing with the Govt, and I’m sure…failure to obey!
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And the actual answer?
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Do tell, GA.
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I asked the question because I know there is no statuary charge of “failing to obey”, so I know it is something else.
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‘Failing to obey a lawful command’ such as move on or similar.
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There were court injuctions/orders declaring the blockades illegal. Protestors who refused to leave have been charged with disobeying or failing to obey a court order. Some charged with failure to obey police orders.
As for the disagreeing with government aspect. We know governments have an appetite for prosecution in circumstances where government authority is questioned and railed against. The government going after the bank accounts of those involved shows a particularly appetite. Even if disagreeing with government wasn’t an official charge.
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Has there even been any court proceedings?
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FWIW
“CAPITALISM, THE UNKNOWN IDEAL: Capitalism Gets a Bum Rap.”
“Capitalism has been getting a bad rap. According to one 2025 Gallup poll, only 54% of Americans have a positive view of capitalism. More Democrats think highly of socialism than capitalism. Another survey, from 2019, found that younger Americans were the least likely to have positive feelings about capitalism.
Why is this happening? One underrated factor may be that many Americans don’t have a strictly economic definition of capitalism. When I hear “capitalism,” I think of an economic system where goods are distributed by markets rather than governments. That, I’ve now realized when talking about economics online and in person, is an unusual perspective.
As Matthew Yglesias argued recently, when many people say “capitalism,” they mean “the status quo,” even if that status quo involves a lot of problems caused not by free markets, but by government regulation and cronyist intervention. The housing market, he notes, is the most obvious example of this: “Younger people’s lived experience of ‘capitalism’ is of central planning and massive shortages of the single most important item they consume.”
The result is that anything that seems to be going wrong in American life, no matter how large or small, no matter how unrelated to free markets, will pretty reliably be blamed on capitalism.”
https://wsjfreeexpression.substack.com/p/capitalism-gets-a-bum-rap
“Which brings me to a vintage refrigerator:”
More at
https://instapundit.com/809936/#disqus_thread
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From the comments at your second link:
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Here is an excellent video discussing conflicts between quantum mechanics and specisl relativity.
https://youtu.be/NIk_0AW5hFU
I asked Grok to write a summary:
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Grok’s summary is pretty impressive for a computer system which understands nothing.
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Thought experiment.
What if the US had one Phalanx CIWS (close-in weapon system) at Pearl Harbor in 1941?
(The CIWS is a modern defensive weapon that wasn’t deployed until 1980.)
https://youtu.be/1pf06jPHPM4
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It could take out 9 targets (early marks) or 15 before needing reload.
Or SFA impact in the overall scheme of things.
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What would have happened if Japan had not attacked Pearl harbour. Would the US have entered the war?
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“Would the US have entered the war?”
Their Dear Leaders would have made another excuse…
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‘Would the US have entered the war?’
No, the Americans were strongly against getting involved in another European war. They had lend lease and the UK only recently paid this off.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was a strategic blunder.
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Without the US, UK and Russia would likely have survived the war but Europe would remained conquered territory. Without the Marshall Plan and a world market with much of it’s manufacturing capability needing to be rebuilt, the US today would be but a shadow it what it is today with influence limited to The Americas.
How is that strategic genius (opposite of “strategic blunder”)?
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I don’t know how well the radar tracking and targeting of CIWS could deal with the back ground clutter of the in-harbor environment? Also, how well it can deal with slow moving targets? Often tracking radars (especially centimetric) have difficulty with slow moving targets at wave top height. They over calculate the target speed. This was a problem with the AAA radars when they were used to track the Kamikazes. It also may have been a problem when Bismarck was attacked by the Swordfish biplanes.
Of course historically, if I recall correctly, only a few USN warships had any radar at all on Dec. 7th 1941. If any had any, I think only USS California, it would be the very primitive 150cm CXAM, only useful at detecting formations of high flying aircraft out on the open sea.
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The system couldn’t exist because the technology didn’t exist, you are stating the bleeding obvious.
‘Twas a hypothetical.
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USN had first ship mounted radar in 1937. It was 1.5m wavelength and suffered from poor resolution. Land based radar detected the planes 130 miles out but a whole lot of miscommunication prevented the information getting to aircraft command and the ships in time for them to attack the incoming aircraft. A whole story on its own.
The cavity magnetron was demonstrated by Aussie Mark Oliphant’s group in the UK in February 1940. Wavelength was 9.8cm. They were after sub 10cm to miniaturise and improve resolution.
S-band radar was not mounted on US vessels till April 1942. S-band has better resolution and atmospheric penetration.
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And the radar they did have was discounted, a large flight of planes approaching from the North West and they passed it off as B17’s coming from California,
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A new Australian laser drone defence weapon is now available;
https://eos-aus.com/news/global-demand-surges-for-australian-made-anti-drone-laser-weapon/
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Some US cities (local councils) are putting AI cameras on garbage trucks to examine each house they visit for code violations like having grass which is too long.
Very disturbing and Orwellian.
No doubt it will come to Australia as all the bad ideas do.
https://youtu.be/0gq55XOTfS0
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On the bright side, with the coming climate armageddon Australia will be so hot that grass won’t grow anyway Problem solved.
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And here I was thinking plants grew profusely in the tropics. Silly me.
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Coffee & Covid covered the garbage trucks in passing recently https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/flock-it-saturday-july-11-2026-c
And during a drive to Brisbane yesterday I contemplated the inevitable coming of automated law enforcement. I reckon I saw perhaps 10,000 driving infringements in an hour and a half. At one stage I was a positive safety hazard to other motorists because I complied with a roadwork speed limit of 40km/h on the freeway (when of course there was absolutely no observable reason for the limit).
As the saying goes, anybody who can be replaced by a computer should be. I imagined that the penalty for excessive demerit points would not be license suspension but compulsory use of self-driving cars (and trucks).
And then there’d be real chaos.
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Imagine mixing human drivers with computers, which have laws to obey, it’d be chaos.
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If you ever wondered why Australians vote the way they do (vote for Lib/Lab/Teal/Green), an alarming number are functionally illiterate.
The dumbing-down of Australia by Leftist infiltration of the education system is almost complete.
Surely this is an argument against compulsory voting?
Grok AI gives the following analysis using ABS data among others.
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So there are not enough intelligent people out there to ever vote in ON.
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Last night a radio journalist and guest on Sky commented that his contacts inside One Nation told him administration and organisation is in chaos, they cannot cope with the workload required to prepare for Victoria State election as well as conducting a national publicity campaign and all the other work. Earlier Joyce MP made an excuse for not answering questions and criticism by Opposition Leader Taylor (and the Australian Financial Review) about finances and economics problems with One Nation mission statements, Joyce claimed a lack of resources and went on the say election policies might not all be costed by the due date because of the lack of resources. But he later commented that he had been consulting professionals in Queensland.
I cannot understand how the sales and marketing hyperbole and puffery sucks voters in who apparently do not think about the logistics involved in gaining House of Representatives electorate seats from a present base of two MPs to the seventy six MPs minimum needed to form government in Canberra.
Also mentioned was that the Victoria State election is due soon (November) and One Nation have no state leader and maybe a couple of candidates selected right now. Despite this handicap the polls indicate One Nation is in a strong position?
I am not opposed to One Nation Party or any of the other conservative parties, but I am wary about splitting conservative votes and including preference votes being scattered. As with the Joh (Bjelke Petersen) for Canberra campaign, Australian Democrats Party, Palmer Party and not one got close to forming a government.
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Dennis,
No great surprise. The surprise is that you appear to think the Liberals are any better.
You’re invited to cast your mind back to August 2024 and then tell us how competent the Liberals are.
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I am not a member of the Liberal Party Robert, not a member of any political party.
But I have background knowledge spanning many decades and earlier inside observation and contacts Federal and State.
The excuse given by that NSW State Executive member was pathetic.
Unlike One Nation of Queensland the Liberal Party of Australia has State Executive branches and a Federal Party overseeing them, recently Tony Abbott was appointed National President and former Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer the Deputy. Federal intervention into New South Wales and into Victoria has removed a number of problems.
The One Nation Party has much more serious lack of resources problems and I know that recently joined former National Barnaby Joyce MP is well aware and concerned.
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Television wasn’t known as the idiot box for nothing. And that was before the current era of computers you carry around in your pocket. Why just yesterday my car gave me directions to my destination.
The cows over the back fence confessed that they can’t read either. Good thing they don’t know how tasty they will be one day.
Oh yes. Voting. What a quaint concept. There must be an app for that. Maybe the next version will automatically generate the candidates too.
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A while ago a friend commented about the poor comprehension ability displayed often when reading comments-posts, in the example given Facebook.
Example: The shop is located at XXXX and the food is terrible. Reply – where is the shop?
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FWIW
“A deep and fascinating look at Nutrients vs Blood Sugar”
“So Many Nutrients, So Little Time…
This is about 1 hour 18 minutes of Biochemistry Of Glucose Metabolism. I found it fascinating, as it is more in depth that anything else I’ve run across.
There are so many nutrients that MUST be right for the Glucose Metabolism to work right, and any one of them getting screwed up can throw things off. This goes a good ways toward explaining why so many “Diet Interventions” work, sometimes, and so many do not work other times.
Then, who knew that Vanadium was a metal ion used in our glucose metabolism enzymes? The Wiki says it isn’t an essential nutrient (or, more accurately, nobody has proven it yet) BUT, given we have an enzyme that uses it, that is essential to proper glucose metabolism, I’d say that is on the face of it essential”
More at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/a-deep-and-fascinating-look-at-nutrients-vs-blood-sugar/
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So, they say the best sources for such nutrition are shell fish, brown rice, whole wheat, mushrooms, and dill.
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What about those of us who are naturally self-sufficient in dill?
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Like our Energy Minister ?
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Okay, so electrical power generation in all its forms, and then the power distribution needed for all that here in Australia, and here I’m even going to include WA. You can’t explain even the simplest basics of electrical power to the average Australian. It takes many thousands of people trained in the intricacies of electrical power to keep it all working, and it can only be run by Electrical Engineers with years and years of specialised training who know what it is, what is happening, and how to keep it all happening.
All of that comes under the heading of ….. Energy.
So then, let’s look at those people making the decisions, you know those Government Ministers for Energy across Australia, the ones who are in control of ….. Energy production, power generation and the overall electrical power grid.
Australia – Chris Bowen – Bachelor of Economics
New South Wales – Penny Sharpe- studied Food Technology, did not get a degree.
Victoria – Lily D’Ambrosio – Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy
Queensland – David Janetski – Bachelor of Arts/Laws – LLB
South Australia – Tom Koutsantonis – studied for a BA, did not get a degree.
Western Australia – Amber Jade Sanderson – Bachelor of Arts – Journalism and Politics
Tasmania – Nick Duigan – Bachelor of Business – Maritime Management and Logistics
Australian Capital Territory – Suzanne Orr – Bachelor of Arts – Master of Urban and Regional Planning
Northern Territory – Gerard Maley – Bachelor of Arts/Law – LLB
Huh! We might as well have put Pixie Anne Wheatley in charge of ….. Electrical power Generation.
Tony.
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Pixie Anne Wheatley?
I often wondered who Bowen reminded me of.😊
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This all came about from a comment yesterday from David Maddison, where he linked to a half hour video explaining about the catastrophe that the Grid in South Africa became when people who had zero understanding about power generation and distribution were put in charge of it.
There’s a scary half hour of fascinating watching, oh, except for one thing that was in fact quite infuriating really. Has anyone noticed how the voice to text writing along the bottom is chock full of errors, and here I mean with virtually every single line, having got AI (I presume) to do the text, and here, I don’t really know why it’s needed actually, if the person is speaking in English, then why have an English text at the bottom?
Tony.
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…for deaf viewers maybe ??
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I find subtitles necessary as my hearing has deteriorated, so even with new aids, understanding what is being spoken is difficult. Easy to accept the subtitles after a while.
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Tony, like me, a lot of people watch YouTube videos or social media video uploads with the sound off. That’s where the subtitles come in. Very handy when you’re watching the footy on the TV and multi-tasking 🙂
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TonyfromOz,
Have you a better system in mind?
David Maddison here has recently been repeating his complaint that politicians shouldn’t be allowed to make engineering decisions, and you’ve now put some flesh on the bones of that. However, one of the main points of having politicians is to make decisions. It’s unreasonable to expect them to be experts. The situation is more or less analogous to a house-owner faced with a problem they need to get a tradesman in to solve. Get a quote. If it’s expensive, get more quotes. If necessary take advice from an expert or two. But ultimately it’s the non-expert house-owner who decides what is to be done.
If the government is to outsource these decisions to some sort of group of independent experts, I don’t see how you avoid ending up with unaccountable Fauci-like mandarins. To me, that seems a far worse situation than your list above. At least they can be voted out.
I don’t have any grand solution for government incompetence, but the straightforward solution for electricity is for the federal government to bugger off out of it. They should be restricted to Australia-wide things (defence, diplomacy, immigration, customs).
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Err ?… Yea but Na !…
They dont have a good record on defence or immigration either 🤔🙄
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Based on your defence reference the problems arise from Department of Defence and Australian Defence Force combined submissions to governments for approval and budget provisions for expenditure. Example the RAN Collins Class conventional diesel-electric submarines ordered in the 1980s and last of six delivered in the 1990s, first delivery behind schedule and others as well, commissioning took far longer than expected and all because the bureaucrats had decided to modify the Swedish submarine design to meet RAN requirements.
The Australian newspaper published a story years later explaining that Collins Class project was not far from being a disaster, late deliveries, too many problems identified during commissioning, cost more than estimated, however the end result works very well and considered to be one of the best conventional submarines operating. One penetrated a US Navy aircraft carrier battle group of warships during an exercise off Hawaii and “sank” the aircraft carrier (photographic evidence of attack success). In understand the USN has since leased for a short period a latest Swedish Gotland Class conventional submarine for testing, maybe for nuclear submarine protection development purposes?
It was of course Labor Government decision and budget item for Collins Class submarines, the cabinet members would have taken advice from public service senior people and maybe also from submarine designer applicants for the contract?
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Chad,
No they don’t; but as I said, I was only solving the electricity problem.
For the rest, I commented here a few weeks ago that Australia would be better off de-federating and forming a firm alliance amongst the states. Suggested Scandinavia as a model.
It would end silly finger-pointing games, and could lift the standard of the state governments which, bad as they are, are the least incompetent level we have.
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Like reverting to the Colonial Governments before Federation of States, noting that the States created the Commonwealth of Australia and what is called Federal Government being Commonwealth Government.
The Constitution sets out the powers and responsibilities, over time and I suspect for politician’s political reasons and purposes government departments have been duplicated, like State owns and operates public schools and Federal provides funding grants but State Department of Education manage schools and teachers. Therefore, in my opinion, there is no need for a Federal Department of Education apart from the role relating to universities. Even TAFE colleges are State responsibility.
What Chad listed is what the Commonwealth Government should be concentrating on.
Electricity supply another example of primarily State responsibility, before transition to wind and solar installations States owned the power stations and transmission lines, State Electricity Commissions responsible.
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If only there was some mechanism we could use to winnow out the failures.
OH, there is, it’s called a market!
Instead of making a decision on something government knows nothing about, set up a market for the various solutions and let nature take its course. Those that do not sell any product will naturally fail. No decisions to be made.
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Robert Swan,
I wholeheartedly agree with you that politicians are there to make decisions, and I’m not going to argue with that. You mentioned that the home owner needing work done gets advice and a quote from a tradesman (an expert who knows what needs to be done) and if that’s not suitable, then another quote ….. from another expert, until that home owner finally makes what he considers is an ….. informed decision, based on what he considers the best EXPERT advice. (or should do)
The same then should apply with the politicians who are those Ministers for ….. ENERGY.
Those experts KNOW, hand on heart that what is happening with power generation, and that renewable power CANNOT ever replace the traditional sources that deliver the constant and reliable always available power that is currently doing just that, and has been for many years now.
Ministers are either (deliberately) ignoring that advice from the real experts or are only taking the advice they WANT TO HEAR from ‘experts’ with an agenda.
Because, if they took the advice of those real experts, then it would be a case of ….. “Hold on a minute” ….. and then inform the public of the TRUTH of the matter.
Let them make decisions, but here, what is happening is that the public is being fed the AGENDA, not the truth, and from politicians who have no conceptual understanding about what they are being told anyway. And then, the public, hearing that agenda, do not know any better, and nine out of ten believe it to be basically correct.
Tony.
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Tony:
Most people would choose a tradesman who seemed to know what was he problem and whose quote was reasonable, rather than choosing the most expensive quote from an obviously shonkyone.
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TonyfromOz,
Thanks for the response. I agree with all of it, and particularly the part about advice with an agenda.
I feel it’s important to point the finger of blame accurately. It seems we agree that it’s not really that the politicians are unqualified, it’s that they are acting without the interests of the people in mind.
Demanding that ministers be better qualified might just end us up with a bunch of smarter crooks. Instead, maybe tie their pensions inversely to the national debt. That would give today’s politicians a reason to care what the newer recruits might get up to.
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FWIW
“Climate consensus research is the worst, most invalid research ever published in journals”
“And social “scientists” use it to mislead participants”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/07/14/climate-consensus-research-is-the-worst-most-invalid-research-ever-published-in-journals/
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And FWIW
“Claim: Climate Change Should be Depoliticised by Convincing Everyone to Support Climate Action”
““… We need to take the politics out of the debate and get the people to demand that governments take action to minimise the climate threat …”
Ken Russell
Climate change should be depoliticised”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/07/14/claim-climate-change-should-be-depoliticised-by-getting-everyone-to-support-climate-action/
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Peak what?
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FWIW – quite a “U” turn!
“British Officials: Well, Actually, the Murdered Old Lady Was a Targeted Assassination”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/07/14/british-officials-well-actually-the-murdered-old-lady-was-a-targeted-political-assassination-n3816947
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It’s not a ‘red scare’ when they really are reds, and openly admit it.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2026-7-13-red-scare-actually-the-communist-insurgency-in-the-democratic-party-is-very-real
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DSA Red Star caucus
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DSA Bread & Roses caucus
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Libertarian Socialist caucus (LOL)
You don’t have to believe me or the Manhattan Contrarian or President Trump. Just listen to their own words and believe them when they tell you who they are.
https://x.com/canarymission/status/2076340963996217785
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Huh!
Red Scare??
Why does this woman create so many memes, and thanks another ian.
Tony.
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Standup comedy.
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Driving this morning one of their spokespersons was interviewed on C-Span.
He said one of their goals is to eliminate the US Senate.
Seems reasonable and achievable.
Practical.
I was once a musician and recall the aesthetic of the punk movement was no practical skill is to be displayed with one’s instrument.
I reckon this is punk politics.
No practical knowledge is to be displayed by one’s brain.
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That’s just one small part of that particular goal. They want to reshape the House of Representatives as an all-powerful politburo to which the executive and judicial branches are subservient.
None of which can be done without scrapping the constitution. That’s not tinkering around the margins by passing an amendment. That’s tearing up Articles 1, 2, and 3 and starting over. I presume they also intend to tear up Article 4 (state’s rights), because no socialist/communist government would tolerate 50 separate state governments with superior standing on all non-enumerated powers. And obviously the 1st Amendment would have to be rewritten to ban all speech critical of the government, the 2nd Amendment would have to be discarded altogether (disarming the populace is ALWAYS the first move by socialists/communists), and most of the rest of the Bill of Rights would need to be rewritten or discarded too.
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While on the topic of USA politics:
According to the (USA) Presidential Succession Act of 1947, the order of succession to the post of USA President is as follows:
Vice President
Speaker of the House
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Attorney General
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary of Transportation
Secretary of Energy
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Secretary of Homeland Security
I would suspect that readers of this post would already understand that the USA President MUST be a native born USA citizen.
Why have we not had law suits that would require all members of the USA Congress and Presidential cabinet members to also be native born USA citizens?
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Come back McCarthy, all is forgiven.
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FWIW
“Bike Lanes and the Road to Serfdom”
“Having won the battle for bike lanes in the city, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s dwindling membership wants to make sure you don’t accidentally get a minority killed by the cops. So, think twice about reporting bike theft, comrades!
No, I’m not kidding — and I’ll ask you to please bear with me on this one, because there’s a little Tuesday morning philosophizing ahead. Although before we really get into this, let me remind you that most cyclists — and we’ve got a million of them around here — have commendable road manners. It’s only the minority that you want to gently (?) nudge into a gully with your right-front bumper.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/07/14/bike-lanes-and-the-path-to-tyranny-n4955011
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Message from Dr David Adler, posted on Farcebook.
He has moved to Israel to escape increasingly bad Australian antisemitism which can only get worse as the Left become more heavily embedded and Australia undergoes rapid demographic change.
Many other Australian Jews are thinking about or intending to follow.
I hope Australians enjoy the replacement population.
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I understand his wise decision, but what a loss to Australia.
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Dear Editor,
Quite opposite. I write this to you personally, feel free to make your mind about my post.
PreBondi I thought the Jews need physical protection as anyone else in Australia.
Australis was not perfect but more civilised than 9/10 of the World. You know where I came from and I do not expect you to love your neighbour, who is different which is not an excuse for bigotry but a sprinkle of reality.
Bondi was less shock to me than reaction to it: Islamo-Fascits got an overwhelming support at the top.
The silent majority is indifferent. Months past Bondi it is not getting any better.
So I understand Dr.Adler, in his place I would do the same.
There are few noble men & women who stand against savages due to
a) their moral core,
b) clear understanding – they will be next target.
That, second sentiment is what I address especially. Hope their number grow.
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David Adler commented that while in transit in United Arab Emirates he and his family were treated very well and among the majority of Muslims there not one negative comment or gesture.
Unlike their experiences in Australia during more recent times.
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FWIW
“EH? Gawd!!”
“Secretary Rubio Warns ICC Not to Challenge U.S. Sovereign Power
July 13, 2026 | Sundance | 341 Comments”
“The core of the issue is how the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been expanding its self-believed power and now seeks to become the unaccountable arbiter of a new global law system. The ICC is threatening to file charges against U.S. law enforcement who conduct border security operations and deport illegal aliens.
If it is an ideological policy of the ICC they now feel empowered to prosecute and/or arrest American citizens at will and existentially threaten American sovereignty. Recently elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is in full alignment with the intent. Once the NYPD can be replaced with U.N police, things will likely gain forward momentum.”
More at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/13/secretary-rubio-warns-icc-not-to-challenge-u-s-sovereign-power/
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FWIW
“INDIA’S PRIME MINISTER HIGHLIGHTS THE STUPIDITY OF AUSTRALIA’S BAN ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
Harry Richardson”
Cartoon
https://harryr.substack.com/p/indias-prime-minister-highlights
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Doonesbury.
“Under Sir’s leadership”-
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026/07/12
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I posted links to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and accounting/auditing, this ABC link explains a lot;
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-22/remember-that-record-funding-for-the-great-barrier-reef/102252268
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BUT… we already had the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), CSIRO and other organisations. If they have become bloated and ineffective neuter them before duplicating them.
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I agree with you
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Snowy 2.0 cost blowout history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aDYJYM2zdY
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Meanwhile in neo-Africa UK: Rupert Lowe’s deportation speech
https://youtu.be/MOI-Q8vOiMc?si=VqzuXloXJhxXg1kO
Bit late…by a few years..
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Uranium-eating bacteria discovered in radioactive former Soviet mine
One of the world’s largest uranium mines, the Wismut GmbH Schlema-Alberoda operation in what was then Soviet East Germany, left behind a toxic legacy.
But within the contaminated water that has since flooded the mine, evolution may already be brewing up a solution.
“After 130 days, only around five percent of the uranium dissolved in the water remained in the samples,” says Newman-Portela.
The bacteria had not only incorporated the uranium into their cell walls, but an unusually high proportion of that uranium was pentavalent. This meant it more readily formed FeU(V)O4, especially when the water samples were dried and exposed to oxygen.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72560-z
Nature finds a way…
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And of course there is Deinococcus radiodurans first discovered in 1956, the world’s most radiation-resistant organism.
It can survive radiation doses up to 15,000 grays. Just 5 to 10 grays will kill a human.
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One Leader, the proprietor is too busy managing the business to represent the State voters elected the Senator to represent in Canberra in the Senate;
https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/queensland/pauline_hanson/divisions
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Doesn’t take the job seriously, those Bills only passed by a small margin.
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Of course my comments are unpopular here when I mention One Nation however, I had a retirement holiday home in Queensland I purchased for retirement purposes after deciding to not accept a board offer to support a management buyout of a very profitable company that no longer fitted into holding company future development plans, and the local State MP was One Nation, that was the short couple of terms that One Nation (then proprietor’s name brand Pauline Hanson’s One Nation) rise and fall took place in Queensland. As a Senator it has been obvious that political business takes precedence over Senate position representing Queensland in the Parliament, house of review of legislation.
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My understanding is: The individual is above the collective, Government interference in the terms of trade should be minimal, Global free trade between sovereign countries should be the norm. free traders used to argue war between nations would be abolished (19th Century Manchester Guardian). Events leading up to the 1914 proved them to be over optimistic. None-the -less residue of these ideas still persists and in some ways are still commendable.
Conservatives: Take there stand from the Tamworth Manifesto (Sir Robert Peel to the electors of Tamworth 1834). The traumatic events both leading to and subsequent to “The Great Reform Bill” was very much in peoples mind.
I have the firmest convictions that that confidence cannot be
secured by any other course than that of a frank and explicit
declaration of principle;
“I consider the Reform Bill a final and irrevocable settlement of a great
constitutional question – a settlement which no friend to the
peace and welfare of this country would attempt to disturb.”
“…. the admission of Dissenters as a claim of right, into the universities; but I
expressly declared that if regulations, enforced by public
authorities superintending the professions of law and
medicine, and the studies connected with them, had the
effect of conferring advantages of the nature of civil
privileges on one class of the king’s subjects from which
another was excluded ….”
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“….if the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely a careful review of institutions,
civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper
combining, with the firm maintenance of established rights,
the correction of proved abuses and the redress of real
grievances, – in that case, I can for myself and colleagues
undertake to act in such a spirit and with such intentions.”
Please forgive me for quoting at length. Conservative principles are not reactionary. Past institutions can be respected but change and update when required should not be inhibited. Peel also states that all persons should be equal before the law.
Conservative thinking does not imply Liberal principals. On the hand it is totally consistent to conserve Liberal principals or modify liberalism as required. On the other hand a liberal that is not a conservative would in todays’ Australia be more at home with either the AlP or Teals.
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FWIW – USA
“The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would keep the U.S. on daylight saving time. H.R. 139, the Sunshine Protection Act, passed by an impressive margin for legislation these days.”
BUT
“President Donald Trump has expressed his support for the bill, but there’s no current momentum in the Senate to move on it. Given this Senate, it’s easy to believe that there’s no momentum for anybody to do anything. However, the Senate passed a similar bill in 2022 that stalled in the House.”
https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/07/14/the-house-finally-sees-the-light-on-daylight-saving-time-n4955045
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Carrot and Stick
“Persian kings did not build empires by being naive about deception; they practically invented the genre.” —Jesus Enrique Rosas”
“Where do the enemies of our country — including the ones inside our country — get the idea that Iran is winning this war? They wish it into existence. The wishing is necessary to put across the talking points that President Trump and his advisors don’t have a plan, don’t know what they are doing, that the USA is persecuting and oppressing Iran for no good reason.”
More at
https://www.kunstler.com/p/carrot-and-stick
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And
“July 2026 | Eyesore
“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.” —Marshall McLuhan”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/july-2026-eyesore
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“30 Year Anniversary of the UN 1989 “10 years to save the world” Climate Warning.”
LOL
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Office of Prime Minister & Cabinet is similar to a company board of directors, public service executives from government departments are the equivalent of a public company subsidiaries reporting to a board of directors.
Decisions based on for example engineering and economics are usually based on submissions from departments and/or from government owned companies and consultants.
As many would have experienced here boards of directors have varying qualifications and experiences and rely on one another and submissions including questioning the applicants on matters arising from the submissions. I have had experiences requesting capital expenditure approval for machinery and other manufacturing business purchases answering many board questions and have taken senior executives to board meetings, manufacturing manager, plant engineer, finance manager, as needed. From what I have been told cabinet process is similar.
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Publications_and_resources/Papers_and_research/Papers_on_Parliament_and_other_resources/Can_responsible_Government_survive_in_Australia/chap04
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