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Here’s an inconvenient fact: Australia had the highest number of very
hot days in 1952, back when CO2 levels were 311ppm and humans had not
yet emitted 87% of our carbon dioxide emissions. Something else was
causing that extreme heat. If only the modelers knew what it was? For
years the BOM site had this informative graph below, but yesterday Craig
Kelly M.P. phoned me to prepare for his Bolt Rep
History
is being wiped out The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has not only
disappeared the Very Hot Days graph but they have wiped out thousands of
40 plus hot days in the years from 1910 – 1963 — years when almost all
temperatures in Australia were recorded on Stevenson screens by trained
officials under the central management of the Bureau. Volunteer, Chris
Gillham, found the data and the chan
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I visited the famous Giles weather station a couple of weeks ago. It’s
an ACORN top ranking site, it even has a Met office. Because it so
central and so remote the measurements here are used to estimate
temperatures across a vast area — indeed, arguably, it’s the most
influential site in terms of Australia’s area-averaged temperature. It’s
1,700km drive from Perth (1,000 miles) and the last 800 k
Postmodernist reasoning taken to its logical conclusion. Starts with
zero, ends with identity-maths. Is Maths Racist? Free Press
International News The Seattle Public Schools Ethnic Studies Advisory
Committee (ESAC) has determined that math is subjective and racist. In a
draft for its Math Ethnic Studies framework, the ESAC writes that
Western mathematics is “used to disenfranchise people and com
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Oct 22
On fire — Ann Widdecombe lays out the situation. The only kind of
Brexit is a clean break. October 18th 2019 “The Brexit party will take
Leave and nothing else.” “We gave Europe their freedom and in return
they want to take ours.” She’s 72, and has studied Latin, Philosophy at
Oxford. She was a Minister in the John Major Government. What a
powerhouse. Bring on an election! h/t Jim Simpson. Rating
Oct 21
Petition
EN1116 – The case for leaving the Paris Climate Agreement
https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1116 Petition Reason We the
undersigned petitioners request the House reconsiders Australia’s
commitment to the PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT that was ratified on 9
November 2016 and declared ‘entry into force’ on 9 December 2016.
Australia is meeting its emission targets. We contribute approx. 1
UPDATE:
Live results coming in at globalnews.ca See Decision Canada: 170 seats
to win, currently Liberals (Trudeau) 145, Conservatives (Sheer) 106 * * *
Canadian polls are on a knife edge election day rolls out Click to
enlarge In the US, Brexit and Australian elections the pollsters missed
the hidden conservative vote. It was so strong some people said they’d
vote Labor, but then they voted the o
Back in August I posted the extraordinary first quotes from Prof Andy
Pitman that there was no link between climate change and drought. Prof
Andy Pitman, Climate Modeler, UNSW The news about droughts was banal and
obvious, because more water evaporates in a warmer world, and
therefore, more rain falls — how could it be any other way? What goes
up, must come down. But that quote was very important
Oct 20
… Extinction Rebellion leader says its not about climate — it’s about
toxic white European racist heterosexists, especially old Brits Basden
o-chosen-one is here to save us from our delusions — if you thought
fossil fuels caused climates to break, you are in denial. Storms and
floods are really a symptom of the toxic infection that is European
civilization! Apparently even the IPCC are denialists
Oct 19
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Oct 18
I admire The Guardian’s honesty. If the sun drives climate change and a
foreign unaudited UN committee is grossly exaggerating, at least we
know that The Guardian will be the last commercial news outlet on Earth
to report it. The Guardian helpfully puts this message on all the pages
we read — just in case we forget for a moment and think it might be
pursuing actual journalism and full fearless in
Oct 17
Case #412 of religious fanatics overplaying their hand again Two
protesters in London had stopped the Jubilee line train by standing on
top of it with a banner. Two more were planning to glue themselves to
the train, but the crowd was fed up. Mahatir Pasha is a journalist for
ITV News who apparently witnessed and filmed the furious commuters. He
writes on twitter: “One commuter shouted “I need t
Oct 16
Add Susan Crockford’s name to the list of scientists being tossed out
of the academic cathedral because they dare speak the truth. University
of Victoria give no reasons for suddenly ending her long unpaid role as
adjunct professor, but if they had evidence of incompetence,
misinformation, deceit or poor performance, you can be sure they would
say so. The academic casualty list includes Peter Rid
Oct 15
The AEMO, theoretically the Australian Energy Market Operator, warned
that people in Victoria and NSW face a high risk of blackouts this
summer. Today the Sydney Morning Herald describes how big business is
fed-up, calling it “disgraceful” that they have had to spend millions to
install back up generators. The chief of Coca-cola Amatil Australia
compared the situation to what they face in Papua N
So
much for expert judgement In a test of scientists abilities, the same
data was sent to 27 teams of researchers in cognitive psychology. The
idea was to test the theoretical inferences they drew. But those expert
teams drew conclusions from identical data that varied, oh boy, all the
way from “zero to 100 percent.” One of the research team described it as
a “jaw dropping” result – where only one
Welcome to the new complexified energy grid where a cloud can cause a
system black event — knocking out power for as much as nine hours. This
affected the hospital for 30 minutes and the prolonged problems caused
many businesses and supermarkets to close. Alice Springs is an island
microgrid servicing about 29,000 people in the centre of Australia. It
was 38 degrees C yesterday when the power wen
Oct 14
Looks like a religion, acts like a religion… @ExtinctionR Just another
group profiting from “climate change” What other grassroots movement has
fears of “six figure tax bills”? And these are just the UK figures. How
Extinction Rebellion climate change zealots – including a baronet’s
Cambridge-educated granddaughter – are paid £400 a week to bring mayhem
to our streets by Holly Bancroft and James
Oct 13
Adam Bandt, Greens MP, set up a Parliamentary Committee on Climate
Action which aims to declare a Climate Emergency in Australia. Five
Liberal (conservatives) have signed up to the chicken-entrails
committee. Rowan Dean has a message on Sky News for Tim Wilson, Dave
Sharma, Jason Falinski, Katie Allen, Angie Bell and Trent Zimmerman,
said in a Swedishy indignant voice How Dare You! You have stole
Oct 12
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Oct 11
The Catholic Church eyes off the competition — the Green Church of
hippie witchdoctors. Thinks about discovering a new commandment — thou
shalt not hurt silicon dioxide, (or something like that.) Some catholic
delegates call it an ecological conversion. I call it a marketing
campaign. Harming planet could be a sin, say Vatican delegates by Tom
Kington, The Australian Delegates at the Pope’s synod
Oct 09
Sometimes we fool ourselves into thinking that destruction is creating
something and that the government is a wish-fairy. Nice quote “The
Industrial Decalogue” from 1916. You cannot bring about prosperity by
discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift
the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
Oct 08
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Oct 06
Trying
to fix past mistakes through homogenization Lots of things can muck up a
perfect thermometer spot, like shade, new roads, new screens, or old
paint. In order to remove these annoying non-climatic effects, the BOM
compares each station to those around it to look for odd changes. In
theory this sounds like a good idea. In practice it’s more like
hepatitis – bad news that spreads. It’s a rogue
Oct 05
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Oct 04
All
that global warming and nothing to show for it? Headlines rang out
telling Australians that last summer was the hottest ever. But,
according to the UAH satellite series, the hottest — just barely — was
in 1991, when CO2 was a wonderful, safe 356 ppm. Since then, humans have
emitted more than half — fully 58% — of all the emissions we have ever
emitted since we crawled out of those dank caves.
Oct 02
Is This the Wackiest Weather Station in Australia? Guest post by Ken
Stewart South Australia puts thermometers beside incinerators. Victoria
puts them behind prison walls. Tasmania has one beside piles of human
excrement. New South Wales has them beside freeways. But Queensland goes
one better — it has one on a roof. And not just any roof, but on the
shiny steel roof of a sugar loader, high above
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Oct 01
The
cheapest way to prevent man-made global warming is stop the BOM
altering the data First the BoM had “high quality” data. Then, with
fanfare, after we asked for an audit they had the miracle of ACORN circa
2011. Then early this year ACORN 2.0 was quietly birthed with major
adjustments as expert data became “more expert” but the BOM strangely
didn’t want to mention that what was so good is now e
Sep 30
Just a quick note to say I’ll be out in the Gibson desert beyond phones
and emails for the next ten days. Apologies, as I won’t be able to
reply and haven’t set up an email auto reply. Responses will be very
very delayed. Posts are still coming, David will keep an eye on things.
Thanks to the moderators for keeping discussion going. Merci! Back soon.
— Jo Photo by Karl JK Hedin on Unsplash Yes, I
Sep 29
Putin doesn’t think humans control the climate, and has said so openly.
Now, he’s finally agreed to ratify the Paris agreement, though with
very low targets. He even did it by a government order (which means he
has bypassed the house — the State Duma) — presumably to avoid the
people who would voice “the same kinds of arguments against the need for
collective action that he himself has frequently
Sep 28
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Sep 27
A declaration of a fake emergency is just like yelling “fire” in a
crowded theatre Photo by Takver. A couple of days after skeptics were
banned by The Conversation, came an article advising how people who do
illegal, potentially dangerous things can use the “climate emergency” as
a legal defense. Skeptics and scientists might rub their hands with
glee, waiting for the climate emergency to be vapo
Sep 26
The only reason Climate Scare Machine played the Child card was because
they’ve given up the adult contest of persuasion. As a marketing tactic
it has a lot going for it. Playing the “girl under seige” card brings
out protectors. Holding the “girlie hype” card whips the gullible and
emotional into a frenzy. The people
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