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Cancel Climate Science – and the Scientists
By Dr. Graham Pinn
There is little debate around climate science, with the much-publicised phrase “The science is settled” used to curtail any dispute. In fact, there is considerable dispute, but it remains unpublished in scientific journals, for fear of loss of job or funding.
A recent international survey, published in The Conversation, found that over 40% of scientists were being harassed or intimidated by their institutions, with climate science being a common indication; the survey did not indicate whether those scientists were protagonist or antagonist to the theory.
There are numerous examples of authors of scientific papers, supporting the CO2 theory, refusing to release underlying details, because others might find errors in their conclusions; there are also many examples of contrary articles being rejected by editors. The “Climategate” scandal of 2009, is just one example of this worldwide phenomenon.
The usual explanation given, is that those against the climate change hypothesis are funded by the fossil fuel industry. There is no mention of the enormous government and renewable industry grants to protagonists. This distortion has led to numerous examples of senior climate scientists, having to wait ‘til retirement, before revealing their opinions. American activist/author of yesteryear, described the phenomenon 100 years ago: ”It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on not understanding”.
More at –
https://saltbushclub.com/2025/03/01/cancel-climate-science-and-the-scientists/#more-2939
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That is the point of this blog. Firstly, to provide a place where real debate can occur. I have yet to hear actual scientists publicly debate the ideas of Al Gore and James Hansen. The second value in Jo’s Blog is to provide a place where at least the other side of the story can be presented for all time. Ideas can be honed and facts and arguments and news shared.
The reality is that an alleged man made CO2 increase, alleged additional CO2 driven warming and warming driven Armageddon including mythical ‘tipping points’, rapid sea rises, storm increases are not debated at in public. Certainly not in what we now call the legacy media.
The new and so called ‘Climate Science’ is entirely political and not scientific. Statements like ‘98% of scientists agree’ are fraudulent fabrications. As are Michael Mann’s Hockey stick and I claim the CO2 Ice Hockey Stick where different measurements (firn, laboratory) are improperly bolted onto metamorphic ice data and the X axis moved up from zero. Political fabrications presented as scientific facts.
Whether ‘world’ temperatures go up or down, in 37 years not a single prediction of Climate Science has come true. We are not talking about the future of the planet any more. We are talking about the past. And nothing has happened in four decades except the biggest waste of public money in world history and the crippling of Western democracies and the explosive military growth of China, the only beneficiary.
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Any discussion of the subject would not be complete without mention of our own climate stalwart, Ian Plimer, a man impossible to cancel. He is an Australian geologist, surprisingly still an Emeritus Professor at Melbourne University, with past University appointments at Adelaide and Newcastle Universities; he is an unequivocal opponent of the climate change hypothesis and has written numerous books on the subject. His views are denigrated as he has, in the past, and still has, connections with the mining industry. Although many years retired, he is still being cancelled at Australian Universities, even had an honorary doctorate cancelled at a European University. He is notable for his phrase about the debate – “They have us outnumbered but we have them outgunned”! He continues to write to put them straight!
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Yes Johnny, Ian Plimer is a great man. In November 2022, he was taking part in a re-enactment of the 1968 London to Sydney car rally (just the Perth-Sydney section), and I drove to Cooma just to meet this great man and shake his hand. He was most cordial and kept us entertained with his stories. as would happen his phone rang whilst we were talking and he said it was his boss and he would have to take it. A short time later he caught up with us and told us it was a call from Gina and she was calling from Mar-a-Lago with the Donald. A few days later pictures of her there were front page news asking “what is she doing there” above her photo with Trump. As we were leaving he asked us to come over to his car as he had something he wanted us to have, and he gave us a handful of “Trump” embossed chocolates, with instructions that if we opened them the case could be refilled with chocolate, for more Trump embossed chocolate. As yet I have not partaken of the chocolate, more interested in keeping this “keepsake”
Yes, Ian Plimer, a wonderful Australian.
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(1) Calibration of Warming by ‘Carbon Dioxide’ ‘falsified’ by the scientific method and observation: No evidence could be found for the calibration of radiative warming in an atmospheric chamber. “The Theory of Heat Radiation” by Max Planck implies that radiative heating does not occur for a gas with no intermolecular bonds. The reason is that the random nature of the movement or vibration of molecules means that half of the molecules moving towards the particle are slowed down or cooled.
(2) Calibration of Warming by the ‘Adiabatic Lapse Rate’ ‘proven’ by the scientific method and observation: Venus with a quarter of a million times more carbon dioxide than the Earth provides the best evidence for James Clerk Maxwell’s use of the Poisson curve which is mentioned in Chapter IV: Elementary Dynamic Principles: Measurement of Force. ‘Theory of Heat (1871)’ showing that warming is by molar mass not radiative forcing. This is confirmed by the fact that the same pressure at different altitudes on each of the planets, has the same temperature if adjusted for distance from the Sun, despite the different main gases, Nitrogen for the Earth & Titan, Hydrogen for Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn & Uranus and Carbon Dioxide for Venus.
(3) Calibration of Climate Change by changes to ‘Cloud Albedo’ ‘proven’ by the scientific method and observation: Climate Change is mostly caused by a change in low cloud albedo. Professor Shaviv provides the high-energy cosmic ray information that proves that the sun was the primary cause for climate change. This is caused by the Sun wobbling about the barycentre. The centre of the Sun is always within 2.2 solar radii of the barycenter. This motion of the Sun is mainly due to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. For some periods of several decades, the motion is rather regular, forming a trefoil pattern, whereas between these periods it appears more chaotic. After 179 years (nine times the synodic period of Jupiter and Saturn), the pattern more or less repeats, but rotated by about 24°. Correlation’s between Climate Change and the Hale Magnetic Solar Cycle are caused by the speed of the centre of the Sun relative to the centre of mass or barycentre of the Solar System, which determines the length of the solar cycles. This in turn is caused by the orbits and masses of the Planets. Short Hale Magnetic Solar Cycles have higher Solar Magnetic activity due to the increase in the speed of plasma within the Sun. Between 1913 and 1996, only one of eight Solar Cycles was longer than the mean Solar Cycle length of 11.04 years, the last of these was the shortest Solar Cycle for more than 200 years, the strength of the Suns magnetic field more than doubled, the cosmic ray flux fell by 11 percent and there was a 8.6 percent reduction in clouds. These results were provided by Enric Palle in 2004. During the last 100 years high-energy cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds—and a warmer world.
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If the science is settled, then it is not science.
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If a “scientific consensus” is claimed it’s also not science.
1) Science is never “settled”
2) Scientific fact is not decided by consensus.
The propagation of these two false ideas by the Left has done enormous damage to science and scientists as a whole and caused a massive corruption of science.
This corruption is especially noticeable in the areas of climate and pharmaceuticals/medicine as well as many other areas that are dependent on taxpayer funding or that involves government regulation and control.
And it also filters down into the indoctrination centres formerly known as “achools” and today, young people are taught many false and/or inappropriate ideas such as climate catastrophism, that there are more than two genders, socialism is desirable, Western Civilisation is evil etc.. And kids are also not taught to think independently, just to follow the Official Narrative, a very dangerous situation.
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The science is settled was the response when Christopher Monckton released his report based on historical records data proving the climate change political hoax.
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My latest AI functional description article.
AI emulates abstract thinking about Kipling, Lady Gaga and The Rolling Stones
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/03/04/ai-emulates-abstract-thinking-about-kipling-lady-gaga-and-the-rolling-stones/
The beginning: “CFACT just produced an impressive example of a chatbot emulating several sorts of abstract thought. At their request the bot GROC 3 created three long song poems successively in the styles of Kipling, Lady Gaga and The Rolling Stones. You can read them here: https://www.cfact.org/2025/02/25/check-out-the-poem-elons-grok-3-ai-wrote-about-cfact/
Chatbots do not think rather they computationally emulate thought. But it is easier to talk as though they actually think so I will do that here. Using emulation language is tedious and clumsy.
The poems are not bad and some lines are really good but that is not my focus. My interest is cognition. To begin with the instruction “write a poem about X” is pretty abstract. It is far more abstract than asking for facts already written about or what someone already said.
Mind you there are thousands of books and articles on poetry and how to write it. A great thing about chatbots is they can read thousands of books in a thousandth of a second so maybe that helped this one.
Asking for a long poem in the style of a specific writer or performer is a whole different critter. To begin with the robot has to figure out what that style is. Then it must come up with an applicable poem in language that fits that style. Being able to do this is truly impressive.
I do not know how to describe a style. Then too I have not read much Kipling or heard Lady Gaga sing, although I am a big Stones fan. So I cannot guess how long it would take me to do what this bot did in seconds or less. Maybe weeks, months, or years. Maybe never because it takes talent or in this case the successful emulation of talent.
I have read people saying that chatbots are just statistical engines that find the text most likely to be the answer to the query. Since these song lines have clearly never been written before that cannot be all there is to it.”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
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I don’t play with AI but would be intrigued to see what it does “in the style of Kraftwerk”.
They tried to sound like AI, even though they didn’t have a computer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk
Ironically, Kraftwerk did not own a computer at the time of recording Computer World.
The band is also known for being notoriously reclusive, providing rare and enigmatic interviews, using life-size mannequins and robots while conducting official photo shoots…
anyone trying to contact the band for collaboration would be told the studio telephone did not have a ringer since, while recording, the band did not like to hear any kind of noise pollution. Instead, callers were instructed to phone the studio precisely at a certain time, whereupon the phone would be answered by Ralf Hütter, despite never hearing the phone ring.
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My hobby is photography, mostly of motorsports. Like all serious photogs, I shoot in ‘RAW’ format, which provides an undiluted file to be processed later using (i.e.) Photoshop. We do this because formats such as jpeg throw out much of the information in the original file, reducing downstream options for editing.
Processing RAW files can be very time consuming. Think of it as a digital darkroom, where the photog may spend many hours tweaking shots to get the result required.
Just the other day though, I noticed my RAW file editor had an ‘Auto’ button. Now I’ve tried various ‘Auto’ features before, on camera and in editing, with universal disappointment. This new button calls itself ‘AI Auto’ though, so just out of curiosity, I gave it a go. Turns out it did a bloody good job. Not perfect, and a slightly variable results, but way better than anything I’ve tried before. I don’t know if it really is AI, but I’m guessing it learns your preferences over time to produce something approximating your usual style.
I am both impressed and alarmed by this. Impressed that it’s so good but alarmed because I’ve been seeing the human input and skills required to produce high quality photography fall lower and lower, especially since the advent of high-end smartphones which pioneered the use of software to simulate effects that would formerly have required expensive gear and significant experience. So I see this as another step toward destroying the world of pro photography, when literally anybody with a smartphone can match what the experts produce with tens of thousands of $ worth of equipment.
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Lots of images in the media of people holding sandbags to be filled in Qld.
https://www.cmac.com.au/materials-handling/bagging-equipment
Seems odd – are these all photos that are being posed?
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Meanwhile, surf’s up.
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I recall that during the plandemic in 2022, people who had not taken the clot shot were prevented from volunteering to fill sandbags.
I can’t find a link to that story, maybe history has already been rewritten.
But I could find reference to a similar story from Victoriastan from that time.
In Australia it’s considered better to suffer or die from flooding or other natural disaster than to accrpt a volunteer effort from a thinking person that rightly refused an untested experimental mRNA “vaccine”.
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Some could be. Especially if they are in the political arena.
I live right on the coast (Sunshine Coast) and have seen people
filling bags on the beach. Photos not required.
But, the build up for this cyclone reminds me of 2020 and 2021.
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ABC waking up and starting to smell the MAHA coffee
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2025-03-04/obesity-overweight-increase-children-young-people-australia/105002482
Can’t figure out if they mean that children not yet born will be obese or if those around now will be obese adults.
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Eat more animal protein, animal fats and less or no carbs and no seed oils.
How many fat people were around up until the 1960s or 1970’s before the new dietary guidelines that encouraged less animal protein, less animal fat and more carbs? Not too many.
The 1980 Dietary Guidelines for Americans featured recommendations developed and released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) but were more or less adopted throughout the Western world.
Those 1980 guidelines were hugely damaging to public health.
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At the link:
What a ridiculous Nanny State statement and a summary of just about everything that’s wrong with Australia.
A person (or in the case of a child, the parent) is responsible for everything that goes into their mouth, not the Government.
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“”The unprecedented global epidemic of overweight and obesity is a profound tragedy and a monumental societal failure,””
No, its a sign of success in providing food for a vastly increased world population. Science and technology have responded and succeeded in bringing affordable food to the poor, those who used to starve to death as a form of contraception.
All the rest is just individual choice, ‘you are what you eat’, and people should be left alone to enjoy or suffer the choices they make. The Nanny Statists spend their live trying to make people miserable with their fat shaming. Let people enjoy their food in peace!
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One of the reasons carbs are so fattening, apart from biochemical reasons, is that eating them does not bring about satiation and people over-consume them in great quantities and they also tend to be highly addictive especially if they contain sugar.
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And 80 years ago people were more active and needed the energy. Not so much these days.
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King Canute like Albo Tross commands Cyclone Alfred to retire and come again after he announces the election
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Yes, Albo is a true King Cnut.
Careful on the spelling.
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King Cnut was wise: Alto’s a tosser.
He may have to postpone his announcement yet again as the storm formerly known as Anthony – now Alfred – has been modelled by your chief guesstimators, once ashore, to wander southwards over Sydney to the Bass Strait where a high pressure then pushes it back north again… rinse and repeat? Or merely BoM-grade guesswork?
As anticipated, a light dusting of snow graces the peaks of the South Island’s north-east, while the cold southerly blast is now hitting the North Island – standard fare for March in these latitudes.
What was it Flippant Flammery forecast about no more rain for your dams?
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It’s almost impossible to find news on the pretend hydro scheme, Snowy Hydro 2, brought to us by the fake conservative Liberal Party.
You’d think for something that is an endless sink of hard-earned taxpayer dollars, thst we are entitled to daily updates.
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“we are entitled to daily updates”
Lol.. copy and paste for weeks at a time.
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The treasury is funding it, so there is no need to update the taxpayers.
All data will be released after the election, (if ever). One thing for sure, it’ll be bad news and Anal won’t be at the presser.
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Liberal Hivemind (conservative YouTube channel) looks at the Zelensky / Trump meeting.
One of the comments by a viewer is that Zelensky’s agitation and body movements are also suggestive of him being high on cocaine at the time. Apparently he is (allegedly) a known user. Not sure if that’s true or not.
https://youtu.be/GyGc0B9BqKY
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And straight from a meeting with Democrats including Chris Murphy who hate Trump and were determined to scuttle any peace. This was high treason. They could be prosecuted under the Logan Act. And you can be sure Zelensky is regretting it now that Trump has removed US military support. Not only new munitions but likely also critical US strategic and intelligence information. It remains to be seen if Musk turns off Starlink support in a time of war.
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And I note the careful choice of words as Zelensky now thanks ‘America’ but not Trump.
Many countries have criticized Zelensky for his absurd presumption and total lack of gratitude. Especially neighbour Poland. Germany too now that they know it was Zelensky’s men who blew up their gas supply. It is news today that Germany still spent more on Russian oil than on war support for Zelensky. While men are still dying in their thousands, it’s a charade of support by Europe and now Australia. It’s all political posture and obsolete or surplus weapons except for drones from Turkey and Iran.
It’s now entirely a European proxy war on Russia, not an American one. We’ll see how long these old colonial powers can keep pretending want border justice.
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And the only reason he does not want an election is that he would lose.
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Also the US$350 billion from US taxpayers was a gift, whereas the US$100 billion from Europe was a loan.
Zelensky should have agreed to TRUMP’s mineral deal so at least the US could get something in return and US industrial involvement in Ukraine would be a deterrence for others to invade. It would have been a defacto security assurance which I’m sure is what TRUMP had in mind without having to say it.
But apparently Z. had previously already made a minerals deal with Once Great Britain, even before TRUMP’s inauguration. Keir Stalin lied by omission by not mentioning that to TRUMP and Z. also lied.
In any case, what’s UK or Europe going to do with the minerals without energy or industry? At least under TRUMP, the US is getting its energy and industry back. They can make good use of them.
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If you watch the WH meeting you will see Z do the old cocaine sniff now and again 🙂
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Not sure if that’s true or not
– but I’ll publish it anyway. That’s a play straight out of the catastrophic climate change manual.
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In my writing work, when I do Goolag searches it usually offers first an AI answer.
I frequently find that the AI has errors in it, even on technical or scientific matters.
Just because it comes from AI doesn’t mean it’s true.
In fact AI is less trustworthy than most legitimate sources of information.
It is concerning that many “professionals” in science, engineering, law, medicine, “journalism” and business now rely on AI to do their “research” and “thinking” for them. It is also used to write summaries of meetings, even medical consultations. What could possibly go wrong?
It’s only a matter of time before there is a major engineering or medical disaster that will be attributable to what the AI said or told someone to do.
And if you don’t have knowledge yourself in the first place, or can’t think for yourself, absolutely never use AI. It will just make you more stupid.
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AI is always going to be GIGO. It doesn’t think, it doesn’t evaluate, it just gives weighting to what it is told to tell you.
It will always be the same as talking to a green idiot. Why anyone would quote from them is astounding. Quoting an AI, to justify a comment, is a give away that the author has no value to add to the conversation. I’d rather talk to a government ‘advisor’, (who’ve never worked a day in their life outside of the gravy train).
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True David- The beginning of wisdom is understanding what you don’t know. Anyone, Scientist or otherwise, that claims to know the “Unknowable” e.g. climate trends in 5 years is a dangerous fool. What is more, you don’t have to be a Scientist to be able to detect pseudoscience. A sensitive BS meter is all that is required!
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Yes. It reminds me of the transition from pen, paper and slide rules to calculators. Astute users made the effort to check for reasonableness.
Speaking of which I found my slide rule the other day. I wonder if my Kaye and Laby four figure tables are in the archives somewhere.
And to think of the sheer volume of labour involved in creating just the table of logarithms. All done by hand. Napier’s legacy.
The times they are a changin’
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Breaking: A Victory for Free Speech: Mark Steyn’s $1 Million Judgment Slashed to $5,000 in Landmark Climate Case
Charles Rotter
Today, we raise a cheer for reason, justice, and the unyielding spirit of free expression! Today, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia delivered a resounding blow to overreach in the long-running defamation lawsuit brought by climate scientist Michael Mann against conservative commentator Mark Steyn. In a Final Judgment Order, Judge Alfred S. Irving, Jr. reduced Steyn’s punitive damages from an astronomical $1 million to a modest $5,000—vindicating Steyn, protecting open debate, and sending a powerful message about the limits of legal bullying.
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But justice has prevailed! The court’s ruling not only slashes Steyn’s punitive damages to a reasonable $5,000 but also declares the original $1 million award unconstitutional—too excessive, too punitive, and out of step with the actual harm (or lack thereof) Mann suffered.
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Adding to the celebration, Mann has been ordered to pay over $500,000 in legal costs to National Review, Steyn’s co-defendant in the case. This award, rooted in D.C.’s Anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) law, recognizes the frivolous nature of Mann’s decade-long legal crusade against those who challenged his research.
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Let’s raise a glass to this triumph! The slashing of Steyn’s penalty to $5,000 isn’t just a legal correction—it’s a beacon for free speech, a shield for honest inquiry, and a reminder that truth emerges from open debate, not courtroom battles. The fight for reason continues, but today, we celebrate a monumental step forward.
HT/Stephen McIntyre
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/04/a-victory-for-free-speech-mark-steyns-1-million-judgment-slashed-to-5000-in-landmark-climate-case/
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Good news.
But not a complete victory. Why did Steyn still have to pay one cent, let alone $5,000?
Plus Steyn has already severely suffered financially and health-wise from this lawfare.
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I wonder how long it will take for the general view of the legacy media changes, now that the Biden Billions have stopped flowing into every corner of society, undermining the truth. Will we start to hear of the terrible disfigurement and deaths from the very profitable transgender surgery business? The suicides from this butchery? The failures from DEI policies where doors without bolts fall off aircraft or a Naval boat is lost because the captain has the ship on autopilot over a reef?
The number of deaths of whales and raptors from windmills or the total destruction of the inner city in America with AntiFA, BLM, abortion as contraception? We have had over 12 years of the three terms of Barack Obama to destroy America. And Australia with Mt Panorama to join a gold mine and the rock climbing industry in Victoria and Ayers Rock. Plus the use of absolutely ridiculous names for Australian cities given no city was built by aborigines in history.
And how long will it be before the Royal Society, Lancet, Scientific American, National Geographic stop pushing woke science and start trying to win back real scientists who want truth with their coffee?
It’s going to be hard for the extreme Left in most countries to keep ownership of the newspapers. And Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post may be the first of many to dump their leftist readers in search of a wider and older traditionally conservative educated audience. The Age in Melbourne is starting to resemble a medieval bulletin.
As for Hollywood and Disney, they still have a problem making popular films, especially when Snow White doesn’t have skin as white as snow. I assume unicorns will be hornless. Dwarves are already unemployable, replaced by CGI and full size people like Hugh Grant. And Disneyland collapses because people no longer want social justice pushed at them by cartoon characters.
It’s about time. We wondered who was paying for all the woke. And now we know.
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And we know who has been paying for the Climate Change trolls. The impact of the US withdrawing from WHO and IPPC/UN Climate nonsense will mean the money stops too. Snowy II needs to stop too. It is useless. We could have brought water from the Ord river to the Murray Darling system for less effort and cost.
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If all the staggering amounts of money Australia has literally thrown to the pagan wind gods, Anemoi, sun god or Gaia, had been used for something useful, we could have irrigated much of the interior of Australia both from some variation of the Bradfield Scheme and nuclear powered desalination plants. And still had heaps of cash left over.
Thus Australia could become a breadbasket for the world which will be especially important as we come to the end of the present interglacial and enter the next Ice Age. Presumably Australia will have a favourable climate during the next Ice Age, at least in the north.
Money could also have been spent on roads, railways and decentralisation to go with this irrigation.
Of course, there are many other things the money could have been spent on, but taxpayers would decide because it’s money that they wouldn’t be taxed or forced to spend on inflated energy bills.
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Until the Turnbull Government rejected the plan the Abbott Government had campaigned with and proceeded with a plan to extend the Kununurra WA Irrigation Area across and through the NT into NQ building new dams, the area being about the same size as Western Europe.
Together with QLD LNP Premier Campbell Newman Prime Minister Tony Abbott the “Wild Rivers” legislation and UN registration banning development of the northern rivers was lifted, stage one of the plan.
It was a huge project to open irrigation farmland with roads, towns, airstrips, and other infrastructure, a nation building project that would increase off farm produce for export markets and boosting the Australian economy.
Part of the plan involved harvesting wet season rainfall and a Bradfield Scheme water transfer to Southern Australia.
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But problems with all of those schemes is they would “destroy” the environment. Except of course, sea shells in central Australia, fossilised ferns , evidence of forests,
Mungo Man living in a fertile well watered area that is today very dry, to the point of desiccation. etc etc etc.
But no, any clear thinking Greens supporter knows that the environment that they see today is exactly the way it has been since the dawn of time.
Oh, and these people tend not to visit these areas, just tell everyone else how to manage things, que Bob Brown, wind turbines everywhere, except his back yard.
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“I wonder how long it will take for the general view of the legacy media changes,”
I was scanning the anti-Trump propaganda in the Sydney Morning Herald a few minutes ago when a pop-up asked me if I would like a digital subscription. Then it asked how much I would like to pay, then how many subscriptions I had and how old I was. It suggests they are still losing subscribers and are searching for a market to sell newspapers into.
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Too true TdeF! Pres Trump’s masterstroke is simply cutting of the funding source. Suddenly the progressive narrative deflates with a puff of smoke. Thus there is no positive reinforcement anymore through “NGOs”. If Govt is kept to core functions and run with efficiency the underlying economy will soar.
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The Australian reporting today that the green hydrogen energy superpower political propaganda of Albanese Labor has all but collapsed in a heap.
“Australia’s green hydrogen industry has failed to fire, with 99 per cent of a $100bn supply pipeline failing to progress beyond the concept stage, punching a hole in the PM’s aim to develop a major export industry and meet net-zero goals.”
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Good news, but how much taxpayer money has already been blown on this?
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“Good news, but how much taxpayer money has already been blown on this?”
Highly confidential and untraceable by very muddied waters of shell companies and NGOs I am sure!
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In an earlier phase of this life, I worked as a consulting engineer. It always disappointed me that I was told to chase every one of these government grants, looking for a secure cash flow, a study here, a study there, just to keep the dollars ticking over.
You can be assured that anyone who actually collected the funds would have found out within a few minutes that the project was not viable BUT they never put their hand up and said STOP.
They sold their soul and they know it.
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I believe voters would be very angry indeed if a list of NGOs was published together with funding to each one and listing their objectives, one of many that seems to be a one person business venture is the Pedestrian Council of Australia, not so active now but around the 1990s almost weekly stories in the Daily Telegraph Sydney and other media.
PCA promoted the banning of 4WD vehicles from shopping centre streets and council carparks, those “behemoths” were bad for pedestrians.
Climate Council of Australia is another!!!
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Hair Starmer attempts credibility!
https://richardsonpost.com/daniel-jupp/38912/boots-on-the-ground-and-aristocrats-at-war/
Those that love the fighting but eschew the dying. Twas ever so!
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If you watch the WH meeting you will see Z do the old cocaine sniff now and again
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Does anyone actually know what is going on or is this just a fun game that anyone can join with any kind of absurd unsubstantiated ideas? Donald Trump has good reason to hate Ukraine for the flow of crooked cash to the Bidens, and he has good reason to get Russia on our side before the shooting war with China starts. I think this tale has a few twists to go, and you might as well use a climate model to predict them.
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FWIW –
Brains of a ?? – you decide
“Dingus Democrats Shame Trump for Buying 1000s OF EGGS for Easter … There’s Just 1 Big Hilarious Problem”
“Do they really think Trump uses real eggs for the Easter egg roll?”
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/03/04/democrats-trump-easter-eggs-n2409301
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Not that the SMH is full of propaganda, but… the science is settled!
” But why would Trump do it? The world has long puzzled over his affinity for Putin, the former KGB colonel who seeks to neuter the US, dominate Europe and destroy the West. The attraction is inexplicable. But the evidence now is incontrovertible: We should accept that Trump acts as an agent of Putin…
The professor of strategic studies at Scotland’s St Andrew’s University, Phillips O’Brien, put it this way: “Trump opens his mouth and Putin comes out.”
Trump has adopted the Russian talking point that Ukraine is on the ropes and can’t win.”
and more like that, any chance of blaming Trump for anything in the world, and a fantasyland view of the war in Ukraine! Ukraine IS on the ropes and can’t win!
Will the International Editor and warmonger in the SMH resign when Russia wins? I doubt it, he will be rushing off to stir hatred up against China for the next round in the West’s war on the world.
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FWIW – news for that editor!
“Why Russia Is Not Going To Lose
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Its really rather simple: They have not gone along with “green energy” and as a result they have inexpensive and abundant energy.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252918
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Putin is losing but losing slowly. He is Germany in WW1. Running out of everything, economy dying, can’t keep up with demand for military equipment. If it keeps going, Ukraine will win but the cost in lives, mostly Russians will be horrendous (have empathy for the Russian soldiers too).
Trump will say anything to put pressure on both of them to negotiate. Don’t read too much into what he says, he just wants Europe to step up and pay for its own defence. They have been bludging, relying on the NATO alliance, weakened by unreliable expensive energy.
If Putin didn’t have nukes there would not have been any tiptoeing, they would have been crushed long ago.
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On X recently there have been posts showing how previous US presidents tried to set up a working relationship with Mr Putin. Bill Clinton did an interview in front of a live audience once and proclaimed that he had befriended Putin, because getting to know him meant a possible advantage in negotiations. Bill was then lauded as a negotiating hero! The live crowd all clapped like seals. Yesterday there was footage of George W Bush driving ol’ Vlad around in a pickup truck on his farm in Texas.(maybe early 2000’s?)Both Bill and George applauded for bringing on more detente. Trump tries the same tactic – he’s a “Putin puppet”. The first rule of media these days – assume the public are all idiots. Trouble is, most of the MSM are more idiotic than the public.
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Seeking help regarding marital problems related to my adoration of Elon Musk. Since Elon Musk (selflessly) came into the political scene and is (selflessly) fixing all our problems, I’ve grown to love this man. And my wife has noticed that I’ve been drifting further and further away from her. I don’t want to end my marriage but I don’t know how to reconcile my love of Elon Musk. This man is the greatest person in human history. He invented EVs, is a loving and doting father of many children, loves to stay outside of the spotlight and is the world’s greatest video game player.
I’m thinking that buying a Tesla could resolve my issue as it can at least act as an idol or an “outlet” for me. There is nothing more impressive to me than a white Model X Tesla. And that beautifully crafted interior makes high-end Rolls Royce’s look cheap. It is an engineering marvel with unparalleled build quality. These Tesla Model Xs you see everywhere in inner city Melbourne will be the 1963 250 GTOs of the future. The capital appreciation of a Tesla is enough to support my retirement.
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Buy the Tesla ditch the wife.
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I read recently about EV recharge station rage directed at owners who dare to continue charging after 80 per cent is reached, apparently the time to achieve 100 percent is much longer than to 80 percent.
I wondered about being restricted to 80 percent while on a long distance country drive where chargers are few and far between?
The theoretical range of an EV even at 100 percent battery capacity is always less on country roads at legal road speeds, depending on load being carried of people and luggage, etc. I understand that with a near new battery system on average expect country range considerably less than theoretical range.
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The Cyclone reported off Brisbane doesn’t look very cyclonic to me.
Just some heavyish rain. Propaganda perhaps?
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I heard a media comment that a cyclone could benefit Albanese’ election chances in QLD with him taking advantage to offer Federal grant monies and sympathise with people impacted to maximum effect.
Propaganda promoted via Labor media releases?
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FWIW – more covid
“WATCH: Pfizer CEO Flops Attempting to Defend Vax Liability Shield”
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/03/04/watch-pfizer-ceo-flops-attempting-to-defend-vax-liability-shield-n4937539
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