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Past Cyclone Mahina:
https://realclimatescience.com/2025/03/cyclone-mahina/#gsc.tab=0
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Read Hector Holthouse’s book Cyclone.
The Bathurst Bay cyclone wrecked havoc on the pearling fleet.
From memory the local police found large fish dolphin? miles inland.
He did not write a book on Tsunamis along the Australian Coast, now that would be a frightening Halloween Night story for our wealthy political and swamp dwelling classes and their beach front homes.
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This was posted by Jason Wood MP on Farcebook. He is from the fake conservative Liberal Party but they are certainly less bad than Green Labor!
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Whoah – first you guys steal Split Enz, Crowded House AND Russ LeRoq (you can keep him) and now your ‘con’ opposition party has stolen ‘Back On Track’ (BOT) from the ‘con’ National Party here in NZ which, in a 3-way deal, evicted Jacinda’s Labour Green toadies from their seats 18 months ago (despite hordes of invisible bureaucrats still lurking in the woodwork).
You’d think these bright sparks would come up with an original sales pitch like Made in Australia … yet Dutton & Co. borrow their cousins across the ditch’s marketing ploy – unless we stole it off someone else prior to that.
Politricksters the lot of ‘em!
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That’s why I don’t understand when labor say nuclear power ‘is so expensive’, we’ve never seen anything too expensive for the lefties to blow wads of our cash on.
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It’s all a matter of perspective. If I had a vested interest in intermittent energy, then the introduction of nuclear power would personally be extremely expensive.
Those gravy trains need some pretense for their existence.
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EU ‘Doubling Down on Insanity’ as Energy Costs Tank Their Economy: Doomberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WWb9McIx4w
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An Australian wind subsidy farm is to shut down, which of course is good news and the site is not going to be reused, presumably for another subsidy farm, as it is not financially viable to do so,
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What happens when a wind subsidy farm is decommisionrd?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-18/can-old-wind-farm-turbines-be-recycled/104062334
Steel tower and generator are recycled. Blades to land fill. No one mentions the concrete base in the ground. I suppose that is left where it was.
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The wind farms at Esperance WA, which I believe were the first in Australia, were shut down a few years ago after only 15 year’s operation. Also a very windy site. The towers were removed, but it is rumoured that the blades were just dumped in the sandhills. I believe that the tower sites were offered as “parking areas” to the local council.
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Don’t you just love these words…
” He said most agreements between wind farm companies and landowners hosting wind turbines included requirements and funding agreements for the decommissioning process.
Mr Aberle said planning permits and approvals required decommissioning plans.
These might not spell out every detail at the time but there was always an agreement with landowners on how decommissioning would work. ”
Cheers,
Dave B
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Is any RELIABLE data on how much MWh it produced so far, related to its nameplate, etc published?
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So, it lasts 24 years and you can refurbish a “near perfect site” Would that mean the whole wind “industry” is a one off piece of work for one generation?
How can it not be viable when foundations are in place, transmission is in place, leases are in place and all the support and admin is in place? What an outrageous scam these things are.
And of course the ABC reports it as if its all quite normal.
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Perhaps the only thing that was ‘near perfect’ was the subsidy arrangement.
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The fact that it has given 2 years notice of shutdown highlights the value placed on intermittent generation.
Coal fired generators have to give at least 3 years notice and a couple have been given government funds to ensure viability beyond their originally proposed closure date..
Blackout should be getting an inkling of understanding by now.
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Advice for tropical cyclone Alfred.
Not a joke.
The dumbing-down of Australia is alarming.
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Copied from Farcebook.
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Designed by a committee.
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You did hear the one about God using up the leftovers after creating all the other animals…didn’t you?
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Need volunteers to help safeguard and secure Tesla dealerships from the Sunshine Coast to the Gold Coast. If anyone has the money, time and resources, it would be greatly appreciated. My biggest concern during this impending weather event is that those perfect pieces of machinery could be harmed. We desperately need sandbags and sand to properly protect these holy sites.
These Teslas are worth their weight in gold. I’m so disappointed that more people haven’t been devoting themselves to protecting them. Instead they’re selfishly trying to protect their own homes. May I remind you guys that Elon Musk is selflessly protecting us from evil. Elon Musk has nothing to gain from his political ambitions. So why can’t we return the favour and protect these beautiful Teslas.
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Move them to high ground and park under large gum trees for protection
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FWIW
“Broken Britain in 10 INSANE maps
This is what it looks like when the social contract breaks down”
https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/broken-britain-in-10-insane-maps
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Things are not healthy
https://www.newstarget.com/2025-03-05-professor-predicts-mass-unrest-within-five-years-in-uk.html
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Eee by gum lad, if I lived in a place called Burngreave or Grimesthorpe or even Slough, I’d be getting the heck out of there quick-fast too…
Another slow-motion inside-job demolition hack: RIP HMS Britannia.
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Interesting new ammonia synthesis catalyst.
At same conditions as the usual Haber-Bosch process ( 400 C, 0.9 MPa ) NH3 production is 200% to 300% higher. New Catalyst works down to 50C, standard HB catalyst stops working at 200C.
Article: https://phys.org/news/2025-01-ammonia-synthesis-iron-based-catalyst.amp
Full Paper: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202410313
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University of Sussex Offers Degree in Climate Justice
https://moonbattery.com/university-of-sussex-offers-degree-in-climate-justice/
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Career paths are Green MP or burger flipping
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FWIW – the message behind the message
“CIA Director John Ratcliffe Confirms President Trump Paused “Intelligence Sharing” (ie The Drone Targeting System) With Ukraine
March 5, 2025 | Sundance | 281 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/05/cia-director-john-ratcliffe-confirms-president-trump-paused-intelligence-sharing-ie-the-drone-targeting-system-with-ukraine/
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From the article:
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You’re stating the bleeding obvious.
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But, for a change, so are they
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Ukrainian ground troops gain ground in the defense of Pokrovsk and the retaking of Toretsk – American response is to pause arms supply to Ukraine.
Ukrainian-made drones successfully attack oil refining facilities deep within Russia. Ukrainians use precision missile systems to target Russian supply hubs used to attack Ukraine. American response is to deny Ukraine targeting information.
The real test of the broadening relationship between Russia and the US – will Russia stop its missile and drone attacks on infrastructure deep into Ukraine, and pause its ground offensive in response to the US actions?
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I doubt the causality suggested in your first two paragraphs Rowjay and have no way to verify your facts.
But the question in your third paragraph is very much on point. Will Russia resist the temptation to exploit the advantage. And for bonus points will the powers that be who control the Ukraine side be tempted to fold their tent.
How is your crystal ball? Mine is very foggy.
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I would like to see some clarification on ‘the powers that be who control the Ukraine side …’
My crystal ball shows Turkey, France and UK as major players.
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FWIW
Para #1 – The re-organised Ukrainian military structure commenced well-organised and thought out attacks on encroaching Russian positions towards key towns about 3 weeks ago. They recognised poor Russian morale and logistics and decided to take advantage of the situation, and are having the first success in pushing back since the last time US congress blocked critical aid which allowed Russia to push forward.
Take a look at the following clip – Russian Soldiers Can’t Take It Anymore – They Want To Go Home. Cutting military arms aid now can only help Russia and stall Ukrainian efforts to take back their land.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdw5jdFw10o
Para #2 – A few days ago, Ukraine launched one of its most successful drone attacks on Russian infrastructure, the link below providing a summary. Ukraine is slowly gaining the initiative. The US response – stop providing targeting information.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/03/04/ranging-across-russia-and-ukraine-in-one-fiery-night-ukrainian-drones-blow-up-5-russian-oil-pipelines-refineries-and-depots/
I don’t want to look in my crystal ball – I see no good coming from a world ruled by transactional arrangements that appear to be destroying traditional alliances. President Putin wants pre-1992 land back, President Trump wants Canada and Greenland. Europe is being forced towards China. What next?
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The US has suspended intelligence sharing, so Ukraine is dependent on EU intelligence from now on.
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The term military intelligence always makes me look sideways at the person using it. EU intelligence just has to be an oxymoron.
The non-pretending version of course is that the US has suspended missile targeting and control systems which were never in the hands of the Ukraine anyway. The EU has no missile targeting or control systems of its own.
Trump is threatening so disclose the open secret that it is a proxy war against Russia run by the CIA.
And where that will take us is to severe discombobulation of quite a few warmongers.
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FWIW – more on that “Robert Kennedy Texas measles backdown”
Starts here
“Yesterday, we discussed HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s op-ed about the Texas measles “outbreak” and the MMR vaccine, and I urged you to withhold judgment and see what HHS does. We only had to wait one day. The headlines were, as they say, a target-rich environment. I choe the far-left New Republic, which shrieked: “RFK Jr.’s Solution for Measles Outbreak Has Health Experts Horrified.” If ‘health experts’ were horrified, you know it had to be good.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/inform-me-wednesday-march-5-2025?
And looks at other things too
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And
“The COVID-Era Smearing – and Resurrection – of Trump NIH Appointee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/03/05/the-covid-era-smearing-and-resurrection-of-trump-nih-appointee-dr-jay-bhattacharya-n3800438
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The climate con merchants have found another threatened population on a sinking river delta to blame on rising seas!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14463477/Alexandria-sinking-rising-sea-levels-climate-change.html
The reality.
https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/africa-archives/sinking-cities-project-alexandria-layers-of-history-levels-of-threat/
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‘Green’ Debit Card Funded by Celebs Ends in Fraud Arrests
https://www.frontpagemag.com/green-debit-card-funded-by-celebs-ends-in-fraud-arrests/
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Latest European pro-war anti-Russia scare mongering:
JUST IN: French president E. Macron has said he will open talks with allies over how France’s nuclear weapons could protect Europe.
For context:
France has about 290 Nukes
Russia has about 5,580 Nukes.
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Do the numbers matter?
I would think the first to use them would be in the box seat for a few minutes until the retaliation came. Then who wins. Also what would the USA target if anything while China holdis over 500 nuclear weapons.
Northern hemisphere could be a sad place for a few decades. A few war survivors look to Australia for asylum.
I think if France fire a nuclear missile at Russia on Day 1, Paris would be obliterated before Day2.
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One is too many.
The numbers merely highlight the stupidity of Macron’s fear-mongering.
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IIRC an Orashnik can get to London in 20 minutes – “Just sayin”
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Take out what’s left of the Ukraine and hope the winds blow east for a few thousand years?
And the real problem of course is that sooner or later somebody will resurrect the idea of a survivable nuclear war.
Remember it isn’t a really stupid idea until the wrong person has it.
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There’s a story about why British Officers wore red jackets, and why French officers wore brown trousers.
In both cases, history has proven correct.
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Climate Change has a name:
Los Angeles County sues Southern California Edison, alleging utility’s equipment sparked wildfire
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Immigrant parents remove teenage sons from UK over stabbing fears
Immigrant parents in the UK, fearful of gang knife violence, are sending teenage sons back to their countries of origin, a community worker said Friday, after a boy sued his family for putting him in a Ghana boarding school.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said last year knife crime in the UK had become a “national crisis” after a spate of stabbings involving teenagers.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250228-immigrant-parents-remove-teenage-sons-from-uk-over-stabbing-fears
Africa safer than the UK?
How far can they fall..
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FWIW
Another overlooked by “Elbow”?
“Australian Man Whose Blood Donations Saved Millions Dies Age 88”
https://www.sciencealert.com/australian-man-whose-blood-donations-saved-millions-dies-age-88
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In a couple of posts yesterday the great list of factors in the global warming debate was highlighted.
Paul C has condensed so much relevant information into one spot.
https://joannenova.com.au/2025/03/wednesday-96/#comment-2834864
There’s one feature in part 1 however that may need some clarification.
When the initial UNIPCCC science came out one of the big features was the reliance on Arrhenius to confirm the reality of “heat trapping” by atmospheric CO2. Deal done.
Now, the rebuttal being looked at uses a similar technique in quoting Plank with no real explanation of what is behind the matter under dispute ,
Plank’s work is great but the mix of items in that part 1 is confusing and misleading: eg the mention of “intermolecular” bonds.
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I don’t know if this has been posted yet.
Trump limits scientists’ work on key climate report that critics say has become politicized
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/trump-limits-scientists-work-key-climate-report-critics-say-has-become
Trump reportedly issued a stop-work order this week barring a group of U.S. scientists from traveling to China to participate in discussions on the development of the latest installment of an influential — and controversial — report on research into climate change.
Citing unnamed sources, Axios reported that officials with the State Department will not participate in a March meeting in Hangzhou, China, to discuss the seventh assessment report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Kat Calvin, NASA’s chief scientist, CNN reported, was scheduled to co-chair the discussion, but a NASA spokesperson confirmed Calvin won’t be going to the meeting…
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