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Re: Man-made global warming?

jorowatt — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:51:28 -0000

For the past decade I have been trying to get Oz pollies to get someone to explain to them the difference between mathematical modelling and principles of physics with respect to the explanation of the drivers of climate change. None were interested even though they have easy access to the expertise needed to achieve the goal of understanding the role of CO2 in our climate. In particular the community needs a simplified version of the analysis of Dr John Nicol who has demonstrated that CO2 cannot cause the climate catastrophe that Thunberg/Flannery/Bowen and Co mythologize about. Perhaps once this understanding has been achieved we can get our community/industry back on track and out of the profit-sucking grasp of Cannon-Brookes , Forrest and Holmes-a Court.

Re: A nuanced view of the nuclear option

jorowatt — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 04:48:43 -0000

Bottom line is that Dr John Nicol pointed out over a decade ago that CO2 does not drive the global warming that the wokies need for their CO2 panic sessions. Unfortunately both side of Oz politics have swallowed the bait. Renewables can't provide the reliable sources of energy needed to supply the Oz community/industry. In short sun/wind could produce small MW outputs at a large number of locations distant from the consumers...requiring significant transmission line expenditure grossly increasing energy prices. If Oz voters succumb to the CO2 myth then the cost-effective option is nuclear positioned as close as possible to the established coal-fired stations to use the existing transmission assets. Someday, CCP permitting, Oz might wake up and regain some status as a competitive manufacturer using efficiently produced energy.

Re: How much did the Covid crisis cost?

jorowatt — Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:20:16 -0000

Cost of covid 19? Who knows. Just seen a sad story about a 25 year old nurse with long covid 2 years after initial dose of the Ping Pong.

Re: ‘Rackets of fire’: Djokovic is the new Eric Liddell

jorowatt — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 21:33:25 -0000

This guy ignored rules in Serbia and in Spain. He tried to lie his way into Australia..bravely blaming one of his team for the form filling mistake. Australia called him out!! Not the sort of character we like to associate with a champion sportsperson. Anyway he is chasing a false goal. Greatest player is Rod Laver who won all 4 Grand Slams in the same season. TWICE...true mastery of the game. The goal to rack up lots of wins on your favorite surfaces is impressive but not up to the level set by Laver.

Re: Don’t turn tennis into Tampa

jorowatt — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:39:15 -0000

Novaxx dodged the Covid rules in Serbia (catch up on the President's comments), in Spain also and appears to have lied about his eligibility to enter our country (delegates this to a "team member" mistake)...how many more instances of this guy's arrogance do we have to tolerate? Years ago felt a bit sorry for him when he described how he had to interrupt childhood tennis practice sessions as the NATO bombers flew over Belgrade but since then his support for the instigators of those ethnic atrocities puts him in a very different bucket to the typical tennis champ.

Re: Australia’s giant green gamble on solar energy toys

jorowatt — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 06:21:31 -0000

Has anyone actually produced a plausible scientific analysis that shows how "emissions" generate global warming to the level IPCC would have us believe and Thunberg/Flannery would have us panic about? Over a decade ago a Queensland scientist , Dr John Nicol , used basic physics to show that emissions accounted for only 5 to 10% of the warming that IPCC modelling is inviting us to catastrophize about. No one to my knowledge has refuted Nicol's conclusions. However we and our economy our now facing the impact of unreliable energy supply with little or no help from gutless/intellectually lazy political "leadership".

Re: Voter ID – a good idea or unnecessary?

jorowatt — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 01:49:20 -0000

For mine , the biggest fault in our system is representative democracy. Without the red team /blue team time-wasting rubbish we probably wouldn't have the incentive to rort the voting system. You hear of Liberals saying the Labor rule is vote early and vote often. The objective is to run the country in a sensible and orderly fashion. We simply need to measure what people want and set the rules and budgets accordingly. Given the extent of secure electronic communication now in use, surely some form of on-line voting can be used where individuals can choose the applicable policies.

Re: Anti-vaxxers changing tactics against mandates

jorowatt — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:18:23 -0000

These self-obsessed people need to get a grip on reality. They run the risk of getting WuFlu big time. Then they will expect to get access to scarce medical attention in preference to those of us with serious but unavoidable conditions. Serious Covid is largely avoidable...simply get the vaccine..risk of serious illness is most likely way less from vaccine than from Covid. Time for anti's to grow up. I know our first world economy can cater for these petals but at some point they need to realise they are part of a community.

Re: Shrinking backyards could be making your suburb hotter

jorowatt — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 05:38:35 -0000

Need be careful with facts in this space. The urban heat island effect is one of the rarely recognised drivers of temperature increases...habitation changes can impact surface temperatures....not only the evil CO2.More trees will make life more comfortable but how far do people want to live from their place of work? In terms of benefits from trees why did we let Bob Carr close down the access tracks in the NSW State Forests...raging bushfires, destroyed trees and executed animals Surely that was not part of Carr's thinking. But it is so easy to blame climate change for the extreme temperatures during bushfire season when a little attention to First Nation's long established backburning practices would have avoided the disaster.

Re: Boris Johnson should trust the market to solve climate change

jorowatt — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 03:38:27 -0000

Forget about the market. Market was never an effective way to provide energy supply. It's a public utility and should not be an opportunity for the greedy profit suckers. Let's just get the science right ,then plan whatever response is needed to offset negative effects of cost-effective methods of energy production. In particular make the effort to understand Dr John Nicol's analysis of the behaviour of CO2 in the atmosphere. Conclusion is that CO2 is responsible for only 10 to 20% of the impact attributed to it by the IPCC's mathematical modelling. Suggest the better use of boffin brainpower would be to identify the remaining 80 to 90% of the climate change drivers rather than waste time embroidering the IPCC's mythology. Seriously what should win the debate ...assumption based modelling or basic physics facts? Boris and Scomo may have been able to get to the tops of their respective trees without much attention to physics but what our world needs now is substitution of modelled mythology with facts.

Re: The royal 'fairytale' that faded

jorowatt — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 20:47:37 -0000

There are ratbags in all groups/families. Royals are no exception...Henry 8, David the abdicator(Hitler's favourite Royal, ), Prince Andrew and possibly Prince Harry. Fortunately we have been gloriously served by QEII.

Re: Beware a blind charge to net-zero emissions

jorowatt — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 04:34:17 -0000

As someone who spent most of his working life setting electricity prices with the price rise target being less than 1/2CPI, the antics within the industry over the past decade or so are grossly illogical. We used to have the cheapest distributed electricity in the developed world...now we have some of the dearest. Privatization and infatuation with renewables are major drivers of the decline together with pressure from profit takers eager to score from the replacement of effective systems with sub-standard "unreliables." Politicians scared of the Thunberg effect seem to have lost the ability to make rational energy supply decisions. I believe another major driver was the disruption to effective system planning which appears to have resulted from privatization/disaggregation. Recent AEMO reports identify the impact of voltage surge problems due to increased suburban solar panel installation...without sensible planning and foresight we have subsidized the degeneration of a once effective electricity supply system...clever country!! Yet to find a politician game to read the work of Dr John Nicol ,who a decade or so ago demonstrated , used basic physics , to show the IPCC's catastrophe model over estimates the impact of atmospheric CO2 by a factor of 5 to 10. CO2 is not the culprit but our boffins are too lazy to seek out the real drivers of changes in climate...and Mr Moran clearly identifies some of the consequences.

Re: Porter's funding from a 'blind trust' is an integrity test for PM

jorowatt — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 05:29:58 -0000

So "our" ABC can spread all sorts of concocted rubbish against Porter but Porter has to disclose all details of his attempts to re-establish his reputation. Perhaps the overblown budget we fund for ABC should be redirected to factual, lawyer-verified reporting...then Porter and others would not have to scramble around to pay even more lawyers.

Re: How China tried to suppress the lab leak investigation

jorowatt — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 22:40:20 -0000

So China did some sloppy research into "gain of function". World suffers. Who knew risks of "gain of function " research. France who built the Wuhan lab? US who funded the research? Australia who trained some of the Wuhan researchers?
Where was WHO taking care of World Health? Under some rock???

Re: Cuomo isn’t resigning. Why should he?

jorowatt — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:30:24 -0000

Check the TV news.."They shifted the line on me..so I'm going". Bye Andrew...and take your princely namesake with you.

Re: Temperatures to rise 1.5 degrees in a decade. But what matters most?

jorowatt — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 05:53:51 -0000

Still find it amazing that these scientists rely on assumptions/modelling. Reality is that over a decade ago Dr John Nicol demonstrated that the real physics of the behaviour of CO2 in out atmosphere indicates CO2 can be responsible for just 10 t0 20% of the impact attributed to it by IPCC/Flannery/Gore/ Thunberg. Meanwhile Australia green-panics itself into destruction of our manufacturing and economy. Science needs to get real and find the real drivers of climate change. Who knows those fast-disappearing coal-fired behemoths may be what we need to help counter the actual climate drivers. However science's biggest blunder thusfar is the failure to speak up on the dangers of "gain of function" . Even Fauci was aware of possibility of catastrophic outcomes but took no effective action. Are the IPCC leading us down another panful path?

Re: Brisbane wins Gold in the hyperbole stakes

jorowatt — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 21:01:47 -0000

As a resident of a Brisbane suburb I suspect we are victims of a tunnel-visioned elitist who doesn't travel the goat tracks that many of our suburban streets are becoming. 2032 may look good on her resume when she applies to be Governor-General but in the real world , where real people do real jobs, we need need to spend scarce resources on safe everyday streets not on displays of essentially under-used sports stadia.

Re: Labor proposes $300 vaccination payment plan

jorowatt — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 05:21:16 -0000

Albanese..wasn't he the would-be PM who failed to call out the Italian EU politician trying to stop vaccination doses coming to Australia? Where do this guy's loyalties lie? Should we be trusting anything he says?

Re: Critics line up to blast tax cuts for the rich

jorowatt — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:55:02 -0000

Chalmers and an "inclusive " society after Covid? Creepy Jim wouldn't know what that means. His comment about Josh coughing in the House last year was ""What will he cough up next? ". Fortunately Frydenberg didn't have Covid. Chalmers...not the sort of creep we need representing our wonderful state of Queensland

Re: Business figures turned to Rudd to bring forward Pfizer vaccine

jorowatt — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 03:23:19 -0000

Good work Kevin 07! Certainly shows up the frailty of your successor Albo who couldn't be bothered speaking up for Oz a few months ago when a fellow Italian EU politician tried to stop vacciine supplies coming our way. ,

Re: Older Aussies forking out billions in loyalty taxes

jorowatt — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 21:04:24 -0000

This is simply the same thing as is happening in energy. Non-solar users' high charges are used to
subsidize installation of solar. Meanwhile AEMC proposes restrictions on input of solar into grid in the form of "charges" to put solar generated energy on to grid. Just indicates lack of leadership and planning across our economy.

Re: Aussies expect pollies to lie, but expect them to resign when caught

jorowatt — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 04:17:39 -0000

I'll resume credence in the ABC when they take the trouble/find the courage to give an honest assessment of the Covid story. Only Sky's Sharri Markson seems to be able to track down the grossly deceptive behaviour of Fauci and its fatal consequences. ABC stays well away. So how could any ABC survey produce believable conclusions?

Re: ATO issues warning for those copying and pasting tax returns

jorowatt — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 04:53:34 -0000

Clearly "deepblue", is concerned /cranky with treatment by ATO. However the "faceless scum " comment appears to have slipped through any YLC "respectful" test. In any case who s the faceless entity ...deepblue ???

Re: The power of intellectual curiosity

jorowatt — Sun, 30 May 2021 04:06:35 -0000

I suggest the "experts " read a decade-old paper by Dr John Nicol in which he clearly demonstrates that atmospheric CO2 is incapable of producing the climate changing effects that IEA and others take as gospel when dictating to us how to get the distributed energy service that a 21st century first world country needs. Nicol takes us back to "square one " of this process...somewhere that a vast majority of us don't dare go anywhere near. As a consequence we are going to experience a manufacturing and economy destroying energy supply inadequacy simply because we want to feel good about saving the planet or are in a privileged position to make profit out of replacing the energy system and/or replacing the road vehicle population. Laziness/stupidity/greed on a grand scale!

Re: One (wo)man's rubbish is another (wo)man's treasure

jorowatt — Sat, 01 May 2021 19:40:28 -0000

A neat solution to this dilemma. Some local councils offer similar services at refuse centres.
Who defines this stuff as rubbish and why? Fashion, peer pressure? If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, no need to replace it. Surely the driver of a lot of this rubbish production is our privileged first-world existence. A designer employed by a profit taker develops a “new ” model/ thingy and peer pressure says we all have to have one.
Perhaps we need to identify needs in third world countries that can be met by our “rubbish” and fill some shipping containers.
Better still , instead of upgrading to the new “designer delight” iphone 13, donate the money to get help to third world Covid sufferers.