In other international news, the Biden Justice Department is taking a Biden to court.
This is ten dimensional chess stuff, with the Biden Justice crime gang arranging an amazing disguise - pretend to take action against his son, as a cover for what's going to be handed out by a state justice department.
Give the son a slap on the wrist, so that the Justice crime gang can claim to be even-handed, while sending the orange Jesus down for a thousand years.
Most marvellous of all, this deep state conspiracy is being organised and orchestrated by a wily criminal mastermind up there with the toughest Bond opponents, who just happens at the same time to be deep in the grip of senility and dementia.
In other international news, the lizards of Oz finally noticed that there was a British election going down, but only because their hero Nige had bobbed up again, though in doing so he had abandoned his orange Jesus, only a short time after promising to lead him out of the wilderness ...it's what the pond always says when playing cards, eighth time lucky ... and time for a cracking Crace ...
So to the lizard Oz headlines ...
In domestic news, it will also be noted by keen students that simplistic "here every conflict of interest" Simon now seems to be permanently camped in the extreme far right position of the digital Oz, determined to give the government a jolly good bagging ...
In other domestic news, the short-lived return of Jesus Josh was short-lived and a great disappointment...
In other domestic news, the pond is available to help the lizard Oz heavies carry out retrenchments and restructuring. Two obvious suspects - we last heard from Major Mitchell on 5th May 2024 and there was a short, feeble burst from Lloydie of the Amazon on 20th May, and while both made energy their topic, it seems that the heavy lifting now falls on the shoulders of Dame Groan, always up for a groaning about renewables while celebrating the wonders of dinkum clean Oz coal...
In other reptile news, Mein Gott delivered a fairly banal report on BHP yesterday, and so didn't make the cut ...
The pond still has no idea why Labor politicians pander to the reptile business model, and the lizard Oz editorialist hysteria about the recent wages decision can be settled with an infallible Pope cartoon ...
And with that, might as well get on with the set text for the day, naturally featuring whale killing machines of the worst kind ...
As for Dame Groan, her work might appeal to devotees of socialist Henry Ergas and his love of government intervention in telephony ...
The pond can't begin to count the number of times it's read Dame Groan peddling this line, and the only apparent upside is that bashing renewables means that at least this day migrant-bashing is off the groaning table, heavy with the sweet smell of delectable coal ...
The pond can however note the disappointing illustrations ... a snap of a coal-fired power station, and a threatening snap of renewables devouring a suburban home ...
Students are not allowed to refer to the recent Delhi heatwave. Apparently the top record was due to a sensor error, though records were still broken ...
...the city’s record for heat still appears to have been broken. Two weather stations in the capital reported temperatures of 49C (120.2F) and 49.1C (120.38F) for Wednesday. The IMD said these two stations had been checked and it did not report any sensor errors. The highest temperature previously recorded in New Delhi was 48.4C (119.12F) in May 1998, the draft IMD report said.
Severe heat has been affecting parts of India for days. On Friday, at least 33 people, including election officials on duty, died of suspected heatstroke in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in the north, and Odisha in the east.
..Despite our inherent vulnerabilities, Australia still does not have a national climate change adaptation plan, as other parts of the world do. Although the government is in the process of developing a national strategy – essentially, we have a plan to make a plan – the pace of progress has been disastrously slow, given the urgency of the crisis we face.
While all states and territories have adaptation plans of some kind, the lack of national leadership has meant that regions have had to go it alone without adequate operational resources. Without national coordination and funding, these plans are little more than words on a page.
How many disasters does it take to wake people up to the fact that Australia’s climate is becoming more extreme, with today’s destruction set to be dwarfed by things to come? Do people realise that adapting to climate change won’t be possible in some parts of the country? Exactly how much do we need to lose before our political leaders decide to take this seriously?
The scientific reality of a rapidly warming world is very confronting, especially in Australia. As the years since our Black Summer have shown us, the prospect of a future of dealing with back-to-back disasters across the country every year is ultimately going to be impossible for our ecosystems and communities to adapt to.
The conditions experienced in 2023 have many experts worried that we may have breached regional and global tipping points that will unleash a cascade of changes that will be with us for thousands of years. The problem is that we will only know if we have definitively crossed critical thresholds for planetary stability in hindsight, so we have to move forward armed with the best available science while we still can to minimise the damage.
The latest research shows that several tipping points, such as the disintegration of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, may be triggered within the Paris Agreement range of 1.5°C to 2°C of global warming. This means it is possible that the Earth will experience major transformations even if we manage to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.
In a 2024 report released by the CSIRO on the risks of tipping points to Australia, the authors warn:
"The effects of tipping points on the global climate are generally not currently accounted for in projections based on climate models. This means that effects of tipping points are also not included in national climate projections and impact assessments for Australia and may represent significant risks on top of the changes that are generally included."
The report suggests the need to plan for “low likelihood high impact” scenarios that include climate tipping points. For example, the construction of new critical infrastructure should incorporate global sea-level rise scenarios of around two metres by 2100. Given that we are a highly coastal nation, the adaption challenge of planned relocation and retreat will be enormous.
While it may be possible to protect vulnerable areas with sea walls or the restoration of natural dunes for a while, these are only band-aid solutions that will not stem the rising tide for long. Hard decisions will need to be made by local councils around the country about how and when they plan to withdraw residents from high-risk areas. As the Australian Academy of Science notes: “Under high levels of warming and sea level rise, retreat is likely to be the only feasible long-term strategy.”
Scientists know the situation is very bad, but we also know exactly what we need to do to stabilise the Earth’s temperature and avoid triggering a domino effect of impacts in other components of the climate system. If we don’t put the brakes on industrial emissions immediately, children alive today will inherit this nightmarish future.
It makes me wonder if people in decades to come will look back at the world’s collective failure to shut down the fossil fuel industry in time and see it for what it really is: an intergenerational crime against humanity.
How silly. We have a Dame Groan plan. Stick with coal, it's the only way forward.
That sort of idle alarmism is what the reptiles valiantly battle every day. Gergis just needs a good long sip of coal juice and soon enough she'll feel as right as an incessantly rainy day ...
The only remarkable thing in this outing? Strange how muted Dame Groan was about nuking the country to save the planet ...
The pond did a word check, and the only reference it could spot was Dame Groan's opening line referencing the damning of the economics of nuclear power, and thereafter not a mention, not a moping or a whining, no indignation, no taking up the battle ... just the usual nattering renewables negativity. Is all lost on this front, or is it just a chance to recharge the batteries for battle on another day?
And so to the bonus, and it certainly won't be ancient Troy, at one point juxtaposed with the bromancer ...
Luckily the bromancer was to hand to set him straight ... or should that be MAGA right ...
The pond was deeply moved ... and so moved over to Crikey and take in a dose of the keen Keane scribbling Trump, Tingle and touching the nerve of white grievance ... (paywall)
The keen Keane proposed a konundrum ...
This continuing electoral appeal — and the willingness of Republicans to overlook pretty much any misconduct by Trump, up to and including launching an insurrection in 2021 — is the most important feature of Trump given he has laid out a quite clear plan for an authoritarian regime.
That includes plans to use the apparatus of the state to go after justice system officials, his critics and political opponents, using the US military for law enforcement, shifting power from Congress to the executive branch, removing discrimination protections and possibly even banning access to contraception.
That’s before you get to the promised global trade war, the abandonment of any climate action and the embrace of the world’s worst dictators, all of which have serious implications for countries like Australia.
Well yes, but you can't expect the bromancer to pay any attention to any of that, or to the why he doesn't ...
Speaking of touched nerves, it's time to return to the ranting bromancer for another short gobbet ...
Of course in the bromancer world, only MAGA can fix it ... while the keen Keane carried on ...
Speaking of white victimhood, and white grievance, is there any better speaker than the bromancer?
Luckily an immortal Rowe hovered into view ...
In passing the pond should probably note Paul Barry's wise advice in Media Watch last night.
Duck and cover, cower and hide, whatever you do don't speak obvious truths, because you should ...either decline the invite to shoot the breeze, or remember that a News Corp journalist will almost certainly be in the audience, hoping to make her comments front-page news.
Yep, hide under the bed, or the boogeyman will get you ...
Better to say nothing than to say something News Corp might turn into a crusade ... become so worthless that people might think you not worth funding, and then wonder where the idea came from ...
And that's the best the ABC's media guru can offer ... while the bromancer finishes up his foam-flecked rant ...
Astonishing really, but as the bromancer has flung about wild accusations of evil racism, while at the same time confusing and conflating talk of genocide with anti-Semitism.
At that point it's best to remember the keen Keane's words: Being called racist clearly irks racists, irks them deeply.
Meanwhile, in the long running sitcom known as Congress (paywall)...the pond found this jibe at MTG as good as anything the Fonz offered ...
Luckily there's a bright side, and Luckovich offers it as a way of closing out the day ...
In the middle of today’s ranting, the Bro mentioned his schools included “even a few Aboriginal kids”. That’s the second Oz article in a few days to include First Australians at the end of a list of ethnic groupings as a sort of vague afterthought. It offers an insight into the Reptile hive mind.
ReplyDeleteI wondered a little about the Bro's definition of "race". He quotes "striking diverse racially" as comprising groups of Celts, Italians, Greeks, Lebanese, Balts, Asian, ethic Chinese from Southeast Asia, Papua New Guineans and Singaporeans" as well as his patronising mention of "a few Aboriginal kids". I dunno, but when I was at secondary school in Melbourne in the 1950s, we were entranced by having a single immigrant kid from outback NSW with European parents. So it goes.
DeleteBack then, we were more concerned with giving the "Micks" a hard time, we hadn't got to the "wogs" yet.
If you are able to see this, the sun is out, the wind is blowing, and the beer is chilling.
ReplyDeleteIt is not as Dame Groan tells us - the fine print. In FNQ, the true value of renewables has been hidden by "This is the analogy. This is the direct comparison." - the pub with no beer. According to George Christiansen's replacement, it is all renewables fault, and below is what passes as rational debate in our parliment. Sad. No wonder we can't have nice things.
The Member of the Australian Parliament for Dawson, Andrew Willcox (born and grew up in Bowen, Queensland, as a third-generation tomato farmer.), said yesterday in Parliment;
"The barman comes over: 'What do you want, fellas?' 'Four schooners.' 'Sorry, mate. No beer today, because the sun's not shining and the wind's not blowing.' This is the analogy. This is the direct comparison."
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Hansard
MONDAY, 3 JUNE 2024
...
"BILLS
Net Zero Economy Authority Bill 2024
Net Zero Economy Authority (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024
Second Reading"
...
Mr WILLCOX (Dawson) (16:18):
... "This is all just to create intermittent, unreliable power, and that's exactly what it is. It doesn't work all the time.
"To illustrate this I'll tell a little story which best sums it up the 'intermittent and unreliable'. Four blokes go into a bar, and they order four schooners. The barman comes over: 'What do you want, fellas?' 'Four schooners.' 'Sorry, mate. No beer today, because the sun's not shining and the wind's not blowing.' This is the analogy. This is the direct comparison. These four blokes go home, tails between their legs, thinking about Slim Dusty's pub with no beer, but not to be outdone, they front up again the next day. 'We're going to the pub, boys. You beauty.' They go and see the barman: 'Four schooners, please. You've got beer today?' 'We've got beer today.' Beauty. He brings the first two schooners over, disappears and comes back: 'We need another two.' 'Sorry, mate. The wind's not blowing. You can only have two schooners.' What do we do about that? I know in the electricity world we have to load-shed. We have to share. We have blackouts; we have brownouts. That's exactly what happens. Not to be outdone, day 3 comes along and the four blokes are still keen. They want to have a round together. They want to have four beers. They come in: 'Four schooners, please. We've got beer, don't we?' 'We've got beer today.' They pour the first two straight across, and they get another one. The fourth bloke is waiting for his beer. Where is it? 'Sorry, mate. A cloud has gone over. We can't provide you with a beer.' That is a direct analogy of exactly what happens when you've got an intermittent and unreliable electricity supply. It beggars belief. What if you went to the bakery and they only sold you bread when it suited them? It should be beholden on whatever the energy creator is to be able to provide power 24/7.
"[Paragraph of zingers aka] "What have they done to bring down the rising cost of energy? Net zero."
"So let's explore the capex of this. We hear from Minister Bowen about how renewables are the cheapest form of energy. Well, let's look at the cheapest form of energy. When you look at a solar panel, you only look at what it produces in the middle of the day, not how much it produces overnight or when clouds go over. Say you buy the solar panels. At best, they only last 20 years. Some of them last 15 to 20 years. So what are you going to do with the solar panels? You'll have to store them somewhere or put them in landfill because you can't recycle them. That cost of landfill, with all the leachate and all the monitoring, is therefore ever. And then you've got to do it again.
...
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansardr/27647/&sid=0000
I wish I were joking.
Communication ending as we are nearing sunset.
Last drinks.
Oh I'll have to fire up my pedal-power generator then so I can continue reading.
DeleteThe Seat of Dawson continues its remarkable record of sending proud ignoramuses to Federal Parliament.
DeleteI wonder what Gorgeous George is up to these days? Actually that’s a rhetorical question - I don’t really want to know what Alt Right nutters he’s caught up with now.
Chad has pointed out before that the folk who vote for these dingbats likely have solar panels, and maybe a battery (or a 6kw generator).
DeleteWe had a major storm outage Friday - no problem, four close neighbours have Li-ion, another has a stack of deep cycle lead acid batteries he pick up on the cheap somewhere.
I'm not sure who the narrative is aimed at.
DP - I take the handball for the socialist Henry Ergas, but the Dame Groan for this day reflects more extreme bi-polarity.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the GenCost report must be qualified by ‘dubious’. When the Dame directs us to the ‘more realistic working of the GenCost report’ as confirming her assertions, she is continuing to ignore conventions in accounting.
That brings to mind “An economist is someone who is good with numbers but does not have the personality to be an accountant.” most recently used by Charles Wheelan in his ‘Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science’, except that our Dame does not demonstrate any particular talent with deeper maths, or even with graphical methods.
She digresses into the ‘trampling of the property rights of those in rural and regional communities’ for renewable energy - yet, it is within living memory, that several of our states, notably New South Wales, deleted most of the (whitefella) property rights to minerals under lands to which they held title, to consolidate possible mineral rights, and promote extraction particularly of that you-beaut coal.
Aside - someone who wrote scholarly articles on property rights, including that alienation of mineral rights, is Peter King, briefly Liberal MP for Wentworth until tipped out in what the ‘Wiki’ describes as a ‘bitter’ campaign by one Malcolm Turnbull.
Our Dame has further decided that transmission lines - but, apparently, only if they carry RE - are ‘ugly’. Perhaps she has managed to locate herself in a particularly leafy suburb, where such utilities are in-ground, all the way from the coal-fired generator to her meter box.
And around that point it all gets too silly to continue with comment. Her facility with numbers only comes forward late in the piece. It would truly be interesting to have a source for her range ‘from almost $1000 to $20 000 per tonne of carbon dioxide abated’ by exempting EVs from fringe benefit tax, but she has not burdened us with such trivia. Take it on authority, dear reader, including the implicit acceptance of fringe benefit tax. Our guess, within the cult, is that it might have come from one of the many ‘YouTubes’ by some or other, self-identified ‘Motoring Expert’ joining the unrelenting campaign against EVs, which are a master-class in recycling misinformation.
As you have noted, Dorothy - she did spare us more nuking - or the word count on her computer told her that she had justified her $5 000-odd retainer for this week, so hold it over.
On my travels through Melbourne to Gippsland it was very noticeble that large areas are taken up with transmission lines from and including farm land that supply power to cities and towns along the way to Melbourne and all the way to Portland so is Groany suggesting they should not have developed the transmission lines through private land.
DeleteOh c'mon Chad, Groany is just writing in the style of a (the ?) Bible - lots of emotively assertive statements combined with a complete lack of any supportive evidence. So, let me just repeat the proposition about Sovereign reason: "the arguments by which reason eventually became the sovereign standard of truth in religion and politics, and how it triumphed over its rivals: Scripture, inspiration, and apostolic tradition."
DeleteHave we ever detected any 'sovereign reason' in anything that the Groany has ever written ? Or any reptile, come to that.
Yes, Anony, indeed there are many very large transmission towers bedecked with a great many large transmission lines and they can even readily be seen from the so-called "well to do" east and south-east. They provide a fine view enhancement from the easterly windows of the Glen shopping mall. And many times have I sat and downed a fine mocha whilst admiring their contribution to my quality of life.
Anonymous and GB - you are in there with another great Australian -
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM-GVRvsZrA
- dialogue from 0:40.
And I am serious about what a great Australian that person has been.
Dame Groan's gripe is that is that we are not there yet with renewable energy. But of course lots of people are working on how to get there, eg People power: Why your suburb might soon have a battery like this one ., and there are many other similar articles on community batteries.
ReplyDelete"Placing a battery the size of a small shed somewhere like a substation or a roadside reserve could address grid stability issues, the company says, and enable a number of households to benefit from battery storage without having to fork out for a battery of their own
(Imagine Dame Groan if we started to build a nuclear power station: "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" for 15 years.)
For Greg Sheridan there apparently is no such thing as systemic racism; it's all just individuals committing original sin, although wasn't original sin eating an apple?
ReplyDeleteBut if systemic racism doesn't exist, how does Sheridan explain the situation under Nazi rule, which elevated the Aryan race above and against all others? How does he explain slavery of different peoples? Just a few individuals in the population going rogue, was it? It's not clear either how Greg's "traditional Arab and Islamist anti-Semitism" fits into the idea that it's just individuals committing racism, when Greg himself blames a whole race and religious group of being anti-Semitic.
Perhaps it's due to the graphics department cutbacks, but where are the graphs showing Greg's research on this matter? Which greens or other "far-left movements" have claimed that Jews "are first and foremost Western colonists and oppressors, and therefore can never be the victim"? Claiming that the secular state of Israel is taking Palestinian land illegally is not the same thing as attacking Judaism, but Sheridan makes out it is.
According to Greg examining a society for racism is somehow racist. Now, that is weird logic.
Neatly put - to emphasise the point - investigating a crime is a criminal act (e.g. whistleblowing, now that's definitely a crime). In the reptiles world, there are crimes and there are lots of other things that are just things and not worth mentioning. AG.
DeleteDoes this qualify as 'systemic racism'?
Deletehttps://theconversation.com/spectator-racism-is-still-rife-in-australias-major-football-codes-new-research-shows-it-may-even-be-getting-worse-230198
"Some Australian football spectators use the stadium to vent hostile attitudes towards people of colour, whether Indigenous, Pacific Islander, African or Asian."