https://volunteerfirefighters.org.au/it-is-high-time-bureaucrats-and-politicians-stopped-blaming-climate-change-for-a-bushfire-crisis-that-is-very-much-of-their-own-making-and-is-putting-lives-at-risk
No one is denying the gravity of what people and firefighters have
been through now, but it is no use gilding the lily here. You can’t
have a fire without fuel. Two factors above all else come into play
here. In NSW, when Bob Carr was the minister, and later premier, he
ratified moves to have fire trails abandoned. Carr’s moves
prevented access to those fire trails by the Rural Fire Service,
under the pretext he was keeping four 4WDs and campers out. The
government (and how many problems that we face today are created by
government?) put locked gates on these national parks and planted big
rocks at the entry to the fire trails. Understandably, the fire
trails are now overgrown with regrowth forest, impenetrable to
everybody except native and feral animals.
https://twitter.com/nickbarnesaus/status/1211963589004709889?s=20
Of course it easier for Greenies to blame 'Climate Change' than
their own bureaucratic nonsense. A volunteer firefighter was fined
$100,000 & treated as criminal for creating
a firebreak on his property. His house was only
one not burnt down in his area.
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/aussies-choice-burn-cool-or-burn-hot/ “Have you seen the video of the Australian who has a completely different narrative of what has caused these fires? Although his language is extremely fruity, to say the least, his point is that it is actually green activists that have led to the scale of these fires because they have forced farmers to stop burning their scrubland in the winter months which used to create natural fire breaks. This is a tradition that goes back centuries and was actually practiced by the original indigenous Australian Aboriginal population. This possible cause is echoed all over social media today in many tweets from the affected area today. But that didn’t stop Caroline Lucas the Green Party’s only MP in the UK from entering the fray with a tweet with a link to an article in (you guessed it) the Guardian saying, ‘This is what Climate Emergency looks like – completely terrifying. Honestly, what further devastation needs to happen before world leaders finally put in place urgent climate action at the scale and speed the science demands?’” “But unfortunately for George, Sly News and the climate change fanatics Morrison was correct as Australia is the biggest net exporter of coal and is the world’s fourth-largest producer. Over 175,000 people are either directly or indirectly employed in the industry.”
https://cliscep.com/2020/01/04/climate-journalism-more-disinterest-would-be-nice/ Chandler’s “keen balance” is an echoing and updating of a famous and sinister quote from the IPCC’s Stephen Schneider: On the one hand we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but, which means that we must include all the doubts, caveats, ifs and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists, but human beings as well. And like most people, we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change. To do that we have to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This double ethical bind which we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.[iv]” “I’ll again digress to background Ms Sullivan, who says, (my emphasis), “Journalists need to find ways to make [global warming] compelling, engaging and interesting, and bring it home to people so they understand and want to act about it.” In other words, it’s propaganda time, hacks! Sullivan isn’t even furtive about it. Her WaPo piece was headed, “The planet is on a fast path to destruction. The media must cover this like it’s the only story that matters.” Her arguments read more like comedy, “By 2040 — only 22 years from now — the world will be in deep trouble, according to the unassailable expertise of the UN’s experts.” Einstein’s expertise was assailable and Isaac Newton likewise, but IPCC people are “unassailably” smarter. Click here for a backgrounder on Joelle Gergis, a current IPCC lead author, if you are interested in “the unassailable expertise of the U.N.’s experts.” Gergis’s effusion only last Friday: “Failing to adequately plan for the known threat of climate change in a country like Australia should now be considered to be an act of treason.” (Hmm. Dear Joelle, The US federally has the death penalty for treason, but Australia has given up capital punishment and treason is now just a matter of life imprisonment. Do you think our Prime Minister should be put on trial? Regards, Tony.)”
https://iowaclimate.org/2020/01/04/record-heat-and-cold-expose-climate-alarmists-bias/ “Climate alarmists predictably claimed these weather events for their propaganda. Almost all news article about the Australian heat and wildfires ultimately blamed man-made climate change. But more than four-fifths of Australia’s wildfires were caused by arson, not climate change. And what caused the extreme hot weather was not global warming but a phenomenon called Positive Indian Ocean Dipole (PIOD). PIOD is a seasonal weather phenomenon that can affect climate in east Africa, south Asia, and Australia all at once. The same PIOD that caused Australia’s heat (but not its wildfires) caused the year-end floods in east Africa. It also caused extreme cold in northern India in the same month. Largely underreported in global media, the cold continued right through to the end of December. Delhi, India’s capital, recorded its second-coldest December in 118 years. Intermittent cold waves gripped Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Delhi. On December 28, the heart of Delhi recorded a minimum of 1.7˚C (35˚F). The temperature likely reached freezing outside the city’s urban heat island effect. The cold wave impacted everyday life for 29 million people in Delhi. But neither CNN nor BBC headlines ever mentioned it. It runs contrary to their narrative. Winters are supposed to become warmer. Though the mainstream media do link the PIOD to the Australian heat and the east African floods, they never shy away from blaming man-made climate change and find ways to link both. Now their new theory is that the PIOD itself has become more intense because of climate change. In other words, weather events are non-existent in their dictionary. Each and every extreme weather event is blamed on man-made climate change. This is what happens when people read every weather event through the preconceived lenses of climate alarmism.” On December 28, the heart of Delhi recorded a minimum of 1.7˚C (35˚F). The temperature likely reached freezing outside the city’s urban heat island effect. The cold wave impacted everyday life for 29 million people in Delhi. But neither CNN nor BBC headlines ever mentioned it. It runs contrary to their narrative. Winters are supposed to become warmer. Though the mainstream media do link the PIOD to the Australian heat and the east African floods, they never shy away from blaming man-made climate change and find ways to link both. Now their new theory is that the PIOD itself has become more intense because of climate change. In other words, weather events are non-existent in their dictionary. Each and every extreme weather event is blamed on man-made climate change. This is what happens when people read every weather event through the preconceived lenses of climate alarmism.
https://dominiccummings.com/2020/01/02/two-hands-are-a-lot-were-hiring-data-scientists-project-managers-policy-experts-assorted-weirdos/ “There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics. Over the past five months the No10 political team has been lucky to work with some fantastic officials. But there are also some profound problems at the core of how the British state makes decisions. This was seen by pundit-world as a very eccentric view in 2014. It is no longer seen as eccentric. Dealing with these deep problems is supported by many great officials, particularly younger ones, though of course there will naturally be many fears — some reasonable, most unreasonable. Now there is a confluence of: a) Brexit requires many large changes in policy and in the structure of decision-making, b) some people in government are prepared to take risks to change things a lot, and c) a new government with a significant majority and little need to worry about short-term unpopularity while trying to make rapid progress with long-term problems.” “We want to improve performance and make me much less important — and within a year largely redundant. At the moment I have to make decisions well outside what Charlie Munger calls my ‘circle of competence’ and we do not have the sort of expertise supporting the PM and ministers that is needed. This must change fast so we can properly serve the public.” “In SW1 communication is generally treated as almost synonymous with ‘talking to the lobby’. This is partly why so much punditry is ‘narrative from noise’. With no election for years and huge changes in the digital world, there is a chance and a need to do things very differently. We’re particularly interested in deep experts on TV and digital. We also are interested in people who have worked in movies or on advertising campaigns. There are some very interesting possibilities in the intersection of technology and story telling — if you’ve done something weird, this may be the place for you. I noticed in the recent campaign that the world of digital advertising has changed very fast since I was last involved in 2016. This is partly why so many journalists wrongly looked at things like Corbyn’s Facebook stats and thought Labour was doing better than us — the ecosystem evolves rapidly while political journalists are still behind the 2016 tech, hence why so many fell for Carole’s conspiracy theories. The digital people involved in the last campaign really knew what they are doing, which is incredibly rare in this world of charlatans and clients who don’t know what they should be buying. If you are interested in being right at the very edge of this field, join. We have some extremely able people but we also must upgrade skills across the spad network.” “As Paul Graham and Peter Thiel say, most ideas that seem bad are bad but great ideas also seem at first like bad ideas — otherwise someone would have already done them. Incentives and culture push people in normal government systems away from encouraging ‘ideas that seem bad’. Part of the point of a small, odd No10 team is to find and exploit, without worrying about media noise, what Andy Grove called ‘very high leverage ideas’ and these will almost inevitably seem bad to most. I will post some random things over the next few weeks and see what bounces back — it is all upside, there’s no downside if you don’t mind a bit of noise and it’s a fast cheap way to find good ideas…”
https://dynamicland.org/ A humane dynamic medium embraces the countless ways in which human beings use their minds and bodies, instead of cramming people into a tiny box of pixels. One guest, after spending time at Dynamicland, held up his smartphone and shouted, “This thing is a prison!”
https://www.comstocksmag.com/longreads/cover-worlds-fastest-man And just as Steve Jobs has the humble roots of building a computer in his garage, C.C., too, has a storybook origin. He was raised on a farm. His dad put him to work at the age of 8, and every morning he woke before dawn to pick vegetables before school. And then, as soon as the bell rang, he hopped in the back of his dad’s truck and returned to the fields. “We never did homework, never did anything like that,” he says. “Instead, we milked the cows.” That taught him everything he needed to know. In the 10th grade, he got a job and said, “To hell with school.” He dropped out at the age of 16, left home and hitchhiked to Long Beach. It wasn’t long before he got his first construction gig and, within a week, “fell in love with that job.” Speed helps win bids, too. Since they now have the confidence that they will finish faster than expected, they can pitch a bid that’s lower than the competition — sometimes far, far lower — and make it up on the back-end. In 2007, for example, when a stretch of Interstate 80 collapsed in Oakland, a competing firm came in with a bid of $6.4 million. C.C.’s bid? $800,000. As usual, he zipped through the project and finished in a breezy 17 days — compared to the 50 days estimated by the state — earning a $5 million bonus.
https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion-article/the-good-work-of-our-ancient-terraformers/ “The available evidence offers a far more complex series of trends and potential explanations, as my colleague Roy Cordato explained in a JLF Spotlight paper a while back. Readings of ground-level temperature gauges show a warming trend in recent decades but observations at higher elevations show little to no warming. In part, this reflects the so-called “urban heat island” effect generated by growing cities with more concrete and other materials absorbing and radiating heat. The upper-level trend has been difficult to square with the climate-change theory, since the purported cause (industrial and tailpipe emissions) and the purported effect (rising temperatures in the atmosphere) don’t appear to coincide.” “But now another take on the evidence, as well as some new evidence, suggests that far from being unlikely, human-induced climate change is not only possible but long predates the Industrial Revolution, the automobile, the SUV, clueless Republican presidents, and irresponsible American consumerism. A study published in the journal Climate Change suggests that the natural fluctuations of the Earth’s climate would have led to a strong cooling trend several thousand years ago if early human civilizations had not begun the widespread clearing of forestland for agriculture (thus reducing the amount of foliage absorbing carbon dioxide) and the widespread herding of livestock (generating methane, a greenhouse gas). Basically, these ancient terraformers staved off another ice age and thus allowed human civilization to begin and develop, according to the new study.”
https://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/tipping-point.html “Support for these ‘networked actors’ has been forthcoming from outside the country. Europeans have actively attempted to unsettle the US stand on Kyoto by attempting to develop links with scientists, businesses, NGOs, and sub-national entities on the issue. The culmination of this work was the signing, in 2006, of a climate agreement between the UK and California, the latter represented by its governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Europeans have also worked hard to underline the importance they attach to the issue. As British Prime Minister, Tony Blair made climate change one of his two key priorities for the UK-chaired G8 summit at Gleneagles in Scotland (the other was Africa). Germany’s Angela Merkel has made the issue a similarly high priority. She has also shown herself willing to tackle the question of developing country responsibilities, arguing that a policy of ‘intelligent growth’ should be based on the principle of convergence of developed and developing country emissions towards equal per capita levels.” “So we reached – at least according to many media commentators – a tipping point, a watershed on climate change. Business Week called 2006 “the year global warming went from controversial to conventional for much of the corporate world".xl The Observer newspaper termed it “the year the world woke up".xli Momentum continued into 2007. The IPCC declared that warming was undoubtedly happening, and that there was a greater than 90 per cent chance that most of this warming was due to human activity. Climate change was reported to be the hottest topic of the 2007 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Just before the June G8 meeting, President Bush announced that the US recognised climate change as a ‘serious problem’. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon convened an unprecedented head of state level summit to discuss climate change. And to cap it all, Al Gore and the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize. You might have been forgiven for assuming that it was – almost – all over bar the shouting.”
https://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/climate-change-debate.html “Section two of the paper looks at a sample of recent polling data in an attempt to discover whether perceptions of climate change really did reach a ‘tipping point’ during 2006, as many media commentators believe. While opinion polls do appear to show a global public consensus that climate change is real, urgent and driven at least in part by human activity, the perceptions of what needs to be done – and by whom – are much less clear-cut. As well as examining polling data, section two explores the findings of qualitative research methods, which suggest that instead of attempting to understand ‘public opinion’ about climate change, it is essential to realise that there are diverse publics involved in the issue – all with different ‘prisms’ or ‘frames’ through which evidence, facts, arguments and discussions are filtered. The paper concludes that while climate change may have reached a tipping point of sorts in 2006 as far as perceptions of the problem are concerned, the same definitely cannot be said for perceptions of the solution. So far, we lack answers to fundamental questions such as which solutions will be favoured; who will back them and who will resist them; how much they will cost; and what benefits they are likely to deliver. As we argue, the direction of the climate change debate will depend on how deep public concern is, and on whether what people ‘want’ (either consciously, or as expressed by their behaviour) in different countries diverges or converges.”
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/04/793614135/united-methodist-church-announces-proposal-to-split-over-gay-marriage “The vote and measures introduced at that conference signaled a growing divide between Methodists in the United States and those in less-developed, more socially conservative countries, particularly in Africa and Asia. In the U.S., 60% of United Methodist members say homosexuality should be accepted, according to a 2014 survey by the Pew Research Center. "In the congregation I serve, they're delighted that I was appointed to be their pastor. They would describe it as an answer to prayer," says Rev. David Meredith, a pastor at the Clifton United Methodist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Meredith is gay and has been married since 2016.”
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/03/793508679/fugitive-carlos-ghosn-escaped-house-arrest-by-walking-out-not-in-box-officials-s “Surveillance video taken outside of Ghosn's Tokyo home shows the former chairman leaving the house around noon, shortly before fleeing, NHK reported on Friday. Investigators said "the camera did not capture any other suspicious persons entering or leaving the home around the time Ghosn came out," according to the Japanese news outlet. The new footage appears to debunk theories that Ghosn had out-foxed law enforcement by climbing into a large box for musical instruments after a band had played at the family home.” “Although he was under surveillance, it appears Japanese officials were rather lax in monitoring his comings and goings. Recordings pulled from cameras outside Ghosn's home were only reviewed once a month as were "records of his meetings, of his mobile phone calls and of his Internet use at a computer in his lawyer's office," The Washington Post reported. Turkish judicial sources told state-owned Anadolu news agency that five people suspected of aiding Ghosn's escape were taken into custody on Friday. They are accused of human trafficking. A day earlier, another seven people — four pilots and three ground staff — were detained in connection with Ghosn's surreptitious departure. The arrests followed an investigation into two private planes operated by MNG Jet that landed at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul. One arrived from Osaka on Dec. 29, the other departed to Beirut on Dec. 30. In a statement, MNG Jet explained that two jets were leased by private clients "seemingly not connected to each other" and that Ghosn's name did not appear on any of the official documentation of the flights. However, "one employee of the company, who is under investigation by the authorities, has admitted having falsified the records," MNG Jet said, clarifying that the company does not own the jets, but merely operates them.
www.spectator.com.au/2020/01/we-dont-just-have-a-bushfire-crisis-we-have-an-arson-crisis-too/ “According to my calculations and estimates, the number of individuals around Australia whose arson has contributed to the current bushfire crisis has now passed 200. This figure is not pres- ented as a counter-argument to those who blame the fires on climate change. Most people (I hope) understand that trees tend not to spontaneously combust, no matter what the air temperature is; when we talk about bushfires starting naturally, we are talking about lightning strikes igniting tind- er. The climate change argument posits that the more extreme weather conditions – higher temper- atures, drought and so forth – make fires, however started, much more destructive and much more difficult to control and extinguish. These are debates to be had between climatologists, forestry experts and firefighters. What is painfully clear, however, that Australia has a firebug crisis. It will no doubt be up to future royal commissions and inquiries to calculate exactly what proportion of the current loss and destruction can be attributed to human action, but I suspect it will be a significant one. Mankind may be causing climate change, but man is most definitely making fires start.” “A 2015 satellite analysis of 113,000 fires from 1997-2009 confirmed what we had known for some time – 40 per cent of fires are deliberately lit, another 47 per cent accidental. This generally matches previous data published a decade earlier that about half of all fires were suspected or deliberate arson, and 37 per cent accidental. Combined, they reach the same conclusion: 87 per cent are man-made…”
https://news.sky.com/story/hs2-costs-are-out-of-control-and-could-spiral-to-107bn-lord-warns-11901105 "There is substantial evidence of poor project management and governance and no sign that this problem will be resolved by the public bodies responsible for its delivery to give stakeholders and government comfort that it is wise to spend over £100bn on one railway project."
http://perhapsallnatural.blogspot.com/2020/01/hijacking-australian-2019-bushfire.html?m=1 The greatest 2019/2020 burned area is concentrated along the eastern coast in the states of New South Wales and Victoria. Both areas are known for habitat that is very susceptible to extreme fire danger. But are the recent fires worse than ever? History says NO! In February 1851, the Black Thursday bushfires incinerated about five million hectares (about 1,900 square miles). Around 12 lives, one million sheep and thousands of cattle were lost. Temperatures reached record extremes of about 47°C (117°F) in the shade. In contrast, MSN attributes the 2019 December fires to a misleading average temperature across the whole country of 40.6°C (105°F). If temperature and precipitation cannot be attributed to the increasing trend in wildfires, what other factors should be considered? As in California, Australia has experienced a tremendous increase in human ignitions. Arson is a huge problem. As government investigations reveal (Figure 4), deliberately set fires account for 64% of all ignitions, while only 11% of all wildfires are due to natural lightning ignitions. Furthermore to the north, tropical and subtropical regions are being invaded by foreign grasses that are easily ignited and provide greater surface fuel continuity allowing fires to spread over greater areas. Likewise, humans must manage forest floor fuel loads. The easiest solution is prescribed burns. However, that solution is often resisted because people do not want to experience the accompanying smoke. But until prescribed burns are allowed to be judiciously applied, the public becomes increasingly vulnerable to larger more severe wildfires as endured in 2019. Bad analyses always promote bad remedies! Blaming rising CO2 concentrations and global warming is only misdirecting real efforts to minimize wildfire destruction. What Australia and the world needs to address is 1) human ignitions, 2) invasive grasses and 3) fire suppression that allows surface fuels to accumulate and enable large intense and destructive fires to wreak havoc like never before!
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/a-proof-that-greenhouse-gas-driven-global-warming-theory-is-incorrect/ However, the pressure at the surface of Venus is almost 100 bars, and that does something to the CO2. The absorption bands broaden and occupy much more of the LW spectrum. What this means is that the greenhouse effect on Venus is much stronger near the surface than it is at 50km. If the greenhouse effect controlled the temperature profile of the Venusian atmosphere, we would necessarily have to see a greater lapse rate closer to the surface – where the greenhouse effect is stronger. This is because the increased resistance to radiative heat transfer closer to the surface, would create a larger temperature gradient. But we don’t see that – the lapse rate is fixed throughout Venus’ troposphere . This means that the temperature profile of Venus troposphere is not controlled by the greenhouse effect. There is no way to get around this argument. Conclusion : Even a huge increase in the greenhouse effect as we approach the surface of Venus, has no impact on the lapse rate. Observations on Venus demonstrate that increasing the greenhouse effect even by a large amount, has little impact on the temperature profile of a convective atmosphere. i.e. greenhouse gas driven global warming theory simply does not work in a convective atmosphere.
https://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/science-and-media.html By the mid-1970s, scientists were increasingly convinced that the climate could change due to human action, but were less certain in which direction, to what extent, or how quickly. Global temperatures had been falling for thirty years or so, with airborne pollution the cause. Perhaps a new ice age was on its way. ‘Global cooling’ – the term is a later coinage – was taken seriously enough to prompt some research, though few if any peer-reviewed papers predicted an imminent and dramatic cooling trend.xviiIt was widely recognised that, while airborne particulates would tend to decrease temperatures, carbon dioxide would increase them.xviii Paul Ehrlich, the neo-Malthusian doomsayer on population, neatly summarised this battle between clean and dirty pollution, and the uncertainty that the interplay of two factors caused. “At the moment," he wrote in 1968, “we cannot predict what the overall climatic results will be of our using the atmosphere as a garbage dump."xix It was a single news article that gave global cooling its big break, taking the story well beyond the published science, and ensuring it would remain a factor in popular debates about climate change for years to come. Newsweek’s 1975 cover story remains a fascinating read. It claimed ‘ominous signs’ that cooling was already taking place, with a new ice age a distinct possibility. However, it claimed, the impact was not evenly distributed, with equatorial areas experiencing a warming trend. Extreme weather events, such as tornadoes, were also said to be on the increase. The consequences of adapting to a changing climate were vividly painted. Although urgent action was needed, politicians were thought to lack the will to do what was necessary. Big technological fixes, such as ‘melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot’, were considered, only to be dismissed as potentially creating more problems than they would solve. “The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality," the article concluded. But cooling did not stay on the agenda for long. As the 1980s got underway, climate science continued to improve, with computer models producing findings that were then replicated by ice cores drilled in Greenland and Antarctica. Awareness also continued to build. By 1981, a third of Americans had heard of the greenhouse effect, proving that the issue had broken out of purely scientific circles. Scientists found themselves having to become fluent in a new language: of TV interviews, newspaper deadlines and soundbites. As Spencer Weart writes, “A Senator might brush off an academic who came to speak with him or his staff, but the Senator paid attention if he saw the scientist on television. Scientists were generally uncomfortable talking with the media. Experience showed how journalists might grab a simple phrase, ignoring the details and qualifications that were inseparable from an accurate scientific account.”xxi
https://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/politicisation-of-climate-change.html
The late 1980s saw
the emergence of the formidable Global Climate Coalition, a grouping
of car, oil and other industrial companies that operated from a base
at the US National Association of Manufacturers. The coalition
claimed to represent 6 million businesses and described itself as “a
leading voice for business, both domestically and internationally."
Critics accused it of disruptive and underhand tactics, claiming that
its main purpose was to discredit climate change science, to sow
doubt about the necessity of reducing emissions, and to stoke fears
about the likely cost of corrective action. The coalition’s
opposition to the Kyoto Protocol was based on three arguments: that
American economic prospects would be damaged, that consumers would
suffer from ‘skyrocketing’ energy prices, and that large
developing countries would benefit at the US’s expense.xxviii
But the coalition found it hard to maintain unity in
the face of growing evidence marshalled through the IPCC, which
published its first three assessment reports in 1990, 1995 and 2001.
In each of them, the consensus that humans were causing climate
change, and that the consequences of this would be serious, steadily
hardened. BP was the first company publicly to break ranks shortly
before the Kyoto Protocol was agreed in December 1997. Its Chief
Executive, John Browne, in a widely reported speech at Stanford
University, argued that: “The time to consider the policy
dimensions of climate change is not when the link between greenhouse
gases and climate change is conclusively proven, but when the
possibility cannot be discounted and is taken seriously by the
society of which we are part. We in BP have reached that point.”
xxix
https://www.masala.com/princess-margarets-tiara-the-story-behind-it-306106.html
“On her wedding,
Princess
Margaret wore the most expensive tiara in the history of Britain.
Instead of borrowing one from the royal collection of the Queen like
most of the royal brides, Princess Margaret decided to buy her own
for £5,500 in 1959, which is the equivalent of £106,765 in 2019.
This tiara was called the Poltimore Tiara after its original owner
Florence Bampfylde, Lady Poltimore in 1870. Princess
Margaret bought it from an auction for sale. The huge tiara could be
worn either as a tiara or as a necklace. It could also be broken down
into eleven brooches. Princess Margaret wore this tiara wore an
exclusive photoshoot in the bathtub by her photographer husband. An
interesting fact is that she did not wait for her wedding day to wear
the tiara for the first time. She wore it at the Royal Opera House in
Covent Garden during the May 1959 state visit from the Shah of Iran.
However, it is unfortunate
that the same tiara was later sold by her children for more than one
million pounds as they had to deal with a tax issue. Also, the
marriage could not last for long and Princess Margaret became the
first senior royal since Queen Victoria’s granddaughter to get
divorced. Also, hers was the first royal marriage to be televised for
the public.”http://joannenova.com.au/2020/01/the-scomo-bad-filter-it-doesnt-matter-what-he-does-if-its-scott-morrison-its-bad/ “They also need to distract from the pagan nonsense that is The Labor Party and Green policy. Australia needs two strong parties and at the moment one is pretending that fires will be controlled with a carbon tax, tofu for dinner and a solar panel on every roof. It’s witchcraft and voodoo based on Fake Science, and innumerate bumper-sticker simplicity. The Global Dumbness hides in a hole guarded by the billion dollar bullies who shout distract and hand-wave at irrelevant misdemeanors hoping to draw attention away from the gaping well of stupid that modern politics is based on. We must turn their uncivil conversation tactics back on them. Not feed them. Never give them an inch. No man alone can beat the billion dollar bullies ScoMo needs support, like Tony Abbott did and didn’t get enough of. And to that end, any commentators who read this, or others and want to share and spread ideas, please do, but please also, share the sources, give the credit. Respect copyright and original content, and play your part in supporting the network that fights for freedom and one-law-for-all, and real science. We can only do this together. Some cut n paste blogs and commentators put themselves above the team. We need the network. Martin Ayles heads the Australian Christian Lobby. Michael Smith runs a great blog. This tip and much else, thanks to David Evans.
https://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/intergovernmental-policy.html “The growing transatlantic rift thrust climate change into the centre of the global spotlight once again, as Kyoto became a totemic cause celebre not just for environmentalists but for a much broader audience. As media coverage rose dramatically, so did references to global warming in film and the arts – which themselves drove further media coverage. The Day After Tomorrow (2004), for example, was seen by no fewer than a tenth of all Americans – and generated ten times as much media coverage as the IPCC’s 2001 Third Assessment Report.xxxiii The movie, which shows the almost instantaneous arrival of an ice age, provoked much derision when it was previewed by an audience of climate change specialists in London.xxxiv Yet many felt that, if it increased awareness of the problem, then it would have done its job. Two years later, Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, was to have an even greater impact and, despite a British court finding some inaccuracies, a much stronger scientific basis.”
https://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/perceptions-of-climate-change.html “Second, the history of perceptions of climate change often seems to be characterised by a dialectic between two opposed, or at least contrasting, schools of thought. From disbelief in the early years of the twentieth century that humans could influence a system so vast as the climate, to disputes between environmentalists and US conservatives, between sceptics and believers, or between unilateralists and multilateralists, debate has always been a key motor in driving the climate change agenda. Action will almost always awaken resistance. Understanding climate change requires a certain amount of ‘looking ahead’ to enquire which forces will be awakened if the debate moves in direction x or direction y. Europeans, for example, await eagerly a Democrat replacement for George Bush. If one should come, however, it is already clear that the front will simple move towards those who will paint any concession on climate as evidence of an un-American betrayal. Players need to have the vision to think two or three moves ahead, not be locked into the game as it stands today. Third, it is crucial to notice that the history of climate change is not just about facts, evidence and argument. Images – of melting glaciers, of Kilimanjaro sans snow, or polar bears on ice floes – matter enormously. So do relationships, as with the friendships between James Hansen and Walter Sullivan or Senator Tim Wirth that were to lead to so much media coverage. Values count, too, much as they are often overlooked in analyses of social dynamics. So too do beliefs, both as in ‘what people believe’ and ‘what people want to believe’. Finally, myths count a great deal, the deep stories that societies tell themselves about why they exist, about what is and is not taboo, and about their relationships with other societies and with the natural world. We are on dangerous ground indeed if we assume that perceptions of climate change are driven wholly – or even primarily – by rational considerations.”
https://homeclimateanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/01/refutation-of-greenhouse-effect.html UPDATE [01-JAN-16] Of course, it is unrealistic to suppose that any atmosphere containing water vapor, and radiating heat into space, will contain no clouds. The warm air rising from the surface of the Earth expands as it rises, because its pressure drops. As it expands, it cools down. As it cools down, its water vapor condense into clouds. A thick cloud can reflect 90% of the sun's radiation. If the Earth were to be covered by thick clouds, its surface would cool dramatically. We calculate it would cool by almost 100°C. But if the Earth cooled by 100°C, there would be very little evaporation from the frozen oceans, and therefore insufficient water vapor in the atmosphere to cover the planet with thick clouds. We see that the Earth cannot be too warm, for it would then be covered by clouds and it would cool down, nor can it be too cold, for it would then have a clear sky and warm up. The result is that the Earth's surface settles to temperature at which cooling by clouds is in equilibrium with warming by the sun and by the greenhouse effect. We explore this equilibrium with calculations and simulations in our later posts.
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