Aboriginal Community, Australian Government, COVID-19, Health, State Government 17 comments

PROTESTERS NOT BOUND BY LIMIT ON GATHERINGS

By on June 5th, 2020

TWENTY PEOPLE ONLY AT ALL OTHER GATHERINGS IN VICTORIA
Up to twenty thousand people are expected at the march in Melbourne but “police won’t be arresting or fining people for breaking social distancing rules” the premier has declared. Victorians are being urged not to attend the planned protests for fears it could will spark a second wave of coronavirus cases. The rallies were organised by the Aboriginal community in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Black Lives Matter Protest in Sydney
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The rest of the community will be fined if we fail to observe social distancing in private and public gatherings, such as the limits on people attending church, funerals, restaurants and sporting events etc while the State’s economy is still in virtual lock down yet thousands of protesters will be allowed to assemble and protest in the main streets of Sydney and Melbourne, in sympathy with US Black Lives Matter.  As one TV commentator said to the effect: “If there is a significant outbreak of covid-19 virus, as a result of granting special dispensation to the crowds attending these protests, then all the fines and draconian restrictions imposed on our people’s movements in recent months would have all been for nothing”. Continue reading PROTESTERS NOT BOUND BY LIMIT ON GATHERINGS →

Councillors, Elections, Manningham Council, Vic State Government 8 comments

NINE ONE COUNCILLOR WARDS FOR MANNINGHAM

By on May 29th, 2020

NINE BALLOT PAPERS TO ELECT NINE WARD COUNCILLORS

Despite recommendations to the contrary from both Manningham Council and the Victorian Electoral Commission, the Victorian Government has decided on a single Councillor ward structure for the local government elections in October. It is assumed that the decision made on the eve of the last election, by the same government department, to preclude candidates from directing preferences, will apply again.

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Unless candidates are allowed to nominate preferences in their manifestos the chances of being elected would depend on the number of candidates and especially their own position on the ballot paper. If they draw number one it becomes a one horse race. In past elections a candidate could fill in a ballot paper with their order of preferences. candidate-promises-and-preferences-2012 The previous action in banning indicated preferences on how to vote cards, has put paid to the use of dummy candidates but have ignored the main cause of the problem being the “Donkey Vote” which had actually encouraged the use of dummies, (a candidate who has no interest in winning who gives away a second preference without reciprocation), for candidates badly drawn at the bottom of the ballot paper. Continue reading NINE ONE COUNCILLOR WARDS FOR MANNINGHAM →

Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Climate Change, Coal Power, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power, Wind Turbines 4 comments

WIND TURBINES USE ELECTRICITY FROM THE GRID

By on May 24th, 2020

ELECTRICITY FROM THE GRID IS NOT ACCOUNTED FOR IN THEIR OUTPUT FIGURES

Coal, gas, thermal, hydro and nuclear power stations have a life span of 45+ years that can be easily extended if maintained properly. Solar and wind turbines have a life span of 10 to 20 years. Any cost analysis would quickly determine that renewables minus subsidies are much more expensive. 

Wind Turbine Clusters

The facts about wind turbines are as follows:-
Wind turbines are using electricity from the grid which is not accounted for in their output figures. Other electricity generating plants (coal, gas, thermal, hydro, nuclear) use their own electricity and the difference Continue reading WIND TURBINES USE ELECTRICITY FROM THE GRID →

Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Climate Change, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, IPCC 22 comments

RECORD CO2 LEVEL DESPITE WORLD IN LOCKDOWN

By on May 13th, 2020

CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS HAVE INCREASED DESPITE A PREDICTED FALL

It is early days, but their is no indication that the current lock down of the world’s economies have resulted in a reduction of global carbon dioxide concentrations, in fact, after only eleven days into May (at 417.16 ppm) they have increased by one part per million above the April average of (416.18 ppm). If this rate was to continue it would exceed the average annual increase rate by a very wide margin.

The anticipated drop in global emissions, as a result of closure of industry, transportation and commerce, has not eventuated and if the trend continues it will be a major blow to theory of carbon dioxide, a trace gas, having any impact on the world’s climate. Carbon dioxide concentrations  were approaching last year’s peak at about 415 parts per million on 24 March 2020 with big daily swings. If sustained, that is already in line with the record high, judged as a monthly average, of 414.7 ppm for the May 2019. The warming in the period between 1910 to 1944 was of a similar scale to the warming periods in recent years. The UN and IPCC told us that this earlier warming was entirely due to natural climate variability rather than human influence because CO2 levels Continue reading RECORD CO2 LEVEL DESPITE WORLD IN LOCKDOWN →

Air Pollution, Burning Wood, Greenhouse Gases, Renewable Energy, Solar Panels, Wind Turbines 7 comments

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WIND AND SOLAR SWINDLE

By on April 29th, 2020

THE FOLLY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY PROMOTION

The percentage of the time that the renewable resources produce power is really low. In Germany, the number one example of the energy shift, solar produces its rated power output just 11% of the time, which means you need a backup for 89 % of the time. For wind, the numbers are better but they also remain between 15 to 25 % so again, 85–75% of the time so they will also require a substantial backup.

The release of above movie is a major blow to the renewable power industry and the tens of thousands of climate functionaries that have been using a trace gas as a meal ticket– the same people whose light-fingered heirs Continue reading THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WIND AND SOLAR SWINDLE →

Councillors, High Density DD08 Zoning, Manningham Council, Outer Ward Councillors, Town House Style Development 4 comments

BUILDING TYPE & STOREYS NOT IN DDO8 SCHEDULE

By on April 23rd, 2020

ONLY ONE METRE BUILDING HEIGHT DIFFERENTIAL BETWEEN LARGE AND SMALL BLOCKS

According to Manningham policy three storey apartment buildings with a maximum height of ELEVEN metres are “encouraged” on allotments 1800 Sqm or more and two storey town house style developments are prescribed a maximum height of TEN metres, which includes a one metre leeway for fall allowed but only on smaller sites. However, the DDO8 schedule below, which is the statutory tool to implement the residential strategy, refers to heights only and does not define a building typology.

The design objectives in the Manningham DDO8 fall short of saying that three-storey development cannot be contemplated, Continue reading BUILDING TYPE & STOREYS NOT IN DDO8 SCHEDULE →

Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gases, Ice Age, Ice Core Evidence, IPCC, Scientists 7 comments

RAIN FOREST DISCOVERED BELOW ANTARCTICA ICE

By on April 6th, 2020

HIGHER LEVELS OF CARBON DIOXIDE FOLLOWED HOTTER TEMPERATURES

The Mid-Cretaceous era was the heyday of the dinosaurs but was also the warmest period in the last 149 million years, with temperatures in the tropics as high as 35 degrees Celsius and sea levels 170 metres higher than today. Even during months of darkness, swampy temperate rain forests were able to grow close to the South Pole, revealing an even warmer climate than what had previously been expected. 

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To get these conditions, scientists believe that 90 million years ago the Antarctic continent was covered with vibrant and dense vegetation and there were no land-ice masses on the scale of an ice sheet. The work also suggests Continue reading RAIN FOREST DISCOVERED BELOW ANTARCTICA ICE →

COVID-19, Economy, H1N1, Pandemic, SARS, Vaccination, WHO 5 comments

ITALIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM CLOSE TO COLLAPSE

By on March 20th, 2020

CORONAVIRIS DEATH RATE CLIMBS TO ALMOST EIGHT PERCENT OF CONFIRMED CASES

Floating mask and a reflection of Colosseum in a Puddle
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Italy recorded nearly 3,000 deaths related to the coronavirus outbreak, as the number of cases detected passed 35,000, authorities announced on Wednesday 18/3. Italy had just recorded the highest one day death toll of any one nation since the COVID-19 outbreak began with 475 deaths, with more than 35,700 people infected and close to 3000 people have died.

With entire countries now on lock down, borders closed, flights cancelled and ‘social distancing’ becoming the new norm, it seems a lot of people are wondering, what is it that makes COVID-19 so much more deadly than SARS or H1N1? “For COVID-19, [transmissibility] is at a two or three. That Continue reading ITALIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM CLOSE TO COLLAPSE →

Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Global Cooling, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, MAGICC, Scientists 16 comments

NO LINK BETWEEN EMISSIONS AND TEMPERATURE

By on March 11th, 2020

The complete elimination of all fossils in the US immediately would only restrict any increase in world temperature by less than one tenth of one degree Celsius by 2050 and by less than one fifth of one degree Celsius by 2100, according to MAGICC,  the Model for Assessment of Greenhouse gas Induced by Climate Change, a NCAR/US government computer model to establish the effect of zero emissions

NCAR is the go-to agency for the US Government and IPCC climate modelers to determine the impact of CO2 on world climate. MAGICC Model projects what would be the impact on temperature of the Earth. Continue reading NO LINK BETWEEN EMISSIONS AND TEMPERATURE →

Climate Change, Global Cooling, Greenhouse Gases, IPCC, Ten Hottest Years 8 comments

BOXING DAYS ARE GETTING COOLER NOT WARMER

By on March 2nd, 2020

EXTREME HEAT DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE COULD SEND BOXING DAY INTO EXTINCTION ?

According to the ABC and the Guardian Newspaper the Boxing Day Test may need to be moved to November or March in the future to avoid extreme heat, which is a danger to players and cricket fans, a new report from Monash University’s Climate Change Communication Research Hub has found.

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The study wants Cricket Australia to use its prominence to push for greater climate action and do more to look after player and spectator welfare.

However, according to the climate temperature chart (left) Boxing Day average temperatures have fallen by at least two degrees Celsius since 1855 and almost four degrees Celsius since 1930!  Meanwhile, Melbourne has just experienced its coolest summer in eighteen years. Melbourne’s mean temperature (combined minimums and maximums) during summer will be about 20.1 degrees Celsius (68.2 degrees Fahrenheit). This is the lowest summer mean temperature in Melbourne since 2001-02. It had actually peakedat 26 degrees Celsius in 1930 Continue reading BOXING DAYS ARE GETTING COOLER NOT WARMER →