No idea how it’s elsewhere, in Germany, owning a dog, you have to pay a tax. (cat owner don’t pay any tax)
An idea to stop tax paying may be to tell the guys in the tax office, that your dog try to catch birds or mice, feels to be a cat, born in a wrong body.
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I went to a Beatles’ movie soon after they became popular, and I couldn’t believe what I saw. Every time the Beatles would come on the screen, the girls in the audience would start screaming so loud that you couldn’t hear the dialog or the songs. Just continuously screaming at the top of their lungs.
It was pandemonium.
That was the only Beatles movie I attended. I figured what was the point? You couldn’t hear a thing.
The girls were interesting of course, but not in that venue.
I had a 8 mm video camera with me and got some footage of the teen girls screaming. One of my few involvements with a famous situation or person. My other one was walking in the woods with the actor Chris Reeves who made those Superman movies. He owned a woodlot and called me one day. He said, “hi Joe, this is Chris Reeves calling you from Hollywood”. I assumed it was a friend pulling a trick on me but it was him. I walked with him for maybe an hour. Unfortunately, he hired somebody else as his forestry consultant. If he had hired me that might have altered his life and he might not have fallen off that horse. I was hoping he’d ask me to be in one of his movies as a back country hillbilly. 🙂
Could you hear them or were the girls screaming too loud?
The wife saw them live at Olympic Stadium in Detroit. All she heard were girls screaming.
I have heard recordings of songs from Beatles concerts from the mixing board. The performances were awful. They could not hear themselves in the monitor speakers and the result is unlistenable to this audiophile. Songs that required harmonies are particularly bad. …
However, I became an audiophile the moment I heard the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964.They were the best songwriters in the 1960s, even better than Bob Dylan in my opinion, with about 300 songs and very few I don’t like. Amazing output from 1964 to 1969.
I was stationed in Korea in 1964 and saw a headline in the “Stars and Stripes” newspaper that read, “Beatles Coming to America”. I thought the story was about an insect infestation and wondered why the newspaper journalists couldn’t spell beetles correctly.
I remember the first time I heard their band name mentioned on the radio. I thought it was rather odd at the time. But the music was great. Groundbreaking.
Now that those girls are in their 70s, perhaps they could provide us males with some insight as to what they were doing and why. Was it a case of “I’ll have what she’s having?”
I was in the front of the upper deck- they and their huge speaker systems were set up just past 2nd base. So I could barely see them even with binoculars. The music was loud so I could hear it but the girls were screaming. When I get a moment I’ll look for that video and snip out a section. This was, I think, in ’65. I was also watching the Ed Sullivan show when they were on. I remember it like yesterday. I can recall where all my family were sitting. I remember thinking how weird their hair styles were. A few years later I had shoulder length hair. Now I have almost no hair and what’s left is white like my beard.
The U.S.A. was founded on the principle of property ownership; which was promptly ruined at the state and local levels by allowing property tax, (i.e. rent seeking.) Nope, I do NOT own a thing for which an annual rent is extracted from me.
In the US , there is usually a yearly license fee, 10 -25$ , is typical. You can call it a tax, but it’s mostly to identify the owner if a dog bites you.
The U.K. used to have a dog licence, abolished in 1987, but it is being suggested that it be reinstated. It used to cost 7/6 or 37.5pence or as a guesstimate $0.3 per annum (it didn’t change for years).
It already exists in the UK and is truly epic in its amount.
The simultaneous beauty and ugliness of it is that it relies on the UK’s peoples ‘love of animals’ to levy it
UK Government uses Veterinarians to charge it, collect it and hand it over to the Exchequer.
No effort required at all by The Actual Tax Man
Initially via the hideous tuition fees that trainee vets have to pay and then by the insane amounts they are required to charge the pet owners/keepers for their services & medicines.
While pet owners are completely trapped by the love they have for their pets yet incessantly grumble about vets.
There really are some low-down lying scumbags running this country right now – yet if challenged, will pass the buck onto Europe
Although cats have, possibly undeserved in my experience, of predation of birds they don’t kill people (many cases over last 12 months and longer in the UK), sheep, other dogs or scare cattle as dogs do. Registering dog ownership seems to be sensible to me
The average price of annual dog license in the US is $10 to $20
The nearby city of Southfield Michigan charges $20 for one year ($10 if spayed) with a 10% discount for senior citizens. Proof of vaccination and proof of spaying is required.
A $25 fine if you have not obtained a license by December 31 of the prior year.
I have had an unlicensed cat since 1987. My cats stay in the house at all times so the “authorities” can kiss my cat’s butt. I’m probably going to be on the FBIs most wanted list now. A conservative who voted for Trump in 2020, with an unlicensed cat, and unvaxxed too. Good thing I comment using a moniker. My real name is Englebert Lipshitz, Jr.
In Montreal, Quebec, cats must be licensed too, and they’re not allowed to be loose on the street either. I don’t know what the fine is for having a cat at large, but I would expect it’s considerably larger than the license fee.
I hope that makes you feel better. Don’t forget, cats also kill mice, while dogs only kill cats and other dogs, and sometimes people. Properly calculated iability insurance for pets would be more fair. Then Chihuahuas and other small dogs would cost less to own than labradors or mastiffs.
Not to worry. If your cat gets caught, a big if, as long as you have treated it well, it will not ‘rat’ on you. If the cat police suspect that you are the owner, and bring you in, the cat will act like it has never seen you before.
It has been my experience that ankle-biting dogs bite much more frequently than big dogs that don’t suffer from insecurity issues — especially Great Danes!
One French municipality of Bézier, under a “far right” (in French speaking, far right usually means center left, or leftist, or in that case: former revolutionary communist but now anti mass migration) mayor Robert Ménard (who is a funder of RSF = reporters without borders) decided to get all local dogs’ DNA to be able to ID dog shit.
That was rejected by the TA (tribunal administratif), and again by the CAA (cour administrative d’appel).
Other municipalities tried similar schemes. The details, or pretty much anything about the workings of it, are sketchy (= French media don’t care).
HM Charlie can do better promoting his cause if he lowers the standard of living of his family to that of the average Brit. You know, sell off the palaces and move into one of those row houses. Sell off those fancy horse drawn carriages but keep the horses to get around the country. And of course he must become a vegan.
Notice the peak all sky emission is occurring at wavenumber ~500 cm-1. This is due to the dynamic condensed matter effective radiating surface emitting full spectrum IR (unlike gases).
This shifts the bulk emission spectra to the left, compared to a 288K blackbody function. Wien peak frequency corresponds to roughly 273K in reality.
The red 800ppm curve will show increased emission outside the CO2 bands in reality, compared to the 400ppm curve. The static radiative perspective cannot consider such a mechanism.
This is in addition to the planck response. Increased emission at around 500 cm-1 in addition to that via the “windows”.
Wien peak frequency corresponds to roughly 273K in reality.
There is that number again. This is why the idea of a GHE altering Earth’s energy balance is just a silly idea. It shows a lack of understanding of the real thermal control processes that occur on land, water and in the atmosphere all related to the triple point of water.
JCM,
I did hands-on spectrometry years ago but I am too rusty now, These days I see comments like yours and I do not know whether they are speculative, or reminding others of known art. Are chnges to spectral shape as hypothesised here, displacements of Wien’s displacement, real or imaginary? This is quite important in the wider scheme.
Geoff S
It should be uncontroversial that the OLR represents emission from atmosphere and transmission of surface flux.
The OLR is a combination of different effective radiating curves.
The bulk source emission curves are from condensed matter surfaces. This may represent any liquid or solids in the earth atmosphere system.
It is an error to compare bulk atmospheric spectral profiles to a uniform 288K blackbody curve. The 288K temperature only represents that which is transmitted through the atmosphere.
The bulk emission from atmosphere should be depicted by a 273K curve, or so. This is rarely, if ever, mentioned! This curve is superimposed on the 288K surface transmission.
Intensity of bulk atmospheric emission has many degrees of freedom in the turbulent condensing fluid mass.
As transmissivity is reduced, by addition of trace gas, bulk atmospheric emission compensates. Increased absorption is compensated by increased emission.
Total OLR remains insensitive to internal narrowband trace IR active gas perturbation in the dynamic fluid system.
Compensating net upward emission occurs across the spectrum.
From this chart, I do not really see a contradicton there. Over time how much radiation is emitted does neither depend on surface temperature, nor GHG concentrations. Spectral calculators simply assume an instant perturbation and the long term equilibrium is then projected from it. Rather it depends on how much energy is absorbed. If the albedo decreases, which reportedly it did, that is exactly what you get.
Btw. it does not mean Earth warmed because of this reduction in albedo.
What if the albedo is playing a role? The mechanisms must be clearly described. If oceanic heat uptake matches earth energy balance quite well, we could rule out if ocean is absorbing more solar than usual. The oceanic SW absorption may not be matched immediately by oceanic surface flux under variable albedo patterns.
If you are with the orthodoxy, it is certainly something you would want to consider. The additional update of solar radiation easily suffices to explain all the warming. Of course they want to stick with CO2, so they will ignore it.
The problem I have is that I know clouds are rather warming and their decrease thus can not be the reason for the warming.
New February Temperature records! Globull Warming? NO, because they were low records…never mind. During the night of Feb. 16/17 it snowed in Potrerillos, Mendoza Province, Argentina, and cold records, for February, were set all over Argentina, like -2 deg C at Malargue. Potrerillos is at 33 deg S Latitude and 1400 meters elevation (for example Albuquerque, New Mexico is slightly higher and slightly further from equator than Potrerillos). This is interesting because in Argentina this is the same as August in the northern hemisphere, you know: The Dog Days of Summer. Climate? NO. Weather? Somehow not important.
Since the sad demise of Robert Felix and his Iceagenow blog it’s much harder to find items like this, they certainly don’t appear in UK MSM. They used to comfort me and my belief that things weren’t going to hell in a handcart
Northern hemisphere will get a lot warmer before the snow fall begins to overtake snow melt and the permafrost expands south again. I expect to see a much larger proportion of the North Atlantic to be reaching the 30C ocean surface limit. The north-western Pacific up around Japan is already hitting the 30C. That created record snowfall in Japan this year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/02/25/japan-snow-record-depth-tsunan-hokkaido/
The North Atlantic has a good way to go before it shows similar warming. The warming of the NH has only been observed for about 500 years. It has 9000 years to go before it starts to cool.
David Dibbell
February 18, 2023 4:07 am
About the climate change claims, it helps to frame the situation realistically. We live submerged under a compressible atmosphere. It has a mass equivalent to 33 feet of water, more or less, depending on elevation. How much sense does it make to attempt to attribute a gain or loss of heat energy in the land and oceans, to a change of a few Watt-hours per hour per square meter in the radiative coupling of the surface to the atmosphere?
The energy in a column of the atmosphere above us includes the latent energy of water vapor, kinetic energy, internal energy, and potential energy due to altitude.
For all of 2019 I plotted hourly values of the “vertical integral of total energy” for a gridpoint near where I live. This is from the ERA5 reanalysis by the ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts). The vertical scale is expressed in Watt-hours per square meter.
See the problem? The direct static warming effect of a doubling of CO2 since preindustrial times is widely stated as 3.7 Watts per square meter, or 3.7 Watt-hours per hour per square meter. This is vanishingly thin on the vertical scale. It is completely overwhelmed by what happens in short time intervals as the weather obscures such minor effects.
So let’s face it. There is no way presently available to us to isolate the minor effect of GHG emissions for reliable attribution. The models themselves, like the ERA5 reanalysis, help us to see this more clearly.
Whether your method is correct or not, it is displaying the kind of scientific endeavor that should be done to explore the climates of the earth. It seems like trending temperature measurements is the accepted way to deal with climate since the vast majority of papers I see deal with “climate” in this fashion. When was the last paper you saw that tried to analyze the various factors of the atmosphere to generate a “whole” hypothesis?
Perhaps the modelers themselves will eventually help explain to the world that the claimed attribution of reported warming (i.e. the mesmerized attention to temperature) to rising concentrations of non-condensing GHGs was unsound from the beginning. Showing what is happening to total energy in the atmosphere is just one way of illustrating the attribution problem.
To help see the point about the attribution issue, here is a plot from the same hourly data, taking the difference from one hour to the next over the 8760 hours of the year. The median of the absolute value of the hourly changes is 479 Watt-hours per square meter. A single-digit value of Watt-hours per hour per square meter is lost in the plot of changes in both directions.
Interesting approach David, mine goes like this:
Plug 288 and 289 degrees into the SB equation and you get 5 1/4 watts difference in IR emission from the surface(the Planck feedback). Two degrees is 11 watts and so on due to the 4th power in the SB equation.
From 8 to 14 microns wavelength (the atmospheric window representing Weins law temperatures from +90 to -65 C, about 80% of that “excess” makes it directly to outer space, and is nearly ALL of the Sun’s heat that reaches the surface). So other than cloud cover, the 3.5 watts of CO2 warming is rapidly negated by a degree or so of Planck feedback.
But cloud cover causes up to half of the incoming sunlight to be reflected back to outer space too…also rapidly negating any wattage imbalance caused by clouds blocking IR in the atmospheric window. And more clouds form due to the 7% more water vapour in equilibrium with the temperature. This cloud heat reflection also far exceeds the additional heat that can be attributed to additional water vapour absorption of IR….all this forces the system back to an equilibrium that is minorly affected by the additional 3.5 Watts of CO2 outgoing radiation “hindrance”….
It ends up being the Vapour pressure of water vs. surface temperature (causing clouds that are like window shutters on the planet) that control the average surface temperature of the planet, CO2… a minor bit player.
Oops, meant to say “…+90 to -65 C, about 80% of that “excess” makes it directly to outer space, and that temperature range is the result of nearly ALL of the Sun’s heat that reaches the surface…”.
Proof that a couple of semester’s worth of atmospheric thermodynamics and radiative heat transfer can’t be summarized in a blog comment…
But the climate botherers have every little bit of supposed warming from CO2 accumulating. So you have to go back to the beginning of the industrial revolution and integrate all the extra retained energy from the CO2 blanketing. So at any point in time it is noise but over a big number of hours, a few watts translates to a lot of watt-hours.
They can even point to the retained heat of the oceans as evidence of the accumulation and continue to look hard for the couple of watts that are still missing because the oceans have only retained about 1W/m^2. .
On average the Earth is warming. The time and place of most warming is January on the Greenland plateau; rising at 10C per century. It will reach MINUS 20C by 2050.
Almost 2000 years ago, the peak solar intensity started its 10kyr shift northward. About 500 years ago, the NH began to warm in response to the shifting solar. This shift is responsible for the underlying trend in “global” temperature. But Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are already cooling. That cooling is progressing northward.
NASA’s image for 2017 to 2021 warming highlights where warming is occurring – it is clearly not global warming.
“But the climate botherers have every little bit of supposed warming from CO2 accumulating.” Yes, that is the essence of the circular reasoning concerning non-condensing GHGs. The core misconception is that the land and oceans are the emitters that matter. This is obviously not so, as the atmosphere itself, including clouds, is the source of most of the longwave energy radiated out to space.
CampsieFellow
February 18, 2023 4:20 am
According to Gridwatch, the UK is currently importing 23% of its electricity while natural gas is providing only 14%. Could those with a better knowledge of these things comment on the cost consequences for UK electricity? Is it cheaper to import electricity rather than use our own natural gas-fuelled power stations?
At the moment the answer is yes. Demand across Europe is low because of the weekend, and Storm Otto has been delivering some strong winds to power the turbines.
A couple of sites that help to see what is going on.
Not everywhere, North of Scotland possibly.
Germany went from less than 2GW from wind on the 15th of this month to over 45GW yesterday. Today as IDAU says it’s Saturday second lowest demand day of the week, wind today is 38GW. Solar is around 7GW
Germany is exporting >7GW to France which has 6.4GW Solar and 6.7GW wind of its own. France is exporting a total of 18GW to Italy, Switzerland, Spain, UK and Pumped Storage. The UK is importing about 7.5GW.
Spain’s wind generation is down from yesterday.
So there’s probably a lot of ruinable electricity with no particular place to go in Europe today, and yesterday, so probably fairly cheap by renewable standards
strativarius
February 18, 2023 4:56 am
Within and without: Council opposition to the ULEZ expansion
Authorities including Essex and Buckinghamshire are refusing to allow warning signs and cameras to be placed on their land. Hertfordshire County Council is also against the London mayor’s plans to expand ULEZ. The mayor’s office said it was “working closely” with the councils to install the necessary infrastructure.
Within London, the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Harrow and Hillingdon have all vowed to continue fighting plans to expand the zone. In an open letter to the mayor, they said their boroughs “enjoy good air quality” with levels of harmful gases “considerably below the levels in inner and central London”. … Despite their objections, Mr Khan and Transport for London (TfL) still have the power to install ULEZ signs and cameras on the boroughs’ roads using “direct installation powers”. But these do not extend beyond the capital https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64580664
Five Conservative-led councils said they have started a legal challenge over Sadiq Khan’s decision to expand London’s ultra low emission zone (Ulez). The outer London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Harrow and Hillingdon, together with Surrey County Council, issued a joint statement announcing they have launched a judicial review into the Labour mayor’s plan. A spokesman for the mayor said it would oppose “any challenge to this vital scheme”. … The councils said they will challenge the Ulez expansion in the High Court on the grounds that “relevant statutory requirements” were not complied with, expected compliance rates in outer London were not considered, and the proposed scrappage scheme was not consulted on.
They will also claim the overall consultation process was not properly conducted and there was a failure to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of the plan.
Leader of Hillingdon Council Ian Edwards said: “Ulez is the wrong solution in outer London as it will have negligible or nil impact on air quality but will cause significant social and economic harm to our residents. “We believe Sadiq Khan’s decision to impose this scheme on outer London boroughs is unlawful.”
His counterpart at Surrey County Council, Tim Oliver, said: “We are committed to delivering a greener future, but it must be done in a practical and sustainable way. “We are dismayed at the lack of discussion or consideration given to these proposals by the Mayor of London. “The impact on many Surrey residents and businesses will be significant and we will not stand by and watch that happen with no mitigations offered from the Mayor.” https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2023/02/17/coalition-of-councils-launches-legal-challenge-over-sadiq-khans-ulez-expansion/
We have system where politicians put their proposals forward in a manifesto before people choose where they will place their votes. Khan’s manifesto in 2021 had a section on transport…
Open Crossrail, the new line running from Reading to Essex through central London, “as soon as possible” Work to change the TfL funding model so it is more “sustainable” over the long term Explore the use of “more dynamic fare pricing”, while protecting the “freedom pass” for disabled and older Londoners Introduce 4G across the transport network https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56888463
The sharp-eyed will note “Work to change the TfL funding model so it is more “sustainable” What this actually means is TfL has a massive debt black hole and the ULEZ expansion will contribute to filling it – maybe.
Transport for London’s debt is rising and will hit over £13 billion by 2022-23 https://www.london.gov.uk
How much can Khan expect to get out of this measure that – as most left-wing policies often do – hits the poorest hardest of all?
Having lost TfL £640m he has to try and fill that black hole. . The previous expansion of ULEZ brought in £93m within a year so only £547M to go. Needs to find a way to extend it further. Move the M25 while no one is looking ? 🙂
Allan MacRae
February 18, 2023 5:03 am
I identified the Covid scam in Feb 2020 and published on 21Mar2020. See CorrectPredictions.ca
On 8Jan2021 I wrote to every Alberta MLA and many federal and civic politicians the following strong recommendation, which has proved entirely correct – NO Covid-19 VACCINES!:
“The Covid-19 vaccine developments were rushed and are not proven safe or effective and should NOT be taken, especially by the low-risk population – those under-65 or recovered from Covid-19. The two experimental Covid-19 vaccines that contain mRNA (Pfizer and Moderna) are especially risky – due to unknown future side-effects, the risk-to-reward is far too high for the low-risk group.”
There was a large increase in total deaths for all ages after the toxic Covid-19 injections were deployed in early 2021 – deaths primarily caused by the “vaccines”.
There never was a real Covid-19 pandemic, just an over-hyped winter flu, in terms of mortality. The costly lockdowns and toxic “vaccines” were never justified.
The Covid-19 virus phony “pandemic” was never a major threat, but we are now into a new phase of the toxic-Covid-19-killer-vaxx debacle:
Based on Alberta total deaths and the increase post-vaxx, I calculated 12.9 million Covid-19-vaxx-deaths worldwide to end2022, increasing to more than 19 million by end2023.
That death count was just independently verified by Rancourt et al (Feb2023) based on Israeli and Australian total death data, at 13.25 million to 24Jan2023 – the same as my total.
These total global Covid-19-vaxx-caused deaths will increase by at least 1/2 million every month unless we take remedial action.
USA
The toxic Covid-19 “vaccines” have now killed ~650,000 Americans, ~50% more than all the U.S. Armed Forces killed or missing in World War II. If we continue as-is, and do not act to treat the vaxx-injured, total estimated U.S. vaxx-caused deaths will exceed ~1 million by end2023.
CANADA
The toxic Covid-19 “vaccines” have now killed ~98,000 Canadians, more than two times all the Canadian Armed Forces killed in World War II. If we continue as-is, and do not act to treat the vaxx-injured, total estimated Canadian vaxx-caused deaths will exceed ~140,000 by end2023.
I am trying to make inexpensive, voluntary, over-the-counter “Ivermectin plus” packages widely available for treatment of the Covid illness and the vaxx-injured.
This “Ivermectin plus” treatment will save millions of lives.
Regards, Allan MacRae, Calgary
AGE-STRATIFIED COVID-19 VACCINE-DOSE FATALITY RATE FOR ISRAEL ANDAUSTRALIA
Rancourt et al Feb2023
(excerpt) The paper suggests you can take the number of vaccine doses delivered, divide by 1,000 to get an estimate of the number of people killed by the COVID vaccine. The COVID-19 vaccines did not only not save lives but they are highly toxic. On the global scale, given the 3.7 million fatalities in India alone, having vDFR = 1 % (Rancourt, 2022), and given the age-stratified vDFR results presented in this work, it is not unreasonable to assume an all-population global value of vDFR =0.1 %. Based on the global number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered todate (13.25 billion doses, up to 24 January 2023, Our World in Data), this would correspond to 13 million deaths from the COVID-19 vaccines worldwide.
THE INESCAPABLE IMMUNE ESCAPE PANDEMIC (SUBSTACK.COM) Nobody Can Conceal The Science That Nature Is Now Desperate To Unveil. Society in highly vaccinated countries will be caught by surprise.
Geert Vanden Bossche 17Feb2023
Geert : “Some of you have been wondering why I’ve become so quiet lately. I’ve been working on my book: “The inescapable immune escape pandemic”. The aim of the book is to unambiguously demonstrate that nothing was more predictable than the detrimental consequences of mass C-19 vaccination during a natural pandemic. I absolutely wanted to document the scientific evidence that makes this statement beyond compelling.”
Thank you Charles. “If we continue as-is, and do not act to treat the vaxx-injured, total estimated U.S. vaxx-caused deaths will exceed ~1 million by end2023.” This estimate [1 million total Covid-19-vaxx-caused-deaths in the USA by end2023] is conservative, based on no increase in the vaxx-death rate during this winter flu season. I just extrapolated the existing Fall2023 trend to year-end. Rancourt et al (Feb2023) confirmed my estimate of 13 million global vaxx-caused deaths to end2022 – they used Israeli and Australia total death data; I used Alberta total deaths – similar but not identical analytical methods, same answer. India and China are wild cards, anyone’s guess – again, this 13 million is a conservative (low) estimate. To all: Try to protect those who love. Ivermectin seems to work to “cure” moderate vaxx-injuries, if you can get it. I use 12mg/day, some doctors recommend twice that. If not, use Quercetin. Take Vitamin D and a multi-vitamin (for Zinc – don’t overdo the Zinc). Regards to all – hope you and yours survive. – Allan MacRae in Calgary
Typo correction: This estimate [1 million total Covid-19-vaxx-caused-deaths in the USA by end2023] is conservative, based on no increase in the vaxx-death rate during this winter flu season. I just extrapolated the existing Fall2022 trend to year-end.
I wish you the best of luck in your quest to make Ivermectin available OTC in Canada. I wish I could be as optimistic about the risk of Covid as you, as I am also unvaccinated. Unfortunately, I lost my GP because he also refused the vaccine, and was pushed into early retirement by the Quebec College of Physicians and Surgeons, who took away his license for that reason.
I can only wonder whether I’ve ever been infected with the Covid virus, since, despite the gigabytes of reports I’ve collected on the subject, I’ve never found any information that would confirm or rule that out. I do understand that an infection can be quite mild and unremarkable.
As to the way this crusade is being continued in Canada, I’d like to draw your attention to a report that was stridently and uncritically (as usual) broadcast across the continent by CBC news service a few weeks ago to the effect that:
“Between March and November 2021, misinformation contributed to vaccine hesitancy for an
estimated 2.35 million people in Canada. If those people who believed COVID-19 to be a hoax or
exaggerated had not delayed or refused vaccination, then, by the end of November 2021, there could have been:
198,000 fewer COVID-19 cases
13,000 fewer hospitalizations
3,500 fewer ICU patients
2,800 fewer deaths
$299 million saved in hospital cost
fewer COVID-19
cases”
Between March and November 2021, were it not for
“…misinformation contributed to vaccine hesitancy for an estimated 2.35 million people in Canada. If those people who believed COVID-19 to be a hoax or exaggerated had not delayed or refused vaccination”.
And the authority for this claim is a report “Fault Lines”, published by the Canadian Council of Academies, available here:
https://www.cca-reports.ca/reports/the-socioeconomic-impacts-of-health-and-science-misinformation/
I spent considerable time on the CCA/CAC website, as I had never heard of this organization before, and soon came to the conclusion that this agency was created by the Government of Canada as a thinly disguised propaganda machine. It appears to be entirely funded directly or indirectly by the federal government. And Chair of the “panel of experts” who take responsability for the “Fault Line” report is described as a former “Clerk of the Privy Council”, the most senior civil service position in Canada. I say “responsability”, because the work of “researching” and composing this Council’s reports is, according to the website, entirely handled by the Council’s anonymous permanent staff.
The report in question runs 131 pages and 15MB in pdf format. And in searching for the source(s) of the above data, I simply used the keyword “2,800”, to find all four instances (twice on the same page – 56), but was unable to find any clue as to where or how this number originated.
One is directed to Appendix B for “all data sources”, and finds there (p94) a little chart showing such hallowed scientific institutions as Radio Canada (ICU and NON-ICU hospitalizations, and deaths); Statistics Canada (“willingness to vaccinate”); and Maclean’s Magazine (“vaccine hesitancy attributable to minsinformation”), this last “based on Abacus Data survey results (Anderson, 2021”, as the authorities for these data.
Based on these Abacus “data” the report produced two bar charts, one for the “vaccine-hesitant” (presented as the hapless dupes of the misinformers), and another for the demonic “refusers”.
Remarkably, the “data” indicates that these groups are exactly equal in size, comprising “7% of [Canadian] aldults”, or 2.1 million people each. I’ve attached a copy of the “refusers” graph, which, to my mind, is notably self-contradictory. But I stand to be corrected…
PS. I have tried repeatedly tp format the download link for the report properly, but it fails to appear normally as a link in my display. So here it is again:
Hi Otro,
Greetings to Granby – I grew up in Beloeil in the days before the Great Diaspora of “les maudits Anglais”.
I would talk to you doc and see if he’ll take cash. He sounds too smart to retire – and too smart to take the jabs.
Please see the note on this page by Dr Peter McCullough about nattokinase. Tell your doc.
Best, Allan
I am an old person and therefore the only possible cause of death is being old.
I am also a rich person. Each month I run out of time enjoying life before running out of money.
I also maintain if you have to do a study, the problem is so small that it down not matter on either side. For example, are small exposures to ionizing radiation harmful or beneficial.
My freedom to enjoy life was the first thing impacted by Covid-19 when I had collected enough data to determined the risk was small and only common sense was required to handle the small risk.
Out of the gate some US governors regulated religious activities. I know one 92 year old woman who was very vocal about not being able to sing at church and did not comply.
I went to Grand Canyon NP. After a few stops I found a place to camp. When I went back the next day, the park was closed.
What I found interesting, is that for the first year of covid none of the people I am around got covid and 50% use a bear huge as a form of greeting. And 25% of those would die in a week without medical treatment for failed vital organs.
The second year, about 50% got sick. Common sense tells me to excuse myself from game night with friend with bad kidneys if I am sick. Not others.
The important number to remember is not the number who die but the number who do not die. None of my friends who had covid died. If you look at the survival rate for 70+ covid who have been hospitalized, it is amazing.
This is how life goes. You ask how was school? Somebody puked! That night your kid pukes. The next day here little sister pukes. Then the parent who cleans it up.
If I interpret your comments correctly Kit, you are on the right track.
I nailed the Covid-19 scam in Feb2020 and published here on wattsup on 21Mar2020. I am Covid-19 unvaxxed and never caught Covid-19.
Most everyone I know who was vaxxed did catch Covid – Quelle Surprise!
There was NO increase in total deaths in Alberta to 1Jul2020 after the first Covid-19 flu season – just the usual winter flu death-increase that happens every year.
The increase in total deaths above historic levels started circa Jan2021 with the Covid-19 vaxxes.
I am an old person and therefore the only possible cause of death is being old. I am also a rich person. Each month I run out of time enjoying life before running out of money.
If you have too much money, send some to me and I will send you an e-mail every week telling you how I enjoyed spending it. TMB is the leading cause of death –Too Many Birthdays, I promise not to spend the money on illegal drugs, booze or hookers.
For the Record:
I presented 26Jan2023 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee”
There were two conversations – the vaxx-injured want the toxic-and-ineffective Covid-19 vaxxes stopped now; the drug companies and the FDA Committee seemed utterly deaf to those concerns and just want to peddle more ineffective-and-toxic vaccines. Big Pharma owns the FDA.
I nailed the Covid-19 fraud and published my conclusions starting 3 years ago, 21Mar2020.
See CorrectPredictions.ca
Regards, Allan MacRae https://energy-experts-international.com
Here are my FDA slides (augmented).
THE COVID CON
Allan MacRae, Calgary
CorrectPredictions.ca
VRBPAC
January 26, 2023
Docket No. FDA-2022-N-2810
CHRONOLOGY:
Sept2019 – Took my annual flu shot (for the last time).
Jan 2020 – Studied Covid-19 full-time for 3 years since Jan2020.
29Jan2020 – Cancelled my 4Feb flight to Thailand via China due to early news of Covid-19.
Feb2020 – Identified the Covid-19 “pandemic” as a scam based on credible foreign data.
20Mar2020 – Learned that our Alberta hospitals were EMPTY and decided to publish. The feared “tsunami of Covid patients” never arrived.
21Mar2020 – Published that the Lockdowns were not justified and would be net harmful. No rational, informed person disputes that fact now. NO LOCKDOWNS!
4Oct2020 – Six months later world experts published identical conclusions in their Great Barrington Declaration.
8Jan2021 – Advised my governments to NOT release the dangerous, toxic Covid-19 injections. (My e-friend Dr Reid Sheftall reviewed before sending.) No rational, informed person disputes that fact now. NO COVID-19 VAXXES!
The most credible senior physicians want to end these toxic injections.
WHY WAS THIS COVID-19 “PANDEMIC” A SCAM?
Data showed the virus was only fatal to the very elderly and infirm – not younger people. The full-population lockdowns were never justified.
No significant “Excess Deaths” in Alberta or Canada in the 12 months ending 1Jul2020. Our doctors practiced early treatment. No Excess Deaths means no dangerous pandemic.
Hype was identical to the Climate (CAGW – Catastrophic Manmade Global Warming) scam.
CAGW scam was proved false in 1990 (Kuo et al, Nature), 2008 (MacRae) & 2013 (Humlum et al) – CO2 changes LAG temperature changes. “The future cannot cause the past.”
The same “usual suspects“ promoted both the Climate and Covid scams and linked them. “To solve Covid must also solve Climate. Woke Nonsense!
More Scams: PCR tests over-run to push false positives; Ivermectin was banned, a criminal act; “Vaccines” caused the variants (Darwin); etc.
Both the Covid-19 Lockdowns and “Vaccines” were ineffective, hugely harmful and too often fatal.
NEXT STEPS NEEDED TO REPAIR THIS DISASTER:
Stop ALL Covid-19 injections immediately; DO NO MORE HARM!
Make available the best medical treatment to reduce harm to the vaxxed;
MAKE INEXPENSIVE, VOLUNTARY, OVER-THE-COUNTER “IVERMECTIN PLUS” PACKAGES WIDELY AVAILABLE FOR TREATMENT OF THE COVID ILLNESS AND THE VAXX-INJURED.
Reinstate and compensate the un-vaxxed who were dismissed from their employment.
Reinstate those who were persecuted because they spoke out against the Covid-19 fraud.
Nuremberg 2.0!
My FDA audio presentation of 26Jan2023 starts here:
This article just arrived – Dr Peter McCullough is world-class.
Out of all the available therapies I have used in my practice and among all the proposed detoxification agents, I believe nattokinase and related peptides hold the greatest promise for patients at this time.
Far and away the most common question I get from those who took one of the COVID-19 vaccines is: “how do I get this out of my body.” The mRNA and adenoviral DNA products were rolled out with no idea on how or when the body would ever breakdown the genetic code. The synthetic mRNA carried on lipid nanoparticles appears to be resistant to breakdown by human ribonucleases by design so the product would be long-lasting and produce the protein product of interest for a considerable time period.
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This leaves dissolution of Spike protein as a therapeutic goal for the vaccine injured. With the respiratory infection, Spike is processed and activated by cellular proteases including transmembrane serine protein 2 (TMPRSS2), cathepsin, and furin. With vaccination, these systems may be avoided by systemic administration and production of Spike protein within cells. As a result, the pathogenesis of vaccine injury syndromes is believed to be driven by accumulation of Spike protein in cells, tissues, and organs.
Nattokinase is an enzyme is produced by fermenting soybeans with bacteria Bacillus subtilis var. natto and has been available as an oral supplement. It degrades fibrinogen, factor VII, cytokines, and factor VIII and has been studied for its cardiovascular benefits. Out of all the available therapies I have used in my practice and among all the proposed detoxification agents, I believe nattokinase and related peptides hold the greatest promise for patients at this time.
Allan, your numbers have the stench of bullshit about them. Take your Canadian numbers interpolated to the population of your home “city of Calgary” zone…would mean around 3000 deaths due to vaccines, yet total deaths are attributed to CoVid in the Calgary zone over the entire pandemic are 1700. So one would assume deaths due to vaccine reactions would be much lower…so maybe get out your calculator before you republish bullshit you read somewhere.
According to their table, they split about 110,000 co-morbidity risk people into a placebo group and a vaxx group for several different vaccine types. Then checked back on them in nearly three months. Have so many nebulous categories of description, few deaths, and few events for the size of the group…severe events were about double in the vaxx groups but deaths were about half. You can read pretty much anything you want into that.
Thank you Dr Fauci. Do you eat with that mouth, you innumerate, intemperate fool?
You cannot even read with comprehension, let alone run numbers.
Repeating from above: “Rancourt et al (Feb2023) confirmed my estimate of 13 million global vaxx-caused deaths to end2022 – they used Israeli and Australia total death data; I used Alberta total deaths – similar but not identical analytical methods, same answer. India and China are wild cards, anyone’s guess – again, this 13 million is a conservative (low) estimate.”
I do not use Alberta Health Services Covid-19 stats or USA FDA etc stats – they are often false nonsense.Total death stats are more difficult to falsify.
Your numbers….98,000 Canadian “vaccine” deaths out of 40 million people ratios to 3200 vaxx deaths (according to your numbers), in the 1.3 million people Calgary area. Total CoVid deaths in entire province of Alberta with 4.3 million including the Calgary zone was 5500 which scales to 1700 in Calgary area. So you are claiming twice as many deaths due to vaxx reactions as died from covid itself. Your pompous name calling won’t work to justify horse shit numbers like that.
Here comes always bragging MacRae again, a man who falsely claimed to have predicted everything about the climate in the past. Except his climate predictions were either wrong, such as predicting global cooling starting in 2020, or falsely claiming general beliefs held by EVERY Climate Realist about CAGW, were unique MacRae predictions.
This list of incredible Covid tin hat conspiracy theory claims is the worst yet. Most people here are too polite to criticize a fellow conservative, following Reagan’s 11th commandment, But I’m not.
“There was a large increase in total deaths for all ages after the toxic Covid-19 injections were deployed in early 2021 – deaths primarily caused by the “vaccines”.”
THAT STATEMENT IS FALSE
US excess deaths and all-cause mortality did not increase in 2021 versus 2020. In fact, they both remained about the same, which simply means Covid vaccines had no obvious effect on mortality.
“There never was a real Covid-19 pandemic, just an over-hyped winter flu, in terms of mortality. The costly lockdowns and toxic “vaccines” were never justified.”
THAT STATEMEMT IS MAINLY FALSE
The Covid19 pandemic was real
The all-cause mortality increased by about 20%.
That is NOT evidence of a bad influenza epidemic.
It was certainly overhyped for political power and control
“Based on Alberta total deaths and the increase post-vaxx, I calculated 12.9 million Covid-19-vaxx-deaths worldwide to end2022, increasing to more than 19 million by end2023.”
COMPLETE BALONEY
USA “The toxic Covid-19 “vaccines” have now killed ~650,000 Americans, ~50% more than all the U.S. Armed Forces killed or missing in World War II. If we continue as-is, and do not act to treat the vaxx-injured, total estimated U.S. vaxx-caused deaths will exceed ~1 million by end2023.”
THAT STATEMENT IS WILD SPECULATION.
Official VAERS data reflect 34,211 reported post-vaccine deaths
VAERS will miss at least 90% of deaths. But many deaths reported will be coincidences, as elderly people die every month, and some will have had a Covid shot in their last month of life as a coincidence. Some will have had a common cold in the last month of their life too. That doesn’t mean a common cold killed them.
My own estimate is 10% of post vaccine deaths are reported and 2/3 are coincidences, meaning I believe actual deaths are about triple the reported deaths number of 34,000, or 113,000 deaths. My estimate is very conservative, and you may wish to be less conservative. The actual answer is “no one knows”, But predicting “will exceed one million US deaths by end2023” from the Covid vaccine is wild speculation.
“This “Ivermectin plus” treatment will save millions of lives”
THAT STATEMENT IS DATA FREE SPECULATION
Ivermecton pRobably could have been used to save many lives from Covid19, which it was not, but there is no evidence it would save millions of lives from immune system damage caused by Covid vaccine, This is data-free speculation.
On my blogs I have published hundreds of articles explaining why Covid vaccines were not safe and not effective. The number of people under age 50 who have developed heart problems post-vaccine is disturbing. Deaths from unknown causes are far too high. Young athletes with heart problems collapsing on the fields are stunning. Data show repeated vaccines and boosters are more dangerous than one vaccine.
I have never complemented Covid vaccines in any way because they do not deserve any complements. But I don’t make wild claims about them either.
Due Diligence:
The wife and I, both old, are unvaxxed, and will stay that way.
We rejected a nine-month Covid vaccine development process in late 2020 — the normal vaccine development time is about 10 years with a 98% failure rate. Nine months is a high-risk development process.
Our Covid “vaccine” is Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Zinc and Quercetin food supplements. I have been taking the first three for over 50 years;
Results since January 2020 for both of us:
No Covid 19 infections
No Omicron infections
No influenza (I have never had influenza)
No common colds (my last cold was over 5 years ago).
Richard Greene: Your ignorant rants are tiresome and full of falsehoods.
Alberta and Canada had NO significant increase in total deaths to 1Jul2021. That success was because our Canadian physicians performed early treatment of Covid-19 symptoms.
Those USA physicians who performed early treatment, like Dr Zev Zelenko, had similar good results.
The alleged USA deaths attributed to Covid-19 in 2020 were caused by medical incompetence – late treatment, Remdesivir, ventilators, etc.
USA Covid stats are corrupted and not credible. So are many Canadian Covid stats.
Rancourt and I independently calculated identical total global Covid-19-vaxx-caused-deaths to end 2022 of 13 million. I calculated that these total vaxx-deaths will increase to >19 million by end 2023 unless remedial steps are taken.
That is why I am promoting prompt remedial action. I believe the correct “cure” for moderate vaxx-injuries should include Ivermectin, based on successful experience. Ivermectin is a well-tolerated, low-risk approach suitable for mass voluntary application. It could start in Florida and Alberta.
My USA and Canada estimates are calculated using the same basis of Alberta total all-cause deaths. The significant increase in total deaths starting 1Jan2021 is attributed primarily to the toxic Covid-19 “vaccines”.
If Charles is agreeable, I would share my spreadsheet on wattsup – it is 2.52 MB and contains total death stats for all of Canada by Province and Age Group from 1Jul2014 to 1Jul2022. I also used similar data from StatsCanada from 1Jul2022 to 1Dec2022 for future projections.
I used only Alberta data in my analysis so I could, with some effort, reduce the size of the spreadsheet by about 90%.
Charles please advise if you want to publish my spreadsheet. It involves more work for both of us so I am indifferent, at best. Our basic estimate of 13 million is independently proved correct, so I am only offering this extra effort to satisfy the skeptics/innumerates.
In closing, thank you Charles for all your hard work on the wattsup site.
You have the manipulative tendencies of a sociopath. To quote an email from you less than two months old:
I wrote you off as a jerk years ago Charles – an angry, petty little man abusing your power. You just re-confirmed that.
No consistent policy. Massive double-standards.
I’m not going to put in work to help you just because you’re kissing my ass today.
I expect this behavior from alcoholic strippers. It’s a bit weird to see it here.
“Rancourt and I independently calculated identical total global Covid-19-vaxx-caused-deaths to end 2022 of 13 million. I calculated that these total vaxx-deaths will increase to >19 million by end 2023 unless remedial steps are taken.”
13 million Covid-vaxx-deaths to date is a bit bigger than you and me Charles. Anyway, I have better plans for today – no crunching spreadsheets. 🙂
On the bright side, we agree on something Charles – no spreadsheet! That is cause to celebrate! Enjoy your Sunday.
All the beef I eat used to be plants. Why are we wasting all these fossil fuels on the production of these products when nature already does it
CD in Wisconsin
February 18, 2023 8:13 am
I don’t know if this has been reported previously here at WUWT, but a battery fire in a Ford F-150 EV caused production of the vehicle to shut down, and it may remain shut down for as much as a few weeks.
“Ford has suspended production of the F-150 Lightning after the battery in one of the electric pickups caught fire on Feb. 4.
The automaker on Tuesday announced that it had stopped building and shipping the full-size truck due to a potential “battery issue” that occurred during the pre-delivery quality inspection process and on Wednesday clarified that a fire was involved.”
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Ford claims it has identified the root cause of the problem.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has given voice to what a lot of us are thinking: time for a ‘divorce’.
Weld County, Colorado, wants to secede from the rest of Colorado, and become part of Wyoming.
At least a couple of counties in Oregon want to become part of Idaho.
This is more of a symptom, than an actual malady: part of this county works, and supports the other part that doesn’t, and the part that doesn’t work keeps telling the part that does work that it doesn’t do enough, and needs to become even more enslaved to the part that does not work.
I’ve thought a ‘divorce’ has been in order for about ten years, give-or-take. Looks like others are beginning to see that there may be “irreconcilable differences” between the two parts.
Seems like I read that there were just under 2,600 counties who voted for Trump, and something over 500 voted for Let’s Go Brandon. Hmmmmm … … … … …
Vlad
Retiredinky
February 18, 2023 9:08 am
The situation in world today is bleak.
The awakening going on at Asbury Theological Seminary may be the hope for the future.
Rich Davis
February 18, 2023 9:32 am
I had an odd thought, maybe a premise for a movie thriller.
The balloons China is floating over other countries are for collecting signals intelligence while their stealth planes are intruding near sensitive military sites, such as the nuclear silos they flew over in Montana.
The purpose of the balloons is to confirm that the US can’t detect the stealth weapon intrusions. If the stealth weapons fly over and the balloon doesn’t detect any alarm signals being sent out, then they know that they can disable two thirds of the triad in a sneak attack. That attack would be initiated just before invading Taiwan. In alliance with Russia, the Chinese would have an overwhelming nuclear advantage over the US relying only on the submarine leg of the triad. Traitor Joe would then “regret” that he has no choice but to surrender to the Chi-coms.
Just need to figure out how the hero detects the Chinese stealth and takes them out to save the day. Movie ends with Dementia Joe in an orange jumpsuit.
Chris Nisbet
February 18, 2023 10:13 am
In the wake of cyclone Gabrielle (Cat 2/3), many people in NZ have been saying things like:
– there is no denying that this was due to climate change
– the footprint of climate change in the cyclone is obvious (implying you’re a bit stupid if you don’t see it)
– there is no denying that the climate has changed
– will the climate ever return to ‘normal’ (implying Cat 2/3 cyclones aren’t normal)?
None of these sorts of statements make any sense to me, but it’s not obvious to me how you could convince these people that the cyclone and the damage it caused might not have been the result of ‘climate change’. If the people making the claims were just regular folk then it might not matter too much, but these are politicians, mayors, broadcasters etc.
By saying ‘there is no denying…’ they have already declared that they’re not interested in hearing opinions that might differ from theirs, esp. from somebody who isn’t a ‘climate expert’.
Anyway, I guess the question I have is, is there any way to get through to people who believe there is ‘no denying’ storms are due to climate change that maybe there are other, more logical, explanations?
Note that voting these people out isn’t really an option – this nonsense comes from all quarters.
When I was a child, nobody would admit to being an atheist. It was ok to be Jewish if you weren’t some kind of Christian, but anybody who was a deity denier was vaguely sinister, probably taking orders from the Rooshkies.
Nowadays, the popular religion is Climastrology. If you don’t want to be ostracized as a climate denier then you’ll pretend to believe. Otherwise you’re probably coluuuuuuuding with the Rooshkies.
is there any way to get through to people who believe there is ‘no denying’ storms are due to climate change
You question answers itself. A belief is not rooted in provable facts.
The other aspect is that the climate is always changing. The nature of Earth’s orbit rely;ative to the sun guarantees that. So their “belief” that a certain observation is due to climate change could very well be correct. The only wrong part is that eliminating fossil fuels is going to stop climate change. To stop climate change, you would have to make the Earth orbit the sun in exactly the same way for ever. That is not possible while there are other planets. So you would need to start by eliminating all the other planets. and somehow stop the Earth’s precession.
Paul Hurley
February 18, 2023 1:11 pm
Here’s a cross-promotion of Wm. Briggs’ website, wherein he asks:
(Assuming of course, science is broken. Not a stretch IMO.)
Ulric Lyons
February 18, 2023 3:45 pm
The extreme winters of 1422, 1602, 1784, and 1963, with the latter two being the fourth and second coldest respectively since 1659 in England. All separated by 179 to 182 year intervals. Note Uranus progressing towards Neptune through the four events, and Jupiter working its way ahead of Saturn.
There is another series with Uranus on the opposite quadrature to Neptune, with the two times that the River Nile is known to have frozen over in the last 2000 years, in 830 and 1010.
I just watched a couple of videos of Royal Institution lectures while sewing. What really stood out was the insistence of Dame Sue Black (this years Christmas lectures for kids) and Marcus du Sautoy (mathmetician) both were insistent that science is never settled, it is always moving, and moving in unexpected ways.
Contrast this with the RI’s support for the “settled” science of climate.
I think Trump can win the next election if he will follow Ronald Reagan’s rule: “Do not speak ill of fellow Republicans.”
I know this will be completely against the grain for Trump, but he doesn’t need to personally attack his Republican opponents.
What Trump needs to do is talk about his excellent track record as president and promise the people more of the same in the future. He doesn’t even have to mention his political opponents since they cannot touch his record of accomplishment.
So, Donald, be nice, talk about your good record and your vision for the future and you will be the winner.
Personally attack other Republicans at your own risk and at the nation’s risk, since we need you back in office righting this ship. If you descend to personal attacks you are going to alinate many Republicans because for the most part, the people you would be attacking are good people and Republican voters know it, and a personal attack on these people looks self-serving and petty if you do it. Don’t do it.
Be nice to fellow Republicans. You can afford to do so. And you’ll get yourself reelected. You don’t really have any competition when it comes to governing.
JASchrumpf
February 19, 2023 8:19 am
I’ve been getting these ads for “solar generators” and backup battery storage in my Facebook feed for a few weeks now. (Yes, I know, Facebook; but it’s how I keep in touch with family, so…)
The ads are from a company called Bluetti, and the units cost $3700 for the battery and charger. They rate the battery at 3000 watt-hours, with up to 2400 watts solar charging, 3000 watts AC charging, and 120/240 volts outlets.
I’m no electrician, but I know a couple of formulae; the trick is to make sure you’re using them right, so please check me out.
Ii watts are volts X amps, then at 120v output, 3000 wH would be the equivalent of 25 amp-hours, is that correct? If so, then this battery would run the average refrigerator (10A) for 2.5 hours. That’s not much juice for $3700, considering I can buy a Generac 5500-6500 W gasoline generator for $700-$800 that will run 12 hours on 5 gallons of gas.
The reviewer also claims he was able to charge at 3000w from a 20A wall outlet, for a few seconds at least. That sounds pretty dangerous, since 3000w at 120v would be a 25A draw, which should have popped a 15A breaker pretty quickly I’d think.
Other charging methods are solar, up to 2400w, which I think would be 8 household panels; maybe 6?
All in all, the system seems very expensive for the amount of backup power you get.A 14000w Generac LP or NG generator is only about $400 more. Obviously the Generac isn’t portable, but this system is only luggable at best, with the charger weighing in a 40 lbs and each battery at 80 lbs.
So is this system a ripoff, or just really expensive for what you get?
niceguy12345
February 25, 2023 5:42 pm
I just can’t believe it: François “culbuto” Hollande believes his action helped Ukraine resist Russian invasion:
The former French president partly attributes Ukraine’s successful resilience in 2022 to his own diplomatic efforts in 2014-2015.
So his (and others’) alliance with the anti nuclear greens was not what pushed Putin to attack, believing that Europe was too reliant on natgas imports to do anything?
No idea how it’s elsewhere, in Germany, owning a dog, you have to pay a tax. (cat owner don’t pay any tax)
An idea to stop tax paying may be to tell the guys in the tax office, that your dog try to catch birds or mice, feels to be a cat, born in a wrong body.
😀
I saw the Beatles in Shea Stadium in 1965.
I bet that was wild!
I went to a Beatles’ movie soon after they became popular, and I couldn’t believe what I saw. Every time the Beatles would come on the screen, the girls in the audience would start screaming so loud that you couldn’t hear the dialog or the songs. Just continuously screaming at the top of their lungs.
It was pandemonium.
That was the only Beatles movie I attended. I figured what was the point? You couldn’t hear a thing.
The girls were interesting of course, but not in that venue.
I had a 8 mm video camera with me and got some footage of the teen girls screaming. One of my few involvements with a famous situation or person. My other one was walking in the woods with the actor Chris Reeves who made those Superman movies. He owned a woodlot and called me one day. He said, “hi Joe, this is Chris Reeves calling you from Hollywood”. I assumed it was a friend pulling a trick on me but it was him. I walked with him for maybe an hour. Unfortunately, he hired somebody else as his forestry consultant. If he had hired me that might have altered his life and he might not have fallen off that horse. I was hoping he’d ask me to be in one of his movies as a back country hillbilly. 🙂
I made the pilgrimage
To the Cavern. An atmosphere similar to that of the old Marquee in Wardour Street.
Did you get a photo with the Bronzes or was that long before?
Could you hear them or were the girls screaming too loud?
The wife saw them live at Olympic Stadium in Detroit. All she heard were girls screaming.
I have heard recordings of songs from Beatles concerts from the mixing board. The performances were awful. They could not hear themselves in the monitor speakers and the result is unlistenable to this audiophile. Songs that required harmonies are particularly bad. …
However, I became an audiophile the moment I heard the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964.They were the best songwriters in the 1960s, even better than Bob Dylan in my opinion, with about 300 songs and very few I don’t like. Amazing output from 1964 to 1969.
Here is one of my favorite live Beatles videos:
The Beatles – Help! [Blackpool Night Out, ABC Theatre, Blackpool, United Kingdom] – YouTube
“I heard the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964.”
Yes, I saw that performance on tv. As soon as the Beatles appeared, the girls in the audience started screaming wildly.
I was stationed in Korea in 1964 and saw a headline in the “Stars and Stripes” newspaper that read, “Beatles Coming to America”. I thought the story was about an insect infestation and wondered why the newspaper journalists couldn’t spell beetles correctly.
I remember the first time I heard their band name mentioned on the radio. I thought it was rather odd at the time. But the music was great. Groundbreaking.
Now that those girls are in their 70s, perhaps they could provide us males with some insight as to what they were doing and why. Was it a case of “I’ll have what she’s having?”
I was in the front of the upper deck- they and their huge speaker systems were set up just past 2nd base. So I could barely see them even with binoculars. The music was loud so I could hear it but the girls were screaming. When I get a moment I’ll look for that video and snip out a section. This was, I think, in ’65. I was also watching the Ed Sullivan show when they were on. I remember it like yesterday. I can recall where all my family were sitting. I remember thinking how weird their hair styles were. A few years later I had shoulder length hair. Now I have almost no hair and what’s left is white like my beard.
The U.S.A. was founded on the principle of property ownership; which was promptly ruined at the state and local levels by allowing property tax, (i.e. rent seeking.) Nope, I do NOT own a thing for which an annual rent is extracted from me.
But wherever you live you pay rent to he who pays rent.
In the US , there is usually a yearly license fee, 10 -25$ , is typical. You can call it a tax, but it’s mostly to identify the owner if a dog bites you.
The U.K. used to have a dog licence, abolished in 1987, but it is being suggested that it be reinstated. It used to cost 7/6 or 37.5pence or as a guesstimate $0.3 per annum (it didn’t change for years).
It already exists in the UK and is truly epic in its amount.
The simultaneous beauty and ugliness of it is that it relies on the UK’s peoples ‘love of animals’ to levy it
UK Government uses Veterinarians to charge it, collect it and hand it over to the Exchequer.
No effort required at all by The Actual Tax Man
Initially via the hideous tuition fees that trainee vets have to pay and then by the insane amounts they are required to charge the pet owners/keepers for their services & medicines.
While pet owners are completely trapped by the love they have for their pets yet incessantly grumble about vets.
There really are some low-down lying scumbags running this country right now – yet if challenged, will pass the buck onto Europe
Although cats have, possibly undeserved in my experience, of predation of birds they don’t kill people (many cases over last 12 months and longer in the UK), sheep, other dogs or scare cattle as dogs do. Registering dog ownership seems to be sensible to me
Ben ,
dog ownership in the U.K. has been registered for many years with the animals legally required to have an identifying micro chip inserted.
That too, but the early idea was that streets etc have to be cleaned “behind” dogs. 😀
And here it’s officially called dog tax.
Also typically a requirement to prove a rabies shot to get a dog license. I guess rabid cats are less likely to attack people?
And, cats get rabies much less frequently than dogs.
And also a mechanism to insure that your dog has been vaccinated against rabies, without taxing everyone for a problem unique to dog owners.
Did I get a down-vote from an anti-vaxer? Too funny!
In some places in the U.S., the tax (man/woman/thing) thinks that (he/she/it) is the cat, and the license fee is obviously racism.
Congratulations! You guys are all WOKE.
be sure to give your dog a cat name or it’ll be offended
It is the improper pronouns that they get offended by. My cat gets upset if I don’t call her “Your Highness.” 🙂
Whenever the tax man comes around to check on my dog, the dog self-identifies as a cat.
The moment the tax man leaves, my dog reverses his self-identification to be a dog again.
That would never happen in the changing rooms of my local swimming pool
Bad dog!
Best dog bite joke of all time
The joke is after 45 seconds
Does your dog bite? – YouTube
now that’s funny
The average price of annual dog license in the US is $10 to $20
The nearby city of Southfield Michigan charges $20 for one year ($10 if spayed) with a 10% discount for senior citizens. Proof of vaccination and proof of spaying is required.
A $25 fine if you have not obtained a license by December 31 of the prior year.
I have had an unlicensed cat since 1987. My cats stay in the house at all times so the “authorities” can kiss my cat’s butt. I’m probably going to be on the FBIs most wanted list now. A conservative who voted for Trump in 2020, with an unlicensed cat, and unvaxxed too. Good thing I comment using a moniker. My real name is Englebert Lipshitz, Jr.
Seriously Bert, YOU’RE “Richard Greene”? I knew it all along!
How can there be both a price for unspayed dogs and a requirement that all be spayed?
Not heard that Beatles track before. “If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat”.
How prophetic.
Michael my favorite lyric is from Ten Years After. I’d Love to Change the World.
Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity
Tax the rich, feed the poor
‘Til there are no rich no more
I’m wondering now if Steely Dan had heard of Klaus Schwab back in 1972 when they wrote:
“I heard it was you talking ’bout a world where all is free,
it just couldn’t be, and only a fool would say that”
In Montreal, Quebec, cats must be licensed too, and they’re not allowed to be loose on the street either. I don’t know what the fine is for having a cat at large, but I would expect it’s considerably larger than the license fee.
I hope that makes you feel better. Don’t forget, cats also kill mice, while dogs only kill cats and other dogs, and sometimes people. Properly calculated iability insurance for pets would be more fair. Then Chihuahuas and other small dogs would cost less to own than labradors or mastiffs.
Not to worry. If your cat gets caught, a big if, as long as you have treated it well, it will not ‘rat’ on you. If the cat police suspect that you are the owner, and bring you in, the cat will act like it has never seen you before.
It has been my experience that ankle-biting dogs bite much more frequently than big dogs that don’t suffer from insecurity issues — especially Great Danes!
One French municipality of Bézier, under a “far right” (in French speaking, far right usually means center left, or leftist, or in that case: former revolutionary communist but now anti mass migration) mayor Robert Ménard (who is a funder of RSF = reporters without borders) decided to get all local dogs’ DNA to be able to ID dog shit.
That was rejected by the TA (tribunal administratif), and again by the CAA (cour administrative d’appel).
Other municipalities tried similar schemes. The details, or pretty much anything about the workings of it, are sketchy (= French media don’t care).
HM Charles III has co-written a book about climate change to be published in a few weeks https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64665675
here’s a screenshot of one of the pages.
another
And another
HM Charlie can do better promoting his cause if he lowers the standard of living of his family to that of the average Brit. You know, sell off the palaces and move into one of those row houses. Sell off those fancy horse drawn carriages but keep the horses to get around the country. And of course he must become a vegan.
Where are those people marching? Can’t be in the UK, anyway. At least 57 percent of the people are non-White.
I guess since Charles is now the King, he thinks he can stop the climate from changing.
It reminds me of another King and an ocean.
Cnut was deliberately demonstrating that he couldn’t control nature: Charlie is doing it unintentionally
His Royal Heinie should stay out of politics like his Mum did for 70 years.
Stop climate change! No more unpredictable and traumatic changes of seasons!
Some details on integrating clouds into CO2 forcing calculations..
https://greenhousedefect.com/the-holy-grail-of-ecs/why-2w/m2-co2-forcing-is-actually-quite-certain
Notice the peak all sky emission is occurring at wavenumber ~500 cm-1. This is due to the dynamic condensed matter effective radiating surface emitting full spectrum IR (unlike gases).
This shifts the bulk emission spectra to the left, compared to a 288K blackbody function. Wien peak frequency corresponds to roughly 273K in reality.
The red 800ppm curve will show increased emission outside the CO2 bands in reality, compared to the 400ppm curve. The static radiative perspective cannot consider such a mechanism.
This is in addition to the planck response. Increased emission at around 500 cm-1 in addition to that via the “windows”.
There is that number again. This is why the idea of a GHE altering Earth’s energy balance is just a silly idea. It shows a lack of understanding of the real thermal control processes that occur on land, water and in the atmosphere all related to the triple point of water.
In other words, as narrow band gas absorption increases, broadband emission increases.
JCM,
I did hands-on spectrometry years ago but I am too rusty now, These days I see comments like yours and I do not know whether they are speculative, or reminding others of known art. Are chnges to spectral shape as hypothesised here, displacements of Wien’s displacement, real or imaginary? This is quite important in the wider scheme.
Geoff S
It should be uncontroversial that the OLR represents emission from atmosphere and transmission of surface flux.
The OLR is a combination of different effective radiating curves.
The bulk source emission curves are from condensed matter surfaces. This may represent any liquid or solids in the earth atmosphere system.
It is an error to compare bulk atmospheric spectral profiles to a uniform 288K blackbody curve. The 288K temperature only represents that which is transmitted through the atmosphere.
The bulk emission from atmosphere should be depicted by a 273K curve, or so. This is rarely, if ever, mentioned! This curve is superimposed on the 288K surface transmission.
Intensity of bulk atmospheric emission has many degrees of freedom in the turbulent condensing fluid mass.
As transmissivity is reduced, by addition of trace gas, bulk atmospheric emission compensates. Increased absorption is compensated by increased emission.
Total OLR remains insensitive to internal narrowband trace IR active gas perturbation in the dynamic fluid system.
Compensating net upward emission occurs across the spectrum.
Certain observational mechanisms are described in https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9321/1/2/14/htm
The same phenomenon is noted by Miskolczi, however his work is largely misunderstood. PDF page 36
https://www.klimarealista.hu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/174_Mann-V-Ball-Miskolczi.pdf
From this chart, I do not really see a contradicton there. Over time how much radiation is emitted does neither depend on surface temperature, nor GHG concentrations. Spectral calculators simply assume an instant perturbation and the long term equilibrium is then projected from it. Rather it depends on how much energy is absorbed. If the albedo decreases, which reportedly it did, that is exactly what you get.
Btw. it does not mean Earth warmed because of this reduction in albedo.
What if the albedo is playing a role? The mechanisms must be clearly described. If oceanic heat uptake matches earth energy balance quite well, we could rule out if ocean is absorbing more solar than usual. The oceanic SW absorption may not be matched immediately by oceanic surface flux under variable albedo patterns.
If you are with the orthodoxy, it is certainly something you would want to consider. The additional update of solar radiation easily suffices to explain all the warming. Of course they want to stick with CO2, so they will ignore it.
The problem I have is that I know clouds are rather warming and their decrease thus can not be the reason for the warming.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kids-Fight-Climate-Change-2minutesuperhero/ this author goes on about climate change and reducing carbon footprint but he has also written books about taking a Volkswagen camper van around Europe.
New February Temperature records! Globull Warming? NO, because they were low records…never mind. During the night of Feb. 16/17 it snowed in Potrerillos, Mendoza Province, Argentina, and cold records, for February, were set all over Argentina, like -2 deg C at Malargue. Potrerillos is at 33 deg S Latitude and 1400 meters elevation (for example Albuquerque, New Mexico is slightly higher and slightly further from equator than Potrerillos). This is interesting because in Argentina this is the same as August in the northern hemisphere, you know: The Dog Days of Summer. Climate? NO. Weather? Somehow not important.
Since the sad demise of Robert Felix and his Iceagenow blog it’s much harder to find items like this, they certainly don’t appear in UK MSM. They used to comfort me and my belief that things weren’t going to hell in a handcart
Northern hemisphere will get a lot warmer before the snow fall begins to overtake snow melt and the permafrost expands south again. I expect to see a much larger proportion of the North Atlantic to be reaching the 30C ocean surface limit. The north-western Pacific up around Japan is already hitting the 30C. That created record snowfall in Japan this year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/02/25/japan-snow-record-depth-tsunan-hokkaido/
The North Atlantic has a good way to go before it shows similar warming. The warming of the NH has only been observed for about 500 years. It has 9000 years to go before it starts to cool.
About the climate change claims, it helps to frame the situation realistically. We live submerged under a compressible atmosphere. It has a mass equivalent to 33 feet of water, more or less, depending on elevation. How much sense does it make to attempt to attribute a gain or loss of heat energy in the land and oceans, to a change of a few Watt-hours per hour per square meter in the radiative coupling of the surface to the atmosphere?
The energy in a column of the atmosphere above us includes the latent energy of water vapor, kinetic energy, internal energy, and potential energy due to altitude.
For all of 2019 I plotted hourly values of the “vertical integral of total energy” for a gridpoint near where I live. This is from the ERA5 reanalysis by the ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts). The vertical scale is expressed in Watt-hours per square meter.
See the problem? The direct static warming effect of a doubling of CO2 since preindustrial times is widely stated as 3.7 Watts per square meter, or 3.7 Watt-hours per hour per square meter. This is vanishingly thin on the vertical scale. It is completely overwhelmed by what happens in short time intervals as the weather obscures such minor effects.
So let’s face it. There is no way presently available to us to isolate the minor effect of GHG emissions for reliable attribution. The models themselves, like the ERA5 reanalysis, help us to see this more clearly.
Comments are welcome.
Whether your method is correct or not, it is displaying the kind of scientific endeavor that should be done to explore the climates of the earth. It seems like trending temperature measurements is the accepted way to deal with climate since the vast majority of papers I see deal with “climate” in this fashion. When was the last paper you saw that tried to analyze the various factors of the atmosphere to generate a “whole” hypothesis?
Perhaps the modelers themselves will eventually help explain to the world that the claimed attribution of reported warming (i.e. the mesmerized attention to temperature) to rising concentrations of non-condensing GHGs was unsound from the beginning. Showing what is happening to total energy in the atmosphere is just one way of illustrating the attribution problem.
To help see the point about the attribution issue, here is a plot from the same hourly data, taking the difference from one hour to the next over the 8760 hours of the year. The median of the absolute value of the hourly changes is 479 Watt-hours per square meter. A single-digit value of Watt-hours per hour per square meter is lost in the plot of changes in both directions.
Interesting approach David, mine goes like this:
Plug 288 and 289 degrees into the SB equation and you get 5 1/4 watts difference in IR emission from the surface(the Planck feedback). Two degrees is 11 watts and so on due to the 4th power in the SB equation.
From 8 to 14 microns wavelength (the atmospheric window representing Weins law temperatures from +90 to -65 C, about 80% of that “excess” makes it directly to outer space, and is nearly ALL of the Sun’s heat that reaches the surface). So other than cloud cover, the 3.5 watts of CO2 warming is rapidly negated by a degree or so of Planck feedback.
But cloud cover causes up to half of the incoming sunlight to be reflected back to outer space too…also rapidly negating any wattage imbalance caused by clouds blocking IR in the atmospheric window. And more clouds form due to the 7% more water vapour in equilibrium with the temperature. This cloud heat reflection also far exceeds the additional heat that can be attributed to additional water vapour absorption of IR….all this forces the system back to an equilibrium that is minorly affected by the additional 3.5 Watts of CO2 outgoing radiation “hindrance”….
It ends up being the Vapour pressure of water vs. surface temperature (causing clouds that are like window shutters on the planet) that control the average surface temperature of the planet, CO2… a minor bit player.
Oops, meant to say “…+90 to -65 C, about 80% of that “excess” makes it directly to outer space, and that temperature range is the result of nearly ALL of the Sun’s heat that reaches the surface…”.
Proof that a couple of semester’s worth of atmospheric thermodynamics and radiative heat transfer can’t be summarized in a blog comment…
Thanks for your replies. Yes, highly self-regulating overall.
But the climate botherers have every little bit of supposed warming from CO2 accumulating. So you have to go back to the beginning of the industrial revolution and integrate all the extra retained energy from the CO2 blanketing. So at any point in time it is noise but over a big number of hours, a few watts translates to a lot of watt-hours.
They can even point to the retained heat of the oceans as evidence of the accumulation and continue to look hard for the couple of watts that are still missing because the oceans have only retained about 1W/m^2. .
On average the Earth is warming. The time and place of most warming is January on the Greenland plateau; rising at 10C per century. It will reach MINUS 20C by 2050.
Almost 2000 years ago, the peak solar intensity started its 10kyr shift northward. About 500 years ago, the NH began to warm in response to the shifting solar. This shift is responsible for the underlying trend in “global” temperature. But Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are already cooling. That cooling is progressing northward.
NASA’s image for 2017 to 2021 warming highlights where warming is occurring – it is clearly not global warming.
“But the climate botherers have every little bit of supposed warming from CO2 accumulating.”
Yes, that is the essence of the circular reasoning concerning non-condensing GHGs. The core misconception is that the land and oceans are the emitters that matter. This is obviously not so, as the atmosphere itself, including clouds, is the source of most of the longwave energy radiated out to space.
According to Gridwatch, the UK is currently importing 23% of its electricity while natural gas is providing only 14%. Could those with a better knowledge of these things comment on the cost consequences for UK electricity? Is it cheaper to import electricity rather than use our own natural gas-fuelled power stations?
At the moment the answer is yes. Demand across Europe is low because of the weekend, and Storm Otto has been delivering some strong winds to power the turbines.
A couple of sites that help to see what is going on.
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
Click on countries to see their sources of generation and the interconnector flows in and out.
https://www.epexspot.com/en/market-data?market_area=&trading_date=2023-02-17&delivery_date=2023-02-18&underlying_year=&modality=Auction&sub_modality=DayAhead&technology=&product=60&data_mode=map&period=&production_period=
You can look at hourly pricing across much of Europe. Note that UK prices are quoted in £ while the rest are quoted in €.
Wind has been setting prices that force other generation offline, yet has also been curtailed because of grid constraints and low local demand.
Aren’t the wind speeds associated with Otto too fast to turn the wind turbines safely?
Not everywhere, North of Scotland possibly.
Germany went from less than 2GW from wind on the 15th of this month to over 45GW yesterday. Today as IDAU says it’s Saturday second lowest demand day of the week, wind today is 38GW. Solar is around 7GW
Germany is exporting >7GW to France which has 6.4GW Solar and 6.7GW wind of its own. France is exporting a total of 18GW to Italy, Switzerland, Spain, UK and Pumped Storage. The UK is importing about 7.5GW.
Spain’s wind generation is down from yesterday.
So there’s probably a lot of ruinable electricity with no particular place to go in Europe today, and yesterday, so probably fairly cheap by renewable standards
Within and without: Council opposition to the ULEZ expansion
Authorities including Essex and Buckinghamshire are refusing to allow warning signs and cameras to be placed on their land. Hertfordshire County Council is also against the London mayor’s plans to expand ULEZ. The mayor’s office said it was “working closely” with the councils to install the necessary infrastructure.
Within London, the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Harrow and Hillingdon have all vowed to continue fighting plans to expand the zone. In an open letter to the mayor, they said their boroughs “enjoy good air quality” with levels of harmful gases “considerably below the levels in inner and central London”.
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Despite their objections, Mr Khan and Transport for London (TfL) still have the power to install ULEZ signs and cameras on the boroughs’ roads using “direct installation powers”. But these do not extend beyond the capital
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64580664
Five Conservative-led councils said they have started a legal challenge over Sadiq Khan’s decision to expand London’s ultra low emission zone (Ulez). The outer London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Harrow and Hillingdon, together with Surrey County Council, issued a joint statement announcing they have launched a judicial review into the Labour mayor’s plan. A spokesman for the mayor said it would oppose “any challenge to this vital scheme”.
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The councils said they will challenge the Ulez expansion in the High Court on the grounds that “relevant statutory requirements” were not complied with, expected compliance rates in outer London were not considered, and the proposed scrappage scheme was not consulted on.
They will also claim the overall consultation process was not properly conducted and there was a failure to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of the plan.
Leader of Hillingdon Council Ian Edwards said: “Ulez is the wrong solution in outer London as it will have negligible or nil impact on air quality but will cause significant social and economic harm to our residents. “We believe Sadiq Khan’s decision to impose this scheme on outer London boroughs is unlawful.”
His counterpart at Surrey County Council, Tim Oliver, said: “We are committed to delivering a greener future, but it must be done in a practical and sustainable way. “We are dismayed at the lack of discussion or consideration given to these proposals by the Mayor of London. “The impact on many Surrey residents and businesses will be significant and we will not stand by and watch that happen with no mitigations offered from the Mayor.”
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2023/02/17/coalition-of-councils-launches-legal-challenge-over-sadiq-khans-ulez-expansion/
We have system where politicians put their proposals forward in a manifesto before people choose where they will place their votes. Khan’s manifesto in 2021 had a section on transport…
Open Crossrail, the new line running from Reading to Essex through central London, “as soon as possible”
Work to change the TfL funding model so it is more “sustainable” over the long term
Explore the use of “more dynamic fare pricing”, while protecting the “freedom pass” for disabled and older Londoners
Introduce 4G across the transport network
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56888463
The sharp-eyed will note “Work to change the TfL funding model so it is more “sustainable” What this actually means is TfL has a massive debt black hole and the ULEZ expansion will contribute to filling it – maybe.
Transport for London’s debt is rising and will hit over £13 billion by 2022-23
https://www.london.gov.uk
How much can Khan expect to get out of this measure that – as most left-wing policies often do – hits the poorest hardest of all?
The income from the expansion of the ultra-low emission zone could hit £300m in its first year – but is expected to fall to zero after four years, it can be revealed.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ulez-expansion-sadiq-khan-pollution-scheme-300m-zero-2027-london-vehicles-b1050769.html
It’s p’ssing in the wind financially, TfL’s debt is going up at roughly £800 million to £1 billion a year
Sadiq Khan’s mayoral administration is broke. He lost Transport for London at least £640 million through an unaffordable fares freeze, failed to deliver Crossrail on time, costing billions of pounds in bailouts, and nearly doubled the size of bureaucracy at City Hall.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/13/outrageous-charade-behind-sadiq-khans-ulez-plan/
Poor Londoners are going to need a miracle.
It has been pointed out that the camera network could easily be repurposed for road pricing.
Having lost TfL £640m he has to try and fill that black hole. . The previous expansion of ULEZ brought in £93m within a year so only £547M to go. Needs to find a way to extend it further. Move the M25 while no one is looking ? 🙂
I identified the Covid scam in Feb 2020 and published on 21Mar2020. See CorrectPredictions.ca
I analysed the Covid-19 data in Feb2020 and on 21Mar2020 I published the following correct analysis – NO GENERAL LOCKDOWNS!:
“LET’S CONSIDER AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH:
Isolate people over sixty-five and those with poor immune systems and return to business-as-usual for people under sixty-five.
This will allow “herd immunity” to develop much sooner and older people will thus be more protected AND THE ECONOMY WON’T CRASH.”
Six months later on 4Oct2020, world-class physicians and researchers made the same recommendation in their Great Barrington Declaration.
On 8Jan2021 I wrote to every Alberta MLA and many federal and civic politicians the following strong recommendation, which has proved entirely correct – NO Covid-19 VACCINES!:
“The Covid-19 vaccine developments were rushed and are not proven safe or effective and should NOT be taken, especially by the low-risk population – those under-65 or recovered from Covid-19. The two experimental Covid-19 vaccines that contain mRNA (Pfizer and Moderna) are especially risky – due to unknown future side-effects, the risk-to-reward is far too high for the low-risk group.”
There was a large increase in total deaths for all ages after the toxic Covid-19 injections were deployed in early 2021 – deaths primarily caused by the “vaccines”.
There never was a real Covid-19 pandemic, just an over-hyped winter flu, in terms of mortality. The costly lockdowns and toxic “vaccines” were never justified.
The Covid-19 virus phony “pandemic” was never a major threat, but we are now into a new phase of the toxic-Covid-19-killer-vaxx debacle:
Based on Alberta total deaths and the increase post-vaxx, I calculated 12.9 million Covid-19-vaxx-deaths worldwide to end2022, increasing to more than 19 million by end2023.
That death count was just independently verified by Rancourt et al (Feb2023) based on Israeli and Australian total death data, at 13.25 million to 24Jan2023 – the same as my total.
These total global Covid-19-vaxx-caused deaths will increase by at least 1/2 million every month unless we take remedial action.
USA
The toxic Covid-19 “vaccines” have now killed ~650,000 Americans, ~50% more than all the U.S. Armed Forces killed or missing in World War II. If we continue as-is, and do not act to treat the vaxx-injured, total estimated U.S. vaxx-caused deaths will exceed ~1 million by end2023.
CANADA
The toxic Covid-19 “vaccines” have now killed ~98,000 Canadians, more than two times all the Canadian Armed Forces killed in World War II. If we continue as-is, and do not act to treat the vaxx-injured, total estimated Canadian vaxx-caused deaths will exceed ~140,000 by end2023.
I am trying to make inexpensive, voluntary, over-the-counter “Ivermectin plus” packages widely available for treatment of the Covid illness and the vaxx-injured.
This “Ivermectin plus” treatment will save millions of lives.
Regards, Allan MacRae, Calgary
AGE-STRATIFIED COVID-19 VACCINE-DOSE FATALITY RATE FOR ISRAEL AND AUSTRALIA
Rancourt et al Feb2023
(excerpt)
The paper suggests you can take the number of vaccine doses delivered, divide by 1,000 to get an estimate of the number of people killed by the COVID vaccine.
The COVID-19 vaccines did not only not save lives but they are highly toxic. On the global scale, given the 3.7 million fatalities in India alone, having vDFR = 1 % (Rancourt, 2022), and given the age-stratified vDFR results presented in this work, it is not unreasonable to assume an all-population global value of vDFR =0.1 %. Based on the global number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered to date (13.25 billion doses, up to 24 January 2023, Our World in Data), this would correspond to 13 million deaths from the COVID-19 vaccines worldwide.
THE INESCAPABLE IMMUNE ESCAPE PANDEMIC (SUBSTACK.COM)
Nobody Can Conceal The Science That Nature Is Now Desperate To Unveil. Society in highly vaccinated countries will be caught by surprise.
Geert Vanden Bossche 17Feb2023
Geert : “Some of you have been wondering why I’ve become so quiet
lately.
I’ve been working on my book: “The inescapable immune escape pandemic”.
The aim of the book is to unambiguously demonstrate that nothing was more
predictable than the detrimental consequences of mass C-19 vaccination during a
natural pandemic. I absolutely wanted to document the scientific evidence that
makes this statement beyond compelling.”
Well over limit Alan, but we felt generous this morning, and it is an open thread.
Thank you Charles.
“If we continue as-is, and do not act to treat the vaxx-injured, total estimated U.S. vaxx-caused deaths will exceed ~1 million by end2023.”
This estimate [1 million total Covid-19-vaxx-caused-deaths in the USA by end2023] is conservative, based on no increase in the vaxx-death rate during this winter flu season. I just extrapolated the existing Fall2023 trend to year-end.
Rancourt et al (Feb2023) confirmed my estimate of 13 million global vaxx-caused deaths to end2022 – they used Israeli and Australia total death data; I used Alberta total deaths – similar but not identical analytical methods, same answer. India and China are wild cards, anyone’s guess – again, this 13 million is a conservative (low) estimate.
To all:
Try to protect those who love. Ivermectin seems to work to “cure” moderate vaxx-injuries, if you can get it. I use 12mg/day, some doctors recommend twice that.
If not, use Quercetin. Take Vitamin D and a multi-vitamin (for Zinc – don’t overdo the Zinc).
Regards to all – hope you and yours survive.
– Allan MacRae in Calgary
Typo correction:
This estimate [1 million total Covid-19-vaxx-caused-deaths in the USA by end2023] is conservative, based on no increase in the vaxx-death rate during this winter flu season. I just extrapolated the existing Fall2022 trend to year-end.
Hello Allan,
I wish you the best of luck in your quest to make Ivermectin available OTC in Canada. I wish I could be as optimistic about the risk of Covid as you, as I am also unvaccinated. Unfortunately, I lost my GP because he also refused the vaccine, and was pushed into early retirement by the Quebec College of Physicians and Surgeons, who took away his license for that reason.
I can only wonder whether I’ve ever been infected with the Covid virus, since, despite the gigabytes of reports I’ve collected on the subject, I’ve never found any information that would confirm or rule that out. I do understand that an infection can be quite mild and unremarkable.
As to the way this crusade is being continued in Canada, I’d like to draw your attention to a report that was stridently and uncritically (as usual) broadcast across the continent by CBC news service a few weeks ago to the effect that:
“Between March and November 2021, misinformation contributed to vaccine hesitancy for an
estimated 2.35 million people in Canada. If those people who believed COVID-19 to be a hoax or
exaggerated had not delayed or refused vaccination, then, by the end of November 2021, there could have been:
198,000 fewer COVID-19 cases
13,000 fewer hospitalizations
3,500 fewer ICU patients
2,800 fewer deaths
$299 million saved in hospital cost
fewer COVID-19
cases”
Between March and November 2021, were it not for
“…misinformation contributed to vaccine hesitancy for an estimated 2.35 million people in Canada. If those people who believed COVID-19 to be a hoax or exaggerated had not delayed or refused vaccination”.
And the authority for this claim is a report “Fault Lines”, published by the Canadian Council of Academies, available here:
https://www.cca-reports.ca/reports/the-socioeconomic-impacts-of-health-and-science-misinformation/
I spent considerable time on the CCA/CAC website, as I had never heard of this organization before, and soon came to the conclusion that this agency was created by the Government of Canada as a thinly disguised propaganda machine. It appears to be entirely funded directly or indirectly by the federal government. And Chair of the “panel of experts” who take responsability for the “Fault Line” report is described as a former “Clerk of the Privy Council”, the most senior civil service position in Canada. I say “responsability”, because the work of “researching” and composing this Council’s reports is, according to the website, entirely handled by the Council’s anonymous permanent staff.
The report in question runs 131 pages and 15MB in pdf format. And in searching for the source(s) of the above data, I simply used the keyword “2,800”, to find all four instances (twice on the same page – 56), but was unable to find any clue as to where or how this number originated.
One is directed to Appendix B for “all data sources”, and finds there (p94) a little chart showing such hallowed scientific institutions as Radio Canada (ICU and NON-ICU hospitalizations, and deaths); Statistics Canada (“willingness to vaccinate”); and Maclean’s Magazine (“vaccine hesitancy attributable to minsinformation”), this last “based on Abacus Data survey results (Anderson, 2021”, as the authorities for these data.
Based on these Abacus “data” the report produced two bar charts, one for the “vaccine-hesitant” (presented as the hapless dupes of the misinformers), and another for the demonic “refusers”.
Remarkably, the “data” indicates that these groups are exactly equal in size, comprising “7% of [Canadian] aldults”, or 2.1 million people each. I’ve attached a copy of the “refusers” graph, which, to my mind, is notably self-contradictory. But I stand to be corrected…
PS. I have tried repeatedly tp format the download link for the report properly, but it fails to appear normally as a link in my display. So here it is again:
https://www.cca-reports.ca/reports/the-socioeconomic-impacts-of-health-and-science-misinformation/
Hi Otro,
Greetings to Granby – I grew up in Beloeil in the days before the Great Diaspora of “les maudits Anglais”.
I would talk to you doc and see if he’ll take cash. He sounds too smart to retire – and too smart to take the jabs.
Please see the note on this page by Dr Peter McCullough about nattokinase. Tell your doc.
Best, Allan
I am an old person and therefore the only possible cause of death is being old.
I am also a rich person. Each month I run out of time enjoying life before running out of money.
I also maintain if you have to do a study, the problem is so small that it down not matter on either side. For example, are small exposures to ionizing radiation harmful or beneficial.
My freedom to enjoy life was the first thing impacted by Covid-19 when I had collected enough data to determined the risk was small and only common sense was required to handle the small risk.
Out of the gate some US governors regulated religious activities. I know one 92 year old woman who was very vocal about not being able to sing at church and did not comply.
I went to Grand Canyon NP. After a few stops I found a place to camp. When I went back the next day, the park was closed.
What I found interesting, is that for the first year of covid none of the people I am around got covid and 50% use a bear huge as a form of greeting. And 25% of those would die in a week without medical treatment for failed vital organs.
The second year, about 50% got sick. Common sense tells me to excuse myself from game night with friend with bad kidneys if I am sick. Not others.
The important number to remember is not the number who die but the number who do not die. None of my friends who had covid died. If you look at the survival rate for 70+ covid who have been hospitalized, it is amazing.
This is how life goes. You ask how was school? Somebody puked! That night your kid pukes. The next day here little sister pukes. Then the parent who cleans it up.
If I interpret your comments correctly Kit, you are on the right track.
I nailed the Covid-19 scam in Feb2020 and published here on wattsup on 21Mar2020. I am Covid-19 unvaxxed and never caught Covid-19.
Most everyone I know who was vaxxed did catch Covid – Quelle Surprise!
There was NO increase in total deaths in Alberta to 1Jul2020 after the first Covid-19 flu season – just the usual winter flu death-increase that happens every year.
The increase in total deaths above historic levels started circa Jan2021 with the Covid-19 vaxxes.
I am an old person and therefore the only possible cause of death is being old. I am also a rich person. Each month I run out of time enjoying life before running out of money.
If you have too much money, send some to me and I will send you an e-mail every week telling you how I enjoyed spending it. TMB is the leading cause of death –Too Many Birthdays, I promise not to spend the money on illegal drugs, booze or hookers.
For the Record:
I presented 26Jan2023 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee”
There were two conversations – the vaxx-injured want the toxic-and-ineffective Covid-19 vaxxes stopped now; the drug companies and the FDA Committee seemed utterly deaf to those concerns and just want to peddle more ineffective-and-toxic vaccines. Big Pharma owns the FDA.
I nailed the Covid-19 fraud and published my conclusions starting 3 years ago, 21Mar2020.
See CorrectPredictions.ca
Regards, Allan MacRae
https://energy-experts-international.com
Here are my FDA slides (augmented).
THE COVID CON
Allan MacRae, Calgary
CorrectPredictions.ca
VRBPAC
January 26, 2023
Docket No. FDA-2022-N-2810
CHRONOLOGY:
Sept2019 – Took my annual flu shot (for the last time).
Jan 2020 – Studied Covid-19 full-time for 3 years since Jan2020.
29Jan2020 – Cancelled my 4Feb flight to Thailand via China due to early news of Covid-19.
Feb2020 – Identified the Covid-19 “pandemic” as a scam based on credible foreign data.
20Mar2020 – Learned that our Alberta hospitals were EMPTY and decided to publish. The feared “tsunami of Covid patients” never arrived.
21Mar2020 – Published that the Lockdowns were not justified and would be net harmful. No rational, informed person disputes that fact now. NO LOCKDOWNS!
4Oct2020 – Six months later world experts published identical conclusions in their Great Barrington Declaration.
8Jan2021 – Advised my governments to NOT release the dangerous, toxic Covid-19 injections. (My e-friend Dr Reid Sheftall reviewed before sending.) No rational, informed person disputes that fact now. NO COVID-19 VAXXES!
The most credible senior physicians want to end these toxic injections.
WHY WAS THIS COVID-19 “PANDEMIC” A SCAM?
Data showed the virus was only fatal to the very elderly and infirm – not younger people. The full-population lockdowns were never justified.
No significant “Excess Deaths” in Alberta or Canada in the 12 months ending 1Jul2020. Our doctors practiced early treatment. No Excess Deaths means no dangerous pandemic.
Hype was identical to the Climate (CAGW – Catastrophic Manmade Global Warming) scam.
CAGW scam was proved false in 1990 (Kuo et al, Nature), 2008 (MacRae) & 2013 (Humlum et al) – CO2 changes LAG temperature changes. “The future cannot cause the past.”
The same “usual suspects“ promoted both the Climate and Covid scams and linked them. “To solve Covid must also solve Climate. Woke Nonsense!
More Scams: PCR tests over-run to push false positives; Ivermectin was banned, a criminal act; “Vaccines” caused the variants (Darwin); etc.
Both the Covid-19 Lockdowns and “Vaccines” were ineffective, hugely harmful and too often fatal.
NEXT STEPS NEEDED TO REPAIR THIS DISASTER:
Stop ALL Covid-19 injections immediately; DO NO MORE HARM!
Make available the best medical treatment to reduce harm to the vaxxed;
MAKE INEXPENSIVE, VOLUNTARY, OVER-THE-COUNTER “IVERMECTIN PLUS” PACKAGES WIDELY AVAILABLE FOR TREATMENT OF THE COVID ILLNESS AND THE VAXX-INJURED.
Reinstate and compensate the un-vaxxed who were dismissed from their employment.
Reinstate those who were persecuted because they spoke out against the Covid-19 fraud.
Nuremberg 2.0!
My FDA audio presentation of 26Jan2023 starts here:
Are they building statues in your honor yet?
Malheureusement non, Charles, but I may get a thank-you note from this guy. Enjoy your weekend!
Hey Dr Ladapo – I told you so two years ago. Get in the game!
FLORIDA SURGEON GENERAL ISSUES HEALTH ALERT ON MRNA COVID-19 VACCINE SAFETY
Robert W Malone Feb 17 2023
You probably should spell Dr Lapado’s name correctly. And yes, he is awesome, a testament to Desantis’s hiring prowess.
Thank you again Charles – if you can correct the spelling in my post, that would be very kind.
Lapado Lapado Lapado …
BREAKING NEWS: USA, CANADA & SWITZERLAND – 3 US LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ACTIVATED (RUMBLE.COM)
Not sure if I believe this video: Prosecutions of the Covid-19 perpetrators?
Too good to be true?
This article just arrived – Dr Peter McCullough is world-class.
Out of all the available therapies I have used in my practice and among all the proposed detoxification agents, I believe nattokinase and related peptides hold the greatest promise for patients at this time.
DISSOLUTION OF SPIKE PROTEIN BY NATTOKINASE
HOLY GRAIL OF COVID-19 VACCINE DETOXIFICATION
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/dissolution-of-spike-protein-by-nattokinase
2 hr ago
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
[excerpt]
Far and away the most common question I get from those who took one of the COVID-19 vaccines is: “how do I get this out of my body.” The mRNA and adenoviral DNA products were rolled out with no idea on how or when the body would ever breakdown the genetic code. The synthetic mRNA carried on lipid nanoparticles appears to be resistant to breakdown by human ribonucleases by design so the product would be long-lasting and produce the protein product of interest for a considerable time period.
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This leaves dissolution of Spike protein as a therapeutic goal for the vaccine injured. With the respiratory infection, Spike is processed and activated by cellular proteases including transmembrane serine protein 2 (TMPRSS2), cathepsin, and furin. With vaccination, these systems may be avoided by systemic administration and production of Spike protein within cells. As a result, the pathogenesis of vaccine injury syndromes is believed to be driven by accumulation of Spike protein in cells, tissues, and organs.
Nattokinase is an enzyme is produced by fermenting soybeans with bacteria Bacillus subtilis var. natto and has been available as an oral supplement. It degrades fibrinogen, factor VII, cytokines, and factor VIII and has been studied for its cardiovascular benefits. Out of all the available therapies I have used in my practice and among all the proposed detoxification agents, I believe nattokinase and related peptides hold the greatest promise for patients at this time.
Allan, your numbers have the stench of bullshit about them. Take your Canadian numbers interpolated to the population of your home “city of Calgary” zone…would mean around 3000 deaths due to vaccines, yet total deaths are attributed to CoVid in the Calgary zone over the entire pandemic are 1700. So one would assume deaths due to vaccine reactions would be much lower…so maybe get out your calculator before you republish bullshit you read somewhere.
It’s possible that the “vaccines” cause more harm than good.
https://www.scivisionpub.com/pdfs/us-covid19-vaccines-proven-to-cause-more-harm-than-good-based-on-pivotal-clinical-trial-data-analyzed-using-the-proper-scientific–1811.pdf
Thank you Scissor – interesting paper.
Best wishes…
According to their table, they split about 110,000 co-morbidity risk people into a placebo group and a vaxx group for several different vaccine types. Then checked back on them in nearly three months. Have so many nebulous categories of description, few deaths, and few events for the size of the group…severe events were about double in the vaxx groups but deaths were about half. You can read pretty much anything you want into that.
Thank you Dr Fauci. Do you eat with that mouth, you innumerate, intemperate fool?
You cannot even read with comprehension, let alone run numbers.
Repeating from above:
“Rancourt et al (Feb2023) confirmed my estimate of 13 million global vaxx-caused deaths to end2022 – they used Israeli and Australia total death data; I used Alberta total deaths – similar but not identical analytical methods, same answer. India and China are wild cards, anyone’s guess – again, this 13 million is a conservative (low) estimate.”
I do not use Alberta Health Services Covid-19 stats or USA FDA etc stats – they are often false nonsense.Total death stats are more difficult to falsify.
Your numbers….98,000 Canadian “vaccine” deaths out of 40 million people ratios to 3200 vaxx deaths (according to your numbers), in the 1.3 million people Calgary area. Total CoVid deaths in entire province of Alberta with 4.3 million including the Calgary zone was 5500 which scales to 1700 in Calgary area. So you are claiming twice as many deaths due to vaxx reactions as died from covid itself. Your pompous name calling won’t work to justify horse shit numbers like that.
Here comes always bragging MacRae again, a man who falsely claimed to have predicted everything about the climate in the past. Except his climate predictions were either wrong, such as predicting global cooling starting in 2020, or falsely claiming general beliefs held by EVERY Climate Realist about CAGW, were unique MacRae predictions.
This list of incredible Covid tin hat conspiracy theory claims is the worst yet. Most people here are too polite to criticize a fellow conservative, following Reagan’s 11th commandment, But I’m not.
“There was a large increase in total deaths for all ages after the toxic Covid-19 injections were deployed in early 2021 – deaths primarily caused by the “vaccines”.”
THAT STATEMENT IS FALSE
US excess deaths and all-cause mortality did not increase in 2021 versus 2020. In fact, they both remained about the same, which simply means Covid vaccines had no obvious effect on mortality.
“There never was a real Covid-19 pandemic, just an over-hyped winter flu, in terms of mortality. The costly lockdowns and toxic “vaccines” were never justified.”
THAT STATEMEMT IS MAINLY FALSE
The Covid19 pandemic was real
The all-cause mortality increased by about 20%.
That is NOT evidence of a bad influenza epidemic.
It was certainly overhyped for political power and control
“Based on Alberta total deaths and the increase post-vaxx, I calculated 12.9 million Covid-19-vaxx-deaths worldwide to end2022, increasing to more than 19 million by end2023.”
COMPLETE BALONEY
USA
“The toxic Covid-19 “vaccines” have now killed ~650,000 Americans, ~50% more than all the U.S. Armed Forces killed or missing in World War II. If we continue as-is, and do not act to treat the vaxx-injured, total estimated U.S. vaxx-caused deaths will exceed ~1 million by end2023.”
THAT STATEMENT IS WILD SPECULATION.
Official VAERS data reflect 34,211 reported post-vaccine deaths
Search Results from the VAERS Database (medalerts.org)
VAERS will miss at least 90% of deaths. But many deaths reported will be coincidences, as elderly people die every month, and some will have had a Covid shot in their last month of life as a coincidence. Some will have had a common cold in the last month of their life too. That doesn’t mean a common cold killed them.
My own estimate is 10% of post vaccine deaths are reported and 2/3 are coincidences, meaning I believe actual deaths are about triple the reported deaths number of 34,000, or 113,000 deaths. My estimate is very conservative, and you may wish to be less conservative. The actual answer is “no one knows”, But predicting “will exceed one million US deaths by end2023” from the Covid vaccine is wild speculation.
“This “Ivermectin plus” treatment will save millions of lives”
THAT STATEMENT IS DATA FREE SPECULATION
Ivermecton pRobably could have been used to save many lives from Covid19, which it was not, but there is no evidence it would save millions of lives from immune system damage caused by Covid vaccine, This is data-free speculation.
On my blogs I have published hundreds of articles explaining why Covid vaccines were not safe and not effective. The number of people under age 50 who have developed heart problems post-vaccine is disturbing. Deaths from unknown causes are far too high. Young athletes with heart problems collapsing on the fields are stunning. Data show repeated vaccines and boosters are more dangerous than one vaccine.
I have never complemented Covid vaccines in any way because they do not deserve any complements. But I don’t make wild claims about them either.
Due Diligence:
The wife and I, both old, are unvaxxed, and will stay that way.
We rejected a nine-month Covid vaccine development process in late 2020 — the normal vaccine development time is about 10 years with a 98% failure rate. Nine months is a high-risk development process.
Our Covid “vaccine” is Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Zinc and Quercetin food supplements. I have been taking the first three for over 50 years;
Results since January 2020 for both of us:
No Covid 19 infections
No Omicron infections
No influenza (I have never had influenza)
No common colds (my last cold was over 5 years ago).
Richard Greene: Your ignorant rants are tiresome and full of falsehoods.
Alberta and Canada had NO significant increase in total deaths to 1Jul2021. That success was because our Canadian physicians performed early treatment of Covid-19 symptoms.
Those USA physicians who performed early treatment, like Dr Zev Zelenko, had similar good results.
The alleged USA deaths attributed to Covid-19 in 2020 were caused by medical incompetence – late treatment, Remdesivir, ventilators, etc.
USA Covid stats are corrupted and not credible. So are many Canadian Covid stats.
Thank you for your tolerance in this matter Charles.
For those who don’t believe my Covid-19 vaxx–caused death estimates. please see
AGE-STRATIFIED COVID-19 VACCINE-DOSE FATALITY RATE FOR ISRAEL AND AUSTRALIA Rancourt et al Feb2023
Rancourt and I independently calculated identical total global Covid-19-vaxx-caused-deaths to end 2022 of 13 million. I calculated that these total vaxx-deaths will increase to >19 million by end 2023 unless remedial steps are taken.
That is why I am promoting prompt remedial action. I believe the correct “cure” for moderate vaxx-injuries should include Ivermectin, based on successful experience. Ivermectin is a well-tolerated, low-risk approach suitable for mass voluntary application. It could start in Florida and Alberta.
My USA and Canada estimates are calculated using the same basis of Alberta total all-cause deaths. The significant increase in total deaths starting 1Jan2021 is attributed primarily to the toxic Covid-19 “vaccines”.
If Charles is agreeable, I would share my spreadsheet on wattsup – it is 2.52 MB and contains total death stats for all of Canada by Province and Age Group from 1Jul2014 to 1Jul2022. I also used similar data from StatsCanada from 1Jul2022 to 1Dec2022 for future projections.
I used only Alberta data in my analysis so I could, with some effort, reduce the size of the spreadsheet by about 90%.
Charles please advise if you want to publish my spreadsheet. It involves more work for both of us so I am indifferent, at best. Our basic estimate of 13 million is independently proved correct, so I am only offering this extra effort to satisfy the skeptics/innumerates.
In closing, thank you Charles for all your hard work on the wattsup site.
You have the manipulative tendencies of a sociopath. To quote an email from you less than two months old:
I’m not going to put in work to help you just because you’re kissing my ass today.
I expect this behavior from alcoholic strippers. It’s a bit weird to see it here.
“Rancourt and I independently calculated identical total global Covid-19-vaxx-caused-deaths to end 2022 of 13 million. I calculated that these total vaxx-deaths will increase to >19 million by end 2023 unless remedial steps are taken.”
13 million Covid-vaxx-deaths to date is a bit bigger than you and me Charles. Anyway, I have better plans for today – no crunching spreadsheets. 🙂
On the bright side, we agree on something Charles – no spreadsheet!
That is cause to celebrate! Enjoy your Sunday.
What you need to do Allan is check that spreadshit of yours for where you used a percent instead of a ratio since it’s out by about 100 to 1…..
What a shame-
Plant-based meat manufacturer V2food set to close $20m Wodonga factory – ABC News
tsk tsk
” opened in December 2020 “
I bet these fools mistook the novelty factor for a solid customer base
All the beef I eat used to be plants. Why are we wasting all these fossil fuels on the production of these products when nature already does it
I don’t know if this has been reported previously here at WUWT, but a battery fire in a Ford F-150 EV caused production of the vehicle to shut down, and it may remain shut down for as much as a few weeks.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/ford-battery-fire-caused-lightning-production-stoppage
“Ford has suspended production of the F-150 Lightning after the battery in one of the electric pickups caught fire on Feb. 4.
The automaker on Tuesday announced that it had stopped building and shipping the full-size truck due to a potential “battery issue” that occurred during the pre-delivery quality inspection process and on Wednesday clarified that a fire was involved.”
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Ford claims it has identified the root cause of the problem.
An interesting article on the subject I read and recommended this morning, although with a silly title:
Look! A Squirrel! – EPautos – Libertarian Car Talk (ericpetersautos.com)
Some car ferries have banned electric vehicles because the fire risk they present.
Australia has standards covering household storage batteries that should exclude parking/charging electric vehicles in attached garages
China now has mandatory regulations on battery safety related to vehicle fires:
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/china-issues-mandatory-standards-for-electric-vechicles-and-their-batteries/
Insurance companies could very well end the move to BEVs. The budget car insurers in Australia are now refusing to insure Teslas so there must be bad experience.
https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/why-a-tesla-is-so-hard-and-expensive-to-insure.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/idaho-house-passes-bill-calling-for-new-borders-with-oregon/ar-AA17zQ6H
if this actually happens. it will be epic.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has given voice to what a lot of us are thinking: time for a ‘divorce’.
Weld County, Colorado, wants to secede from the rest of Colorado, and become part of Wyoming.
At least a couple of counties in Oregon want to become part of Idaho.
This is more of a symptom, than an actual malady: part of this county works, and supports the other part that doesn’t, and the part that doesn’t work keeps telling the part that does work that it doesn’t do enough, and needs to become even more enslaved to the part that does not work.
I’ve thought a ‘divorce’ has been in order for about ten years, give-or-take. Looks like others are beginning to see that there may be “irreconcilable differences” between the two parts.
Seems like I read that there were just under 2,600 counties who voted for Trump, and something over 500 voted for Let’s Go Brandon. Hmmmmm … … … … …
Vlad
The situation in world today is bleak.
The awakening going on at Asbury Theological Seminary may be the hope for the future.
I had an odd thought, maybe a premise for a movie thriller.
The balloons China is floating over other countries are for collecting signals intelligence while their stealth planes are intruding near sensitive military sites, such as the nuclear silos they flew over in Montana.
The purpose of the balloons is to confirm that the US can’t detect the stealth weapon intrusions. If the stealth weapons fly over and the balloon doesn’t detect any alarm signals being sent out, then they know that they can disable two thirds of the triad in a sneak attack. That attack would be initiated just before invading Taiwan. In alliance with Russia, the Chinese would have an overwhelming nuclear advantage over the US relying only on the submarine leg of the triad. Traitor Joe would then “regret” that he has no choice but to surrender to the Chi-coms.
Just need to figure out how the hero detects the Chinese stealth and takes them out to save the day. Movie ends with Dementia Joe in an orange jumpsuit.
In the wake of cyclone Gabrielle (Cat 2/3), many people in NZ have been saying things like:
– there is no denying that this was due to climate change
– the footprint of climate change in the cyclone is obvious (implying you’re a bit stupid if you don’t see it)
– there is no denying that the climate has changed
– will the climate ever return to ‘normal’ (implying Cat 2/3 cyclones aren’t normal)?
None of these sorts of statements make any sense to me, but it’s not obvious to me how you could convince these people that the cyclone and the damage it caused might not have been the result of ‘climate change’. If the people making the claims were just regular folk then it might not matter too much, but these are politicians, mayors, broadcasters etc.
By saying ‘there is no denying…’ they have already declared that they’re not interested in hearing opinions that might differ from theirs, esp. from somebody who isn’t a ‘climate expert’.
Anyway, I guess the question I have is, is there any way to get through to people who believe there is ‘no denying’ storms are due to climate change that maybe there are other, more logical, explanations?
Note that voting these people out isn’t really an option – this nonsense comes from all quarters.
When I was a child, nobody would admit to being an atheist. It was ok to be Jewish if you weren’t some kind of Christian, but anybody who was a deity denier was vaguely sinister, probably taking orders from the Rooshkies.
Nowadays, the popular religion is Climastrology. If you don’t want to be ostracized as a climate denier then you’ll pretend to believe. Otherwise you’re probably coluuuuuuuding with the Rooshkies.
я не верю в это!
You question answers itself. A belief is not rooted in provable facts.
The other aspect is that the climate is always changing. The nature of Earth’s orbit rely;ative to the sun guarantees that. So their “belief” that a certain observation is due to climate change could very well be correct. The only wrong part is that eliminating fossil fuels is going to stop climate change. To stop climate change, you would have to make the Earth orbit the sun in exactly the same way for ever. That is not possible while there are other planets. So you would need to start by eliminating all the other planets. and somehow stop the Earth’s precession.
Here’s a cross-promotion of Wm. Briggs’ website, wherein he asks:
What’s Your Ideas Why Science Is Broken?
(Assuming of course, science is broken. Not a stretch IMO.)
The extreme winters of 1422, 1602, 1784, and 1963, with the latter two being the fourth and second coldest respectively since 1659 in England. All separated by 179 to 182 year intervals. Note Uranus progressing towards Neptune through the four events, and Jupiter working its way ahead of Saturn.
There is another series with Uranus on the opposite quadrature to Neptune, with the two times that the River Nile is known to have frozen over in the last 2000 years, in 830 and 1010.
Weather chronology:
http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/Weather.pdf
1602
1784
1963
830
1010
I just watched a couple of videos of Royal Institution lectures while sewing. What really stood out was the insistence of Dame Sue Black (this years Christmas lectures for kids) and Marcus du Sautoy (mathmetician) both were insistent that science is never settled, it is always moving, and moving in unexpected ways.
Contrast this with the RI’s support for the “settled” science of climate.
NOTICE Biden’s Build Back Better being renamed for better communication
to
POTATUS Jumpin’ Joe Bidet’s Build Back Baloney
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3864505-trump-to-visit-east-palestine-in-wake-of-train-derailment/
Trump to visit East Palestine in wake of train derailment
That ought to be fun to watch! I bet Trump gets a Big crowd.
It was reported this morning that FEMA didn’t decide to send a team to East Palestine untll right after Trump made his announcement about going there.
I think Trump can win the next election if he will follow Ronald Reagan’s rule: “Do not speak ill of fellow Republicans.”
I know this will be completely against the grain for Trump, but he doesn’t need to personally attack his Republican opponents.
What Trump needs to do is talk about his excellent track record as president and promise the people more of the same in the future. He doesn’t even have to mention his political opponents since they cannot touch his record of accomplishment.
So, Donald, be nice, talk about your good record and your vision for the future and you will be the winner.
Personally attack other Republicans at your own risk and at the nation’s risk, since we need you back in office righting this ship. If you descend to personal attacks you are going to alinate many Republicans because for the most part, the people you would be attacking are good people and Republican voters know it, and a personal attack on these people looks self-serving and petty if you do it. Don’t do it.
Be nice to fellow Republicans. You can afford to do so. And you’ll get yourself reelected. You don’t really have any competition when it comes to governing.
I’ve been getting these ads for “solar generators” and backup battery storage in my Facebook feed for a few weeks now. (Yes, I know, Facebook; but it’s how I keep in touch with family, so…)
The ads are from a company called Bluetti, and the units cost $3700 for the battery and charger. They rate the battery at 3000 watt-hours, with up to 2400 watts solar charging, 3000 watts AC charging, and 120/240 volts outlets.
I’m no electrician, but I know a couple of formulae; the trick is to make sure you’re using them right, so please check me out.
Ii watts are volts X amps, then at 120v output, 3000 wH would be the equivalent of 25 amp-hours, is that correct? If so, then this battery would run the average refrigerator (10A) for 2.5 hours. That’s not much juice for $3700, considering I can buy a Generac 5500-6500 W gasoline generator for $700-$800 that will run 12 hours on 5 gallons of gas.
The reviewer also claims he was able to charge at 3000w from a 20A wall outlet, for a few seconds at least. That sounds pretty dangerous, since 3000w at 120v would be a 25A draw, which should have popped a 15A breaker pretty quickly I’d think.
Other charging methods are solar, up to 2400w, which I think would be 8 household panels; maybe 6?
All in all, the system seems very expensive for the amount of backup power you get.A 14000w Generac LP or NG generator is only about $400 more. Obviously the Generac isn’t portable, but this system is only luggable at best, with the charger weighing in a 40 lbs and each battery at 80 lbs.
So is this system a ripoff, or just really expensive for what you get?
I just can’t believe it: François “culbuto” Hollande believes his action helped Ukraine resist Russian invasion:
https://kyivindependent.com/national/hollande-there-will-only-be-a-way-out-of-the-conflict-when-russia-fails-on-the-ground
So his (and others’) alliance with the anti nuclear greens was not what pushed Putin to attack, believing that Europe was too reliant on natgas imports to do anything?