Three months after blaming the blackout of Texas' gas-fired grid on windpower, Global Cooling Investment advisatrix Jo Nova
is trying to link a coal plant crack-up to the Sun:
May 30th, 2021
Did a short sharp Geomagnetic storm contribute to the Callide Coal plant explosion?
Ben Davidson speaks from Spaceweathernews.com and claims that there was a short sharp geomagnetic storm over the East Coast of Australia around the time the Queensland Callide Power plant exploded.
The CME that flew past Earth didn’t do much around the world, causing a small 1% deviation in magnetometers. But there was a burst of activity in the Southern Hemisphere that appears to have hit the east coast of Australia. Magnetometers there saw a 300 – 500% change* between noon and 3pm on the same day as the Callide Coal Power Plant blew up...
We don’t know if this tipped something over the edge at Callide, but the timing is highly coincidental. If Earth’s magnetic field is weakening it would seem urgent, to say the least, to understand the risks these spaceweather events pose to our critical infrastructure.
Perhaps an engineer who knows the design of (hydrogen cooled) supercritical coal reactors might be able to explain if or how a geomagnetic storm might contribute to an explosion, or even if that is possible?
NOT A WORD FROM JO ON THE PLANT'S SEVEN OTHER BREAKDOWNS IN THE LAST YEAR:
Coal-fired power plant that caused Queensland blackouts broke down eight times in past year
Explosion and fire that caused widespread power outages occurred in one of the state’s youngest coal-fired plants, CS Energy’s Callide power station, which is expected to be closed for a year
The coal-fired power plant that caused widespread power outages in Queensland after an explosion will likely be closed for a year as CS Energy takes time to ‘fully understand the cause of the failure’. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The power plant explosion and fire that caused widespread blackouts in Queensland occurred in one of the state’s youngest coal-fired generators, which broke down eight separate times last year.
Queensland government-owned power company CS Energy says one of two units at the Callide C power station – a “supercritical” plant built in 2001 that is often championed as newer and cleaner than older stations – suffered “major damage” from the fire.
A few months ago I posted a Bingo Card. Thanks to feedback, more Climateball exchanges, with contrarians, and some vacation days, a clearer image has emerged. Here is the current version (1.1):
Climateball Bingo, v. 1.1
The up-to-date version will be found on the Climateball Bingo page. The image has been generated using a mindmapping tool. The one I use is called SimpleMind. Don’t you forget about that great band!
The central square features an acronym that stands for Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. The C must not be interpreted as geological catastrophism, but as catastrophization. Which begs the question: how do contrarians know that potential catastrophes are a product of mere catastrophizing? Taking a stand on that question moves them away from skepticism.
Manhattan is justly famed for mandating white roofs to reflect the heat of the sun. But the Big Apple is not a heat island unto itself- it's an archipelago of solar energy absorbing surfaces. How much heat cities store is directly reflected in how much energy-- and CO2-- intensive air conditioning they need, which depends not just on how light or dark people make their roofs, but things in general:
A city's albedo is the sum of all the private property and civic infrastructure under the sun.
Urban albedo adds up to a disproportionate part of the problem of global warming, because while cities cover only 1% of the world, they contain half its population, and the power it takes to keep billions of city dwellers cool translates into multi-billion ton C02 emissions.
ALBEDO ADDS UP : A DARK A DRIVEWAY CAN CAUSE MORE CLIMATE FORCING THAN A CAR-
ANTI-DOGFOOD ACTIVISTS GIVE VILLAINOUS DE VIL STOCKHOLM LEG-UP
ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORS OF DOG FOOD BUYING IS TWICE AS BAD AS SUV DRIVING: 101 DAMATIANS HAVE A GREATER CARBON FOOTPRINT THAN 206 TOYOTA LAND CRUISERS, 568 CATS , OR 5,974 HAMPSTERS
Having some acquaintance with elephant guns, I was utterly charmed in 2007, when Cosmic Tusk editor William Thompson's colleague, Allen West claimed the extinction of Alaska's mammoths resulted from their being shot dead by a meteor shower.
The evidence adduced was not .458 magnum bullet holes, but a few birdshot-sized bits of rust embedded in fossil tusks from Alaska, detected with a bar magnet. Alas for Thompson & West, this wondrous blast from the past did not long survive peer review. The purported alien shrapnel proved to be bits of terrestrial magnetite- the stuff of lodestones, the cosmic tuskers having overlooked the geological ubiquity of iron.
With so much magnetite underfoot- it's the black sand that clogs gold prospector's pans in Alaska, mammoths rooted about at far greater risk of getting bits stuck in their ivories than being whacked by meteorites.
The sciency internet is alive with consensus condemnation and universal damnation for a new paper from Rhawn Joseph, now dubbed the “Tiger King of Mars.” In the article below, Joseph et al. continues a radical break from conventional interpretations of Martian photography, believing a number of odd features photographed by the Martian rovers are…wait for it…mushrooms and fungi.
The Tusk has seen so much mistreatment and knee jerk criticism of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, (an order of magnitude less heretical science), I feel some empathy for the poor guy — right or wrong. It’s so sad the press can’t find time to give him — or his co-authors — a telephone call before tearing his ass off on-line as a fraud.
I don’t think he is fraud, or a hoaxter. Probably wrong, surely iconoclastic, but Rhawn Joseph in my distant estimation sincerely believes every word he writes. And personally I find his paper well-written and worthy of somewhat thoughtful criticism and refutation, not ad hominem attacks.
While it is very hard to believe NASA has missed mushrooms on Mars, it sure would be nice if they would take one of those robo tools and give a Martian hematite sphere a little “poke” — just to see if it’s puffy — or squishy."
Evidence of Growth and Behavior From Sequential Images
Fungi thrive in radiation intense environments. Sequential photos document that fungus-like Martian specimens emerge from the soil and increase in size, including those resembling puffballs (Basidiomycota).
After obliteration of spherical specimens by the rover wheels, new sphericals--some with stalks--appeared atop the crests of old tracks. Sequences document that thousands of black arctic "araneiforms" grow up to 300 meters in the Spring and disappear by Winter; a pattern repeated each Spring and which may represent massive colonies of black fungi, mould, lichens, algae, methanogens and sulfur reducing species. Black fungi-bacteria-like specimens also appeared atop the rovers. In a series of photographs over three days (Sols) white amorphous specimens within a crevice changed shape and location then disappeared. White protoplasmic-mycelium-like-tendrils with fruiting-body-like appendages form networks upon and above the surface; or increase in mass as documented by sequential photographs. Hundreds of dimpled donut-shaped "mushroom-like" formations approximately 1mm in size are adjacent or attached to these mycelium-like complexes.
Additional sequences document that white amorphous masses beneath rock-shelters increase in mass, number, or disappear and that similar white-fungus-like specimens appeared inside an open rover compartment. Comparative statistical analysis of a sample of 9 spherical specimens believed to be fungal "puffballs" photographed on Sol 1145 and 12 specimens that emerged from beneath the soil on Sol 1148 confirmed the nine grew significantly closer together as their diameters expanded and some showed evidence of movement. Cluster analysis and a paired sample 't' test indicates a statistically significant size increase in the average size ratio over all comparisons between and within groups (P = 0.011). Statistical comparisons indicates that arctic "araneiforms" significantly increased in length in parallel following an initial growth spurt. Although similarities in morphology are not proof of life, growth, movement, and changes in shape and location constitute behavior and support the hypothesis there is life on Mars.
Evidence and observations favoring the hypothesis that Venus is habitable, and the celestial mechanisms promoting the interplanetary transfer of life, are reviewed. Venus may have been contaminated with Earthly life early in its history via interplanetary transfer of microbe-laden bolide ejecta; and this seeding with life may have continued into the present via spacecraft and due to radiation pressure and galactic winds blowing microbial-laden dust ejected from the stratosphere via powerful solar winds, into the orbit and atmosphere of Venus. Venus may have had oceans and rivers early in its history until 750 mya, and, hypothetically, some of those species which, theoretically, colonized the planet during that time, may have adapted and evolved when those oceans evaporated and temperatures rose. Venus may be inhabited by a variety of extremophiles which could flourish within the lower cloud layers, whereas others may dwell 10 m below the surface where temperature may be as low as 200 ∘C—which is within the tolerance level of some hyperthermophiles. Speculation as to the identity of mushroom-shaped specimens photographed on the surface of Venus by the Russian probe, Venera 13 support these hypotheses.
Overview: hypotheses, observations, evidence
Observations and evidence for the possibility of life on the subsurface and clouds of Venus, and celestial mechanics promoting the transfer of life from Earth, are reviewed, and images of specimens resembling fungal mushroom-shaped organisms photographed by the Russian Space Probe Venera 13, on the surface of Venus are presented (Figs. 1–5) with the caveat that similarities in morphology are not proof of life.
Fig. 1
Venera-13. Venus: Fungi-Mushroom-Lichen-shaped specimens. It must be stressed that morphology alone is not proof of life
"The loss of pet cats and dogs garnered particular attention among wealthy Westerners, but what was anomalous in 2023 soon became the new normal. A shadow of ignorance and denial had fallen over people who considered themselves children of the Enlightenment. "
THE FALL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
--Naomi Oreskes & Eric Conway
Daedalus Winter 2013
Oreskes later lamented some readers :
"started crying when the pets die, so I didn’t mean to upset people too much …
I was just trying to come up with something that I thought people wouldn’t forget about, and I thought, well, Americans spend billions of dollars every year taking care of their pets, and I thought if people’s dogs started dying, maybe then they would sit up and take notice."
THE AUTHORS OF THE FALL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION MAY FIND THEMSELVES IN THE DOGHOUSE IN 2023, AS PEOPLE TAKE NOTICE THAT THEIR PETS ARE STILL AROUND, AND LESS AT RISK OF EXTINCTION THAN PROPHETS OF DOOM WHO FAIL TO DELIVER
The Galactic Milankovitch cycles cause our climate cycles of Continental glaciers with lower sea levels (Dwarka, Mu continent) brought on by east to west global tsunamis ( Mid-Atlantic ridge pushed up by Africa, Pacific ring of fire torn apart.)
Eccentricity within the Galactic bulge ... causes global warming/cooling due to Increasing/Decreasing Direct sunlight as the earths magnetic north tilt changes according to our location to our galaxy's Electromagnetic field in 4 quadrants 4 x 60 ka of E-W declination reference the Galactic Bulge.
Precession crossing the galaxy's electro- magnetic plane every 13,000 years --half the Great Year-- causes EM plasma bursts at the conjunction of the Sun and planets' magnetospheres. Asteroid impacts from crossing the galaxy's Kuipers belt, and East - West global tsunami’s from the increased EM gravitational pull as we cross the galactic plane...
Covid, like CO2, is a LIE strawman built upon an inconvenient truth
The Mask of the Beast is a pretext for the contact tracing, testing and 5G heavy metals final solution vaccine of the BEAST. Humanity is being divided distracted dispersed to be conquered again by the devil...
REVIEWERS MAY INSIST ON THEIR OWN FACTS, BUT SHOULD STICK TO THE AUTHOR'S TITLES :
Rud Istvan,
I reflected on some of my recent comments/posts both at WUWT and Climate Etc. A pattern became apparent that I want to try to elucidate...
Koonin’s new book Uncertainty(which I just finished reading and which originally inspired this guest post) does much to advance a more nuanced perspective by highlighting factual climate ‘inexactitude’ (aka wrong stuff) and related ‘uncertainty’ (aka unknowable stuff)
Why not embrace Brood X as the free-range, sustainable source of protein that it truly is?
KATE KNIBBSWIRED CULTURE 05.11.2021 07:00 AM
FOR 17 YEARS, the trillions of cicadas known as Brood X have tunneled through dark soil, feeding on sap as they slowly matured... these long-gestating underground bugs are starting to hatch across the eastern United States, emerging from the earth in astounding numbers...it offers a source of free-range, no-cost, eco-friendly protein...
Bun Lai A New Haven, Connecticut–based chef renowned for pioneering sustainable sushi...is collecting as many as he can find.
When he’s done, he’ll host a cicada-based popup dinner in the woods with his bounty. Lai plans to serve the cicadas in a paella, on a pizza, and as a sushi ingredient. He’s going to make some using indigenous preparation methods, too. “Cicadas taste a bit like nuts, as many insects do, but with every bite, my nose is reminded of popcorn, too,” he says...
High-end, and with an appealingly low carbon footprint. Farming insects is much more efficient than raising conventional livestock, and the environmental case for eating insects is gaining momentum.
“It takes much less land, much less energy,” says entomologist Jessica Ware, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History. “...we’re going to need to make some change. And entomophagy would be a really good one in terms of sustainability.”
... easy to harvest, they are seen as potential six-legged silver bullets for combating food insecurity.
Investors are banking on Big Bug. (Market researchers predict the global edible insect market will reach $4.63 billion by 2027...
The Galactic Milankovitch cycles cause our climate cycles of Continental glaciers with lower sea levels (Dwarka, Mu continent) brought on by east to west global tsunamis ( Mid-Atlantic ridge pushed up by Africa, Pacific ring of fire torn apart.)
Eccentricity within the Galactic bulge ... causes global warming/cooling due to Increasing/Decreasing Direct sunlight as the earths magnetic north tilt changes according to our location to our galaxy's Electromagnetic field in 4 quadrants 4 x 60 ka of E-W declination reference the Galactic Bulge.
Precession crossing the galaxy's electro- magnetic plane every 13,000 years --half the Great Year-- causes EM plasma bursts at the conjunction of the Sun and planets' magnetospheres. Asteroid impacts from crossing the galaxy's Kuipers belt, and East - West global tsunami’s from the increased EM gravitational pull as we cross the galactic plane...
Covid, like CO2, is a LIE strawman built upon an inconvenient truth
The Mask of the Beast is a pretext for the contact tracing, testing and 5G heavy metals final solution vaccine of the BEAST. Humanity is being divided distracted dispersed to be conquered again by the devil...