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Shock horror its cold this morning,
Have a good day people on YSB
Have the environments surrounding historical temperature measuring points changed significantly in the last 50 years?
I know that urban development will raise temperatures.
Morning all. A shade nippy up this way but supposed to be a nice day so that’s O.K.
There’s a nip in the air. Did they say that at Pearl Harbour?
You ain’t seen nothing yet – apparently you’re going to get snow.
Cool in the Bay, Clear sky
Place still full of immigrants from the smoke.
aims games going well. A few traffic jams.
Council still wasting money. (overhang from Mahuta’s friends.
Bank rates on the way down again. ANZ have just cut again.
Yahoo.
But why. Well none of them are lending any money. and people are saving as hard as they can go.
FYI
Even if a bear wears socks and shoes it still has bear feet.
I can’t bear it
Please don’t bare it…
like your forebears?
are the the bear necessities?
New Zealand’s biggest house-builder G.J. Gardner expanding: 30% franchise growth planned
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/new-zealands-biggest-house-builder-gj-gardner-expanding-30-franchise-growth-planned/TG536WH77VFFBLTWQIZNSUOVTQ/
Banks will have the money.
Volvo ditches pledge to sell only electric cars by 2030
Volvo Cars has abandoned its ambitious target to sell only electric cars by 2030 amid a global slowdown in growth for battery-powered vehicles.
The Geely-owned Swedish group had been the first among traditional carmakers to pledge a complete switch to electric, and remains the most bullish about the transition even as rivals including Ford and General Motors have also walked back on their EV targets.
Jim Rowan, Volvo’s chief executive, on Wednesday blamed changing market conditions and consumer worries over the lack of charging infrastructure for its revised target.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/volvo-ditches-pledge-to-sell-only-electric-cars-by-2030/IH2CFHVEMVHX3PMGJR7PT2VMTQ/
Rather they have realized that its a rort and unsustainable in anyway as it always was.
Maybe Your mates, the wonderful politicians I criticize (validly) will have to change then
Because most destructive western countries have banned the sale of ICE cars from 2030, or 2035
most by 2040
eg
European Union
In 2018, Denmark proposed an EU-wide prohibition on petrol and diesel cars
, but that turned out to be contrary to EU regulations.
In October 2019, Denmark made a proposal for phasing out fossil fuel vehicles on the member state level by 2030
which was supported by 10 other EU member states.[21]
In July 2021, France opposed a ban on combustion-powered cars and in particular on hybrid vehicles.[37] In July 2021, the European Commission proposed a 100% reduction of emissions for new sales of cars and vans as of 2035.[38][39]
On 8 June 2022, the European Parliament voted in favour of the proposal of the European Commission, but agreement with the European Union member states was necessary before a final law could be passed.[40]
On 22 June 2022, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner stated that his government would refuse to agree on the ban.[41] But on 29 June 2022, after 16 hours of negotiations, all climate ministers of the 27 EU member states agreed to the commission’s proposal (part of the ‘Fit for 55’ package) to effectively ban the sale of new internal combustion vehicles by 2035
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It is a political football and the car manufacturers need to pay their little bitch politicians to not be so silly (not easy when dealing with politicians, most of whom are ego driven, self interested windbags!! )
Global Warming coming to auckland. Snow for the Sky tower.
Weather: ‘Potential’ for North Island snow next week with cold surge incoming
Warm spring weather is starting to take hold but we may soon return to the kind of conditions seen in the depths of winter with “potential” snowfall in the North Island.
One weather model shared to X by Hauraki Gulf Weather projected a “polar streamer” over the country early next week “dropping snow in unusual places”.
This included 2cm of snow on Northland and snow flurries for South Auckland and Waikato.
“Still a long way out & downgrades are likely but always interesting to watch the polar vortex spook the best,” it posted.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/weather-potential-for-north-island-snow-next-week-with-cold-surge-incoming/4YFJS5HQFVE7DIZC262G2KZMHE/
We shall see.
Ooooooohh
So scary
I dont believe what Das Heraldo tells me about yesterday let alone in a weeks time
oooooh
“potential” snowfall in the North Island.
weather model
polar streamer
……all emotional crap
I’m scarred now
Is this right next to a story about globby warming.
There is often circa 20th September a big snow event
eg. 1991, 2010 was the Southland Stadium roof collapse, 18 Sept
It happens
and the planet is still here
They have experts doing modeling so it must be right!
Yer! We all know what they are modelling.
The latest queer fashions!
Yeah, by an outfit called NItwits – often shortened to NIWA
didn’t some one post yesterday that the NItWIts used some slide rules to show us 10% of extra rainfall was from globby warming.
Back in the 1980s – before rogering douglas wrecked govt depts; on behalf of his Frankfurt schoolmasters; he was too dumb to know he was doing – NIWA was an outfit that did world class work
The work they did in establishing the baseline fishing quota system was outstanding. Not a perfect system, but an excellent one.
It actually created sustainability – before that word was stolen by the marxists.
It was me .
NIWA have done a study showing that 10% of the rain that fell during Gabrielle was because of global warming.
Didn’t they see the eruption of the volcano in Tonga?
Hah, they left that to the other Yank filled failure, GNS
Anyhow, what does anything NIWA do or say that is related to the real world?
Actual eruptions and things.
Real measurements
‘Scientific’ observation.?
C’mon
From the article-
“Snow in Auckland is rare and the last time the city had snow was in 2011.
That snowfall event was described as a “once-in-a-lifetime” polar blast. Before 2011 the city centre in Auckland hadn’t received snow since the 1930s.”
A second once in a lifetime event in 13yrs? Yep the planet is warming alright///
Likely won’t happen though.
It snowed in Auckland in 1991.
I was working with a guy who grew up on the West Coast . We were in a high rise office on Symonds St on the 6th floor. There has been puffy rain clouds for days . on one occasion snow was falling.
We went outside and it did not settle but was snow falling.
1991 was a very cold year where there was 10 foot of snow at the waterfall on Mt Ruapehu by early July.
There was such a large base they opened the ski field at Xmas -Dec 1991/Jan 1992
and it was skiable to maybe 10 to 11 am.
I did not go but someone I knew was there for a couple of days of it. Ski in the morning, bike riding in the afternoon, and a swim.
howie, is that the year on ruapehu that the defence force sent their men to die in that blizzard?
No that was the year before .
6 armed services guys died. army and one navy chap.
Seven , or half, survived.
August 1990
a tragedy for all concerned.
at the same time in the same blizzard a Japanese civilian survived by building his snow cave and hanging in there for a few days
It snows in Tutamoe south west of Kaikohe occasionally.
Not often there’s anything white on view in Kaikohe.
Occasionally snows on Queensland/NSW border too.
I can remember a white Christmas in Tamworth.
As I recall, back in my boarding school days, tradition dictated that if we all pulled together we could have a white Xmas.
Went to Northland agricultural college in Kaikohe, in the 60’s. There were lots of boarders from the Islands esp Niue and the Cooks. They had never seen sheep and goats before.
It’s just as well there were no brothers from the middle east there then.
I’d wager that the race for the prettiest Romney would have been keenly contested. 🙂
Won’t this be interesting or will it be hijacked by arse protectors.
Christchurch terror attacks: Inquest into shooter’s firearms licence to begin next month
2024 • 04:48pm
Flowers are left outside the Christchurch Botanic Gardens following the March 2019 terror attack at two city mosques.
George Heard / The Press
Police’s handling of a terrorist’s firearms licence application will come under the microscope at an inquest into the Christchurch mosque shootings next month.
The second phase coronial hearing into the murder of 51 worshippers at Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre will begin in early October.
Over 19 days, Deputy Chief Coroner Brigitte Windley will examine how the terrorist came to obtain his firearms licence, whether police should have elicited information which would have led them to reject his application, and whether there were any errors, failures or deficiencies in their assessment.
The coroner’s first phase inquest covered 10 issues relating to the events of 15 March 2019 and the response of emergency services to the massacres.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350411979/christchurch-terror-attacks-inquest-shooters-firearms-licence-begin-next-month
Which it will.
“Police’s handling of a terrorist’s firearms licence application will come under the microscope at an inquest into the Christchurch mosque shootings next month.”
Since the shooting took place in 2019, why is the inquest only dealing with the issue now, some 5 years later?
Got to get the excuses in and every one on same page.
Think that’s bad? It will probably beat the coroners inquest reports by another five years!
Families are forced to relive the deaths of their loved ones years later because our half arsed coroners can’t shuffle paper at any speed. The legal no-hopers need to be individually bent gently over a greased goat & slowly fucked to death as an incentive for the next lot to get their ducks in a row.
Bugger me, the North American Injuns are having a go at the Coalition Government as well. Excellent that they have an in depth knowledge of the Treaty and New Zealand history.
“At the 18th Protecting Mother Earth Conference, held last month in the Eastern Cherokee Nation, the collective endorsed a statement denouncing the proposed Treaty Principles Bill, asserting it violates democratic processes, Treaty law and contractual ethics.”
I guess the Yanks treated the Cherokee pretty well for them to be such experts on a Treaty in a far off land and knowledgeable enough about what goes on in this foreign country to comment on the Government and it’s proposed Treaty Principles Bill without even knowing what the wording of the Bill they are commenting on, is.
Fuckwits.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/global-indigenous-leaders-slam-new-zealand-governments-treatment-of-maori/VH25ZRQI6NBJHD57BYHIM46554/
US has been such a mass murdering culture since the (un) Civil war.
1860s
Even in the 1880s they were mass murdering native Americans
and the mass slaughter of the great Bison was a shocker.
Meantime, the Maori male in the 1880s had the universal franchise to vote.
While not all white males in NZ did
did they mention that ?
or that Hawaii was invaded by the US Govt/Marines in an illegal invasion/takeover in 1893.
the Maori were more than half century into a protective treaty at that time.
Did they mention that ??
Who and how many maori went on that five star junket!
Bet they all came straight home afterwards and with no shopping.
10 minutes of debate and a couple of classic trump burns. Kamala a communist like her Marxist dad. She has no policies, apart from ones she took from Trump, he’s gunna send her a hat. Her stupid promises are the same as Biden’s and amount to “run spot run”
Might watch the rest later for giggles.
“One last push!”
“What is it Doctor?”
“Congratulations They and They, you are now the proud parental-equivalent guardians of an Androgynous, Cisgender, Gender Nonconforming, Gender Questioning, Gender Variant, Genderqueer, Intersex, Neutrois, Non-binary, Pangender, Transgender, Transsexual, Two-Spirit little being.”
Billy nailed it years ago
https://x.com/notfarleftatall/status/1833512805791895850?s=46&t=FuvE5e-uq9dUbHPLKMbm2Q
He’s always good for a giggle.
Better than all of our non comedian’s.
Top searches after debate: Haitians eating pets. This is going to rebound on Harris.
https://rumble.com/v5eklci-you-wont-believe-what-the-post-debate-polls-are-saying.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
You Won’t BELIEVE What the Post-Debate POLLS Are Saying!!!
Dr Steve Turley
Would you bet against Elon Musk?
News about a potential Starlink IPO.
This satellite internet constellation has been revolutionizing global connectivity. With over 6,200 satellites already in orbit and a subscriber base that has exploded to 2.3 million, Starlink is rapidly becoming a major force in telecommunications.
The company’s new facility in Bastrop, Texas, just racked up another major milestone: 1 million Starlink Standard hardware kits have been manufactured there in just 10 months.
Musk has previously hinted that an IPO would be considered when cash flow becomes reasonably predictable. Given the exponential growth in subscribers and the continued successful deployment of satellites and ground kits, that time may be fast approaching.
The potential for Starlink to IPO by the end of this year is looking more promising than ever.
Industry analysts are buzzing with speculation about the potential valuation of Starlink at IPO. With predictions ranging to well over $100 billion meaning it could be the biggest IPO of the year.
I know half a dozen with starlink. It’s $500 plus $150 per month. Current customers offered a 80$ per month plan. Carry it anywhere. They went cashflow positive earlier this year, even with the 2 flights per week falcon cadence. Most people have Trump Derangement Syndrome when it comes to Elon. EMDS. His is a new form of propaganda, sure, but at least he isn’t trying to obviously kill us all.
Because of emotional irrational negative response, invest. The crowd is usually wrong.
Starlink or bitcoin? What do you reckon Ed?
Whether Starlink would be a good investment depends on several factors. Price, earnings, potential growth, debt levels etc. Bitcoin is likely to either be a spectacular success ( Ed’s view) or it will crash and burn (SB’s view). Take your pick.
That’s the problem, I wouldn’t have a clue.
What odds do you imagine those astronauts stuck in space feel while Musk designs and builds their rescue rocket by February?
Last night hubby and I watched the Apollo 13 doco on their rocket trip around the back of the moon and the subsequent miracle of returning safely to earth.
I think they’ll feel a lot happier knowing it’s not Boeing coming to the rescue.
Hay! If they can design RMA overnight,
Why not a space rocket, that may or not work.
They might have been better coming home in the rocket that actual worked, a week ago.
The trouble with the Boeing capsule reported its likely the shield on re-entry is likely to flip upside down exposing the capsule to intense heat and radiation. The pink squishy humans only survive if the capsule’s internal temp stays under control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_7PfocHTmc
Apollo 13 (1995) – Re-Entry Scene (11/11) | Movieclips
If and when an IPO is issued for Starlink it should be possible to evaluate it. Bitcoin like you I wouldn’t have a clue.
I can watch this shit all day
https://x.com/sherlockmichael/status/1833834722985918914?s=46&t=FuvE5e-uq9dUbHPLKMbm2Q
Biden wears MAGA hat at event!
https://rumble.com/v5eksv1-biden-maga.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
🚨 SHOCK: Biden ENDORSES Trump!? Puts on Red MAGA Hat and STUNS Crowd in Kamala BACKSTAB After Debate
Benny Johnson
On purpose. Based Biden
The propaganda continues.
On 11 October in the USA – 3.5 weeks before the prez election – they are releasing a movie called ‘the Apprentice ‘
not surprisingly about Donald Trump and his rise to success.
Mmmmmm
No doubt it will be biased crap.
Movie outline
“1970s New York: determined to emerge from his powerful father’s shadow and make a name for himself in Manhattan real estate, aspiring mogul Donald J. Trump is in the earliest days of his career when he encounters the man who will become one of the most important figures in his life, political fixer Roy Cohn.
Seeing promise in young Donald, the influential attorney – who secured espionage convictions against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and investigated suspected Communists alongside Senator Joseph McCarthy – teaches his new acolyte how to amass wealth and power through deception, intimidation and media manipulation.
The rest is history. ”
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Yeah nah, the Donald has nothing to worry about
Just remember that chappie is a convicted felon on 34 counts;
he used Russian propaganda in 2016 against poor innocent HillDog
and told people to drink bleach
lets not forget that !!!
The democrats are trying to put as many fixes in as possible.
They are just not sure which one will work, if any!
Be a bugger if none work!
Lefties have superior empathy. And if you don’t agree, they are willing to kill you to prove it.
This may be of interest. Interview dates from 2012.
Interview with Dr. Archie Kalokerinos MD
On Vaccination, Aboriginal Health, Vitamin C, AIDS, Genocide and much more.
https://open.substack.com/pub/unbekoming/p/interview-with-dr-archie-kalokerinos?r=8t5o1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
interesting mix there.
So it is in NZ.
He sounds Canadian.
The pharmacy person is NZ. possibly of Asian ancestry.
The guy works for a US Company out of New York on line in NZ.
I dont think that tape will play well in any court with his haranguing of the person; who did not inject.
And that would only be the the only answer you would get from them.
IN NZ I don’t think he has a shit show of conviction against the pharmacy.
He may be correct, and if the kid has myocarditis then his emotional level is high.
And in fact his wife took the kid in so it is implied consent
He is venting.
His beef is really with his wife
The pharmacist has all the ‘official ‘ guidelines’ to work with so is protected.
Pharmacy staff are seldom very bright. Pharmacists yes, but staff are just shop girls.
The one I use the staff are pretty bad .
I occasionally strike a male one who would win Moron of the Year, hands down.
Last time I went there were people lined up for jabby jab.
Sheep gonna sheeple.
Nothing has changed since the lies began in 2020 on convid.
Look at it this way. Nature is doing what nature has always done. Weed out the weak feeble minds amongst us. Who care if they go the way of the moa or dodo
Bullying is innate for the left
https://rumble.com/v5ed8ql-bill-maher-defends-rfk-jr.s-wife-cheryl-hines-w-ryan-dawson.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Bill Maher DEFENDS RFK Jr.s Wife Cheryl Hines! w/ Ryan Dawson
The Jimmy Dore Show
Where are you all?
‘Massless’ structural batteries that weigh much less promise to extend EV range by 70%, and bring thinner electronic devices
A big issue with today’s electric vehicles (EVs) is that their batteries are heavy. Obviously, this has a number of downsides, including lowered energy efficiency and more wear and tear on roads, tyres and brakes, for example.
Researchers are working on improving that situation, with one approach being to make the battery a structural component of EVs – like the BYD SEAL sold in New Zealand (review coming soon).
A group of researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, have created a carbon fibre composite battery, for “massless energy storage”; the battery acts as structural member that is as stiff as aluminium, and energy-dense enough for commercial applications, the researchers say.
In practical terms, the researchers envisage this could bring us EVs with a 70% increase in driving range, on a single charge. It’s not just EVs that stand to benefit from structural batteries: they could halve the weight of laptops, and enable credit-card slim smartphones, the researchers say.
https://www.interest.co.nz/technology/129691/massless-structural-batteries-weigh-much-less-promise-extend-ev-range-70-and
There will be more advancers I reckon.
“Plenty of engineering is required still before the battery tech can be commercialised and mass-manufactured, but the Swedish university has set up the Sinonus venture company for the purpose.”
A bit like nuclear fusion I think don’t hold your breath.
Regardless of its desirability or need we’re going nowhere with powering the world with wind or solar until some breakthrough which allows large scale storage to be viable.
Personally, I don’t see EVs ever being long distance transport but it may not matter if bulk electricity can be reserved cheaply for use when the sun doesn’t shine & the wind doesn’t blow.
To that end I thought that sodium might clip the ticket.
https://cnevpost.com/2024/07/02/world-largest-sodium-battery-energy-storage-project-in-operation/
Labour don’t really support working people, those that Labour. They need to change their name.
National aren’t Nationalists, Key tried to delete the flag and Luxon at heart is a manager, he supports globalist consumer principles. They are corpo’s.
Labour = the Fag party.
National =the Globalist party.
Fag party yes but still controlled by Globalists.
One would think that “National” refers to “Nationalism” which has an aim of gaining & maintaining self-governance to create a nation-state. It holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside interference.
As such it was probably most pertinent in 1936 when National was formed by the fusion of the two main conservative parties of the time, Reform & United. NZ only became a Dominion in 1907 & to many of the population we were still thought of as a colony.
As such it has managed to upend itself from conservative flag waving to arse kissing the UN & the WEF & acting as the political arm of the Church of the Holy See.
Labour has shifted from its socialist roots as a union party to being a flag bearer for shirtlifters, welfare bludgers & Maori separatists.
Any political tragic from the 1930’s alighting from a time machine today would be forgiven for thinking that they’d discovered a parallel universe.
True dat. Take responsibility for your own actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWZlFRa7Eug
Shane Jones: Māori are not in jail because of colonisation.
Cats camo in Ohio.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXPmPY-XQAAIZz8?format=jpg&name=large
Vegan horse riding champs. Fuggen ell.
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1834135107793227822
Hello…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ftKrV2J4dNE
It’s Okay…😳
Stupid girl 🤣
Pet sandwich anyone?
https://x.com/MarindaVannoy1/status/1834061146153779403/photo/1
Well, well, well, what have we here.
I had a number of reservations about the End of Life Choice Act. One of them involved a slippery slope.
Oh no, I was told. Everything would be tightly controlled.
Slippages in rules overseas couldn’t possibly happen here.
We’ll do it so much bettered than anyone else.
And here we have:
https://www.act.org.nz/bill_lodged_to_improve_access_to_end_of_life_choice
And before you start with the bloody predictable:
So far as I know God sleeps in on a Sunday morning as do I.
I’m not up torturing any poor deity with my talentless singing.
And no, I do not gain pleasure from the suffering of others.
Well if the god addled hadn’t interferred the crap that goes for the current situation would not have necessitated a change,
Soend some tine visiting sone of the care homes and see what happens to people.
Kept alive by pharma and for the benefit of the care homes. Often with no family.
Its beyond cruel.