Edible animals cannot increase CO2 levels
Schwab, Ardern and Bowen have been telling the same lies in an attempt to replace healthy animal protein with insects and maggots.
Each politician, bureaucrat or media lackey who continues to promote the goals of the Global Warming Cult is an enemy of civilisation. They really want us to freeze and starve. Few printers hold sufficient toner to print all the lies uttered by the elitists in support of their Net Zero heresy, so today we will focus on debunking the lie that raising livestock inflicts global warming by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This is a pretext for abolishing animal husbandry, accompanied by crazy suggestions that the planet will be saved by hungry humans getting their protein from insects and indeed from maggots.
No amount of animal flatulence can increase the amount of carbon in any form, because all that tasty animals do is expel carbon which has been ingested in grass. If they are fed on hay, the same principles apply.
Moreover, everyone should understand these important truths which the elites all know but deliberately conceal.
An increase in the atmosphere of the tiny quantity of carbon dioxide, around 400 parts per million, will have no adverse effect on the climate, and will be wholly beneficial to humanity by increasing the area of arable land and hastening forest regrowth.
The Covid-19 experience clearly proved that human activity is inconsequential as an influence upon the natural gentle rise in CO2 levels. As demonstrated in Unchain Australia (published August 2021) and confirmed in many studies since, the major reductions in aviation and industrial cutbacks from Covid restrictions caused significant measurable reductions in carbon dioxide emissions attributable to humans. There was no discernible impact upon the continuing gentle increase in atmospheric CO2 as measured by the Muana Loa Observatory in Hawaii.
Carbon dioxide increases are possibly the result of localised ocean warming caused by undersea volcanic activity. Solar activity is hugely dominant in determining temperature. Low temperature cause water to absorb more carbon dioxide and rising temperatures encourage water to expel carbon dioxide. These undisputed statements wholly invalidate the hypothesis - not even a theory - that an increase in carbon dioxide causes warming. If the hypothesis had any validity, then warming would generate more carbon dioxide which would cause more warming which would generate more carbon dioxide. An inescapable loop would be established and quickly boil the oceans.
Another great contribution from Viv Forbes.
Saltbush Club Founder Viv Forbes is a skillful well-informed critic of the Global Warming Cult. In this article, reprinted from the admirable publication The Spectator, Viv also has his sights on our feeble military leadership.
In living memory Australia has been blessed with visionary military leaders. An excellent example is Sir Valston Hancock, KBE, CB, DFC (1907-1998), elder cousin of Australia’s iron ore hero, Lang Hancock.
Having earned his DFC flying Bristol Beauforts in the Aitape-Wewak campaign Valston Hancock served from 1957 to 1959 as Air Officer Commanding No 244 Group RAF in Malaya, leading all Commonwealth Air Forces in the region.
As Chief of Air Staff (1961-1965) Sir Valston (knighted in 1962) initiated a forward defence strategy including the redevelopment of Learmonth Air Base. Investigating potential replacements for the Canberra bomber, he identified the General Dynamics F-111 as most suitable for Australia’s needs, truly a gigantic step forward.
In truth, there is none like him today.
Green, powerless & defenceless Australia
Viv Forbes
As Net Zero strangles Australian industry, Australia is becoming green, powerless, and defenceless.
History holds lessons that we ignore at our peril.
Japan was opened to trade with the US in the 1850s. They were daunted by the naval power of Britain and the US but were determined to catch up.
In the 1930s Japan attacked China, Mussolini attacked Ethiopia, and Hitler planned how to avenge the first world war in Europe. Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain negotiated with Hitler and proclaimed he had achieved ‘Peace in our Time’.
But Winston Churchill warned:
‘Britain must arm. America must arm. We will surely do it in the end but how much greater the cost for each day’s delay.’
In November 1938, just after the signing of the Munich Pact, John Curtin (Leader of the Labor Party in the Australian Parliament), made this statement:
‘…I say that any increase in defence expenditure appears to be an entirely unjustifiable and hysterical piece of panic propaganda.’
Source: Hansard, p1095, Nov 2, 1938.
Just ten months later, in September 1939, Germany attacked Poland.
On this side of the world, the Japanese built a large navy and air force. However, the Americans, British, and Dutch controlled Asian oil supplies needed for trucks, tanks, ships, and planes. With Britain preoccupied with Germany and Italy in Europe, Japan decided on a huge grab for land and resources.
In 1931, Japan occupied Manchuria and by 1937 Japanese troops were attacking Chinese soldiers outside Beijing. Japan invaded French Indochina in 1940 and a large Japanese force threatened the Philippines where US General Douglas MacArthur was based.
On Monday December 8, 1941, Australian Prime Minister John Curtin was told that Japanese aircraft had attacked the large US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour and US bases in the Philippines.
Three days later, two ‘invincible’ British warships, Repulse and Prince of Wales, were sunk by Japanese planes off Malaya. Soon Japanese armies were rampaging through Asia towards Australia. In December 1941, Hong Kong fell. By Feb 1942, the British fortress of Singapore surrendered and Japanese bombs were falling on Darwin. By Sept 1942, the Japanese army had slashed their way down the Kokoda Track across Papua New Guinea. They could see the lights of Port Moresby and were looking across Torres Strait to Australia.
Further south, five Japanese submarines were snooping in the seas off Sydney Harbour. Two midget submarines entered the harbour and one sub sank HMAS Kuttabul. The Japanese navy later bombarded Sydney and Newcastle.
By that time, most of Australia’s trained soldiers were fighting Rommel at Tobruk in North Africa or were in Japanese prison camps. Australian politicians discussed the infamous ‘Brisbane Line’ – the surrender of Australia north of Brisbane.
Suddenly Australia was on its own and needed to defend itself with what we had here.
Armies need manpower, weapons, ammunition, vehicles, tanks, planes, ships, fuel, and lubricants.
Soldiers volunteered and others were conscripted. Australian conscripts formed part of the force that met the Japanese on the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea.
Britain lost so many weapons at Dunkirk that Australian factories and American sportsmen were sending guns to them.
Enfield Rifles, Bren Guns, and Vickers Machine Guns were produced in large numbers at the Small Arms Factory at Lithgow in New South Wales supported by feeder factories in the area. Australians even designed and built the fabulous Owen Machine Gun, so loved by our young Nashos in the 1960s.
Australian coking coal was used to produce steel and thermal coal provided reliable electricity and powered locomotives. However, coal production was often interrupted by bitter strikes in the early war years. But after Hitler invaded Soviet Russia in June 1941, the communists among the coal miners suddenly became more supportive of the war effort.
Motor oil was produced in limited quantities from oil shale at Glen Davis in central NSW, but petrol was in serious short supply, and had been rationed since 1940.
With the fall of Singapore, this fuel shortage became severe, and charcoal burners suddenly appeared to keep cars and trucks moving. The demand for charcoal was so great that firewood became scarce so it was also rationed. Kerosene was also scarce meaning carbide lights were recovered from junk sheds and widely used.
To conserve supplies for soldiers, rationing was also introduced for tea, clothing, butter, sugar, meat, and cigarettes. Australian farmers were forbidden to kill their own animals for meat (but many of them did anyhow).
Australian school kids received cards to be used to identify enemy planes overhead and fathers with picks and shovels were told to dig air raid pits in school grounds (even then I thought that our one-room Wheatvale school with 13 pupils was probably not a top priority target for Japanese bombers).
We saw no enemy planes at Wheatvale but a bomber from our side was forced to land in our neighbour’s wheat paddock and a big convoy of American Jeeps and trucks stopped at our farm to make their morning coffee (it was the first time we ever tasted coffee).
A critical wartime shortage was copper for cartridge cases and communications – Australia had mines producing lead, zinc, silver, gold, and iron, but there was a critical shortage of copper.
Fortuitously, just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, an exploration drill hole at Mount Isa had struck rich copper ore.
Mount Isa was then called on to avert a calamitous shortage of copper in Australia. With government encouragement, Mount Isa Mines made the brave decision to suspend their profitable silver/lead/zinc operations and convert all mining and treatment facilities to extracting copper.
The lead concentrator could be converted to treat copper ore, but the biggest problem was how to smelt the copper concentrates. Luckily the company had skilled engineers and metallurgists in the lead smelter. In a miracle of improvisation, scrap steel and spare parts were purchased and scavenged from old mines and smelters from Cloncurry, Mt Elliott, Mt Cuthbert, and Kuridala and cobbled into a workable copper smelter.
In 1943 the first Mount Isa blister copper was produced. Production continued after the war when Mount Isa returned to extracting the then more profitable silver/lead/zinc. Later, a new plant was built enabling both lead and copper to be produced from this fabulous mine.
This story of the importance of self-reliance has lessons for today especially at a time when the final closure of the great Mt Isa copper mines has just been announced.
The war on carbon energy, Net Zero propaganda, the renewable energy targets, escalating electricity costs, and the voices in Parliament calling for Emissions Trading Schemes have all unnerved our big users of carbon fuels and electricity.
Smelting and refining have become threatened industries in Australia. Already six major metal smelting/refining operations have closed in Australia this century and more are likely. The closures have affected copper, lead, zinc, steel, and aluminium – the sinews of modern industry. And car manufacturing, with all its skills and tools, has gone.
Local production and refining of oil is also declining, while ‘lock-the-gate’ picketers are trying to prevent domestic exploration and production of gas. More and more land and offshore waters are closed to exploration and mining, and heavy industry is scorned.
Australia has lost over half of its oil refining capacity and most of our liquid fuel comes from foreign refineries. At normal rates of usage, national reserves of diesel would last about three weeks and ULP about four weeks. But in the event of a panic for fuel, city food shelves and fuel supplies would be cleaned out in days, maybe hours. Commercial aircraft would be grounded in a fortnight and our Air Force soon after.
We are losing the resources, skills, and machinery needed for our own security. And we fritter our declining resources on green energy white elephants like Snowy 2, green hydrogen, dream-time extension cables to transmit ‘green’ electricity from Darwin to Singapore, hydrogen electrolyser magic in Gladstone, a Pioneer Valley pumped hydro scheme (Snowy 3?), massive new power lines to collect piddling energy everywhere and many other green dreams with net consumption of energy and metals.
Green Admirals hope to run our destroyers on recycled cooking oil and Green Generals are wasting energy designing electric bushmasters (with long extension cords?). These foolish green energy policies and the suicidal war on carbon fuels are killing real industry leaving us unskilled and defenceless – like a fat toothless walrus basking on a warm sunny beach.
And imagine the mental and physical capacity of the flabby Woke recruits that an urgent conscription would produce today. And which toilet would they use? Hopefully a few bikie gangs would sign up? At least they know how to fight and could bring their own guns.
Australia plans to spend heaps of money and decades of time on Aukus nuclear submarine dreams – another Snowy 2? Imagine the chance of getting our no-nukes mobs to build a nuclear-powered submarine in Australia that works and is launched before the barbarians are again knocking at our gate. Alexander Downer describes it as ‘a political fantasy’.
Another Asian tiger in Beijing is currently gazing south at the resources locked up in Red-Black-Green Australia. Its advance guards are already installed in academia and the media.
The next war may be very short with simultaneous attacks on US military installations from South Korea and Guam to Pine Gap. And imagine when our power, radar, internet, social media, and electric engines are suddenly disabled with an EMP from a well-placed neutron bomb. And the tankers carrying our fuel supplies from Asian refineries meet a guided torpedo or an armed drone.
Our rainbow warriors with ill-chosen air and naval equipment, insufficient ammunition, rationed fuel and lubricants and half-built nuclear submarines will surrender quickly.
Wake up Australia.
Christmas 2023
The world needed a Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine
On Christmas Eve, Sunday 24 December, many good folk prayed that the end of the Soviet Union on 25 December 1991 would be commemorated by a Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine commencing on 25 December 2023 and continuing to 7 January 2024. The Australian Prime Minister failed to call for a Christmas ceasefire.
For poetic expressions of the real Australian Christmas spirit, for your Christmas enjoyment renowned audio engineer Peter Kukura has expertly produced my recordings of Tangmalangaloo by John O'Brien (Msg Patrick Joseph Hartigan) and The Fire at Ross’s Farm by Henry Lawson. Here are the links.
http://www.michaeldarby.net/Tangmalangaloo.mp3 and http://www.michaeldarby.net/FireAtRossFarm.mp3
At Christmas and beyond, our hearts go out to all who have been stricken with injury from mRNA vaccines, and to the loved ones of all who have been died. These victims are truly human sacrifices on the altars of Big Pharma. Thanks to the efforts of Whitsundays General Practitioner Dr Melissa McCann, the New Year may bring better news for the victims. Please click on the graphic.
Wishing all readers maximum happiness in the remaining days of Christmas. May 2024 bring Peace, Progress and Prosperity.
Michael Darby
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