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Reply #135 - Aug 13^th, 2025 at 1:48pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Aug 13^th, 2025 at 11:10am:

I had a look at the so–called Environment board.

It is full of posts calling me gay, pot smoker etc.

What is missing? Any mention of the Environment!

In particular—there is ZERO mention of the algal bloom off SA’s coasts, Spencers and St Vincent gulfs.

Now this bloom is not some esoteric event happening thousands of kilometres away, the bloom, the dead fish etc found on Adelaide suburban beaches have been the subject of nightly news programs!

Yet not a mention on our supposed Environment board! Not a skerrick of info. Obviously, putting a high school dropout in charge of a scientific board, which Environment should be, is a very, very bad idea!

The lack of scientific papers on the environment and ecology has destroyed the Search Engine Optimisation standing of OzPolitics. Bobby is the reason this forum is headed down the plug hole.

Sure the lousy management, the clearly ideologically driven bans of those not sharing FD’s politics, the allowance of abuse, of misogyny, homophobia, of attacks on family have all driven the more intelligent members away.

But the drop in SEO rankings because an uneducated idiot is in charge of Environment is the main reason OzPolitic is sinking.

So he rants and raves about the board, but carefully doesn't say what is causing the alagal bloom. Is it Climate Change/AGW? He doesn't say but that is generally his mantra. Is it manmade? is it natural?

"Scientists believe a mix of three factors created the perfect storm:

A marine heatwave, with ocean temperatures around 2.5°C above average since September 2024
Nutrient-rich water from the 2022–23 River Murray flood entering the sea
A rare cold-water upwelling last summer, which brought even more nutrients to the surface."

https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/goodliving/posts/2025/07/sa-algal-bloom-faqs

Hmm. All natural events.

"Southern Ocean marine heatwaves: variability, hotspots and teleconnections"

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10872-025-00769-5

The image is linked in the paper. But there doesn't appear to be anything near SA. One red dot on the WA border.

As per the NOAA data 0.25x0.25 grid is 633Km². Good enough for government work. Wink

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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 19477 Gender:	Re: More from JM Reply #136 - Aug 13^th, 2025 at 5:54pm Jovial Monk wrote on Aug 13^th, 2025 at 4:34pm: Was the 2.5°C marine heatwave caused by AGW? One of my quoted articles said it most likely was but the question being discussed was why the bloom happened. Now all he need is to show how CO2 warms the oceans. The only thing that can warm the ocean is the Sun.
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Reply #137 - Aug 16^th, 2025 at 1:48pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Aug 15^th, 2025 at 8:36pm:

I guess I need to make another environmental post because the high school dropout ruining the Environment board doesn’t have a clue.

[quote]

Spain wildfires are ‘clear warning’ of climate emergency, minister says

Environment minister says blazes, in which two people have died, are proof of country’s vulnerability to global heating

The heatwave-fuelled wildfires that have killed two people in Spain over recent days, devouring thousands of hectares of land and forcing thousands of people from their homes, are a “clear warning” of the impact of the climate emergency, the country’s environment minister has said.

Speaking on Wednesday morning, as firefighters in Spain, Greece and other Mediterranean countries continued to battle dozens of blazes, Sara Aagesen said the 14 wildfires still burning across seven Spanish regions were further proof of the country’s particular vulnerability to global heating.

Aagesen said that while some of the fires appeared to have been started deliberately, the deadly blazes were a clear indicator of the climate emergency and of the need for better preparation and prevention.

“The fires are one of the parts of the impact of that climate change, which is why we have to do all we can when it comes to prevention,” she told Cadena Ser radio.

“Our country is especially vulnerable to climate change. We have resources now but, given that the scientific evidence and the general expectation point to it having an ever greater impact, we need to work to reinforce and professionalise those resources.”

The Spanish government on Wednesday said it has asked the European Union for its help, in particular for two water-bombing planes. “We officially asked tonight” for the assistance, interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told Cadena Ser.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/spain-wildfires-climate-crisis-hea...

Meanwhile -

"Spain’s devastating summer wildfires have taken a grim turn, with police arresting four people, including a firefighter, accused of arson.

The arrests come as dozens of serious fires continue to rage across Castile and León and Galicia, killing at least three people and forcing thousands from their homes."

https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/08/13/locals-and-a-firefighter-arrested-for-star...

Arson? The good ol' Guardian wouldn't doctor the news would it? Grin

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Reply #138 - Aug 18^th, 2025 at 8:25pm

Jasin wrote on Aug 12^th, 2025 at 12:51am:

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 12^th, 2025 at 12:43am:

Jasin wrote on Jul 10^th, 2025 at 7:22pm:

You know he's just an alcoholic pot smoking bum

No alcoholics I know are pot smokers. And vice versa.

Well good news Subby. Monk admitted he has a few plants.

So, which is it? He smokes up? Or he drinks? Cannot be both.

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Reply #139 - Aug 21^st, 2025 at 3:24pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Aug 21^st, 2025 at 11:15am:

A regime shift has reduced Antarctic sea-ice extent far below its natural variability of past centuries, and in some respects is more abrupt, non-linear and potentially irreversible than Arctic sea-ice loss.

But of course we know nothing of Antarctic sea-ice extent from centuries past. And their graphic goes back to 1980. Ah, the models. And nothing about the size of the error bars on the paleo proxies. Wink

Reconstruction of sea ice 1900-1999.

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Reply #140 - Aug 29^th, 2025 at 8:15pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Aug 29^th, 2025 at 7:29pm:

Bit more on the bloom and algal blooms generally:

Seems the SA bloom “pulsates” with weather driving it away only for the bloom to return.

Quote:

Climate change

Anderson stresses that South Australia’s experience is not unique, but he also warns that the climate crisis is already having a “huge effect” on the likelihood of more blooms.

He says there is a dangerous bloom on Alaska’s coast, which is a pristine, cold environment.

“I have a member of my staff on a vessel up in the Alaskan Arctic,” he says. “The reason we’re up there is because the waters up there have warmed so much that toxic [algae] is moving into those waters.

“Throughout the world we’re seeing that kind of … range shift. There are areas that are getting warmer and more receptive [to blooms] but then there’s some areas that are getting too warm and the species can’t survive any more.”

The CSIRO has long-term forecasts to predict marine heatwaves, which cause coral bleaching and fish kills as well as algal blooms and other disruptions to ecosystems.

“Marine heatwave forecasting tells you how you might be loading the dice for a range of ecological impacts,” CSIRO chief research scientist, Dr Alistair Hobday, told the latest briefing.

“Marine heatwaves are a stress test for the future as well because what we

Even Alaska is experiencing blooms in what was a pristine cold sea that has warmed due to AGW.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/25/were-trying-to-call-on-ev...

Wow. Arctic Oceans are home to algal blooms due to AGW.

Algal blooms in the Chutki Sea, like phtyoplankton, home to the poor poley. bear.

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Reply #141 - Aug 29^th, 2025 at 11:24pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 18^th, 2025 at 8:25pm:

Jasin wrote on Aug 12^th, 2025 at 12:51am:

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 12^th, 2025 at 12:43am:

Jasin wrote on Jul 10^th, 2025 at 7:22pm:

You know he's just an alcoholic pot smoking bum

No alcoholics I know are pot smokers. And vice versa.

Well good news Subby. Monk admitted he has a few plants.

So, which is it? He smokes up? Or he drinks? Cannot be both.

Not true, you just don't do both on the same day.

Out of pot, hit the piss.

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Reply #142 - Sep 1^st, 2025 at 1:56pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 1^st, 2025 at 10:22am:

Galileo’s achievements cont’d

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• Showed that the set of perfect squares 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81,
100… has as many members in it as the set of whole numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8 9, 10… even though, at first sight, the set of whole numbers appears to contain more members.

Article goes on to mention Galileo’s trouble with the idiotic church. You can read all about it, even watch a movie IIRC.

https://www.famousscientists.org/galileo-galilei/

This is the same "idiotic" church that engendered a lot of science. It is like blaming the current CO2 hypothesis on all current scientists. Wink

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Reply #143 - Sep 5^th, 2025 at 2:00pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 5^th, 2025 at 8:37am:

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"In 2019, after the last fish kill, which was cleaned up, the river was dead — effectively dead — for three years," Mr Shipton, the co-founder of the Friends of Anglesea River group, said.

"After a big rain event in 2022, which punched a hole in the sand bank at the river mouth, we had a tidal river for a few months and that allowed a lot of fish to come in."

But he said there was no knowing how long the latest incident could last.

Acidification, liberated sulphur all are suspected causes. Does it have anything to do with a now-closed coal mine that pumped groundwater from the mine into the river?

Seems keeping the connection to the sea open is the way to keep the river healthy, with pollutants, acid, sulphur etc draining out to the sea.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-04/anglesea-river-fish-kill-event-water-envi...

Bad news. But somehow, but suspected causes are just that,

More form the story, not mentioned above -

"There is broad consensus that the exact cause of the deaths is one — or a combination — of three key issues: high acidity in the water, aluminium toxicity, or a chemical process called flocculation.

"There's a couple of things happening in the estuary that are affecting fish," Dr Clarke explains.

"One is those low pH — or acidic — water conditions, and they can directly affect fish by impacting their skin and gills."

So both high and low pH, don't they test the water?

"We're also seeing something called flocculation, which is where the particles suspended in the water can clump together and that can smother the gills of fish and impact their ability to breathe."

No mention of causes of flocculation. Not very scintific of them.

"And then it's also possible that things like metal toxicity could be impacting the fish, and some of those chemical processes in the water use up oxygen.

"That's oxygen that the fish need to survive as well."

Maybe. perhaps they need to research.

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Reply #144 - Sep 6^th, 2025 at 8:20pm

Look at what the high school drop out just posted:

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 6^th, 2025 at 8:11pm:

We need someone with intelligence and some knowledge of science. We need this desperately to try to save OzPolitic!

Over the last few days I have covered four major environmental issues:

1. The NSW floods 2 months ago

2. The Adelaide/SA algal bloom killing marine life

3. The death of the Anglesea River

4. The report by the NSW EPA on levels of lead in childrens brains near lead mines and how cosy the EPA/Mining companies relationship was.

There are more issues. They do not get covered in the so–called Environment MRB! The mod there is clueless, dumb and uneducated. Environment should be one board publishing links to authoritative scientific/media/government sites so raising our SEO rankings helping us attract more decent, intelligent members.

Post rates are declining. over 1000 less posts Jul–Aug this year than in Jul–Aug last year. Over 20 less posts per day. Lately we rarely have over 300 posts per day, lately we see under 200 posts per day.

Other things need doing—switch to something better than YABB, reduce the immense front page etc. But we need lots of good links and we are not getting those in anywhere near enough numbers.

Monk,
I am here to moderate this forum -
posters will post what they are interested in reading about.
I do introduce topics from time to time.

Stop reading and copying my posts from here - you plagiarist -
get your own material.

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Reply #145 - Sep 6^th, 2025 at 10:45pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 6^th, 2025 at 10:02pm:

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Key Atlantic current could start collapsing as early as 2055, new study finds

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation brings heat to the Northern Hemisphere and regulates the climate globally, but research suggests it could weaken significantly in the coming decades.

The so–called Little Ice Age, predominantly a North Atlantic event, may have been started by a similar failure of the Gulf Stream.

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The currents are those that form the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which loops around the Atlantic Ocean like a giant conveyor belt, bringing heat to the Northern Hemisphere before traveling south again along the seabed. Depending on how much carbon humans emit in the next few decades, the AMOC could reach a tipping point and start to collapse as early as 2055, with dramatic consequences for several regions, researchers found.

This scary prediction, based on a scenario where carbon emissions double between now and 2050, is considered unlikely — but the outcome of a much more likely scenario where emissions hover around current levels for the next 25 years isn't much better, according to the study. Even if we keep global warming this century to 4.8 degrees Fahrenheit (2.7 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels — a "middle of the road" scenario, according to the latest U.N. climate report — the AMOC will start to collapse in 2063, the results suggest.

"The chance of tipping is much larger than previously thought," Sybren Drijfhout, a professor of physical oceanography at the University of Southampton in the U.K. and Utrecht University in the Netherlands, told Live Science in an email. Overall, the chance of the AMOC collapsing this century is about 50-50, Drijfhout, who was not involved in the new research but recently led a similar study published in the journal Environment Research Letters, estimates.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/key-atlantic-current-cou...

Original article:
https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JC022651

So it is postulated it led to the Little Ice Age, which according to Michael E Mann, never existed, and which wasn't caused by AGW, but this time it could be? So what caused it last time? The story is all goobledegook and is models all the way down. Those same mosdels that have never een verified or validated. The hubris it burns. Grin

Models are not physics based. Parameterisation is not physics.

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Reply #146 - Sep 6^th, 2025 at 11:32pm

lee wrote on Sep 6^th, 2025 at 10:45pm:

So it is postulated it led to the Little Ice Age, which according to Michael E Mann, never existed, and which wasn't caused by AGW, but this time it could be? So what caused it last time? The story is all goobledegook and is models all the way down. Those same mosdels that have never een verified or validated. The hubris it burns. Grin

Models are not physics based. Parameterisation is not physics.

Monk doesn't know. Roll Eyes

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Reply #148 - Sep 7^th, 2025 at 6:57pm

lee wrote on Sep 7^th, 2025 at 6:34pm:

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 7^th, 2025 at 6:12pm:

Where is Karnal?

Quote:

25th Aug, 2025 at 4:29pm

Looks like a long ban—at the expense of post count.

JohnSmith—banned even earlier.

OzPolitic can no longer afford long bans like this!

Strangely his bans aren't part of his angst. Grin

No one bans as many posters as Monk - what a hypocrite. Roll Eyes

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1611732194/0

List of banned posters from Monk's MRB:

Leroy,
Aussie,
Setanta,
JaSin,
Bobby,
Gordon,
Baron,
Lee.

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