The funniest maths in modern environmentalism.
One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled.
The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy.
Meanwhile, in Cheshire.
A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain.
She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco.
To recap.
600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water.
Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food.
The shopper picks the almond.
She has been told this is the ethical position.
The aquifer would like a word.
A nice chart that puts the budget into visual context.
A less than 7% reduction in NDIS dwarfs the other major changes.
Imagine how low taxes could be if spending wasn’t out of control.
There is a region in southeastern Spain called Almería. If you pull it up on satellite imagery, you will assume the screen has glitched. A vast, blinding white scab where a landscape used to be.
It's not a glitch. It's 64,000 acres of plastic greenhouses. So much plastic sheeting that it is, genuinely, visible from space. The entire region has been wrapped in industrial farming film to grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and lettuce for European supermarkets in January.
The plastic has created its own microclimate. The reflective surface is so vast it has measurably lowered local temperatures by bouncing sunlight back into the atmosphere. Scientists have a name for it. The Albedo effect of Almería. The only place on earth where human activity has cooled the local climate, and they did it by accident, while building the world's largest open-air plastic factory.
The plastic itself is single-use agricultural film. It sits in UV light for three to five years, degrades into microplastics, blows into the Mediterranean, and ends up in the ocean and the soil. Every year, 45,000 tonnes of plastic waste is generated just from replacing degraded greenhouse covering. Every year. Just the covering.
Inside, workers from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa labour in 45°C heat for €30 a day. No contracts. No rights. Spraying crops with pesticides at concentrations that would be illegal on outdoor fields. Ventilation: minimal. Chemical exposure: constant. The aubergine looks lovely.
The groundwater underneath Almería is so contaminated with agricultural runoff that it has been declared unusable. The region now imports water from elsewhere in Spain while sitting on top of a poisoned aquifer it created. The land that was meant to feed Europe more efficiently has become a place that needs water flown in to keep the show running.
And this is what supplies your fresh vegetables in January. Grown in plastic factories. By exploited workers. Using groundwater they have already destroyed. Wrapped in more plastic. Shipped across Europe. Refrigerated the whole way. So a person in Manchester can have a tomato in February that tastes of nothing.
But sure. Cattle grazing on Scottish hills are the environmental problem.
Pull the satellite up. Have a look. Then tell me which system is the one that needs explaining.
People may not like @KTHopkins but she is absolutely correct here.
The Australian government deport celebrities for speech they don’t like, but happliy import people that want to kill us.
@ajamesbragg Why would you vote Yes on a bill that effectively had zero guardrails, was clearly vague, and was primed for overreach - basically a blank cheque for the communist ALP
Here’s a reminder of the BOM’s previous handiwork of upgrading their website.
Back in 1924, the remote Western Australian town of Marble recorded the histories longest recorded heatwave.
For 160 days, from 31st Oct 1923 to 7th April 1924 the official temperature at Marble Bar reached or exceed the old century mark, 100°F (37.8°C) - something that has never happened since anywhere in the world.
ThIs record used to be (up until 14th May 2013) celebrated on the Bureau of Meteorology’s website in the section “Climate Education".
It was more than a historic climate record, as it stood as a tribute and testimony to the endurance & spirit of Australia‘s pioneers that helped develop our nation’s mineral resources that underwrite our prosperity today.
However a record heatwave back in 1923/4 is sacrilege to religion of the climate cult - so the Bureau of Metrology set to work to remedy this situation.
How can you convince people to engage in acts of self harm to stop "global warming" - when the world’s longest heatwave occurred back in 1923/24 ?
From a desk in Canberra in 2013, 90 years after the original temperature measurements were recorded at Marble Bar, just like in a scene of the Ministry of Truth in Orwell’s 1984, the BOM set about rewriting our history by tampering with the historical record.
The BOM went through the daily temperatures original recorded at Marble Bar and using their secret "homogenisation" process tampered with the data to reduce the average maximum daily temperatures from 1910 to 1944 by -0.52°C.
The world record for the longest heatwave of 160 days over 100°F (37.8°C) was extinguished because the BOM magically adjusted the original temperature of 38.2°C recorded on 8th March 1924 - and recalculated that it was only 36.5°C, some 1.7°C cooler.
So someone sitting in their air-conditioned taxpayer funded office in Canberra decided that the person who was record the temperatures back on 8th March 1924 got it wrong by 1.7°C
And after re-writing history, the BOM quietly deleted their Climate Education page - and the record heatwave of 1923/24 was sent down a memory hole. Winston would be proud.
And yet the Liberal Party shut down an inquiry into the BOM when Tony Abbott won office (breaking an election promise) enabling the BOM to avoid being held to account.
And today some wonder why the BOM thought it could get away with paying $ 100 million to mates for a website upgrade.
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Yes, if you look closely that’s me in the yellow standing next to a tree estimated at least 200 years old sacrificed to Climate Alarmism during the last Federal election campaign.
And the Greens said nothing, and the media weren’t interested.
Melbourne is cooked, there's no coming back from this. The entire city is suffering from a drug induced psychosis. The drug capital of the world and an absolute toilet.
Here’s what the ABC and the rest of the corrupt leftist media won’t show you. They don’t want Australians to know the truth.
And that also because the ABC and corrupt leftist media are responsible for inciting today’s violence.
These media outlets and Labor/Green/Teal politicians have done everything they can to lie to the public, falsely claiming people protesting Albanese‘s extreme migration are "Nazis".
And in the mind of leftist thugs, this legitimises them in resorting to violence to stop the protest.
It’s time for the leftist media and Labor/Green/Teals politicians to end their smearing and name calling and inciting violence - and instead engage in a proper debate on the facts and issues of migration policy.
But we can’t trust the ABC, as they have agenda to push - so they’ll censor what the police said.
The most dangerous strategy against those who hate this country is for the under-25s to see what Australia was like literally just before they were born. Once they see, they will never unsee, and the rest will take care of itself.
An account with 5 million followers on X posts a fake photo of suspect Tyler Robinson wearing a Trump shirt and quietly follows up in a thread with the real photo.
The fake photo (which hasn't been deleted) gets 400k impressions in an hour, and the real one gets 50k.
There appears to be a coordinated effort right now to spread as much fake information as possible to label the alleged Kirk assassin as a far-right Trump supporter.
The crime in Victoria is so bad that businesses like Aldi are considering closing up there amidst an alarming rise in violence and aggression. Victoria will become a wasteland if things stay on this trajectory.
ABC: 7.30 report
A MUST WATCH!
Aaron Siri just revealed that a vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study from Henry Ford Medical Center was buried because it showed unvaccinated children were healthier.
“Del Bigtree and I met with Dr. Marcus Zervos, head of infectious disease at Henry Ford Medical Center.”
“He was pro-vaccine, running clinical trials.”
“We argued this was the chance to shut the anti-vaxxers up about their claim that unvaccinated children are healthier.”
“To our surprise, he agreed to conduct the study.”
“Dr. Zervos recruited a chief epidemiologist and two statisticians. These were mainstream scientists with orthodox views about vaccines.”
“The study compared children enrolled at Henry Ford from 2000 to 2016 from birth onward — unvaccinated children versus those who received one or more vaccines.”
“It was based on actual medical records.”
“Vaccinated children had 4.29x the rate of asthma, 3.03x the rate of atopic disease, 5.96x the rate of autoimmune disease, 5.53x the rate of neurodevelopmental disorders, including 3.28x developmental delay and 4.47x speech disorder.”
“ADHD: 262 cases in the vaccinated group. Zero in the unvaccinated group.”
“All of these findings were statistically significant.”
“After 10 years, 57% of vaccinated children had a chronic health issue — often multiple, only 17% of unvaccinated children did.”
“Had it found vaccinated kids were healthier, it would have been published immediately. Because it found the opposite, it was shoved in a drawer.”
“The findings didn’t fit the policy that vaccines are safe.”
“We urged the researchers to submit it. They admitted the study was well-designed and conducted. But Dr. Zervos said he didn’t want to lose his job. Another said she didn’t want to make doctors uncomfortable.”
“This is a real-world example of how the science around vaccines gets corrupted — how only studies that confirm the belief that vaccines are safe get published. Everything else gets shoved in a drawer.”
A stark contrast between immigrants from the 1960's and now. 🧐
Post WW2 immigrants came to Australia to be safe, rebuild and create a home for their families.
Immigrants in 2025 want to turn Australia into the hell hole they are leaving and impress upon the Australian community and its people that their way of life is better, this is a tragic error on their behalf. 🇦🇺🔥