There is constant movement in Love, a glorious eternal dance. Love is a glorious feast of eternal delight between each of the Persons within the Trinity. Duncan Smith
Quote for the Day
Reflection on Zechariah13:I – 9
Scripture
“On that day a fountain will be opened for the dynasty of David and for the people of Jerusalem, a fountain to cleanse them from all their sins and impurity.”
Observation
The Lord will open a fountain or a spring of water that will cleanse people from their sins. He will erase idol worship throughout the land, false prophets, and the spirit of impurity.
False prophets will be put to death by their parents. Nobody will want to claim the prophetic gift.
The Lord’s shepherd will be struck down, and the sheep will be scattered. Two-thirds of the people will die, but the Lord will care for the remainder, refining and purifying them.
Application
God has opened up that fountain for the cleansing of His people. It is a fountain of blood, not of water.
The blood of Christ was poured out for everyone who chooses to receive Him. It brings cleansing and purification for everyone who follows in His way.
Unlike the sacrifices of the past, there is no need for endless repetition. One sacrifice, the Lamb of God, takes away the sins of the world.
How can we receive this cleansing and forgiveness?
We just have to ask for it!
What an awesome God we have!
Prayer
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for paying the price of my sins. By faith I receive your cleansing. Please help me to follow you for the rest of my life. Amen.
Maybe We Aren’t So Crazy
If you think the world is becoming crazier (like a teacher being sacked for failing to respect a student’s desire to be treated like a cat), think again. Apparently we are just acting out like any society that is overly wealthy and faces no external threats.
Take a look at this video. Warning: a couple of F’s get thrown in towards the end.
Today’s Bike Ride
Rode along Yarrie Lake Rd this morning. Overcast and not too windy. Nice morning.
Quote for the Day
The God of the Bible is the only God who claims to be Love and who has demonstrated that love in the only way to demonstrate love perfectly: by laying His life down for His friends. Duncan Smith
Today’s Bike Ride
Great ride this morning
Giant Reef Discovered Near Tahiti
Australian media seem to have been silent about the discovery of a giant pristine reef near Tahiti, apparently untouched by “climate change.” Makes you wonder how it has coped without UNESCO World Heritage listing or environmental worriers trying to “protect” it.
From Canada’s CBC:
Scientists have discovered a pristine, three-kilometre-long reef of giant rose-shaped corals off the coast of Tahiti, in waters of the southern Pacific Ocean thought to be deep enough to protect it from the bleaching effects of the warming ocean.
The reef, which lies at depths of more than 30 metres, probably took around 25 years to grow. Some of the rose-shaped corals measure more than two metres in diameter.
“It was magical to witness giant, beautiful rose corals, which stretch for as far as the eye can see. It was like a work of art,” said French photographer Alexis Rosenfeld, who led the team of international divers that made the discovery.
Most of the world’s known coral reefs are in warmer waters at depths of up to 25 metres, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said. The reef off Tahiti lies in the “twilight zone” 30 to 120 metres below the surface where there is still enough light for coral to grow and reproduce.
UNESCO says the newly discovered reef is one of the largest in the world.
Bleaching is a stress response by overheated corals during heat waves. They lose their colour, and many struggle to survive.
Perhaps the most famous — Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, a World Heritage-listed wonder — has suffered severe bleaching to an estimated 80 per cent of its corals since 2016.
The discovery off Tahiti’s shores suggests there may be many more unknown large reefs in our oceans, given that only about 20 per cent of the entire seabed is mapped, according to UNESCO scientists.
“It also raises questions about how coral reefs become more resilient to climate change,” UNESCO’s head of marine policy, Julian Barbiere, told Reuters.
More of the ocean floor needs to be mapped to better safeguard marine biodiversity, Barbiere said.
“We know more about the surface of the moon or the surface of Mars than the deeper part of the ocean.”
Today’s Sermon
Quote for the Day
Use what you have, and always be hungry for more. No matter how anointed we are, there is always more. Duncan Smith
The BOM Adjusts Historical Data to Make the Warming Look Warmer
If you have to prop up a scientific theory by changing historical records in an unscientific way, and still claim to be doing “science” then you are having yourself on and the rest of the nation. This is the problem when taxpayer funded bodies do science for the activists.
from Jo Nova
The Bureau of Meteorology finds Australia is still getting colder a century later
Surprisingly, the World War I era temperatures are still changing. Mornings that seemed nippy at the time are now susceptible to frosts.
Someone should warn the farmers — except they’re all dead.
Thanks to Chris Gillham for independently and laboriously going through the new unannounced changes in another cycle of BOM’s hidden revamp of Australia’s history. ACORN 2.2 is the latest version of the Australian Climate Observation Reference Network of “the best” 112 weather stations across Australia.
Bureau of Meteorology ‘cools the past, warms present’
Graham Lloyd, The Australian
“The bureau has now remodelled the national temperature dataset three times in just nine years,” Dr Jennifer Marohasy said.
In the last five years the ACORN re-revisions by the BOM have discovered another quarter of a degree of warming that we didn’t know about from the last hundred years. It’s not clear why the BOM doesn’t want to tell the world how good they are at correcting thermometer records from 1913. It seems like a remarkable skill.
The minima just keep getting cooler
Chris Gillham plots the longest running stations from the ACORN 2.2 set against the old raw readings:
Who knew all those old thermometers were so wrong?
Graham Lloyd:
Independent analysis of the latest changes show they added 0.06C to maximum warming and 0.11C to minimum warming from 1910-19 to 2010-19.
A series of updates to the ACORN data have added 0.228C mean temperature warming if comparing 1910-19 with 2010-17 (2017 being the final year of ACORN 1)
Clearly, the cheapest way to stop global warming would be to sack everyone at the BOM.
The Bureau admitted to Lloyd that they changed 25 sites in the latest round, most of them because of statistical revelations:
The bureau said changes were made to 20 sites on the basis of statistical analysis. According to the bureau, statistical analysis is used to identify an abrupt warming or cooling at a particular site, relative to other sites in the region.
The BOM refuses to tell us exactly how they do this — admitting that they can’t train anyone outside their sacred guild. Which reminds us of the old axiom, “if it can’t be replicated, it isn’t science”.
Apparently the future of life on Earth depends on their data, but it would take too long to train someone outside BOM to check it. Tell us again, how much does climate change matter?
Here’s the BOM explanation of the need for adjustments:
“A significant change relative to other sites indicates a non-climatic driver, which sometimes has an easily identifiable cause (e.g. a new building near a site) and sometimes does not (often these will relate to local vegetation or land surface changes)”, the bureau said. “In carrying out this statistical analysis, the bureau uses 10 years’ worth of data from multiple sites to quantify the size of the change. Adjustments are only applied where a significant change has been identified.
So instead of researching the site history as deeply as they can, the BOM use statistical trickery analysis to figure out local site changes using some other thermometers “within a thousand miles”. What they don’t do is full historical research and documentation of the sites first. (Like the ones here, here and here, thanks Bill Johnston). So it’s possible that if, say, 10 sites got similar changes at the same time (like changing to a new small screen) the other better sites in non-changing screens could be slowly “corrected” one-by-one by the junkier sites with the right statistical algorithm. Now, perhaps the BOM have ways to make sure that doesn’t happen — but they won’t tell us what they are, they don’t publish the detailed documentation of either the full site histories or the methods they use to correct them.
As Chris Gillham notes, the BOM say the new adjustments didn’t change the long term trend. But a lot of little changes in the same direction would. The new adjustments might have also made a few local hottest ever headlines much easier to get. Suddenly the modern contenders for the longest heatwave, warmest night, and hottest summer all got a head-start.
The mysterious process of homogenization
The Bureau “homogenizes” a site according to a mystical method that uses an inexplicable group of sites that are in the same region, or at least in Australia somewhere. For example, lighthouse readings off the Bass Strait have been corrected with help from Hay, 600 kilometers away, on the other side of the Great Dividing Range. A thermometer in Ballarat has been used to correct one at Bruny Island off the South coast of Tasmania. The BOM has also corrected Alice Springs using measurements in Collarenabri nearly 1,600 kilometers away. (Thanks to Ken Stewart for that tip). When I said “a thousand miles” I wasn’t joking.
All the sites marked in black, for example, have been used to homogenize Alice Springs
